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Roads and railways, ports and bridges and economic growth go together.
That is why international financial institutions such as mine need to answer appeals for greater investment to help close a US$1 trillion global "infrastructure gap".
Our best chance of meeting the world's growing infrastructure needs is to use multilateral development banks' unique relationships with governments and the private sector to coordinate our response.
Consider, for example, the progress already being felt in emerging markets.
In the past year, the World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have all created "project preparation facilities" (PPFs) to improve the quality of project development while also strengthening the local capacity needed to ensure lasting results.
The various PPFs that have been launched can act as a model for public officials in emerging markets to emulate.
The Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility, launched by the EBRD last year, is one example: by using preselected "framework consultants", the facility can accelerate high-quality project preparation for public-sector projects and public-private partnerships (PPPs).
This dual focus is important: private-sector finance is critical, but the public sector still finances some 90 percent of all infrastructure investment worldwide.
Another important innovation is the online "PPP Knowledge Lab", launched in June with support from multilateral development banks.
The lab is a "one-stop shop" for anyone searching for PPP resources (particularly emerging-market officials, who are eager to learn from one another about PPPs that have succeeded – as well as those that have failed).
Then there is the International Infrastructure Support System (IISS), an online tool directly supported by several international financial institutions during its initial start-up phase this year and early next year.
The idea is to help the public sector advertise its projects and the private sector to assess them, with the aim of improving the quality, consistency and transparency of the process.
As opposed to a PPF, the IISS works as a standardized template and could well appeal to public-sector entities around the world.
But any system is only as good as its participants.
Responding to the need for more systematic and "standardized" learning, the World Bank Group, supported by the ADB, IADB, EBRD and the Islamic Development Bank, has commissioned a new global certification program for PPP professionals.
Emerging-market officials will earn accreditation by demonstrating the ability to apply their knowledge practically.
The EBRD aims to support the training of a critical mass of experts from 10 countries in our region, and we believe that the certificate could become as respected as the qualification held by a Chartered Financial Analyst or a member of the Project Management Institute.
Just five months ago in London, we hosted a "PPP Days" conference with the support of other multilateral institutions, the Group of 20 and the United Nations.
We had plenty of experts – some 300 from the public and private sectors of 30 countries – attempting to provide an answer to a simple question: "What would it take to double private infrastructure investment in emerging markets?"
One useful tool in the effort is "Infrascope", a benchmarking index created by the Economist Intelligence Unit that assesses the capacity of emerging-market countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics in the Commonwealth of Independent States to deliver sustainable PPPs.
Another is the G20's new Global Infrastructure Hub, which shares international good practice and comprehensive data on infrastructure.
The hub has a four-year mandate to focus on five main areas: a network to share information on infrastructure projects and financing; better data on infrastructure investment; the G20's recommendations for voluntary lending; government officials' capacity to share best practices; and a database to match infrastructure projects with potential investors.
We in the international financial institutions view the hub as complementary to our own efforts, and we salute its idea of an "interactive platform", using social networks to exchange knowledge and expertise.
It is easy to be daunted by the vast sums needed to close the gap between the infrastructure the developing world has and the infrastructure it needs to support sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
But compare the world today with the world a century or more ago, and it is clear that the gap is so much narrower than it was.
What will narrow it still more, and so sustain the gains in global growth, will be the spread of infrastructure know-how at the local level in emerging markets.
We and our fellow multilateral institutions have a clear duty not just to increase our expertise but also to share it.
Copyright: Project Syndicate
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Japanese tattoo has some elements in their design that like Japanese culture. The motif of Japanese tattoo means history, mysticism, and elegance. Now Japanese tattoo is popular in many countries. I think the best place for creating Japanese tattoo is on the half sleeve. It will make you more beauty and good looking.
Japanese half sleeve tattoos for women
Today, half sleeve tattoos for women will share some Japanese tattoo ideas for you. To make this tattoo, you don't need to be Japanese people and you can enjoy your tattoo. There are some tattoo ideas that you can make it yourself. Alright, the following pictures are the sample of Japanese half sleeve tattoo ideas:
Japanese Koi Half Sleeve Tattoos for Women
Japanese Wolf Tattoo
Japanese kimono tattoo
Colorful Japanese tattoo
Japanese samurai tattoo
Alright, that's all guys. See you later in better tattoo design and half sleeve tattoos for women ideas. Next time I will share more tattoos for you.

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text: Before we knew we were moving to California, we planned a Disneyland trip. It was so much fun and a good introduction to California living for the kids. Andrew's parents and his sister Stephanie's family came as well. I love to watch my kids with their cousins. They sure do love them. We got there Sunday evening and spent most of Monday at the beach. Taylor loved it, but Olive was a little unsure of it all. Tuesday and Wednesday we spent at Disneyland and California Adventures, but I'll post photos of that another day. For now, here are some photos from the beach.


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The college counselling service provides a friendly and confidential response to requests for help with all kinds of personal issues. Counsellors work with students to help them find better ways of coping with their problems. The counsellors are professionally trained and accredited members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. All counselling sessions are confidential.
To contact the counsellors please phone 01254 354 038 and leave your contact details. Alternatively, you can ask your Personal Tutor to make an appointment for you or complete a referral form, which can be found at Broad Oak reception or Information+. You can also contact them through The Health Zone on itslearning.


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Plot outline
Caravan is a cautionary tale set in the 90's which follows a young family on a road-trip. As night falls the family pull in for a routine rest-stop where their caravan is invaded by a malevolent intruder.
Horror/ thriller
Sarah Filippi, Daniel James, James Matthews & Jackson Lucas
Directed by
Nathan Lacey
Written By
Sarah Brims & Nathan Lacey
Screenplay by
Sarah Brims
Produced by
Sarah Brims
Executive Producer: John McPherson


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REDLANDS, CA — Jade Griffin posted a pair of top-five national performances, Kyle Ambat added the number three best mark in the nation and the University of La Verne track and field teams boasted an outstanding meet at the Redlands Invitational.
The Leopards, competing at an outdoor meet with their full roster for the first time this season, finished with 12 top-20 national performances. The Leopards also added an outstanding 32 personal records.
From the Coach
"Both men's and women's teams had solid efforts to start the outdoor season. A lot of personal bests and the teams competed well. Myself and Coach [Justin] Wood felt like we hit many of the markers we wanted to hit heading into the outdoor season," said head coach Kevin Reid.
Junior Jade Griffin led the Leopards in the sprints finishing as the top DIII performer in the 100m and 200m dashes. Griffin's time of 12.49 in the 100m ranks as the No. 3 time in DIII and her time of 25.76 in the 200m places her fifth in the nation. Elizabeth Prevedello finished with a time of 26.29 in the 200m good for 10th nationally.
Senior Kyle Ambat finished first among DIII participants in the long jump with a leap of 22-11, the third best mark in NCAA Division III. Senior Ebony Turner added a No. 8 national performance in the high jump with a height of 5-01.
Seniors Melissa Cerrillos and Rachael Dela Cruz dominated the 1500m finishing 1-2 in the race. Cerrillos clocked in at 4:51.29, No. 9 nationally, and Dela Cruz clocked in at 4:52.03 for 11th nationally.
Junior Matthew Pedroza took fourth among DIII competitors in the hammer with a throw of 142-01 for 15th nationally.
"Our team showed up with some fire. We gained some good momentum that we want to carry into our next few meets," said Dela Cruz.
National Top-20 Performances
Jade Griffin — 100m (12.49) No. 3 nationally
Jade Griffin — 200m (25.76) No. 5nationally
Elizabeth Prevedello — 200m (26.29) No. 10 nationally
Rachael Dela Cruz — 800m (2:23.95) No. 20 nationally
Melissa Cerrillos — 1500m (4:51.29) No. 9 nationally
Rachael Dela Cruz — 1500m (4:52.03) No.11 nationally
Elizabeth Prevedello — 100m Hurdles (16.15) No. 20 nationally
Ebony Turner — High Jump (5-01) No. 8 nationally
Elizabeth Prevedello — Long Jump (17-07) No. 11 nationally
Micaela Krumweide — Long Jump (16-08.50) No. 19 nationally
Kyle Ambat — Long Jump (22-11) No. 3 nationally
Matthew Pedroza — Hammer (142-01) No. 15 nationally
Next Meet
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There are many unbelievable legends in the world. Such as the Ark, which drove out evil in times long past. You're looking for the Ark? Ha, who believes such things exist? No one has seen it after the war. It's probably a legend fabricated by the bards. The Ark…everyone has forgotten about it… The Children of the Forest, the engineers of the Machine Nation, the Fae who left to the Garden of Elegance, and even the knights who began the Age of Glory have forgotten the Ark. But they'll soon be punished for their poor memories. Where is the Ark! Hang on! Do not bring your vitriol to this great Land of Peace! A new war is brewing. You must find the Ark quickly! Welcome to the world of the Lost Ark. You will take on the role of heroes who must save the world from the Demon Legion of Kazeroth. I will introduce you to the heroes now. The fist is the Battle Master. The Battle Master uses speed and powerful combos to take down her foes. Her air combos are especially devastating. Furthermore, if her elemental gauge is full, she can destroy hordes of enemies in a single blow. The Devil Hunter is one hell of a gun-slinger. He makes use of three different stances. His first stance is quick on the draw with Double Handguns. This is best for eliminating fast-approaching enemies. For larger, closer enemies, nothing works quite as well as the Shotgun stance. And finally, the Rifle stance to snipe off those enemies in the distance that are best not to confront. If you can think on your feet and have cat-like reflexes, the Devil Hunter will be your best choice. The Arcana uses cards as medium of powerful spells. She can cast cards chosen by a roulette wheel that spins according to special conditions. The Showtime card empowers her to deal tremendous amount of damage! She also has the Wheel of Fate, which allows her to re-cast a previous Ultimate Skill. It's all about using her cards at the right time in the right combination. There are more awesome classes. The Warlord is a knight with strong armor. Even while soaking damage he has a number of attacks with his lance and shield. Next is the heavy-handed martial artist, the Infighter. His attacks explode as with pent-up energy and deal terrifying amounts of damage. Enemies who are struck may become pulverized, or are blown away by the impact. The Summoner can command beasts by interacting with spirits. The power of the Ancient Spirits are especially immense. This is the Berserker, a warrior that wields a huge two-handed sword in battle. When he enters a frenzied state, he can crush any enemy with his strength. After selecting a class, it is time to learn about upgrading your skills via the Tripod System. Let's explore this system by using a Battle Master skill as an example. First, you can select an affinity of your choice, and then modify the attack type in the second step. Lastly, you can upgrade its range or increase its area of effect to attack more enemies. This will allow you to adapt to different circumstances in battle. Use the Tripod System to create a unique classes of your own. Well, which class was your favorite?
You can take your time before answering. There are still more fascinating classes in Lost Ark. You will not be disappointed. The world of the Lost Ark is alive and its story is told by the players. "Hello, sir!" "Please come in." "Hey, what are you going to do?" You can sneak in and eavesdrop on conversations, "So the theft was successful?" "You know he's good." "We'll make the deal in the market, tomorrow afternoon." "Shh, lower your voice!" "Thief! Catch that thief!" You may have to leap from rooftops to catch a thief. Use the fireflies in a bottle to light the darkness, and don't panic when you see a steep cliff or a broken road. Support your allies fighting below by crossing a narrow rope, and immerse yourself in adventures you've only dreamt about. Now, we will talk about the field. In Lost Ark, there exists a 'life level' different from the battle level. Oh dear, your pick is broken. Raise your life level to learn the Mining Bomb skill. Easy, right? Your hound has caught an interesting scent! Investing in archaeology will reveal hidden artifacts. This player is into logging. If there is a tree too big to tackle alone, try it with your friends. Don't limit yourself to one method. Lost Ark can provide you with numerous life skills. Now, on to larger areas. Players out in the sea can captain their ships and engage in various activities. You can gather fish with nets, or salvage goods with cranes. If you're familiar with navigation, then it's time to sail out and explore new lands. How about hiring an ice breaker to forge new sea routes? Why…that's a ghost ship! If we can't avoid them, we should meet them head-on. After a long journey, you can discover new, uncharted lands. Find out for your self what fortunes await you there. Even we cannot say how many secret routes exist in the game. But hidden rooms that you discover will not disappoint you. Now, it's time to have a closer look at the world of Lost Ark. First, let's see what you can do in town. You can engage in card battles with monster cards you find during adventures, or participate in simple competitions like beer drinking. This is the Colosseum. The Colosseum is a fighting arena to earn wealth and glory. Players can engage in 1 vs 1 matches on matters of pride. The 3 vs 3 matches require teamwork. Only those who challenge can reap the rewards of victory. Prove the skills you honed in adventures! Let's head out of town and into the field, shall we? You can gather resources necessary for life or hunt monsters for rare materials. The players are getting restless. Ah, it's because of this huge monster. Unexpected things may happen in the field, so never let your guard down. We will now head for the Glacier Valley in Northern Sushire. In some ways…the days when we fought demons were the happier times. At least, we didn't have to face Berutooth, the lord of the frost lands. A Guardian is a monster who reigns supreme – the top of the food chain. You will encounter these rare and powerful entities during your travels. Faith in your allies will be the key to defeating this huge beast. If a battle proves to be too difficult, look around. This chain seems strong enough to bind Berutooth. If you want to take the rare artifacts protected by the Guardians, brace yourself for a challenging battle. We have barely scratched the surface. In Lost Ark, there are countless boss enemies beyond your imagination. Climbing the path to the Tomb of King Lutheran may be the most difficult quest of your life. Overcome the harsh obstacles and climb to the top floor to get closer to the Ark. Are you ready to meet the challenges of this new world of Lost Ark? I wish you luck.


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In a turn towards the bizarre Rand Fishkin has revealed that he is not the credible source of SEO information that people often view him as. One of his latest tweets raises the question, how much does Rand Fishkin really know about SEO? After spending some time looking through BHU Forum he tweeted:
Sometimes, I get an urge to scour the underbelly of the black hat world & buy stuff like http://t.co/TQve8Xe66R just to see what happens
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) February 1, 2014
Now most of you already know that what he is talking about is the BST selling expired domains with links from the BBC. Simply put, domains that have no spam whatsoever and great authoritative and trusted links. But Rand has strangely deemed this as Blackhat tactics, does Rand now believe that buying an expired domain with no spam in their backlink profile is a Blackhat tactic? Surely not?
Alarmingly, Rand Fishkin also states he does not know what would happen if he bought a dropped domain.
If you thought that was bizarre, it only gets worse. In a reply to one of of his followers, Rand Fishkin predicts that Google's webspam team will be on the job.
Go get those expired domains boys! Captain Cutts and his webspam entourage are on the job!
Seriously now, how can someone with such a high stature in the SEO industry make such ridiculous statements? He has admitted he doesn't know what would happen if he bought a non-spammy dropped domain and predicts the webspam team would buy them up? Are they going to buy up every dropped domain available in the world? This is a turn for the strange indeed, or maybe even a insight into the heavily pressured and hypocritical world that people claiming to be Whitehat are often in.
All this really begs the question, and I ask to Rand with all sincerity and no malicious intent;
Are you really this uninformed about SEO?
Or do you only say what people want to hear?
What Charles Floate – GodOfSEO.Co Says
"I woke up from a rather long sleep… and came back to the SEO world with my Skype pings on FIRE with people trying to get my opinion/chime in on the convo – Especially as I've been a member of BHU since when it started.
Rand show's his clear lack of knowledge of "the underbelly" (aka Black Hat SEO) here, confusions between expired domains and black hat activity is just odd in my opinion and saying the webspam team are going to come after a domain seller… So what? GoDaddy going to get penalized and stalked by Cutts?"


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Woodcut 15x15x4cm
Print print size 18×18, paper size 21.5×27.5cm
Be whisked away to the carnival with this stunning 'Carnival' print by artist Mati Rose. Part of her layered series of paintings, this work draws upon a mix of media to create a dreamy and textured finish. (Spot the snatches of detail on that gorgeous feathered headpiece!)
This piece is available in two forms; one as a woodcut or alternatively as a hand signed print on artist's paper to frame and treasure. This dreamy piece is bound to charm and delight.


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Waterfront Seafood Grill
2801 Alaskan Way, Pier 70
Seattle, WA 98121
Yeah, so it started out with a strong desire for Kumomoto oysters on the half shell. Seattle has been sunnier than usual the last few days, and these two sassy ladies knew that the view, service, drinks and the oysters at the Waterfront are pretty hard to beat. Super fresh oysters...super sweet views from the patio of Puget Sound. You pay a hefty price for that view and have to sit amongst the conventionally beautiful and botoxed (women and men), a sea of $350 sunglasses and brand new never-been-worn-before business casual attire, and some older folks on vacation from the midwest and Florida, but it's probably worth it once or maybe twice a year (the number of days outdoor seating in Seattle is even an option!).
The oysters were beautiful. Sweet, fresh, slippery, fresh and ocean-y. I like to squeeze just a little lemon juice on mine, then slide it into my mouth straight from the shell. Sassy T does the same. Puget Sounds smells salty sometimes in the summer sun, which was a nice complement to the oysters. Glass of dry white. View of the Olympics, the water. Doesn't get better.
It started with oysters but moved quickly into ruby beet and arugula salad, tuna tempura, ceasar salad, and chevre potatoes gratin. Of course, when the four guys discussing friendlyfavor.com, some kind of new website, ordered calamari, we eyed their plate. Looked good. Sassy R asked for a bite. One of the boys, ahem, men, immediately issued the disclaimer that it was not as good as Serafina's calamari. I hadn't realized that Serafina was famous for its calamari. He said this was too greasy. It was. Deepfried, batter dipped. Not great. Some guy ordered a plate of calamari behind us later and the whole patio stank of rotten fish for several minutes until the steam stopped floating off the little tentacles. Well, the calamari was fairly standard and not at all worth its price. Oh well.
The highlight of the evening (second to the oysters) was the strawberry rhubarb tart. Rustic crust folded artfully around the perimeter, covering the filling...with a small gentle soft opening in the middle sprinkled with streusel in the center. It wasn't too sweet, and was oven-warmed just enough... and it was served with delicate homemade vanilla ice cream. Perfect. Our calamari neighbors eyed it and commented. One guy stood up and came over to our table. He wanted some. We gave him a clean spoon. He took a bit. Then he ate more. We chatted. We chatted about their start up, how to find investors, where he grew up (Seattle). He was handsome and in his early 40's. He was charming. He was polite. He had another bite. We paid our bill and before our luscious green-eyed server could take away the wedge of tart we hadn't finished, we passed the picked-apart leftovers over to our friends' table. They even accepted our bowl of melted ice cream and thanked us. They ate it! Testiment to how fabulous this dessert really is.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The Waterfront Seafood Grill
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Originally released as a limited-edition twelve-inch, Twoism is both a far cry from and a wonderful look-forward-to for Boards of Canada. While it's not as grand as their most recent work, especially last year's Geogaddi, it's certainly lovely in its own right. For a debut album, it's rather tight, though "tight" is a relative term when it comes to electronic music, isn't it? The musicianship is high, and they sound like they're already experts at the game.
That's not to say that Twoism is a flawless record. On some tracks, like the otherwise lovely "Twoism," there's a weird kind of offness that reminds me of the days of cassettes, when the tape would slip and drag a little bit; at first, it sounded like either their recording tape or my CD was defective. It's a technique that is rather annoying and takes away just a little bit of the magic. The only time the music really falters is the out-of-place "Basefree," which is a drum-machine gone terribly terribly wrong. Okay, so it's not really bad, it's just out of place with the rest of the groove.
Not to fear, though. Twoism is loaded with mellow, slightly intoxicated chill-out grooves that would easily make for some wonderful fodder for those moments when you need a "relaxing" atmosphere. Then again, that's all that Boards of Canada are trying to do, and they do it well. Numbers like "Iced Cooly" and "Seeya Later" are lovely, mellow, rum-scented beat-driven chillout grooves, and could easily turn your bedroom into a lovely little relaxation grotto. While Twoism may be the simple babysteps that would lead to later greatnessm if they had never made a record after this, they would have at least made a pretty good record.
--Joseph Kyle


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The only matter we ask you to attend to is arrange for finance (if required) and ensure that your loan is approved.
We will arrange Pest & Building Reports or a Strata Report on your behalf and will request a copy of the Contract for Sale. We will arrange an appointment so that we are able to explain the terms and conditions of the Contract with you.
Once you have exchanged on your Contract for Sale, we will make enquiries on your behalf with the necessary Government bodies.
There are also stamp duty exemptions or reductions that you may qualify for and we will discuss whether you are eligible for any of the exemptions. Upon receiving your Office of State Revenue Cheque we will attend to the stamping of the Contract and Transfer.
We liaise with your Real Estate Agent, your Mortgagee and the Vendors Solicitors right throughout the Transaction and keep you well informed and up to date with regards to the progress of your purchase.
Closer to settlement we prepare a settlement adjustment sheet and we have received a Direction from the Vendors Solicitor, we then instruct your Mortgagee on how the cheques are required to be drawn.
We attend settlement on your behalf and all that you are required to do is arrange your final inspection of the property and ensure that the property is insured as at the date of settlement.


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Recently, I got an email message from a young man asking if I would take a look at his video. Yovanni was very sweet in the note, so I figured I would take the chance, and check it out. The song is called Hello, and the video was directed by Anthony Dones. Now, I had no idea what to expect, but I can tell you I wasn't expecting to find a video as finished and polished as this was. Stylistically, I would call the video Latin SciFi, kind of a "Miami Trek, the Rock Musical." After watching a gorgeous space traveler, played by Yovanna Lisette, start up her intergalactic iPod, the song rips open with some cool guitar with a strong soul bass line. Soon Cuban-born Yovanni is kicking in some fine vocals, bridging the gap between rock front-man and dance diva. He really heats up the chorus! I think of the song as the place where Rock meets up with Soul and their friend, Dance. Rather than try to explain more, watch it yourself.
Now I knew nothing about this young man, save he could write and email, so I was interested when I noticed there was another video posted, The Making of the 'Hello' Music Video. So I watched that, getting a few insights into the process.
With my curiosity piqued, I did a bit more searching, and found this interview Yovanni had with a New York area television reporter, and found he can tell his own story much better than I could, so I thought I would post it was well.
Yovanni seems like a great guy, and certainly has the talent to succeed. I'd be interested to hear more music from him. To find out more about Yovanni, you can find his official website here. If you are digging the song, you can find it on Amazon.Com here, or on iTunes here. Both are under $5, and are collections of remixes of the song, or you can purchase the song itself.


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The National Green Tribunal will hear on October 5 a plea challenging its order in which it had quashed two office memoranda of the Environment and Forests Ministry and imposed a fine on Akshardham Temple for carrying out expansion without prior environmental clearance.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar had on July 7 quashed two office memoranda of the Environment Ministry dealing with the issue of clearances for major and minor projects, saying they suffered from infirmity of "lack of inherent jurisdiction and authority".
Later on July 10, it had also slapped a fine of five per cent of the total cost incurred in the expansion of temple complex, located on the river bank along National Highway 24.
The Akshardham Temple management, in its plea through advocate Neelam Rathore, has said when the construction of the temple was completed in 2005, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2006 was not in force and thus there was no requirement to obtain environmental clearance (EC).
"The expansion work was commenced only after due sanctions and approvals were obtained by the applicant from all the concerned authorities. If the (temple) authorities had known about prior requirement of EC, it would not have started construction without obtaining prior EC in compliance with the law," the plea said.
On March 28, 2010, DDA granted sanction for an additional built-up area of 25,497 square metres for construction of additional structures within the premises of Akshardham Temple, the petition said.
The petition has also referred to a report of an expert committee, constituted by NGT, which has observed that "existing constructions (including Akshardham Temple) within the river zone that are allowed as an exception should be treated as special zone".


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Larissa Shmailo
On the Nature of Reality, On the Reality of Nature:
Pierced by Night-Colored Threads by Dean Kostos
reviewed by Larissa Shmailo
MadHat Press 2017, 140 pages, $21.95, ISBN 978-1-941196-49-6
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Dean Kostos's Pierced by Night-Colored Threads presents a new poetic surrealism, steeped in natural history and magical mysteries. Pierced is consciously beautiful, accurate, and quintessentially personal in its artistic perspective. While Kostos's erudite worldview and polyglot vocabulary brings literary, historical, and contemporary characters to life, it is his unique personal vision (many of his poems speak of eyes) that renders these works "surreal," transcendent, or of a truer reality.
Each poem in Pierced is a portrait, an ekphrasis with or without a referenced canvas, although Kostos presents traditional ekphrases on Arshile Gorky, Vermeer, the David and others. It is a book populated by stars and seers, a Tarot reading by an adept (each section of the collection contains one or more Tarot-themed "readings").
It is an orchestra of language whose motive is given by the book's epigram, from Aldous Huxley; that opener of the doors of perception cites the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, pronounced on a battlefield, as the spiritual prerequisite for peace. Pierced then sets out to work its dharma to fight the war within; its weapon, beauty.
Pierced's dharma hangs by a thread — four Threads, as the four interwoven sections are named, a reference to the threads cut by the Fates, as well as to modern email communication. The opening poem carries Emily Dickinson and the reader to a port on a bed floating dreamlike down a river:
in water's reflection, but a vessel into Mind.
— "The Tender"
Next, we are woven by green lachrymal tendrils to the shade of Pablo Neruda, who said "you have vines and stars in your hair." Like the narrator of Pierced,
without answers — found
residence in language.
— "Neruda's Tears"
Having established his literary guardian angels, Kostos romps through literature and history, offering vivid portraitures of Hebrew prophets, Magdalene, Shiva, and Shekinah. The heavenly hosts sing in the moving chorale "Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War."
The centerpiece of Pierced is the imagined correspondence between Carl Jung and Alan Turing in a series of vibrant "postcards" rich in metaphor. In a sestina, Kostos also describes the chemical castration of the gay computer genius, and his suicide:
dose of cyanide, I kill my nature —
deemed unnatural — take one
bite, another. My arm grows number.
Vortices in my brain blur language.
A record plays Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, cello strings
sawing through numberless sequences. Human nature's
one Edenic apple smashes to the floor. Languor gauges
my life's mathematical string — untying, uniting me.
— "Messages From The Unseen World: Imagined
Lost Writings Of Alan Turing"
The poet of Pierced offers received forms including lovely villanelles and ghazals, but is in his element when creating his own nonce forms. The use of rhyme is subtle and elegant ("A star rewrites human charts from afar… A scar rewrites heaven from afar."). The verse is sculpted, the indentations and line breaks a precise inhalation or exhalation.
a night sky or a seal-sleek street
after rain. Translators inhale
breath from line breaks,
articulate gaps &
conjure words from a face
pressed into absence.
— "In Translation"
In the epigram to his abecedarian, "Glossary of Loss," the poet tells us that "Maya, translated as 'illusion,' literally means 'that which can be measured.'" In Pierced by Night-Colored Threads, we happily measure the angle of the angels dancing on the heads of these poems. Eschewing the maya of the ordinary, Kostos's new surrealism provides a glance via a remarkable poetic insight into a truer reality, into the unknowable ding an sich.
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More photos from April.
I can tell I'm feeling inspired by spring this week--there are 3 shots involving flowers.
Everything is blooming outside and it is glorious.
I love summer an awful lot, but spring time holds a pretty special place in my heart, too.
April 16, 2012
These roses grow in our backyard.
The bush is a climbing rose, planted by the previous owner.
Someday, when Aaron builds the new patio cover,
these roses will climb all over it.
But for now they just climb as high as they can in the flower bed,
and then fall over with the weight of their flowers.
The kids pick them for me almost every day.
I love them.
April 17, 2012
Something I don't like
I do not subscribe to the theory of
"let them play and clean up at the end of the day".
I subscribe to the theory of
"clean as you go".
So when books are read, and left unshelved,
when art supplies are left scattered on the floor,
I must resist the urge to grumble under my breath,
and pick up after them.
Instead, I remind myself that I am teaching them a valuable life skill.
And then I yell, "pick up your stuff, (you dang kids!)"
Mom of the year, right here, people.
April18, 2012
James had tons of hair.
He had a cut at the barber's when he was 8 months old.
William had beautiful golden curls.
Lilly's had a big chunk of hair in the front,
perfect for cute, little, pink bows.
Davy's hair is so blond it's almost yellow.
It's thinner on top and thick in the back.
He has these long wisps that grow over his ears and look kind of silly.
But really, I think he looks just perfect.
April 19, 2012
Nasturtiums are some of my favorite flowers.
I love the way, if left unattended, they will spread and climb,
until they create a carpet of blue-green leaves,
and beautiful, bright flowers.
April 20, 2012
Something I drew
I wish I could draw.
But I can't.
Like, really, really can't.
I so admire people who can.
And I am kind of jealous of them too.
Perhaps that is why I encourage my kids to spend
as much time as they want drawing.
Right now, all 3 of them love to draw.
I hope they never loose that,
and can grow up to be like their daddy,
who can draw anything he wants.
But I take better pictures than he does.
(well, most of the time)
So there's that.
Good photography takes skill.
An eye.
And yeah, it's not just having a good camera.
April 21, 2012
Do you know about Dr. Bronner's soap?
We love it.
We've been using it for at least 9 or 10 years.
It's fabulous soap.
And the bonus is, if you're ever bored in the shower,
you can read the thousands of words printed all over the bottle
and be thoroughly entertained.
He's pretty crazy.
But you can't beat his soaps.
April 22, 2012
The last thing I bought
So James wanted a "stacked" cake for his birthday.
That's a layer cake for those of you not in the know.
I went with my favorite yellow cake recipe,
and even sprang for the cake flour to make it even more perfect.
Between the layers, I put whipped, chocolate gnache,
and then frosted the outside with it too.
It was amazingly good.
I may grow into my dream of being an accomplished cake baker, yet.
One more week to go for April.
Have any of you been taking part in the Challenge?
If so, let me know so I can take a look at your pictures.
Love from,


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FindLaw.com The New Afghan Constitution Will It Respect Women's Rights? Will Its Mixture of Religion and Democracy Work? By MADHAVI SUNDER Jan. 15, 2004 Last week, headscarves and turbans took the place of powdered wigs as delegates to Afghanistan's Constitutional conventional approved a new Constitution. The charter, which embraces democracy, human rights, and equality for women, holds the promise of taking this hobbled nation out of the Dark Ages toward modernity. Indeed, the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, called it "one of the most enlightened Constitutions in the Islamic world." Yet the old Enlightenment required the separation of church and state. And the new Afghan Constitution, in contrast, mixes democracy and religion, proclaiming an Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Observers herald the new charter as a blueprint for democracy in the Muslim world, especially Iraq. In much of that world, secularism is not viewed as politically viable. Accordingly, the Afghan charter is being cheered as the next best thing -- on the theory that a religious democracy is better than no democracy at all. But is the new Afghan Constitution truly enlightened? In particular, should we worry that under this Constitution, women's rights will be given short shrift? Or should women embrace this Constitution as a new model for Islamic democracy? On that score, I think we can be optimistic, but should remain cautious. A Religious Democracy, Embodied by an Islamic Constitution Afghanistan's new Constitution is unabashedly Islamic. The first Article declares Afghanistan an "Islamic Republic." Islam is declared to be the official religion of the state. And the Constitution expressly bars any law "contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam." Clearly the model is not that of the United States, where a judge can lose his job for hanging the Ten Commandments in his courthouse. In the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, civil code must be consistent with religious code. A Strong Emphasis on Democracy and Human Rights At the same time, this Constitution is unflinchingly democratic and pro-human rights. The state is obliged "to create a prosperous and progressive society based on social justice," to "protect human rights," and to realize "democracy." The Constitution also creates a specific mechanism for enforcing these ideals. It requires the government to monitor human rights abuses through a newly established Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan. How will human rights violations be defined? Again, the Constitution is specific. It expressly requires the state to "abide by the UN charter, international treaties, international conventions that Afghanistan has signed, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." (Emphasis added.) Enforcing the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women This is especially significant for women because Afghanistan acceded last year to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Thus, under the new Afghan Constitution, the Independent Human Rights Commission will be able to enforce CEDAW, among other "international conventions that Afghanistan has signed." Significantly, CEDAW prohibits sex discrimination in both public and private realms. (Ironically, for this very reason, the United States has still not ratified CEDAW.) Other Constitutional Provisions Affecting Women's Rights Importantly, the Afghan Constitution also declares women the equal of men under Afghan law, and commits the state to take some affirmative steps towards women's equality. For instance, the Constitution obligates the state to promote women's education. Perhaps most significantly, the Constitution adopts quotas for membership in Parliament, setting aside one quarter of the seats for women. (In another irony, soon the United States Congress, whose membership is currently less than fifteen percent female, will look much more like an old boy's club than the Afghani Parliament will.) The Constitution Leaves Open Some Tough Church/State Questions The good news, then, is that the Afghani Founders clearly believe that religion and rights can be reconciled. This, in itself, deals a sharp blow to fundamentalists who dispute such a claim. But practically speaking, the new Constitution offers little guidance for achieving this. The result is that most of the tough questions will be left to the future Afghan Supreme Court. What, for example, if husbands decide their wives should not work based on conservative interpretations of the Koran? Or what if fathers prohibit their daughters from going to school, or force them into marriage? Will such actions violate the equal rights guarantees under the Constitution, or be upheld as consistent with Islam? Under CEDAW, will these actions count as prohibited "private" discrimination? Or will there be a sphere of private action deemed to be too deeply private for the Constitution to reach? The charter mandates a unified educational curriculum "based on the provisions of the sacred religion of Islam." Will this be interpreted as an obligation to provide education to men and women equally, or as a license to discriminate? One provision upholds the interests of the family, calling for "the elimination of traditions contrary to the principles of the sacred religion of Islam." Would such traditions include women's right to work, or to an education? Or, more hopefully, would this require the elimination of oppressive cultural traditions that are inconsistent with the egalitarian aspirations of Islam? Again, the answers are anything but clear. The Crucial Role the Afghan Supreme Court Will Play The answers to many of these women's rights questions will turn in large part on who sits on the high court. The Afghan Constitution allows for judges to be trained in either civil or Islamic law. Either way, the way they may interpret the Constitution will be hard to predict. Judges trained in civil law might still offer fundamentalist interpretations, and judges trained in Islamic law may be progressive. Unfortunately, elsewhere in the world, similarly ambiguous Constitutions (or other mixed governmental systems) have not proven advantageous to women. Countries such as India and Nigeria, for example, are progressive on women's issues, but in practice allow for deviations from the equality principle. Discriminatory practices are justified, and may be upheld in court, on cultural or religious grounds. Thus, despite its Constitutional guarantees of gender equality, Nigeria recently underwent a long and painful episode where a woman was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery -- only to be saved at the last minute by a procedural ruling by a higher court. In Afghanistan, some find solace in the fact that the final charter avoids making any explicit reference to Shari'a, the traditional Islamic law that is often interpreted to discriminate against women. But women's groups say that it is still too soon to make too much of the omission. Disparagement of Female Constitutional Convention Delegates Meanwhile, if the treatment of women delegates to the three-week Constitutional convention is any indication, the calls for caution may be wise indeed. Women delegates lamented that fear and corruption surrounded the Constitutional process. And they repeatedly expressed concerns that their voices were being neither heard nor respected. A low point of the convention occurred when the chairman of the convention, Sibghatullah Mujaddedi -- who is considered a moderate -- reportedly told women delegates, "Don't try to put yourself on a level with men. Even God has not given you equal rights, because under his decision two women are counted as equal to one man." (Mujaddedi was referring to a contested provision of Islamic law that says that the testimony of two women is equivalent to that of one man in some cases.) Democratic Religion? A New Debate About the Meaning of Being Muslim In the end, though, all Constitutions are, without more, as Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai noted, just "a piece of paper." It is their interpretation over time and by new generations that gives them life. To that extent, perhaps the ambiguity on the question of "which Islam?" the Constitution embodies, or should embody, may be a good thing. Rather than proclaiming any one form of Islam as supreme, the new Constitution might be seen as an invitation to open up debate about what it means to be Muslim in Afghanistan today. Put another way, the future of religious democracy -- as represented by the Afghan Constitution -- just may turn on the acceptance of democratic religion. That is, the more democracy and debate we allow within religious communities -- allowing everyone, including women, to define religious law and identity -- the more representative Afghanistan's religious democracy will be. Over time, the people of Afghanistan should decide what laws are consistent with Islam by defining the people's Islam. This approach recognizes that Islam, too, like a Constitution, is subject to debate, interpretation, and change. The New Enlightenment: The Best Case Scenario for Afghanistan Call this, then, the New Enlightenment. The old Enlightenment demanded equality in the public sphere. But it left the private spheres of culture and religion in the Dark Ages of the ruthless imposition of power, and the triumph of unreason. The New Enlightenment goes the next mile, calling for enlightened approaches to cultural and religious identity, as well as to government. The core values of the Enlightenment -- reason, democracy, freedom of expression, and the call, in Kant's words, to "think for oneself" -- still remain. But in this New Enlightenment, they are also extended to the private spheres of culture and religion. An Islamic Model of Women's Rights It is becoming increasingly apparent that such movements for cultural reformation, or change from within, are crucial for attaining democracy throughout the modern world. The Nobel Committee recognized this when it awarded the 2003 Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi is an Iranian woman who is a judge and law professor and who, since the Iranian Revolution, has been working within the framework of Islam to expand rights for women and children in her country. In recognizing Ebadi herself, the Nobel Committee also implicitly recognized the value of her approach. The 2003 Arab Human Development Report similarly calls for Arab countries to develop "an authentic, broadminded and enlightened Arab knowledge model. " Such a model, the Report stresses, must respect critical religious scholarship, activate interpretive religious jurisprudence, and perhaps most importantly, preserve "the right to differ in doctrines, religious schools and interpretations." The Constitution's Ambiguity on Free Speech/Free Exercise Issues To be sure, the realization of more democratic religion in Afghanistan's new religious democracy will turn on individuals' rights to dissent within their religion. Will these rights be recognized by religious institutions and figures? Will the government honor, protect, penalize, or be indifferent to their exercise? Under the U.S. Constitution, the Free Speech and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment prevent the government from punishing religious dissent. But on the other hand, the Establishment Clause also prohibits the government from protecting religious dissenters from expulsion or other punishments, as long as the expulsion does not violate the secular law. It also often prohibits courts from interpreting religious dictates to judge the validity of a given religious action, such as an expulsion; to interpret religious rules, courts have held, would too greatly "entangle" church and state. It is unclear what approach the Afghan Constitution will take on this issue. On the one hand, it provides for a right to profess a religion outside of the state religion of Islam -- creating its own limited version of a Free Exercise/Free Speech Clause. But on the other hand, the Constitution does not address rights to dissent within Islam. In sum, the Afghan Constitution is promising. It sets the stage for an historic, new, democratic era for Afghanistan, and possibly even more of the Muslim world. But even optimists must be cautious when it comes to the Constitution -- for it is the Afghan Supreme Court's interpretations that are likely to resolve its ambiguities, and set the tone. We can only hope the Court will recognize that to be truly successful, religious democracies -- such as the one the Afghan Constitution aspires to create -- must also encompass a right to democracy within religion. The truly hard work of laying the foundation for a new democracy through ongoing debate and dialogue is yet to come. Madhavi Sunder is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. A graduate of Stanford Law School and Harvard College, she specializes in women's international human rights and intellectual property.
US-imposed "democracy" in Afghanistan by: Mike Head 1/8/2004 WSWS.org After more than three weeks of cajoling, back-room haggling and standover tactics, the 502 largely unelected delegates to the United States-orchestrated loya jirga, or grand tribal council, in Afghanistan this week endorsed a constitution aimed at strengthening the crumbling position of Washington's handpicked interim president, Hamid Karzai. Following intense arm-twisting of faction leaders by US President George Bush's envoy and ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, and UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the assembly-a huge tent full of representatives of warlords, mullahs and outright US stooges-rubber-stamped a constitution on January 4. While media reports presented the outcome as a triumph for democracy, the assembly was a travesty from start to finish. Karzai selected 50 of the delegates, while the various militia, religious and ethnic elites that have been complicit in the US-led military occupation, chose the others. Amid growing resistance to the puppet regime, they could only meet under armed guard. Even then, the proceedings were threatened by a series of rocket attacks on the site, including one last weekend. Perhaps the most revealing moment came when Malalai Joya, a 26-year-old female social worker from the rural province of Farah, stood up to condemn most of the jirga's committee chairmen as criminals. Instead of being given influential positions, she declared, they should be tried for their crimes. Joya was initially thrown out of the meeting, then allowed to remain and is now under UN protection from death threats. The crimes to which she referred were the widespread rocket shellings, torture, rape and mass killings of civilians committed by Islamic fundamentalist warlords-mujahideen, or holy warriors-from 1992 to 1996 before they were ousted by the Taliban extremists. The US and its allies are today relying upon the same thugs to rule Afghanistan. One of the most prominent delegates was General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose Northern Alliance forces massacred thousands of Taliban prisoners in the desert near Mazar-i-Sharif during the US invasion in November 2001. So anti-democratic was the entire process that no vote was even taken on the final version of the document. Instead, at the urging of the chairman, most of those present simply stood briefly to signify their acceptance. Just three days earlier, the meeting had been suspended in disarray when some 40 percent of the delegates boycotted the first and only vote at the gathering. Led by former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, the coalition of minority ethnic factions, including his Tajik clan, Uzbeks and Hazaras, called for the appointment of a prime minister to restrict the sweeping powers allocated to the president. They also demanded official recognition of minority languages and called for a ban on ministers holding dual citizenship. The latter provision was primarily directed at those in Karzai's camp who are US citizens. Once Khalilzad and Brahimi stepped in to lay down the law, Rabbani and his allies quickly acceded to an autocratic presidency. The president will rule without a prime minister. He will have the power to appoint and dismiss ministers, key officials, judges and military, police and intelligence chiefs, as well as one-third of the upper house of the national assembly. He will be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and can declare states of emergency for the whole or parts of the country. In return, Karzai and his backers made minor concessions. They added a second vice president to represent minority interests and gave the national assembly the right to approve some presidential appointments. Alongside the two official languages, Pashto (spoken by ethnic Pashtuns) and Dari (Tajik), other languages will be recognised in regions where they are spoken by a majority of people. Apparently, Karzai agreed to learn Uzbek. There will no ban on dual citizenship, but the national assembly can reject individual officials who hold foreign passports. Karzai also struck a deal with hard-line Islamic fundamentalists to include a clause prohibiting any law from offending Islam. This means that, despite the lip service paid by the constitution to democratic rights, including equal status for women, reactionary Islamic precepts will prevail. Karzai had already appointed Fazal Hadi Shinwari as chief justice of the Supreme Court. In violation of the constitution, Shinwari is over the age limit and has training only in religious, not secular, law. He is an ally of the pro-Wahhabi, Saudi-backed fundamentalist leader Ustad Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, who was a committee chairman in the loya jirga. Shinwari has packed the Supreme Court with sympathetic mullahs, called for Taliban-style punishments and brought back the Taliban's dreaded Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, renamed the Ministry of Haj and Religious Affairs. It deploys squads to stop public displays of "un-Islamic" behaviour among Afghan women. Presidential elections are meant to be held under the new constitution by June, to be followed by assembly elections. But the deteriorating economic and security situation in the country makes that schedule unlikely. UN envoy Brahimi has already told the New York Times that assembly elections would be "well nigh impossible" because the threat of Taliban insurgents make large parts of the country inaccessible. For his part, Rabbani has made it plain that the conflicts that wracked the loya jirga have by no means receded. He declared that the backroom dictates issued in Kabul had only damaged the administration's credibility and warned that the strong presidential system could "push Afghanistan to a dictatorship". Despite the deeply reactionary character of the gathering in Kabul, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan praised the outcome as an historic achievement. President Bush welcomed the constitution, declaring that "a democratic Afghanistan will serve the interests and just aspirations of all the Afghan people". The major media outlets, including the erstwhile liberal press, dutifully echoed these remarks. The New York Times editorial called the constitution "enlightened" and said the Bush administration was "justifiably thrilled by the outcome". It endorsed ongoing US military control of the country, "to help provide the political support and military security to make presidential and parliamentary elections possible". No democracy To even speak of democracy in these circumstances is farcical. Washington has illegally conquered one of the most impoverished and ruined countries on earth, overturned its government and joined hands with notorious butchers to repress and intimidate the population. Around 12,000 US-led combat troops remain in Afghanistan, terrorising the population in the name of hunting down Taliban and Al Qaeda supporters. They are accompanied by 5,700 NATO "peacekeepers," which are mainly propping up the Karzai administration in the capital. Even the timetable for elections in Afghanistan is driven by the Bush administration's immediate domestic political considerations. It badly needs a symbolic show of success for its "war on terror" in the lead-up to the US presidential election in November. It is proceeding with its characteristic mixture of cynicism and short-sightedness. All that matters in Afghanistan is a public relations victory, regardless of the completely catastrophic reality. Many parts of the country are no longer safe for allied troops, or for that matter, UN officials, aid workers and ordinary civilians. Mounting guerilla attacks have forced international aid agencies to withdraw to Kabul, halting even elementary welfare efforts. On December 18, the World Food Program admitted that its food distribution program had been severely affected by the breakdown in security. The deteriorating situation was highlighted on January 6, when a truck bomb blast near a military base in the southern city of Kandahar killed at least 16 people and wounded 52, many of them school children. Despite the indiscrim inate terror employed by the insurgents, the methods being employed by the US seem to be simply increasing support for the Taliban fundamentalists. Heavy-handed repression by US troops is intensifying popular opposition and resistance to the occupation, particularly in the southern and eastern Pashtun regions. Last month, the US military launched its largest operations in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban, aimed at tracking down anti-government forces and quelling wider unrest in the lead-up to the loya jirga. Karzai's fiefdom is largely confined to Kabul, where US troops guard him around the clock. Elsewhere, private armies roam, with a total of half a million men under arms, some linked to drug barons and others to members of Karzai's government. There is no prospect that even the semblance of a democratic regime will emerge in Afghanistan under these hellish and neo-colonial conditions. Democracy is only possible through a genuine popular revolution, spearheaded by the working class, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Only such a movement could liberate the region from decades of great power domination and overcome its legacy of economic backwardness, warlordism and theocratic oppression.
Paktribune.com Afghan Constitution Provides Little Protection for Religion Saturday January 17, 2004 (1432 PST) LONDON, January 18 (Online): When the Afghanistan constitutional assembly, or loya jirga, decided on a new constitution for Afghanistan, everyone from the NY Times to President Bush applauded the document for outlining a Western-style democracy for the country. However, some religious freedom watchers were not so pleased, and say it may provide the basis for a government only slightly less repressive than the Taliban. The constitution, which isn't yet available online, sets up an elected bicameral legislature and a strong presidency, but it was criticized in its draft form by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. In February and April 2003 letters to President Bush, the commission warned of "troubling signs in the human rights situation in Afghanistan, including abuses against women and girls, torture and other human rights abuses committed by official agencies with apparent impunity, and public statements by the Afghan Chief Justice reminiscent of the Taliban period, including charging political opponents with blasphemy." In an October New York Times op-ed, members of the commission warned that the drafted constitution "does not yet provide for crucial human rights protections, including freedom of thought, conscience and religion." Because the draft enshrined Shari'ah (Islamic law), the commission worried that "Afghan citizens would continue to be in the hands of judges educated in Islamic law, rather than in civil law." Now that the constitution has been ratified, religious freedom watchers say they are pleased that some elements of the constitution have been improved, but overall it leaves much to be desired� especially if Afghanistan is to be a model for an Iraqi constitution. Reports that the constitution declares that "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam" trouble Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House. "That means to me that Islamic law is the supreme law of the land," she said. "The provisions of Islam are left undefined, and the interpreter of what they are is left unidentified." Though the final draft removed references to Shari'ah, the restriction (called a repugnancy clause) may be a cloak for Islamic law. Shea said, "It's not going to be the secularists who claim the right to interpret. It's going to be the hard line Shari'ah jurists." Already, Shea said, Afghanistan's Chief Justice�the country's highest Islamic jurist�has ordered the execution of two journalists who questioned the compatibility of Shari'ah with democracy, and a female member of the interim administration has been charged with blasphemy. Shea said the U.S.-supported Karzai government has defended these actions and others. Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, shares Shea's concerns. "The proposal doesn't contain any provisions separating the mosque from the state or ensuring equal rights among the religious groups," he said. "They're running the risk of establishing a theocracy." Afghanistan's ambassador to France denied the constitution set up a religious government. "There are always ways to abuse Islam," Zalmai Haquani told reporters. "If, by some great misfortune, Afghanistan were again under the Taliban, they wouldn't look at the constitution," Haquani said. Instead, said Haquani, Afghan jurists will use the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence. "Hanafi is the most liberal jurisprudence in Islam," he told the news agency. "It allows a very wide range of interpretation according to where the law is applied." That's part of the problem, says Shea. Using any single interpretation of Islamic law inhibits religious freedom, which must be individual, she said. Simply because Muslims can attend a mosque does not mean they are free to worship however they choose. "It's the right of an individual to interpret the religion the way the individual wants to and not be put to death for blasphemy," she said. "If you don't want to go to prayers five times a day, if you don't want to go to church on Sunday, you should be allowed to interpret it the way you want." Robert Seiple, president and founder of the Institute for Global Engagement, believes we should be grateful for the freedoms the constitution does allow and be vigilant to make sure the country implements them. "It's doubly important to watch how this unfolds, and to make sure that there is no additional inkling of what we experienced under the Taliban." The constitution says that followers of other religions have the freedom to practice, but religious liberty watchdogs say context is key. Any non-Islamic religious practices, the document says, must be in accord with all other laws. "That means anyone could pass a law that says, no you don't have a right to exercise your faith," says Shea. "All the rights in this constitution are couched in that language." Though the constitution has significant problems, Seiple believes they can be addressed by continuing engagement with Afghanistan. "It's never a problem of: Do the words exist?" said Seiple, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. "We certainly have enough laws on the books. The question really is, Will they follow them?" The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, told The Washington Times that Afghans will not be forced to practice Islam� something proposed by some in the loya jirga. "But the majority of the Afghans, as reflected during the loya jirga, seek [a] moderate interpretation of Islam," he said. "They spoke forcefully and courageously in support of that and challenged extremist interpretations of Islam�and rejected it." King disagrees. "It's a radical Muslim country whether the Taliban is in there or not. It's still a radical Muslim country with a fundamentalist mindset." Despite its radical tendencies, Seiple notes, "the fact that we have a constitution two years after a major conflict is pretty amazing. Though the constitution follows Islamic law, it is not the hard edge of Shari'ah." Shea, a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, says the Bush administration did not push hard enough for language beyond an allowance of religious exercise. "The U.S. government seemed to think that if you could go to church you were free," she said. "There was no concept that religious freedom means educating your children in the faith or being able to possess religious literature, Bibles, being able to designate your leaders, being able to meet with co-religionists, being able to carry out charities, being able to raise money, or to take collections." The U.S. government should be given credit, said Seiple, that the constitution has major improvements over its draft version. King agrees that the flawed constitution is a hopeful step. "You look at where it came from and it's definitely a step in the right direction," he said. "They put women forward. At least on paper they made them equal citizens. They included them in the legislative body. And religious freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum�it's part of a human rights picture." But even these gains may be temporary, says Shea. "[The constitution] says equality for women, but someone is going to have to interpret that in light of the provisions of Islam, which say that women have half the weight as men. Women's testimony in court has half the weight as a man's. A woman's life in a murder case is worth half the blood money as a man's. If you have an incorporation of the provisions of Islam and the incorporations of [human] rights, what prevails?" The U.S. government's approval of the Afghan constitution will have implications far beyond Afghanistan, warns Shea. If the U.S. is willing to set up an Islamic state in Afghanistan, it signals its willingness to do the same in Iraq�something all the more problematic now that spreading democracy, not finding weapons of mass destruction, is the declared rationale for U.S. invasion and occupation. "It's going to be tragic if we influence [the region] by creating an Islamic state, sending the signal that the U.S. is willing to establish and support and tolerate a repressive Islamic state," she says. However, Seiple believes that the problems with the Afghan constitution have encouraged more deliberation over Iraq's. "One of the reasons that people were jumping into the fray early on was because the Afghan constitution was so bad in terms of human rights." He said the State Department and the Pentagon are investing a great deal in Iraq's constitution. "History is being written, you only have one chance to get this right. I think you will see a great deal of involvement behind the scenes."
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Three of Dr. Posey's biggest motivations are his passion for learning, drive to succeed, and making a significant difference in the lives of others. Dr. Posey realizes that one's life can only be made worthy through service to others. This is why nothing Dr. Posey does gets less than 100% effort, including the effort he puts toward making sure every patient is satisfied!
Dr. Posey graduated with honors from Gilmer High School in Ellijay Georgia. He then attended Berry College in Rome, Georgia where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. During his time at Berry he was class treasurer, earned the US Presidential Volunteer Service Award, and presented various research on Chagas disease. He earned his Doctorate of Dental Medicine from the Medical College of Georgia in 2014.
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College students occupy themselves with a lot of activities. Studying, sports, traveling, partying but nothing more beneficial to the neighborhood than feeding those in need. Pheed Philadelphia was formed by La Salle students that saw the glaring needs of those living in poverty.
Pheed Philadelphia picks four Philadelphia based soup kitchens to help serve those that are hungry. Six to seven students meet face to face to converse and customize the food however the person wants. A lot of kitchens hand the food off expect the person to leave. If they do stay they're often unable to sit with their family while they eat.
Pheed's goal is to avoid the stigma involved with those in need. They're quick to point out that many people suffering from hunger are employed. 60% of those seeking emergency food assistance are the working poor. Despite the many resources available 1 out of 8 Americans…
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An early goal from US international midfielder Alejandro Bedoya gave Nantes a 1-0 victory over Marseille on Friday and saw his team leapfrog their opponent into fourth place in the French league.
Bedoya scored from close range in the 17th minute. Filip Djordjevic cut the ball back for the American, whose low strike took a deflection off a defender to beat Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda for his third league goal.
Nantes was the more ambitious side in the first half and nearly doubled the lead in the 28th with Papy Djilobodji's header from a corner, but Mandanda cleared the ball off the line.
Marseille showed more desire in the second half, but Nantes goalkeeper Remy Riou parried two long-range shots from Dimitri Payet in the 59th and 70th.
Andre-Pierre Gignac created the hosts' best chance with a cross from the right flank in the 67th but substitute Saber Khalifa's half-volley sailed over the bar.
Mandanda kept Marseille's hopes of salvaging a draw alive by saving Djordjevic's powerful effort in the 78th.
However, Nicolas Nkoulou missed a potential equalizer by heading a corner over the bar in stoppage time.
There was a minute of applause at Stade Velodrome before kickoff in memory of Nelson Mandela, the father of democracy in South Africa, who died on Thursday.
Yesterday's matches were to be played between Paris Saint-Germain and Sochaux; Lorient and Rennes; Reims and Nice; Saint-Etienne and Evian; and Valenciennes and Guingamp.
Today, second-place Lille are to visit Bordeaux, Monaco are set to host Ajaccio, Lyon are scheduled to play Bastia and Montpellier are to take on Toulouse.


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Durga Temple
The village of Aihole (pronunciation: eye-HO-lee) contains over 125 temples from the Early Western Chalukya and later periods (6th - 12th century). Shown here, and on the following pages, are six Early Chalukya examples from the 6th - 8th centuries. The locations of a few other temples are marked with bold x's on the map, just to give an idea of the richness of the site.
The architecture of Early Western Chalukya reflects diverse influences from neighboring areas. For example, as the Blue Guide (p. 331) explains, curved towers decorated with blind arches are found in central and western India; pilastered walls with panel inserts are a southern Indian style; while the Deccan style includes balcony seating, angled eaves and sloping roofs, and elaborately carved columns and ceilings. Readers can find, in the following pages, many examples of mixed styles, often on the same temple. For example, in the following temple (photo), the left hall is Dravidian (s. India); the middle hall is Rashtrakutan; and the tower is Deccan.
By way of showing the unity within this diversity, Huntington (p.337) identifies some typical features of Early Western Chalukyan architecture. These include mortarless assembly, an emphasis on length rather than width or height, flat roofs, richly carved ceilings, and, sculpturally, an emphasis on relatively few major figures, which tend to be isolated from each other rather than arranged in crowded groups. The aesthetic sensibility of sculpture from this period also seems to retain a certain "classical" quality the term, by the way, is currently out of fashion whose impulse does not carry over into later periods of Indian art.
Aihole is located near Badami in the state of Karnataka. The names of the temples are based on recent usage, and do not reflect their original dedications.


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The GV-Hybrid LPR Camera 10R is a 1.3 MP B/W network camera designed solely for recognition of reflective license plates on vehicles traveling at 120 km/hr (74.6 mph) or less. With its high-power LEDs and intelligent IR, the camera is able to automatically adjust its shutter speed to the scene and produce clear license plate capture under low-light conditions. Under certain conditions, the GV-Hybrid Camera 10R can capture up to two lanes in a single shot.
The GV-Hybrid LPR Camera 10R can be easily configured through its Web interface and you can record and play back recordings using the free GV-NVR software included in the standard package.
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You will find below information about Ulsan airport. Use the links below to read detailed information about Ulsan airport: location, route maps, live departures and arrivals etc.
Skyscanner allows you to find the cheapest flights to Ulsan airport without having to enter specific dates or even destinations, making it the best place to find cheap flights for your trip to Ulsan airport. Use the links at the side of the page to browse for flight information or use the flight search controls above to start a new search.
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Former first lady Michelle Obama finally met Parker Curry, the two-year old girl who went viral for her adorable reaction to Obama's official National Portrait Gallery portrait.
"Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today," Obama captioned a Twitter video of her and Parker
Of course the internet gushed over this incredibly precious moment.
The former FLOTUS ended her post with a powerful message that reminds us just how important it is for children of color to have role models that represent them. "Keep on dreaming big for yourself," Obama wrote. "And maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you!"
Last month, Obama shared why her painting is much more than just another portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. In Obama's Instagram post unveiling the artwork, she wrote:
"As a young girl, even in my wildest dreams, I never could have imagined this moment. Nobody in my family has ever had a portrait - there are no portraits of the Robinsons or the Shields from the South Side of Chicago. This is all a little bit overwhelming, especially when I think about all of the young people who will visit the National Portrait Gallery and see this, including so many young girls and young girls of color who don't often see their images displayed in beautiful and iconic ways. I am so proud to help make that kind of history. "
The photo in which Parker stands awestruck in front of Obama's official portrait, painted by Amy Sherald, was captured by fellow gallery dweller Ben Hines and has been shared over 35,000 times on Facebook. According to BuzzFeed, Parker's mom Jessica Curry was trying to get her little girl to turn around to take a photo in front of the artwork but Parker was just too fixated on the piece. "She had a little moment," Curry told the outlet. "In the world we live in today, I'm just trying to raise a little girl who has opportunities to see women who look like her doing great things."
Curry also said that Parker thinks of Michelle Obama as if she's royalty.
l"In further discussion with (Parker) yesterday and today, I realized that she believes Michelle Obama is a queen, and she wants to be a queen as well ...," Curry told CNN. "As a female and as a girl of color, It's really important that I show her people who look like her that are doing amazing things and are making history so that she knows she can do it."
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Those two are not-so-sweet bunnies. They are not the usual gentle bunnies we see around Easter time. But they are the kind my sons like.
I crocheted the bodies with cotton yarn. I followed the tutorial generously written by Kristi. I filled the bunnies with old bed sheets that I cut into 1″ stripes. The appliqués are made of old t-shirt fabric.
The pink t-shirt was the only suitable pink fabric I had on hand and I had some difficulties stitching it on the crocheted cotton yarn. I am sure you noticed that the eyes of the scared-looking rabbid are far from perfect. But I think they look good enough. Making them was a lot of fun. With my sons frequently checking on the progress…
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anoxex04.in : Polysilicon Oxidation
Requires: SSuprem 4
Minimum Versions: Athena 5.22.3.R
This example demonstrates the simultaneous oxidation of polysilicon and silicon. This example also shows the lifting of polysilicon as a small bird's beak is formed.
The example begins by forming a structure that is a sandwich of polysilicon, oxide, and silicon with a recessed area in the exposed silicon. Prior to oxidization, the coefficients for polysilicon oxidation are modified using the oxide statement.
The structure is then oxidized to show the polysilicon oxidation model. The dump parameter of the diffuse statement causes SSuprem 4 to save a structure file after each time step. The dump.pre parameter specifies that the name of these structure files will be of the form anoxex09mxxx.xxx.str where xxx.xxx is the current total time of the diffusion step. This allows the making of a movie using the MOVIE capability of TonyPlot .
The second TonyPlot statement loads intermediate files for a movie. To watch the movie, first select "Select all plots" from the "View" popup and then select "Movie.." from the "Tools" popup.
To load and run this example, select the Load button in DeckBuild > Examples. This will copy the input file and any support files to your current working directory. Select the Run button in DeckBuild to execute the example.


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This is a video I have done for my track "Sektor Dresden". It is my first vinyl release it came on records bln. The name sektor Dresden came in my mind because my father was in Dresden during ww2 when he was a child and he survived the big bombing. And, second there is a techno club called Sektor in Dresden. So I wish maximum fun with this video and techno track.
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Treasury Management
Treasury Management is defined by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) as "the management of the organisation's investments and cash flows, its banking, money market and capital market transactions; the effective control of the risks associated with those activities; and the pursuit of optimum performance consistent with those risks".
Treasury Management Strategy Statement: In accordance with the CIPFA Code of Practice on Treasury Management in Public Services, the Commissioner approves on an annual basis a Treasury Management Strategy Statement (TMSS) as part of the overall budget setting process. The TMSS includes an annual Investment and Borrowing Strategy that sets out our policy and practices for managing investment and borrowing. It also sets out Prudential Indicators that govern our treasury management activity. Our arrangements for treasury management are undertaken in accordance with the CIPFA Code of Practice and under guidance from specialist treasury management advisors.
The Treasury Management Strategy Statement for 2019/20 and Prudential Indicators 2019/2020 to 2021/22 was approved by the Commissioner at a meeting of the Public Accountability Conference on 20 February 2019 and can be found using the link below.
Treasury Management Strategy Statement 2019/20 and Prudential Indicators 2019/20 to 2021/22
The TMSS is supported by a set of Treasury Management Practices (TMPs) that outline how all treasury management activity will be managed. The TMPs can be found using the link below.
Monitoring of Treasury Activities: We monitor treasury management activities on a quarterly basis. Set out below are the quarterly reports for the current financial year with a separate link to reports for the previous two years, that explain how we have managed our investments. Quarter 1 reports cover the period from April to June, quarter 2 reports cover the period from July to September, quarter 3 is October to December. Our final report of the year is the outturn report covering the whole financial year and incorporating investment activity between January and March. Our reports will be added to this website following their consideration by the Commissioner's Public Accountability Conference in September (quarter 1), November (quarter 2), February (quarter 3) and May (quarter 4/annual report).
2019/20 Reports – To be update at the end of each period
Quarter 1 2019/20: Treasury Management Activities to June 2019
Quarter 2 2019/20: Treasury Management Activities to September 2019
Quarter 3 2019/20: Treasury Management Activities to December 2019
Quarter 4 2019/20: Treasury Management Activities to March 2020
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- Ausangate - Vinicunca
In addition to the scenery, you will see alpacas and llamas, as well as the only indigenous habitat of the Incan Vicuña. You will also learn about the traditions of the Andean people with visits to local villages.
We set off early from Cusco traveling by private van to the small village of Tinqui. We will see the impressive mountain range of Vilcanota and pass through several traditional Andean villages en route and take time to stop to take some photos. When we arrive at Tinqui (our trailhead), we will have a delicious breakfast prepared by our master chef. Then our horsemen will arrange all the group gear and packs on the horses and our trek officially begins. We begin our walk through farming communities and enjoy the breathtaking views of the mountains. We will walk for around 3 hrs and then its time for a lunch stop. After lunch we continue for another 2 hours to reach Upis (4,100 m / 13,448 ft). There we will have the opportunity to soak in the local hot springs before dinner, and camp for the night.
After a big breakfast we are ready to leave our camp and get started on our hike for the day. We will climb to the Arapa Pass (4,850 m / 15,908 ft). From this vantage point we will enjoy the contrast between dry desert like hills and breathtaking snow capped views of Mt. Ausangate and Pucacocha. This area also boasts three beautiful lakes with tones of reds, greens, and turquoises (Pucacocha, Hatun Pucacocha, and Qomercocha). Our second campsite is close to Ausangate glacier.
Today, you will be woken up with "room service" (a hot cup of coca tea). This is going to be one of the most beautiful days of the trek. We will see the Rainbow Mountains in the distance. Also, on today´s journey, we will pass through Alccatauri Village. This is where we will see their traditional village life. There are no trees in the area, so there is no wood to make houses or build fires. The residents are extremely enterprising and make their adobe houses out of mud and build fires with nature´s fertilizer, a.k.a. manure. J.
The day begins with a 1 ½ hour uphill climb until we reach the Ausangate pass (4,930 m / 16,170 ft). At this pass, we will see red mountains and also have the opportunity to see Vicuñas, chinchillas and alpacas.
After we enjoy the pass, we descend for 1 ½ hours until we reach the Alccatauri Village (4,400 m / 14,435 ft). During our time at the village, in return for their generous hospitality, we will give them offerings of coca leaves. This is extremely valuable because this treasurable Peruvian staple can not be grown in this climate.
Following this incomparable experience, we will hike a further 30 minutes uphill to our lunch spot at a rustic lodge.
After a satisfying lunch, we will begin our voyage uphill to the second pass. After 1 ½ hours, we will follow Llama trail to Minasniyuq Pass. Here we will have our first views of the Rainbow Mountains (5,020 m / 16,469 ft). At this pass, we will make offerings to Pacha Mama (Mother Earth).
The remainder of the day´s journey is a 1 hour downhill hike to our camp, Surine Cocha (4,800 m / 15,748 ft). The camp is on the banks of the gorgeous Surine Lake (pictured above).
After breakfast we hike gradually uphill for 2 hours until we reach the famous Rainbow Mountain (5,020 m / 16,469 ft). Your guide will walk you to the best spots to get the perfect pictures of these incredible mountains and the other surrounding mountains. Your guide will explain what makes these mountains so unique: they are composed of various minerals, which make different colors of stone striations. Not only is this one of the most stunning places in Peru and South America, these type of mountains are seen in only one other country in the world, China.
After taking photos and enjoying the view, we will continue on the trek until we reach Quesiuno Village. This is a 2 ½ hour downhill hike. We will have lunch there.
Our private van will be waiting to pick us up in this village after lunch. We will then drive 3 ½ hours back to Cusco. After one of the most rewarding experiences of your life, we will drop you off at your Cusco hotel. Approximate arrival time is 6 PM.


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Defines "digital accounts" and "digital assets" for purposes of administration of estates and trusts.
Requires custodian of digital accounts and digital assets to transfer, deliver or provide access to accounts or electronic copies of assets to personal representative, conservator or settlor upon written request.
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Woody€ 1.029,00Woody is a modern interpretation of a traditional ladder inspired shelving system. With no apparent front and back it works well as a freestanding piece of furniture as well as good shelving system for against a wall. Woody is created in the spirit of modernism. Nothing in the construction is hidden, all joints are visible and all parts are industrially manufactured.
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