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Thanks all. Sorry for the pause- life gets in the way.
Chapter 4
High in the sky.
Karl Hamilton whistled tunelessly as he riveted a filter frame into an air conditioning duct on the 15th floor of a new office building in the Brisbane CBD, yet another what would probably end up being a corporate office of some sort. Out the floor to ceiling window sprawled Brisbane, Queensland's capital city; at his feet the CBD with the Brisbane River snaking through it stapled by multiple bridges, widening toward the east where it passed beneath the twin arches of the Gateway bridges and on to the oil refineries, container terminals and tanker docks. In the distance across the estuary he could just make out the low slung hills of Moreton Island and North Stradbroke forming a barrier against the vast Pacific Ocean.
Hell of a workplace, the 30 year old thought; and I even get paid! He had already sent his team home by the time his brother rang- had given them the afternoon off as deliveries of some ducting and filter frames had not arrived- some computer inventory screwup or something. No matter, they were a day ahead, there was enough work left for him to keep on with, and he wasn't keen on going home to his flat- the Goth students upstairs were having a party tonight, and their music frankly sucked.
Still, his brothers phone call and emailed documents had put a bit of a dampener on his day. John always had been the older more cautious one; sure, the weather was funny, and Karl remembered coming across the Carrington Event during some electrical course he had done at TAFE years before- but odds on it wouldn't happen. The Sun was huge- but it was still 93 million miles away. Anything it threw off would miss a small knob of rock the size of the Earth for sure.
He took a break, poured himself a coffee from his thermos and on his phone scrolled through some more of the files John had sent. Stuff it, he thought; he had no work that couldn't wait till tomorrow- I'm going to make a game of this. Karl tapped out a quick reply to John, telling him he thought he was alarmist, but agreeing to meet if things west south in a big way, at the mine afterwards. He attempted to send but got a "Send failed, try again later?" message. Ah well, mobile network had been dropping in and out all day.
OK- he pulled his Panasonic Toughbook from his work bag, booted her up and ran a few headings and dot points, then made a quick inventory of what he had around him. Apart from what he had with him, he had the potential pickings of a worksite where literally dozens of trades were represented, with all the tools and supplies that entailed. If things went really crook, of course.
Shelter. He lived in an inner suburb of Brisbane in a ground floor unit of a lightly built apartment block. No use there. He would not have time to go home, grab his gear, then bail out south to John's- he sure as hell wouldn't turn up empty handed- that would never do, and by the time he sorted supplies the word would be out and traffic would most probably gridlock. But, he might have time to go home, grab some more gear and find somewhere a bit more sheltered....He looked around- sitting half way up a half built skyscraper, made of reinforced concrete and rooted in bedrock a block away from the river in a fenced off compound. This will do, he thought, especially if he made a nest in the central core; the floors above and below would make good thermal insulation, as would the distance out to the exterior walls. He would wait it out here, and make a run for John's when it settled down.
Gear. Karl laughed at himself- being a tad lazy had its good points- last weekend he had been out bushcamping up the scrub in the mountains behind Brisbane and hadn't yet taken the gear out of his 60 series 'Cruiser. An ADF style Raven field pack had his sleeping bag, groundsheet, mattress pad, hootchie, mozzie net and spare bush clothes. His good Danner boots were at home, but his work boots weren't far behind quality wise, black GP style boots with good grippy soles and steel toecaps. His pack also had his eating irons and brew kit plus his billy; a ½ litre stainless paint pot he had picked up from Masters Hardware a week before and found worked well. A couple of ADF pouches and water bottles on a padded belt and H harness made a capable belt kit with room for his small med kit, balaclava, Headsox wrap, wet weather pants/jacket, fire kit and a small strobe and GPS/compass set. An MSR Whisperlite stove he had scored from a small Aussie online store AMTC Gear - great for cooking when there were no hotplates around- it was full luckily, so was good to go for a while there. A canteen cup he had "borrowed" from John years before and found too useful to give back along with a Honey stove clone a mate had made him from stainless offcuts.....A good M65 style jacket he had scored from a second hand shop- some sort of woodland camo with a Croatian Infantry badge on the shoulder. A bigger med kit aimed toward workplace injuries like metal splinters and cuts from sharp aluminium; plus a pack of N-100 particulate masks with valves. Leather work gloves, visor, Hi-Vis vest, hearing protection both plugs and muffs, and hard helmet rounded out his protective gear.
Water. In his bushwalking belt kit he carried a Lifestraw, barely used; in his pack was a Millbank filter which he used to pre filter the water before using the Lifestraw. Between the beltkit, pack and his possibles bag he had around 10 L of capacity, but around the building there would have to be more- there were vending machines down in the building site office dongas *, plus a couple of office style water coolers around the place.
Food- a few bits left over in his pack, plus in the rolling gear bag he used as his work possibles bag he had a few tins of soups and packs of noodles, some heat-and-eat meals plus muesli bars- he always kept a few bits aside in case he worked late, or like today when he was working way above where he could easily access snack vans.Not enough for more than a couple of days, but since he carried an extra few kilos Karl wasn't worried about calories in the short term. For longer than a week though, he was well short; even with the built in energy stores around his waist. This would mean a run to a nearby shop for a quick butchers'* at what was available. If this flare thing was a bust, it would all go into his pantry for camping anyhoo.
Weapons. Huh. That was a bit lacking. In the lockbox in the back of the wagon was his Hoyt Carbon Matrix bow and a dozen arrows. Between his various packs and toolboxes he had a couple of good skinning knives and a Tramontina short machete, a Swiss Army soldiers knife, a cheap Leatherman clone (Karl was sick of losing good ones when he forgot where he put them while on the job.), a couple of cheap thick bladed folders rounded the sharpies out. Ah well, he thought, maybe not the shotgun, rifle and pistol plus backups that the US centric lists seemed to demand, but you went with what you had. If he got home, he had more suitable stuff there.....if he had time.
With his quick plan in place Karl moved his work bag into a small concrete walled room near the central core where the lift shafts were; it would be a wiring junction room when the sparkies* were done, but now all it held were a couple of plastic chairs and some milk crates for furniture, showing its status as an unofficial break room. Once he had done this he took the construction lift down to the ground and checked with the blokes in the guard shack- they pointed him to an Indian owned grocery down the street that was the closest supermarket- just what the doctor ordered he thought, he used Indian style premade meals for most of his camping and hunting trips.
A quick drive down the hill and he found himself in the sort of small supermarket/convenience store common to many inner Australian city suburbs, a general mix of groceries, cigarettes, etc but with a definite bias toward one or more ethnicities, in this case the Subcontinent. Grabbing a shopping trolley* Karl went quickly though his list. A 10 kg bag of white Pakistani rice- on special, make that 2- went on the rack underneath. Date rolls*; good ones, not the rubbish they expected contractors to use- most tradies brought their own, Karl was no exception with a roll in his possibles bag and another behind the seat in the ute; a couple of 12 packs. Noodles, the 2 minute type in various flavours, a half dozen 10 packs. Next the MTR precooked Indian meals, a half dozen of each of his favourite flavours, from Palak Paneer- spiced spinach gravy with cottage cheese, through Alu Muttar- curried potato and peas in gravy, and his current fave, Paneer Butter Masala. Karl loved these because they were simple heat-and-eat, came in a foil pouch, and had usually anything up to an 18 month best before date. Over a bit of boiled rice, great tucker.
The swaggies'* favourites; tea, sugar, white flour, golden syrup, treacle; getting into a rhythm he added a 2 kilo of dried milk powder, tin of dried yeast, big tin of Milo, and 4 flat 12 packs of UHT milk. A 4L tin of Olive oil, Weetbix cereal, rolled oats, a few of each. That pretty much filled the trolley, so Karl headed for the check out. The young Indian-Australian bloke on the register was not keen on him taking the trolley out of the store but a $100 deposit and a promise to be right back to refill was enough to calm him down, on the second trip he hit the tinned goods; baked beans, spaghetti, meaty stews, a lone tin of Spam in case it really was the end of the world, some creamed rice pudding, jars of honey. To round things off, a few packets of biscuits and crackers, then a half dozen packets of dried soup in various flavours, and a couple of big bottles of Coke. Since the supermarket had a bottleshop attached, it seemed as good a time as ever to add 2 cartons of Victoria Bitter. Workplace Occ Health and Safety be damned, he thought. I can always leave it in the ute....or bribe the onsite security, beer economy and all that...... Pushing the now quite heavy trolley ahead of him, Karl headed back toward the checkout.
Later, sitting in the 'Cruiser and waiting to enter traffic, he pondered making a run for more gear from his unit across the city.......
*Sparky- Electrician.
*Butchers'- Having a Butchers' Hook- having a look around
*Swaggie- Swagman. Slang for Aussie blokes travelling around rural areas looking for work during the Great Depression, carrying a "swag" or bedroll.
*Shopping trolley - shopping cart.
*Date rolls- toilet paper.
*Tradies- tradesmen/contractors.
*Donga – originally an Aboriginal bush shelter, term now used for prefab offices, bunk rooms, etc.
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Really good story, thanks.
thanks for the new chapter
Swaggie is our hobo for hoe boy. They would carry their gear on the handle of a hoe they used for the odd job of hoeing.
Thanks for the new chapter, everything made sense at the time except the date roll , almost chocked when I saw what it was. LOL
CArrington Event
lasted not as a one day event but as about 7 days' worth of sparks a flying.
Great lead up and well written; many thanks,
yeah mate - bravos to ya!
Great story, please keep it up
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I really enjoyed what you've done so far. Thank you.
It's been a week, we have been patient, mostly please give us more.
Ok there's a group of us on the way down to Australia. Better be a new chapter by then!!!! Joking of course!
Still checking everyday for MORE! great story, please continue it.
moar please. don't make us beg. ok, (begging) MOAR!
And another one bites the dust! lol
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Chapter 5
Edges fraying.
Across the world, military units continued moving. A keen observer might have noticed changed patterns of behaviour amongst various power brokers; movers and shakers began to go on unplanned holidays to undisclosed locations with their families, or in some cases without them.....Several high level "anti terror" exercises continued in the US and across the world, with military units going on alert. Nothing out of the ordinary, just another in a series of drills that the US seemed to have been doing during this Northern Hemisphere summer. Naval units put to sea, and some might have noticed increased activity at various sub bases around the continental US- more missile boats and attack subs were at sea than at any time in the last decade, but all were so far travelling openly.
Chatter about solar activity flooded the internet, and more than a few of those who labelled themselves preppers and survivalists started taking more notice, especially when coupled with military movements changes and officials becoming more scarce. Some began moving up planned preparations and purchases, others deciding to visit their retreats "for a few days."
Agitation increased among non-humans too; ants heading indoors and underground, fish moving into deeper water; domestic animals like dogs and cats more restive and distracted.
A sense of unease growing unconsciously among man and beast alike.
Main .Gov shelter, under Parliament House, Canberra.
Prime Minister Syd Reid leaned back behind his desk, and through half closed eyes surveyed the two men and one woman in the cramped office with him. Despite the no-smoking rule ruthlessly enforced throughout the rest of the underground town, his trademark pipe sent a faint plume of acrid smoke vertically toward the low ceiling where it disappeared into some hidden vent or other. He coughed irritably, making his belly shake where it strained his shirt as it spilled over his Italian leather belt. Chris Bland, burly former trade unionist and now Speaker reached into the small fridge built into a cupboard and pulled forth a bottle of Crown Lager. Popping the cap of the near freezing beer he hoisted it in salute to Syd, then drank a good half in long deep swallows before turning to the man perusing a file spread out along the top of another desk.
"George.....OY GEORGE!" He burped.
"Yeah what, Bland?" Senator George East replied without lifting his head from the lists he was going over. "What amazing thing is going to come dribbling out your cake-hole now?" The neat former ASIO analyst finally closed the file and turned to the other man. Decades of working as a public servant had inured him to the boorishness of the average elected representative and the interest groups that had got them there. His disdain of Bland was obvious to the others in the room, but Bland plowed on regardless.
"Donnelly. Chris Donnelly. The opinionated bastard that heads up EMA and is running the shelter program. He's pushing us to go public sooner, reckons it will save lives."
"It probably will. Save lives that is." East pushed his wire rimmed glasses back up his nose as he replied.
"Yeah, but it will cause panic. We are running behind with getting some of our final things done; and as sure as apples are red it will start to impact our schedules. That East Coast Low weather system in the Tasman is complicating things with the rain coming ashore. We got people out there who aren't ready-" East butted in.
"You mean your "mates" who got you into office? I'm getting calls that some of your cronies are throwing their weight around." Bland shrugged.
"So, you would rather risk people's lives, over a few last minute "favours" for mates, hey?" This came from the far corner of the office, where Jo Cook sat working on a tablet PC. She flicked her shoulder length dark hair back from her face and narrowed her oval eyes at him. "The earlier the warnings get out, the more likely people will get a better chance at finding adequate shelter."
Bland tilted a jaundiced eye in her direction, barked a short, bitter laugh.
"Ha! Millions are probably going to die in this country in the next few days. Maybe all of us- and you're going to risk our own preparations over saving how many? Maybe a few thousand more?"
"Tell you what, darlin'" He leaned closer to her and sneered; his beery breath making her wince. "How about you give your spot to some mug from Macquarie Fields who doesn't know his fist from his flagon? Some [email protected] reffo cow with her 6 kids? You don't think that maybe those folks out there are going to blame US for not getting them shelter? Their entitlement mentality needs someone to blame- and we, .Gov, will be the ones to blame. Like always."
East piped up." Yep, good to see you have such a supportive view of those in your electorate; you know......the ones who actually voted you in......" As Bland turned and began his retort, Reid spoke up. The experience gained from innumerable backroom and caucus battles over many years showed through as he closed Bland down.
"Bland! Shut it. I'm sure George is appreciative of your associates efforts in getting this program operational, but some of the 'favours' you have called in are causing disquiet among the crew. Hand picking your staff and stacking the deck with some of the people you have brought in rather than accepting the recommendations of Donnelly are leading to questions being asked. Tone it down a little, hey? And fer Chrissake leave my beer alone......." Bland sheepishly returned the next unopened beer to the fridge.
"Yeh, alright Syd; I best be getting along to see a man about a dog anyway. Later, East." He directed a glare at the senator as he slouched from the office. Once the door closed, Prime Minister Reid turned to Jo Cook. The facade of the cynical political animal dropped, revealing the concern and stress of a leader facing horrific decisions.
"Jo. Have you got the latest from the Canadians yet?"
"Yes PM; we have a message from Ottawa; they are confirming they are on schedule. Their analysts suggest that given the levels of US activity that they expect things to get bad by dawn their time, so only a few hours now. Being high summer is not helping- lucky for us though. Our data is incomplete, and we still don't have access to those new satellites of theirs that they promised. But- the RCAF also report activity that seems to point to some sort of move against Svalbard." Reid turned his gimlet gaze on Senator East.
"Svalbard- Norway? Seedbank isn't it?" East nodded.
"Yes. Arguably the biggest and best of over 1400 seed collections worldwide. Dug into a mountain, over 20 millions seeds covering 400 000 varieties. If they are looking at taking control, they must be assuming that we will come out the other side of this alive." Reid pondered this for a moment.
"Hmm. Pretty serious strategic move.....Interesting they are preparing to move now. Sort of implying it might be difficult to do so later. Jo, your thoughts?"
"Nothing comes to mind- I'll put it to the analysts- they'll make sense of it."
She made a notation on her tablet; while doing so an incoming message bleeped. "Sir, our assets have reports of increased activity at Darwin since this morning, both air and ground- unscheduled air movements coming in, and US Naval assets are leaving harbour. The US Ambassador has left his residence and is heading for the airport, his Marine escort are in battle gear- not a trusting feller it would seem......" The tablet bleeped again. Her face greyed perceptibly as she scanned the contents of the second message.
"....and we appear to have lost contact with Pine Gap......"
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Thanks. I'm just throwing out a few what-if's, along with average folks from peasant to politician having to choose between bad and worse decisions. Plus my decidedly dodgy humour. :D
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Springfield, Ohio– Jim Geiger, senior director of development and alumni relations at The Ohio State University, has been named the new vice president for university advancement at Wittenberg, President Mark H. Erickson announced. Geiger is expected to begin his new duties July 1.
"I am excited to welcome Jim to the Wittenberg family," Erickson said. "His values, interpersonal skills and fundraising experience align perfectly with what we were looking for, and I look forward to working with him in the year ahead."
With more than 15 years of external affairs experience, including campaign management, fundraising, alumni relations and executive management, Geiger currently oversees all fundraising and alumni relations efforts for Ohio State's College of Arts & Sciences, which consists of 40 academic units and cross-disciplinary programs. The college, which annually raises more than $25 million to support students, faculty, programs and facilities, raised $34 million under Geiger's leadership during fiscal year 2010. Geiger also serves on a university-wide committee charged with building an advancement model that more closely aligns university marketing and communications, development and the alumni association.
Prior to Ohio State, Geiger served as the vice president for development at the Florida State University Foundation, where he provided leadership to the major gift program for several colleges at Florida State, including arts & sciences, education, visual arts, and theatre and dance.
Additionally, Geiger previously served as vice president for institutional advancement at Capital University, where he implemented and managed a $65 million comprehensive campaign. Under his leadership at Capital, gifts also increased from $6.9 million to $8.2 million in just one year, and the annual giving program surpassed the $1 million mark for the first time.
"I am humbled that Dr. Erickson, the Board of Directors and the search committee have chosen me to lead Wittenberg in this important work," Geiger said. "Building on the strong traditions and relationships between the university and its alumni, friends and the Springfield community is an awesome responsibility. I am eager to begin partnering with the Wittenberg family to build an advancement program, which will position the university for even greater success in the future."
Geiger began his career in higher education development at Ohio University, where he served in several capacities, including as the director of corporate/foundation relations, director of special projects, and director of major gifts. He earned his B.S. in communication systems management and his M.H.A. from Ohio University.
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Retired Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Henry Norman Jr., 60, of Clarksville, Tenn., passed away Saturday, March 31, 2012, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
James was born March 2, 1952, at Fort Knox, the son of the late James Henry and Alpha Virginia Elkins Norman. He retired from the U.S. Army following 27 years of service. He was a recipient of the Saint Barbara Award along with other military commendations. James was a Baptist, a volunteer for the Cunningham Fire Service and held membership with the Montgomery County Bass Club and C.E.R.T.
In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by a nephew, Billy Tabb.
Survivors include his wife, Donna Jean Richardson Norman of Clarksville; three sons, Anthony Norman of Clarksville, Nicholas (Maddy) Norman of Cox Creek and Michael Norman of Clarksville; his mother, Alpha Norman of Elizabethtown; one brother, Ron Norman of Shepherdsville; and one sister, Diann Steck of Radcliff; and several nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life service was Monday, April 9, in the chapel of McReynolds-Nave & Larson Funeral Home in Clarksville, Tenn. Burial was in Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-West in Hopkinsville with military honors.
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Messianic Jews say they are persecuted in Israel
There are 72042 comments on the Newsday story from Jun 21, 2008, titled Messianic Jews say they are persecuted in Israel. In it, Newsday reports that:Safety pins and screws are still lodged in 15-year-old Ami Ortiz's body three months after he opened a booby-trapped gift basket sent to his family.
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#53239 May 25, 2013
A hallucination harms the individual's mind-matter apparatus but it is far more dangerous when the deranged individual seeks to impose his hallucinations, especially of the damaging types, involving wars, mass murders, blood sacrifices, fanaticism and barbarous punishments on society.
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Scripture should be viewed with the greatest suspicion if its revelations cannot be replicated, verified and applied for the greatest good of the individual as well as the collectivity irrespective of race, creed, nationality and social status.
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From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?
...So what the average human should fear is not global warming but rather local climate destabilization, i.e., a change in the relative stability and predictability of his or her own local situation. This does not only mean unusually severe hurricanes and tornadoes, or unexpected droughts and flooding. Such sad catastrophes affect only a small part of the world at any one time. Of even greater concern should be local changes that may seem trivial yet have a huge impact on our living conditions and economies.
Try a casual poll of your friends across the planet who have lived in the same place for a while, and ask,Hows the weather been lately in your neck of the woods? There is a high probability that the answer will include words such as strange,unusual, and weird. And in some cases your friends will not mention warming but rather unusual cold spells, or rain and snow that fell with unusual frequency at unexpected times.
The general trend seems to be increasing dryness in previously dry areas and increasing wetness in previously wet areas. It will not take many more such changes to disrupt local economies and agriculture in a manner that destabilizes local societies. And the impact of local events can be global. For example, very high temperatures in Russia in 2010 were unpleasant, but the bigger consequences were forest fires and loss of wheat production. The unprecedented 2011 floods in Thailand raised the costs of computer hard disks worldwide because some key local factories were damaged. And in 2012, the great drought in North America decimated the corn crop and ignited forest fires that destroyed many homes....
#53242 May 25, 2013
Just look at the Protestants and the Catholic Irish killing each other, blowing one another up, in Northern Ireland. Maybe not as much recently but quite a history of violence. Not homogenous by any means.
Definitely not ethnoreligious but the hyphenated Irish-Catholic is well known in our culture, along with Italian-Catholic and a few others. Strong associations but not the same as being Jewish.
I had a feeling where Huggy was going but thought I'd play along with him. He seems to hear what he wants to hear on this subject.
#53243 May 25, 2013
Couldn't have said it better myself!
And look at all the fine and respected literature in the world.
Taking lessons through metaphors and story-telling has a long tradition in no way diminishes the importance of the meanings being conveyed.
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Dunces with an extremely poor grasp of the basics of science and math are attempting to talk science on this thread. ROFL.
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#53245 May 26, 2013
Out of curiosity, why do you use the term fairy tale and not fable? Are you holding out for the possibility that some or all of the stories in the bible were not intended/created to have meaning other than entertainment, but now have meaning assigned to them?
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#53246 May 26, 2013
It is interesting how parsing a hyphen can mean so much.
When I was a kid I remember going to a discussion in my synagogue where they wanted us to discuss whether we saw ourselves as Jewish Americans or American Jews. The first term connotes religion while the second term connotes ethnicity (I think?)
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#53247 May 26, 2013
You sound a lot like like the little boy who is being ignored but who desperately wants to be heard
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#53248 May 26, 2013
Inferiority personified.
Anyway, carry on, and, hey, don't be so touchy, just relax.
#53249 May 26, 2013
Fairy tale is a more provocative (and admittedly less accurate) term for sure.(I admit I was playing with Huggy at the time.)
In a quick vocabulary review, it looks to me like 'parable' might be the best term to use:
A parable is [1] a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or (sometimes) a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human characters. It is a type of analogy.[2]
Some scholars of the Canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus,[3] though that is not a common restriction of the term. Parables such as "The Prodigal Son" are central to Jesus' teaching method in both the canonical narratives and the apocrypha.
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#53250 May 26, 2013
1) The question of observant or non-observant does not arise since the term Jewish in this specific sense indicates a racial type and hence those of Jewish ancestry have a distinct genetic makeup that differs from other religious types like say the Hindu.
2) Jews of different races have intermarried for generations giving rise to a common gene pool.
3) With the Hindu, however, marriage is strictly governed by the laws of eugenics that seeks to weed out abnormal practices like the incestuous type or the hypogamous kind and so the Hindu genome though distinct varies from say the Jewish genes which is almost completely perverted due to incest/hypogamy.
4) People of peculiar beliefs who inter-marry for numerous generations develop a specific genotype and this is their race-based ethnicity.
5) The term nationality is broad and may refer to people of diverse genotypes residing in one nation - the various genotypes may intermarry provided religious laws do not forbid inter-religious marriages but in most cases most people marry within their own religious community that may be comprised of different genetic types that get stirred together forming a kind of genetic potpourri.
6) So, can a person be a Jewish India or an Indian Jew is the question? Doesn't either term indicate an oxymoron? Yes, if the religious community is homogenous in genes formed by marriage among the adherents of various genotypes of the same faith over generations. Whereas, if nationality is a product determined by common genetic lineage, then one cannot be a Jew and an Indian simultaneously since both are specific genetic types. In such a case, the person, in genetic terms, is simply a Jew and not Jewish Indian or if he wishes to identify with his nationality then he's simply an Indian or an Indo-Aryan or whatever and not a Jew. As such, when seen in this particular context of genotype, a person cannot be both - Jewish and Indian - at the same time. It would be a contradiction in terms.
6) Interestingly, most Muslims in India are Hindu converts to Islam and if there's been no mixing of blood with Arabs, Turks, Mongols and Afghans then the gene pool of Muslims in India remains Hindu by nature, or is it so? See, Hindu converts to Islam have married among themselves most often in incestuous and hypogamous unions and besides their pattern of thinking and customs molded by the new faith have left an indelible mark on their genes and in this respect the Muslim genome in India will be after many generations markedly different from the Hindu one.
8) If nationality is not race/genetic based then nationality is a superfluous factor and in such a case a person may describe himself as a Jewish Indian, Muslim Indian or Hindu Indian provided he puts his faith above nation.
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#53251 May 26, 2013
grouchy? Did you here me call someone a dunce?
what exactly is your personality issue anyhow?
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#53252 May 26, 2013
Nationality is rarely based on race. Its based upon where you are born, or in the case of ethnicity, where your ancestors or older living generations were born.
Dont kid yourself that there are not Arabs in India that are as Indian as your Hindus. What makes them Indian isnt some bloodline but their birth in the modern nation-state.
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#53253 May 26, 2013
In the OT, there are animals (talking donkeys) and angels and forces of nature (burning bushes, seas, etc)...so I think they may be more fairy tales and fables.
I can certainly accept someone opining that some of the stories did not have any really meaning other than entertainment, but later were coopted to be moralistic once they got redacted into the primary text. I was curious if that was were you stood, or if you thought they all were created with meaning.
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#53254 May 26, 2013
I biblical scholar I am not.
But people do tend to want to read meanings into things (piece of toast etc that looks like Jesus...).
OTOH most creative endeavors contain the thinking of the author/artist.
Yeah strange weather. I saw a climate guy who said they're now not even saying 'climate change' but simply 'climate.' Whatever it is, it's keeping me on the run - open then closing then opening windows etc. It's good though. We've had boiler AND a/c serviced now and recently found out we need a new boiler! oh well. As Salinger said, "And so it goes."
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#53255 May 26, 2013
And your belief in the facts of government jurisdiction is just a fable.
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#53256 May 26, 2013
HughBe--- You have no idea what history is. As a Catholic(former) how would you classify the book of Esther?
Is it HISTORY or FICTION?
Former---Nothing is 100% one thing or the other.
HughBe---- Which is it more of, FICTION or HISTORY?
Former--I prefer not to see the world in black in white.
HughBe--- See it as it is and so if the world is black and white see it like that and NOT in the way that makes you feel comfortable.
Former---Most of life is lived in the gray areas.
HughBe-- Why is that so? Do you HATE the BLACK?
Former--Much of literature contains elements of history, psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, commentary, fantasy, and yes, reality.
HughBe-- Noted now answer the question. Is Esther a book of HISTORY or FICTION? Tell me the fictional aspects of Esther.
Former--It is for the individual to evaluate that which speaks to him and what message he wishes to take from any creative work of art.
HughBe--- Past events are past and it matters not what kind of message or impact it has on the reader those things cannot change the FACTS or history.
Former---So, the answer to your question above is: It is whatever you make of it.
HughBe--- Pure CS and YOU know it.
I am going to make a big assumption here and it is that at some point in your life you had access to something called a LIBRARY. Now when you went did you find HISTORY books in the FICTIONAL section? Is that how it is done in America?
Former---What did you think of the book,'Gone With the Wind?'
HughBe--- Based on my memory of the book which was read in the 70's and the movie which I saw I would call it a perfect example of a RELIABLE HISTORY book.:D
What would you call it?
Former---How about,'My Wicked, Wicked Life,' by Errol Flynn.
HughBe--- No doubt you read it as like attracts like in your world. I have never read it or heard about it.
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#53257 May 26, 2013
Former---I smell a trap....
HughBe--- That is positive as it means that you have gained intelligence.
HughBe-- Do Irish people have a RELIGIOUS history or are they without one?
Former---Yes, very religious.
HughBe---Do Irish people belong to an ethnic group?
Former--Yes, Celtic/Irish
HughBe--- So Irish people are ethno-religious as they have an ethnicity and religion.
Are you an Irish person, as you have stated?
HughBe--- Do you belong to an ethnic group?
Former--- YES
HughBe--- Do YOU and your family have a RELIGIOUS history?
HUghBe--- So based on the FACTS that YOU have an ethnicity as well as a RELIGIOUS history YOU are ethno-religious and this is something that YOU have previously denied.
Now that I have explained to YOU who you are, embrace your ethno-religious self and enjoy your life, ATHEIST.
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John Davis, a Republican candidate for U. S. President made a "votercade" tour stop at the Drew County Courthouse, Tuesday morning.
The turnout was small, but Davis asked everyone present what their concerns were; jobs, economy, and healthcare were the main answers.
Although Davis has not gotten the national exposure many candidates have received, his goal of visiting every county in the United States is earning him an increasing amount of name recognition.
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Telecom Argentina reported revenues of ARS 12.26 billion in 2009, up 15 percent year-on-year. Net income for the period reached ARS 1.4 billion, up by 46 percent versus 2008. Mobile revenues rose 16 percent to ARS 8.06 billion, while fixed-line revenues increased 14 percent to ARS 4.1 billion. OIBDA improved 17 percent to ARS 3.9 billion. The operator's mobile unit Personal gained 1.9 million new customers in the year, for a total of 14.5 million at the end of December. Of the total 69 percent are prepaid and 31 percent are postpaid. Nucleo, the company's mobile unit in Paraguay, had 1.8 million customers at the end of the period, down 1 percent from a year earlier. The fixed division increased the number of lines in service by 2 percent from a year earlier to 4.36 million, and the number of ADSL customers rose 17 percent year-on-year to 1.2 million users at end-December. ARPU for fixed customers climbed 1 percent in 2009 to ARS 40.
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Four police chiefs have applied to be the next commissioner of the Metropolitan police as the deadline for applications closed at midday on Wednesday for the £260,000-a-year post.
Those applying are: Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers; Bernard Hogan-Howe, the temporary acting Met deputy; Tim Godwin, the acting Met commissioner; and Stephen House, chief constable of Strathclyde police.
A number of top officers declined to apply for the job, fearing that politicians have made the post impossible. The chiefs of the second and third biggest forces in England decided against applying.
Chris Sims of West Midlands and Peter Fahy of Greater Manchester police did not apply, neither did the Thames Valley chief constable, Sara Thornton, despite being admired by David Cameron. Andy Trotter, head of British Transport police, also decided against.
House is seen as having performed well at Strathclyde after leaving the Met, where he rose to the rank of assistant commissioner. The Scottish force won praise in the aftermath of the riots for its pioneering work countering gangs and House is believed to have been asked by home office officials to apply.
If he does not get the Met job, he would be the frontrunner to become the new chief of a single Scottish force.
Orde, who came second in the last application process for Met commissioner, would probably be the choice of the police service. He has been robust in defending the force against the government.
However, his outspokenness is said to have annoyed Downing Street, which will have a big say in who takes the top job. He formerly served as chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The temporary acting Met deputy, Hogan-Howe, who was seconded into the force by the home secretary, Theresa May, after Sir Paul Stephenson was forced out over his errors of judgment in the phone-hacking scandal, is also said to be highly rated by the prime minister.
Hogan-Howe is a former head of Merseyside police, where he was viewed as having performed well tackling crime and modernising the force. Before his current role, he was working for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.
Godwin, who is serving his second spell as acting Met commissioner, is seen as able, but the damage caused by the police's alleged mishandling of its initial response to the riots has not helped his cause. He is known as having lots of ideas about policing issues.
Because it is thought the government believes the new commissioner should be free of connections with the past regime, Godwin's chances of taking the top job at Scotland Yard are thought to be slim. But in January 2011 he decided to order the new police phone-hacking inquiry, which was credited with being more robust than previous Met investigations. Also he did not accept News International hospitality, unlike other former senior colleagues.
The candidates will first be interviewed by a Metropolitan Police Authority panel, with the shortlisted candidates interviewed by the home secretary and London mayor Boris Johnson. Interviews are expected to take place within a fortnight, with Theresa May wanting a new commissioner in post soon.
Whoever gets the job, which technically is awarded by royal appointment, will become the third Met commissioner in the past three years. Under Johnson's administration first Sir Ian Blair and then Stephenson have resigned.
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No city in Bavaria has more historic buildings per capita than Fürth.
Photo: Dietz
A history in architecture
These are best represented by the town hall and the theatre. In the old part of the city, the different house styles impressively reflect Fürth's development from a small market town to a thriving industrial centre. Not to be missed are the group of town houses in Hornschuchpromenade and Königswarterstraße. Here, in 1835, the residents leaned out of the windows to watch the trains travel down Germany's first railway track. Fürth also features modern architecture: Hotel-Pyramide, the Riverside Estate, the South City Park and the golf park exemplify the town's innovative architectural style und design.
The Michaeliskirchweih in October, the "Queen of the Franconian Fairs", has been attracting people from far and wide for almost 900 years.
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Celebrations to the limit
This is the number one street festival in Bavaria and the mixture of market and funfair has its own special charm. But there are many other celebratory occasions, such as the New Orleans music festival, the summer night theatrical plays, the Fürth festival, the two Christmas markets and the festival of wine.
The people of Fürth certainly know how to have a good time, especially at the summer night ball in the illuminated municipal park, the biggest open air ball in southern Germany. Twice a year the idyllic old town hosts the colourful Grafflmarkt (flea market), packed with bric-a-brac and second-hand goods. A great opportunity for collectors and the chance to experience Franconian conviviality!
Fürth comedians Volker Heißmann and Martin Rassau are famous nation- wide. In their own theatre, the Comödie Fürth, many well-known cabaret artists and boulevard-theatre groups take the stage. Photo: Mittelsdorf
For culture vultures
Fürth's municipal theatre is the crème de la crème when it comes to art and culture in grand style. Offering challenging touring plays and numerous productions of its own, it is highly regarded far beyond the city limits. Fans of alternative cabaret, extravagant jazz and daring theatre productions are regulars at the Kulturforum or the Kofferfabrik.
Every two years, the International Klezmer-Festival attracts music lovers from all over the world to Fürth. Another magical highlight for the city and the surrounding region is the International Puppet Theatre Festival.
A history going back more than a thousand years demands to be told. The programme of guided walks through Fürth, organised by the tourist information office, offers you a variety of tours. These deal with the city's history, especially its Jewish past, its famous people, the historical buildings, and the unique character of the Fürth locals. With the help of a portable audio-visual guide, let Ludwig Erhard, Max Grundig and Gustav Schickedanz – some of Fürth's famous sons – show you around the city.
How about a lively tour of the local taverns, to acquaint yourself with the life, loves and drinking habits of the clover-leaf city through the centuries?
The locals just love their municipal park, which was built in 1951 for a garden show. This is the green heart of Fürth, a wonderful oasis where you can go for a leisurely stroll and take a break from everyday life.
Photo: Dietz
Oases in the city centre
The park's cafe (Stadtparkcafe) is the perfect place to enjoy a cappuccino or glass of wine after a guided tour of the city.
In the southern part of Fürth, on ground that once housed an army barrack, a new spacious park has been built. A boules area, skating rink, streetball field, climbing wall and a large activity playground provide opportunities for sport and fun.
Relax at the "Fürthermare", a thermal baths and adventure pool complex opened in 2007. Enjoy a swim in the curative thermal water or try out the sauna built in Mallorquin style.
Whether their preference is for culture, sport or adventure, children really get their money's worth in Fürth. Photo: Gaßner
An adventure world for children
In Fürth, children really get their money's worth. The theatre performances in the Kulturforum and city theatre, or the adventure campaigns of the "child-friendly town" network and the school of fantasy, are only some examples of what the city has to offer. On adventure tours, children really get to know Fürth, while the local museums offer them creative and physical challenges.
Children can let off steam on any one of the numerous adventure playgrounds in the city, the most beautiful being located in the centre of the municipal park (Stadtpark). For those who like sport the city organises a children's run in summer and the Fürthermare adventure pool promises the ultimate experience for young bathing enthusiasts.
In nearby Zirndorf the Playmobil-FunPark is a major attraction for families with young children.
Some of the 6,400 participants in the Metropolmarathon 2013 make their way doen the Uferpromenade. Foto: Mittelsdorf
Keeping fit by being active
Fürth has a lot to offer sports enthusiasts. Former German football champions, Greuther Fürth, are currently well placed to regain promotion back into the Bundesliga. The Metropolmarathon draws widespread acclaim throughout Germany and over 40,000 spectators came to see the event this year, while the City Run and Fair Run are traditional events with huge local support.
There is also a well-constructed network of bicycle lanes in Fürth. The city lies on the Paneuropa cycle-way from Prague to Paris and there is a popular bicycle lane alongside the river Regnitz. They are ideal starting points for cycling tours.
In addition, the various parks, meadows and the woods are just perfect for jogging or walking. Golf, boules, beach-volleyball and snooker tournaments are held here and played with some passion by the local people.


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check out chipkit uno32 or chipkit max32. Its a microchip arduino equivalent made by digilent. Its pretty cheap, uses a 32bit pic micro. And theres a modified arduino IDE available that supports this chipkit as wel as the original arduino format.
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Book of Rhymes [May 2011 Issue]
Jay-Z's influence extended to collaborators beyond B.I.G. A number of artists in his Roc-A-Fella Records camp learned the technique, too: Beanie Sigel, Young Chris and Freeway began composing verses in their heads after working with Jay-Z. While they were mimicking their boss, there were some fringe benefits to the method. "My handwriting was so sloppy that it was easier to just come up with stuff in my head," says Freeway. "I'll write it down and can't hardly read it."
Due to the towering success of Jay-Z and B.I.G., the idea emerged that putting pen to pad was a task reserved for proletariat rappers. So when Jay-Z took shots at Nas, on the 2001 track "The Takeover," with barbs that included, "You ain't live it/You witnessed it from your folks' pad/You scribbled in your notepad/And created your life," there was a hint of scorn for the written word. Rappers including Lil Wayne, T.I., Lil Fame, Ja Rule and Kanye West revealed that they don't construct rhymes with pen and pad either. Whether such declarations were truthful or self-mythologizing showmanship, the notebook was falling out of favor quickly.
A simple fact of technological advancement: Anything that can be digitized eventually will be. We can gripe about the soullessness of listening to music on MP3 players or the lack of heft when reading books on an iPad, but the relentless march toward convenience and affordability continues. It's no surprise that the arrival of cell phones with qwerty keypads made rhyme books seem archaic. Devices such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, Sidekick and Droid are omnipresent, portable and more comfortable for a demographic that sends text messages, instead of leaving notes on the fridge. "I abandoned the books in about 2008," says Reek Da Villian. "The BlackBerrys are so much more convenient, because you can type it real quick. If you have a correction, you can just delete it. You can copy and paste and move things around. It's just way more convenient… You don't have to carry no big notebook, and you're gonna have your phone with you at all times."
Indeed, the handiness of handheld devices has rendered memorization unnecessary—as evidenced by the way no one remembers phone numbers anymore. Still, old mores die hard. The rising star Drake caused a small furor when he was caught on videotape reciting rhymes off a BlackBerry during a 2009 appearance on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 radio show. To some, this looked like cheating. (Like it does when a politician's transparent teleprompter gets caught sidelong during a televised speech.) "I'm more impressed with his reading skills than his freestyle," scoffed a commenter about Drake on Miss Info's website.
Such stigmas are likely to be short-lived. Out of the 11 members of XXL's 2011 Freshman Class, six write on a computer or a smart phone. Yelawolf uses an iPad. And recently, Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame was even seen reciting lyrics off a digital tablet in a YouTube video titled "Yung Gwapa Feat. Waka Flocka 'White Boy Wasted.'"
It's just a generational thing. "Rap notebooks are the new baggy jeans," says Heems of Brooklyn rap group Das Racist. He and his rap partner, Kool A.D., often write lyrics on Gmail, then save them as drafts. "I don't think anyone starts rapping on their BlackBerry," Heems says. "You start in class, on a scrap of paper. It's not that much different."
Computers are far from infallible—as anyone who has had a hard drive wiped out knows well—and rappers who rely heavily on technology run the risk of losing data. Heems admits that organizing lyrics can present a problem when they're floating around as e-mails. Lloyd Banks lost over a dozen verses on his phone and subsequently began transcribing hard copies of his newly typed bars.
"Losing phones is way more common than losing notebooks," says Reek. "I've lost so many raps from the last five or six years by having them in my BlackBerry it's ridiculous. You get to back up something, but then you may go two or three months without backing your phone up, and you lose it."
Still, the advantages of technology are obvious. And for some, the major drawbacks come not in terms of functionality, but in format. A typed verse on a text document lacks a certain personal touch. Mickey Factz, a rapper from the Bronx, transitioned from paper to a cell phone, but he misses the intimacy of working with a pen and a pad. "When I got a Sidekick 2, that was it," he says. "It was so much easier. But writing in notepads [is] nostalgic art for me. Sometimes I can go back and reminisce about the scribbles and keynotes and specific memories of when I wrote them. The sentimental value is the only thing missing."
For all of the rhyme book's charms, has its disappearance affected the quality of contemporary rap music? Purists argue that modern artists are less dedicated to writing and, in turn, have lowered the threshold of lyricism. But there's no reason a hastily scribbled verse on loose-leaf would be of a higher caliber than intricate lyrics typed into an iPhone. It's about the craftsmanship of the carpenter, not his tools.
Here's a tangential theory: When the hip-hop production of the late 1990s popularized tempos outside of the East Coast's narrow 95-bpm boom-bap tradition, an artist could no longer make any verse from his notebook fit into any song.
Writing to a specific beat replaced using an internal metronome, and while this led to a flurry of creative new deliveries, it demanded more immediacy from the process of penning rhymes. Rappers had to write on the spot, a practice that devalued owning a notebook packed with prewritten material. But even with that analysis considered, one immutable fact remains: Artists with talent and effort will be dope whether they etch on cave walls, punch keys on an iPad 2 or suture their rhymes together in their head.
Even Caz, who treasures his collection of notepads and regards the art of writing as sacred, says we shouldn't miss the big picture. "Once you make your record," he says, "that's your rhyme book." — Ben Detrick


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The Department of Communications and Agricultural Education is recruiting for a systems programmer. The position will provide support for K-State Research and Extension and College of Agriculture professionals in the adoption and use of information technology.
The incumbent in this position will determine the scope and objectives of projects through consultation with clientele; develop and modify applications, including organizational databases, dynamic web pages, mobile web applications, and other delivery technologies; prepare detailed project specifications; design, code, test, debug, and analyze applications; and, collaborate with other programming staff within the unit, college, and university. The incumbent will apply effective project management techniques, provide expert advice to other internal project leaders, and may supervise student programmers as needed.
The Department of Communications and Agricultural Education is located on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan. To learn more about the Manhattan community and the K- State campus, please visit the following web sites:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or an associate degree in CIS or closely related field requiring a high degree of software design and programming expertise.
- One year of experience required if candidate has a bachelor's degree; three years of experience required if the candidate holds an associate degree.
- Experience must be with software development in a networked environment including information architecture of Web-based systems, with SQL and relational database management systems.
- A strong commitment to expanding and fostering diversity is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability in designing Web-based applications using cascading style sheets.
- Microsoft ASP.NET, SQL, XML, XSL, XSLT, C#, JavaScript, Perl, and Visual Basic.
- Candidate should possess a strong working knowledge of relational databases, designing database models, and knowledge of systems development life cycle and accessibility standards.
- Experience with dynamic websites and familiarity with Internet Information Services (lIS) and Microsoft Active Directory is preferred.
- Experience with mobile web development is highly preferred.
- Candidates should possess strong written and oral communication skills and a proven track record of completing projects on time.
- Experience with LAN's, particularly Microsoft server operating systems.
- Experience in supervising and leading diverse teams.
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When milk is fermented to make yogurt or kefir, it's easier to digest in general: the bacteria that do the fermenting remove most of the lactose (milk sugar) so that alone makes these products easier for people with lactose intolerance to handle without stomach upset. Yogurt might also prevent gastrointestinal distress by helping to restore populations of healthy bacteria knocked out of balance by antibiotic treatment. In one study of 202 hospitalized patients receiving antibiotics, those who were given a twice-daily cup of yogurt were half as likely to develop diarrhea than those who had no yogurt.
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A Insider's Take on Hong Kong's Tomorrow
By Mark Clifford
It's lunchtime at the Mandarin Grill, Hong Kong's most venerable restaurant, where the city's political and financial elites meet to chew over deals. My luncheon partner -- let's call him Peter -- is part of this charmed inner circle. He dines more often with Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa than he does with me.
But his connections extend further than this city of 7 million people. Peter has skillfully cultivated top-level contacts in the U.S., where he lived for many years and where his children attended college, as well as in China. Western investment bankers like him because he's so international.
Though Peter doesn't hold any official posts, this tycoon's friendships put him at the center of power. And his thinking is broadly representative of the small group that runs Hong Kong. Because I've known him for years, he'll say to me what others won't. Since I'm an American, our lunches are often an exercise in cross-cultural misunderstanding -- even though I've lived in Hong Kong for a decade and have permanent resident status.
This week, talk with Peter quickly turns to the coming election for Hong Kong chief executive -- sort of like a mayor or county executive. There was supposed to be a two-week nomination period, then a one-month campaign. Yet Chief Executive Tung declared victory in the contest on just the fourth day of the two-week nomination period.
He did that by lining up 89% of the small group of electors that will pick the next chief. When the nomination period ended Feb. 28, Tung was declared the uncontested victor. It turned out that the election, which was scheduled for the end of March, didn't need to be held.
Bear with me while I explain a few technicalities of the Hong Kong election process. Fewer than 200,000 voters have the right to vote in this electoral college. A prospective candidate then needs nominations from at least 100 of the electors. A key point: Nominations must be made publicly. In the run-up to the beginning of the nomination period on Feb. 15, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji both publicly backed Tung. So, few electors wanted to stand up and publicly buck the mainland's wishes by nominating another candidate -- especially since many of those people have interests that can be damaged by Beijing's displeasure.
For Peter, it doesn't matter that most Hong Kong residents have no say in their top political representative. What matters is that Tung has Beijing's support. "The most important thing," he says, "is that whoever leads Hong Kong needs to have the trust of Beijing." That's hard to argue with. But this troubles me: What say do the people of Hong Kong have?
Since 1997, this former British colony has once again become part of China. I've got to give Tung credit for keeping the disruption of this historically unprecedented transition to a minimum. Think of it -- a freewheeling British colony, the emblem of raw capitalism, delivered into the hands of a Communist state.
Five years later, Hong Kong still has its own currency, firmly anchored to the U.S. dollar. We residents continue to have a low tax rate. None of the funds from the bulging Hong Kong government coffers are sent back to Beijing. The small contingent of People's Liberation Army troops is largely confined to barracks -- and are certainly much better behaved than were their British counterparts. And Queen's Road still runs through the central business district -- no one has moved to rename it Mao Zedong Boulevard.
Tung has even allowed the falun gong, a cultish group that combines tai chi-like exercises with meditation, to practice in Hong Kong, even though it's the focus of a brutal crackdown on the mainland.
Scratch the surface a little harder, however, and the record is more mixed on things that really matter to Hong Kong's long-term prosperity. Things like rule of law and a free press. The situation remains tolerable. A disturbing amount of self-censorship aside, Hong Kong still has an independent press. And despite a few deeply glaring instances that show neither Tung nor his Secretary for Justice, Elsie Leung, really understand what "rule of law" means, they haven't tampered too much with the legal system.
"What if Martin Lee were chief executive?" asks Peter. "Would Beijing allow that?" He's talking about the chairman of the local Democratic Party, which regularly polls more votes than any other party. Lee, a prominent attorney, grew mistrustful of the mainland after the 1989 killings of pro-democracy protestors in Tiananmen Square, and he's on Beijing's blacklist.
Peter has a point. Beijing wouldn't like Lee's ascension to power at all. Indeed, although the government considers Lee to be Chinese, authorities won't even allow him to visit the mainland. Some people could argue that we're better off having one of Hong Kong's own people do Beijing's bidding than to have Beijing force its wishes on us in a more heavy-handed fashion.
But what about Beijing's promises in the Basic Law, the Hong Kong Territory's mini-constitution, that people here could enjoy a "high degree of autonomy." Only foreign affairs and national security were supposed to be in Beijing's province. As long as Hong Kong isn't used as a base for subversion, we're supposed to be able to run the territory ourselves.
Beijing's propaganda organs had a nice slogan for it: "Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong." Funny you don't hear that much these day. "The most important quality for a chief executive is that Beijing trusts him," reiterates Peter.
Beijing may trust Tung -- but the people don't. A poll by Hong Kong's Baptist University shows that only 16% of citizens support Tung for a second term, while 56% oppose him. Perhaps even more stunning is that my conversations with many members of the elite -- not the inner circle, but prominent names in the community -- reveal widespread discontent with the status quo and with Tung. Peter and I agree to disagree on this one.
I'd like to see more rapid movement toward representative government. We have the right to elect the chief executive through direct election in 10 more years. The Basic Law also gives Hong Kong citizens the right to directly elect all 60 members of the legislature after 2007, but it's vague on when or how this will happen. All the more reason why we should start putting more democratic institutions in place now. So far, Tung has been reluctant to even start a political debate.
I don't like this small-circle electoral system where a few members of the elite run things. Peter retorts that the U.S. has an electoral college -- and, as we saw in the last Presidential election, it doesn't always elect the winner of the popular vote. "If you didn't have the Electoral College, you might elect that guy Al Sharpton. You need some kind of check." He may have some influence in New York, but Al Sharpton isn't big in Hong Kong.
Then it occurred to me: Most of the developed world had these sorts of arguments about the time Queen Victoria died. But Hong Kong's political system still reflects its legacy as a 19th century British colony. The last governor, Chris Patten, belatedly made some moves toward more representative government, but they were fought by mandarins in both London and Beijing.
So what is Tung going to focus on in his second term? Peter tells me the chief exec is dedicated to making sure Hong Kong continues to retain its distinct place, to ensure that it matters at a time when China's rise looks unstoppable and foreign investors are bypassing Hong Kong to go to directly to the mainland.
I ask Peter, what sets Hong Kong apart? How can it stay relevant at a time when China is a cheaper market and has higher growth potential? It's not our renowned infrastructure, which sure helps: Visitors and locals alike love our high-speed train to one of the world's most modern airports.
What really sets Hong Kong apart is the soft stuff. A relatively small, clean, competent government. A local press that can criticize. The plurality and the confidence to allow dissenting voices. Abiding by legal decisions rather than running to Beijing to get them overturned, as Tung has done repeatedly.
I can see Peter's eyes impatiently flickering. For all the time that both of us have spent in each other's countries, for all that we share, a gulf still still separates us. For now, at least, Peter and his crowd are running Hong Kong. I can only hope that I'm wrong, and that they know what they're doing.
As a Hong Kong permanent resident, BusinessWeek Asia Regional Editor Clifford will be eligible to vote in the next Legislative Council election
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|Get the surgery (if you need it), then ride only pow. The hell with hardpack or ice. Take it easy for some yrs until all the muscles and stuff are back in bussines.
Got only two anecdotes to add... two friends, two similar problems, two very different outcomes.
Both had similar back problems as you. One a professional horserider, one a dancer. Both couldn't perform their job/passion anymore due to the back pain.
One chose to do the fusion and is now well. She's no professional dancer anymore but pain free in everyday life and well enough to be a dancing instructor, still connected to her passion, enjoying to teach kids.
The other was too afraid of the surgery and chose to stand the pain, swallow drugs, etc. Soon, he couldn't mount a horse anymore, lost his job and passion, then tried to be a trainer but due to constant pain he became a heavy drinker, became constantly moody and unbearable as trainer, lost that as well, continuously lost friends. He's a broken lonely man today. I often wonder how his life would have become if he had done the surgery...
From what I have seen is that if you are in constant pain, there is nothing that really works, this seems to be an effective thing. I know a couple of people who have had spinal fusions, and they could not be happier. They were living in excruciating pain everyday. Now they have normal lives.
The hazards with snowboarding, not so sure of. You may want to drop the park shit. That seems to be where the scorpion is most frequently encountered. I'll say with backcountry riding, I don't think I have ever done a scorpion. Not a serious one for sure and I have had plenty of crashes.
You'll have to voice your concerns to your doctor about what the long term is.
For the most part, I think you can have it done. It may cost you a season, possibly a little longer, but you should be able to get back to snowboarding. Lots of pro athletes in many different sports have had this done and gotten back after it as mentioned.
Perfect solution? Nothing is, but I bet it will work. I would be worried about getting rid of the pain first, then snowboarding second. You got to be able to live your life. I am sure you are of this mindset already.
|Isn't a fusion for fractured vertebrae? If so, does it even apply here as a possible remedy?
I have had this conversation with my specialist... He asked why it would be any different...??? If you fall in a certain way, things break, regardless of what you have or have not done...
He said that worrying about stuff was worse than the actual thing happening. Makes you live in fear and as such stop living...!
Actually, didn't they say that in breaking bad as well... Haha
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Spinal Fusions & Snowboarding?
This is almost definitely premature, but after seeing my latest MRI and the way my back feels today. I wanted to throw this out here and see what kind of an answer I got before possibly hearing things like "you're going to need a fusion" from any of my doctors after they see the images.
Has anyone here ever had a Lumbar or other spinal fusion procedure? Does anyone know if it is possible to continue to snowboard after having one? Or if that is in my future, will I be finished with snowboarding?
I can't help wondering what happens if you fall hard on your ass or "Scorp" with a bunch of nuts n bolts screwed into the vertebrae. If you hit hard enough could they rip the vertebrae apart?
At this point, I'm officially scared (…actually, lets make that terrified!) about my prospects. If you check the "My Spines" thread and look at my latest, post op MRI. It don't look good. I am pretty sure I will be losing my job. If I need another surgery? It would mean another 6--8-10 weeks for procedure and recovery time. My job won't be there that long. BUT,… If it means I can never snowboard again?
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