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Teaching English in Japan
Teaching English in Japan
The Asian market is one of the largest in the world for English teachers, and Japan has one of the longest traditions of employing English instructors. The Japanese have mandated that English be taught in all of their public schools, beginning at age 5 and lasting through the completion of high school. This broad base of child learners has opened a large market for teaching English in Japan. Adults are taking English language classes in the millions as well, and it often seems that language schools on every corner of a city block much like Starbucks coffee shops here in the US.
Those looking to teach English in Japan can find jobs year round, and in-person interviews are conducted 3 to 6 months in advance throughout the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Instructors are usually responsible for airfare and housing costs, although schools do assist in finding housing and sometimes provide accommodations. Most English teachers in Japan live in apartments recently vacated by previous teachers, and many room with coworkers.
Excellent salaries enable those teaching English in Japan to live a comfortable lifestyle, while saving up to $ 800 USD per month. Schools typically offer 20 to 25 hours of work per week (and sometimes more), leaving plenty of time to travel and explore. English teachers need a bachelor's degree, and TEFL certification is typically required to teach English in Japan. Major cities for teaching English in Japan include Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, and Osaka.
Staff Articles About Teaching English in Japan:
Public & Private Schools: What Are Your Options for Teaching English in Japan?
Q and A: Teaching English in Japan with ITA Advisor, Edward Young
Ultimate Japan: 11 Highlights of Living and Teaching English in Japan
6 More Great Reasons to Teach English in Tokyo Japan
Teach English in Japan & Experience the Sakura Cherry Blossoms of Spring
Teaching English in Japan: Discover Osaka - The City of Kuidaore
Alumni groups:
Want to see the ITA Alumni Facebook group in Japan?
Check their discussions, sharing of tips and information.
Feedback from International TEFL Academy alumni teaching English in Japan:
Nara, Japan Q&A with Gustavo Olivares
Fukuoka, Japan Q&A with Rachel Beede
Nagoya, Japan Q&A with Thomas Paeme
Osaka, Japan English Teaching Q and A with Michelle Goble
TEFL: The Easiest Way to Fulfill Your Dreams - Teach English in Japan - Rachel Beede
Experience With No Regrets - Teaching English in Japan - Catherine Cappello
A Land of Contradictions - Teaching English in Japan - Rachel Beede
I Don't Speak Japanese (But I'm Teaching English in Japan!) - Becca Simas
Requirements to Teach English in Japan
- Education: BA/BS is required; TEFL TESOL Certification is required and students can obtain certification in any of our Worldwide TEFL locations or by taking the Online TEFL Class.
- Citizenship Requirements: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, others with fluent speaking ability and 12 years education in a native English speaking country
- Typical hiring process: Face to face interviews in U.S., Canada, or U.K. at least 3–6 months in advance
- Average teaching hours per week: 20–25 hours of classroom plus extra prep time
- Types of students: business professionals, children in public schools and private language schools
- Cost of living per month: $1,660 - 2,600 USD (185,195 - 288,080 JPY)
- Average monthly pay: $2,250 - 2,600 USD (250,000 - 288,080 JPY) Can save $600 - 800 USD/Mo
- Start-up cost: $2,600 - 4,200 USD (290,000 - 468,000 JPY)
- Potential to save or break even: save $600–800 USD/month
- Accommodation/housing benefits paid: yes some paid or subsidized depending on school or program.
- Medical Insurance: co-pay, national health insurance
- Vacation: paid 2 weeks, national holidays & sick days
- Flight reimbursement: no
Interesting Facts About Japan
- Japan has the third-largest economy in the world.
- Tokyo is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 30 million residents.
- Japan is the only Asian country in the G8.
- 70% to 80% of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for residential or industrial use, resulting in heavily populated urban areas like Tokyo.
- Japan has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world, at well over 80 years of age.
Living while Teaching English in Japan...
From ancient temples and elaborately dressed geishas to lightning-fast bullet trains and toy robots, Japan is a country of contrasts. On any given day, you can visit one of the estimated 100,000 Shinto shrines, sample some of the world's freshest seafood, test out the newest Sony gadget, or catch a magnificent sunrise over the vast Pacific Ocean. Other highlights of teaching English in Japan include hiking the slopes of Mount Fuji, drinking sake in a historic brewery, and discovering the unique charm of ancient cities like Kyoto and Osaka.
Contact International TEFL Academy today to speak with an advisor to find out about our online course, multiple on-site TEFL classes or request a brochure to learn about TEFL training courses and a comparison of the most popular countries to teach English.
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MUSKEGON, MI -- Three headlines for Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, plus a tip about what's coming up:
What's hot now: Frank Peterson launches 'new era' at Muskegon City Hall with first day as city manager
MUSKEGON, MI -- A new era is being launched this week at Muskegon City Hall. Frank Peterson – the 33-year-old, new Muskegon city manager – began work
Monday, Sept. 16.
Cops, courts and fire: Man who backed into Oakridge school bus with plow truck acquitted of driving charges
MUSKEGON, MI – It made headlines last winter when Rocky Orville Snell backed his snowplow into the rear of an Oakridge Public Schools school bus – at least twice -- and kept pushing for at least a full minute as the frightened school-bus driver set her parking brake to keep from being shoved into traffic.
Make sure you don't miss: Holiday Road Light Show 'permanently retired' after Grand Haven City Council rejects proposal
GRAND HAVEN, MI – The Grand Haven City Council voted to deny a proposal from organizers of the popular Holiday Road Light Show, an elaborate display of Christmas lights synchronized to holiday music, at its meeting Monday night.
Coming up: Muskegon Community College ponders what programs to put downtown.
Lynn Moore is a reporter for MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow her on Twitter and Google+.

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HI, I post this question here because I think it was a development decision,
but maybe it's wrong, please suggest where I should ask this. I'm trying to
access the akregator web site but it seems down. I tried to find some info on
other places but couldn't find any.
In previous versions of akregator the feeds were stored in an XML file. This
was very convenient because I could get that info with an external
program/script easily. I was using a very simple bash script that would parse
all the feeds and open the last 10 unread feeds in a Konqueror window, thats
because there is a forum where I read all threads and clicking them, one by
one was very annoying, there are more than 60 new threads a day.
I found that akregator in KDE 3.5 uses some kind of binary file to store the
feeds, this leaves me with no way to do what I was doing.
So my questions are: (I hope someone has the answers)
* Why did they choose to store the feeds in a binary format (.mk4 file)
instead of the convenient (for me at least) XML files?
* I've read some time ago that some people were concerned about this kind of
things in kde, I mean the tendency to use use cryptic binary files instead of
the friendly user readable text files for configurations and information
storage. What do you think about it?
* Last but not least, do you know any easy workaround to my problem?, any easy
way to decode these files to be able to parse with a script?
Thank you,
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Also soaking up the sun on Saturday: Courteney Cox, also showing off her bikini figure. Other Cabo visitors include Howard Stern and wife Beth, and Jimmy Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney.
Aniston and Theroux were snapped showing off their swimwear (and enviable bods). And, yes, the actress also flaunted her full head of hair.
Think the new year has a wedding in store for the happy couple?


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Comic-Con Live-Blog: The Joss Whedon Experience
Welcome, dear readers, to our live-blog of Joss Whedon's first Comic-Con panel of 2010 without the albatross of J.J. Abrams around his neck. I kid! I just only barely know what Whedon actually said at yesterday's Hall H panel with Abrams, so I'm just gonna pretend that this is all exciting and new, and not repeated information.
Follow along after the break...
3:00 p.m. Pacific. Leaving aside the "Avengers" and "Dr. Horrible" and "Dollhouse" stuff, I really hope to make this live-blog into a chronicle of audience members calling Joss "Josh." I put the over/under at 2. Feel free to bet.
3:10 p.m. Joss' Dark Horse editor wants to make sure we know to ask about "Buffy: Season 8." Well, OK. A "Serenity" graphic novel is coming out this winter. Written by Joss and Zack Whedon...
3:12 p.m. Joss hits the stage. The vuvuzelas go crazy. And yes, I'm serious. Vuvuzelas.
3:12 p.m. "You might have heard about an intimate art film I'm shooting," Whedon says, referencing "The Avengers." He adds, ."I'll be in enormous trouble if it's not super-good," he promises.
3:14 p.m. "'Cabin in the Woods'... It's never coming out," Whedon jokes. He adds, "I have no idea what's going on." "Cabin in the Woods" is, of course, being held up by MGM uncertainty. "Luckily it is timeless and brilliant and will never become irrelevant."
3:15 p.m. Joss Whedon talks much too quickly. He urges people to line up and pepper him with compliments.
3:16 p.m. First question is about that "Serenity" graphic novel, "The Shepherd's Book." Coming "soon."
3:17 p.m. Where are Joss's gay male characters? "I think it's time for some guy-on-guy," Whedon says, hinting at an upcoming gay superhero project. That's not tangible.
3:18 p.m. What is Joss looking forward to on "The Avengers"? "Editing," he cracks. He says he's sat down with all of the actors. "They're so invested and insightful," he raves. He looks forward to having all of those people in a room "just hating each other." He says he's worked on "some of the greatest ensembles ever collected," but he's thrilled about this new cast.
3:19 p.m. Would Whedon do a subscription-based webseries? "I have absolutely have. I've been thinking about it and thinking about it. All of that thinking about it led to not actually doing it," he says. Whedon says he's excited by the idea of "working with nothing." He mentions "Wastelanders," which he'd write with Warren Ellis. But he says that he also likes the idea of having "everything that you want."
3:20 p.m. "Network television? Probably not right away. Probably not his next thing," Whedon says.
3:21 p.m. Whedon is informed that "Joss" means "Godly" in Filipino. He's pleased and adds, "And it didn't before me." The question that follows actually involves Whedon's love of long takes as a director. He refers to the "frisson between the actors" that occurs on long takes. How delightfully pretentious! He references "Touch of Evil" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors" as films that featured memorable one-take scenes. He admits, "It's a dangerous tool," but says that if it doesn't work, you can just cut it up in editing. He then references a James Mason take in "A Star Is Born" as a favorite single-take shot.
3:24 p.m. "I don't make this stuff up. That's what happened." Joss says, making a crack about Angel killing Drogan. He says it's about pointing out the toll that doing horrible things can take on even good people. He says they followed a "Godfather" model in that last "Angel" season.
3:26 p.m. Whedon amusingly pantomimes his creative process, which includes eating, visiting Whedonesque and wild bouts of insecurity. It all starts with an idea, though says that twice he's had the story lay itself out in three acts from the beginning. The first time was on a spec script that was never made and "Cabin into the Woods." He says his favorite part is the free-associating, building characters and moments.
3:29 p.m. He concludes, "Ultimately the process is: Fun, hunger, porn, depression, fun."
3:29 p.m. "Sometimes, you've just gotta get rid of somebody. Sometimes, Ron Glass makes me mad. No, actually, it was Alan [Tudyk]," Whedon says, explaining why he sometimes kills off characters people love. He tells the story of how they chose to kill Tudyk's character in "Serenity" because of contract negotiations involving a possible sequel. But usually, it's planned ahead-of-time and driven by story. He says that Kristine Sutherland knew a full two years in advance what was going to happen to Buffy's mom. Another story involves simultaneously telling Marc Blucas he was being written out, while telling Emma Caulfield she was going to be a regular.
3:33 p.m. "It came to me in the second season," Whedon says, explaining the decision to make Boyd evil at the end of "Dollhouse." He initially though of killing him off but thought, "That's not enough. Everyone knows I do that. Why don't I take away everything?" He's all praise when it comes to the creative team on "Dollhouse," while noting how early he'd realized that they were having problems, problems which also somewhat stemmed from having already shot an apocalypse when they assumed they were fired previously. He notes, "Had we been a smash success, obviously Harry Lennix wouldn't have been taken out of the equation in any way, shape or form, because he's Harry Lennix and I love him."
3:35 p.m. Has Whedon ever thought of doing anything as genre-bending as "Hush" only for the comic book form. Answer? He hasn't. He says that it involves an amazingly close relationship with your artist. "I don't approach comics in that way. And I don't look for stunts to do on television," he says, observing that it was all mandated by things that made sense within that universe. Black and white, outside of dreams, wouldn't have made sense, he says as an example. "A stunt is only as good as the stunt performer and it's tricky," he says.
3:38 p.m. A small child asks Whedon what inspired him to make "Dr. Horrible." He asks, "Is anybody surprised that I kinda relate more to villains than the heroes?" He says, "I wanted to make 'Dr. Horrible' because I feel like Dr. Horrible."
3:39 p.m. Whedon got his first job by writing five spec scripts. "I kept crunching them out, basically. Every one would be received extremely well by my dad," he explains. He was working at a video store at the time.
3:41 p.m. When will we be able to play songs from "Dr. Horrible" on RockBand? "I think that there was some talk about doing it on RockBand. Now I can't remember why it didn't happen. Should it happen?" We all agree it should! He promises to look into it.
3:43 p.m. Whedon's comic influences included everything from Frank Miller to Heavy Metal, which he says disturbed him, "But it was worth it for the boobies."
3:43 p.m. Does Whedon have any favorite actors? "How much trouble would I get in if I actually said, 'Oh, I have a favorite actor.'" He continues, "I guess I might as well say... It's Nathan Fillion." Then he points to the audience where we see... Nathan Fillion asking the question in a Kangol, shades and a mustache. The vuvuzelas go crazy. Again... seriously. "You're not just sayin' that, were you?" Fillion says.
3:46 p.m. Of Fillion, Whedon says..."This is Ant-Man, because A) Nobody else can play the part and B) He doesn't appear in my film." He adds the kicker, "Want to talk about a consummate actor? It's actually Sean Maher."
3:47 p.m. "They're telling me I'm finishing in this business," Whedon says. He's kidding. But, alas, this panel *is* finished.


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TRENTON — The city's public pools will open for the season tomorrow at 1 p.m.
Five pools will be open daily from 1 to 7 p.m. through Sept. 5, the city announced yesterday. That is two hours fewer than the traditional noon to 8 p.m. schedule of past years.
Last year former Mayor Doug Palmer reduced pool hours to noon to 5 p.m. to deal with a projected city budget deficit. After a public outcry, newly elected Mayor Tony Mack reinstated the noon to 8 p.m. schedule.


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With its fusion of honed dynamic lines and sculpted elegance, the XJ fulfills the key Jaguar brand aesthetics of beauty, purity and simplicity.
With its fusion of honed dynamic lines and sculpted elegance, the XJ fulfills the key Jaguar brand aesthetics of beauty, purity and simplicity.
Even at rest, it has the ability to raise your heart rate. In motion, is a sight to behold. The powerful character of the XJ is reflected in its low, wide stance and long taut waistline. With a fusion of honed lines and sculpted elegance, it fully embodies the Jaguar promise of dramatic, dynamic and pure design.
Design and engineering come to life in the XJ. The front of the car is more bold and assertive than ever with an imposing new front grille design, which is framed by more powerful and efficient full LED headlamps, boasting a striking illuminated 'double J' daytime signature light design.
The view from inside XJ is exceptional: a panoramic, heat-reflective glass roof sweeps back and over the rear seats. It filters UV rays and floods the interior with natural light making it feel beautifully airy, enviably spacious and thanks to effective tinting, very private.
At the rear, striking new tail lamps with signature 'J' LED illuminated running lights and elliptical tailpipes accentuate the power and agility of the XJ.
The rear screen wraps seamlessly around the XJ to create a floating roofline that emphasizes the long, low and wide profile.
XJ R-Sport features dynamic styling cues that include a gloss black grille and rear valance, as well as a front splitter, 'R' style side sills and a rear spoiler.
Create your perfect interior with a choice of color themes and up to 4 veneers.
Choose from a stylish range of 19 inch or 20 inch alloy wheels.
Technologically advanced and luxuriously appointed, the 2016 Jaguar XJ is the pinnacle of the Jaguar sport sedans.


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Artist: Queens Of The Stone Age
Album: Lullabies To Paralyze
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Holding hands, skipping like a stone
On our way, to see what we have done
The first to speak, is the first to lie
The children cross their hearts and hope to die
Bite your tongue
Swear to keep your mouth shut
Ask yourself, will I burn in Hell
Then write it down and cast it in the well
There they are the mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale into fire wood
Fan the flames with a little lie
Then turn your cheek until the fire dies
The skin it peels, like the truth away
What it was, well, I would never say
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Swear to keep, keep your mouth shut
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Make up something good
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Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
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San Fernando Valley Residents Sentenced In Medicare ScamTwo San Fernando Valley residents who submitted more than $1.8 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare -- almost entirely for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs -- were sentenced Tuesday.
Prime Healthcare Urged To Keep Daughter Of Charity Hospitals Open 10 YearsCalifornia regulators should condition the sale of six nonprofit Catholic hospitals on a commitment to keep the facilities open for 10 years, a state-commissioned consultant recommended.
Woman Indicted In Alleged $33 Million Medicare Fraud SchemeA Glendale woman was charged Thursday with taking part in an alleged $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare.
Owner Of Glendale Clinic Sentenced For Bilking Medicare, Medi-Cal Out Of MillionsThe ringleader of one of the largest scams out of Southern California to target Medicare Part D out of has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution to Medicare and Medi-Cal.
Owner Of Van Nuys Medical Clinic Pleads Guilty To Medicare Fraud SchemeThe former owner of a Van Nuys medical clinic management company pleaded guilty Friday to a scheme defrauding Medicare of millions of dollars.
States Told To Find Way To Clear Medicaid Backlog A half-dozen states with backlogs for Medicaid enrollees, including California, were facing a federal deadline Monday to create plans for getting those low-income residents enrolled in health coverage.
LA Doctor Charged With $33 Million Medicare Fraud Dr. Robert A. Glazer, 67, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. He was arrested May 13 and is free on bond, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
California Obamacare Enrollees Exceed Projections By Nearly 100KOverall, the Obama administration had projected California would enroll 1.3 million during the first enrollment period, which began Oct. 1. Covered California said the state had set a target of around 830,000.
Covered California Announces Enrollment Exceeded Expectations Of 1.2 Million"We do have something to celebrate, but it's really a starting line," Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee said.
Man Says Dog Saved His Life After SeizureTim Mullen says his Golden Retriever, Garth, helped him to escape his latest brush with death Monday night when he was alone at a relative's home.
Nursing Home Company To Pay $48M To Resolve Claims Of Inflated Medicare BillsA California company that runs nursing homes in 10 states has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve claims that it submitted inflated bills to Medicare for services that either were unnecessary or never performed.
Anaheim Ambulance Company Settles Whistleblower LawsuitAn Orange County ambulance company has paid more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it billed Medicare and other federal health programs to carry patients who didn't need ambulances.


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A quick look at the 2011-12 Saint Louis Billikens:
Reason to believe: The Billikens have five starters from last year's squad back, and junior point guard Kwamain Mitchell—who missed all of 2010-11 because of a violation of the school's code of conduct—is back. Mitchell averaged 15.9 points and 3.0 assists as a sophomore, and the squad never really recovered in his absence; the Billikens averaged an Atlantic 10-low 63 points per game. Saint Louis has plenty of players who can provide an excellent supporting cast, and having Mitchell in the mix gives the Billikens the type of firepower to compete with the conference's top schools, Xavier and Temple.
Reason to worry: Can this team keep a full roster handy for coach Rick Majerus? Last season was a nightmare, from the loss of Mitchell and center Willie Reed—he isn't back—to the numerous injuries to the health issues of Majerus himself. This team harbored thoughts of competing with Xavier and Temple last year; instead, the perpetually shorthanded Billikens stumbled to a 12-19 record. It's a fresh start, sure, but was a taxing summer in terms of minor injuries and other assorted issues. SLU should be—fingers crossed—full strength by the opener against Tennessee State on Nov. 11.
Impact newcomer: Remember that lack of scoring the Billikens dealt with last season? Jake Barnett, a transfer who averaged 12.7 points per game at Toledo, should help. He's a 6-5 guard with good range—he averaged 2.2 3-pointers a game in his only season with the Rockets.
The big game: When the Washington Huskies visit Chaifetz Arena on Nov. 20, the Billikens get to accomplish two things. One, they get to say hello to Washington coach Lorenzo Romar, who coached Saint Louis before heading out west to take over the Huskies. And, they get a great early measuring stick for a season they hope will result in a run at the A-10 crown—the Huskies are ranked No. 25 in Sporting News' preseason top 25.
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Nov. 11—Tennessee State, TBA
Nov. 15—at Southern Illinois, 8 p.m.
Nov. 20—Washington, TBA
Nov. 24—vs. Boston College (76 Classic), Anaheim, Calif., 4 p.m.
Nov. 25—vs. Villanova or UC Riverside (76 Classic), Anaheim, Calif.
Nov. 27—vs. Oklahoma, Santa Clara, Washington State or New Mexico (76 Classic), Anaheim, Calif.
Nov. 29—at Loyola Marymount, TBA
Dec. 3—Portland, TBA
Dec. 07—Vermont, TBA
Dec. 10—Opponent to be determined, TBA
Dec. 17—Alabama State, TBA
Dec. 22—Arkansas State, TBA
Dec. 27—Texas Southern, TBA
Dec. 31—at New Mexico, 7 p.m.
Jan. 4—at Dayton, TBA
Jan. 7—George Washington, TBA
Jan. 11—Temple, 8 p.m.
Jan. 14—at Charlotte, TBA
Jan. 21—Duquesne, TBA
Jan. 25—at Xavier, TBA
Jan. 28—at Massachusetts, TBA
Feb. 1—St. Bonaventure, TBA
Feb. 4—Dayton, TBA
Feb. 8—at Saint Joseph's, TBA
Feb. 11—at La Salle, 1 p.m.
Feb. 15—Richmond, TBA
Feb. 18—Fordham, TBA
Feb. 25—at Rhode Island, 1 p.m.
Feb. 28—Xavier, 8 p.m.
March 3—at Duquesne, Noon
March 6-11—Atlantic 10 Tournament, Atlantic City, N.J.


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While Octomom Nadya Suleman's money woes continue, she's decided to try online dating.
TMZ.com reports that Octo has created an online dating profile for WhatsYourPrice.com, a site where users (formerly called johns) can pay other users to go out with them. In this heat, who wants to stand on a corner?
Octo didn't even lie in her profile, even though Tattle finds it a real deal-breaker when we see a woman's profile that says:
Have kids: Yes, 14.
Want kids: Yes.
She said she loves to laugh (with her laugh, that's not a plus) and she's into personal fitness.
The bidding for a night on the town with Nadya starts at $500.


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Challenges to the Swedish Welfare State (EPub)by Desmond Lachman Robert P. Hagemann Adam Bennett J. H. Green Ramana Ramaswamy
Sweden's economy in the early 1990s has been characterized by a deep recession, high unemployment, a ballooning public sector budgete deficit, and a decline in the value of the currency- developments that have raised questions about the country's capacity to sustain its comprehensive welfare state. This study provides an analysis of recent economic developments in a longer-term context and assesses their implications for future policies.
IMF Conditionality: Experience Under Stand-By and Extended Arrangementsby Adam Bennett Susan Schadler Mauro Mecagni Maria Carkovic Louis Dicks-Mireaux James H. J. Morsink Miguel A. Savastano
This paper is Part I of a two-volume study conducted as a part of the IMF's ongoing process of evaluating its lending facilities. It focuses on IMF-supported programs and macroeconomic performance during 1988-92, reflecting information available through the end of 1993. Part I provides an overview of the experiences during the arrangements reviewed: it describes the initial conditions faced in these countries, the adjustment strategies adopted, the degree to which programs were implemented, and the extent of sustained adjustment experienced.
IMF Staff Country Reportsby Adam Bennett Adnan Mazarei
A report from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Staff Country Reportsby Adam Bennett Christian Mumssen
A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Monetary Policy in Dollarized Economiesby Adam Bennett Eduardo Borensztein Toms J. T. Balio
A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Recent Experiences with Surges in Capital Inflowsby Adam Bennett Susan Schadler Maria Carkovic Robert Kahn
This paper explores the experience of six countries (Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Spain and Thailand) with capital inflows. It illustrates that although capital inflows are usually beneficial, too great an inflow can become a problem and make it difficult for authorities to choose the appropriate policy response.
Reconstructing AFGHANISTANby Adam Bennett Louis Dicks-Mireaux Ron Van Rooden Bruno De Schaetzen Felix Fischer Thierry Kalfon
Following the United States led military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban regime collapsed and a new interim government was established, with a new constitution signed and elections subsequently held in 2004. This publication examines the progress made to rebuild Afghanistan's economy and key institutions in the post-conflict environment, as well as discussing the challenges that remain. Chapters consider a range of issues including: a review of the political landscape, aid assistance programmes and the role of the IMF; recent macroeconomic developments, including policies to tackle poppy cultivation and opium production; the fiscal framework and the budget, including the National Program for Reconstruction; structural reforms, including reforming revenue policy and administration, and revitalising the civil service; monetary and exchange rate policy, including the choice of exchange rate regime; and financial sector developments, including legal aspects, the position of the central bank Da Afghanistan Bank, commercial banking, and the informal hawala system.
Sudan: First Review of Performance Under the 2007-08 Staff-Monitored Programby Adam Bennett Matthew Fisher
A report from the International Monetary Fund.
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Christina Ricci gushed about her Bel Ami costar, who plays a womanizing Parisian in the drama, saying working with the Twilight hunk was her favorite part of the filming process.
"He's a sweet guy and super funny," Ricci, 30, tells InStyle. "And a really good kisser."
Although she hasn't seen his vampire flicks ("I was waiting for [The Twilight Saga films] to be on TV because the theaters were so crowded, but there's no excuse"), she thinks he's fang-tastic for reasons other than his looks.
"He's so charming and such a smart guy," she says. "He's so super organized and in charge of his career. He was actually giving me advice."
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uly 29, 2002
Zoning-use changes at Hollywood Intersection
(Copy of letter sent to Woodinville City Council)
I hope I can convey the shock those Tourist District Overlay landowners who were involved in the original planning for that district felt when told that you recently passed major changes to land use zoning at the Hollywood intersection neighborhood business area.
Changing the zoning's land uses to prohibit not just appartments, as publicized, but also to prohibit professional offices, which was not publicized, was not just shocking for what it did, but equally shocking for how it was accomplished.
The state's growth management act, in RCW section 36.70A.140, requires "early and continuous public participation in the development and amendment of comprehensive land use plans and development regulations implementing such plans. The procedures shall provide for broad dissemination of proposals and alternatives, opportunity for written comments, public meetings after effective notice, provision for open discussion,. . . and consideration of and response to public comments."
I would appreciate being informed of how and where the "effective notice" of the prohibition of professional offices at the Hollywood intersection took place, and which public meeting took place after that effective public notice.
(While existing professional offices would be grandfathered, will they be allowed to rebuild if destroyed by fire? Will they be allowed to expand?)
Such cavalier disregard of growth management rule by Woodinville's city government bodes ill for other city residents and landowners who later may find themselves in a position of significant distrust of that government. Zoning changes have far-reaching consequences and should not be adopted upon impulse, which seems to have occurred here.
At the onset of the tourist district overlay, at a time when district landowners agreed to give up some allowed impervious surface coverage in order to provide more open space, the landowners were told that except for inappropriate uses such as those requiring unsightly outside storage, they were entitled to all other uses in their underlying zone, plus optional tourist uses. (In hard times a doctor is a more dependable tenant than an arts-and-crafter, and that choice of tenants was not to be prohibited.)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Maxine Keesling, Woodinville


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Steve Zipay at Newsday was able to talk with Derek Stepan at U.S. Olympic orientation camp today about his on-going contract negotiations…
"I don't expect either side expects me not to be (at training camp). These things take time. Both sides are working at finding the right number and a fair deal for both sides."
Ryan McDonagh, who is also at orientation camp, added this on Stepan…
"He'll be there (at camp). It's a unique situation for him but ultimately, he'll be a Ranger…"
Glen Sather has said the Rangers are not going to give Stepan a long term deal and instead will likely offer a "gap" contract.
In related news, the Devils re-signed Adam Henrique to a 6-year, $24 million contract today.
…not to rain on everyone's parade, but just because Stepan expects to be at camp doesn't mean he will. Having said that, I'd much rather hear this, than "we'll wait and see." Either way, a deal will get done, but it might not happen until late into camp.
…and here's a big, fat F YOU to Henrique and the Devils for screwing the Rangers again. No way Stepan's agent doesn't use that contract to his advantage, especially when his client scored almost 30 more points than the Devils forward last season. Ugh.
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Outdoor garden rooms are all the rage right now and having a unique spot in the garden to call my own sounded pretty appealing. My goal: Transform my haphazard back potting patio into a better looking space that serves the dual purpose of both being an outdoor room and a storage area for my container planting supplies.
My home exterior is an odd mixture of suburban siding and 1970′s design – I'm always trying to switch it about or update it. We resided the house a few years ago, which was a tremendous change for the exterior image of the garden and home itself, but the back patio really needed some help. It's an odd shaped deck enclosed by fencing and used as a storage place for the garbage cans and a landing spot for anything and everything [see above].
Removing the extra fencing was the first step, then the garbage cans and old seating. After that I decided what my goal was for an outdoor garden potting bench room — I wanted a functional area I could store my containers, layer my bagged potting soil, sit and entertain friends, and enjoy a beautiful view.
1. Potting Bench – My husband built my bench – he had no plan, just used 4×4′s, wood planks, galvanized nails, and his amazing engineering-based imagination.
2. Seating - The two bright orange Adirondack chairs came from Freecycle.org. A local family in the community gave them to me unpainted and covered in moss. I bleached the chairs, sanded them, then painted them with brightly colored exterior paint.
3. A View – By removing the deck fencing I opened up the view significantly. Then I built a colorful outdoor fireplace photo and chandelier wall as a centerpiece for the deck (here is the how to do – LINK). A container tower acts as a median view between the garden room and the garden itself.
Transforming your deck or patio into a garden potting bench area that also serves as an outdoor garden room is a great way to combine two needs into your outdoor design plan. Building a room with a view and reusing older things to help with the transformation is a terrific way to make the garden more green and sustainable as well. Build a patio room in your garden this summer that is functional, fun, and a nice place to spend time.


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Is this the Enda Fine Gael as we know it?
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I'm a humble reporter, not the Prophet Isaiah, but yesterday I wrote here:
Nobody is rushing to the bookies' shop but the smart money appears to be on Enda Kenny to win the vote today, by about six votes. Darn! I should have gone to the bookies.
It looks like Richard Bruton believed in his own prophecies: he was proved wrong. Field-Marshal Phil Hogan had a ramrod affixed to Enda's back and marched him into battle.
As a Wexford supporter (God help me!) I was probably one of the few that noticed Enda had brought together those two ancient sporting foes in the form of Kilkennyman Hogan (the political counterpart of Brian Cody, you might say) and Enniscorthy TD Paul Kehoe. If Kenny can unite the Cats and the Yellowbellies, he can do anything
I'm not in Leinster House today so will not venture too far into the prediction game although Michael Noonan for Finance Spokesman sounds a safe bet and Alan Shatter will surely get a promotion, probably to Justice. James Reilly looks a bit like one of those bearded generals from the US Civil War and will most likely move up the chain of command as well.
But Enda ain't stupid and won't forget to present the olive branch to his opponents. Some will get a fool's pardon and others, like Richard, will have to be brought on board for the optics. There will be a few who will be left out in the cold, at least for now. This has been a tough little firefight.
Brian Cowen must surely feel tempted to call a general election sooner than he originally intended, to take advantage of Fine Gael's disarray. But he would want to move fast as FG has a history of internal squabbles which never really go too far. I still stick to my prediction of June 2011 as the most likely occasion for a run to the country but will keep a watching brief on that one.


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Just when and where the Baltimore Ravens open their 2013 season is a hot topic leading up to this week's NFL owners meetings in Phoenix.
The Ravens were first slated to kick off the 2013 NFL season on Wednesday, Sept. 4, but that date was declined because of the beginning of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah.
The alternate kickoff date of Thursday, Sept. 5, has also been called into question because of a Baltimore Orioles home game that night against the Chicago White Sox.
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I tend to go with Amazon, as they're fairly reliable. I'd have to say though that you're best off googling said ingredient, finding manufacturers and comparing prices- and keep a list handy.
I live in a fairly small town with no real outlet to buy good organic condiments, and bulk items. The Kroger's is getting better at carrying some items, but options are limited. There is one "health food" store in town but they have mostly dry goods and suppliments although they do have limited supplies of frozen veggies and fruits.
I would like to find a good online supplier with reasonable prices for nuts, grain free flours, and dried fruits, organic oils, etc. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I tend to go with Amazon, as they're fairly reliable. I'd have to say though that you're best off googling said ingredient, finding manufacturers and comparing prices- and keep a list handy.
If I lived in the US I would buy this http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Detail.bok?no=878 What a great deal, so much cheaper than making my own. Mmm mmm. I'm sure their meats are good too. All grass fed and whatnot.
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a friend recommended www.nutsonline.com to me. I haven't bought anything yet, but I plan to. She buys chia seeds from it.
coconut oil, creamed coconut, some spices, and supplements from amazon. Meat from http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/ (they also have pastured pork, lamb, bison, buffalo, goat, and chicken).
Started PB late 2008, lost 50 lbs by late 2009. Have been plateaued, but that thing may just be biting the dust: more on that later.
US Wellness Meats for beef, chicken, etc, Vital Choice for wild salmon, Tropical Traditions for coconut oil and cream, coconut toothpaste and soaps, pastured eggs, and I am going to order some pastured chicken from them tonight or tomorrow ...
We belong to a few food co-ops. I see you're in the SE. Perhaps this one might be an option for you: http://www.bulknaturalfoods.com/ It's not from solely certified organic farms, but they do investigate and stick w/ either minimal intervention or uncert. organic (where they go check out the farms and see for themselves what the farmers are doing). So far, we've only done the raw almonds and the cherries. I've been tickled beyond belief at the quality of both. (If the quantity puts you off, you might see if friends or family would like to go in w/ you, or take up canning/freezing - the price is hard to beat.) I'm gearing up to get the apples!
We also order from Shekinah-Farm's co-op. (they organize it - it's not "their" stuff) - there are some great items in that, and Christie is fantastic.
A friend orders nuts from Oh Nuts and the nutsonline listed above. She said it's all been good.
Amazon's a godsend, particularly if you're either a procrastinator, or just impatient, and you spring for the Prime Membership. (If you're both, you'll never, ever regret getting it. LOL!)
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Welcome to Potteric Carr Nature Reserve!
Nature paths suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs will wind you around a stunning, safe wetland habitat littered with pockets of woodland and wildflower meadows, and the friendly Kingfisher Tearooms is a great place to you recharge with friends and family. Hides allow you to get up close and personal with birds such as woodpeckers and kingfishers and during your wander you may also encounter mammals such as roe deer and hedgehogs. The ponds provide a home for newts, frogs and whirligig beetles with staff on hand to show you the best spots for pond dipping. The meadows during summer are full of butterflies including small tortoiseshell, in comparison to a snow laden winter where you may be lucky enough to spot our overwintering bitterns – this globally threatened species is a real highlight for any wildlife watcher.
Come summer vivid purple loosestrife and Southern marsh orchids provide plenty of colour.
The Potteric Carr Nature Reserve trail guide* is available to download below, which includes a map with all the hides and paths marked on so that you don't miss out any of the wonderful habitats and species during your visit. Also don't miss out on the Minibeast Totem Pole trail, which has a podcast put together by Pheasant Bank Academy.
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They've cozied up in Morocco and watched fireworks in Paris: It's good to be with Jake Gyllenhaal, says Reese Witherspoon.
"He's very supportive," the Oscar winner, 32, tells Vogue in its November issue. "Suffice it to say, I'm very happy in life, and I'm very lucky to have a lot of really supportive people around me who care very much for me, and, you know, that's all you can hope for in life. I am very blessed in that way."
Gyllenhaal, 27, isn't the only man she's been spending time with. While on the set of her upcoming comedy Four Christmases, Witherspoon couldn't resist costar Vince Vaughn's sense of humor.
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> I have used ZIP to backup partitions in the past, but occassionally
> get an out of memory message if the archive is too big.
Final size of ZIP should be below 2G.
> I have not explored DVD burning on OS/2 yet. I looked at the RSJ
> manual and it indicated a 2 gB write limit (or was it 1 gb?) for DVDs
> so that did not seem worth the trouble. I will look into the version
> of CDRECORD for DVD as I happily use CDRECORD for CDROM burning. If
> there is a clear FAQ on DVD burning using CDRECORD, I'd like to see
> it.
cdrecord2 --version
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a25 (i386-pc-os2_emx) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J
This vesion supports writing DVD (at least to DVD-R). Newer versions
do not. There is nothing special to write a DVD; my would write only
-dao, so you need to find the size first, then use something like
-tsize=2151457s -dao
(same as with CD in DAO version) if you read from a pipe. I have
scripts which do md5 of sectors (on the fly), so you can verify the
write (as usual, this makes things much longer, since you need to
read too; mine (12/8/4) is not reading much quickier than it it
writes: the actual reading speed is 7.5MB/sec, writing is 5.5MB/sec -
on 4x BeAll media).
dvddao should write anything, but the fact that its options are
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Check out "Is Cell Therapy the Future of Medicine?" Writer happens to be treated by the doctor who heads this company. At 3 cents, finding a legit company with lots of possible upside seems good. May not always trade like a pump and dump as it seems to trade today.
Sentiment: Buy
As an update, the same writer works for MAXIM, who provided a glowing endorsement of Intellicel earlier that month. Since he is a patient of the doctor, it somewhat makes the MAXIM recommendation (presumably written by him) less impressive to me. I did buy shares immediately after I read its mention in a Life Science Report, then sold it (piece by piece) when I started to question the hype.
Stock does seem to have current support at .03 (yet it was .01 just months prior), and it's possible it's a great find, and I really need a "home run" stock -- but this one kept me sleepless a bit, and the idea that they will soon release their financials filled me more with worry than hope.
Anyway, just an fyi, and best of luck to all.
TLSR: By the way, how is your ankle?
JK: Thank you for asking. I'm not just an analyst; I'm also a patient of Dr. Steven Victor, founder and CEO of IntelliCell BioSciences Inc. (SVFC:OTCPK). As you remember, I rotated my ankle this past winter with extensive damage to the ligaments. I was evaluated at the emergency room and had an orthopedic specialist follow up. The original prognosis was 3–6 months of recovery with minimal physical stress, such as running. Dr. Victor treated my ankle and for me, an n=1, the results were amazing.
Truly, the treatment was as close to minimally manipulated cell therapy as one can get. A stromal vascular fraction was extracted from my belly fat. The harvest was 750M cells; 50M were injected locally into my ankle, with 700M administered systemically. Dr. Victor believes that the systemic administration of cells in conjunction with the local administration creates two modalities of repair. The local repair process accelerates and is supported by the systemic impact, which address generalized inflammation.
I will tell you, my ankle was close to 100% within 10 days of treatment. I had a fantastic season of skiing this past winter, and have been water skiing all summer long. Ankle strength is critical in water skiing.
Clearly, I personally believe cell therapy works. I believe it's viable. I know that from my personal experience, and while I'm only one patient, the results were dramatic. I think cell therapy represents the future of medicine.
TLSR: The therapy that you had administered did not have to be approved by the FDA. There is an exemption for minimally manipulated biological tissues. No premarket approval (PMA) or even 510(k) clearance is necessary. Correct?
JK: That is exactly correct. In the case of IntelliCell BioSciences, cells are extracted from adipose tissue, but there is no collagenase (collagen enzyme) added to digest it. The company essentially applies sonification (ultrasound) and separates out the stem cells. Within an hour it reintroduces the cells to the patient. Because cells are so minimally manipulated and because the entire process is done onsite, in the room adjacent to the patient, it likely qualifies under the FDA exemption that allows physicians to treat patients at their discretion as a "practice of medicine" issue.
Plastic surgery centers around the world are discarding patients' fat. But we would say that there is gold—your stem cells—in that fat. I know that Dr. Victor has treated more than 300 patients, and he's had some amazing successes. These are not FDA-controlled trials. They're not blinded. They're not randomized. He is one of many clinicians finding ways to harvest stem cells and treat patients with them, with amazing results. But I want to be very clear: I'm not promoting the use of stem cells without clinical trials. Clinical trials are the only pathway for the industry to commercialize the value of this technology. That said, the evidence is building that our bodies possess the ability to heal with a little bit of coaxing from good science.


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Dr Denning was the best Doctor I ever had,I have three kids every time changed Doctors for pregnancies but she was the perfect Doctor.Her diagnostics are accurate and she really cares about you, I wish I can still choose her as a my gynecologist but she moved from my hospital.
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Would not recommend Dr. Denning due to lack of bedside manner which others have noted. I am sure she is a very competent doctor, but she was not for me. I went to my first appt for annual exam and wanted to find out about options for fertility treatments if needed. She basically told me that someone would call me to talk about my benefits. I left the appt unclear about the direction I was suppose to go in. The office staff is not very friendly or helpful. I had a question after I left the appt for Dr. Denning and wasn't told where I should wait, had to sit outside her office and felt really uncomfortable, like I had to interrupt her. Overall, I am sure she has some happy patients, but go with your gut and if you are not happy, switch doctors like I did.
My daughter visited Dr. Denying. She examined me before, but my daughter hated her. As another commenter pointed out, she is very abrupt. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I know my 17 year old daughter who has a very high pain tolerance came out if the office in tears. She said that the doctor didn't believe she wasn't sexually active and got upset when she felt pain during the exam.
She is always in a hurry. no proactive probing of the problem
The first time I saw Dr. Denning, she did all the appropriate diagnostics, and I was impressed by her staff. Unfortunately, I believe she has an abrupt manner that brushes people off and dismisses their valid concerns and intelligent questions and comments. The reason for her recommendation for a full abdominal hysterectomy was communicated to me as advisable because I didn't need any of my female reproductive anatomy. When I later questioned her about the role of ovaries ( in producing hormones that protect women's bone and heart health), she dismissed my concern and said postmenopausal women don't need them. I would refer her to the medical literature, specifically, the 2009 issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her medical records indicate procedures she didn't perform during my office visit.


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From a geographical encyclopedia entitled 'Lands and Peoples', Vol IV, 'Southern Asia and the Far East' (originally published 1929; revised and updated, 1949, 1951).
'Kashmir in the Himalayas: the Loveliest State in India'.
'"We can get the best idea of Kashmir, which lies to the north of the sun-scorched Punjab, by thinking of it as three parallel strips lying north-west and south-east.
"First comes the range of the Pir Panjal, the barrier that separates the happy valley, as the land has been called, from India;
"then the valley itself, the plain of Kashmir, which is called the nearest approach on earth to the Garden of Eden;
"and, last, the chain of sheltering hills which rise in tiers of extraordinary grandeur up to the mountain wall on the north.
"Kashmir has been likened to an emerald set in pearls, for the valley is always green, and during nine months of the year the inner circle of hills that rings it about is white.
"Further north lie the eternal snows. Nanga Parbat, 26, 620 feet, is visible from certain points in the valley, and K2, or Mount Godwin-Austen, 28, 728 feet, the second highest mountain in the world, can be seen from a spot only a day's journey distant.
"The Pir Panjal, the southern wall, through the passes of which Kashmir is entered from the plains of India, is the most delightful playground of the Himalayas. In it there are open spaces, where we can gallop over downs of short turf and through forest glades. We can look down into the green valley over meadows dotted with clumps of birch, maple and pine, and as we walk along we crush the flowers which grow so thickly.
"But it is not the flowers alone that make the land so beautiful. Nearly every mountain range in a temperate climate, given sufficient rain, is more or less a garden. It is the position of the garden that gives the Pir Panjal its unusual beauty. To say that it commands a wide view of the plains is to convey little.
"From most Indian hill stations or their neighbourhood one gets an extensive view of the plains. But the plain on which we look down from Gulmarg, in the Pir Panjal, is a mountain plain, another garden under the rock garden, quite different from the sunburnt expanse of the plains of the Punjab.
"The green and golden valley of Kashmir is over eighty miles long and from twenty to twenty-five in breadth. It lies at an elevation of some six thousand feet above the sea.
"In it are all the fruits of the earth, and there is no corner of it which is not beautiful.
"From the Pir Panjal the traveller does not look out over an endless stretch of country as he does from the southern slopes of the Himalayas.
"The Vale of Kashmir owes most of its loveliness to the fact that it is not very large. If a mist hid the lakes and mountain buttresses, it would still make a picture of unforgettable beauty and mystery. But when the mist lifts and we can see all, we understand then why the valley with its encircling hills is famous as the most wonderful natural garden in the world...
"We might leave Kashmir without setting foot in the Pir Panjal and still think of it as the most delightful country in the world.
"The road from the railway, at Rawalpindi, in the Punjab, to Srinagar drops into the Jhelum Valley below Murree and follows the bank of the river, cut into the edge of the cliff, until it comes to Baramula under its cedar forest and enters the Vale of Kashmir.
:In the last few miles before Baramula, the torrent becomes a wide placid stream; the valley broadens out into rich cornfields and pastureland; walnut, willow and elm enfold snug villages. At Baramula the Jhelum becomes navigable.
"Baramula is the gateway of Kashmir, and the visitor can leave the road and continue his journey to Srinagar, the City of the Sun, in a houseboat. He will be poled and towed to the Wular Lakes and Mnasbal with their mountain background.
"Women and children crowd the balconies and river steps. They wear a long garment in bright colours with loose, turned-up sleeves. The Kashmir women are pretty and the children are often beautiful, with regular features, fair complexion and large, bright black eyes. Their hair is worn in long plaits..
"Srinagar lies between two hills. On the top of the one to the north is the straggling yellow fort of Hari Parbat; that to the east is the Takht-i.-Suleimani, or "Throne of Solomon", rising a thousand feet above the plain. The Dal Lake washes the bases of both hills, and both are reflected in its clear waters. It is a spring-fed lake, and the water is as clear as crystal. The surface, five miles in length and two and a half in breadth, is broken by belts of gigantic reeds, bulrushes, floating gardens and islands.
"There are gardens of cockscombs in the dry patches between the dykes, a rich warm glow of colour, and fields of bright marigolds, which the true Hindu plucks daily to strew on the altars of the god Siva. At every turn in these creeks there is a new glimpse of the hills.
"The Nishat, Shalimar and Nasim gardens, on the shores of the lake, were made by the Moguls (that is, I would bet, they were designed and made and maintained by Hindu slaves working for the Moguls - CM) who were the rulers of India for over two hundred years.
The first Mogul ruler in India was one Babur, though Kashmir's first Muslim ruler seized power for himself - and for Islam, and Muslims - in the 14th century, by a process of infiltration and subversion. One can get an idea of what the first Mogul, Babur was like, and the process of assiduous butchery by which the Mogul rulers achieved dominance, by picking up Andrew Bostom's anthology, 'The Legacy of Jihad', and turning to pages 651-653 to read some blood-curdling excerpts - including casual references to the building of piles of heads of butchered Hindu soldiers - from 'The Jihad Campaigns of Babur', A S Beveridge's 1975 translation of the 'Babur-Nama'. - CM
"The Nasim, or garden of breezes, is famous for its chenars, or plane trees, planted by the Mogul emperor Akbar in the 16th century. All these gardens are built on the same plan. A spring-fed canal runs down the centre, dropping from terrace to terrace by a series of cascades into reservoirs in which fountains play. The walls of the canal are of marble or old limestone, and have niches for lights, which glisten on nights of festival behind the falling water.
"The Nishat garden is finer than the Shalimar. Its terraces slope down from the steep rocks behind it to the green shores of the lake, so that the last pavilion, covered with roses and jasmine, overlooks a bed of lotuses. The Pir Panjal, twenty miles beyond the opposite shore, forms the southern screen.
"From Bandipur on the Wular Lake, we may climb the zigzag path to Tragbal over the Burzil and Kamri passes to Gilgit and the Pamirs.
"Ten days out of Srinagar, camp can be ptiched under the Tarshing Glacier at the foot of Nangar Parbat.
"Or a visit may be paid to the cave of Amarnath, the natural temple of Siva under the snow.
"According to Hindu mythology, Siva is a god who forms the supreme Trinity with Brahma and Vishnu. Siva is the destroyer of this life or the re-creator of a new form of life.
"On leaving the houseboat at Ganderbal, after seven days' march one crosses Zoji-la, which is 11,300 feet high, the lowest pass in the northern wall, and is well on the road to Leh in Ladakh, a province of Kashmir which makes an ideal contrast to the barrenness left behind. Some of the pleasantest haunts of the side valleys may be reached in a morning's walk from the houseboat.
"Islamabad, at the eastern end of the valley, where the Jhelum ceases to be navigable, is a favourite camping ground. Within a circle of a few miles lie the blue springs of Bawan, the Mogul Garden of Achibal, the rock caves of Bomtzu, the monastery of Eishmakam, and Martand, the ruined Temple of the Sun.
"The valley is strewn with ancient temples. Martand is believed to date from about the eighth century AD, during the period of early Hindu civilization in Kashmir. The ruins are of a bluish-gray stone with a tinge of pink.
The article is accompanied by many wonderful old photographs, some 'colourised', some in black and white; there is a black and white photograph of Martand, captioned 'What Remains of the Once Great Temple of Martand' and underneath there is this account of it: "The ruins of the temple of Martand, once the largest in Kashmir, stand on a bleak plateau five miles from Islamabad. The temple was built in a mixture of Indian and Classical Greek styles, and is, therefore, a typical example of ancient Kashmiri architecture. It was largely destroyed by Sikander, who ruled Kashmir at the end of the fourteenth century". In other words, in the typical Mohammedan way, this 'Sikander' systematically smashed the biggest temple in the valley. - CM
"The temple stands on one of the flat ridges peculiar to the plain. In the valley on either side a river appears and disappears among villages set in poplar clumps and groves of walnut and willow and one can look down on a well-irrigated plateau, where fields of purple amaranth and the green and chocolate coloured rice crops stretch away to the yellow hills.
"The glittering waters run underneath the road, feeding the rice fields and turning little mills. Such is the valley in spring.
"In summer, Dal Lake is ablaze with tall pink lotuses, acres of them...
"By October, the air is nipping, and orchards of apples, quinces and cherries are reflected in the lake...".
"...the once famous Cashmere shawls are made from the wool found beneath the hair of the Kashmir goats. Some of these shawls...have an embroidered border. This kind of needlework is a specialty of the region around Srinagar.
"Both industry and agriculture are on a small scale. Most of the Kashmir own or rent tiny farms on which they raise rice, wheat and other cereals for their own use. Some fruit is grown for export and canning. The chief industry is sericulture - raising silkworms - which dates back to the fifteenth century. Wool and silk are spun and woven at home.
"Srinagar is a centre for woodcarving, carpet weaving, silver and copper articles and papier mache as well as the embroidery mentioned above...
""The Banihal cart road, about two hundred miles long, connects Srinagar, which is the summer capital, with Jammu, the winter capital.
"Kashmir was once part of the Mogul Empire, and in the late 1700s it came under the rule of Afghans. In 1846 the former state of Jammu and Kashmir was created when a Jammu chieftain, Gulab Singh, a Hindu, acquired the Vale of Kashmir. The dynasty founded by Gulab was a benevolent one, and the people gained a measure of freedom. Nevertheless, as a large majority of the Kashmiri are Mohammedans (I observe that even this Old Book does not inquire too deeply into how they came to be Mohammedans, nor spend much time on the pre-Islamic history of Kashmir nor the bloody process of conquest by which Muslims entered and took it over and reduced its Hindus and Buddhists to a minority - CM) they have never been altogether happy under Hindu maharajas.
Of course not. No matter how decent and orderly the non-Muslim entity within which they may settle themselves or under whose rule they may come, Muslims are never happy in any situation where they are ruled by Infidels, or where Infidels are their social, political and civil equals; for "Islam is to dominate, and not be dominated", as Hassan al -Banna, founder of the Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood, once wrote. - CM
"Discontent became more vocal during the 1920s and 1930s. One popular demand at that time was for a goverment by legislature rather than by royal decree.
"Thus Kashmir with a Hindu ruling house and a Mohammedan people (reality check: in 1900 there were, for example, one million Hindu Pandits living in the Valley, and though most of them have been driven out by the Muslims since the 1940s, in 2001 Hindus still comprised some 32 percent of the population, dropping further to 29 percent by 2010. - CM) became a disputed area in August 1947 when the subcontinent was divided, largely along religious lines, and the two new countries of Pakistan and India were created.
"The Maharaja was free to join Kashmir with either country. At first he hesitated, but in October 1947, as armed tribesmen (armed Muslim jihadists - CM) poured into Kashmir from Pakistan, he hastily acceded his state to India.
Sensible man. Thus ensuring that at least Kashmir had some kind of a chance of not being dragged down into the same dismal sharia hellpit into which Pakistan has been steadily descending since 1947. - CM
"Immediately the Indian Army took over the defense of Kashmir and troops were flown in.
"India placed the dispute before the United Nations in January 1948, but all during that year Kashmir was the scene of bitter strife between Indian and Pakistani divisions.
That is: during that year Kashmir was a theatre of full-on Muslim Jihad, aimed at gaining still more 'turf' for the insatiable Ummah. - CM
"In January 1949, a United Nations commission finally succeeded in bringing the undeclared war to a halt.
"Since then a number of efforts have been made to get India and Pakistan to agree on conditions whereby the people themselves could decide their own fate by popular vote..".
Unfortunately, since the Mohammedans have outbred - and systematically driven out - many of the non-Muslims, thus achieving a majority, a simple vote would see Kashmir, loveliest state of India, with its many very ancient Hindu and Buddhist shrines (not all of which the Muslims even over a period of centuries have entirely managed to erase), engulfed by the black cloud of Islam. And so the stand-off described in that paragraph from 1951, punctuated by periods of open warfare whenever Muslim Pakistan thinks itself strong enough to have another go at simply taking what it desires, continues.
I cannot reproduce, here, the many pictures which illustrated this account. The captions are a story in themselves: for example, under a picture of 'a street corner in Islamabad, once the capital of Kashmir', we learn that "Islamabad...was once known as Anant Nag, after its sulphurous holy reservoir, which still contains swarms of sacred fish...". Another photograph shows us 'a mile long wall near Leh [in Ladakh, which has since been seized and divided up by Pakistan and China], built as an act of worship', with the explanation, "The lamas, or Buddhist priests, believe that the righteous can worship Buddha constantly by means of certain devices. Here is a wall carved with repeated invocations to Buddha. This wall is one of many relics of ancient Buddhist worship that have been found throughout Asia from Ceylon to Chinese Turkestan, from Afghanistan to Korea and Japan."
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Post scriptum. Re. the demographics. I would appreciate input.
I have operated on the working assumption that a/ regions under Muslim rule and/ or formally or informally invaded by Muslims tend to lose their original non-Muslim populations over time (both by 'conversion' under varying degrees of subtle and not-so-subtle coercion, and because many of the non-Muslims are killed off whether gradually or in bursts, and many of them flee) but that also b/ Muslims tend to inflate their population figures for political purposes.
So when I challenged the sweeping statement made in the article I reproduced, that Kashmir had 'a Mohammed people', I assumed both that non-Muslims have been steadily reduced in numbers in Kashmir since Muslims first took over in the 14th century but that there were still probably more of them, as a percentage of the population in 1900, in 1947...and for that matter, that there still may be more today, than Muslim partisans, and anyone relying on Muslim sources, might claim. I tried to cross-check but not knowing whether the sources for population figures in Kashmir at various times, but esp from 1900 to the present day, were Muslim or non-Muslim (except for the old British censuses) and how accurate they were or could be, I advise people to treat anything I've said about demographics, above, with circumspection. If you know of good published and/ or online sources, especially old ones, that could reasonably be regarded as non-partisan and stand a chance of being uninfluenced by Mohammedan nonsense and lies, please share.
The wikipedia entry on Kashmir is not without interest. I suspect it of having been modified by pro-Muslim editors, as all such articles about areas of interest to Mohammedans tend to be, but nevertheless, there is some good stuff in it about Kashmir's deep and very rich Hindu - and Buddhist - past. The valley was apparently a seat of both Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.
The Sikander who smashed the Indo-Grecian Temple of the Sun, was a full-on sharia-pushing Muslim: it is said that he 'persecuted the Hindus and issued orders proscribing the residence of any other than Muslims in Kashmir' (this may mean, that the Hindus were pushed out of the good, fertile land in the valley proper).
The article I reproduced, from 'Lands and Peoples', calls Gulab Singh a Hindu but he was in fact - as his surname indicates - a Sikh. It appears that it was Sikhs who between 1780 and the 1820s or 1830s managed to wrest Kashmir and associated regions (first Jammu, then the valley, then finally Ladakh and Baltistan) from the clutches of the Ummah, placing it once more under non-Muslim rule, though much of its population had by that time been Islamised by the usual Muslim methods.
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