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I LOVE DISNEY! When I'm not looking for an excuse to head to Walt Disney World to take part in the behind-the-scenes tours (my favorite), I am reading up on the Park's history and the legacy Walt left for others to enjoy. I treasure one of the original "E" tickets from my first visit to Walt Disney World, during the year Magic Kingdom opened and my Disney collection boasts more than 600 unique Disney Christmas ornaments. I am a wife and blessed to be the mother of two awesome boys and work as a paralegal to a senior partner at an Atlanta-based law firm.
My husband is Mr. Mom during the day and Mr. Microphone during the evenings, running a trivia and DJ business. My oldest son is my miracle man and hero. He has cerebral palsy and has shown us the true meaning of courage and determination. My youngest son is an All-American boy and constantly keeps us laughing. Our house is known as the "House of Mouse" in the neighborhood because of the Fab Five topiaries decorating my front yard topped off by a Mickey Mouse themed flag flying outside that changes with the occasion.
My inbox is full with emails from friends and family looking for advice on anything and everything Disney. I begin with sharing an extensive list of tips and then customize a trip specific to their interests. I especially enjoy providing recommendations for families traveling with a special needs member - I find Disney helps them forget their daily struggles, if only for a little while. My number one piece of advice is to take time to enjoy all of the little details - there are plenty of opportunities to come back. Walt Disney World is my second home and I feel that everyone there is an extended member of my family.


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Local bands all have Facebook pages and sometimes even websites, but Web stores for local bands are few and far between. But since September, Iowa bands can sell their music and merchandise through The Iowa Music Store. More than 60 bands are now selling merch and music through the site, iowamusicstore.com.
The idea came from the founders of Maximum Ames Records and the Maximum Ames Music Festival. They love putting out music by Iowa musicians, but its not financially feasible for them to release everyones records.
Its not like were curating; the only thing a band needs is an Iowa connection, said Maximum Ames co-founder Chris Ford. The only thing they need is an Iowa connection. Anybody can email us and get on the site.
The store features everyone from defunct bands like Slaughterhouse 6 to nationally known acts like William Elliott Whitmore. Buyers can purchase merchandise from all their favorite artists and save money by having them shipped from the same store, or have their purchases delivered by bike messengers in certain areas.
In 2013, The Iowa Music Store will have a pop-up store at the Mission Creek Festival on April 2-7 in Iowa City. Ford would like to see the store get to the point where it can be doing pop-up stores once a month around the state.


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More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason's astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.
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LAS CRUCES >> The New Mexico State University Model U.N. team will sponsor a U.N. Women's Day Fun Run Sunday.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. The 5K and 10K runs begin at 9 a.m. Registration is $30 for the 5K and $35 for the 10K.
The race will begin at the corner of Arrowhead Drive and Stewart Street.
Half of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Frontera Women's Foundation to support nonprofits serving low-income women and girls, according to an NMSU news release.
Model U.N. students are currently raising money to attend the national conference April 13-17 in New York City. The organization is an academic simulation to educate students on communication and diplomacy.
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PA Room offers look into Ligonier's first tavern
A display containing artifacts taken from the site of John Bridges' Tavern has been the centerpiece of the Ligonier Library's Pennsylvania Room since it opened in October of 2007. A glass-covered case contains fragments of bottles, dishware, cutlery, coinage and even pieces of smoking pipes that still have tobacco inside.
Jacob Grimm, a pharmacist and former curator at Fort Ligonier, found the tavern site in the back yard of his South Market Street home in 1967.
Grimm passed away in 2001, but the most prominent pieces of his collection is still on display at the library.
"I'm extremely excited to keep this stuff here and very grateful to Beverly (Grimm's wife) for allowing us to keep it," said library archivist Shirley Iscrupe. "I ask her every year if she wants it back, and she says no. She's happy to have it here because more people see it here than in her shop. It gets a little more publicity that way. When people walk in the door, this display is the first thing they walk to."
Iscrupe said she enjoys explaining the history of the site to people.
"It's right here in this town and it's early. That whole area down there was so impressive. People from Colonial Williamsburg, the Smithsonian, Victoria & Albert in London, everybody all over the world, came to see those artifacts and to help identify them. That's a big deal, and most people have no idea about that."
Beverly Grimm said after making the initial find, her husband read through historical documents, including journals by Samuel Vaughan in 1787, as well as a Dr. Cutler in 1788, both of whom talked about John Bridges' Tavern. Grimm began excavating the entire back yard in five-square-foot sections, expanding the project to include the driveway, the foundation level of the Forget Me Not shop, and even the part of their neighbor's yard.
"Jake collected every little fragment of any kind of porcelain, or broken dishes, or glassware. There are bunches of broken glass that archaeologists can learn a lot from," Grimm said. "He was really excited. I think he expected to find some things being so close to Fort Ligonier."
Grimm would clean, number and catalog every piece he uncovered, eventually setting up a display at Fort Ligonier. Iscrupe, another former curator at the fort, estimated that the collection numbered more than 30,000 just from the first excavation project in 1967-1968.
According to Grimm's research, John Bridges' Tavern was likely in use between 1770 and 1795. However, John Bridges' name does not appear in tax records from that time, which meant that he did not own the tavern. Grimm believed the building was leased to Bridges from various owners, which, as shown from records at the time, include Arthur St. Clair, Thomas Galbraith and the Ramsey family, all of whom were innkeepers at one time.
Grimm said her husband had been interested in archaeology since he was a young man, searching the Ligonier Valley for arrowheads and other historical relics. Each year, he would attend annual meeting for the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeologists, where he would take a display of his findings.
"We were married 38 years and the whole time during those years he was involved in archaeology somewhere; Hannastown, the fort, this project. It was just a part of our life to have these things; they were always about the house. He was always cleaning, and numbering them, and researching. It was an interesting time, certainly."
Grimm had planned to pool all of his research to write an extensive article on the project, but was unable to do so before he died. Both Beverly Grimm and Iscrupe admitted that it would be a good memorial for Grimm's work if someone could continue where he left off and complete the article.
"I would really like to see somebody who understands 18th century artifacts and sites," Iscrupe said. "Someone who knows about archaeology and has the time and expertise to pull all of Jake's research together and write the article that he wanted to write. It would be super if that could happen in Jake's memory. He was my mentor and I think he was a heck of a great guy. It would be a fitting testimonial to his knowledge and expertise."
Peter Turcik is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.
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Stephane Yelle is returning to the Avalanche as part of a trade that also sends Harrison Reed to Colorado from the Carolina Hurricanes, who get back Cedric Lalone-McNicoll and a sixth-round draft pick in 2010.
Yelle spent his first seven seasons in the NHL with the Avalanche and was part of the team's 2001 Stanley Cup championship. The 35-year-old center has 96 goals and 168 assists in 980 career games with the Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Boston Bruins and Hurricanes.
Reed is a 22-year-old right wing has 1 goals and 5 assists in 49 games with the AHL Albany River Rats. Lalonde-McNicoll, just like Reed, has no NHL experience. The 21-year-old center has 5 goals and 8 assists in 45 games with the AHL Lake Erie Monsters.


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November 28, 2015
ROWAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - They say they feel violated and angry. Leaders of a Rowan County preschool need your help finding the man who broke into their building!
Police released surveillance video showing the burglar inside the preschool and he got away with some valuable things.
"We were about to have kids at school and kids making their transition at the school's bus stop. Instead, we had a crime scene," said Shirley Anderson, Preschool Director for Rowan County Schools.
The back doors were found wide open, some of the windows were shattered and several valuables were stolen.
"What kind of person steals from preschool children?" Anderson asked. "We were absolutely horrified watching the surveillance video because there he is in black and white going up and down the hallway."
Just by watching the video, it certainly doesn't look like the man wearing long-sleeve clothing was in any rush.
"He was walking around for about two hours so he had plenty of time to look around."
But this thief wasn't there for the view. He was there for the valuables.
"One laptop was stolen along with personal checks, cash and two televisions, one of which had been donated to school."
Believe it or not, Morehead Police say this type of burglary isn't uncommon.
"A lot of people know that inside the school there are items of value. If it's worth it to them, they'll try to get inside," said Capt. Derek Blevins with the Morehead Police Dept.
Now, administrators at the Rowan County Preschool Center plan to do whatever it takes to keep thieves like this man out.
The Preschool Center hopes to install a new alarm system in the school.
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Baird Offers Condolences After Vessel Capsizes in Indonesian Waters
June 22, 2012 - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:
"On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I offer condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragic capsizing of a boat off the coasts of Indonesia and Australia.
"This tragedy is a symptom of the global problem of migrant smuggling.
"It also shows the callousness and disdain for human life of the criminal syndicates, facilitators and smugglers who organize these ventures.
"We commend the Australian and Indonesian authorities who responded quickly to the distress call."
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It looks like the new era of harmony on the Santa Rosa City Council couldn't manage to survive even one council meeting.
At their first gathering as a newly organized council on Tuesday night, the group sat down to sing "Kumbayah," and didn't get through the first verse.
The flashpoint — if you can call it that — was a single word in an otherwise benign 1,300-word article that ran in Tuesday's Press Democrat. In Staff Writer Kevin McCallum's piece about new Mayor Scott Bartley, the new leader of the council referred to long-time neighborhood activist Jack Swearengen as "clueless."
Bartley's council colleagues pounced.
Julie Combs, one of two new members on the council, took time at Tuesday's meeting to speak up for Swearengen as "a kind and gentle man who volunteers his time tirelessly for the betterment of Santa Rosa." She suggested the council revisit its code of conduct with an eye toward toning down criticism of the city's citizenry.
When Bartley didn't rise to the bait, Councilman Gary Wysocky threw his line in the water, too, asking if Bartley planned to apologize, as requested by another citizen who sent an e-mail to all council members. Barley said he would not, and when Wysocky again goaded him with the question, the new mayor proclaimed he had nothing to apologize for.
I don't want to accuse anyone of lacking a clue, but do council members ever listen to themselves? Do they listen to the public?
If they did, they might get clued in to the fact that this kind of tit-for-tat coup-counting is not only unproductive, but unbecoming. The citizens of Santa Rosa have a clear understanding that among the many problems facing our fair city, the matter of which council person scores the most political points in a Tuesday-night meeting does not rank anywhere near the top.
And that seems to be what Combs and Wysocky had in mind by pressing this matter.
Bartley, on the other hand, passed up a chance to appear mayor-like when he refused to apologize for his remark. He was selected by his council colleagues to serve in the mayor's post after a campaign in which a prime topic of discussion was the need to end the internecine warfare between the council's ideological factions. In his first meeting as mayor, Bartley could have taken a step toward that goal by telling Swearengen he was sorry for his poor choice of words. But instead he parried Combs's and Wysocky's thrusts with a whack of his own.


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Amy Poehler is drunk on power. Now that she's the recipient of Variety's Power of Comedy Award (in fact she's the first women to take home the honor in its...two-year history), she's using her platform to push an agenda.
Don't worry, it isn't anything diabolical. She used her opportunity in the spotlight to pitch some show ideas to the execs in the room, and we have to say, they sound like they could be ratings blowouts! Get ready to set your DVRs.
MORE: Check out the funniest moments from Variety's Power of Comedy bash!
First up is Stuntmen Without Shirts, a simple documentary series in which Amy asks Hollywood's unsung heroes, "Hey, take your shirt off." But that's just the beginning.
Maybe the suits in the room will bite when they hear about her "wish-fulfillment show," I Really Don't Give a S--t How Your Fantasy Football Team Is Doing, Take the Kids Somewhere? With the right audience we're sure these shows take off!
Check out the video to hear more of Amy's hilarious small-screen ideas, and see who practically upstaged the night's honoree with a steamy onstage kiss!
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The Tacoma Public Library welcomes and encourages volunteer participation. Volunteers provide assistance as genealogy researchers, program and event aides, crowd organizers, summer reading club assistants, book sale workers, bulletin board decorators, along with working on special projects like planning Tacoma Reads Together activities and our ongoing film series.
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Michael Inserra, owner of Patsy' s Bay Marina in Stony Point, recounts the hard work that was done to recover from the chaos of Superstorm Sandy.
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The storm surge from Sandy swamped the Hudson River shoreline in the area in late October, destroying waterfront homes and businesses. The damage turned lives upside down and scuttled businesses, and continuing recovery efforts are tedious and stressful for those trying to return to the way things were.
But along Hudson Drive, a sign of hope can be found. The 16-acre, 300-slip Patsy's Bay Marina is back in business, despite having suffered an estimated $1.5 million in damage, about half its value. Work remains, but the marina reopened for the Memorial Day weekend.
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Italian Drop Biscuits Recipe
I'd been making garlic cheese biscuits for years before I tried spicing them up with some green chilies. These biscuits go well with soups as well as Mexican and Italian foods. -LaDonna Reed Ponca City, Oklahoma
- 2 cups biscuit/baking mix
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 tablespoons chopped green chilies
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the biscuit mix, cheese, water and chilies just until moistened. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet.
- 2. Bake at 450° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. In a small bowl, combine the butter, parsley, Italian seasoning and garlic powder; brush over warm biscuits. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
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The Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) at UNE encourages best practices in educational assessment and institutional effectiveness by engaging the UNE community and others in discussions and with evidence to assure that UNE has clear, current, and broadly utilized systems for measuring effectiveness and taking action on those measurements.
The Institutional Effectiveness Committee makes recommendations on policy and procedure to enhance institutional quality at every level.
The University of New England Institutional Effectiveness Committee is composed of academic, administrative, and co-curricular members of the UNE community. The goal of the Institutional Effectiveness Committee is to provide a framework and process for monitoring the quality and effectiveness of the University.
The IEC consults with an Academic Quality Workgroup to assure that colleges and co-curricular departments have accepted assessment systems in place so that all academic programs assess student learning outcomes in a deliberate, organized manner and utilize the results of these assessments for demonstrated quality improvements. Such results are reported annually from the deans to the IEC and the Office of the Provost.
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The Institutional Effectiveness Committee seeks ways to improve assessment practices at UNE beyond those stated and recommends ways to improve the quality of the University and the achievement of strategic goals through these institutional effectiveness processes:
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MARROWBONE, Ky. (WYMT) - Police are on the scene of a crash involving a coal truck and pickup along Kentucky 460 near the Marrowbone community.
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It's definitely a good week for Gretchen Rossi.
The Orange County Superior Court confirms to E! News that on Thursday a jury awarded the Real Housewives of Orange County star $500,000 in damages, $23,250 in punitive damages and a three-year-restraining order in her ongoing legal battle against Jay Photoglou.
Rossi and Photoglou have been going back-and-forth with lawsuits since 2010, when the Bravo reality star sued the man who claimed to be her former beau for defamation, assault, battery and other alleged offenses.
The judge threw out the defamation-libel-slander portion of Rossi's case in October 2010, but allowed her to move forward with claims of assault, battery, stalking, breach of contract, conversion, intentional emotional distress, intentional interference with contractual relations and intentional interference with prospective economic relations. Gretchen ended up having to pay Photoglou $40,799 in legal fees, but it seems as though she still got the upper hand in the end.
Meanwhile, Photoglou also slapped Rossi with a suit in January 2011 for libel and slander, claiming she lied about their secret relationship on TV and in various media interviews when she was engaged to Jeff Beitzel, who died of leukemia in September 2008.
The court rep also tells E! News that Gretchen is seeking a temporary restraining order against Photoglou now that she has won. A hearing over that matter was held Monday at 10 a.m.
At Monday's hearing, Orange County Superior Court Judge David Chaffee issued a three-year restraining order against Photoglou that prohibits him from coming within 100 feet of Rossi or contacting any of Rossi's businesses with which she's contracting or negotiating.
"Now, with the restraining order in place, Ms. Rossi can live with peace of mind. Hopefully everyone can now move on with their lives," Rossi's attorney said in a statement.
(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
—Reporting by Baker Machado
(Originally published Nov. 15, 2012, at 6:54 p.m. PT)


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It may be a bit ludicrous for the Chinese government to criticize other nations over human rights, but that doesn't mean that their observations are wrong.
Via China Daily, excerpts from the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China's report titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012," released a week ago:
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The State Department of the United States recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. However, the U.S. turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and never said a word about it.
In the U.S., elections could not fully embody the real will of its citizens. Political contributions had, to a great extent, influenced the electoral procedures and policy direction. During the 2012 presidential election, the voter turnout was only 57.5 percent.
The U.S. has become one of the developed countries with the greatest income gap.


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Spotted, Michelle Williams on the carpet last night for the "Take This Waltz" Special New York Screening at Sunshine Landmark in NYC. She ripped from the runway a ALTUZARRA REOSRT 2013 LBD that she paired with white GIVENCHY ankle strap sandals, a black JUDITH LEIBER clutch, FOREVERMARK jewelry, rosy lips and her signature pixie. This is a very safe look which is fitting for Michelle, however would have love to see her in a summery color. Her stylist is on point though for pulling a Resort 2013 look. This is her second in two days. What do you think of her look?
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The on-going space voxel project by the six sibling studio, ZanMgt! A labor of love, Blockade Runner is an ever-evolving development that's currently undergoing a major engine overhaul to provide a solid foundation for the game's bi-weekly builds. We've found the bi-weekly builds to be an enjoyable and healthy development cycle and are anxiously preparing the game for their return!
After painstakingly making a bunch of changes the other day we decided it's about time to make a rudimentary editor program to make the process far less time consuming.
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Data Editor
We thought we could manage the items (yes BR has those now) and blocks by hand through the individual .XML's for at least a little bit, but after painstakingly making a bunch of changes the other day we decided it's about time to make a rudimentary editor program to make the process far less time consuming.
We'll be basing the editor off of WarCraft 3's Object Editor, which despite a couple of its shortcomings is probably the most convenient data editor we've ever used for modding a game. It's simple, modular, and doesn't require us to re-invent the wheel to get a handy-dandy data editor for Blockade Runner!
Not sure how many of y'all would be interested in this, but we're thinking about providing this editor's source code (its just a basic C# app) on GitHub so other coders could make their own tweaks and upgrades to the editor if they like.
I know that I would personally love to see some of DayShine's rendering functions integrated!
Update on the update?
And before you ask, the update on the update will be available pronto, I just got caught up in some unexpected developments with Gabe.
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The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star Chapter 1 Summary
- We open with a narrator explaining how everything in the world began and how time has always existed: "before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes" (1.1).
- This is … not very encouraging. We don't know yet where we're at, who's doing the talking, or what the story might be about, but we are getting a nice taste of big philosophical ideas like existence and time. It's like walking straight into the writer's brain. Horrifying.
- We learn that our narrator is a writer, and we learn why he writes: "So long as there are no answers, I shall go on writing" (1.3). Okay then! Guess that's answered, at least.
- See, the thing is that he's pretty desperate to arrive at the truth, and he figures that writing is the best way to do that.
- We finally get moving when the narrator tells us how he was inspired to write the story: "In a street in Rio de Janeiro I caught a glimpse of perdition on the face of a girl from the North-east" (1.6). Greaaaaat.
- Quick brain snack: The northeast of Brazil is (or at least was) the poorest region in the country. We're talking eating-rats-and-lizards poor.
- After saying that he wants to write a simple story with, oh, seven characters or so, the narrator introduces himself as Rodrigo S.M. Pay attention, 'cause this is the first and last time we see his name in the book.
- Now we find out that the narrator feel like it's his duty to tell this girl's story and make her see how miserable she is. Dude, that sounds kind of mean.
- But it's not just for her. There are thousands of girls like this in Rio, and no one notices or cares about them. So, Rodrigo is going to make us notice one.
- Aaaaand … we're back into philosophy. Prayer empties the soul; words have a power that exceeds even the words themselves. Got it?
- Despite the fact that Rodrigo clearly has a vocabulary full of fancy words and some really not simple ideas, he emphasizes that he wants to keep his words simple.
- All right. Philosophizing over. (For now.)
- Here's some more deets on the girl: she's nineteen. She's from the "backwoods of Alagoas" (1.16), and she's a typist, though not a very good one.
- Guess that's enough information, because now the narrator starts reflecting on his own identity.
- He's evidently got some self-esteem issues, because he wonders, "Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" (1.17).
- Then he informs us that the girl, too, "does not know herself."
- Huh. Wonder how he's so sure of that?
- Evidently, he's sure because she's still walking around. If she were "foolish enough to ask herself 'Who am I?,'" the narrator says, "she would fall flat on her face" (1.18).
- We get the sense that this guy isn't much fun at parties.
- Now he's back to talking about the story. Don't expect too much, he warns us, because this story is pretty plain. But it's also "opaque," "despised," and "discordant" (1.20), so we're thinking maybe get the tissues handy.
- After another philosophical reflection on the complexity of words (and facts and deeds and reality), he reveals that "this lengthy preamble is intended to conceal the poverty of [his] story …" (1.22).
- No way, really?
- Finally, he resolves that he "must write about this girl of the North-east otherwise [he] shall choke" (1.25). No, no, please go on.
- But we guess not yet, because he now addresses a series of mostly philosophical ideas about himself and the girl.
- We start with solitude. Rodrigo S.M. claims that he is not afraid of storms because he himself is the night's darkness.
- That's … deep.
- Now we're onto the reduction of one's self, and how the girl has managed to reduce herself to herself ("… she was guided by her own remote control"), and that after many failures, he has done the same.
- We're not 100% on what this means, but, okay. That's cool.
- Here's another similarity: Rodrigo S.M. explains that he and the girl "live exclusively in the present" (1.30).
- After waxing all philosophical for a bit, our fancy-pants narrator confesses that really he's just dealing with a massive case of writer's block.
- Gee, we could have told you that.
- It turns out all this deep thinking is really just a distraction from the fact that the dude can't seem to put a pen to paper.
- Besides just dealing with writer's block, he also questions his right to write about this girl. While he claims to be some marginal guy who doesn't fit into any social category, we can still gather that he is well-off and cultured, which is definitely opposite from the social position of his protagonist, the girl.
- All these worries have him scared to start—not to mention that he doesn't "even know the girl's name."
- Come to think of it, neither do we.
- He explains how even though it seems like this story is straightforward and easy to narrate, it actually isn't: "I must render clear something that is almost obliterated and can scarcely be deciphered" (1.33).
- Well, dunno, it doesn't seem too straightforward to us so far.
- You see, his subject, the girl, is practically invisible to society. It's hard to write about something that everyone has pretty much already written off as unimportant.
- This section ends with yet another philosophical reflection on the nature of language and existence.
- Color us shocked.
- The narrator says that the word "must be simply itself" and should not be something it isn't.
- Maybe try some meditation before sitting down to write, Rodrigo?
- The narrator then drop this bomb: "I want to accept my freedom without reaching the conclusion like so many others: that existence is only for fools and lunatics: for it would seem that to exist is illogical" (1.37).
- Okay, Shmoop-a-doops, let's pause for a brief philosophy snack.
- Existentialism is a philosophical stance that's interested in what the individual thinks and feels. A lot of philosophy is top-down, meaning that it starts with big systems and then applies those systems to the way individuals act and think. Existentialism works bottom-up. It looks as how individuals experience things like free will, choice, and personal responsibility as a way to help individuals figure out who they are and what they're doing here.
- Sound familiar? Maybe not yet, but it will. It should start sounding a lot like the narrator's philosophical talk. You know, like the sense that the narrator wants to find meaning in existence—maybe through writing this book.
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Utah man convicted of smuggling handgun across Canadian border
A Utah man was convicted Thursday of smuggling a firearm across the Canadian border.
According to a news release from Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Franklin Michael Crane sought entry to Canada at the port of Coutts, Alberta, on Aug. 9 when CBSA officers found a loaded 9 mm handgun in his vehicle's center console. Lisa White, a CBSA communications officer, said Crane had lied to officers when they asked if he had weapons in his vehicle.
"Our laws are clear," she said. "When people are coming to Canada, we expect that people respond to all questions."
He spent six days in jail and was ordered by the Lethbridge Provincial Court to pay a $5,000 fine, forfeit his weapon and observe a 10-year weapons prohibition order.
"I commend our CBSA officers at Coutts for ensuring this lethal weapon did not make its way into Canada," said Lauren D. Delgaty, Regional Director General for CBSA in the Prairie Region, in the news release. "Whether it's one handgun or several, the CBSA is committed to upholding Canadian laws and taking appropriate enforcement action to ensure the safety of Canada and its citizens."
It isn't the first time a Utahn has been detained after carrying a firearm at the Canadian border. Last August, a 26-year-old Alpine man was arrested for possession of a handgun at Niagara Falls during a six-week motorcycle ride to raise money for the American Cancer Society. He spent four months in jail.
"They're lethal weapons," White said. "Whether it's one firearm or many firearms, we don't want them on our streets."
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Margaret Thatcher's influence reached across so many aspects of Britain that it's all but impossible to summarise the legacy of her government, even if you're confining yourself to its impact on the industrial and engineering landscape. But her legacy on the interlinked energy and environment sectors is particularly interesting.
Energy and Thatcher: a tangled legacy
Both sides of the environmental debate are keen to claim Thatcher as one of their own. She was, it's said, the first major politician to bring climate change to prominence as a global issue; she made speeches on the subject to the Royal Society in 1988 and to the United Nations General Assembly the following year; surprisingly, she even acknowledged in these speeches that the free market 'would defeat its object' if it did more damage to quality of life through pollution than it could improve it through providing goods and services.
It's been said that Thatcher's opinions on this were shaped by her background as an industrial chemist and her ability to read research papers, but frankly this seems to be as much of a myth as her contribution towards developing Mr Whippy ice-cream (though hot, rather than cold).
Climate sceptics point out that Thatcher later changed her mind — surely one of the few times this happened — and in her 2002 autobiography said that she now doubted global warming. But by that point she'd been out of office more than a decade, her party had been out of government for five years, and her influence on policy had waned altogether.
Thatcher acknowledged that the free market 'would defeat its object' if it did more damage to quality of life through pollution than it could improve it through providing goods and services
Thatcher dominated her party so much that it's difficult to separate her opinions and policies from those of her governments. But she did take some action on the environmental front. At the time, ozone depletion was seen as a more pressing concern than emissions-induced climate change, and Thatcher signed the UK up to the Montreal Protocol, the treaty which reduced and eventually banned chlorofluorocarbons and related compounds. She also created the Hadley Centre for Climate Change at the Met Office, which opened in 1990.
What she doesn't appear to have done is to make any policy specifically to tackle climate change. The 1986 energy act — which paved the way for privatisation of the electricity sector — brought in a commitment to reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned, but this was presented in terms of energy efficiency and money saving. She brought in the Non-Fossil Fuel Energy Obligation, which forced electricity distributors to buy power from non-carbon emitting sources. This later became the Renewables Obligation, but its original intention was to subsidise the nuclear sector, not renewables. Moreover, the economy in the 1980s was underpinned by the revenues from North Sea oil and gas to much greater extent than it is now.
Energy politics was of course extremely significant during the Thatcher era, but the miners' strike had nothing to do with the carbon emissions from coal, even though it contributed to the later 'dash for gas'. It's hard to see whether diversity of energy supply even figured in '80s Tory energy policy; Thatcher was a strong proponent of nuclear power, proposing early in her premiership to build a nuclear station every year for ten years; but in the event, only one was built, Sizewell B. The other big nuclear project of the Thatcher years, the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) at Sellafield, was actually started under the previous Labour government, and wasn't completed until the Labour party regained power.
The nuclear sector had to be separated from the rest of the Central Electricity Generating Board before it could be privatised, because the costs of decommissioning older nuclear plants made it an unattractive investment. The subsequent privatisation, of course, was what led to all of the UK's electricity generation capacity now being owned by European companies; I doubt whether Thatcher would approve of that, considering her famous draping of a hanky over the British Airways tailfin design that did away with the Union Flag and her equally famous antipathy to Europe.
The non-appearance of a new nuclear generating fleet in the '80s might actually give us a clue as to what Thatcher's legacy actually was to the UK energy industry. Nuclear plants weren't built because of their cost: they were in competition with cheaper forms of generation, using gas. Energy policy today regards price competition and limiting of carbon emissions as less important than diversity of supply — nuclear plants are to be built despite their being more expensive than fossil fuel-burning ones — but the feeling that all energy sources are in competition with each other still persists, as we can see from comments that the government 'is putting all its faith in nuclear when it should be building renewables' or 'is building useless windmills when it should be looking to nuclear'. And back-bench Tories of the more Thatcherite persuasion frequently call for price to be the only determinant of energy policy.
Margaret Thatcher famously valued competition far above cooperation — it's perhaps the defining aspect of her politics. It's not a huge leap, I think, to see the foreign ownership of UK energy and the continuing scrap over energy generation technologies as a continuing manifestation of that outlook.
• I'd like to thank Declan Curran of HomeFix Direct for his help in preparing this article
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Interesting slant on history. The idea that nuclear is not a renewable energy seems perverse though. Whether the lady's motivations ref the coal industry were carbon-reduction based at the time, the effects certainly were, and could rightly be seen as far-sighted in a way most politicians never aspire to be.
It's a good point on nuclear; it's not generally counted as a renewable because the fuel cycle is not closed, and the carbon profile of building the power stations and extracting uranium is very large. But it is a non-carbon emitting technology when in operation.
As for the point on coal, it's worth noting that the UK imports around 80 per cent of the coal burned in power stations, more than half of this from Russia. Whether this would be the case if the British coal industry hadn't been so heavily scaled back is open to question.
Margaret Thatcher famously valued competition far above cooperation — it's perhaps the defining aspect of her politics.
It's global now and cooperation is probably more relevant now to finding sustainable solutions
Unfortunately her complete lack of basic understanding of how a national manufacturing sector works has been continued ever since. My personal opinion is that running a country should never be about individuals anyway and its such a shame our system of government now appears so antiquated versus the rest of Western Europe. For those who hope for an Engineering sector like Germany's unfortunately it will be a very long wait!
It is a complicated picture. The recent newsreel of the City enjoying its freedom to make ''loads of money'' shows who instigated Corporate greed. The same lack of business understanding frittered away North Sea oil without (apparently) a blink. The conversion of Power generation from Coal to Gas has and will continue to cost us dearly. I don't think she had the slightest clue about Business. Perhaps we should not forget that the Power workers were next in line after the Miners. But we should not blame her necessarily, but her advisors and British Management in general who failed to stand up to the unions thus killing off much British Industry. I am aware few will agree.
The dominant legacy is the absolute, unmitigated disaster of instigating a single-minded focus of our country's wealth production by fiscal means. Future generations when examining the state of affairs will be aghast with horror on what they will inherit: A 'monopoly' of seemingly collaborative energy companies with an apparent licence to print money (pardon the pun on recent government policy). Government borrowing escalating to an amount which is so large as to be impossible to visualise; future generations after generations will be saddled with debt. UK credit rating downgraded – will likely reduce further; (what happens when we cannot afford to pay this back or cannot borrow any further?) There is no political points scoring to be had here; this mindless stampede to fiscal heaven (or hell to be more appropriate) is continued by successive governments of both persuasions, such is the 'success' of this legacy. UK plc has no substance behind the 'paper economy'; the shelves in the Thatcher shop (a touch of irony) are empty – long since sold off with the unrealistic aim of 'lots of private companies competing will drive down prices'. We print money in tens of billions - grotesque quantities - to ease our problems; this has now become the norm and no one seems to worry? Imagine if it is possible, if this same amount of money was put into creating/expanding companies that actually make and export something!
The one lasting memory I will have of the Thatcher years is a news item at the time which showed a chart of the UK job losses (mainly in manufacturing), sometimes on a daily basis – after weeks going into months, eventually I had to stop watching.
I would like to thank Margaret Thatcher for the efforts she put into getting the NISSAN factory into the North East, which now makes upwards of 0.5m cars per annum.
Other aspects of the manufacturing strategy that subsequent conservative and labour governments have followed of promoting high technology industries foremost is very short sighted in my opinion. This country needs lots and lots of low technology industry as well and this requires a very carefully planned strategy to ensure a proper industrial sector.
Tax revenues have suffered with the collapse of much of our older industries and these are very difficult to replace. I welcome that the current conservative liberal coalition government has recognised that a financially strong nation like Britain also needs a very strong industrial base.
When Ford workers at Dagenham gave up their jobs for huge redundancy payments that were offered by Ford at the time, the country also gave up and lost income tax revenue and national insurance contributions.
Government has a role to play to ensure the greater good of the nation state is served on these important issues.
What is missed in this article is the sad fact that the UK squandered its lead in many renewables though the ill judged lack of coherence when it came to energy and industrial policies. One did not feed the other as it should.
The nascent wave industry was effectively knifed in the back at a critical moment (1982) in favour of more established technologies and in doing so put the entire marine energy project back a generation. There were jobs in this and we gave them up. It seems incomprehensible now that wave energy could be seen as a threat to the Prime Minister's nuclear dreams; however that is how it came over and the funding was withdrawn from 'Alternative Energy' research in favour of more nuclear.... which we then didn't build either.
But it was not just wave energy; we also lost our way with wind and as a result our balance of payments is hurting from the import of foreign wind turbines now. Of course it is hurting less than the costs we would face if we stayed with our coal/gas addiction, but none the less we would be in an even more positive state if we were harvesting our own energy with UK made machines. But we folded our hand in that game too, and now we are paying for our lack of backbone.
So what can we learn from history? To me it clearly points to the need to not make the same mistakes with our present marine energy industry that we made in the 80s. There are jobs being created NOW and investments made to bring this new technology to market, but scarily it is just at the moment that there are big calls on the public purse to underwrite the long term costs of a new nuclear fleet. There genuinely does not seem to be a real choice to be made here, but the legacy of some seeing renewables as a threat to nuclear seems to remain. Hopefully the openness at the cost of the nuclear investment underwriting will bring the entire energy system into sharp and informed focus. Such focus will clearly show that renewables are not expensive. Having no energy is the really expensive option for an economy.
We must not fritter away our world lead in marine energy because of comparatively short term cash problems. THIS is the moment to dig deep and decide we are going to make a new industry the UK can be proud of.
"Where there was hope there is now despair…or was it the other way around?"
Margaret Thatcher, aided by her advisor Sir Crispin Tickell, should both be rewarded for their contributions to Industry – in particular the Futurology Industry**. This Industry exceeds all others in the growth areas of inflated claims and 'scaring the public' out of their lethargy for their own good. It has generated several spin off industries in the related fields of fear, despondency amongst the young and near societal paralysis and a high level of a lack of ambition in some major sectors.
Of course several of the older industries were casualties in this new world. Old industries such as transportation which supported dangerous ideas such as people from across the globe meeting face to face to gain a better understanding of each other and maybe having a beer or two or just a collaboration, needed to be restricted to a small but dedicated elite who needed to attend the new climate change industry conferences.
-----------ok more seriously
** From her Royal Society speech in 1989:
"We are told that a warming effect of 1°C per decade would greatly exceed the capacity of our natural habitat to cope."
In fact so far it has been about 0.2 degree per decade. Not to be sniffed at or ignored but out of all proportion to the panic she initiated.
Although she didn't plan it that way, Mrs Thatcher did more to gut the huge planned nuclear programme than any other politician. Her decision to privatise electricity was an amazing step. Sure enough it flushed out the true costs of nuclear - 8p/kWh rather than the 2.145p/kWh pretence argued for at the Sizewell Public Enquiry.
History has shown us that on energy Labour talk a good talk but always end up supporting nuclear, while the Tories actually expose (sometimes inadvertently as a result of other policies) the hidden costs of big and costly public sector schemes which then get cancelled Dounreay Fast Breeder got canned as a result of this.
Right now all thoughts of good value seem to be going out of the window. The thought of EDF demanding 10p/kWh for 40 years is shocking but true. Don't talk of expensive wind power when a supposedly mature technology needs subsidies at this level
Maggie thought competition was the answer but she had no idea about the way the market works. Once shares were issued there was no stopping the overseas companies grabbing what is effectively a monopoly, gas, electric and water. It clearly showed she hadn't really thought it through.
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The five candidates in the race for 4th District Sonoma County Supervisor agree the county's road network is in bad shape. They differ slightly in their solutions for fixing the 1,370-miles of pavement that is consistently ranked as the worst in the Bay Area.
At a forum on roads that brought about 40 people to the Windsor Grange on Wednesday, current 4th District Supervisor Mike McGuire said that the poor condition of the network is a result of years of underfunding, declining sales and property tax revenue and a formula for distributing gas tax that favors urban counties with fewer miles of roads.
"Improving our county roads is a top priority," McGuire said. "The county needs to become innovative in bringing in money for roads."
McGuire is stepping aside to run for state Senate. Those hoping to replace him said the county needs to prioritize road spending.
James Gore, a former Obama administration official, said he would reform the county budget including taking care of unfunded pension liability. He said he did not support new taxes for roads.
"I'm not here to talk about increased revenue," he said. "I won't kick the can down the road because it will probably fall into a pothole."
Ken Churchill, an advocate of overhauling pensions, agreed that solving the county's pension problem would free up money for roads.
"Pensions are costing us money that is not fixing our roads, helping our homeless and keeping our parks green," he said. "We have cut our road funding and that is a big mistake. New taxes are not going to do it."
Windsor Town Councilwoman Deb Fudge said that she is interested in hearing the county's long-term roads plan, which McGuire said would be released within 60 days. Some strategies officials have discussed for rehabilitating the entire road network — a more than $1 billion project — within 20 years include a sales tax increase or special transportation districts funded by property taxes.
"I would think about a sales tax for road maintenance, but it would be up to the voters," Fudge said. "I support extra revenues from the general fund that is put into road maintenance."


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January 21, 2009 12:00 pm
Bates exhibition chronicles Somalis' journey to U.S.
The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away, a touring exhibition of photographs chronicling the migration of Somali refugees to Maine and other U.S. locations, opens at Bates College.
October 22, 2008 12:00 pm
Bates museum welcomes Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar for book signing
Renowned Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar will be signing books to celebrate the Islandport Press' reprinting of The Little Fisherman, which she illustrated.
July 1, 2008 12:30 pm
My City Was Gone
In the year's major exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art, 17 artists show their response to a disorienting urban transformation in China
July 1, 2008 10:39 am
Community Fabric
The Harward Center and a fledgling Lewiston museum weave a working partnership.
March 27, 2008 1:20 pm
Seven senior art majors show work at Museum of Art
Seven studio art majors at Bates show work from their yearlong thesis projects in the annual Senior Exhibition, which opens with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Bates College Museum of Art.
March 27, 2008 9:28 am
Abe '08 curates woodblock print exhibition at Museum of Art
"Bijin Playing a Biwa," a woodblock print by Gakutei. Below: Gakutei's "Oiran with Pipe." Both are gifts of Douglas J. Macko '65.
Curated by a Bates senior, an exhibition of woodblock prints highlighting the roles, variety and importance of kimono patterns in the Japanese genre called "ukiyo-e" opens with a public reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St.
The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture: Investigating Kimono through Ukiyo-e in the Bates College Art Museum Collection runs through July 19 in the museum's Synergy Seminar Gallery.
November 14, 2007 9:23 am
Maine printmaker and 'Green Horizons' artist to speak
Karen Adrienne, a printmaker and member of the art faculty at the University of Maine at Augusta, visits Bates College to give a talk titled "Impermanent Art and Sustainable Community" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Room 105 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.
August 10, 2007 8:59 am
With college's support, Museum L-A opens Portraits and Voices exhibition
Museum L-A, an institution presenting the story of work and community in Lewiston-Auburn, opens the exhibition Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in the Bates Mill Complex.
May 21, 2007 12:25 pm
'Green Horizons' participants and projects
With its centerpiece a giant painting that depicts Brooklyn after millennia of global warming, an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability opens on June 9 at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. "Green Horizons" will present prominent artists from Maine and the world in an adventurous attempt to provoke conversations around the questions: What is green? What is sustainable?
January 20, 2003 1:50 pm
Grant supports public school programming at Bates museum
A two-year, $50,000 grant recently received by the Museum of Art will support educational programming for 400 local middle school students at the museum. The grant supports the museum's Thousand Words Project.


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Tom Izzo just finished talking to the media and here is what he had to say before we started asking him questions:
Well one thing I did say was that I thought it would be hard when we were missing those guys but I told you can it be harder when you get everyone back. It's been a hard couple of days as you can imagine. All I can say is that not a lot surprised me but the energy level of this team. Even the turnovers disappointed but when you are playing new bodies in there that haven't played together not outrageously surprising. I was surprised that I didn't think we brought the energy level. But, when you turn it over for a touchdown and it's kind of like what happened in eh Super Bowl. Turnovers for touchdowns are deflating; turnovers that go out of bounds are not. I thought the combination of us not playing well and them playing pretty well was a key.
This week, we just practiced now and we are going to practice again tonight, maybe midnight. No rules. The NCAA can't slap me with anything. We just have to get our guys playing together, practicing together it is a very important week for us. With no classes this is one time it is a good thing for us. We can focus 100% on us and getting better and today there will be now Iowa. Tomorrow we start practicing on them.
After looking at tape what do you get out of that? I thought Harris played the best he has played in sometime. I think some of you agreed with that. More of it wasn't his shooting; it was his energy, his defense he was all over the court. He had steals he had deflections. I think Dawson played very well considering what he'd been through. He brought some energy. He got seven rebounds. I think the negative was the turnovers which were unusually high for us, but also the ones that were for touchdowns are double deflating.
Being the last week of the regular season you got a couple of things you got to do here. Make sure you are taking steps at getting better as a team and we got to manage the emotion of seniors being almost done. In many ways you have to approach this week with the same urgency that you would in the tournament. One thing the players said in the film session yesterday is that is seemed like we lacked a sense of urgency. It's been brought to my attention that a lot of teams are doing that and were going to put a cap on that.
Still think this team is capable of accomplishing just what I said at the beginning. I don't blame anybody or any fan for doubting that. I just can't help but think that you don't know what we have been through with all of these injuries and there is a process. The process doesn't work like the NBA with freshman. You know where everyone is trying to speed the process up. The process is a process because it is going to take a little time. Right now we don't have a lot of time. If we are asking Branden Dawson to come back with two days of practice be what he was 35 days earlier that probably isn't going to happen. So we are trying to speed the process up. The two a days will help, the film session will help and probably move on.
As far as Iowa goes they recently went through a tough stretch too. Wisconsin lost five out of six and then bounced back and got seven in a row. I thought Sunday they played with more vigor at home too. They have been in a lot of close games. Defensively they have not been quite as good. The preseason they were off the charts. They were in the twenties and low thirties and right now they are 11th in the league in field goal percentage defense. Where we have struggled a little bit with three point defensive field goal percentage they've struggled a little bit with that. But they still have so many players. Oglesby is getting better. He missed 12 games early in the season and has constantly gotten better as the season has gone on. He is a threat any time he catches the ball to score. Devyn Marble arguably one the best players in this league. They've got good guard play. You know Gesell is playing very well. He made some key plays the other night. We know they are coming in to make a statement on a national game, just like we are going to try to do.
I think there is a reason this is a big game because it has been on all the year. I think it has been hurt a little bit, by both of us losing some games that we didn't expect to lose. As I told my team today, we've lost two or three games, two really that we didn't really bring it. I thought Georgetown was one and believe it or not yesterday.
As bad as it seemed against Nebraska they hit some shots. That kid Petteway went three for twelve and five of eighteen in his last two games. The kid from Grand Rapids was two of six and one of three yesterday. They played extremely well that game. If you watched the tape we guarded we just didn't stop them. We can't give us a hall pass on that game, but I can make an exception that I thought they played extremely well too.


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1. The session was chaired by H. E. Mr. Dimiter Tzantchev, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Bulgaria in Geneva, and moderated by Mr. Tadao Takahashi, Director-General of the Information Society Institute, Brazil. The keynote address was delivered by H. E. Mr. Leonel Fernandez-Reyna, President-Elect of the Dominican Republic. A presentation was given by Mr. Juan Carlos Solines Moreno, Executive President of Gobierno Digital, Ecuador. These speeches were followed by interventions from delegates attending the session.
2. The session was devoted to the opportunities that information and communication technologies (ICT) created for economic growth and development, as well as the challenges that developing countries faced in their efforts to participate fully in the information economy. Speakers reaffirmed that ICT as an enabler for growth and development could benefit both developed and developing countries, provided the right policy measures and enabling environment were in place.
3. The digital divide, characterized by highly unequal access to and use of ICT, manifests itself both at the international and domestic levels and therefore needs to be addressed by national policy makers as well as the international community. The adoption of ICT by companies requires a business environment encouraging open competition, trust and security, interoperability and standardization, and the availability of finance for ICT. This requires the implementation of sustainable measures to improve access to the Internet and telecommunications and increase IT literacy at large, as well as development of local Internet content.
4. At the same time, e-strategies should be better integrated into the overall policy frameworks and strategies of countries. The inflow of foreign investments and international support through development cooperation measures is equally important. Interna ional support for efforts by African and other least developed countries to develop ICT was encouraged.
5. Strategies to improve access to ICT and the Internet include liberalizing local telecommunication markets to foster competition and creating a supportive legal and institutional environment to encourage investment in ICT. The aim should be to decrease the cost of Internet access for businesses and households, emphasizing broadband access. Ensuring the availability of a minimum supply of ICT infrastructure and electricity for remote and rural areas should be considered an important part of those strategies. Lowering the cost of PCs for targeted population groups and expanding the use of free and open-source software (FOSS) could also be considered as measures to improve access.
6. Speakers also noted that including ICT in the curricula of public educational institutions in particular and providing training in the workplace were important for increasing IT literacy, and that human resources development should be at the centre of e-strategies.
7. Electronic government could become a driving force in the implementation of national estrategies, including online services offered by governments and e-business and e-payment operations undertaken through the public procurement process.
8. Speakers underscored the importance of ICT for enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Many SMEs, even in developing countries, have Internet access and use it to communicate with suppliers and customers, to search for business information and to showcase their products. These activities require affordable, high-quality access to the Internet and ICT products and services. One barrier still faced by companies relates to delivery logistics and delays in customs clearance. Here, ICT can contribute by computerizing trade logistics and customs systems, making them more efficient and transparent, and increasing trade flows. From a trade policy perspective, the WTO Information and Technology Agreement (ITA), concluded in 1996, forms a basis for liberalization and hence better dissemination of ICT products.
9. Speakers noted that outsourcing and exports of IT and software services were becoming an important source of economic activity and income for many developing economies. This trend will continue to grow and will contribute significantly to the increase in ICT-related exports from a number of developing countries. Other important sectors of ICT application include tourism, transport and finance. UNCTAD was encouraged to continue its important work on identifying sectors where the adoption of ICT could provide developing countries with new export opportunities, including drawing on the experience and expertise of other developing countries.
10. The relevance of the topic and UNCTAD's contribution to the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunis in November 2005, were emphasized. A concerted effort by governments, the international community, the business sector and civil society is necessary to ensure that the activities outlined in the Geneva Plan of Action are fully implemented. Closer international cooperation will help developing countries seize the benefits of ICT and use them to accelerate their economic development. UNCTAD is a good example of an international organization helping developing countries to adopt ICT through its regional conferences and expert meetings on ICT strategies and policies and the annual E-Commerce and Development Report.
11. The UNCTAD XI Partnership on ICT for Development, which was launched at the end of the session, was welcomed and supported by delegates, including as an important contribution to the second phase of WSIS. The partnership encompasses activities in the areas of FOSS, e-tourism, ICT policies, e-measurement and ICT indicators and e-finance.
12. The partnership on measuring ICT was considered an important framework for improving the availability of data and indicators in developing countries, which are a key input to designing and monitoring e-strategies and policies and to measuring the impact of ICT on development and their contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. UNCTAD's e-tourism initiative was mentioned as another key contribution to helping developing countries develop their ICT capacities, given the significant role of the tourism sector in many developing countries. The tourism industry is currently undergoing profound changes because of the Internet, which in turn provides new opportunities for tourism providers in developing countries. It was suggested that UNCTAD and the secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) collaborate in implementing the NEPAD Tourism Plan, to be adopted in July 2004.


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While BMW makes plenty of machinery to keep enthusiasts interested, its most enticing models are often based on more ordinary ones. That's what made the arrival of the i8 so captivating, emerging as the first stand-alone BMW sports coupe since the M1. But if its dual purpose – trying its best to both embrace the earth and traverse it rapidly – somehow left you disappointed, the next development could prove to fix that.
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Reflections of the Past
The Golden Temple of Amritsar
by Parmjit Singh
Autumn/Winter 2011
I have seen all places but none can compare to You
So wrote the fifth Sikh Guru, Arjan, upon completion of the Harimandir Sahib (Exalted Temple of Hari), more popularly known in the West as the Golden Temple of Amritsar. The Guru's words are enshrined in the Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, and their sentiment has been repeated innumerable times by subsequent generations of pilgrims and travellers alike. Considered to be one of the world's most beautiful buildings, it is also one of the most visited, outstripping even the Taj Mahal. It is allegedly the fourth most visited heritage site in the world, attracting peoples of all faiths and none. It is a rare person who isn't struck by its deeply spiritual essence and serenity. As Mark Tully so eloquently stated, it is a place "where only those entirely devoid of all spirituality could fail to feel something of the presence of God".
The Golden Temple of Amritsar: Reflections of the Past is a major new exhibition that highlights just how keenly such reverence has been expressed over the centuries by visitors to Punjab's most famous shrine. Successive generations of travellers from Asia, Australasia, North America, Britain and Continental Europe have left us their impressions of a golden era of a temple that was the beating heart of a city. Spies, memsahibs, artists, missionaries and even Hollywood actors have all been struck by its ethereal, otherworldly nature. Collectively, they have portrayed it as a confluence of timeless spirituality, day-to-day commercial activity and geo-political intrigue.
Perhaps it is no wonder that the temple had such an effect, designed and built as it was under the instructions of the fifth Sikh Guru on a holy site steeped in mystic lore. Myths connect it to the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. It is said that the Buddha meditated by the original spring in a jungle clearing, noting that this spot was spiritually charged to obtain Nirvana - but also that it's time of fame was yet to come. Some two millennia later Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, meditated here. However, it was his third successor, Guru Ram Das, who initiated the digging of the Pool of Immortality (Amrit Sarovar, or Amritsar) in 1577. He encouraged people of all faiths to join him in establishing a new township that had the pool as its beating heart. In 1588, his son and successor, Guru Arjan, began building the temple in the centre of the holy tank in adherence to a design mantra that enshrined Nanak's philosophical message of universality and humility.
Critically, the famous Sufi saint of Lahore, Mian Mir, was invited to lay the foundation stone. The new shrine was deliberately built below ground level, which went against the precedent of the day, and with four doors, one on each side of the structure, to inculcate the spirit of humility and openness to all. The Harimandir Sahib was completed in 1601 during the reign of the Mughal emperor, Akbar the Great. However, its fame reached its zenith when the very first copy of the Sikh scripture, the Adi Granth, was installed in the sanctum sanctorum in 1604 (the same year that work began on the King James Version of the Bible). A treasure trove of unifying medieval Indian spirituality, this unique volume brought together five centuries of divinely inspired poetry penned not only by the Sikh Gurus but also by Hindu and Muslim mystics from across India.
During the next two centuries, the Sikhs faced persecution for their beliefs under successive Mughal and Afghan regimes. They were forced to militarise as a community, and came close to extinction on more than one occasion in the eighteenth century. In these turbulent times, the Sikhs always turned to the Harimandir Sahib - which was occupied, desecrated and destroyed twice - as a beacon of hope and resistance. The Sikhs eventually overwhelmed the invaders to gain control of Punjab. It was in the early nineteenth century, under the patronage of the great Sikh king, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, that the Harimandir Sahib was covered with copper-gilt panels, giving rise to its more popular name.
Early eyewitnesses report that the atmosphere within the temple was pluralistic and peaceable. Relays of musicians sang (and continue to do so) from the Sikh scriptures twenty hours out of twenty-four. Visitors were often struck by the sight of the Muslim rababis (players of the rabab, a stringed instrument) singing sacred songs to the assembled pilgrims, but their presence was explained by the fact that Guru Nanak's constant companion on his epic travels was a Muslim musician, Bhai Mardana. Sadly, the rababis were compelled to migrate to Pakistan following Punjab's partition in 1947.
During Ranjit Singh's reign, a culture of learning blossomed in the environs of the temple. Palatial buildings (bungas) belonging to the Sikh nobility and various spiritual orders served as flourishing centres of hospitality and learning, attracting Sikh and non-Sikh scholars, theologians, philosophers, artists, musicians, physicians and calligraphers to study and serve at the sacred site. Regrettably, the vast majority of these structures were pulled down by the Sikh authorities in 1947. The demolition of the buildings followed on from the dismantling of the critical system of patronage that supported their role as centres of learning during the early days of British rule in Punjab a century earlier. The demise of this cultural institution, which once sustained the Sikhs as a nation of warriors and scholars, has inevitably had a major impact on both the architectural fabric of the temple complex and the cultural landscape of the Sikhs. Thankfully, despite such changes, Guru Nanak's universal message still remains strong.
Replete with artefacts, artworks, vintage film footage and a wonderfully reconstructed model of the temple precincts at its zenith, this major new exhibition (and associated talks and publication) pays homage to the time when the Golden Temple, the city of Amritsar and the Sikhs were at the height of their glory.
- The Golden Temple of Amritsar: Reflections of the Past
- runs until 25 September 2011 at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1. free Entry.
- Exhibition publication
- (approx. 500 images & extracts from 70 eyewitness accounts).
- To order visit www.gt1588.com
- Sunday Symposium Talks
- for more details & booking information visit www.gt1588.eventbrite.com
- With acknowledgement to the Toor Collection


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Picasso Rugs - Pablo Picasso The abstract figures and cubist works of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881 -1973) are among the most recognizable and well known works in 20th century art. Born in the Andalusian region of Spain, Picasso was the son of an art professor. However, stories suggest his father felt Picasso surpassed his artistic abilities at age 13. Picasso is best-known for the abstract cubist style he helped to develop during his career in France. Although he did not create designs specifically for carpets, 15 unique works produced in his Montrouge studio were reproduced by the gallery owner and patron Marie Cuttoli.