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Three men hold nation to ransom
–, Wednesday, August, 25, 2010, (9:10pm)
IF YOU live in Casula, Castle Hill or Campbelltown, you should be paying very close attention to the result of this chaotic federal election. There is a very real risk that Australia is about to cobble together a government which enshrines the myth that rural and regional communities have a monopoly on economic hardship, as both sides of politics suck up to three men who have no affinity with our mostly suburban population.
It is true that rural and regional communities face hardships. There are fewer jobs. Costs are higher. And if you're in the business of growing food for the nation and export, you throw yourself at the mercy of the seasons and the vagaries of commodity prices.
But you don't spend $50 a week on tolls driving from one side of Port Macquarie or Tamworth to the other.
You don't pay $100 a week to park your car.
You don't pay $28 a week for the privilege of sitting in a crowded and unreliable train.
You worry less about crime and the safety of your kids.
Oh, and you pay about half as much in rent or mortgage repayments as you would if you lived in a big city.
Governments are meant to operate in the national interest. The biggest worry about the current deadlock is that any balanced sense of national priorities will be compromised, as the party which forms government evaluates every major policy on the basis of what's in it for Tamworth, Port Macquarie and whichever planet Bob Katter hails from.
The last time we saw this distortion of public policy was in the late 1990s when independent Senator Brian Harradine held the balance of power and his home state of Tasmania was showered with telecommunications riches by the Coalition to buy his support for the Telstra sale.
Both Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor are level-headed men, decent and competent politicians, and would do a better job inside Cabinet than many people from either side.
Even so, should we risk subjugating the interests of all Australians to a trio representing just three electorates? And when the third MP is Bob Katter, it becomes a more troubling proposition.
His rhetoric over the past few days has been framed around a totally unjustified sense of betrayal, accusing city people of callous indifference to the plight of rural communities.
Windsor and Oakeshott have said that they will not use the whip-hand they now enjoy to extort benefits for their electorates at the expense of the nation. Their track record suggests that they can be taken at their word.
It matters less what they say than what the major parties do in order to attract their support.
Things are so desperate on the Labor and Coalition sides that all sorts of inducements will be thrown around.
Oakeshott has displayed an infectious brand of optimism by proposing "a new politics" and has made some compelling points about how so much important parliamentary committee work, and the thoughtful proposals from major policy exercises such as Ken Henry's tax review, are often crushed by machine politics and poll-driven short-term political expediency.
But his proposal for some kind of government of national unity, possibly with ministers drawn from all parties, is totally unworkable - although it did at least give us all a laugh hearing Tony Abbott talking up the prospect of "a kinder gentler polity".
But the biggest problem is Katter. The former Howard government minister's explicit intention is to massively redirect the efforts and energy of Canberra towards rural Queensland and, presumably, the rest of the bush.
He bases this on a very hostile and unfounded sense of persecution. This old-school agrarian socialist appears blissfully ignorant of the billions that are spent on rural assistance, on adjustment packages for industry sectors which have been affected by liberalised trade arrangements or competition policy.
He even makes the fanciful and baseless claim that city people and the city media don't care about issues such as rural suicide - ignoring the fact that when the drought was at its worst, city people gave millions through the media-led Farmhand campaign in order to reach out to rural communities, alongside what they do already through their taxes.
Katter epitomises the unrealistic rural conviction that it's the job of government not only to support good businesses, but to underwrite businesses which are plainly unviable.
No one whose small city business goes south gets any government assistance.
Yet the Katter view is that if you choose out of a sense of tradition or familial loyalty to grow things in a place which has always been marginal, then the state should save you from your own misfortune.
Katter made it clear on Sunday that he wants to shift Canberra's focus. He said it's "not payback time but pay-up time", suggesting that in this massively coastal, city-dwelling nation that the suburbs have had it too good for too long.
He mused about how it's no longer even legal to "boil the billy" in this country. Putting jumbucks in a tucker bag is no doubt next on the list of forbidden activities.
Katter's remarks on 3AW made plain how his sense of persecution would determine which party he supported, on the simple basis of what they'd do for his seat.
"As far as I'm concerned, I would give the gong to whoever gives us the right to survive," Katter said. "We haven't enjoyed that right for 25 years.
"All we've ever seen is our businesses going down, down, down, our farmers just collapsing completely. These are not just figures plucked out of the air, concepts plucked out of the air, I can give you the actual figures, that's why I'm carrying this briefcase around with me everywhere, I can give you the actual figures.
"We have had it up to here with the media, you people have given a run to every single idea known to man, except us.
"And we got to a stage under successive governments where every four days a farmer in Australia was committing suicide. Did you ever give us a run? No.
"Now that we've got a bit of power you'll be listening to us, my friend, not dictating to us. I just got 74-75 per cent of the vote, right? I think there's a bit of trust there. And I've lived with them all my life with my daddy and my grandaddy before that and I would like to think I know a little bit of what's going on there."
In this election 85 per cent of the country voted for either of the two major parties. Rather than reflecting the will of the majority, we now risk government by the few: flimsy and unsustainable government in which the interests and appetites of three men who represent 300,000 people will inordinately influence the lives of 21 million.
The fact that one of these men is waging some war in his own mind on the big cities of Australia is reason enough to go straight back to the polls.
A new election will cost the taxpayers about $170 million. It's a small price to pay for stability, which is something neither side will be able to deliver as a result of the seemingly insurmountable impasse created by Saturday's mad result.
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This is not about city vs country. I think the Independents represent a real chance to reform parts of the way the Parliament conducts itself. If you're happy with Question Time, if you're happy with the way both parties circumvent the Charter of Budget Honesty, if you're happy with way that political donations flow from unknown sources then by all means criticize them.
I suggest we back off and see where this takes us. These guys aren't too far removed from the views that most of us hold. Those that have an issue are putting party politics ahead of the overall good for Australia.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (12:04am)
Country types being who they are will make hay while the sun shines & why not.
If one was an Indy on the one of the promised train lines it would have turned into a bullet train by now.
For the discerning readers consideration the following link is provided. The comments from many around the world are very interesting considering their lack of bias on this issue. Bloggers just making their own observations minus the self interested hype & spin on the issue.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (12:49am)
Katter epitomises the unrealistic rural conviction that it's the job of government not only to support good businesses, but to underwrite businesses which are plainly unviable.
Katter is right, you only have to look no further than a past NSW 'rural' minister, the repugnant Kim Yeardon. If ever a party was hell bent on destroying the family farm it is the ALP. Go find me a fully stocked and operation rural hospital, find me the divided carriage way freeway to transport goods from country to city, find me ANY rural rail stations.
These farms would be viable if the ALP stopped trying to strangle them. If it's a matter of propping up unviable operations the public service would have gone out of business years ago.
The difference between the poor sod on the train for $28 a week is at the end of the day he has not produced the wheat for our bread, the cotton for our clothes nor the beef for our steaks.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (02:57am)
$28 a week on the train?? You must be joking Penbo!Do you only travel two stops? Try $48 a week and you'll be closer to the average!
Thu 26 Aug 10 (07:01am)
Just a minor correction - Katter was never a Howeard gov't minister. According to his parliament webpage biography, he was only ever a state minister in Qld.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (09:03am)
This dump on the three independents shows very effectively how much you are out of touch with rural Australia. It is exactly the attitude you display that these people are rebelling from. You sit in some little tower in a city centre and think you are the centre of the universe.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (09:20am)
Basically I agree with you..The country is being held to ransom and we all deserve the same consideration
However there are two things you have over looked.........Country Australia has been very sadly neglected and forgotten over the last 20 years
Crime is just as bad it is just covered up.People live in fear in the country as well as the suburbs
I have just left a country town after 40 years for these reasons they are turning into Welfare towns and this will never change until there are jobs and people are made to work
I agree 170 Million will be a cheap solution and after the waste of the last couple of years good investment
Thu 26 Aug 10 (09:25am)
glad to see there is still someone who thinks that rural australians are mythical figures.
without rural and regional australia you starve to death and would not have a job yes mr ignorant out side city boundries is where the economie begins mr katters electorate produces more wealth for the whole of sydney than all other gov business incl your paper
Thu 26 Aug 10 (10:26am)
I am dissappointed in you Mr Penberthy. I have always seen you as a voice of reason within the Daily Telegraph but I suppose an editor from a populist newspaper must sometimes follow a populist line. You say that governments are supposed to act in the National interest yet presume that the only effective government is one where a party lead majority rules. Party politics' primary focus is on their own particular idealogy but look out if you cross the floor to vote for something that you feel would benefit the nation but upset your party. The concept of a minority government is not the same as the "purchase" of a pseudo-majority by buying off the independants. Once the minority government is formed there is no compulsion for the independants to vote with them on every issue as long as the basics of supply etc are maintained. I have no doubt that it will be harder for either party to fulfill their agenda in this circumstance but maybe , just maybe, we will end up with a better outcome as the wants of either of the major parties are weighed against the actual benefits to the whole by sitting members who can vote with either side.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (10:31am)
Yes, in the city housing is more expensive, there are problems with traffic congestion, parking costs money etc etc.
In the cities and surrounding suburbs there is also (in the main) access to public transport,heaps of jobs to apply for if you don't like the one you're in, decent roads, ready access to doctors, hospitals and specialists services.
I don't necessarily agree with these Independents holding us over a barrel, but if it means rural communities might finally get some decent infrastructure and services for their tax dollars, surely that's not a bad thing.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (11:05am)
Your system has failed not mine!
Thu 26 Aug 10 (05:49pm)
Bob Katter is definitely a character, but his heart and mind are in the right place.
What he's trying to get across is the decline of communities and food security across rural Australia - and it isn't all caused by drought. Sure there are pro's and cons of country or city living but we are all Australians and deserve basic rights for our taxes.
We farmers certainly appreciated the efforts of Farmhand, personally I didn't see any of it because at the time I felt there were others who had been in drought longer than me, but again, thank you.
But the drought continued after the media lost interest, drought support helped and again we are grateful, but our area has been in full recession now for five years. During this period we have been under attack by environmental extremists, animal rights extremists and some very ordinary policy making.
Some facts - most of us are well educated and well travelled (and know Sydney well). Most of us have been Landcare members for over ten years. Most of us actively retain carbon and conserve water with groundcover minimum targets for grazing, and the use of no till machinery (no ploughing) for farming.
We've planted trees, constructed wildlife corrirdors, control feral pests - and continue to try and produce clean, healthy food.
We sympathise completely with small businesses in the city but if like us your neighbours and friends had all divorced or moved, if you helped bury young new parents who died returning from a 240klm round trip on bad roads for a simple check up for their baby, if you watched proud and intelligent people lose their life savings, self esteem and dignity - you would try and get past Bob Katters hat and listen to what he has to say.
Our business is ninety four years old - it is viable and we will keep on fighting to produce clean, green food for our country.
Thu 26 Aug 10 (07:05pm)
The carry-on by the 3 so called Independents is bizarre to say the least. We had Queenslander Kevin Rudd installing his 2 best mates from Queensland as GG and Treasurer.
Now we have Queenslander Katter demanding more resources for rural Queensland.
As for their demands, I wonder if it is legal. Did they take an oath of office in Government or Opposition? Parliament details for Parliamentarians? Yes. Government official details for 3 Independent MP's? I don't think so. It sets a precedent which will destroy the stability of future elected governments.
Fri 27 Aug 10 (12:47am)
The Three Bozzos should be send packing out of town. Not a brain between them.
Fancy being seen in the same room as the dastardly Hawker.
If these Three Tedious Twits go Labor they will be boiled in sheep-dip when they go back to their constituents.
Fri 27 Aug 10 (11:12am)
Dear David,
we have always been subjected to the view of a minority. In this case at least it is in the open.
For example, the policy decisions of the ALP, and coalition equivalent, are in many cases decided by factions and subsequently may be decided on as little as one vote. That policy decision then is imposed on the party's politicians. The practical reality is that the one vote at caucus has determined the direction of the Nation. The number of voted in politicians who agree with the policy may be as little as nil and the policy is voted in at parliament. Party politicians refuse to breach party lines for fear of expulsion.
Fri 27 Aug 10 (12:43pm)
You make a great point about three holding the country to ransom. But the same be said indirectly of the marginal electorates in nsw and qld that the major parties focussed on. The other states were mostly ignored. I'm in the seat of Mitchell which was a safe liberal seat and largely ignored.
Sun 29 Aug 10 (08:29am)
The mad hatter just wants a well paid job, else he would have saved all those farmers during that 12 years of rule.
Sun 29 Aug 10 (03:16pm)
This is a disgusting piece with your only intent here to further polarise the city/country divide. I grew up in Sydney and in 2006 we moved to a rural area in Tasmania. This is what we found - no jobs, no opportunities for local youth, electricity that was expensive and routinely was out for up to 48 hours at a time, broadband ha - what's that only expensive wireless (with very poor coverage) or dial up, very poor TV reception, 4 weeks to see your local GP, no train, one bus a day to town - Hobart (2 hours away)& one back in the afternoon - $16 one way. The local school only goes up to Year 10 so kids have to either move to Hobart to continue schooling or travel 4 hours a day. Huge drug problems in the local community with alcohol and suicide also a problem. We moved to Launceston last year in order to access better health care but still had a lot of difficulty in accessing a GP. Jobs are also pretty scarce here - life was easier in the city but was also exhausting. I know you won't print this comment because you only want opinions that agree with yours. There is an old saying that goes - to whom much is given much is expected & News Limited - you are only pressing the agenda of Murdoch - you have no desire to do what is truly right for the people of Australia - shame on you
Sun 29 Aug 10 (04:49pm)
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Any advice on how to get young kids running? I'm new to running myself so I am at a slow pace too. My son is 7 and I think will really like it once he gets going, it's just how to get him excited about it. Any suggestions???
Set a good example. Offer to take him running with you, but don't push, nag, or cajole. The best way to get him interested is to make it look cool without having to explain why.
For my 4-year-old, so far so good. He saw me running, asked about it, and I offered to take him with me one day. Since then, he'll occassionally go out with me and runs/walks/trots/giggles up to a mile.
Good luck!
just don't force it down his throat. coming from another teen standpoint, poeple usally want to do waht they want, so ask him ONCE a while and hell get into it
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just don't force it down his throat.
and he is only 7.
Mabye your first run should be an ice cream place or something. (not back though)
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Yes, as someone else said definitely do not force it down his throat. Considering you are just new to running yourself, it might be better for you to get used to in and get into a routine before having your son do it as well. Also, 7 does seem just a tad young to try getting your son into running. It's fine if he does he sometimes, but always make sure that HE is the one initiating the running. I think at that age it might just be better to let him experience a wide variety of sports, and get him into an active, healthy lifestyle in general. Plus running is a very demanding sport that puts a lot of stress on the body, and it might not be good to have too much routine running at that age.
Then again I'm no parent (only 16) so I suppose just use your best judgement and I'm sure he'll be fine.
Thank you so much for everyone's input. These are great ideas and I will keep in perspective that he's only 7.
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I agree with the "don't push it down his throat" 100%, but I also think encouraging kids to exercise is terrific, and I don't think 7 is too young. No, you shouldn't try to get him to jog 3 times a week, but you can encourage him when he does run (even if in playing or whatever). I think most important is being a role model. Since I run all the time, my 3 and 5 year old boys constantly want to go with me. We run the cul de sac together (about .2 miles) once every couple of weeks. These days my 5 year old likes to ride his bike alongside DH when he runs (3-3.5 miles).
After my first marathon, I went to cheer my cousin on in hers and I asked my 5 yo son if he wanted to do the kid's race (.6 miles). He did it, he loved it and he is so proud of his medal (they all got one), t-shirt and bib number. He also learned that you do your best by running your best - i.e. you don't have to win the race. Both boys did a kid's dash a couple weeks ago when I did my 1 mile race and they loved it.
So, my advice is give DS the opportunity and be a good role model and he may just turn into a runner (or anything other than a couch potato!).
Lurking parent here ... I'm glad someone else bought this up, my nearly four year old has run a couple of times at the beginning of my run and I was absolutely astounded she can do a kilometer no problems, but I did wonder if this is ok for her age? Absolutely agree ...dont push them, and keep it fun. She loves running but mostly rides her bike with me or goes in the buggy for long runs.
My nearly 5-year-old son loves to run with me. He asks to go for a run. Sometimes we run a mile or so. Sometimes we run to the park and then play at the park. Also, we hitch up his 'Tug-a-Bug' tandem trailer to the back of my bike and go bike riding. I agree don't force it.
Hi, my daughters are 7 and 6 and all I did to encourage them was telling them I was going to run around the neighborhood, and they wanted to come with me. Then when I signed up for my first 5K that was this past weekend, I asked if they wanted to do the kids' fun run (I think it was 1/4 mile), and they were excited about it. Getting matching outfits for us was also fun. We got pink, but perhaps blue would be better for you and your son! Or even a matching hat. Having a special thing to wear when we do an activity seems to make it more fun for my girls. Many runs have kids' runs, so they can do their own run then cheer you on while you do your own (with another adult to watch them of course). Going to the race together was a fun event for my family and we got some great pictures, and better yet, great memories. I can't wait to do it again!
"I've got running fever. Which is better than having the runs....or a fever," Bill (my fiance), who came up with this when I was looking for a quote for my signature.
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Persian language, also known is Farsi is the most widely used language in the Indo-Iranian group's Iranian language branch. Farsi language is spoken mainly in Afghanistan and Iran. However, historically it had been a language understood more widely in the area that ranged from India to Middle East. Large number of speakers today can be found in many Persian Gulf nations such as United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman, Iraq and Bahrain along with communities in United States. In Iran, more than 30 million speak Farsi, which is 50% of the population. In Afghanistan, 7 million of the Dari Persians speak the language, about 25% of population. In Pakistan 2 million people speak Farsi. Some of the Farsi origin words that exist in English are dervish, checkmate, bazaar, caravan, jackal, julep, jasmine, lilac, divan, kiosk, khaki, taffeta, pajama and shawl. In Iran, Farsi is written in Perso-Arabic, a variant of Arabic script that has a few innovations because of the phonological differences of Persian. The script was introduced in the 7th century, post the conquest of Islam.
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Farsi language is the subgroup of the West Iranian languages which include Tajik and Dari, Kumzari, Bakhtiari and Luri. It also includes the dialects used in Fars Province. The East and West Iranian languages comprise of the Indo-Iranian group's Iranian branch of languages. Languages in the Indo-Iranian group are spoken today in a large area that stretches from parts of Western India to eastern Iraq and eastern Turkey. Other than Iranian, the important Indo-Iranian division is the languages of Indo-Aryan group that includes the languages spoken in India such as Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and Sanskrit.
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The Old Persian language is confirmed from the inscriptions that were left behind by Achaemenid dynasty which ruled the area called Realm of Aryans until it was taken over by Alexander the Great. Pahlavi, or Middle Persian was named so after Parthians that ruled Persia after the collapse of the Empire under Alexander. This particular language is known mainly through the religious writings of Zoroastrian. The birth of modern Persian or Farsi is yet unclear. Though it was closely related to and influenced greatly by Old and Middle Persian, there are no evidences to suggest that it descended directly from them. It could have been derived from the Pahlavi dialect that had once been used in the north east Iran.
By contrast, Old Persian and Middle Persian had originated from south west Iran, from a province that had once been the center of the Empire known as Fars or Parsa. Therefore, the language had been named Farsi. From the 9th to the 13th centuries, known as the Early Modern phase, the Empire's literature was preserved. It was known as classical Persian because of the distinction and eminence of poets like Khavyam, Firdowsi and Rudaki. In this period, the Farsi language was considered as lingua franca of the Islamic nations in the east.
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In the year 1935, the government sent a request to all its diplomatic relations to call their nation Iran instead of Persia. This suggestion is believed to come from Germany's Iranian ambassador who had been influenced by the Nazis. During the time, there had been a racial fever in Germany and it fiercely maintained good relations with all countries that had Aryan blood. It is believed that the ambassador's German friends convinced him that Persia had moved ahead in its history with Reza Shah and had managed to free itself from the influences of Russia and Britain. Not only did this indicate a new beginning, it also introduced a new era in the history of Iran. It also depicted the population of the Aryan race. The government sent across a circular to Tehran to call the nation Iran instead of Persia. Thus, Iran was born.
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A 70-year-old man has taken his 7,000th ride on the Diamondback roller coaster at Kings Island amusement park in Ohio.
Gary Coleman of Monfort Heights, Ohio, began riding the 230-foot-tall steel coaster when it opened in 2009. Initially, it was just for fun, but it soon turned into a passion, UPI reported.
Coleman, a minister, took his historic ride on the Fourth of July sporting a T-shirt with the number 7,000 written across it, according to The Associated Press.
"I've always loved roller coasters since I've been a kid," he told ABC News. "It's been a hobby. It's what I like to do. I like to relax doing it. It's a form of relaxation."
The Diamondback is the tallest and fastest roller coaster at Kings Island, and park officials told the AP that Coleman's distance can be measured by someone traveling across the United States and more than halfway back again.
His goal is to hit 10,000 rides by the end of next year.


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Title:Who's afraid of natural law? : a comparative look at the use of political morality in constitutional decision-making in Canada, Ireland and Italy Author(s):O'CONNELL, RoryDate:1997Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Law


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Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 3 episode 3 review: Supply Lines
A bogged down episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, that's some way from the show's best...
3.3 Supply Lines
After the serious tone and drama of the opening two episodes comes a more light-hearted affair, as Senator Bail Organa and Jar Jar Binks take a trip to Toydaria in hope of securing aid for the planet Ryloth, which is under attack from the Separatists.
Hmm, I can see I've lost you already.
To further confuse matters, Supply Lines is a prequel to season one opener, Ambush (reviewed here), and, in a short time, this episode gets bogged down in talk of neutrality, negotiations, treaties, blockades and the Trade Federation. It's a bit of a snooze fest.
If you don't get slightly irked by the word "chummy" coming from the gob of Bail Organa (voiced by the talented Phil LaMarr, Futurama's Hermes), then you'll certainly find something to shout/text/blog/Facebook/Twitter about when you see Jar Jar juggling. A gross misjudgement.
I should point out that I have no real beef with the Binkster, but almost every time he speaks in this episode, with Ahmed Best back on vocal duties, you really wish he wouldn't.
But there is some good in Supply Lines. Jedi Master Di (pictured) gets to display true Jedi heroism on Ryloth with his Clone buddies but, for a second week in a row, we see the true price of valor.
One hopes that this is but a mere blip for The Clone Wars and I guess after two very strong episodes that I can turn a blind eye. Just don't let it happen again...!
Read our review of episode 2, ARC Troopers, here.


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June 8, 2004 -- Backers of embryonic stem cell research are increasing pressure to expand funding for the controversial research technique as Capitol Hill prepares for the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan on Friday.
Reagan died Saturday at 93 after struggling with Alzheimer's disease for more than a decade. The passing of a president revered by Republicans -- coupled with his wife's outspoken support of science using stem cells -- appears to have spurred efforts to enhance federal support for the research.
The U.S. Senate has deadlocked since last year over whether to ban all cloning or to allow cloning only to help expand the numbers of embryonic stem cells. These cells have the ability to grow into almost any human tissue.
The potential that these cells have has sparked theories that they may be coaxed into growing into tissues that repair damage due to diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and other illnesses.
But the research remains highly controversial because obtaining and growing these cells for research purposes requires the destruction of a potentially viable human embryo -- one that is one week or so old, a stage of development that has only a few dozen cells.
Some pro-life lawmakers have called for legislation that would amount to a ban on the studies.
Now with the nation's attention focused on the life and decline of the former president, Republican and Democratic supporters of stem cell research predict that they may have enough support to pass their bill.
"I can't think of a way in which we could honor President Reagan more than that," says Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.).
Daschle and 57 other senators, including several pro-life Republicans, sent a letter to President Bush Friday urging him to reconsider an August 2001 decision limiting federal funding to 78 stem cell groups in existence at the time. Bush said at the time that the decision was designed to encourage the potential of the research while avoiding the destruction of human embryos to obtain these cells.
Two years later, scientists are expressing disappointment with the 78 stem cell lines, saying that less than 20 groups have proved useful for experiments. They complain that research is being slowed because the available stem cell groups lack the genetic diversity required for wide-ranging studies.


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So you want to be a TV star? Well, let me tell you, it's not what you think it is. Yes, I have been blessed with the opportunity to be on national television several times, but just getting your mug on TV isn't going to make you successful. You still have to work hard to make it work for you.
Don't get me wrong, TV exposure is great. Five years ago we were invited to be on the Discovery Channel's "Great Biker Build-Off." We ended up appearing on two different episodes and it was great for business. Right after that, we landed our own television series on the Speed Channel called "Texas Hardtails," which was also great for business. Since then, we have also done a couple of episodes of "American Thunder." Fast-forward to current times and we are doing another TV show on truTV called "Ma's Roadhouse," and you guessed it, business is great.
We have been very fortunate to have this priceless exposure. Television has helped me spread the good Strokers word far and wide. Because of TV exposure, we get visitors from all over the U.S.
I am always glad to meet and greet them, and I usually give them a tour of my Strokers Dallas Empire. Today is a rainy, cold Tuesday and we have already given about six tours to out-of-town visitors. Those groups came from San Francisco; Houston; Liberal, Kan.; Chicago; and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. None of the people I met today are motorcycle enthusiasts either. They are all people who watch our TV show.
Now, having a TV show isn't the same as winning the lottery. It's far from it. We don't get rich from the TV show, but we use it to our advantage by capitalizing on the new customer base it creates. Everyone who comes to see us spends money while they are here. They buy T-shirts, eat burgers and drink some beer. Some even get tattoos.
I use TV as a marketing tool for my business. It's not TV exposure, but hard work that makes us successful. My company was doing fine and making money long before the TV cameras ever came in, and we'll be doing fine long after the tourists forget my name (but I bet they remember my ma).
What does any of this have to do with you? Plenty. You may never be the star of your own TV show, but you can be a star in our industry and a star in your neighborhood. I have said for many years that people don't do business with companies; people do business with people. If you run your own motorcycle shop, don't be afraid to be the "celebrity" of your shop. Make yourself the face of your business. Make your name and the name of your shop widely known in your city, state or region. Don't hide behind a desk or a wrench. Get out there in front of your customers, shake their hands and welcome them to your "Empire."
The key is to make yourself a "character" who people want to meet and do business with. I spend lots of time at my front counter greeting people as they walk in the door with, "Hey, ya'll. My name is Rick Fairless. Welcome to Strokers Dallas." I have said that maybe a million times in the last 15 years. People want to do business with the owner of the company. My marketing campaign has always been to let people know who I am. I figure that I'm the owner and I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life, so I need to let people know that I'm just a "good ol' boy from right here in Dallas."
When it comes right down to it, what I sell here at Strokers Dallas customers can get anywhere. Big Dog. Victory Motorcycles. Lots of places around the state sell these, and everybody offers service, parts and apparel. So what can't customers get anywhere else? Me, Rick Fairless. It might sound kinda vain, but it's not. Sell yourself, man! You're all you've got.
Putting your face with your company name is as easy as passing out business cards. I pass them out everywhere I go — and I mean everywhere. You name it. Restaurants. Grocery stores. I hand them out and invite people to visit my shop. I've been doing this trick since I opened 15 years ago and it's worked beautifully.
Working hard is the easy way to get ahead. Unless I'm out of town at a motorcycle function, I'm here from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., shaking hands and welcoming people to Strokers Dallas. Every waking moment, I'm thinking about how I can make my business bigger and better. Through lots of hard work, I built my company and done the things that have helped me turn this into my "Strokers Empire." If a dumbass like me can build a successful motorcycle business, then you certainly can, too.
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Groups Ask SCOTUS to Broadcast Announcement of Heath-Care Ruling
To satisfy a curious public, LBers included, media groups have asked the Supreme Court to allow live broadcast coverage of the announcement of the historic health-care ruling.
The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press sent Chief Justice Roberts a letter with the request Thursday, reports The Blog of Legal Times. The letter was signed by Lucy A. Dalglish, the group's executive director, on behalf of nearly 50 different media organizations.
The letter cited the strong nationwide interest in the opinion as grounds for a live audio or video broadcast. But, as a back-up, it asked that if live broadcasts are not permitted there at least be a prompt release of the recordings.
In a January Law Blog poll, LBers supported by a slim margin — 55.6% for and 44.4% against — televising the actual Supreme Court health-care legislation arguments.
Skeptics have warned that televising the arguments could politicize them. However, the media coalition only asks to broadcast live the announcement of the ruling, not the arguments. They say this nullifies the concerns.
Back in March, a similar media coalition ask the court for permission to televise the health-care oral arguments live, and failing that, for the prompt release of the recordings. Their second request was granted, but the live broadcast was not permitted.
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Coach House Books asks Maggie Helwig a few things about Girls Fall Down
CH: The title, Girls Fall Down, has a nursery rhyme quality to it, and it describes the opening scene of the novel. Can you tell us how you came up with it?
MH: I didn't exactly come up with it; it was one of those titles that just arrived. While I was writing the first draft, I started to realize that I was using the word 'fall' an awful lot, and that there seemed to be a whole dynamic with girls and falling, and the phrase just jumped into my head as the title, and it stuck. The nursery rhyme sound is one of the things I like about it a lot; it's not actually a direct borrowing from any specific nursery rhyme, but it has echoes of 'Ring Around the Rosy' (and some people think that was a plague song, so it ties in with the whole pattern of fear of disease and disease imagery, and the chapter of the book that's called 'Plague Days'); and there's another one that has 'Boys and girls together/London Bridge is falling down', which seemed vaguely related to the urban things I was doing –how cities work or fall apart.The title's also meant to be a bit of a pointer to ways that I'm playing with the story of the fall as it's told in the Bible, with girls and gardens and the knowledge of good and evil, with girls and choices and long consequences, and the way that maybe we need to fall into that knowledge of good and evil, and all the problems associated with it, if we're ever going to be really morally grown-up beings. At the same time, a lot of thinking about moral responsibility and the fall and 'original sin' has been based on particular ideas about personal identity and personal choice, which are not necessarily entirely stable ideas, and another of the things I'm doing in the book is exploring some of the interplay of bio-chemistry, brain chemistry, and what we think of as identity and choice. We tend to think that there are things that are 'real' emotions, 'real' choices, and then those that are somehow less real, coming out of mental illness or drugs or temporary chemical imbalances, but strictly speaking every feeling, every thought that we have is a chemical process, and it's not clear why some chemical processes are more'real' than others. And what does this mean for how we think about identity and choice? And is neuro-chemistry and its control over our behaviour absolutely different from very old ideas about original sin, about something that has us under control, that compels us to behave in ways that we may not even want? Is there some common ground there? Alex and Derek are both at the mercy of the chemical balances of their blood, in ways that are partly but not entirely different, so this question is in the foreground for them in a way that it isn't always for other people. So that's a pretty long answer for a three-word title …
CH: The book is dedicated to David Barker Maltby, a photographer. Who was he, and was he an inspiration in creating Alex?
MH: David was someone I'd known since the late 80s – he was a photographer, a really exceptionally talented photographer, and also very involved in social justice issues, especially homelessness. He died very suddenly of meningitis in the spring of 2001, just a couple of weeks after we'd picked out one of his photos for the cover of my first novel. He's all over this book; it's not so much that the photographer character is meant to be like David, because Alex is really a quite different (and probably much less lovable) person –it's more that there are issues and themes and motifs, and even little details, woven all through the novel, that all have some kind of connection with David. He was really an exceptional person, and his death was such a shock, and such a loss; it took me a long time to find a way to somehow transform some of that into fiction.
CH: Toronto is a prominent character in Girls Fall Down. Your last novel, Between Mountains, was set in Europe (mainly Bosnia and the Hague) – why did you want to write about Toronto?
MH: I love Toronto, but it's a strangely difficult city to write about. That may be partly just because I know it too well, and I had to go through a process of trying to estrange myself, to see the city as if I hadn't seen it before, which wasn't easy when I've lived here for nearly my whole adult life. But it's also because there's a kind of suppression, a kind of muffling, to the way we live here and the way the city works, and that's not even an entirely bad thing. I think it's one of the ways that we manage to get along reasonably well. But it made writing about mass hysteria in Toronto an almost impossible task because, well, we don't do those things. Other cities have mass hysteria and dramatic events. We have politeness. And it ended up as a kind of subdued and understated mass hysteria, which I think is quite strange to people from other places. They can't understand why I didn't make it more dramatic,but I was trying to be true to what this city does. People think of England as the home of restraint, but London is a hotbed of wild expressive extroversion compared to Toronto. We play out our problems underground, in deep cover, through indirection, and that's actually kind of fascinating, but you have to be subtle about how you handle it. Once you get to that hidden level, there are all kinds of rifts and troubles, and also beauty and creativity and strangeness, but you have to work to get there.
CH: Alex first met Susie in 1989, when she was a pro-choice activist. And in 2002, the present of the book, she's trying to map connections between homeless people in Toronto. Do you have some experience with political activism?
MH: I think a lot of people know that I do, that as well as being a writer I've worked as a human rights and social justice advocate for a long time. But there's a risk of people trying to read the fiction through the lens of biography, which is really a mistake. Obviously my political work bleeds into my fiction in the sense that I know about that aspect of the world, and I find it interesting, but they're quite separate, actually. I mean, if I want to do politics, I'll do politics. That's a lot more effective than trying to do politics through fiction, which is pretty much a fool's errand. Fiction just operates on different levels. As for Susie, she's certainly someone who's got political engagements –she may be the only character in the book who really is a political thinker in some serious way –but that doesn't play a very large part in the book. We're mostly seeing her through Alex's eyes, and he's quite profoundly apolitical, so Susie's politics tend to fly past him a bit. Now, it's true that on another level part of what I'm looking at is how cities function as social bodies,and there's a large sense in which that is a political question, and how people end up marginalized and homeless is part of that. And the issues that come up around the pro-choice movement obviously relate to how I'm trying to talk about women as moral actors, as moral decisionmakers; so it's not that the political elements have nothing to do with the themes of the book. But it's very much not a book about politics.
CH: There are interesting parallel trajectories of love and paranoia here. Do you see some connection or contrast between the two?
MH: You know the Homer Simpson line, 'Ah, alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems'? Love's kind of like that, too. I mean, love makes us vulnerable, it hurts us, it makes us afraid; basically, fear, paranoia, is all about losing love, or losing things or people that we love. If we didn't love, we'd be so much safer. We need it, we're no good without it, love saves us, but it also ruins us, and you can't dismiss that. Look at Derek, in the novel, where vulnerability and paranoia and love are all at their most intense,and look where it leaves him, under a bridge in the Don Valley Ravine, destroyed by fear. But he really is also the most unconditionally loving character in the book, in his very peculiar way; he's right at the heart of everything, Derek is. Then on the other hand there's Alex, who's built up this kind of neutral safe space for himself where he's not too much engaged or threatened by anyone, and this gets smashed over the course of the book, and he's back in the world of love and paranoia, and in a way you can't entirely say it's for the better. But it's the only thing he can do.
CH: There are a lot of cameo appearances by odd characters, the kind of people you overhear on the bus. Do you eavesdrop on the bus?
MH: I eavesdrop ALL THE TIME. This really should be taken as a warning by anyone who might be around me. It's all fair game. I actually do go around writing down whatever you say. So you might want to be careful.
CH: Why did you choose a teenage girl as the first 'victim' of the first subway incident?
MH: Like one of the chapter titles says – these are things that girls do. There really is a sort of global phenomenon of young women expressing social and political tension through their bodies, mass collapses and fainting spells. It's happened in Kosovo, Palestine, all over the place, and on a more individual scale I think it's the same sort of dynamic that plays out in things like eating disorders. Young women are sponges for tension, and they tend not to have a lot of power or resources for dealing with it, so they somatize, and they collapse. So that's the obvious reason. It's also because, as I said above, I'm playing with the Eve story, the fall story, and I'm trying to look at the story with Eve as the central character, which oddly she tends not to be in most retellings. But she's really the moral actor there, and the girls are really the moral actors in this book. They're not very conscious moral actors, but they do make some crucial, if only half-articulated, decisions, and really push the whole narrative throughout. One of the particular tricks in writing this book was that I was telling the story almost exclusively from the perspective of a male character; it's nearly all Alex's point of view, with a little bit of omniscient narrator. And Alex rather comprehensively doesn't get it, until maybe right near the end, where he's at least starting to grasp some of the things that have been going on all along. So telling a story about women's actions and women's choices in the world, from the point of view of a man who is, I think, well-meaning but kind of impervious … well, it created some interesting dilemmas.
CH: Girls is an ultimately compassionate and hopeful book. Do you think there's compassion in this city? Do you feel hopeful?
MH: People tell me that my books are depressing. This always surprises me, because to me they're really quite cheerful. I mean, ultimately they're about people finding ways to be in the world, to just live in the reality of their lives and make something out of that, to make mistakes and try to recover from them, and to love each other as best they can, even if that's quite flawed. And my characters never entirely fail in that. There's a whole lot in this book that's left deliberately unresolved, questions that are deliberately never answered; I was quite stringently avoiding anything like 'catharsis' or 'closure,' because, to be honest, those are concepts I have some real problems with. And it's a challenge to do that and still make the book come together in a way that will be emotionally and artistically satisfying for the readers. But I think it comes down to how the characters do find their ways, and do keep trying to do something kind or good despite all their failures, and they make these real, difficult, imperfect connections with each other and hang on to them, and I think that's a very hopeful thing. You can just keep trying to love, and accept-ing the damage. And you never get it right. But you can keep on trying. And we do.


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Syrian troops withdrew from Omar oil field, one of the last regime positions east of Deir Ezzor city near the Iraqi border, a watchdog said Friday, adding that rebels now control the country's major fields.
"Government troops pulled back on Thursday from the Omar oil field north of the town of Mayadeen after having lost the Conoco gas reserve on November 27," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Rebels last week seized the strategic town of Mayadeen, taking control of a huge stretch of territory east of Deir Ezzor city along the Iraqi border. This area is now the largest outside regime control.
The insurgents took control of an oil field for the first time on November 4 when they overran Al-Ward, the most important in the province, the Observatory said.
After also losing control of Al-Jofra field also in November, the army now controls not more than five fields, all located to the west of Deir Ezzor city, the watchdog said.
Deir Ezzor province contains the largest energy reserves in the country.
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A one time purchase that is all you will need.
By Old man Bill
from Doylestown, PA
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Gordon 56 Piece Precision Knife Set:
A top quality carving set with blades that I did not know existed. It allows very fine detail carving.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great Set
By Typhoon Builder
from Port Angeles, WA
I use this set for building balsa aircraft models. It has everything I need, and more. Just wish there was a guide online for the best purpose for the multitude of blades. Guess it will (continue to...) be fun figuring it out.
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Love this company
By Howie
from Joplin, Missouri
Very good service - Will buy again
Great price great item
By TG
from Missoula MT
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
I use the product for detailed carving. It is great, easy to use and the price was excellent. Great quality.
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Nice blades
By jamesbtex
from Plano, TX
The hinges on the box are only press fit plastic.One broke in the first week.The knife set itself is very nice.Only down side is the blades are brittle and can snap easily. If the blades were stronger and the box had better hinges this item would be perfect.
this is a fine set
By jjh
from vermont
About Me Education Oriented
I use this for paper art and it was better than most.comes with many blades.
Blades too thin
By Steve
from Houston, TX
Blades are too thin and brittle. One blades was broken right out of the box. Case's hinges are weak.The extra blades are covered in oil (to prevent rust?). I'll have to clean the blades before using or risk getting oil on things that are being cut.Only pro are getting many blades and a carry case.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Poor handles and blades arnt sharp
By mfmc
from dallas
About Me Professional
Wasnt the best.
perforormed poorly
By BB
from Bellevue, Wa
lots of blades for the money but poor quality. None of the blades are sharp. I see whythey put a sharping stone in the kit.
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Christian registrar wins employment battle with Islington Council over civil partnerships
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Local Government
Christian registrar wins employment battle with Islington Council over civil partnerships
A Christian registrar who was threatened with the sack because of her religious beliefs on same sex unions has succeeded in her claims of unlawful discrimination by Islington Council.
In its unanimous judgment, the employment tribunal found that Lillian Ladele was directly discriminated against by the council after she asked to be allowed not to perform civil partnership registrations.
Islington Council cared too much about the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community, the panel ruled.
It showed 'no respect' for Miss Ladele's rights as an orthodox Christian and gave her an ultimatum to choose between her beliefs and her £31,000-a-year job, which she held for nearly 16 years.
The Central London tribunal's landmark ruling that employees cannot be required to act against their consciences has implications for the 18,000 same-sex ceremonies conducted nationwide each year.
Council chiefs had insisted it would give the wrong message if Miss Ladele was exempted.
But the tribunal accepted the claims that Islington Council had been able to deliver a "first-class" service to homosexual couples seeking civil partnerships, without Miss Ladele's involvement.
The judgment found that the council "disregarded and displayed no respect for Ms Ladele's genuinely held religious belief," and it created an "intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for her on grounds of her religion on belief."
In coming to their conclusion, the tribunal said, "It is an important case which may have a wider impact than the dispute between the parties."
Speaking after the case, Miss Ladele said: "I am delighted at this decision. It is a victory for religious liberty, not just for myself but for others in a similar position to mine.
"Gay rights should not be used as an excuse to bully and harass people over their religious beliefs."
Councillor John Gilbert, Islington Council's Executive Member for Human Resources, said: "We're clearly disappointed with the result, as we consider our approach was the right one.
"We are now considering the judgment carefully in order to decide whether we should appeal.
"On first reading, the Tribunal seems to have based its findings primarily on the fact that we could have continued to provide civil partnerships without Ms Ladele.
"The wider issue of whether councils should be able to expect employees to carry out civil partnerships doesn't seem to have been fully addressed.
"In our view this is a crucial question that has much wider implications for local authorities and employers.
"We'd like to assure staff and service users that our commitment to services and equalities won't be affected."
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On an average week, Twitch reaches more viewers than the combined audiences of Tosh.0, Breaking Bad, and the National Football League's exhibition season.
Twitch went huge in 2013, and it isn't above bragging about it. The livestreaming company, which enables gamers to broadcast video of their gameplay to the web, released a ton of data about its performance last year to help illustrate just how big it's become over the past 12 months. In addition to outperforming some of the biggest television broadcasts in the U.S., the company compiled a list of indicators and data to show just how popular it is with gamers, which you can check out here.
For example, the site finished 2013 with over 900,000 unique broadcasters.
"We wanted to take a step back and look at what happened last year," Twitch vice president of marketing Matthew DiPietro told GamesBeat. "It was fun to just sit down and look at the calendar of what we did last year."
DiPietro pointed out that in January 2013, the site had around 25 million unique viewers. By the end of the year, the site averaged 12 billion minutes watched per month. That's across 6 million monthly video broadcasts and 45 million unique monthly viewers.
Twitch also did some research and found that its average viewer is 21. More than half of those viewer spend 20 hours each week watching Twitch, and 68 percent are watching less TV.
Twitch's growth is due in large part to the number of features the company released in 2013.
"Our first announcement in 2013 was to launch in-game integration with Black Ops II," said DiPietro. "That was in January, but it seems like it was forever ago."
It likely seems that long ago to the people working at Twitch because they have launched so much since then. In February, the site introduced Turbo, its premium subscription model. In May, the Twitch viewing app went live on Xbox 360.
In the summer, Twitch released its API so developers can add Twitch streaming to their games, and the Microsoft revealed Xbox One would feature native Twitch functionality. In August, Sony revealed PlayStation 4 would do the same.
Finally, in December, Twitch became the world's largest video website for gaming, according to industry website MCV.
"I think 2013 exceeded our expectations," said DiPietro. "Since the very beginning, since we launched in June 2011, the growth that we've experienced has surprised everybody."
While 2013 was a year jam-packed with milestones and feature launches for Twitch, the company doesn't plan on slowing down in 2014.
"Our CEO Emmett Shear, he's not one for sitting back," said DiPietro. "I wouldn't expect us to slow down at all."
The site has already reached 1 million unique broadcasters this month. That is largely due to the PlayStation 4, which can natively stream content with the press of a button. That functionality is coming to Xbox One "soon," according to both Twitch and Microsoft.
Twitch's 2013 report includes a lot more info. Including the top games (League of Legends and Dota 2), the surprising top search trends, and more. Check it out on Twitch.tv.
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Definition of paronym in English:
1A word that is a derivative of another and has a related meaning: "wisdom" is a paronym of "wise."
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- Its adjectival paronym poneroi is used of the people of Sodom at Genesis 13: 13, while the verbal form ponereusesthe is employed by Lot to characterize the intentions of the men of the town at Genesis 19: 7.
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- The serene Mexican peak, however, sprawls some lava from time to time, however its Bulgarian paronym is part of the colossal play with words, which deluges the Bulgarian Orthodox homeland for an entire month already.
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The United Nations in partnership with the Goethe Institute invites you to the screening of KINSHASA SYMPHONY. Thursday, 20 January 2011, 6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut Brüssel, Rue Belliard/Belliardstraat 58, 1040 Brussels.
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the third-largest city in Africa. Almost ten million people live here and they number among the poorest inhabitants on this planet. Kinshasa is the home of Central Africa's one and only symphony orchestra. The award winning documentary "Kinshasa Symphony", directed by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer, shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra.
It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and the music they perform: Handel, Verdi, Beethoven. It tells the story of bread salesgirl Chantal, of electrician Joseph and others, of their daily lives in Kinshasa and their passion for music.
The film will be followed by a Q & A session with Claus Wischmann (Director "Kinshasa Symphony").
NB: The film is in French and Lingala with English subtitles and the debate will be held in English. The film has a runtime of 95 minutes.
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Mig-21 SMT
Posted 02 May 2009 - 05:02 PM
Owing to my short attention span, I've taken a break from my work in progress T34-85 to build the Fujimi 1/72 Mig-21 SMT. The kit has a reputation for being innaccurate but is quick and easy to build and looks the part once finished. It's painted mainly with Alclad 2 duralumin, tinted with black or white enamel to produce the different shades. I think if I were to build another one there's a few things I'd do differently (like not dropping it halfway through painting).
Here's a few shots next to the Trumpeter Su-15 TM, another innacurate but still enjoyable model. As you can probably tell, I'm not too fussy about innacurate kits and I don't mind admitting it. I draw the line somewhere near the Hobbycraft Yak-38, which looks nothing like the real thing at all!
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Posted 02 May 2009 - 07:17 PM
The aluminum coloring is such a beautiful finish and looking FANTASTIC....
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Edited by Paul A H, 02 May 2009 - 07:52 PM.
Posted 02 May 2009 - 08:55 PM
What variant is it? There seem to more variants than days in the month ha ha
Posted 02 May 2009 - 10:18 PM
Nice mig 21
What variant is it? There seem to more variants than days in the month ha ha
Hi Vince
Thanks for your kind words. It's the Mig-21 SMT 'Fishbed K' variant. Based on the Mig-21 MF 'Fishbed J" but with an enlarged dorsal spine designed to hold more fuel and thus increase range. Unfortunately it was found that other flying characteristics were adversely affected. It was only produced from 1971 to 1972 before the ultimate bis variant (Fishbed L/M) entered production. There are quite a few variants...!
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Posted 04 May 2009 - 08:33 PM
I don't know how accurate it is but I like the look of it.
Thanks Martin. I think the accuracy issues are mainly around the nose and the panel lines, but I think it looks ok. The new Zvezda Mig-21bis is supposed to be the most accurate late model Mig-21.
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Posted 06 May 2009 - 10:59 PM
Sounds like you enjoy the hobby and subjects regardless of 'accuracy etc'?
Sometimes I think we forget that!
Posted 07 May 2009 - 08:54 PM
An NMF a/c now that get's my attention for sure.
Sounds like you enjoy the hobby and subjects regardless of 'accuracy etc'?
Sometimes I think we forget that!
To an extent, yes. I still draw the line somewhere, but I don't have the confidence to start cutting up kits and inserting bits of plasticard yet. That said, I've just got the Maquette Lavochkin La-176 and intend to do a complete rescribe for the first time, so maybe I'll change my ways?!
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Today, we went to the house of some local students who are attending elementary school online, and they've perfected the art of studying at home (click here to see the story). Here are some tips for making your living space learning friendly, even if you head out the door each day for class.
The Connections Academy recently sent us tips for making your home more conducive for learning. Here are the five basic rules:
1. Reduce clutter and get organized: Make sure the area where students are working is not just physically picked up, but that their assignments are organized as well. The Connections Academy recommends that you organize work and papers for each class in a separate folder. Then paste a chart to the inside cover of the folder to keep track of the amount of time spent on each subject, and which assignments have been completed.
2. Monitor noise levels: When students are studying, make sure noise around the house is kept low, even televisions or radios in other rooms can be a distraction for a young student.
3. Designate an "education space": Designate a room or a table as one student's "learning space." This helps create an atmosphere of learning that will help promote healthy study habits.
4. Create a Routine: Having a "study-only" time each day not only helps your student focus at that time, but it means that other people at the house will know to keep noise and distractions at a minimum during that time.
5. Make learning enjoyable: Work with your student to create their study space and organize their books and assignments, making it a fun process. Also, showing an interest in your student's ideas and progress makes learning positive. And, finally, learning away from school doesn't just mean studying at home. Visiting a science museum or going to a play could all relate to your student's learning process.
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Lion Formulates New Management Vision "Vision 2020" and
New Medium-Term Management Plan "Vision 2020 Part-1"
1. Background of the Formulation of "Vision 2020"
Since its founding, Lion Corporation has closely adhered to its corporate motto, "Fulfilling a spirit of love," to this end continually working to develop businesses and fulfill its social responsibility, thereby serving people better. In recent years, we have come to recognize the possibility of three major paradigm* shifts emerging in today's and tomorrow's society, which are described below.
On the back of the aging of Japan's population coupled with a declining birthrate, it is believed that Japanese people are increasingly shifting their focus from material indicators of prosperity and convenience to mental fulfillment. Also, their views on lifestyles and health are undergoing significant change, with desire shifting from merely treating disease or extending life to securing both physical and mental comfort and fulfillment. To sum up, people seem to be increasing the priority placed on improving the quality of their life.
As the anticipated global population explosion draws near, the international community is expected to place greater focus on "sustainable social development." Accordingly, it is becoming clear that the role that corporations play in achieving a recycling-oriented, low-carbon society in harmony with nature is gaining ever greater significance.
Until today, society has been based on a "zero-sum" (competition-oriented) structure, where one person's gain can result only from an equivalent loss on the part of another. Under this model, the net change in total wealth is zero as the wealth simply shifts from A to B. It is believed, however, that societies worldwide are striving to break away from this structure and move on toward a "plus-sum" structure, where value is created through cooperation and all people are able to achieve growth and thus create a whole that is greater than its parts. To improve their value in such a society, corporations will need to help solve social ills and create new value.
2. Overview of "Vision 2020"
Having gained an accurate understanding of the aforementioned paradigm shifts, Lion Corporation has formulated "Vision 2020," which encapsulates the ideal Lion Corporation in fiscal 2020 (and its three defining characteristics) and the basic strategies needed to realize these characteristics.
1. Theme of the "V-1 Plan"
Under the theme of "Launching initiatives aimed at achieving the management vision," we will launch and accelerate specific initiatives in line with our four "Vision 2020" strategies. At the same time, we will work to improve our profitability.
2. Basic Strategies under the "V-I Plan"
In the Consumer Products Business in Japan, Lion Corporation will undertake organizational restructuring to fully leverage its marketing and sales functions. We will foster operations in high-value-added product categories and improve the efficiency in these operations, thereby bolstering our earnings base. In addition, we will cultivate new mainstay brands to secure higher market positions in principal business fields. Also, we will work to further strengthen our R&D and production technologies while stepping up consumer research.
Along with ongoing efforts to increase its production capacity in Thailand, Malaysia and China, Lion Corporation will aggressively promote laundry detergents as well as oral care and other products in Asian countries. Lion Corporation plans to make a full entry into the Philippine market in fiscal 2012. By penetrating other new markets, we will expand our business foundation in Asia.
Lion Corporation aims to transform its growing mail-order services into a ¥10-billion business by fiscal 2014. Meanwhile, we will actively launch new businesses that utilize our existing management resources while seeking new business opportunities through, for example, the acquisition of external resources.
Lion Corporation will implement various measures to promote internal and external communication in line with its new corporate message in order to enhance comprehensive organizational capabilities and invigorate various corporate structures. Simultaneously, we will strive to create a corporate culture in which diverse personnel can utilize their full capacity while reinforcing human resource development.
3. Performance Targets
Under its new management vision, Lion Corporation aims to become a "Company that creates value for lifestyle and spiritual fulfillment long into the future by consistently safeguarding health, comfort and the environment for people each and every day" and will continue to contribute to the sound development of society through its business.
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New Deadline: September 4
By Christa Morris - The National Reining Horse Association produces three premier reining horse sales each year during the NRHA Futurity & Adequan North America Affiliate Championship Show in Oklahoma City: the NRHA / Markel Insurance Breeders Showcase, Marketplace and Futurity Prospect Sales.
These sales offer an outstanding group of 2-year-old reining prospects, yearlings, stallions, broodmares, and show horses from leading breeders, owners, and trainers. From the crack of the gavel until the last horse exits the sale arena, hot bidding ensues and the world's top reining horses change hands each year.
The deadline for consigning to the 2013 NRHA / Markel Insurance Futurity Sales has been extended to September 4. This deadline extension is for Marketplace, Futurity Prospect and Breeders Showcase entries. Sale selection will take place on September 9 and 10, and consignors will be notified as soon as possible following selection. Consignments must be received in the NRHA office by 5 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, September 4.
For more information on the NRHA / Markel Insurance Sales, please contact Tiffany Gonzales at (405) 946-7400 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Items Due by September 4
- Video required for selection in Breeders Showcase and Futurity Prospect Sales
- Consignment form and Consignment Disclosure form
- Consignment fee (unless accompanied by the Payment Agreement form and deducting from sale proceeds)
- Breed registration papers (originals required if deducting from sale proceeds)
- Please note: If consignment fees are paid by September 4, original breed registration paper(s) and transfer(s) may be submitted at a later date.
General Information on the NRHA / Markel Insurance Sales
- NEW for Breeders Showcase Sale: Radiographs (taken within 45 days of the sale) for yearlings and show horses must be received on or before December 1
- Futurity Prospect Sale: Radiographs (taken within 45 days of the sale) must be received on or before December 1
- Consignment fees: Breeders Showcase ($600), Marketplace ($500), Futurity Prospect ($750)
- Commission on final bid: Breeders Showcase (8%), Marketplace (8%), Futurity Prospect (9%)
- Pass out fee: Breeders Showcase ($400), Marketplace ($200), Futurity Prospect (9% on final bid)
- Sale Dates: Breeders Showcase (December 5), Marketplace (December 6) and Futurity Prospect (December 7)
Markel Insurance
Long-standing Corporate Partner Markel Insurance has continued their support for over 20 years with NRHA. Known for providing immediate 24-hour "Fall of the Hammer" mortality coverage to sale consignments, Markel is proud to be a sponsor of the NRHA/Markel Insurance Futurity Sales, which include the Breeders Showcase Sale, Marketplace Sale and Futurity Prospect Sale. Markel has expanded to "Global Partner" status with going international in supporting the NRHA European Futurity, Derby and Affiliate Championships.