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Mayor Coleen Seng today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for May to Julia "J.J." Mayer of the Lincoln Police Department and for June to Terri Krejdl of the Parks and Recreation Department. The monthly awards recognize City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The awards were presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Mayer has been a Police Services Specialist at the Police Department since 1997. She was nominated in the categories of valor and customer relations by Cheri Marti, manager of the LPD Service Desk for her efforts to locate a missing man.
On March 23, 2003, the family of an 84-year old man suffering from dementia called LPD to report him missing. When Mayer received the report, she suggested getting the report in the state and national law enforcement systems. In talking to the man's care giver, Mayer learned the missing man also suffered from diabetes and did not have his medication with him. A State Patrol officer reported that had earlier spotted an abandoned vehicle matching the man's near Syracuse, but when the trooper returned the vehicle was gone. Syracuse and Otoe County officers were brought into the search.
Mayer worked as a liaison among the various law enforcement agencies involved. More than five hours after the report came in, LPD Captain David Beggs stopped a man driving in Lincoln, who indicated he was having trouble finding his home. The man, who was tired but in good physical condition, was driven home by a family member. The next day, Mayer wrote a letter of appreciation to the State Patrol.
"Mayer's effort in bringing everyone's attention to the man's plight is ultimately the reason he was found," Marti wrote in her nomination. "Mayer immediately recognized the efforts of others in this investigation rather than bring attention to herself. This was an extraordinary example of teamwork and inter-agency camaraderie. I believe her efforts and concern made all the difference in the man getting found and safety brought home."
Krejdl, a Neighborhood Center Supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department, has worked for the City of Lincoln for 22 years. She was nominated in the category of productivity by Recreation Manager Sandy Myers. She was nominated for her willingness and ability to assume key leadership positions during retirements or absences of others.
In the last several months, Krejdl has served as acting director of the Air Park Recreation Center and assisted at the Belmont and "F" Street Centers. She is helping to lead the Green Team Program and working at the Ager Indoor Playground.
"There are days when facilities could not stay open without Terri being able to fill in, wrote Myers in her nomination. "She is able to do all of this while performing her own daily duties of coordinating the day to day operation of all the centers."
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are safety and loss prevention. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.
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CNN interview with Aaron Arnold of Music Is My Business, aired on the special "Young People Who Rock", Aaron use to work for Diddy at Bad Boy Records. Nicole Lapin From CNN reports "No matter how old we are, no matter what stage we're at in life, we all tend to wonder, "If money didn't matter, what would I do?" Aaron Arnold had those thoughts. And he's acted on them. After Arnold graduated from college, he was fast-tracked into an executive position at a major PR firm. He had money, but he was miserable. The real answer to his nagging thoughts about his true passion was music. So shortly after he got married, Arnold took a major leap to a nonpaying (to the dismay of his wife) internship with Bad Boy Records. He worked for free to soak up all he could as an assistant to record producer and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs. After a year of grooming, the 29-year-old went on his own to start Music is My Business. "I wanted to change the music industry for the better," Arnold said. He now handles budding artists, with the goal of changing the way business is done in the music industry.". Shout out to Charles
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I still believe that Barca 2 should work with MAPI. To use the above programs I must always use Thunderbird as my default email program.
I know that MAPI has security problems, but if you have a good antivirus and firewall I cannot see the problem.
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But if you get infected, it will spread throughout your entire system and use your address book to spread itself to others.jlaldridge54 wrote:I know that MAPI has security problems, but if you have a good antivirus and firewall I cannot see the problem.
PSI already considered implementing it in a secure way.
The only thing we don't know is when it will be done.
MAPI will also introduce serious weaknesses into Barca. My guess is some people will rather not have this weakness. We have thought about this on many occasions, and we will continue to do so until we have a satisfactory solution.
My pleasure helping fellow users.darrellb wrote:Eric, thank you for your reply and the hours that you give to answering queries on this forum.
You won't find any commitment, even in the beta section. As I already said they are considering all the possibilities.In my review and search of this forum, I do not find a commitment from Poco to implement MAPI.
Maybe they will, maybe they won't.All this to say that perhaps Pocosystems would like to take this opportunity to update end users on the direction they are taking on this
As it has been with several other users, but it remains their decision.On a personal note, some sort of simple MAPI implementation has long been on my secret wish list of Poco improvements and I am often tempted by other email clients that feature such.
Won't change from email client because of this IMHO. I for one chose PSI for a secure email client and the ease of use, as well as the features it offers.Alas, I always come back home to Poco since its many other features cannot be matched by the others, IMHO.
You won't find any commitment, even in the beta section. As I already said they are considering all the possibilities.
Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
It's their decision to reveal something about their future plans.
As it has been with several other users, but it remains their decision.
Like I said before, security or functionality, what do you prefer?
Sure they listen to their end users, but the decision remains with them on how they will implement it.darrellb wrote:Of course, I know the implementation of MAPI is Pocosystem's decision but I would hope that the suggestions of end users are considered.
They do their best, considering the resources they have.IMHO, the attentiveness and responsiveness displayed by Pocosystems to the concerns and suggestions of end users has made Pocomail the great email client it is. (I am not a user of Barca, so I will leave it to others to sing its praises.)
Sure, but if that functionality breaks your lock, then you've got a bigger problem.Security without functionality is like having a house with all of the doors locked so that you are forced to crawl through a window to get in and out.
You only have to participate to the betas and then you'll know how it goes.
No problem Darrell, besides it's nice to go once in a while a bit off track.darrellb wrote:This is the last word from me in this thread as it has gone way off the original track.
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Patrick Henry Pearse (known to Irish nationalists as Pádraig Pearse or Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November, 1879 – 3 May, 1916) was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was declared "President of the Provisional Government" of the Irish Republic in one of the bulletins issued by the Rising's leaders, a status that was however disputed by others associated with the rebellion both then and subsequently.
- We have come to the holiest place in Ireland; holier to us even than the place where Patrick sleeps in Down. Patrick brought us life, but this man died for us. And though many before him and some since have died in testimony of the truth of Ireland's claim to nationhood, Wolfe Tone was the greatest of all that have made that testimony, the greatest of all that have died for Ireland whether in old times or in new. He was the greatest of Irish Nationalists; I believe he was the greatest of Irish men. And if I am right in this I am right in saying that we stand in the holiest place in Ireland, for it must be that the holiest sod of a nation's soil is the sod where the greatest of her dead lies buried.
- Address delivered at the Grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown Churchyard, Co. Kildare, 22 June 1913 [1]
- To his teaching we owe it there is such a thing as Irish Nationalism and to the memory of the deed he nerved his generation to do, to the memory of '98, we owe it that there is any manhood left in Ireland.
- Ibid.
- Think of Tone. . . Think of how he put virility into the Catholic movement, how this heretic toiled to make free men of Catholic helot, how as he worked among them he grew to know and love the real, the historic Irish people, and the great, clear, sane conception came to him that in Ireland there must be not two nations or three nations but one nation, that Protestant and Dissenter must be brought into amity with Catholic and that Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter must unite to achieve freedom for all.
- Ibid.
- And let us make no mistake as to what Tone sought to do, what it remains to us to do. We need to restate our programme: Tone has stated it for us:
"To break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country—these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissentions, and to substitute the common name of Irishmen in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter—these were my means."
I find here implicit all the philosophy of Irish nationalism, all the teaching of the Gaelic League and the later prophets. Ireland one and Ireland free—is not this the definition of Ireland a Nation? To that definition and to that programme we declare our adhesion anew; pledging ourselves as Tone pledged himself—and in this sacred place, by this graveside, let us not pledge ourselves unless we mean to keep our pledge—we pledge ourselves to follow in the steps of Tone, never to rest either by day or night until his work be accomplished, deeming it the proudest of all privileges to fight for freedom, to fight not in despondency but in great joy hoping for the victory in our day, but fighting on whether victory seem near or far, never lowering our ideal, never bartering one jot or tittle of our birthright, holding faith to the memory and the inspiration of Tone, and accounting ourselves base as long as we endure the evil thing against which he testified with his blood.
- Ibid.
- "Believe that we too love freedom and desire it. To us it is more desirable than anything in the world. If you strike us down now, we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom: if our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it with a better deed."
- Notes for Revolutionaries Vol 2, Foilseacháin an Ghlór Gafa, Nova Print, Belfast, 2006, pg 65
- Our foes are strong and wise and wary; but, strong and wise and wary as they are, they cannot undo the miracles of God Who ripens in the hearts of young men the seeds sown by the young men of a former generation. And the seeds sown by the young men of '65 and '67 are coming to their miraculous ripening today. Rulers and Defenders of the Realm had need to be wary if they would guard against such processes. Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but, the fools, the fools, the fools! — They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
- Closing words of graveside oration at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 August 1915. The Cause Of Ireland, Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast 1994, pg 266
- One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness…it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated… It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...
- The Cause Of Ireland, Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast 1994, pg 190.This quote was taken from the original, in Padraig Pearse's book The Murder Machine.
- O faithful!
Moulded in one womb,
We have stood together all the years,
All the glad years and all the sorrowful years,
Own brothers: through good repute and ill,
In direst peril true to me,
Leaving all things for me, spending yourself
In the hard service that I taught to you,
Of all the men that I have known on earth,
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Nor needed I another.
- "To My Brother", poem by P. H. Pearse, written in Arbour Hill Detention Barracks, 1st May, 1916. Published by The Office of Public Works, Dublin.
- Pearse did not know that his brother William, was also to be executed.
- "When I was a child of ten, I went on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my Life to an effort to free my country. I have kept the promise. I have helped to organise, to train, and to discipline my fellow-countrymen to the sole end that, when the time came, they might fight for Irish freedom. The time, as it seemed to me, did come, and we went into the fight. I am glad that we did. We seem to have lost; but we have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on its tradition to the future. I repudiate the assertion of the Prosecutor that I sought to aid and abet England's enemy. Germany is no more to me than England is. I asked and accepted German aid in the shape of arms and an expeditionary force; we neither asked for nor accepted German gold, nor had any traffic with Germany but what I state. My object was to win Irish freedom. We struck the first blow ourselves, but I should have been glad of an ally's aid. I assume that I am speaking to Englishmen who value their freedom, and who profess to be fighting for the freedom of Belgium and Serbia. Believe that we too love freedom and desire it. To us it is more than anything else in the world. If you strike us down now, we shall rise again, and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed."
- Patrick Pearse at his court-martial.Publish by the 75th Anniversary Committee, Dublin, 1991.
Notes and references
- ↑ Quotations from P.H. Pearse, Proinisas Mac Aonghusa, Mercier Press, Dublin, 1979, ISBN 0 85342 605 8
External links
- The Murder Machine - Pearse's groundbreaking article on Montessori education
- 1916 Walking Tour piece on Pearse


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Tokyo — August 27, 2008 — Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TSE: 7752, "RICOH")(President & CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: IKN, "IKON") to acquire IKON (the "Transaction") through RICOH's wholly owned U.S. distribution subsidiary, Ricoh Americas Corporation ("RAC"). The Transaction is supported by both RICOH and IKON and has been approved by the Boards of Directors of the respective organizations.
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RICOH (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) is a global leader in imaging solutions that has brought to the market innovations such as digitalization, network solutions, and colorization. In the rapidly growing printing and document solution areas, RICOH's challenge has been to strengthen its channels for assessing customers' potential needs and making appropriate proposals based on a customer-driven approach. In the extremely competitive U.S. market, Ricoh is committed to further strengthening its sales and support channels.
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IKON Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Matthew J. Espe, said, "Following an extensive review of our strategic opportunities, our Board conducted a formal process to evaluate alternatives for the Company, and has approved this attractive transaction for our shareholders, customers and employees. The offer represents a 33% premium over IKON's trailing 60-day average stock price as of market close on August 26th. In addition, combining with Ricoh, one of the world's most respected and innovative companies, will enable us to strengthen our offerings to customers and create new opportunities for our employees."
Espe concluded, "We remain fully committed to providing the highest quality of support and service to all our customers."
As a result of the Transaction, RICOH will strengthen its business infrastructure in the U.S., Canada and Europe by combining with IKON's strong sales and service network. RICOH also will gain access to IKON's customer base, which includes major account customers and government and public sectors in the U.S. This acquisition is yet another step in RICOH's integrated global growth strategy.
2. Acquisition Price
Target: IKON Office Solutions, Inc.
Estimated Acquisition Price: U.S. $1.617 billion (approx. JPY 172.1 billion) *1 based on an offer of $17.25 per share. This price is a 33% premium over the average daily closing price of the past 60 days until August 26th. After careful analysis and review of IKON's assets, business operations and prospects, RICOH considers that this price is fair and reasonable.
(*1) Exchange rate is $1 = JPY106.42, unless otherwise noted.
Finance: RICOH will finance the Transaction with a mix of its own and external funding.
3. Acquisition Process
The Transaction will be implemented by merging an acquisition subsidiary wholly owned by RAC, Keystone Acquisition, Inc., with and into IKON. *2 The merger requires the approval of the majority of IKON's outstanding shares at its shareholder meeting and will result in IKON continuing as the surviving company. Through this process, RAC will acquire all of the outstanding shares of IKON from IKON's shareholders ($17.25 in cash per share). The Transaction is subject to approval of North American and European antitrust authorities. The parties intend and expect to expeditiously complete the process during the fourth quarter of calendar 2008.
(*2) This process is referred to as a reverse triangular merger in the U.S.
4. Impact on financial results of Ricoh
The specific impact of the Transaction on RICOH's consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2009 will be disclosed when appropriate.
About Ricoh
A global leader in digital office solutions, Ricoh ( www.ricoh.com) creates new value at the interface of people and information, offering a broad range of digital, networked products, including MFPs, printers, fax machines, semiconductor related products and digital cameras. With 83,400 employees worldwide, and $22 billion in revenue, Ricoh is also one of the world's leading environmentalist companies, committed to sustainable business everywhere.
About IKON
IKON Office Solutions, Inc. ( www.ikon.com) is the world's largest independent channel for document management systems and services, enabling customers to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates best-in-class copiers, printers and MFP technologies from leading manufacturers and document management software and systems, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions implemented and supported by its global services organization — IKON Enterprise Services. With fiscal year 2007 revenue of $4.2 billion, IKON has approximately 24,000 employees in over 400 locations throughout North America and Western Europe.
Forward Looking Statements
This announcement, including information included in or incorporated by reference into this announcement, may contain "forward-looking statements" concerning RICOH and IKON. Generally, the words "will", "may", "should", "continue", "believes", "expects", "intends", "anticipates" or similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond the companies' abilities to control or estimate precisely, such as future market conditions and the behaviors of other market participants, and therefore undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Examples of forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the proposed acquisition of IKON by RICOH, such as the results of the review of the Transaction by regulatory agencies, and any conditions imposed in connection with consummation of the Transaction; approval of the Transaction by the shareholders of IKON; and satisfaction of various other conditions to the closing of the Transaction. RICOH and IKON assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required pursuant to applicable law.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
Investors and security holders are urged to read the proxy statement regarding the business combination transaction referred to in the foregoing information, when it becomes available, because it will contain important information. The proxy statement will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by IKON. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement (when it is available) and other documents filed by IKON with the SEC at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The proxy statement (when it is available) and these other documents may also be obtained for free from IKON by directing a request to Maryanne Messenger in Shareholder Services at 1-610-296-8000.
Certain Information Concerning Participants
Investors may obtain a detailed list of names, affiliations and interests of the IKON participants in the solicitation of proxies of shareholders to approve the proposed business combination from the proxy statement filed with the SEC (when it is available).
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There and Back
The first thing to know about Monkey is that it is a version of a story called Journey to the West. Journey to the West was first published in 1592 with the Chinese title Hsi Yu Ki, (Records of the Western World); this was translated into English as Journey to the West.
We're reading a classic translation of Hsi Yu Ki called Monkey. The English translator, Arthur Waley, chose this title because of the importance of the Stone Monkey King to the chapters he chose to translate (Waley translated only thirty of the original one hundred chapters of Wu's book). When you're looking through this Web site, you'll find both titles used to describe the story (for example, in the works listed on the Connections page). When we discuss the original text, we use Journey to the West; when we discuss the Waley translation, we use Monkey.
The story of the Stone Monkey King who is our hero is very popular in China, and has made its own journey to the West through movies, TV, and books inspired by the story. Western writers from Octavio Paz to Maxine Hong Kingston have written stories that include the Monkey King. And as twenty-first century Western culture continues to embrace supernatural creatures such as vampires, ghosts, and wizards (from Twilight to Harry Potter), the story of Monkey is even more likely to entertain and enthrall American readers, just as it does readers in China.
David Henry Hwang
Playwright and Screenwriter:
"Growing up in the West you have this notion that Chinese culture is all about selflessness and not living in the material world and having respect for your elders and all that kind of thing, and Monkey is the opposite version of that. He's anarchic he's disrespectful he's selfish, and he's a lot of fun."


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Use Landfill Site At Noida Sector 123 For Waste Dumping: NGT
The NGT had on October 24 directed the Noida Authority not to dump municipal solid waste or any other waste at the site in Sector 138-A. It had said they should use the site at Sector 123, Noida as a temporary site for dumping of waste, and this should be done strictly following the provisions of the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules. The NGT had also directed the Uttar Pradesh government and the Noida Authority to start construction of waste-to-energy plant at the designated site within six months.


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Brood Posted Letters to Santa Early
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's children prepared for Christmas early this year by
writing letters to Santa Claus and sending them off last month (November).
The couple's
brood of six - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne - put
pen to paper to detail their wish lists and posted them off in the village of
Littlebourne in Kent, England, where their famous father was re-shooting scenes
for upcoming blockbuster World War Z.
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office assistant Fiona Lindsay tells People.com, "It was so cute. All the
children sent messages to Father Christmas and were absolutely beautifully
"Just like any other kids in a sweet shop they were excited, but
Angelina controlled them perfectly. It was lovely. They were all very polite.
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The Bath & West Wilts group was formed 20 years ago and provides advice on conservation, nest box construction, installation and monitoring of owls and other birds of prey around Bath and West Wiltshire.
The group is active at a number of important raptor and owl sites in and around Bath. While the peregrine nest box on St Johns Church in South Parade Bath may be the most high profile of our projects, it is merely the tip of the iceberg that is the conservation effort of the group.
In addition to nest box construction, installation and maintenance, members record and forward nesting data to the British Trust for Ornithology and continue to liaise with landowners such as the National Trust, Wessex Water and local farmers to assist in conservation schemes.
Shapwick Moor is the nearest Hawk and Owl Trust Nature Reserve (click on link for more information). There is always habitat work to be done and members are actively encouraged to participate.
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- Mike Nuttall's Epic Bike Ride from Bath to Norwich following our GA Peregrines Route (6/3/2016) - On the late May Bank Holiday weekend saw one of the Hawk and Owl Trusts most highly valued volunteers who used to give his time to our Bath Peregrines Project, completing an EPIC 250 mile bike ride across the English countryside from the beautiful city of Bath up to the fine city of Norwich, which… Continue Reading
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- New Season Breeding Activity at Our Bath Urban Peregrine Project Site (1/29/2015) - The #bathperegrines have started off the 2015 breeding season with some early courtship rituals. We've been observing their behaviour on and around the church from ground level and on the Bath UPP camera since early in January. Now is a good time to make your way down to South Parade or the riverside walk as… Continue Reading
- Peregrine Chicks Due to Hatch Soon at St John's Church Bath (5/4/2014) - The peregrine pair using the Hawk and Owl Trust nest platform at St John's Church in Bath have been carefully brooding their eggs for the last few weeks. We are now getting to the time for the chicks to hatch and are predicting the first egg to hatch somewhere between 4 – 9 May. Here… Continue Reading
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- BBC Visit Bath Peregrine Project (5/15/2013) - BBC news programme 'Points South West' dropped by St John's Church in Bath on Monday to speak to Hawk and Owl Trustee Mike Rogers and Peregrine Project team member Hamish Smith. The peregrine pair that have taken up residence in the nesting platform provided by the Hawk and Owl Trust have continued their successful run… Continue Reading
- Trust Peregrines Star on BBC Springwatch (6/8/2012) - Two Youngsters Prepare to Leave Church Nest Platform 8 June 2012 | These two young peregrines, growing up on the Hawk and Owl Trust nesting platform on a Bath church, have been starring on BBC TV all this week. (Click here for extracts.) The picture shows them trying out their wings in this week's driving… Continue Reading
- Two Chicks for Bath Peregrines (4/25/2012) - 7th Successive Brood at Church Nest Platform Conservationists in Bath have welcomed the next generation of peregrines to hatch on the Hawk and Owl Trust's well established nesting platform on the spire of St John's RC Church. The first egg successfully hatched on 1 May 2011 when one chick was observed as the female left… Continue Reading
- Sooty Escape for Young Peregrine (7/4/2011) - Juvenile rescued after falling down chimney One of this year's young Bath peregrines had a lucky escape after falling into a chimney, disappearing from her usual haunts around St John's Church. The youngster eventually managed to make her way down the chimney. Luckily she landed in the hearth of Bath nature conservation enthusiast Gillian Barrett… Continue Reading
- Bath Peregrines' Fledgling Success (6/9/2011) - Three youngsters join parents on the wing in Georgian city Three young peregrines, raised on a Hawk and Owl Trust nesting platform on the spire of St John's RC Church in Bath, have now all fledged successfully and left the nest. Having taken their first flights, they are spending their time flitting from roof to… Continue Reading


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dear friends,
I have just returned from working in Basque. It was one of loveliest trips i have ever taken. I met incredible people against the most beautiful landscape. I hope to share with you more about my time there and also from my travels before then. I continue to have full hard drives but once i can remedy this i will begin to share.
I hope you are well, that autumn finds you well.
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PowerLearning21 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 263 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
PowerLearning21 - Learning For The 21st Century
A media hub for teachers tutors and students across the world, providing educational content on a variety of topics.
PowerLearning21 or PL21 for short has a state of the art content-sharing platform that allows "teachers" or "tutors" to upload instructional videos to be purchased by other users, students. PL21 defines these terms lightly as anyone can be a teacher or student in a given subject.
PL21 guarantees quality content by having a moderation system in place. They provide a platform that is easy to navigate and easily brings teachers and students together.
The interactive community environment that PL21 is creating pulls from the life blood of passionate teachers and eager-to-learn students from across the world to create a really great concept.
PL21 thrives on the fact that teachers will always want to teach, students will always want to learn, and the continually cluttering market of free video content will in time be too difficult to search for quality material.
Is developing new tools to make the platform the best on the web.
Whether you are an educator looking to sell videos online for a supplementary income, a business owner moving your video into e-commerce or an individual looking to monetize your current online video, PL21 is going to help you get there.
Rolling out new changes throughout 2010.
We are looking to draw teachers, educators, and everyday professionals with a passion for teaching and education.
Anyone with a specialized skill who wants to put together quality video teaching it is welcome at PowerLearning21.
We are also looking for people who are looking to monetize current video that they have. Maybe they have a dvd business of video they have created teaching yoga, etc. Instead of just shipping dvds they can use PL21 to host their videos and direct people to get the videos on our site.
Lastly, we are looking to attract students. Anyone looking to be educated on a large variety of topics. Math help, martial arts lessons, photoshop basics. It all goes. We need to begin drawing these eager to learn students to the site. They need to know PL21 is going to offer quality video as apposed to timely search through free sites for short videos with low quality content.
We need a nice logo!
Currently we do not have a "logo"
We have a text logo on the name, followed by "online video classrooms"
We would like a nice sharp and catchy logo (text can be with it but we would also like an individual logo)
You can incorporate a selection (or none) of these features:
1) http://www.PowerLearning21.com
2) PowerLearning21.com
3) PowerLearning21
4) Learning for the 21st Century
5) Online video classrooms
6) anything else you think would sound or look good. We'd love to see your creativity
Please stick with the colors and design of our site: http://www.powerlearning21.com
We are open to all suggestions, ideas, design, creative, anything at all!
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Mega-Church Pastor Joel Osteen Chimes In On Gays
Joel Osteen— televangelist, author, and Pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas—has been hitting the airwaves hard promoting his new book, Break Out: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life.
Osteen recently sat down with Josh Zepps of HuffPost Live to talk shop on everything from prayer, to the Pope, to (of course) the gays.
During their chit chat, Zepps read a piece that he liked from Osteen's new book:
"It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you."
Zepps followed up by asking if that included homosexuals.
"Absolutely. I believe that God breathed life into every person, and that every person is made in the image of God and you have to accept them as they are on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down."
Well, surprise, surprise!
See the video in all of its glory below.
What did you think about what Osteen had to say? And may we ask, why do so many preachers talk in that creepy-voice? *shivers*
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Since God says homosexuality is sin, IT IS. When we sin this way, along with fornication, we sin AGAINST OUR OWN BODY. Check our love walk....If love God, ourselves, and one another, we won't do things to destroy our relationship with God, ourselves, and each other. Jesus lives in us. When we sin, we pollute our temples. We MUST understand this. Truth MUST BE PREACHED AT THE PULPIT, AND OUR DAILY LIVES. WE MUST DIE TO SELF, WE ARE BOUGHT WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS. God did NOT give us greasy Grace, He empowered us to renew our minds to the mind of Christ. We ARE NEW CREATIONS, IF we have Christ as our Savior. What about submitting to His Lordship? We are not lord.
Did any one see his interview on "Oprah's Nex't Chapter", when Oprah posed the question to him about homosexuality?
He said that very same thing about how he's not about hate, (I'm paraphrasing his words here) BUT you can't deny the scripture. I hope someone can find video to get his exact words. But whatever his exact words were, it's clear that those of you who are suspicious, have every right to be.
The concept of marriage itself is not really the issue. Marriage as a function of society and civil rights is completely necessary. For purposes of simply equal legal rights and human rights. I think it's also important to remember, this is only the first step. 10 years from now, as a result of these simple steps today for equality, gay/straight will not be an issue.


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Chris Johnson's voyage to Florham Park was delightful, but he remains a man without a home.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" that the running back's Tuesday visit with the Jets left both sides with a "good feeling." The former Titans burner met with New York's coaches and took a physical, but left without agreeing to a deal, according to a source informed of Johnson's situation.
Rapoport was told that additional teams are "circling," waiting to see how Johnson's dealings with Gang Green play out.
"I'm just taking it one day at a time, taking my time, and whatever decision I make, it will be the best decision," Johnson told reporters at Tuesday night's Knicks-Nets game in Brooklyn, per ESPN.com.
Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News tweeted Tuesday that Jets general manager John Idzik is choosing to stay true to the team's "budget/value system," and won't "overpay" Johnson in a market that's seen runners rewarded like punters.
Tennessee released the 28-year-old back and his $8 million deal earlier this month. Johnson will never see that type of dough again, but we like him as a fit for New York's backfield.
He's no longer a reliable featured back, but Johnson would make for a solid passing-down complement to thumper Chris Ivory.
CJ2K's game film shows a runner who's too often indecisive and slow to the hole. He's not especially effective as a receiver, either, but Johnson remains capable of the occasional jaw-dropping home-run gallop. That quality has the Jets interested.
The latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast" covers the Aldon Smith arrest and analyzes the offseason movers and shakers in the NFC East and NFC South.


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A Pretty house: half fallen, half restored - magic bits and bobs in all its nooks and crannies... this is where we went: me and my fluttery team (make-up: Luna Viola, assistant stylist: Sylvia Mann) to take dolls house photos of Esther Dee in Flutterbydaisy frills
Esther Dee and the Carousel at The Comedy, London, 13th April
... here we finished cocktails, bopped around, caught up, rocked out and jolly well had a good night...
* Photos: Barnaby Cooper / Hannah Daisy *
...She didn't realise she had a new friend; that duck followed her everywhere....
* Esther Dee the Pirate by Flutterbydaisy *
Tales From The Treehouse
A bee busy and there's not enough coffee in the world... if you'd have stayed and left work somewhere else we would have probably fallen further through a caterpillar hole where time goes all funny then 3 hours have passed in a slow blink of an eye. I wanted to be closer to you; inside your chest and your eye, like the movie where they're tiny.
Inside. Inside and all over...
Who would have ever thought this could have happened.
...It's the rest that's unbelievable now... but I'll get a magic pass and escape, might be wrong but I'm not caring, at least we can sit in the dark together.
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SparhafocPosts: 2662Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:48 am
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hackenslash wrote:....Sophie's World...
I was really surprised by this book. It was on the shelf of the house I was living in a couple of decades back in Italy. I assumed it was a kids' book initially, but when I ran out of things to read, I picked it up and was completely engrossed.
hackenslash wrote:Oh, read Republic and some bits and bots of Aristotle, as well.
Anything from the ancient world, I've read. I was on course for a degree in Classics at Oxford (unconditional offer) when I realised that was not going to be fun!
I'll have to see if I can brave A History of Western Philosophy - it was an optional book on my course many years ago, but I recall it being large and unwieldy and I never got round to reading it.
"a reprehensible human being"
Beliefs are, by definition, things we don't know to be true.
|Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:11 am
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It's very good. It's pretty much Sophie's World for the stern of constitution.
|Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:32 am
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Launched a new section of the blog, essentially a frequently-asked questions section, entitled FAAAAAAAAAAA Q! (just my little joke). It will mostly consist of short, sharp rebuttals to common apologetic arguments.
I've populated it thus far with some bits and pieces.
Hack's Top Tips for Debating Sceptics
Why Are There Still Apes
Memes, Demotivationals and Funnies
Public Service Announcements - these are something I've been doing on Twitter for quite a long time, and I get good feedback for them.
|Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:51 am
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New blog post: There's a Hole in my Model
http://www.hackenslash.co.uk/2017/12/th ... model.html
A look at a recent discovery of something that shouldn't exist.
|Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:59 pm
SparhafocPosts: 2662Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:48 am
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Great quote there, and surprising how closely I've unknowingly imitated that sentence in the past!
It also led me to check the provenance of that quote (sorry, old habit) and to thereby find another beauty...
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
The last is the great beauty and endless pleasure of trying out ideas, just playing with your mind. It's where the arts and sciences become indistinguishable.
It simply doesn't matter whether the ideas toyed with are right or wrong, it's the act of toying, the play, the flexing of certain cognitive muscles which provides the value, if for no other reason than exercising an ability keeps it from atrophying.
For example, reading your entry I had the wonderful idea of there being wrinkles in the fabric of reality, and black holes being artifacts of these cosmic fault lines... which in my mind were then outlined as an image of a Mandelbrot set. It's utterly wrong, of course, in so many ways... not-even-wrong, actually... but one never knows what other ideas might be spurred by such playing around.
This is one of those numerous topics that gets thrown up into a conversation by Creationists or science-deniers, but usually gets dismissed rather than discussed, that science is just about guesses. But in truth, the actual act of performing science has a huge great component of creativity: being able to see the world differently, even just for a startling moment, than any other person previously.
Of course, one must never fail prey to the narcissism which would then cause the sufferer to assume that, just because they can think it, that makes it possible, plausible or true. The rest of the scientific method steps in there to sort the wheat from the chaff, but in terms of how the process begins, discovery is necessarily about subverting what was previously held to be true through employing sheer imagination.
"a reprehensible human being"
Beliefs are, by definition, things we don't know to be true.
|Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:39 am
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Nicely put.
|Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:19 am
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Further to this, in case anybody's interested, I'll be having a live discussion with the apologist in question on Youtube on the channel of a friend this evening at 17:00 UTC.
hackenslash wrote:New blog post: 7 Reasons Why Apologists Should Stop Trying to Logic
It should be good fun.
Channel is here:
And he's made a trailer, because quite a few people are excited about this, for some reason that I can't quite fathom.
It's hardly going to be Sean Carroll versus Kalamity Kraig, but it should be interesting nonetheless.
|Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:33 pm
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CollecemallPosts: 399Joined: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:53 am
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That was sort of difficult to listen to. I couldn't have remained sane trying to have that conversation. It was clear you did your best but struggled as well. I cringed when her first few sentences included Lee Strobel. But I've been there myself so I get it. When you've never done anything but assume what you learned was true it's hard to get outside that bubble and see that everything you think is real rests on an assumption it's true. If she could ever grasp that one thing it might change things for her. You do the world a service by trying to have these discussions. I don't think it will change her views much but others who tune in might get something to think about.
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their time."
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." ~~Voltaire
|Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:27 am
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That's the hope. I actually thought she did better than I thought she would, but not for any of the reasons she probably thinks she did well.
The biggest problem is that her favourite fallacy - apart from affirming the consequent, which underlies all theistic thinking in some measure - is argumentum ad verecundiam. She knows it's a fallacy, but can't get her head around it.
|Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:36 pm
RumraketPosts: 1263Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:49 am Gender: Male
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This "someone famous converted to theism" thing is ridiculous.
Most of the worlds atheists converted from religion, and most of the worlds theists were raised to be theists before they could reason.
"Nullius in verba" - Take nobody's word for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
|Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:59 pm
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|Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:59 pm
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New blog post: The Most Wonderful Time...
http://www.hackenslash.co.uk/2017/12/th ... -time.html
Christmas is shit for many people. Exposition, help and advice here.
|Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:45 am
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I think this is the same woman that provided this classic:
"But this is irrelevant because in either case, whether a god exists or not, whether your God (with a capital G) exists or not, it doesn't matter. We both are, in either case, evolved apes. " - Nesslig20
|Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:22 pm
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It is indeed.
BTW, new blog post
http://www.hackenslash.co.uk/2017/12/wh ... -line.html
A look at attitudes to expertise.
|Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:01 pm
leroyPosts: 2030Joined: Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:30 pm
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hackenslash wrote:New blog post: The Most Wonderful Time...
In places like the US, spending your first Christmas as an atheist can be particularly difficult.
In Mexico (at least in my context) Christmas is just an excuse to enjoy with your family and friends, Christmas is not taken as religious event.
Parties, celebrations, advertisements, decorations, etc. are usually non religious. Santa clause is vastly more popular than Christ during this time of the year.
I can't remember me being in a Christmas celebration where an atheist would feel uncomfortable.
"events with a zero probability happen all the time"
|Tue Dec 19, 2017 10:58 pm
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New blog post:
http://www.hackenslash.co.uk/2017/12/gu ... y-and.html
This is a treat with a slightly humorous bent. A marvellous treatment of the history of Linnaean taxonomy by the awesome Calilasseia
|Sun Dec 31, 2017 3:17 pm
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http://www.hackenslash.co.uk/2018/01/7- ... redux.html
A debunking of an 'instant expert' in logical fallacies.
|Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:52 pm
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hackenslash wrote:New:
One of your links is broken.
It's in the section dealing with Stephanie's treatment of the Fallacist's Fallacy.
The very thing that gives us humans our advanced cognitive abilities can also be our greatest weakness.
|Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:07 pm
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Thank you so much. Fixeded.
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How 'bout them Dodgers ?
I mean it when I say this. I knew it that the Dodgers were going to come back last night. I mean it. This is a different team than last year. We were down but I had this feeling they were going to win the game.
I went to the Photo Day today at Dodger Stadium. Good times. I should have a post later tonight. Stay tuned....
By the way, Andre Ethier treated some fans really bad today.
I had to leave after the Photo Day event. Too bad because it was a great game. Man-Ram hits 2 bombs !!
Oh well....
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dodgers are Rocking !
2 comments:
- This is That Was Great said...
What did Either do? What's with all the diva crap lately from him?
- April 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- Roberto said...
Read the latest day. Photo day at Dodger Stadium.
- April 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
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Highlight the best parts of your yard with carefully placed landscape lights. When planning how to light your yard, consider which outdoor lighting ideas match your style and contribute most to the mood you want to set. You'll be able to adapt the perfect outdoor lighting for elegant entertaining, backyard barbecues, and al fresco family dinners for years to come. These outdoor lighting ideas will help you strike an ideal balance between function and style.


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Over the Christmas break, I had the good fortune to read The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits. The book is by Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Will Pearson, and Mangesh Hattikudor. Although it has taken me several months to get into a reviewing mood, I really liked this book.
I guess this should not be a surprise to me. Two of my favorites sites on the Web (Weird Universe and News of the Weird) play on how strange and silly people often are. History is like that too. A book taking a light-hearted approach like that is bound to appeal to Dr. Miland Brown.
Here is the publisher's description of the book:
History is . . . (a) more or less bunk. (b) a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken. (c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
Match your answers:(1) Stephen Daedalus of James Joyce's Ulysses (2) Henry Ford (3) Arthur Schopenhauer
It turns out that answer need not be bunk, nightmarish, or diseased. In the hands of mental_floss, history's most interesting bits have been handpicked and roasted to perfection. Packed with little-known stories and outrageous—but accurate—facts, you'll laugh yourself smarter on this joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. Remember: just because it's true, doesn't mean it's boring!
By the way, the answers are (a) 2, (b) 1, and (c) 3.
Obviously, a book like this can not be comprehensive. The authors amusingly note, "Sadly, HarperCollins rejected our 500-million page manuscript as 'overenthusiastic' and 'hard on the back.' And while this version omits a few details, we think we did alright."
The book starts with pre-history and works up to the 21st Century. The book briefly summarizes major historical points (and absurdities) and provides telling numbers for each chapter. The prose is easy to read and just as you are about to take it too seriously satire is inserted that often hits close to some unfairness or illogic in the minds of our ancestors.
This tome attempts to be a multicultural history of the world. It does not cover just European or American tinted history which often pervades world history books. The Aztecs, the Japanese, the Muslims, and others are stitched effectively into the story of the world. From my perch, this makes this work a good complement to the inadequate coverage of the historical developments in other non-Western parts of the planet. However, it is not politically correct. Easily offended academics should skip this book. Don't worry, I doubt you were going to assign it as a class reading anyway.
If you like history and have a sense of humor, buy this book or get it from your local library. I think you will have a good time and learn a few new historical facts.


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Confiteor: I am an Ugly American. Never mind that I am a bilingual foreign correspondent for a national newsmagazine. There have been moments abroad, more than I care to admit, when I have acted as boorishly as one of those gringos in a Hawaiian shirt screaming at a foreign waiter for a cheeseburger.
Or a Coke—which is what I thought I ordered at the Guatemala airport one morning when I asked for a refresco. The waitress instead brought me some sort of pungent punch. So in good Ugly American style I haughtily complained about third world disregard for service—I muttered something like, "Even when we learn the language it doesn't do us much good"—made the woman feel rotten and ran to catch my plane. Up in the air, a Guatemalan man sitting next to me asked for a gaseosa, and the flight attendant gave him a Coke. That is when I realized I had been using the wrong word (at least in this part of Central America) for "soft drink."
I was ashamed, and not only because I had mistreated the Guatemalan waitress. I had also insulted the memory of another woman, a fictional character who has served as a piece of my traveler's conscience since I first saw the 1979 movie "Breaking Away."
You do not have to be from Indiana, as I am, to adore that film, especially the scene in which the working-class Hoosier mother shows off the U.S. passport she uses when she writes checks at the grocery store. She has never used it for travel abroad, but just owning one lets her dream about it. I always want to reach into the screen and hug that woman, because she is such a loving refutation of the heartland stereotype. Contrary to what snobs on either U.S. coast assume about Midwesterners, she genuinely wants to see the world beyond her borders, and when she does she will most likely be an ambassador Americans can be proud of. She is a valuable reminder that the people we so often peg as Ugly American material can just as often prove to be sophisticated travelers. And vice versa. I have seen as many Beltway-trained diplomats as I have oafs from Peoria insult foreign hotel receptionists or demand ketchup for their ceviche. I have watched New Yorkers, who never tire of saying they live in the planet's most cosmopolitan city, commit as many cultural insensitivities from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego as Texans have perpetrated.
The Conscientious American
But regardless of which Americans were being ugly, we could get away with it until now because we were, well, Americans, citizens of a superpower whose global hegemony in the late 20th century resembled England's in the early 20th century, when the British traveled a world they essentially owned. That is changing in the early 21st century. America's version of "A Room With a View," the world that we ourselves felt we owned, has less patience for the Ugly American today because the United States has less clout. I see this increasingly across the territory I cover, Latin America, where emerging giants like Brazil have become more independent counterbalances to yanqui supremacy. When the world does not see United States at its most powerful anymore, it is not as willing to indulge Americans at their most boorish.
Simply put, we have to learn to be better world travelers. That is particularly true in the developing world, which is suddenly developing more rapidly than we had anticipated—like the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China). These are nations we will increasingly have to engage as equals as this century progresses. This could turn out to be something of a spiritual challenge as well. On visits to the third world, Americans have always packed a bit of missionary condescension along with their sunblock and Imodium. But now we will need more of the kind of guest humility that Jesus taught his followers to carry with them, and that Christian travelers, starting with Peter and Paul, have been expected to exemplify these past two millennia.
As the Catholic author G. K. Chesteron wrote, "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." It is one of life's most important maxims: Be a traveler, not a tourist, especially when you are visiting countries whose governments, economies and institutions may not be as advanced as yours and whose citizens are often, as a result, more self-conscious and sensitive about foreigners' opinions. Travelers are true, spontaneous visitors, guests who mingle with their hosts, eat their foods—perhaps learn their words for soft drink. Tourists are gawkers at a zoo, robotically boarding buses and checking off sights but rarely if ever absorbing the places they are visiting and the people who inhabit them.
Now, before package-tour operators get angry at me, let me emphasize that I am not disparaging that genre of travel. (In the age of discount-travel Web sites, however, I am less sympathetic to the argument that regimented itineraries are all that many people can afford.) In most cases you can be on a package vacation, with its bus tours and pre-paid hotel meals, and still find time to explore its destinations yourself. What I am lamenting is the tourist mind-set we bring to developing regions like Latin America, particularly our obsession with cruises and all-inclusive resorts, whose only moments beyond the Tiki bar and the soft-serve ice cream dispenser are the excursion to Chichén Itzá and the swim-with-the-dolphins attraction.
And that goes for travel in other developing regions, including safaris in Africa (I've been on one and loved it, but was struck that many tourists seemed more respectful of lions and rhinos than of the Masai and Kikuyu) and sightseeing in the Holy Land. Especially in the Holy Land. I think it is great when priests and rabbis lead their congregations on tours of Israel and Palestine. But if you are the sort of person of faith who wants to see where Moses and Jesus spoke to God thousands of years ago but who is not interested in speaking with the flesh-and-blood human beings who live there today—including the Muslims we simply must come to understand better in this century—then I guess we have different ideas about the purpose of faith and travel.
En la Cantina
I am a journalist and therefore a realist, so I do not believe that striking up a conversation with locals in the rain forest will save the world. But I do believe it helps to create more mutual goodwill than merely zip-lining over the rain forest does. Toward that end, it has always befuddled me that Americans will go to neighborhood pubs in England and out-of-the-way bistros in France but not the equally inviting cantinas of Mexico. These offer the same sort of convivial refuge where you can inhale the country's manera de ser—its way of being—but over a snifter of tequila instead of a pint of stout or a glass of Bordeaux.
The next time you are in Mexico, please try something too few visitors do. One day, instead of going to Señor Frog's or another of the prefabricated "authentic" chain restaurants, ask your concierge to recommend a good local cantina. Head there around 3:00 p.m., when much of the country still eats its long lunch, la comida. (Note: as someone who has covered the drug war for 22 years, I would advise you to pay attention to the State Department's advisories about which parts of Mexico to avoid, particularly in the violent northern border region. But I can also tell you that cantinas are generally safe places to frequent.)
Order a tequila reposada (aged) with the accompanying glass of sangrita, spicy tomato juice. (Oh, and if you want a soft drink, refresco is the word to use in Mexico.) Have some queso fundido con chistorra (cheese and Spanish sausage) and a sopa Azteca (tortilla soup). Follow that with some tacos al pastor (shepherd's tacos) or huachinango (red snapper) or pollo en mole (chicken in a heavenly chocolate-and-spices sauce). Pay one of the guitar trios that often wander cantinas to serenade you with a tune like "Esta tarde vi llover." Enjoy a tres leches (milk cake) for dessert, then have the waiter bring you a set of dominoes and play a few games while keeping your tequilas in the drink holsters you usually find on the table legs.
Most important, try to talk to someone, even if it is just the waiter. If you do not speak Spanish, this is a good way to start learning. If you do not drink too much tequila, the afternoon will likely linger in the memory as long as, if not longer than, the bus tour out to the Teotihuacán pyramids will. If you are a business traveler, this is the sort of time investment that can only help make you a better person-to-person dealmaker abroad.
What is more, it is not that hard. It ought to be easier for those of us from places like Indiana, where we supposedly value the unpretentious touch that facilitates interaction across people's thresholds. I need only point to my aunt, who at age 60 had never been abroad but jumped at the chance to go to my wedding in Venezuela. On her first day there she sat down with my in-laws, none of whom spoke English, and learned a Spanish card game as if she had been globetrotting her whole life. Looking back on my career, I think one of my assets has been an ability, or willingness, to chat up farmers as well as presidents and elicit their thoughts about everything from federal elections to local ecology. I suspect growing up in Middle America has made me a better journalist in Mesoamerica.
Two things I do not bring into these people's homes, cantinas and offices are my religion and my politics. I mention this only because too often I have seen American travelers assert their faith and philosophies in the developing world in ways they rarely do in developed regions like Europe. It is part of what I call the "our little brown brothers" syndrome, a well-intentioned but dreadfully executed urge to spread a message of salvation or social justice. Liberals are just as prone to this as are conservatives: too many U.S. and European "sandalistas" descend on Latin American countries run by left-wing governments as if they were revolutionary resorts. Yet any kind of tourist "solidarity" with one faction of a country simply insults the other faction and often betrays an ignorance of the complexities of that nation's internal disputes.
Ditto regarding missionary tourism. I have the highest regard for anyone whose faith inspires them to take a week's vacation to build houses or schools or potable water systems in poor regions like Central America. But as a journalist and a Catholic who has lived and worked in these countries, I am convinced that charity and evangelization are a bad and sometimes dangerous mix. Let the charity work do the evangelizing, because coming on too strong with the latter simply tends to cheapen the former in the eyes of most locals. I admire Catholic Relief Services in this regard. The Sudanese government looked ridiculous last year when it expelled C.R.S. from Darfur for supposedly trying to convert Muslims, because everyone knows that is not how C.R.S. operates. Its non-evangelism is an example for Catholic travelers as well.
I am not completely certain what a "Catholic traveler" should be. (I could cite Marco Polo, who seems an avatar of the travel tenets I have laid out here.) But Catholics have a special obligation to consider Chesterton's admonition that we shake hands with the places we visit and not just snap their pictures. One of the things that distinguishes Catholicism—a precept that drew converts like me and Chesterton to it—is its rich contemplation of Jesus' human as well as divine nature. Finding divinity in humanity is a spiritual exercise we are expected to undertake not just at home but also abroad. Read Chesteron's travel writings, especially What I Saw in America (1922), and you meet not just a wandering Englishman but a wondering Catholic, living his faith out of a suitcase, engaging everyone from New York businessmen to rural Oklahomans.
Although the British Empire was still in full swing, Chesteron took pains not to be an Ugly Brit. Were he alive today, he would appreciate developments like eco-tourism. It is one of the many ways (if done right) that we can avoid the environmental plunder of destinations from Bolivia to Burma. This style of tourism can also put us in closer touch with people in locally owned lodging, shops and restaurants.
These days the Ugly American is hardly alone. If you are a U.S. hotel worker or taxi driver, you have probably encountered the rude, loud, euro-waving tourists we could just as easily call Ugly Italians, Germans or French. And all I need to do is visit a Miami mall to find the Western Hemisphere's affluent new Touristazilla, the Ugly Brazilian; I have even heard a few of them get testy with waiters who don't know what a Guaraná is. That is Brazil's favorite soft drink. You should order one, politely, when you visit.
There is a terrible irony in how your calls to abstain from condescension are themselves thoroughly condescending. Your pedantic assertions fail to reach beyond the same tired narrative that everyone who has read a guidebook knows. Worst of all, your words have a whiff of an unpleasant bias against your own fellow citizens. None of these problems are particularly unique, which makes this writing a bit dull. That is sad, as I think there is space for original thought on the issue.
Personally, I find that there are balances to be found between esteeming and denigrating your own country and the one you are visiting. While travelling with an open mind is important, this includes a mind open to embracing the parts of your own culture that you like better than those elsewhere. Yes, we should be polite and try to fit in as possible, but not at the expense of our identity.
There is much more to say, but the nature of generalization creates a minefield of political correctness. For now, just please consider being as polite a writer as you undoubtedly are a traveler.
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A two-day sale this December in Beverly Hills will give Guns n' Roses fans an opportunity to own a number of items from Axl Rose's tumultuous four-year relationship with Erin Everly. That includes everything from their marriage license, issued in Clark County Nevada on April 28, 1990, to a domestic-abuse report.
Clearly, much had changed since Rose wrote the 1988 hit 'Sweet Child O' Mine' for his then-girlfriend Erin, daughter of Don Everly of Everly Brothers fame. Everly filed a lawsuit against Rose in 1994, claiming both physical and emotional abuse -- a case that was later settled out of court.
The auction, to be held on December 6-7, is part of an event called '2013 Icons and Idols: Rock 'n Roll Auction' at Julien's Auctions. Also included from the battling Roses: a 1990 wedding photo, a personal note from Erin to Axl on a napkin, another note from Rose to Everly (addressed "Dearest Erin"), and an insurance card for their Jeep Wrangler. Elsewhere, the auction features memorabilia from Jerry Garcia, Ronnie Montrose, Elvis Presley and others.


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Section VII
Cornell at its Sesquicentennial
The central theme of this plan can be captured by a single phrase, One Cornell. Think of Cornell University as a single entity, embedded in but transcending and overarching strong colleges and units. The "greater sum" that represents this One Cornell is the primary focus of this plan. The plan argues for an institutional strategy that combines this One Cornell idea with two others: focus and connectivity. If Cornell is to reach the aspiration of being indisputably among the top ten research universities in the world and being a model university for public engagement and impact, it will require more focus throughout, albeit without losing the essential breadth and diversity of Cornell, and more developed connections among and between the impressive strengths that are distributed across academic units on campus. One Cornell, Focus, and Connectivity are three prongs of the overarching strategy proposed herein.
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- Preamble
- Cornell's Enduring Commitments
- The Institution and Its Environment
- Goal Areas: Objectives and Actions
- Strategic Initiatives for 2010-2015
- Excellence in Organizational Stewardship
- Cornell at its Sesquicentennial
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When I decided to get a Paraguard, aka the copper IUD, I heard a lot of horror stories, all of which made me a little worried that it would affect my sex life in a not so great way.
People told me that I'd basically have my period all month long for the first few months. And that my husband would feel that little string hanging down inside me.
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First of all, aside from a bit of spotting and a heavy flow on the first day (sorry, TMI!), I did NOT have my period the whole entire month. So plenty of time to have sex, even though sex during my period doesn't really bother me.
And for the record, my husband didn't feel the little string, which doesn't have anything to do with his penis size (sorry, TMI again!) but rather that the nurse practitioner told me to wait a good 5-7 days so the string curves back up to my cervix. And she said not to say anything about the string, because then OF COURSE they'll totally feel it.
But here's the good part: since having the Paraguard put in, my hormones have been so much better, which has made me much more pleasant overall. I can't say if it's completely related to the IUD or to my new low-carb diet plan, but either way, it's made sex more frequent.
I realize that the Paraguard doesn't have hormones like some other IUDs, but something has definitely changed. My ovulation and PMS symptoms have decreased significantly. No headaches and fewer cramps are both really good for the libido. Rowr.
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