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The UN report published today has identified patterns of grave violations in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011, strongly indicating that war crimes and crimes against humanity were most likely committed by both sides to the conflict.
The report recommends the establishment of a hybrid special court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators, as an essential step towards justice.
The UNHRC Commissioner further reiterated several factors.
He said the commitment of the new government to conduct a domestic investigation is laudable.
However Sri Lankan Judicial system, particularly in three areas, is not ready to investigate such alleged crimes.
The country's judicial system has no trustworthy provisions to safeguard the victims and witnesses.
The second is lack of a domestic law framework to investigate international crimes.
The third challenge pointed out by the Commissioner is the corrupt and spoilt security personnel and the judiciary due to emergency situation, conflict and impunity.
The charges leveled against Sri Lanka by the UNHRC are listed under 8 categories.
Among them are: Unlawful killings, sexual and gender based violence, enforced disappearance, torture and other forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment, recruitment of children and their use in hostilities, attacks on civilians and civilian objects and denial of humanitarian assistance.
Update : Wednesday, 16 September 2015 - 19:09
UN report confirms patterns of grave violations; Zeid urges creation of hybrid special court in Sri Lanka
The UN report published today has identified patterns of grave violations in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011, strongly indicating that war crimes and crimes against humanity were most likely committed by both sides to the conflict. The report recommends the establishment of a hybrid special court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators, as an essential step towards justice.
"Our investigation has laid bare the horrific level of violations and abuses that occurred in Sri Lanka, including indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence, recruitment of children and other grave crimes," High Commissioner Zeid said. "Importantly, the report reveals violations that are among the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole."
"This report is being presented in a new political context in Sri Lanka, which offers grounds for hope," Zeid said. "It is crucial that this historic opportunity for truly fundamental change is not allowed to slip."
Among the most serious crimes documented in the report are the following:
The report documents years of denials and cover-ups, failure to carry out prompt investigations, stalled investigations and reprisals against the family members of victims and others who have pushed for justice.
It notes that the repeated failure of successive domestic inquiries to bring justice has led to scepticism, anger and mistrust on the part of victims, particularly since "many of the structures responsible for the violations and crimes remain in place." The report demonstrates the systemic weakness in addressing these crimes, especially when the military or security forces are involved. It also describes "reprisals against judicial and other professionals who try to prosecute human-rights related cases involving State officials."
"The commitment by the new Government to pursue accountability through a domestic process is commendable…but the unfortunate reality is that Sri Lanka's criminal justice system is not yet ready," the report states. "First and foremost is the absence of any reliable system for victim and witness protection. Second is the inadequacy of Sri Lanka's domestic legal framework to deal with international crimes of this magnitude. The third challenge is the degree to which Sri Lanka's security sector and justice system have been distorted and corrupted by decades of emergency, conflict and impunity."
The High Commissioner welcomed the positive steps taken by the new Government of President Mathiripala Sirisena since January this year, but said that "Sri Lanka must now move forward to dismantle the repressive structures and institutional cultures that remain deeply entrenched after decades of erosion of human rights."
"This will not happen overnight, and no one should underestimate the enormity of the task," he said. "We have seen many moments in Sri Lanka's history when governments pledged to turn the page and end practices like enforced disappearances, but the failure to address impunity and root out the systemic problems that allowed such abuses to occur meant that the 'white vans' could be, and were, reactivated when needed. It is imperative that the Government seizes the unique opportunity it has to break the mold of impunity once and for all. This means there must be a root-and-branch transformation of the ways in which institutions and officials operate."
The report recommends a range of measures to develop a comprehensive transitional justice policy to address the human rights violations of the past 30 years and prevent their recurrence.
The High Commissioner urged all communities and sections of society, including the diaspora, to view the report as "an opportunity to change discourse from one of absolute denial to one of acknowledgment and constructive engagement to bring about change."
"After so many years of unbridled human rights violations and institutionalized impunity, the wounds of victims on both sides have festered and deepened," Zeid said. "Unless fundamentally addressed, their continued suffering will further polarize and become an obstacle to reconciliation, and – worse – may sow the seeds for further conflict."
"The levels of mistrust in State authorities and institutions by broad segments of Sri Lankan society should not be underestimated," the High Commissioner said. "It is for this reason that the establishment of a hybrid special court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators, is so essential. A purely domestic court procedure will have no chance of overcoming widespread and justifiable suspicions fuelled by decades of violations, malpractice and broken promises."
"The domestic criminal justice system also needs to be strengthened and reformed, so it can win the confidence of the public, but that is a process which will take several years to achieve and needs to be undertaken in parallel to the establishment of a special hybrid court, not in place of it. Indeed such a court may help stimulate the reforms needed to set Sri Lanka on a new path to justice, building public confidence along the way."
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council last year to conduct a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka during the period 2002-11. The investigation report is based on eye-witness testimony, interviews with victims and witnesses, video and photographic material including satellite imagery (much of which is not in the public domain) that was analyzed by forensic and military experts, and an extensive review of documentation, including about 3,000 written statements and submissions, as well as previously unpublished reports. The OHCHR investigation team was not granted access to Sri Lanka and faced other constraints, including the previous Government's use of threats, intimidation and surveillance to prevent people, particularly in the north of the country, from cooperating with the investigation.
Update : Wednesday, 16 September 2015 - 15:15
Live: UN Report Released
The UN report on Sri Lanka exploring the violations occurred in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011, indicate that war crimes and crimes against humanity were most likely committed by both sides to the conflict, UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said a short while ago as the report on Sri Lanka was made public.
The OISL was directed at the UNHRC in March 2014 through US Sponsored resolution 25/1, which requested the High Commissioner to 'undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka during the period covered by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), and to establish the facts and circumstances of such alleged violations and of the crimes perpetrated with a view to avoiding impunity and ensuring accountability, with assistance from relevant experts and special procedures mandate holders.'
The recommendations of the OISL report included a call for a hybrid court to address war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict.


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The Cloud Computing Market for SMEs
The great promise of Cloud Computing is the immediate access to enterprise grade software and next generation Information Technology solutions enables SMEs anywhere to expand their market reach, delivery and service, and customer interaction. The ACCA takes up Asia's first in-depth research into the SME sector, looking into 14 Asia Pacific markets, asking these questions: What are the demand drivers for SMEs? What are purchase characteristics of SMEs? What needs to be understood and addressed to capture areas of potential growth? The research is in three parts, broken in two documents: an Asian SME Index evaluating the attractiveness of cloud computing to Asian SMEs, an overall Executive Summary which reviews the SME sector in the region, and finally, country-by-country reports with key sizings of the SME market by industry, by lead adopters, and listing key support programmes and other enablers.
This ACCA research projects consists of two reports:
1. The Asia Pacific SME Cloud Computing Attractiveness Index 2015
2. SMEs in Asia Pacific: The Market for Cloud Computing (a 14-market study)
[Download the Press Release in PDF]
Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs), Technology Startups, and Retail to lead SME Cloud Computing Adoption in the Philippines, says new study by Apex Industry Association
• Country ranked 9th out of 14 (and 2nd in ASEAN, behind Singapore) in Asia Cloud Computing Association study on cloud computing attractiveness to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Asia Pacific.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (25 MAR 2015) – Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), technology start-ups and retail are the three industries likely to lead cloud computing adoption in the Philippines, says a new study by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), the apex industry association for cloud computing in Asia Pacific.
While the Philippines ranked 9th overall out of 14 in terms of its attractiveness of cloud computing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), it scored relatively well in terms of 'Early Adoption Suitability' in this comparative index of Asia Pacific economies.
"A combination of aggressive government initiatives for cloud computing adoption (such as GovCloud and the Cloud Top Project) and an increased emphasis in SMEs (such as the 'Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises') boosted the country's potential and attractiveness for cloud computing solutions," observed John Galligan, Chairman of the ACCA's Cloud Segments Working Group, which helmed this research project. But while SMEs make up 99.6% of all businesses, the sector's contribution to the Philippines economy has remained small, around 35% of GDP.
"Therefore, the ability to increase both reach and productivity while controlling costs is therefore seen to be a compelling proposition, not only for the mid- and large enterprises, but for the SME sector as well," said Bernie Trudel, chairman of the ACCA.
The Philippines ranked ahead of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Vietnam in the study, putting it second in ASEAN, behind Singapore. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong topped the rankings, with South Korea, China, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand forming the middle-tier. Countries were ranked on five pillars – market size, market coherence, market demand, price and government support.
The ACCA study is among the first to offer comparable statistics across these 14 Asia Pacific markets – economies in which SMEs comprise variously between 60-99% of all businesses, 50-98% of all employment and between 35-70% of GDP. Almost all governments across the region are targeting both the SME sector as an engine of growth as well as the IT sector as an engine of innovation.
"In this context, it is surprising that there are almost no comparable measurement benchmarks to assess the effectiveness of current investments for SMEs," said Lim May-Ann, Executive Director of the ACCA. "Cloud computing promises to be the great leveller, bringing enterprise grade tools and capacity within reach of SMEs. In addition, it will bring next generation infrastructure benefits within reach of emerging economies without the need for crippling capital expenditure."
SMEs in the Philippines are price-sensitive, and possess a limited budget for IT products and services. Additionally, they have minimal to no dedicated IT staff, thus preferring solutions that are easy to install and manage. Some of the key focus areas for cloud computing adoption include big data and business analytics by BPO firms, technology startups focusing on e-commerce, mobile applications, and transport applications, and solutions to simplify back- and front-end challenges for retailers.
Cloud computing is being seen as particularly useful for smaller BPO players, with one notable example being startup BPO software developer Orange & Bronze. "As the smaller players begin to expand with access to these enterprise grade tools, the single interface of a cloud computing solution becomes particularly appealing to BPOs operating from the Philippines," said May-Ann.
The Philippines government has focused quite heavily on new IT solutions enabling overall economic growth, and supporting new cloud computing programmes, but much more has to be done to increase awareness, readiness and capacity among SMEs. "While factors like the absolute and economic size of the market, and the contribution that the SME base makes to GDP are important, our research shows that policy and market approach are just as vital," said John Galligan, Chairman of the Cloud Segments Working Group, and also Regional Director Government Relations, Asia Pacific for Microsoft.
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Downtown and Riverfront Crossings News
Welcome to Riverfront Crossings
A new neighborhood just south of downtown featuring a waterfront park with walking and biking trails, access to the Iowa River for boating and fishing, a variety of housing options near shopping, restaurants, jobs, a state-of-the-art recital hall and recreational facilities, just a short walk to Downtown Iowa City and the University of Iowa campus.
Riverfront Crossings is well-situated for redevelopment. The district is adjacent to the downtown and the Iowa River, proximate to major employers, well served by public transportation, and intersected by a regional trail network, arterial streets and two rail lines. The University of Iowa is investing in the area, through the newly constructed recreation center and the planned re-location of the UI School of Music and Clapp Recital Hall. Johnson County recently expanded their offices and opened a new facility in the heart of the district. The wastewater treatment plant in the southwest portion of the district has been demolished and the area transformed into a riverfront park, which will be designed to better absorb flood waters from both Ralston Creek and the Iowa River and include trails, boat access, beautiful river views and other amenities that will attract private residential and commercial development to park-side properties.
Construction Updates
January 2017: First phase of park design underway
The transformation of Riverfront Crossings Park continues.
The design of the first phase of improvements is well underway. A public open house meeting discussing the first phase of the project was held Nov. 2, 2016. Phase 1 will focus on restoration of Ralston Creek, wetland creation, and providing trail connections to the surrounding neighborhoods and is slated for construction in late summer 2017. Additional areas of the park will be developed in the future as funding becomes available.
- Rendering of Phase 1 Riverfront Crossings Park construction
- Video: River Front Crossings Park phase 1 update, Jan. 2017
Planning Documents
- Downtown and Riverfront Crossings Master Plan
- Riverfront Crossings Form-based Zoning Code; Title 14, Chapter 2, Article G
- Towards a Resilient Future: Restoration of Ralston Creek within Riverfront Crossings Park
- Affordable Housing Requirement Administrative Rules


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Muthoot Finance applies for banking licence
Kochi, July 1 : The promoters of Muthoot Finance Limited, India's largest gold loan company, Monday submitted an application to the Reserve Bank of India for a license to offer full-fledged banking services.
The application is in accordance with the recent guidelines issued by the RBI for licensing of new banks in the private sector, said the firm.
Managing director George Alexander Muthoot said the application for a banking license is indeed a major milestone for the Muthoot Group.
"With our last mile connect into the rural hinterland, a banking license will enable us to play a larger role of financial inclusion by taking these services to the unbanked and under-served population of the country," he said.
Muthoot Finance has a network of 4,200 branches spread across 21 states and four union territories.
It has also recently received in-principle approval from the RBI to set up ATMs and will set up 1000 ATMs in the first year.
The firm is listed both at the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange. (IANS)


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barcelona, day four
Seeing the young Pablo's work was so interesting. He was clearly very talented at a very young age, winning admission to prestigious art academies, then quickly realizing that formal art training had nothing left to teach him. He spent time copying the styles of famous painters to understand their techniques... and then he went to Paris. It was also cool to see him toying with different signatures, until he developed what would become one of the most famous signatures in art.
The best part of this collection, for me, was the small cubist section - maybe 6 or 7 wonderful cubist paintings - and Picasso's Las Meninas cycle. Picasso took Las Meninas, a very famous painting by the Spanish master Velasquez (see here), and riffed on it, creating 45 new versions, many focusing on one or two details, and none of them looking anything like the original. You can see some of them here.
This was really a marvel. However, the museum gets huge points off for not having a single reproduction of the original Velasquez painting for reference. Could it be that The Prado (the museum in Madrid where Las Meninas lives) won't let them? It was a terrible omission. But a terrific small museum.
After leaving the Picasso museum, we wandered a big more in the Barri Gotic, and found a tiny cafe for lunch. I think I now understand the difference between pintxos and tapas. Traditional tapas is a small plate of something - sausages, cheeses, fish, olives, whatever. The tall creations of combinations of food, on a piece of bread with a toothpick through the whole thing, displayed at the bar or on counters, is pintxos. But when the host or server is adding up your bill, they will say "tres tapas" for the three pintxos you ordered, using the terms interchangeably.
Pintxos look very appealing, all piled up the counter. The server will point and explain each one. You can't necessarily tell what they are, as the combinations are unusual, and some things are made into croquets or otherwise disguised. We had these: a croquette of octopus and shrimp, a piece of breaded chicken cutlet with a fried egg on top, and smoked salmon topped with brie. Plus a cafe con leche for me and a vino tinto for A.
After lunch we walked around the old area looking for Roman remains, both through our guidebook and historic markers posted around town. There is a section of Roman wall, some arches now built into the cathedral but originally part of an aqueduct, and some amazing intact columns, now hidden in an alley, but once incorporated into the meeting room of a local hiking club! A huge Roman excavation is now part of the museum of the history of Barcelona - a giant room of pieces of columns and arches and such. We didn't go in, but it looks very nice.
We also passed a small but spirited demo, in front of a bank. The demonstrators were all middle aged or older, and they looked very organized and very angry. The object of their anger: the ladrones banqueros - bank thieves.
We then walked further down into the Born district, adjacent to the Barri Gotic. It's a very old part of town that's been gentrified and upscaled. Allan wanted to see Santa Maria del Mar, a church from the 1300s. (I just peeked in, then rested on the entrance steps.) The neighbourhood is full of very upscaled tapas and pintxos bars, with huge plates of inventive pintxos piled up on the bars. We did go into this very clever and silly candy store: Happy Pills.
We walked across town to the Palau de La Musica Catalana, a crazy modernist concert hall, right near El Bixto, the wonderful place where we had dinner the other night. I took a lot of pictures of the exterior, but we had missed the last interior tour for the day.
Then it was back to the room to rest, then back to the Barri Gotic for dinner. First, we ducked into a store we had seen in our first hour here, Vaho, which sells all sorts of bags, backpacks, wallets, totes, and such, made from recycled vinyl posters that were hung in Barcelona. I absolutely loved them, and we had a mental note to come back and shop. For a cute visual story of how these "trashion" bags are made, go here.
The restaurant we picked out for dinner was - of course - not there, but the search for it took us down many tiny, narrow, out-of-the-way streets in the Barri Gotic. And by narrow, I mean pedestrian or cycle only. Historic markers said we were in the Jewish Quarter from the 12th and 13th centuries, near the central synagogue. That can only be up to the 13th century, before Jews were expelled from Spain, one way or another.
We finally gave up on our restaurant search and chose another place we had seen in the book, La Vinateria del Call. (The Call was the old Jewish quarter.) This one served traditional tapas, where you choose plates from a menu. We had a plate of incredibly delicious smoked fish (salmon, cod, herring, eel), jamon de pavo (ham made of duck), traditional catalan sausage called bull, and a potato fritata, and of course plenty of wine. Then we made a mistake: we ordered dessert paired with more wine. I only tasted the Catalan creme caramel - somewhere between creme brulee and flan - but I did drink the sweet vino de naraja (oranges). Remind me not to do that again!
After dinner, which began around 10:30 p.m., Allan whisked us to the subway and up to La Sagrada Familia, as he wanted to see it at night, lit up. (This is amusing, as I usually eat dinner very early and am getting ready for bed at 10:00 or 10:30.) When we exited the metro, part of La Sagrada was lit. Allan took a couple of pictures and... the lights turned out. Damn, too late! While we were there, a group of young men arrived by taxi, jumped out, took their picture in front of the dark church, and jumped back into the cab and sped away.
Then we had a bit of a mad race home, as the subways were about to close for the night. We took the very last train. The station master was waiting til we left to close the Tetuan station. Whew.
Photos of the Bari Gotic and Roman ruins are here.
4 comments:
- Amy said...
I look forward every morning to reading about your adventures----so much to enjoy vicariously!
It seems unlikely that the Prado could prohibit the museum from exhibiting the Velasquez painting since it must be in the public domain. After all, you can post to reproductions all over the web! Perhaps there was some contractual agreement, but that seems odd also. Or perhaps the Picasso museum had some artistic or other reason not to exhibit it---maybe nothing but Picasso works can be hung in the museum, or maybe they think people should just "know" the Velasquez so there's no reason to show it.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:27:00 AM
- laura k said...
It does seem strange, doesn't it? They have visitors from all over the world, with a huge range of knowledge, so I don't think they would be such snobs as to expect everyone to know the Velasquez painting. Even a brochure or a little slip with a repro would have helped. The gift shop is filled with side-by-side comparisons!
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:24:00 AM
- laura k said...
Amy, you must be getting excited about your own upcoming trip! I'm sure you guys will have a great time.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:39:00 AM
- Amy said...
Thanks, Laura! I am getting excited (and, of course, nervous about flying). We leave Monday night.
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:34:00 PM


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All Star Music Family Suite or 2 connecting rooms. - UPDATED
Is it more cost effective to stay in the All Star Music Family Suite or get two connecting rooms.
Dad's all knowing AnswerThis is one of those what's a one handed clap kind of answers. Let's compare and find out which is better, one Family Suite at the All Star Music or two connecting rooms.
Dad's Disney All Star Resorts room informationFirst the Family Suite - A Family Suite room at the All Star Music (the only Value Resort with Family Suites, currently) is $190.00 per night at the cheapest rack rate.
The "regular" rooms - A standard room at rack rates during the same time period is $82.00 per night. But Dad, you might say, the Family Suites are in the same area as the preferred rooms. OK, the preferred room costs $97.00 per night.
Conclusion. Two standard rooms at the All Star Music are much cheaper than the Family Suite. ($164.00 vs $190.00 per night.) But preferred rooms are just a a bit more ($194.00 vs. $190.00).
|Layout of the Family Suite
There are two configurations for the connecting rooms. The two rooms either have with one king bed and two full size beds or four full size beds. That means the connecting rooms sleep 6 or 8 (according to Dad's math and Dad's pretty good at math).
Dad's Bottom LineIf you need to sleep more than 2 (OK, 4) then you might not want to choose an All Star Music Family Suite over 2 connecting rooms.
PS. The Family Suites throw in a refrigerator and a microwave.
Me, I'm not a big fan of the Family Suites. (Can you tell?)
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The size and type of car seat you should use for your child depends on his/her age and weight. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) guidelines, children should be kept in an age- and weight-appropriate car restraint until they are big enough to use a regular seat belt correctly.
Choosing the Right Car Seat for Your Child
What size car seat should my child be in?
- Birth to 12 months: Place children under 12 months should in a rear-facing car seat. Continue to use a rear-facing car seat until your child reaches the maximum height or weight limit allowed by the manufacturer. With some children, this means they may be able to use the seat up until the time they are two years old.
- One to three years: Once the child has outgrown the rear-facing position, s/he should sit in a forward-facing car seat with a harness and tether. Again, use this type of seat until your child reaches the max height/weight limit provided by the manufacturer. Kids should remain in a forward-facing seat until at least their fourth birthday but possibly longer if they haven't exceeded the weight limit.
- Four to seven years: Children aged four and older should sit in a booster seat. Continue to use a booster seat until they can use a seat belt. Note, the seat belt should be worn correctly, i.e., the shoulder belt should lay across their chest, not cut into their neck or behind the back. The recommended height to wear a regular seat belt is 57 inches.
It's also important to note that kids under the age of 12 should not be allowed to sit in the front seat in cars with a passenger airbag. Should the airbag deploy with a child in front, it could cause serious damages in a car accident.
Resources to Find the Best Car Seat
If you're unsure of what type of position is best for your child, you can use the NHTSA's Car Seat Finder tool, enter the following to determine what seat is the best match for your baby.
- Birthdate
- Weight
- Height
If you're in the market for a new car seat, you might want to check Consumer Reports for recommended seats and safety ratings. You can also check the NHTSA's safercar.gov to check for child seat recalls or if there are have been any safety complaints filed.
For more interesting articles, feel free to visit our regularly updated car accidents blog on the Law Office of Julie Johnson website.
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I stood at the top of the ravine, looking down in shock at the car smashed up below. I'd had vivid dreams before I came to Uganda that I would die on this trip and my husband had even suggested that I cancel. But because I felt called to help some of the world's neediest children, I had fought down my fears and gotten on the plane.
Now I was living my nightmare. My Ugandan guide, Samuel, lost control of his friend's car on a dirt road deep in the jungle. After fishtailing repeatedly on the packed red dirt, the car fell fifteen feet down a ravine, landing on its side. Fortunately, neither Samuel, his soldier cousin nor I were badly hurt. After shimmying out of a window and rescuing my ripped suitcase from the trunk, I climbed back up to the road.
In the quiet of the jungle, I felt frightened and alone. I was probably the only white woman in 100 miles in any direction, and my nerves were not soothed by the sixteen Ugandan men who soon materialized out of the jungle carrying viciously-sharp machetes. They were there to help, but it took awhile before I knew this for sure.
Hours later, after riding an old mini-van packed with over a dozen Ugandans to the western town of Fort Portal, I finally relaxed and was able to focus on why I was in Uganda.
For several years, I had been feeling extraordinarily blessed. I was happily married and loved watching our four healthy, active children pursue their various interests. In addition, my husband and I had both started several entrepreneurial ventures and his latest company was showing signs of becoming quite profitable. Since I believe "to whom much is given, much is expected", I felt called to do something to give back. And what really tugged at my heart was the plight of the children in developing countries who were starving and unable to attend school because their parents had died. So I planned visits to a number of different organizations helping orphans in both Kenya and Uganda to learn first-hand the best way my newly-formed non-profit, the Alliance for Youth Achievement, Inc. (AYA), could help.
This first trip to Africa shocked me to my core. During the week I spent in Kenya's teeming capital in August 2000, I was deeply horrified by the large numbers of street boys (and an occasional girl) hanging out in the streets. The children were everywhere, wearing filthy clothes that hung off them in shreds, and almost all of them had bottles of glue in their mouth or held under their nose. And they were so young! Most of the kids seemed to be seven to twelve years old. What had life dealt these kids? Would any of them have any kind of a positive future?
The children sniffed glue in order to dull their hunger pangs. This highly-addictive behavior causes permanent brain damage as well as heart, kidney and liver problems. Early one morning I saw a pre-teen boy sniffing glue along the highway, staggering in circles before falling flat on his face. Another noontime I stepped over a seven-year-old boy asleep on the sidewalk by a busy market. And during the evening, I saw groups of kids huddled for warmth and safety around a fire they'd made on the sidewalk, the firelight reflecting off their young faces. A newspaper article I read claimed there were 600,000 children trying to survive on the streets of Nairobi. Now I saw it for myself. My horror kept me tossing and turning night after night, trying to imagine what life was like for a young child who was cold, hungry and totally alone in the world.
Orphans with a relative willing to take care of them were better off than those forced to live on the street, but they also had serious challenges. Half of all Kenyan orphans dropped out of school within a year of the death of a parent because they could no longer pay to attend. Government schools wouldn't accept students if they couldn't afford school fees, a uniform and school supplies.
There were numerous "informal" schools spread throughout the slums, but usually they had no desks, textbooks or writing materials. I was appalled to repeatedly observe dozens of children sitting on dirt floors in roof-less classrooms, packed in like sardines, trying desperately to learn arithmetic without the benefit of worksheets or books. And I was visiting on good days when the teacher actually showed up to teach; being unpaid, they often didn't.
After leaving teeming Nairobi for rural Uganda, I found different, but similarly horrifying, problems. Uganda was the first country where the AIDS epidemic exploded out of control. Since it was predominantly young adults who were infected, huge numbers of young parents died. By the time of my first visit in 2000, it was estimated that two million Ugandan children under the age of 15 had been orphaned and 8.5% of the remaining adult population was HIV-positive. Any country would be impossibly burdened by caring for so many destitute children and sick adults, let alone a desperately poor country of only 20 million people.
After their own children die, elderly Ugandans often have no choice but to raise large numbers of their children's children. Since the African tradition is for the elderly to be cared for by their adult children, these grandparents are usually destitute. It is not uncommon to find a grandmother trying to care for a dozen grandchildren with no money to feed them or send them to school. Most families in this situation are lucky to eat one meal a day, and many of the children I saw were severely stunted. At one grandmother's hut, I was shocked to be told that their youngest child, who I assumed to be two years old, was actually six!
At one point I was able to talk to nine orphans affiliated with one of the organizations we were planning to partner with. They were very sweet even though only one of the nine children had shoes. When I asked them what they would most like as a Christmas present, their answers broke my heart. Most said a pair of shorts or a dress or a pair of shoes. Two asked for a doll, and one for a toy car. I couldn't help but contrast these answers with the video games and ski equipment my own children were asking for that Christmas, bringing home the poverty these children were experiencing in a very personal way.
So everywhere I went, I looked for organizations that had developed innovative, cost-effective ways to help the children. I was particularly impressed with an Association Francois Xavier Bagnoud (AFXB) project in Luweero, Uganda which gave the neediest guardians of orphans a one-time $100 grant to start an income-generating project.
I learned the amazing impact such a small grant could have when I visited a young mother named Night Nakutude. Four years earlier, she had been completely destitute after her husband was kidnapped in the war. With five young children and no way to support them, she received a $100 grant which she used to buy a bull. After it doubled in value, she sold it and bought a heifer. The heifer gave birth four times. Night sold three of the calves to buy a cross-breed cow that produced more milk. When I was there, Night was collecting 8 liters of milk a day from her cow and was fattening up the fourth calf. She kept 2 liters of milk a day for her family's use and sold the other 6 liters, making about $600 per year from milk sales. In a country where the average household income was only $300 per year, this made her a wealthy woman. She was able to send all of her children to school, and her profits had allowed her to branch out into growing coffee and rearing pigs.
In the ten years since this first eye-opening trip to Africa, AYA has partnered with almost 100 different organizations helping children in eight countries in Africa and Asia. We've duplicated AFXB's income generation project in Fort Portal, Uganda, and I've had the pleasure of meeting many of the over 300 guardians of orphans whose lives have been transformed by our $100 income-generating grant. AYA has instituted an innovative child sponsorship program, built 6 group homes, funded anti-retroviral therapy for HIV-positive children, and given $60 loans to enable urban guardians to start businesses. We have helped 19 schools build classrooms, bought textbooks for 40 schools, and helped dozens of schools pay their teachers through one-of-a-kind school fee sponsorships covering more than 6,000 students. We've trained over 200 non-formal school teachers, provided clean water to more than 1000 children and their families, and funded over 45 income-generating projects for AYA partner homes and schools. Because AYA is a labor of love, we've guaranteed that 95% of the funds contributed by our generous donors reach developing world countries to transform the lives of orphaned children. If you share our concern for these truly-needy children, please visit www.allforyouth.org and join us.
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Satya, a resident of Yasodhara Ashram reflects on the practice of sustainability as a way of putting her spiritual values into action. She shares the work that the Ashram is doing to reduce our carbon footprint and ways we can connect with the sacred in the environment and our minds.
A few days ago the Ashram community watched "Fierce Light"—an inspiring documentary about putting spirituality into action. It is a call to act in this world from a place of love and compassion—to take the inspiration that comes from spiritual practices and act on it. For me the Ashram is an example of this link between spirituality and action. I have lived at the Ashram and Radha Centres for over eighteen years. Everyday the practice of karma yoga calls on me to put my ideals into action, to live them and not just have lofty ideas that sound or feel good. It's not easy, it requires me to face myself at the gut level—to be real and honest with others and myself. I have come to love this kind of honesty, it inspires me when I see it in others and makes me celebrate it when I see it in myself.
One way the Ashram is putting spiritual values into action is with our environmental sustainability work. Working towards being carbon neutral and living sustainably helps develop awareness, which is an essential practice of yoga. It's a link between spirituality and action—acting on what we know.
In the spring I entered into the Ashram's carbon neutral work. My experience these past three years has been mainly with our food sustainability initiatives—working in the Ashram organic garden and establishing relationships with local growers. Using our own food and purchasing from local growers has significantly lowered the carbon emissions from transporting food to the Ashram.
A year ago the Ashram set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2013. Gord McGee, a 2008 Yoga Development Course participant, developed a carbon neutral plan and inventory for the Ashram. Karma yogis collected data about the Ashram's carbon emissions from such sources as vehicles, propane, electricity, refrigeration, oil, air travel, employee vehicle commuting, etc. This carbon inventory provides a way to keep track of how we are moving towards our goal. It's an accounting system that involves reducing carbon emissions and off-setting those that we are not able to reduce or eliminate entirely—like guest travel emissions. It is a way to make decisions and to be accountable for our actions. For individuals or families there are many simple carbon inventories available now on the web www.safeclimate.net
The world faces a huge challenge to make changes the way we interact with the earth and each other. It's a time when a radical change in consciousness is needed. Unless change happens quickly in reducing carbon emissions worldwide, leading scientists predict that there will be "runaway climate change".
I know from my experience with yoga that it's important to keep bringing what is happening back to myself and to reflect about what it means to me in my life. There is a reality that something is happening 'out there'. But there is another reality—my inner climate. My thoughts, speech and actions are the place where real, long-lasting change takes place – it's changing my attitude, beliefs, habits and conditioning that makes a difference. Recently I began a practice of repeating the Divine Mother prayer throughout the day. The words are in my mind as I harvest food and take care of the plants. When I get caught up in something I'm doing and let the prayer slip from my mind then I interact with my environment in a different way. I'm not as aware and I become susceptible to being reactive rather than responsive. When the prayer comes to mind again, I notice a change in my 'inner climate'. There's space to breathe, my thoughts are connected to what's happening in the present and I'm more aware that my actions have consequences. There's a connection with the sacredness of life.
The Divine Mother Prayer This beautiful prayer offers a way to bring the sacred into action.
O Divine Mother
May All my speech and idle talk be mantra
All actions of my hands be mudra
May all eating and drinking be the offering of oblations unto Thee
All laying down prostrations before Thee
May all pleasures be as dedicating my entire self unto Thee
May everything I do be taken as Thy worship
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- Join the Ashram's 350.org Divine Light Action Event. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information
- Sign the Charter of Compassion at www.charterforcompassion.com


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I have an idea (not original) to share with FRS. You know the forum is always having people ask questions about status and everybody guesses. Maybe you all could implement something like I found at the following website for the LP-700 station monitor. He uses a pdf file that is protected from editing and certain fields hidden except if you enter your call sign or first part of your email address. It would save many calls to you and the team.
I am going to purchase one and after entering my call sign it shows where in the check I stand. Maybe you could implement something like this for FRS. Here are some pics. I am currently at 229 waiting.
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Threat To Polar Animals Due To Global Warming
The effects of global warming are playing havoc everywhere - higher temperatures, hurricanes, heavy rains, flooding and droughts have now become more frequent and severe in intensity.While climatic change is taking place globally, it is happening at an accelerated rate at the Poles, particularly the Arctic. Within the last few decades, the Arctic has experienced a rise in temperature that is twice the global average. According to recent studies the Arctic spring is now arriving several weeks earlier than it did a decade ago. Scientists warn that the wildlife of the Arctic is unlikely to sustain this rate of change because of evolutionary constraints, and the shrinking sea ice is expected to keep pushing temperatures higher.The amount of Arctic summer sea ice has reduced dramatically in the past 20 years and it is estimated to almost disappear within 100 years!Besides the Arctic, rising temperatures have been noted in other parts of the world's cryosphere -- the part of Earth made of frozen water and soil. The mean annual surface air temperature over the past 50 years has increased 3.6 to 5.4°F in Alaska and Siberia. The Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are in decline and face substantial melting because of rise in the global average temperature.
The rising sea levels and temperatures mean extinction for many of the animals that have known it as their home for millennia. As ice on the Poles shrinks, so do the habitats for the animals there, such as polar bears, ringed seals, walruses and other marine organisms.
Ice edges are the principal habitat for marine organisms and the melting of the annual sea ice each year at the Arctic during spring leads to a productivity bloom. It has been noted that some Arctic species arrive during spring from great distances for the food sources that flourish along the edge of the melting ice.
The sea ice is a nursery for krill, which is one of the main links in a food chain that penguins, whales and many other animals survive on. If sea ice keeps shrinking, then krill - and everything that feeds on them - is likely to be in trouble.
Because of its remoteness and lack of data and studies recording changes over a long period of time, it is hard to say what exactly will be the results of global warming in the Poles. But there are clear and grave signs that things have started to change dramatically, and the animals there are already struggling for their survival and food.
Walking on thinning ice…
According to scientists, if sea ice keeps shrinking at the current rates, there will be a substantial decline in the number of polar bears and their preys -- mainly the ringed and bearded seals.
Polar bears and seals spend most of their time on ice -- feeding, mating and giving birth. And in a scenario where ice is completely lost for a substantial part of the year, as scientists fear it will be in about a 100 years or more, we can expect to lose polar bears as a wild species. Already they are facing a decrease in number because of their low productive rates.
Scientists believe that the body size and behaviours of species change in relation to rising temperatures. Generally, bodies become smaller in response to general warming and larger when temperatures cool.
Polar bears live and hunt in snowbound lands and ice flows surrounding the North Pole. Their thick white fur and layers of fat protect them against the bitter Arctic cold. They are found on the arctic coasts and islands of the five countries around the North Pole -- the United States (Alaska), Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway and Russia. It is the only species that still lives throughout its original range, with an estimated 20,000 still in the wild.
A study was conducted on polar bears inhabiting the southern edge of the Hudson Bay, Canada, by Canadian Wildlife Services. An estimated 1,000 polar bears inhabit the region and during the four-year study, about 300 bears were weighed, measured and their physiological samples taken. It was found that since the mid-1980s the ratio of body mass to length among polar bears in southern Hudson Bay has dropped to about 15 per cent.
A similar decline in body mass was noted in 1,200 bears in western Hudson Bay, clearly indicating that the bears were not getting enough food these days. Ice on the Hudson Bay is melting an average of three weeks earlier than in the mid-1970s, forcing the bears to retreat further inland before they have been able to replenish their reserves of fat by feeding on seal pups, which also live on ice.
Polar bears in Hudson Bay are unique because they fast for six to eight months of hibernation and rely on winter hunting for survival. Longer ice-free periods during the Arctic summer leave polar bears stranded onshore for longer periods. The delay in freeze-up causes them to lose critical fat reserves affecting reproduction and the ability of pregnant females to produce enough milk for their cubs. Scientists have already documented a 15 per cent drop in birth rates.
Another alarming change noted was that several decades ago it was common to see triplet polar bear cubs, now it is hard to find even one. Earlier, up to 40 per cent of the cubs were weaned by 18 months after which they were out searching for food for themselves. Today fewer than five per cent of them are weaned at that age, meaning they are finding it hard to get food. If sea ice continues to melt due to rising temperatures, the bears of Hudson Bay face a bleak future, as will all polar bears. And that future is not so far because climatologists have forecasted that sea ice will disappear from the bay by 2070.
A study by American and Canadian scientists, released in April last year, gives the shocking suggestion that polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because long periods without ice keep them from getting to their natural food. The study was based on three instances of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 in north of Alaska and western Canada. This included the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth.
According to the study, polar bears kill each other for population regulation, dominance and reproductive advantage, but rarely for food.
Drowned polar bears are being found for the first time by researchers in Alaska, who believe that greater distances between ice sheets could be the reason. Bears are capable of swimming long distances - up to 60 miles (100 kilometres) without stopping - but they could suffer from exhaustion during an unexpectedly arduous swim.
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Another study warns that walrus calves are being stranded by melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Researchers, during a cruise in the Canada Basin in the summer of 2004, found lone walrus calves swimming far from shore -- something never before documented. This suggests that increased polar warming may be forcing mothers to abandon their pups as they go searching for food in ice-free waters.
Walruses use sea ice as a resting platform, especially the pups when their mothers dive for food. The pubs can't forage for themselves and they don't know how to eat. They are dependent on their mothers' milk for up to two years. Thus scientists believe that if walruses and other ice-associated marine mammals cannot adapt to caring for their young in shallow waters without sea-ice available as a resting platform between dives to the sea floor, there is likely to be a decline in their numbers.
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Bearded, ribbons, ringed and spotted seals are the four species collectively known as ice seals because of their dependence on sea ice for resting, pupping, feeding and mating. Climate change is believed to be affecting them adversely too by making them more vulnerable to predation by polar bears, experiencing problems in pupping and nursing. Like walruses, seals too are having difficulty foraging when they do not have their usual ice habitat from which to seek food and rest upon.
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Changes have also been noted in the Antarctic Peninsula where the average winter temperatures have risen nearly five degrees centigrade in the past half a century. This warming up has led to a notable decline in the population of the Adelie penguins, one of the only two ice-dependent polar penguin species (the other is the emperor) in Antarctica.
Adelies depend on sea ice as a feeding and resting platform, but there has been a decline of about 20 per cent in the sea ice on the western Antarctic Peninsula. The disappearing Adelies are being replaced by gentoo penguins, a subantarctic species that has begun migrating towards the Pole from more temperate climes, like the Falkland Islands. The gentoo penguins thrive in open water and are using the same nesting sites that Adelies use, making things tougher for them.
This clearly indicates that the polar system has disintegrated to give way to a subantarctic system whereby new animal species are taking over the habitat of the native ones. This pattern has been observed in other places too. The red foxes in Canada are shifting their ranges hundred of miles towards the Pole, moving into the territories of Arctic foxes.
Earth's climate has always been subject to natural variation but the current warming up -- undoubtedly human induced -- is taking place at an accelerated rate, giving species little time to adapt and avoid extinction. And in the not too distant future, squeezed between a warming world and habitat destruction, polar animals will have no place to run to
I think that you are right, we are studying the effect of global warming, and what are we doing about it? Scientist are out there trying to invent smaller cell phones, or better shampoo. But what about the animals that are becoming extinct. But thanks for the article Hassam, it really helped me on my school work :)
well i think we are to blame instead of trying to reverse this effect were just making it worse.
Interesting article Hassam. A friend of mine is a biologist whose specialty is the study of the effect of global warming on permafrost - there is NO doubt of this effect and, in fact, it has happened, and is happening at a much quicker,and alarming rate than anyone had ever expected or anticipated.
It is ignorant to say that humans are not to blame for global warming. Yes, global warming is a natural event that takes place over a very long time on Earth, but due to greenhouse gasses polluting the air and causing C02 emissions to increase the temperature, who is to blame? The earth is not doing this, humans are through massive amounts of dirty gas being used, to deforestation (which is the number one cause of greenhouse gas), and the use of electricity at the abundant level that it is being used, which goes up more everyday, are all causing global warming. Humans as a whole can choose to blame global warming on the Earth, but it is only a matter of time before we have to own up to what we are causing and step in and make a difference. Or else we will be the only inhabitants of this world! To those people who can sit back and watch while all the wildlife dies out, I have a question for you. What makes you more important than them? Where does the human race get off thinking that we are the rightful owners of the world? To me it is downright ignorant and all together idiotic!
It's a sad effect, but from what I read as much as man would like to take the credit for global warming it's the natural polar shifting that occurs every 3 million years or so?


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Maintaining this pace and making these changes isn't easy
Sales teams are comfortable selling what they know, to who they know. When sales teams are asked to engage different buyer groups or adopt a more outcome orientated sales approach, it is a long journey with many obstacles. Customers expect to purchase quickly and easily when buying a core offering but also expect the supplier to be innovative, challenge their way of thinking and introduce new ideas. The pressure is on the sales organisation to deploy a range of different sales styles to meet the different needs of customers.
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Wednesday 14th AugustDance to great 60s music all night long.at Hampton MWB Club 3 Ashley Road, Hampton, TW12 2JA.Very close to Hampton StationClick here for directionsBuilt-in stage, large dance floor and a very inexpensive barCar parking at the cluband restriction-free parking in the evenings close byLast train to Teddington and Waterloo 23.21, last train to Shepperton 23.53T H E 6 0 s A L L S T A R SfeaturingAlan Lovell (Guitar/Vocals)(The Swinging Blue Jeans)John Dee (Bass Guitar/Vocals)(The Foundations)Mick Avory (Drums)(The Kinks)8.30pm to 11.30pmAdmission £10 on the door
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1. Dress comfortably but still maintain a professional look with dressy yoga pants.
2. Silence the drone of the engines and sleep easier with noise-canceling earbuds.
3. Pass the time with a cheap tablet loaded with all your movies and shows.
4. Catch up on your queue of novels with a Kindle.
5. Block out your neighbors and keep your head warm from drafts with a hoodie pillow.
6. Stop your feet from falling asleep and keep circulation going with some compression socks.
7. Learn a new skill, or solve a Rubik's cube to pass the time.
8. Use an anti-theft carry-on bag to give you some peace of mind.
9. Condition your surroundings and do your nose a favor with a portable humidifier.
10. Top off all your electronics with a portable battery for those times that you get a seat without a plug.
11. Dress comfortably and keep a travel sweatshirt for those spontaneous naps in the terminal.
12. Keep your ears comfy and warm with some flat sleep headphones.
13. Stay hydrated when waiting for your flight with a collapsible water bottle.
14. Freshen up your mouth in the bathroom before you land with some travel brushes.
15. Make watching movies easier on your tray table with a tablet stand.
16. Slip some more flexible shoes on when you're at your seat.
17. Reduce the pressure change on your ears by using some altitude ear plugs.
18. Wear layers and keep a light, packable jacket around for those cold connecting flight delays.
19. Swap out your laces with stretchable ones so you can scoot by easier in the security check line.
20. Shut out all lingering light with a sleep mask for when your window partner won't put down the damn shade.
21. Roll all your cables and electronics into a single organizer so you don't have to dig through your carry-on.
22. Nip jet lag in the bud by using some supplements to help regulate your sleep.
23. Stop your skin from cracking in the dry air with a travel-friendly skin repair kit.
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"Beware of undertaking too much at the start.
Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents.
Allow for human nature, especially your own."
Arnold Bennett
Another thought-provoking quotation; a good way to start the day.
Are the lovely flowers from your garden?
Good Morning Maureen,
Yes, all the flowers are from our very wild garden - I seldom get any further than to our mailbox, so I'm glad we have our own small paradise.
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Okay, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Yesterday, I ran down some of the lamest lines, the worst rap lyrics, from 50-41, and today we inch ever closer to the top of the bottom. Spoiler alert: Lil' Wayne makes the cut (again), as does Jay-Z (twice) and Eminem, Atmosphere, Hopsin and more. Keep reading for more of the worst rhymes of all time as the countdown continues.
See also: - The 50 worst rap lyrics of all time: 50-41 - The ten most enigmatic figures in hip-hop - The ten best storytellers in hip-hop
40. Atmosphere - "Trying to Find a Balance"
"Yeah, I got some last words: Fuck all y'all/Stop writing raps and go play volleyball."
But, Slug, I don't even play volleyball. Can't I go play tennis, or basketball? If quit rapping and started playing tennis, would that be good enough? And what do you have against volleyball, anyway? I like volleyball. Especially beach volleyball.
39. Jay-Z - "Glory"
"You're a child of destiny/You're the child of my destiny/You're my child with the child from Destiny's Child"
Ok, Jay. We get it. Once is enough. You have sex with Beyonce. We're all very jealous. Please don't ever use the words "destiny" or "child" in a song again.
38. Childish Gambino - "Freaks & Geeks"
"An elephant never forgets, so my dick remembers everything."
How many different ways can Donald Glover say he has a big penis? A lot, apparently. This is one of the worst -- lazy and pointless. What other big things can we compare his penis to? The Titanic sunk, so his dick is under water. Wow, rapping is easy.
37. Eminem - "Space Bound"
"Love is evil. Spell it backwards, I'll show ya."
Let's quickly move past the obvious misspelling and see what other equivalences are true by that same logic. Apparently, my dog is god, which, judging by the large piles of crap he occasionally leaves on my carpet, says something very unflattering about the world's religions.
36. Lil' Wayne on French Montana's "Pop That"
"Pop that pussy like a zit."
Congratulations, Wayne. You just put the pus in pussy. You've managed to juxtapose the two things in the universe I least wanted to be connected in my mind. "Balloon" wouldn't have worked? "Bubble"?
35. Kreayshawn "Go Hard"
"Pretty little bitch, dripping like some water though/I be on that straw and coming for that low, low."
Hey, Kreayshawn, what's the most infantile, nonsensical way you could talk about performing cunnilingus? Anybody who refers to a vagina as a "low, low" deserves to be...ah, never mind.
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34. Lil B - "Wonton Soup"
"Eat that wonton soup I got the cash like chang, chang, chang/Bitches suck my dick because I come like 36 ways."
Is there anybody with a stronger penchant for irreverence than Lil B? It's hard to even describe how dumb this rhyme is. Words like "onomatopoeia" and "allusion" are too fancy to be used here.
33. Hoodie Allen - "The Chase Is On"
"Oh, you from Wu-Tang?/Then why's your face ghost?"
First of all, in what circumstance would somebody who wasn't in Wu-Tang tell you that they were in Wu-Tang? Second of all, if they were in Wu-Tang, there's a one in nine chance that their face is ghost. Third of all, this line has no meaning in the context of the song. Three strikes, you're out.
32. Jay-Z - "Fallin'"
"Can't blow too hard/Life's a deck of cards."
Hey! Jay-Z is a GOAT contender. If he had meant to say "house of cards," he damn well would have said "house of cards." The Zed Master is just on a whole other level of consciousness. You can't even comprehend, man. You can't even comprehend.
31. Hopsin - "The B Bop"
"I serve packs of these haters. My words actually rape 'em And where's daddy to save him? My urge has to be fatal. Up in this music shit, the sky's the limit for rising in it, long as I'm consistent and keep on using my eyes as gimmicks."
Ok. Before you judge Hopsin for this fairly offensive, mostly incoherent mess, know this: We're not even sure he knows what most of these words mean. At least he admits that his colored contact lenses are gimmicks. Not sure why he keeps wearing them, as long as he knows he looks stupid.
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An Oct. 1 concert at San Jacinto College will feature the European Guitar Quartet, which includes (from left) internationally acclaimed musicians Zoran Dukic, Thomas Fellow, Pavel Steidl and Reentko Dirks. Photo by Robert Vanis.
San Jacinto College will host concerts in September and October that feature music from around the world, with a highlight being a performance by the internationally acclaimed European Guitar Quartet.
All concerts are free and open to the public. The Central Campus concerts will take place in the Dr. Monte Blue Music Building, 8060 Spencer Hwy. in Pasadena. The North Campus concerts will take place in the Dr. Charles Grant Fine Arts Center, 5800 Uvalde Road in Houston.
Central Campus concerts
On Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m., a jazz concert under the direction of music professor Jeffrey Adams will feature a 17-piece group performing different styles of jazz music, including swing standards, Latin, ballads, and contemporary jazz selections. Student music major Alex Lewis will be a featured trumpet soloist on an arrangement of "I Remember Clifford." A small jazz group will also perform standard jazz selections. "Come enjoy an evening of America's original art form, jazz," commented Adams.
On Thursday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. the critically acclaimed European Guitar Quartet will present a concert that will feature classical, world music, jazz, and contemporary selections. The ensemble includes four of the top guitarists in the world, each considered virtuoso masters who have performed internationally as soloists. Artists include Zoran Dukic, a native of Coratia who lives in Barcelona; Thomas Fellow, a native of Leipzig, Germany; Pavel Steidl, a native of Rakovnik, Czech Republic; and Reentko Dirks from Dresden, Germany.
On Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m., a choral concert under the direction of music professor Dr. Paul Busselberg, will feature a Bach motet "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,' and a Ralph Vaughan Williams monet "Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge." Other selections will include works by René Clausen, Jean Belmont and Bruce Sled, as well as traditional folk songs and spirituals.
On Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m., an orchestra concert under the direction of music professor Ingrid Hunter, will feature the "Serenade for Strings" by Josef Suk. "The selection is a beautiful and lyrical piece for chamber orchestra," Hunter said. The program will also include "Libertango" by Piazzola, a "dramatic and inviting work that portrays the excitement of tango."
On Thursday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m., a faculty recital will include performances by Busselberg and music professor Dr. Sarah Spencer, who will be joined by guest artist Joseph Rawley, a longtime educator who formerly served as a San Jacinto College music professor. The concert will feature two of Robert Schumann's Song-Cylces, "Liederkreis op. 39" and "Dichterliebe op. 40."
On Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., a concert will spotlight music of acclaimed Argentinian composer Astor Piazzola, who is credited with bringing the Argentinian tango to the concert stage with new vitality. Featured musicians will be San Jacinto College faculty members Lynne Brandt on flute, Jeremy Garcia on guitar; Dr. Karen Marston on trombone, and Michael Mizma on percussion. Guest artists will include Omni Brass, a Houston-based brass ensemble that includes four San Jacinto College music professors.
North Campus concerts
On Friday, Sept. 25 at 12 p.m., a concert by Houston-based Solero Flamenco will feature lively and expressive Flameco music and singing. Solero Flamenco includes San Jacinto College music professor and skilled guitarist Jeremy Garcia, acclaimed singer and dancer Irma La Paloma, and versatile percussionist Chris Howard. The group performs traditional Spanish folk songs, Flamenco classics, as well as original compositions.
On Friday, Oct. 30 at 12 p.m., Brant Croucher and Friends will appear in concert. Houston native Croucher is a songwriter and musician acclaimed for lyrical craftsmanship in his guitar-driven country and folk songs. His debut CD "Blanco County Lights" received positive acclaim by music reviewers.
San Jacinto College offers music degrees and courses, as well as private music lessons at the North and Central campuses.
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Tobias' first encounter with advertising was while writing his thesis at the University of Copenhagen, quoting Plato and Aristotle to argue that the more adverts there are, the better the world would be. He got a C.Since then, Tobias has been a copywriter, an agency owner, a creative director and the recipient of honors and awards at Cannes Lions, Eurobest as well as many other Danish and international advertising festivals. Tobias, being an ECD in a small country with a baffling language and modest budgets, doesn't really have a motto, but if he had it would be: If you can't outspend them, outsmart them.


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The U.S. government is developing an advanced system to recognize people's faces in a crowd. The plan, which was revealed in documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, comes in the wake of National Security Administration controversy and has privacy advocates worried. Here's Charlie Savage, writing for the New York Times:
Significant progress is already being made in automated face recognition using photographs taken under ideal conditions, like passport pictures and mug shots. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is spending $1 billion to roll out a Next Generation Identification system that will provide a national mug shot database to help local police departments verify identities.
But surveillance of crowds from a distance — in which lighting and shadows vary, and faces tend to be partly obscured or pointed in random directions — is still not reliable or fast enough. The BOSS research is intended to overcome those challenges by generating far more information for computers to analyze.
The current limitations of facial recognition were very publicly exposed this spring during the Boston Marathon. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were captured on grainy but passable surveillance footage. While humans had no problem identifying the individuals in the frames, computers couldn't turn up a match.
BOSS will be much more than a run-of-the-mill surveillance system, though. It will use visible light and infrared cameras at multiple angles along with distance sensors to create 3D renderings of people's faces in a crowd. As proposed, these renderings would then be compared against a terrorist watch list. Privacy advocates are concerned that BOSS's mission will be extended to include driver's license photos, allowing law enforcement to track potentially hundreds of millions of individuals.
BOSS, however, doesn't appear to be ready. At present, it can't recognize faces at 80 to 90% accuracy from 100 meters, the proposal's benchmark. The system is still a work in progress, and it's entirely possible that it will take five years or more for it to be released. Advances in computing will certainly help, but there's another, more subtle limitation that has been holding facial recognition back—we still don't fully understand how humans recognize faces.
As I reported here on NOVA Next last April, neuroscientists and psychologists are still grappling with the nuances of human facial recognition:
Humans […] understand the face holistically, Gabrieli says. We don't break it down into its component parts, analyzing a nose's size, shape, and color, for example. In fact, we're terrible when we try to do it that way. "If you show a nose on a face, people do way better at recognizing that nose when it comes back with a face as opposed to the nose by itself," Gabrieli says. An analogy, he adds, is proofreading. When we're reading over a passage we just wrote, we'll often miss typos because we don't read letter by letter—we understand the word as a whole, every letter simultaneously. "Faces are like that with a vengeance."
Until we understand in more detail how humans pick a face out of a crowd, it's entirely possible that computers will be unable to do the same, at least with a high degree of accuracy. The benchmarks that BOSS has to meet may too stringent for the program to succeed, at least in the near future.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Women, Don't Change Your Names
I had a client come to see me about changing her name. It seems that when she got married, her wrong middle initial was listed on her wedding license. Then when she got divorced, her correct initial was used on her divorce decree. This happened many years ago. It didn't seem like a major problem until lately.
When she moved back to Indiana from another state and went to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to get her license, she couldn't get one because all her documentation didn't match. In this state, when the new rules regarding getting a license/i.d. card went into affect (because of terrorism, doncha know), women had to begin proving how and why they'd used each name....that usually means marriage licenses and divorce papers if they took their previous name back.
My client didn't need a complete legal name change, she simply required a correction on her wedding license. She contacted the State and was told that was impossible. "Too bad, so sad," the BMV shrugged its shoulders.
I certainly had no idea what to tell her and neither did any of the attorneys I asked. "There must be a way," they said. Well, yeah, probably, but what is that way?
As far as I know, she still doesn't have a license.
I know another woman who lived with a man in a common-law relationship for several years and used his name. She now has no documentation to show the BMV how that name came about in order to get a new license. We think the license bureau may accept an affidavit in place of a marriage license.
When my mother quit driving and let her license expire, she forgot she'd need an i.d. card to vote. She had to send for her birth certificate (Illinois, 1919) and her wedding license (Arizona 1938). She was 90 then. She'd not have had a clue how to accomplish this if I had not done it for her.
Men have no problem. They are who they are all their lives. Go to the license bureau, show your birth certificate. Voila, done deal! But for women, in many cases, it is a different and much more complicated story, one that the legislators (mostly males) don't understand....or if they do understand, they don't care.
My advice to women is: don't change your names. Keep the one you were born with like men, no matter how many times you marry. It may save you problems in the years ahead.
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With the summer of 2013 nearly in full swing and the midday heat starting to settle down, there is no time better than NOW to start thinking about your outdoor location shoots. We have so many clients come back to the studio every year and after a couple of studio sessions, families are sometimes looking for something a little different. Lightbox studio offers location session and have a few favourites locations up our sleeves.
The Bradbury family have been visiting us regularly since their oldest daughter was just crawling and since 2009, we have done another Maternity shoot, the twins newborn and a family session in the studio, but just before the christmas holiday we did something really special, we spent a beautiful morning at their favourite holiday getaway- the beach!
Does your family have a favourite holiday getaway……can you see your next family portarit session taking place there??