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Thank you for all that you are doing and for sending me Lord Carlile's response to you.
As a result of the flurry of emails over the last few days, Andrew Chandler and I are arranging to meet after Christmas. He has asked me if I am prepared to co-ordinate a response from the group to Lord Carlile, which to my mind will deal with matters other than the evidential issues that his papers deal with. He tells me that his papers will be submitted to Lord Carlile in due course.
In view of this may I ask you to encourage the group to refrain from sending any group or individual submissions to Lord Carlile until we have formulated a strategy that will be the most effective.
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Many students wanted to have their own copy of this schedule (note that the times are also on the Barton Calendar), so here is a document with the testing times and dates for the next 3 weeks.
We will be sending out information on the last week events ASAP, so keep your eyes open for an email soon about graduation, Uppers Exhibition, Lake Day, Valley Fair, and more.
We will definitely need some parents to help with graduation planning, also! If you have any inclination or desire to help with the planning or execution of our 8th grade graduation ceremonies, please email Allison (email@example.com)! We will have tasks to fit any level of participation--ie: an hour of your time decorating the gym or setting up for a simple reception, your creative energies designing invitations or programs, typing names into a template for the program, a willingness to make a few phone calls from home to find chaperones for the 8th grade party, or even helping manage a small group of 7th graders who will be working the reception. Thanks in advance for any offers to help and thanks for sharing your children with us!
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Radio Slovakia International, the broadcaster's sixth radio channel, can be currently tuned into only on the internet or via satellite.
"With such a step we want to address students and foreigners who live in Bratislava," Vincent Štofaník of RTVS told the Trend weekly.
RTVS has already asked the Council for Broadcasting and Re-transmission (RVR) for acquiring a licence for the terrestrial broadcast, RTVS head Václav Mika told Trend. He explained that they based the decision on an analysis that many foreigners, including guests and visitors, come to Bratislava every day.
"Thus we know that there will be a particular target group for the broadcast," Mika added.
The broadcast should last from 18:00 to 6:00. It is not clear how much the launch will cost, Trend wrote.
Radio Slovakia International currently offers programmes in Slovak, English, German, Spanish, French, and Russian.
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close up of dry branches rustling in strong gusts of "mistral" wind.From various field recordings during a shooting in France, Aubagne near Marseille. We call "Mistral" this typical strong wind blowing in this area. Hot in summer, it's really cold in winter.
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Shamsher Singh is one of fourteen life serving convicts that have been at the heart of the Bapu Surat SIngh hunger strike awareness campaign for the release of those sikh political prisoners that have served their minimum term sentences, have no outstanding cases and therefore qualify for premature relaese.
Shamsher Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment in August 1995 for his alleged involvement in the Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case. He was sentenced under section 302 (punishment for murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) alongside 120-B (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and U/S 3 & 4 of the Explosive Substances Act. He has no other cases pending and to date, has been awarded a total of three parole release during his 20 years of incarceration.
Sikh Relief, has supported Shamsher Singh and his family for many years, support comes in the form of a monthly family maintance allowance, funding education costs for his daughter, paying for his daughters wedding, medical and any other form of financial support should the need arise and legal welfare and aid for Shamsher Singh himself.


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The gentleman at Peretti's described this as an aromatic No. 333. I don't get that impression at all, as the taste is milder, and quite different. This seems to be Burley, with a pinch of Virginia, topped with yet another slightly sweet, perfume like essence.
These Peretti aromatics defy description, as they are not your typical candy and booze type toppings. I imagine the shop is full of apothecary jars, brimming with things like tonka bean, deer tongue, violet, rose, and geranium essence. They really jar my modern palate, but they are enjoyable if you keep an open mind. There is no cocoa, honey, or vanilla here! My Peretti sampler has definitely been an education to my tastebuds. If you are like me, and wondered what people smoked in days gone by,or if you are adventurous at all, I think you will find Peretti's Burley blends a very pleasurable eye-opener.
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The quality of the cubed Burley blends from Peretti is unmatched. Blend 33 is no exception. Rich brown cubes with some smaller granular pieces as well. A cinch to light. Just gravity feed the bowl and give it a very gentle tamp. One false light and you are on your way. I find that all Peretti cubed Burley blends burn much better when you do not tamp much and when you remove ash as the bowl progresses.
The flavor is good nutty Burley, no bitterness, with a fairly strong natural aromatic. I have no idea what it is, but it is old fashioned, natural and dry. A bit floral. In some ways it reminds me of the old Bond Street now known as Bourbon Street (only 33 is much better). Room note is very pleasant.
My only issue here is that it has too much aromatic agent for my tastes. It lingers on the palate too long for me. But if you like old-school aromatics (like Bond Street, Field & Stream, or Mixture 79) and want to step up in quality, give Blend 33 a try. It might also do nicely blending with other Peretti tobaccos such as 333 or BPC.
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I have grown fond of Peretti's Burley blends over the summer months; with fall upon us, the taste for Latakia and Turkish tobaccos has returned, as it always does.
Anyone who would classify Blend 33 as "mildly aromatic" is made of sterner stuff than I! This is manifestly aromatic, and in a way that is hard to describe. Smoked by itself, I find it bitey; blended with Peretti's Blends BPC, 333, or D-7485, it can add a delightful kick.
Recommended as an experience; more strongly recommended as a blender.
Two out of four stars.
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There are plenty of cases where a proof written down by a physicist is worse than a proof written down by a mathematician, but this is a particularly bad one. In one of my courses, we got to derive the Dirac matrices, which are instrumental in describing spin 1/2 particles. These four matrices are written as with an index. One definition of them says that they should satisfy the anti-commutation relations of the Clifford algebra:
where is the Minkowski metric from special relativity.
How big do our matrices have to be in order to satisfy this? They obviously cannot be 1x1 matrices because these are just numbers that commute. It turns out that they have to be at least 4x4 but all published sources I have seen fail at explaining why. I will go through the physics proof that is often given and then set the record straight by writing a real proof. If it appears nowhere else, let it appear here!
Normally when I see an article about numerology, astrology or homoeopathy, I don't give it the time of day. But this one is interesting because it sounds like the author actually made an honest effort to read up on the science related to the fine structure constant and just got it horribly wrong.
The article is The Mystery of 137 and it lives on a site dedicated to the new age philosopher Ken Wilber. Who would've guessed that a site like that would actually have a correct equation that comes up all the time in quantum electrodynamics?
Awhile ago, my friend showed me Pimp My Gun. This site has a Flash driven app that lets you assemble the weapon of your dreams. It is basically a drawing program that has a library of hundreds of firearm components. There is so much room for customization. I tried it out and came up with the following guns:
I never turn down a chance to be a smart-ass. One of the best things higher mathematics can teach you is how to go back and correct almost everyone who claimed to be teaching you math. It's almost impossible to a cover a decent amount of material in a math course without sacrificing correctness. This is true in grade school when you learn tons of stuff that isn't real math and it is true in grad school when writing one proof that is perfectly rigorous takes two weeks. Here are some common questions that need to be rephrased before they make any sense. The links point to where I found the questions but they could've come from anywhere. If they look like they were taken straight out of your high school calculus textbook, they probably were.
As some of you may know, the programming languages I use the most are C and Python. One reason for this is popularity - I want to learn something that will help me edit the programs I use. I also think it's good to know at least one compiled language and one interpreted language. Interpreted languages or "scripting languages" are more convenient in most respects but they take longer to run. I already knew Python would be slower than C but I wanted to see how much slower.
To make the above plot, I used C and Python codes to diagonalize an n by n matrix and kept track of their execution times. Once you get past the small matrices, the trend that begins to emerge is that Python is ~30 times slower than C.
As part of a summer internship, I got to put together several electronic components, and for the first time, use something more permanent than a breadboard. I found my first circuit very frustrating because my solder connections kept coming loose and I was told to make it as small as possible. But seriously... am I so used to learning about algebraic varieties and Feynman diagrams that I have become allergic to learning a real transferable skill?
The need for my first circuit arose because the photodiode that we used to measure the power in various lasers had a proportionality constant that was too small. For every Watt of power, the diode was calibrated to put only across two pins. We wanted to amplify this to a larger value. The component typically used for these applications that you can buy off the shelf is the operational amplifier.
As those of you who read my third most recent post will know, I recently became excited about methods for predicting the spread of diseases mathematically. When I learned about compartmental models, I began searching for tips on how they could best be applied to real data. I stumbled upon a solution on Abraham Flaxman's blog, Healthy Algorithms.
In Abraham's post, he presents some code that will estimate the parameters in a dynamical system using Bayesian Inference - the most elegant thing to come out of statistics since the Central Limit Theorem. Also present is an exercise challenging the reader to estimate the parameters of a 1967 smallpox outbreak in Nigeria.
If you want to do this exercise without a spoiler then stop! Otherwise, keep reading and I will tell you how I approached the problem while making some random remarks on the strengths and weaknesses of this particular fitting routine.
In a recent post, we used trigonometry to derive the length of a day on the Earth as a function of the observer's latitude and the time of year. As promised, I want to continue modelling the Earth's orbit to see what it can tell us about temperature. The simplest explanation for the seasonal variation of temperature comes from the concept of solar flux. To see what this means, think about taking a ray of sunlight shining on the Earth and decomposing it into two components - one parallel to the Earth's surface and one perpendicular. Most of the sunlight going into the ground means this location will be hot, whereas most of the sunlight going along the ground means this location will be cold. The temperature due to direct sunlight is therefore proportional to the cosine of the angle between the ray and the outward normal to the Earth. To actually solve for a temperature, we would have to multiply the intensity of the light by and integrate this over a region of interest. Our main concern will be solving for , allowing us to express the temperature at one time relative to the temperature at another time without knowing the absolute intensity.
This site is under construction so don't judge me! Actually judge me all you want because a good site is always under construction. This site will contain many of my ramblings like pointing out chiasmus and if I put a decent amount of work into it, it might just have a small effect on someone's life!
Two and a half years ago, when I read the research interests of my statistics prof, I noticed that he had become interested in analyzing epidemiological models. Now, I might finally understand what he was talking about.
If we let S be the population of individuals who are susceptible to the disease, I be the population infected with it and R the population that has recovered, it is not too big a stretch to say that this plot appears to follow the progression of a non-lethal disease. Only a small number of people have the disease at the beginning, but this number grows because the disease is contagious. People who have recovered are immune to further infection meaning that the epidemic eventually dies out.


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Craig VK5CE will be activating Gabo Island OC-196 on January 31 to February 1, 2017. The last organised IOTA DXpedition was back in 2001. There were a couple of lighthouse weekend operations but their focus was ILLW and not IOTA and hence QSOs were mainly with VK/ZL lighthouses and a little bit of DX, as indicated by there only being 2.8% claimed by current IOTA chasers in the last 8 years as per the 2016 IOTA Directory (page 118). Visit https://oc196.wordpress.com/ for more info.


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The BOB Automobil Gesellschaft started car production in Berlin - Charlottenburg in 1920.
They offered a small car in the range of cyclecars using a Siemens and Halske engine.
The car had a v-shaped radiator.
Production ceased in 1925. Only one car is known to survive.
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Business is Global: Interrelations in global bargaining power frameworks became shifted by the impact of global governance nowadays. The whole world is linked through internet based operations, financial markets, global problems, governmental alliances and business relations. Understanding this complexity is essential for multinational companies to succeed in the competitive environment: The Global Business. But also for the other player within the dynamic framework of global bargaining power it is important to understand the mechanism of interrelations and dependencies.
This literature deals with the four main groups that build up together the Global Governance framework: National Governments, Trans-National Companies, Civil Society and International Organizations. Indeed, it takes the Trans-National Companies (TNC) into focus and explains the mechanisms that have impact on their bargaining power. As theoretical basis the ´Porters five forces model´ was taken in order to reconstruct the competitive environment. Later this model becomes modified and added by a sixth source, based on the studies of Aidan R. Vining.
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Mike is the founder of the Boston Bulldogs, a running club for people in recovery or affected by addiction. He found in running what many can't find when suffering from addiction: a way to define himself, a supporting community, as well as new goals to be set.
Once out of rehab for the 4th time, he decided he would no go back there. He had to redefine himself and find a personality that wasn't being an addict. Creating a community was what helped Mike find purpose and truly help the recovering addicts he was running with.
In this new Après-Hour episode, Mike discusses what it means to be an addict trying to get back on track, how running can be more useful than antidepressants, and the importance of connecting with others. "Through connection, we heal and recover. Through isolation, we suffer."
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Are you looking for some noise cancelling headphones?
Here you can find reviews of the latest and best products in the market. Everyone likes to hear music or audiobooks as if they are at home alone, maybe sitting on a comfy sofa with a warm cup of tea or coffee. Bad news is we still don't have the technology to bring your couch with you on the metro or on a plane. But Mr. Technology can make you feel "home alone" even with hundreds of people around. How? With something called noise cancellation (NC). In this site there are also a few tips about other methods on how to kill the noise around you.
How does it works
Noise cancelling (NC) headphones are working on a simple base. They make some noise to kill other noise. It seems crazy but I swear it is true. The mechanism is quite easy to understand if you know what a sound wave is. If you don't, a sound wave is the way how the sounds move into space. You can imagine a sound wave as the wave created in the water when you throw a stone. The stone hitting the water is your source of sound. The sound wave will travel into the space (can travel in different way through any medium such air, water or any other solid or liquid medium) until reach your ear. The NC headphones will make the same kind of sound wave but 180 degrees out of phase. So the new sound wave will "kill" the noisy wave and you will hear… well, nothing! This is called Active Noise Cancellation. See Wikipedia for more information.
The shapes
Headphones come in many different shapes. In-ear, on ear and over ear are the most common categories. For the noise cancelling matter the two categories that I will consider are the in-ear and over ear. This two are the best fit that can help to reduce the noise also with their shape. Using the body of the headphones to block out the noise is called Passive Noise Isolation. The in-ear shape is the best for isolating passively the environmental noise because they engage directly in the ear canal sealing your eardrum from the outside. The over ear, also called circumaural headphones or full size headphones, enclose completely your ears with the earpad. This will isolate the noise from the outside. I'll write an article about the pro and cons of both of the shapes soon.
Choosing the right one
As usual you can find many products with many prices. I review all the products available in the market if they worth it. Sometimes you don't have to spend thousands of dollars to have a good product. However other times, you'll need to spend some money in order to have something that satisfies your needs. All the reviews that you can find here are up-to-date and will help you during the difficult process of choosing. You can also request, comment or suggest new products using the comment form below, the "Contact Me" form or directly email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
In conclusion, here you can find all the tools to help you do the right purchase. You don't have to be a sound engineer to pick the perfect NC headphones. Just choose the shape that you are more comfortable with, the budget that you can afford and that's it! I'm sure that with the suggestion in this site, you'll not regret your new pair of noise cancelling headphones.
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February 14, 2013
Rose water, a fragrant floral extract, is used extensively in Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean desserts. Store bought rose water can be pricey but if you utilize the rose petals from your own garden it can be a inexpensive DIY project. Watch the video below to learn how to make homemade rose water
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It's crucial to note that most popular brands of fertilizers and plant food are toxic. Make sure the roses you select have not come into contact with toxic chemicals. The same goes for any flowers that will have contact with your food, beverages, and even dishes.


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W. E. B. Du Bois? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: W. E. B. Du Bois was a prominent sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist. He spoke about the unstoppable force of a person resolved to rise, and he said:
The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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Quote Investigator: In 1910 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois was a Professor of Sociology at Atlanta University, and he published an essay titled "The Economic Aspects of Race Prejudice" in which he decried an attitude of bigotry and stated the following. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1
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Sunday, September 7, 2014
And now, Joan Rivers.
While it was only a few weeks ago that I was here feeling sad about Robin Williams, now I'm back feeling sad about Joan Rivers.
Joan Rivers was a major comedian. She was successful for decades. She created her own brand and style of comedy and remained consistent the entire way through. She never apologized for who she was, for what she said, for the things she did. If you haven't seen her documentary, you should. It's pretty damn great and showcases one of the hardest working women in Hollywood.
She's amazing.
And yes, it's true that she opened doors and broke ground for women in comedy. She totally changed the game! But it's really sad to me that she was still such a joke to a lot of people. A joke that she was in on, of course - she made fun of her plastic surgeries just as much - if not more than - everyone else.
I hate when it takes death for people to recognize the talent and scope of a person's career. I guess it's better than nothing, but it's just sad for the person. Robin Williams died and the world exploded because it was like a piece of ourselves - and our childhoods - died with him.
With Joan Rivers, it's different. For me, it just proves how nothing can last forever. I honestly never expected to see Joan Rivers die, which is admittedly crazy, but she was such a staple. An ageless piece of culture that would surpass us all.
I'm thankful for her. I know she didn't enjoy being told that she was this icon for female comedians, but it's just the damn truth. Her sense of humor is not for everyone - and she didn't give a shit. She didn't try to be something she wasn't. She didn't try to change her act to fit some sort of mold or expectation. She didn't knock down Johnny Carson's door to make him "take her back" in a way. She was the queen of shrugging it all off and saying, "That's life, this is me, let's move on."
I envy her. And I hope one day I have the confidence that she did. I'm sad that she's gone, but I'm super happy that she has moved into LEGEND territory. Everyone knows her and future generations will know her for years to come. What a woman.
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1776 United FC 01 Girls Crowned USYSA U18 Eastern Regional Champions, 2007 Boys Finalists!
Congratulations to our 1776 United FC 01 Extremes Crowned USYSA U18 Eastern Regional Champions! The team posted a 3-0, shutout in the title game against Beadling 2001 South Red (PA-W) in an all-Pennsylvania match-up.
To get to the championship game the girls traveled to the Eastern Regional Championships event in WV where they competed in a 3-game group play against teams from Ct, Va and MA, won all 3 convincingly with 17 goals scored and ZERO conceded. Then the girls won the semi finals with a 3-2 win over a strong NY team.
In the championship, following a scoreless 40 minutes of play, Grace Sacchetti gave 1776 the lead heading into halftime. The lead was pushed to two goals in the 57th minute after a goal from Raina Kuzemka. With two minutes left in the game, Caitlin Donovan pushed the lead to three and the Eastern Pennsylvania side claimed the Eastern Regional crown for the 18U Girls.
Along the way several players earned top scorers at the tournament including: Caitlin Donovan-8 goals, Raina Kuzemka - 7 goals, Cynthia Sheehy - 3 goals & Gabriella Curry - 2 goals
The Eastern Regional Championships Results https://www.usyouthsoccer.org/…/sched…/18u-girls/division-1/11776 United 01 Extemes Roster https://www.usyouthsoccer.org/…/…/4258/1776unitedfc01xtreme/


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I decided to write a review about Keter Store It Out MIDI because my mum got one just recently. She has a knack for growing herbs and flowers and landscaping. This made getting her a present easy. She would always get garden tools of different shades. She has a lot of these that she needed an outdoor storage box to keep them. I took the liberty of doing a review of my mums plastic storage unit for my mum and those like me who do background checks before buying stuff.
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Product Dimensions
Weight : 18.1 kg
Material : Plastic
This is the smallest variation of Keter Store It Out Max and Keter Store It Out Ultra. It comes in beige – brown colour–perhaps to give you a natural feel like you would have in a wooden storage and to match the green garden lawn. It comes with a floor panel and a few options specifically hydraulic pistons for lid opening, built-in support for a wooden shelf, and metal hinges. This plastic garden storage can contain two 32 gallon trash cans.
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✔Worry-Free from moulds
✔Weather resistant
✔Easy to assemble
✔Easy to clean
✔Less maintenance
✔Wide entry
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Pros in detail
No Mould
Moulds are a big threat to wooden sheds. A moist environment such as a garden is conducive to mould growth. But if your shed is made out of plastic, you don't need to worry about moulds. I guess this is one good reason my mum chose to a plastic garden storage over a wooden one.
Weather Resistant
The good thing about plastic is that it is pretty much resistant to all types of weather condition. Especially the thickness is sufficient enough and if the plastic is engineered or reinforced. I tried looking up if the plastic Keter uses is reinforced. In case it is not, I am counting on the thickness of the plastic to withstand the harshest weather conditions. I've seen a lot of reviews from people who already have this storage box saying how happy they are that it kept the things inside dry.
Easy to Assemble
I can pretty much say it is easy to assemble since she was able to do it on her own. Though I'm thinking that one of the reasons she was able to do it is because of the MacGyver TV series that my mum is a big fan of.
Easy to clean
What I like about the Keter Store It Out MIDI is that again, since it is made of plastic, it is easy to clean. A sponge or damp cloth pretty much does the job. This way, I won't have to worry about my mum exhausting herself too much.
Less Maintenance
I love seeing wooden furniture and wooden sheds in gardens. I like the how stuff made of wood feels environment-friendly and in-tune with nature. But what I do not like about them is maintenance. And if you have a wooden shed like the one I have in my garden, maintenance is going to be quite costly. Having a plastic storage I guess has this advantage over a wooden storage. Minimal to no maintenance is needed.
Wide Entry
What separates the Keter Store It Out MIDI from all other plastic storages, or garden boxes is the extra wide entry. It opens on the top like a regular garden storage box and the front opens up like a door. This is a big factor in terms of competition against other products in my opinion since this is the first plastic storage box I've seen that opens in a unique way.
Cons in detail
Although it is mentioned above that being weatherproof is an advantage, it is still made of plastic. As a result, it inherits the same weaknesses of plastic I can think of like extreme temperatures and fire. Too much heat and the plastic will soften a bit–this, of course, affects the overall sturdiness of the structure. Yes, wooden storages are prone to fire, but there are fire-proofing treatments available. I tried researching if Keter plastic is fire resistant but to no avail.
The Keter Store It Out MIDI plastic storage comes with the option to have locks. However, security is still something I am concerned with since obviously, plastic is not as hard as wood or metal. I've tried putting myself in a garden-tools-thief point of view and I'm pretty sure I can open a plastic storage with less to no noise faster than that made of a wood or metal.
Things to consider when Buying a Garden Storage
This is one of the first things I look at in anything I buy. I find peace in a product that has already established a reputation. After all, you won't have your name associated with something that is not going to be productive. And if a product comes from a well-known brand, this brings us to the next thing I look for.
This is also something you would want to look for. This ensures that should there be any inconvenience, your money is not wasted. Take time to find out the time frame of returning items in case it arrives with damage or incorrect parts. It would be disappointing to see that an item that has warranty has a time frame of a month before the replacement. All Keter products mentioned in this review come with a 2-year warranty.
This is the classic comparison between needs and wants. You may find some items that offer a lot more with a price difference. But then again they won't be something you need. Don't get caught up with the trend or the flashy advertisement. Stick with what you need and consider a few stuff like your garden allotment, what to put inside, etc. and later on, you will realise that prioritising needs over wants is a decision you will not regret.
Please pay special attention to this. This is probably the most easily overlooked part when buying a garden storage. A lot of mishaps happen during this phase. In my opinion, find a product that already has downloadable assembly instructions prior to purchase. This is a good feature I found out on the website of Keter.
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External Dimensions: 140cmW x 84cmH x 60cm D
Internal Dimensions: 128cm W x 38cm H x 50cmD
Weight: 7.2 kg
*all measurements are estimates only
I love how the Keter Eden Bench acts both as a bench and a storage box. Although no max user weight capacity is mentioned, people who already bought this have confirmed that it can hold up to 30 stones. And just like the Keter Store It Out MIDI, it is very easy to assemble. This is also an attractive indoor choice of storage box because of the design. All of it is weatherproof except for the cushion that you sit on.
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External Dimensions: 117cmW x 57.5cm H x 45cm D
Internal Dimensions: 116cm W x 57.3cm H x 44cm D
Weight: 7.3 kg
*all measurements are estimates only
This is a good alternative if you need something smaller than the Store It Out MIDI. The feature that distinguished it from the Store It Out MIDI is that besides a regular storage box is its' ability to hold up to 200kg on top of it. It has built-in handles and rollers so you can move it around easily. And of course, has the same pros and cons as a plastic storage box would have. What I like about this is that it looks much more like made of wood when compared with the Store it Out MIDI.
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External Dimensions: 129.5cm W x 62.5cm H x 70cm D
Internal Dimensions: 114cm W x 54cm H x 59.5cm D
Weight: 16 kg
*all measurements are estimates only
If you are looking for something in between the Keter Sherwood and Store It Out MIDI, Keter's Borneo Plastic Storage box is what you are looking for. What makes it unique is the wicker/rattan appearance and its automatic opening mechanism. It can also act as a seat for two with a maximum weight capacity of 220kg on top of it. But unlike the Sherwood, it does not have wheels. It can be pretty heavy but is justifiable since it also acts as a bench.
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The [amazon link="B00Q43ZJM6″ title="Keter Store It Out MIDI" /] is great for a garden space that has a little allotment. It keeps its contents dry despite heavy rains. Proven by other reviewers as a good storage for garden tools, trash bins, and small bikes. It appears that others who bought this garden storage box came to love that it is very easy to assemble and it requires less maintenance. [amazon link="B00Q43ZJM6″ title="Here" /] is where my mum got hers.


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Explore this collection of the world's most promising social innovations, submitted from every corner of the globe. These solutions give you insights into where the world is heading in the future.
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Flashback Friday: Funkmaster Flex and Tony! Toni! Tone!
Welcome to 2016! I'm sure most of y'all left your sobriety back in 2015 but it's all good — I dragged a few hot '90s albums with me through the time machine. Check these out.
Funkmaster Flex, The Mix Tape, Vol. 2 (1997)
Let's go back to 1997, when mixtapes weren't shoddy attempts at "free albums." Back then, they were a chance for established artists to debut new material or for new artists to introduce themselves to the rap world. Funk Flex's Mix Tape was actually that, a collection of freestyles and previously released songs mixed by the maestro himself. That's where the "mix" in mixtape comes from, after all. My man Nick Birdsong reminded me how great Flex's '97 collection was, filled with memorable freestyles.
Also check out:
"I'm Not Feeling You," Yvette Michelle
Foxy Brown freestyle
Tony! Toni! Tone!, Sons of Soul (1993)
Jennifer drops this gem off, saying it's "One of the best albums ever recorded. I remember being a kid when it came out and ordering it from Columbia House on the 20 Cd's for $1 deal. One of the few albums you can let ride from start to finish! Perfect CD to pop in to clean the house or hit the road!"
Also check out:
"My Ex-Girlfriend"
"I Couldn't Keep it to Myself"
Now, it's your turn. Email email@example.com hit me up on Twitter @etbowser, or stop by the comments section and share your Flashback Friday album. Leave a couple of sentences describing what makes it so great. I'll feature your album on the blog.


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Letters to the Editor
Julia R. Palmer Executive Director American Reading Council New York, N.Y.
Congratulations on your special issue on literacy (Education Week, Sept. 5, 1984). I was especially grateful for the colloquium with experts such as Diane Ravitch, William Bennett, and others. Much of what they say is thought-provoking and sometimes inspiring.
I am, however, deeply troubled by your calling the issue on literacy "Cracking the Code." To me, this typifies exactly what is wrong with the way literacy is viewed by too many educators. Real literacy is a way of life and cannot be imparted to students without an understanding of that fact.
Unquestionably, it is an attitude that suggests that literacy must be achieved by "cracking the code" that has led to what I consider a truly serious ommission in your coverage, namely the lack of any mention of the need for a literate environment.
We have known for generations that children from homes where they are read to, have access to a wide variety of print materials, and see adults reading and valuing books, learn to read easily and well.
We also know that a literate environment does not exist in most low-income homes today and, sad to say, in many middle-income homes.
Since we know that a literate environment produces readers, one would have thought that educators would want to create such an environment in the schools. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case. There are so few job opportunities for school librarians that the two most prestigious library schools in the New York area have stopped giving courses in school librarianship or even in children's literature. And the lack of a literate environment in school is not just a problem in New York. With the cut-off of federal support for school librarries, they have been abandoned across the country except in the affluent suburbs and the independent schools--in other words, the areas that produce the top academic achievers.
Learning to become literate is, in many ways, like learning a foreign language. We all know of the unfortunate person who studies a language for two or three years in school and then visits the country where that language is spoken and finds he or she can't function because the learning was academic and selective--the grammar and vocabulary but not the language. Yet another student visiting that country without formal instruction gains some fluency and can both speak and understand.
In the teaching of reading, an astounding number of children in most schools are not read aloud to and do not see adults valuing reading (for their own sakes, not the students').
The American Reading Council believes that it is impossible to achieve either a literate student body or excellence in education without early and easy access to books. For most children, that need can only be met through school libraries.
We are pressing a campaign to ensure that all children in New York City have access to a functioning school library and hope that Education Week will also address that issue in the future.
Kristi Johnson-James Program Chairman Special Education Portland Public Schools Portland, Ore.
Please allow me to take issue with your recent commentary by Barbara Ballou regarding teachers' unions, specifically the National Education Association ("How Does a Partisan Teachers' Union Fairly Represent All of Its Members?" Education Week, Oct. 10, 1984). As a member of the nea, my dues do not go to support the political process of our union. Rather, nea members choose to voluntarily contribute to nea-pac, the political arm of the organization. That is a decision our members make based upon the firm belief that elective politics indeed influence every aspect of our jobs.
It is my hope that Ms. Ballou be enlightened on this matter.
Susan Staub Director Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism Springfield, Va.
Marilyn Russell Bittle's recent Commentary is way off the mark.
The announcement by CBS-tv that an exit poll of voters found that 55 percent of teachers voted for Ronald Reagan clearly makes the point--National Education Association officials do not represent the thinking of the nation's teachers.
But the question is not whether or not a private organization can endorse candidates; the question on the minds of thousands of nonunion teachers is why they have to support such partisan politics against their will. And the fact is that they do.
In 17 states, teachers can be required to pay dues to the nea in order to keep their jobs! And these so-called "representation" fees are in many cases the full amount of union dues. These dues are demanded by union officials as payment for their monopoly bargaining--negotiations that are forced on teachers whether they vote for them or not under coercive legislation lobbied for heavily by the very union that benefits.
The unions demand the right to bargain for everyone, including nonunion members, then turn around and compel nonmembers to pay for it!
The millons of dollars pouring into union coffers from the pockets of unwilling and victimized teachers were a substantial part of the 1984 political budget for "in-kind" services: phone banks, registration drives, political pamphlets and flyers, months of newsletter propaganda, and thousands of dollars worth of paid "UniServ" staff time nationwide. The unions demand the right to bargain for everyone, including nonunion members, then turn around and compel nonmembers to pay for it!
Ms. Bittle's claim that the nea's support for the Mondale/Ferraro ticket resulted from a secret ballot mailed to 7,000 delegates to the association's 1984 representative assembly is an insult to teachers' intelligence. The nea union officials endorsed Walter Mondale on Sept. 30, 1983, some time before the primaries and a full 10 months before any member had a chance to vote. So much for democracy.
The truth is that forced-dues politicking under the guise of "representation" is nothing more than abusive tyranny--a tyranny that flies in the face of this nation's heritage of freedom.
Ralph O. Lyons Superintendent Southland Christian Schools Inc. Chula Vista, Calif.
Your recent article on Christian schools ("The Rise of the Fundamentalist Christian School," Education Week, Oct. 17, 1984) deserves a few comments.
First, Chula Vista Christian High School has recently completed a self-evaluation process, followed by a three-day committee visit, and has been granted accreditation concurrently by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Association of Christian Schools International. Believe it or not, we are not interested in membership in any independent-school association.
Second, the policy referred to in your article that only "appropriate schools" are being accepted into independent-school associations appears to be discriminatory. I wonder if a fundamentalist Christian school were to meet all the criteria for admission to the associations mentioned in this article, would their religous emphasis still hinder them from being accepted?
The article quotes Thomas Read of the Independent Schools Association for the Central States as saying that the educational program in the fundamentalist schools is one of "religious dogma" that does not encourage independent thinking and that shelters children from the real world. But, to quote a witness in the 1972 case, Wisconsin v. Yoder [in which parents sought exemption for their children from the state's compulsory-attendance law on religious grounds], "It all depends on which world." To that we say, "Right on!"
Third, many of your articles seem to suggest that all Christian schools are small, one-room schools using the Accelerated Christian Education materials. Please let it be known that our school is a traditional one with about 400 students in grades K-12. We have more than 1,800 schools in our Association of Christian Schools International and at least half of them do not use individualized curriculum material.
Thomas E. Van Dam Superintendent School District 151, Cook County South Holland, Ill.
In a recent article, you indicated that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school system was the first in the nation to undertake a court-ordered desegregation plan involving systemwide busing ("President's Criticism of Busing Enrages Charlotte's Citizens," Education Week, Oct. 24, 1984).
This statement, which I have seen in many articles, is in error. School District 151 in South Holland, Ill., was desegregated by federal court order in 1968 with a plan that bused all children except those in kindergarten through 2nd grade. It was followed by a second order issued in 1969, under which all K-8 children in the district were bused.
Our case went to the appellate court, back to the local district court, back to the appellate court, and to the U.S. Supreme Court. It was heard with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg case in 1972. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg case was reviewed directly by the Court because of the influence of a prominent North Carolina senator. In truth, School District 151 was desegregated two years before Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
The desegregation plan that has been in effect here for all of these years involved busing the black children in grades K-6 who live in Phoenix, Ill., to white residential schools located in Harvey and South Holland. In turn, white children in grades 7 and 8 who live in Harvey and South Holland are bused to Phoenix for the upper grades.
This should correct the record.
Lynn Mulkey Institute for Urban and Minority Education Teachers College Columbia University New York, N.Y.
As a research sociologist, I am concerned by your recent article on adolescent suicide ("Suicide: Unsettling Worry for Schools," Education Week, Oct. 31, 1984). I feel that you failed to acknowledge a perspective that is fundamental to an explanation of the recent increase in adolescent suicide.
The article does not deal with the distinctly sociological explanation of suicide, which says that regardless of the individual's predisposition, suicide is a social phenomenon and can be explained, at one level, completely independently of the victim's psychological or biological make-up.
We can learn from Suicide, the classical work written in 1951 by Emile Durkheim, and from Merton's essays on deviant behavior, that "anomic suicide"' results from the inadequacy of opportunities within the structure of society for individuals to attain the goals to which they aspire. It appears that you have neglected to present a comprehensive argument that incorporates the sociological perspective.
For example, in considering such data as the current suicide rate for youths aged 15-24, higher suicide rates among whites, clusters of victims who are otherwise unrelated, and higher rates and risks of suicide in families where it has occurred before, the article discusses the funding of a number of research projects by the National Institutes of Mental Health. These projects, though, are based on biological and psychological orientations. The article quotes Susan Blumenthal, chief of the suicide-research unit at the nimh, as saying, "We also found that the early detection and treatment of depression is the single most important preventive strategy for teen-age suicide."
While clearly internal, individual factors (such as health, biological, and psychological characteristics) are part of the dynamics involved in adolescent suicide, their precise role in relation to external, social factors (such as role expectations) remains ambiguous and needs further empirical demonstration. To attribute the cause of adolescent suicide solely to internal factors will likely result in treatments that are analagous to cold medicines that merely treat symptoms. By accurately pinpointing the role of external and internal factors in adolescent suicide, we will increase the possibility of finding effective preventive techniques. If, in fact, adolescent suicide is primarily the result of social constraints, then we need to ask in what ways perhaps unreasonable structural demands or conditions can be changed. If they cannot be changed, we must find ways to help individuals deal with these constraints.
Tom W. Shuford Teacher Bayville School Bayville, N.Y.
I do not know the content of the anti-nea treatises you describe in your recent article ("Anti-nea Groups Spreading Views with Tracts," Education Week, Nov. 7, 1984) so I do not know the specific discontents that agitate the authors of them.
A personal experience, however, crystallized my own fears about the nea.
In the late 1970's, I read a negative review in the nea journal, Today's Education, of a Marxist book that purported to show education's lackey role in America's capitalist economy.
I wrote to the reviewer, one of the nation's most prominent professors of education, expressing astonishment that such a review could appear in the journal of the left-wing nea The professor replied, providing the details behind the review.
The nea, it seems, had big plans for the book and it did not want a negative review. The professor had called it a "straightforward Marxist critique of American education," but she also found it to be "incredibly tendentious and polemical." The professor wasn't cooperative. Despite a concerted effort by Today's Education to get what it wanted, "they had to go with it." The professor added, "I suspect that will be the last time you see a review by me in that publication."
Indeed, it was.
A second example raises the same kind of concern:
In 1981, the nea selected a Marxist, Michael Harrington, chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and author of The Twilight of Capitalism, to explain supply-side economics to the nation's teachers in the September-October issue of Today's Education. I am one who does not care to see Mr. Harrington's tenets and such terminlogy as "late capitalism" passed on to the nation's youth by the nea Needless to say, there was no counterbalancing analysis by a conventional liberal economist, much less by one of a conservative bent.
Whether the nea's seeming embrace of socialism or socialist authors in these instances is simply the flirtation with all things of the political left that longtime observers of the organization routinely expect, or whether they have a deeper sort of commitment, I cannot say. But to the extent "far-right" groups cause the nea to think and think again before trying to sell such deadly nonsense to the nation's teachers and students, they will have served a useful purpose.
Robert B. Kane Director of Teacher Education Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.
It was gratifying to read that the Council of Chief State School Officers has decided to seek a major role in the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ("Chiefs To Seek Major Role in Accreditation of Education Programs," Education Week, Nov. 21, 1984). Many of us who are committed to the best possible teacher education for the nation's schools have been restive under current accreditation standards that focus more on specific content coverage than on the intellectual vitality, competence, and capacity of the faculty designing and delivering the educational program. If the chiefs could exert influence to increase the value of high-quality faculty and diminish the specificity of mandated content, a great good would be realized.
Therein lies the rub, however. State accreditation standards--those directly under the chiefs--are notorious for their focus on the specifics of content and their leniency on the indicators of faculty quality and institutional capacity. It was particularly distressing to read a quotation attributed to Ted Sanders, Nevada's chief, in which he expressed concern that ncate was not closing down the "intellectual cesspools" in the country and that therefore the chiefs have not participated in ncate affairs. Come now, Mr. Sanders. How many institutions accredited by ncate have failed to win state accreditation? My guess is that there may be none. If ncate is the kettle, surely the chiefs, through their spokesman, are the pot. Perhaps neither should call the other black.
Vol. 04, Issue 14
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UN envoy: UN workers killed running from bunker
Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church.
Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan.
"They were killed when they were running out of the bunker," said Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, who recounted their harrowing deaths to reporters on Saturday evening. "One was pulled out alive because he pretended to be a Muslim."
De Mistura spoke in a somber tone as he described how three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards were killed Friday when the protesters stormed their compound in the normally peaceful city of Mazar-i-Sharif. He placed direct blame on those who burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in Gainesville, Florida, last month, stoking anti-foreign sentiment that already was on the rise after nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan.
"The demonstration was meant to protest against the insane and totally despicable gesture by one person who burned the holy Quran," he said.
He also said the U.N. building would not have been attacked if there had been an adequate cordon of Afghan police separating the demonstrators and the compound.
A formal inquiry is under way, but de Mistura said initial reports indicate that seven to 15 insurgents infiltrated a group of as many as 3,000 demonstrators who overran the U.N. compound, which was protected by Afghan policemen and six U.N.-hired Nepalese guards. The crowd overpowered the guards - who are instructed not to shoot into crowds of civilians, even if they are threatening - and the police were not able to stop them, he said.
Four of the Nepalese guards were killed; some were shot in the yard of the compound. Three Afghan U.N. workers survived by melding into the surging crowd, he said. Four Afghan protesters also were killed in the riot.
Protesters had set fire to cars and an electric generator in the U.N. compound so the bunker was dark. It was the only safe place for the four foreign U.N. workers on the compound, including the Russian chief of mission. But the door of the bunker was made to withstand a bomb attack, not the sheer force of a crowd of people trying to get inside.
When the killers forced themselves inside they saw Pavel Ershov, the mission chief who is fluent in Dari, one of two languages spoken in Afghanistan. They beat him, but stopped after he convinced them, in Dari, that he was a Muslim, de Mistura said.
"He spoke the language and tried to draw their attention on himself," the envoy said. "For a moment, he hoped that they would think there was nobody else there."
But using a light, the attackers found the three other foreigners, then pulled them out and killed them one after the other. Two died of bullet wounds. The third was killed with a knife to the throat.
They were identified by officials in their home countries as: Joakim Dungel, a 33-year-old Swede who worked on human rights; Lt. Col. Siri Skare, a 53-year-old female pilot from Norway who was an adviser; and Filaret Motco, a 43-year-old Romanian who worked in the political section of the U.N.
De Mistura spoke to reporters in Kabul after flying back from Mazar-i-Sharif. He was at the airport in Kabul when the victims' bodies were flown to the capital Saturday evening. In talking with top officials in Mazar-i-Sharif, he said he was convinced that the killers were insurgents, not demonstrators.
Protesters confiscated AK-47s from security officers at the scene, but all except one of the U.N. workers were killed with handguns, he said.
Moreover, the mission chief and some of the U.N. Afghan staff workers said the killers spoke in a dialect not common to Mazar-i-Sharif. De Mistura said authorities told him that several of the people arrested were from other parts of Afghanistan, including Kapisa province in the east and Kandahar in the south. Both provinces are hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Mazar-i-Sharif.
De Mistura said he was concerned that the deaths of the foreigners would give people, especially in the West, a reason to argue against continued involvement in the nearly decade-long Afghan war. He said the U.N. would not pull out of Afghanistan, but that he was temporarily redeploying 11 U.N. workers from Mazar-i-Sharif to Kabul because they can no longer work in the office, which was destroyed and looted.
President Hamid Karzai publicly condemned the March 20 Quran burning, leading some to blame him for triggering the protests. De Mistura, however, blamed the person who torched the holy book.
The pastor, the Rev. Terry Jones, had threatened to destroy a copy of Islam's holy book last year but initially backed down. On Friday he said Islam and its followers, not his church's burning of the Quran, were responsible for the killings.
"Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions," de Mistura said. "Those who entered our building were actually furiously angry about the issue about the Quran. There was nothing political there."
But he said that with uprisings in the Middle East, and waning foreign support for the war, Karzai's government needed to pay more attention to the security of foreign civilians working in Afghanistan.
"I'm profoundly sad and I'm also shocked by what I saw, but we continue our work," de Mistura said. "We are not going to be deterred."


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1999. április 25.-én több mint tízezer gyakorló gyűlt össze Kína központi appellációs irodájánál Zhongnanhai-nál hogy a kormány növekvő zaklatásának befejezését kérjék.
Amint a Fálun Gong egyre népszerűbbé vált, az állami elnyomás jelei megjelentek. Röviddel ezután a korábban bestsellernek nevezett Fálun Gong könyvek megjelenését betiltották. Az első fő állami médiától származó Fálun Gongot kritizáló cikk a Guanming Daily napilapban jelent meg június 17.-én amikor Li Úr az Egyesült Államokba ment.
Az Állambiztonsági Hivatal lefolytatott egy vizsgálatot, hogy a Fálun Gongot "gonosz szektának" kell-e ítélni, de a nyomozás végkövetkeztetése "eddig nem található bizonyíték."
July 21st,1998
Bureau No. 1 of the Ministry of Public Security issues Document No. 555, titled, "Notice of the Investigation of Falun Gong", claiming that Falun Gong is a heretical cult. The Ministry begins a series of investigations, seeking evidence in support of the conclusion. Means include tapping phone lines, monitoring volunteers, raiding homes, confiscating personal belongings. Various forms of (unlawful) harassment ensue at the hands of Chinese police, including disruption of public morning exercise sessions with water cannons and the closure of certain practice sites. Homes are ransacked in some areas.
Latter half of 1998
After receiving a deluge of letters of concern, Qiao Shi, who had just finished a term as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and served on the Politburo, leads his own investigation, joined by other senior members of the Congress, into the Document 555 allegations. After months of investigating, the group concludes that, "Falun Gong has hundreds of benefits for the Chinese people and nation, and does not a bit of harm."
The National Sports Commission of China launches its own investigation into Falun Gong. The head investigator, declared on October 20th that, "We're convinced the exercises and effects of Falun Gong are excellent. It has done an extraordinary amount to improve society's stability and ethics. This should be duly affirmed."
December 1998
A study conducted by China's State Sports Commission estimates that over 70 million people are practising Falun Gong in China.
Winter 1998-1999
Attacks on Falun Gong escalate in state-run media even as positive reports continue alongside, suggesting internal divisions among China's political leadership. Falun Gong adherents respond to criticisms by visiting, and sometimes petitioning outside, local newspaper or television stations, seeking greater accuracy in reporting. Such events take place in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and other major cities.
February 14th, 1999
An official from China's National Sports Commission, speaking with US News & World Report, intimates that as many as 100 million may have taken up the practice. The official highlights the costs the practice is saving China's national health care system, declaring that "Premier Zhu Rongji is very happy about that".
April 1999
He Zuoxiu, a prominent Marxist-atheist, disparages Falun Gong and qigong in general in a Tianjin college magazine. Local Falun Gong practitioners gather in Tianjin, asking the magazine to repair the damage done to their reputation.
Although the gathering is peaceful, on April 23rd and 24th riot police are sent, 45 practitioners are arrested and some are beaten. When practitioners ask Tianjin authorities to release those who were arrested, they are told that the orders came from Beijing; if they want to petition, they are told, they must go to the capital.
The following day, on April 25th, over 10,000 Falun Gong adherents from Beijing, nearby Tianjin, and other cities in the area gather outside the State Council Office of Petitions in Beijing. This office is located right next door to Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party leaders' residential compound. The petitioners come to voice their concern about the arrests and abuses in Tianjin the day before, and they request that those arrested in Tianjin be released, that the ban on publishing Falun Gong books be lifted, and that they be able to resume their practice without government interference.
The gathering was actually remarkably peaceful and orderly, in spite of the Party's later accusations that Falun Gong "seized" Zhongnanhai.
Then-Prime Minister Zhu Rongji meets with Falun Gong representatives in his office. By the end of the day, those arrested in Tianjin were released and the gathering quietly dispersed.
Within hours, however, then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin opposes Zhu's assuaging position, and states that if it cannot defeat Falun Gong, the Party will become a "laughing stock".
April 26th, 1999
An article by the Associated Press states that China's Falun Gong has "more members than the Communist Party—at least 70 million, according to the State Sports Administration". Two New York Times stories the following day put the number of Falun Gong at 70 million, attributing the figure to the Chinese Government. The article states that the group "even by Chinese Government estimates has more members than the Communist Party".
June 10th, 1999
The "6-10 Office" is established at the behest of Chinese Communist Party Head Jiang Zemin. It's charge: to plan, orchestrate, and carry out a comprehensive suppression of the Falun Gong. Jiang grants it authority over all local levels of police, government, and courts. The 6-10 Office later became the primary tool for arresting, torturing, and killing Falun Gong practitioners.
July 1999
On July 20th, 1999, Falun Gong is officially banned by the communist leadership of China.
From the April 25th gathering until mid July, adherents throughout China report being followed and interrogated by plainclothes police officers, as the Party collects lists of adherents and makes final preparations for the ensuing ban.
On July 20th, 1999, throughout China police begin arresting adherents that they consider to be key organisers and ransack their homes. On July 22nd, 1999, a media blitz commences. Airwaves, television screens, and newspapers columns are filled with attacks on Falun Gong. Sound trucks drive around city streets and college campuses warning people that practising Falun Gong is now illegal. Among the ban's stipulations, protesting the ban is also banned (link to report).
Massive arrests ensue along with ransackings, abductions, and the confiscation of Falun Gong-related materials. A nationwide anti-Falun Gong propaganda campaign is launched in sync.
Details of the persecution from July 1999 to the present day are documented on the other pages of this website – in particular, the tools used in the persecution and detailed victim reports.


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I've just had a weird problem on the build server. For one of the test projects, it would not build at all. The error message was the following:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(1360,9): warning MSB3245: Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "nunit.framework, Version=184.108.40.20612, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96d09a1eb7f44a77, processorArchitecture=MSIL". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.
Apparently, no NUnit library could be found. Checking the GAC manually, this appears to be true. How weird. Tried reinstalling and repairing NUnit 2.5.5 a few times with no result. Then, in Visual Studio Command Prompt, adding NUnit dll to GAC manually with
gacutil /i nunit.framework.dll
solved the issue.
Reference:How to copy/install assembly in a GAC? (Some problem running NUnit) - Stack Overflow


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