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Amit Sanyal, Assistant Vice President & Joint Head, Consumer Value Solutions business, Mahindra Comviva shares his views on why Customer Experience Management is becoming increasingly relevant today. Excerpts…
1. Why, in your opinion, has Customer Experience Management come into the limelight?
This refers to the telecom space. From this perspective, one has to look at the current status, peppered with some perspective from recent history. In most countries, the telecom ecosystem, at least the operator sides of the ecosystem moved from being a green-field, land grab opportunity to being fiercely competitive to being 'mature' today. The handset was the biggest entry barrier for the user, next came the call rates. Today neither is. Telecom today is a buyer's market, used to a seller's one even till a few years back. I am not getting into details of how or why this change happened.
Now that it has, what is the impact?
• The customer has choice and the customer is Aware in the true sense.
• The customer is always 'connected' or wants to be always connected
• Choice has its own problems-it creates clutter. The customer has gone through that phase and now wants or rather demands personalization.
• For the operator, it means a shift from deciding what experience it wants its 'customers' to get, to finding ways to give a different experience to 'a customer'
• A demanding customer represents an opportunity. If I can understand each customer, I can also communicate with each customer better. If I can understand the customers' intent, I can convert that into a purchase of a product from my portfolio of services.
• The best service that a customer expects is NO service. The best customer service for me is if I do not need to call customer service.
A competitive market ensures that call rates / access rates, etc are similar. The only differentiator in the customer's mind is the Quality of Experience. Does my service provider understand me?
With all these, the erstwhile Customer Experience Management (CEM) paradigm is no longer relevant. Today, the world is moving to CXM where the 'experience' part is for each touch point where the customer interacts with the service provider when making or receiving calls / accessing Internet / getting a query, request or complaint placed or resolved or making a purchase of an additional service. Even till recently 'experience' used to be interchangeably used with 'quality' which then narrowed down to the quality of the network experience only.
Customer Value Management today is the key. Times have changed.
2. What are a few key global CXM practices and can they be replicated here? Why or why not?
While so much is being written and spoken about CEM / CXM, practically this still is in a very nascent stage. There are credible initiatives done globally but you must understand that CEM is not a boxed solution. Things done elsewhere cannot and more appropriately should not be replicated as is. Each geography is different and even within a geography the preferences of customers which an operator has vary greatly with those of another in the same region. It depends heavily on whether an operator has the early mobile adopters or the Gen X or generally class agnostic users as its customers.
The need therefore for an operator is to have a solution from a provider with whom they can work together (and not expect a solution in a box!) to arrive at the best possible CXM use cases suited for the customers it has.
We at Mahindra Comviva do just that. While there are solution boundaries, the final mechanics of what fits best for a particular Operators is worked out together. We believe in long term partnerships and not a typical vendor-customer relation.
3. What are the portfolio's key pillars? Who will be your target audience?
Let me simplify this…forget about the pillars…what does the solution promise?
• Helps sell more to the same set of customers
• Helps keep customer's longer on the network
These are two simple promises that form the bed-rock of Comviva's CXM solution.
Effectively, in granular terms the solution promises a move from–
The above is with a commitment to continuously work with the customer through our Business Consulting services.
There is no typical 'TG' for our solutions. This is for all telecom operators who believe that the left of the grid above is something they wouldn't want to be in, it does not make sense anymore. The promise is not about the ability to increase revenues by X% or Y $, the promise is that if you move to the right-that's the right way! Customers will be happy, Business will follow.
4. What do you consider your USPs?
We stand by just one credo, "We understand the Customer, technology is just something we are also good at". That means –
• Customer Value Management driven by analytics
• Solutions which are designed basis how the customer will use it vis-à-vis how best we can make it
• Features which solve business problems and not which are there to show a list which looks long
• Ability to seamlessly integrate and co-exist with existing systems
• Business Consulting to make things happen-together
5. In your opinion, where does India stand vis a vis developed nations in this respect?
There are three facets to this:
1. Intent
2. Ability
3. Environment
In most emerging markets, the intent and environment are in the right direction. However, while there is a market need to move towards the ideal-N = 1 CXM, the ability of most players to do this by themselves is limited. This is where specialist CXM solution providers come into the play so that Ability does not be a limitation anymore.
6. Are operators managing to provide an optimal CXM experience? Why or why not?
I am afraid not, but there is definitely an intent but limited by ability as I said before.
As a customer, I have directly or indirectly shared everything that my service provider can use to understand me better. The operator has everything that is required. The missing piece is that 'intermediate layer' which helps makes sense of this data. Everyone today speaks of Big Data, it's not how much data you have, how frequently you can refresh it or how fast you can process it; it's all about making Sense of that data and using that for customized and real-time marketing to drive customer experience. Most operators are not there yet.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- On Thursday, faith leaders from across Winston-Salem gathered at Temple Emanuel for a vigil in light of the recent unrest in Charlottesville.
"I'm going to do something that I don't typically do, which I'm going to take out a Torah that we have," said Rabbi Mark Cohn, as he sat near the front of the church.
Cohn says he uses the Torah as a teaching tool, but this is first time he has taken it out.
"Anytime I talk about the Torah there's a lot of emotion tied to it. The Torah is a witness to what happened and we're witnesses today," he said.
He hopes that after what unfolded in Charlottesville that it can also be used in a much larger context.
"We as Jews or blacks, whites… we all have history, have histories in us," he said.
This past weekend was a weekend filled with protests and violence, along with tears and reflection after three people were killed.
Now, just days after, faith leaders and the community are coming together at Temple Emanuel in search of some resolve.
"I think after a tragedy that happened this past weekend in Charlottesville, immediately there's a sense of 'What can we do and how do we do something?' and people want to be together. A group of faith leaders felt, well, let's let this come from us. Let us help to lead the discussion," Cohn said.

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Vitamin D Deficiency and Lupus
- Introduction
- What is vitamin D and how does it affect the body?
- What do the studies show about vitamin D deficiency and lupus show?
- What are the symptoms for vitamin D deficiency?
- How is a vitamin D deficiency diagnosed?
- What is considered a good level for vitamin D?
- Are certain people more likely to develop a vitamin D deficiency?
- Where can you get more vitamin D?
- In Conclusion
Over the past several years, the scientific and medical communities have begun to make a connection between Vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D or [25(OH)D]) levels and the body's immune response. We are writing this blog, not to promote the use of vitamin D as a lupus treatment, but rather to help inform you as to some of the important research and information that is currently available on vitamin D deficiency and its role in lupus. Some studies have shown that as many as 67% (and even a higher percentage in other studies) of individuals with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) are vitamin D deficient which makes this research all the more relevant to gaining more understanding about the connection between vitamin D levels and lupus disease activity.
As you probably already know, Systemic lupus erythematosus is a very long name for the very complicated disease that is more commonly known as lupus. Lupus is a widespread and chronic (lifelong) autoimmune disease that, for unknown reasons, causes the immune system to attack the body's own tissue and organs, including the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood, or skin. SLE can affect nearly every organ system in the body. At times, individuals with lupus may have periods with few to no symptoms, and at other times the individual may have high disease activity which often includes unpredictable and debilitating bouts with symptoms of the disease. These periods of increased disease activity are called flares.
What is vitamin D and how does it affect the body?
What is vitamin D?
- It is the only vitamin that the body can produce on its own. Your body needs to get all other vitamins from the foods you eat or by taking supplements.
- Once your body gets vitamin D, it turns it into a hormone (called either activated vitamin D or calcitriol). It is the ONLY vitamin that does this.
Here are some of the systems and processes that vitamin D effects:
- It is essential for strong bones because it helps the body absorb the calcium from the food you eat (digestive system). Without vitamin D, all of the calcium that you ingest would just pass through you digestive tract unabsorbed.
- It also encourages your bone cells to strengthen your bones by adding more calcium to them.
- Muscle function
- Cellular growth and changes
- Circulatory/Cardiovascular system
- Respiratory system
- Brain development
- Anti-cancer effects
- The immune system's T-cells and dendritic cells. Dendritic cells play an important role in protective immunity.
- Vitamin D is also thought to have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties
What do the studies about vitamin D deficiency and lupus show?
Many studies have now shown that there is a link between vitamin D and lupus. Here are some fast facts based on these studies:
- Individuals with lupus are more likely to have low levels of vitamin D.
- Individuals with lupus who have higher levels of vitamin D tend to have fewer lupus symptoms.
- The risk factors for heart disease in individuals with lupus increases if vitamin D levels are low.
- The risk for high blood pressure and elevated lipids is higher in individuals with SLE and with a vitamin D deficiency.
- Some studies have shown that giving vitamin D supplements to individuals with lupus can reduce the chances and occurrences of flares.
- Adding vitamin D in vitro (test tube experiments performed with cells or biological molecules) has been shown to reverse abnormalities in the immune system characteristic of SLE.
There is some conflicting information as to the efficacy of vitamin D supplements in individuals with lupus, but for the most part the results looks promising.
Dr. Edie Vickers of the An Hao Natural Healthcare Clinic believes that vitamin D supplements can provide benefits to individuals with lupus. Dr. Vickers briefly discusses her thoughts about vitamin D in this KFL video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqGTTLsgkk [EMBED VIDEO HERE].
The results from several recent studies is a bit less clear. A recent Lupus in the News [LINK TO ARTICLE] article discussed a 2017 study conducted by researchers from Universities of Medical Sciences in Tabriz and Urmia, Iran that showed promise for supplementing diets with vitamin D. Through their meta-analysis, the researchers concluded that vitamin D supplements may decrease disease activity in individuals with lupus, but they also indicated that more studies need to be done to determine the overall effectiveness of vitamin D supplements. By contrast, however, a study conducted by researchers at the Department of Rheumatology at Al Zahra Hospital in Iran and published in 2017 concluded there were no significant improvements in SLE symptoms for the individuals who were given vitamin D supplements. So, though promising, clearly, more research is needed.
Symptoms and Diagnosis for Vitamin D Deficiency
The symptoms for vitamin D deficiency can be very subtle but can include fatigue, general aches and pains or frequent infections. Some people may have no noticeable symptoms at all. If you have pain in your bones or weakness that causes mobility issues (this can be a symptom of severe vitamin D deficiency), please seek medical attention immediately.
..How is a vitamin D deficiency diagnosed?
According to the Vitamin D council, a blood test is the only accurate way to test for a vitamin D deficiency. There are several ways that you can have your vitamin D tested:
- Asking for the test at a doctor's office: Ask your doctor to specifically give you the 25(OH)D blood test. FYI, there is another test called the 1,25(OH)2D test but the 25(OH)D is the only way to test whether or not you are getting enough vitamin D. You may want to check with your insurance to see if you are covered for this test prior to going in.
- At-home blood test: It is actually possible to order an in-home vitamin D test kit from the Vitamin D Council through their website (https://www.vitamindcouncil.org) for around $60.. In-home tests are easy to use and involve you pricking your finger to get a small blood sample. You then send your test to a laboratory for results. We cannot confirm the accuracy of this particular test, but The Vitamin D Council has very good information on a variety of issues regarding vitamin D health.
- Ordering a test from a website and have your bloodwork done at a lab: There are a few websites recommended by the Vitamin D council where you can bypass your physician and go straight to a testing lab: com, healthcheckusa.com, and privatemedlabs.com. All of these companies sell the 25(OH)D test. The price of these is a bit higher than the order-at-home blood test.
What is considered a good level for vitamin D?
According to Dr. Thomas, author of The Lupus Encyclopedia, a good level for vitamin D is 30ng/ml if on steroids, although he states that a Johns Hopkins study suggests around 40ng/ml. Here is a chart with information taken from The Vitamin D Council showing the recommended levels of vitamin D from other various organizations:*To reach and maintain the Vitamin D Council's recommended levels of 50 ng/ml, a daily dosage of 5,000 IU/day of vitamin D supplement would be needed. To reach and stay above the 30ng/ml level recommended by the Endocrine Society, a supplement of around 2,000 IU/day would be advised. To read more on this and other guidelines for reaching certain levels of vitamin D, please visit this link.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Nobody with lupus should attempt to take high doses of vitamin D to control their disease activity, and as always, please speak with your treating physician before starting or stopping any medication or supplement. There is no study as to the long term effects of high dosages of vitamin D. Currently the recommended daily allowance is 600IU a day until age 70, please consult with your physician before taking more than the recommended daily allowance.
Are certain people more likely to develop a vitamin D deficiency?
The answer is yes. Here are a several groups of people who are more likely to develop this deficiency:
- People with darker skin tones: Melanin protects the skin from UV rays. People with darker skin have more melanin and therefore absorb fewer UV rays. This means that people with more melanin make vitamin D much more slowly than those with lighter skin after sun exposure.
- People who spend a lot of time indoors during the day: Naturally, these people will have the least amount of UV exposure.
- The elderly: With thinner skin, the ability to produce vitamin D is reduced.
- Infants who are breastfed and not given a vitamin D supplement: If the mother takes a supplement, this can help.
- People who cover their skin all of the time or wear sunscreen to block out UV rays: This often includes many individuals with lupus who suffer from photosensitivity and need to avoid UV rays. Wearing sunscreen is still recommended but can limit your body's ability to produce vitamin D.
- People who live in the Northern US, Canada or other locations in the upper Northern hemisphere: This has to do with the reduced number of hours of sunlight as you get further from the equator.
- During times of year where there is less sunlight (winter, for example): Interestingly, individuals with lupus often suffer higher incidence of flares during these months as well.
- Women who are pregnant
- People who are very overweight or obese
Where can you get more vitamin D?
There are only three ways to get vitamin D:
- By exposing the bare skin to the sun
- By taking supplements
- Dietary intake from foods
Vitamin D has long been known as the "sunshine vitamin" because it is produced by the body in response to ultraviolet light exposure from the sun. Therefore, exposure to sunlight is one way to get more vitamin D, with 20-25 minutes per day being a helpful amount to affect your vitamin D levels positively. If you have photosensitivity or live in a climate with less available sunshine, this may not be an option for you. Ultraviolet lamps and bulbs are also available for indoor use. Vitamin D supplements are commonly prescribed to raise vitamin D levels. With supplements dosage can be controlled to meet the individual's needs. Please speak with your doctor about finding the right dosage of vitamin D supplements for you. And do not begin taking any supplements without first speaking to your physician. If you are taking too much vitamin D you may get hypercalcemia and begin experience feeling sick, loss of appetite, being thirsty, frequent urination, pain in the abdomen, muscle pain or weakness, fatigue and/or confusion. Special care should be taken when taking vitamin D supplements for those who have the following conditions:
- Kidney disease
- Kidney stones
- Liver disease
- High blood calcium levels
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Granulomatous disease
- Hormonal disease
- If you are taking certain medications: This can include high blood pressure medications, medications for irregular heartbeat, and other drugs that may interfere with vitamin D and may require more than the usual dosage of vitamin D.
- Let your doctor know all medications and supplements that you are currently taking.
Vitamin D can also be found in certain foods as well. Some foods that contain high amounts of vitamin D are fatty fish (such as mackerel, trout, salmon, tuna and eel) and fish oils, egg yolks, cheese, fortified– meaning vitamin D has been added- cow's milk (contains 100 IU's in one 8 ounce glass), fortified cereals, fortified orange juice, and beef liver.
In Conclusion
While the research is certainly interesting and even promising, there is no conclusive research that shows that low vitamin D levels cause lupus nor can the physiological and clinical significance be confirmed. It is also difficult for researchers to determine whether low levels of vitamin D cause lupus or whether the lupus causes the low levels of vitamin D. Overall, more research and experimentation is needed to determine a more clear answer about the helpfulness of vitamin D to help manage and treat lupus. What we do know is that, given its relative safety in combination with the beneficial effects on the immune system, there is optimism that correcting a vitamin D deficiency in individuals with SLE may lead to better outcomes. We will keep reading and watching for any developing studies and information on this topic and, as always, keep you informed.
Am I deficient in vitamin D? (2018). Retrieved from: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
Bishak, Y. Ghavamzadeh, S., Hassanalilou, T., Khalili, L., Payahoo, L., Shokri, A. (2018). Role of vitamin D deficiency in systemic lupus erythematosus incidence and aggravation. Autoimmunity Highlights, 9(1) Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743852/pdf/13317_2017_Article_101.pdf
Karimifar, M., Karimzadeh, H., Shirzadi, M. (2017). The effect of Vitamin D supplementation in disease activity of systemic lupus erythematosus patients with vitamin D deficiency: a randomized clinical trial. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 22(4), Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361443/?report=printable
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"I spent so much of my life thinking I need to do something to make stuff happen, to struggle, to be the engine and now I realise I can just let go and have a conversation which then takes me where it needs to take me. I fully know that the prison I'm meant to work in, I'm going to work in. So I can have conversations and totally be myself, not worrying whether something is going to come out of it or not. It's effortless, it's absolutely effortless!" – Anna Debenham
In this Nine Lives episode Anna shares how she's now open to any opportunity that comes her way relating to working in prison, sharing the understanding of the Three Principles, knowing how many mental health issues there are in prison.
When we realise on a deep level that just because we think something it doesn't make it true, we can stop paying attention to our thoughts. When we trust in the safety net that we're being held by life, by that energy that's behind our existence, we understand that we're being lived and don't need to direct our ship all the time and fight off the storms. There's a deeper wisdom in the background that's moving our life forward, moving the existence of our life forward.
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She also realises that business is not about struggle, it's not about going down a particular path as she previously thought to be true. She has seen for herself how many people want to help and support when one is doing good work and she can see that the idea of having a non profit organisation feels easy to her. Raising money and getting funding is easy because she'd be doing something that she's passionate about and she can talk about it in a passionate way. She noticed how she's lightened up where life doesn't seem so limiting anymore. Anna realised that she made life harder for herself than it needed it to be but it's just about seeing what sounds good and sounds exciting to her, creating a business that sounds viable and doing what she loves, there's a flow to it.
Anna realised that her anchor isn't anchored in her thinking anymore, she's not being thrown about at the mercy of her thinking, her anchor is now more and more in universal mind. She's seeing more on a deeper level how spiritually abundant she is, seeing the constant flow of life, having that deep knowing that she doesn't need to do anything, because there's a flow to life that if she lets go of her thinking, becomes more and more available to her. She doesn't need to direct her ship anymore because she can see the safety net, being held by life, seeing how much we're lived, being part of the same experience of life, constantly moving and flowing.
She can now relax more and more, be herself and have the conversations she's having, without worrying whether they lead to something or not. She now knows what's going to happen is going to happen, there's nothing to do and one can't do life wrong.
Kaye is reminded of the No Thought state that Sydney Banks mentioned, she can see Anna being anchored in that state where there is no separation and one is just being part of the doing but there's no "one" to do it. There's a paradox because everything is being done, but by nobody. She got a sense of oneness, an organism without any human personal thinking involved. Realising how we must tire ourselves out by separating ourselves away from our natural state of evolution, from life being life.
Anna shares that she can see the unity between logic and spirit and one informs the other that this is the way it works. It's about resting in the oneness that lives us, that lives everything which takes the anxiety off the table of the need having to do anything other than what needs to be done.
Anna can see that if our thinking was in a different language to the language we speak, we wouldn't be taking our thinking seriously in the first place because we wouldn't understand it, so we automatically wouldn't believe in it. The same is true now even though we understand the language of our own thinking, we don't have to give it meaning. Just because we think something, doesn't make it true.


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Don't Sleep Through The Revolution! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Note: This is a reprint of the invitation to give The Ware Lecture to the UUA General Assembly in 1966… the excerpts and emphasis are mine, as the text is much longer and the emphasis points are, for me, particularly cogent and inspiring…
In many ways, this address can act as a synopsis of his most foundational ideas, quotes, and teaching for us… Given that the superb film, Selma, is being released today nationwide, it acts as a strong and clear reminder of the man, his words, and his cherished ideals…
Don't Sleep Through The Revolution!
Excerpts from The Ware Lecture by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966…
There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution. And there can be no gainsaying of the fact that a social revolution is taking place in our world today. We see it in other nations in the demise of colonialism. We see it in our own nation, in the struggle against racial segregation and discrimination, and as we notice this struggle we are aware of the fact that a social revolution is taking place in our midst. Victor Hugo once said that there is nothing more powerful in all the world than an idea whose time has come. The idea whose time has come today is the idea of freedom and human dignity, and so allover the world we see something of freedom explosion, and this reveals to us that we are in the midst of revolutionary times. An older order is passing away and a new order is coming into being.
The great question is, what do we do when we find ourselves in such a period? Certainly the church has a great responsibility because when the church is true to its nature, it stands as a moral guardian of the community and of society. It has always been the role of the church to broaden horizons, to challenge the status quo, and to question and break mores if necessary. I'm sure that we all agree that the church has a major role to play in this period of social change. I would like to suggest some of the things that the church must continually do in order to remain awake through this revolution.
First, we are challenged to instill within the people of our congregations a world perspective. The world in which we live is geographically one.
All I'm saying is this: that all life is inter-related, and somehow we are all tied together. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of all reality. John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms, "No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." He goes on to say, "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." This realization is absolutely necessary if we are to remain awake in this revolution.
Secondly, it is necessary for the church to reaffirm over and over again the essential immorality of racial segregation. Any church which affirms the morality of segregation is sleeping through the revolution. We must make it clear that segregation, whether it's in the public schools, in housing, or in recreational facilities, or in the church itself, is morally wrong and sinful. It is not only sociologically untenable, or politically unsound, or merely economically unwise, it is morally wrong and sinful.
There is another thing that the church must do to remain awake. I thing it is necessary to refute the idea that there are superior and inferior races. We must get rid of the notion once and for all that there are superior and inferior races. It is out of this notion that the whole doctrine of white supremacy came into being, and the church must take a stand through religious education and other channels to direct the popular mind at this point, for there are some people who still believe this strange doctrine.
It's a strange notion that has made for a great deal of strife and suffering. Both the academic world and the disciplines of science have refuted this idea. Anthropologists like Ruth Benedict, Margaret Meade, and Herskovits, after long years of study, have made it clear that they find no evidence for the idea of superior and inferior races. There may be superior and inferior individuals in every race, but no superior or inferior races.
In spite of this, the notion still lingers around. Now, there was a time that people tried to justify it on the basis of the Bible. Strange indeed how individuals will often use, or should I say misuse, the Bible to crystallize the patterns of the status quo and justify their prejudices.
So from some pulpits it was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham. The apostle's dictum often became a watchword: servants, be obedient to your master. One brother had probably read the logic of the great philosopher Aristotle. You know Aristotle did a great deal to bring into being what we know now in philosophy as formal logic; and formal logic has a big word known as a syllogism, which has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. So this brother decided to put his argument of the inferiority of the Negro in the framework of an Aristotlian syllogism. He came out with his major premise, "All men are made in the image of God"; then came his minor premise, "God, as everybody knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man." This was the kind of reasoning that prevailed. Now, on the whole, I guess we have gotten away from this; most people don't use the Bible and religion to justify segregation, although there are a few left. I was reading the other day where one of our white brothers in Mississippi said that God was a charter member of the White Citizens' Council.
Today's arguments are generally placed on more subtle cultural grounds, for instance: "the Negro is not culturally ready for integration. If you integrate the schools and other areas of life, this will pull the race back a generation." And another: "The Negro is a criminal; you see he has the highest crime rate in any city." So the arguments go on ad infinitum.
Those who use these arguments never say that if there are lagging standards in the Negro community – and there certainly are – they lag because of segregation and discrimination. They never go on to say that criminal responses are environmental, and not racial. Poverty, ignorance, economic deprivation, social isolation breed crime in any racial group. It is a tortuous logic to use the tragic results of segregation as an argument for the continuation of it. It is necessary to go to the causal root to deal with the problem.
So it is necessary for the church, through all of its channels of education and through all of its work, to guide the popular mind, and rid the community of the notion of superior and inferior races. We've all seen enough to refute this idea.
We've seen Negroes who have given inspiring examples of ability to rise above the shackles of a difficult environment. They have justified the conviction of the poet that "fleecy locks and black complexion cannot forfeit nature's claim." Skin may differ, but affection dwells in black and white the same. If I were so tall as to reach the pole or to grasp the ocean at a span, I must still be measured by my soul; the mind is the standard of the man.
The next thing that the church must do to remain awake through this revolution is to move out into the arena of social action. It is not enough for the church to work in the ideological realm, and to clear up misguided ideas. To remain awake through this social revolution, the church must engage in strong action programs to get rid of the last vestiges of segregation and discrimination. It is necessary to get rid of one or two myths if we're really going to engage in this kind of action program.
One is the notion that legislation is not effective in bringing about the changes that we need in human relations. This argument says that you've got to change the heart in order to solve the problem; that you can't change the heart through legislation. They would say you've got to do that through religion and education. Well, there's some truth in this. Before we can solve these problems men and women must rise to the majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable. I would be the first to say this. If we are to have a truly integrated society, white persons and Negro persons and members of all groups must live together, not merely because the law says it but because it's natural and because it's right.
But that does not make legislation less important. It may be true that you can't legislate integration but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. The law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also. And so while the law may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men. So it is necessary for the church to support strong, meaningful civil rights legislation.
Fortunately we have seen some real advances at this point. It is very consoling to me, and I know to all of us, the role which all of the major denominations within the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jewish faiths played in the achievement of the civil rights bill of 1964, the voting rights bill of 1965. We struggled in Selma, Alabama, and in a real sense we developed right there in that little town something that the councils of the world have not been able to develop – a real ecumenical movement. Protestants, Catholics and Jews stood in Selma, and in a beautiful and meaningful way that was the ecumenical movement which created the voting rights bill.
That bill is a tribute to persons like James Reeb, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and Jimmy Lee Jackson, those who died and suffered to make it possible. Now the President is calling for new civil rights legislation to deal with two old problems.
One is the mal-administration of justice in many sections of the South. It is necessary for all people of goodwill and for all church bodies to strongly support this bill, which will make murder or threatened assaults of civil rights workers or persons engaged in the promotion of constitutional rights a federal crime.
But there is a more difficult title in that bill, one that must ultimately be passed if America is to rise to its full maturity. That is the section of the bill which calls for an end to discrimination in housing. It means that discrimination in all housing will be federally non-sanctioned. It involves the sale, the rental, and the financing of all housing. This is the difficult one because there still are many fears around. There are stereotypes about Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and others.
Studies reveal that there are numerous forces both private and public which make for the problem, because they are profiting by the existence of segregation in housing. I am convinced that if we are to have a truly integrated society we must deal with the housing problem.
The school problem is difficult and it will never be totally solved until we solve the housing problem, and so it is my hope that we will go all out over America to bring this new legislation into being and to insist that it will be vigorously enforced, once it is passed, for there is still a gulf between legislation on the one hand and the enforcement of that legislation on the other. We see this in the South every day.
In 1954 the Supreme Court of Our nation rendered a decision declaring segregation unconstitutional in the public schools. Yet, twelve years later, only 5.2 per of the Negro students of the South are attending integrated Schools. We haven't even made one per cent progress a year. If we continue this pace it will take about 96 more years to integrate the schools in the South. There is still a gulf between legislative and judicial decrees and the actual enforcement of them. It seems to me that an alive, relevent church should go all out to see that legislation becomes a reality and that it is vigorously enforced once it exists.
A second myth that we must deal with is that of exaggerated progress. Certainly we have made progress in race relations. And I think we can all glory that things are better today than they were ten years ago or even three years ago. We should be proud of the steps we've made to rid our nation of this great evil of racial segregation and discrimination.
On the other hand, we must realize the plant of freedom is only a bud and not yet a flower. The Negro is freer in 1966, but he is not yet free. The Negro knows more dignity today than he has known in any period of his history in this country, but he is not yet equal. There still are stubborn, difficult problems to deal with all over the country. I'm appalled that some people feel that the civil rights struggle is over because we have a 1964 civil rights bill with ten titles and a voting rights bill. Over and over again people ask, what else do you want? They feel that everything is all right.
Well, let them look around our big cities. I can mention one where we're working now, not to say that it's the worst city in the United States, but just to reveal the problem that we face.
( a descriptive summary of the current crisis in Chicago in 1966…)
Again, this is true in cities all over the country. These are stubborn, difficult problems, and yet they are problems that must be tackled, for I need not remind you of the dangers inherent therein. There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of individuals within that society who feel that they have no stake in it, who feel that they have nothing to lose. These are the people who will riot, these are the people who will turn their ears from pleas for non-violence. For the health of our nation, these problems must be solved. In the areas of housing, schooling, and employment there is still a great deal that must be done.
We've come a long, long way; we still have a long, long way to go and action programs are necessary. I've heard it said that the day of demonstrations is over; this is something that we hear a great deal. Well, I'm sorry that I can't agree with that. I wish that I could say the day of demonstrations is over, but as long as these problems are with us, it will be necessary to demonstrate in order to call attention to them. I'm not saying that a demonstration is going to solve the problem of poverty, the problem of housing, the problems that we face in the schools.
It's going to take something much more than a demonstration, but at least the demonstration calls attention to it; at least the demonstration creates a kind of constructive crisis that causes a community to see the problem and causes a community to begin moving toward the point of acting on it. The church must support this kind of demonstration. As the days unfold, I'm sure that we will need this more.
People talk about the long hot summer that's ahead. I always say that I don't think we have to have a long, hot violent summer. I certainly don't want to see it because I hate violence and I don't think it solves any problems. I think we can offset the long, hot, violent summer with the long, hot, non-violent summer. People are huddled in ghettos, living in the most crowded and depressing conditions. They need some outlet; some way to express their legitimate discontent. What is a better way than to provide non-violent channels through which they can do it? If this isn't provided they are going to find it through more irrational, misguided means.
So the non-violent movement has a job to do, in providing the non-violent channels through which those who are caught in these conditions can express their discontent and frustration.
Now let me say that I'm still convinced that non-violence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and human dignity. And I'd like to say just a word about this philosophy since it has been the underlying philosophy of our movement. It has power because it has a way of disarming the opponent. It exposes his moral defenses, it weakens his morale.
And at the same time it works on his heart and on his conscience, and he just doesn't know what to do. If he doesn't hit you, wonderful. If he hits you you develop the quiet courage of accepting blows without retaliating. If he doesn't put you in jail, that's very nice, nobody with any sense loves to go to jail. But if he puts you in jail you go in that jail and transform it from a dungeon of shame into a haven of freedom and human dignity.
Even if he tries to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. If a man has not discovered some thing that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. There's another good thing about non-violence: through it a person can use moral means to procure moral ends. There are still those who sincerely believe that the end justifies the means, no matter what the means happen to be. No matter how violent or how deceptive or anything else they are. Non-violence at its best would break with the system that argues that. Non-violence would say that the morality of the ends is implicit in the means, and that in the long-run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. So since we are working toward a just society in this movement, we should use just methods to get there. Since we are working for the end of a non-violent society in this movement, we must use non-violent means and methods to get there. Since we are working for an integrated society as an end we must work on an integrated basis on our staffs and civil rights organizations so that we don't get to racial justice and integration through the means of black nationalism.
Another thing about this philosophy which is often misunderstood and that it says that at its best the love ethic can be a reality in a social revolution. Most revolutions in the past have been based on hope and hate, with the rising expectations of the revolutionaries implemented by hate for the perpetrators of the unjust system in the old order. I think the different thing about the revolution that has taken place in our country is that it has maintained the hope element and at the same time it has added the dimension of love. Many people would disagree with me and say that love hasn't been there. I think we have to stop and talk about what we mean in this context because I would be the first to say that it is nonsense to urge oppressed people to love their violent oppressors in an affectionate sense. And I'm certainly not talking about that when I talk above love standing at the center of our struggle. I think it is necessary to see the meaning of love in higher terms.
The Greek language has three words for love – one is the eros, another is the word filio, and another is the word agape. I'm thinking not of eros, or of friendship as expressed in filio, but of agape, which is understanding, creative, redemptive good will for all men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. When one rises to love on this level, he loves a person who does the evil deed while hating the deed. I believe that in our best moments in this struggle we have tried to adhere to this. In some strange way we have been able to stand up in the face of our most violent opponents and say, in substance, we will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with our soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.
We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. Throw us in jail and we will still love you. Threaten our children, bomb our homes, send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities at the midnight hours and drag us out on some wayside road and beat us and leave us half dead; and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.
Send your propaganda agents around the nation and make it appear we are not fit morally, culturally or otherwise for integration and we will still love you. But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory. This is our message in the non-violent movement when we are true to it.
I think it is a powerful method and I still believe in it. I know that it will lead us into that new day. Not a day when we will seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, thereby subverting justice. Not a day when we will substitute one tyranny for another. We know that a doctrine of black supremacy is as evil as a doctrine of white supremacy. We know that God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men; but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. He is interested in the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers and every man will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. With the non-violent method guiding us on, we can go on into that brighter day when justice will come.
I talk a great deal about the need for a kind of divine discontent. And I always mention that there are certain technical words within every science which become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology has a word that has become common – it is the word maladjusted. We read a great deal about it. It is a ringing cry of modern child psychology; and certainly we all want to live the well adjusted and avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities.
But I must say to you this evening, my friends, there are some things in our nation and in our world to which I'm proud to be maladjusted. And I call upon you to be maladjusted and all people of good will to be maladjusted to these things until the good society is realized. I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry . I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few, and leave millions of people perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of prosperity. I must honestly say, however much criticism it brings, that I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, and to the self-defeating effects of physical violence. … It is no longer a choice between non-violence and violence: it is now a choice between non-violence and non-existence.
Yes, I must confess that I believe firmly that our world is in dire need of a new organization – the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment. Men and women as maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day, cried out in
words that echo across the centuries – "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." As maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln, who had the vision to see that this nation could not survive half slave and half free. As maladjusted as Thomas Jefferson, who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery, cried in words lifted to cosmic proportions – "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. That They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth, who could say to the men and women of his day "he who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." Through such maladjustment we will be able to emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man, into the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice.
Let me say in conclusion that I have not despaired of the future. I believe firmly that we can solve this problem. I know that there are still difficult days ahead. And they are days of glorious opportunity. Our goal for America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's. Before the Pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before Jefferson etched across the pages of history the words that I just quoted from the Declaration of Independence, we were here. Before the beautiful words of the Star Spangled Banner were written, we were here. For more than two centuries our forbearers labored here without wages. They made cotton king. They built the homes of their masters in the midst of the most oppressive and humiliating conditions. And yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to grow and develop.
If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery couldn't stop us, the opposition that we now face will surely fail. We're going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands.
And we can sing We Shall Overcome, because somehow we know the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. We shall overcome because Carlyle is right – "no lie can live forever." We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right – "truth crushed, will rise again." We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right:
"Truth forever on the scaffold/Wrong forever on the throne/Yet that scaffold sways the future/ And behind the dim unknown/Standeth God within the shadow/Keeping watch above his own."
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. We will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood, and speed up that day when all of God's children all over our nation and the world will be able to walk the earth as brothers and sisters, and then we can sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual – "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last."
Thank you.


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The results are undeniable and the success stories beyond inspiring. Today we support Muhammed "Momo" Hassan, who is turning heads in at Timbers Academy, and Bereket Getachew, who will attend the regional Olympic development Team camp in Idaho. We first met Momo as a little kid playing barefoot in the park, slide-tackling teenagers twice his age with a huge smile on his face. Today, there is no telling where he will end up, maybe even the professional game.
But even the pickup players, who walk to our summer games in parks near their housing developments, gain priceless benefits, like staying positive and active, and being mentored by role models who really care.


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SAN DIEGO, February 21, 2012 – If you smoke cigarettes, by now you have heard all the reasons you should quit: the harm to your health, the expense, the limits on where you can indulge your habit.
How about the possibility of losing custody of your children? Would that motivate you to quit?
If you are involved in a child custody dispute and you are a cigarette smoker, your chance of getting full or even joint custody might go up in smoke.
States are increasingly factoring in cigarette smoking in making decisions about who gets custody of minor children. The group Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-tobacco advocacy group, surveyed custody issues involving cigarettes and tobacco use.
- In at least 18 states, courts have ruled that subjecting a child to tobacco smoke is a factor which should be considered in deciding custody.
- No judge and no court has ever ruled that subjecting a child to tobacco smoke should be ignored in deciding custody.
- In thousands of cases, courts have issued orders prohibiting smoking in the presence of a child, especially in vehicles.
- In some cases the orders prohibit smoking in a home 24 (or even 48) hours before the child arrives.
- In some cases, parents have lost custody or had visitation reduced because they subjected a child to tobacco smoke.
- Existing court orders regarding custody, visitation, etc. can often be modified if a child is being subjected to tobacco smoke.
- Courts sometimes consider the smoking habits of others who may have contact with the child, such as grandparents, friends, and "significant others" when making custody decisions.
So it's no surprise that the issue of smoking is an effective threat for a nonsmoking parent to gain leverage in custody and visitation battles. An upstate New York judge ordered a woman to stop smoking in her home and in her car if she wanted to maintain her visitation rights with her 13-year-old son, who lives with his father.
In a Georgia case, the mother was addicted to smoking and after divorce it was found that her child had asthma. The court found that this mother was smoking in the presence of her child, which it said implied that she had insufficient concern for her child. This reason was considered strong enough for a change in custody.
Just as you don't want your child endangering his well-being by reckless behavior such as riding a bicycle into traffic, secondhand smoke's effects are by now well known and a legitimate concern for parents. Courts are sympathetic to this concern, especially if a child already has respiratory problems or allergies
Some parents quit smoking knowing a custody battle is ahead. While it won't hurt, it might not help all that much. Judges are skeptical about whether a parent is simply going to start smoking again once their case is settled. If you continue to smoke, help your case by smoking only outdoors, and never in a vehicle. Don't allow others to smoke in the presence of your children, even if you don't smoke.
Civil libertarians and parents may argue that the state may expand its intrusion into other family affairs if it is allowed to limit the right of a private citizen to smoke as a condition of being a parent. What if the child drinks too many sugary sodas, or plays violent video games? Most people bristle at the thought the state can monitor what a child eats, even though most people understand that a high fat, high sugar diet can lead to serious medical problems such as obesity and diabetes. If the state can control smoking by parents, couldn't the state also control the type of diet a parent provides their children? It's doubtful we will slide down this slippery slope, since the consequences of second hand smoke are well documented scientifically, giving the state an interest.
But this argument might as well be saved. Many courts have already decided that smoking should be a factor in custody decisions. Judge William F. Chinnock, visiting Judge to the Ohio Supreme Court, said in a law review article that a "considered analysis of family law across the United States leads to this inescapable conclusion: a family court that does not issue court orders restraining persons from smoking in the presence of children under the court's care fails those children whom the law has entrusted to its care."
Maybe losing custody of your children should be added to the warnings on packs of cigarettes. It might finally motivate many smokers to kick the habit.
Myra Chack Fleischer serves as Lead Counsel for Fleischer & Ravreby in Carlsbad, California with a focus on divorce, property, custody and support, settlement agreements, mediation, asset division and family law appeals. Read more Legally Speaking in Communities Digital News. Follow Myra on Twitter: @LawyerMyra.
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Future Cities and Mobility: the challenges for Tribology
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Introduction: Technological developments and disruptive business models will have a significant impact on how people and goods move around the UK and to and from the UK over the coming decades. The UK Government states the UK will become a world leader in shaping the future of mobility. We are on the cusp of a profound change in how we move people, goods and services around our towns, cities, countryside and globally. This is driven by extraordinary innovation in engineering, technology and business models. The UK's road and rail network could dramatically reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, congestion could be reduced through higher-density use of road space enabled by automated vehicles, and mobility could be available when we want it, where we want it and how we want it. We will look for opportunities to improve customers' experience, drive efficiency and enable people to move around more freely. Among the current great challenges in transportation we find the reduction of renewable material consumption, the limitation of greenhouse gas emissions, the scaling down of maintenance cost and frequency and, for mechanical transmissions, the extension of their life and their efficiency. Other drivers of change and need for innovative tribological solutions area are autonomy (driverless cars/trucks, trains, UAVs, ships etc), predictive condition based maintenance, mobility of an ageing population and extending asset use.
Aim of the day: This FIRST national tribology conference organised by five professional bodies (IoP, IET, IOM3, IMechE and RSC) is truly multidisciplinary and aims to explore the tribological challenges of future cities and mobility and discuss existing and future tribological solutions to enable this vision to be realised and for UK companies to innovate and lead the world through informed design.
Programme: The morning will consist of a keynote speaker from Arup who will detail the vision on future mobility for cities and detail the tribological challenges in meeting this vision. This will be followed by a structured response by the tribology community to these challenges with areas such as human mobility and automotive, rail, sea, air transportation, lubricants and smart machines (tribotronics) being covered. The afternoon will consist of breakout discussion groups to look at the individual challenges, funding opportunities for industry and academia, future testing and simulation, standards and much more. There will be an exhibition, poster session and wine reception to aid networking and discussions.
Registration details to follow, but the event will be a low cost to attend, of the order of £30+VAT, with limited free places for students (subject to availability). Opportunities exist for sponsorship.
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Egale is moving forward with plans to create a shelter for queer and trans youth in Toronto's Downtown East.
Egale plans to renovate a building at 257 Dundas St E, at the intersection of Dundas St E and Pembrooke St, and turn it into 30 beds of transitional housing.
"The whole philosophy around what we're doing is to establish a home," said Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale, during a community meeting at the John Innes Community Centre in Moss Park. "We want our young people to feel like this is their space and that they are safe to come home."
The Egale Centre will be the second shelter focused on queer and trans youth to open in Toronto. In February, the YMCA repurposed Sprott House in the Annex to operate as shelter for LGBT youth. Last year, city council earmarked $600,000 for the two projects.
Queer and trans youth are significantly more likely to be homeless or underhoused in Toronto than rest of the population and often avoid the shelter system because of violence and harassment.
Most of the beds will serve as transitional housing, but five of the beds will be set aside for emergency housing.
Kennedy says that each of the units will be fully self-contained and will include a microwave and a sink. A communal kitchen area will be accessible to residents and there will be counselling on site.
Kennedy emphasizes that the housing will not be a good fit for everybody and that some people may have to be referred to different agencies who could better deal with their needs. She said that it will be best suited for youth who are "already on a path to independence."
"We will continue to case manage that young person, but the plan is to move them into independent living and permanent housing within that time frame," she said. "We're not going to evict someone if they're not ready, but the length of stay is up to one year."
Egale has partnered with Fife House and Dixon Hall to help with the operational side of the project.
"We know that as an organization that we even though we have a long history with LGBTI issues, we're working really hard to put ourselves up to speed on the housing side of things," Kennedy says.
The project will require around $6 million in capital fundraising, according to Kennedy. The firms involved with redesigning and developing the building, including SUSTAINABLE.TO Architecture + Building, the Daniels Corporation and Yabu Pushelberg, are all donating their expertise pro-bono.
Kennedy said that the primary differences between Sprott House and the Egale Centre are that Sprott House welcomes allies to stay in the shelter and that Egale plans to provide more intensive case management and counselling.
Kennedy expects to publicly unveil the project near the end of May. Construction is slated to begin in June, but Kennedy said that it is more likely to start up later in the year. The centre is expected to open in the summer of 2017.


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Sunday, 23 August 2009
Karla from Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (The Blazing Sword)
This week chara is Karla. If you played Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (English version: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword), you will understand. She is a swordmaster came from Western Island in Liebe. She is super exclusive character to be obtained because it is pretty hard to get her. To get her, player must set Hector as the main lord and Bartre have to be at least level 5 warrior. See... it is not just level 5 fighter.
I once desperately want to meet her so I decided to train Bartre until level 5 warrior. We can find Karla in arena before fight Limstella. In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword, player can get Karla- Bartre's support conversation level A. Bartre is once fuzzy about her because she is very cool and only seek for her brother. Bartre is the one approaching Karla first. Bartre always asking Karla to fight him and end up by ignorance. In the end, if player get A level, Karla and Bartre will get married and have one daughter namely Fir. Bartre finally find himself fall in love with Karla. That noisy and dense Bartre has such a lovely and formidable wife and a cute and detached daughter! I wonder about Karla's taste (^_^).
Fir plays role in Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (English version: Fire Emblem: The Sealed Sword) – the former series of Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken. And you know what? Psst... it's very nice to get Fir because she just like her mother. Venus trap! Beautiful and dangerous. I found it's very cute conversation between Fir and Noah (laugh). Karla has a big brother who also a swordmaster named Karel. Their blood are sword based. I presumed. Karla is an average swordmaster if we compared with Karel. I like her because of her critical hit that she can do. Sometimes, Karla will get OHKO (One Hit Knocked Out) to her enemy make it very awesome parts. In Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi, Karla is passed away because of illness so that Fir want to wander honing her skill just like her mother. Sometimes, Fir bump over her father, old Bartre and her uncle, old Karel.
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I will be writting alot about this weekend's 4-day teacher training program. We are training 24 teachers from Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools and roughly 7 individual from Nepal's government education bodies. Here are just some quick technical notes. The Classroom Setup. We have the teachers facing each other just as we want the students to face each other in the classroom. This will reduce the risk of XO's falling forward off the front of their narrow desks.
That's the Library server on the left and the XS on the right. Less than elegant I admit.
It's 2 am Saturday morning and teacher training Starts in 6 hours. Saurav and Sulochan reflect.
Power is the bane of our existence. Not just generation but distribution as well. Xoctoplug, We need you now! After that, XS instability, particularly EJabberd and the networking. Neither Sulochan nor I are expert linux sysadmins, so problems that may be simple for experienced linux sysadmins are quite difficult for us. We have start the ejabberd service manually after the XS starts up. Jabber sometimes does weird stuff that confuses me (by iracema). I have had to restart jabber twice because the sharing didn't appearto be running properly. Chat invitations didn't seem to show up. The problem might not have been in jabber but in my overrall ignorance about these systems work.
The AZTech WL830RT4 wifi router wasn't up to the job. It couldn't support more than 25 clients when we tested it on Friday. We had to go back to using the Active Antenna. Hopefully the Deliberant access point that Dev chose will be able to support 70 concurrent users.
Random hardware failures are very frustrating – XS hardware, switch, etc. Nothing to do w/ E-Pustakalaya software – Apache + PHP + MYSQL + FedoraCommons – or the XS software but the poor quality of hardware available on the local market I don't understand IPv6 and at this moment and it is hard for me to tell which ipv4 address my XO is using. This just adds to my general technical confusion.
Our awesome photo + math game always generates an out of memory error. Squeak gods, please help!
Looking at the top command, only about 45 MB of memory free for activities, system svcs take up 205 MB of memory QA and imaging the XO's was incredibly time-consuming. It took Sulochan and I much more time than we thought. During the QA process about 4 XO's out of 45 failed. Two XO's had jumpy touchpads that jumped to the right-hand corner when you released your finger, one XO had a touchpad that only allowed vertical movement, and one I couldn't get to boot at all. At first the XO had a screwed up display that was all fuzzy. Rebooted once, back to normal for about 20 minutes of use. Then the screen went fuzzy again. Rebooted and on reboot it failed to boot at all. Hopefully I can fix the touchpad problems by pestering Richard Smith, my favorite Tennessean.
OLPC hardware and UI are incredibly well thought out. Hardware usability is fantastic. Sugar requires optimization esp. in loading activities and closing them. they run fairly well once they start, excepting our own EToys-based activities that have persistent memory issues.
All in all, things are going really well. These are just the technical gripes, many of which I hope to solve before April 24th when we give the kids their XO's.


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[Some discussions with Guruji during my Goverdhan visit in June-July 2012]
A Prophecy
We were talking about renewable energy sources, especially the possibility of generating vast amount of usable energy through magnetic force. In this context, Guruji mentioned that there's a very high possibility that in this century, humans will discover a way to insulate magnetic field. When that happens, it'll bring a revolutionary change to our society, with all the ways we'd able to tap the clean magnetic energy to address our household and industrial energy needs. Also, the daily exposure to magnetic field would also cause a change in our thinking process: our society will be more tolerant and more rational and open minded.
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Mother Earth
Guruji: "[About īśāvāsyopaniṣada] According to Sanskrit dictionary, īśā literally means 'most affluent woman'. Who's more affluent than Mother Earth? If you read carefully, you'll find that this upaniṣada is actually about Mother Earth. The popular interpretations, however, go totally off tangent.
"The origin of Mother Earth is the most secretive. I've realized that Her existence goes beyond the existence of the sun. When she absorbs the energy of one sun, she moves on to take on another one. And in the process she's taking us all somewhere. In fact, each sun she takes results in a new species on Earth!"
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Guruji: "To dissolve the creation, Shiva-ji doesn't need to take another form – He can do it in the small, human form as well. All He has to do is to create a vibration at the molecular level; all matter will come in harmonization with that, causing it to come apart and dissolve."
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Guruji: "In the book Yogini Tantra, Shri Matsyendra Nath says that Goverdhan is the real Kamakhya, where Goddess Kali actually secretly resides.
"There's a pond called Gopi Talaab near Dwarika. It is said that after Krisha's demise, Radha-ji and all other gopis (Krishna's childhood friends and devotees) took their lives by drowning in that pond. Radha-ji was 130years old at that time.
"In May-June 1997, I was told to go there, so I went. I'll tell you, it was the most gloomy, depressing place I had ever visited. I invited Radha-ji and all the gopis to come back to Vraj, and to also show a sign that they were coming back. We had taken a taxi from Dwarika to Jamnagar, and it was during the hottest summer days. All our way back, a small cloud traveled right over our taxi, protecting us from the scorching heat. The driver got really scared, since rest of the sky was completely clear.
"The anklet jingling sounds that we sometimes hear in the campus must be theirs. They are happy here."
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How Demons Won Heaven
Guruji: "In Mahabharata, there's an account that when Chitraratha beat Duryodhan, in shame Duryodhan went on to take his own life, and then demons appeared and got inside the bodies of Kauravas. In the war, all Kauravs died by weapons and if a warrior dies by a weapon, he goes to heaven. That way all demons went to heaven :-). And since all pandavas died at the hands of Ashwatthama, not by any weapons, that means they never went to heaven. Thus, demons won heaven."


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text: Yeah, the NFL's really great and everything, but you know what would make it even greater? More. Money. Fortunately for Roger Goodell & Co., that's exactly what the league is due to receive, thanks to a slate of TV deals signed last week. The agreements, set to go into effect at the end of the 2013 season, effectively renew the NFL's current agreements with CBS, Fox and NBC, extending the league's TV contracts for a "record-setting" nine extra years. Not surprisingly, the deals will also funnel some extra pocket change through the NFL's coffers -- which will of course be coming from you, if you're subscribing to cable or satellite TV. Currently, the three networks pay a combined $1.94 billion in annual rights fees, but according to the LA Times, the league will now receive an average of $3.1 billion per year, as stipulated under its renewed agreements. In a statement, Commissioner Goodell said the deals underscore his league's "unique commitment to broadcast television," with CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves adding that his network will benefit from the NFL's "terrific, exciting programming," and from the consistently high ratings that "no other franchise delivers." The agreements, which come just a few months after the NFL inked a comparatively lucrative deal with ESPN, will also allow for the league to shift games between CBS and Fox, in order to bring "regional games to wider audiences." Each network, moreover, will air three Super Bowls over the course of the nine-year contract, continuing the rotation currently in place. Tebow past the break for the full PR.


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Israel threatens Syria after border bombing
After IAF hit Syrian targets in retaliatory strike, PM promises to continue interdicting arms shipments; DM says any attacker signs 'own death sentence'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the air force's early morning strikes on Syrian military positions had targeted units involved in Tuesday's attack on an IDF patrol.
"Last night, the IDF attacked targets in Syrian territory," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. "These were targets of Syrian elements that not only facilitated, but also cooperated with, the attacks on our forces. Our policy is very clear: We attack those who attack us. We are also, to the best of our ability, interdicting the transfer of weapons by sea, air and land, and this activity will continue."
Netanyahu also said that Israel's proactive policies have led to a reduced level of terrorism in recent years. "Last year, it was the lowest in a decade, both in terms of victims and in the launching of missiles and rockets. From time to time we must take vigorous action, as we are now doing, so that this quiet may continue."
IAF aircraft retaliated early Wednesday morning for the attack on an Israeli patrol near the Israeli-Syrian border, bombing several Syrian positions in the Golan Heights, the army spokesperson said.
According to the army, Israel targeted a Syrian army training facility, military headquarters and artillery batteries that "aided and abetted" the roadside bombing attack, which injured four soldiers, one of them seriously.
In a sharply worded statement, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon confirmed that Israeli warplanes had bombed "several targets associated with the Syrian army and defense establishment that aided and abetted yesterday's terror attack," and issued a pointed warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom he blamed for the attack.
"We won't tolerate any breach of our sovereignty or attacks against our soldiers and civilians," he said. "We will react with might and resolve against anyone who acts against us, no matter where and when, as we demonstrated last night. Anyone who tries to attack us will be signing their own death sentence."
The defense minister went on to declare that if the Syrian president "will continue to cooperate with terror elements that aspire to harm the State of Israel, we will continue to exact from him a heavy price in a manner that will make him regret his actions."
The IDF spokesperson tweeted earlier that Israel held the Syrian military responsible for Tuesday's attack, which occurred near Majdal Shams. One of the soldiers injured in the incident suffered from serious head and chest wounds and remained in intensive care overnight at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center after having undergone surgery.
The explosion near #Syrian border wounded 4 #IDF soldiers. We responded to the attack & will continue to act as necessary to defend #Israel
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) March 19, 2014
The soldiers' patrol jeep had apparently run over a bomb, in what Al Arabiya described as a kidnapping attempt. Light arms fire had also been directed at the patrol, according to Maariv.
The military initially returned artillery fire into Syria, hitting sites in the nearby city of Quneitra, including a Syrian army base. "The IDF retaliated toward Syrian Military positions," the army said in a statement.