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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- In a long line at an airport security checkpoint, the man in front of me wearily reached into his travel cases and began to unload his electronic gear into the gray plastic bin.
He had his laptop computer, two cellphones, a Kindle reading device and some sort of digital music player, each with its own power cord. He probably didn't need to throw the cords and chargers into the bin with the other devices, but he did anyway.
So, with all the devices and cords piled on top of each other, the bin moved along the conveyor belt. The TSA agent standing watch asked the business traveler to put some of the gear in separate bins. He complied.
I said to him:
"Did you ever see 'Goldfinger'?"
"The old James Bond movie?" he said. "Sure."
"You know that scene where Q, the equipment master, outfits Bond for his upcoming secret agent assignment?"
"Yes," the guy said. "Why?"
"Who do you think carried more electronic equipment?" I said. "You, or Bond?"
He laughed, and then set off to retrieve his digital arsenal.
I thought about him last week, when millions of Gmail users found out that, without notice, they were temporarily cut off from Google's e-mail service.
Perhaps you were one of them -- one of the millions who, for part of last Tuesday (the outage was said to be for more than an hour), were unable to send or receive letters on your Gmail account.
And if you were among them, did you find yourself becoming annoyed, irritated -- maybe, against your better judgment, a little panicked -- or was there a part of you that felt oddly, secretly relieved?
Did it feel like a snow day -- like getting an unexpected vacation from constant digital dutifulness?
Google at first said the glitch affected "less than 2 percent" of the users of the service; later the company revised that estimate: "We've determined that this issue affected less than 10% of the Google Mail users who attempted to access their accounts during the affected timeframe."
Ten percent would seem to be a relatively small portion of users. But it has been reported that Gmail -- which is provided at no cost to those who use it -- is utilized by some 350 million people worldwide. So if 10 percent of them could not send or receive e-mails, that, potentially, could be as many as 35 million people.
It's at times like these that we can stop and think about how accustomed we have become to assuming we can always be reached on every one of the multiple digital pathways we choose to use. That assumption has become, if not exactly a birthright, an acquired right.
And when we are reminded that we really don't know very much at all about how all of this works, and that we can be cut off from it for reasons just as enigmatic and unexplained as are the electronic mysteries that bring it to us in the first place....
Well, once the Gmail service was up and running again last week, this is what the cartoonist Brian McFadden sent out in a Twitter message to his friends and followers:
"In hindsight, gnawing off my foot while Gmail was down might've been an overreaction."
What I often think about when stories like the Gmail outage or cellphone disruptions pop briefly into the news is the World War II guys who, for four years and more, never once heard the voices of the people they loved: their wives, their parents, their children. Four years away from their homes in the United States with only the most sporadic of overseas mail delivery, no phone calls at all, having to accept on faith that the people who meant the most to them were doing all right.
Yet somehow, in the long silence, they made it. Most of them.
There's no reason at all to mourn for the pre-digital days; they were isolating and could be awfully lonely, and the long silence is never coming back.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night. Providing us the promise of never -- allegedly -- having to feel alone.
Maybe, if you were one of the people who discovered that, however briefly, your Gmail could not come in or go out, you took the opportunity to discreetly celebrate a little bit. There was a "Do Not Disturb" sign posted on at least one door of your life, and no one could blame you for not being available.
A little silence, digital or otherwise, can at times feel like a treat.
Meanwhile, somewhere out there, the tired James Bond business traveler, and all his traveling brothers and sisters, are dumping their electronic sending-and-receiving stations into yet another security-line bin.
Silence -- even when it's welcome -- is ultimately a fickle and fleeting illusion.
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On the first day, he drank himself unconscious, and had showed something shameful to Latina – by having her once again cast a 『Detox』 spell on him – but that wasn't enough to discourage him, and he visited the 『Dancing Ocelot』 on the next day as well.
All of the rookie adventurers were thinking, 'Wouldn't I be able to get closer to the poster girl in this time when her 『guardian』 wasn't here?', as they watched on diligently, waiting, and aiming for their chance. So they were clearly antagonistic towards Rudolf, who their idol aka. Latina was strangely intimate with.
Feeling that the atmosphere was somewhat tense, Latina made a puzzled look.
"Did you fight with all these people around you, or something?"
"No. That's not it."
"Hmmm…. If you're having any troubles, tell me, okay?"
The Rudolf that Latina was having such a conversation with today, was drinking a sweet fruit cider.
If it was another shop, then that would be a drink that he would be laughed at for, being told 'As expected from a 『Child』.', for liking something females enjoy, but this drink had become one of the more popular items at the 『Dancing Ocelot』.
The reason was extremely simple. It was because it was something that the poster girl had added onto the menu. As expected of someone like Latina to be bad with alcohol, who, putting aside the taste, just half-licking what she had put into a small glass, for a small taste, had clearly turned completely red. It seems that she couldn't even sample it.
"Girly, you're pretty close with that boy, huh."
A regular, Gilbester called out, witnessing the sight of Latina holding a conversation with Rudolf. Latina approaches his table, slightly cocking her head to the side and replied casually.
"You know him too right? Gil-san. It's Rudi. He used to come here a lot back then. He's a guard now."
"….Girly, you see…"
"Apparently he can come here to the 『Ocelot』 now that his probation period is over."
Gilbester smiled strangely back at Latina, who had said that with no ill intent whatsoever.
"This girly…. I don't think she can comment about that guy…."
Sighing as he watched her walk away, Gilbester's mumbles were directed towards his glass, in a manner that was inaudible to those around him.
Even though Rudolf's obvious feelings of affection were noticed by those around him, who mocked him, and was envious of him, Latina herself, was keeping those feelings away with her denseness.
With that, though there were some who sneered at Rudolf, since his feelings were so out in the open, it actually invited sympathy from some.
Nevertheless, Rudolf did not get discouraged, and continued visiting the 『Ocelot』 everyday.
He had already known of his childhood friend's thick-headedness, and was taking up the challenge in spite of that.
There was no way he would give up with just this.
And, he eventually noticed it.
The fact that, ever since 『The Night Festival's tragedy』, Latina and Dale's relationship had become a little bit awkward. And that, whilst that relationship had not been amended, Dale had left due to work.
— (He noticed) The matters between them.
Rudolf knew exactly who Latina had always had her eye on.
Even though Latina was smaller than those around her age, and appeared young due to her appearance and manner of speaking, the fact that she was more mentally mature than any of them, was something her friends knew well.
The fact that, her tender feelings towards Dale, who was her 『guardian』, as well as someone of the 『opposite sex』, was something that should be called 『love』 even way before now, was something that they knew of.
Latina had never once said to her friends that Dale was a 『replacement for her father』.
Being such a clever girl even when she was young, she would talk happily 『about Dale』 as her 『favourite person』, understanding fully that he was her guardian, 『someone who protects her』.
And, she was always chasing after him.
Even though there was no way of minimising the age gap between them, her feelings of wanting to 『grow up』 quickly, and wanting to be treated as an 『adult』, as well as her housework and job, were all thoughts and actions beyond her age. She had always been someone who works hard, but more than that, she had always been trying her best, so that she could always stand by his side.
That was something Rudolf knew.
It's because he knew that the person Latina has in her is Dale that, the 『figure』 he chases after, is also the 『same』 as hers.
It was an incredibly distant 『figure』, and it wouldn't be easily reached, no matter how much he chases, how hard he tries. Despite that, for the sake of his unshakable 『feelings』, he polishes himself, working desperately, and becoming stronger. Encouraging himself that, no matter how much praise he receives from others, how much he is acknowledged, it still wouldn't be enough.
Which is why Rudolf understood Latina's 『feelings』 more than anyone else.
After all, his own 『desires』, and Latina's 『desires』 were — when they overlap for the sake of chasing after him — 『very similar』 despite their differences.
After his thoughts went on a turn like that, Rudolf let out a deep sigh.
(….No matter how I think of it…. It feels like this'll be my only chance….)
Seeing that, that was the end result he arrived at no matter how many times he thought about it, he downed his drink as if he was letting out another sigh.
(I don't think I'll have the chance to say it… once she completely 『returns』 back to normal…)
It's been a few days since her 『guardian』 was absent, and at a glance, it appears as if she had 『returned back to normal』. However, in Rudolf's eyes, it appeared as if returning back to normal still wasn't possible.
The fact that what he was feeling from 『him』, someone who was able to make her become so depressed like this, was jealousy, was something he had realised quite a while back.
As Rudolf dropped his gaze to look at the contents of his glass, he delved even further into his thoughts.
The noise from the surroundings become distant, but nevertheless, his ears were unintentionally picking up Latina's voice.
(She won't say… that I'm taking advantage of her moment of weakness… right?)
He was in no place to be so cool as to tell himself that he couldn't take advantage of this current moment when Latina was in trouble.
His current odds were not so good as to hold him back from saying such words.
To use whatever you have at your convenience, is the heart of the 『battlefield』.
(If I was to give up now without doing anything…. I doubt I'll be able to do this several years down the road either.)
The night of 『Ahmar's Night Festival』. Seeing the sight of Latina reddening to her ears, and hearing her shout desperately as she held back her minor trembles, dizzied him.
Dizzied by his envy of wanting her to face him with that voice and look, as well as by the despair known as, whether or not his 『feelings』 would come to an end without him being able to do anything.
Which is exactly why, he couldn't run away at this time, and miss another opportunity provided to him right in front of his eyes. Naturally, when her 『guardian』 was keeping watch, it would be way too scary and he wouldn't feel like he could do it anyway.
This one-in-a-million chance, right now, when Latina was weak, was his only, chance.
As he went through his rather pathetic thoughts inside his head, Rudolf looks up with a determined face, and met face to face with Latina, who was surprisingly close to him.
Shocked, he almost dropped his glass, before panickedly putting it back onto the table. With a crack, a noisy noise that represented his heart's emotions, quietly shook.
"What's wrong Rudi? You're looking a little troubled. Are you worried about something?"
Her lovely, well-proportioned face was clouded by worry, and her large, grey irises stared straight at him, not cowering away in the slightest.
An action that hasn't changed since her younger days.
It was a distance that hasn't changed from her younger days, due to her indifference towards the favour and lust directed towards herself by others.
Maybe Latina didn't realise, that he was so close that he could touch her if he just reached out a little bit, nor how much she, with her unguarded smile, stirs him.
Being questioned once again, he came to his senses. He gulps and coughs loudly, unexpectedly swallowing down his nervousness.
Latina didn't notice Rudolf doing that, and turned towards the glass that Rudolf placed down loudly. Then looking happy, seeing that the contents inside the glass was mostly emptied.
"Rudi, you really went and finished it all. How was it? Good? Or do you think that it would be better if it was still a little bit less sweet?"
"Yeah. It's fine as it is, I think."
Seeing Latina, being so interested towards the item that she had put onto the menu, so extremely enthusiastic, Rudolf responds with a confirmation, being slightly pressured.
Hearing his answer, Latina smiled happily with not a single trace of sadness, like a flower suddenly blooming.
The moment that he wholeheartedly thought, 'She's so cute.' — Rudolf forgot about the worries he had been holding inside until just a second ago.
What remained was truly, a very simple phrase, and a resolve similar to an obsession, that he would surely regret if he didn't say it. That, and nothing else.
"I like you."
Latina blinked her large eyes several times, as if she didn't understand the meaning behind the words that she was so simply, so easily told.
"I… come to this shop, to see you."
"I've liked you, for a really long time. ….That's all I have to say."
Finding it difficult to look directly at Latina, who was replying with a strange sound, Rudolf stopped talking after that and stood up from his seat.
In the instant that Rudolf got out the door, and reached outside, an extremely loud sound could be heard within the shop, as if a table had been flipped. However, Rudolf, who had his head swamped by the racing of his beating heart, didn't notice that at all.

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- Speakers feeling breathless came up, too, so check out "when the speaker needs to catch her breath" for the information we discussed on breathing and the relaxation response.
- Getting started as a speaker--ways to ease into and find opportunities--also was a question today. Look at my 4 stepping stones to get speaking practice. (This crowd was full of questions, my step number one, so it's well on its way to becoming a roomful of speakers!) A few participants mentioned that they want to get back into speaking after a hiatus, and these stepping stones offer experienced speakers a way to edge back into practice.
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The Ivy League dual meet champion will be decided at HYP (Kevin Burns).
Story Line
The fate of Ivy League men's swimming and diving will come down to this one weekend as Harvard, Yale and Princeton clash in the annual HYP meet. Each team is bringing an undefeated record into the weekend with just one conference meet remaining on the schedule.
Action will get underway Saturday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. and will resume Sunday, Feb. 3 at 12 p.m. A live video stream will be available by clicking here, and live results will be available by clicking here.
What's At Stake
The Ivy League dual meet championship is on the line this weekend as Harvard (6-0, 4-0 Ivy), Yale (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) and Princeton (5-0, 4-0 Ivy) each enter HYP with unblemished records. One team will walk away 6-0 in the conference and will secure itself at least a share of the regular season title.
Harvard and Princeton have won each of the last six Ivy League dual meet championships after going undefeated in conference competition. Princeton owns three of those titles, having gone 7-0 in 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2011-12. The Crimson, meanwhile, boasts a total of seven dual meet crowns under Tim Murphy, The Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving, with its last coming in 2010-11.
Meet Schedule
Saturday, 6 pm (earlier heats of 1650 to end by 5pm)
1. 200 free relay
2. 1 meter diving • first three rounds
3. 200 freestyle
4. 100 backstroke
----- 10 minute break
5. 100 breaststroke
6. 200 butterfly
----- 10 minute break
7. 50 freestyle
9. 1650 free
----- 10 minute break
10. 400 medley relay
Sunday, 12 pm
11. 200 medley relay
12. 3 meter diving • first three rounds
14. 100 freestyle
----- 10 minute break
15. 200 backstroke
16. 100 butterfly
----- 10 minute break
17. 500 freestyle
18. 200 breaststroke
----- 10 + minute break for Senior Recognition
19. 400 free relay
Harvard enters the weekend with a perfect 6-0 overall record in dual meets and has won seven straight duals dating back to last year.
Harvard owns an impressive dual-meet record of 119-11 all-time Tim Murphy, The Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving. The Crimson is 45-5 since 2007-08 with a 17-3 mark at home in Blodgett Pool against a 28-2 record on the road. This includes a pair of undefeated seasons in 2007-08 and 2010-11, a 34-3 record against the Ivy League and two Ivy League Dual Meet crowns.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's swimming and diving team won 16-of-19 events, including eight of 10 on Saturday, to remain unbeaten on the year with wins over No. 20 Notre Dame and Towson at the Shamrock Invitational. The Crimson took down the Fighting Irish by a score of 264-100, and topped the Tigers by a score of 314-52.
Additionally, Christian Carbone set a Rolfs Aquatic Center record with a time of 3:52.34 in the 400 IM while 400 medley relay team of Jack Pretto, Chuck Katis, Oliver Lee and Chris Satterthwaite posted a pool record time of 3:17.66.
Related Article: Men's Swimming and Diving Cruises to Wins Over No. 20 Notre Dame, Towson
Record Setters
Sophomores Chuck Katis and Mike Mosca have combined to set four school records this season. Katis bested his own marks in both the 100 breast and 200 breast at the UGA Fall Invite, posting NCAA 'A' standard times of 52.49 and 1:54.08, respectively. Both times stand as the fourth fastest in the NCAA this season.
Mosca, the previous record holder on the one- and three-meter diving boards, also eclipsed his own personal bests in both events with scores of 372.45 and 412.42 at Brown.
Rank and File
Harvard has come in at No. 2 in the second CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Division I Rankings with a total of 249.59 points. The Crimson moved up three places from its original ranking of No. 5, and trails only top-ranked Princeton (253.95 pts.) which was also featured at No. 1 in the original poll.
Punching His Ticket
Sophomore Chuck Katis has already punched his ticket to the 2013 NCAA Championships with a pair of NCAA 'A' standard times in the 100 and 200 breast. Katis also set new school records in both events in the process, turning in a time of 52.49 in the 100 and a time of 1:54.08 in the 200. Both times rank as the fourth fastest in the NCAA this season while is 200 IM time of 1:45.86 ranks 17th.
Catch us if you can...
Harvard has been dominate in dual meets to open the 2012-13 season thanks in large part to junior Chris Satterthwaite, sophomores Mike Mosca and Chuck Katis and freshman Christian Carbone. Satterthwaite, who won the 50, 100 and 200 free at last year's Ivy League Championships, has won the 200 free three times this season while also picking up a pair of victories in the 100 free.
Mosca, the Ivy League's one-meter champion and runner-up on the three meter from a year ago, is unbeaten in both events in dual-meet competition.
Katis boasts a pair of victories in both the 100 breast and 200 IM, and has also picked up wins in the 400 IM and 100 Back.
Carbone, meanwhile, is unbeaten in the 200 fly to start his college career with a pair of wins in the 200 breast and a victory in the 400 IM.


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Tigers, shiny daggers, live snakes, and a collapsing Hindu temple are all elements in the marvelous spectacle that the Joffrey Ballet unveiled Wednesday night, and will run through October 27, at the Auditorium Theatre. Those elements serve as background for the story of a doomed, secret love between Nikiya, a temple dancer, and Solor, a heroic warrior.
Based on Marius Petipa's choreography, "La Bayadere" – The Temple Dancer, which premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in 1877, while set in ancient India, is a dazzling display of color; yet it is a classical romantic ballet and includes the mesmerizing "Kingdom of the Shades", a stunning showpiece for the corps de ballet. Not as well known as Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake because it is not often performed in this country it is one of the great 19th century ballets.
The narrative is pure melodrama and passionate love triangle: Solor (Dylan Gutierrez) saves Nikiya's (Victoria Jaiani) life by killing a tiger and they fall in love. Complications ensue, however, as the High Brahmin (majestic Fabrice Calmels) promises Solor to Gamzatti (a surefooted April Daly). Enter Gamzatti's devoted, conniving maid Ajah (Erica Lynette Edwards) and you have the setting for jealousy, betrayal, and vengeance. Daly and Edwards are delicious to watch as they plot the lovers' demise.
But the story, while juicy, is only the setting for the joy of the evening: masterful dancing, exotic costumes (121, comprised of 568 items, which includes 26 handmade white tutus), and sumptuous sets, with rich colors that bedazzle the onlooker. The lavish and opulent costumes and sets, by prolific British designer Peter Farmer, were originally created for choreographer Stanton Welch's production for the Houston Ballet in 2010. The jewel-outlined tops and harem pants for the women were particularly beguiling, emphasizing their strong, yet sinuous dancers' bodies.
The always excellent Jaiani, as Nikiya, was lovely to watch, with supple arms and a flexible back that arched backwards almost to the floor as she stood on pointe in her first act duet with Gutierrez. She was a bit unsteady in her pirouettes, perhaps due to opening night jitters, but had sure command of the stage as she performed her fast series of pique turns in the duet and variations in Act 3.
A standout were the four guards (Matthew Adamczyk, Ogulcan Borova, Temur Suluashvili, and Shane Urban) who were flawless in their Act I piece, with superb timing that made them seem to be one person in their unison work.
The piece de resistance of "La Bayadère" is the third act's famous "Kingdom of the Shades," which showcases the corps de ballet in precision work. The ensemble of 20 dancers, spectres really, in white tutus, enter one at a time and descend down a ramp at the back of the stage in a deceptively simple combination: 2 steps, arabesque, step and pose, repeated 38 times, as they serpentine slowly to fill the stage, one of the purest forms of ballet-blanc, or white tutu ballet. Purity of line and simplicity of steps is often the best.
The line and position of each dancer must match every other dancer, every leg and pointed foot at the same height, every outstretched arm in the same position and height as every other, to make it all look seamless and smooth. Wednesday night it was perfection, and received a long, well deserved ovation, though not as long as the 1877 premier, which lasted for half an hour. "The 'Kingdom of the Shades' is a challenging segment because it requires such control and precision from the women," says Welch. In fact It is quintessential classical ballet, and is so popular it is often performed on its own. It is reminiscent of the other female ensemble dance which occurs in Act 2 of the ballet Giselle, where the dancers, again in arabesque, but in long skirts, glide in unison from one side of the stage and back again, weaving through each other as one body.
The whole has an operatic feel, but without the words. The music, by the Viennese Ludwig Minkus, as arranged by John Lanchbery, includes a number of waltzes, which makes for a jumble of styles—one doesn't think of waltzing in harem pants and saris and tutus, pirouettes set in exotic Hindu temples, but it all makes for fun, intrigue, and a stunning evening of inspired dance.
Through Sunday, October 27.
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway
Tickets $31 to $152 at (800) 982-2787
Please visit the Joffrey Ballet Website for more information
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text: TravelMarch 17, 2011Most Blissful Cities to VisitFrom sun to food to cycling, check out these joy-filled locations that specialize in your favorite hobbies.By Amy Gallo FacebookTwitterPinterestPinterest1Happiness is a state of mind, but you can also find it in a destination—and it sure helps if the weather is balmy, the cuisine delicious and the citizens upbeat. To find the most blissful locales to visit in the United States, SELF and BestPlaces.net analyzed the 100 largest metropolitan areas across the nation, tabulating factors such as annual days of sunshine and number of farmers' markets and food co-ops, and determining how active and content the residents are. Check out these joy-filled yet sometimes overlooked locations. (You can thank us with a postcard!)Pinterest2This hip town boasts the country's highest number of exercisers and bike commuters—and 212 miles of trails make it easy to pedal like a local. In the summer, enjoy the free Concerts on the Square, then cut the rug at nearby Dane Dances, where you'll get a rooftop view of sparkling Lake Monona.Pinterest3Fuel up on local fare at the year-round market in City Hall Park, then hike one of the 40 nearby peaks; cool off afterward with a dip in Lake Champlain. Reward yourself with the upscale shopping along Church Street Marketplace. Evenings, catch live music at local clubs Nectar's and Metronome.Pinterest4This area's population rates as the nation's happiest, and no wonder: You can fly-fish in the Provo River's famously salmon-laden waters, take in culture and local color on the Downtown Provo Gallery Stroll or nab tickets to the improv sensation the Thrillionaires, who mock pop culture favorites like Twilight.Pinterest5Take advantage of 271 annual days of sun by wandering the Waikiki Historic Trail, frolicking at pristine Waikiki Beach or heading to the island's North Shore to witness world-class surfers hang ten.Pinterest6Pack a lunch of organic goodies at French Broad Food Co-op's tailgate market (the city has the nation's largest number of food co-ops), then hike and picnic along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. Afterward, meander through galleries and meet artists in the River Arts District, then hear live music at an intimate venue such as The Orange Peel.Pinterest7A rock-bottom crime rate makes these quaint communities great places for meandering strolls, whether in the capacious Rockingham County Botanical Garden, along the coast at Odiorne Point State Park (the state's first settlement) in Rye or around Robert Frost's former farm in Derry. Reward yourself with local eats at one of the area's many farmers' markets or co-ops.Pinterest8This seaside city embodies the state's slogan: "The way life should be," with one of the nation's best open-air farmer's markets, an extensive series of urban trails or the First Friday Art Walk. No trip is complete without a visit to Portland Head Light, arguably the most photographed lighthouse in New England. And of course, there's the lobster. It's Maine, after all.Pinterest9Billed as "Montana's Trailhead," it comes as no surprise that much of this city's appeal involves Mother Nature—and healthy lifestyles. Stock up on organic produce at the Good Earth Market co-op, then take the fruits of your labor out into the wilderness: raft down the Stillwater River, try your hand as an amateur angler or hike in one of the seven mountain ranges that surround this very human-sized city.Pinterest10This bright spot stays sunny 300-plus days a year, which means you'll be tempted to get up early and hit East Beach, the area's most popular spit of sand, for lounging and pickup games of volleyball and soccer. Saturdays, check out the waterfront drumming circles and on Sundays, enjoy the much-beloved seaside Arts and Crafts Show.Pinterest11Gourmands will delight, as this Pacific Coast hotspot specializes in farm-to-table dining and vineyards aplenty. Sample the area's finest cuisine at the Wednesday Night Market (May through August), then sip la crème de la crème of local wines at Cellars of Sonoma in Old Railroad Square. Get a taste for the landscape by riding the Russian River atop an inner tube or by floating above it all on one of many popular hot air balloon tours.SELF does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any information published on this website or by this brand is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional.TopicsHobbiestravelVisit


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The sounds of country music beat strong and pure in Virginia, especially in the Blue Ridge Highlands and Heart of Appalachia regions, connected by The Crooked Road — Virginia's Heritage Music Trail. Day and night, the plaintive strains of the mountain ballads and toe-tapping, old-time dance music echo across this region's sharp ridges and deep valleys.
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text: Babies conceived through medical procedures used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than infants conceived naturally, according to a new study. The defects include heart problems, cleft lip, cleft palate and abnormalities in the esophagus or rectum, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 14,000 women were included in the study, of which 281 used fertility treatments. The study did not include twin and multiple births or women who took fertility drugs but did not have medical procedures. It also did not address whether the results were due to the procedures themselves, or the population of people who seek out fertility treatments. [New York Times, Chicago Tribune]


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Home to Global Rally 2018, Aloe Vera of America and one of three Aloe plantations as well as many attractions that make it a special place for the Forever family. Texas is not only the perfect place for #EMR19, but also a great place to get back down to our Forever roots.The biggest benefit of becoming an Eagle Manager is what it does for your business. Eagle Managers earn more, build larger teams, have a higher retail income and are more likely to go on and unlock greater incentives in the Forever marketing plan and grow their businesses. In fact, 67% of those that qualify as Eagle Managers go on to qualify for Chairman's Bonus, our most generous incentive.
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Posmortem, Hedgemony and a few other folks have been throwing around some ideas to start up a guide to the wildlife in Halo.
It started up on HBO's forum here.
The project seems to be just starting off but Post put up a quick example of the type of standard they are aiming for.
I don't think I'll be able to be involved in the project much but I think it's worth supporting and it should be a nice outlet for some creative artistic folks and provide some juicy eye-candy for the rest of us.
I've provided them with a web site and opened up a forum for the project. This a fan led project, not a FUD project though.
Hope to see good things from this.
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For centuries a tumultuous crossroads of art, architecture, invasion and rebellion, the bohemian capital of Hungary has finally found serenity. But it's still got a maverick soul.
Author Sarah Horne
FLICK THROUGH ANY HISTORY OF BUDAPEST and it's abundantly clear that for every flourishing of the arts and architecture, for every golden decade filled with pastries and sweet coffee and endless conversation, residents have had to endure less lovely periods. It's no wonder Budapestians have a reputation for telling it like it is. Suffering invasions by the Turks, the Germans and the Communists, the city's denizens developed a taste for both decadence and rebellion, tempered by a hefty dash of sunny resignation.
And yet, in spite of it all, Budapest is flourishing again, its grand buildings refaced, its pitted streets once more lined with Belgian blocks, its edgy spirit thriving in unexpected corners. But don't worry—the city's rebirth hasn't diminished its bohemian dreaminess. Hollywood couldn't have concocted a more evocative, nostalgic scene. All you have to do is step into one of the city's smoke-filled bars, where locals squabble good-naturedly until dawn. Or you can take in the buildings skirting the Danube (which splits the city in two: Buda and Pest), all moody in the hazy afternoon light. Budapest is moving forward, but its heady past is everywhere.
And rest assured—the shopkeepers are still delightfully surly.
I like this article very much, I wish I have read it before visiting Budapest!
Thank you Sarah and Luciano for great work!
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Heinz Erzberger never thought the sky was falling, but he knew it could benefit from enhanced traffic control. Throughout the 1990s, Erzberger led a team at Ames Research Center to develop a suite of automated tools to reduce restrictions and improve the efficiency of air traffic control operations. Called CTAS, or Center-TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) Automation System, the software won NASA's Software of the Year award in 1998, and one of the tools in the suite—the traffic management advisor—was adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration and implemented at traffic control centers across the United States. Another one of the tools, Direct-To, has followed a different path.
The idea behind Direct-To, explains Erzberger, a senior scientist at Ames, was that airlines could save fuel and money by shortening the routes they flew between take-off and landing. Aircraft are often limited to following established airways comprised of inefficient route segments. The routes are not easily adjusted because neither the pilot nor the aircraft controller can anticipate the constantly changing air traffic situation. To make the routes more direct while in flight, Erzberger came up with an idea for a software algorithm that could automatically examine air traffic in real-time, check to see if a shortcut was available, and then check for conflicts. If there were no conflicts and the shortcut saved more than 1 minute of flight time, the controller could be notified.
"I was trying to figure out what goes on in the pilot and controller's minds when they decide to guide the aircraft in a certain way. That resulted in a different kind analysis," Erzberger says.
As the engineer's idea went from theory to practice, in 2001, NASA demonstrated Direct-To in the airspace of Dallas-Ft. Worth. Estimations based on the demonstration found the technology was capable of saving 900 flying minutes per day for the aircraft in the test area.
Interested in building upon Erzberger's work, Michael Lewis, director of Boeing Commercial Airplanes' Airline Efficiency Services based in Seattle, met with Erzberger and others at Ames Research Center to discuss Direct-To. Boeing was optimistic about transitioning Direct-To into a product that was practical for airlines to use.
"With the right set of data input, we thought it should be possible to deliver fuel and flight time savings advisories to airplanes while they were in flight," says Lewis. "We thought the NASA software would be a great jumpstart."
After the groups shared information, Boeing and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement. Soon after, Boeing licensed the technology and developed new software code on top of the core algorithms in the NASA tool. To test and confirm that the technology was practical for airlines to use, Boeing conducted trials with Southwest Airlines and Continental Airlines in 2008 and 2009.
"The trials confirmed our ability to run a significant amount of Boeing software, and ensured the advisories that we were sending worked properly," says Lewis. "The main result was that the operational concept really worked."
By 2010, Boeing had incorporated the technology into a subscription-based product called Direct Routes. Commercially available from 2011 as part of the company's InFlight Optimization Services, Direct Routes provides real-time advisories to aircraft for suggested shortcuts that are prechecked for traffic conflicts, wind conditions, established airspace constraints, and other factors.
According to Boeing, Direct Routes can save tens of thousands of flight minutes per year for a medium-sized U.S. operator. In total, Lewis estimates the technology could save 20 million gallons of fuel per year for commercial airlines—the equivalent of approximately 50 million dollars per year. These fuel savings also translate into a direct reduction of thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year.
Direct Routes continuously monitors flights in real time to check for traffic control system variables, the aircraft's current flight trajectory, air traffic control acceptability, weather conditions, and other factors. When there are small course adjustments along an airplane's intended route that can reduce at least 1 minute of flight time, the pilot is notified with a message much like a text message on a cell phone. The pilot can then make a verbal request to the controller who can approve the new route.


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Mark Shuttleworth recently copped some flack for allegedly sexist content in a talk. I wasn't there, and haven't seen the talk, so I can't really comment on the material itself, but a few things struck me about some of the online responses:
- Many of the people complaining weren't there - they watched the video footage online. Why would you do this? If you suspect that there's going to be content that offends you, don't watch it. If you do decide to watch it, I'm not sure you can complain too loudly when (surprise surprise) you are offended by it.
- Yes, IT is a male dominated field - for whatever reason (there's lots of research discussing why this is, but that's for you to find). That's not to say that sexism should be inherent, or even tolerated, but it is to be expected. Anyone shocked by this statement should try working in other male-dominated fields, such as construction or engineering. No, it's not right, but it's how it is.
I met Mark briefly at a Linux conference a number of years ago and he seemed to me to be a straight-talking, reasonably honest, good natured kind of guy. I'm sure he made an honest mistake, and regrets his choice of words. I would urge Mark to apologise, and urge everyone who complained to spend the same amount of energy protesting equally important matters such as software patents, or advocacy for open, sane standards.


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Not just a big switch
Fibre Channel directors don't just provide lots of ports, they also offer ways to connect disparate SANs, isolate data and devices within a fabric, and configure throughput for specific applications. We look at how the big three directors match up.
Fibre Channel directors offer ways to connect disparate SANs, isolate data and devices within a fabric, and deliver different levels of throughput on the fly. Here's how the big three directors match up.
NO LONGER JUST A BIG BOX with lots of ports, the Fibre Channel (FC) director has become the cornerstone around which next-generation SANs will be built. As more organizations are faced with managing petabytes of storage, director-class switches are easing management tasks by isolating SANs within a single fabric, delivering a higher level of data protection, and parceling throughput to individual ports depending on changing application demands.
|Fibre Channel directors: Core components
|Click here for a comprehensive list of Fibre Channel directors: Core components (PDF).
Of course, some things never change: First and foremost, companies look to directors to provide rock-solid stability with high levels of availability, throughput and port count. In this vein, the passive backplanes that are used in Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s SilkWorm 48000, Cisco Systems Inc.'s MDS 9509 and McData Corp.'s Intrepid 10000 (i10K) nearly eliminate the possibility of failures. Each of these models also supports at least 1Tb/sec of internal bandwidth in a single chassis and 384 FC ports in a single rack; Brocade and Cisco offer configurations that support up to 768 FC ports in a rack. But as some vendors pack more ports into their line cards to meet growing user capacity demands, they're using port oversubscription to do so.
Port oversubscription occurs when the amount of internal switching fabric bandwidth allocated to a switch port is less than the device connection speed at that port. For example, if a port on an FC switch has a connection speed of 2Gb/sec, but is unable to achieve a wire-rate of 2Gb/sec, then the port is said to be oversubscribed. As a result, administrators need to plan how and under what circumstances to deploy these high port-count line cards.
Core components
With core components such as passive backplanes, concurrent microcode upgrades, purpose-built ASICs and redundant hardware components essentially equal among FC directors, vendors are finding other ways to differentiate their products. And with the growing need for higher port counts, distance replication and connecting SAN islands, vendors are adding functionality to FC directors in the following key areas:
- Line cards
- 1Gb/sec, 2Gb/sec, 4Gb/sec and 10Gb/sec FC ports
- FC port buffer credits
- Inter-switch link (ISL) aggregation and connectivity options
There are tradeoffs when maximizing port capacity and using faster FC speeds. McData's i10K supports 10Gb/sec FC ports, but those ports can only be connected to other i10K directors with the same 10Gb/sec FC ports because 10Gb/sec FC ports are based on a different technology than those at 1Gb/sec, 2Gb/sec and 4Gb/sec speeds.
Users of Brocade's SilkWorm 48000 will encounter similar issues. A SilkWorm 48000 fully populated with its FC4-16 line cards is the company's only 4Gb/sec configuration that allows its FC directors to operate at 4Gb/sec without any blocking of bandwidth. Brocade's FC4-32 line cards allow scaling up to the maximum port count on its 48000, but that configuration can only operate at a maximum of 2Gb/sec without blocking.
Despite these concerns, lower per-port prices are driving the move to line cards with higher port counts. Vendors report that users should generally expect to pay a 10% to 25% premium for line cards that support a higher number of ports. And despite the potential of back-end bottlenecks using the higher FC port count cards, most users aren't at risk, say vendors, because few production environments are reaching throughput limits on their FC directors. Cisco recently checked the utilization rates in its own production environment and found that most of its FC ports were averaging only 13MB/sec. This prompted Cisco to see if it could lower its own internal costs by increasing the number of ports on its blades.
To find the right balance between low and high port-count line cards, you need to identify the specific configurations and applications that require high-throughput FC ports. Applications such as backup/recovery and data replication, and FC ports dedicated to ISLs require high port throughput. By taking advantage of the port buffer credit and ISL aggregation features on the director ports, and by balancing which application or configuration uses which FC ports, there may not be a need to purchase lower port-count line cards.
Distance replication
The primary benefit of port buffer credits is to keep data flowing across distances. The size of the buffer credit needed on each FC port will depend on four factors:
- The amount of data going through the port
- The speed of the port
- The distance between the FC ports
- If the WAN gateway devices used provide additional buffering
For distance replication, vendors generally recommend approximately one port buffer credit for every kilometer over a 1Gb/sec link. In most situations, you'll only need to devote a few FC ports for long-distance replication with the rest of the ports reserved for local connectivity. To provide as much flexibility as possible, vendors offer choices for how buffer credits can be configured and re-allocated among ports.
The ability to allocate buffer credits to FC ports lets users install higher port-count line cards and meet high-throughput replication and normal FC connectivity requirements. For example, each line card on McData's i10K has a pool of 2,746 buffer credits to draw from, with 1,373 buffer credits available per line card processor. Each of the 1,373 buffer credits may be redistributed among any of the FC ports associated with the processor. So in instances where data needs to be replicated to a site 190km away, McData recommends assigning 1,125 buffer credits to each 10Gb/sec link. By using the i10K line card that offers 24 2Gb/sec FC ports and two 10Gb/sec FC ports, each of the two 10Gb/sec ports can be allocated 1,125 buffer credits; this leaves 248 buffer credits total or 20 buffer credits for each of the remaining 2Gb/sec FC ports, which is more than enough for local FC connectivity.
Cisco is the only director vendor that allows users to increase the number of buffer credits, up to 3,500, with an optional license. The only other way to attain sufficient buffer for distance replication is to use a gateway device. Gateway appliances such as Ciena Corp.'s CN 2000 or Nortel Networks' Optical Metro 5000 series (formerly OPTera Metro 5000) offer additional buffering that enables the directors to do long-distance replication over FC when they're connected to SONET or dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks.
ISL aggregation
ISLs connect different SAN fabrics and can be aggregated to increase throughput. Vendors offer different techniques beyond the standard route balancing via fabric shortest path first (FSPF) to improve ISL throughput, including:
- Open trunking (McData)
- Frame-based striping or advanced ISL trunking (Brocade)
- Load balancing based on source, destination and exchange IDs (Brocade/Cisco)
Brocade offers two techniques that optimize throughput on ISL links between two of its FC directors. Its frame-based striping, or advanced ISL trunking, treats all ISLs between two FC directors as one logical ISL, allowing users to configure up to eight FC ports as one logical trunk between two SilkWorm 48000s. To overcome the designed intolerance of Fibre Channel for out-of-order FC frames, Brocade uses special ASICs on its line cards to allow frames to arrive out of order and to then be re-ordered to their original sequence. The primary drawback to this approach is the requirement that all FC ports must be on a single line card, which creates some availability concerns should an entire line card fail or need to be taken offline for maintenance.
The other technique, load balancing based on sender, destination and exchange ID, is supported by Brocade and Cisco, but is implemented in a manner that doesn't support interoperability between their directors. On Brocade's SilkWorm 48000, it's offered only on line cards that handle the 4Gb/sec protocol, while Cisco supports it on all of its 1Gb/sec and 2Gb/sec line cards.
The main differences between the two is that Cisco lets users aggregate any 16 ports on any line card in a chassis to form this logical ISL, while Brocade supports up to eight FC ports that must be on a single line card. Both configurations support a maximum throughput of 32Gb/sec, with Cisco using 2Gb/sec links and Brocade using 4Gb/sec links.
As organizations connect to independent and often rogue SANs through the use of WAN links and ISLs, new challenges arise. On the positive side, unused FC ports and additional storage capacity can often be harnessed in ways not previously considered. On the flip side, these connections bring the often unmanaged chaos that reigns in smaller SANs to the central data center: out-of-date microcode, lack of central supervision, little or no change control processes, personnel with varying degrees of expertise, and departments with their own ideas on how the SAN should be managed. These issues require a new set of services to be supported by the SAN fabric, and FC directors are where many organizations are initially turning to find answers.
SAN isolation
FC director vendors offer a number of techniques to mitigate those risks by isolating SANs logically while connecting them physically:
|Fibre Channel director pros and cons
|Click here for a comprehensive list of Fibre Channel director pros and cons (PDF).
- Cisco's Virtual SANs (VSANs) and InterVSAN Routing
- Brocade's Logical SAN (LSANs)
- McData's hard partitioning
- VSANs may be configured using any combination of ports on any line cards on one of their directors. Because SAN growth and consolidations are more haphazard than well-planned, VSANs give users the flexibility to plug their servers and storage devices into whatever FC ports are available. Once connected, users can then design their VSANs around the ports they're plugged into vs. trying to re-architect port connectivity on the director every time the environment is reorganized.
- Each VSAN can be set up with its own administrator. As SANs merge, internal and external policies and politics may dictate that certain administrators retain the right to control and manage their segment of the SAN.
- InterVSAN routing allows specific devices in one VSAN to be exposed and used by devices in another VSAN. For example, if the administrator of the finance VSAN needs additional storage capacity and the engineering VSAN administrator has some capacity available, finance can access it without compromising the integrity of either VSAN. It's done by simply sharing ports using InterVSAN routing without allowing access to every device in the VSAN.
Brocade's LSAN technology is similar to Cisco's VSAN and InterVSAN routing features, but Brocade takes a modular instead of a bladed approach using its SilkWorm AP7420 Multiprotocol Router to deliver this functionality. Like the VSAN and InterVSAN routing technology, the AP7420 logically isolates SANs while giving users the ability to share specific devices in one SAN with other logical SANs. The best fits for organizations considering Brocade's AP7420 are:
- Users who plan to continue using either departmental Brocade or McData switches, but who need to access or share specific resources between those different SANs.
- Companies that want to start isolating SANs with an appliance, but want to grow to a bladed FC director. The AP7420 appliance allows enterprises to isolate SANs inexpensively and to migrate to Brocade's upcoming intelligent blade for its SilkWorm 48000.
McData's i10K director is the only director that supports hard partitioning. Unlike logical SAN isolation techniques, hard partitioning is done at a physical rather than a software level on the director. Configurable on a per-line-card basis, each line card may be its own virtual SAN or multiple i10K line cards may be combined to configure a larger virtual SAN. Each of these configurations can run different versions of microcode, which allows a storage administrator to test new microcode on a partition before rolling it into production. However, the i10K suffers from the same fundamental flaw as the Eclipse products because it doesn't allow partitions to share selected device ports and route traffic between them.
Users aren't just looking to FC directors to isolate SAN fabrics; they also want them to virtualize storage and ports. After years of stops and starts, virtualization technologies are finally gaining some momentum and moving to FC directors.
So far, Cisco's MDS 9500 series and Maxxan Systems Inc.'s MXV500 are the only FC directors that support storage virtualization. Cisco's Cache Services Module (CSM) line card and Maxxan's MXV500 are similar in that they support virtualization software based on network caching. Cisco supports the director blade version of IBM Corp.'s SAN Volume Controller and Maxxan supports FalconStor Software Inc.'s IPStor. Cisco's other line card, the Storage Services Module (SSM), supports virtualization applications that don't use network cache like EMC Corp.'s Invista and Incipient Inc.'s Network Storage Platform (NSP).
Even though the SSM supports virtualization, it comes configured with 32 1Gb/sec and 2Gb/sec FC ports, and can operate with or without virtualization enabled. Cisco prices it just slightly above the cost of its normal 32-port line card. The SSM module also supports Cisco's SANTap protocol, which can communicate with Kashya Inc. and Topio Inc. so their products can make copies of FC writes as FC packets pass through the director. This enables applications like data replication and continuous data protection at the fabric level without the need to deploy host server agents or use array-based tools.
Server virtualization technologies like Linux partitions and VMware are also driving a major FC director virtualization technology, called N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), which all of the large director vendors are offering on their latest directors. NPIV solves the problem created when multiple server partitions log into the SAN using the same physical host bus adapter (HBA) card. NPIV lets FC directors dole out a unique port ID to each server instance. For example, in a configuration where eight logical Windows or Linux instances reside on the same physical hardware, each logical server instance can log into the FC director and get its own fabric ID. This allows the fabric to control and route the traffic from each Windows server instance to its allocated resources. The unique ID prevents all of the server instances behind an individual server HBA from having access to all of the resources reserved for a specific HBA.
FC directors are solidifying their position in the enterprise. Higher port line cards with configurable buffer credits and different options for aggregating ISLs allow directors to connect the lowest tiers of storage to the enterprise, and to connect remote and local SANs over high-throughput FC links. And with technologies like InterSAN routing and NPIV maturing, FC directors are well-positioned to meet today's, and tomorrow's, challenges.


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Fiji has suffered from increasing numbers of floods in recent years, causing extensive damage across the country. Through improving water governance, IUCN and partners are helping reduce the risks and impacts of flooding through linking urban centres to the basins they rely on.
In view of the workshop 'Managing Watersheds for Urban Resilience' at the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Global Platform in Geneva on May 12th, IUCN highlights one of its key projects on DRR work in the South Pacific, the Nadi Basin Catchment in Fiji:
Fiji is made up of more than 300 islands, the largest being Viti Levu, with concentrates urban populations in and around Suva and the Nadi tourist centre. Spanning an area of 517 km2 and supporting around 65,000 people, the Nadi River Basin is vital to Fiji. It hosts the country's main tourism centre and international airport. Nadi Town is the third largest urban area in Fiji – supporting both the tourism industry and sugarcane farming industry, two important pillars of the Fijian economy.
A tropical depression caused heavy rainfalls in January 2009, considered to be the worst in 75 years. The Nadi River peaked at 8 meters above mean levels, flooding Nadi Town and other low lying areas, affecting local businesses, tourist resorts, farmlands and residents. Economic costs of the 2009 floods in Nadi were estimated to be around USD 75 million. Although floods are common in Fiji, flooding incidences have increased in recent decades, posing significant challenges to environmental management in the country.
Reducing the risk of flooding in Nadi requires improved economic and social development, upgraded land-use planning and catchment management approaches. Institutions and policies concerning land use planning in Nadi are fragmented, and this is hampering flood risk reduction efforts. Since the 1980s, sugar cane growers have expanded into the hills and onto steeper slopes, abandoning more sustainable practices such as contour farming.
Nadi Council and its Rural Local Authority are responsible for land-use planning, but many developments have been allowed that affect agricultural and urban drainage systems. Multiple government agencies are mandated to tackle rural and agricultural development, but their policies, plans and strategies are not harmonized and often remain unenforced, further exacerbating watershed degradation and contributing to excessive flooding.
To tackle these challenges, a Nadi Basin Catchment Committee (NBCC) has been established, supported by IUCN's Water and Nature Initiative, and key regional partners working on improving water resource management through the Pacific IWRM Programme led by SOPAC. The NBCC includes key stakeholders, including Fiji Meteorological Services, the National Disaster Management Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lands Department, and Nadi Town Council.
"The local media attention that the Nadi Basin project has received has generated much interest recently, and stakeholders in other large catchments -both locally and regionally- have expressed interest in the project being replicated in their areas. This is a promising signal and supports the upscaling of our project approach to other flooding prone regions in Fiji", said Milika Sobey, IUCN Oceania Water Coordinator.
The Pacific IWRM Programme, together with IUCN Oceania Water Programme, is developing an approach that emphasizes policy and legislative reform and capacity development for effective Integreated Water Resource Management (IWRM) implementation. The NBCC in Nadi is working to demonstrate how improved governance arrangements, coupled with technological improvements and upgrades for flood warning, yields benefits for flood risk reduction, improved land and water management, and benefits for people and nature in the river basin.
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It might. If not, that is okay too. It will still look nice and inspire some. It may not inspire you, but it would for millions of others.chownah wrote: First, does anyone really think that gilding the spire will appreciably increase tourism?........
are people not going to visit the temple because it is too ugly and blinging it up like a Las Vegas casino will make the difference?
Probably not, but it will still look nice and inspire some.
Sure, why not? Buddhism is not for arahants only. People are at all levels of stages and development along the Path. It is not an elitist religion. And the Buddha did use skillful means.If it will attract people interested in seeing the bling are these the kinds of tourists we want to attract?
Yes, most definitely. There are numerous mom-and-pop businesses and street vendors, hotels, etc. there.And if this is the way we want to attract more tourists do you really think that the poor people of the region will benefit?
The local vendors are poor and they do make a living from selling souvenirs and other items to Buddhist pilgrims. That is up to McDonalds and the local zoning if they are to open there.Seems like those already in a business catering to tourists (I'm assuming there are already lots of tourists going there with businesses catering to them) will just make more money and the trickle down to the poor will be marginal. If we accept that perhaps some poor people will be helped then if a group of Thai Buddhists wanted to fund the largest Golden Arches in the world and put it right across the street from the temple and establish the largest McDonalds hamburger stand in the world there should we whole heartedly agree that it's a good idea as it will help the poor people in the area?
That is not our concern what others want to do with their religious structures. The Sikh golden temple is pretty beautiful. And there are some Hindu golden temples too. And of course the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma is gold as is the Kyoto Temple in Japan.Should we be enthusiastic about gilding famous religious structures around the world to increase tourism and thus help the poor people of the area......places like the wailing wall in Jerusalem?