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A few days ago, I read the article "Finding Sparks Rethink of Russo-Japan War" in the Yomiuri (Link to original article HERE). According to some new documents discovered by University of Tokyo historian Wada Haruki, a key Russian politician attempted to propose an alliance with Japan in the days leading up to the Russo-Japanese War. The article reports that Aleksandr Bezobrazov, a man who has long been considered an advocate of the conflict, first communicated the draft "to Japan's Foreign Ministry by telegraph on Jan. 1, 1904, by a Japanese diplomat in Russia. The diplomat reported to the ministry in detail about the proposal 12 days later…Despite the tip, Foreign Minister Komura Jutaro met with Prime Minister Katsura Taro, along with the ministers in charge of the army and navy, on Jan. 8, when they agreed to initiate hostilities."[i] The article concludes that this new finding could lead to a revision of the widely-accepted interpretation that Japan was goaded by Russia into starting the conflict. This may also attract attention in Japan because NHK just started airing a three-year drama series based on a saga by novelist Shiba Ryotaro that depicts the Russo-Japanese War as one of self-defense by Japan.
Reading this article, I thought of three things:
- The document was communicated on January 1st and then reported to the ministry in detail 12 days later. That means the report was on January 12th. If Foreign Minister Komura and Prime Minister Katsura decided to initiate hostilities on January 8th, it is questionable how much they knew about these overtures from Russia. But that's just nit-picking on my part and this is no doubt something that will be explained further in the two volume book Professor Wada will be publishing.
- Even if Komura and Katsura had full knowledge of Bezobrazov's attempt to create an alliance (which is unlikely), I doubt it would have dissuaded them from initiating hostilities with Russia. It is also unlikely that this finding will change the interpretation that the Russo-Japanese War was fought as a defensive war. While Russia may not have been planning any attack against Japan, it is quite clear that Japanese leaders at that time believed they were acting in defense of Russian actions. This is due to Japan's perception of the international system during the early 20th century and the way it conceptualized its own security. However, this new discovery can reinforce the interpretation that the Russo-Japanese War was a preventive war rather than a preemptive war.
- Can preventive warfare be considered defensive? Should preventive war be used to achieve foreign policy goals?
The Russo-Japanese war began on February 8th, 1904 with a night attack on Port Arthur. This attack was made before Japan declared war on Russia. The preemptive nature of the attack was critical not only to the success of the siege (the Japanese forces caught half of the Russian fleet at anchor in the harbor) but also to Japan's victory. Two Russian destroyers were on picket duty and suddenly found themselves under attack by ten Japanese destroyers. The Russian ships turned and hauled into the inner harbor to warn the fleet (it was night and they had no radios). However, as the Russian ships pulled in, Japanese were right on their tail so the warning was pointless. The Japanese destroyers proceeded to shell the Russian battleships and cruisers, which were still at anchor. Most Russian ships had not deployed torpedo nets and many of the officers were on shore drinking. In other words, the Japanese caught the Russians with their pants down. Togo then mined the outer harbor, which effectively trapped the Russian Pacific fleet in Port Arthur. While most of the damage inflicted on the Russian ships was repaired, the attack on Port Arthur – like the attack on Pearl Harbor – had a profound psychological effect. In a single stroke, Japan announced to the world that it had become a great power. They were instantly given respect (or, at the very least, recognition), especially from Great Britain. This respect only increased the following year when, after the decisive Battle of Tsushima, Japan earned the honor of being the first non-Western power to defeat a Western country in a military conflict. Back in Russia, the surprise attack created a nationalist uproar as citizens screamed for vengeance and victory. This nationalist fervor led to extreme risk-taking and more disaster for the Russians in the East.
The article suggests that this new evidence about Russian overtures for an alliance with Japan calls into question whether or not the Russo-Japanese War was a war of self-defense. While the proverbs that Shiba Ryotaro chose to quote in his books about the conflict might be a bit excessive (for example, "a cornered rat will attack the cat" and "despair makes cowards courageous"), there is little doubt that the Japanese leadership viewed the Russo-Japanese War as a primarily defensive conflict. This is due to both A) the way Meiji Japan and its leadership perceived the international world order and B) the logic of the strategic doctrine Japan followed from the beginning of the Meiji period until well into the 1930s (when it was then replaced with Konoe's Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere). The historical record on these two points is extremely clear and not likely to be fundamentally altered by a rough draft of a Russian treaty.
To begin, Meiji Japan viewed the international system as a hierarchical one where the 'strong devour the weak.' The Ansei Treaties of 1858 was one of the catalysts of the Meiji Restoration and their reversal became the principle foreign policy goal of the Meiji leadership for the next 50 years. After the unequal treaties, Japan was convinced that the only way it could restore its national sovereignty and prestige was to become a great power. During the early 20th century, being a great power meant being an imperial power. Because Japan chose to achieve its modernization through emulation of the West, it promptly set about building an Imperial military capable of projecting it power abroad in emulation of the West as well. The Meiji leaders set out to make Japan a 'first-rate nation' (itto koku), which included the prestige and power associated with foreign territorial possession. The Meiji leadership quickly began to relate Japan's national security with the might of the burgeoning Japanese empire. Japan had its sights set on Korea from the beginning of its empire-building project (the government's refusal to invade Korea in 1873 even sparked Saigo Takamori's rebellion, the man many refer to as the 'last samurai'). Of course the only problem was that a few other countries had their eyes on Korea too – namely, Russia and China.
Enter Yamagata Aritomo, the father of the modern Japanese military and prime minister from 1889-1891 and 1898-1900. In his address to the Diet in 1890, Yamagata requested that a startling 50% of the budget be allocated to the army and navy. In Yamagata's view, Japan needed to extend its influence beyond its national borders to ensure its own security. He then advanced two strategic principles that would profoundly influence many political and military decisions over the coming decades – the line of sovereignty (Japan's geographical borders) and the line of advantage (the immediate area beyond the territorial boundary). Yamagata's speech is as follows:
"The independence and security of the nation depend first on this protection of the line of sovereignty and then the line of advantage…If we wish to maintain the nation's independence among the powers of the world at the present time, it is not enough to guard only the line of sovereignty; we must also defend the line of advantage…and within the limits of the nation's resources gradually strive for that position. For this reason, it is necessary to make comparatively large appropriations for our army and navy."
According to Yamagata, in order to be a totally independent country, it was imperative that Japan both achieved and maintained control over its line of advantage. Yamagata famously referred to Korea as the 'dagger pointed at the heart of Japan' that must never fall under foreign domination. In other words, Japan needed to maintain influence over the Korean peninsula due its geographical proximity to the island nation and its borders with Russia and China.
It doesn't take long to see that the 'line of advantage' is flawed by a certain type of circular reasoning. In order to defend Japan's borders, Japan needed to gain influence and control over Korea. Once Japan secured its influence in Korea, it would then need to maintain control over Manchuria to protect its interests in Korea (especially after the annexation of Korea in 1910). The line of advantage is a line that moves forever outward. First, the line of advantage included Korea. Then, it was extended into Manchuria. It is this strategic logic that triggered both the Sino-Japanese War of 1984-5 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. (The line of advantage continued to move outwards, into northern China and eventually encompassed most of East and Southeast Asia. Japan's involvement in WWI, its conflict with China in 1937 and its leap into war in 1941 were all aimed at securing a line of advantage around Japan that would allow it to be completely autonomous.) Flawed or not, it was with this strategic principle in mind that Japan made many of its decisions during the early 20th century.
In 1890, the problem related to the line of advantage was the situation on the continent. Not only was China attempting to block Japanese interests in Korea, Yamagata feared that the completion of the Siberian railway would give Russia a rapid advance eastwards and the ability to threaten Korea's 'independence.' If Korea's position changed, Japan's line of advantage would be endangered. Yamagata's solution to this was military expansion, then armed conflict. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 allowed Japan to remove the threat of Chinese influence over the government of Korea and secured Japanese interests on the peninsula. Japan also gained a number of valuable territorial possessions, including the Liaodong Peninsula (home of Port Arthur). However, any sense of security this victory afforded Japan was soon lost. In 1895, Germany, Russian, and France forced Japan to give up much of its newly acquired territory, including the Liaodong Peninsula. Russia then signed a 25 year lease on the peninsula and proceeded to set up a naval station at Port Arthur. This Triple Intervention not only increased Japan's suspicion of Russia's intentions in the East, but was also a huge blow to Japan's national pride. According to the logic of imperialism (at least as Japan understood it), territories won in war were completely legitimate. The great powers had never intervened when another Western country increased its empire through armed conflict. The Triple Intervention proved once again that the great powers of the West did not consider Japan as an equal, merely an Asian country whose success was only due to its skillful imitation of the West. Even with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, it was quite clear to Japan that, under the guise of the 'balance of power,' the great powers were ready to roll back any Japanese acquisition to protect their own interests in Asia. Ultimately, the Triple Intervention had two major effects on Japanese foreign policy; 1) It identified Russia as the number one threat to Japanese imperial ambitions and national security and 2) it reinforced the idea that no matter how successfully Japan conformed to the Western international system, the great powers would never willingly grant it the equality and respect it desired. Both of these developments made Japan more willing to go to war to achieve its foreign policy goals and less likely to respect the wishes of the great powers.
By 1904, the Japanese leadership felt that it was only a matter of time before Russia attempted to draw Korea into its sphere of influence. In addition to the Russian military presence in Port Arthur, which was a security threat to Japan's line of advantage, the two countries had already spent the last few years arguing over their interests in Manchuria (as well as troop movements during the Boxer Rebellion). Rather than wait for Russia to attack, Japan felt that it was in its own best interest to strike preventively against Russia. By choosing to strike early, under what it perceived as more favorable circumstances, Japan gained an advantage. However, like all war, preventive warfare is a gamble. Even with the advantage of a first strike, Clausewitz's friction can catch up and result in completely unforeseen consequences and results. All attacks lose momentum over time. The Russo-Japanese War offers a perfect example of this – the Japanese began the war with an enormous advantage over Russia. Their unannounced attack on Port Arthur effectively eliminated the majority of Russia's Pacific fleet and forced Russia to send its Baltic fleet across a grueling sea voyage before they could continue the naval conflict with Japan. However, a year later both Russia AND Japan had exhausted both their military capabilities and the sympathy of public opinion within their countries. The land war against Russia, a gruesome prologue to the carnage of WWI trench warfare, had whittled away at the Japanese Imperial Army and they had lost all momentum from their victory at Port Arthur.
From the perspective of international law, it is quite clear that the Japanese attack was a preventive, rather than preemptive, strike. There is nothing controversial about preemption. To preempt means to strike first (or attempt to do so) in the face of an attack that is either underway or is very credibly imminent. The decision for war has been taken by the enemy (the classic example of a preemptive war is the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan in 1967).[ii] Because a Russian attack on Japan was definitely not underway on the night of February 8th, it is clear that the Japanese attack on Port Arthur was not a preemptive move.
In contrast, a preventive war is a war of discretion. It differs from preemptive war both in its timing and in its motivation. Unlike the preemptor, who has no choice but to strike, the preventor chooses to wage war "to prevent a predicted enemy from changing the balance of power or otherwise behaving in a manner that the preventor would judge to be intolerable."[iii] In the case of prevention, the preventor always has a choice. It can choose to tolerate the predicted power shift. It can attempt to lessen the threat through diplomatic or economic means. In the case of prevention, a state chooses war as the best, but not the only, option. Because a preventive war is a war of discretion, it is not as black and white as preemption. How far into the future can a state look when identifying potential enemies? What constitutes a credible threat to a state that would justify preventive action? How certain does must a state be about the possibility of a threat to legitimately strike a preventive blow? What distinguishes a preventive attack from an act of aggression?
According to international law, there are three kinds of war that a state can wage before actually being attacked by the enemy. These terms refer to the temporal distance from an imminent threat – preemption (ex. the Six Day War), prevention (ex. the Russo-Japanese War), and precaution[iv] (say, for example, the Cyclon attack on the 12 Colonies in Battlestar Galactica).[v] Ultimately, there is no legal issue about preventive war: "International law, in the form of the United Nations Charter, recognizes the inherent right of self-defense by states, and it does not oblige a victim state to wait passively to be struck by an aggressor…In short, preventive action by way of anticipatory self-defense is legal, or legal enough."[vi] Like most matters in international law, it is a matter of interpretation and open to endless debate. Ultimately, however, one must face the fact that the international system is anarchic. Therefore, there is no legal constraint on a state's right to resort to force. Under this line of reasoning, Japan's decision to attack Russia in 1904, whether preemptive (which it wasn't) or preventive (which it was), was perfectly legal under international law. As a sovereign entity, Japan had the sole right to decide what was or wasn't necessary for its own self-defense. Japan considered Russia's interference in Manchuria as a threat to its national survival because Manchuria was considered part of Japan's 'line of advantage' – an area in which Japanese interests needed to be protected to ensure national security. Japan acted to protect its vital national interests from an aggressor, and as such international law identifies it as a defensive action. Though the depictions that Japan was beat and goaded into a corner are doubtless overly dramatic, there can be no doubt that the Japanese attack on Port Arthur was, legally speaking, a defensive move.
It is easy to assume a harsh stance towards the actions of imperial Japan during the beginning of the 20th century, especially with the knowledge that many of those actions contributed to the outbreak of two world wars in the Pacific. Most Japanese actions during the early 20th century seem little more than thinly veiled acts of aggression. Hindsight, however, can be the historian's downfall. Because of the cataclysmic strategic history of the 20th century (with two world wars and the possibility of the third) and the advent of the nuclear age, we now place a moral and political value on peace that simply did not exist in the late 19th to early 20th century. Rather than projecting our 21st century morals onto the events of the past, let's keep in mind the words of Clausewitz; "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." This may not necessarily hold true today, but it certainly did in 1904 when Japan chose to wage a preventative war against Russia. At the beginning of the 20th century, war was considered a perfectly legitimate tool of any imperial state.[vii] Every imperial power has wielded it – Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, and, yes, even the United State of America (Spanish-American War, anyone?). Japan saw the protection of its empire as absolutely vital to its survival as a state. As Russia pushed closer to Korea and deeper into Japan's so-called 'line of advantage,' the Japanese became convinced that Russia was a serious threat to its survival as a sovereign nation. In 1854, Britain waged the Crimean War to curb the power and influence of Russia. The Russo-Japanese War was fought for exactly the same reason, so who can deny Japan the legitimacy of its actions?
[i] "Finding Sparks Rethink of Russo-Japanese War." The Daily Yomiuri.
[ii] Gray, Colin S., The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War Doctrines: A Reconsideration. Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute, 2007.
[iii] Gray, v-vi.
[iv] Precautionary war…is war launched to arrest developments beyond the outer temporal or other bounds of detectable current menace. In other words, a precautionary war is a preventive war waged not on the basis of any noteworthy evidence of ill-intent or dangerous capabilities, but rather because those unwelcome phenomena might appear in the future. A precautionary war is a war waged "just in case," on the basis of the principle, "better safe than sorry." Gray, 15.
[v] Gray, 7.
[vi] Gray, vi-vii
[vii] But wait! Here a keen observer might interrupt: Even before 1919 and the creation of the League of Nations, there were examples of doctrines differentiating war from other tools of strategy. For one, the just war doctrine of the Catholic Church attempted to maintain a monopoly on the legitimate use of force by outlining six requirements; 1) a just cause, 2) legitimate authority, 3) right intention, 4) proportionality, 5) likelihood of success, and 6) resort to war only as a last resort. While one can question the effectiveness (or even the sincerity) of this document, I must also point out that Japan does not share the same history as the Western world. There is not equivalent of the just war doctrine in Japanese history. Even with the Meiji Restoration and modernization/Westernization of Japan, one can hardly have expected the Japanese to have fully absorbed and accepted Western liberal principles in less than 50 years. Antecedents like the just war doctrine didn't stop any Western countries from waging imperial wars, so it can hardly be expected to influence Japan.


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@ZackTeibloom I'm in full Jazz Fest Hype mode. I'm leaving straight from work. The car is packed up with a full tank of gas and a fresh oil change, I've got a care package full of Sun Chips,* more than enough sandwiches, downloaded the Jazz Fest App and have my conflicts resolved. Last night I left Kappel a voice mail where I said HYPE approximately 35 times. In my mind, I'm already there.
I'll get to cross a few legends off my list (I'm lookin' at you Aretha, Van and Jeff Beck) throw down some crawfish, find some new favorite artists and go festivaling with two of my favorites. Sami is a festival goddess and I'm lucky to be crashing at her place again, while Kappel is a festival legend who I've yet to see more than a show with. A whole weekend with them is so promising I can't sit still. Much like all festivals this year, I am going without a ticket or pass. It's festival crashing time.
This is how I remember Jazz Fest. A true mix of people from all over, coming together for one raucous long weekend in the race track for some free-spirited dancing. Jazz Fest boasts the best food, the most eclectic music, and aside from Pearl Jam, Widespread Panic and the Dead Weather it's music you won't find at other fests outside of NOLA. Festivals are all about finding new acts, but it's especially true at yazz fest. On that note, it's Yazzfest** from now on.
Top 5 to see
- Jeff Beck
- Van Morrison
- Aretha Franklin
- Steve Martin
- Elvis Costello
*Shelley was so kind to pack me goodies for the road including Sun Chips. Even though Dave Matthews won't be there to eat them.
**Except on headlines. I don't wanna mess with our Alexa ranking, Andy.


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O cold marred magma, O turning pitted gibbous!
Your elliptical eccentricity, your diurnal libration,
Is strikingly inconsequential
To our insipid imagination.
I was first introduced to astronomy when my father told me to walk in a circle around a small fern to demonstrate how we see the phases of the moon from Earth. This was the most incredible thing I had discovered in my four years on this planet, and the only thing to trump the small green lizards whose tails came off in my hands and then grew back again.
Two years later my father built his own telescope in our attic. He even ground his own lens. That was a couple decades ago, but I can still recall the smell of whatever the sticky-smooth, orangish substance was that he used to polish the glass.
Then I saw the rings of Saturn. They were really out there, just like all the books said they would be. What about Pluto? Or comets? Were they really out there, too? And how did those rings around Saturn get there anyway? And why are there craters on the moon? I remember believing then that all the answers were already known, and that all I had to do was read enough books in order to discover them. This belief soon proved false, but not before I had come across enough unanswerable questions to lead me to General Relativity at a relatively young age.
For some reason, the notion of gravity as a consequence of the curvature of space-time was much easier for me to grasp, and a lot more interesting, than some other more fundamental concepts immediately applicable to life. Fractions, for example, were completely lost on me, as was the generally agreed upon notion that science was not cool and MTV was. Even now, I can't add fractions, or dress the fashion, but I can explain why a clock would tick faster as it approaches the event horizon.
And even though I've been thinking about the fabric of space-time and event horizons for longer than some of my classmates have been alive, I still find the subject matter infinitely fascinating. In fact, I don't know what could be more fascinating than an impossible-to-ponder-all-the-possibilities universe right outside our window—except, maybe, those tiny tail-falls-off-and-grows-back-again lizards.
So, speaking of infinitely fascinating subject matter, I was shocked to hear a friend of mine say recently, "The moon is so boring, it would be better if we could project movies on it . . . or something." I do realize that I am a prisoner of my own perception paradigm, but even so, it had never occurred to me before that someone might find the moon to be a boring thing. To my way of seeing things, this was blasphemy, absurd, and untrue. All my wonder, curiosity, passion for science, appreciation of the natural world—my solace within the confines of unnatural surroundings—it all began with the phases of the moon. When I look up at the glowing, pitted gibbous today, I am no less astounded than I was when I was four.
I felt sad for my friend and for our closest lunar relative. I wondered what it would be like to be a prisoner of a perception paradigm that did not include moon-magic. Was Saturn boring too? The constellations? I felt like I was in sixth grade again, when all the kids thought that I was boring, and I thought, Sometimes I am more at home in the universe than I am among my own peers.


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Mark Your Calendars: CJAC/CALA 6th Annual Day at the Capitol
Posted on 01/13/2016 @ 09:00 AM
March 15, 2016 is the day! CJAC and CALA will host Day at the Capitol for CJAC and CALA members as well as interested members of the community. Activities will include a welcome lunch, meetings with Legislators at the Capitol, and an evening reception with Legislators. Stay tuned; more details to follow.
Monkey See, Monkey Sue Update
Posted on 01/12/2016 @ 09:00 AM
A judge in San Francisco has ruled on what came to be one of the most ridiculous lawsuits of 2015. To read the full story, click here.
Monkey See, Monkey Sue
Posted on 10/28/2015 @ 10:00 AM
"A monkey, an animal rights organization and a primatologist walk into federal court…" Read this lawyer's delightful response to PETA's absurd monkey selfie lawsuit. Click here to read the story.
Press-Telegram Op-Ed: Why lead paint lawsuits are a dud for California cities, counties: Carmen Trutanich
Posted on 10/28/2015 @ 10:00 AM
In today's Press Telegram, Carmen Trutanich, former city attorney for Los Angeles, addresses the long reach of lead-paint lawsuits into the private sector.
Among his points he opines:
It appears that those who joined this lawsuit failed to consider the possible impacts to private property owners by the court's findings. For example, the verdict, in essence, labels "every" painted residential building, constructed prior to 1981, as a "public nuisance."
This label remains with the structure until it is inspected, and if lead paint is found, until the lead paint is abated or removed, and then passes re-inspection. In essence, the findings transfer the stigma of lead paint to every single private property owner via judicial decree, in exchange for money to the cities, counties, and of course, the lawyers.
How will the entire abatement process for all these properties be handled so as not to impact property values? And who do you think is going to actually pay for all this to happen?
Homeowners and landlords whose properties are labeled a "public nuisance" could see drastic declines in home values. And the hardship won't be isolated to the private sector; governments will suffer too. Tax revenues will fall as property taxes decrease.
To read the entire op-ed, click here.
History Suggests California Will Require Warning Labels For Bacon
Posted on 10/27/2015 @ 10:00 AM
Sacramento's Capitol Public Radio reports that the World Health Organization has classified bacon, ham and other processed meats as carcinogenic. As such, would California require Proposition 65 warning labels?
Passed in 1986, Proposition 65 requires California to compile a list of "chemicals known to increase cancer risk." If these meats are added to that list, everyone from grocers and butchers to restaurants will have to post a notification.
The report notes that WHO-identified carcinogens are historically added to the Proposition 65 list, but State health officials say they are reviewing the WHO's findings and are not sure if they will add processed meats.
To listen to the report and read the story, click here.


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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KTRK) --A Kansas City random act of kindness is catching on, with people all over the country joining in.
A chance encounter at a fast food restaurant will now change the life of a young Kansas City woman.
She doesn't even know, but a stranger has helped to raise more than $2,000 for her to go back to college.
It all started with one positive thought, mixed with a little fried chicken.
Don Carter was in a Popeye's drive thru last night, picking up dinner after a long day. Don struck up a conversation with a young woman working at the window and she started telling him how she was working to go back to school to be a nurse.
"What kind of nurse?" Carter asked.
That's when the woman responded that it didn't even matter. Carter just assumed that the woman was exhausted.
As Carter drove home, Popeye's in hand, he couldn't stop thinking about the young woman's spark and how he could help.
"I was literally crunching on the chicken and this thought dawns on me. What if you pay for her to go to school?" said Carter.
Carter began researching how much it costs to get a nursing license: $1,500.
"I was like, we could do that, I have 1300, 1400 Facebook friends," said Carter.
He created a GoFundMe page, putting out a plea to his Facebook friends.
People all over the country saw the GoFundMe page, in just 24 hours, Carter surpassed his goal, raising more than $1,700 for the girl at Popeye's.
After WDAF aired this story, that figure jumped to over $4,400 overnight.
"Taking the risk of doing something good for somebody else, regardless how they receive it, for me, that's where life has its joy," said Carter.
The woman has no idea any of this is happening and Carter hasn't quite figured out how he's going to tell her.
"Man, what if we all started to take part in that? Even just in this city, you know, if we started to treat each other that way or just had the mind to treat each other that way, what kind of city would we have?" said Carter.
If you'd like to help, you can donate at the GoFundMe page.
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Labor: 'Startup Year' A Plan To Kick-Start Young Entrepreneurs In Australia
Labor has announced that if it form government after the next election they will establish a 'Start-up Year' to kick-start Australia's aspiring young entrepreneurs.
Labor's Startup Year would be available to 2,000 students each year who want to establish a startup within a university (or similar) accelerator or incubator, which would help them through mentoring, gaining business skills and capital.
This program would be funded by means of the government's Higher Education Loans Programme Delivering this within the existing HELP system would present a Start-up Year as a continuation of study for the participants and have the benefit of securing a concrete commitment from students who are serious about starting their own venture.
Labor has stated that the Startup Year program will have the aim of building a culture of innovation and creativity in Australia by allowing students to test their ideas, gain business knowhow and connect with mentors and investors.


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We are delighted to organize a NON-COMPETITIVE running activity during the workshop. All people attending the workshop are invited to join this activity.
We will have two laps each of 5.2 km in the morning of Tuesday, starting at 7:00 AM (first lap) and 7:30 AM (second lap). Participants can run in both of the laps or only in one of them which better fits their time schedule. Meeting point will be the main entrance of the Workshop Hotel. The running track is excellent for both amateurs and professionals, for an overview see here.
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Fashionable & funky exterior PLUS a powerful-yet-frugal Turbo Diesel engine PLUS six-speed computerized gearbox PLUS an improved inside EQUALS robust worth for cash.
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Hyundai ix35 SUV sports activities a slightly heavy design with a petroleum engine that will get noisy beneath onerous acceleration. It additionally will get agency whereas using over tough areas
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The primary to function the Hyundai manufacturers 'Fluidic Sculpture' theme which arrived in February 2010. It makes into the checklist of the good Compact SUV's one should buy. It's enhanced by the massive hexagonal grille up-front which is a typical Hyundai type of spelling its presence. The rear hatch holds a function that may very well be known as the 'mini duck tail' (Porsche 911 lovers get this). Carverdict's Salute.
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Contemplating the dimensions of the autos 'footprint' the Hyundai ix35 is not any light-weight design – tipping the scales between 1.6 & 1.eight tonnes (examine this to a medium family-sized wagon and also you'll see that on common SUV's are positively heavier creatures). The entrance grille physique is coloured on the entry-level 'Lively' grade and because of this (to our eyes) it doesn't seem as effectively built-in as the grey coloured variations on the mid and upper-grades.
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The steering wheel is a cool four-spoke construction and the motive force's seat options six-way energy adjustment (besides on the entry-level Lively grade). The seat place is comparatively excessive, offering good frontal visibility. The rear seats provide adequate head room and have a fold-down middle armrest with favorable sized cupholders. The Hyundai ix35's cabin cupboard space is nice for a household automotive and the rear seats fold flat to spice up cargo area from nearly 600L to over 1,400L! The panoramic glass roof, customary on the Highlander grade, creates a lovely lightened really feel to the inside.
Pre October 2010 the Hyundai ix35's steering wheel adjusted for tilt (up & down) however not attain (in & out). Not any extra, fortunately it now does each. The 2011 ix35 vary additionally beneficial properties extra sound deadening supplies to cut back street noise ranges.
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It's disappointing that the sprint options extra plastic than one would really like. The rear legroom gives adequate area for the legs to place up with the journey, however not as spacious as anticipated. The decrease window traces are fairly above the margin; this implies the youngsters should preserve bouncing to get a view of the street.
Entry-level Lively's 2.0L Petrol engine produces a decent 122kW of energy (& 197Nm of torque) and while noisy beneath onerous acceleration it's under no circumstances forgotten – it's the only real front-wheel drive variant and considerably much less lighter than the AWD ix35's. The mid-spec 2.4L Petrol advantages from considerably extra torque (227Nm); nevertheless by far essentially the most spectacular engine is the smooth-sounding 2.0L Turbo Diesel which generates a whopping 135kW of energy and 392Nm of torque.
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With the a lot hype of the two.4L Petrol engine, in the actual world nevertheless the velocity doesn't appear any sooner than 2.0L. Sure the sound is much less although.
Trip and Dealing with
Hyundai ix35 affords a unbelievable experience displaying the flexibility of being the one Compact SUV on the street with out the worry of being scratched on the corners. Straightforward to steer by way of the visitors. Even when the Highlander grade is ready on giant 18-inch alloy wheels, it offers a snug experience.
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The steering is on the sunshine aspect, however contemplating this isn't a sports activities automotive, it's onerous price mentioning. Underneath onerous acceleration the Turbo Diesel grades can undergo from torque steer by way of the steering wheel (no shock contemplating how a lot pulling energy this engine has).
The spectacular dealing with (for a high-riding SUV anyway) does come on the worth of experience high quality; while superb over smooth surfaces the experience is a contact on the agency aspect over rougher surfaces ..
From October 2010 the digital energy steering has been modified to enhance steering really feel and with a purpose to improve the experience high quality all AWD variants now get ASD suspension as customary. We'll let you recognize our ideas of the adjustments very quickly, as soon as we spend a while driving the up to date vary.
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Positively a finest purchase with wonderful options. ix35's additionally options the automated, a top quality six-speed field. This can be a important enchancment over the varied opponents' with four-speed gearboxes. The security function are spectacular with six airbags, ABS brakes, Digital Brake Distribution, Traction & stability management, Downhill Brake Management and Hill Begin Help Management. Additionally in October 2010 with the introduction of the rear park help has crossed requirements throughout all grades.
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The a lot talked about two Petrol powered engine provides solely on-par gasoline financial system. Though the Turbo Diesel's financial system is positioned finest for a Compact SUV, we're nonetheless shocked that the official mixed gasoline financial system determine is much like Hyundai's bigger and heavier seven-seat Diesel powered Santa Fe.


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As Trump haters are having yet another field day on account of his ostensible faux pas at the G-7 meeting in Canada and leftist pundits fall over each other screaming that Trump has no strategic vision, as others just as self-assuredly accuse him of planning to "break the West," which, on the face of it, requires plenty of strategic vision. While this silliness continues to rapidly declining effect, there are now signs that the White House is putting together a robust strategy in Europe that was missing until now.
It comes in the shape of A. Wess Mitchell, who was just appointed the point man at the State Department for Europe and Eurasia. The significance of this appointment, which was missed in the cacophony of anti-Trump perorations, was much on display at the very first programmatic speech he gave last week at the Heritage Foundation. Before delving into the speech, a couple of words about his background, which is important part of his appointment. Mitchell is a bona fide expert on Eastern Europe with three books to his credit and, more importantly, the long-term leader of CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis), the only Washington think tank dedicated to the study of Eastern Europe.
Mitchell started his speech with a ringing endorsement of the Western alliance and the civilization undergirding it, which guaranteed "democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." But he also noted that the West collectively is "under-prepared" for its defense. There are a number of reasons for that, including the dismal legacy the Trump administration inherited from President Obama with its failed reset of relations with Russia, conflict in Ukraine, policy failure in Syria and the largest ever Muslim migration to Europe.
More importantly, Mitchell underscored, preserving the West cannot happen without a strong and free Europe, which is a vital interest of the United States. And here he did not diplomatically avoid naming names and identifying problems. It is Russia and China who "want to break the West," he said and EU allies (read Western Europe) are showing insufficient willingness to "defend their own continent." He further singled out specific European policies that the US consider counter-productive – the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the Iran agreement. The first one is clearly directed against the interests of Eastern Europe and will benefit Russia's monopolistic gas hegemony and make NATO's eastern flank more vulnerable. Though Mitchell did not say it, Germany is the clear culprit here, as the above well-documented CEPA study proves. The Iran agreement, which is still supported by the EU even after the US pulled out of it, allowed the expansion of Teheran's influence to the borders of Israel, the largest such expansion since antiquity, Mitchell noted, and represents a clear danger for the West in Washington's view.
Mitchell did not dwell on the current background of the alliance's politics, but there is no doubt that it was a motivating factor for this groundbreaking policy statement. And that background includes the flat-out refusal by Germany to commit to spending 2% of GDP, except in the very distant future, which makes the largest economy in Europe a consumer, rather than a contributor to collective security. Compare this attitude to the enthusiastic support for NATO's role by nine Eastern European countries (known as the Bucharest 9) which met in Warsaw, as Mitchell was speaking, and endorsed a greater role for the alliance in the East. It is this clear and widening fault line that has prompted numerous pundits to speculate that Trump may be pivoting to the East in Europe, while others have interpreted it as a declaration of war on Russia.
There are other pregnant developments on the old continent that cannot but affect the cohesion of the Atlantic alliance – from Italy's new Eurosceptic government closing its harbors to migrant vessels to a fundamental and widening conflict over immigration by the two ruling parties (CDU and CSU) in Germany. The CSU, which is Bavaria-based wants to turn back migrants at the border, while Chancellor Merkel, who is to blame for the migrant debacle, is doing everything possible to avoid that and thus admit that she was wrong all along. It may be a long shot, but a turn to the right in Germany, may be the best news for Trump and NATO yet.
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Preventing actual — rather than theoretical — harm, is a key issue for the Federal Trade Commission, acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen told a Silicon Valley audience Oct. 26.
The commission is focused on actual harm from privacy protections to patents, Ohlhausen said. That means not blocking a legitimate innovation that competitors might think is unfair to blocking practices that lead to identity theft.
"Is it likely to happen?" Ohlhausen said. "It's not just any injury."
As an example of actual harm, Ohlhausen pointed to a 1971 case in which the agency blocked Philip Morris Inc. from inserting samples of razor blades in home delivered Sunday newspaper advertisements. "We didn't have to wait for kids to swallow the razor blades to say that was an unfair practice and you have to stop."
FTC has brought more than 500 privacy and data enforcement cases, Ohlhausen said during a talk at Cooley LLP in Palo Alto, Calif. FTC recently announced it was investigating Equifax Inc. following a data breach that exposed the credit report records of some 143 million U.S. consumers and others around the globe.
Yet often the injury from a data breach, for example, can't be traced to a specific actor and the agency instead looks at the data involved. The FTC pursued Wyndham Worldwide Corp. for data breaches in which criminals in the Ukraine used the data for identity theft. "That's kind of where I'm trying to draw the line between substantial injury and theoretical," she said.
Wyndham agreed in December 2015 to implement a comprehensive data security program and file compliance reports for 20 years to settle FTC charges that lax data security "unfairly exposed" hundreds of thousands of customers' payment card information.
Patents are hugely important for Silicon Valley, and the issue came up during a question and answer session with the audience.
FTC lawyers are delving into the interface of patent law and antitrust over concerns about "patent assertion entities," or PAEs. PAEs don't make a product and instead make money from their patents through licensing and litigation that generally is settled for less than $300,000, Ohlhausen said.
"What we're trying to get at is there a litigation problem? Is there is an IP problem?" she said. Ohlhausen has been reluctant to push back against companies' aggressive use of patent licenses, citing the need to protect their innovation. In a report released last October, the agency stopped short of recommending law changes to address potential litigation abuse.
The bigger impact, she said, will come from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands that patent owners must sue where an alleged infringer has a place of business. That decision is designed to stop patent trolls from filing lawsuits in court districts that are deemed friendly to patent owners.
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Here's my submission for April's Tie One On theme – yellow and white. I finished up the rag ball knitting I was working on. She's made of two vintage sheets torn up into strips and knitted together.
Here's my submission for April's Tie One On theme – yellow and white. I finished up the rag ball knitting I was working on. She's made of two vintage sheets torn up into strips and knitted together.
so original and beautiful. i can imagine wanting to wring my hands on that when i was baking.
That's fabulous! A little bigger, and it'd make an interesting shawl, no less.
I absolutely love the way you use yellow in your stuff — I try, and the yellow doesn't look as sunny as it does in your work, just YELLOW, like BRIGHT and DISTRACTINGLY VIVID. Seriously.
Too cute! I'm an apron addict, too. That looks so shiny and cheerful!
ooooh! i love it! would make a lovely blanket or rug as well.
so you're telling me that by ripping something to shreds, you came up with that lovely apron? crazy…
it looks wonderful. is it heavy? i remember ripping a whole lot of sheets up to make a braided rug and when that attempt went south started to knit a bathroom rug. i don't know what ended up happening with it.
yours apron looks amazing and the colors are just right for spring.
OMG, I love this so much!
Gorgeous! I love the colors and the texture. I especially love where you tied the strips together.
Great idea! Looks like it's just thick enough that you could grab the corner and use it as a hot pad in a pinch.
i love this…
the colors are beautiful!
Those photos look like something out of a magazine, so beautiful. You make yellow look like it could be my new favorite color.
What a lovely texture.
love it and it double as a pot holder (which i try unsuccessfully to do with all my aprons).
Simple, functional, beautiful… like sunshine.
Totally incredible !!!
Totally gorgeous! I love the way it hangs and all the ties. It looks so touchable.
I like the way the tied ends hang out. Now I know what to do with some cloth I don't like and an empty tile floor – knitted rug, here I come.
Love it! What a great way to interpret the theme. So pretty!
Really, really nice – i love the texture!
This is so pretty! I love it!!
Sooooo beautiful!
That thing is awesome. It's like apron? or, in a pinch, hot pad!
Holy! I just had the biggest flash back. When I was about 10 years old and desperately wanted to be punk (it was the 80's people) my Mum knitted me a rag top just like this (but blue). It was sleevless and had lots of loose ends sticking out. It was heavy, but I LOVED it! I felt waaay cool wearing it.
Great apron, thanks for the memory injection.
That's fantastic! I just moved and it makes me wish I'd not given so much stuff away! I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day not torturing myself by remembering the fabrics that could have been so perfect..


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Carter Gaston Local Artist Explodes onto National Scene of Cultural Arts
By: Tony McCray
Carter J. Gaston, otherwise known as Carter G, has exploded onto the local scene with his "Farewell Obama" Exhibit and his wall mural paintings which are popping up all over Pensacola. One of Gaston's main local mural locations is the former "Bunny Club" now the Heritage Museum on the corner of Belmont & DeVilliers Streets in the African-American Historical Business District. The mural is called "It's Your Move" depicting the Black historical figures pouring their knowledge into the youth at the bottom of the mural.
Another key location in Pensacola to view his work is "Big Al's Crab Shack" on the corner of "V" Street and Gadsden Street. The murals in Big Al's include a huge crab that provides the backdrop for the performance area in the new seafood restaurant and the hallway which resembles a "Hall of Fame Walkway" within the restaurant. In fact, if you missed his Farewell Obama Exhibit, some of the artwork that was not purchased at the show is now in Big Al's!
Carter G. is in Denver this weekend as a featured artist at the "36TH Annual Colorado Indian Market Festival and Southwest Showcase" on January 20th, 21st, and 22nd! The festival takes place at the very high profile Denver Mart on the corner of Interstate 25 and 58th Avenue in Denver. Marketing information online describes the event as: Spectacular, Enchanting, Incredible, Thrilling, Breathtaking, and Magical.
Robin Reshard has described Carter G.'s artwork as follows, "His work is fantastic. He has worked with me when we sponsored "Sip, Savor, Talk" at Five Sisters Restaurant. I requested that he paint portraits of the guest chef and beverage professional of the event. So, he does private events because people hire him to paint portraits of their events. I know he has painted at private events in Destin and Panama City"!
In an interview with the Gulf Coast Voice as his plane landed in Denver, Carter G. stated that he is excited about the Denver Art Show as a stepping stone to a more national profile. However, he shared that he plans to open an art gallery, an art studio, and art school in the near future in Pensacola.
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Steve Jobs Biography2/24/1955 - 10/5/2011 | 13 Quotes
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.- Steve Jobs


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Members of the groups will be DJing at the club to round off its birthday celebrations...
PSYCHONAUTS and MATT FLINT from Death In Vegas are among the stars performing a free DJ set at HEAVENLY SOCIAL tonight (June 9), rounding off a week of birthday celebrations at the legendary LONDON club.
The infamous celebrity hangout for the coolest and most notorious figures in rock, soul and techno, the Social – which was hosted DJ sets in the last year by such luminaries as Chemical Brothers, Richard Fearless, Shack, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Annie Nightingale and Andrew Weatherall – moved to new premises at Little Portland Street in June last year.
The club was originally held in The Albany pub in Great Portland Street, and flitted through Turnmills and Smithfields before opening as a bar in its current home.
There have been celebrations all week, and the party continues tomorrow night with Goldstar and St Etienne, while The Beta Band Sound System take the decks on Sunday to wind the party up, with live MC from Exodus 77. The whole of Beta Band will be in attendance, but will be Djing rather than playing live.


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AS Roma Begin Building Of A New Stadium
Serie A giants AS Roma, are set to embark on a massive £1 billion project for building a new stadium and business and entertainment centre .
Roma who share a stadium with city rivals Lazio are hoping to move from Stadio Olimpico as soon as the project is completed. American owner, James Pallota wants Roma to be a top club in the world, and feel its a necessity that the club owns it's own stadium if it wants to attain that status.
"If we are going to consistently compete as a top club in the world we need a new stadium, a stadium that is privately owned by AS Roma,' Pallotta said, adding that the entire project will amount to 'one of the most important projects in Italy in many, many decades."
The stadium is expected to have a capacity of 52,500 seats, with the option of expanding it to 60,000 if need be. The project starts in december and will last up to two years pending government approval. The total cost to build the stadium itself is around £217million, but the other cost that makes up the total amount are from surrounding structures and transportation.
The stadium is slated to be open for the 2017-2018 Serie A season.
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Show me a politician tangled up in corruption or a business person who has bent the rules, cooked the books, manipulated expense reports, fudged on production standards or otherwise buried the truth, and I will show you someone who cheated in school and got away with it.
The parents of the children involved in the Corona del Mar High School cheating scandal, no matter the level of their culpability, have a unique opportunity to do the right thing. Be a parent and teach your kids something that neither an attorney nor the school board — nor for that matter an Ivy League, blue-chip school — can teach them: accountability and responsibility.
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Development is alright, but caste arithmetic remains the key factor in determining the success of a candidate in
Most of the seven constituencies going to polls the second phase of Lok Sabha election in the state on Thursday are the impregnable castles of different castes where it might be difficult for the candidates, not belonging to the dominant communities, to script their success stories. It is no surprise that most of the parties have chosen their candidates in keeping with the overall caste profile of the constituencies.
The Patliputra seat, which was created on the basis of the delimitation commission report in 2009, has emerged as a stronghold of Yadav candidates due to large population of their fellow caste men there. This time, the triangular contest has three Yadavs - Misa Bharti (RJD), Ram Kripal Yadav (BJP) and Ranjan Prasad Yadav (JD( U))-in the fray. Patliputra had also witnessed an all-Yadav fight five years ago when Ranjan had defeated Lalu Prasad (RJD) and Vijay Singh Yadav Congress). The adjoining Patna Sahib, however, is considered a safe seat for the candidates from the Kayastha caste. The BJP has retained its sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha while the JD(U) has fielded another Kayastha, Dr Gopal Prasad Sinha. In 2009, Shatrughan had defeated Congress candidate Shekhar Suman, another Kayastha, among other candidates.
Nalanda constituency, the home turf of chief minister Nitish Kumar, has been a bastion of the Kurmis. This time, the JD( U) has retained its sitting MP Kaushalendra Kumar, a Kurmi, while the Congress- RJD has fielded former DGP of Bihar Police Ashish Ranjan Sinha, another Kurmi.
Also going to polls on April 17 are the two seats where candidates from Bhumihar castes have held sway over the years. In Munger, JD(U)'s sitting MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh, a Bhumihar, is locked in a tough fight against LJP's Veena Devi, wife of former MP Surajbhan Singh, a Bahubali (strongman).
Similarly, the two Bhumihars locking horns in Jehanabad are Arun Kumar from the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, an ally of the BJP, and the JD(U)' s Anil Kumar Sharma, a realty baron who owns the Amrapali group of companies.
In contrast, the fight is between the two Rajput candidates in Ara.
The BJP has fielded former Union home secretary Raj Kumar Singh who is trying to wrest the seat from JD(U)'s Meena Singh. In Buxar, the Rajput and Brahmin voters are equally dominant. The BJP has fielded Ashwini Kumar Choubey in its bid to wrest the seat from RJD's Jagdanand Singh, a Rajput, who won the seat defeating BJP's Lalmuni Choubey by a narrow margin.
Some parties have, however, preferred to give ticket to the leaders from other castes. For instance, Lalu Prasad has chosen to field Bhagan Singh Kushwaha, an OBC, from the Rajput- dominated Ara seat while he has given ticket to Surendra Prasad Yadav from the Bhumihar- dominated Jehanabad constituency. Similarly, the Congress fielded Bhojpuri actor Kunal Singh, a Yadav by caste, from Patna Sahib. These parties want to reap the benefits from the split in the votes due to presence of two or more candidates from same community.
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31 January 2018
Marvel Studios has released the latest trailer for its upcoming superhero film, Ant-Man and the Wasp. The film is the sequel to the first Ant-man.We also saw a glimpse of the superhero in Civil War. The sequel brings yet another character of the Wasp, played by Evangeline Lilly. Ant-Man and the Wasp sees the duo team up as they fight the bad guys together, big and small.
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Step Two: All is Well, If…
Step Two of AA "Can help you have a relationship with a power greater than you and access the power that you need to thrive in the world. You might, however, still find yourself wanting to fall back into control – or what you thought was control!"
I know that I once thought control was being able to do drugs and drink, and still be able to recite the ABC's… A few years deep, and I no longer possessed that thought process, even though I still possessed an addiction. A Heavy one at that. On drugs, your personality dwindles, your ambition lingers, your motivation drives away… And so do all of the one's you love. You push them away. You push to push, you push people away to spend time with the drug. It's a personal relationship in itself. Like the "Baltimore Love Song" (50-Cent). It's a love hate sort of thing. But it's predictable. And life, life itself, is not. At all. We have to accept that. That which we cannot change… and begin focusing on what we can change… ourselves.
The phrase "ALL IS WELL" refers to the fact that "Life is constantly falling apart, and then offering us the opportunity to experience the full depth of what it means to be human. When you are settled with deep faith in the inherent goodness of the universe, invite our life to fall apart. You will be okay. You will be okay because 'all is well'."
This phrase reminds me of Karma. If a man does his best, what else is there? If your sole intent is always good, what you will get in return in life will come back, three fold. That is my belief. I believe in Jesus, as a Christian, and I'm deep rooted in my belief's that The Lord is my Savior – I pray everyday to God. It has become second nature… And now, so has praying in a sense, to say thank you, I appreciate all you have done for me. Through god I try to carry out his word, and by that I mean, just be a good person. There are only two in this world, good and bad. What are you? What do you want to be? What are you capable of becoming? So be it.
"I do not have to fix everything?" 'No, you do not have to hold all of the pieces in place. All you need is to believe and trust. No matter how your outside life is arranged. No matter how crazy the world seems. All is Well.' "All will be well because all has always been well. The Truth does not depend on you to be the Truth. And that Truth is the essence of Step Two. The essence of life." 'You have not worked Sep Two, Dan. You have no faith that everything is going to be okay. You need to go back to Step Two.' "While your experience with Step Two may have started with recognition of a power greater than you, it blossoms into faith, then a belief, and then a knowing that tells you no matter what, 'All is Well.'"
"When I came into the program I had a tiny God, now I hae an awesome powerful God that I listen to and do my best to "pray" attention to." – Joe P. "You may call it Love, Truth, Nature, or Higher Self. You may have experienced it as Money, Sex, Drugs, or Fame. Regardless of how you name it – this power greater than you has been with you throughout your life, though perhaps with defferent faces. The Big Book tells us:
'…For deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.'
The key is realizing that, whatever this power is, you are not it."
Getting even to the Second Step of Sobriety and finally realizing that there are doctor's out there to help, there are alternatives than the streets, and there IS a way out to the misery of drug use/abuse/addition. When you get down to the root of everything and cut out your drug of choice that renders you weak to feeling emotion, you being to break down. Bit by bit you fall apart and it's up to you to put your trust in someone else's hands and let them take over the dosing and counseling (mental aspect of it all, also referring to the community aspect as a whole for recovery; and its importance.) That was the hardest part for me was to trust someone else and to let them take my control away, my drugs away, and rely solely on their care. It's still a hard thing to come to terms with today. However, since I haven't been what we like to call "Dope Sick" Since a couple months into the Clinic, I have faith. I have faith in god. A strong faith in god, as he lead me in the right direction when I chose to do the right things. I could feel that powerful feeling of helplessness and I could feel that powerful feeling of hope. Nonetheless, all I had was determination… and that's what keeps me "Praying attention" to God. Second by Second, Minute by Minute.
"We eventually became increasingly isolated and lonely. We created more walls, and we created more masks to wear. Eventually we came into recovery where we were told that if we do not get honest about our fears, our insecurities, and the problems in our lives, we will not stay sober 'Take off the masks! Tear down the walls!' they say. But How?"
Through Faith, Truth, Honesty, Perseverance, Determination, Put Your Life Before Your Pride, Put Your Life in God's Hands and you will begin to experience what it's like to become you again. A whole new you. The real you.
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Legal Education and Lawyer Competency. Curricula for Change.
Dutile, Fernand N., Ed.
Resulting from a conference co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the American Bar Association (ABA), this book explores recent innovations in legal education, specifically those "apprenticeship" programs in clinical and client counseling. Papers include: "The Problem of Teaching Lawyer Competency" (Fernand N. Dutile); "Opening Remarks" (S. Shepherd Tate); "The Need for Greater Emphasis on Skills Development" (Roger C. Cramton, Alvin B. Rubin, Richard Nahstoll, and John Cribbet); "Teaching and Testing Clinical Skills" (David Barnhizer, James Brill, Ronald Staudt, and Dean Rivkin); "Effective Teaching of Litigative Skills" (Kenneth Brown, Fred H. Bartlit, John Powers Crowley, Robert Hanley, James Seckinger, and Robert Keeton); "Effective Teaching of Lawyer's Function, Role, and Responsibility (Professional Responsibility, Legal Profession, and Management of Legal Work)" (Samuel Smith, Roberta Ramo, Norman Redlich, and Francis H. Musselman); "The Non-Conventional Third Year--including Counseling and Interviewing" (Willard Pedrick, Thomas Shaffer, Sam F. Fowler, Jr., Gary Munneke, and Donald Berman); "Negotiation and Arbitration" (James White and Bernard Dobranski); "Getting There from Here: Priorities, Remedies, and Resources" (Lewis Collens, Orrin Helstad, and Kenneth Penegar); and "Computer-Assisted Teaching" (Roger Park, Russell Burris, Richard McGonigal, and Spencer Neth). It is suggested that clinical education will expand the strength of law school education by giving students real experience in professional responsibility, and by enhancing their theoretical ability. (LC)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Competence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Counselor Client Relationship, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal Education, Professional Education
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN 46556 ($15.00).
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Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle Series 3 DVD
DVD Review - Chortle - By Steve Bennett, Wednesday, November 19th, 2014.
Stewart Lee continues on cracking form with his third series of six contrary, tricksy and super-smart stand-up sets.
As the house comedian of the metropolitan liberal elite, he puts in his sights such subjects as inequitable wealth distribution and the mentality underlying UKIP's rise ('If you say you're English these days you get arrested and thrown in jail,' apparently.) He makes good points expertly well, with some superbly florid language and beautifully evocative imagery – especially in the episode on satire.
A rewarding extra layer on to comes courtesy of Lee's supreme awareness of his own place, taking umbrage at Lee Mack's perceived description of him as a 'cultural bully from the Oxbridge mafia' but tacitly acknowledging it might be true. After one well-received gag he comments: 'That's the sound of the middle classes applauding their own guilt.' For although he appeals to the Guardian-reading demographic he mocks them, and himself, with the same incisive accuaracy as his other targets.
This analysis comes into its own with the excellent companion disc – which is worth the purchase price on its own if you're a Lee fan. It contains two and a quarter hours of him being interviewed by Chris Morris, only a tiny fraction of which made it into the BBC Two broadcasts.
It's funny and illuminating, sometimes spiky and often tongue-in-cheek. Lee agrees with Morris's assertion that the series only got recommissioned because some idiot at the BBC was impressed with the shiny trinkets won at the Baftas and British comedy awards, while being feted does not sit well with Lee's grumpy outsider persona. 'I've lost my way,' he laments. 'I don't know who I'm supposed to be any more.'
There's agreement, too, with the sociologist Laurie Taylor, who dismissed Lee's comedy as not begin about laugher, but a feeling of smug superiority. He confesses to reluctant including some Broad Comedy elements in the episodes to counter that charge.
Extras also include an interview with Canadian comedian Baconface, which is perhaps a joke that's run its course, but heaven forbid that Stewart Lee keeps doing something repetitively whether or not his audience are buying into it or not…
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There are over 2.8 million parking tickets issued a year in Toronto alone. If only 1% of people requested a court date to fight their ticket that would result in 28,000 court dates. That would translate to 108 court dates per day. This calculation does not take into account holidays or other traffic tickets. It is the belief of Court Agency that a HUGE majority of these tickets will never have their day in court and therefore be dismissed.
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Try this unique tasting kiwifruit juice that is rich in vitamin C, magnesium, potassium and other minerals and nutrients. I am even surprise that the vitamin C content of kiwi is higher than orange. This juice is good for the lungs and preventing high blood pressure. Therefore, it is good to include this in your diet.
To make a glass of kiwi juice we only need 4 kiwifruits. Peel it and extract the juice.


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- Release date: 5/8/2014
- Developer: SkyBox Labs
- Publisher: Microsoft Studios
- Genre: Simulation , Strategy
- Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese
- Features: Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
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- OS: Windows Vista, 7, 8.1+
- Processor: 1.6 Ghz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Direct X 10+ Capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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- OS: Windows 7, 8.1+
- Processor: 2.6 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Direct X 11+
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- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: GeForce 9800GTX, Radeon 4850+
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Age of MythologyThe classic real time strategy game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortals.
Use mythological creatures like Minotaurs and Cyclopes to bolster your armies' strength. Call upon the gods for assistance in flattening enemy towns with meteors or scatter opposing troops with lightning storms.
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Cosas y cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communication (1547-1573)
This article analyzes some of the social mechanisms and material processes involved in Jesuit global communication in the first decades of the Society's history. The exchange of administrative correspondence, news-sheets (quadrimestres), and edifying letters from the overseas missions was coordinated by the Society's Roman secretary, Juan Alfonso de Polanco. Communication made significant material demands on both Rome and key transmission nodes on the Jesuit network. In 1560, a decentralized system of scribal production of news and letters was established. Particular pressure was placed on Lisbon, a crucial communications hub for exchanges between Jesuits in Europe and the overseas missions. The last part of the article examines the experience of the Jesuit procurator in Lisbon, charged with managing the exchange of documents between Europe and Jesuits in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. The case of Lisbon, though exceptional, reflects many of the everyday realities of Jesuit communication during the Society's formative period. Several documents are published in an appendix.
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Nelles, P. (2015). Cosas y cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communication (1547-1573). Journal of Jesuit Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 421–450). doi:10.1163/22141332-00203003


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One general rule always apply for everyone who attends a religious ceremony of any sect. it is to keep the PG as a sign of respect i.e. hems longer and shoulders covered. And, Ramadan included this. So now DKNY has launched a collection to celebrate the month-long religious ceremony as to give honor one of the most sacred times of year for Muslims and keep this in mind.
The line is round out by bold-colored, beautiful maxi dresses and sportswear-inspired, cool separates. It's the familiar DKNY but this time with larger modesty. The better thing is that the two observers of Ramadan, designer Tamara Al Gabbani and stylist Yalda Golsharifi shared their own personal experience for Ramadan and styles the lookbook for the site of brand.
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11 Wardour Court is a stunning and stylish four bedroom home situated in an exclusive and charming courtyard located within the grounds of Wardour Castle surrounded by rolling countryside. Wardour Court has been designed to echo the architecture of Wardour Castle and has been finished to an extremely high standard throughout. The accommodation is arranged over three floors and is immaculately presented throughout, offering numerous light and airy rooms most of which benefit from beautiful panoramic views over the surrounding parkland. The ground floor comprises of a kitchen/breakfast room with fitted units and appliances, a sizeable sitting room and a cloakroom. The elegant drawing room, which is situated on the first floor, benefits from three windows allowing an abundance of natural light to flood the room. The room is fitted with a feature 'Jetmaster' gas fire surrounded by natural stone fireplace. The master bedroom is also situated on this floor with a dressing area and en-suite bathroom. There is a fourth bedroom which is currently being used as a study. The remaining two bedrooms are located on the second floor both with en-suite shower rooms. There is also another study. Outside the property is a carport, further allocated parking for several vehicles, a beautiful garden and a store.
Properties of this design and standard in such a wonderful and rural location are rare and we highly recommend a viewing so that you can appreciate for yourself all that this home has to offer.
Set amidst beautiful rolling Wiltshire countryside, Wardour Court is a contemporary building in a parkland setting, although the surrounding area is rural, nearby Tisbury has a good range of individual shops, pubs and restaurants as well as a doctors, dentist and leisure centre together with a station which has a direct line to London Waterloo (109 minutes). In addition, the lovely hilltop town of Shaftesbury has more comprehensive facilities while the Cathedral City of Salisbury has a twice weekly market, an excellent shopping centre, a theatre and a mainline station connecting with Waterloo. The nearby A303 links to the national motorway network and airports via the M3. Along with the excellent village primary schools, Salisbury offers good state secondary schools, the popular grammar schools, South Wilts and Bishops Wordsworth and the highly regarded private schools, Godolphin, The Cathedral School, Chafyn Grove and Leaden Hall, St Mary's Shaftesbury, Sandroyd, Port Regis and Clayesmore, are all close by.
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