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Zurich voters reject ban on "suicide tourism"
Voters in Zurich overwhemingly rejected on Sunday proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism" — foreigners traveling to Switzerland to receive help ending their lives. Only 15.5 percent of voters in the local referendum backed a ban on assisted suicide, while nearly 22 percent supported a ban on suicide tourism, final results showed. About 200 people commit assisted suicide each year in Zurich.
Assisted suicide has been allowed in Switzerland since 1941 if performed by a non-physician who has no vested interest in the death. Euthanasia, or "mercy killing," is legal only in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the U.S. state of Oregon. Many terminally ill foreigners — particularly from Germany, France and Britain — travel to Switzerland to commit suicide, taking advantage of the Swiss rules which are among the world's most liberal.
But a rise in the number of foreigners seeking to end their lives in Switzerland, and a study showing that more and more people seeking assisted suicides in the country do not suffer from a terminal illness, have provoked heated debate.
The Swiss Evangelical People's Party, which had supported the bans, said it regretted the outcome but was pleased it had prompted so much discussion. "We now need to make sure that assisted suicide isn't just extended without limit and also that suicide tourism with foreigners is critically monitored," it said in a statement.
The Swiss government has said it is looking to change the law on assisted suicide to make sure it was used only as a last resort by the terminally ill, and to limit "suicide tourism."
The right-to-die group Exit has agreed rules to govern assisted suicide with prosecutors in Zurich in the hope they might eventually form the basis of national regulation. Foreigners are not explicitly excluded under the new rules, but a Swiss doctor who prescribes the deadly anesthetic must have met the person twice over a period of time to be sure of their wishes.
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Former CCMP Capital CEO Stephen Murray has passed away, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. The 52-year-old investment guru had taken a leave of absence in February for undisclosed medical reasons. The news has investors on pins and needles, according to an unnamed source.
"We are sad to announce the passing of our friend and colleague Stephen," said interim CEO Greg Brenneman. "This is a huge blow to our company. We have sent our heartfelt condolences to his wife Tami and his children."
Under Murray's guidance, CCMP rose through the ranks to become one of most profitable investment companies in the world. The company's portfolio is currently worth over $3 billion.
CCMP Capital has undergone a number of mergers and acquisitions over the years.
Murray, a Boston College graduate, joined the company in 1984 right out of college. Murray entered Hanover Manufacturers Corporation as a credit analyst. After a few years, he was named head of the credit department.
Hanover was soon bought by Chemical Bank Partners. The company then merged with Chemical Bank Partners. After the spinoff of JP Morgan Chase, CCMP Capital was born. In 2007, Murray was named CEO. One of Stephen Murray's most impressive ventures was to outbid several larger investment houses for pharmaceutical giant Warner Chilcott.
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Spectator yelled at Aly Raisman's parents to stop cheering and sit down (PHOTO)
As Aly Raisman's parents have demonstrated during their daughter's triumphant U.S. trials and Olympics, you can be a loving, supportive parent and still be super obnoxious. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
But even folks who were put off by the spectacle Raisman's parents put on during the daughter's routines couldn't fault them for wildly cheering when Aly won a gold medal in the floor exercise on Tuesday night. A second gold medal and another bronze for a teenager who was an afterthought on Team USA behind her more decorated teammates Jordyn Wieber and Gabby Douglas? Go crazy, Raisman parents. Your daughter has earned it.
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One gentleman at the Greenwich Arena disagreed. An older fellow sitting behind Aly Raisman's parents was hilariously annoyed by their standing and cheering after Aly's routine. When the camera first cut to him, he stared at Rick Raisman and shook his head in disgust. A few seconds later, he shouted at him to sit down.
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But this guy needs to calm down. Should Raisman's parents have been more considerate of the people around them? Sure. Understand the situation though. The old man had to have known who they were. They don't exactly seem like the subtle types who wouldn't mention it 500 times.
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Chill out. Years from now, you won't remember watching the final moments of the floor exercise, but you'll always remember that you sat behind the parents of a gold-medal winner.
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"A Bank for the Buck" is the story of the birth as well the growth of HDFC Bank which turned eighteen in August 2012. There are many things one can do when one turns eighteen years and it very much varies from a country to country. In India, one can vote and get a license to drive a car, but can't drink in public places. But, in China, turning eighteen gives one the licence to drink. In the odyssey of past eighteen years the book tries to showcase if life did turn out to be different for the bank's employees, customers and investors.
The entire journey of eighteen years the author has covered it as a story which spread across thirteen chapters. By writing it as a story the author has kept it interesting by engaging the readers. The objective was not merely to come up with the bank's history but to revolve a story about the making of this successful bank in India.
Author, Tamal Bandyopadhyay is one of the most respected business journalists in India. His weekly column, Banker's Trust, in India's second-largest read financial daily Mint, where he is Deputy Managing Editor, is widely read for its deep insights into the world of finance and its unerring ability to anticipate major policy moves.
Tamal has kept a close watch on the financial sector for over fifteen years and has had a ringside view of the enormous changes in Indian finance over this period. He has been a frequent speaker at seminars across India and has hosted a very successful weekly show (by the same name as his weekly column) on television, featuring some of India's most respected bankers, policy makers, central bankers and regulators.
He has contributed to The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, edited by Kaushik Basu and published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Banker's Trust, an anthology of his weekly column in Mint, has recently been published. This is Tamal's first book.
The journey begins right from how different names were suggested like Bank of Bombay (BoB) or Bombay International Bank before finally settling down with name HDFC Bank. The acronym for Bank of Bombay clashed with the established public sector bank, Bank of Baroda and that was dropped off.
The first four chapters speak about the making of the bank, how it was conceptualized, how the core team was built up. The next four chapters discuss about the business philosophy of the bank and how it is different from the rest of the pack. Chapter number nine and ten talks about mergers. Chapter eleven details about what went wrong with the bank and how it got into a mess. Chapter twelve delves into the story of what makes Aditya Puri the longest serving CEO of any bank in India. The last chapter tells the readers the story as to why this bank is successful.
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The Connacht District Lunatic Asylum opened in 1833 with accommodation for 150 patients. Many commentators at the time thought the asylum would never reach capacity, and in fact feared it wouldn't ever be even half full. Promotional advertisements were created ready to entice patients to the new asylum. These turned out to be redundant, however, and the asylum actually suffered with overcrowding throughout the years, despite being expanded many times. Poor Law Workhouses at the time were overcrowded, as was the prison system in Ireland, and both were relieved to be able to offload some of their more difficult inmates to the asylums. Connacht, like the other asylums at the time, was unable by law to refuse entry to anyone referred to them, and soon found they were filling up with long-term or incurable patients. Around the same time, emigration to America seemed a good option for many Irish people, however anyone exhibiting strange behaviour would likely mean refusal of entry into the USA for the entire family. Those family members were simply sent to the asylums where they would likely spend the rest of their lives while their families emigrated.
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China's Big Four banks have reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter. Bank of China led the way, posting a 16.6% increase in net profits over the same quarter last year. China Construction Bank was the group's laggard, showing only 12.4% growth.
The four largest Chinese banks had apparently managed risk carefully in the quarter. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's largest bank by most measures, said its nonperforming loan ratio at the end of September was just 0.87%. Even Agricultural Bank of China, traditionally the weakest of the quartet, had a 1.34% ratio.
The Big Four were not the only financial institutions doing well. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Bank of Beijing, and Industrial Bank all reported stellar Q3 numbers. Industrial Bank, for instance, posted a simply astounding 40.9% increase in net profit.
Investors, predictably, loved the results. Chinese banks enjoyed their biggest surge of the year. Their stocks, measured by the MSCI China Financial Index, gained about 8% last month.
Jim Chanos remains unimpressed, however. The founder and president of Kynikos Associates, who made his mark shorting Enron, last week said he is continuing to bet against China's banks, something he has been doing since February 2010.
Chanos has reason to be bearish. Just about everyone agrees with Ni Jun of Shenyin Wanguo Securities in Shanghai that nonperforming loans will rock bank earnings sometime during the middle of next year, even if the economy hits bottom this quarter, as many predict. Yet despite the widespread expectation of impending loan-quality problems, the big banks reduced impairment charges in Q3.
The impairment charge of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, for instance, was 1.9 billion yuan lower in Q3 than a year earlier. Bank of China may have overreported earnings by as much as 2 billion yuan because of insufficient provisions for bad loans, according to DBS Vickers. In short, China's Big Four might have created consensus-beating results by setting aside insufficient amounts for questionable lending.
Whether they cooked the books or not, Chinese bankers have a lot to hide. To avoid the effects of the global downturn, Premier Wen Jiabao, beginning at the end of 2008, made the banks go on a spree by forcing them to abandon lending standards. That permitted China to bulk up on "ghost cities," towering government offices in rural villages, and magnificent airports in the middle of farmland. Even after central officials supposedly reined in the loan-a-thon in 2010, lending has continued at a fast pace: new loans were up 23.7% in Q3, compared to the same quarter last year.
As a result of this "directed" lending, the banks are now carrying "assets" that cannot, in the normal course of business, be paid back. "The Mother of All Debt Bombs" is how Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College characterizes the risky situation. Chanos puts it this way: "Imagine a credit python," he said. "The U.S. is the pig at the end of the snake, and China and Asia are the pig entering the snake in terms of deleveraging the banks."
"The worst fears of a collapse in China's banking system are misplaced," writes Tom Orlik of the Wall Street Journal. In a sense, he is right because Beijing will, as long as it has the resources, not let its banks fail. Chinese officials will make sure borrowers, and especially the infamous Local Government Financing Vehicles, have cash to service interest; they will use their reserves of foreign currency to partially recapitalize the banks, as they did last decade; they will maintain loose standards for the evaluation of loans for NPL accounting purposes; and they will force regulators to issue deceptive statistics about the health of the banks.
In the late 1990s during China's last downturn, this general approach worked to avoid a crisis. Dai Xianglong, when he was governor of the People's Bank of China, downplayed concerns about China's banks and told the public that the industry's NPL ratio was no more than 1%. At the time, analysts thought the ratio was closer to 25% and later estimates topped 50%. Yet Beijing, through a series of partial measures over the course of a half decade, eased the banks out of crisis.
Now, the banks are clearly in trouble again. For one thing, they are avoiding making long-term loans, a sign of funding difficulties, probably caused by the nonperforming assets they have been carrying on their balance sheets.
Moreover, they also seem to be dressing up their books by shifting loans among themselves. And the People's Bank of China is facilitating this suspicious behavior by large injections of liquidity with the apparent purpose of lowering the rates banks charge each other. The PBOC added a record 290 billion yuan into the banking system on October 30 and almost 1.3 trillion yuan since late June.
If all this were not bad enough, the banks face problems that will reduce earnings soon. Interest margins will inevitably be squeezed because of the new rules allowing banks flexibility on setting rates for deposits and loans. So far, the effect of the new interest-rate regime has not been great, but it will bite when old loans come due and are rolled over at terms more favorable to borrowers.
Borrowers will be able to negotiate better terms because of the interest rate cuts from June and July of this year. "As loans mature, they will have to be re-priced downwards based on the new benchmark rate," said Bill Stacey of KBW in Hong Kong to Reuters. "The margin pressure has been deferred, but it's coming."
These relatively minor problems could not come at a worse time for the banks. As borrowers fail to make repayments and as the economy continues to stumble, watch for China's Enrons to hit the wall.
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Henry Bradley Plant (October 27, 1819 - June 23, 1899), was involved with many transportation projects, mostly railroads, in the U.S. state of Florida. Eventually he owned the Plant System of railroads which became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Plant City, located near Tampa, was named after him.
Henry Bradley Plant was founder of the Plant System of railroads and steamboats. He was born in Branford, Conn., the son of Betsey (Bradley) and Anderson Plant, a farmer in good circumstances. He was the descendant of John Plant who probably emigrated from England and settled at Hartford, Conn., about 1639. When the boy was six, his father died. Several years later his mother married again and took him to live first at Martinsburg, N.Y., and later at New Haven, Conn., where he attended a private school. His grandmother, who hoped to make a clergyman of him, offered him an education at Yale College, but, impatient to begin an active career, he got a job as captain's boy, deck hand, and man-of-all-work on a steamboat plying between New Haven and Hartford.
Among his various duties was the care of express parcels. This line of business, hitherto neglected, he organized effectively, and, when it was taken over by the Adams Express Company and later transferred from steamboats to railroads, he went along with it. After a few years he was put in charge of the old York office of the company. In 1853 his wife, Ellen Elizabeth (Blackstone) Plant, to whom he had been married in 1842, was ordered South for her health. Several months spent near Jacksonville, then a tiny hamlet, impressed the shrewd Yankee with the possibilities of the future development of Florida.
The next year he became the general superintendent of the Adams Express Company for the territory south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. In the face of great difficulties he successfully organized and extended express service in this region, where transportation facilities, although rapidly growing, were still deficient and uncoordinated. At the approach of the Civil War the directors of Adams Express, fearing the confiscation of their Southern properties, decided to transfer them to Plant. With the Southern stockholders of the company he organized in 1861 the Southern Express Company, a Georgia corporation, and became president. His company acted as agent for the Confederacy in collecting tariffs and transferring funds. In 1863, following a serious illness, he took an extended vacation in Europe, and he returned by way of Canada.
After the war, the railroads of the South were practically ruined and many railroads went bankrupt in the depression of 1873. In this situation he found his opportunity. Convinced of the eventual economic revival of the South, he bought at foreclosure sales in 1879 and 1880 the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad and the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. With these as a nucleus he began building along the southern Atlantic seaboard a transportation system that twenty years later included fourteen railway companies with 2,100 miles of track, several steamship lines, and a number of important hotels. In 1882 he organized, with the assistance of Northern capitalists (among whom were M.K. Jesup, W.T. Walters, and Henry Morrison Flagler, who himself would be instrumental in the development of Florida's east coast) the Plant Investment Company, a holding company for the joint management of the various properties under his control. He reconstructed and extended several small railroads so as to provide continuous service across the state, and by providing better connections with through lines to the North he gave Florida orange growers quicker and cheaper access to Northern markets.
In 1887, Plant built the PICO Hotel in Sanford for the accommodation of his railroad and steamship passengers to Central Florida.[1]
Tampa, then a village of a few hundred inhabitants, was made the terminus of his southern Florida railroad and also the home port for a new line of steamships to Havana. For the accommodation of winter visitors he built in Tampa, in the style of a Moorish palace, an enormous hotel costing $2,500,000. The hotel was called the Tampa Bay Hotel and was famous for its fanciful Moorish and Victorian architecture. The hotel now serves as the main building for the University of Tampa and houses the Henry B. Plant Museum. Another large, Victorian-style hotel established by Plant during the 1890s was the Belleview Biltmore near Clearwater, Florida.
The subsequent growth in wealth and population of Florida and other states tributary to the Plant System made its founder one of the richest and most powerful men in the South. A good physical inheritance, preserved by temperate habits, made it possible for Henry Plant to keep working until almost eighty years of age.
His first wife died in February 1861, and in 1873 he married Margaret Josephine Loughman, the daughter of Martin Loughman of New York City, who with one of his two sons survived him.
Henry Plant built eight hotels, including several in Tampa, Florida and the new town of Port Tampa, which he built at the end of his rail line. His most prized hotel was the Tampa Bay Hotel, a lavish resort built right across the Hillsborough River from Tampa. Built at a cost of $3 million, it was said to be an attempt to compete with fellow industrialist Henry M. Flagler, who was developing Florida's east coast.
In his will he attempted to prevent the partition of his properties to the value of about $10,000,000 by forming a trust for the benefit of a great-grandson, but the will was contested by his widow and declared invalid under the laws of the state of New York. This decision made possible the consolidation of his railroads with other properties to form the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, today a key portion of the Florida operations of CSX Transportation.
Plant's son, Morton Freeman Plant (1852–1918), was vice-president of the Plant Investment Company from 1884 to 1902 and attained distinction as a yachtsman. He was part owner of the Philadelphia baseball club in the National League, and sole owner of the New London club in the Eastern League. Of the younger Plant's many gifts to hospitals and other institutions the most notable were the three dormitories and the unrestricted gift of $1,000,000 to the Connecticut College for Women. His former 1905 mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City is now the home of Cartier.
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Melissa Campbell
Originally from San Francisco, California, Melissa English Campbell is an internationally exhibiting artist focusing on textile art. She received her Bachelors of Science, in 1995, from University of California at Davis in Design with an emphasis in Textiles and Clothing.
Prior to moving to Ohio, Melissa worked in San Francisco at Ariat International as the assistant to the President. From San Francisco Melissa, and her husband J.R. Campbell, moved to Ohio where she first worked at Iowa State University in their Textiles and Clothing Department as their Textile Lab Technician and their annual Student Fashion Show Coordinator and then left to raise their children and start a small yoga wear company. Melissa, J.R. and their two children then moved to Glasgow, Scotland where Melissa became involved in art, craft and volunteer initiatives.
Shortly after moving to Kent, Ohio, Melissa began the graduate degree program in the School of Art at Kent State University. She received her MFA, with an emphasis in Textiles, in 2013.
Melissa's work has been seen at local and international venues including the Innovations in Fiber Art VI in California, the Surface Design Association Fashion Show in San Antonio, the International Fashion Art Biennale in Seoul, South Korea, the Hedge Gallery in Cleveland and the Miniartextil in Como, Italy.


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Cendol Jelly Adapted From Table For Two...Or More.
Cendol Layer:
500ml water
170gm sugar
250ml water
25gm jelly strips with 7ml water
250 ml coconut milk
small pinch of salt
30gm corn starch - to make the cendol floating
500gm cendol (2 cups, drained)
1) Mix jelly powder with 250ml water, set aside
2) Mix cornstarch, salt and coconut milk together, set aside.
3) Bring 500ml water and sugar to boil. When solution has come to a boil, pour in jelly mixture.
4) Bring to a boil again, lower heat and pour in cornstarch mixture, stirring all the while.
5) On medium heat , bring back to a boil. Remove from heat and put in drained cendol. Mix well.
6) Pour into jelly cups.
7) Let it cool for about an hour.
8) Use cookie cutter to cut out the center of the jelly.
9) Set aside and do the brown layer.
Brown Layer:
200gm gula melaka
750ml water
2 pandan leaves - knotted
250ml water
25gm jelly strips with 7ml water.
1) Bring 750ml water, gula melaka and pandan knot to a boil and simmer until the gula melaka has totally dissolved.
2) Mix jelly powder with 250ml water and pour into the pot. Bring to a boil again.
3) Remove pot from heat.
4) Pour in brown layer slowly, carefully using a sieve and let it set and cool down.
5) Chill in fridge.


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Last week:
58.6 miles; 17350 feet; 20:09:19
After last year's dismal weather were looking forward to the settled cold spell the forecasts promised. As a taster, on the way to Keswick, we stopped in Ambleside for a jog round an 'extended Fairfield Horseshoe'. A couple of years ago we realised we had walked the Fairfield Horseshoe four of five times in mid –winter, enjoying sunshine and blizzards in equal measure, and decided to make it a tradition and, if possible, to include the extension of the descent from Red Screes. Although we added Red Screes this year we missed the best part of the route by running and getting down before dark. Walking off Red Screes after sunset provides a wonderful view of the Christmas Lights in Ambleside. Running down after dark would need too much concentration and anyway the gear shops were having sales!
Late afternoon Ambleside
With the weather improving we followed this with another look at the first leg of the 55at55 starting at the foot of Causey Pike and visiting Causey Pike, Scar Crags, Sail, Crag Hill, Wandope, Whiteless Pike and returning over Knott Rigg and Ard Crags. I had wanted to include Ranerdale Knott but this might have added another hour and a very cold hour as all the valleys were still frozen hard. We stopped on the ascent of Knott Rigg to watch cars struggling to get into and out of Newlands Hause from Buttermere. One made it down to Buttermere whilst two gave up and both cars climbing out of Buttermere gave up and reversed back down the road – while we sat in warm(ish) sunshine. I tried this leg in the dark and concluded it is just too difficult to get anything like a reasonable line off Whiteless Pike in the dark and so I am going to start my 2009 attempt on Saturday morning to do this leg in daylight.
Looking back to Derwent Water and Blencathra
After a couple of very cold nights the temperature didn't fall below about -2 but this was still enough to keep the ground frozen solid - the perfect time (the only time) to tackle the Bleaberry Fell to Armboth Fell ridge and so we did. The ground was solid and badly rutted in many places and in many others was simply ice and so progress was slower than we would have liked. Until High Tove we saw no-one else other than the hordes on Walla Crag who didn't seem interested in venturing this far south. High Street remained shrouded in clouds, as it had all week, but the rest of the high fells were bathed in winter sunshine.
North over Derwent Water from above Ashness Bridge
Having done most of the Grasmoor fells earlier we decided to try to visit the rest to add them to our 'Third Round' of Wainwright's high fells. Up the Coledale Valley to the hause and over Sand Hill to Hopegill Head and Whiteside which we had to ourselves. The solitude wasn't to continue as, even from here, we could see the procession over Grisedale Pike making its way over Hobcarton Crag to Hopegill Head. Returning to Hopegill Head we met the vanguard settling down for morning coffee. By the time we reached Grisedale Pike it was like the queue for Woolworths' closing down sale.
New Year's Eve dawned damp and foggy in Keswick and looked like it wouldn't clear all day. Back to Braithwaite we went to go back up the valley and down over Outerside for a short morning before coming home. About half way up Outerside we emerged frm the clag into glorious sunshine to see an inversion covering everything below 1500 feet.


text: The wave of retro glamorous luxury jewelry return, these with antique ornaments by the pursuit of taste. Gemstone and other elements in the design master of abstract transmit the soul of charming, becoming most details in fashion this year. This Gemstone Ring & Retro Grasses Agate Gemstone 18 Inch Ring with deep green gem show classical flavor of classic elements. With magnificent patterns of square- shaped green gem shows off a splendid one light, in the silver ring rings that sparkle of light against the, full of spiritual beauty. Gemstone Costume Ring & Retro Grasses Agate Gemstone 18 Inch Ring is perfect for wear on important occasions, will let you send a strong sense of gorgeous and romantic feeling, stunning the audience!


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GamesIndustry.biz has posted a rumor this morning regarding big changes in store for MMO publisher NCSoft. According to "sources close to the company", the developer / publisher is planning on cutting 50 positions from their European office in Brighton, England following a decision to stop working on an unnamed MMO being developed there.
Along with job cuts comes the resurfacing of the rumor that Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, the ambitious MMO that failed to capture a significant portion of the MMO market, will be closing it's doors in the coming months as well, which would lead to more job cuts as NCSoft further streamlines their business.
An announcement addressing these issues is expected within the next day. We're currently looking into the rumors and will keep you updated as more information becomes available.
NCsoft to trim European office? [GI.biz]


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I got these suits on my first trip to the shops when the girls were still in NICU. They were the first "girly" outfits I purchased and I can still remember all the feelings. Joy and pride combined with the numbness that having a premmie in ICU brings.
The cashier asked if they were gifts and I, still sporting a pregnant looking belly, told her about my babies. She listened intently, as did her colleague and the other customer standing next to me.
It was a conversation where I happily boasted about my little girls, commenting on whether I'd picked the right size and how I've suddenly gone mad for pink, frills and florals. It was a normal new mum moment during an abnormal time.
Dressing the girls this morning, I couldn't help but think about how far they've come and how healthy they are. Having my babies at home, chubby legged and full of giggles was all I longed for several months ago. I suddenly felt an enormous rush of gratitude and my heart seemed to swell with love. K x


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Dr. Guannue outlines Liberias major challenges since 1847
(mylbsonline.com/Liberia)-A Liberian historian, Dr. Joseph Guannu, says: "The country has been confronted with major challenges since 1847."
Dr. Guannu named some of those challenges as territorial expansion, participation in decision-making, rights to citizenship and morality.
Speaking on ELBC Super Morning Show Friday, July 26, 2013, Dr. Guannu added: "Though past leaders attempted addressing those problems, they did not succeed to a greater extent.
According to Dr. Guannu, Liberia's progress largely depends on the quality of its educational system.
He believes, as Liberia celebrates its 166th years of existence, priority must be placed on the country's educational system from three fronts.
The Liberian historian named the three fronts as the students, faculty, and instructional materials, saying: "If addressed, the country's educational system could greatly impact the future of Liberia.
Dr. Guannu also made specific reference to what he called, "moral high ground" in tackling corruption and other societal ills in the Liberian society.
He called on national leaders to build courage and take stance on such high moral ground to prosecute people guilty of corruption.


text: LUCC and the Student Welfare Committee, in conjunction with Bon Appetit, are pleased to offer a new take-out program: "fill clamshells, not landfills". This program provides a sustainable option for off-site dining that works with current meal plans and supports the University's goal for sustainability. Guests may purchase an approved clamshell container from the cashier in Andrew Commons, Kate's Corner Store or Kaplan's Grill and fill it with delicious food to enjoy outside of the dining room. This reusable container can be exchanged for a clean one over and over again, and is also refundable if returned at the end of the year.


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Thanks to Michael's hard work planting the greenhouse and garden this year, plus our friend Robert's diligent watering while we were away in Europe, we now have some multi-coloured treasures to harvest.
I can't wait to turn the tomatoes and oregano into a salad. I think I'll sprinkle on a few precious grains of the "Fleur de sel de Carmague" salt my Oma gave me years ago; I use it sparingly on my best dishes where the salt will shine and really boost the flavour of the dish. We drove through this region last week and I smiled in recognition.


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28 Jul2007
"I want to learn to play a cello in my middle age. I want to learn how to make tinapa from scratch. I want to open a training center to improve local service levels. I want to invent a device that virtually slaps silly bus drivers who cross the yellow line on EDSA… I want to be complete…†– Marketman filmed in the shadows with a Panama hat hiding most of his face.
Does this kind of advertisement sound familiar? If you live in the Philippines and have been watching any local channels lately, you will have heard this type of advertisement for Centrum vitamins at least half a dozen times in the past month. And the one speaking, talking about their dreams in the ads, are personalities like Piolo Locsin, Angel Milby or Sam Pascual, or some other equally expensive artistas that are meant to convince average Filipinos that they should rush out to the nearest botica and buy some Centrum at outrageous prices. I have been taking vitamin supplements, yes, Centrum in particular, for the past 15 years. Despite eating a very varied diet of vegetables, fruit, grains and meats, I still think it is a good idea to load up on all those obscure vitamins and minerals just to be sure all the body parts are functioning as well as they can, you know what I mean? So what is my problem? PRICE ARBITRAGE or is it GOUGING, that's what!?! If you buy a Centrum tablet, either by itself or by a dozen or so pieces from Mercury Drug, it costs well over PHP10 a piece! In fact, if I recall correctly, it can cost as much as PHP12 a piece. If you buy Centrum at S&R Price in the Fort, the cost is about PHP4.50 per tablet if you buy a bottle of 300 tablets. If you buy them at a warehouse club in the U.S. and schlep them back in your maletas, as I do every two years, you would pay as little as PHP3-3.50 per tablet! And they are EXACTLY the same vitamin tablet, made exactly the same way, with exactly the same ingredients! What possible reason can the distributors of Centrum in the Philippines give for charging nearly 350% more for exactly the same item? And why would anyone in their right mind pay PHP12 for a single dose of Centrum if you could get them for PHP4.50 in the same city over at S&R? I consider this somewhat outrageous really… Is this how much sway a bunch of actors/actresses have on the consuming public? Do people really believe what these high-priced endorsers are saying? Should I start a business buying in bulk at S&R and selling them tinggi-tinggi for PHP6 and make nearly PHP500 per bottle? Get real guys… for every year's worth of Centrum you buy at a botica vs. the lowest retail source in Manila, you are paying a whopping PHP2,500 or so more for exactly the same thing… And I don't work for S&R; and I have 2 years supply of Centrum in my cabinets, so feel free to go raid S&R now and wipe out their stocks! That way you will be complete, and wealthier at the same time…
Every year, centrum in bulk is part of my pasalubong. It also cost about 3.50 per piece here in Saudi but now it is about 4 pesos per piece but still a lot lower than our price there. As you know medicines cost a lot in our country and as long as some form of a medicine bill keeps hanging in our chamber of government nothing will happen to the cost of medicines in the Philippines. Of course there are other things that are expensive in the Philippines, electric bill, etc. but that is a different topic…
Jul 28, 2007 | 2:40 pm
Buy the generic multivitamins instead. It has the same amount of vitamins and minerals as the more expensive branded ones.
Jul 28, 2007 | 3:05 pm
My family also uses Centrum and Kirkland. Are those purchased locally by "tingi" comes from those big bottles? Are the tablets just placed in a small plastic/paper bag? 'Cause I remember I had the same question, when some friends would make "pakisuyo" to buy them some bottles since its cheaper abroad…why the price is tripled?
Someone told me it must be because the large bottles are opened and indefinitely stored until all the content are sold. There is a risk that the tablets though not expired, are discolored and unsuitable for the drugstore to sell daw. I dont know, I take vitamins everyday thus open the bottle everyday until i consume all 300 tablets..no discoloration.
Jul 28, 2007 | 3:46 pm
Too complete you have to pay extra hehe
Jul 28, 2007 | 4:02 pm
What struck me most about your post is what you still want to do. Oo nga naman. Sometimes, we need to take stock of what we have so far and what we've been missing. It's time to think of my own list.
Thanks for the tip. I occasionally take vitamins too.
Jul 28, 2007 | 5:03 pm
hahahaha…you have an outrageously hilariously accurate way with words, MM.. i don't know of any other way to put it!
Jul 28, 2007 | 7:21 pm
Better living through chemicals. Most profitable idea the pharmaceutical industry ever conjured up and foisted on us. Take daily to forestall sickness. Apply nightly to postpone ugliness. They and the beauty industry took it from the most venerable of practitioners. Indulgences they scared poor medieval souls into paying good money for to mitigate if not elude eternal damnation. As Luther to Rizal inveighed against and as what controlled studies of vitamin suppliments (particularly of C and E) are uncovering now about their doubtful efficacy, it was after all just (papal) bull.
You initial vignette is so fetching.
Jul 28, 2007 | 7:48 pm
Hello All, when my relatives and friends ask me what I want for pasalubong I always ask for the Members Mark ADVANCED MULTIVITAMINS – I think this is sold at Costco or Sams If you compare this versus Centrum or Centrum advanced you'll note that it is PACKED with more than what Centrum delivers . I base my supplement intake (as consistently as I can) on the recommendations made by Dr. Weir in his book and an article I once read in Newsweek.
Jul 28, 2007 | 7:58 pm
It's the high cost of advertising! It's all marketing, maybe it's the masa's gullibility(if there's such a word…)that these multinationals bank on…wala pa yung mga top stars who get paid 30M for a 3 day shoot(an advtg exec filled me in on this)…Anyway,my brother just supplies my folks with kirkland which he prefers getting at Target. But you're right MM, it pays to get it at S&R(if you're not travelling), it's a LOT cheaper.
Jul 28, 2007 | 10:39 pm
Ooooh! I love the customer service training center! Hope you get to do that! And I'll join you in procuring a slapping device that you can hook to the side of your car for those bus drivers! I am just about to write a letter to our friendly MMDA chair about them lovely drivers on EDSA who seem to be in cahoots with the MMDA traffic enforcement officers who turn a blind eye on their transgressions. But that's Off-topic from this post.
I buy an even more expensive brand, Pharmaton. I've been planning to go to S&R for last month or so.
I must go to S&R soon!
I must go to S&R soon!
I must go to S&R soon!
I must go to S&R soon!
Jul 29, 2007 | 1:27 am
In the UK they are also expensive. 1 bottle of 100 tablets costs £11.29 but if you buy 3 you pay for 2 bottles only… or it's buy 2 take one free. I know that in the states they are very cheap. When we were there on holiday we also bought a few bottles.
Jul 29, 2007 | 2:22 am
Very much a firm believer in the power of vitamin supplements which are bursting with disease-fighting antioxidants as well as vitamins, minerals and other health protecting ingredients to prevent diseases like beri-beri and tuberculosis! Like you I get them at warehouse membership places where I pay for a wholesale price without making a dent on my pocketbook. Why pay for retail price when you can it wholesale? I will never never buy them from a pyramid sales like the Tupperware concept thing. The only logical reason I could think of why the price is so exorbitant there is the high cost of marketing them to the masa – how to get Centrum to every household. So they commissioned the services of these actors who have their own throng of fans to endorse their product. The manufacturer spends a lot of money in marketing via television/radio, internet, billboard ads, printed material advertising – newspaper and magazine. No manufacturer's money allocated in research and development since the product is already out in the stream of commerce.
Jul 29, 2007 | 5:17 am
i would 1. stop supporting this unethical company and 2. go organic for supplements if only needed.
Jul 29, 2007 | 6:12 am
try asking doctors who finances their regular out of town or out of the country trips, complete with every accoutrement you can think of. rounds of golf, yachting, non-stop partying, etc. and with family members yet! (unless the good doc prefers to be supplied "companionship", which can also be arranged). then we can easily deduce why medicines are so expensive hereabouts. yup! it's them thar pharmaceutical firms.
better yet don't ask the doctors themselves, they're bound to lie through their teeth. ask the med reps. they know. and they'll tell.
Jul 29, 2007 | 10:38 am
actually the supplements from one tablet of centrum is not enough to keep us healthy even if you take it every day. One needs more zinc, magnesium,folic acid, vit. d etc. even if it says RDA in the bottle, the actual contents are very small in amount. I would rather spend my money on flaxseed oil caps,fish oil, glucosamine tabs or even a glass of red wine everyday, or eatmangosteen for antioxidants and maintence of healthy organs, instead of buying centrum that doesn't do a damn thing about your health! and to Maria Clara, vitamins will not prevent tuberculosis!it is caused by BACTERIA !
Jul 29, 2007 | 11:53 am
Choy, I just asked my wife who is a doctor about what you just said and she says yes its true. All their conferences including planes tickets, accomodations, meals and what not are borne by the pharmaceuticals. Also, I just read in the news that the pharmies is having a 1 billion-peso lobby money so that the cheap medicine bill will not see the light of day!
Jul 29, 2007 | 12:25 pm
Not all pharmaceuticals are the same, in terms of their practices re: providing gifts to doctors, lobbying etc. For nutritional supplements such as this one, no money is spent towards R&D not because it's already in the market, but because for supplements (unlike for drugs) it is not a requirement of law. However incredible amount of money is spent by big name pharma to ensure consistent quality. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and if you ask me it must be a required expense. Have you not all heard of poor quality, and even dangerous foodstuff and generic drugs coming out of China? I would rather take name brand antibiotics because I know that when they say 500 mg of amoxicillin is in the cap, there IS 500 mg of amoxicillin in there. Try taking some generic brands: you will not smell the antibiotic in the urine, because I suspect that they are not full-strength. This can be unsafe as it will not cure you of your infection, and it can result in bacterial resistance.
I believe and stand by the Generic Law, but I think our government needs to have the mechanisms in place to ensure the safety and efficacy of generic products.
Re: the issue of Centrum that MM just presented, let us not take focus out of the fact that in Mercury it is 10P++ and in S&R it is 4P++. I think the problem has nothing to do with pharma and their advertising: the problem is the drug stores!!!
Jul 29, 2007 | 3:26 pm
Beg to disagree with MegaMom. Drugstores just add their profit margin. So if they get Centrum at a high price, then their selling price also increases. It really is the pharmas that jack up costs due to advertising and "wining and dining expenses". It's an old story but something must be done.
Taking away their market (i.e., buying alternative or less costly) drugs is a start… (Of course, one mustn't compromise quality for cost) But in the case of vitamins, sometimes just eating properly will get you enough vitamins…and looking for cheaper sources of the same vitamin (S & R vs Mercury, i.e.)will work woners for your health and your pocket!
Jul 30, 2007 | 8:39 am
hmm, i never really thought about the prices of my vitamins. i actually take pharmaton because i notice that i have more energy throughout the day and can focus on work better. (FYI, i don't work for pharmaton). i've been paying around 19 per capsule… never actually realized that its way more expensive than other brands. although the fact that i notice its working is good enough reason for me.
Jul 30, 2007 | 10:32 am
I am complete. So complete I'm a good 50 pounds above "their" limits. So complete my blood pressure and blood sugar overflows. I want to be a Centrum Endorser too!
Jul 30, 2007 | 11:20 am
just read the headlines today… one of them reveals that the drug companies have spent p1 billion already trying to kill the bill for cheaper medicines.
i'll just buy the fruits and veggies instead.
but first, i gotta quit smoking. hi mr. lucio tan! thanks for giving super affordable ciggies! : )
Jul 30, 2007 | 11:27 am
the medicine manufacturers here are worse than any "sin" product manufacturer in this country! They know they are pricing their products sky high here compared to other countries, yet they block all efforts to bring in cheaper medicines, sometimes even their own products, here because it ruins their bottom line! Now, profiting and putting back the investments in R&D is one thing, but this is outright robbery! And add the fact that the people who are really affected by this are the economically-challenged. Lives are directly affected by their greed, and yet they still go at it. Hell has a place for this kind of people.
Jul 30, 2007 | 4:57 pm
I never realized why my aunt from the US always keeps sending Centrum in her balikbayan box.. mas mura pala dun. tsk tsk tsk
If you have a balanced diet, enough sleep, and maintain a healthy lifestyle, who needs vitamins? I am complete. I don't need a pill. :D
Jul 30, 2007 | 8:38 pm
My relatives back home always ask for Centrum in their balikbayan boxes. I never understood that. Sometimes I get Centrum but most of the time I send them the Member's Mark multi-vitamins from Sam's Club which have the same if not more minerals and vitamins versus Centrum, on a much cheaper price. Now with post, I somewhat understand why, because Centrum is more aggressive with their marketing in the Philippines. Here, we rarely see TV adverts on Centrum, however Cialis and Viagra spend more top dollars on their adverts that those multi-vitamins companies. Go figure. LOL.
Thanks for this eyerolling post. Do not however get me started on drug companies and their lobbyists, especially here in the US. They are totally a different breed.
Jul 31, 2007 | 9:11 am
Hi. Can I ask the complete address of S&R? Hehe. Just moved here in manila. hehehe
Aug 16, 2007 | 12:15 am
do you guys know some drugstores aside from S&R in Fort Bonifacio that sell centrum already in a bottle? I've been having some hard time calling in different malls and inquire but all of them just sell centrum in pieces… please help me… my dad's asked me the same question to the nth time in a day. i live in quezon city and if by chance you know where i can get one, please lemme know :) please send me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. thank you so much!!!!
Oct 6, 2007 | 4:23 pm
hello, paano po ako makakabili sa inyo, i need it very badly how much po yung 180 tabs. na nasa bottles… pls. reply me back as soon as possible. I need it this coming saturday, where will i find your place? thanks….
Jan 9, 2008 | 9:54 am
do u know tha exact address of S&R in Alabang? I need to buy something kasi na doon lang pinakamalapit para sa akin. That is, if you only know… Thanks!
Oct 13, 2008 | 4:50 pm
Ako ay may maliit na tindahan ng supplements naghahanap po ako kung saan makakabili ng mga Kirkland products pati Centrum sa murang halaga lamang dahil akin ding ititinda. Saan po ako makakabili?
Mar 20, 2009 | 10:51 pm
ano po ang complete address ng S&R in Quezon City? Ano ang website nila or email add?
Mar 20, 2009 | 10:57 pm
Sa Cash & Carry (2nd flr.) sa Makati City, Buendia cor South Expressway. Maraming nagtitinda ng Kirkland at Centrum. Check nyo muna yung prices then tumawad kayo to get the best deal.
Mar 29, 2009 | 7:46 pm
Hi Megamom! Are you working in a pharmaceutical company? or are you the Megastar who is the mom of 3 girls? :)
Apr 13, 2009 | 10:22 pm
Ms Lilymae Uy, i only carry kirkland fishoil 400softgel bottle
i can give you special wholesale price specially if ibebenta mo pa ito. can reach me at 09086316394 thanks
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Vanayutham is a biopic based on the life of the controversial forest sandalwood smuggler Veerappan who escaped the eyes of police departments of two states – Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for almost two decades. The movie has been directed by A M R Ramesh, which went into a long time facing various troubles since it deals with a very sensitive issue. Due to many issues, the filmmaker has lost his creative freedom and the result is seen in an unfortunate way on screen. The movie would have been better if the director had got what he wanted on screen, unlike its present form, which looks like a semi documentary.
Vanayutham traces the life of Veerappan (Kishore) since his rise in the forest circles of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border. The movie shows how he manages to escape from the police departments of two states and also portrays his fall and how police officer Vijayakumar (Arjun) nails him down in a well planned trap. The movie, although features important incidents like the kidnap of Kannada actor Rajkumar and so on, it misses to show the love life of Veerappan, which involves the character Muthulakshmi.
The first half of Vanayutham has no interesting chasing elements but simply reveals the character Veerappan and his rise to become one of the dreaded smugglers. Since the filmmaker had to convince the police department and the political influences, many cuts have been made, which makes the first half very close to a documentary.
The second half looks interesting however with the character of police inspector Vijayakumar occupying more screen space. The thrill of how Veerappan gets caught in the trap of Vijayakumar is what makes the second half watchable as many do not know the real incidents that happened.
Kishore as Veerappan has done a promising portrayal and Arjun has done his part perfectly. However, due to heavy cuts in the movie, it does not cross the border of an average flick!
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A Guide to the Texas General Land Office Photographic Maps, 1861, 1862
Historical Note
The Photographic Bureau of the Texas General Land Office, considered to be Texas's first photographic facility, was created in 1860. Conrad Stremme (1807-1877), Land Office draftsman, was made chief of the bureau and took these images.
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The collection is comprised of photographs of maps of Anderson County (February 1861), DeWitt County (1861) and Walker County (1862).
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Texas General Land Office Photographic Maps 1861, 1862, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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This collection was processed by Larry Landis, April 1989. Subsequent revisions were made by Linda Peterson, February 2010.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center's "History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light" project, 2009-2011.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hypocrisy in government
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is holding hearings in the Toledo-area as a result of rate increase request by Toledo Edison. Of course, this area has some of the highest utility rates in the state and our elected officials have been clamoring for rate reductions - or no increases - for years. They all say they'll work to reduce those rates because they have such a detrimental impact on residents and our ability to attract and retain businesses. They go on about how these companies need to keep their costs down so the area can prosper.
So what's hypocritical? Aren't these admirable positions to take? Well, they would be if this was a consistent approach to things which cost too much and should be reduced - like the cost of local government.
Increased costs of government have the same detrimental impacts on residents and businesses as high utility costs do, but somehow the similarity escapes our elected officials. Imagine the lower tax rates, less regulation and smaller government that would result if these same elected officials applied their 'utility cost logic' to something over which they had some control - and legal authority.
I can only wish our local elected officials would be as diligent with government costs as they are with those of utility companies.
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- Tim Higgins said...
This isn't hypocritical, it is entirely consistent. Elected officials are only concerned about money not confiscated by government. It makes for great press, establishes a "defender of the people" persona, and has no effect on the black hole of city and county spending.
Besides, we will need the money we save on utilities to pay the .75% income tax that we just extended.
- Jay Ott said...
What I'd like to know is how you as an "ex gadfly of the commissioners office," the "voice of unreason", the "R's golden child", the "spewer of silliness", and lastly, a "cracked pot" is capable of getting this right? (sarcasm off)
Oh, never mind you can prove it while some people in gov't and media can only presume and make assertions which speaks volumes about your title of this post.
- Maggie Thurber said...
Tim - sorry...there I was using logic and reason...Oh well...
- Maggie Thurber said...
Wow, Jay - who calls me those things? No one of consequence, I'm sure...
Besides, I've always considered it to be high praise when those who have no response to facts and reason resort to name-calling and ad hominem attacks. It obviously means I'm right.
- Carol said...
I returned from Columbus yesterday where the topic of the last couple days is economic growth in Ohio. The utility rates were almost always first on the list of reasons why we are failing to keep businesses in the area.
First Energy supplies power to many areas of NW Ohio and SE Michigan, so why is it that we (in Toledo et al) continuously get picked to pay the higher rates? Isn't it apparent that there is not an abundance of money around here? Our population is smaller now, unemployment is high, Columbia Gas thinks they can rape the public with their rates, and now Edison wants to take a shot at finishing the ruin of the area.
I chose to live in Toledo, but in all honesty, I am very close to making a change in residence. I know there is no panacea, but it's getting more and more impossible to survive here. And I'm not referring to an extravagant lifestyle. I'm talking about survival. From my viewpoint, Tennessee, Virginia and Idaho are making a strong case for my tax dollars.
It always amazes me that we, the people, are expected to scale back our spending in order to afford such 'luxuries' as utilities, homes, a reasonable car to drive, and food. But our city government just doesn't understand the necessity of being frugal. And that includes scaling back the size of our city government. Our rulers truly don't understand that in order to KEEP people and business here they will have to give up something. Instead they put that burden on all of us and try to convince us that we should be happy to keep paying more so that they don't have to do with less.
In the words of our Mayor .... It just ain't right.


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In 1961 Walter Hearn, a biochemist, was teaching at Wheaton College in Illinois. At a symposium he remarked that the same chemical processes that bring humans into existence today could have produced Adam and Eve. His remarks were reported and denounced in The Sword of the Lord, a conservative Christian newspaper. Wheaton, a Christian campus, was flooded with letters from parents who were furious at what they viewed as the college's endorsement of Darwinism. One mother, worrying about her daughter's response to Professor Hearn's comments, wrote, ''If her faith should be shattered or even shaken, I'd rather see her dead.''
To hear religious fervor expressed with such violence is especially disquieting these days, when we are engaged in a terrifying clash of culture and belief. Yet ideas have always stirred enormous passion, and possibly no scientific idea has been considered more menacing to some religious people than Darwin's theory of natural selection. After the uproar over Professor Hearn's remarks, Wheaton began requiring faculty members to sign a statement of faith affirming mankind's direct descent from Adam and Eve, who were created by God. That policy remains in place.
The history and implications of evolutionary theory have taken on heightened meaning since Sept. 11. People with fixed ideologies have demonized Darwin since the publication of his groundbreaking work, ''On the Origin of Species,'' 142 years ago. The battle over this idea continues in schools all over the United States, where some people consider it dangerous even to discuss an opposing point of view.
''Evolution,'' on the other hand, is bustling with ideas. A powerful sense of drama, discovery and intellectual enthusiasm runs through this rich eight-hour series, which begins tonight on PBS and continues through Thursday. It opens with a two-hour dramatization of Darwin's story and continues with one-hour documentaries (two each night) exploring the influence of his theory on science, philosophy, and theology.
In the final episode, ''What About God?,'' to be shown on Thursday night, undergraduate students at Wheaton are shown grappling with their desire to reconcile their faith with their growing knowledge of science. Recently the college allowed science professors to invite a speaker who is both a devout Christian and a believer in evolution. This was considered a radical departure, exhilarating to some students, frightening to others.
But the subject is a closed topic to many evangelical Christians. ''Adam is my ancestor and not a chimpanzee,'' are the lyrics sung at a church service in Canton, Ohio, led by a minister named Ken Ham. ''If the Bible gets it wrong in biology, then why should I trust the Bible when it talks about morality and salvation?'' he says in an interview.
These passions took root the instant Darwin dared to postulate a theory that contradicted the notions of both original sin and man's superiority over other creatures. The series begins tonight with ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea,'' which combines a dramatized biography of Darwin with a science documentary explaining his theories. ''Masterpiece Theater'' meets ''NOVA'' is the marketing strategy. While it's not exactly breakthrough drama, the hybrid works surprisingly well, in part because Darwin was such a compelling character: a humble, inquisitive man who made an unlikely rebel.
Chris Larkin offers a touching portrayal of Darwin, whose passions were divided between his work and his family. Scenes are set to illustrate the profound dilemma he felt, as a person once bound for the clergy, building a theory bound to seem heretical. He marries his cousin Emma, a religious woman who asks him, upon reading his ideas: ''Can your theory account for the way my eyes and ears and hands and heart combine to reproduce the sounds that Chopin heard in his head? Isn't that a God-given gift?''
Darwin answers, looking pained. ''It's given, but not, I think, by God,'' he replies. Emma responds with sadness, ''It would be a nightmare to me if I thought we didn't belong to each other forever in heaven.''
No wonder Darwin was reluctant to publish his ideas. He understood that by questioning the Christian view of salvation he was undercutting a profound sense of comfort. But he continued his research, even though he was plagued by disease he might have contracted during his seminal voyage to the Galápagos Islands. That's where he first gathered evidence that plants and animals adapted to changing circumstances, and that the ones that adapted best were the ones that survived.
Most poignant is the moment when he feels his theory is put to the test in the most terrible way. His 10-year-old daughter dies. The script uses the moment to illuminate the starkness in evolutionary theory. It doesn't offer solace, it just explains a situation. So Darwin blames himself for weakening his daughter's chances. ''It's my fault,'' he laments. ''First-cousin marriages always produce weak children. It's my fault.'' (The logic doesn't entirely hold. He was survived by many other children.)
The drama is interlaced with commentary from scientists and writers, and by documentary segments on the influence of Darwinism today. At first these digressions seem disruptive, as though television had evolved into the Internet, wandering away from an article midstream to follow an explanatory link. But the instant analyses and explanations prove to be helpful, and it's fascinating to watch the past merge with the present.
In addition to interviews with experts there are short segments examining the relevance of Darwin's theories in medical research, conservation and religion. They include a profile of Kenneth Miller, a Brown University biologist who apparently finds no problem being a devoted Darwinist and, in his words, an ''entirely conventional'' Roman Catholic. Another follows a scientist who is following Darwin's path into Ecuador's rain forest, whose sounds Darwin once likened to ''a great cathedral at evensong.''
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