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Volcano Watch — Which way would you drive?
Which way would you drive if you lived on the on the flank of an active volcano with lava headed your way? This question is based on real-life events that happened during the 1950 eruption of Mauna Loa.
Which way would you drive if you lived on the on the flank of an active volcano with lava headed your way? This question is based on real-life events that happened during the 1950 eruption of Mauna Loa.
On March 25 at 5:43 a.m., a strong earthquake was widely felt across the island.
On May 29 at 3:17 p.m., another strong earthquake shook the island. It was located high on the southwest rift zone. Damage to water tanks and stone walls was reported in Kona. Mauna Loa was building toward its next outbreak.
Volcanic tremor started at 9:04 p.m. on June 1, and a distinct glow appeared to observers at 9:25 p.m.
A 4-km [2.5-mile] fissure opened up, starting at Lua Hou, and proceeded downrift to the 3,840- to 3,350-m [12,600- to 11,000-ft] elevation. The lava from this fissure system headed westward down the mountain. This initial flow moved toward Ho`okena. Which way do you drive?
This flow advanced only 8 km [5 miles] to the 2,740-m [9,000-ft] elevation. A second, more robust flow was moving south-southeast toward Punalu`u. By daybreak on June 2, this flow crossed Kahuku Ranch's mauka road and entered the upper reaches of the Ka`u forest reserve at an elevation of 1,670 m [5,500 ft] after flowing approximately 16 km [10 miles]. Your job is in Hilo, your family in Na'alehu. Which way do you drive?
At 10:15 p.m. on June 1, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory personnel noticed a fume cloud 13 km [8 miles] downrift from the previous vents at the 2,515-m [8,250-ft] elevation. At 10:23 p.m., the illuminated area quickly expanded, indicating that the fissures were actively propagating.
Visual observations indicated two active fissure systems. The upper, extending from the 3,200- to 2,590-m [10,500- to 8,500-ft] elevation, was 9.6 km [6 miles] long. The second, lower, fissure system extended from the 2,500- to 2,380-m [8,200- to 7,800-ft] elevation.
The higher fissure system produced two flows heading westward. The northernmost was called the Honokua flow, the other the Ka`ohe flow. The Honokua flow was fed by fissures between the 2,740- and 3,050-m [9,000- and 10,000-ft] elevation, and lava was moving rapidly. What did this mean for the main traffic corridor surrounding the island? Which way do you drive?
By 12:20 a.m. on June 2, this flow was approximately 1.5 km (1 mile) above Highway 11. By 12:30 a.m., it crossed the highway at the town of Pahoehoe, taking out a gas station, the post office, and several homes. The flow continued toward the ocean and reached it at 1:05 a.m. This flow covered the 24-km [15 mile] distance in less than three hours. By daybreak the activity was greatly diminished, and by noon activity ceased at this locality. Which way do you drive? It was too late for those of you who lived in south Kona-Ka'u; the highway was cut off.
The Ka`ohe flow originated from fissures between the 2,740- and 2,440-m [9,000- and 8,500-ft] elevation. It moved rapidly westward and crossed the highway at 5:00 a.m. approximately 2 km [1.2 miles] south of the Honokua flow near the Magoon ranch. This flow consumed several houses and a coconut grove as it entered the sea around noon on June 2. Twenty-four hours later, observers reported that the Ka`ohe flow had stopped.
From the lower fissure system, a flow called the Ka`apuna lobe originated from the 2,500- to 2,380-m [8,200- to 7,800-ft] elevation late in the evening of June 1. On June 2, at 12:20 p.m., observatory personnel, police, and lava groupies were waiting on highway 11 at the `Ohi`a Lodge, anticipating the arrival of the flow through the forest.
The Ka`apuna flow crossed the highway at 2:00 p.m., 400 m [one-fourth mile] south of the `Ohi`a Lodge and 6.4 km [4 miles] south of the Ka`ohe lobe. By 3:30 p.m., the Ka`apuna flow entered the sea. The flow entered the ocean without explosive activity. A line of steaming water 800 m [one-half mile] from the coast demarked the submarine extent of the flow.
At this point, if you lived south of Yee Hop Ranch, what do you do? Is the eruption over? Which way do you drive?
Late in the evening of June 2 or early June 3, a new lobe originated from the 2,530-m [8,300-ft] elevation. This flow, called the Kahuku flow, moved southward toward Kahuku Ranch. What do you do? Which way do you drive?
On June 8, this flow ceased and reached the 1,920-m [6,300-ft] elevation approximately 9 km [5.8 miles] from the vents.
The Ka`apuna lobe eventually became the focal point of the eruption, and activity waxed and waned until June 23.
Which way do you drive? Everyone should be aware that seismic activity precedes an eruption. When the eruption ensues, and the southwest rift zone of Mauna Loa is the active region, things can happen quickly. It took the Honokua lobe just four hours to cut the highway once the eruption started.
It behooves all of us to listen to the Civil Defense broadcasts for eruption updates. If you live in south Kona-Ka`u and cannot hear the broadcasts, drive to Na`alehu and await CD guidance.
Volcano Activity Update
Eruptive activity of Kīlauea Volcano continued unabated during the past week. Lava is erupting from Pu`u `O`o and flowing through a network of tubes toward the coast. Occasional breakouts from the tube system above and on the face of Pulama pali produce short-lived `a`a and pahoehoe lava flows. One flow is entering the ocean at Lae`apuki, and a second flow, located to the east of the first flow, is active in the area near Waha`ula and is intermittently entering the ocean. The public is reminded that the ocean-entry areas are extremely hazardous, with explosions accompanying sudden collapses of the new land. The active lava flows are hot and have places with very thin crust. The steam clouds are highly acidic and laced with glass particles.
There were no earthquakes reported felt during the week ending on March 23.


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Pullman – Pullman Police served a search warrant on a Pullman residence Wednesday afternoon and arrested 20-year-old Cody A. Richardson for two separate commercial burglaries at the local Wal-Mart store. Richardson's accomplice in the thefts, 20-year-old Deandre Johnson, was arrested without incident by Pullman Detectives at his residence in Spokane Valley on Thursday afternoon. Both men were booked into Whitman County Jail.
The two men admitted to stealing fifteen (15) Kindle book readers from Wal-Mart the second week of December, valued at a total of $2500.00. Six (6) of the stolen Kindles have been recovered so far.
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In a recent post CenterNetworks noted that the Amazon S3 service is showing elevated error rates. They noticed that several images were not loading correctly and they heard from multiple CN readers with the same issue on their sites.
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NBA sending Steve Nash, Dikembe Mutombo, more to Cuba for outreach
The NBA will take the first plunge into Cuba since President Barack Obama ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with the country.
The league is expected to announce a four-day men's and women's basketball clinic in Havana from April 23-26.
Recently retired Steve Nash and newly elected Hall of Fame member Dikembe Mutombo are among the instructors making the trip. Retired WNBA player Ticha Penicheiro will also make the trip. Nash, Mutombo and Penicheiro all speak Spanish.
"We've seen the bridges that basketball can build between cultures," NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum said.
Tatum, Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder and other league and team staff members will reportedly attend the camp.


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Whether you're making the trek across cities, states, or countries to see loved ones this holiday season (or having a solo staycation) here are a few great apps to curb your stress!
App: LoungeBuddy
First up is LoungeBuddy. This is a super helpful app for those traveling by plane during the holidays (or anytime, rather).
It's happened to most everyone who travels by plane-- you have a long layover, a flight is delayed a few hours, you miss your flight and need to wait for a later flight (many hours away) and don't want to actually leave the airport with your luggage and come back. I first used a lounge at the Virgin America lounge at LAX when I missed my flight by a few minutes and had to wait eight hours for the next flight. Previously I didn't realize I could use the lounge without being an elite member and it was only $30 for the day and I was able to literally lounge very comfortably for hours. They offer insanely comfortable chairs, wifi, complimentary snacks and (boozy) beverages, in addition to a full restaurant menu for purchase. It was a great experience and definitely worth buying the day pass.
Loungebuddy is your connection to the best airport lounges.
The folks at LoungeBuddy have aggregated lounge entry requirement information from every lounge in 900+ of the busiest airports around the world, so you can search for lounges that you can access based on your own provided information. It's pretty helpful as you can see a good amount of basic information for each lounge in regards to what it offers, hours, map (and step by step directions by foot of how to get there once in the airport), user reviews, and pictures from users of the app. Lastly, you can purchase a day pass directly using the app. The search function allows you to lookup lounges by airport or based on an itinerary synced from Concur or TripIt.
It's like a prettier Yelp, for airport lounges.
App: CenteredState
CenteredState is an app that's super helpful for when you're on the verge of not being able to handle political conversations with your family, or freaking out because you're alone on Christmas Eve. If you find yourself in these positions, pull out this (free) app and calm yourself. Many of the anxiety and panic related apps either cost money to download or were strictly guided meditations. This app allows you to do certain exercises for free and also is focused primarily on actually calming you down. We think there's some neuroscience backing up this app but we aren't actual researchers so we cannot confirm that. But from our testing on ourselves, it worked.
CenteredState can help you calm the f down and re-center yourself
Simply open the app, indicate your stress level and it will coach you through a curated breathing session of your choosing. You can customize the graphics, your lung capacity and duration. It's a good (natural) quick fix to help you calm down and reduce anxiety levels.
App: Bumble (BFF mode)
You may know of Bumble as just the dating app where women have to initiate the conversation (created by a co-founder of Tinder). But Bumble isn't just a dating app anymore-- it operates similarly as Bumble for dating, but when you turn the app onto BFF mode, you're able to search for and meet friends that are near you and have similar interests. If you're going nuts with your family and want to meet up casually with someone in your close physical proximity (eggnog and fun conversation with a stranger, anyone?) or if you're staying home alone for the holidays, Bumble BFF is a good way to meet new people when you… want to meet new people. :)
Vent your frustrations with a fellow stranger over some eggnog with Bumble BFF
Erin Essex, our Creative Director, tried out Bumble BFF a few months ago to meet new people and she claims it was a success. This app is an easy way to casually meet new friends. (It's really not as creepy as you would think, give it a shot!)
We hope these apps will help you this holiday season bring some more cheer to potentially less cheerful situations. :) Let us know if you've tried any of these and what your thoughts may be!


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When it comes to celebrating your wedding anniversary, there are a few different routes that you could go down. There are, of course, the more traditional options. You could choose gifts according to the traditional meaning of each anniversary. I mean, it's great when the ruby wedding anniversary comes around, but you will have had to have been married for forty years to get the goods. Paper and cotton in the first few years are a little trickier to buy for. Which is why more and more people are choosing more unique ways to celebrate an anniversary with their spouse. If you are looking for something a little different, then look no further. Here are some ideas for you.
Matching Tattoos
If you both like to get inked, or perhaps it would be your first time, then for a special anniversary you could get matching tattoos. It could be a small symbol or even something like your wedding date. For a milestone anniversary like your tenth, for instance, you could even get tattoos on your wedding ring fingers. Who needs to renew their vows when you could just do this? Then you've always got something to show your commitment to each other, whether you wear your wedding ring or not. You can see more wedding ring tattoos online, to give you some inspiration if you think it might be a good idea for you.
Recreate Your Wedding Day Menu
Most people will celebrate their wedding anniversary by looking back on their wedding day. You might rewatch your wedding video or try and get back into your wedding dress. Something a little different is to have the meal that you would have had as part of your wedding breakfast. Making it together could be fun, and it will be romantic as you reminisce about your memories of the day. So can you remember what your first meal as a married couple was?
Cross Something Off The Bucket List
Most people have a bit of a bucket list, right? Even if it is something that they haven't written down, there will be things they'd like to do or places that they'd like to visit. As a couple, there will probably be a few things that you'd both like to see and experience. So making a plan to do one of those things as part of your anniversary could be a really fun way to celebrate. Whether it is that you both want to do a skydive, or you both want to visit Italy. Make plans, and it will be an anniversary to remember.
Get Creative
It might be something that you start early on, but creating a tradition around your anniversary is something that you'll both come to enjoy. For a fifth anniversary, you could get five red roses (or whatever your favorite flower is). For an eighth anniversary, it could be eight pot plants or doughnuts, for example. Just get creative each year, and you'll both have something to look forward to.


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Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) as an invader and threat to biodiversity in arid environments: A review
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Popular pastoral species, Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is receiving long overdue attention as an invasive weed that poses serious threats to biodiversity conservation worldwide. Most research focuses on the species as forage plant and is largely published in agricultural and grey literature. Meanwhile, there is a dearth of information about the species ecology in natural landscapes despite strong evidence from field workers and managers that the species is an aggressive invader and threat to biodiversity in many environments. We present a comprehensive review of the ecology, distribution and biodiversity impacts of Buffel grass when behaving as an invasive species. Foundations are laid for research into localised habitat requirements of the species that will aid in the management of Buffel grass invasions now and into the future.


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Ubuntu not usable anymore?
Seems so. From wikipedia:
Version 12.10 also requires users to agree to allow Ubuntu's parent company Canonical to collect user search data and IP addresses and to disclose this information to third parties including Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon, drawing criticism from privacy advocates[119]. According to the Free Software Foundation, the "adware" introduced in version 12.10 violates users' privacy and "is one of the rare occasions in which a free software developer persists in keeping a malicious feature in its version of a program."[120] Citing concerns about data leaks, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has outlined a number of requested improvements for future versions, asking Ubuntu developers to "make sure that you respect your users' privacy and security."[121] Responding to criticism of the earlier beta version, in relation to privacy complaints, Shuttleworth said "Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don't trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already."[117]
That sounds awful. I mean, that's the cause why I use free software, because the have usually no indent so sell you. Well, guys, now is the question: what next? Back to Gentoo? Sure not :-/


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Intern Profile: Molly Sobel '15
June 23, 2014
Molly Sobel '15
Can you tell us what you're doing this summer? What are your basic duties as an intern?
This summer I am an intern at City of Refuge Orphanage in Ghana. The orphanage houses and educates more than 60 children who have been rescued from child slavery in Lake Volta's fishing industry. I am working as a teacher at the on-campus school, Faith Roots International Academy, which is a K-12 school with more than 250 students from the orphanage and surrounding villages. As an intern, I have my own class of children ages 12 to 16 who cannot read and need extra help in all subjects, with an emphasis on literacy. I also have reading groups of about six children who are beginning readers. After school hours, I help out with tutoring and leading activities for the kids. I especially enjoy leading sports games and art nights when they don't need help with homework. Another one of my favorite tasks is fetching buckets of water from the well and bringing it to the houses for the kids to bathe. I am just starting to get good at carrying the buckets on my head without spilling.
How has Lewis & Clark supported you in the process of finding, securing, and funding your internship?
The Fowler and Levin internship award I received from Lewis & Clark made it financially possible for me to work in this internship. The generous grant covered the cost of my flights and housing, which allowed me to work here instead of working a paid job at a summer camp in California like I usually do in the summers.
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After I graduate next year, I hope to go on to get a master's in social work so that I can work for Child Protective Services in group homes with foster children. This internship is offering me extremely valuable experience working with children who are former slaves by allowing me to work directly with these kids both as their teacher in school and in their orphanage as a sort of mentor figure. I am learning so much from all of the children and from the social workers and other staff who run the organization. This internship has made it clear to me that I am on the right career path and has given me the chance to work with my favorite population of children in many different ways. I feel so lucky to have this opportunity and to have seven more weeks to spend working here.
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Picture worth a thousand words:
I'm back, after a month away. There's been no rain, but the olla seems to be working! I left it on a drip from a barrel that had about 15 gallons in it.
(BTW, the black pipe there is just for show – nonfunctional. It was superseded by garden hose, which feeds into the olla.)
See the little visitor? (It's a pinacate beetle.) And there is scat next to the mulch, as well (off screen), and some of the mulch looks like it's been moved. If the olla is attracting wildlife, I like that, too.
However, as it looks as though something might be eating the shoots, I might decide to put a little fence around it.
I'm here for about a week this time, planning improvements to the watering system, rebuilding the shower (which toppled while I was away), and installing the experimental water harvester I've mentioned before. Perhaps also I'll build a work table, a sturdy and well anchored one that won't fly away in 60-mph winds.
Then back to Reevis to construct my yurpee. The wood's all cut, and I started the carpentry last week, but because I'm learning carpentry in the process, it's slow going. Hope to have it in place up here before the summer rains begin.


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Please, please have a look at this http://belle-diaryofahousewife.blogspot.com/2008/07/appeal-for-help.html link.
My friend Belle is helping another friend Jo, who is trying to help another friend Marie.
It's basically a long line of friends helping each other.
So can you join in?
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Pulmonary Haemsiderosis - Appeal for Help
Please, please have a look at this http://belle-diaryofahousewife.blogspot.com/2008/07/appeal-for-help.html link.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008
"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Edward Young (1683-1765)
OK. I'm sitting here on the computer, as I have been most other evenings of late.
I haven't written anything for a little while, either on my blog or otherwise. And I have been wondering why. Why, when I have time to write for a couple of hours, do I suddenly decide to do the laundry/watch TV/ surf the net reading other people's blogs etc etc? Clearly I am a procrastinator. This has been brought home to me, in the most profound way, by my search of Wikipedia (it's on Wiki, so it must be true...) on the subject.
After the usual stuff about procrastination being related to the anxiety associated with starting or completing a task, I was informed that people who suffer from procrastination have a higher than normal level of conscientiousness. You're talking to a mother here - guilt is my middle name....
And then, the clincher. The clear diagnosis of my innate procrastination:
'People who exhibit decreased impulse control and procrastination appear to be prone to internet addiction.'
Get. Off. The. Computer. Now. Claire.
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008
I should just rename this blog...
Things my kids do and say.
Yesterday we were picking raspberries in my mum's garden, collecting them in bowls. Dear daughter was dutifully filling her little bowl, and I noticed that small son's bowl was empty and discarded on the ground.
'Are you still picking the raspberries?' I asked.
'Yes, mummy'
'Well where are you putting them?' (you should just never ask these questions)
Him, breezily, 'Oh, in my pockets.'
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Sunday, 6 July 2008
Serendipity and Unicorns
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Friendship Again
Following on from my ramblings about friendship, I just found a great quotation which eloquently summarises what I was trying to say....
'Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.'
Virginia Woolf
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Thursday, 3 July 2008
I have just spent the evening talking with a very old and dear friend. We have known each other for twenty years, but until tonight there were pieces of the jigsaw that makes him who he is that were missing. I don't know why he chose tonight to talk so honestly - things just seemed to lead that way. And I don't know why he chose to tell me some of the things he did. I hadn't asked, and our friendship isn't based on any need for me to know. But I was deeply moved by both what he said and the fact that he chose to tell me.
What is friendship about? A shared history? Being supportive? Offering advice and a shoulder to cry on? Maybe all these. But sometimes these get in the way of what is important; and that is acceptance.
I think being a true friend is accepting the contradiction that people are as they are, and also that they are essentially unknowable, as we all are. And being truly open to that contradiction.
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Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Sports Day
Dearest daughter's nursery Sports/Fun Day was a hoot. Watching twenty 3 and 4 year olds running relay races was hilarious. The boys were great at the running, but when it came to the balance and control required for the egg and spoon, and balancing the bean-bag on the head, the girls came into their own.
I have to embarrassingly admit to a certain amount of trepidation beforehand, as sports have never been my strong suit (to put it mildly). Even the mention of the words 'Sports Day' made me feel all anxious and took me right back to my school days of miserable enforced participation.
Anyway, I needn't have worried. Dearest daughter enjoyed it all, and actually acquitted herself fairly well. (must get that from her father) And she won a jar of sweets for guessing the number in it correctly. So she was happy. And so was I.
I still didn't join in the Mother's Race though...
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And here's a classic from the other child...
My son and I have been scaling the heights of the mountain known as potty training. We have a mantra currently running in our house:
(Me) 'Where do wee-wee's go?'
(Him) 'In the potty..!'
Before he blithely wees in his training pants.
Anyway, we are going to France on holiday in the summer and I have decided to go cold turkey with the potty training. Here's how the conversation went:
(Me) 'When we go to France, there's going to be no more nappies. So where do wee-wees go?'
(Him, triumphantly) 'In the swimming pool!'
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(Orah Hayyim 95:2 in Ateret Zekeinim)
In honor of my brother Cantor Abe Golinkin on his birthday
Question from a number of rabbinical students: Why do Jews from Islamic lands object to sitting with crossed legs in a synagogue?(1) What are the sources? Is their objection justified?
Responsum: This topic is not that important in and of itself, but we can derive from it a number of important things about the development of Jewish law. We shall see how one sentence written by a halakhic authority in 13th century France influenced Jews throughout the world beginning in the 17th century, thanks to the invention of printing and to the widespread circulation of the Shulhan Arukh. We shall also learn that sometimes one Jewish ethnic group adopts a specific law or custom due to the influence of a number of specific halakhic authorities.
I do not know to what extent this is a general custom today of Jews of Islamic lands, but there is no question that it is a custom of the Jews of Iraq, which passed from Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad (d. 1909) to Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer (d. 1939), to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (d. 2013), and to his son Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, who is now the Sefardic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
There are very few sources about this custom. I found most of the sources below via the works of Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (2), and via the notes of Rabbi Eliyahu Yair Bakshi to the Ben Ish Hai. (Many of the sources quoted below are not found in the Bar Ilan Responsa Project.)
I) Derekh Eretz Rabbah
Derekh Eretz Rabbah is a rabbinic work written in the style of rabbinic wisdom literature such as Avot and Avot Derabi Nattan. In Derekh Eretz Rabbah Chapter 11 (= Tosefta Derekh Eretz Chapter 6, ed. Higger, pp. 316-317; and cf. the translation ibid., English side, pp. 118-119) we find this paragraph:
He loosened his shoes and went out to the street – he is of the haughty.
He [who wears his cloak] hanging sideways and [his hat turned back],
His thigh on the other [thigh],
The tefillin straps in his hand and he turns them around (?) when he is walking in the street – he is of the haughty.
And all of the haughty are like idol worshippers, as it is written "and you shall bring not an abomination (toevah) into your house" (Deut. 7:26), and later on He says "all who are haughty are an abomination (toevah) to God" (Proverbs 16:5) – just as toevah mentioned here is idol worship, so is toevah mentioned there.
We do not know when Derekh Eretz Rabbah was written, but this source is apparently quite old, since they still wore tefillin all day long, including in the street, as they did in the Talmudic period.(3) It is clear from examining the entire paragraph that the author is opposed to whoever goes out into the street and acts with haughtiness. He even quotes a Gezeirah Shavah (a law derived from the same word which appears in two verses; cf. Sotah 4b for a similar teaching) in order to say that haughtiness is like idol worship. It is also clear that this source is not discussing crossing legs in a synagogue.(4) It is discussing a person who walks in the street without shoes, with his hat tilted back, wearing his tefillin in a disrespectful fashion. I do not know how one can walk "with his thigh on the other [thigh]", but it is clear that it is referring to some form of haughty gait and not to someone sitting and praying in a synagogue. In other words, this is an interesting source, but it has nothing to do with our topic.
II) Rabbeinu Peretz of Corbeil and those who ruled like him
The following source is the only relatively early source for the custom under discussion. All of the other books we shall cite below copied from him, even though most of them did not know they were copying from him.
- Rabbeinu Peretz of Corbeil lived in France and died ca. 1298. The Tosafot of Rabbeinu Peretz and his students "covered almost all the tractates of the Talmud" (E.E. Urbach, Ba'alei Hatosafot, fourth edition, Jerusalem, 1980, pp. 575-581). Among other works, he wrote Glosses to the Semak, Sefer Mitzvot Kattan, of his teacher Rabbi Yitzhak of Corbeil (d. 1280). This is what Rabbeinu Peretz wrote in his Gloss to Sefer Mitzvot Kattan (No. 11, subparagraph 2, Satmar, 1935, p. 9):
When you pray while seated [i.e., not during the Amidah], do not lean back, and do not lean to the sides,
Do not stretch out your legs, and do not put one leg on the other,
For all of these are haughtiness.
Rather sit with your head bowed, so that you don't see the face of the person sitting opposite you outside of four cubits [= two meters],
And put your hands under your cloak, the right on top of the left, and sit in fear and trembling.
Rabbeinu Peretz is of the opinion that a person who sits and prays in the synagogue must sit in a dignified fashion without leaning back or to the sides, without stretching his legs out or crossing his legs, but rather to sit with his head bowed in order to avoid looking at the other worshippers. He does not want the worshipper to sit in "haughtiness", but rather "in fear and trembling". And as for his opposition to sitting with crossed legs, it is possible that he was influenced by French etiquette in his day, as we have seen in connection with other customs.(5)
- This ruling of Rabbeinu Peretz made its way from France to Poland, where most of it was quoted by Rabbi Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620-1689) in his commentary Ateret Zekeinim to Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayyim 95:2:
And in the seated prayer [i.e., not during the Amidah], he should not lean back, and he should not lean to the sides,
because that is the way of haughtiness.
And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other,
For all of these are the ways of haughtiness.
Rather, he sits with his head bowed, so that he should not see the face of the person sitting opposite him outside of four cubits [= two meters]…
his hands under his cloak, the right on top of the left, as a hint to increase the attribute of mercy over the attribute of justice.
In other words, other than the final phrase, this is a quote from Rabbeinu Peretz, which has been changed from the second person to third person. However, for some reason, and in opposition to the other sources quoted in that paragraph, Rabbi Auerbach did not indicate that this is a quote from Rabbeinu Peretz. Therefore, all of the later rabbis who cite this law do so in the name of Ateret Zekeinim from Poland in the 17th century and not in the name of Rabbeinu Peretz from France in the 13th century.
- This ruling of Ateret Zekeinim was quoted by Rabbi Yehudah Ashkenazi, the Dayan of Tiktin in his classic commentary to the Shulhan Arukh, first printed in Amsterdam in 1742 (Ba'er Heteiv to Orah Hayyim 95, subparagraph 3): "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other. At"z [=Ateret Zekeinim]".
- It was also quoted by Rabbi Yisrael Ya'akov Algazi (1680-1757) who was born in Izmir and made Aliyah in 1735, studied and taught at the Bet El Yeshivah in Jerusalem, was chosen as Rishon Letziyon in 1756, and was buried on the Mount of Olives. In Sefer Shalmei Tzibbur (Salonika 1790, fol. 110b = ed. Jerusalem, 1987, p. 264), he writes: "and in Sefer Ateret Zekeinim he wrote… And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other".
- The Hida (Rabbi Hayyim Yosef David Azulai, 1724-1806), one of the most important halakhic authorities in Eretz Yisrael and Italy, also quoted from Ateret Zekeinim in his Kesher Gudal (Livorno, 1802, paragraph 12:30): "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other" (at"z ibid.).
- Rabbi Eliezer Papo (Bulgaria and Bucharest, 1786-1827) quoted from Ateret Zekeinim without citing his source and with a slight addition in his Hesed La'alafim (Salonika 1841; Jerusalem, 1963, p. 143, to Orah Hayyim 95, subparagraph 2): "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other, but he should sit with fear and respect".
- Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad (ca. 1833-1909) was the most important halakhic authority in Iraq in the 19th He quoted this halakhah without an exact source (Ben Ish Hai, first year, Yitro, end of paragraph 9, ed. Jerusalem, 1985, p. 135), but it is clear from the final phrase that he is quoting from Rabbi Eliezer Papo and not from Ateret Zekeinim: "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other, but should sit with fear and respect, as is mentioned by the Aharonim [=later rabbis] of blessed memory".
- The ruling of Ateret Zekeinim was cited in brief by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Hakohen (Poland 1838-1933) in his Mishnah Berurah to Orah Hayyim 95, subparagraph 2, which was first published in 1894: "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other [at"z]".
- Finally, the ruling of the Ateret Zekeinim was quoted by Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer (Baghdad and Jerusalem, 1870-1939) in Kaf Hahayyim to Orah Hayyim 94, subparagraph 32: "And he should not stretch out his legs, and he should not put one leg on the other…", and then he refers to Ateret Zekeinim and to four of the other sources cited here.
In other words, originally, this was not an Iraqi custom. This entire custom is based on one sentence written by Rabbeinu Peretz in France in the 13th century. From there it passed anonymously to Rabbi Menahem Mendel Auerbach in Poland in the 17th century,
And from there to Rabbi Yehudah Ashkenazi in Poland in 1742,
And to Rabbi Y"Y Algazi in Jerusalem in the middle of the 18th century,
And to the Hida in Livorno at the end of the 18th century,
And to Rabbi Eliezer Papo in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 19th century,
And to Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad at the end of the 19th century,
And to Rabbi Yisrael Meir Hakohen in Poland at the end of the 19th century,
And to Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer of Baghdad and Jerusalem at the beginning of the 20th century.
And now let us examine what RabbI Yitzhak Yosef wrote in his Yalkut Yosef (Part 2, Jerusalem, 1990, 151:11, pp. 246-247):
It is forbidden to sit in the synagogue one leg on top of the other. Because it is like arrogance and pride. And even in his home it is not appropriate to sit like this. And in any case, if his intent is to put a book on his legs so that it will be convenient to read, it is permissible, "for God desires the heart". But even so, in the synagogue it is not appropriate to do so, even when his intention is to put a book on his legs and the like. And especially if he is a ben Torah [a learned person].
It should be stressed that only the first sentence is based on Ateret Zekeinim (or on Rabbeinu Peretz); all of the rest was invented by Rabbi Yosef himself. In note 17, he refers to Derekh Eretz Rabbah, the Ben Ish Hai, and Rabbeinu Peretz.
Finally, in She'erit Yosef (Part 3, Jerusalem, 1996, 150:14, pp. 287-288), Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef repeats his opinion in brief and explains in note 14: "We heard this law more than once from our teacher my father [i.e., Rabbi Ovadia Yosef] in his many classes, but he did not cite a source for this, and therefore we brought what the Semak [=Rabbeinu Peretz] wrote…". He then quotes Derekh Eretz Rabbah, admits that people told him, and rightly so, that that is not connected to our topic, and then he quotes again from the Ben Ish Hai. And he concludes: "And we saw ma'aseh rav [action as a precedent] by our teacher my father a number of times, that he scolded whoever sat in the synagogue with one leg on the other, and said that it is not the honor of the synagogue to sit in such a fashion. [Except if he did it in order to put a book on his leg to study it.]
In other words, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was quite strict about this custom and so is his son in his footsteps. Apparently, the Jews of Iraq are strict about this custom due to the rulings of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad, Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
III) Summary and Practical Halakhah
To summarize, we have seen that this law or custom has no Talmudic basis. It began with one sentence written by Rabbeinu Peretz in thirteenth-century France. From there, it passed anonymously to Ateret Zekeinim a commentary on the Shulhan Arukh written in Poland in the 17th century, and from there – due to the immense popularity of the Shulhan Arukh – it passed to many halakhic authorities in Poland, Eretz Yisrael, Livorno, Bulgaria, and Baghdad.(6) Today, this custom is apparently practiced by Iraqi Jews due to the influence of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad, Rabbi Ya'akov Hayyim Sofer and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
In light of all of the above, Jews of Iraqi descent and others who wish to observe this custom may do so, but there is no requirement to observe this custom. There is no doubt that one should sit in the synagogue with "fear and trembling" and without "pride". But this custom is, in the end, the lone opinion of Rabbeinu Peretz without any Talmudic basis, and he may have been influenced by French etiquette in his day. Furthermore, it is very difficult to force people to sit in a certain fashion in the synagogue for an extended period of time. In other words, "one does not impose a decree on the public unless the majority can endure it" (Bava Batra 60b and parallels). Indeed, it is desirable to sit in the synagogue in a respectful fashion without leaning back or to the sides or to stretch out one's legs, since such postures can be interpreted as disrespectful of the synagogue and of God. But it is not recommended to scold people who cannot sit straight for an extended period of time. In our day, we should be happy that they have come to the synagogue and encourage them to return.
David Golinkin
6 Elul 5778
- I was first asked about this custom by a number of rabbinical students 25 years ago and I wrote them a responsum in Hebrew on 24 Tevet 5753 (1993). A few months ago, my student Eitan Krol took an interest in this topic and wrote a responsum with the help of sources which I provided. I thank him for his interest which led to my returning to this topic.
- His books are cited below. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's knowledge is encyclopedic as usual; he is the only one who found the statement by Rabbeinu Peretz. However, his treatment of this topic is ahistorical; he did not see or emphasize that there is exactly one source for this custom, which made its way into many books in many countries, as we shall see below.
- In the Talmudic period, the Sages used to wear tefillin all day long. See, for example, Shabbat 49a re. Elisha Ba'al Kenafayim; Ketubot 104a re. the death of Rabbi Judah the Prince; and Yerushalmi Berakhot 2:3, fol. 4c that Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai and Rabbi Eliezer used to wear tefillin all day in the summer and winter.
- In Yalkut Yosef, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef thought that this source is connected to our topic, but in She'erit Yosef he wrote that it was correctly pointed out to him that it is not.
- In France in the Middle Ages they stopped covering the head during the shivah and also prayed with uncovered heads because at that time in France they thought that covering the head was a disgrace – see Yitzhak Zimmer, Olam K'minhago Noheig, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 193-195 and p. 208, figure 2; and p. 24.
- For a similar example of a custom which jumped from Germany in the 13th century to Jews of Islamic lands in modern times, see what I wrote about the custom of reenacting the Exodus at the Seder – David Golinkin, Insight Israel, second series, Jerusalem, 2006, pp. 80-83.


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Cullen v. Corwin (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 1074. Sellers were successful in a lawsuit brought by the buyers which contended that sellers failed to disclose a defective garage roof when they sold a vacation home. There was a contract which included an attorney's fees provision benefiting the prevailing party, and also a provision in the contract which required mediation as a condition precedent to the attorney's fees clause. Buyer's attorney indicated he had twice requested mediation of the litigation and seller's counsel had rejected those requests. Sellers' counsel argued that mediation was inappropriate until the buyers provided responses to discovery requests and that it was therefore proper for the buyers to refuse mediation.
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Cinel v. Birna (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 1383. This was a petition to compel arbitration of security fraud claims pursuant to an arbitration agreement contained in a private placement memorandum. The trial court had granted the petition to compel arbitration but the defendants failed to pay their share of the initial arbitration fee deposit, and plaintiffs failed to make the payment which was required by the arbitration agency when the defendants failed to make the required payment. As a result, the arbitration was terminated. One of the defendants then brought a second petition to compel arbitration arguing that he had paid his fees, and therefore the arbitration should be compelled. The court of appeal found that the second petition to compel arbitration was properly denied, in that unless all of the arbitration fees were paid as required, there could be no arbitration.
Sandler v. Sanchez (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 1431. The court holds that a broker of a real estate brokerage does not have a duty to third parties to supervise employees' representations. In this case a sales person who was a corporate employee of the brokerage committed tortious acts relating to a loan transaction. The duty imposed under Business and Professions Code §§10159.2 and 10177 is imposed on the officer who is the designated broker but is owed to the corporation, not to third parties. The officer was therefore successful in filing a demurrer to an action brought by investors against the officer on the basis of an alleged breach of fiduciary duty owed to the investors.


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Lets say there was this person, we will call her Emma for now, that needed to download lots of data but wanted to make it more robust and reliable. Here is a way to use NCBI ESearch and EFetch tools to do so. Complete documention at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25498/. Specific example used is here
Example one: Download all ilumatobacter protein sequences in fasta format.
Will use Esearch to get GI numbers, post them to history and multiple EFetch calls to retrieve data.
Input: $query –
Output: A file named "ilumatobacter.fa" containing FASTA data.
Perl script
use LWP::Simple;
$query = 'ilumatobacter[orgn]';
#assemble the esearch URL
$base = 'http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/';
$url = $base . "esearch.fcgi?db=protein&term=$query&usehistory=y";
#post the esearch URL
$output = get($url);
#parse WebEnv, QueryKey and Count (# records retrieved)
$web = $1 if ($output =~ /
$key = $1 if ($output =~ /
$count = $1 if ($output =~ /
#open output file for writing
open(OUT, ">ilumatobacter.fa") || die "Can't open file!\n";
#retrieve data in batches of 500
$retmax = 500;
for ($retstart = 0; $retstart < $count; $retstart += $retmax) {
$efetch_url = $base ."efetch.fcgi?db=protein&WebEnv=$web";
$efetch_url .= "&query_key=$key&retstart=$retstart";
$efetch_url .= "&retmax=$retmax&rettype=fasta&retmode=text";
$efetch_out = get($efetch_url);
print OUT "$efetch_out";
close OUT;
So if you wanted to use this simple paste the above code in text file (Suggest using TextWrangler) and saving as .pl file (ie
/Users/sr320/Desktop/ill-prot.pl. Then in Terminal, type
perl /Users/sr320/Desktop/ill-prot.pl. The data will download to whatever directory you are in Terminal.
In actuallity, this still seems to fail randomly. This is common to see on the internets. The best guess is too many requests during busy time of day, so it might take a couple if trys. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/#chapter2.Usage_Guidelines_and_Requiremen for usage recommendations.


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You get the full Email Promotion: This is a series of up to 10 emails to be sent to your online list. Based on the BIG idea we developed, and stamped with your unique persona, these emails will connect and influence and persuade.
You get an Implementation Call: This way you are clear on what needs to be done… so the promotion works like clockwork. (No mistakes.)
You get my Cash Characters Academy Workshop Take Home Pack: It's important to me you understand the importance of personality in marketing. And what better way than to give you this highly-prized course? Folks paid $2,500.00 to be at this workshop… and on the odd occasion I put this course back on the market, I sell it for $997.00. But you'll get it free as part of your package.
You get a personalised Next Step Report: This is a concise report outlining a simple plan that moves you forward when the promotion is over. This way, you'll have the skills, knowledge and confidence to create you own emails once this promotion is done and dusted. This really puts you in the driver's seat to take charge of your email marketing campaigns.
And look, I could go … but you get the picture.
You're getting the full package… with coaching every step of the way.
And you're getting me. Not one of my students or apprentices… you get me and only me… boots and all.
Okay, let's look at your investment…
What You Invest
Let's be clear about one thing here. I've been doing this a long time, way back since the late 90s. I know what works, what doesn't, and I know a thousand and one ways to improve any promotion.
Sure, you're paying for your promotion… but you're also investing in my experience. No amount of book learning can replace the years of in the trenches experience that I bring to the table.
And there are precious few copywriters in this country who can match the experience I bring to a client's business.
That's not ego… just the facts.
Not only that, I've seen other copywriters, ones with one tenth of my experience and skills, charge up to $20,000.00 for a full email campaign.
And I suppose that's okay if the client gets results.
I mean, if you invested 20k and got back 100k, you'd be happy right?
But relax; your Email Promotion Package won't cost you $20,000.00. In fact, it won't even cost you $10,000.00.
Fact is, if you're one of the first five clients I accept for this offer, all you invest is just $7,500. That's it. No more to pay. You get the full promotion plus all the extras mentioned above, PLUS, a marketing education that'll last you a lifetime.
But before you get carried away here, and start thinking about all the extra cash you're going to make, I want to make it clear…
This offer isn't for everyone…
Please let me explain…
Here's What I Expect From You…
1: You must have an online list of at least 1,500 subscribers.
2: You must agree to diligently track the open rates and click through rates of all of the emails I create for you.
3: You commit to the full email campaign I create and follow my directions.
4: You get back my profiles quickly to me.
5: You sell something of value… a product or service that truly enriches your customers' lives.
6: You have the funds required to invest in my expertise.
And hey if this sounds like I'm being a bit strict and rigid here…
well… you're probably right.
I've got no intention of wasting your time or my time for that matter.
So if you haven't got a list, got no money to invest, maybe not even a product to sell, then please, save your breath and do not contact me.
If you've got those 6 things covered, and you want to boost your profits while building a strong relationship with your tribe… I urge you to contact me now.
Just enter you details below, and we'll contact you within 48 hours to discuss your project.
I guarantee we'll have a whole lot of fun and I guarantee I'll do my best to make you money… but just as important, you'll develop a better relationship with your online list… and you'll have a clear road map to follow once the promotion is over.
If you're serious about this, take action now to secure your spot.
Please no time wasters.
If you're serious, I'll be serious.
Let the magic happen.
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Wizard of Words
P.S. As you can see, I deliberately undersold this opportunity. There's no hype, no over-inflated promises, just a simple outline of what you get and what's involved. That's because for the right person, you don't need the hype and the bullshit… you just want results. And if I did overhype this, I'd be attracting the wrong person, someone who I don't want to work with anyway.
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Jeanne strongly hinted at the intelligence of taking the traditional route into Brattleboro along Rt 30, but I opted to follow the original "true" 100/200 route, continuing down Rt 100 at East Jamaica, heading up the 11 1/2 mile climb up Mt. Snow. This is by far the worse climb of the ride, with a long, gradual pull for a number of miles, getting gradually steeper until the final pull at the end. Still, I felt really strong at the top and it's a great feeling knowing that the worse part of the ride is done.
I have always wanted to do the entire length of Rt 100, but there are a few problems with this. It wouldn't have been possible at any rate, as Rt 100 between Moretown and Waterbury was all ripped up for reconstruction, forcing a detour unto the more scenic and easier 100B through Middlesex. There's also the fact that you have to go out of your way to pick up the north end of Rt 100, since Rt 101 is a more direct route to the border. Then there's the "dog-leg" at the southern end, with Rt 100 swerving northwest after approaching the border at Readsboro, returning to the Mass. border 13 miles later. Perhaps someday I'll do the entire length, but we were ready to make that sweet downhill run to the border at Readsboro.
From the finish it was only a short skip down to the motel, with just a quick stop to see the east end of the historic Hoosic Tunnel. I had reserved a cabin at the Whitcomb Summit Motel because they allow dogs at no extra charge. They like to call the cabins "rustic" and "a step up from camping." As it turned out, the only real downside was that the cabin had no heat. It was fine when we got there, but a tad chilly in the morning. In spite of the peeling paint, the cabin was roomy, clean and tidy and had a great shower. Our host told us a great story about how the cabin had been dragged by horses from the Hairpin Turn on the Mohawk Trail several miles away where it had served as a gift shop because, with the mechanical brakes of the time, too many 1920s vintage cars had run into it.
Here are some photos from the ride and tips for the route if you decide
to do it yourself. We liked being able to take a leisurely return trip
home the next day and it was especially fun to run into our friend Philip
Galiga on the way back. He was leading a POMG
bicycle tour doing the same route, but taking a much more sane two days
for the trip.
An attractive remodeled barn in North Hyde Park
Looking east, north of Hyde Park
Mt Mansfield, summit in the morning clouds,
north of Hyde Park
Dropping down to the intersection with Rt 15.
Here's a shortcut to avoid Morrisville traffic. Continue across 15 onto Church St. Turn left at the end and take the second right onto Cady Falls Rd., which will take you across the narrowest bridge in Vermont. At the end, take a left back to Rt 100, or you can pick up hilly Stagecoach Rd a little earlier and rejoin Rt 100 near Stowe, avoiding some traffic.
Rt 100B detour. Some people prefer this slightly longer route, as it is scenic, low-traffic, and avoids the Duxbury climb.
Looking down into the Mad River at Moretown
Mad River valley, north of Waitsfield
Time to repaint the roof of this barn, south of Granville
Descending Granville Gulf
Lovely farm just south of Pittsfield at the Giorgetti
covered bridge. For some reason, this bridge does
not appear on road maps.
Amherst Lake, north of Tyson
One of the 31 other riders I passed on the road over the course of 212 miles. Vermont has a lot of cyclists during
the warmer months and I would have expected to see
more riders, but I suspect the wind kept most indoors
or doing other things.
When you see this railroad bridge in Ludlow,
you know the climb up Terrible Mountain is about to begin
Terrible Mountain comes at the 140 mile mark and can be a bugger if you are not in good shape.
A classic New England church in Weston. Be sure to stop at the Vermont Country Store while you are in town.
Here's another shortcut you might want to take. Almost at the 200 mile mark, take the Wilmington Cross Rd (sign may say cut-off) before Jacksonville. This will save you a steep climb out of town. The only problem is you'll miss watching your mileage turn 200 while descending at the 40 MPH speed limit. What a rush!
The Deerfield River at Readsboro drains the Harriman Reservoir. The left turn after the bridge is Tunnel Road, named for the Hoosic RR tunnel. This route avoids the Route 100 dogleg, and allows you to scoot down an easy shortcut to the border if you're dog-tired.
This funky sign next to the Sherman Reservoir marks the end of the ride! You can also tell because Massachusetts paves the road to Vermont much better than Vermont paves the road to Massachusetts.
The elevation graph shows the major climbs.
More information about the 100/200 and a description of my 2005 ride may be found here.
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Subject: NEGOTIATION – THE WAY FORWARD
By: Jose V. Romero Jr., PhD
President, Philippine Council for Foreign Relations, Inc.
China is the dominant regional player in the South China Sea disputes. Understanding its position and strategy are key to seeking a feasible solution to the issue. China will continue to insist on bilateral negotiations (through which it can divide and dominate the other claimants) and on the exclusion of outside powers from the process, particularly the United States;
- · China will continue to attempt to stall any multilateral process regarding the South China Sea, featuring that the agenda and process may be manipulated by the United States or others;
- · China's strategy will continue to be a combination of dividing and dominating, obfuscation and ambiguity, careful timing and selective assertiveness;
- · Sovereignty is likely to be awarded to those who can demonstrate the longest continuous effective control, occupation and administration of particular islands. Thus we can expect more occupations, as well as other unilateral actions.
Different perspectives among the claimants on these goals are an impediment to progress. Thus the first step forward must be discussion and agreement on the desired goal. If the goal is joint development as an interim solution, several obstacles need to be addressed.
Approaches and Half-Measures
Many approaches and half-measures have been proposed which would help build confidence to move beyond the unstable status quo to an interim solution that is both equitable and stable. For example, Preventive Diplomacy (PD) such as by an eminent persons group; a code of conduct; institutionalization of the multilateral dialogue; a maritime safety and surveillance regime and establishment of a marine preserve. The key stumbling block is agreement on a process. Other suggestions include cancellation, mediation or arbitration through the good offices of a third party or judiciary body such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the UNCLOS tribunal.
Unfortunately, all these mechanism are probably inadequate to address such an unconventional and complicated dispute with so many variables. The potentially high stakes make it unlikely that any but the militarily weakest claimants would submit to an independent judicial or arbitral body. Moreover, China has made it crystal clear that it will not accept the involvement of outside entities, and most Asian nations are deeply suspicious of Western methods.
Direct negotiations are the current prefered method whether bilateral, serial bilateral or multilateral. ASEAN provides a general framework and specific mechanism for multilateral diplomacy in this preventative spirit. Indeed, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) endorsed the purposes and principles of the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) as a unique diplomatic instrument for regional confidence building, PD and political and security cooperation. Among the possibilities proposed pursuant to TAC are: negotiation of principles, such as a code of conduct or peaceful dispute settlement; a regional conflict prevention centre; crisis prevention exercise; appointment of a high commissioner for maritime affairs; establishment of permanent ad hoc committees or working groups; and more tract-two initiatives.
Any such solution has to address or take into account the following regional political realities:
- · Need to demilitarise the features
- · A resource-management agreement
Bilateral Negotiation of Provisional Arrangement
China has consistently insisted that all issues are bilateral and that they should be resolved through bilateral negotiations.
Some observers believe it would be easier for two parties to agree to cooperate than for larger groups and that a web of bilateral agreements can form the basis for a multilateral process and solution.
A Multilateral Management Regime
A multilateral maritime regime for the South China Sea must satisfy the following principles, objectives and political realities:
· The territorial sovereignty and sovereign integrity of every claimant should be equally recognized in the regime. Although the conflicting claims to maritime space in the Spratly area should be set aside, the ultimate resolution of these claims should be unaffected by the establishment of the regime.
· Regional disputes should be resolved through peaceful means. Provocative military activities, such as the establishment of military bases, and fortifications should be prohibited from this region.
· The resources of the South China Sea should be exploited pursuant to the principles of equity and fairness toward all countries and all people of the region.
· Cooperative regional exploration, development and management of the living and non-living resources of the South China Sea is the most equitable solution to the controversies concerning this area and will promote rational resource use and peace in this region.
- · Enhanced peace and security in the South China Sea.
- · Creation of a stable, predictable maritime regime for the South China Sea based on mutual restraint, transparency, trust and confidence.
- · Demilitarising the Spratly features through an agreed, mutual, step-by-step process.
- · Managing the resources in a good cooperative, equitable, efficient, rational and sustainable manner.


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Partner Updates from Tea Leaf Trust
Tea Leaf Trust is a UK registered charity that works in the tea estate areas of Sri Lanka, running two schools for 18 to 24 year olds in Maskeliya and Nuwara Eliya (both in Central Province). They focus on English language and professional development. However, they also do a lot of personal development work developing students' coping mechanisms and emotional health in the face of complex social issues.
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This vintage petite secretary has the sort of timeless appeal that makes you want to sit down and write a letter. Clever and compact, it makes the most of a limited space; the fold-down door becomes your workspace. Within the desk, you'll find cubbies and drawers to keep you organized as well as four large wide drawers at the bottom.
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About St. Mark's Lutheran Church of Auburn, Indiana
Building Relationships ~ Transforming Lives
Mission Statement: To bring about transformation in individuals, families, our community and the world through Jesus Christ.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church was founded in 1875 and has been a part of the Auburn community since that time. St. Mark's is a part of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) and also Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC). St. Mark's is located in historic downtown Auburn, at the corner of 9th Street and Van Buren in Auburn, Indiana. Our weekly worship services are Sunday morning at 9:30 am and 11:15 am. We are a friendly, family-oriented church that seeks to serve God, our community and one another. Please feel free to visit us and to contact us with any questions that you might have!
Core Values:
•Christ-Centered Faith
•Trust of the Holy Spirit
•Authority of Scripture
•Focus on Mission and Service
•Church as a Christian Community
•Our Lutheran Tradition
Our vision is essentially a picture of what it would look like to be achieving our mission. Our vision is the story that we are writing with God at St. Mark's.
Our broader vision is to be a church, a community of believers who seeks to trust the Holy Spirit in all things, seeking to do and be the people and the church we are called to be to one another, our community and the world. Keeping Christ at the center with an emphasis on discipleship in word and deed, we seek to live out the great commission in all aspects of our ministry and our lives. Being missionally focused, we are people and a church that are sent into the world to make Jesus tangible to all.
Our specific vision is to be a church that revitalizes churches in Northeast Indiana. We want to work with and lead churches to vitality and health. The goal is to help churches be revitalized spiritually and in mission and vision. We want to equip, train and educate current and future leaders of churches that are in need of and desire revitalization in Jesus Christ, helping all churches become New Testament churches in our society today.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church of Auburn, Indiana is located in historic downtown Auburn. We are an (NALC) North American Lutheran Church Congregation and (LCMC) Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Congregation.
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Two of the most pressing issues facing the UK today are public sector efficiency and reinvigorating the small and medium enterprise sector. "Both of these things can benefit from cloud-based infrastructure and software models," said analyst Jeremiah Caron.
Caron was speaking last month at a seminar, hosted by the Guardian in association with Huawei, on the role of the cloud in the information economy. "Adoption of cloudbased computing is still relatively low, but growing rapidly," he added. According to his company's 2011 survey of 1,000 businesses worldwide, 63% of companies say that the cloud meets less than 5% of its IT needs, but the survey also shows that cloud usage is expected to double within two years and to continue growing.
"The cloud is one of the most overhyped things I've seen," said Caron, "but sometimes hype is there for a reason.
There are very good reasons why people are paying so much attention."
That said, there is a twist. The single thing most wanted by companies adopting cloud solutions is a reduction in costs, but "a lot of businesses are going to be unpleasantly surprised", Caron said. "There may not be a direct cost saving." Any improvement on the bottom line will only come indirectly, through increased efficiency, and not because paying a cloud provider is necessarily cheaper than supporting internal IT infrastructure, he said.
Lukas Oberhuber, chief technology officer at insurance broker Simply Business, said his company is moving heavily into the cloud. "Services in the cloud are a no-brainer," he said. "If we can take services that work in the way we want them to, that makes total sense."
If cloud take-up is slow, it is because "existing IT teams are focused on services they already have in place," Oberhuber said. "I cannot imagine a company starting today that would have an Exchange server in their datacentre. They are going to go to Google Apps or Office 365.
"There is an unstoppable feeling about cloud hosting. It is going to happen. The IT department may not want it, there may be concerns about security, but it is just so compelling."
Thinking big
Huawei's head of enterprise research and development, John Roese, told the seminar we are thinking too small. Cloud used to be a synonym for the internet, but no longer. "Companies like Amazon and others, without any malicious intent, coopted that term. They changed "cloud" into meaning a virtualised datacentre.
That's underwhelming if we think of this massive inflection that's going to change our industry."
Roese uses storage as an example.
Today, we think of cloud storage as scalable but expensive storage on the internet, but that is missing the point. "If you look at what Google and Amazon have done internally, it's a radical rethinking of storage. It rips out Raid [disk-based storage technology], it moves to a software model that's scalable. They've effectively made storage infinitely scalable and free. The enterprise hasn't begun to touch that yet."
Storage, he says, is an example of where IT vendors hold back in order to protect their market. "The vendor community had little incentive to build something that was an order of magnitude cheaper per unit and essentially destroyed their industry. Inevitably though, the technology exists and we're going to see a revolution in storage."
Roese believes that a similar revolution will affect other aspects of computing. "In the next five years we will virtualise everything," he said, including CPUs, media, analytic, and graphics processors, until the virtualised internet is a pool of resources.
"Why would you build an analytics farm for a bank, that most of the time operates at 2% capacity, when you can offload those services into a virtualised internet?"
In addition, the world is going mobile.
"Instead of thinking about fixed users accessing the services, we're going to find that it is the mobile user that accesses them. We can have full functionality on an iPad though most of the functionality lives in the cloud, with services that are virtualised and extended so that tablet is a window into cloud services," he said.
Such a future presumes that the network can keep up with the demand. Can it? Stephen Unger is a group director at Ofcom, the independent regulator responsible for the UK communications industries. "There are three ways to increase the capacity of our mobile infrastructure," he told the seminar audience. "You can provide more spectrum. You can increase the spectral efficiency, the bits per hertz. Or you can build many more cells [sites where antennas are based]. We published a document six months ago about our long-term strategy in the UK, and said that we need to make progress on all three.
"We need to increase the efficiency with which we use spectrum by a factor of about five. We need to increase the number of cell sites by perhaps a factor of 20, by which I mean not base stations but a range of small cell technologies. The third part is that we need to get more spectrum out there, six to 10 times as much as is currently available." Most of that additional spectrum will be at high frequencies, but some will be at low frequencies such as the 700 MHz band, which is currently used in the US for mobile data.
Derek White, the chief customer experience officer at Barclays, says that the cloud and consumerisation of technology are changing everything, as consumers come to expect instant results from their mobile devices, for actions such as booking flights or holidays. The impact of this kind of engagement is shaking up the financial services industry in a similar way to how the internet transformed other sectors, he said. "We are right in the throes of what happened to the music industry, the book industry, the video industry."
White described Pingit, a mobile money platform created by Barclays in response to this trend. "It is the ability for consumers and businesses to exchange money using a telephone number as a proxy … it is instant and it is free. We sometimes refer to it as a digital ATM." Using Pingit, anyone can transfer money provided they have a mobile connection, he said.
The cloud lowers the cost of entering a new market for a small business, while for an enterprise such as Barclays it reduces the cycle time for innovations. "When we first outlined the plan for Pingit, we were delivered a plan that said it would take between two and two and a half years to implement. From concept to execution, Pingit took us seven months. The cloud played a role in enabling us to collapse that cycle time," he explained.
The panel went on to look at barriers to cloud adoption. Security is often cited, but is it an issue? Roese believes that portability [the ability to work across different clouds] is a greater barrier. "In general, almost every security issue that we find in the cloud is solvable if we handle it rationally," he said, though acknowledging that there is work to do.
"Portability is more complex; it's less about technology and more about politics and the market. We think there is an imperative in the industry to settle on standardised interfaces. There should be no more of this rubbish where people think they can differentiate based on proprietary interfaces in the cloud," Roese said. "A lot of suppliers are not very interested in this because they lose the stickiness of the solution, but we will not see massive cloud adoption without that portability."
Other issues that the panel and audience felt could hinder cloud adoption were human inertia, fear of the unknown and loss of control.
A question from the audience touched on another sensitive issue, the UK's Data Protection Act. This is not part of Ofcom's responsibility but Unger did comment on the regulatory issues raised by the cloud, remarking that data protection is essential for consumer protection as well as trust and that data portability is essential for competition. "The most basic point is that it is not a UK-specific issue," he said.
"You don't even know where the data is. There are very fundamental questions about data protection and data portability. It is a completely new set of challenges."
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Froglife is privileged to be supported by a wide range of organisations and individuals.
Our patrons
Mike Dilger
Broadcaster and naturalist Mike Dilger is a familiar face to viewers of the BBC's One Show where he is a regular wildlife presenter. With an enthusiastic and user-friendly approach to bringing wildlife facts and stories to life, the Froglife team were thrilled when he signed up as our Patron in 2012. Mike was heavily involved in our Tuppence a Toad campaign to raise funds and awareness for the threats facing Common Toads, and hosted the finale night by hosting an evening of talks at the Institute of Zoology. He has also had a practical taster of our work, having filmed with our Green Pathways project for BBC Children in Need at our allotment in Peterborough, met the newts at Hampton Nature Reserve and been out with a Toad Patrol in action on a busy spring evening.
"The more I've learned about Froglife's work, the more I've understood the threats facing amphibians and reptiles and the huge amount of work needed to help these amazing creatures survive," says Mike. "It's crucial that we take a double pronged approach to this, with on-the-ground work supplemented by efforts to inspire people and get them to buy in to the cause. It's been a pleasure getting to know Froglife, its staff and volunteers and I'm proud to be Patron of this passionate and proactive organisation."
Jules Howard
Jules is a zoologist, international non-fiction author and regular writer for The Guardian and BBC Wildlife Magazine. A former Froglifer, Jules has a genuine soft spot for frogs and toads and has fond memories of his years on Froglife's enquiry line, particularly during spring-time.
"For me, amphibians and reptiles are mysterious, weird and not altogether… normal. This is why I love them. And they're also so accessible. Anyone, regardless of their demographic in life, can be engaged by frogs. Through them, anyone can be sparked off into a lasting interest in science and nature. This was certainly the case for me."
As well as writing and presenting, Jules is also a UK Science Ambassador. In the last five years, Jules has worked with 100,000 pupils, encouraging careers in science including palaeontology, zoology and wildlife conservation. Jules also presents at (and hosts for) a number of science festivals, including Edinburgh International Science Festival, Cheltenham Science Festival, TEDx and IDEAcity Toronto.
"Froglife's strength is in its unique perspective. Wildlife conservation is mostly about saving wild places. But we, I guess, need saving a bit too. Our lives can be made better through nature. Froglife gets that. Being a Patron, having worked at Froglife, is a real honour and a privilege. I'm delighted to be involved."
Species champions
We are very pleased to have five MSPs on board supporting our species in Scotland, they are:
Our funders
The majority of Froglife's funding comes through projects – our practical conservation work, education or learning schemes and research. The list below shows every organisation that is currently supporting our busy programme to help amphibians and reptiles thrive.
You can find a full break down of our finances and funding in our Annual Review.
Grant making trusts and organisations
London Dragon Finder Co-Funding from Councils
Our London Dragon Finder project is mainly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, with some other grant co-funding (mentioned above). It is also supported by a number of Borough Councils, supporting the work that is taking place in their patch:
Enfield – Bromley – Richmond Upon Thames – Lambeth – Ealing – Tower Hamlets – Camden – Brent – Haringey – Kensington & Chelsea
Scottish Dragon Finder Co-funders
Our Scottish Dragon Finder project is mainly funded by the Heritage LotteryFund, but does require co-funding and to date this is being provided by:
Angus Environmental Trust – Central Scotland Forest Trust – Falkirk Environment Trust – Glasgow Nature History Society – Score Environment – SSE – West Dunbartonshire Council – Aberdeen Council – Action Earth – Clackmannshire & Stirling Environment Trust – East Ayrshire Leisure
Our Business Supporters
|CJ Wildlife – this company, which offers a full range of wildlife products as well as food, has become a charity partner providing us with an annual donation, commission on sales generated through this link and promotional opportunities.
|Better Together – This project supports our education work in Peterborough with trained volunteers
|Environmentjob.co.uk – a really useful site for eco-friendly careers. They support us with free and discounted advertising for our jobs, volunteer roles and training courses
|Birdsong – Charity consultant Sam Attenborough gives Froglife pro bono support with management, staff support and strategy development
|CSS Copiers – support us with free and discounted printing equipment and servicing
|Mears – This social housing and home improvement company gives us free access to their brilliant workshop facilities in Peterborough for our education projects to use, providing a vital indoor venue for cold or wet days
|Michael Wheat Your local pond & garden design specialists, creating ponds and gardens that are visually stunning, architectural, artistic and full of colour.
The following companies have given their staff time off to help as volunteers on our habitat projects. These teams have been enormously valuable and have helped us to deliver a number of habitat projects, we would like to thank the staff and the companies:
Gordon Lowe gives us a discount on pond liners.