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Article date: 20 June 2012
- Crime figures reveal that £225,0001 worth of possessions were stolen last year
Music festivals are as much a part of British Summertime as strawberries at Wimbledon and barbecues in the rain. Over 40% of the population has at some point danced the weekend away to their favourite bands in a field, according to research from Aviva.2
However, as well as peace and love, there's risk – 12% of people who have been to a festival have had belongings lost or stolen there. And the same percentage said they have had items lost or stolen at other outdoor events such as sporting fixtures.
And official crime statistics obtained by Aviva reveal that there were 1,101 reported incidents of thefts at eleven of the top UK festivals last year (see table for Total number and value of thefts at top UK festivals in 2011). According to police records, the combined value of thefts at eight of these festivals was £226,738 meaning the average value of belongings stolen at them was £354.
One particularly vulnerable area at festivals is unguarded tents, with these accounting for almost three quarters of all reported thefts. The other quarter is made up of personal thefts, mainly from pickpocketing.
Total number and value of thefts at top UK festivals in 2011
Number of thefts
Value of thefts
T4 on the Beach
Big Chill
V Festival Essex
V Festival Staffs
Wireless Festival
Reading Festival
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Isle of Wight
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T in the Park
The summer of 2011 saw an increase of 19% in the value of stolen possessions compared with 2010. The most dramatic increase was seen at the V Festival in Essex which saw the value of thefts more than double to almost £87,000. However the number of thefts at major festivals in 2011 dropped 14%, suggesting that people are still taking more expensive personal items with them such as MP3 players, cameras and smartphones.3
Aviva calculates the average value of possessions people take to a festival at £1209.97,4 so those unlucky enough to find themselves as victims of crime could also be out of pocket if they are not properly covered.
Jonathan Cracknell, household underwriter at Aviva, said; "Rain or shine, hundreds of thousands of people will be heading out to the many festivals and outdoor events being held this summer. So as well as thinking about what bands and stands they are going to see, music fans also need to think about personal security – it is very clear that while festival-goers are watching the acts, thieves are watching out for their expensive gadgets and belongings left back in their tents or tucked in their pockets.
"Our research also shows that while crime might be down at festivals compared with last summer, the average cost of belongings being taken is rising – with people still venturing out armed with expensive screens and accessories. So swapping the digital for the disposable is a good idea and using the free lock-up areas wherever possible.
"And for extra piece of mind people should check to see if they have additional personal belongings cover on their home insurance as this will cover possessions outside the home for every festival goer in the family!"
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1 Data requests were submitted to nine UK police forces on 1 May 2012 for number and value of thefts for 11 UK festivals. Two (Thames Valley and Hampshire could not provide the value of thefts). The police forces contacted were Avon and Somerset Constabulary (Glastonbury, T4 on the Beach), Essex Police (V Festival Chelmsford), Staffordshire Police (V Festival Staffordshire), Thames Valley Police (Reading Festival), Tayside Police (T in the Park), Suffolk Constabulary (Latitude Festival), West Mercia Police (The Big Chill), The Metropolitan Police (Wireless Festival) Hampshire (Isle of Wight, Bestival).
2 Based on a survey of 1,075 UK adults conducted by Wriglesworth Research between 30 May and 11 June 2012
3 Comparing figures. based on FOI requests from six festivals – Glastonbury, V Festival Staffordshire, V Festival Chelmsford, Latitude, Reading and T in the Park between 2010 and 2011.
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Walker's study was on a separate part of the house from the computer room he'd insisted his fiance claim as her own space, but he'd long ago learned to keep one ear open for the tell-tale static popping sounds caused by her passing through the net into the real world. With a smile, he marked his place in the old grimoire he'd been reading, muzzled it so that it wouldn't try and eat the other books on his desk while he was away.
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She's so mad that she's trembling! What's gotten into her?
Walker crept into the room and draped the robe across her shoulders before curling his arms around her from behind and brushing his lips against her neck. At first she tensed and tried to squirm out of his grasp, but with a huff of irritation she relaxed and leaned against him, eyes closed shut.
"Bad day?"
She shook her head, sending a few strands of her hair into her face. "That fucking bastard is going to hit her again for what I did, Walker."
"Which fucking bastard are we discussing, here?"
She tensed again, prompting Walker to kiss her shoulder. She brushed him away irritably and knotted the robe at her waist before facing him. "Sebastio! The son of a bitch my sister Azzy married! He-"
Her eyes drifted past Walker to the flowers he'd placed on her desk. She picked them up with trembling fingers and cradled the bouquet in her arms as she looked back up at him wonderingly. Her voice was so soft that he could barely hear her as she said, "Walker?"
Then comprehension broke through, and her eyes filled with tears.
Ah hell. Her sister is being battered to death by her own husband, and Silver comes home to flowers.
Walker curled his arms around her, and she pressed her face against his chest as she began to cry. He kissed the top of her head, closed his own eyes, willing himself to keep from balling his hands into fists.
Sebastio, you're a dead man.

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text: LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLSN) today issued the following statement regarding a blog entry posted by Alpha Exposure, Contributor, on Seeking Alpha.com: "Statements made in Alpha Exposure's blog entry are misleading and require clarification. As is common in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, Celsion has conducted a comprehensive post hoc analysis of the data from its Phase III HEAT Study of ThermoDox® in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with its key principal investigators, data experts and liver cancer experts. This analysis followed the announcement on January 31, 2013, that ThermoDox® in combination with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) did not meet the Study's primary endpoint. Emerging findings from the HEAT Study post hoc analysis, which has provided important insights regarding the use of ThermoDox® in conjunction with RFA to treat HCC, suggests that ThermoDox® markedly improves progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients if their lesions undergo RFA for 45 minutes or more. These findings apply to HCC lesions from both size cohorts of the HEAT Study (3-5 cm and 5-7 cm) and represent a sizable subgroup of approximately 300 patients. In the patient subgroup treated in the ThermoDox arm whose RFA procedure lasted longer than 45 minutes (63% of single lesion patients), overall survival improved by 53% (Hazard Ratio of 0.65 and a P value = 0.105) when compared to the control arm of RFA treatment only. While the Hazard Ratio reported above should be viewed with caution since the HEAT Study has not reached its median point for overall survival analysis, there is a strong signal which our investigators and data experts consider to be encouraging and sufficient to warrant additional clinical investigation. These data were presented at a recent medical meeting of interventional oncology by two of Celsion's lead investigators. Furthermore, the detailed data has been submitted for peer review at upcoming international meetings in liver oncology and interventional oncology. HEAT Study investigators have agreed to the submission of the HEAT Study results and the post hoc data for peer review. Celsion is refining the appropriate theoretical models to establish quantitative predictions for the influence of RFA heating time on local tissue concentrations of ThermoDox®. Empirical studies will then be used to verify the model predictions using appropriate animal studies which are targeted for completion over the summer. Assuming that our hypothesis is supported by non-clinical studies as well as continued follow-up of patients in the HEAT Study to the overall survival endpoint, we will meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to discuss these findings. We would plan to propose a regulatory path forward which may include additional clinical studies based on FDA's predictive enrichment guidance. Furthermore, investigators in the HEAT Study have expressed significant interest in participating in a follow-on clinical trial."


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The federal government is trying to get a handle on its actual use of spectrum as it works to free up bandwidth for commercial mobile broadband providers, but a detailed, public-facing database of government spectrum use is not in the cards.
The commercial wireless industry is champing at the bit for more federally controlled spectrum to come up for auction. President Barack Obama ordered an inventory of actual federal spectrum use in a June 14 memorandum to agency heads as part of a larger administration plan to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum from the public and private sector to devote to mobile broadband.
Details on the nature of federal spectrum use will help private companies make decisions on what kinds of services they want to offer in what frequency bands. But for security reasons, much of that information is likely to remain under wraps.
The National Telecommunications and Information Agency, the component of the Commerce Department that manages federal spectrum, has so far identified 405 MHz for possible commercial use. NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling, speaking at the agency's first-ever Innovative Spectrum Sharing Technology Day at Commerce headquarters, said that soon the Federal Communications Commission will be able to bring spectrum to market. This could include the 5 GHz band, which can be used for high-speed Wi-Fi; the 3.5 GHz band; and the coveted 1755 MHz band, which wireless providers want to use to build out nationwide, high-speed services.
Because of the complex nature of agency spectrum use, the government is looking to technologies that allow for sharing of spectrum. Such spectrum sharing is already a fact of life. For example, medical body area networks that allow for very short-range wireless communication between medical sensors and base units share spectrum with a system used in aircraft testing.
As a result of the president's memo, the NTIA and its Commerce Department cousin, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are looking to promote technology that allows for the dynamic sharing of spectrum between users. A special steering committee was formed to collect and publish information about test beds for companies, researchers and government agencies to develop methods for co-locating spectrum services.
Next May, the full inventory of federal spectrum use will be completed, but it won't be available to the general public. The problem, said Karl Nebbia, who heads the Office of Spectrum Management at NTIA, is security.
"Agencies are concerned about releasing specific frequencies and locations and characteristics of specific operations that they have," Nebbia said. "They've got a requirement to operate those systems. They do not want to open up themselves to somebody intentionally trying to interfere with the specific operation." The government publishes a spectrum allocation chart that includes information on the type of use, and whether the user is commercial or governmental, but it does not drill down to the precise level that is described in the executive memorandum.
Nebbia suggests that government can share more detailed information on how spectrum is being used in specific bands so that researchers can understand the technical challenges they might be facing in trying to co-locate a service in that band. Some government uses might be low-powered, or intermittent, or confined to specific geographic locations. Others, like fixed air traffic radar, operate continuously, nationwide, and at high power, and might not lend themselves to sharing. Highly classified spectrum uses, like mobile radar and law enforcement surveillance, will likely remain non-public, if affected agencies have anything to say about it.
There is some precedent for sharing non-public information on spectrum use with industry. Commercial stakeholders and Defense Department officials negotiated non-disclosure agreements as part of a collaboration to examine commercial uses of the 1755-1780 MHz band. However, Strickling noted, "we need a simpler and more predictable approach to this problem." Possible alternatives will be examined at a December meeting of spectrum policy officials.
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Bjorndalen finished in 25 minutes, 41.5 seconds, 50.7 seconds ahead of Germany's Ricco Gross. Zdenek Vitek of the Czech Republic was third, 52.9 seconds back with one missed target.
Bjorndalen won the World Cup title in the sprint with 328 points, finishing ahead of countryman Frode Andresen, who was sixth Saturday and finished with 252 points.
Bjorndalen had 656 points in the overall World Cup standings, 66 points ahead of Vladimir Dratchev of Belarus with three races remaining.
Bacaert finished in 23:46.3. She missed one target and beat runner-up Olena Petrova of Ukraine by 26.9 seconds.
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The sunlight streams through the warped and dusty glass set in industrial white frames, orange on the leaves that brush, ever so gently, against the crumbling brick of the house I like to call home. There is no way to describe peace, a hanging balance of sounds, and the absence of noise, a blank canvas, a peaceful picture. And yet it seems to me that peace has found its way here, through the absence of loud cars and industrials noises, but with the soft rustling of leaves in the breeze, and the light that seems to make a sunset out of the middle of the day. No great monuments or sights as there are in Egypt or Rome, but the natural balance of green and yellow, bark and leaf, elegance and strength found in that growing giant that seems to stretch for the skies and rip up the ground; a tree. But listen, for there is the noise that disturbs this peace, my peace, the one that I have found. For nothing, as they say, lasts forever. And even now as I hear the roaring, groaning, whining motor of some bike tearing up the road, I wish it would leave, so I can find that peace again. But when it does, my peace, the one that is contrary, contradictory and conflicting, is disturbed, and there is no return to that lingering of time and space, that field where nothing moves, nothing happens, nothing changes. I must return, hesitantly, reluctantly, to the real world, where things are busy and loud and fake. No peace in the industrialised world, no quiet, no rest. Just cogs and wheels, grinding and jolting, screeching and shouting, all clamouring for attention. I sigh, put down my book, and return to the odorous duty assigned to me.
The cleaning of one's house is, as described before, an odorous duty, something that must be done and yet is always put off for the sake of having something far more pleasant to attend to. Of course, at some point or other, that tell tale sign of coughing and sneezing, choking and wheezing as you pick up a long forgotten item and are infiltrated by an army of grey matter, reminds you of that, I repeat odorous, duty, and you must once again take out the long neglected duster, faded with age, and begin a thorough sweep of your belongings to uncover them from beneath the dust. Once done however, there is almost immediately that sense of relief, of weightlessness and somehow heaviness, as your tired body sags but your mind leaps and soars at the thought of not having to repeat this task for another few months, oh joy, rapture! The thought of having one's free time to one's self again, of being able to seek peace, or let it find you, and being able to relax knowing that every time you breath in, you are not weighing yourself down with more and more of the film of dust that somehow seems to creep back every time you clean it away.
I sit, quiet once more in my rocking chair, curled up, watching the sun begin to fade in the sky, falling away behind the horizon to visit another part of this world, and to shed light on a place I have never seen. I stay, my body curled up, tired and free on my rocking chair, whilst my mind leaps and bounds around the world, a world I have never seen the extent of. I taste the fragrances of France on lips that are not my own, smell the exotic spices of India through a nose not attached to my body. I float, feeling more weightless by the second, and soon, not through my own tired eyes drooping on my body, but through fresh new eyes that sparkle in the sunlight and flicker from one sight to the next with eagerness only a young child has, I see the sun, bright as it strokes its rays down, caressing my face. And the more I watch, the brighter the sun becomes, until, quite suddenly, it swallows me in to its warm centre, and I exist no more.


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Aha Moment: Ditching Punk for Opera
Eve Orenstein grew up listening to punk and hardcore. By the age of 11, she was shaving her head and sneaking into shows at New York's legendary club CBGB with her friends, where a busted lip from a mosh pit was a badge of pride.
Around the same time, Eve became fascinated by 18th century costume. The corsets and cascading fabric reminded her of the theatricality of Goth outfits. When she was in junior high, her mother brought her to see a production of The Marriage of Figaro at Rutgers University. As Eve suspected, she loved the costumes. But she was surprised how much the opera's music drew her in, especially the raw emotion of the singing. "It was definitely like the same sort of visceral experience that you get when you have this angry punk rock wall of sound coming at you," Eve remembers thinking. "I have to be closer to this art."
She enrolled in a summer opera program and by college, she was committed to singing professionally. She has performed in various companies and runs Opera on Tap Colorado, where opera singers perform arias in bars. Recently, a friend suggested that she collaborate with her husband Sean Patrick Faling, who builds synthesizers. Their collaboration blends her singing with cutting edge electronic soundscapes — and finally put her two musical worlds together.
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Officials at the Riley County Health Department announced Thursday that two probable cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, were identified in Manhattan on Wednesday. They said the cases involve children who are known to each other.
"It is important to remind the community that the single most effective control measure against pertussis is immunization of children, as well as parents and caregivers," Susanne Kufahl, Riley County Health Officer, said.
Immunization is recommended at 2, 4, 6 and 12 months of age with a booser at kindergarten entry. The Advisory Commitee on Immunization Practice recommneds that persons 11 years of age through 64 years of age received the tetanus and diptheria and pertussis vaccine. Persons older than 64 should be vaccinated if they will be in close contact with infants.
She said that although pertussis is often thought of as a childhood disease, it can occur among people of any age, and that anyone with unexplained acute cough illness or anyone who has had contact with a person with pertussis should contact their doctors. Antibiotics should be given to the whole household and any other close contacts, she said.
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Men's basketball legend John Goldsberry, college baseball coaching icon Rick Jones, track and field star Anna Raynor Marbry and women's basketball scoring phenom Tressa Reese McKeithan will be honored during the 11th induction of the UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame on campus in early February.
The addition of the four individuals raises the group's elite membership to 48 overall since the inaugural event took place in 1998.
An induction brunch will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in the Warwick Center. Tickets are $20 each and may be purchased online at UNCWSports.com or in person daily at the Athletic Ticket Office in Trask Coliseum.
The popular Goldsberry returns to campus to be honored for the second straight year after having his jersey retired at halftime of the William & Mary game last February.
A native of Vandalia, Ohio, Goldsberry played four years for the Seahawks from 2003-06 and sparked the team to a pair of Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball championships and subsequent NCAA appearances in 2003 and 2006. He started 121 games, collecting 1,104 points, 405 rebounds, 530 assists and 228 steals. In addition to his perch atop the assist chart, he is tied for seventh on the all-time scoring list and ranks second all-time in steals.
Goldsberry returned to the United States last year following a spectacular professional career with the German League's Brose Baskets in Bamberg. Goldsberry emerged as a star overseas after leading the Brose Baskets club to championships in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also powered the team to German Cup crowns in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
A spectacular track and field athlete, Raynor Marbry remains one of the athletic program's most decorated performers in any sport.
The Benson, N.C., product competed four seasons in the hurdles and javelin for the Seahawks from 2004-07 and racked up numerous honors and awards. During her career with the Seahawks, she set 10 school records and became the first NCAA Division I All-American in school history when she finished 11th at the 2005 NCAA Track and Field Championships.
Raynor Marbry participated in the NCAA Championships on three occasions, finishing fourth in the javelin in 2006 and 2007. She came in third in the javelin at the USA Championships in 2007 and wound up 14th at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials. She also represented the United States in international competition in 2007, earning a silver medal at the 2007 NACAC Games in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Jones, meanwhile, played two seasons for the Seahawks in 1974 and 1975 and led the Seahawks to the NAIA finals in 1975. He was a middle reliever for the Seahawks, appearing in 17 games and making three starts, but found his life's calling in the dugout.
The 1975 UNCW graduate broke into the coaching profession at Ferrum (Va.) and amassed a 1,090-532-3 head coaching record at Ferrum (1982-84), Elon (1985-89) and Tulane (1994-2014), including a sparkling 814-439-2 mark in 21 seasons with the Green Wave.
Jones directed a pair of Tulane teams to the College World Series in 2001 and 2005 and coached the Green Wave to 12 NCAA Regional appearances and three trips to the NCAA Super Regionals.
Jones also led the Tulane baseball program during a challenging period following the devastation leveled by Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005. He will be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in late June of 2016.
Reese McKeithan becomes the fourth Seahawk women's basketball player to be enshrined in the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. The native of Fayetteville, N.C., displayed a silky smooth shooting touch during her career from 1988-91 as the Seahawks registered 51 victories during that span.
Reese McKeithan started 84 of 106 games over four seasons and closed out her career with 1,501 points and 535 rebounds, one of just three players with more than 1,500 points and 500 rebounds in the Seahawk annals.
Reese McKeithan, who ranks fourth on the all-time scoring list, posted the fifth highest single season point total in school history with 523 points in 1989-90 and posted the fourth highest single season scoring average with 20.1 points per game that season.


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Another wave of Japanese gallopers is set to arrive in Sydney for the autumn carnival, with advanced plans in place to bring a couple of familiar names back for The Championships as the task of luring Europeans continues to become increasingly complex.
Tosen Stardom, which was one of four visitors from the land of the rising sun last year, and Tosen Reve, the horse which Hugh Bowman partnered to two wins during a recent short-term riding stint in Japan, are understood to be among the international contingent likely to head to the harbour city.
There is also believed to be at least one more Japanese traveller eyeing the Sydney carnival to bring their representation close to the four that made Canterbury's quarantine base home last year.
But the connections of Mackinnon Stakes winner Gailo Chop have turned their back on another exhausting trip to Australia after spring carnival success, preferring Dubai and Hong Kong.
It highlights the problem Sydney administrators have in trying to attract top-class European horseflesh, given the awkward time the autumn carnival is staged in comparison to the northern hemisphere flat season.
Red Cadeaux, which died more than two weeks after sustaining an injury in a record fifth Melbourne Cup appearance, was the only European in Sydney last year. International breeding and racing giants Coolmore and Godolphin could still send a representative to Sydney from Europe.
But the likelihood of the Japanese visitors heading Down Under again will be a big boost, with Deep Impact's eight-year-old progeny Tosen Reve, which was sixth in the group 1 Arima Kinen last start and a group 3 winner back in 2012, set to be a new arrival.
"He's a very nice horse and he'll be competitive in whatever he runs in over here, but they're particular about what they like their horses to run in," said Bowman, who rode the horse three times in Japan.
"A lot of it is going to depend on the weather conditions because as we've seen they prefer the dry tracks and we've had plenty of wet autumn carnivals and also what distance they want to set him for."
Tosen Reve's stablemate Tosen Stardom, trained by Yasutoshi Ikee, chased home Contributer in the Ranvet Stakes last year before finishing fifth in Criterion's Queen Elizabeth Stakes demolition.
Tommy Berry rode him in both races, but didn't reunite with the horse during his own stay in Japan at the end of last year.
Racing NSW has already expanded the capacity of the quarantine facility at Canterbury in the hope of attracting more international competition, which it is hoped will grow year on year considering the long-term future of The Championships is now secure.
Internationals have scooped at least one group 1 race in each of the last two years, with Irish journeyman Gordon Lord Byron (George Ryder Stakes) and Japan's Hana's Goal (All Aged Stakes) claiming spoils in 2014 to complement Real Impact's George Ryder win last year.


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I recieved an OWI in South Milwaukee 4 days ago. It was my first offense. At the station I blew a 0.153 the first time and then 3 minutes later blew a 0.159 ....my biggest concern at this point (since it seems impossible to get an OWI dropped these days) is having the IID installed. I am right at the 0.15 limit...is there truly any possible way to get this dropped? It would be detrimental to my career!
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Any uncounseled conversation you have with the prosecutor will most certainly come back to haunt you. Wisconsin law prevents the prosecutor from cutting you any breaks because you are a good person with a clean record ( s. 967.055). Convictions are supposed to be detrimental, in order to discourage the prohibited behavior.
In addition to the OWI citation you already have, you probably also have a PAC (prohibited alcohol concentration) citation and a Notice of Intent to Suspend. The latter commences an administrative suspension proceeding with a short response deadline that has nothing to do with any court date. The breath test result >.15 will trigger an ignition interlock requirement upon conviction that you are going to want to try and avoid even if you can't avoid conviction. You need the assistance of experienced defense counsel, sooner rather than later.
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Yes, there are ways to beat an OWI charge. Where everyone has arguments to a greater or lesser degree is whether the officer administered the field sobriety tests properly, and whether there was enough information for the officer to get all the way from stopping you to arresting you. But, these are just a few areas where potential defenses occur. All the potential defenses are too numerous and complex to go into on a forum like Avvo.
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The Temple
The stunningly beautiful Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin temple is open everyday from 7.00am to 5.30pm and entry is free. So even if one does not care about the faith, this place should not be missed during any vacation in Hong Kong. The new building of the temple was inaugurated by the then Governor of Hong Kong Sir Murray Maclehose on 28th September 1973. Subsequent to that, additions, refurbishments, etc. have continued.
The Main Altar
|The Main Altar of Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
The Main Altar was built in 1921 for the worship of Master Wong Tai Sin, the monk of yore who was born in the 4th century. In 1915 a Taoist priest Liang Ren-an brought a portrait of Wong Tai Sin from Guangdong China to Hong Kong which is now housed in this Altar. The Altar was reconstructed during 1969-1973, repaired in 2003 and later refurbished during 2008-10. Wooden paintings and scriptures of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are hanged on the walls of the Altar as decoration. The guardian deity, King of the Monkeys, is enshrined on the left of the Altar. Outside the Altar, a pair of bronze Forbidden City lion replicas, a huge stone sculpture of 'qilin dao', and a pair of bronze 'crane-tortoise' are placed.
The Three Saints Hall
|The Three Saints Hall Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
The Three Saints Hall is for the worship of three deities - Guan Di (God of War and Righteousness), Guan Yin (Goddess of Mercy who is also known as Ci Hang Zhen Ren in Taoism) and Fuyoudijun (Lu Zu). The hall was previously named Yu Hua Hall and was built in 1935. Later, renovations/refurbishments have been carried out here in 1946, 1996, and 2009.
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The Confucian Hall is for the worship of Confucius and his 72 followers. This hall was opened in 1982.
The Good Wish Garden
|The Good Wish Garden Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
The Good Wish Garden at the back of the temple is open daily from 9.00am to 5.00pm. This beautiful garden has streams and ponds of water with beautiful Koi fish, flowers, plants, trees including bonsai trees, pavilions, bridges, and more. Do spend some time here.
The Fortune Telling
This part of the life at Wong Tai Sin Temple is a big contradiction. On the one hand there is the faith that all wishes will come true and on the other hand there are hundreds of fortune tellers housed in an adjoining building called 'Fortune Tellers Arcade' to give hope and good news to the 'believers'.
The Fortune Telling Process
|Sticks in Bamboo Container Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
One is supposed to borrow a bamboo container that has several numbered sticks in it. It is available free of charge at a counter opposite the Main Altar.
|Shaking the Bamboo Container at Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
Hold the container, sit on your knees in front of the Main Altar and gently shake the container until a stick falls out of the container. Memorize the number on the stick and return the bamboo container along with the stick that fell out.
|Fortune Tellers Arcade Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Hong Kong
Head to the Fortune Tellers Arcade, choose a fortune teller and ask for your personal future reading based on the number on the stick that fell out. English speaking fortune tellers also are available here. Go knock yourself out.
How to Get There
Go to Wong Tai Sin MTR Station, and head out from Exit B. There are many sign boards leading you towards the temple which is located right next to the MTR Station. There is a lot more to see and experience in the temple but I am not able to publish so many pictures in one post. Just don't miss it.
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1988 Seoul Opening Ceremonies: Where Doves Were Burned Alive
Starting at about 4:45, the cauldron is lit. Some time before, white doves had been released into the stadium during the opening ceremonies, and many had yet to find their way out of the stadium.
As birds are wont to do, they were drawn to a relatively high perch to check out the scene – little did the birds know they were moments away from being burned alive. Most got away, but a few didn't get away in time.
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President Obama Slowjamming The News With Jimmy Fallon
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I think SNL's current cast is just amazing.
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I think he likes that face off circle. In our third post that comes via a great graphic from LAR (Loyal Anonymous Reader), we have a great chart of where Rick Nash scores his goals. Of Nash's 21 goals this season, he really only scores from two areas: In front of the net and at the off-wing face off dot. Neither of these should really surprise anyone, as we've known about his sweet spot for a while. Most of those even strength goals from down low are part of his patented "skate through everyone below the goal line then cut back and use ridiculous reach to slide it under the goalie" move. Almost all of those come at even strength, which makes sense since he's driving to the net more at 5v5. When the Rangers are on the powerplay, they tend to set up more, thus less goals down low. What really interests me is eight goals from the off-wing face off dot. Yes, we know he likes to shoot from there, and that's not what interests me. What really piques my interest is that he reminds me of J...
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