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Johannesburg - The two crime intelligence officers who raided the office of the Public Protector on Wednesday evening have been suspended, the Hawks said on Saturday."This has been done in the interest of a thorough and transparent investigation," spokesperson McIntosh Polela said."The two officers have already provided statements to the Saps [SA Police Service] and an investigation is underway."Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's spokesperson Kgalalelo Masibi on Friday said two policemen, a Colonel Maluleka and a Captain Nkuta, arrived at the offices, on the instructions of a Colonel Heine.Without official papers backing up their request, they sought a document referred to in a Sunday Times report last week and wanted to know if it had formed part of the protector's findings regarding a police lease probe.Polela asked that the media not speculate on specific issues regarding the investigation and promised that it would be finalised as quickly as possible."This will also be done in the interest of fairness to the people implicated," he said.
does cele know about the suspension of the duo??
Cele knows nothing - and accepts no responsibility for anything happening in his department
General Teflon
On Full pay I will bet. They will pop up somewhere else probably with a promotion.
Yea, Suspension in the ANC means a fully paid indefinite holiday probably with bomusses thrown in. As Slapper says, re-instated somewhere else with promotion. Cele is untrustworthy and even worse then his predecessor.
The person that gave the orders should be arrested, as a police officer you take orders from someone above you? they were doing what they were told told to and now they get suspended, not their superiors. Why?
So, why isn't the man who ordered these two high-ranking goons to perform the raid suspended too? And the person who ordered him to order those two now-suspended goons?
That men is dead my firned, we will never hear the true story. I mean, we are speaking of the ANC here.
ANC Suspension: Full pay with a promotion
Why the instructor Colonel Heine is not suspended
Easy, he has been promoted to another post.
why is Cele not suspended?
If you suspend General Cele, the investigation will falter, and we will never get the truth
General Cele, a pillar of society, who came through the ranks, sweated blood as a rookie on the beat, he is sorely needed by out fine police force
@blackswan. are you being serious??
Maybe 'blackswan' means "force out- police fine needed"!
ANC still busy with their dirty politics, always trying to cover up their corrupt friends.
If it was not cele, it was Roux Shabangu trying to find out what the PP has on him. Guaranteed
So what is the difference. They are in this together
I sense coverup & scape goats!
A bit like a power struggle in the mafia
No wonder crime is rampant. Not enough cops left to do the work, with all the suspensions.
I wonder how many low income houses can be built, with the equivalent amount of money, to pay for this suspensions.
Don't understand suspension on "RAID" card, the correct aspect is suspension on doing their work since this was a visit to do with whatever they were instructed to do. I don't remeber PP raising RAID story as published by the media. It was two gentlement asking for documents but did not raid. Come to sense, I think this matter is too politicised to capture the political aspect leading to local government election by opposition parties.
Don't worry, all corrupt cadres that are suspended everywhere are just re-deployed to the Dept of Home Affairs!!!!!!!
Those guys were doing their jobs - the same as the cop who stopped the Winnie criminal. In their case I smell rat - a corrupt very smelly rat by the name of Cele. The documents they were looking for implicates him in corruption.
Smells of duplicity and typical smoke and mirror tactics.
Why only the two policeman were suspended.
In the interests of all S Africans and if fairness should prevail, should not this mysterious Colonel Heine be repramanded as well.
If not, then there is no justice being practiced to show real justice
Cele has been taken lessons from his wife.
So what?! Theyre all in it together, and beaides the Protector is more useless than the cops.
Did you say PUBLIC Protector?? They definately dont serve public interest! so whose proptector are they/
I say close it down - just a beeg waste of money.
Thats just what we need. more cops on paid holiday. WAY TO GO.!!!
Conspiracy, the 2 suspended officers followed instructions from Colonel Heine. Why was he not suspended and those who instructed him to get to the origin of the initial instruction. This is an attempt to shift attention away from the irregular lease procurement, Cele and Public Works.
The buck stops with Cele! He simply can't be innocent and should resign!!!
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Until now, we've discussed the W3C Level 1 DOM. All browsers, however, also support the Level 0 DOM, which is part of the de facto Netscape 3 standard. This DOM is more limited than the W3C Level 1 DOM, and it has been almost completely superseded by the newer one, which is far more versatile and generalized. There's one exception: the Level 0 DOM remains better equipped for working with forms and form fields than the W3C DOM.Level 0 DOM nodeLists The Level 0 DOM also works with nodeLists, but they differ from Level 1 DOM nodeLists in four important respects:
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document.images[] nodeList.
document.images[0] is the same as
In addition, the Level 0 DOM allows
document.images['firstIMG'] and
document.images['secondIMG']. It searches for the image with the given name or ID. That can occasionally be quite useful, especially if you have to find a specific image and are not sure of the exact document structure (because other scripts might have changed it, for instance). Just as Level 1 DOM nodeLists do,
document.images[] reflects all changes in the document, so it presents the same dangers.
document.images[] is nothing more than a convenient alternative to
document.getElementsByTagName('img'). The other common Level 0 DOM nodeLists are somewhat more than that.
document.firstIMG: The Level 0 DOM even allows you to say
document.firstIMG, i.e., to use the name of the image (or form field or whatever) as a property of document.
Even back in the Netscape 3 days I didn't like this syntax, because it obscures what you're doing. Take this:
document.income. Is this an image, a form, a link, or what? Other JavaScript programmers who have to work with your scripts won't know right away, whereas
document.forms['income'] is totally clear to everyone.
Therefore, I advise you not to use this syntax.
First of all, there are
document.links[] and
document.anchors[]. These contain all
<a href> and
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The hubby and I are headed to NOLA this weekend to watch the Saints take on Tampa Bay -- yay!
We're planning for one nice meal at Galatoires, downstairs ... where no reservations are taken.
Hounds, is it a fruitless wait if we get there at 7:30 p.m.ish?
What food recs?


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The Miami Heat will take on the Indiana Pacers Wednesday night in what is arguably their biggest game of the season thus far.
The first step to the Heat winning the game is having their starters available and on the court. It appears as of now that they will have that after playing shorthanded on Monday. Dwyane Wade is battling an Achilles injury but expects to play per ESPN. Greg Oden who played a season high 15 minutes on Monday will likely start as well. This will be an important game for Oden as he will go up against Roy Hibbert. The Pacers' center has struggled as of late but remains an imposing force in the paint.
Entering the contest, the Heat trail the Pacers by one game in the loss column which is ultimately the column that will matter most. A win by the Heat would bring them to within one game of the top seed in the Eastern Conference with 12 games left to play. A loss by the Heat however could be the end of their dreams of capturing the top seed. Making up that much ground in a dozen games would be very difficult, even with one more scheduled against Indiana.
Indiana and Miami will be the top two seeds in the East barring something unforeseen, the only question is what order they will be in. As the two teams are expected by most to reach the Conference Finals, home court advantage could end up being the deciding factor on who wins. If a glance is taken at the NBA standings, the home records immediately stand out for both teams. Indiana is 32-4 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse while Miami is 28-6 at the American Airlines Arena. Further proving the value of home court, the Pacers and Heat have split their contests this year with each team winning at home.
Often times, teams will downplay one game as being "just another game" but this is clearly more than just another game for the two teams. James said as much via the Heat's official Twitter account:
.@KingJames on playing the Pacers: "It's a big game. We're not going to shy away from it. It's going to be a good test for us."
— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) March 25, 2014
Wednesday's game will be televised nationally on ESPN at 8:00 p.m. and will likely come down to the final buzzer. The two teams will match up again in Miami on April 11th.


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Grandson's song honors Mr. Lee, the wagon man
Neighbor Grover sez be careful reading the fine print, because there's no way you're going to like it.
Ronnie Caywood, local singer/ songwriter/guitarist, has written a new song and it was a labor of love.
It's called "Grandpa's Wagon" and it's about his grandfather Lee Caywood, a Talbot Ridge farmer who drove a wagon pulled by two mules for his transportation to and from Rockdale, almost until his death at age 92 in 1981.
Mr. Lee, as we all called him, was virtually the last of a vanishing breed, a family farmer who produced his own pork, beef, fruit and vegetables—and shared a lot of it.
He paid for his subscription to The Reporter with home-grown vegetables, a practice that was common when my grandfather, John Esten Cooke, ran this paper from 1911 to 1936. But Mr. Lee continued to bring groceries to my father, W.H. Cooke, at this office, until Mr. Lee's final days.
In his last few years, he was driven to town by daughter Ella when the mule team was too much to manage. But I, and others here, remember Mr. Lee's wagon fondly.
Ronnie rememberd how his grandad "loved kids of all colors and let them ride in his wagon." Indeed, several generations of Rockdale children were thrilled with those rides.
Mr. Lee also used that wagon to bring a load of Christmas trees to town every December. He cut the trees himself, piled 'em high in the bed, and delighted in giving them away to many families.
That's a sof t side. Mr. Lee was also tough as nails. Ronnie recalled: "Grandpa was bitten twice that I know of by copperheads and never went to the doctor; just used coal oil."
Another of Ronnie's memories: "Grandpa used to plow Rev. David Erskine's (Sarah Cleveland's father) garden. After that job, they'd enjoy a beer or two together. Grandpa couldn't get over how a preacher would drink beer." Ronnie and I agreed that Mr. Lee apparently didn't understand a lot about Episcopalians.
Christmas trees, fruit and veggies weren't the only things Mr. Lee liked to share. In the photo at right, he's holding an arm load of walking sticks that he cut from sumac sprouts, the roots forming the handles. He'd bring them to town and give them away.
"L ot sa' folk s need a good steadying stick," was his quote accompanying the photo that appeared in The Reporter in 1976.
Mr. Lee's love of sharing, his friends and family all believe, is what kept his keen eyes twinkling so many years.
Ronnie gave me what he calls a "rough CD" of his "Grandpa's Wagon." Sounds good and catchy to me, a nice tribute to a great old man I was privileged to know.
Ronnie said he's waiting to have it mixed and mastered, but you can contact him or Millie at home for a copy until he gets the project finished: rctex6708@sbcglobal. net


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- Bleeding: Use of concomitant anagrelide and aspirin increased major hemorrhagic events in a postmarketing study. Assess the potential risks and benefits for concomitant use of anagrelide with aspirin, particularly in patients with a high risk profile for hemorrhage.
- Drug Interactions: Analyses of an ongoing observational study in patients with ET suggest the rate of major hemorrhagic events (MHEs) in patients treated with anagrelide is higher than in those subjects treated with another cytoreductive treatment. The majority of the major hemorrhagic events occurred in patients who were also receiving concomitant anti-aggregatory treatment (primarily, aspirin). Therefore, the potential risks of the concomitant use of anagrelide with aspirin should be assessed, particularly in patients with a high risk profile for hemorrhage, before treatment is initiated
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By Brian Ives
Ellen, what's good?
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres parodied Nicki Minaj on The Ellen Show on Monday in a skit that has been called tasteless, damaging and even "a minstrel show."
In the video, which the show's official YouTube channel has taken down, DeGeneres imagines what Nicki Minaj's upcoming sitcom would look like. The video, shot in the style of an '80s or '90s sitcom, shows a young Minaj and all of the members of her family (including the family dog) sporting gigantic butts. So gigantic, in fact, that they knock everything in the living room over.
Related: Nicki Minaj Gets Candid about Drake vs. Meek Mill
Predictably, there's been a lot of negative response from social media about the video. Although the Ellen Show did not post the skit to YouTube, fans did, although they have since been taken due to a copyright claim from Time Warner.
DeGeneres also parodied Minaj in 2013 when she dressed as the MC/singer for Halloween. You can see that video here.
Minaj seemed friendly with DeGeneres on an appearance on her show last year, when the host superimposed herself onto Minaj's "Anaconda" video and showed it to Nicki, who said "You are hilarious."
However, Minaj hasn't addressed DeGeneres' latest skit.


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The first thing I noticed when I saw one of the paintings in the new exhibition at the Meadows Museum were the hands of the women.
They were large — the hands of hardworking people who till the land and harvest its bounty.
Seated side by side, three indigenous women are depicted at market, selling their fruit and ceramic ware. One is noticeably older, so we can assume she is a mother with her two daughters.
Mexican artist Francisco Díaz de León painted Indian Women on Market Day in 1922, when Mexico was in the throes of forging its national identity.
But it is a scene that could be painted as easily today as it was almost a century ago.
This and 79 other works by renowned and lesser-known Mexican artists are part of an exhibit, "Modern Mexican Painting From the Andrés Blaisten Collection," that just opened at the museum on the Southern Methodist University campus.
The exhibition, which runs through Aug. 12, shows the diverse and modern styles that ran through the works of Mexican artists in the early 20th century.
It also shows themes that are universal, such as those in the Díaz de León painting of three women.
"This painting is a dialogue about la mujer — the woman as worker, as mother," said Renata Blaisten. "These are qualities that are timeless."
Her father, Andrés Blaisten, spent about 30 years collecting more than 8,000 works of art that include paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints. Many of them are housed at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, which is under the auspices of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The works on display at the Meadows Museum are highlights of the Blaisten collection.
Many of the works show the sense of color, strength and roots that Mexican people had about themselves and their culture in the early 1900s, Renata Blaisten said last week.
"They show just how conscious they were of where they came from," she said.
Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, said the visual emphasis on the hands can be found in many of the paintings in the collection.
"The big hands are also an exploration of the Mexican identity," he said. "They're a metaphor for fingerprints. Nobody has the same fingerprints."
Modern Mexico is unique, and Mexicans were in the process of creating themselves as a nation during this time period. The paintings demonstrate it over and over.
When most Americans — and even Mexican-Americans — think of Mexican art, it usually includes pre-Hispanic images or murals.
But Mexican artists explored all aspects of their country in different styles. This is postrevolutionary Mexico, from the 1920s onward — the people, the places, the traditions.
Some works by Mexico's famous muralists are included — Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Tamayo. But artists who were overshadowed by these giants are also in the collection, he said.
"This is a Mexico beyond muralism."
The collection shows how Mexico was an open and porous country, a crossroads where cultures collided and converged.
It remains so today.


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Why the Hell is Inception Being Converted to 3D?
Christopher Nolan, you made a great movie and all, but converting it to 3D post-production is not a good idea. Sure, it'll squeeze a few more dollars out of everyone, but as we know, 3D conversion does not make for a good experience. [Blu-ray.com via TechRadar]


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In Reply to: Jump on the band-wagon posted by Lewis on October 24, 2008 at 15:50:
: I've only just wondered when and where the phrase to 'jump on the band-wagon' - meaning to follow something after it has become successful - started.
: is it to do with parades and floats?
Yes. It is a literal term -- a wagon that carries a circus band through town. See https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/jump-on-the-bandwagon.html


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Photographer's Note
A while ago I presented you with the view of the first Gokyo lake in the Gokyo valley.
On the trail from Machhermo to Gokyo we passed the first three lakes of the Gokyo valley. This one, the third, is very quite large. It lies in the altitude 4800 metres above sea level and is called Dudh Pokhari. The Gokyo village actually lies on the shore of this lake.
All the lakes have amazing turquoise colour. These lakes are the worlds highest freshwater lake system comprising six main lakes, but there are more of them in total. The Gokyo lake system is spread over an area of 196.2 ha lying between 4,600 and 5,100 m. The wetland lies on the head of the Dudh Kosi river, which descends from Cho Oyu.
The Gokyo Lakes are considered sacred by both Hindus and Buddhists.
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mkamionka (42449) 2011-03-15 7:18
Hi Ivana,
breath-taking view, I like very much the layered composition and amazing colors, especially the green lake as opposed to dark blue sky.
Real masterpiece, TFS
dta (86526) 2011-03-15 7:57
Hello Ivana
A gorgeous view of this hymalaian lake . The color of the water is fantastic . The picture is very well composed .
fautaugraphe (322) 2011-03-15 7:59
Bonjour Ivana,
belle ambiance montagneuse contrastée à souhait.
l'opposition vert/bleu renforce l'ensemble.
yquem46 (38752) 2011-03-15 8:45
hello Ivana
A postcard-quality image
Classical but beautiful compo of this mountain scape
Nice colors of the lake and impressing summits
have a nice day
Best regards
Bartleby (13552) 2011-03-15 13:15
Hi Ivana,
no wonder this awesome landscape is considered sacred. REally impressive and your photo does it justice. a balanced composition and well-exposed image. Love it.
InasiaJones (31566) 2011-03-15 18:45
Hi Ivana,
Very well composed landscape, with a curvy shore that introduces us into your image and bring dynamism to the scene. Good use of this foreground patch to provide depth.
Overall, nice light, natural attractive colours and good proportion of sky vs land.
daddo (28618) 2011-03-16 4:54
Zdravo Ivana. Another crisp image full of the spirit of the place. Lovely composition which makes us enjoy every aspect of the topography. The colours and light are enchanting. Pozdrav. Klaudio.
jga (1062) 2011-03-16 7:07
Hi Ivana,
Beautiful landscape, and good photo with a good framing and nice colours.
Bluejeans (64251) 2011-03-17 8:01
Ola Ivana ,
Beleza esta paisagem no Nepal , a cor da agua do lago e magnifica , gostei muito da paisagem de fundo as montanhas , parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo
Bonsoir Ivana.
Trés belle photo, un paysage à couper le souffle!!!!
La composition est parfaite, avec des couleurs extras, et un cadrage qui met en valeur tous les élémets de ce splendide endroit.
abmdsudi (63489) 2011-03-31 9:34
Hi Ivana
To me this is very special picture, a rare opportunity to witness such beauty of nature at this height. The view over the turquoise lake, mountain and the sky is stunning and very well enhanced by the textured foreground. A magnificent capture and thanks to your great effort.
Best regards
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- Copyright: Ivana Krekanova (Elaine_Blath) (8509)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2010-10-05
- Categories: Nature
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- Photo Version: Original Version
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The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.
Nick may be a lost soul, but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation that is turning away from the future to live in the past.
A provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.
©2011 Dan Simmons (P)2011 Hachette
"Outstanding, haunting work from a master of sci fi"
There has been a lot of negativity surrounding Flashback, and most of it centers around Dan Simmons' right wing politics. There's so much negativity, in fact, that I hesitated before buying and went on to read a few more reviews. In the end I wasn't sure exactly what to expect, but for the author who gave the world the Hyperion/ Endymion story-- among the finest works of science fiction in the last thirty years--I would forgive much. I decided to give it a try.
I am glad I did. Simmons is at his best when he finds his voice in a haunting tale of personal struggle amidst a larger struggle. The dialogue is often brisk, well-read, philosophical, and reflective. The setting is somewhat cyber punk in the sense of high technology and low people, but somehow more mournful and sad than what typically defines cyber punk.
There is no question that Simmons' far right wing politics set the stage for the story, and critics who have alleged that he's personally gone off the deep end may well be correct. My answer to this is "so what"? What does it say about us as readers if we are only able to read books that reinforce all of our political positions and lash out at those that push us-- even if they push us with new points of view. It is perhaps reflective of our partisan political era where each side writes books only for their followers, makes news channels only for the loyal, and each side makes sure the battle lines are all clear. This is an absurd standard to judge fiction by. I am not a prince of Denmark, I am not a boy with a run away slave, I am not a pirate, a space marine, or a horse deciding whether to vote for the full manager or the three day week but I have lived these tales. Books are about considering new perspectives and challenging ourselves, not weeding out anything that doesn't reinforce our ever narrowing vision of the world.
Read Flashback because it is a great work of science fiction. Read it to be challenged, read it to see how the other side thinks, read it to see your own politics in action, read it to learn, but most of all read it because it is the work of a 65 year-old master of the craft who may have too few books left. Read it because it is fantastic.
"I want my freaking credit back."
You know I read all of the other reviewers' warnings about the political stuff in this book before I decided to buy it. I thought maybe the reviewers were just being overly sensitive. The premise of the book sounded really interesting, and I've enjoyed other books by Simmons in the past. (Although I thought DROOD was a total snore.)
Seriously, I could not get through a third of this book. The political nonsense in here is ridiculously heavy handed, xenophobic, borderline racist and just largely unnecessary to the story. Its so similar to the problems with Tom Clancy's latest book, you have to wonder if Simmons and Clancy are hanging out together in tea party chatrooms or something.
I would argue that even the most ardent Republican reading this book would stop and say WTF??? Did I really just read five pages complaining about Obama's rally in Denver and what did that have to do with this cop trying to solve a murder??? Then again, who knows. Maybe there is an audience of people who will listen to this book and nod to themselves that they knew all along the native American and Mexicans infiltrating our universities would lead to the collapse of the US and people would one day be openly celebrating 9/11 as a holiday in Los Angeles.
Yeah seriously. That stuff is in this book.
Last Dan Simmons book I will ever waste my money on.
"Disappointing political diatribe"
I have listened to and really enjoyed many of Dan Simmons' other books. He is a good writer and I love sci-fi. However, this one turned out to be a political diatribe. I can't stand stupid left-wing or right-wing propaganda. Anyway, I listened to it, the readers were a little amateur. The premise of the book started out as an interesting detective story set in a United States that is totally bankrupt, radical muslim terrorists and street gangs have taken over America, and the world. The world has all gone to hell. Then the story devolves into a cheesy cautionary tale of how healthcare reform, drugs, and cut-back's on military spending and nuclear weapons, caused it all. Its funny, Texas takes on this mythical status and is a mecca which won't allow "losers" or "worthless" people into the state. And gosh darn, the protagonist is paying cash for his grandfather-in-law's operation. I felt used, like when Ralphy in "A Christmas Story" figures out his decoder ring's message is just "a crummy commercial."
"Refreshingly powerful sci-fi"
At its core, Flashback is a straightforward detective story. Nic is a washed up former detective pressed back into service by a wealthy Japanese businessman to investigate his son's unsolved murder 6 years prior. Nic was the police detective originally working that unsolved case, but since, his wife was killed in an auto accident, Nic has become addicted to flashback, a drug that can allow the user to re-live past memories which he and the rest of the US population do so liberally. The story is set in the 2030's with considerable geopolitical tectonic shifts. China has imploded with internal strife; Europe's and Canada's declining birth rates have resulted in a gradually shift (due to immigration patterns) to Islamic fundamentalist sharia law, destruction of Israel, Mexico has been overrun by drug cartels, and the US has lost its premier global position with state secessions and supplying military mercenaries for other countries.
The detective story is well crafted and engaging with multiple twists. At the same time, the story unfolds with three different narrations: Nic, his elderly father-in-law, and his 16 year old son. These 3 generational perspectives enhance the belief suspension necessary to enter this dystopian future. While much of geopolitical evolutionary discussion is reasonable, the author can be slightly dinged for an overemphasis on current events that are more revealing with respect to the author's political views than necessary to drive the plot. The innovative chapter numbering also deserves special mention.
The narration is top notch and special kudos to the choice of 3 different narrators for each perspective; this effect positively added to the listening experience.
Although the story itself is interesting and entertaining, the extreme right wing viewpoint continually distracts the reader with it's insistance that if we don't try to improve our lives in the first place, none of this will happen. You are constantly being interupted with reminders that no good deed goes unpunished and that reason equals weakness. "Don't try to be decent people or you will end up in some desperate version of the United States that is run and overrun by immigrants and those horrible japanese!" I had always enjoyed Dan Simmons but was sadly disappointed with this story. I thought that I was buying a novel, not some political warning about how weak we are becoming. The alternate world view is always a wonderful read but I would think that the average person is smart enough to come to their own conclusions without this constant spoon feeding of far right rhetoric.
"Couldn't Finish it - Horrible Book!"
I have read Dan Simmons Hyperion series and enjoyed it. I was going to listen to it again when I saw this book and purchased it instead. I couldn't finish it. This book is filled with Dan Simmons' political fantasies about how progressive policies in the U.S. caused the destruction of the world of the future. It turns out that Simmons is just another right wing tool who has decided to use the science fiction genre to blather on about his ridiculous right wing talking points. As well, he revels in using a variety of racial epithets that have no context in the world that he has created other than to give him an outlet for his demented belief system. Don't bother with this book.
"Grumpy old man"
If I could flashback to before I started listening to this...
A diatribe of conservative fears projected into the near future. Most disappointing book I've ever listened too. Sad, hard to imagine Dan Simmons the author of of so many well written books vomited such a politically reactionary vision that left me nauseated. Dan Simmons once penned this line, "choose again" in a much beloved book and I suggest listeners do the same before downloading this novel.
Mostly well done.
"Not worth the credit"
I didn't make it past 1hour. I was so looking forward to another Joe Barrett narration, but whoever of the narrators starts off, is very obnoxious and pompous voice. Couldn't get into the story at all, although, it sounded like an exciting one.
"Prejudice and right wing bias overwhelms the story"
Overtly displayed Anti-Japanese and Arab xenophobia make this book one I just can't get through, which is a shame, since it otherwise seems to be developing into something interesting. The performance is fine, though the protagonist voice is a bit strange - rather whiny it seems to me. Switching narrators bugs me a bit - I'm usually ok if a man reads the men and a woman the women - but I see no need for multiple male narrators.
For me this book started out slow, but soon drew you into the story. I really felt for the main character. But then again, sometimes I didn't like him. I liked the different view of the future for America, it's not one that you see everyday.
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Find Your Foot Size
First, abandon the notion that you have a shoe size. Instead you have a foot size. Wearing an ill-fitting shoe offsets the benefits of going to a minimalist shoe.
Finding Your Foot Size
This is a great way to look at your needs when it comes to selecting walking shoes.
This article should help us all when it comes to properly selecting a walking shoe.
It all about your foot size and your specific and unique foot function. This is a very unique and common sense way of looking at this issue.
Enjoy this article, I think you'll learn a lot from it. I certainly did.


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High quality homes are currently being offered by Creekside Development in this planned unit development. However, if you wish, you may purchase a lot or lots and arrange for your personal contractor to build your home. Creekside Dandridge is one of a very few such developments in East Tennessee and is located in beautiful Jefferson County along the historic creek banks of Dumplin Creek. Nestled in the countryside, yet minutes to everything you might need such as medical care, shopping, restaurants, golf courses, lakes, rivers, hiking and the abundance of other outdoor enjoyment that East Tennessee has to offer. The best plan might be to take a long walk in our beautiful green space and enjoy the creek, natural spring, wild flowers and wildlife.
The "state of the art" Jefferson Family Physicians Medical Complex opened during the Spring of 2014 which met a key component for the developer's vision of a all inclusive development that meets all the essential needs of our actively aging population. Plans for an Assisted Living facility are being aggressively pursued. Additionally, village retail stores should be coming soon to the commercial section of Creekside. The residential section, however, has a private entrance, away from traffic flow of other sections.
According to Mrs. Gretchen Slone , Vice -President of Dumplin Creek Enterprises, Inc., the developer of Creekside Dandridge, Phase III was added to the Planned Unit Development on June 26, 2014. Creekside Development, Inc., the builder of the most recent six homes, acquired two lots the next day. Mark Havely, President of Creekside Development completed construction of his latest two latest units during the Spring of 2015 and plans to break ground soon on more units. Havely plans to replicate the same basic floor plan that he used for his first eight homes for the new homes. However, according to Havely," there has been a large amount of interest in a smaller floor plan and we are exploring that option with several interested parties.". " One of the beautiful things about this development is the ability to be flexible, we can design and build the Creekside homes to be larger or smaller to accommodate the individual needs and desires of the people that want to call Creekside home" adds Havely.
Features include:
Open floor plans, hardwood and tile flooring, large 2-car garage, 9-foot ceilings, granite counters, walk-in pantry, breakfast bar, solid wood cabinetry, expandable floors plans, single level, stand-alone homes or duplex options, build-to-suit options, quick build schedule, Dandridge water and sewer service, 100% maintenance-free house exterior and lawn services, Dandridge Police protection, Dandridge trash pick-up, open spaces for walking, underground utilities, water fall and pond features, exclusive use of a 5-acre green space along Dumplin Creek, safe, great location near I-40 and all local shopping conveniences, peaceful & quiet rural setting, just a few minutes from Douglas and Cherokee Lakes, many golf courses nearby, approx half hour from Pigeon Forge / Smoky Mountains, very reasonable price-points and low property taxes.


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EDMONTON - Obstruction penalties are like blood-stains at the crime scene they can tell you a lot about the cause of death.
Being out of position. Being lazy. Playing on your heels. Trapping instead of attacking.
The Oilers were guilty of all of the above Saturday in handing the Ottawa Senators seven power plays and a 5-3 win.
"Playing seven times shorthanded, you just can't win hockey games doing that," said associate coach Ralph Krueger. "Our penalty killing was excellent and gave us a chance, but those two penalties early in the third were energy-takers."
The Oilers were flagged for interference, holding, hooking, tripping, high-sticking and hooking against an Ottawa team that forechecks like old people mall walk.
This is becoming a regular occurance lately. They took six-straight penalties Wednesday against Chicago and five in Nashville.
If the penalty killing hadn't been fantastic over the last three games, killing 16 of 18 chances, things could have really been ugly. Not that anyone would be in a hurry to take last night's mutt to the prom.
"Sitting on the bench we were thinking we're going to take over this game eventually," said Jordan Eberle. "Then we got into some penalty trouble. It kills the rhythm of the team, just like the game before. Even though our PK is playing extremely well, it kills the guys and kills the flow of the game."
"We're getting a lot of stick penalties, some nights they don't call it but on the nights that they do you can get five or six," said Andrew Cogliano. "When you get that many it doesn't let your team get momentum."
The Oilers killed five in a row before the sixth one got them against Chicago and six in a row before the seventh one got them Saturday.
"That's been the story as of late," said Dustin Penner. "If you give them that many opportunities they're going to find the back of the net eventually."
As good as the penalty killers have been, Edmonton's 30th ranked power-play units have become laughable. They gassed another 5-on-3 to go 0-for-5 in the matinee and run their slump to 22 straight chances.
"Special teams again," said Cogliano. "We had an opportunity to score one on the power play, we couldn't, then give one up on the PK, a flukey one, and that was the end of the game."


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Monday rest day, much needed after Sunday's race!
Tuesday 6/24 - Run || 3 miles || 31:00, 10:20p || 75* and HUMID
So humid. So hot. Yuck! Splits 10:47/10:10/10:00. 3/62.6
Wednesday 6/25 - Run || 5 miles || 48:30, 9:39p || 57-59* and foggy but humid
Weird run. I contemplated cutting it short the first mile, I just felt off, but I settled in and got it done. My pace the first mile shows how off I felt, then I settled in...my pace jumped for mile 3 and I wasn't sure why so I made myself slow down, but looking at my fifth mile maybe I should have just gone with it! Splits 10:47/10:05/9:07/9:25/8:41. 8/67.6
Thursday 6/26 - Run || 3 miles || 31:30, 10:30p || Treadmill
Treadmill day. I decided that even if I'm slower on the treadmill than on the road I don't think I'm 40s a mile slower - so if I can do 3m in 31m on a very ht humid and sunny day, I can guess about the same on the treadmill, hah.. 11/70.6.
Friday 6/27 - Run || 2 miles || 17:57, 8:59p || 57-59* and foggy but humid
Supposed to be a rest day but the baby had me awake literally half the night and wouldn't let me sleep after 3:30. My husband looked at me, took the baby, and said go run. So I got 2 miles in and felt a lot better. Splits 9:24/8:33. 13/72.6
Saturday 6/28 - Run || 6 miles || 1:05:02, 10:50p || 79*, sunny with 90% humdity
Crappy run. My cat died the previous night and my head was - understandably - not here. Splits all over the place and by the 5th mile I was taking walk breaks every half a mile. Did not enjoy the heat. But done.. 19/78.6
Sunday 6/29 - Elliptical || 5.67 || 60:00, 10:34p || Course 1 Level 3 x30m, Course 4 Level 3 x30m
Finally did the full hour. Heart wasn't really in it today either. But it's done, and on the plus side, my cross training of choice is endorsed by Hal Higdon himself.
He talked to meeeeeee.
Total: 19 miles run, 5.67 elliptical. Fourth week of Chicago training is done, almost 80 miles logged towards my first marathon! Looking forward to my first double digit long run next week.


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Going next week and would like to hire a road bike and get some miles in, only really maybe once or twice in the week. Hopefully get out early doors while my g/f is still in bed.
Google tells me there are a couple of bike hire places but their websites are pretty basic- I'm wondering if anybody has any experience?
Also do these places usually hire helmet/equipment out too? Other than maybe shorts, a top and a puncture repair kit I can't really be bothered taking stuff over with me. So basically need to hire a helmet whilst I'm there I guess.


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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) talked about the Gaspee Affair, an event from June 9, 1772, in which Rhode Islanders fought against the British in the lead-up to the American Revolution.193 views
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What does Fran mean?
Fran as a girls' name (also used as boys' name Fran) is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Fran is "French". Short form of Frances. Also used as an independent name. Comedienne Fran Drescher; writer Fran Lebowitz.
ASSOCIATED WITH Fran-
VARIANTS Frani, Frannee, Franni, Frannie, Franny
SEE ALSO Franisbel
RELATIONS VIA FRANCES Fan, Fancy, Fania, Fanny▼, Fanya, France, Francee, Francey, Franci, Francia, Francie, Frania, Franie, Frank▼, Franka, Franki, Frankie▼, Franky, Franzi, Fronia
MASCULINE FORM FrancisCREATIVE FORMS
Fran Lillie (F.L.), ..
How popular is Fran?
Fran is a very prominent first name for women (#865 out of 4276, Top 20%) and also a very prominent last name for all people (#68360 out of 150436, Top 45%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Fran was first listed in 1930-1939 and reached its apex rank of #736 in the U.S. in the 1950s, but is not in the Top 1000 at the moment. (2015 U.S. SSA RECORDS)
Which version is better?
Popular varying forms of Fran listed in the Top 2000 are Frances (#514 LAST YEAR), Frankie (#992), Frank, Fronia, Francie, Fan, France and Fanny. Other forms, like Franci, are uncommon. These forms of Fran were popular as birth names a century ago (AVERAGE #1288) and have become much less popular since, with forms like Frances becoming somewhat outmoded.
Similar Names
Recommended sound-alike names are Adan, Aeran, Arlan, Dian, Doran, Dwan, Dyan, Elan, Eman, Evan, Fae, Fara, Farah, Faren, Farin, Farran, Faryn, Faun, Fawn, Fay▼, Fern▼, Ferran, Flana, Franca, Fraya, Fred, Iman, Jan▼, Jean▼, Joan▼, Karan, Lean, Miran, Nan▼, Niran, Rian, Ryan▲, San, Saran, Sean, Shan, Sian, Taran and Van. These names tend to be less commonly used than Fran.See names in meaning and etymology.


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Schuylkill court news
File for divorce
Jara Gates, 365 Mountain Road, New Ringgold, filed suit for divorce from Darren Gates, 1318 Long Run Road, New Ringgold. They were married Sept. 28, 2002.
Granted divorce
Kelly A. Horan, 315 N. Second St., Frackville, was granted a divorce from Brian J. Conroy, 1101 Pine Valley Lane, Sheppton. They were married July 12, 2005.
Keith Quaca, 121 Retreat Road, New Ringgold, was granted a divorce from Jody Quaca, 304 W. Abbott St., Lansford. They were married Oct. 10, 1985.
Jeffrey L. Jones Sr was granted a divorce from Vicki F. Jones, both of Orwigsburg. They were married Nov. 14, 1987.
Kenneth Michael Neifert, 24, of 32 Valley St., New Philadelphia, had his parole revoked by Judge John E. Domalakes and he was remanded to the county prison to serve the balance of his sentence, his time of liberty of 194 days are disallowed, creating a new maximum date for his release from prison to be Nov. 3, 2012. Last May Neifert entered guilty pleas to charges of driving while his license was suspended and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
Lawayne A. Kline, 44, of 135 W. Maple St., Mahanoy City, had his parole revoked by Judge Domalakes and was remanded to the county prison and his 230 days of liberty were disallowed, creating a new maximum time for his release from prison to be June 18, 2012. Kline pleaded guilty last June to charges of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Hubert M. Wakefield, 32, Minersville, had his parole revoked by President Judge William E. Baldwin and his 23 days of liberty were disallowed and he was committed to the county prison to serve the balance of his original sentence. He received credit for spending 53 days in prison. Wakefield was found guilty by a jury of charges of possession of a controlled substance and drug pa`raphernalia.
PFA violators
Senior Judge D. Michael Stine imposed sentences on persons found to have violated the Protection From Abuse (PFA) orders issued by the court.
Douglas R. Downey, 40, Port Carbon, was found guilty of indirect criminal contempt for violating three PFA orders and was sentenced to pay $900 in fines and serve 180 days on William W. Murphy, 20, Pottsville, was found guilty of indirect criminal contempt and was fined $300.
David Mathew Brady, Saint Clair, was found guilty of indirect criminal contempt and he was fined $300 and placed on probation 180 days.
Enters guilty plea
Joseph Allen Klinger, 21, Shenandoah, entered guilty pleas to two simple assault charges and was sentenced by Judge Jacqueline Russell to serve one to 24 months in a state correctional institution and when released on probation shall have no contact with the victim, Jericho Linkchorst, of Frackville.


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The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or the CALM Act has been passed through Congress and now is just waiting for a signature from President Obama. The bill will give advertisers one year to make commercials the same level of loudness as the programs they're interrupting. It will give the FCC the authority to set and enforce a loudness cap, too.
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The agency that manages the Pentagon Police Department and also runs networks and computers used the by the Office of the Secretary of Defense experienced a "catastrophic network technological outage" on Jan. 3, and it could take until January 2015 to complete the repairs, an obscure document on the Federal Business Opportunities website revealed
That document, posted on May 2, disclosed that the outage experienced by the Pentagon Life Safety System Network and Life Safety Backbone left the Pentagon Force Protection Agency "without access to the mission-critical systems needed to properly safeguard personnel and facilities, rendering the agency blind across the national capital region."
The Force Protection Agency provides security and services to 100 military buildings in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
The agency estimated it would take six to 12 months to "effect repairs and to upgrade the network core to mitigate future outage risks." Repairs include recovery of data after the catastrophic network technological outage and upgrade and replacement of switches and routers.
SRA International Inc. won a $56 million contract for the Life Safety System Network in 2008 that expired on April 30. The Force Protection Agency falls under the Washington Headquarters Service, which extended the SRA contract through Oct. 31, with a value of $7.3 million, and a four month option through Feb. 28, 2015, with a total value of $11.4 million.
The sole source contract extension with SRA called for refreshed hardware and software for the Life System Safety Network, a new network design that minimizes single point failure, including dual homing, which reduces the risk of failure.
As the incumbent on Life Safety System Network contract, "SRA is the only known vendor who has expert security-cleared personnel that can immediately accomplish this urgent upgrade given their existing knowledge of the specific LSB technical and architectural challenges, and in-depth knowledge of the existing infrastructure to include the known and potential failure points of an extremely complex environment," the Washington Headquarters Service said.
The Pentagon has not yet responded to a query submitted Sunday on the general cause of the outage nor to a query earlier Tuesday morning on whether or not it was caused by a hacker.
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"Eight people were rescued and three remained missing after a U.S. Navy plane crashed into the western Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the Navy said. The C-2 "Greyhound" transport aircraft came down about 500 nautical miles (925 kilometers) southeast of Okinawa as it was bringing passengers and cargo from Japan to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement."
Special counsel Robert Mueller "is now demanding documents from the department overseeing his investigation." A source tells ABC News that "Mueller's investigators are keen to obtain emails related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the earlier decision of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the entire matter."


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A sequel-of-sorts to "Pooh's Heffalump Movie", "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween" is a direct-to-video effort that offers another adventure for the characters. "Heffalump Movie" wasn't a classic, but it was a very pleasant family feature that offered respectable animation for a lower-budget feature and a good story, along with lessons that weren't delivered to the audience in a heavy-handed manner.
"Pooh's Heffalump Halloween" is a bit thinner, but it's still a moderately enjoyable time that kids getting psyched up for Halloween will likely find entertaining. In the previous movie, Roo befriended the feared Heffalump, who all of the other characters thought was rumored to be an intimidating beast. Halloween has come around, and the two new friends begin to gear up to celebrate Halloween after Heffalump has been convinced that there's nothing to be afraid of.
However, things don't go entirely well. It turns out that Poo has eaten all the candy, and Roo and Heffalump decide that if they catch the mythical gabloon, they will get a wish - which would get them all the candy back. However, if the gabloon catches them, they're in the deepest of trouble.
Stretched out by including an old "Pooh" TV episode in the proceedings (which works somewhat better than it sounds like it would) that has a Piglet backstory, "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween" still manages to be a moderately entertaining Fall adventure. It's not as strong an outing as "Pooh's Heffalump Movie", but it does offer a bit more scope and repeat viewing value than most similar direct-to-video family fare.
The DVD
VIDEO: "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween" is presented by Disney in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen. The animation quality is a bit less than the original "Heffalump", but still fine to watch and finely presented by this transfer. The presentation shows off the details of the animation well, and the picture remains consistently crisp. No pixelation or edge enhancement was apparent, and colors generally remained bright and well-saturated. The older footage is in perfectly fine shape, and despite looking different than the new footage, doesn't look too vastly different.
SOUND: "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 by Disney. As expected from this kind of family fare, the 5.1 presentation is pretty tame. The rear speakers do provide the occasional sound effect and bit of ambient sound, but the majority of the audio comes from the front speakers. Audio quality was fine, with crisp, clear dialogue.
EXTRAS: Four interactive games (Trick or Re-treat, Pass the Pumpkin, Pooh's Boo Bingo, Heffalump Halloween Party Planner), DVD-ROM features, and sneak peeks for other Disney titles.
Final Thoughts: Despite the fact that it integrates a bit better than I'd have thought, the fact that older footage was used to extend this feature makes it feel rather thin. Still, it's pleasant family entertainment, and the target audience of kids will likely want to throw this one on the tube more than once before October ends. Disney's DVD edition provides fine audio/video quality, as well as a couple of slight supplements. Recommended.


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Classic Psalms showcases the beautiful sound of a cello/piano duo with all of it's intriguing, meditative, and joyful qualities. Composed by Crista Phelps, Classic Psalms is a compilation of classical-style arrangements that are based on tunes taken from the 1912 version of the Psalter. Many of these tunes are also known as traditional hymns. With Eric Phelps on cello and Crista on piano, Classic Psalms provides a beautiful setting for listeners to enjoy these sacred songs. About the Artists: Eric Phelps received his Bachelors of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Masters of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music. His primary teachers were Richard Rognstad, Peter Rejto, Judith Glyde, Michael Haber, and Timothy Eddy. Eric has participated in music festivals in North America and Europe, including master classes with Lynn Harrell, Janos Starker, and Yo-Yo Ma. Eric served as Associate Principal cellist for the West Shore Symphony in Muskegon, Michigan, substitutes in the Grand Rapids Symphony (Michigan), and is the cellist of the Symphonie Quartet. He also teaches cello at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, MI. He plays a 1995 Stanley Kiernoziak cello made in the shop of William Harris Lee in Chicago. Crista Phelps received her Bachelors of Arts in Music from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI, where she studied composition, clarinet, and piano. Crista is experienced in composing as well as arranging sacred pieces for various instrumental combinations. She performs and accompanies on the piano for special events. Eric and Crista married in 2003 and have been performing together since 2001.
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Hey guys. I am new here and have been out of the wii scene for a while. I am not one to just ask. I have read many, many post on several different forums and I see different answers which is of course confusing. I have a launch day Wii with an original WiiKey. It is updated to 4.2U (official). I would just like to know if it is save to update to 4.3U (official). I'm not worried about region free as 4.2U took care of that. I only play US games so, I did not care about it. I just play backed up Wii/Gamecube games..no homebrew of any kind.
Anyone? I am wanting to update so I can get the disc free Netflix.
Thanks of the reply but I have no idea how to do any of that. I have never messed with any that wad stuff or whatever it is..I put in a chip to play backups and that is it. I never plan on messing with any of that other junk, it is to time consuming. Again thanks for the reply though
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Picture: Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes performing with his side project Nickel Eye at the Boogaloo club in Highgate London, England - 14.10.08
American rockers The Strokes have defended their unpopular second album ROOM ON FIRE, insisting fans and critics have made a mistake by rubbishing their work.
The LAST NITE hitmakers are hoping for more success with their third album FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH and insist people will change their minds about Room On Fire in retrospect.
Guitarist NICK VALENSI says, "I wish we'd had more time to think about the songs more, but we gave it 100 per cent in the time that we had to do it."
Drummer Fabrizio Moretti adds, "Those songs are good man. It is what it is and hopefully, once people are done enjoying this album (First Impressions), they'll go back and realise they maybe they made a mistake when they dogged us, man.
"Honestly, the most glaringly obvious thing is that people thought that it sounded too much like the first record. That can be justified, but it's not really that true."


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'Hanjamaru', a game currently in development by NHN and EduFlo, grabbed attention from the beginning of the development. Pedagogists who study Chinese characters and education psychologists from Harvard University have participated in the development process, and the game's education effect has been proved through experiments done in Psychology department of Seoul National University.
'Hanjamaru' was intended to let the users be interested in studying Chinese characters through audio-visual teaching system. 'Hanjamaru' enabled this by combining the education method with battle, which is the basic element of MMORPG.
Also, the influences that changes of various factors, such as the size, speed or aggression of monsters and appearance of items during the game, cause on users' gaze were studied in terms of educational psychology and cognitive psychology, and the results were applied in 'Hanjamaru'.
26,000 users in total participated in the final close-beta test, which was held for two weeks in January 2009, and testers learned 13 Chinese characters per hour in average. Especially, 78% of young (age of 10 or lower) participants' ability in Chinese have increased, which indicates educational effect of'Hanjamaru'.
Kwon Su Yeon (43, office worker), a parent who tried out Hanjamaru with her child, said "It seems Hanjamaru brings interest to the users, and leads to natural education by going through repetitive routine. I hope it will be a nice teaching method for children to learn Chinese characters while having fun."
Currently, Hanjamaru only supports Korean-based Chinese characters, but the global version which will support Japanese-based Chinese characters and Simplified Chinese characters will be published in 2009.
Official Website : www.hanjamaru.com
Type : Edutainment(Educational game)
Target Users : 7~13
Minimum requirements : CPU Celeron 1Ghz, Memory 512 MB, GeForce MX440
Recommended requirements : CPU Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz, Memory 1GB, GeForce 6200 or better
Published Year : 2009
Supported OS : Window XP, 2000 , Vista Supported (DirectX 9.0c or higher version)
NHN is an Internet-specialized company that currently runs search engine Naver, game portal site Hangame, and portal site for Children Junior NAVER. Found in June 1999, NHN is ranked as a top search-engine developing company (According to Fair Trade Commission, NAVER took 61.5% of portal market share in December 2008)
Eduflo Inc. is a company specialized in developing game-based learning, formed with professionals from education service and game-developing fields. It owns many experienced R&D and IT developing workforces, developing technologies for online software and portable devices such as IPod and Nintendo DS. The company has approved its technology and competence by successfully inviting joint-investment of SOFTBANK ventures and JAFCO Asia for a currently developing game, 'Hanjamaru'.


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International capital mobility and the costs of U.S. import restraints
In a series of recent papers, Neary and others have established the importance of trade in factor services, especially capital, in determining the welfare effects of import restrictions by tariffs, QRs, and VERs. In the absence of induced terms-of-trade changes and rental rate effects, Neary demonstrates that international capital mobility raises the costs of tariff protection and lowers that of QRs and VERs. This paper examines the impact of international capital mobility on the welfare effects of import protection by tariff, QRs, and VERs. Generalizing the work of Neary and others to take explicit account of induced terms-of-trade and rental rate effects, this paper demonstrates that the qualitative influence of capital mobility on the costs of protection cannot be ascertained unambiguously. The aggregate welfare effects of import restraints for the U.S. are simulated under different assumptions about international capital mobility, and the influence of the size of the U.S. in world markets. The paper sets up an analytical model that indicates the general links between international capital mobility and the welfare effects of different forms of import restraint. It reports onthe estimated welfare impact of international capital mobility on the welfare effects of U.S. import protection.
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- Brecher, Richard A. & Diaz Alejandro, Carlos F., 1977. "Tariffs, foreign capital and immiserizing growth," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 317-322, November.
- Jones, Ronald W., 1984. "Protection and the harmful effects of endogenous capital flows," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 15(3-4), pages 325-330.
- J. Peter Neary, 1985. "International Factor Mobility, Minimum Wage Rates, and Factor-Price Equalization: A Synthesis," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 100(3), pages 551-570.
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This unit presents the illustrated testimony of Akihiro Takahashi, an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima, who was born in that city in 1931 and miraculously survived the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945 when he was 14 years old. It took 18 months for Takahashi to regain his health after that terrible event and two years until he was able to return to school. Throughout that time he suffered constant fatigue, a common symptom among A-bomb survivors. After completing his high-school education he applied for a job in a local advertising company. Although he was told initially that his application was successful, the job offer was withdrawn when the company realized that Takahashi's right arm was partially disabled as a result of the bombing. Eventually, he was offered a temporary job at the Hiroshima City Council, where he later became a full-time worker. There too, however, he often experienced discrimination by fellow workers due to his physical disability.
Takahashi's injuries were extensive. His right hand was taut and stiff from keloid scars caused by heat rays from the bomb, so he could not move his fingers. In 1953, after a skin-graft operation that lasted five hours, he was finally able to hold a pen again and write properly. But he still could not bend his right arm more than 120 degrees, an injury which has remained with him throughout his life. His back too is permanently covered with keloid scars. Takahashi has also suffered various illnesses since his exposure to the bomb, including chronic hepatitis that still plagues him.
Akihiro Takahashi giving the testimony reproduced in this unit at a conference in Hiroshima in March, 2006
Despite his ill health and disabilities, Takahashi has been active in talking at various public gatherings and to school children about his experience of the nuclear holocaust. He was one of a number of A-bomb survivors who spoke about their ordeals at the first Hiroshima Citizens' Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, held on May 15, 1954 and attended by over 1,000 people. In 1965 he went to the Soviet Union, embarking on his first overseas trip as part of his anti-nuclear campaign. While there he talked in six cities, including Irkutsk, where he addressed 30,000 people in a large sports stadium. In 1983 he spoke at the UN European Headquarters in Geneva, where a special exhibition of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was held. During this trip he visited the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna and requested that photos and other materials concerning the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki be placed on permanent display in the IAEA building. Not surprisingly, his request was rejected.
In 1986 Takahashi was invited to China, where he met Chinese victims of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the Asia Pacific War, such as the Nanjing Massacre and the bombing of Chongqing. These encounters had a significant impact on him. They made him realize Japan's war responsibility vis-a-vis its Asian neighbors and the importance of overcoming hatred among former enemies. In 1988 Takahashi visited Sweden, Italy, and the Vatican and met Pope John Paul II in Rome. In 1990 he attended the International Citizens' Conference for Banning Nuclear Tests, organized by IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk, in the northeast of Almaty, was a nuclear test site of the former Soviet Union where 456 nuclear tests were conducted between 1949 and 1989. It is said that more than one-million people were irradiated as a result of these tests. Takahashi met people from Semipalatinsk who were suffering from similar illnesses to those suffered by A-bomb survivors and he formed a friendship and solidarity with them.
Takahashi has traveled to many other countries—including the United States—to inform people about the horror of nuclear attacks, and his testimony has been translated not only into English, but also into French and German. He has also been active in meeting children from all over Japan visiting Hiroshima on school excursions. On these occasions he speaks about the importance of building a peaceful society. In 1991 he was awarded the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Commission) Broadcasting Cultural Award for his contribution to promoting peace messages both in Japan and overseas.
In June, 1980, when Takahashi visited Washington D.C. to speak at the Exhibition of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—held in the Russell Building of the U.S. Senate and organized by the Hiroshima Youth Association—he met Paul Tibetts, the pilot of the B-29 "Enola Gay," from which the atomic bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped. The meeting was arranged by Japanese journalists from Hiroshima. It was the first time a crew member from the "Enola Gay" met an A-bomb survivor face to face.
At the meeting Takahashi said to Tibetts, "I have no intention to express my anger to you, so please feel at ease. For many years I have felt a deep hatred of American war leaders, including President Truman, who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on us, as well as for the Japanese militarists who initiated the war. But one day I realized that this hatred could not be erased by another hatred, and that peace could not be achieved by hatred. I started to think that I must overcome my hatred, although I knew it would require much courage. We, the A-bomb survivors, are appealing to the people of the world, irrespective of nationality and position, never to repeat this mistake with nuclear weapons. This is the spirit of Hiroshima, and I urge you to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons."
Tibetts responded, "I understand your feelings very well. But, if there was another war and I was ordered to drop an atomic bomb, I would obey the order again. This is the logic of war and the logic for soldiers. If war happens, we have no option but to accept orders. We must, therefore, make sure no wars are started ever again." Takahashi did not agree with Tibetts' argument about the logic of war, but he was relieved to hear Tibetts' words "we must make sure no wars are started ever again." The meeting lasted about half an hour, throughout which Tibetts held Takahashi's right hand. (At the beginning of the meeting, Tibetts had noticed the keloid scars on Takahashi's hand and asked if the scar was due to the bombing, to which Takahashi answered, "Yes.") After the meeting the two men corresponded for a while, but Tibetts stopped replying to Takahashi's letters when controversy arose concerning the exhibition of the "Enola Gay" at the Smithsonian National Air Space Museum in 1995 and Tibetts made public statements staunchly justifying the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1979 the then mayor of Hiroshima, Takeshi Araki, wanted to appoint an A-bomb survivor to become the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (the so-called A-bomb Museum). Takahashi was chosen because of his strong and sincere commitment to promoting the anti-nuclear message and because of his position as a victim of the atomic bombing. Takahashi was director for four years, during which he introduced various new programs to help as many people as possible understand the horrors of the atomic bombing. For example, he initiated a lending service of the museum's collection. This enabled other museums and grass roots peace organizations to borrow displays such as torn clothes worn by A-bomb victims and roof tiles scorched and distorted by heat rays, together with written explanations and photos.
This lending program remains one of the most popular and important services that the museum operates, and has been extended to include overseas exhibitions in the U.S., Korea, Denmark, and many other countries. Another program that Takahashi introduced as director was the tape recording of A-bomb survivors' testimonies, which were then made available for visitors to the museum. This program later developed into an audio visual service, and some of the testimonies are now available with English translation.
During the last few years Takahashi has had to spend a few months each year in the hospital due to his complicated illness, and it has become difficult for him to travel overseas. He is still, however, eager to speak about his experience at any opportunity, in Hiroshima or in other parts of Japan. He is possibly the best-known living witness to the nuclear holocaust.
The pictures illustrating Takahashi's experience were drawn by Mr. Goro Shikoku. Shikoku is a local amateur painter, although many people consider his paintings to be of professional quaility. Born in Hiroshima in 1924, he is self-taught, having enjoyed painting since childhood. Before being drafted into the army and sent to Manchuria in 1944, he worked at an army uniform textile factory in Hiroshima. He was captured by the Russian army at the end of the war and sent to Siberia to do hard labor for more than three years. On his return in 1949 he found that many of his friends and relatives—including one of his brothers—had been killed by the atomic bomb. He was also shocked by the physical condition of A-bomb survivors and started painting to convey an anti-nuclear and peace message while working at the city council. During the next fifty years he produced many moving paintings, the "mother and child" theme being his most common. In addition, he produced posters and pamphlets for the anti-nuclear and anti-war campaign, as well as the cover art for books on nuclear issues. In 1999 a limited edition of a two-volume publication of his artwork was published by a group of friends and supporters. He still lives in Hiroshima [as of this writing in 2007], but does not paint any longer.
Yuki Tanaka
Hiroshima Peace Institute
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