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Suppress Free Thought and Take Away Freedom
I was going through a book on History of American education system and how it was designed to make people the slaves of the state and ruling elites.
There were remarkable similarities between the build of American system and our own system based on Lord Macaulay's ideas.
Here are Lord Macaulay's reported views expressed on 2nd February 1835(See below regarding the quote):
"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."
Like America many countries like Pakistan, India etc with colonial past share similar foundations in their education system.
The education systems takes away all the creativity, free though, and individual sense of being with freedom.
We are taught to be slaves with empty brains and no wisdom to think out of the box. The box is designed by the rulers we live under and the system we are supposed to serve from the time of our birth.
J. T. Gatto, in one of the chapters of the book excellently summarized the ways a state can produce children with empty minds.
In his fifteen points's recipe to prepare empty children he talks of keeping children away from self learning, worrying about grades, keeping them away from family values, individual self grooming etc.
Below is the recipe J. T. Gatto gives for preparing empty children:
Empty Children
(From J. T. Gatto's Underground history of American Education)
Not far to go now. Here is my recipe for empty children. If you want to cook whole children, as I
suspect we all do, just contradict these stages in the formula:
1. Remove children from the business of the world until time has passed for them to learn how to self-teach.
2. Age-grade them so that past and future both are muted and become irrelevant.
3. Take all religion out of their lives except the hidden civil religion of appetite and positive/negative reinforcement schedules.
4. Remove all significant functions from home and family life except its role as dormitory and casual companionship. Make parents unpaid agents of the State; recruit them into partnerships to monitor the conformity of children to an official agenda.
5. Keep children under surveillance every minute from dawn to dusk. Give no private space or time. Fill time with collective activities. Record behavior quantitatively.
6. Addict the young to machinery and electronic displays. Teach that these are desirable to recreation and learning both.
7. Use designed games and commercial entertainment to teach preplanned habits, attitudes, and language usage.
8. Pair the selling of merchandise with attractive females in their prime childbearing years so that the valences of lovemaking and mothering can be transferred intact to the goods vended.
9. Remove as much private ritual as possible from young lives, such as the rituals of food preparation and family dining.
10. Keep both parents employed with the business of strangers. Discourage independent livelihoods with low start-up costs. Make labor for others and outside obligations first priority, self-development second.
11. Grade, evaluate, and assess children constantly and publicly. Begin early. Make sure everyone knows his or her rank.
12. Honor the highly graded. Keep grading and real world accomplishment as strictly separate as possible so that a false meritocracy, dependent on the support of authority to continue, is created. Push the most independent kids to the margin; do not tolerate real argument.
13. Forbid the efficient transmission of useful knowledge, such as how to build a house, repair a car, make a dress.
14. Reward dependency in many forms. Call it "teamwork."
15. Establish visually degraded group environments called "schools" and arrange mass movements through these environments at regular intervals. Encourage a level of fluctuating noise (aperiodic negative reinforcement) so that concentration, habits of civil discourse, and intellectual investigation are gradually extinguished from the behavioral repertoire.
We need to change our approach of how we are raising up our future generation so that at least our future generations can come up with a free and full of life world without false illusions.
To promote free thought we need to get rid of the suppression and submission we teach to our children while they are in their age of learning about life. Taking their liberty to figure out themselves and deciding for themselves cannot help the cause of making a creative mind.
Keeping them involved in an unwanted struggle for grades and numbers make them reluctant of taking good learning decisions for themselves. They become slaves of the system as following the system in best way can give them best grades so no room for out of the box or out of the system thinking.
Teamwork is good but when it is used to suppress individual creativity or taking the unwanted loads of others, it becomes a tool for exploitation.
All this suppression of free thought leads to accepting an unjust and totalitarian system run by few people from elite and it happens in a natural and unnoticeable way.
The approach we develop of following the system to get good grades eventually results in blindly following the wrong policies we see elsewhere in our whole country system or global system with the approach of submission and to get so called desired benefits out for ourselves.
It becomes imperceptive and irrational to talk about rationale behind following and challenging existing norms and ideas.
All these efforts to more regularize education on the standards set by the international donors will further contribute to the cause of slavery and taking away free thought.
If our minds are suppressed and controlled then our whole selves will be enslaved to more extent as no realization of enslavement or desire of freedom will be part of our lives.
Remember, the real threat to any totalitarian or imperialist power is that people start to think freely and justly.
Lord Macaulay's Quote and Confusion about its origin:
I need to thank some of the people who pointed out about the confusing or I should say contradictory history of the quote mentioned above. I have done some searching on the quote and there are alternate views on this so presenting the other side of the story.
Before adding the quote I did some searching on it and among those searches I found :
2nd All-Ukrainian Conference of Indologists Kyiv (5-6 June 2007)
Statement of Mr. DEBABRATA SAHA Ambassador of India to Ukraine
at the Opening Session on 5th June, 2007
India: 60 Years of Independent Development
Culture under stress
As a value, culture has become increasingly marginalised in our land. Whether we are doing enough is something that we need to think about. There is not much time to be lost, writes B. N. Goswamy
Now after receiving many responses on the quote through emails, facebook, some comments on this page , I also tried to look into the issue and decided to revisit the statement and the history behind it. It seems the quote which is mentioned in many historical references quoted by many authors in their books, articles etc is vague. I also don't believe that anything which is repeatedly reported can be necessarily right so its good to revisit the facts whenever we have doubts.
However the purpose of the article was not to write Macaulay's statement or base an argument on that. The purpose was to point out the slave-colonial mindset we have developed over centuries which has moulded our minds from free thinking beings to slaves who have accepted imperialism to its core. The state is just used as explaining the problem in easy and concise words.
Text on the topic, "Minutes on Education" by Thomas Macaulay is given below (I have also highlighted the part which may have led to the confusing statement above either in reaction or some other way):
Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835.
[1] As it seems to be the opinion of some of the gentlemen who compose the Committee of Public Instruction that the course which they have hitherto pursued was strictly prescribed by the British Parliament in 1813 and as, if that opinion be correct, a legislative act will be necessary to warrant a change, I have thought it right to refrain from taking any part in the preparation of the adverse statements which are.now before us, and to reserve what I had to say on the subject till it should come before me as a Member of the Council of India.
[2] It does not appear to me that the Act of Parliament can by any art of contraction be made to bear the meaning which has been assigned to it. It contains nothing about the particular languages or sciences which are to be studied. A sum is set apart "for the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories." It is argued, or rather taken for granted, that by literature the Parliament can have meant only Arabic and Sanscrit literature; that they never would have given the honourable appellation of "a learned native" to a native who was familiar with the poetry of Milton, the metaphysics of Locke, and the physics of Newton; but that they meant to designate by that name only such persons as might have studied in the sacred books of the Hindoos all the uses of cusa-grass, and all the mysteries of absorption into the Deity. This does not appear to be a very satisfactory interpretation. To take a parallel case: Suppose that the Pacha of Egypt, a country once superior in knowledge to the nations of Europe, but now sunk far below them, were to appropriate a sum for the purpose "of reviving and promoting literature, and encouraging learned natives of Egypt," would any body infer that he meant the youth of his Pachalik to give years to the study of hieroglyphics, to search into all the doctrines disguised under the fable of Osiris, and to ascertain with all possible accuracy the ritual with which cats and onions were anciently adored? Would he be justly charged with inconsistency if, instead of employing his young subjects in deciphering obelisks, he were to order them to be instructed in the English and French languages, and in all the sciences to which those languages are the chief keys?
[3] The words on which the supporters of the old system rely do not bear them out, and other words follow which seem to be quite decisive on the other side. This lakh of rupees is set apart not only for "reviving literature in India," the phrase on which their whole interpretation is founded, but also "for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories"– words which are alone sufficient to authorize all the changes for which I contend.
[4] If the Council agree in my construction no legislative act will be necessary. If they differ from me, I will propose a short act rescinding that I clause of the Charter of 1813 from which the difficulty arises.
[5] The argument which I have been considering affects only the form of proceeding. But the admirers of the oriental system of education have used another argument, which, if we admit it to be valid, is decisive against all change. They conceive that the public faith is pledged to the present system, and that to alter the appropriation of any of the funds which have hitherto been spent in encouraging the study of Arabic and Sanscrit would be downright spoliation. It is not easy to understand by what process of reasoning they can have arrived at this conclusion. The grants which are made from the public purse for the encouragement of literature differ in no respect from the grants which are made from the same purse for other objects of real or supposed utility. We found a sanitarium on a spot which we suppose to be healthy. Do we thereby pledge ourselves to keep a sanitarium there if the result should not answer our expectations? We commence the erection of a pier. Is it a violation of the public faith to stop the works, if we afterwards see reason to believe that the building will be useless? The rights of property are undoubtedly sacred. But nothing endangers those rights so much as the practice, now unhappily too common, of attributing them to things to which they do not belong. Those who would impart to abuses the sanctity of property are in truth imparting to the institution of property the unpopularity and the fragility of abuses. If the Government has given to any person a formal assurance– nay, if the Government has excited in any person's mind a reasonable expectation– that he shall receive a certain income as a teacher or a learner of Sanscrit or Arabic, I would respect that person's pecuniary interests. I would rather err on the side of liberality to individuals than suffer the public faith to be called in question. But to talk of a Government pledging itself to teach certain languages and certain sciences, though those languages may become useless, though those sciences may be exploded, seems to me quite unmeaning. There is not a single word in any public instrument from which it can be inferred that the Indian Government ever intended to give any pledge on this subject, or ever considered the destination of these funds as unalterably fixed. But, had it been otherwise, I should have denied the competence of our predecessors to bind us by any pledge on such a subject. Suppose that a Government had in the last century enacted in the most solemn manner that all its subjects should, to the end of time, be inoculated for the small-pox, would that Government be bound to persist in the practice after Jenner's discovery? These promises of which nobody claims the performance, and from which nobody can grant a release, these vested rights which vest in nobody, this property without proprietors, this robbery which makes nobody poorer, may be comprehended by persons of higher faculties than mine. I consider this plea merely as a set form of words, regularly used both in England and in India, in defence of every abuse for which no other plea can be set up.
[6] I hold this lakh of rupees to be quite at the disposal of the Governor-General in Council for the purpose of promoting learning in India in any way which may be thought most advisable. I hold his Lordship to be quite as free to direct that it shall no longer be employed in encouraging Arabic and Sanscrit, as he is to direct that the reward for killing tigers in Mysore shall be diminished, or that no more public money shall be expended on the chaunting at the cathedral.
[7] We now come to the gist of the matter. We have a fund to be employed as Government shall direct for the intellectual improvement of the people of this country. The simple question is, what is the most useful way of employing it?
[8] All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither literary nor scientific information, and are moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them. It seems to be admitted on all sides, that the intellectual improvement of those classes of the people who have the means of pursuing higher studies can at present be affected only by means of some language not vernacular amongst them.
[9] What then shall that language be? One-half of the committee maintain that it should be the English. The other half strongly recommend the Arabic and Sanscrit. The whole question seems to me to be– which language is the best worth knowing?
[10] I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed, both here and at home, with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is indeed fully admitted by those members of the committee who support the oriental plan of education.
[11] It will hardly be disputed, I suppose, that the department of literature in which the Eastern writers stand highest is poetry. And I certainly never met with any orientalist who ventured to maintain that the Arabic and Sanscrit poetry could be compared to that of the great European nations. But when we pass from works of imagination to works in which facts are recorded and general principles investigated, the superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanscrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy, the relative position of the two nations is nearly the same.
[12] How then stands the case? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the languages of the West. It abounds with works of imagination not inferior to the noblest which Greece has bequeathed to us, –with models of every species of eloquence, –with historical composition, which, considered merely as narratives, have seldom been surpassed, and which, considered as vehicles of ethical and political instruction, have never been equaled– with just and lively representations of human life and human nature, –with the most profound speculations on metaphysics, morals, government, jurisprudence, trade, –with full and correct information respecting every experimental science which tends to preserve the health, to increase the comfort, or to expand the intellect of man. Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations. It may safely be said that the literature now extant in that language is of greater value than all the literature which three hundred years ago was extant in all the languages of the world together. Nor is this all. In India, English is the language spoken by the ruling class. It is spoken by the higher class of natives at the seats of Government. It is likely to become the language of commerce throughout the seas of the East. It is the language of two great European communities which are rising, the one in the south of Africa, the other in Australia, –communities which are every year becoming more important and more closely connected with our Indian empire. Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this country, we shall see the strongest reason to think that, of all foreign tongues, the English tongue is that which would be the most useful to our native subjects.
[13] The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession, there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own, whether, when we can teach European science, we shall teach systems which, by universal confession, wherever they differ from those of Europe differ for the worse, and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance, at the public expense, medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography made of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
[14] We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all teach the same lesson. There are, in modern times, to go no further, two memorable instances of a great impulse given to the mind of a whole society, of prejudices overthrown, of knowledge diffused, of taste purified, of arts and sciences planted in countries which had recently been ignorant and barbarous.
[15] The first instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time almost everything that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Had our ancestors acted as the Committee of Public Instruction has hitherto noted, had they neglected the language of Thucydides and Plato, and the language of Cicero and Tacitus, had they confined their attention to the old dialects of our own island, had they printed nothing and taught nothing at the universities but chronicles in Anglo-Saxon and romances in Norman French, –would England ever have been what she now is? What the Greek and Latin were to the contemporaries of More and Ascham, our tongue is to the people of India. The literature of England is now more valuable than that of classical antiquity. I doubt whether the Sanscrit literature be as valuable as that of our Saxon and Norman progenitors. In some departments– in history for example– I am certain that it is much less so.
[16] Another instance may be said to be still before our eyes. Within the last hundred and twenty years, a nation which had previously been in a state as barbarous as that in which our ancestors were before the Crusades has gradually emerged from the ignorance in which it was sunk, and has taken its place among civilized communities. I speak of Russia. There is now in that country a large educated class abounding with persons fit to serve the State in the highest functions, and in nowise inferior to the most accomplished men who adorn the best circles of Paris and London. There is reason to hope that this vast empire which, in the time of our grandfathers, was probably behind the Punjab, may in the time of our grandchildren, be pressing close on France and Britain in the career of improvement. And how was this change effected? Not by flattering national prejudices; not by feeding the mind of the young Muscovite with the old women's stories which his rude fathers had believed; not by filling his head with lying legends about St. Nicholas; not by encouraging him to study the great question, whether the world was or not created on the 13th of September; not by calling him "a learned native" when he had mastered all these points of knowledge; but by teaching him those foreign languages in which the greatest mass of information had been laid up, and thus putting all that information within his reach. The languages of western Europe civilised Russia. I cannot doubt that they will do for the Hindoo what they have done for the Tartar. [17] And what are the arguments against that course which seems to be alike recommended by theory and by experience? It is said that we ought to secure the co-operation of the native public, and that we can do this only by teaching Sanscrit and Arabic. [18] I can by no means admit that, when a nation of high intellectual attainments undertakes to superintend the education of a nation comparatively ignorant, the learners are absolutely to prescribe the course which is to be taken by the teachers. It is not necessary however to say anything on this subject. For it is proved by unanswerable evidence, that we are not at present securing the co-operation of the natives. It would be bad enough to consult their intellectual taste at the expense of their intellectual health. But we are consulting neither. We are withholding from them the learning which is palatable to them. We are forcing on them the mock learning which they nauseate. [19] This is proved by the fact that we are forced to pay our Arabic and Sanscrit students while those who learn English are willing to pay us. All the declamations in the world about the love and reverence of the natives for their sacred dialects will never, in the mind of any impartial person, outweigh this undisputed fact, that we cannot find in all our vast empire a single student who will let us teach him those dialects, unless we will pay him. [20] I have now before me the accounts of the Mudrassa for one month, the month of December, 1833. The Arabic students appear to have been seventy-seven in number. All receive stipends from the public. The whole amount paid to them is above 500 rupees a month. On the other side of the account stands the following item: Deduct amount realized from the out-students of English for the months of May, June, and July last– 103 rupees. [21] I have been told that it is merely from want of local experience that I am surprised at these phenomena, and that it is not the fashion for students in India to study at their own charges. This only confirms me in my opinions. Nothing is more certain than that it never can in any part of the world be necessary to pay men for doing what they think pleasant or profitable. India is no exception to this rule. The people of India do not require to be paid for eating rice when they are hungry, or for wearing woollen cloth in the cold season. To come nearer to the case before us: –The children who learn their letters and a little elementary arithmetic from the village schoolmaster are not paid by him. He is paid for teaching them. Why then is it necessary to pay people to learn Sanscrit and Arabic? Evidently because it is universally felt that the Sanscrit and Arabic are languages the knowledge of which does not compensate for the trouble of acquiring them. On all such subjects the state of the market is the detective test. [22] Other evidence is not wanting, if other evidence were required. A petition was presented last year to the committee by several ex-students of the Sanscrit College. The petitioners stated that they had studied in the college ten or twelve years, that they had made themselves acquainted with Hindoo literature and science, that they had received certificates of proficiency. And what is the fruit of all this? "Notwithstanding such testimonials," they say, "we have but little prospect of bettering our condition without the kind assistance of your honourable committee, the indifference with which we are generally looked upon by our countrymen leaving no hope of encouragement and assistance from them." They therefore beg that they may be recommended to the Governor-General for places under the Government– not places of high dignity or emolument, but such as may just enable them to exist. "We want means," they say, "for a decent living, and for our progressive improvement, which, however, we cannot obtain without the assistance of Government, by whom we have been educated and maintained from childhood." They conclude by representing very pathetically that they are sure that it was never the intention of Government, after behaving so liberally to them during their education, to abandon them to destitution and neglect. [23] I have been used to see petitions to Government for compensation. All those petitions, even the most unreasonable of them, proceeded on the supposition that some loss had been sustained, that some wrong had been inflicted. These are surely the first petitioners who ever demanded compensation for having been educated gratis, for having been supported by the public during twelve years, and then sent forth into the world well furnished with literature and science. They represent their education as an injury which gives them a claim on the Government for redress, as an injury for which the stipends paid to them during the infliction were a very inadequate compensation. And I doubt not that they are in the right. They have wasted the best years of life in learning what procures for them neither bread nor respect. Surely we might with advantage have saved the cost of making these persons useless and miserable. Surely, men may be brought up to be burdens to the public and objects of contempt to their neighbours at a somewhat smaller charge to the State. But such is our policy. We do not even stand neuter in the contest between truth and falsehood. We are not content to leave the natives to the influence of their own hereditary prejudices. To the natural difficulties which obstruct the progress of sound science in the East, we add great difficulties of our own making. Bounties and premiums, such as ought not to be given even for the propagation of truth, we lavish on false texts and false philosophy. [24] By acting thus we create the very evil which we fear. We are making that opposition which we do not find. What we spend on the Arabic and Sanscrit Colleges is not merely a dead loss to the cause of truth. It is bounty-money paid to raise up champions of error. It goes to form a nest not merely of helpless placehunters but of bigots prompted alike by passion and by interest to raise a cry against every useful scheme of education. If there should be any opposition among the natives to the change which I recommend, that opposition will be the effect of our own system. It will be headed by persons supported by our stipends and trained in our colleges. The longer we persevere in our present course, the more formidable will that opposition be. It will be every year reinforced by recruits whom we are paying. From the native society, left to itself, we have no difficulties to apprehend. All the murmuring will come from that oriental interest which we have, by artificial means, called into being and nursed into strength. [25] There is yet another fact which is alone sufficient to prove that the feeling of the native public, when left to itself, is not such as the supporters of the old system represent it to be. The committee have thought fit to lay out above a lakh of rupees in printing Arabic and Sanscrit books. Those books find no purchasers. It is very rarely that a single copy is disposed of. Twenty-three thousand volumes, most of them folios and quartos, fill the libraries or rather the lumber-rooms of this body. The committee contrive to get rid of some portion of their vast stock of oriental literature by giving books away. But they cannot give so fast as they print. About twenty thousand rupees a year are spent in adding fresh masses of waste paper to a hoard which, one should think, is already sufficiently ample. During the last three years about sixty thousand rupees have been expended in this manner. The sale of Arabic and Sanscrit books during those three years has not yielded quite one thousand rupees. In the meantime, the School Book Society is selling seven or eight thousand English volumes every year, and not only pays the expenses of printing but realizes a profit of twenty per cent. on its outlay. [30] The fact that the Hindoo law is to be learned chiefly from Sanscrit books, and the Mahometan law from Arabic books, has been much insisted on, but seems not to bear at all on the question. We are commanded by Parliament to ascertain and digest the laws of India. The assistance of a Law Commission has been given to us for that purpose. As soon as the Code is promulgated the Shasters and the Hedaya will be useless to a moonsiff or a Sudder Ameen. I hope and trust that, before the boys who are now entering at the Mudrassa and the Sanscrit College have completed their studies, this great work will be finished. It would be manifestly absurd to educate the rising generation with a view to a state of things which we mean to alter before they reach manhood. [31] But there is yet another argument which seems even more untenable. It is said that the Sanscrit and the Arabic are the languages in which the sacred books of a hundred millions of people are written, and that they are on that account entitled to peculiar encouragement. Assuredly it is the duty of the British Government in India to be not only tolerant but neutral on all religious questions. But to encourage the study of a literature, admitted to be of small intrinsic value, only because that literature inculcated the most serious errors on the most important subjects, is a course hardly reconcilable with reason, with morality, or even with that very neutrality which ought, as we all agree, to be sacredly preserved. It is confined that a language is barren of useful knowledge. We are to teach it because it is fruitful of monstrous superstitions. We are to teach false history, false astronomy, false medicine, because we find them in company with a false religion. We abstain, and I trust shall always abstain, from giving any public encouragement to those who are engaged in the work of converting the natives to Christianity. And while we act thus, can we reasonably or decently bribe men, out of the revenues of the State, to waste their youth in learning how they are to purify themselves after touching an ass or what texts of the Vedas they are to repeat to expiate the crime of killing a goat? [32] It is taken for granted by the advocates of oriental learning that no native of this country can possibly attain more than a mere smattering of English. They do not attempt to prove this. But they perpetually insinuate it. They designate the education which their opponents recommend as a mere spelling-book education. They assume it as undeniable that the question is between a profound knowledge of Hindoo and Arabian literature and science on the one side, and superficial knowledge of the rudiments of English on the other. This is not merely an assumption, but an assumption contrary to all reason and experience. We know that foreigners of all nations do learn our language sufficiently to have access to all the most abstruse knowledge which it contains sufficiently to relish even the more delicate graces of our most idiomatic writers. There are in this very town natives who are quite competent to discuss political or scientific questions with fluency and precision in the English language. I have heard the very question on which I am now writing discussed by native gentlemen with a liberality and an intelligence which would do credit to any member of the Committee of Public Instruction. Indeed it is unusual to find, even in the literary circles of the Continent, any foreigner who can express himself in English with so much facility and correctness as we find in many Hindoos. Nobody, I suppose, will contend that English is so difficult to a Hindoo as Greek to an Englishman. Yet an intelligent English youth, in a much smaller number of years than our unfortunate pupils pass at the Sanscrit College, becomes able to read, to enjoy, and even to imitate not unhappily the compositions of the best Greek authors. Less than half the time which enables an English youth to read Herodotus and Sophocles ought to enable a Hindoo to read Hume and Milton. [33] To sum up what I have said. I think it clear that we are not fettered by the Act of Parliament of 1813, that we are not fettered by any pledge expressed or implied, that we are free to employ our funds as we choose, that we ought to employ them in teaching what is best worth knowing, that English is better worth knowing than Sanscrit or Arabic, that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught Sanscrit or Arabic, that neither as the languages of law nor as the languages of religion have the Sanscrit and Arabic any peculiar claim to our encouragement, that it is possible to make natives of this country thoroughly good English scholars, and that to this end our efforts ought to be directed. [34] In one point I fully agree with the gentlemen to whose general views I am opposed. I feel with them that it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, –a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. [35] I would strictly respect all existing interests. I would deal even generously with all individuals who have had fair reason to expect a pecuniary provision. But I would strike at the root of the bad system which has hitherto been fostered by us. I would at once stop the printing of Arabic and Sanscrit books. I would abolish the Mudrassa and the Sanscrit College at Calcutta. Benares is the great seat of Brahminical learning; Delhi of Arabic learning. If we retain the Sanscrit College at Bonares and the Mahometan College at Delhi we do enough and much more than enough in my opinion, for the Eastern languages. If the Benares and Delhi Colleges should be retained, I would at least recommend that no stipends shall be given to any students who may hereafter repair thither, but that the people shall be left to make their own choice between the rival systems of education without being bribed by us to learn what they have no desire to know. The funds which would thus be placed at our disposal would enable us to give larger encouragement to the Hindoo College at Calcutta, and establish in the principal cities throughout the Presidencies of Fort William and Agra schools in which the English language might be well and thoroughly taught. [36] If the decision of His Lordship in Council should be such as I anticipate, I shall enter on the performance of my duties with the greatest zeal and alacrity. If, on the other hand, it be the opinion of the Government that the present system ought to remain unchanged, I beg that I may be permitted to retire from the chair of the Committee. I feel that I could not be of the smallest use there. I feel also that I should be lending my countenance to what I firmly believe to be a mere delusion. I believe that the present system tends not to accelerate the progress of truth but to delay the natural death of expiring errors. I conceive that we have at present no right to the respectable name of a Board of Public Instruction. We are a Board for wasting the public money, for printing books which are of less value than the paper on which they are printed was while it was blank– for giving artificial encouragement to absurd history, absurd metaphysics, absurd physics, absurd theology– for raising up a breed of scholars who find their scholarship an incumbrance and blemish, who live on the public while they are receiving their education, and whose education is so utterly useless to them that, when they have received it, they must either starve or live on the public all the rest of their lives. Entertaining these opinions, I am naturally desirous to decline all share in the responsibility of a body which, unless it alters its whole mode of proceedings, I must consider, not merely as useless, but as positively noxious. T[homas] B[abington] MACAULAY 2nd February 1835. I give my entire concurrence to the sentiments expressed in this Minute. W[illiam] C[avendish] BENTINCK.
From: Bureau of Education. Selections from Educational Records, Part I (1781-1839). Edited by H. Sharp. Calcutta: Superintendent, Government Printing, 1920. Reprint. Delhi: National Archives of India, 1965, 107-117.
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"Future Of Pakistan"–> An interesting and useful discussion on Pakistan and foreign interference
An interesting discussion on the future of Pakistan was organized by Intelligence Squared and Evening Standard Newspaper. The speakers invited were Imran Khan, Anatol Lieven, General Sir David Richards, Farzana Shaikh, Jaswant Singh, William Dalrymple and Jonathan Paris.
At the end of the discussion audience voted against the US and Western support for operations in Pakistan.
Below is the link to watch the discussion.
Edhi Foundation–>Haiti Rescue and Relief
Edhi foundation is participating in Haiti Earthquake relief activities. Anyone willing to donate something please do it as soon as possible to your near Edhi help center.
Edhi Foundation :http://www.edhifoundation.com/contact.asp
Edhi to participate in relief activities in Haiti
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Source: http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=157135
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Edhi Foundation Dr Abdul Sattar Edhi expressed his sheer sympathies with President and Prime Minister of Haiti over loss of millions of precious lives in recent earthquake.
Spokesman of Edhi Foundation told Online on Thursday that in his message to the President and Prime Minister, Abdul Sattar Edhi said that we share our grieves with the people in these grave circumstances.
He said that after getting visas of Hetti he would come to Hetti with his son Qutab Edhi along with rescue team of Edhi foundation to participate in relief and rescue activities.
Spokesman further told that Dr Abdul Sattar Edhi contacted Sectary General Ban Ke Moon UN and expressed his grief with him and also expressed sympathies with the grieved people of Haiti in this regard.
Karachi Riots After Blast
First the blast took away 44 lives and injured several and then in continuation of this terrorism an apparent well planned riot was staged on M A Jinnah Road and Sadar area.
The riot resulted in the loss of around 40 billion rupees with thousands of shops and vehicles burnt by the mobsters.
These riots have the signatures similar to that which happened after Benazir's assasination on 27th December 2007.
It's now time to investigate not only this incident but also it's links with past incidents like 27th December 2007, 9th April 2008 and 12 May 2007 and bring to justice who were responsible for these horrible crimes.
Also the traders losses needed to be compensated by the government as the responsibility of the security was of the government especially when they took over the control of markets and shops in the area from the traders.
We as tax payers of Pakistan are justified in demanding that what is the purpose of financing these state institutions with our taxes if they can't protect the lives and property of our people.
The shopkeepers pointed on the rioters among the mob and were requesting the police and rangers to stop them but according to reports the security officials said they don't have orders to stop them. Then the question is needed to be asked why they were there and why all the containers were placed which eventually resulted in creating obstacles in fire fighting operations?
Government has CCTV and media records available to identify the criminals . It's time these things are needed to be stopped once and for all if government itself is not involved.
Great Leaders Great Thoughts–>Jinnah on Oath and True Spirit
"I am persuaded to say this because during my talks with one or two very high-ranking officers I discovered that they did not know the implications of the Oath taken by the troops of Pakistan. Of course, an oath is only a matter of form; what are more important are the true spirit and the heart." – Jinnah at Staff College Quetta 14th June 1948
Why Zardari needs no enemies–>Ansar Abbasi article in The News
Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25831
Saturday, November 28, 2009
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari does not need adversaries as he is his own worst enemy. He shouldn't be worried about the conspiracies, if any, of his political foes, the establishment or his perceived opponent — Geo and a few journalists associated with the Jang Group — because he himself is in a self-destructive mode.
Perhaps not many would be bothered as to what he does to himself but the big worry is about his style of governance which is marred by inaction and indifference at a time when there is a need to do a lot and seriously.
His strange and incomprehensible attitude is damaging Pakistan and threatening the whole system. To be precise and candid, if I am allowed to express my personal view, there is no greater threat to democracy and the system than the president himself. Others have the right to differ.
Getting to the Presidency or the chief executive's office through democratic means, does not mean anything if the promises made are disregarded, election manifesto is overlooked, institutions are ruined, constitutional distortions are subtly protected to thrust and sustain a one man rule that could be described as civilian dictatorship, and parliament is ignored and cabinet is turned into a non-entity. All of this is happening under Zardariís rule.
Although the president has pointed his finger at Geo and Jang Group as his sole enemy, he conveniently ignored what the whole world says about his style of government, his growing unpopularity, mounting corruption of his regime and his men.
Read the foreign newspapers and magazines, look what is coming from Paris about the submarine deal, go through the international surveys about the record-breaking corruption to adjudge the reputation of Zardari-led political dispensation. You will find that Pakistan is hurting.
Ask the political parties, get the pulse of the military establishment, talk to the members of the civil bureaucracy and even have a heart to heart discussion with the PPP leaders including those holding public office, there is a consensus that the president is doing just contrary to what the situation demands. Pakistan is confronted with Himalaya like challenges but its president appears non-serious to face them and get them resolved. No matter what he said in his last public speech made from the Presidency, now generally termed his bunker, he knows how he is seen by all the stakeholders and how much he is trusted.
Media has always served as an easy prey for every government. What President Zardari also did on last Wednesday was no different from the past? We know the Jang Group has committed ìsinî by unearthing corruption scandals, one after the other, and by consistently highlighting tales of murder of merit, favouritism, bad governance. We are also ìresponsibleî for reminding the president and his government of promises, commitments and pledges that remained unfulfilled. President Zardari may not like it but we would continue doing so because it is our fundamental responsibility and this is what the media has been doing in the past.
We have nothing personal against anyone. We donít seek any personal favour, plots, foreign trips and lucrative positions. We neither conspire nor claim to be the kingmakers. We are just messengers and opinion makers. We may be accused of running campaigns or getting biased but all such campaigns or biases, if any, would be directed for institution building, rule of law, justice and fair play. The deserted ousted dictator General (retd) Musharraf also thought that we were biased against him. To an extent he was right that we were biased. But our bias was not against him but to achieve the goal of independence of judiciary in Pakistan. We achieved the goal for which the whole nation takes pride today.
Our criticism against the president and his regime is based on similar biases, which should not be misinterpreted in any other manner. Needless to say that we are biased against corruption, we are biased against nepotism and violation of merit, we are biased against misrule, we are biased against undemocratic postures of the democrats, we are biased against weakening of the institutions, we are biased against military rule as well as civilian dictatorship and certainly we are biased against anything that in any manner harms our homeland.
Mediaís criticism is nowhere seen as a ìconspiracyî to make or break governments. Instead, it is taken by the matured minds and civilised societies as a chance to improve governance, better service delivery, address injustices and serve the public interest.
President Zardari may not like it but he needs to change himself if he wants to secure his presidency. It may also not sound music to his ears but he also needs to change his company by getting rid of the tainted sycophants, dirtied courtiers, corrupt to the core souls and some ìknownî agents of MI6 and CIA, surrounding him. He has to act without any further delay to undo the 17th Amendment, implement the Charter of Democracy and check corruption. Otherwise, he would continue getting weaker and weaker with every passing day. But for his own follies and failings, there is no reason to blame others, particularly the media, which is the mirror, whom the politician always support and admire when out of power intoxication.


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Back in 2013, we defined the new visual language for Oookla and designed their mobile apps. This is a fantastic and enticing Speedtest icon.Posted in Interface → Web App
The Wireframe Kit is now available at UI8.net. The kit includes over 70 templates and 300 UI elements for web, tablet and mobile devices to help speed up your UX workflow. Delivered in .AI vector format.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
The app icon for a productivity app called Gneo. The app was featured as Editors' Choice and 'Best of 2013' by Apple.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
I am in the middle of redesigning Name That Jam, a music guessing app.Posted in Interface → Mac App
A simply stunning redesign of the Safari icon inspired by iOS 7. I love the use of colour and simplification of the compass design.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A beautifully detailed icon based on the classic cassette tape. I love the subtle colour and the slight perspective that adds depth to the design.Posted in Interface → Other
A great icon animation for a retweet that's simple but beautiful. Follow the link to see the animation itself.Posted in Interface → Element
A simply superb example of varied, yet gorgeous, icon design. I love the subtle differences that help to add detail and definition to each individual icon.Posted in Interface → Element
A fancy ribbon for a header or to wrap any type of element in. Completely resizable and adjustable colors. Ribbons are a web cliche, but if you're going to use one, why not use a fancy one.Posted in Interface → Element
An interesting example of an icon that's bright and engaging while conveying a clear purpose. The lightbulb/pencil design has been done before, but it's a good motif.Posted in Interface → Other
A simple but beautifully crafted interface element that would look at home in myriad designs. I really like the subtle textures and colour palette.Posted in Interface → Element
A simply stunning and engagingly colourful icon for a new app for designers. I love the bold nature of the icon and the impression it makes. The little amusing details, such as the text on the top of the ball, work to give the design flair.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A gorgeous example of an unfussy and subtle interface element. I really like the colour palette and utterly simple buttons. The typeface could be bolder, it pales in comparison to the background colour.Posted in Interface → Web App
I love the clean design of this Twitter element. It would be perfect for almost any site! The use of the official Twitter blue makes a strong statement and looks just great.Posted in Interface → Web App

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It is about inspiring you to make healthier choices based on what you currently need - not about telling you what to do, making you become attached to, or obsessed by, a fad diet or a series of attempts at "trying to get healthy".
It is a way of acknowledging where you currently are in your life, and what you would like to change, creating a space of awareness to bring you into a place of flow - a place whereby you can allow yourself to be who you are without judgement.
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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
National Guardsmen searching for survivors in the wreckage of the Sea Wing, 1890. The men at left are standing in the Sea Wing's attached barge, Jim Grant. The Lake City steamer Ethel Howard is in the background.
Poster produced for the National War Garden Commission. Designed by illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, c.1918.
Poster produced for the National War Garden Commission, c.1918.
Construction site of St. Paul's Neighborhood House, April 23, 1923.
St. Paul's Neighborhood House at 229 East Indiana Avenue, March 4, 1924.
New township and railroad map of the state of Minnesota, [1890]. Author: St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad Company. The St. Paul and Sioux City was one of many railroad lines that carried people and goods, planted towns, and speculated on land.
New Ulm Republican Club ribbon, "Nelson, Our Next Governor," 1892.
Newly constructed Lower Dam Hydro Plant, designed by William de la Barre, December 9, 1896.
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EJB as OSGi Service demo at eclipsecon
I will wrap up my experience at eclipsecon. This was my first time at eclipsecon. Folks who had been here earlier told me that this year there was a lot of topics around eclipse runtime projects – so the focus has shifted from tools to runtime. Overall I liked eclipsecon.
My topic, OSGi & Java EE in GlassFish, was also of the same type. The slides of my talk are available here. The source code for the sample used to demonstrate "Modularized Enterprise Java Application" running in GlassFish is now available here. Just download, unzip and run it following the steps listed below.
The sample is organized as shown in the UML diagram below:
Features of the sample
All the components including the EJB are deployed as separate OSGi bundle.
EJB uses JPA in container managed mode to communicate with the database.
Both the admin client and Web Application Bundle client use the EJB via OSGi service registry.
Deployment order of bundles is irrelevant.
Local EJBs being accessed from other bundles.
Steps to run the sample:
asadmin start-domain
cp osgi-ejb-container.jar osgi-jpa,jar from maven repo to ${glassfish.home}/modules//autostart/
asadmin start-database
unzip ejb-as-service.zip
cd ./ejb-as-service
mvn clean install
cp ./common/target/hybridapp2-common.jar ./client/target/hybridapp2-client.jar ./service/target/hybridapp2-service.jar ./webclient/target/hybridapp2-webclient.war $glassfish.home/domains/domain1/autodeploy/bundles/
Open http://localhost:8080/eclipsecon/
Look at the source code, the metadata in jar files, and experiment. If you have any questions about OSGi & Java EE, send emails to email@example.com.
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by smsiebe - 2010-08-04 03:17Sahoo, Very nice simple example. I particularly like the use of JPA within your EJB, to show this is working well. Do you know if there is any planned Netbeans support for EJB's in OSGi modules? I'm sure this would be difficult, since currently the OSGi module development leverages the NBM project development, which of course EJB's wouldn't be applicable. It would be great, though, if I had IDE support for EJB's in this type of project. Thanks, Steve
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Do we need extra plugin in NetBeans for developing such projects? Does NetBeans not support maven based Java EE projects? If it does, then I don't see why one can't leverage that to develop hybrid applications.


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Date.today uses your current time zone, while Date.yesterday defaults to UTC. Why the difference? Date.today is a built in Ruby method, while Date.yesterday and Date.tomorrow are Rails helpers. The Rails team doesn't like redefining methods built in to Ruby, so they introduced Date.current to be used with Date.yesterday and Date.tomorrow. The upshot is, late in the afternoon in SF, Date.today will be equal to Date.yesterday, which may lead to unexpected behavior or failing tests.


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An elephant Love Story.
Dr. Seuss defined love as "compatible weirdness."
We're all a little weird and quirky, and if we're lucky, we find someone whose weirdness matches our own.
Two of my favorite weirdos got engaged last week!
One of the amazing and beautiful parts, to me, is that they didn't find each other at work, or in a bar or even a fix-up through friends. They found each other through elephant journal.
Chris started writing; Jenn started reading his work. After reading a particularly emotionally raw piece of Chris's, Jenn contacted him on Facebook.
They began emailing back and forth. Then, Skyping and talking on the phone. Then, finally Jenn came to Connecticut to visit Chris, and the rest—as they say—is history.
In the week before Jenn came to visit, I teased Chris saying "What if she's really some 80-year-old guy?!" Kind of ridiculous, since they had been Skyping, I suppose. But sometimes people behave one way online, and are totally different in person. When I met Jenn, it was clear pretty instantly that she was Chris's weirdo—for keeps.
There are so many quotes about love. Some of them are useful; many of them are stupid and trite.
One comes to mind when I look at these two:
"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along." ~ Rumi
To two amazing writers and two beautiful people, congratulations on the beginning of your love story. May you always have space in your togetherness, and inspire all of those around you to live and love with authenticity.
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Awww man. Thanks so much Kate! This is truly moving and I'm forever indebted to EJ for helping me to reconnect with my best friend and love.
SWOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!! xoxoxox
Ooohhh Kate this is so sweet!!! Thank you so much for putting our story together, this is really moving and means so much. And YES, big thanks to EJ for reconnecting our two souls in this lifetime. I am forever grateful. <3
I can surely attest to the love and rightness of these two very special "weirdo's", :). It is a beautiful truth to watch! Love this story Kate, beautifully written!!
And here I was just thinking I'd only get some editing experience and some publishing opportunities…guess you just have to be open… :0)
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This afternoon, I watched an online discussion about The Caregiver Crisis sponsored by TEDMED Great Challenges. The event featured four experts sharing their thoughts about the challenges and problems in the caregiving experience. You can watch the video of the event below.
During the discussion, Alan Blaustein, founder, CarePlanners, said that he believes that the solutions around caregiving, particularly those involving work and caregiving, will take ten years to resolve.
His comment about ten years created a stir on Twitter for those of us following the event (#greatchallenges).
I believe it won't take ten years simply because the crisis won't wait ten years.
Two weeks ago, I gave an eldercare presentation to one of our largest financial service companies based here in Chicago. After the presentation, the company's vice president of the company's Employee Assistance Program said, "Caregiving is the greatest stressor our employees currently face."
In 2009, 66 million individuals provided care to a family member or friend. We've reach the tipping point. It's not an experience that just happens to someone we know. It's an experience that happens to everyone we know. Because of that, the sheer numbers of family caregivers will change business as usual simply because business won't operate as usual. It can't when so many employees will be involved in caregiving.
As you know, caregiving means crisis. More and more employees will be away from work, even if only for an afternoon a month, to manage their personal caregiving crisis. A caregiving crisis doesn't wait for the employer benefit–it just happens. There's no chicken-or-the-egg dilemma here. Caregiving will cause employers to adjust; it's not that employers will adjust and then employees will take on caregiving responsibilities.
Jo shared this comment after a recent talk show Trish and I did (When Work and Caregiving Call on the Same Line):
I too have found that I as I share my needs with others in the work place, more and more of them have similar needs. Statistically we know that as the Baby Boomers age the population of caregivers and caregivee's is growing. Instead of me being an anomaly, increasingly I'm one of many. It's less and less, my office only covering for me, but instead all of us caring for each other. This isn't a universal reality but I'm seeing this more and more.
The other point that was touched on which I would emphasize, while I'm at work, I work doubly hard knowing that I could be called away or have to impose on my colleagues at a moments notice. I doubt employers think of their caregiving employees as the hardest working ones within their office but I'd wager that it is true more often than not.
You are disruptors. Maybe you don't have the time to create a picket line to cause change. But because you don't have a lot of time, you will make changes in the health care system, the workplace and in the communities happen. You don't have time to waste.
Because of your sheer numbers, you'll walk around the obstacles you face. You'll create the change and then the organizations will follow. Maybe the policies, both in the workplace, in our tax structure and in our health care system, won't be formalized for another ten years. But the formal policies will follow the informal changes you've already made. You'll continue to cover for your fellow caregiving co-workers, demand better health care services for you and your caree, and complain loudly when you receive poor service from providers in your community. You'll take to Twitter, Facebook and on your blog here to talk about the changes you've already implemented to make caregiving work. Because of technology, when you share, you'll reach more and more of the caregiving masses. You won't wait for the official policy because you can't wait.
It won't take ten years. Simply because you've already started. You already disrupt.
What do you think? Please share your thoughts in the comments section, below.
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- Webinar Follow-Up: Which Statement About Caregiving Did You Create? (caregiving.com)
- Join the TEDMED Discussion on the Caregiving Crisis (caregiving.com)
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ESR Dating of Coral Reef Terraces on Curacao (Netherland Antilles) with Estimates of Younger Pleistocene Sea Level Elevations.
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A sequence of at least three Late and Middle Pleistocene coral reef terraces (Lower Terrace, Middle Terrace I and II), which are uplifted up to 45 m a.s.l., is conserved on Curaçao. The less uplifted Lower terrace (elevation 6 to 12 m above sea level) consists of two different coral reef formations: the Hato unit and the underlying Cortalein unit. The discontinuity between these two superimposed units is typically marked by a strong difference in the degree of weathering. Samples of coral in growth position were collected from the Lower Terrace (Hato and Cortalein unit) and the Middle Terrace I. ESR ages indicate a Last Interglacial age of the Hato unit of about 122 ky BP, and a correlation with the Last Interglacial sea level maximum (stage 5e). The ESR age of the underlying Cortalein unit is about 216 ky BP (stage 7). Palaeo sea level calculations imply a correlation with the youngest of three Penultimate coral reef terraces located on the island of Barbados, which was uplifted more strongly than the island of Curaçao. No equivalents of older Penultimate Interglacial coral reefs and of the Interglacial stage 9 were found. Middle Terrace I could be at least as old as stage 11 (approx. 400 ky BP), however, it could also be more than 500 ky old.


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Explore Lisbon in a unique and exciting way – by GoCar! Easy and fun to drive, the GoCar is guided by GPS (Global Positioning System), which means that the car always knows where you are, even if you don't. As you drive, the GPS will tell you where to turn and what you're passing, and it waits patiently if you want to stop. If you turn your car off, the tour picks up where it left off as soon as you turn it back on. With a selection of itineraries and tour lengths to choose from, you can discover Lisbon on your own schedule!
Self-drive GoCar tour in Lisbon guided by talking GPS
- Travel around Lisbon at your own pace
View Lisbon's top attractions, such as the Jerónimos Monastery, Tower of Belém and the Monument to the Discoveries
- Visit Lisbon's charming neighborhoods including Alfama, Belém, Chiado and Bairro Alto
- See sights that interest you, such as the Park of Nations, Sao Luis Teather or the Botanic Garden
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A narrated, self-drive GoCar tour guided by GPS is a fantastic way to explore Lisbon at your own pace. The talking GPS gives you directions that are clear, concise and informative, and it highlights specific locations throughout Lisbon as you drive, providing a unique experience during your stay in Lisbon. Your three-wheeled GoCar seats two and has a lockable trunk for your things. No experience is necessary, and you will receive helmets and a briefing on how to operate the car before you head out from the shop.
Unlike a traditional tour, you decide where you want to go and when you want to stop. Your tour can take anywhere from one hour to a full day – the choice is yours. Simply get your car, choose a designated route or make up your own tour of the city, and let the fun begin!
There are different routes and time options available, with lots of historical and cultural sights and landmarks along the way, including:
- Alfama, Chiado, Baixa, Bairro Alto, Chiado, Belém and Graça neighborhoods
- Amalia Rodrigues Museum
- Jerónimos Monastery
- Tower of Belém
- Monument to the Discoveries
- Park of Nations
- Sao Luis Teather
- Botanic Garden
East Tour:
On this 45-minute tour, visit the eastern part of Lisbon, home to St Jorge Castle. Drive through Lisbon city center to Alfama, Lisbon's medieval quarter, and the Graça and Baixa neighborhoods. With several detour options, you can customize your tour to include any secluded area that might catch your attention as you drive!
West Tour:
This 45-minute tour takes you around the interesting urban layout of winding streets and plazas of Lisbon's business center. Drive past the Amalia Rodrigues Museum, Sao Luis Teather and the Botanic Garden. Explore the Bairro Alto neighborhood and see the Camoes Plaza and the elegant Chiado neighborhood, with its old cafés, boutiques, theaters and bookstores.
Belem Tour:
Drive along Lisbon's Tagus River waterfront and discover the interesting neighborhood of Belém, home to Portugal's sailing history. This 1.5-hour tour takes you around UNESCO World Heritage-listed monuments like the 16th-century Jerónimos Monastery and the Tower of Belém. You will also see the Monument to the Discoveries, which commemorates Portugal's important role in the discovery of the Americas. Stop at a local café to have a pastel de Belém, the famous Portuguese pastry (own expense).
Expo Tour:
Explore Lisbon's modern part as you drive along the Park of Nations, where the 1998 World Expo took place. This 1.25-hour tour takes you through this lively area, home to shops, cafés and trade and cultural activities.
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August 2014
Excellent car experience for those under 62 years of age. The guided tour was very informative as long as one could multitask. However, she sometimes wondered off into her own world or somehow we were lost. Definitely not for those with weak of heart or have lack of navigation skills. But it is one of the best tours we have taken in Europe, an will never forget. To this day we laugh at taking a 2 hour tour and being lost for 3 an a half hours. Funniest story we have to share with our friends.. Glad we did it once - it is now off our bucket list. Enjoy !!
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Directions to return go car were too confusing. GPS even gave up! Also seats should be cushioned!
October 2015
We had contact with several employees of this company, as we took three services of this company. Two segway tours and one GoCar.
All staff was very nice, except the guy who attended us for this specific service. Sloppy, grumpy, he gave us an old defective car that should have been scrapped years ago.
He did not ask which language we wanted for the GPS, did not check whether the car was working well.
In short, we could not use it as it died every one hundred meters, the rear view mirror was broken, and that rendered the tour dangerous.
The engine roared like a 747 boeing.
Upon our return, we saw the cars that the other clients received: brand new, silent, gps programmed in the language of the client.
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COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. - Smoke alarms alerted residents to a house fire early Friday morning, allowing them to safely escape, South Lane County Fire and Rescue said.
The residents called firefighters, who knocked down flames and kept damage to a minimum.
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One of my troubles is that I will make too much food. I guess it's not really a trouble or problem but in the case of fillings for ravioli or tortellini it does present a problem. There is always a bit of raw egg in those fillings so I have to get creative with what to do with those leftovers. I asked for ideas on my Facebook fan page and on a discussion forum that I frequent. I received a lot of great ideas but one stood out-Italian style enchiladas.
My son, who takes my pictures, insisted I use this one since it's a "view of an enchilada"! lol…what a kid. I had him take a series of pictures, which I will post first, followed by the recipe. These were delicious and I want to thank Judi for the idea.
Italian enchiladas
10- 8 in. soft flour tortillas
leftover filling from ravioli (I used the chicken and ricotta cheese filling I used for the tortellini from Easter)
1 can of quartered artichoke hearts in water
2 cups crushed tomatoes
1 jar of alfredo sauce
1-2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
dried basil and oregano
Begin by spraying your 9 X 13 in baking dish with non-stick spray. Set oven to 350. Spread 1/2 cup of crushed tomatoes on the bottom of the pan. Spread filling on tortilla, top with artichoke hearts, a handful of mozzarella cheese and roll up. Place seam side down in the pan. Top with a spoonful of crushed tomatoes, dried herbs, and a spoonful of alfredo sauce. Sprinkle on some grated parmesan cheese. Continue until the pan is full. Add more alfredo sauce and crushed tomatoes to the pan so they don't dry out. Cover and bake for about 30-40 minutes until heated through.
I made a few "white" ones for my son who won't eat the red sauce or artichoke hearts.
These were so good. And I had a few leftover for today's lunch. Cool. One more use for the filling that I came up with the other night is Italian bread pizza. Simply cut a loaf of Italian bread in half, horizontally, and spread one half with pesto sauce, then the filling, top with a bit more pesto, mozzarella cheese, a few slices of tomatoes and pop in the oven for about 7-10 minutes until heated and cheese is bubbly. If you need to place under the broiler for a minute or so to toast the bread then do that at the end. Here is what ours looked like. (please excuse my hubby's hairy arm and cruddy pot holder)
I hope these recipes have given you some ideas of meals to add to your menus. I hate wasting food and the last time I made ravioli I had leftover filling and it went bad before I could use it. Another use could be lasagna as a fan posted the recipe on the Facebook page. So be sure to become a Facebook fan and check out the recipe there.
Update on my daughter: she was sent home last evening as the contractions slowed down and have since ended. She is feeling good and glad that the babies are not here yet as they need a little more time to mature in there. I am still excited and can't wait till we have a real go at this!


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Fourth Avenue has a capacity of 2,064 beds of which 288 are specifically designed to house the highest security level inmate in the system. The Fourth Avenue Jail was designed first and foremost with the interest of public safety in mind, following Sheriff Joe Arpaio's philosophy of remaining tough on crime.
The Fourth Avenue Jail features user friendly video visitation for the general public. This facility also maintains a fully staffed and equipped medical and dental clinic. In addition, inmates are offered educational and religious services in the chapel and classrooms within the facility.
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