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He works in a restaurant and takes tips with the knowledge of the owner
The tourists come in buses and do not pay the bill after eating; rather it is the tour company that pays the bills for the food.
During the meal, the bus drivers wait outside.
The owner gives my father some money every day and says to him: Give tips to the bus drivers. The owner of the restaurant and the owner of the tour company know about these tips, in the sense that is something regular for the owner of the tour company to give the driver a salary and tell him that the restaurants will give him tips.
And the driver has nothing to do with the tourist groups; rather he is just a driver.
My father also accepts tips with the knowledge of the owner of the restaurant; in fact the owner encourages him to accept them. What is the ruling on my father's wealth?.
We have previously discussed the ruling on accepting tips and "baksheesh" in the answer to question no. 82497.
But if the tips in this case are given with the knowledge of the tour company for whom the driver is working, there is nothing wrong with that, because the restaurant can give some of the money to the company, so if it agrees to give it to the worker, there is nothing wrong with that.
The same may be said with regard to what your father receives: if it is with the knowledge of the owner of the restaurant, there is nothing wrong with it, because the customer has the right to pay more than the agreed price, and if the owner of the restaurant agrees to leave this additional money for the worker, there is nothing wrong with that. But the worker or employee has to do his job properly and give the customer his rights in full, whether he gives him a tip or not.
Shaykh Ibn Jibreen (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: I work for a transportation company and I transport refrigerated fruit and vegetables from Madeenah to Jeddah or Makkah or Riyadh. When I arrive, the one to whom I am making the delivery gives me some money, 100 or 200 riyals, in appreciation for my delivering the vegetables to him quickly. Please note that the owner of the company knows about that.
My question is: is this money or tip, as they call it, halaal or haraam? Please advise me, may Allah reward you with good.
He replied: We think that there is nothing wrong with you taking the money that the owner of the grocery store gives to you when the owner of the company is aware of that, and the aim behind that is to encourage you to deliver the goods and take care of the vegetables before they go rotten. As you deserve it because of your effort and you taking care of the goods, and as it was given to you willingly by the owner, there is no reason why you should not take it, even if it is in addition to the salary for which you work. The aim behind it is to encourage you to carry on and to do what is in their interests. And Allah is the source of strength.
End quote from Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/347
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Jess Walter's sixth novel combines black comedy and two love stories in such a devious, time-hopping way that coming to understand what's going on in Beautiful Ruins brings the thrill of epiphany. This is partly a narrative ploy for creating mystery and suspense, and partly a reflection of what I take to be Walter's view of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a world in which reality, so-called, is expertly manipulated by powerful interests. Walter conveyed this pervasive and insidious control most brilliantly and disturbingly in The Zero, and he does so again here, though with more of an eye to laughter than horror.
We begin — though of course it is not the beginning — in 1962, in a tiny, isolated Italian fishing village, a place so quiet that "only death was quieter." Here Pasquale Tursi is trying, with unwarranted optimism, to create a sandy beach and tennis court to attract tourists to his family's little pensione, the unpresumptuously named Hotel Adequate View. To his and the village's astonishment, a young and impossibly beautiful American woman arrives, ferried in on a boat. She is dying, she has been told, of cancer. Her story and Pasquale's make up two of the book's intermittently surfacing threads.
Meanwhile — though of course it's not meanwhile but next up — twenty-eight-year-old Claire Silvers is in present-day Hollywood, steeling herself to dump a deadbeat boyfriend and to quit her job as assistant to producer Michael Deane. The latter, once a major figure in Hollywood, is now reduced to producing a "reality" show called Hookbook, twinned to a dating site called Hookbook.net in "a steaming pile of TV/Web synchronicity." He is a shuffling, seventy-year-old man to whom the dark arts of cosmetic surgery have given "the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl." A miracle of crassness and opportunism, he brings perfect joy to the reader every time he appears.
While Claire gets on with thinking about her future, Shane Wheeler, a veteran loser, is preparing to fly from Beaverton, Oregon, to Hollywood to pitch his screenplay to Claire, hoping Deane will produce it. It concerns a member of the Donner Party and his efforts to save his family; a synopsis of it makes up part of the novel, thus hurling us back to 1846.
Also cropping up now and again is Alvis Bender, a writer who visits the Hotel Adequate View every year to work on his novel about his experiences in the Second World War. Over the years, he has come up with only one chapter, but it too makes it into this book. And then there is Pat, a disappointed singer-songwriter and boozer. He gets us to London and Edinburgh. Finally — though not last — there's Richard Burton, bottle in hand, fresh off the set of Cleopatra, which is being filmed, disastrously, in Rome.
It was Deane, we learn from an (until now) unpublished chapter in his memoir, who saved the fast-sinking production of Cleopatra from going completely under in 1962. The previous two years had brought calamity of every description, and the picture was becoming more of a dud. Now it was hit by what would seem to be the fatal blow: the searing-hot, on-location love affair/brawl of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. She is the woman, after all, who had stolen Eddie Fisher from America's sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds. Now Liz has dumped the soppy crooner for the notorious Welsh actor, philanderer, and rum pot. The affair, with its tantrums and exhibitions of lust, was, writes Deane in his memoir, "a car wreck. A ten-car pileup." It was becoming impossible to keep the presumably disapproving public from learning about it. Deane, hired as a fixer, comes up with the solution and discovers his genius: "I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once," he reports:
Dick wanted Liz. Liz wanted Dick. And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look.
It is impossible to say much about the plot without ruining its surprises or revealing Deane's acts of inspired deception and treachery. But I can say that Walter's sardonic wit and mischievous intelligence shine out to the very end. It is gloriously and darkly funny that this menagerie of characters and disparate elements come together as a story because of the machinations of that "lacquered elf," Michael Deane. Brazen master of spin, he is a genius for whom pandering to debased appetites is a form of largess, for whom lies and perfidy are creative acts. He is the demiurge of this story and of our time.

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Meriem Cecilbie Cooper is born in July 1980 to parents Robert Addam Cooper and Gail Nicole Reicher, in the town of Marshville, Oregon. After Robert dies of unknown causes, Gail turns to drugs, which leads her to fall in with an unsavory group of men. Eventually wanting to sever her ties with this group for Meriem's sake, Gail seeks the help of Meriem's scientist-inventor grandfather, Francis Peacock Reicher, affectionately called "Gramp." After first being thwarted, Gramp makes a mysteriously superhuman return, defeating the men easily and taking Meriem away on a hovercycle from the future.
At Gramp's laboratory, Meriem discoveres a time machine and a body-enhancing device that allows a living being to pass through the time stream. It is here that she first meets Klyde, Gramp's 15-foot-tall lab gorilla who has been accidentally altered by the body enhancer. Gramp then enhances Meriem as well, and the trio begins an ongoing adventure through time while on the run from dinosaurs and a secret branch of the government.
As events transpire, Gramp is written out of the story when he is killed by a Tyrannosaurus and Meriem stayed far from the cave that they settled down in. After a fierce fight with local carnivores near the "Quasi-Birds" nests, Meriem ended up naked when her clothes were torn off during the fight. Upon aging into a buxom 19-year-old, Meriem had lived in the local jungles naked (minus her hunting weapons), savage, happy, and free. Dinosaurs were taught to fear her. Meriem reunited with Klyde, who attacked her and broke her weapons. She then returned to the cave where she and Gramp had settled down. Not wanting to be naked and savage anymore, she eventually made a jungle bikini (with dinosaur teeth hanging on the strings) out of a leopard-printed snakeskin blanket. She also avenged her grandfather by slaying the Tyrannosaurus responsible for killing him, but rescued two Tyrannosaurus hatchlings from Velociraptors. One that was named Harmony became Meriem's companion while one named Peace became her enemy.
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Buying Guide: If you loved Zelda you'll love these iPhone games
If you loved Zelda you'll love these...
There are seemingly countless variations on role-playing games, and indeed there is a boggling diversity of such games available to iOS gamers.
Though Zelda is a particular kind of action RPG, what we've tried to do is present an interesting spread of worthwhile games that cover all the major RPG styles, and some unusual variations on them.
Arriving just after the original Zelda, the Final Fantasy series went on to become the most spectacular and one of the most successful RPG series of all time.
Final Fantasy (£5.99, iPhone), Final Fantasy II (£5.99, iPhone) and Final Fantasy III (£10.99, iPhone; £11.99, iPad) are available on iOS devices, and while each game has a different setting and story, there are shared elements, such as recurring characters, a similar central premise and familiar combat elements.
The folks responsible for giving Final Fantasy to the world, Square Enix, also created an all-new fantasy franchise for iOS devices.
Chaos Rings (£8.99, iPhone; £10.99, iPad) and Chaos Rings Omega (£7.99, iPhone; £10.49, iPad) eschew large-scale exploration, and instead the action is based in the mysterious Ark Arena, where characters do battle, traverse dungeons and battle bosses in order to gain immortality. It's spectacular, if a little repetitive.
In the absence of more recent Final Fantasy games, it falls to Gameloft, master of the cheeky homage, to fill the gap.
Eternal Legacy (£2.99, iPhone; £2.99, iPad) is clearly inspired by the likes of Final Fantasy VII and subsequent releases, and features a rebellious young warrior battling against oppressive forces in a graphically sumptuous game world with all the epic story telling and interesting characters you would expect, although the combat here is a little on the easy side.
Sticking with Gameloft for the moment, it's also done us the favour of emulating Nintendo's more recent 3D Zelda games with the enormously likeable Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden (£4.99, iPhone; £4.99, iPad). As with Zelda, it's an action RPG, so as well as exploring the colourful 3D world on foot and horseback, you also get to engage in some straight forward-but enjoyable hack-'n'-slash combat.
It's doesn't have the panache of a Zelda title, but it's a fairly accomplished adventure nonetheless.
We'd be misrepresenting the history of console role-playing if we gave the impression Nintendo had the field to itself. In the early days, Sega also made a strong showing with three classic Mega Drive adventures.
Phantasy Star II (£1.99, iPhone) featured a science-fiction plot, turn-based combat and a party of characters, each with their own specific weapons and abilities. It was a highly regarded and influential game, and as such it's a must for any self-respecting RPG buff.
The same goes for Shining Force (69p, iPhone), another wonderfully rich and influential Mega Drive RPG. Here, the emphasis is on battle, with the turn-based combat taking centre stage, and exploration and puzzle solving elements taking a back seat.
Combat is played out on a grid system, adding a strategic element to the proceeds. Rather than simply facing an enemy and trading blows, characters also have to position themselves, perform actions, manipulate objects and fight within a designated turn.
On a slightly odder note comes Vay (£2.99, iPhone), which is an iOS version of an old Sega CD adventure. It's a big, involving adventure, presented here pretty much in its original form, and is a worthy of download simply as a piece of slightly obscure gaming history.
Those are the big hitters, but fortunately for us iOS gamers, there's a wealth of lesser-known but extremely entertaining traditional eastern RPGs. Zenonia (69p, iPhone) and its two sequels are sparkling examples of the type.
The first game boasts a well-written story starring the mysterious protagonist Regret and his quest to avenge the death of his father at the hands of an evil demon. It's an action RPG in the style of the early Zelda titles, and marries some slick game design with a sense of humour. It provides many hours of gameplay for such a paltry price, too.
RPG - Symphony of Eternity (£5.99, iPhone) is another exercise in recreating the magic of past role-players. Inspired by the older Final Fantasy games, this oozes charm with its cast of cute and colourful characters, and it's made all the more enjoyable by the fact that unlike a lot of older RPGs that featured annoying random enemy encounters, here the battles are fixed so you can pick your fights. Superb stuff.
Rounding off the traditional-style RPGs, we have LAR(Children Of Pandora) (£1.99, iPhone), a flawed action RPG, but one that contains a sophisticated story and plenty of character classes and skills to experiment with.
There's also an extremely basic, but somehow rather adorable, little 8-bit style adventure called Guardian Saga (£1.49, Universal) that won't win any awards for depth, but is a great RPG for newcomers.
It would be remiss of us not to include a decent western-style isometric RPG, so here's Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter 2 (£4.99, iPhone; £4.99, iPad). It and its predecessor offer the player a romp though beautiful-looking dungeons crammed with traps, puzzles and enemies as you take on the role of a customisable warrior, rogue or mage. Originality is zero if you played the massively popular Diablo games, but this is a superbly crafted adventure.
Before we take leave of this fantasy realm, it's worth noting that for some gamers, the world of traditional role-playing simply leaves them cold, like a flimsily clad skeleton warrior festering in the corner of a dank dungeon cell. Worry not, for there are other ways to get your fix of swords and sorcery.
Mage Gauntlet (£1.99, Universal) looks like an old-school RPG, but is in fact just a succession of quick and quirky battles and boss fights. Flimsy, but fun.
If you like your games a little more tactical, you could go for one of a trio of strategy-based role-playing games. Crystal Defenders (£5.49, iPhone; £5.49, iPad) is from Final Fantasy creator Square Enix, while Battle for Wesnoth (£2.49, iPhone; £2.49, iPad) or World to Conquer (£1.99, iPhone) will give you a cheaper experience, but one that's just as worthy.
Finally, if action is really your thing, may we direct you to Monster Hunter Dynamic Hunting (£2.99, iPhone). It's not perfect, but it is fun if you like the idea of straight-up, no-nonsense fights with a succession of massive beasts. And who doesn't?


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The economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands returned to growth in 2010, expanding 2.9 percent, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) largely reflected increases in the trade surplus, government spending, and construction.
GDP offers the most comprehensive picture of the territory's economy. Although more timely indicators like employment, wages, and visitor arrivals are available, GDP looks at all aspects of the U.S. Virgin Islands' economy, including prices, output, consumer spending, and trade.
For the first time, BEA calculated estimates of GDP by industry, compensation by industry, and detailed consumer spending for the territory. BEA also revised previous estimates for 2002 to 2009.
The 2.9 percent gain in 2010 followed a 5.9 percent decrease in 2009 and marked the first increase in economic activity since 2007. The island's 2010 growth rate compares with 2.4 percent growth for the United States as a whole for the same period.
The oil refining industry continued to play a major role in the territory's economy and accounted for the vast majority of imports and exports of goods. The territory's expanded trade surplus contributed over 10 percentage points to overall GDP growth.
Imports declined more than exports, expanding the trade surplus. Exports add to GDP, while imports subtract from it. The increase in the trade surplus was partially offset by a decrease in private inventories, which subtracted 9 percentage points from overall GDP growth.
Real consumer spending in the U.S. Virgin Islands expanded 0.4 percent in 2010, driven largely by increases in health care services and "other" services, while spending on goods—especially durable goods—declined.
GDP by industry and compensation by industry
Taken together, private industries added 2.77 percentage points to overall growth in 2010, while government contributed 0.15 percentage point.
Services-producing industries were the primary source of overall growth in 2010. They contributed 3.52 percentage points to economic growth in 2010, the new estimates show. A decline in goods-producing industries largely reflected a decline in the oil refining industry.
The accommodations and amusement industry, including hotel and food services—along with other tourism-related services—continued to decline.
BEA plans to release estimates for 2011 in the spring of 2013. You can read the latest news release and tables here.


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By 1990 the malaise era was long over and you were able to walk into a car dealership and purchase a variety of different vehicles with legitimate performance potential. Although many cars of the 1990s have since been overshadowed by the more potent vehicles offered in the 2000s, the decade had it's share of great cars. What is your favorite performance car of the 1990s?
For me my favorite performance car of the 1990s has to be the C5 Corvette. Not long after the car was introduced for the 1997 model year, I was lucky enough to get a high speed ride in one. Going triple digits in the then brand new 'Vette left enough of an impression on my young brain to make a future Corvette purchase inevitable (it will be a C6 Z06). C5s weren't perfect, but they were vastly improved and remain my favorite performance car of the 1990s.
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1. Booking process
A booking is possible if made by either a client online or by the staff of Traventuria Ltd. when a certain program and price have been agreed beforehand. In both cases an invoice is issued and sent for payment, which also represents the confirmation of Traventuria Ltd. for the services, ordered by our clients. Any special requirements and medical problems should be reported by the client at the time of booking. After the full payment is received a set of documents will be sent over to the client, or provided directly to him on arrival, containing vouchers and other relevant information if needed (trip notes, route notes etc.). Please make sure all details inside are correct and contact us immediately should you notice incorrect or missing information.
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The Human Factor: Chapter TwoWednesday, September 7, 2016
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Nickel or Dime? — by David Page
IT WAS THE LAST DAY OF 2013 when Jake Merrill and his girlfriend, Katie Griffith, set out from Bellingham, Washington, in separate vehicles packed with ski gear and their dog, Cedar, bound for the Wallowas. Merrill had just graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Outdoor Recreation and Leadership. He'd heard about Wallowa Alpine Huts (WAH) from his friend Ryan Ghelfi, who'd guided there the year before. He'd emailed a resume earlier in the fall, highlighting his month-long glacier travel course in Alaska with NOLS, his winter alpine training with John Minier's Mount Baker Mountain Guides, and a 10-week professional internship with Larry Goldie and North Cascades Mountain Guides out of Mazama, where he'd covered everything from tweeting to complex rescue techniques, as well as cheerily humping up a glaciated volcano with a 100-pound pack containing, among other sundries, a freshly baked chocolate cake.
In November, he'd gotten an email from WAH owner Connelly Brown offering him his first bona fide (read: paid) guiding job. "He was all fired up," Goldie recalled this past summer, reclining on a couch outside his attic office in Mazama. Griffith lay curled up at the other end. "If Katie wasn't gonna go, he hoped their relationship would survive it, but he was going."
"I was like, 'Sure, I'll go. Why not?'" said Griffith. She figured they'd both work for three months down in Oregon, save some money, then travel in Thailand or Nicaragua for a while before starting jobs at Outward Bound that summer.
January was tough for the couple, with no room of their own to get away from the others and little snow. "There were all these new guides—like nine of them," Griffith said. "And no work." In early February, when Merrill saw his name on the online schedule as tail guide for a four-night trip heading up on the 9th, he was over the moon. Not Aspirant, not Powder Slave, but Assistant Guide! He wondered why he'd been chosen over others with more experience, like Ryan Matz. But he wasn't going to argue. This was what he'd always wanted to do. This was what he was here for. And as Matz would later write to me, "Although he probably wouldn't say it, he knew he'd earned the spot."
In the aftermath of the accident, Matz and Ghelfi asked themselves repeatedly: Would it have gone differently if they'd been out there in Merrill's place? "Every time, we come to the same chilling conclusion," Matz wrote. "Probably not. Merrill was likely the most cautious guide working for WAH, if not the most cautious that I personally know, and if he could let this happen, we certainly could have as well."
Looking beyond the hard sequence of events put together by avalanche investigators, we can only imagine how it went down, psychologically. It's quick, probably not even on the level of conscious thought: You're standing on a ridge in blowing snow. You have no intention of dying anytime soon, or letting your clients be harmed in any way. You know there's a persistent weak layer, but you haven't seen anything move. You've done one good lap already on a similar aspect. You've dug another pit and the slab seemed stable, even on a 36-degree slope. Your co-guide seems OK with it; the clients are fired up. Yes, there's an obvious avalanche path to the left, a deep gully that makes a nasty terrain trap. But if you stay out of it, if everyone stays on the open slope where the trees are, where you've skied before on other occasions, everything should be good...right?
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- "It was a few seconds before Harry's eyes discerned the building half-hidden amongst the tangle of trunks. It seemed to him a very strange location to choose for a house, or else an odd decision to leave the trees growing nearby, blocking all light and the view of the valley below. He wondered whether it was inhabited; its walls were mossy and so many tiles had fallen off the roof that the rafters were visible in places. Nettles grew all around it, their tips reaching the windows, which were tiny and thick with grime."
- —Harry Potter's impression of the Gaunt shack upon seeing Bob Ogden's memory of it in Dumbledore's Pensieve[src]
The Gaunt Shack was the ancestral home of the Gaunt family, located in the woods just outside the village of Little Hangleton. It was shabby little shack housing Marvolo Gaunt, his wife, their son Morfin and daughter Merope. Soon after Morfin died in Azkaban, the residence was later used as a hiding place for one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
The shack was small, dilapidated, and thick with filth, but was somewhat kept in check by Merope. Morfin had nailed a dead snake to the front door of the shack. After Merope stopped taking care of the place due to her marriage and subsequent death, the house plunged even deeper into deterioration and declension.
Cecilia considered the shack and surrounding area an eyesore compared to the rest of the beautiful land owned by the Riddle family, and wanted it to be cleared away were it not inhabited by the Gaunts.
It was the home of Marvolo Gaunt, Morfin, and Merope. They were the last remaining descendants of Cadmus Peverell and Salazar Slytherin living there in poverty, speaking Parseltongue to each other in deplorable conditions.
The Gaunt Shack and its inhabitants were once visited by the Ministry of Magic official Bob Ogden, who came to question Morfin about his habit of using magic in front of villagers. This is noticeably the first time Harry Potter, watching this memory in the Pensieve, sees Tom Riddle Snr.
Six months after Marvolo served his sentence, he returned to the shack in arrogant expectations that his daughter would be dutifully waiting for his return with a hot meal at the table. Instead, he found a clear inch of dust and her note of farewell. In another two and a half years later, Morfin returned and found his father dead and the family signet ring as the last heirloom for him to inherit.
About sixteen years later, when Tom Marvolo Riddle came to visit Marvolo to learn about his heritage, he instead found Morfin, along with a mass of filth, rusting pots, and mouldy food, which made the house nearly unrecognisable before Marvolo and Morfin's incarceration, due to Merope no longer taking care of the cleaning. After killing his father, Riddle framed Morfin for it, and left the Gaunt's house with Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. With that, the house became abandoned for years, and continued to deteriorate.
Horcrux hiding place
After the death of the Gaunt family the house was left deserted. Lord Voldemort decided to use this place to hide one of his Horcruxes, which was Gaunt's Ring taken from Morfin himself. The ring was left under the floor boards in the ruins of the house in a golden box with a curse of sorts placed upon it. Voldemort further placed many powerful spells to protect this location from possible intruders. In the summer of 1996, Albus Dumbledore visited the shack and retrieved the ring, reasoning that Voldemort would store his Horcruxes in locations relevant to him.
In 1998, Voldemort returned to the Shack to check on the Horcrux, after learning that one (Helga Hufflepuff's Cup) had been stolen from the Gringotts vault of Bellatrix Lestrange. Fearing for its loss, Voldemort travelled to the shack, as well as the Horcrux cave. To his fury, he discovered that the ring had been taken from the Shack.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Concept art only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in vision(s))
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I am thrilled to say that our store is now fully functional again!!
To celebrate we are having a sale and details can be seen on the store home page
Hello everyone!! Come stop by pick up our Freebie Friday
As always, your FREEBIE will be in black and white, but you will also have the option to purchase the colored version of the image.
If you missed last week's FREEBIE, don't worry, it will be for sale in the shop:) Additionally, don't forget our DIGI MONTH CHALLENGES going on in our groups, which you can join by clicking the following links:
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Chemotherapy without SCT for MDS
Patients with MDS who are unable or unwilling to undergo a stem cell transplant using donor cells or those planning to have their own stem cells collected for a future transplant can receive conventional chemotherapy without stem cell support. While many patients have a remission with this type of treatment, most ultimately experience disease progression. While some patients may experience a long remission following therapy, remissions after conventional chemotherapy typically average less than 12 months.
Because most patients with MDS are over 65 years of age and cannot tolerate the side effects of conventional chemotherapy, lower doses of chemotherapy may be beneficial.
Vidaza® (azacitadine): In May of 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Vidaza for the treatment of MDS. Vidaza is the first drug to be approved specifically for the treatment of MDS.
Results of a clinical trial that compared Vidaza to supportive care in the treatment of 191 patients with MDS demonstrated that the patients treated with Vidaza experienced more anticancer responses and were less likely to develop AML compared to patients who received supportive care. 1
Among patients treated with Vidaza, 15.7% had an anticancer response while none of the patients who received supportive care had a response. Following treatment with Vidaza, all patients who responded to treatment and had previously required blood transfusions no longer required the transfusions to maintain appropriate hemoglobin levels. 2
Patients who received Vidaza experienced an improved quality of life compared to those receiving supportive care. 3
Fludarabine plus cytarabine: Physicians from Italy have reported that the chemotherapy regimen consisting of fludarabine and cytarabine with the white blood cell growth factor, Neupogen® (filgrastim), produced remission in three-quarters of patients with advanced MDS. The 42 patients involved in this study survived 13 months, on average. Nine percent of patients died from complications of the treatment. 4
To learn about other chemotherapy treatment options for MDS, go to Treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Strategies to Improve Chemotherapy without Stem Cell Transplant for MDS
The development of more effective cancer treatments requires that new and innovative therapies be evaluated with cancer patients. Clinical trials are studies that evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs or treatment strategies. Future progress in the treatment of MDS will result from the continued evaluation of new treatments in clinical trials. Participation in a clinical trial may offer patients access to better treatments and advance the existing knowledge about treatment of this cancer. Patients who are interested in participating in a clinical trial should discuss the risks and benefits of clinical trials with their physician. Areas of active investigation aimed at improving the treatment of MDS include the following:
- Dacogen™ (decitabine)
- Hycamtin® (topotecan)
Dacogen™ (decitabine): A clinical trial has shown that patients treated with Dacogen experienced significantly higher response rates and longer time to disease progression—defined as transformation AML or death—compared to patients who received supportive care. Patients who had not received prior treatment and those with intermediate 2 to high-risk disease received the most benefit from Dacogen. 5
Patients in this study only received three courses of Dacogen. More recent findings, however, suggest that a better response may be possible with multiple courses of therapy.
Topotecan/cytarabine may be more tolerable than standard idarubicin/cytarabine: A clinical study that involved 510 patients and compared four different chemotherapy combinations has revealed that anticancer responses and duration of survival were the same for all four treatments. However, treatment with topotecan/cytarabine resulted in fewer deaths than other regimens and may be considered an alternative to the standard idarubicin/cytarabine combination for the treatment of patients with progressive or high-risk MDS. 6
To learn more about treatment techniques that are being evaluated in clinical trials, go to Strategies to Improve Treatment of MDS.
1Silverman LR, Demakos EP, Peterson BL, et al. Randomized controlled trial of azacitidine in patients with the myelodysplastic syndrome: a study of the cancer and leukemia group B. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2002;20(10):2429-2440.
2 Pharmion. Vidaza Prescribing Information. Available at: https://www.vidaza.com. Accessed March 2006.
3Kornblith AB , Herndon JE, silverman LR, et al. Impact of azacytidine on the quality of life of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome treated in a randomized phase III trial:Cancer and Leukemia Group B Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2002;20(10):2441-2452.
4 Felicetto Ferrara, Franco Leoni, Antonio Pinto, et al. Fludarabine, cytarabine, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for the treatment of high risk myelodysplastic syndromes. Cancer.1999;86:2006-2013.
5 Saba H, Rosenfeld C, Issa JP, et al. Clinical benefit and survival endpoints from a phase III trial comparing decitabine (DAC) vs supportive care (SC) in patients with advanced myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Orlando FL. 2005; Abstract #6543.
6 Kantarjian H, Beran M, Cortes J, et al. Long-term follow-up results of the combination of topotecan and cytarabine and other intensive chemotherapy regimens in myelodysplastic syndrome. Cancer. 2006;106: 1099–1109.
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- 1 Meeting October 2012, Paris
Meeting October 2012, Paris
- Invitation by obergix (he's not inviting as "paying your trip expenses" ;)
- Doodle
- Location: at IRILL 23, avenue d'Italie,75013 Paris, France (details on access to IRILL here)
- everyone says hi and who they are
- then, why not participant introductions with slides (if they want) in "speed dating mode" including presentations of their forges specificities ? Olberger (talk) - (mirabilos) nice idea, but let's introduce everyone first, so we have names/faces mapping for when questions arise during the lightning talks
- project ROADMAP
- Plugins development process / branching : separation between core and plugins ?
- …
Development tools
- Migration to a DVCS
- Separating the Debian, RPM, etc. packaging files from the main project's repository
- Clean and find consistency between rpm / deb
- We have 3 possibility to install fusionforge (deb, rpm, and source archive). And each install is different. For example :
- 5.1 in deb create /etc/fusionforge/fusionforge.conf but not in rpm
- 5.1 in deb create /etc/gforge/gforge.conf (deprecated no ?)
- 5.1 in deb create debian-install.ini and debian-install-secrets.in but not in rpm
- 5.1.1 in rpm don't provide fusionforge-config
- 5.1.1 in deb provide fusionforge-config and gforge-config (deprecated no?)
- pg_hba.cong is not the same
- Dont deploy deprecated files
- Why rpm use dav svn default, and deb not.
- We have 3 possibility to install fusionforge (deb, rpm, and source archive). And each install is different. For example :
I don't check in 5.2, but it becomes difficult to navigate, configure fusionforge between os installation.
Toward a common plugin infrastructure with other sourceforge derivated forge
- Coclico project showed it was possible to make common plugin between codendi 4.0 and fusionforge
- Pros :
- Shared effort in maintaining same code
- Planned integration of Mediawiki in Tuleap
- Common build infrastructure (LXC also used in Tuleap build bot)
- Shared translations
- Shared eclipse plugin
- Tuleap Goodies :
- tracker plugin
- agile dashboard plugin
- cardwall plugin
- Coming debian packaging
- FusionForge goodies :
- mediawiki plugin
- auth* plugins
- doaprdf plugin
- foafprofile plugin
- oslc plugin
political / governance
- FusionForge Roadmap
- Sustainability of the architecture & code-base
- Potential for a community of interests with other FusionForge-using companies
- Having a Face-to-Face meeting every once in a while doesn't hurt.
Interested Parties
Add yourself here if you'd like to come, even if you didn't get it confirmed by e.g. employer with travel budget, yet:
- Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos), tarent solutions GmbH, EvolvisForge
- Roland Mas (lolando), Gnurandal
- Timo Pick, tarent solutions GmbH, EvolvisForge
- Franck Villaume (nerville), TrivialDev
- Christian Bayle, Orange Labs
- Alain Peyrat, Alcatel-Lucent
- Manuel Vacelet, Enalean
- Julien Heyman, Atos
- Wenceslas Petit, dgfip
- Benoît Debaenst (tiben), TrivialDev
Arrival times
- tarent arrives at Paris Nord at 09:59 (and stays overnight)
Let's drink^Wsocialise a bit on the evening!
The Open World Forum happens in Paris the next day with a potential Forges session.


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"Greek in a Nutshell. An Outline of Greek Grammar With Brief Reading Lessons Designed for Beginners of the New Testament" by James Strong is a very small hand-out of only 30 pages.
It features very brief notes on construction and syntax. The hand-out's most noteworthy feature is its selections of New Testament Greek which comes complete with interlinear translation and very detailed line notes.


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Ohio State University Wants to Trademark The Word 'The'
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter
August 14, 2019
Ohio State University has reportedly filed an application with 'the' U.S. Patent Trademark Office for a trademark on one of 'the' English language's oldest words:
'The' filing made on Aug. 8th by Buckeye officials shows 'the' school intends to use the word 'the' on a line of t-shirts, baseball caps, and hats.
"Like other institutions, Ohio State works to vigorously protect the university's brand and trademarks," university spokesperson Chris Davey told 'The' Columbus Dispatch in a statement. "These assets hold significant value, which benefits our students and faculty and the broader community by supporting our core academic mission of teaching and research."
The application for the trademark was filed by the university in an effort to protect its brand, Davey added.
The application was first spotted by trademark lawyer, Josh Gerben, who said in a video posted online that the university's application has issues "out of the gate."
"In order for a trademark to be registered for a brand of clothing, the trademark must be used in a trademark fashion. In other words, it has to be used on tagging or labeling for the products. In this case, just putting the word 'the' on the front of a hat or on the front of a shirt is not sufficient trademark use," Gerben said.
This isn't the first time Ohio State has filed for an unusual trademark. They've also trademarked the names and likenesses of football coaches Urban Meyer and Woody Hayes, as well as phrases like Script Ohio and The Shoe.
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Teaching retirement income in The American College's new Ph.D. program for financial and retirement planning is a sea change from teaching macroeconomics to public policymakers from emerging market countries.
But for Wade Pfau, who came to the Bryn Mawr, Pa.-based American College in 2013 after a decade of teaching at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, the radical shift in career is very welcome, and his new gig is one that he truly enjoys.
"Economics focuses on trying to demonstrate mathematically why some models work, whereas with financial planning, you can't get away with using models and assumptions. You have to explain things so that they're both understandable and relatable," Pfau said.
When it comes to retirement planning education, then, Pfau considers it his priority to bridge the gap between academic research and its practical application.
His name first came into the spotlight in 2011 with a research paper entitled "Safe Savings Rate: A New Approach to Retirement Planning over the Life Cycle." Pfau credits the launch of his current career to that paper, which won the inaugural Journal of Financial Planning Montgomery-Warschauer Editor's Award. Even now, he said, much of his work centers around its main concept, which is that anyone who saves at their "safe savings rate" will likely be able to achieve their retirement spending goals regardless of their actual wealth accumulation and withdrawal rate.
That viewpoint is catching on quickly with financial advisors and consumers, many of whom are keen readers of Pfau's Retirement Researcher blog (WPfau.Blogspot.com). But even so, most retirement research today is still focused on the notion that individuals need to find a safe withdrawal rate for their retirement and use that as a barometer to compute a wealth accumulation target to fund their desired retirement spending. Most academics and financial advisors continue to view the accumulation and decumulation phases of life as distinct, Pfau said, rather than seeing them as part of the same cycle.
Still, Pfau has enough clout behind him to seriously spread the word about lifecycle retirement planning. In addition to his teaching, he is an avid blogger and seeks to generate high-quality, practical research about retirement and personal financial planning to help promote broader education both to the general public and to financial planners about the importance of developing sustainable retirement income strategies.
Pfau also serves as chief financial planning scientist for InStream Solutions, an interactive financial planning software company for advisors. He's won, among other awards, two Academic Thought Leadership Awards from the Retirement Income Industry Association. He has also contributed to the curriculum of the Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP) designation and the Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) designation.
Pfau earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2003 and became a CFA charterholder in 2011.
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Schiava: This Northern Italian Red Grape Works Magic
There are 1,368 varieties covered in Master of Wine Jancis Robinson's Wine Grapes. Bet you can't try them all.
Note from the author: There are 1,368 varieties covered in Wine Grapes by MW Jancis Robinson, MW Julia Harding, and Dr. Jose Vouillamoz. Let's try them all. Disclosure: I recently traveled to Alto Adige with the Guild of Sommeliers on a trip for sommeliers sponsored by Alto Adige Wines.
I headed to Alto Adige, in part, to find inspiration again. I'd maneuvered a tough summer, and to be honest, I didn't care about wine much at the moment. "Try to relax and enjoy your trip," my friend told me before I took off. "Italy can do magical things," she promised.
Two days later, I inhaled deeply as I stepped off the bus into a vineyard near Lake Caldaro. I thought I sensed a moment of magic in the crisp mountain air, my face gently warmed by rays of sunshine beaming intermittently through puffs of cumulus clouds. We hiked down a pebble-strewn trail and descended into a long line of pergola-terraced vines hanging over our heads, their branches heavy with exaggeratedly plump, purple fruit. A hundred meters through the tunnel of green-and-purple peace we emerged in a cliff-side clearing with sprawling views of the calm Lake Caldaro, a milky turquoise basin below spectacular green hillsides. Freaking dreamland.
Our table was set with piles of local, smoked, spiced and cured speck alongside crunchy rustic bread peppered with caraway and fennel seed. A giant copper cauldron bubbled with golden polenta, and a bottle of wine made its way around. So pale and shimmering ruby in color, the red wine could nearly pass for rosé. It was made of Schiava Grossa, the local grape that hung all around us and that Wine Grapes describes as "giving light, perfumed, fruity wines, with hints of almonds and violets and light tannins." Not to be confused with Schiava Gentile, Grigia or Lombarda, Schiava Grossa has signature grossa (fat; large) berries that, I can confirm, are also quite tasty as table grapes. We topped up our glasses and dug into plates of sausage, polenta, and the most simply prepared and yet profoundly delicious borlotti beans you could ever dream of.
In between bites, the 2012 Kellerei Kaltern - Caldaro Campaner Schiava (named for Lake "Kaltern" in German, or "Caldaro" in Italian) swept strawberries and crushed violets easily across my palate. There was an easy, refreshing bitterness and prickle of white pepper wrapped up in a soft, compelling texture that said, "bet you can't drink just one glass." I could feel it. Italy (or was it that second glass of Schiava?) was working its magic.
From our perch, we chatted about Alto Adige, its unique position between the jagged points of the Dolomites and the southern stretches of the snow-capped Alps, and its dual identity as German-speaking Südtirol. The area has a turbulent history: formerly belonging to the Austrian crown, it became part of Italy with the treaty of St. Germain in 1918. Mussolini forced "Italianization" of the area by pushing German-speaking natives out to make room for southern Italians. Those who remained lost jobs, were forced to close their schools, and forbidden to speak their language. Today, recent generations have worked extremely hard to make amends and encourage enlightened, educated, open-minded cohabitation: residents can be found alternating between both fluent German and Italian, both of which are posted on signs, taught in schools... and written on wine labels.
As for the Schiava in our glasses, its label also read "Vernatsch," the German name for the local grape. Admittedly, heading to your own local wine shop in the U.S. and seeing two foreign languages on a label—one with umlauts, no less—could be intimidating. But please don't let the language put you off from the wine, as Schiava/Vernatsch is, like those borlotti beans, so simple yet so profoundly delicious.
Schiava is a grape grown in a cultural crossroads, yet it pushes us to embrace what we share rather than what we don't... which in this case is appreciation for a great meal, a great glass of wine and great company, no matter what language we all speak.
I glanced around at the table, my friends, the view... and pinched myself. I felt inspired, invigorated. My friend was right, Italy (and that damn third glass of Schiava) can do magical things.
2012 Kellerei Kaltern - Caldaro Campaner Schiava/Vernatsch
The Grape: Schiava, a.k.a. Vernatsch
The Region: Alto Adige, a.k.a. Südtirol
The importer: Enotec (Looking for more? Other excellent Schiava wines from Mumelter and Cantina Bolzano in the Santa Magdalena DOC are brought in by Oliver McCrum and A.I. Selections, respectively.)
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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
One of the biggest problems faced when businesses try to use social media as a marketing tool is that there are simply too many social media sites. A day doesn't go by when I'm not asked about this new site or that old site and whether or not they can be used is marketing. Most can. However, most simply do not have the reach to make them worthwhile. For the majority of businesses, if they stay focused on four current social sites, they'll have the vast majority of their marketing covered.
Some big sites were excluded. It's not that Tumblr doesn't have its place or that Foursquare is useless. It's that the time and energy necessary to make them stronger is not worth the return on investment. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest are the big dogs right now. They don't take a ton of time to master and the results are strong compared to the effort put into them.
There's a common theme here. Effort versus reward. If you measure your returns relative to the amount of effort put into the maintenance, you'll find that these are the sites that generate the highest level. Used properly, just about any business can benefit from a strong presence on these four social media sites.
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Thank you for this info, I use Facebook Religiously for my business, Independent used car dealer, and yet I have the #1 facebook site in oklahoma, I do not advertise with it, I simply post humorous pictures, The point is not to sell them something, But for them to think of me when they are ready to buy.
Great comments here for sure. Thanks for the tools, Manny.
One thing we have to remember is the audience for this article is a dealership body that has been told by so many vendors and experts that they need to be on dozens of social media sites if they want to succeed. Vendors have been using scare tactics and smoke and mirrors to get dealers to think that social media is simply too big for them to be able to do it on their own and that they need a vendor to handle all of the dozens, even hundreds of "relevant" social media sites. This simply isn't true and I hope that none of the comments in this thread are geared to make the dealers in the ADM community believe that they have to have a vendor to succeed.
It simply isn't true. If dealers focus on the four listed above, they can succeed on their own without a ton of time or money invested. Whether that's truly 99%, 85%, or 99.9999% is not really up for debate because that's not important. Had I known that portion would have been such a sticking point that distracted from helping dealers see the truth, I would have titled it differently.
YouTube is an amazing platform and is an excellent content source that applies to the social media portion ofmarketing. I consider it more in the realm of content marketing rather than social media marketing; just because it falls into the classification of social media doesn't mean that it's best suited for social media marketing in its purest form. People don't go to YouTube to interact with businesses. They go to be entertained, to learn more, and to address their needs. The vast majority of people will watch videos on YouTube without ever leaving a comment or engaging in a social media way.
Content marketing or video marketing (however you want to classify it) through YouTube is extremely effective. Using YouTube on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or Pinterest as a source of content can be effective. Just as I didn't include blogging in the list, I didn't include YouTube for the same reason. It's best used as an original content venue for marketing rather than a place to draw interaction with customers.
LinkedIn - that's very debatable. It's my opinion that people go to LinkedIn for professional reasons only. Personally, if someone tried to sell me a car or broadcast a marketing message to me through LinkedIn in a B2C manner, I'd be very unlikely to do business with them and would probably remove them from my contacts. Dealerships can definitely leverage LinkedIn to find talent and to express strong reasons to want to join the team but I've never considered LinkedIn a place to try to increase retail transactions.
Awesome comments so far! Keep them up and I'll try to respond to all of them.
Wow, that's a strong statement indeed. Perhaps "Social" marketing but we have left out some important channels, YouTube for example. My question is by what measure are we assigning value to our activities on these networks?
To push it a bit further, why isn't LinkedIn on the list? LinkedIn does bost 60 million affluent ($100K+/yr) active members.
What is the target, e.g., how do we expect our ROI to be weighted here? There are so many assumptions implicit in this analysis that it looks a bit too top-down to me. One could argue that an integrated OEM campaign that leverages YouTube as the central investment from an asset creation perspective, will cause ripple to all of the channels you mention, JD.
But then, there may be an implicit assumption regarding content strategy that I either missed or hasn't been stated, etc.
Some great tools here Manny. Thank you!
Wow, great conversation! First I want to say that the four sites mentioned by JD are certainly the focus and for some dealers with limited resources (and time) the main Social Media sites. I DO believe that it's better to do a great job on these sites than to scatter your energies on many sites. (I'm still struggling with Google+) That's my view from the trenches.
That said, I had my dealership on YouTube before any of these other sites and we are approaching 300,000 views. As Ralph said, I use our blog as a hub for all the other sites. I believe that is extremely important. I'm currently working on assisting a salesperson with their online presence and a blog will be the hub of that.
Pinterest has amazing potential. Our most popular board is "Pre-Owned Vehicles". Although it's not among my top 10 referrers, it is climbing all the time and holds a solid position. I have been checking out and recommend you do so three sites that are starting to measure Pinterest and guide us in the right direction. They are PinReach, Pinalytics and Reachli. I can see campaigns being built around this.
Love this debate and have to say I come down on both sides.
I knew from the moment I saw the email notification from Ralph that this was gonna be a great conversation piece.
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Ralph, the dealers who would benefit the most from an article like this are those who are attempting to dive into social. There are definitely benefits from LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Slideshare, and other sites that can be had, but the four listed consolidate into a realistic strategy for the average dealer. There are always exceptions to any rule; I know a dealer that gets more traffic from Google than Bing but I wouldn't recommend to dealers that they should focus on Bing first based upon an isolated case. Marketing on Slideshare is an investment of time that few can master, as you know. Regarding blogs, I've written on multiple occasions the importance of blogs in both search and social as well as direct promotions. Not including them on the list wasn't an omission of their importance but a difference in classification. Pinterest is, for certain, a stronger platform than many realize.
Kathleen, Richard, and Alexander - Yes, yes, and yes. Agree across the board.
Brent, it was simply an choice on wording. I didn't want to say "If You Focus on 4 Social Media Sites, You have 99% of Your Social Media Marketing Covered" - hate doubling up on the words "Social Media". As a result, my choices were "If You Focus on 4 Social Media Sites, You have 99% of Your Marketing Covered" or "If You Focus on 4 Sites, You have 99% of Your Social Media Marketing Covered". I assumed the community would know that you cannot cover 99% of all of your marketing with the internet, let alone social media, but in retrospect the second wording choice would have been preferably. Either way, I wouldn't worry about ADM dealers. They understood the point.
BTW, I was referring to the SEO value of applying content to SM.
As for conversions and leads, this is quite interesting - FORRESTER: Facebook And Twitter Do Almost Nothing To Drive Sales. Probably worth a post on its own as well.
JD, I have to agree with Ralph that these type of broad statements can be misleading and give the wrong advice. The fact is, 99% of any dealership's market is not on social media at all, so using these 4 sites alone will never get you there. The concern is that dealers could stop other forms of marketing by thinking your stat above is correct and they can reach everyone using social. as a comparison, here is what some other research says:
According to Pew Internet Research, in August 2012, only 69% of adults are on ANY social media site, so by using social alone you could be missing almost 1/3 or your market. In fact, several studies (including Nielsen 2012) say that 20% of adults in the US are still not even online!
So the idea that 4 social media sites can cover 99% of your market is silly. Don't get me wrong, I believe that social media is a powerful tool for dealers to include in their marketing mix, but dramatic headlines that are obviously incorrect do not help businesses in the long run
Ralph, I emphatically agree with the blog set up for automotive retailers and the blog of choice IS a self-hosted WordPress application. Forget the others, the support and plug-in repository dominates, competitors fail in comparison. That is the EXACT process that I preach.
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This was exactly my experience with Latin. I learned from Ecce Romani. I found that as soon as I looked at even some of the earlier chapters from Wheelock, I felt almost lost when facing the exercises of translation from actual authors of ancient Latin texts. They were supposed to be easy enough for beginners, I suppose, since they were in the earlier chapters of the textbook, but I found them challenging enough even though I had completed two courses of Latin with solid success. I was discouraged at that. I had too many questions about things in the authentic texts that I didn't have a solid grasp on. I could make guesses, but I didn't know for sure, and I thought I was supposed to know by that point.Barry Hofstetter wrote:My experience, at both the college and high school level, is that students from other institutions who have used highly inductive approaches (e.g., Ecce Romani for Latin), are often able to read the texts they already have read, but have difficulty with anything else. It could be that I am simply locked into my own didactic paradigms and have learned to make them work, but it's hard to argue with success.
It is interesting that you draw from this the principle that inductive approaches are not always successful. I have to think about that. My thought focuses more upon the difference between using Latin that has been constructed by modern authors as opposed to learning from Latin written by actual ancient authors. My feeling was that the Latin I had learned was "dumbed down" a bit, so that when I saw Latin used as it actually was, I found too many variations from the set patterns that had been artificially taught to me in all of my experience of Latin to that point. That was my feeling, at least, upon reflection of my experiences there.


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Today marks 49 years of independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's too depressing to think about how few of those years were free from civil war, dictatorial regimes, and/or economic collapse. Suffice it to say that the hopes of le 30 Juin have never been fully realized, and it's not likely to get much better any time soon.
Security and governance (or, more specifically, the lack thereof) are the central problems in the Congo these days. Each is dependent on the other and no one can figure out how to make either happen. Attempts to reform the FARDC (Congo's national army) are pretty much a disaster. (As I've written several times before, it should've been blatantly obvious from the beginning that giving uniforms to war criminals would end badly.) The government can't establish territorial control or create/strengthen institutions without basic security, but the army can't create a secure situation without basic insitutions of governance and civilian control overseeing its actions. The understaffed and underfunded MONUC peacekeeping operation - which needs about eight times as many troops as it has - cannot secure the entire territory all at once in order to give the government time to figure it all out.
Nowhere is this dilemma more apparent than in the disasterous Kimia II operation currently being conducted by the FARDC and MONUC in South Kivu. (Of course, we have to pretend that the FARDC only needs "support" from MONUC to carry out a major operation when in reality nothing would happen without MONUC's helicopters and trained personnel.) By all accounts, the mission is an absolute disaster. As human rights groups warned before it even began, civilians are bearing the brunt of the fighting between government forces and the FDLR Hutu militia. Both sides are responsible for massive human rights violations, particularly around Minova, a small town on the shore of Lake Kivu in the far northern reaches of South Kivu.
The worst part? It's far from clear that the operation is doing much of anything to knock out the FDLR rebels it's directed against. That's not surprising; few of these operations really have much of an effect. It's too easy for the rebels to disappear into the forests, and the FARDC is too lacking in discipline to accomplish anything.
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