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冠詞(a the)やbe動詞で始まる慣用句の場合, それを除いた順になっています。
z138〜 A and/or/but B の慣用表現
z012など as 〜as の直喩表現
z074 above the salt
z011 Achilles' heel
z011 Adam's ale
z011 Adam's apple
z011 Alexander's beard
z018 all my eye and Betty Martin
z011 an Alphonse and Gaston 〜
z144 animal spirit
z038 apple of discord
z145 apple-pie order
z055 as mad as a hatter
z110 as the crow flies
z041 at daggers with
z041 at loggerheads with
z041 at odds with
z114 back the wrong horse
z144 bad shot
z027 Barking dogs seldom bite.
z018 Barkis is willin'
z157 not so black as S is painted
z069 be on the rockssound
z069 be taken aback
z005 beat about(around) the bushsound
z156 beat sb black and blue
z111 beat a dead horse sound
z081 believe that the moon is made of green cheese
z114 bet on the wrong horse
z095 bet one's shirt on ..
z033 between the devil and the deep blue sea
z033 between Scylla and Charybdissound
z145 the big tent
z050 bite the bullet
z045 bite one's tongue
z051 a bitter pill (to swallow)
z119 black sheep
z155 blue blood
z154 blue Monday
z155 blue movie
z153 blue murder
z018 Bob's your uncle
z152 a bolt from the blue
z036 a bone of contention
z032 born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
z032 born under a lucky star
z086 bread buttered on both sides
z079 bring home the baconsound
z076 burn one's boats
z076 burn one's bridges
z077 burn the candle at both endssound
z077 burn the midnight oil
z135 bury the hatchet sound
z146 busman's holiday
z102 button up one's lips sound
z043 buy a pig in a poke
z096 by the seat of one's pants sound
z042 call a spade a spade
z016 carry coals to Newcastle
z045 catch one's breath
z149 catch sb red-handed
z098 catch 〜 with sb's pants off
z147 cat's cradle
z112 change horses in midstream sound
z044 a cock-and-bull story
z170 come in out of the rain sound
z184 come up trumps
z115 cook sb's goose
z198 cost an arm and a leg
z147 country cousin
z040 cross swords (with)
z076 cross the Rubicon
z019 cry wine and sell vinegar
z089 curry favor withsound
z147 dead wood
z076 The die is cast.
z106 die like a dog
z107 a dog in the manger
z048 down in(at) the mouthsound
058 Dutch (オランダの)を使う慣用句
z082 eat humble pie
z146 the eternal triangle
z037 Even Homer nods.
z133 every Tom, Dick and Harry
z034 fall between two stools
z069 fall foul of 〜
z137 a feather in one's cap
z024 feign ignorance
z111 flog a dead horse
z197 for my money sound
z130 for Pete's sake sound
z025 full of beanssound
z144 funny bone sound
z114 get down off one's high horse sound
z058 get it into sb's/one's head
z025 get peanuts for
z169 get the short end of the stick
z169 get the wrong end of the stick
z108 Give a dog a bad name and hang him. sound
z066 give a wide berth to 〜
z095 give 〜 the shirt off sb's back
z187 go against the grain
z187 go against(with) the tide
z090 go away with a flea in one's ear
z192 go bananas
z191 go berserk sound
z192 go by the board
z189 go down(over) like a lead balloon
z192 go fly a kite sound
z193 go haywire
z190 go hog-wild
z193 go like clockwork
z193 go nuts
z192 go off half-cocked
z185 go off (at) the deep end sound
z193 go on shank's mare
z193 go round the bend
z186 go scot-free
z193 go sour on 〜
z190 go the whole hog
z192 go to any length
z037 go to Davy Jone's locker
z104 go to the dogs
z193 go to pot
z193 go to seed
z161 green-eyed monster
z162 green fingers
z162 greenhornsound
z162 green thumb
z115 sb's goose is cooked sound
z051 grin and bear it
z045 guard one'e tongue
z118 a hair of the dog that bit you sound
z027 ham it up
z045 Has the cat got your tongue?
z167 have a bee in one's bonnet
z046 have a big mouthsound
z046 have a bitter/barbed/sharp/venomous tongue
z036 have a bone to pick withsound
z039 have a chip on one's shouldersound
z036 have a crow to pluck with
z084 have a finger in every pie
z046 have a foul mouth
z036 have a nut to crack with
z035 have an axe to grind
z092 have a trick/an ace/a card up one's sleeve sound
z103 have bats in the belfry sound
z095 have the shirt off sb's back
z018 have got a Buckley's chance
z003 have other fish to frysound
z060 hear through the grapevinesound
z027 His bark is worse than his bite.
z037 Hobson's choice
z045 hold one's breath
z182 hold one's cards close to one's chest
z045 hold one's tonguesound
z063 hold water
z101 hot under one's collar sound
z088 in a stewsound
z070 in the doldrums
z047 in the same breath
z087 in the soup
z147 Indian summer
z007 It rains cats and dogs.
z030 It's a piece of cake.sound
z017 It's Greek to me.
z046 It's on the tip of my tongue.sound
z009 It's six of one and half a dozen of the other
z125 Jack and Jill
z124 Jack Frost sound
z037 Jacob's ladder
z128 Jane Doe
z128 Jane Roe
z037 Jim Crow
z144 job lot
z128 John Doe
z128 John Roe
z127 John Bull sound
z185 jump in at the deep end
z180 keep a poker face
z092 keep a trick/an ace/a card up one's sleeve sound
z182 keep one's cards close to one's chest
z045 keep one's mouth shutsound
z094 keep one's shirt on
z126 keep up with the Joneses
z116 kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s)
z025 know how many beans make five
z067 know the ropes
z085 know which side one's bread is buttered on
z145 lame duck
z120 last straw sound
z048 laugh on the other side of one's mouth/face
z182 lay one's cards on the table
z104 lead a dog's lifesound
z023 lead sb down(up) the garden path
z131 lead the life of Riley
z183 leave a preson in the lurch sound
z043 let the cat out of the bag
z057 lie in one's throat
z057 lie through one's teeth
z008 like a bull in a china shop
z002 like a fish out of water
z041 like cats and dogs
z100 line one's pocket
z059 A little bird told me
z040 lock horns (with)
z113 look a gift horse in the mouth sound
z024 look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth
z041 look daggers
z095 lose one's shirt
z045 lose one's tongue
z062 a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then
z004 once in a blue moon
090 one swallow doesn't make a summer
z026 make a mountain out of a molehillsound
z109 make a monkey (out) of 〜 sound
z048 make faces
z048 make mouths
z145 mother wit
z134 mind one's P's and Q's sound
z027 much ado about nothing
z062 much water has run under the bridge since then
z001 neither fish nor flesh
z011 not know from Adam
z136 on the warpath
z152 out of the blue sound
z151 paint the town red
z054 pass around the hat
z198 pay an arm and a leg
z056 pay through the nose
z132 Peeping Tom
z175 play both ends against the middle
z178 play one's cards right (well) sound
z173 play a cat-and-mouse game sound
z173 play cat and mouth
z171 play ducks and drakes
z174 play (it) safe
z172 play fast and loose with 〜
z177 play footsie
z179 play for one's own card
z177 play one's hunch
z179 play into a person's card(s)
z175 play off A against B
z024 play possum
z176 play the devil's advocate
z177 play the second fiddle
z176 play to the gallery
z174 play with fire
z083 pie in the sky
z068 pipe downsound
z037 poor as Job's turkey
z010 the pot calling the kettle black
z195 pour money down the drain sound
z128 Precious Doe
z020 pull the wool over sb's eyessound
z164 put on one's thinking cap
z006 put the cart before the horse
z091 put a bug in sb's ear sound
z091 put a fly in sb's ear sound
z099 put one's hand in one's pocket sound
z194 put one's money where one's mouth is sound
z168 quick on the draw
z168 quick on the uptake
z129 the real McCoy sound
z122 red herring
z130 rob Peter to pay Paul
z150 roll out the red carpet
z093 roll up one's sleeves sound
z080 save one's bacon
z045 save one's breath
z148 see red sound
z159 see pink elephants
z019 sell sb a bill of goods
z028 sell like hot cakes
z090 send away(off) with a flea in sb's ear
z006 set the cart before the horse
z031 a share of the cake
z071 a shot across the bow
z068 shove offsound
z160 show the white feather
z045 shut one's mouthsound
z146 the silly season
z145 sleeping policeman
z031 a slice of the cake
z058 slip through one's fingerssound
z168 slow on the draw
z168 slow on the uptake
z022 smoke and mirrors
z166 speak off the cuff
z021 speak with a forked tongue
z198 spend an arm and a leg
z025 spill the beanssound
z040 split hairssound
z146 a standing joke
z066 steer clear of 〜
z026 a storm in a teapot
z026 a storm in a tempest
z146 a straw vote
z051 sugar the pill
z112 swap horses in midstream
z187 swim against(with) the tide
z054 take off one's hat
z052 take the bull by the hornssound
z045 take sb's breath
z047 take the words out of sb's mouth
z072 take with a grain of salt
z027 talk big
z028 talk through one's hat
z027 a tall story
z031 That takes the cake!
z031 That takes the biscuit!
z166 think on one's feet sound
z065 throw cold water on 〜
z039 throw down the gauntlet
z039 throw down the glove
z020 throw dust in sb's eyes
z196 throw good money after bad
z065 throw out the baby with the bath water
z106 treat like a dog
z153 till S is blue in the face
z165 a train of thought
z184 turn up trumps
z021 two-faced
z127 Uncle Sam
z163 use one's grey matter
z163 use one's head sound
z163 use one's noggin
z163 use one's noodle
z062 water under the bridge
z097 wear the pants(trousers)
z121 wet blanket sound
z073 worth one's salt
z071 when one's ship comes insound
z159 a white elephnat
z158 a white lie sound
z117 wild-goose chase
z047 with one's tongue in one's cheek
z095 without a shirt to sb's back
z022 a wolf in sheep's clothing
z106 work like a dog sound
z029 You can't eat your cake and have it too.
z029 You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
z147 zero hour


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I recently took a workshop, The Healing Power of Painting at The Creative Center in New York City with a real creative force, the artist Eva Deutsch Costabel. She has been painting for over 50 years and early on was a student of Franz Kline.
One thing that makes the Creative Center Classes unique is that they are free to people who are living with or have been previously diagnosed with a major illness. I find an the honesty, fearlessness and openness and creativity what I have never experienced anywhere else. There is no holding back, there is so much courage. It's like the kind of energy you might feel in a group meditation.
Often people in the classes are going through some very serious health challenges and come here for the healing power of creativity, which can take many forms. It can be a wonderful distraction to learn something new and relaxing like knitting or it can be a powerful release to express your emotions using paint.
The first works I created were really really raw and intense with a street art/graffiti vibe. Working in a group, rather than alone in my studio made me feel like I was in a safer space to really let it all out! It felt really freeing to paint out the feelings of frustration and anger and in a sense get them out of my head and out of my body. After I did a few of these large bright acrylic paintings I started a new series in the same class, which I'll share in my next blog post "Healing Power of Paint Pt. 2"


text: Organized as part of a promotion for a new Discovery Channel documentary entitled Racing Extinction, 160 species of endangered animals including birds, tigers, bears, and marine mammals were projected on the facade of the Empire State Building to highlight the plight of these animals. An image of Cecil, the famous lion killed in Zimbabwe earlier this month, also appeared. Up to 40 large projectors from a rooftop two blocks away were used to shine the striking images for three hours using 33 floors of the building.


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What Works: A Manual for Designing Programs that Build Resilience
What Works is an easy-to-use guide that is ideal for anyone working with children and families in social service or humanitarian settings, as well as community facilitators, counselors, and policy makers. It includes plenty of case examples of programs in both low-and-middle-income countries (where financial and human resources are scarce) and high-income countries (where resources are easier to find but problems can still be very complex).
While the manual is about programs designed for young people and their families, its 7-step model of program design will be just as useful in any setting where improving resilience is the goal.
Get the Manual
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- A free electronic copy is available by clicking on the link above. If you wish to obtain a hardcopy please place an order.
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- To order a printed version of What Works: A Manual for Designing Programs that Build Resilience (available at a minimal cost of $15.00 CAD plus shipping from the Resilience Research Centre) place an order by e-mailing us at email@example.com (shipping costs vary by country). A quote will be sent before your order is processed.
The Author
Michael Ungar, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family, and Community Resilience and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is also the founder and Director of the Resilience Research Centre which supports ground-breaking research on resilience, program evaluation, training and program design in dozens of countries around the world.
The Seven Steps of Program Design
What Works describes in detail seven steps for designing great programs that build resilience. To help explain each step, the manual compares program design to cooking for a hungry family.
Step 1: Choose a Program
Just as a great cook knows what people want to eat, the best programs are designed to address people's most important problems. These will be the problems that people are the most motivated to change.
Step 2: Create Your Program Outline
A program outline (sometimes called a logic model) is very useful when designing a program to build resilience. Much like a meal plan, or menu, it provides you with a map to ensure that program activities create desirable outcomes.
Step 3: Gather Your Resources
Every meal starts with a trip to the market or the garden. Once you know which program is needed (Step 1) and have figured out what you want to achieve (Step 2), then you are ready to gather the resources necessary to create your program.
Step 4: Build Links from Your Program to Other Services and Supports
Great cooks rely on other family and friends to help with meal preparation. Program designers, too, create programs that build resilience by reaching out to other programs and people's natural support systems (e.g., family and friends).
Step 5: Adapt Your Program to the Local Context
Just as great cooks change recipes to suit local tastes, programs that build resilience change to fit the culture and context of their participants.
Step 6: Track Your Success
Empty plates and heaps of praise tell cooks that their food has been appreciated. Program designers also need ways of measuring their success. Regardless of what evidence is produced, the goal is always the same: convince young people, families, communities, and funders that a program that builds resilience has value and is worth the investment of their time and money.
Step 7: Plan for Sustainability
Cooks design their kitchens to prepare food day-after-day. Program designers create resilience-promoting programs that last for years. An effective, well-designed program is one that is sustainable and reaches as many people as possible.
Video Interviews with Successful Program Designers
Inside What Works
- A brief history of the concept of resilience and its application to practice (with a focus on the needs of children, youth and families in challenging contexts).
- A definition of resilience that emphasizes a systemic, social justice approach to program design.
- A discussion of seven principles that ensure that programs nurture and sustain resilience.
- A list of the seven most important processes that promote resilience.
- Detailed instructions for the seven steps which designers use to create programs and ensure that they're effective.
- Inspiring case studies of great programs gathered from around the world.
- A troubleshooting section that anticipates some of the challenges that may occur when using the manual in different settings and with different types of organizations.
- Exercises (e.g., a service use satisfaction questionnaire; resilience assessment; appreciative inquiry tool; a workshop design checklist) and resources to make it easier to use a resilience approach to program design.
- Guidance on how to monitor program outcomes and convince funders to keep funding programs that work.
Have You Designed a Program that Builds Resilience?
We would love to showcase the work of program designers from around the world whose programs are helping to build resilience. Send us a brief description of your program and, if you like, a link to a video about the work you are doing. We'll feature these programs on the Resilience Research Centre website so that other program designers can hear about your work. E-mail us to share your story.


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Ocean Voyage : Boston - Colon
* Subject to availability.
Staterooms & Suites
There are no staterooms available for booking. Please contact our cruise advisors.
Like her sisterships, Le Boréal embodies the subtle alliance between luxury, intimacy and wellbeing which is PONANT's signature. The elegance of her exterior and interior lines and her intimate size (only 132 staterooms and suites) make this a rare and innovative yacht on the cruise market.
Interior Design
Superior materials, discreet elegance and a tasteful décor reflect a nautical mood subtly revisited. Aboard, soothing neutral grey tones are enlivened by splashes of red, our signature theme linking tradition and innovation to create personal touches in the spirit of a "private yacht".
Port of call & excursions
BostonEmbarkation 09/10/2016 from 08H00 to 10H00 . Departure 09/10/2016 at 12H00 .
Nicknamed " America's Walking City", the city is considered to be the epicentre of American history. Founded in 1630, the tenth largest agglomeration in the United States, is a pleasure for walkers. To get around, just follow the Freedom Trail circuit that serves most of the tourist sites with its red line traced on the ground. Don't miss all the delicious local specialities on offer at Quincy Market, like the lobster sandwich, and then take time to explore North End, the Italian quarter. For the more romantic among you, Beacon Hill, the historic quarter, with its absolutely charming cobbled streets, is really worth a look.
10 October 2016▸15 October 2016 – At seaArrival 10/10/2016. Departure 15/10/2016.
During your day at sea, make the most of the many services and activities on board. Treat yourself to a moment of relaxation in the spa or stay in shape in the fitness centre. Depending on the season, let yourself be tempted by the swimming pool or a spot of sunbathing. This day without a port of call will also be an opportunity to enjoy the conferences or shows proposed on board, to do some shopping in the boutique or to meet the PONANT photographers in their dedicated space. As for lovers of the open sea, they will be able to visit the ship's upper deck to admire the spectacle of the waves and perhaps be lucky enough to observe marine species. A truly enchanted interlude, combining comfort, rest and entertainment.
ColónDisembarkation 16/10/2016 at 06H00 .
Colón is the second largest city in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance of the Panama Canal. Colón is today an important port, and the free trade zone created in 1953 contributed greatly to the development of the city. Colón was founded in 1850 by Americans working on the Panama railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts through the isthmus of Panama; the city rapidly overshadowed the older Caribbean ports of Panama when the canal opened.
Passport valid for at least six (6) months beyond the completion of your trip. Passport must contain at least two completely clear, blank, unused visa pages for each visa required, not including any amendment pages. Visa pages with stains or ink from other pages in the passport are not usable. Guests who deviate from the scheduled embarkation or disembarkation port should research the foreign entry requirements for the port country. Due to government regulations, regrettably, Ponant will have to deny boarding to any guest who fails to obtain the appropriate travel documentation for this trip.
The information below is current but subject to change at any time without advance notice from government authorities. Please consult your respective government agencies for visa and health information.
To secure the boarding on departure day, we strongly recommend that you spend the night before in the city that your ship leaves from. Similarly, on the day you disembark we advise you just as strongly to reserve a flight that leaves the day after your arrival. Indeed, these "Ocean Voyages" long trips are more than any other type of travel subject to climatic hazards, including winds and currents, which may require anticipating the departure of the ship, and / or delay the arrival of the ship.
USA: Depending on your nationality, an ESTA or Visa may be required. Please contact USA consulate website for details. A copy of your visa or ESTA must be sent to PONANT at the very latest 45 days prior to your cruise date. In case the ESTA is sufficient to enter the USA, we also ask you to keep a copy of your ESTA with your passport throughout the duration of your trip.
We remind you that all our ships have a doctor on board and medical facilities. However, these cannot, under any circumstances, be compared to any medical structure on land. Given the remote areas in which we will be sailing for a number of days, safety requirements mean that we are obliged to ask each passenger signing up for this program to provide us, no more than 45 days before departure, with a medical certificate from their GP, as well as the completed medical questionnaire received during registration.
Important information
- During these voyages, we are offering you an entirely sea-based crossing, there are no ports of call (except possibly for technical reasons), nor any onboard entertainment or speakers, and no transfers provided. Likewise, the catering is less elaborate than for other cruises. Although no entertainment is organized, you are free to discover what life is like aboard our ships by spending time with the crew who will be happy to share their experiences with you.
- To facilitate embarkation, we suggest that you spend the night before departure in the city that your ship leaves from. Similarly, on the day of disembarkation we advise you to reserve a flight that leaves at the end of that day or the day after your arrival.
- All administrative information is given for information only. Regarding health regulations and advice, you need to contact your doctor.
- We remind you that all our ships, with the exception of Le Ponant, have a doctor on board and medical facilities. However, these cannot, under any circumstances, be compared to any medical structure on land. Given the remote areas in which we will be sailing for a number of days, safety requirements mean that we are obliged to ask each passenger signing up for this program to provide us, no more than 45 days before departure, with a medical certificate from their GP, as well as the completed medical questionnaire received during registration.
- These cruises depend on there being a minimum number of passengers. Your voyage will therefore be reconfirmed 45 days prior to your departure at the latest.


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Though this place could get by on aesthetics alone, Beatnik's drinks are as luscious as its bohemian décor. Derived by Liz Pearce (The Drifter, The Aviary) and maintained by Benjamin Wood (Distilled NY), the cocktail menu offers a wide range of distinctive flavors that could easily clash in the glass but taste as if they've been tweaked to perfection. The massive space is practically overrun with eclectic beauty—romantically dripping candelabras, tangled wild vines, floor-to-ceiling moroccan tiles—but somehow, it all lives in harmony, man.
THE DRINK TO DRINK: The Second Fiddle: bourbonbalanced with pineapple, lemon, turmeric, tarragon and sumac salt
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: Come hungry. Most of the space is devoted to a full-fledged restaurant, and everything can be ordered at the bar.
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THERE was no samba beat, with new Brazilian signing Rafael confined to bed with appendicitis, and, indeed, little rhythm of any sort as Celtic fell further behind Rangers at the top of the Premier League last night at Rugby Park.
It is a tune most have heard before but Celtic, in the new millennium, continue to stumble while Rangers soar. This draw at Kilmarnock should not be sniffed at, but however industrious Bobby Williamson's struggling side proved, the Celtic fans will see this as two points dropped rather than one gained. In his heart of hearts, coach John Barnes will also.
Last week he was spotted proudly clutching a rather underwhelming Manager of the Month bauble. It was strange to think this distinguished footballer - with championship medals and goals in the Maracana to his name - seemed so tickled by this Christmas crackeresque prize. However, such glee perhaps stemmed from the haranguing he has experienced in the process of building Celtic into his own team.
But Barnes has been nothing if not brave in the face of such criticism. Last night he made a surprising change to his starting 11, bringing Colin Healy into the fray. The youngster slotted in beside Regi Blinker in the centre of midfield, and with Stilian Petrov also patrolling this area it did seem a rather lightweight boilerhouse. Indeed, the only flames being stoked in the early stages were Kilmarnock's, their players no doubt fired up by the criticism aimed at them after a less than startling season so far. This time last year, Kilmarnock were still in contention for the championship and many were naming them as the antidote to continued Old Firm dominance. The only monopoly they are now in danger of breaking is Aberdeen's franchise on under achievement.
Still, Kilmarnock sought to spear their opponents straight from kick off, with Andy Smith and Christophe Cocard getting in Celtic's and, it must be said, each other's way. Time and time again Smith would make exasperated "talk" signs with his hands at Cocard, as though he was about to burst into The Birdie Song. Smith received a message rather more clearly than he might have wished when, in the 20th minute, he was booked for diving in the box. Sixty seconds later, Mark Viduka flung himself down in the Kilmarnock penalty area, after a challenge by Ally Mitchell, but the referee was similarly unimpressed, though curiously no card was plucked from his pocket after Viduka's theatrics.
The Australian striker had already caused a stir, with a header from a Jackie McNamara cross that went inches wide of Colin Meldrum's post, but it was Kilmarnock who had the nearest goal-scoring opportunity, Gary Holt's acrobatic header marvellously saved by Jonathan Gould in the 26th minute.
Six minutes later the Celtic fans who were celebrating after Viduka found space in the box, and aimed a curious shot at the Kilmarnock goal. It bobbled, and spun, before finally arcing over the already grounded Meldrum and into the net. The shot had struck Jim Lauchlan, thus giving it a confusing trajectory.
It looked odds on that Kilmarnock would wither, but Williamson's side continued to cause Celtic problems, and while most were musing how they deserved to be level, they duly went and grabbed the equaliser they merited.
Four minutes before the break, Cocard overran the ball, luckily for the rampant Mark Reilly, whose subsequent shot ricocheted off Vidar Riseth and sped into the corner of Gould's net. The fortune had indeed favoured the brave.
It was a similar story in the second half, with Kilmarnock pressing remorselessly, as Celtic began to fluster in the knowledge that the three points were beyond them.
Meldrum, MacPherson, Lauchlan, Dindeleux, Baker, Mitchell (Mahood, 85), Durrant, Holt, (Canero, 89), Reilly, Cocard, Smith (Jeffrey, 85)
Subs not used: Marshall, Hessey
Goals: Reilly (40)
Killie Bookings: Lauchlan, MacPherson, Smith
Sent Off (post game): Lauchlan
Goals: Viduka (31)
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A child once said…
What's really annoying is- It's the words that don't exist to describe it that makes it impossible to explain it.
…and an adult agreed.
All these multiple selves all these parallel lives, we must have an over soul overseeing them all. Our soul is fragmented, mutli dimensional projected into endless parallel worlds like sheets of pages, stories stacked up inside a book. The Over Soul oversees it all. Or the super ego as Freud called it. The higher self. It is who you are in the deepest or highest sense. Often is made up of three, like the sacred triangle. The id is a projection of the oversoul inside the arcane control room, the delphos.
Cosmic rays are messengers, the stars that astronauts saw in their space crafts, even when their eyes were shut. Tiny pieces of matter from across galaxies. With data in them. Information. A message. Still can't track the origin of cosmic rays.
At least the hexadecimal colour code system looked beautiful in my dreams last night.
The atom is intelligent. The word intelligence comes from the latin words inter (between) and legere (to choose). Intelligence therefore is the capacity to think or choose, to select, and to discriminate. Atoms do this. Because they have been programmed to. And they become what they were written to become. So once again we ask, who is the programmer? God?
Do you consider yourself to be alive? Then this rock is alive. This table is alive. In fact everything that has form. Clouds. Planets. Eggs. Pencils.
The arcoskie effect, the sun influences asteroids, affecting the photons in it and giving it a signal when to come out of orbit, change path to hit a planet, carry information. Still can't explain this phenomena.
Our stars are more alive than we care to consider.
Some people can ride the wave of the universe and go with the flow. They sail the seas of time and take life as it comes. Others try to control the waves around them and for their selfish needs alone they want things to happen the way they want it to happen. But that can never lead to happiness.
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Disgraced Lord Ahmed Blames 'Zionist Lobby' for Press TV ban
Disgraced politician Lord Ahmed has denounced the "Zionist lobby" as responsible for the banning of Iranian propaganda station Press TV from the airwaves. According to Press TV, Ahmed told the the Iranian-funded television station that:
"Freedom of speech, and freedom of expression and freedom of media should be universal and it's very unfortunate that the Zionist lobby does not like Press TV and many of the other outlets of Iran and that's why, the pressure is so much that they need to be switched off."
Last year, Lord Ahmed was suspended from the Labour Party after he claimed on Pakistani television that he was jailed in 2008 because of pressure on the courts from Jews "who own newspapers and TV channels". He also claimed that the judge in the 2008 case was appointed to his position after he helped a "Jewish colleague" of Blair during an important case.
Press TV is funded by the Iranian Government, and has a long history of blaming "Jews", the "Jewish lobby" and the "Jewish mafia" for world troubles.
In 2011 Ofcom censured the channel after it broadcast a forced confession from a Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari detained in an Iranian jail. Press TV interviewed Bahari while an interrogator uggested questions from behind a curtain.
In 2012, Press TV published a flattering profile of George Galloway on its website in December 2012, stating: "In a world controlled by pro JewishAmerican media, George Galloway has successfully managed to provide an alternative view unmatched by any other Western politician. How does he do it?"
Press TV and Lord Ahmed are a perfect match. In 2005, Ahmed hosted a book launch in the House of Lords for a neo-Nazi activist who frequently uses anti-Semitic language in his work. Russian-born Israel Shamir claimed that blood libels against the Jews were in fact true and that all political parties were Zionist infiltrated.
In 2009, Ahmed, along with a number of extremist British Islamists, signed a letter praising the anti-Jewish Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he walked out of a debate with President Shimon Peres at the Davos Conference in Switzerland.
In November 2012 he claimed the attempted murder of Malala Yousafzai was carried out by the Pakistani Government as part of an effort to discredit the Taliban.
Ahmed has also given a lobby pass to a representative of MEMO, the pro-Hamas group. He has participated in trips to meet with Hamas leader Ahmad Bahar, a senior Hamas terrorist who has called for the killing of Jews worldwide.
Ahmed booked a room in the Lords for the antisemitic hate preacher, Raed Salah, met with the dead Al Qaeda fundraiser, Abu Rideh and campaigned for the admission of the banned hate preacher, Zakir Naik (who calls for the killing of homosexuals).


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Emil and Rose Solomon had four children: Bernard (Bernie), Anne, William (Willie), and Eleanor. They raised their children in the apartment above the music store at 5518 West North Avenue in Chicago. Emil ran the music store until 1960, then Otto and Frank took over.
In the photos: top left is Emil, top right is Emil's son Bernie, bottom right is Emil (possibly with his son Willie), and bottom left is Emil's son Bernie with Frank (Luke). Click on any photo to enlarge it.
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I grew up on Linder at North Avenue. I remember a Patricia Ann Del Principe and wonder what has happened to her, we went to the same grammar school, Ella Flag Young. My husband attended Austin High School and they are having a reunion and I thought she might be interested…if I have the right contact here. I remember the music store, the Lopina grocer on the corner and the Calderone drugstore close to it. And the hot dog stand. Phyllis Powers, Falls Church, VA.


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Caring for the world one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science, bringing innovative ideas, products, and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
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The tax internship program is a 10-12 week program focused on providing college students with practical tax and business experience. It allows you to develop leadership skills, broaden their understanding of the concepts learned in school and "get a taste of the real world" before they are fully committed to it. The intern program participants will be better able to apply concepts learned in the classroom and will be able to ask more poignant questions of their professors to further their goals and education.
The intern program is one of the primary feeders for entrance into Johnson & Johnson's Tax Leadership Development Program (TLDP). The Tax Leadership Development Program (TLDP) is a two-year program designed specifically to prepare future generations of tax leaders within the Johnson & Johnson accounting and finance organization. Participants gain invaluable on-the-job experiences during two rotations just under twelve months each at various J&J business units, receive leadership and technical training, and thorough, recurring evaluations. There are six weeks of training over the course of the two-year program. Training covers all areas and competencies that are critical to success at J&J and is delivered through a combination of TLDP leadership, J&J executives, Tax and Finance management, and external consultants.
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I have one 3 tb hard drive in a Synology Diskstation mounted as a Synology Hybrid RAID that has failed, so I cannot retrieve any data on it via the Diskstation. (The other hard drive had failed some weeks ago so I had sent it back for a replacement). Could it be revived, and what would the rough cost be?
Drive has stopped powering up, I need to copy the files over to a new one – I'm in Chiswick.
QNAP HS210 in RAID 1, disk 2 failed (very noisy), purchased a new disk and replaced but it didn't rebuild the array. Upon booting up with just disk 1 it fails to recover the array. QNAP support have stated there's a hardware failure with disk 1 after running dmesg from ssh with only disk 1 inserted: JBD: Failed to read block at offset 3176
The data from the QNAP and Synology systems is backed up on a Porsche Design Lacie 2tb drive. Dropped on floor and no longer reads. Formatted for Mac. Device sometimes shows up on connected devices and sometimes reads files, but extremely slowly. Have tried data recovery software but does not work.
I have a hard drive that is no longer able to boot or when viewed as a secondary drive on another PC you are unable to initialize disk with the error message "Error initialize disk: the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error." This was the Primary hard drive for the PC and held the OS, before it stopped booting the PC had become unusably slow but sounded normal, now I do not believe the disk is spinning. My worry is that taking it out of the PC was what killed it.
We are an architectural practice based in Chiswick and we would like to convert data from DDS-3 and DDS-4 discs into usb digital format. They would be a total mix of 12 tapes (still to confirm). Data can go back onto with RAID NAS device hard drive.
Dropped 2tb Toshiba hard drive looking for rough price to recover data and repair please


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When you have many accounts, it's rare, but happens - you lose track and incur an NSF. This pretty much wipes out any interest you may have earned during the year. It would be GREAT if there was a little leniency for the great customers who have more than enough money in their accounts to cover insufficient funds in one account. Hey BECU - how about waiving one NSF fee per year on each account? Hopefully I would never get there, but it would be comforting to know that it's available. Thank you!
Having a Line of Credit linked to your account can act as overdraft protection. If an overdraft hits the LOC you incur a few cents in interest, but there's no cost to have the LOC account
Thanks @JDub55 for posting! We understand that life happens. When these types of situations come up, we review the overall member history when looking to reverse fees. Great suggestions from @Rmconnors and @damde - these are great ways to avoid those NSF charges if they do happen.
Thanks all!
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It turns out that climate change could be much, much worse than we thought. It can reduce our "coital frequency," as Stephen Colbert pointed out last night on The Late Show. But while that sucks on its own, it's pretty crazy that the only thing that will get people to care about climate change is sex, or lackthereof.
"This is how low they've had to sink to try to get our attention," Colbert said. "'Cause you know they've tried everything else. They've said we'll have more heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes. We said 'Great, the weather channel could use some zazz."


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Enjoy the best of Melbourne sightseeing in the Dandenongs, crammed full of exciting activities for all the family to enjoy.
At the top of Mount Dandenong you can see the television towers that act as a sign post to an area filled with top things to do in Melbourne for every member of your family.
The Dandenongs can be seen in the east framing the beautiful city of Melbourne.
From a distance the Mountains take on a silvery blue hue. This is thought to be because of the oils that are evaporating off the eucalyptus leaves on the gumtrees that grow densely throughout the Mountain Range.
Hence the endearing term The Blue Hills.
In these Blue Hills you can visit some intriguing Australian history and build some great family memories.
Experience meeting some totally unique Australian animals and bird life.
Head towards the Television Towers in the east. The Dandenongs are 40 kms from Melbourne by road via the Burwood Hwy or Canterbury Road.
You can also catch the Train to Belgrave where the train tracks stop ....
Depending on what you like to do, each stop offers different things to do such as shopping, eating, drinking, picnicking and perhaps hiking. I personally like to travel onto Belgrave where I can link up with the little Puffing Billy and travel from there all the way through to Gembrook.
Wander through the Gembrook Market that features a wide range of local craft and fresh produce. The Gembrook Market is on very 4th Sunday of the month from 9:00am through to 3:00pm.
For a more detailed map of the region just click onto the map below. Each of the suggestions that are on this page are marked clearly so that you can easily find your way there.
It has to be riding the world famous heritage steam train, the Puffing Billy from its beginning to the very end of the tracks, Gembrook
Board the historic Puffing Billy train ride through the Dandenongs to Menzies Creek.
This tour also includes wine tasting and lunch at Fergusson's winery, Aussie Bush Billy tea and a stop at the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery.
The afternoon is spent at Healesville Sanctuary for an exclusive 'Meet and Feed' experience with an Australian animal!
Less than an hour from Melbourne city, the Dandenong ranges are a low mountainous region with deep valleys and dense forest.
Intimate groups of maximum 3 people, so it's a more personal experience.
In the serenity of the forest, discover unique sculptures of Aboriginal people, and learn about their culture and spirituality, at the wonderous William Ricketts Sanctuary.
Enjoy a delicious gourmet lunch at an award winning local restaurant.
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How about roaming through some magnificent Gardens such as the National Rhododendron Gardens in Olinda or Tesselaar's Tulip Farm in Silvan.
Fossick in one of the many little streams, you may be lucky to find a gemstone or two or perhaps some little bits of Gold!
Up here you will find one of our top, world class Melbourne restaurants.
Visit the Sherbrook Falls deep in the heart of the Sherbrook forest. Savour the sweet smells of the "Aussie" bush and perhaps come close up to some real "fair dinkum" Australian wildlife.
The Dandenong Mountains will definitely become one of your favourite places to getaway with the family just as they have became one of mine.
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Searching for a quality luxury cars and truck will undoubtedly bring anyone to the rather apt adjective, "exotic". Exotic food or exotic beauty may be more clearly defined, however exactly what really makes for an exotic cars?
Stylish and smooth Design
Part of what makes an exotic sports car is the vehicles' structured, streamlined, and smooth designs, all of which serve practical functions to the overall performance of the car albeit being so extremely aesthetically pleasing.
Even exotic sports car makers know emphasis that vehicle lovers and racers put on style per se. Owning an exotic sports cars and truck in contrast to owning an automobile is, in itself, a status sign. This status is endowed not just by the make of the car however also the style and visual appeal.
Companies like Ferrari even employ style homes to come up with their automobile designs. Style powerhouse Pininfarina, for example, created the 2002 Ferrari ENZO.
Breakneck Speeds
While design is one of the considerations of lots of vehicle enthusiasts, the main characteristic that by-far separates a cars from the rest is its acceleration and maintainable roadway speed. When it comes to cars, it's all a matter of speed, speed, and more speed. If it can not provide the exhilarating flight that is anticipated of every sports automobile, a beautiful cars and truck will not cut it.
Exotic cars and trucks are continually challenging the rate at which a car can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph. Designs are starting to be shaped from the engineering requirements of the car, in order to appropriately provide a new record speed. As of the moment, the 1994 Dauer 962 LeMans continues to reign with 2.6 seconds. With the likes of the 2002 Ferrari ENZO being developed based on the specs of making a fast vehicle, expect faster sports automobiles in the near future.
Indeed, exotic sports cars aren't the type that mass produced and you cannot but then "off-the-lot". Part of its exotic appeal is that you can just have a particular variety of models provided for sale. The rarer and more difficult to get, the greater a vehicle's exotic worth.
It remains in the Name
The majority of cars do not need visualization to be called exotic, they simply are. These would include your cult sports car classics– your Porsche, your Ferrari, your Lamborghini.
While an 'exotic sports car' may be subjectively defined over a huge stratum, it's safe to believe that these qualities are more or less held in commonness by any meaning. At any rate, one look at a car might be enough to offer you an idea.


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In this episode, Chad, Charlie, Dylan, and John are joined by Patrick, who won an appearance on the podcast during our segment on the Anime Fans Give Back To Japan 24-hour podcast. They discuss the allegations that pro fighting game player Justin Wong threw matches, Blizzard's new in-game pet fundraising drive to help Japan, and the new Mortal Kombat.
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Cool Vs. Warm Mist Humidifiers
Humidifiers are a common household item, particularly for parents with young children. They add water to the air, which can moisturize mucus membranes and prevent physical discomfort associated with dry mouth, lips and throat. Using a humidifier may even improve cough and nasal congestion. Both warm-mist and cool-mist humidifiers are available. Which one you choose depends on the purpose and desired features.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Any humidifier, whether cool-mist or warm-mist, will add moisture to the room. Maintaining the proper humidity level can add moisture to the air you breath, and protect your furnishings -- including wood furniture or floors. If you or a family member suffer from ongoing sinus or respiratory problems, or if your children need symptom relief from coughs or colds, a home humidifier might help. In addition, if you or a family member suffer from allergies, a humidifier with a high-efficiency air filter can help reduce dust and other allergens in your home environment.
Both types of humidifiers have a storage tank for water. Cool-mist humidifiers either use a fan to blow air through a wet wick filter, or a system that flings water at a diffuser, which breaks water into tiny particles. Either mechanism causes tiny droplets of water to be dispersed into the air. A warm-mist humidifier emits a warm mist or steam into the air. Not surprisingly, the cool-mist humidifier cools the room somewhat, while the warm-mist humidifier adds warmth to the room air. There is also a noise difference, as the warm-mist units are often quieter compared to the cool-mist humidifiers.
Recommendations for Children
Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends against cough and cold medications children younger than 2, and advises these drugs be used in caution for children over the age of 2, humidifiers are often recommended for comfort and symptom relief 1. According to the FDA, warm-mist humidifiers should not be used near young children, as they can cause serious scalds or burns. The FDA also outlines that a cool-mist humidifier allows for easier breathing because it helps nasal passages shrink, while warm vapors can cause nasal passages to swell, making breathing more difficult. However, not enough research is available to clarify whether cool or warm mist is best for symptom relief.
Protect Air Quality
No matter which type of humidifier you choose, it's important to take steps to properly clean and use the unit. Adding too much moisture to the air can encourage the growth of mold and dust mites, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2. Also the cool-mist humidifiers are more likely to expel minerals -- in the form of fine, white dust -- and microorganisms from the water into the air, compared to the warm-mist units. For this reason, the EPA recommends using distilled water or a filter to remove minerals from the water. In addition, its important to empty the unit daily, wiping it down and replacing the water, and cleaning the unit with a brush every third day. Always follow the manufacturer's cleaning directions. The EPA also recommends measuring your indoor humidity, via a built-in meter or a hygrometer, available at hardware stores, to ensure the humidity does not exceed 50 percent.
If you or a family member have an ongoing respiratory illness, such as asthma or sinus problems, talk to a doctor or respiratory therapist about the best type of humidifier for your home. If you start using a humidifier and you develop respiratory symptoms which seem linked to its use, stop using your unit and discuss your symptoms with your doctor.
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International DAAD Alumni Expert Seminar "Enhancing Water Security and Adaptive Capacities in Vulnerable Catchments in East Africa"
This first seminar out of a series of two was held at Moroto, Uganda from July 11 to July 21, 2016.
20 German Alumni out of the East African Region participated in the seminar, representing Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition, ten post-graduate students, lecturers of the IWM program at Makerere University, and local stakeholders out of the project area took part as well.
Two lecturers of the CICD, University of Siegen, and ITT Cologne formed the German group.
The group met at Kampala. The journey to Moroto took one full day, mostly on rough roads. After an introduction and a geographical overview of the project area given by the post-graduate students and their lecturers, an external expert from international Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) presented the on-going project work in Karamoja region. ITT explained new techniques and development in the Geoinformatics sector, highlighted and shared geographic data available on the internet;and introduced a low-cost and easy to maintain hydro-meteorological network capable to derive automatically the main components of the hydrologic cycle.
Alumni took the chance to highlight on specific challenges and on-going research work within their countires and institutions.
The representative of the GIZ - Climate Change Adaptation Project based at Moroto took part for one day in the seminar. Alumni used this contact for an intense discussion on challenges of practical implementation of resource management projects. The group was invited to the GIOZ project office and to the Nakichumet Learning Centre, Napak District. A new constructed dam site close to the learning centre was visited as well.
A representative of the Kyoga Water Management Zone from the office at Mbale described the issues of implementing a management plan for the whole zone.
On two excursion days, the group went out to two sub-catchment areas, Lokere und Lokok.
Interviews and group discussions with the local society (elders, women and youth) as well as with local leaders and social workers gave the foundation for further group work back in Moroto. Findings were discussed with the district authorities at Moroto.
A compiled version of the results is available for download
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Centre For International Capacity Development (CICD), University of Siegen – Germany
Institute For Technology And Resources Management In The Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) at Technische Hochschule Köln – Germany
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, (CAES), Makerere University – Uganda
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- Cologne University of Applied Sciences, ITT - Institute for Technology in the Tropics
- Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Institute for Sanitary Engineering
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- University of Siegen, Centre for International Capacity Development
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Just one point separated Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games silver medallist Veronica Fanciulli (ITA) and YOG gold medallist Siripon Kaewduang-Ngam (THA) at the top of the RS:X Girls leader board ahead of the final race. And it was Fanciulli that came ahead of the Kaewduang-Ngam in fifth place compared to the Thai RS:X sailors sixth place to win the gold medal in Zadar. Fanciulli said, "The race was good. I finished fifth and the Thai girl finished sixth and I won the whole competition.
"At the Youth Olympic Games there was very light wind and the Thai girl was very good in the light wind and today was a windy day and I am really happy." Watch the full interview with Fanciulli here.
Agnieszka Bilska (POL) won the final race today but it wasn't enough to overhaul Naomi Cohen (ISR) who finished second to clinch the bronze medal.
In the RS:X Boys Korea's Cho Wonwoo, who won silver at the 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds, went one better in 2011 winning the gold medal. Wonwoo, who is on the ISAF Athlete Participation Programme has benefitted from the coaching of Hugh Styles throughout the week and was delighted with his performance. He said, "I am very happy and happy to win. I was very nervous and today I am the winner." Full interview with Wonwoo here.
Mateo Sanz (ESP) came through in second overall followed by France's Louis Giard who retired after the finish today but had already done enough to clinch the bronze medal.
Maxime Mazard (FRA) came out on top in the Laser Radial Boys following a battle against Giovanni Coccoluto (ITA). The Frenchman finished 13th compared to the Italians 20th place which handed Mazard the gold medal. Mazard said, "It was my first ISAF Youth Worlds and it was fantastic. Everyone was really close and the Italian was eight places behind me and I just did my race as normal.
"I don't think I realise what's happened." Watch an interview with Mazard here.
?an-Luka Zelko (SLO) recorded two race wins throughout the week and after his 11th place finish today he receives the silver medal for Slovenia. Coccoluto's 20th place finish saw him slip down to pick up the bronze medal.
Norway's Tiril Bue brought a six point cushion into the final day and after finishing sixth today she won the gold medal. Bue said, "It was great, especially the three last days. They were the best. I love Zadar. It is sunny and warm and great wind conditions. It is just crazy. I never thought I would win the whole championship." Tiril Bue spoke to ISAF after the racing, watch an interview here.
The competition for silver and bronze was tense leading up to the final day with two points separating second and fourth place. Manami Doi (JPN) went into the final race second, Paulina Czubachowska (POL) started in third and Erika Reineke (USA) was fourth.
In the end Reineke came through in second after finishing fifth today but a late charge by France's Sandy Fauthoux, which saw the French girl finish second, meant she picked up the bronze medal by two points after Doi came down in 11th and Czubachowska ended the last race in 15th position.
Martin Lowy and Kim Andrade (BRA) clinched the gold medal in the SL16 after they came seventh in the final race of the championship. The boys from Brazil have had an excellent regatta and won eight races out of the 12 sailed in Zadar. Lowy said, "It was very good. Everything is perfect. I love it." Watch the emotion of the boys from Brazil here.
Denmark's Nicolaj Bjornholt Christiansen and Daniel Bjornholt Christiansen finished with a bullet today to pick up the silver medal and Great Britain's Rupert White and Nikola Boniface came through in second to secure the bronze medal.
Consistent results at the front of the fleet is vital and Spain's Carlos Robles and Florian Trittel exemplified this point after finishing in the top six in 11 races in the 29er to seal the gold medal. After the race Robles said, "I am really happy. We were celebrating on the course for ages with the Spanish Laser Radial sailor."
And Trittel added, "I am very happy. It is a beautiful day today and a perfect championship for us." ISAF spoke to the pair immediately after the racing.
Antoine Screve and Max Agnese (USA) pipped the Netherlands Max Deckers and Annette Duetz to the silver medal following their second place finish today compared to the Dutch duos fourth place.
Like their compatriots Jordi Xammar and Alex Claville (ESP) also showed a level of control and consistency that saw them awarded the gold medal. Xammar receives his second ISAF Youth Worlds gold medal following his success with Joan Herp at the 2010 regatta in Istanbul, Turkey. Xammar said, "It is incredible. Nothing to say apart from thanks to everybody helping me to arrive here. I just want to say thanks to the people that help me everyday with my training. Today is for saying thanks for all the help." A delighted Xammar spoke to ISAF following the crews celebrations.
Daichi Mototsu and Yuki Hino won the silver medal after their bullet today and Australia's Angus Galloway and Alexander Gough received the bronze medal.
Lara Vadlau and Tanja Frank (AUT) won gold in the 420 Girls following a nervy race against Morgan Kiss and Christina Lewis (USA). The Austrians finished the final race in eighth compared to the Americans third place meaning they were tied on 34 points apiece. Both teams had two race wins but the Austrians came out on top having had three second place finishes. Vadlau said, "We are very proud and it was a hard job to win and finally we did. We had lots of luck but everyone needs luck to win."
Frank added, "We were happy but we didn't know when we came off the water so we went to the list and asking everyone if we had win. And we were happy when we found out we had won." View the full interview here.
Fiona Kidd (CAN), the Chairman of the ISAF Youth World Championship Sub-committee rounded off the 41st ISAF Youth Worlds, "The organisation has been world class. The organising committee has done an exceptional job both on and off the water. Logistically it is a very difficult event but here we've had superb sailing, the race management has been excellent and on shore they've done a super job in terms of making every body enjoy the event.
"It's great to see all the sailors having a good time. We've had two fantastic days of racing today and yesterday and I think we got all the races in. At the end of the day the best sailors won and they've all had a fantastic time."
Full results can be viewed here.
ISAF YouTube Channel will show footage from the event.
Keep up-to-date on all the latest from Zadar on the Youth Worlds website.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/global_warming_mitigation_vs_adaptation/
What's the cost of global warming?
Doing the maths
Posted in Science, 22nd September 2008 12:29 GMT
Analysis Let us assume global warming is happening. Let us assume too that it is doing so at a rapid pace. What should we do about it?
There are two very basic approaches. Either we can attempt to mitigate the problem by direct or indirect means, or we can go with the flow, and adapt to a warmer world. Let's examine the costs and benefits of these approaches.
First, there's the "direct approach" as advocated by the Kyoto Protocols and the Stern Review. The current Kyoto proposal for 2008 to 2012 calls for greenhouse gas reduction to 5.2 per cent over 1990 levels. Unfortunately, this is not endorsed by most of the "prime offenders". The US balks at the proposal, and India and China will not even consider it. But Europe is attempting to cajole the world into compliance, so let us consider some of the details.
The most glaring problem is that the countries who are increasing their CO2 emissions most rapidly are among the world's poorest. They did not create the "problem" in the first place, but they are the ones that will pay the highest price, economically, by complying. The estimated costs of Kyoto by 2010, range from £6.2bn for the UK (or 1.1 per cent of GDP) to £17.4bn (or 3.1 per cent of GDP), the Institute Economique Molinari estimated in September 2006. Yet exceedingly affluent Sweden, already thoroughly industrialized, and having made cuts in CO2, would actually be allowed an increase in output. But Spain, even with an more lenient goal of 15 per cent above 1990 emissions by 2012, had already increased CO2 emissions by over a third from 1990 to 2001, making compliance expensive indeed.1
Enforcing these carbon reductions is problematic. Proposed solutions are an emissions tax and/or the creation of an "emission rights market". This would penalize profitable production, so that "rights" would become increasingly expensive over time. Some companies would go out of business, while many would attempt to move to countries not covered by the Kyoto treaty. As one German cement factory manager put it, "If that's the shape the trading will take, we will simply move our cement operation to Ukraine. Then there won't be any trading here, nothing will be produced here anymore - the lights will simply go out here."2. From 2013, the price of carbon offsets for the German cement industry is estimated to be around half of current revenues.
Even if the period for implementing Kyoto proposals was extended to 2100, temperatures would only be only 0.15°C to 0.21°C lower (c. +2.3°C higher from 1990 to 2100) according to Dr M L Wigley, senior scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). With all its costs, Kyoto would delay global warming by only six years.3
The Kyoto Protocols are clearly costly to all involved, do little to mitigate warming, and place the heaviest obligations on those countries that can least afford it. Therefore it seems unlikely that these goals will ever be met. The poorer countries simply can't comply, and the richer countries simply won't. And any country that made a good-faith effort would in effect, be victimized economically by those which did not.
Let us now turn to the Review of Sir Nicholas Stern, which has been stirring controversy ever since it was released in 2006. The Stern Review, like Kyoto, favours immediate measures, but looks further into the future. However, even believers in the theory that human CO2 emissions are the primary factor in global warming take issue with Stern's numbers.
Stern asserts that the economic cost of global warming will in 200 years be between five per cent and 20 per cent of global GDP. Stern calls for a CO2 stabilization at 550 parts per million (ppm) by 2050. The current level is 385 ppm. Stern estimates that this would limit the temperature increase to between 2C and 3C/ The cost would be about one per cent of world GDP 4. This cost is comparable with that of the Kyoto protocol, but would be applied worldwide, not just by signatories to the treaty.
Stern takes the worst temperature scenario of a range published by the IPCC. He projects a temperature increase of at least 4°C and possibly in excess of 5°C by early next century. Most of the damage would occur at the high end of the estimate 5.
The Stern Review also uses the extreme IPCC estimate of population growth (up to 15 billion) by 2100, which is far higher than the UN's estimates of under 10 billion by 2150. Projections of population growth by the UN have actually been falling 6. Nor does Stern account for the most significant factor in falling projections - prosperity. As an economy develops and health and education improve, the fertility rate declines.
Since the bulk of the increase in population is projected for the less developed countries, the human cost of global warming in terms of disease and premature death - for example, 1 million to 3 million additional deaths at +3°C from famine, and 80 million additional cases of malaria7 at +5°C over the next 75 years - is magnified by between a third and half. Stern's Malthusianism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Stern Report also makes another curious omission.
Stay hungry
Looking at his damage assessment estimates, one can find no account made for poorer countries being better placed to mitigate the effects of warming as they develop. There is certainly account made of increased CO2 output as development occurs, but no consideration that increased wealth, in and of itself, might reduce vulnerability. Stern counts the negatives, but ignores the positives 8.
Stern also assumes storm frequency and severity (Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE) has continually worsened as climates have warmed, and that the trend will continue. But ACE has actually decreased somewhat since the 1970s. Yet Stern projects that extreme weather alone will result in an increased loss of several percent of GDP. 9
Stern also assumes a low GDP growth of 1.3 per cent. Yet even the developed US has enjoyed an average of 3 per cent growth during the last 50 years. The less-developed nations of India and China (around a third of world population) show GDP growth of between 5 per cent and 10 per cent in recent years. 10
But most controversial of all is Stern's choice of a "discount rate". This is economist lingo for how much more money is worth in the future than now: At what interest one is realistically willing to borrow it or expect from savings, or even the rate one is willing to pay for insurance. Stern rates the value of that "future dollar" to be much higher than mainstream economists. His discount rate of choice, 1.4 per cent, is extremely low - only 0.1 per cent higher than his GDP growth estimate. He is, in effect, saying that a dollar a year from now is worth 98.6 per cent of what it is worth today.
This has the effect of both magnifying the damage estimates, and the effect of money spent early to solve the problem. If you increase Stern's discount rate by as little as 1 per cent the long-term damage projections decrease by half. 11
Stern does indicate that in the name of fairness, the bulk of the direct costs should be borne by the developed nations (which would increase their share from 1 per cent to 1.8 per cent of annual GDP).
Not surprisingly, Stern's low discount rate drew criticism from a range of economists. One, Hal Varian, wrote:
"These choices together imply that a one per cent reduction in consumption today is desirable if it leads to slightly more than one per cent increase in the consumption of some future generation, even though, in the model, future generations will be much wealthier than the current generation."
"So, is it really ethical to transfer wealth from someone making $7,000 a year to someone making $94,000 a year?" Varian asked12.
Finally, if Europe cannot or will not comply with the Kyoto Protocols, how may one realistically expect compliance with the far broader scale goals advocated by the Stern Review? This call the entire question of mitigation by direct response (i.e. "carbon cuts") into serious question.
Lawson and Lomberg
Now let us look at the strategy of adaptation. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, in his book Appeal to Reason13, which looks at direct means of adaptation and Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus, which looks at how the proposed costs of direct mitigation might be otherwise spent have both studied the costs and benefits.
Lawson rejects the "dumb farmer" thesis that crops and methods will not change as conditions change. He points out that in reality, climate change is gradual and therefore easy to adapt to, and argues that non-directed market-driven adaptation as crises occur is the by far the most logical and economical approach. He proposes building of sea walls, for example. Lawson argues that not only is it unjust to deny poor countries the benefits of modern development, but that development itself greatly improves the ability to adapt, QED.
Lawson agrees with Stern that the effects of climate change are uncertain, but also notes that "uncertainty cuts both ways". The effects of warming might not necessarily all be negative - agriculture benefits from warmer temperatures. Lomborg adds that a recent peer-reviewed health survey estimates that IPCC-projected global warming would cause "almost 400,000 heat-related deaths". This sounds terrible, to say the least. "But", the authors continue, "at the same time, 1.8 million fewer will die from the effects of cold."
Lomberg's Copenhagen Consensus, a direct response to Kyoto, concludes that direct mitigation costs might well be much better spent on nutrition, vitamins, development, health (immunization, parasites, malaria, heart attack, tuberculosis), biofortification, education, and family planning.
One must also consider, when making any economic decision, the alternative solutions. And capping carbon emissions as advocated by Kyoto and Stern is not the only possibility of mitigation.
Perhaps the problem can be bypassed instead by present or yet-unknown technology. It is difficult to speculate about what such an advance would be, since the nature of the future is that it is unknown. But such a solution might achieve climate stability at a much lower cost than one or two years' worth of the cost of Kyoto and Stern.
Lomborg estimates that solid-fuel air pollution effects could be reduced by a third for $2.4bn. $500m would save 500,000 lives per year, mostly children, lost to malaria. $200m for cheap drugs for poor countries would save 300,000 per year. Spending on education in poor countries would increase earnings by a factor of four. From the disease prevention/treatment portion alone, the proposals of the Copenhagen Consensus would save an estimated 3.8 million lives in four years.
Direct benefits from $800bn spent on direct mitigation of global warming would yield only 90 cents' benefit per dollar. In the UK alone, the government has granted carbon credits worth some $20bn.
The resources diverted to direct mitigation of global warming might be much better spent. ®
1 Margo Thorning, Park Leopold, Rue Wiertz: Kyoto Protocol and Beyond, Institute Molinari
2 Karsten Stumm: The EU's Carbon Trading Scheme, Killing Jobs to Save the Climate Der Spiegel, 7/17/08
3 Tom ML Wigley: The Kyoto Protocol: CO2, CH4 and Climate Implications, Geophysical Research Letter, 1998
4 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, HM Treasury, 2006
5 Ibid., Part 1, p. 9ff
6 The Stern Review: an assessment of its methodology, xi Australian Government Productivity Commission,
7 Stern, p61 United Nations, The World at Six Billion, 2004, p. 5, 6
8 Anthony Watts: Hurricane Days by Year.
9 Roger Pielke Jr: William Nordhaus on The Stern Report at Science Policy Blog.
10Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren: Global Warming Insurance is a Bad Buy in National Review, 23/11/2006.
12 Hal Varian: Recalculating the Costs of Global Climate Change in The New York Times, 14/12/2006.
13 Nigel Lawson: An Appeal to Reason: The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Center for Policy Studies [PDF, 101kb], 2006 and An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming (Duckworth) 2008.
14 Bjorn Lomborg: The Other View on Global Warming, Environmental policy should rediscover the middle ground, p2


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You can buy almost anything on eBay, except for vaginas, which, actually maybe you can, I don't use eBay or vaginas that much, but I'm guessing that sort of thing is frowned upon. One thing you apparently can put a price on, however, is accidental vagina, which everyone knows is typically valued at 5-7 times going expected vagina rates. But would you pay £150,000 for a chance to have a dress that dangled occasionally in the vicinity of a vagina? Like, one you have specific intel on? Verified vagina, that is to say, like the one belonging to the unknowing and/or savvy lady behind this quickly viral eBay listing today in which she was kind enough to throw in a fanny pack as part of the whole deal? Hard to say. I wouldn't, personally, but I'm not a crazy person.
"The initial asking price was just £15.99, but numbers started to climb rapidly after word got out that the woman's half-naked body appears in one of the photos ostensibly showing off the dress." Gawker
Alas, we may never know what it was like to purchase and wear and/or just sort of spend time with a yellow dress that was occasionally used to clothe/reveal this particular British vagina, because the woman has taken the listing down once she realized her mistake.


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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Ever heard that saying before? I guess I did a few times every week when I was a kid. My dad really liked sweets, and though my mum was not a great cook, she was pretty good in making cakes and other sweets.
Magic of cooking
My cooking career started early. I always enjoyed inviting friends for dinner parties. It was fun mixing up ingredients to create something completely new. Just like making a magic potion 🙂
Yes, baking and cooking soon became a passion. It got something calming, reassuring. Something magic. And the best about it: you can enjoy the results afterwards 🙂
While cooking is not always magical (when you return home after a busy day, using more than one pot or pan is a pain), there is still something enjoyable about it, when you see the smiling faces of your beloved ones.
When food is love…
In my novel, the worldportals, which I currently review for the last time, food is only mentioned a few times. It is important to eat, yes, and it sometimes got something funny about it, because the story talks about 5 folks with different tastes and likings.
Take the elves, for example. They do not eat meat at all, they do enjoy fruits and nuts and some roasted vegetables most. The humans and magicians eat anything and the other two folks… well… I will talk about them some time later 🙂
There is a scene which I really enjoyed writing. Eleonora, the main character, is half elf, half magician. In this scene, she had a terrible time and found out a shocking truth, when a man she likes (and no, I will not tell you his name yet) tries to comfort her and makes a picknick with her. He buys a dessert from his hometown, which is very special to him.
There are a lot of differences even within the folks, depending on their origin, and this dessert is a speciality from the place he is from. Luckily, the academy's restaurant offers it.
Eleonora actually does not like this kind of food, but because he bought it just for her, and because she really likes him, she eats it and listens to the reason this dessert is special to him.
After some more time, she feels better thanks to him, and she wants to make this dessert for him. When she invites him for a lunch with her, she tells him about the dessert. But instead of giving it to him, shy Eleonora overcomes her fear and feeds him.
Eleonora, als Halbelfe, mag diese Dinge nicht wirklich, isst sie aber ihm zu Liebe, weil er sie extra für sie besorgt hat und lauscht der Geschichte, die dahinter steckt, warum er diese Creme so mag.
Nach einigen Tagen und vielen Vorkommnissen, beschließt Eleonora, die Creme für ihn zu machen, um ihm zu danken. Bei einem Picknick überreicht sie ihm die Creme. Und obwohl Eleonora schüchtern ist und sich selbst fragt, wie es dazu kommt, dass sie so handelt, füttert sie ihn damit.
Kitschy? A lot, but really sweet 😉
A magic recipe
Well, I do not understand Eleonora's taste of desserts though. I mean, this mousse is heavenly! I would like to be buried in it 🙂
Anyway, if the way to a man's heart leads through his stomach, I do get how Eleonora won him over. 🙂
Would you like to try the dessert?Alright, get ready for some magic 🙂
The dessert from Oretown (that is the name of the city) is actually a white chocolate mousse with vanilla.
White chocolate mousse
- 255 gr white chocolate (chopped)(9oz)
- 360ml cream (1 1/2 cups)
- pinch of salt
- 2 tsp gelatin
- 2 tsp water (to soak the gelatin)
- 1 vanilla bean
Get started:
Chop the chocolate, put salt and half of the cream in a microwave safe dish and heat it, until the chocolate is almost melted and combines well with the cream. Let cool a little.
Meanwhile, soak the gelatin. Put water away and heat (about 10 seconds) in the microwave. Mix it with chocolate. Cut vanilla bean and scrap vanilla with the back of the knife. Put it into chocolate.
Beat the other half of the cream and carefully fold it under chocolate. Divide mousse on small pans and let cool about 4 hours or overnight. (If you use Magic like Eleonora, it is way faster ;))
Now, Eleonora eats it without topping, but I would advice to use pureed berries or fresh berries with a little sugar. This gives the dessert a little extra taste.
If you prepare it with your heart, the dessert becomes even more magical. Why don't you give it a try?
Who do you prepare the dessert for? Let me know and enjoy it together.
See you next week!


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Seasonal Affective Disorder (also known as SAD) refers to seasonal bouts of depression that occur every year, not just a case of cabin fever! Most often SAD symptoms begin in the fall and last through the cold winter months (less frequently SAD can occur during the spring/summer months, this is known as summer SAD or summer depression). While it is not certain what causes SAD: your circadian clock, melatonin levels, and serotonin levels can all play a role in developing the condition.
Your circadian rhythm is your 24-hr internal biological clock. The short winter days bring about decreased exposure to sun light and this decrease could disrupt your clock, which helps you know when it is time to be sleeping and when it is time to wake up. This disruption could lead to depression. Melatonin, also known as the "hormone of darkness", is a hormone in the body that chemically lowers body temperature and causes drowsiness. Melatonin production in the body is inhibited by light and allowed by darkness, meaning that during the shorter day winter months; melatonin is more easily produced in the body, making you feel more sleepy and ready for bed earlier than you should. Serotonin is a brain chemical (neurotransmitter) that contributes to feelings of wellbeing, it is also known as the "happiness hormone" (even though it is not a hormone at all!). Research has shown that decreased exposure to sunlight can lead to decreased levels of serotonin (summer sunlight increases brain serotonin levels twice as much as winter sunlight), another reason the short days of winter can get you down.
So winter shows up and I get to be moody, lethargic, withdrawn, sleepy, and depressed? Awesome--- it's time to ask the all important paleo question--- WWGD? (what would Grok do?) Grok is the name of our prototypical human ancestor, from over at Mark's Daily Apple (a great primal living resource! You can meet Grok at http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-grok/). Grok rose with the sun and was exposed to the sun all day, even while resting in the shade, he was outside, not confined in some windowless cubicle for hours and days on end. He was soaking up the rays, and all of the mood-boosting benefits it offered! His biological clock was ticking on time, his serotonin levels were high as they could be, and his melatonin production was saved for night time. Unlike us, the working drone, whose clock is a little behind, serotonin levels faltering, and melatonin trying to promote sleep every chance it gets!
So what's a modern day Paleo Girl to do? I'm going primal--- loading up on my Vitamin D3, investing in a "Happy Light", and get moving!
Light therapy is a great way to get your beneficial rays (and we're not talking about GTL--- gym TAN laundry for those anti-jersey shore-er's out there) during the shortened winter days. Melatonin is principally supressed by blue light, so why not invest in a light that focus on that wavelength? I'm trying out the Philips goLITE BLU light therapy box! (Merri Ellen has a great demo: http://www.cure-your-depression.com/box-light-therapy.html) It's about the size of a man's palm which means super portable, and it's extremely easy to use and set up! I'm also starting a regimen of Vitamin D3, 1 tablet daily, usually taken after lunch. Vitamin D3 is made in the skin when it is exposed to ultraviolet light (UVB). This synthesis occurs naturally when the UV index is greater than three, which occurs daily within the tropics, daily during the spring and summer seasons in temperate regions, and almost never within the arctic circles. As it is- NJ falls in a temperate zone, which means no naturally synthesized D3 for us during fall and winter. Astudy at