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Thailand's fatal Constitution
Scientists have discovered that anyone who reads more than three sections of Thailand's new constitution will die of boredom. These finding are based on an experiment conducted by Prof. S. Dementia of Babarbabor University. He studied 100 Army conscripts who had "volunteered" to inform villagers about how to vote in the forthcoming constitutional referendum. The Professor found that 20% of these subjects fell to the ground and died before finishing the first section, 70% died during the second section and only 10% got to the third section before they succumbed to a terminal grand mall seizure. The 137 page constitution will be the twentieth since 1932.
People have asked Prof. Dementia how it was possible for the Constitution to get written, but he explained that each section had been written by a different author and that each author was only allowed to read the preceding section.
Despite the fact that nobody has read it, millions are expected to vote on whether it should be adopted or not. The referendum has deeply divided the nation with voters vehemently for or against it. The forthcoming vote has even sparked acts of terrorism by the notorious Minne Mouse gang of eight-year old schoolgirls and monkeys.
Private Tye asked member of the public about how they would vote. Prasit Peabrain said he would vote "no" because his wife's best friend's brother had a degree in economics and he said it would be bad for the economy. Noi Nincompoop said she would vote "yes" because somebody on Reddit said that the new constitution would stop Yingluk from singing stupid songs. Daeng Dimwit said he would vote "no" because a columnist in the Daily Fibber had said that all the experts agree that it would be bad for the country; when asked who these experts are, Daeng said he did not know: when asked if the experts had read the constitution, he said he did not know that either, but the Daily Fibber was always right. Mae Mercenary said she would not be voting because nobody had offered to pay her to vote, this is Thailand she said "No money no votie"
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To election officials tasked with vigilantly enforcing a draconian referendum law, it may have looked as though the forces of man and nature conspired against them.
Macaque vandals, teen mischief, destructive weather and even a coffee marketing campaign left grim officials seeking recourse over the weekend against forces largely out of their control.
First, two Mathayom students in Rayong's Klaeng district were caught Saturday shredding and burning a voter list posted near a community building. The two middle schoolers became the second pair of students charged with violating the referendum law, which penalizes vandalism of voting equipment.
Then rain damaged a voter list in Ratchaburi city, where recent storms left the distinctive pink documents faded beyond recognition. Locals told reporters they were puzzled as to why officials had posted important documents under the open sky.
In Pichit province, the defenders of the pink papers were left with no one to punish Sunday after an onslaught of more than 100 monkeys at a temple where people will vote in the Aug. 7 referendum. Their simian assault annihilated the voter list pinned there. It also proved somewhat ironic as officials have deployed Hanuman, the Monkey God, as their smiling mascot.
"Some of them carried the papers away like they were mocking the police and the people chasing after them," local official Chatchawan Suksawasdi said. "So we couldn't catch or do anything to this monkey pack."
All told, five of 15 documents listing names of local voters were destroyed, along with 10 papers detailing voting procedures.
Pichit police chief Jaruay Pholprasert said he couldn't have seen it coming.
"It was an incident beyond all reasonable prevention," Col. Jaruay said.
And finally, alarms were briefly raised in Si Saket province when keen-eyed local authorities spotted dozens of small flags proclaiming "Tick No" dotting a road there.
Gov. Thawat Surabal immediately ordered an investigation, as any campaign to "mobilize" or "mislead" the public to vote for or against the proposed constitution is also illegal under the referendum law.
The investigation came to an end after officials realized the flags were in fact promotinga coffee brand called Ga No – a localized reduction of "Americano." How could that pose offense? The word "Ga" means to tick a ballot.
Nevertheless, governor Thawat said he's asked the coffee producers to suspend their campaign to avoid any further misunderstanding.
"I have asked for the cooperation from the manufacturers of said coffee to stop any PR activity for their coffee brand temporarily," Thawat said. "Because it's misleading and risky in the period when we're preparing to vote in the referendum."
Thailand's referendum on a new constitution has been sabotaged by a gang of 100 pig-tailed macaques. The raiders, who destroyed many documents, were apparently, a local gang from Phichit.
Gangs of monkeys normally attack tourists in order to steal spectacles, handbags, passports etc. This political activity is something new, a Government spokesman told Private Tye. "We can not see that they have real grievance. There are plenty of monkeys sitting in Parliament", he said, "and there will be even more if the New Constitution passes. Macaques might not have the vote but they are well represented. This is not a random attack, someone has radicalized the macaques, there is a mastermind behind all this," he concluded.
This is the latest in a series of acts of sabotage. Last week the Nation was shocked to find that an eight year old schoolgirl had torn a registration list in Kamphaeng Phet. The girl claimed that she had just wanted some pink paper, so an incompetent police officer let her go. Police now believe that she is the brains behind a well organized reign of terror.
Minnie Mouse still at large
The identity of the schoolgirl was unknown until a sharp eyed Private Tye reporter noticed she had her name printed on the back of her shirt. She is "Minnie Mouse". Obviously a suspicious character, Minnie Mouse is thin and healthy looking in a country where 99% of students are clinically obese. A spokesman for Thailand's DEA told Private Tye that she must have a secret supply of fresh organic vegetables (these are a class "A" illegal drug in Thailand). So, pre-existing underworld connections are certain. Also the excuse of wanting pretty paper does not hold up. Eight-year olds do not know what paper is; since Yingluk all schoolwork is on defective tablet computers. These facts have convinced police that she is the mastermind behind the Macaque raid.
Government Agencies are now on full alert but are clueless as to where the mysterious Minnie Mouse will strike next.
The real story from the Bangkok Post:
Almost 100 pig-tailed macaques raided a polling station at a Phichit temple in Muang district Sunday and tore down voter lists for the referendum on the draft charter. Police previously arrested two 8-year-old girls for election sabotage. Children also were interrogated in Rayong province. Police were alerted Sunday morning about the macaque incident at an open hall of Wat Hat Mun Krabue. Pol Lt Col Banchob Uthayo, an investigator of tambon Yanyao police station, other investigators from the station and Chatchawan Suksawat, Moo 1 village headman of tambon Yanyao of Muang district, had arrived at the scene. Lists of eligible voters and referendum-related announcement papers put up at the polling station were found to have been destroyed. Five out of 15 voter list papers had been ripped, along with seven out of 10 papers detailing the referendum vote. The damaged papers were collected for examination. Villagers told police that almost 100 macaques living around the temple stormed the polling station and tore down the documents there.
Election officials also detained and charged two high school students who tore down voter lists in what they thought was a clean-up.The two students "confessed" to tearing down three lists of eligible voters for the charter referendum attached to a notice board at a polling station in Rayong's Klaeng district. They were among four students playing in the area on Friday. The four were questioned by police to determine whether they were hired by someone to rip the documents. Klaeng district chief Wittaya Chapanon also attended the session.The two students told police there was no one behind their acts, adding they thought these were old documents. They were sent to Rayong juvenile court to face prosecution.
Two eight-year-old girls have been legally charged under the draconian law for tearing down voter lists, police said Saturday. Foreign reports described the focus on election sabotage as "increasingly bizarre". The French news agency AFP reported Saturday on the arrest of the children, saying the junta has outlawed most discussion and criticism of its draft charter, which may be voted upon at a referendum currently scheduled for Aug 7. A special law provides a prison sentence of up to 10 years for illegal rhetoric or writing. Campaigning of any kind is also banned and authorities have already arrested or warned scores of people for handing out critical leaflets or wearing "Vote No" T-shirts.The eight-year-olds fell foul of the law after "confessing" to tearing down voter lists outside a school in Kamphaeng Phet province because they liked the paper's pink colour.
The pair have been officially charged under the Referendum Act with "obstructing the referendum process, destroying official documents and destroying common public property", said Damrong Phetpong, the police commander of the province. They will not face jail time as the law exempts anyone under the age of 10 from criminal punishment, he said. He actually defended the police action, claiming the force were duty-bound to file the charges. "Police have a duty to compile witnesses and evidence and then refer the case to a public prosecutor" who will decide whether to pursue the case, he told AFP. The junta has become increasingly jittery ahead of the poll, with police initially speculating that anti-junta activists were behind the torn voter lists. But an investigation led officers to the girls, who were questioned at a police station.
The problem of brawls between rival student gangs will be solved by sending them to Navy camps. "We'll soon put them straight" Admiral Graft Spree told Private Tye. "No more slouching about and ogling girls, well teach them to march and stand erect. Good, hard, military discipline will make men out of them. We'll also teach them to shoot properly and fire missiles, this should reduce their violent tendencies when they get out."
The policy is endorsed by the police who say that rival student gang members should learn to love each other.
The real story according to the Bangkok Post:
The navy has rolled out a training model in which primary and high school students are required to attend army camps to address violence between feuding schools. Capt Virat Somchit, commander of the Royal Thai Navy's Naval Rating School for non-commissioned officers in Chon Buri's Sattahip district, said two camps are planned. The navy came up with the model in response to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's policy to curb brawls between students from rival institutes.
A source at the navy said the premier ordered the navy to devise the measure to help the government solve the long-standing issue. Earlier, the navy school briefed him on the plan that students involved with interschool fights should attend a two-week camp which could help ease their sense of hostility toward students of rival schools. The programme will be held jointly by the navy and the Education Ministry. Capt Virat said the camp aimed to instill good discipline, responsibility, compassion and virtues in students. The camps can be held both during school terms or the holidays.
Camp sites and military personnel will be prepared by the army. "We want parents to think of it as sending their children to a scout camp, only for a little longer and under the military's supervision," he said. Capt Virat said an assessment of camp activities will also be conducted, adding he believed the new model would help tackle the student brawl issue. The navy has finished drawing up the model which will go to navy chief Na Areenij for consideration, he added. Under the new model, Capt Virat said orderliness, virtues, leadership and patriotism will be stressed.
Also, schools can invite military personnel from army bases to lecture their students about discipline, which will enable the students to grow more acquainted with army authorities. Earlier, the navy and the Education Ministry conducted a camp on a trial basis for a group of vocational students who took part in interschool brawls.
Thai Government research, which shows that tourists are looking for beautiful culture rather than sex, has amazed most bar owners. "We must have been getting it wrong for decades" Colin Clap told Private Tye. Colin is the owner of the Cockortwo Bar and has already started to make changes in the light of the new information. The dancers will soon be wearing classical Thai dancers costumes instead of bikinis, he said. The sound system has been ripped out and replaced by a wooden xylophone. Colin is thinking of changing the name to the Plinky Plonk bar.
Changes have been profound at the Drippy Doolins Bar. The bikinis have already gone and the girls are now wearing traditional North-Eastern clothes. The stage is deserted except for one girl stood reciting poems by Sunthorn Phu. Private Tye's reporter asked for a beer but owner Peter Pox said "Beer's off, its only Lao Khao now. We have to be culturally correct."
There was a scene of chaos at "The Intruder" upstairs live show bar. The owner, Harry Herpes, was trying to hang up a white bed sheet while the girls and boys were fiddling with sticks attached to bits of leather. We are trying to make a shadow puppet theater, Harry explained. "There are plenty of shadow puppets for sale at tourist gift stalls and fake antique shops, but nobody knows how to uses them. Apparently the last person who could do a shadow puppet show died twenty years ago. Shadow puppets were replaced by a foreign thing called the Cinema in the 1950s."
At the Cabin Boy Karaoke Bar, our reporter found all the tables and chairs had been removed and replaced by mats on the floor for patrons to use. The karaoke equipment was still there, but owner, Adrian Aids, said it would be Thai folk songs only from now on. We are having some of these translated into phonetic English so that tourists can sing along. Should be more fun than "Danny Boy" or "Yellow rose of Texas", he said with a worried expression on his face.
Police said they were looking to prosecute venues employing underage and illegal migrant workers, but only one of the venues raided was shut down.
There was no link between the tourism minister's aim to rid Thailand of its sex tourism industry and the raids, a police spokesman said.
The tourism sector accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product and sex worker groups said the minister's vision of a prostitution-free Thailand would dent that.
"The police presence already drives off a number of clients who come to relax or drink at bars," said Surang Janyam, director of Service Workers in Group (SWING), which provides sex workers with free medical care and vocational training.
"Wiping out this industry is guaranteed to make Thailand lose visitors and income."
Many sex workers come from the impoverished northeast and see selling their bodies as a way out of poverty.
One former sex worker from the northeastern province of Maha Sarakham, who declined to be identified, told Reuters she entered Bangkok's sex trade at the age of 19 and earned up to THB5,000 baht a night, nearly 20 times the minimum wage of THB300 baht per day.
"No one wants to work in this business, but it's fast and easy money," she said.
NightLight and SWING said they would welcome the sex industry's closure if the government had a plan to ensure that sex workers could support themselves without falling back into the business.
"If they want to close the sex industry, they must first have jobs ready to support sex workers," said Surang.
At a summit in Mongolia, the President has given a horse as a present to each of the attending leaders. It seems that President Tsakhiagiin hopes this will help them produce more horseshit. However, academics believe that it is just not possible. Private Tye talked to the Rectum of Easygown University. He told us that the Mongolians were a very backward and naive people. Many of them believe that some politicians sometimes tell the truth. "Incredible in this day and age" he remarked. But this was not all, in addition to Asian politicians there were also members of the European Council present. The Rectum told us that according to Godel's theorem the EU Council is "a system that consistently produces complete horseshit". So, he explained, it is mathematically impossible for members of the Council to produce more horseshit than they already do.
Britain's planned membership of the Association of South East Asian Nation may be put on hold because of fake designer goods, it was reported in the Guardian. However, these claims were dismissed by Spiny Norman, the new Foreign Secretary. "Fake designer goods are only produced by Italian or French Companies and we couldn't care less about them anymore", he told Private Tye. "Britain welcomes fakes and has done for hundreds of years. Our best institutions, such as Eton and Oxford, are dedicated to producing fakes. Think about it. If we got rid of all the fakes, the House of Commons would be empty" he said adamantly.
Spiny Norman reincarnated?
A giant head, with short spiky hair, has mysteriously appeared at a Thai Temple. Cult members claim it is a reincarnation of "Spiny Norman", a giant hedgehog that was last seen in London in the 1960s. The Norman cult has long held that Spiny Norman would return and continue his search for Dinsdale Piranha. The second coming of Spiny Norman would be accompanied by cataclysmic events, such as the end of the European Union, they believe.
However, conservative cult members claim that Spiny Norman has no connection to Thailand. They believe that Norman has been reborn as Boris Johnson. Its blatantly obvious, they say. The hair, the beady eyes, the jowls, all make Johnson a dead ringer for Spiny Norman. Boris and Norman even hang out in the same place.
One thing is certain, with Spiny Norman as Foreign Secretary, Britain will soon be out of the EU.
Bernie Sanders has landed the plum job of Butler to Hilary Clinton. He will not be retiring to a condo on Pattaya beach Thailand. After failing to win the race to become the next Whitehouse manager for Goldman Sachs, we expected him to do the right thing and retire to a seaside condominium in the land of smiles. Poncing about from bar to bar wearing a baseball cap, polo shirt, tennis shorts and trainers, he would have fit perfectly into the American community. He could have become President of the local underground Bridge Club before, eventually, being pushed off the balcony of a high rise condo by a ladyboy.
Instead, he will remain in the public eye, walking two meters behind Clinton, carrying a silver salver with her mobile phone on it. Given Bernie's appearance (drooping shoulders, gray thinning hair, thick spectacles) he is perfectly suited to the job. In fact, some people believe that he was the one "who did it" and he is an escapee from of a Hollywood Agatha Cristie movie.
The real story from Reuters:
Democrat Bernie Sanders endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton for president in a display of party unity on Tuesday, describing her as the best candidate to fix the United States' problems and beat Republican Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 election.
With Clinton nodding in agreement beside him, Sanders put aside their bitter campaign for the Democratic nomination and said she would take up the fight to ease economic inequality, make college more affordable and expand healthcare coverage for all Americans.
"This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face, and there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that," he told a raucous crowd in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that included plenty of vocal Sanders supporters.
"I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States," the U.S. senator from Vermont said.
His endorsement, five weeks after Clinton became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, brought the most prominent holdout in the party's liberal wing into her camp. Sanders threw Clinton his support less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where she is to be formally nominated.
"I can't help but reflect on how much more enjoyable this election will be now that we are on the same side," Clinton said of Sanders. "Thank you, Bernie, for your endorsement, but more than that, thank you for your lifetime of fighting injustice."
Trump ridiculed the move in a series of Twitter posts, saying Sanders had abandoned the supporters who flocked to his insurgent campaign to rein in Wall Street and get big money out of politics.
"Bernie Sanders endorsing Crooked Hillary Clinton is like Occupy Wall Street endorsing Goldman Sachs," Trump said on Twitter.
In a statement, the Trump campaign said Sanders was now officially part of the rigged system the senator had criticized during his long primary battle with Clinton.
"Bernie's endorsement becomes Exhibit A in our rigged system - the Democrat Party is disenfranchising its voters to benefit the select and privileged few," said Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to Trump.
Theresa May got more than a million Thai emails offering congratulations and a special offer on skin care and anti-aging cream. Giffarine, Thailand's miracle skin cream, uses a pyramid (Amway style) marketing scheme which means that two million Thai housewives are selling it on the Internet even though nobody actually uses it.
But it was not just amateur lotion sales people, she got 50 emails from Chiang Mai dentists offering a package deal of a new set of teeth, three nights at the Four Seasons and a tour of Doi Intanon national park. Three Chiang Mai hospitals offered essentially the same deal but with a hip replacement instead of the new teeth. 500 Thai hair-dressers offered a free blue rinse as part of similar packages.
Strangely there were no emails from Thailand's bargain basement, cut and paste, plastic surgeons. An industry spokesperson said "we would not know were to start".
The real story from Reuters:
Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain's prime minister on Wednesday, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her disastrous leadership campaign.
May, 59, will succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons unexpectedly voted last month to quit the EU. Britain's planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc, created huge uncertainty over trade and investment, and shaken financial markets.
May and Leadsom had been due to contest a ballot of grassroots Conservative party members, with the result to be declared by Sept. 9. But Leadsom unexpectedly quit on Monday after a campaign dogged by ill-judged comments about her rival's lack of children and questions about whether she had exaggerated her CV.
"I am honored and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader," said May, who favored remaining in the EU but has made clear there is no going back on the result of the June 23 referendum.
"Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it."
Thailand prepares for more British refugees and calls on other ASEAN nations to take their fair share.
David Cameron was one of the few people who warned that Britain was facing invasion, now he has gone because of Brexit. Britain now has no allies in Europe because of Brexit. North Korea has just tested a submarine launched ballistic missile, again because of Brexit.
In April 2013 the Guardian reported that Cameron "said it would "foolish" to leave the country defenceless at a time when the "highly unpredictable and aggressive" regime in North Korea was developing ballistic missiles that could eventually threaten Europe". Cameron commissioned four Trident Nuclear submarines to meet the threat, these would have cost 20 Billion pounds but now they will cost more because of Brexit. In fact, they may never be finished because another vote is needed for renewal, all because of Brexit. Brexit could mean that Britains' loose forever the ability to destroy cities and incinerate babies at the other side of the world.
North Korea has an army of a million men, all they have to do is march though China and then across Russia and Belarus, then through the EU countries of Poland, Germany and France (which will do nothing to stop them because of Brexit). So, within months we could see millions of screaming Koreans charging out of the channel tunnel.
According to the Guardian, all the experts agree that a North Korean invasion is now probable because of Brexit. These are Sir Nigel Teamoney (Chairman of British Defense Industries PLC), Hugh Kickback (Chairman of Military Avionics Inc.), Lord Graft (Chairman of First Strike Systems PLC), Julian Teamoney (son of Sir Nigel and Director of the Oxford Institute of Strategic Studies) and Theresa Kickback (daughter of Hugh and Defense Correspondent at the Guardian).
The real story from REUTERS 9 July 2016:
North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday, but it appears to have failed soon after launch, South Korea's military said.
The launch comes at the end of a week of sharply rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and only a day after the United States and South Korea pledged to deploy an advanced anti-missile system to counter threats from Pyongyang
North Korea on Thursday warned it was planning its toughest response to what it deemed a "declaration of war" by the United States. The warning followed Washington's blacklisting of the isolated state's leader Kim Jong Un for alleged human rights abuses.
South Korea's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was launched at about 11:30 a.m. Seoul time (0230 GMT) in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.
The missile was likely fired from a submarine as planned, but appears to have failed in the early stage of flight, the Joint Chiefs said.
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Donna Tartt doesn't publish novels often; she labours over her work for decades, leaving many with high expectations when they hear news of an impending release. Her debut novel, The Secret History, was impossible to put down, exploding onto the literary scene in 1992 with universal rave reviews and impressive sales that continued throughout the following decades. She left readers in anticipation for 10 years following that stellar debut, releasing The Little Friend in 2002, and we had to wait another decade, plus a little extra, for this latest work. The Goldfinch is a testament to the long labour that Tartt invests in her novels; it is a big read, unsurprisingly, but the narrative flies along effortlessly and the end result is rich and satisfying.
The Goldfinch tells the story of Theo Decker, who begins the novel in tragedy, having lost his mother in a disastrous explosion at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Taken in by a wealthy friend on Park Avenue, Theo begins a new life, all the while clinging to the talisman that he took away from the catastrophe that killed his mother; a small painting of Fabritius' 'Goldfinch'. The tragedy and intial focus of the novel, along with Tartt's exploration of boyhood friendships, leads to easy comparisons with Dickens' Great Expectations. The story has huge breadth geographically and emotionally, spanning from New York to Las Vegas to Amsterdam, giving it a more epic feel than Tartt's previous work. The writer's command of detail in her prose and nuance in her characters are on full display in The Goldfinch, which entertains without losing any intellectual depth in the process. Tartt's sentences are beautifully composed; leading the reader to have little doubt that she could have spent 10 years putting this novel together. Although there are moments where the plot doesn't feel quite perfect, this is ultimately a masterful and deeply impressive work of fiction. It's just a shame to have to wait 10 years for the next.


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Héctor values the opportunities he gets to play in the jazz department's student orchestra with some of the best jazz musicians on the scene.
"I feel like I'm being taught by the best musicians from the jazz scene in Finland – who for the most part also happen to be great teachers. This is what sets the academy apart from other schools I've been to: the teachers really know how to get their message across to the students. What's more, every student is at a very high level and that pushes you to progress. The curriculum in the jazz department is really well structured. The best thing is that, in addition to the permanent faculty, you have many international resident and visiting teachers. They are often some of the best players in the business, and you also get to play with them at the end of their visit, which is awesome! It's a great learning experience and in my opinion one of the most valuable things about studying here. You're already playing with top musicians right from the entrance exam. The jazz department is based in the Helsinki Music Centre, which offers incredible facilities. We have access to the practice rooms 24/7, which is wonderful because we can rehearse whenever we like. Helsinki is small city but there's always something to do. Distances are short, which makes the city cool in comparison to Mexico City, for example. Student life is quite easy going – when you actually have the time to take part in it!"
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Lindsey Paris was excited when she saw a new "like" pop up on the Facebook page that she'd set up for her blog Red Head Baby Mama. But the feeling quickly turned into shock after the Atlanta mother clicked on the name of the woman who'd given the thumbs up to a photo of Paris' then 18-month-old son. The stranger had made the toddler's image her homepage photo and was presenting Paris' son as her own child. "I flew into a mother lion rage, then I burst into tears," Paris tells Yahoo Parenting, of the 2012 incident that still has her on edge. "She was pretending that he was her own and commenting on when was he going to start teething. Her friends were saying that they loved his hair. She was treating him as her own and that was the most petrifying thing. I didn't know people did this."
Paris soon learned all about the relatively rare but disturbing online trend of role playing with photos of other people's children stolen from social media accounts. "It isn't a technical crime," she says, so the blogger did the only thing she could. Paris messaged the woman, who turned out to be a 16 year old girl in California, and the teen apologized two days after Paris's "forcefully polite" note asking her to take the photo down. "She said she'd always wanted a red-headed son and 'I didn't mean to hurt you.'"
Nashville mother Ashley B (who prefers to remain anonymous) suffered a similar experience, typically referred to as "digital kidnapping" or "virtual kidnapping" this past summer when the hobbyist photographer clicked on the Facebook update that a photo she'd taken of one of her daughters, aged 3 and 6, had been shared by someone unfamiliar. "It took me to the page of a man in China," Ashley tells Yahoo Parenting. "The page was in Chinese and I couldn't read any of it but I saw that he had a few thousand followers and he had shared my picture. I started scrolling and noticed he had lot of pictures of little girls. I was so scared and shocked. I mean, that share linked back to my personal page so anybody could have clicked on it to see where I lived." Ashley immediately deleted the post, went into her privacy settings and locked them down. Until then, she admits, "I knew privacy settings were not locked down as much as they could be, but I wasn't really concerned about it."
But with tens of thousands of Instagram and Twitter posts hashtagged #BabyRP, for Baby Role Play, and #KidRP, Paris's and Ashley's stories aren't isolated incidents. More than 1,000 people signed the 2014 Change.org petition calling for Instagram to "Put an end to the baby and child role play accounts." And it seems that no image, or child, is off limits. Earlier this month, Texas father Caleb Kaminer shared the story of his daughter's picture being stolen off of a social media site he'd started as a community page for families with children who have Dysphagia, a condition marked by difficulty swallowing.
Paris and Ashley, for instance, now use a privacy app KidsLink to share photos with only the friends and family whom they've approved to view the images and who also belong to their network in the app. "Only the people you've chosen can see it," KidsLink "Chief mom officer" Titania Jordan tells Yahoo Parenting of the tool. "There's no second wave of sharing that you're not aware of, no strangers searching your images, no stalking." Subscribers can also post photos to Facebook or Instagram from the app, which wipes each image clean of any location or linking metadata that would allow someone to show up in the photographer's backyard. "It's better to be safe than sorry," Jordan says. "This is a happy medium between going dark and putting it all out there."


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So very, very delicately beautiful, Denise. xo DianaReplyDelete
Oh how pretty. What a wonderful way to enjoy spring.ReplyDelete
The cherry blossoms look so great in the house. I love the feminine fluffy look they have! Now I want to bring some in too--my husband doesn't think I should be pruning trees in the name of decorating :) I like to call it bringing the outside in. :) Enjoy this beautiful time of year!ReplyDelete
So pretty Denise!ReplyDelete
xo, Tanya
Beautiful pics! Spring is also starting in Bavaria, finally! I really like your style!ReplyDelete
-Brittany Ruth
Cherry blossoms are one of my favorites as well as daffodils in the Spring. Our weeping cherry blossoms just popped open yesterday and it is so beautiful and they are so delicate.ReplyDelete
As I read your post I look right out my window at our cherry blossom and I am off to cut some branches. Happy Friday.ReplyDelete


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Michele Pepperell, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Dr. Michele Pepperell is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and she is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She was born and raised in Central Illinois. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Illinois and her medical school training at Southern Illinois University. She relocated to Dallas to complete her OB/Gyn residency at the prestigious University of Texas Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital. During her time at Parkland, she received multiple honors and distinctions. She was twice the recipient of the Academic Excellence Award, and was a four-time recipient of awards commending her contributions to the education of residents and medical students. Additionally, she served as Chief Resident with Drs. Bailey and Petrovski during her fourth year.
After completing her residency, Dr. Pepperell returned to her hometown of Peoria, Illinois, where she was in a busy private practice for four years. While in Illinois, she was honored to receive many patient commendations. In 2008 the great opportunity to work with the doctors at Frisco OB/GYN drew her back to the Dallas area. Dr Michele Pepperell, her husband Dr. Kris Pepperell and their daughter Grace live in McKinney with their two dogs, Teddy and Baila.
During her first year of practice, Dr Pepperell gained a new perspective on obstetrics when she gave birth to her daughter. Being a mother herself has helped her empathize with many of her patients. This ability to relate with her patients was a large contributing factor in being selected as a 'Mom-Approved doc' with Dallas Child Magazine in 2012 and 2013 as well as 'Best OBGYN in Frisco' 2010. Dr. Pepperell focuses not only on obstetrics, but all parts of women's health. Her attention to patients' individual needs allows her to partner with them to make their best healthcare choices.


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American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1136 goes on display at Turner Contemporary.
LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1136 is one of a number of vibrant artworks he made in the last years of his life in a radical departure from his usual pencil and ink.
Utilising every primary and secondary colour plus grey, the artist created curved and vertical bands by applying brightly hued acrylic paint directly onto the walls.
Like other conceptual pieces by LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1136 is concerned with ideas of geometry, repetition and mathematical precision and exists as a set of instructions written by the artist and accompanied by an illustrated diagram.
Designed to be physically executed by others – only the very first wall drawing was produced by LeWitt himself – the works can be endlessly repeated in different locations at different times, generally only existing for the period of the exhibition.


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Matt Smith rues cancellation of Doctor Who Confidential
The star says the BBC3 behind-the-scenes series was one of the channel's biggest shows
Doctor Who star Matt Smith says he's "really sorry" that behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential has been axed.
"It's a pity as I think it's a show which can reinvent itself year on year and it's one of the biggest shows on BBC3," said Smith.
"I guess people come in and have new ideas and want to have their own fresh take on it but, hey, some you win, some you lose," he told What's on TV.
The BBC announced the decision to cancel the BBC3 Doctor Who spin-off at the end of September, immediately sparking an outcry from fans that quickly became an organised campaign.
An online petition was signed by over 50,000 people, while Twitter and Facebook accounts gathered around 15,000 followers between them and a Radio Times poll of over 5,000 of our users showed that nine out of ten believe the show should not be cancelled.
The series, which followed each episode of Doctor Who from script to screen, was praised for providing an insight into TV production as well as for its entertainment value, with one viewer calling it "one of the most informative looks at television in development I know".
The final series of Doctor Who Confidential garnered an average TV audience of around half a million and was watched by many more on catch-up, the final episode reaching the top of the BBC iPlayer chart the day after it was first shown.


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This is information I have just received from a friend. A helpful Medical break through.
MIAMI, Jan. 10, 2017
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Today announced that its research activity generating non-invasive, continuous blood glucose estimates has been found to be sufficiently accurate to allow WRMT to proceed to full integration of the algorithm in the Helo platform so WRMT can offer blood glucose estimation as a service in Q4'17 to Helo wearers who choose to pay an initial set-up fee and an ongoing monthly charge.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, 415 million people worldwide (1 in 11 people) have diabetes consuming 12% of global health expenditure ($673B) in 2015. The American Diabetes Association advises that in the US, nearly 30 million (1 in 8) people have diabetes and $1 in $5 health care dollars is spent caring for people with diabetes. Americans with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of about $13,700 per year, of which about $7,900 is attributed to diabetes.
The importance of blood glucose (blood sugar) monitoring is the main tool used to check diabetes control. The current mainstream blood glucose measurement process is to use a lancing device on the side of the fingertip to get a drop of blood, touch the test strip to the drop of blood, and wait for the result. Apart from being painful for the diabetic, there are health risks due to the invasive nature of the process as well as measurement compliance and recording issues.
Helo's features today include measurement of Blood Pressure, ECG, Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis for mood and energy levels along with measuring steps, distance and calorie burn. However, this is the first time anyone has used a photoplethysmograph (PPG) to estimate blood glucose levels and incorporate the technology into a wearable device to provide convenient, non-invasive blood glucose estimation and logging on a continuous basis.
Helo is not a medical device, but continuous measurement of blood glucose estimates are expected to be helpful in understanding blood glucose changes over time, aid compliance and support a pre-diabetic seeking to change their lifestyle to avoid diabetes. WRMT's blood glucose estimation service is non-invasive, and can be scheduled to record blood glucose estimates routinely with readings stored in Helo's LifeLog for easy presentation to the diabetic's health care provider.
In the event that Helo detects a blood glucose problem, Helo's Guardian service will automatically alert the wearer and their care giver. It is expected that this service will initially be available in Q4'17, to all Helo wearers who opt-in for the service and who pay the initial fee to cover registration and to start blood glucose monitoring. Fabio Galdi, CEO, World Media & Technology Corp., said, "I am personally excited by this development. It is the first time that I am aware that PPG technology has been used to estimate blood glucose in a wearable device designed for the consumer wellness market. It will address a very real, painful and expensive need.
Our test results have proven consistent with traditional blood glucose measurements so we have decided to start integration to provide this as a full Helo service later this year. " He continued, "By the time that we launch, we will have enough Helo wearers all over the world to generate a very valuable blood glucose data base. Our plan is to share this data via our Big Data Portal with appropriate research partners. We are sure that together we can gain valuable insights and who knows, maybe somewhere, buried below all that data our research partners may find the cure for diabetes!"
About Wor(l)d
World Media & Technology Corp. designs, manufactures and sells connected, next-generation, innovative wearable devices which use its proprietary Life Sensing Technology. It has end-users in over 80 countries which it supports through its exclusive distribution partnership with Wor(l)d Global Network (www.worldgn.com). For further information, see www.worldmediatech.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements.
Words such as "expects," "intends," "believes," and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, the ability to secure additional sources of finance, the ability to reduce operating expenses, and other factors described in the Company's filings with the OTC Markets Group and with the SEC.
The actual results that the Company achieves may differ materially from any forward-looking statement due to such risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release. SOURCE World Media & Technology Corp.
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Activision has announced that patch 1.13 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is now available to download on your PlayStation 3. Though the patch notes are considerably smaller than those of the Xbox 360 update that hit today, there are still a few fixes.
Check out the full list of patch notes below:
New Features
- Season Pass holders will now be reminded to download Season Pass content which they haven't previously downloaded.
Multiplayer Issues Addressed
- Improved stability when pressing buttons during a Theater mode screenshot.
- Improved stability when selecting an account for a secondary user when going online.
- Screenshots taken during Theater mode from a match on Uplink will no longer become corrupt.
Multiplayer Game Balancing
- AN-94: Damage slightly reduced.
- DSR 50: Rate of fire reduced.
- Ballista: Rate of fire slightly reduced.
Zombies Issues Addressed
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- Players are no longer able to access unintended areas using the Trample Steam and the Elevator.
Mob of the Dead
- Pack-A-Punch version of the Raygun Mark II now displays the correct skin.
The next map pack for Black Ops 2 on PS3, Vengeance, will release August 1st.
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Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next few days through the seizure of specialized servers in the network called directory authorities. (Directory authorities help Tor clients learn the list of relays that make up the Tor network.) We are taking steps now to ensure the safety of our users, and our system is already built to be redundant so that users maintain anonymity even if the network is attacked. Tor remains safe to use.
We hope that this attack doesn't occur; Tor is used by many good people. If the network is affected, we will immediately inform users via this blog and our Twitter feed @TorProject, along with more information if we become aware of any related risks to Tor users.
The Tor network provides a safe haven from surveillance, censorship, and computer network exploitation for millions of people who live in repressive regimes, including human rights activists in countries such as Iran, Syria, and Russia. People use the Tor network every day to conduct their daily business without fear that their online activities and speech (Facebook posts, email, Twitter feeds) will be tracked and used against them later. Millions more also use the Tor network at their local internet cafe to stay safe for ordinary web browsing.
Tor is also used by banks, diplomatic officials, members of law enforcement, bloggers, and many others. Attempts to disable the Tor network would interfere with all of these users, not just ones disliked by the attacker.
Every person has the right to privacy. This right is a foundation of a democratic society. For example, if Members of the British Parliament or US Congress cannot share ideas and opinions free of government spying, then they cannot remain independent from other branches of government. If journalists are unable to keep their sources confidential, then the ability of the press to check the power of the government is compromised. If human rights workers can't report evidence of possible crimes against humanity, it is impossible for other bodies to examine this evidence and to react. In the service of justice, we believe that the answer is to open up communication lines for everyone, securely and anonymously.
The Tor network provides online anonymity and privacy that allow freedom for everyone. Like freedom of speech, online privacy is a right for all.
[Update Monday Dec 22: So far all is quiet on the directory authority front, and no news is good news.]
[Update Sunday Dec 28: Still quiet. This is good.]
It is obvious that there are
It is obvious that there are many out there who would like to see the network disrupted as it undermines and in some cases directly threatens what they do (or would like to do).
The removal of DA's will not prevent Tor working per-se but it will cause significant issues with maintaining the integrity of the relay list and communication of that to client instances and indeed other relays.
We would question the motivation behind such an attack though, is it just short term disruption? Or a nefarious attempt to propagate a longer term sybil-a-like attack? Or something else completely?
In any case it is clear that some consideration must be given to the DA function within the network and how to hold the census together in a more resilient manner but at the same time avoid creating exposure to sybil attacks. The mechanism used for maintaining the Hidden Service directories using a DHT is an obvious candidate but again just opens up the DA function to a different class of attack.
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Roger, is there a possible
is there a possible pre-emptive action that can be taken - in the open light - to render such a move futile ?
For instance ask the nice people from CCC and their freedom minded supporters working at freedom minded companies to set up another three directory authorities? Which would work on a short time scale.
A suggestion for the longer term, would be that the developers take some lessons from the freenet design and ask your bridges (& perhaps users along) into lending some harddisk space (1mb for example) and distribute broken up lists in an encrypted way over these channels (key served later).
And perhaps let bridges turn into DAs themselve, distribute an encrypted "fortune cookie", and when the DAs shout a special key throughout tor then only certain(random) bridges & users can turn into DAs(minimizing the chance of a hostile takeover of tor).
I suspect that a fast
I suspect that a fast reaction that would take place within a few days might be difficult.
The directory authorities (DAs) almost certainly need to handle massive amounts of bandwidth, need to be on colocated hardware, and need to be security hardened. This means that establishing a new DA would take some time - and even then, I suspect (but do not know for certain) that the DA would then have to be hard coded into Tor. So, users would then half to upgrade to get the advantages of establishing a new DA.
Additionally, the people that run any new DAs need to be trusted to keep the network secure.
As far as the more technical solutions you mention, you should consider creating a proposal for a more complete idea so it can be evaluated in full. While doing so, it is helpful if you can suggest some advantages and disadvantages that your approach provides.
Well, by their breaking of
Well, by their breaking of their own laws, they are certainly crooks.
Stay safe, Tor team.


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How To Read The Bible
Don't let those sixty-six books scare you.
It's easy to look at that thick book and ask yourself "Where should I start?" Any large book can make you feel that way but then when you think about the Bible you may think that it is full of "thee's" and "thou's" and that it will be too much for you to handle.
It doesn't have to be so intimidating, here are some helpful tips to get you on your way to a new perspective on the Bible:
Choose a translation that is easy to understand.
Ask God to help you understand.Before you get started it is a good practice to spend some time in prayer. Talk to God and ask him to help you understand what you are reading and how it can apply to your life.
Find a place to start that is easy to understand.
Reading tips:
- Read the Bible passage slowly and carefully.
- You may want to read the passage more than once.
- It may be helpful to read the preceding or following passages to get the context.
- Keep a pencil or highlighter handy so you can make notes, or underline key phrases or verses.
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Pray again.
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Practices and intellectualist fallacies in social science
Charles Taylor's well-known essay "To Follow a Rule" offers social scientists and theorists an indispensable but still neglected perspective on human agency and norm governed life. The arguments have much in common with those made by James Tully in "Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy". Like Tully, Taylor's main resource is the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which he deploys in order to deconstruct a number of persistent intellectualist fallacies. The gist of the argument is that one's understanding of a norm or rule, as well as deviation from the rule, is in the first instance a bodily understanding of appropriate ways to move and act in relation to others. There is no intellectual formulation – no representation of a practice – that is required for our practical understanding. What follows is a summary of the article. I conclude with a minor point that in addition to bodily know-how being the grounds of following a rule, it is also the grounds of contesting a rule.
Taylor argues that for any principle or justification we do end up articulating in order to explain a rule to someone there are an "indefinite number of points at which, for a given explanation of a rule and a given run of cases, someone could nevertheless misunderstand" (166). Misunderstanding the character of a practice occurs when our interlocutor does not share the appropriate background: "Understanding is always against a background of what is taken for granted, just relied on. Someone can always come along who lacks this background, and so the plainest things can be misunderstood" (167).
What is the nature of this background? Taylor quickly dismisses the notion of an infinite catalogue of resolutions that qualify every possible instance of rule conformity and deviation. No one possesses such a mental compendium. For after all the inevitable exceptions and qualifications that we admit during an interrogation of the principle we've mustered to explain or justify, we eventually hit a point where we are unable to provide any further account. In such cases, as Wittgenstein observes, my justifications "have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned" (167). At this point I can only offer that "this is simply what I do" and continue on acting, as it were, "without reasons" (167). Taylor concurs, observing that "reason giving has a limit, and in the end must repose in another kind of understanding" (179).
This contrasts with the notable interpreter of Wittgenstein's work, Saul Kripke, who has taken this to mean that the notion of justification would never arise because the background, like the mechanisms of physiological reflex, work beyond and below the purview of reasoning and articulation. Taylor takes another course, suggesting that to depict the background as mechanistic and reflexive does nothing to acknowledge it as a form of understanding as well as a space of socially generated, evolving, and norm-governed agency.
The background isn't located in the subconscious or even in the mind for that matter, but in our adept bodily engagement with the world and others. Thus, understanding is not something that requires representation in language or the intellect; it is already present in the practice itself. Taylor argues that "we easily tend to see the human agent as primarily a subject of representations; representations, first, about the world outside; second, depictions of ends desired or feared" (169). Here, in a model which privileges the monological consciousness of the Cartesian spectator subject, "the body and other people may form the content of my representations" (169), which has the effect of precluding the body and others as constitutive elements of social scientific theorizing. The result is a general methodological individualism and, at its extremes, a crude rational choice theory.
There are contravening forces working to challenge this view. Thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein are responsible for recasting the agent "not primarily as the locus of representations, but as engaged in practices, as a being who acts in and on the world" (169-70). For Taylor, our "bodily know-how, and the way we act and move, can encode components of our understanding of self and world" (170). What is significant here is the embodied and social dimensions:
My sense of myself, of the footing I am on with others, is in large part also embodied. The deference I owe you is carried in the distance I stand from you, in the way I fall silent when you start to speak, in the way I hold myself in your presence. Alternatively, the sense I have of my own importance is carried in the way I swagger. Indeed, some of the most pervasive features of my attitude to the world and to others is encoded in the way I protect myself in the public space; whether I am macho, or timid, or eager to please, or calm and unflappable. (171)
If words come at all, they often come after the fact, "coined by more sophisticated others to describe important features of people's stance in the world (171). Crucial here is the point that "understanding is not, or only imperfectly, captured in our representations." Rather, understanding a rule "is carried in patterns of appropriate action, which conform to the sense of what is fitting and right," according to norms that are often "quite unformulated" (171). Representations, Taylor writes, "are only islands in the sea of our unformulated practical grasp on the world" (170).
Our unformulated practical grasp emerges from our dialogical (though not necessarily language-based) interaction with others. "An action is dialogical," he writes, "when it is effected by an integrated, nonindividual agent" (172). He provides some examples:
Think of two people sawing a log with a two-handed saw or a couple dancing. A very important feature of human action is rhythming, cadence. Every apt, coordinated gesture has a certain flow. When you lose this, as occasionally happens, you fall into confusion, your actions become inept and uncoordinated … Now in the case of sawing and ballroom dancing, it is crucial that they be shared. They come off only when we can place ourselves in a common rhythm, in which our component action is taken up. This is a different experience from coordinating my action with yours, as for instance when I run to the spot on the field where I know you're going to pass the ball (171-2)
Following Bourdieu again, Taylor suggests that it is a mistake to take the articulation of a rule as definitive of practice or as revealing its structure. In "defining a rule through a representation of it" we succumb to an appealing but nonetheless pernicious bit of intellectualism by which we posit the newly formulated and idealized representation of a rule as primordial and our actual practical living of the rule as somehow derivative. This mistake "crucially distorts" the nature of rule-following. This should concern social scientists because even a well-meaning preoccupation with normative principles and deliberation over principles can easily lead to the kind of empty formalism and empty talk that, when transposed into politics, tends to stifle rather than promote human agency.
Which brings me, finally, to the friendly amendment I would make to the discussion on bodily know-how and norm-governed life, which is this: norms are contested as well as followed on the register of embodied understanding. To use Taylor's example of the wood-cutters, it is clear that the two cutters can fall into a rhythm quite naturally and without coordination. Over time this rhythm can become the norm by which they approach sawing in like circumstances, a norm that defies explanation or formulation into some principle. The point I would like to make is that while a contravention of such a norm is no doubt experienced as such, only the grossest of violations would necessitate deliberation. More often than not, one cutter's contestation of the norm would find its response in the practice itself, not in representations (i.e., arguments, rhetorical appeals, narratives, performances) of the practice.
So, one energetic cutter's quickening of the pace might be resisted (literally, physically) by the other cutter. This push-and-pull might go on for some time without ever giving rise to a deliberation over the justification or interpretation of the previously established norm. So long as no external restrictions are imposed on the wood-cutters, they are free to establish, contest, modify, and affirm the norms they work by. Most significantly, they do so accordingly to the bodily know-how they cultivated in dialogic interaction with no recourse to representation. Indeed, it's not clear what is gained in imposing an additional layer of push-and-pull, deliberation, over the practice it purports to articulate. It seems more likely that something is obscured.


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In a climate of economic uncertainty, the Merrick School of Business reached out once again this year to help the Mattie B. Uzzle Shelter, a 45-bed facility for homeless women and their children located in the Collington Square section of Baltimore. The school's faculty and staff donated necessities such as personal toiletries and bed linens, as well as a microwave, games and reading material. The Office of the Dean coordinated the effort as part of the school's outreach efforts.
Life before computers, smart phones, the Web, Wikipedia: Really, was such a thing even possible? How on earth did we manage? Many of our Merrick Exchange readers will remember life before the advent of IT, but that is not the case for many of our current students and young alumni. They are part of a generation that was exposed early in life to technological advances that have transformed business operations, and changed the way we live from moment to moment.
The economy can be down, or it can be booming – it doesn't matter to those business professionals who are constantly seeking ways of differentiate themselves in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Many already possess a graduate business degree, like an M.B.A. with a leading-edge specialization. These professionals then seek to build on their professional and academic knowledge base by undertaking post-graduate studies.


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As the next phase of works approaches, we realise there will be more questions emerging about the Rothesay Pavilion Restoration Project which may or may not have been answered before.
For that reason, I thought I would use this column to tackle some of those questions, with a specific focus on the building project and funding.
Who is paying for Rothesay Pavilion Restoration Project?
Rothesay Pavilion restoration is being paid for by a host of major funders including Argyll and Bute Council (£5.23m), Heritage Lottery Fund (£4.19m), European Regional Development Fund (£1.06m), Historic Environment Scotland (£750k), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (£750k), Coastal Communities Fund (Big Lottery) (£600k), Scottish Government Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (£625k), as well as various trusts and foundations with an arts and heritage focus making up the balance. The total fund is just under £14million.
Why are they funding the Pavilion?
They are funding it because it is a really important community and cultural centre but also because our Pavilion is unique in Scotland in terms of its architectural heritage. This was recognised by Historic Environment Scotland in 2005 when they upgraded its 'Listed' status from 'B' to 'A' in recognition of "this building being one of the most significant pleasure buildings of the style in the country, surviving in remarkably intact condition". A Category A Listing recognises "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic, or fine little-altered examples of some particular period style or building type" and this is one of the main reasons why so many national funding bodies have come together to preserve it.
Rothesay Pavilion is in very poor condition and requires major investment to continue. This investment has come principally from funders with an interest in conservation, heritage and economic regeneration and is not transferable to other priorities like hospitals and care centres, so without the Pavilion this money would simply not come to Rothesay.
Outwith the Pavilion restoration, there is also considerable investment planned over next five years in the new Townscape Heritage project to help deal with other buildings in the town.
Couldn't we convert it into an old people's home/hospital/hotel?
No – the building isn't suited for any of those things. It was built as a dance hall and venue and that is what it is best suited to be. Trying to convert it into something else would not be cost effective and it is highly likely that the current funders could pull out.


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A small coast pilgrimage town in Karnataka, Gokarna is also a popular tourist destination. All the activities and places to visit are with a kilometer of the bus stand. Gokarna is known for its four beaches – Kudlee Beach, Om Beach, Half Moon Beach and the secluded Paradise Beach – that brings in tourist from across the country. Life in this quaint little town is centred on the bus stand the beaches. Gokarna's beach is several kilometres long and is situated at the edge of the town.
Places to Stay
There are many places to stay in near Gokarna first class. Places like Om Beach Resort, Shastri Guest House and Khushi Village Resorts offer affordable accommodations that start from Rs.700 onwards.
The annual Mahashivaratri and Kartika Mahotsava are famous in this town. During the 9-day Shiva Ratri festival up to 20,000 pilgrims descend to this small town.
Kannada is the Local Language here.
Places to Visit
The Mahabaleshwar Temple, Maha Ganapathi Temple, Uma Maheshwara Temple, Bhadrakali Temple, Tamra Gauri Temple, Venkataramana Temple and Kotitheertha (a man-made tank) are all located within 1-3kms of the bus stand.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Dabolim Airport.
Gokarna has its own railway station.
The Gokarna Bus Stand runs regular bus service that connects the place to neighbouring towns. Private bus operators like SRS Travels, Sea Bird Tourist and Sugama Tourist run regular buses to and from the town. Travellers can make use of online bus tickets booking facility provided by a number of travel websites.


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All undergraduate students at IIT participate in at least one IPRO program while working toward their degree. Since 1995 this program has given students the opportunity to team up with fellow students across academic disciplines to tackle real-world problems.
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- Service-learning IPRO projects strive to improve the human condition, K–12 education, and other efforts that make the world a better place
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- Entrepreneurial IPRO projects (EnPROs) pursue ideas within the context of business
IIT has many company and community partners that sponsor IPRO projects. These sponsors understand the need to grow tomorrow's crop of talented professionals and prepare them for work in collaborative teams facing complex issues.
IPRO sponsors benefit and advance their goals with the fresh perspective of the IIT student / faculty team. Students get real-world experience and the opportunity to build a professional network, a useful resource after graduation.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday said he was "deeply disappointed" with the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision ruling a central piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, and he called on Congress to pass legislation protecting access to voting.
The president registered his critique in a written statement issued by the White House that noted the law's bipartisan legacy and the Supreme Court's acknowledgment, in the ruling, that discrimination persists.
"For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act — enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress — has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans," the statement read. "Today's decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent."
Mr. Obama's attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., who is named as the defendant in the case, Shelby County v. Holder, used similar language to criticize the court's decision.
"The Department of Justice will continue to carefully monitor jurisdictions around the country for voting changes that may hamper voting rights," Mr. Holder said. "Let me be very clear: We will not hesitate to take swift enforcement action using every legal tool that remains available to us against any jurisdiction that seeks to take advantage of the Supreme Court's ruling by hindering eligible citizens full and free exercise of the franchise."
Mr. Holder also emphasized the law's long history of bipartisan support in Congress and under successive presidential administrations.
In his decision, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that Congress remained free to try to impose federal oversight on states where voting rights were at risk, but it was clear that the likelihood that a divided Congress could agree on a remedy was small.
Members of the N.A.A.C.P. and civil rights lawyers said they would ask Congress to draw up a new coverage formula, laid out in Section 4 of the act.
"We are confident that members of both houses of Congress that helped lead the effort in 2006, many of whom are still there, will help to restore the power of Section 4," Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Democratic leaders in the Senate were quick to criticize the decision and indicated that they would move to address voting rights, though it was not clear what options were immediately available.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he would "take immediate action to ensure that we will have a strong and reconstituted Voting Rights Act that protects against racial discrimination in voting."
"As we approach the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the March on Washington, it is especially compelling to remember that his dream has not yet been achieved," Mr. Leahy said in a statement. "We have made great progress since that time and part of the Congress's reauthorization of Section 5 a few years ago was based on the need to preserve that progress. Yet, I fear today's decision will make it more difficult for racial minorities to have their right to vote fully protected."
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, who leads the committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, also said he would hold hearings and push for legislative action.
But Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said that the court's decision reflected the positive impact of the civil rights legislation and that the legislation was no longer needed.
"What it tells me is after 45 years, the Voting Rights Act worked," Mr. Grassley said, "and that's the best I can say. It just proves that it worked."
Representative Melvin Watt, a North Carolina Democrat who favors the preclearance requirements that the Voting Rights Act established, called the court's decision outrageous. But any remedy from Congress, he added, would be difficult to piece together.
"I don't think that we would be able to come up with a remedy that would satisfy this Supreme Court," Mr. Watt said, noting that before Congress reauthorized the act in 2006, it gathered 15,000 pages of evidence demonstrating that racial discrimination was still prevalent enough to justify the law. "Fifteen thousand pages. If that's not enough, what would be?"
There was also swift reaction from the South, particularly in the states that were subject to federal oversight.
Kenneth Dukes, 45, a black minister in Montevallo, Ala., who was one of the Shelby County residents represented by the N.A.A.C.P. in the case, said he was disappointed with the decision and worried that it would open the door to voter discrimination.
Mr. Dukes said that he did not think the South had made enough progress for the law to be dropped.
"Have we made progress? Yes, we've made tremendous progress. The South has made a lot of progress," he said. "You don't have the public Klan meetings. You don't have the blatant discrimination. But you still have intimidation. You still have racism. As long as the potential for discrimination is still there, the act is still needed."
Without federal oversight of local elections, he said, minorities will encounter challenges to voting.
Ray Haygood of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund said his organization would set up a hot line for people to call and report "jurisdictions that will try to take advantage of this interim period."
Within hours of the decision, state officials in Texas said they would move quickly to put in place laws that had been rejected under the provisions of the Voting Rights Act addressed in the court's ruling.
Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general, announced in a statement that a voter identification law that was blocked last year by the Justice Department would go into effect immediately and that "redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government."
Across the South, reaction to the decision appeared to be split, largely along racial and partisan lines. Luther Strange, the Republican attorney general of Alabama, called it "a victory for Alabama" and added that he did not believe that the state should be included in any formula Congress may adopt.
Tate Reeves, the Republican lieutenant governor of Mississippi, said he was pleased by the decision but said that preclearance "unfairly applied to certain states should be eliminated in recognition of the progress Mississippi has made over the past 48 years."
On one point, most people agreed: that Congress was not likely to come up with a remedy to Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act any time soon, leaving the South without the oversight provided by Section 5.
"I don't like it," said David Jordan, a black state senator from the Mississippi Delta. "There may be some states that are ready to come from under it. But I don't know of any adjacent to me. Mississippi's certainly not. Louisiana's not ready. Alabama's not ready."
Tommy Coleman, a white lawyer in Albany, Ga., who helps cities and counties comply with the Voting Rights Act, said he suspected that black political success over the decades would forestall a broad rollback of minority gains in the South. "It's not politically reasonable to think that the white majority will come in to re-establish a poll tax or anything like that," he said.
Echoing the views of many on both sides of the debate, Mr. Coleman said that with voter ID laws in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, and with problems with Hispanic access to the polls, maybe the South was not the center of the fight anymore. "I'm not so sure that there aren't other jurisdictions in the country that are equally, if not more, in need of this than the South," he said.
Jerry Wilson, a lawyer in central Georgia who has worked in Voting Rights Act litigation for 25 years, was not so sure.
"I think we're in big trouble," he said, reeling off a list of counties in the region that have up to now been hemmed in by the Voting Rights Act from making what he says were discriminatory voting changes. With the burden shifting from the jurisdictions to the affected voters to prove discrimination, he was contemplating the work ahead.
"The community groups that I worked with through the years," he said, "they cannot handle this one on their own."


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