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NEW YORK Expectations that a tax cut package will pass the Senate and a round of corporate deals pushed most stocks higher Monday. Bond yields fell after touching their highest levels since June.
Deals announced Monday include General Electric's $1.3 billion acquisition of British oilfield company Wellstream Holdings and Dell's $960 million purchase of network storage company Compellent Technologies. Shares of GE fell 0.2% to $17.68. Shares of Dell fell 3.3% to $13.43.
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World stock markets rose. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 2.8% after Chinese authorities surprised investors by not raising interest rates. Investors had anticipated an interest rate hike to combat high inflation.
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In corporate news, Hewlett-Packard fell 2.1% to $41.65 after Goldman Sachs gave the hardware company a sell rating. Goldman's analysts see tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, taking business away from PCs.
Shares in Dionex Corp. shot up 20% to $117.83, after Thermo Fisher Scientific said Monday it planned to buy the maker of laboratory equipment for $2.1 billion. Thermo Fisher said it will pay $118.50 a share. Shares in Thermo Fisher rose 2.5% to $55.56.
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A second teaser trailer for Aardman's newest stop-motion comedy "Shaun the Sheep: The Movie" has been released.
The upcoming kids film is based on the popular "Wallace & Gromit" spin-off television series, which features a mischievous sheep from a small British farm. It's the first solo big screen adventure for Shaun the Sheep and he is taking his flock to the city for an unaccompanied visit. While the farmer's loyal sheepdog, Bitzer, is tasked with keeping them out of harm's way.
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"Sir Robert Moray (alternative spellings: Murrey, Murray) (1608 or 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, freemason and natural philosopher. He was well known to Charles I and Charles II, and the French cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. He attended the meeting of the 1660 committee of 12 on 28 November 1660 that led to the formation of the Royal Society, and was influential in gaining its Royal Charter and formulating its statutes and regulations...
...Moray was the elder of two sons of a Perthshire laird, Sir Mungo Moray of Craigie. His grandfather was Robert Moray of Abercairney (near Crieff), and his mother was a daughter of George Halket of Pitfirran, Dunfermline. An uncle, David Moray, had been a personal servant of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales...
...In Scotland, Moray became Lord Justice Clerk, a Privy Councillor, and a Lord of Session in 1651. He married Sophia Lindsay, daughter of David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres, but she died in childbirth on 2 January 1653 and the child was stillborn. Moray joined a Scottish uprising in 1653 which was suppressed by Cromwell, and Moray returned to the continent in 1654. Moray spent time in Bruges in 1656, then in Maastricht until 1659, when he joined Charles in Paris. Following the restoration of Charles II, Moray was one founders of the Royal Society at its first formal meeting on Wednesday 28 November 1660, at the premises of Gresham College on Bishopsgate, at which Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, delivered a lecture. The twelve in attendance were an interesting mix of four Royalists (William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine, Sir Paul Neile, William Balle) and six Parliamentarians (John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, Jonathan Goddard, William Petty, Lawrence Rook, Christopher Wren) and two others with less fixed (or more flexible) views, Abraham Hill and Moray. Moray was influential in gaining the new society its Royal Charter and formulating its statutes and regulations."
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Moment in Peking
First English hardcover edition, 1939
|Lin Yutang
|United States
|Historical novel
|John Day
Publication date
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|Print (Hardback & Paperback)
|Preceded by
|Followed by
|A Leaf in the Storm
Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
At the repeated invitation of Pearl S. Buck, who had sponsored the publication of Lin's bestselling My Country and My People in 1935, Lin left China in August, 1936 to write The Importance of Living in New York, which was published in August 1937 to even greater success just as war broke out in China. In 1938, Lin left New York to spend a year in Paris, where he wrote Moment in Peking.[1]
Lin wrote the book in English for a U.S. audience, yet he based it in Chinese literature and philosophy. As an exercise, before he started to compose Moment in Peking, Lin translated passages from the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, and followed its example in showing a spectrum of characters in their social settings and defining them through their clothing, jewelry, and footwear, and even by their language (dialect), geography (region), and foodways.[2] Lin's eldest daughter Lin Rusi also indicates in an introductory essay to a Chinese translation of Moment in Peking that the entire book was influenced by Zhuang Zi and its message was "Life is but a dream."[3]
Lin tries not to be overly judgmental of the characters because he recognizes that too many issues were involved in the chaotic years of the early twentieth century China. There are no absolutely right or wrong characters. Each character held a piece of truth and reality and a piece of irrationality. In the preface, Lin writes that "[This novel] is merely a story of... how certain habits of living and ways of thinking are formed and how, above all, [men and women] adjust themselves to the circumstances in this earthly life where men strive but gods rule."
While the Lin does not display hatred toward the Japanese, he does let events and situations affecting the novel characters to let the reader clearly see the reason the Chinese are still bitter about Japan's military past. The novel ends with a cliffhanger, letting the readers hope that the major characters who fled from the coastal regions to the inland of China would survive the horrible war. In the final pages of the book Lin observes: "What an epic story was being lived through by these people of China.... And it seemed to them that their own story was but a moment in old, ageless Peking, a story written by the finger of Time itself.... In this moving mass of refugees, there was now neither rich nor poor."[4]
The sequel, A Leaf in the Storm, published in 1941, does not follow the same characters, but takes up in 1937, at roughly the point in time when Moment in Peking leaves off.
Main characters[edit]
Many characters are from three wealthy families: Yao, Tseng (Zeng), and New (Niu), but characters from other families play an integral part in the story, such as Lifu, from the Kong family.
- Yao Mulan (姚木蘭)
The protagonist of the story, Mulan, is from the wealthy Yao family. During the Boxer Rebellion she is kidnapped by bandits, and then rescued by the Tseng family; the two families thereafter become close friends. Mulan is lively, intelligent, and generous, as well as extremely responsible. Her father has always encouraged her interests, among them her intense interest in "oracle bones," which reveal ancient Chinese characters, and the singing of Chinese opera. Her intelligence, along with her kindhearted nature, catch the interest of a young man named Kung Lifu. Mulan feels attracted to Lifu, but she honors her family's wish and advice that she marry Sunya. Her marriage to Sunya is mostly harmonious. Together they have three children: Aman, Atung and Amei.
- Tseng Sunya (Zeng Sunya, 曾蓀亞)
Mulan's husband, Tseng Sunya, is affectionately called "Fatty" by Mulan. As the youngest son of his family, Sunya is arguably the least responsible one, but has what is called a "round character". He and Mulan had gotten to know each other well when Mulan was rescued from bandits by his parents when they were children. As the two families became increasingly close, their engagement was planned happily.
- Kung Lifu (Kong Lifu, 孔立夫)
A scholar and Yao Mochow's husband, he marries Mochow but he admires Mulan. He was a biology professor at a school in Peking and also fight for democracy and law in China. He is a member of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party.
- Yao Mochow (Yao Mochou, 姚莫愁)
Yao Mulan's sister, she is also very clever and attractive. She married Lifu, when he was a poor scholar, engaged by their parents, so she accepted this happily. Mochow knows her sister's love for Lifu, but she is confident in their sisterly love.
- Yao Sze-an (Yao Si'an) (姚思安)
He was a playboy when he was young. However, he became a great Taoist monk later. He influenced Lifu very much. Sze-an was also interested in "oracle bones"
- Mrs. Yao (姚太太)
A traditional Chinese woman. She loves her oldest son, Tijen, best. She opposes Tijen and Yinpin's love, and causes their death. She was depressed and unable to talk, and very unhealthy the rest of her life.
- Cassia (Auntie Gui, 桂姨)
The concubine or maid in the Tseng household. She has two daughters Ailien and Lilien, who became modern ladies and married doctors.
- Tseng Wenpo (曾文伯)
A typical old Northeast officer, honest and kind, but he hates everything about foreign countries.
- Mrs. Tseng (曾太太)
The strong-willed leader of the Tseng family. She holds the family together, and she likes Mulan and Mannia, but Suyun's behavior annoys her.
- New Suyun (Niu Suyun, 牛素雲)
Her parents thought Chinya was a man who had the right character to be a successful officer, so Suyun marries him. During their marriage, she bosses and orders him around like a busboy. Suyun later becomes a friend of Inging, her second brother's concubine. She divorces Chinya, and becomes an officer's concubine and also the infamous Japanese-controlled heroin dealer known as the "White Powder Queen." When she finally recognizes her mistake she is killed by the Japanese army.
- Sun Manni (孫曼娘)
Married to the Tseng's eldest son, Pingya. She becomes a widow the week after her wedding. She adopts a child, Asuan, and has to stay in the Tseng family forever. She commits suicide during the Japanese war, and remains virgin till death.
- New Huaiyu (牛懷瑜)
The second son of the New family. He leaves his wife and four children, and marries a singsong girl (also a prostitute) named Niu Inging (牛鶯鶯). He betrays his country, and is nearly killed by his eldest son.
- Tseng Chinya (Zeng Jinya, 曾經亞)
The second son of the Tseng family, a weak character who asks just to have a peaceful life. He was kind to everybody. He falls in love with Anxiang.
- Tseng Pingya (曾平亞)
The eldest son of the Tseng family. He loves Manni but dies the week after his wedding.
- Anxiang (暗香)
Kidnapped when she was a child, and meets Mulan. When Mulan is saved by Mr. Tseng, Dimfragrance is sold to other family. She became a nursery maid of Mulan's child some years later. She finally found her family, and became Jinya's second wife.
- Tsao Lihua (Cao Lihua, 曹麗華)
A young art student. She meets Sunya in Hangzhou, and falls in love with him. Sunya lies to her that his wife was an old and fat country woman. When she met Mulan, she is surprised, and eventually became her friend.
- Yao Tijen (Yao Tiren, 姚體仁)
Mulan's older brother, a selfish dandy. His father sent him to England to study, but he spent all of the money in Hong Kong. He falls in love with his servant girl Yinpin, and has a son with her. Their love is opposed by his mother. After Yinpin's suicide, he works hard in his uncle's drug store and dies in an accident.
- Afei (阿非,姚非)
Mulan's younger brother.
- Tung Paofen (Dong Baofen, 董寶芬)
A Manch princess. Her family once owned the gardens which became Yao's later. Her family believed that there were great treasures buried in the garden, and sent her to Yao family to work as a servant girl and to find the treasure. She marries Afei after Hongyu's death.
- Hongyu (紅玉)
Mulan, Mochow, and Afei's cousin. She is madly in love with Afei, and admires the famous character Lin Daiyu from the classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢). When she misunderstands a conversation and thinks that Afei doesn't love her, she drowns herself.
Chinese translations[edit]
Lin originally wanted the poet Yu Dafu to do the Chinese translation, but Yu had only completed the first section when he was killed by the Japanese in World War II. Lin did not particularly like the first complete Chinese translation, which was done by 1941.
In 1977 Zhang Zhenyu, a translator from Taiwan, created what is the most popular translation today, titled Jinghua Yanyun (simplified Chinese: 京华烟云; traditional Chinese: 京華煙雲; pinyin: Jīnghuá Yānyún). It was not available in mainland China until a publisher in Jilin issued a sanitized version in 1987. The current political climate permits Shaanxi Normal University Press to publish the full translation. Yu Dafu's son Yu Fei (郁飛) finished his own translation in 1991, but his version, titled Shunxi Jinghua (simplified Chinese: 瞬息京华; traditional Chinese: 瞬息京華; pinyin: Shùnxī Jīnghuá), is not widely read.
The novel has been adapted three times into a television drama, including a 1988 adaptation starring Angie Chiu, a 2005 adaptation starring Zhao Wei, and a 2014 adaptation starring Li Sheng.
- ^ Suoqiao Qian, Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2011). ISBN 9004192131. p. 246-247
- ^ George Gao, "Lin Yutang's Appreciation of the Red Chamber Dream," Renditions 2.Spring (1974).
- ^ Airen Huang, "Hu Shi and Lin Yutang," Chinese Studies in History 37.4 (Summer2004): 37-69.
- ^ Moment in Peking, pp. 813-15.
External links[edit]
- Books: Books of the Year 1939. Time Magazine
- Martinsen, Joel. "Beijing Bestsellers: Moment in Peking and other TV hits". Retrieved 2006-12-23.


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But when it comes to entertainment, the tragedy in Juarez has provided fodder for songs, plays, telenovelas and made-for-TV movies. Tinseltown, however, has never shown much interest, until now. In two films slated for release this year, Minnie Driver and J-Lo tackle the case. Both play journalists, and at least one real journalist is concerned that the Hollywood treatment might actually do more harm than good. Diana Washington Valdez, whose voice we heard in the previous piece, is an El Paso Times reporter who worked the Juarez beat for almost 12 years. Diana, welcome to the show. DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: Yes, hello. BOB GARFIELD: After all these years and all these deaths, it would seem that reporters covering this story would be delighted that the attention of Hollywood and the world were to be focused on this case. But you're not so thrilled, necessarily, are you? DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: Hollywood, there's no question about it, has a lot of impact. And what some of us fear is that the viewers will go away with the wrong impression as to what was behind these murders. They will go away with the idea that the bus drivers did it. They were killing the women all these years, which is the official line. And so what could happen is that the truth will get lost in all this. BOB GARFIELD: Now, you mentioned the bus drivers. Please describe that theory of the case and where it stands now. DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: Yes. The authorities have charged two sets of bus drivers in connection with some of these multiple homicides, and in both cases there's been no scientific proof linking the bus drivers to these crimes. They were fabricated, scapegoats, and a couple of them, in fact, have been released. And the real killers have not been brought to justice. BOB GARFIELD: Now, you have a theory based on your extensive reporting over these past 13 years. Describe for me, please, what you believe has taken place. DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: There are several sets of killers that explain these murders - two or more serial killers that have killed in the community and are still loose, low-level drug dealers that have killed and have gotten away with murder, two violent gangs that have killed women as a way of initiating their members, a group of powerful men that have killed with impunity, and your copycats that are taking advantage of these scenarios to hide their own crimes. None of them are in jail. None of them have been prosecuted or apprehended. And what's more, the Mexican authorities know and have known all this time who's behind the murders, and instead of going after them, they've protected them. BOB GARFIELD: Now, I've read of silver or lead threats made against Mexican journalists; that is to say, you can take money and be bribed off the story or we'll take care of it for you with violence. Have you had any silver or lead threats yourself? DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: I haven't gone there in about a year and a half. The most important threats, the ones that I responded to, were delivered to me personally in El Paso by someone conveying a message from police who were linked with the drug cartels. And basically the message was that if I ever went back to see Ciudad Juarez, they had something prepared for me. I know when to stop, and I knew that they would come. BOB GARFIELD: Let's get back to these new movies. Tell me about the two major films and where you believe they go wrong. DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: Well, what I know of the Minnie Driver movie is that basically it has a supernatural element to it that, I think, totally detracts from any kind of reality about the issue. I understand one of the central figures develops stigmata. What is that going to do? Turn this whole thing into a myth again, which is exactly what the authorities want. In the case of the Jennifer Lopez movie, Amnesty International representatives and others who have seen the script have told me that it just concludes that the bus drivers were behind these murders, which again is the official line. We don't make any progress, and a lot more people are going to go away with the wrong impression. BOB GARFIELD: You know, in the best of all worlds, Hollywood focuses on this, which puts pressure on the Mexican government to get serious about the investigation with the eyes of the world upon it. Could that happen? DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: Yes, because there is no question that these movies will raise the visibility of this issue on such a level that it will be very difficult for the governments to ignore, and also, people out there will then be wanting to know, at least some of them, well, then, this was Hollywood, this was the movie depiction – what is the real story here? Bringing attention to the issue is one thing. Forcing change is another. Or I think what needs to happen is this issue needs to be taken out of the hands of the Mexican government and the whole thing needs to be taken before an international tribunal, and the international tribunal should be trying the presidents and the governors who were in power when these crimes occurred for failing to prosecute the killers and for failing to deliver justice. BOB GARFIELD: Okay, Diana. Well, thank you very much. DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ: You're welcome. BOB GARFIELD: Diana Washington Valdez is a reporter for the El Paso Times and author of Harvest of the Women, which will be released in English this summer. [MUSIC UP AND UNDER]


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The kitchen renovation was assigned to a contractor for 10,000 to be paid at interval upon completion of renovation at diff stages. 7,500 has been paid so far. WOrk was suppose to end in 3 weeks but it is already over 2 months and the contractor does not come to complete the work . When I make a fuss, someone is sent once a week for 3 hours .
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More interesting, perhaps, is what we see when plotting productivity against the proportion of time spent on design and story writing. Agile projects, it seems, become noticeably more productive as they spend a larger proportion of their time on requirements and design versus coding, testing, and packaging for delivery. This is consonant with findings in the agile community in general that taking extra time "getting to ready" and ensuring that user stories are well thought out and communicated is critical to the success of agile methods.
Bottom line: If process productivity is your primary consideration, large agile projects benefit from increased time spent on requirements setting and high-level design.
Wait, That's a Paradox, Isn't It?
Not necessarily. It's true that one of the hallmarks of the agile method is spending less time up front on requirements and design. But "less" is a relative term. Although the time spent on requirements is more spread out throughout the project with agile methods, our data show that spending more time pays off in higher overall productivity.
Smaller projects are a more natural fit for "pure" agile—after all, most small projects were using small teams and lighter processes even before agile revolutionized software development. What we see from our data, however, is that as larger teams apply agile methods to larger projects, they are wisely adapting those "pure" agile precepts to the needs of larger, more complex systems, resulting in a tempered version of agile.
What's most remarkable about this productivity chart, however, is that for nonagile projects, spending additional time in the design phase does not appear to boost productivity at all.
Agile methods, it seems, help teams apply that additional time and effort more effectively—working smarter, not harder.
Hence, big companies can benefit from constructing their software in an "agile-like," iterative fashion with frequent reprioritization of features and functionality, as long as their requirements and design work is sufficiently robust. In fact, this is precisely what a growing number of industry experts such as Dean Leffingwell, Steve McConnell, and Scott Ambler are recommending.
Perhaps "big agile" is neither a savior nor an oxymoron; it's simply a compromise using the best of new methods and tried-and-true techniques. After all, one of the agile tenets is allowing human judgment to trump rigid process guidelines.
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Sorry, equating lines of code produced to 'productivity' is not a good metric to use for any process improvement activity. We use Scrum on small and large projects to get early and frequent user feedback with the metric/goal of quickly maximizing customer value / increasing our Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Larry, Based on the effectiveness criteria layed out in the article, your conclusion is based on solid data and methods. However, I would challange that you've missed the primary purpose of Agile, which is not one of your criteria.
Agile focuses on value delivered. It doesn't matter much if you can deliver 30K or 100K SLOC in 1 month or a year, if what is delivered misses the market need. A fantastic book by Donald Reinertsen explains, with much supporting data, the reason to focus on value above all other criteria. I am convinced that market / consumer value is the primary measure effectiveness or success.
Ed, I agree that value is important and that would be something interesting to look at. The purpose of this particular article is to look at the impact on cost and productivity. Thank you for your comment.
If CIO's want to survive, figuring out how to do large projects faster or more efficiently is hardly the thing to focus on. Ask the CIO of any financial enterprise and you will find that figuring out how to deliver real value in the face of fierce competition from startups is the essence of the job. These CIO's must fundamentally rethink how they keep their organizations relevant in an increasingly digital world. One of the first things to go is large projects. CIO's need to understand that the first step to successful scaling is learning how to do Continuous Delivery.


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The Chinese Premier warned Britain against "finger-pointing" and "lecturing" the world's most populous nation about human rights abuses yesterday as he signed trade agreements worth £1.4bn with David Cameron.
The carefully-orchestrated three-day visit by Wen Jiabao had included a visit to William Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, a tour of a Birmingham car factory and a show of pomp in London, away from demonstrators.
But the key moment came yesterday when the two leaders witnessed 24 trade agreements and memorandums of understanding between the two countries, covering banking, mining, oil and gas, alcohol and even supply of 800 pigs to China.
The deals came as a welcome boost for Mr Cameron, who is anxious to close the huge trade gap with China and to tap more effectively into a burgeoning consumer market.
But the Prime Minister faces a tricky balancing act in winning new business for British exporters at the same time as highlighting the Beijing government's lamentable human rights record. Mr Cameron insisted yesterday that "nothing is off limits" in the discussions between the governments – and privately raised the imprisonment of prominent dissidents, who include the Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo.
In a joint press conference at the Foreign Office, he attempted to reconcile the two issues by arguing that better human rights helped to foster economic growth. Beijing had removed a potential stumbling block to the talks by releasing the artist Ai Wei Wei and the environmentalist Hu Jia on bail days before Mr Wen landed in Britain.
However, the Chinese leader issued two diplomatically phrased, but unmistakable, rebukes to his British hosts – both in government and in the media – for their continuing focus on the issue. He said the countries should "respect each other, respect the facts, treat each other as equals, engage in more co-operation than finger-pointing and resolve our differences through dialogue".
Later he suggested that critical Western nations often knew little about Chinese society and history, adding that the country had learnt over 5,000 years "never to talk to others in a lecturing way, rather to respect others on the basis of equality".
Mr Wen insisted there was "no big strategic conflict between us", and added: "Our common interests outweigh our differences." He said it was a mark of this relationship that China would be sending two giant pandas – Tian Tian and Yangguang – to Edinburgh Zoo by the end of the year. Only seven months ago, Mr Cameron led a delegation of four Cabinet ministers and more than 40 business leaders to Beijing as he seeks to narrow a huge trade gap with China, whose economy is growing at a pace unimaginable in the West.
That visit produced relatively slim pickings in terms of trade deals. But London believes it helped to establish contacts that will lead to firm business deals and Mr Cameron said yesterday that exports to China had leapt by more than a fifth in recent months.
Yesterday's agreements were the fruit of prolonged negotiations between Britain and China with the two leaders on hand to confirm them. But the Prime Minister hopes they will be a stepping-stone towards achieving his target of expanding bilateral trade between the nations to $100bn (£62.5bn) by 2015.
To date, Britain has failed to make substantial inroads into the massive Chinese market which has a fast-growing middle class, keen to splash out on designer items. Imports of Chinese products are worth three times more than British goods going in the opposite direction, with the UK trailing Germany, France and Italy in sales in China.
As Premier Wen left Britain last night for talks in Germany, Mr Cameron was accused of pulling his punches over his guest's human rights record.
"The Prime Minister abandoned the British people's values for the promise of more Chinese investment," said a spokesman for the Free Tibet campaign. "In his eagerness to build trade with China, he failed utterly to take a firm, public position on human rights concerns."
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Using the most up-to-date technology and data, Best for Britain has made calls in 573 parliamentary seats on how to vote to avoid extreme Brexit and a Conservative landslide. Voters can use the tactical voting dashboard on our website to find out the best use of their vote in their own constituency. We will be monitoring close races right up to polling day, and making sure we make the right calls right up to 8 June.
For those of us who also come from a past of binging and purging, this can be a very overwhelming time. It is inevitable to be ravenous after 18 hours of not eating or drinking anything, so when it is time to eat, even non-eating disorder sufferers can end up binging. It's what our bodies do. After months of trying to stop this behaviour, do I want to revert back to it?
My question to Theresa May is: How can you expect to reduce the number of international students in a global market that is expanding and growing? It's like telling a booming industry that it must continue to grow but without benefiting from a global market of trade or imports. This doesn't sound 'strong and stable', it is absurd!
Imagine uprooting your life, moving over a hundred miles away to a community renown for embracing and celebrating diversity, only to find that a member of the church responsible for your suffering is standing to be your member of parliament. How would you feel? Now imagine how you would feel if - in the early hours of 9 June - you are forced to watch Hove and Portslade's first elected openly gay MP, Peter Kyle, smiling graciously as the returning officer announces that he has lost his seat to Adams.
Above all, the job of parents this week has been to reassure their children that they are safe. Terrible though these events are, they are rare, we should remind them of the positives in life and that by and large life is good.
So in this election, don't fall for the smiles, emotional appeals, and appeasement. Instead, focus on one particular issue you care about the most and vote for the party that stands for it the best.
When you can find an emoji for pretzels and pianos, why not for periods? I'm fairly sure the average British woman has more periods than she does pretzels. Meanwhile, there are four different emojis for bicycles - but not a single one for something that happens to half of us, every month, for a huge portion of our life.
The donations were as varied as they were generous. One Muslim-led charity estimated its work over last Ramadan to have helped at least one million people. Other efforts helped those suffering drought in Somaliland and conflict in Syria. There were also local, community focused acts, including soup kitchens for the homeless and aid for those affected by last year's floods in Carlisle.
Turning off the main street, Hindley paused for a moment, allowing me to get closer to her. By the time I had hurried the short distance to reach her, she'd already opened the front door of her house, beckoning to me with her gloved hand to come quickly. And I upped my pace to her. Ian Brady suddenly appeared from nowhere and was beside me, his hand on my shoulder, guiding me gently through the open doorway and into the house. I looked straight up at him and our eyes had met briefly. Turning his gaze away from mine, Brady closed the front door behind us.
As it turned out, the practice told us that they did not have enough of the vaccine in stock and Lauren would have to wait two weeks to get it. We were not told anything about this new MenW strain. Lauren started university and an appointment was booked for her to get the jab next time she was home. But that turned out to be too late.
When I read about Sam's idea, I thought it was perfect - a positive, unifying and brilliantly Mancunian response. Not hundreds but thousands of people from all parts of Greater Manchester have signed up - old, gay, straight, people of all faiths and none. In future we will bump into each other down the pub and in the supermarket sporting our worker bees as a memory of this togetherness. The tattoos are going to raise considerable funds for the appeal but even more importantly they show that when our city is knocked down, we get back up, we stand together, we do things our way and we will not be divided.
Anyway, we've done the whole standard end-of-season awards; best player, best goal, all that stuff, but a weird and wacky season deserves a look at some of the smaller details. The overlooked moments of brilliance. The... well, these bits!
The manifestos of the three largest parties collectively contain 75 references to mental health -- 70 more than the respective manifestos in 2010, excluding the indexes. Those that have read the recently released manifestos could be forgiven for remembering little of what was said, because despite extended paragraphs, there are few quantifiable pledges.
Spoken word artist Amani Z Saeed performs her poem Radical Love exclusively for HuffPost UK. In the vlog she speaks of her frustration with terrorism and the islamophobia that follows.
We have heard so many moving words, from Manchester and beyond, insisting that the terrorists will not disrupt our way of life. But with so many families still grieving after the Manchester attack, so many of the injured still in hospital, campaigners will step warily as they resume the drive for votes.
I'm willing to bet that if you ask most women, they will be able to recount the story of the first time they got their period. It's a moment that sticks with you no matter how prepared you are, particularly because for many girls around the world, it is punctuated by fear, anxiety, and embarrassment.
Why does it matter? It matters because GovTech has the potential to fundamentally transform government and public services and shake up the usually passive relationship between citizens and public authorities. GovTech can help public services become what they should be: agile, responsive and flexible.
Festival goers were promised a weekend where they would be rubbing shoulders with the models and celebrity influencers who were promoting the event, including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski.
It was less than 48 hours after the massacre of innocents at the Manchester Arena, that photos of the crime scene including bloodstained shrapnel were published by the New York Times after presumably being leaked by American intelligence to the newspaper... It is no exaggeration to suggest that this continual leaking of information could endanger British security and British lives. For whatever reason it is being carried out, it has to be stopped. There is no public interest in seeing pictures of the remains of the bomb when the bomb-maker himself is possibly still on the run in our country.
Only through a global outcry and sustained pressure on governments, multinationals, and international bodies like the UN will the most vulnerable peoples on the planet stand any chance of surviving. I've added my voice to this call, and urge others to do the same.
Malawi has shown what can be achieved. Blinding trachoma is endemic in 54 countries across the world, yet global elimination is well within our grasp through a proven strategy of better sanitation and hygiene, antibiotics and simple, inexpensive surgery. But the organisations battling trachoma need help to complete this critical work.


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The former President of Republika Srpska, head of the Serb Democratic Party and Supreme Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army is charged with the genocide of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and the responsibility for killing thousands of civilians during the 44-month siege of Sarajevo.
Karadzic's trial will be the most important in shaping the ICTY's legacy.
The trial will also be notable for Karadzic's decision to represent himself. It renews a central dilemma for international courts on how to conduct fair and expeditious trials, while not impinging on the right of the accused to self-representation.
Karadzic seems to be adopting a proven formula where maverick political leaders who find themselves before an international court insist on self-representation and then flagrantly exploit this right by either boycotting or disrupting court proceedings. They refuse to comply with court orders, intimidate witnesses, insult judges, fail to file requested court documents, ignore judges' rulings, and generally conduct themselves in a highly belligerent and obstructionist manner.
Their primary objective is to use the court as a political platform to evoke a sympathetic response from their constituency back home. Much to the consternation of many observers, international courts have been viewed as mollifying the actions of these high-profile defendants rather than focusing on upholding justice.
The right to self-representation is well-grounded in international law. A number of international and regional treaties interpret the right to self-representation as a fundamental right. The ICTY's own statute entitles the accused "to defend himself in person". And in the Milosevic case, the ICTY found that the right to self-representation is "an indispensable cornerstone of justice."
However, it is equally important to note that, although laudable, the right to self-representation is not absolute. It is a qualified right that can be restricted or even denied in certain circumstances.
Thus, if Karadzic continues to boycott his trial, in the interest of justice the court could proceed without him. There is no tenet in international law that prevents a trial in absentia when the accused forfeits his right to be present at that trial. The court simply needs to ensure that Karadzic has the opportunity to follow the proceedings from his cell. The court could also assign standby counsel or amici curiae to ensure that the interests of the accused are represented. Either intervention would provide the minimum requirements to protect the rights of the accused and ensure the proceedings are conducted fairly.
The appointment of standby counsel would also be appropriate if Karadzic decides to return to court but subsequently disrupts court proceedings. The ICTY recently amended its rules, likely in anticipation of dealing with Karadzic, which now allows the court to assign counsel to represent the accused. In essence, it reaffirms the duty of the court to conduct a fair and expeditious trial, even if it means superseding the right to self-representation.
Unless the indicted Ratko Mladic is apprehended, the trial of Karadzic will be the ICTY's last major case. The legacy of the trial should be to contribute to the system of international justice that upholds accountability through a fair and independent judicial process. It should not be remembered for having been a miscarriage of justice where the court process was again hijacked by the defendant's obstinate and disruptive behaviour.


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After my perfectionism started, another thing added to the list of everything that needed to be perfect.
You see, I started to go to church 4 years ago. After I started going, I had to know almost every story in the bible. Every story.
I thought everyone had to know that I was a great christian. I thought everyone had to think I was just so awesome for knowing all the stories in the bible.
Not just one thing had to be perfect about me. But then, I had to be as good as I possibly could. Perfectly good.
I had to be as nice to everyone as I could. I had to be kind to those who were different.
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The New kid and my Sister
I know that my sister has this thing for hating math, but when Joseph came everything changed. She walked into the room all gloomy, as usual, but then she sat down and looked around and her face suddenly lit up...Now what was that about?
During study time she was down again, mumbling under her breath, "I hate math. I Hate Math. I HATE MATH!" then Joseph walks over, a light in his eyes, and offers to help...I think something that nobody really knows about is going on here.
After Jo came over to help Ad had this light in her eye's that I have never seen before, and Joseph had the same light. The look on Ad's face when the bell rang was an unmistakable 'I don't want to leave!' which really means that something wrong is going on with her, since the usual look is 'Yes! Math is over!' If I don't find out what's up with my sis I think that I just might go crazy...
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Yesterday afternoon I did a Channel 9 video talking about the Reference Source program we announced yesterday, plus doing a live demo of how it works. That's the first time I've done one of the Channel 9 videos. It's a little disconcerting at first – there's no script or practice or even editing. Some guys pretty much just show up in your office with a handheld camera and a tripod and start filming. Fortunately, it seems like it turned out pretty well. But I'm definitely not expecting any Oscar nods.
In the video, you'll see me actually run the debugger on a simple Windows Forms project, and then load the symbols for System.Windows.Forms.dll and mscorlib.dll. In the video, VS was already configured, but here's some more detail on exactly how that's going to work.
Setup Steps
As noted in Scott's blog, you need to do some setup in Tools/Options/Debug. Here's the full list of steps, just to show how easy this is to set up. Also note, this functionality isn't present in the VS 2008 Beta 2 release – it's been added for RTM.
First, you need to enable Source Server support, and then turn off "Just My Code" (because its, uh, not your code that you want to debug!). If you leave this on two things happen. First, you won't see the .NET frames in the call-stack. Second, even if you enable "Show External Code" on the call stack, you won't be able to set breakpoints. "Just My Code" disables setting breakpoints in optimized code.
Next, you enter the symbol server path. One thing Scott didn't call out is that the URL for this is still TBD – the one we put in there is temporary. Once the servers are ready to come online, we'll have a final URL for this. I put that URL in there just because the server I'm currently using for testing is, well, under my desk. No, you can't have that URL. 😉
Note you're also required to add a caching path as well.
Performance Considerations
I've seen some questions about why I used the Right-Click -> Load Symbols method on the call-stack, so let me dig into this a bit.
The two settings that are relevant here are the "Manual Load" setting (red), and the "Load 'Em Now" setting (green).
"Load 'Em Now" means that it will attempt to load all the symbols when you close the dialog.
When using the Reference Source stuff, I think most people will want to use Manual Load, strictly for performance reasons. We all know how critical it is for F5 to be snappy, and that's at issue here.
Two things impact this.
Problem number 1: There may be lots of symbols out there and they tend to be large (10+ MB). If you're on a slower connection, it could take a fair amount of time to launch your first debugging session. You could easily be looking at 50 megs of symbols. Fortunately, these do get cached locally. (Hint: I do recommend doing this on your first debugging session, and then going to lunch or something just as a way to get all of the symbols downloaded and cached at once).
Problem number 2: And this is the big one. VS doesn't really have any way of remembering which symbols it found and which ones it didn't between debugging sessions. Since you've added an external server for lookup, it's going to go out and ping that server for every symbol that it doesn't find locally/cached. It doesn't know that the symbols for user32 or ntdll aren't on that server, so it's going to ask EVERY time you launch the debugger.
Again, depending on how fast your Internet connection is, and how fast the servers are, this may or may not be an issue. But ASP.NET loads something like 18 DLLs into it's process space, and in my quick testing (over a purposely slower connection) it made the F5 time go from ~2 seconds to 5-or-6, which just isn't acceptable.
By doing the manual load, you avoid this problem altogether. Also note you can multi-select in the Call Stack to do multiple DLLs at once. I have been talking with the VS debugger guys about ways to make this smarter/more efficient but we haven't found a robust solution quite yet, and in any case the behavior we have today is the behavior you'll get for RTM.
So it will work either way, and you can decide which is better for your scenarios when you actually start using it.
Downloadable Source
We also announced that we'll be making the source available as a download as well. Note that this won't be online immediately. The debugging experience really is the major piece of the value here for most people, so I've been focused on delivering that first, and that will be ready close to the VS 2008 ship day (the plan is for the servers to go live on the same day, I think it's going to happen, but it's aggressive, so there may be a small lag there).
Anyway, that's V1 of the server-side piece. We're looking to get the downloadable source functionality into the V2 server-side, which will likely be rolled out after the New Year. You might be saying to yourself "geez, just zip up the darn source, what's so hard about that?" Good question.
One of my top goals here was to make sure that the cost for any individual team releasing source was very close to zero. If this process is expensive, or error prone, or cumbersome, then it won't happen as often, which is bad for everyone. So on this front, I'd like to see if we can't make the server-side build the download distro's dynamically so that it happens for "free" and maybe, just maybe, users can then download source that exactly matches their version in the way the debuggable source does with no extra packaging work. Hey, a kid can dream, right?
Hope that helps…


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This new layer of management in the NHL is proving to be beneficial for a lot of teams, the latest being the New Jersey Devils.
The Devils surprised nearly everyone by elevating GM Lou Lamoriello to President and bringing in former Penguins boss Ray Shero as the new GM.
This new model of adding a layer to the management team should help most every team that employs it. There are good hockey people out there and what this does is add a layer to that depth of knowledge. It will also help teams either get back on the right path or hopefully keep them from veering off course.
Calgary, Vancouver and now Edmonton have put this hive mind mentality in place, and you can see in both Calgary and Vancouver that the dividends have been paid immediately, with Edmonton just in the process of launching. It is clear that Trevor Linden is overseeing the entire Canucks organization, and with a solid hockey man like Jim Benning calling the GM shots, the Canucks are in good hands. Trevor's role is to maintain the wants and needs of the ownership, while also shaping his vision for what the team's identity should be. It allows Benning to be the straight up hockey guy without being the politician.
It is for those reasons alone that Brian Burke is a great President in Calgary. There is no question that Burke can do the GM's job, as he has done it now with four different teams over twenty plus years. But with Brad Treliving doing the heavy lifting as GM, Burke can remain focused on the team's identity, plus take care of all the corporate glad handing that comes with the job. For example in Calgary's case, getting a new building off the ground.
Toronto and others are now putting this hierarchy into place, and if it can help teams get stability and become not just more successful on the ice, but more profitable off it, you can expect 30 teams to have this in place soon.
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Simmons & Simmons banking partner Helen Hancock just cannot help coming back for more.
Her decision to leave the firm for a second time, this time in favour of Bristol's Bevan Ashford, was scuppered at the last minute when Simmons' eleventh hour rescue attempt safely returned her to the pack.
When personal circumstances led Hancock to make a life-changing choice between career and family, she chose the latter.
But thanks to a compromise package drawn up by Simmons, she can now continue with both by working from home. Her decision to leave was not easy, having been with the firm since 1986.
Hancock joined Simmons in London as a Bristol University graduate. She received a first class honours degree in law but only, she says, after being called back by the examiners. "[They] asked me to dictate the answers to three of my papers because my handwriting was so bad they couldn't read it."
Her principles for discipline learned from her years of study – both at university and at law school in Guildford – remain the same to this day.
She says, therefore, that she will not be tempted to nip into the kitchen for that umpteenth cup of coffee once she is working from home.
"I would study or revise from 9am until 5pm then go out and party. I have always worked hard then played hard, though I have to admit that now the stakes are higher I work harder and play less."
Hancock joined Simmons' banking capital markets department when it was still very young.
Originally established as a group within the corporate department, it carried a capital markets capability which did not exist in the firm until that point.
She remained there until 1994, working mainly with David Dickinson, then the capital market division's main driver for growth, and now the firm's managing partner.
As an assistant, Hancock's areas included banking, acquisitions, finance security and derivatives. Through her experience, she became interested in the structured finance side of capital markets.
She then won a Fulbright Scholarship to go to the US and study security and investment law, as well as gain work experience with US law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius, an opportunity she says she could not miss.
On returning to Simmons, she believes her "insider knowledge" of how US firms operate proved invaluable, and remain so.
In 1994, she was head-hunted by NatWest Markets to become director of transaction management at its Bishopsgate headquarters. She says she left Simmons "on immensely good terms".
She adds: "They were sorry to see me go and I was sorry to leave. But I was 29 years old and felt that if I did not try it I would have always wondered what I had missed."
She says she enjoyed her job and learned a great deal about how investment banks work. But she missed private practice and after a year was back at Simmons.
She rejoined the firm in 1995 as a senior assistant and was made a partner the following summer.
She says: "I could have chosen to go into a more established practice but I decided to return to Simmons, not because I wanted to get my feet back under the desk, but because I could see the practice was seeking to expand. I thought it was exciting and wanted to be part of that."
It was only when family circumstance meant she needed to relocate that she began searching for a local practice in Wales. However, her specialism, ideal for the City but not so useful in the provinces, meant it would be hard to find a firm which suited her skills.
She was offered a job with Bristol firm Bevan Ashford and, although it meant a move from banking to project work, she decided to take it. On breaking the news to Simmons, top table talks began at once.
"When push came to shove, Simmons showed its extraordinary human side. Unlike some other firms, it is not a faceless machine. Its employees are not treated like robots and it prides itself on listening to people and working things out."
Bevan Ashford's chief executive Nick Jarrett-Kerr says: "Obviously we are disappointed, but we respect her decision, we can understand why and wish her well in her career."
Hancock adds: "It had not been my intention to let Bevan Ashford down. I think it is a good firm and will do well with or without me."
She believes Simmons' landmark decision to allow her to work from home will benefit Simmons too.
"Lawyers, in particular juniors, no longer want to be seen as cannon fodder and I think in that respect Simmons distinguishes itself in that it nurtures a very caring culture instead of chewing people up and spitting them out when their personal circumstances change."
When Hancock begins work in her own office in June, linked by fax, phone, e-mail and a video conferencing facility, it will be the first time Simmons has tried the remote partner concept.
Managing partner David Dickinson says: "We think it is extremely important to support partners, particularly when they have children and need to look after them.
"At the same time we need to retain the best talent we can for the future and that is something we try to be flexible about."
Helen Hancock
Banking partner
Simmons & Simmons