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We thank you, God our Father, for those who have responded to your call to priestly ministry.
Accept this prayer we offer on their behalf: Fill your priests with the sure knowledge of your love.
Open their hearts to the power and consolation of the Holy Spirit.
Lead them to new depths of union with your Son.
Increase in them profound faith in the Sacraments they celebrate as they nourish, strengthen and heal us.
Lord Jesus Christ, grant that these, your priests, may inspire us to strive for holiness by the power of their example, as men of prayer who ponder your word and follow your will.
O Mary, Mother of Christ and our mother, guard with your maternal care these chosen ones, so dear to the Heart of your Son.
Intercede for our priests, that offering the Sacrifice of your Son, they may be conformed more each day to the image of your Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Saint John Vianney, universal patron of priests, pray for us and our priests
This icon shows Jesus Christ, our eternal high priest.
The gold pelican over His heart represents self-sacrifice.
The border contains an altar and grapevines, representing the Mass, and icons of Melchizedek and St. Jean-Baptiste Vianney.
Melchizedek: king of righteousness (left icon) was priest and king of Jerusalem. He blessed Abraham and has been considered an ideal priest-king.
St. Jean-Baptiste Vianney is the patron saint of parish priests.
1. Sign of the Cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
2. The Apostles Creed: I BELIEVE in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
3. The Lord's Prayer: OUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
4. (3) Hail Mary: HAIL Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen. (Three times)
5. Glory Be: GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
6. Fatima Prayer: Oh, my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy.
Announce each mystery, then say 1 Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, 1 Glory Be and 1 Fatima prayer. Repeat the process with each mystery.
End with the Hail Holy Queen:
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve! To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears! Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us; and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus!
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Final step -- The Sign of the Cross
The Mysteries of the Rosary By tradition, Catholics meditate on these Mysteries during prayers of the Rosary. The biblical references follow each of the Mysteries below.
The Sorrowful Mysteries
(Tuesdays and Fridays)
1. The Agony in the Garden (Matthew 26:36-46, Luke 22:39-46) [Spiritual fruit - God's will be done]
2. The Scourging at the Pillar (Matthew 27:26, Mark 15:15, John 19:1) [Spiritual fruit - Mortification of the senses]
3. The Crowning with Thorns (Matthew 27:27-30, Mark 15:16-20, John 19:2) [Spiritual fruit - Reign of Christ in our heart]
4. The Carrying of the Cross (Matthew 27:31-32, Mark 15:21, Luke 23:26-32, John 19:17) [Spiritual fruit - Patient bearing of trials]
5. The Crucifixion (Matthew 27:33-56, Mark 15:22-39, Luke 23:33-49, John 19:17-37) [Spiritual fruit - Pardoning of Injuries]


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Dear Em
Received all the post cards today and they did look good. I havent got anything to say only, that Im feeling tip top. It is very cold here nights and chilly here even now 5.10 P.M. It is hard telling whether we will stay here very much longer or not. All the horses and mules have been shipped (some where) the drivers have gone with them. They packed the animals on cars for a four day trip. The men have got two days rations.
I suppose your all burnt up like myself and I hope you and the rest feel as good as I do. We had chicken and ice cream today, but I will say that we have been feeding rotten of late. I went down town last night for a hair cut and had a feed while there. Im getting fat. That's no kidding either. You mentioned about it being cold well youd ought to come out here and sleep in one of these tents on a cot. Im the only one in the tent that gets down to the underclothes, and OH it is fine when 5.30 comes and I have to roll out of bed. –But Im getting fat.–
I hear that the long passes are to be discontinued but if we get paid Im going to make one awful attempt to get home to see you folks again. Two other fellows and myself, (who were the only ones left in the tent this morning) the others being on a pass had a fine job lugging sand for the floor of our tent. Say a tub of sand is some heavy and we must have carried about 25. It was worth while though, for it makes the tent look as though it was pitched on a beach. Believe me it will feel as though it was, too in the morning. Cold. But I don't think we'll weaken yet.
Tell the Holland's I was asking for them and that I'll send them a letter when I find time. Ive got charge of a thousand dollars of canteen books, and it is some job keeping track of the dough when it is split up amongst 294 men. I suppose Lena has been working her head off cleaning up after the house was left, for two weeks. We are all to get two new O.D. uniforms 3 suits of heavy winter underwear, five pairs of heavy winter socks, and two pair of hob nailed shoes. Overcoats have been issued, and we are waiting now for a long cold winter.
I suppose Mary will be starting to go to school soon. Tell her I send her a big X every night. I know I should send Madge and Molly a card or some thing but you see I never know just when I have time. For instance since starting this letter Ive been stopped four times already to report at the head of the street or some other such junk. The old boys of K. come over every night and we have quite a reunion. We use to give them the devil and make them step around pretty lively but they seem to wish we were over them again.
I guess Ill stop this chatter for the present and give you a chance to do some thing that you might be more interested in. We have got to be innoculated and vaccinated very soone and that is more trouble. Some of the fellows thats had it say it leaves you very sick. I won't weaken
P.S. Here you have a copy of a poem written by one of the old K men after they pulled, split, and smashed our happy family all to pieces. It is the sentiment of every man. He has written another one about how us twelve sergeants stuck to Tobey even though we reduced ourselves by so doing. Let me say right here that it was an awful mistake when they broke up the best Regiment of them all.
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Swing, Sing & Shine!
At the most post-modern boutique hotel in Athens, Semiramis, which is designed by my favorite industrial designer Karim Rashid, Swarovski Hellas decided to present the Spring Summer 2012 collection!
The SS12 jewelry collection by Swarovski, is focused on vintage style, cameras, lights and people who live to entertain others but above all, people who live to entertain themselves!
Nathlie Colin, the Creative Director of the brand, through her designs, tells us about a story of a multi-talented young woman, and follows her, as she evolves from a student to a starlet, accustomed to fame and light! At Semiramis, the background is full of pastels, beautiful floral touches, and classic motives of the 60's, an era where our muse, the main character of the concept takes part in a casting for an American happy musical, concentrated in the «Sweet Sixties» and «In the Spotlight».
Fun, candies, attractive atmosphere. Dancing people, sparkling jewelry, beautiful stones in pink, black, purple, raspberry, cherry and chains. The «Round Sphere» necklace shines while the crystal metallic light gold rock is playfully hanging. The «Rapture» futuristic ring bedazzles us with the light Azore moonlight crystal. While the «Raspberry Lips» bracelet makes a statement, due to the small kisses that are all around it and the fuchsia,rose and vintage rose crystals.
The Hello Kitty collection stands on it's own and is very pretty, as well. The cute little pendants and the funny but beautifully crafted wallets give the younger crowd a nice alternative. The sunglasses, something relatively new for the brand, decorate elegantly the face of all potential buyers and lovers of them. Last but not least, the mens collection, focused on black and skulls, defines a more modern and bold approach to life.
During the last scene, our main character, the dancing queen, wearing the «Raphaela» pendant gets crowned as the absolute future star! A star of Swarovski and a star of her world, swinging, singing & shining!


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Gita Sopanam
For last 2.5 years, every weekend I am attending Gita Sopanam classes, conducted by Samskrit Bharati. Today, let me share some glimpse about this course and some interesting facts, that I learned in the course.
How it started.
I came to know, about Samskrit Bharati long back. My late sister gave me its Girinagar, Bangalore address. Girinagar is very far. One day, I came to know about free evening spoken Samskrit classes, then weekend Gita Sopanam classes also announced. I just enrolled myself.
Course Content
Gita Sopanam is a unique way to teach Samskrit. Samskrit Bharati designed this course, considering that many people have love and respect for Bhagavad Gita. Many people read it daily. They read just translation in their native language. How about teaching them Samskrit, so they can read and understand without need for translation. Dr. Viswas conceptualized this idea. Watch him, talking about Gita Sopanam course. Click here 1 Click here 2 The course divided in 4 parts. Each part is called Sopanam. Sopanam means step. So Gita Sopanam - 1 course is first step, or fist part. First 3 parts focus on grammar aspects. It is like teaching Gita using Samskrit and Samskrit using Gita. All the example, context is from Mahabharat epic and Bhagavad Gita. Gita Sopanam 4 is about Gita. We discussed grammar aspects of each Sloka / verse from Gita. We can understand Gita directly in Samskrit. Samskrit Bharati is not preaching about Gita. It is not discourse on Gita. Samskrit Bharati makes enable the people to read Gita. The organisation equipped the people with Samskrit knowledge, so let people themselves figure out what is written in Gita.
In this process of Gita, the students introduced to great Hindu philosophy from Gita. The Students amazed with great capability of Samskrit language. Samskrit is such a rich language that one can convey many things with fewer words. The syllabus includes some inspirational incidents, some day to day life event like planning an event, some funny story like a story about Albert Einstein, some humor, some puzzles and some wisdom.
Teaching Methodology
The teachers make the course more interesting by some celebrations, some cultural activities, contest, Gita sloka chanting, Samskrit songs and what not. I never felt any burden of learning. It is learning with fun. I became student again. We all classmates are from different age-group, different profession and different mother tongues. Few things are common in us. Samskrit. Proud for Samskirt and proud for the great Indian culture. A desire to learn this scientific language and to keep it alive. Mutual respect in an informal learning environment. I had my last class yesterday. We just looked back and found, that we all are coming here for last 2.5 years. We did Gita Sopanam 1 from July 2011 to Dec 2011, Gita Sopanam 2 from Jan 2012 to Apr 2012, Gita Sopanam 3 from Jun 2012 to Dec 2012 and Gita Sopanam 4 from Jan 2013 to Dec 2013. We all enjoyed learning together.
Text books
Now, let me share, during these 2.5 years some very touchy stories, wisdom, content from our text books.
- Gita Sopanam 1: A famous funny story. 10 friends went for a trip, crossed the river and counted themselves and found 9 only. The reason: No one count himself. Do not you think, many times we ignore ourselves? We are too busy to impress others. (page 194)
- Gita Sopanam 2: CHATU - SLOKA. It is wit, wisdom. Not fully true, yet think over it."Many people think, dress is not important. It is only about our physical body. It is not deciding factor for eligibility for anything. However after SAMUDRA-MANTHAN event, the ocean married his daughter goddess Lakshmi to Lord Vishnu, as he wears the yellow DHOTI (PITAMBAR). The same ocean, gave poison to Lord Shiva, as he wears skin of tiger and snakes." (page 107)
- Gita Sopanam 2: "I am alone. I have no assistant. I am weak. I have no resources" The lion never worry, never think such way even in its dreams. (page 126)
- Gita Sopanam 2: A group of birds are flying. One of them had food holding in his mouth. So every one chased him and the bird was flying with full speed. It just dropped the food and all birds stopped chasing and landed on ground to acquire the food item. The Ego is like food item. If you have ego then everyone fight with you. If you are natural, easy - going, cool then people cooperate with you. (page 128)
- Gita Sopanam 2: A long journey starts with single steps. Then continue with persistence. (page 168)
- Gita Sopanam 3: Albert Einstein's story. He simplified his theory of relativity and with great enthusiasm he taught. The students responded with request to further simplify it. Einstein narrated a story. A handicapped man A say on shoulder of blind man B and both started bagging. Once A request B to go to a restaurant to have a cup of milk. B, being blind do not know what is milk, so A explained.
A:"Milk is White colored drink".
B: "I drink water, so I know what is drink, but what is white?"
A: "It is like color of feather of Swan"
B:" Feather I know, but what is Swan?"
A: "It is a bird whose neck is curved"
B: "I hear daily birds sing in the morning. I have neck. but what is curved?"
A just hold B's hand, make it curved and explained him this is curved, not straight.
B: "Oh now, I know this is milk"
Einstein concluded, "my dear disciples, I cannot simplify further." (page 47)
- Gita Sopanam 3: The famous incident of sage Vyas. The sage Vyas even after eating a lot, he was observing a fast. He ate with Bhraman consciousness. He offered all his action to the lord. So the river Yamuna gave way to Gopis. (page 101)
- Gita Sopanam 3: Importance of Satsang, presence of the divine people, Guru, Mahatma is much more compare to power, money, strength, height etc. A nice story about dialogues among all the fingers+thumb. You can watch it here. (Page 113)
- Gita Sopanam 3: Rameshwar has different meaning. As per Lord Rama, 'Rameshwar is lord of Rama'. As per Lord Shiva, 'Rameshwar is the one, whose lord is Rama'. As per Bhrama, Rameshwar means 'Lord Rama is the God.' (page 119)
- Gita Sopanam 3: After Mahabharat Arjun and Krishna both were roaming around different cities. In one city A, all people were very bad and all misbehaved with Arjun and Krishna. Yet, Lord Krishna blessed that city A. Another City B, all welcomed and offer all kinds of comfort, food, shelter, hospitality to Arjun and Krishna. Yet, Lord Krishan cursed the city B with all kinds of natural calamity. Lord Krishna explained reason to Arjuna, that if people of city B spread across the globe then whole world can become beautiful place to leave. People of city A, should remain there only, they should not be spread. (page 140)
- Gita Sopanam 1 or 2: There was a great sage. When he meditate, he meditate so deeply and become still, so surrounding birds feels, he is dead and they sit on his shoulders and play. By seeing that, few youngsters requested the sage to catch few birds for them. The sage agreed. He mediated. However, that days, his meditation was not so deep. Somehow, the birds realize that, it is dangerous to sit on the shoulder of the sage.
- Gita Sopanam 1 or 2: People give so much importance to behavior, dos and don'ts compare to knowledge and philosophy. If a Bhraman declares that tomorrow is Ekadashi, so everyone should observe fast, people happily observe fast. If the same Bhraman declares that "TVAM BHRAM ASHI" "AHAM BHRAM ASHMI" etc. People doubt it.
- Gita Sopanam 4: The whole book is grammar explanation of Gita, the lord Krishan's message to the world, with opinion from great scholars like Ramanujacharya and Madhavacharya.
So, yes I enjoyed this course. Last 2.5 years VASOOL. i strongly recommend everyone to attend it. Samskrit Bharati is an International non-profit making NGO. You can find out nearest center (Gita-Kendra) and enroll yourself. These may be free class or with very nominal fee. How strange it is.
Many of us proud to be Hindu, supporters of BJP, RSS, ShivSena, Narendra Modi and with great proud for our Vaidic culture, heritage etc. There is nothing wrong in it. However, more important is regular reading Gita. We often visit Facebook to know, updates and messages from friends. Gita is message from the God. How often we read it? Bath is necessary for cleanliness of body. Gita-Study is necessary for cleanliness of mind.
Many of us proud to be Hindu, supporters of BJP, RSS, ShivSena, Narendra Modi and with great proud for our Vaidic culture, heritage etc. There is nothing wrong in it. However, more important is regular reading Gita. We often visit Facebook to know, updates and messages from friends. Gita is message from the God. How often we read it? Bath is necessary for cleanliness of body. Gita-Study is necessary for cleanliness of mind.
I wish, let's all be proud of human being. Let's study this wonderful book Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. Gita does not belong only to Hindu religion. It is a universal truth. Let's study this wonderful, scientific, sweet language Samskrita. Samskrit is no where related to Hindu or any religion. It is just a language. The best language.
p.s. I got these 2 scanned pages about some error correction etc for Gita Sopanam - 1 book. Just for ready reference for the readers.
p.s. I got these 2 scanned pages about some error correction etc for Gita Sopanam - 1 book. Just for ready reference for the readers.
3 comments:
- Nayan Modi said...
Manish bhai, very nicely written experience. Seems Samskrit Bharti doing excellent job of teaching Sanskrit. I see even young kids learning it.
- December 11, 2013 at 12:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hi! I'm interested in learning Sanskrit. Please let me know where can I buy the books Geeta Sopanam. Are they available to buy online?
- February 17, 2015 at 5:05 PM
- Unknown said...
Yes, they are available online at http://samskritabharati.in/store.
Alternatively, you can go to sanskritabharati.in and click the 'BookStore' link in the header.
Along with Gita Sopanam, a lot of other books are available and video material as well.
- February 25, 2015 at 8:47 PM


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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of his famous character Sherlock Holmes, 'killed' him in the tale titled 'The Final Problem' at the Reichenbach Falls (Meringen, Switzerland). Holmes was then being stalked by his archienemy Moriarty (behind the bushes in the picture) and they both seems to fall to the waters after a lethal struggle.
Spoiler alert: Conan Doyle had to resucitate Holmes as the readers demanded it, so later in 'The adventure of the empty house' the detective reappears telling Dr. Watson that he didn't die in the fight with Moriarty because he had learned jiu-jitsu and he simulated his deadly dissaparition to investigate better other criminals.


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Features of Oracle VM VirtualBox are:
Paravirtualization support for modern Windows and Linux guests
Oracle VM Virtual Box is able to expose a paravirtualization interface to facilitate accurate and efficient execution of software. Once the virtual machine platform is defined, Oracle VM Virtual Box improves guest OS performances by leveraging built-in virtualization support.
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Guest operating systems are now able to directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. Guest can now be configured to use USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 devices.
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Starting from Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 improved the support of a bi-directional drag&drop between guest and host operating system; drag and drop support is available with latest guest-additions installed.
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Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 allows for encrypted virtual disk images by leveraging AES algorithm in XTS mode (128-bit or 256-bit); since the DEK is stored as part of the virtual machine configuration file, encryption introduces a further security feature that will ask for a password while starting the virtual machine.
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I've long given up following football since Murdoch's filthy lucre poisoned it's well. The greed of the players now is probably on a par with bankers and despite my ambivalence towards footie it's still annoying when these badge kissing mercenaries show little regard for their club or fans. The latest to throw his toys out of the cot is Liverpool striker Fernando Torres who has handed in a transfer request after hearing news of interest from Chelsea – They really are a shower of spoilt, pampered w**kers.
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Golden Boy Pizza: A Late-Night Pizza Mecca in San Francisco
Golden Boy Pizza
542 Green Street, San Francisco CA 94133; (map); 415-982-9738; goldenboypizza.com
Getting there: The 8X, 10, 30, and 39 bus will all get you close
Pizza style: Sicilian
Oven type: Gas
The skinny: A greasy square slice that is an institution on the San Francisco late-night pizza scene. It's flawed-but-satisfying when it's fresh; mushy if it has been sitting around
Notes: Open until 2 a.m. on weekend nights
Price: Regular slice, $2.75; pepperoni or sausage, $3.25; clam, pesto, or combination, $3.75. Cash only
Even amid the flashing lights that dominate San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, it's hard to miss Golden Boy Pizza. The giant neon hand above the restaurant points the way. And the people follow. They don't come for delicate artisan pies. The purpose of a slice from Golden Boy is to sate the alcohol-induced hunger of a party-goer finishing a night on the town. And for that purpose, Golden Boy is a San Francisco institution.
I made two visits to Golden Boy in the same night. The first was a fact-finding mission during the sober dinnertime hour. The second was a late-night visit during Golden Boy's midnight rush. What did I learn? At Golden Boy, timing is everything.
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Golden Boy has something of a punk-rock vibe. The walls are plastered with stickers, and Fuel TV plays above the counter, so you can watch BMX bikers and skateboarders smash their faces while you stuff yours. The menu board, which hangs behind the register, is written in letters that switch haphazardly from lower to uppercase. This board also makes sure that patrons are aware of all the particulars of dining at Golden Boy. For instance, Golden Boy's policy on the music played in the restaurant: "WE tUrn it UP NEvER DOWN." As to questions from customers: "IF YOU DONt SEE IT DONT ASK 4 it." Other important gibberish: "SeXy t mE NYYYCE."
Pizza at Golden Boy is Sicilian-style, and can be ordered by the slice or in massive sheets. There are six possible toppings on the menu, but counter space is limited, so only a few are available at any one time. Pies get cooked in a Baker's Pride gas oven at the back of the restaurant and slices get a quick re-heat in a smaller oven up front before ending up on your plate. The dough is made from Mondako brand flour.
From a purely technical standpoint, the slices we were served during that first visit were a mess. The pizza arrived in plastic baskets lined with red and white-checked wax paper, two slices slightly overlapping in each basket. Even if you rushed the top slice off, hoping to minimize grease absorption, the pizza was soggy. Only the very tip-end of the crust offered even a hint of crispiness. Though the bottom crust was nicely browned, with those little furrows that are familiar on a Sicilian slice, it was mushy all the way through. Flecked with oregano, this pizza ate something like sodden focaccia.
Each slice had a thick layer of cheese that glistened with grease. The sauce was sparse, but too sweet. There was standard pepperoni and large chunks of sausage that boasted some zip, though with a distinctly chemical taste. The flavors of the zucchini, mushroom, and onions on the Combo Slice barely registered. Altogether, this was pizza I'd expect to find at a carnival, or—gulp!—in a school cafeteria. Which is probably why I found it so damned comforting. Clearly, this isn't pizza I'm recommending, but I have to say, I kinda liked it, in a so-bad-it's-good way.
Case closed? Not quite. Out of a sense of journalistic integrity—okay, an obsessive love of pizza—I came back to Golden Boy just after midnight that same night. The scene was transformed.
To begin with, there was the perfume of pizza all around. As if the neon sign outside weren't enough to draw customers in, the air surrounding Golden Boy was redolent with the smells of baking crust and grease. It was hard to understand how the folks seated in the bar next door could stand to be without a slice in their hands. Everyone else seemed to want one. People were lined up the block, waiting eagerly for their own grease-bomb. There were girls in tiger-striped tank tops and men calling each other "bro-chacho" as they wobbled slightly. Golden Boy's employees were obliging them all, slinging slices through the open window as quickly as they could.
The high demand meant that pizza was coming out of the oven ultra-fresh, and it made a world of difference. Though still not perfect, these late night slices were crispy on the edges and had far more chew underneath. They even seemed to have risen further than the soggy slices we'd had for dinner, which had looked somewhat deflated for Sicilian squares. And, of course, I imagine that after a few drinks, the extra grease on these slices was just what the doctor ordered.
The only serious misstep was the clam pie, which we hadn't been able to try earlier in the evening. Heaped with garlic and parsley, it offered a sharp pungency that was intermittently studded with the funky taste of shellfish. It was pizza the Swamp Thing might have liked, and not what I wanted before bed.
Certainly, the pizza at Golden Boy is flawed, especially if you arrive in a low-traffic hour. But, good god, come midnight, it's absolutely golden.
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President Barack Obama's foreign policy speech at West Point last week was in large part a list of all the things he doesn't want to do. He doesn't want to withdraw from the world. At the same time, he doesn't want to use military force to solve every problem. Above all, he doesn't want to get stuck in another war in the Middle East, or anywhere else, for that matter.
But there's an exception to the Obama Doctrine of restraint: terrorism. Obama is ready and willing to use US military power — indirectly if possible, directly if needed — against terrorists who pose a threat to the US.
That's why, even as he has withdrawn troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the president has sent military advisors to Africa. And that's why, almost unnoticed, he has approved a gradual but significant escalation of US action on the most complicated and dangerous battlefield of all: Syria.
Only two years ago, when then US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other aides proposed a US effort to arm and train moderates among the rebels fighting the government of Bashar Al Assad, Obama rejected the idea. The rebels weren't capable or well organised, he said. A commitment to their fight might draw the US onto a slippery slope of military intervention, he worried.
But now Obama has taken the steps he once refused. Aides say the president has agreed to "ramp up" the modest weapons supplies the US began last year. Perhaps more important, he wants to send US troops to Jordan or other countries near Syria to train rebel units, assuming Congress and the other countries agree.
What's changed? Not the moderate rebels' chances of victory in their fight against both Al Assad and Al Qaida. After a series of military setbacks, those rebels are in worse shape on the ground than they were two years ago. Instead, it's the alarming growth and reach of extremist Islamist groups in Syria — some allied with Al Qaida — that is driving Obama's decisions.
Last week, a man from Florida became the first US citizen to die as a suicide bomber in the Syrian war. His death served as confirmation of the trend; as many as 70 Americans, a roughly equal number of Canadians and hundreds of Europeans may have joined jihadist groups in Syria, and, once trained and tested, some might return to attempt terrorism at home.
Tipping the balance
"What has concentrated our minds is the threat from foreign fighters," a senior US official told me. "That drives home that we're talking about real national security interests now."
And it lands Syria — formerly a humanitarian tragedy and a refugee crisis but not a direct US threat — on Obama's short list of "core interests" that justify the use of military force.
That doesn't mean he's planning direct US strikes against terrorist groups in Syria — at least, not yet. But that option now appears "legally legitimate," the official said.
For the time being, the US focus is on tipping the balance, if possible, in the civil war; providing an alternative to Al Qaida for young Syrians who want to fight; and, importantly, providing helpers on the ground for US intelligence agencies as they hunt for potential terrorists. Not on the list of goals: a rebel military victory. That's way out of reach, officials say.
In an interview with NPR last week, Obama took pains to keep expectations low. "There are going to be limits to how rapidly we can ramp up the capacity of that opposition," he said. "What we don't want to do is make promises that we cannot keep." And maybe the US can shift the balance in favour of a political resolution, he added. Has any president ever launched a military aid mission with objectives so carefully circumscribed?
What Obama is doing, of course, is trying to stay clear of the dreaded slippery slope toward full military intervention on the rebels' behalf. Promise too much, officials fear, and sooner or later someone will ask the US to deliver.
The kind of limited commitment Obama is offering Syria's moderates takes the US onto swampy moral ground. Once we train and arm "our" rebels, do we have an obligation to defend them against slaughter if they lose?
The US has been here before. Earlier presidents have sent military aid to one side in a war, only to walk away — with regrets, to be sure — if its allies didn't win. The fall of Saigon in 1975 was a major defeat for America, but it hardly mattered a decade later. The collapse of Angola's Jonas Savimbi, a favourite of Ronald Reagan, is virtually forgotten now.
With American aid to the insurgency, Syria's civil war is likely to continue for many years, and with it the country's division into sectarian fiefdoms. But that might have happened without American help.
Obama should have heeded Hillary Clinton (and Leon Panetta and David H. Petraeus) and approved military aid to the rebels two years ago, before the number of jihadists had grown so large. But better late than never.
It's just possible, incongruous though it sounds, that Al Qaida — by drawing the US into the fight — might yet save Syria's democratic opposition from utter defeat.
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I don't know if you're like me, but have you ever wondered where children learn all the psychology they seem to know? They use it pretty effectively to get their way. Oh, we adults have to take courses in child psychology. They don't take courses in adult psychology, but they do pretty well. Kids learn very early how to maneuver, and motivate, and manipulate to get what they want. They use division. You know, like divide and conquer - kinda get Mom and Dad played against each other. They use guilt sometimes to do it; sometimes, they even use, yeah, deception.
Now, I've traveled a lot in my lifetime, and my wife had to be especially alert for one particular tactic as the kids were growing up. They'd say, "Oh, we're going to do such and such." And she'd say, "Well, who said you could?" "Daddy." Of course I wasn't there, no verification possible. So maybe Mom might be fooled if you said it just right, unless I called, until I got home. Then kids learn an important life lesson, "Don't put your Father's name on something he does not approve of."
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See who attended the opening party for the new Marciano boutique at the Natick collection.
Marciano and Boston Common magazine co-hosted a grand opening cocktail reception at the new Marciano store at Natick Collection on Thursday, Oct. 18. Co-hosted by the Celtics Women's Group, the event was organized to support the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation which partners with community organizations that provide health care, shelter and services for children in need.
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Looking for an inspiring location for creative activities? Welcome in Destelheide, a unique centre in Flanders for youth, art and creativity. The architecture, the quiet and green environment and the spacious rooms lend themselves perfectly to creative and artistic activities. But also to courses, trainings, congresses, workshops... with or without staying the night.
Tailored to young people but everyone is welcome!
Destelheide focuses in first instance on the needs and wishes of young people and youth work, but also schools, associations, companies and artists are more than welcome here. We want to support your activities to the maximum extent possible and are always open to your suggestions. In short: Destelheide is the perfect location for your creative activities and events.
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When you're a guest in Destelheide, you can also make use, free of commitment, of Dharts, our own art education team. Through the organisation of expositions, try-outs of theatre, dance and music groups, workshops with artists, artistic courses and a library of its own, Dharts creates an artistic atmosphere at Destelheide that may give inspiration to you and your group.


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Dress: RW&Co (similar). Trench: Bebe (old). Shoes: Joan & David. Clutch: Henri Bendel. Belt: Ann Taylor. Rings: Coach, Kate Spade. Watch: Michael Kors. Necklace: ASOS. Bracelets: BCBG, Forever 21, J.Crew. Sunglasses: Chanel.
I've had this brown satin trench coat for years. It's one of those pieces that I always forget I have in my closet, but I'm pleasantly surprised when I rediscover it. This drop waist dress has been on heavy rotation lately too (also seen in the post Plum Drop). I hope everyone has a wonderful day and thank you so very much for taking time to visit with me!


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This article provides a larger panorama of the cultural politics of the Brazilian Empire during the 19th century and following the long Second Reign of Pedro II. The central figure of the emperor—as a kind of animator of cultural, scientific, and artistic life—and the conservative profile of the national movement are key issues. The article analyzes the development of the main professional schools of the country, which taught medicine (in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador) and law (in São Paulo and Recife), and also tells the story of the Historical and Geographical Institute and the origins of the museums of art in Rio de Janeiro, the former capital of the court, and scientific museums in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belém.
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Next month will mark four years of a rock-bottom Bank Rate. When the Bank of England slashed its key rate to 0.5pc in March 2009, it was unthinkable to most economists that it wouldn't just bounce back to "normal".
A monthly poll of around 60 such analysts conducted by Reuters found them at the time expecting rates to rise again within a year.
A year later, in March 2010, they were still waiting, and the consensus was broadly the same – expect a rise "by the end of the year".
And so the same pattern continued. The "experts" refused to accept what should have been apparent: that the economy, sunk with debt and held under by the fallout from the banking crisis, was not going to race back and require the Bank to apply the rate-rise brakes.
Your correspondent began closely studying and gathering interest-rate forecasts in 2007, regularly publishing a round-up. What has been startling is the reluctance among the forecasting fraternity to accept the seismic changes with which they were faced.
The same behaviour can be observed elsewhere in the financial world. It's human nature, it seems, to expect what has happened before to happen again.
If you ask a group of stockbrokers the return they expect for the stock market, expect a median answer of 6pc or 7pc. It just so happens that long-term returns from shares are, you guessed it, around 6pc or 7pc.
Ask economists how fast they expect the economy to grow, and they tend to make an estimate of between 2pc and 3pc a year – which has been the historic pace of expansion.
The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), created with great fanfare in 2010, appears guilty of such blinkered thinking. At the Coalition's first Budget in June 2010, the OBR predicted that the economy would grow by nearly 6pc by the autumn of 2012. Of course – the economy always bounces back after a recession, doesn't it? In reality, GDP grew by a paltry 0.9pc.
The OBR's most recent assessment, from December, projects growth to be 2pc in 2014, 2.3pc in 2015, 2.7pc in 2016 and 2.8pc in 2017 – each forecast nicely nestled within that 2pc to 3pc average range.
I don't envy the job of official forecasters. Making accurate calls on anything financial is a thankless task that often ends with an egg-covered face.
So who made the correct calls?
Capital Economics, a forecasting company, demonstrated insight when it predicted four years ago that rates would remain "very low for a prolonged period". Today, it expects no rise until at least the end of 2014.
Professor Peter Spencer from the Ernst & Young Item Club, a forecasting group of economists, was also prescient in the summer of 2010 with his prediction that "a base rate of 0.5pc will begin to look like the new normal", forecasting no change until 2014. The Item Club's most recent guess was that Bank Rate would rise to 1pc in 2015 and 2pc in 2016.
That is not wildly dissimilar from what the market now predicts. As the Bank of England's quarterly Inflation Report acknowledged earlier this month, money markets expect the first rise in late 2015. (see the relevant cutting from the report below)
There's only one reason rates will rise – spiralling inflation – and many, many reasons why they won't.
The Bank will be concerned about the effect that increased borrowing costs would have on consumers, on the banks that lend to them and, of course, the highly indebted government.
Tightening monetary policy would also strengthen the pound and hurt British exporters.
If inflation does take off, the Bank might be inclined to unwind its £375bn programme of quantitative easing – electronic money printing – before even considering the tool of rates. The reality is that next month it is expected to do the opposite and print more money.
For my part, I have flocked with the interest rate "doves" since the crisis began. I've stuck with a lifetime "tracker" mortgage despite the temptations of falling fixed rates. After further falls in recent weeks, taking a fix would now add only a quarter of a percentage point to my rate, plus the costs of remortgaging, in exchange for two years' peace of mind. It's simply not worth it.
None of this is what savers want to hear, and not what they deserve.
Their predicament has been worsened by the £80bn Funding for Lending scheme, which hands cheap money to lenders. It has pushed down savings rates as much as it has the cost of loans. With the scheme far from exhausted, savers could face more of the same.
But perhaps the wisest approach is not to try to second-guess future central bank action and just do what you can to protect your own finances: if rate rises would buckle your finances, take a fixed mortgage; if you need to secure income, grab what you can get. Our cash Isa round-up is the perfect starting point.


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Let's be clear about one thing: we're huge Jonah Hill fans. We've had our eye on him since he first held up those goldfish bowl platform shoes in "40 Year Old Virgin"--and we're thrilled by the success he's enjoyed since then, as he's continued to write and act, stretching himself into darker, more dramatic roles as in "Cyrus."
And we loved him as the number-crunching Sancho Panza to Brad Pitt's heroic Don Quixote in "Moneyball," for which he was rewarded with an Oscar nomination. But we can't shake the feeling that his nomination highlights just how silly and capricious the whole awards circuit can be.
There were a number of veteran actors who did some amazing supporting work in 2011: Andy Serkis ("Rise of the Planet of the Apes"), John C. Reilly ("We Need to Talk About Kevin"), Michael Fassbender ("X-Men: First Class," "Jane Eyre"), Ryan Gosling ("Crazy Stupid Love"), Tom Hollander ("Hanna"), Albert Brooks ("Drive"), Colin Firth ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult)...
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But even more jarring is the list of Hollywood greats who now have combined for fewer career Oscar nominations than Jonah Hill:
Lloyd Bridges
Steve Buscemi
Gabriel Byrne
Lon Chaney Jr.
Joseph Cotten
Peter Cushing
Jeff Daniels
Ossie Davis
Mia Farrow
Michael Fassbender
W.C. Fields
Glenn Ford
Errol Flynn
Richard Gere
Oliver Hardy
Bob Hope
Isabelle Huppert
Raul Julia
Boris Karloff
Danny Kaye
Buster Keaton
Alan Ladd
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Peter Lorre
Myrna Loy
Bela Lugosi
Steve Martin
Groucho Marx
Ewan MacGregor
Fred MacMurray
Malcolm McDowell
Marilyn Monroe
Kim Novak
Vincent Price
Charlotte Rampling
Edward G. Robinson
Isabella Rosselliini
Martin Sheen
Donald Sutherland
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Developed for maximum chain control, SRAM's XX1 X-Sync single ring-specific crankset is precisely CNC-machined to support SRAM's X-Sync chain's inner and outer links perfectly. Plus, the carbon arms and forged aluminum spider make for an incredibly light, stiff crank that delivers every bit of your energy to the trail.
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Introduced for the first time as hybrid, the Corolla Saloon delivers a spirited drive through its new innovative self-charging hybrid powertrain. With a completely new approach to design and engineering, the world's best selling car has it all: a sleek new exterior, a completely refurbished interior, a span of upgraded technology and, probably most important of all, updated safety features. The Corolla Saloon is back - and it's better than ever.
The Corolla Saloon has an undeniable sense of power, characterised by refined, flowing lines and a wide yet streamlined body. Its distinct exterior is accompanied by a wealth of contemporary details, including LED lamps, chrome accents and 18" bi-tone alloy wheels.
Offering thoughtful technology and class-leading comfort for every passenger, the interior is as relaxing as it is convenient. With clever storage spaces, ample legroom, premium finishes and a boot capacity of 470 litres, you'll find your journey as pleasing as the destination.
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Create a beautiful photo book for spring with a loose leaf ring, slide mounts and a variety of materials. Terri Sproul supplies many ideas for the pages within the spring book, decorated with various embellishments.
- Sweetbrier Studio Molds: Mini Mold Hummingbird #1504, Oak Arbor #1020
- 10 black tags die cut using Sizzix® die cut machine. (Optional: purchase ten tags in your choice of color, approx 5" x 3 1/2", at an office supply store.)
- Primary Elements by LuminArte®: colors: Glitter Red, Sun Bust, Chestnut Brown, Iridescent
- Green, Moss Green, Stargazer, True Blue, Lemongrass,
- 2 Slide Mounts by Loersch.com: color Olive green
- Fibers: EK Success Adornments: Yellow/green
- Paper: Magic Scrap, or other appropriate paper.
- Loose leaf ring from an office supply store
- Green cardstock: Small piece approx. 1" X
- Stapler and staples
- Pencil
- White Pen – to journal on black cardstock tags
- Metal Embellishments: DCWV®
- Rub-ons: K & Company Spring
- Key Charm: EK Success
- Favorite adhesive: Crafter's Pick™ Memory Mount is mine. (If using polymer clay embellishments, use a strong glue such as E-6000® or The Ultimate Glue® to attach baked parts.)
- Sharpie Marker: Black
- Brads: Little Black Dress
- Scissors and Personal Trimmer, Circle and Oval Cutter
Using Paper Clay mold the following using Oak Arbor mold #1020: (4) Dragonflies D-1, (1) Stick, (2) leaves L-2, (2) leaves L-1. Using Hummingbird mold #1504; (4) leaves, (8) flowers, and (2) Hummingbirds. Set aside to dry.
To demold, slightly flex the mold while using your thumbs to pull the part loose around all sides. Gently push up on the molded part from the bottom as you flex the mold to lift or tip the part from the mold.
- Cut, from black cardstock, 10 Super Crescent Tag from Sizzix® or use purchased tags. Put the Loose Leaf ring through the hole in all 10 tags. With all of the tags to the right of the loose-leaf ring, the top tag will be the cover.
- Open the cover page. There will be one page on left side of loose leaf ring and one page on right side of ring. These first two pages will be 1A & 1B, Put a large X on both of these pages (1A & 1B) – YOU WILL NOT BE DECORATING THESE PAGES.
- Turn the page – these two pages will be 2A & 2B and will be decorated.
- Turn the page again to pages 3A & 3B– Put a large X on both of these pages, turn the page again – these two pages will be decorated.
- Continue this until you get to the back cover. The pages with the large X's on them are the backs of your finished pages. Do not create anything on X'd pages as these will be stapled or glued together when finishing and will not show.
- Pages to be decorated: adhere the pattern papers. See pictures for placement.
- Paint the embellishments using the LuminArte® Primary Pigments with a tiny bit of water: Hummingbirds: Lemongrass, Glitter Red at chest, Iridescent green on all wings, and chestnut brown on beak and the black Sharpie marker for his eye. Flowers: Sunburst and Glitter Red. Stick: Chestnut Brown. Dragonflies: Paint two using True Blue and Stargazer and two using Moss Green and Iridescent green. Leaves: Moss Green and Sunburst.
- Glue the finished embellishments to the pages. (If using polymer clay embellishments, use a strong glue like E-6000® or The Ultimate Glue®.
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Date of last review
Sat December 29, 2007
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 3 cups (Yields 1098 Kcals)
Calorie Content:
3,601 kcal/kg (102 g = 1 cup)
366 kcal/cup (3.6 oz = 1 cup)
Turkey, chicken, chicken meal, barley, brown rice, potatoes, rice, chicken fat, natural flavors, flaxseed meal, herring oil, sunflower oil, apples, carrots, cottage cheese, alfalfa sprouts, egg, garlic, potassium chloride, ascorbic acid, chicory root extract, beta carotene, vitamin E supplement, rosemary extract, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, direct-fed microbials, vitamins/minerals
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Crude Protein (min) 24 %
Crude Fat (min) 12 %
Crude Fiber (max) 4 %
Moisture (max) 10 %
Linoleic Acid (Omega-6 Fatty Acid) (min) 2.5 %
Calcium (min) 0.9 %
Phosphorus (min) 0.7 %
Vitamin E (min) 300 IU/kg
Vitamin C (min) 500 mg/kg
Omega-3 Fatty Acids (min) 0.5 %
Total Microorganisms (min) 90,000,000 CFU/lb
Typical analysis:
Moisture 6.34 %
Protein 27.3 %
Fat 14.9 %
Linoleic Acid 2.46 %
Omega 3 0.31 %
Arachidonic Acid 0.06 %
Carbohydrates 48.63 %
Fiber 2.1 %
Ash 4.75 %
Calcium 0.94 %
Phosphorous 0.79 %
Magnesium 0.11 %
Sodium 0.2 %
Potassium 0.64 %
Chloride 0.22 %
Iron 246 mg/kg
Zinc 255 mg/kg
Copper 21 mg/kg
Iodine 2.4 mg/kg
Manganese 36 mg/kg
Selenium 0.36 mg/kg
Arginine 1.74 %
Histidine 0.41 %
Isoleucine 0.79 %
Leucine 1.27 %
Lysine 1.47 %
Methionine 0.52 %
Met-Cysteine 0.79 %
Phenylalanine 0.96 %
Phe-Tyrosine 1.66 %
Threonine 0.89 %
Tryptophan 0.21 %
Valine 1.05 %
Taurine 1000 mg/kg
Choline 1896 mg/kg
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 4.86 mg/kg
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 5.43 mg/kg
Vitamin B3 (Niacin) 43.99 mg/kg
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) 3.8 mg/kg
Folic Acid 7.78 mg/kg
Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 18.23 mg/kg
Biotin 0.97 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 850 ug/kg
Vitamin A 20047 IU/kg
Vitamin C 526 mg/kg
Vitamin D 1990 IU/kg
Vitamin E 350 IU/kg
Vitamin K 288 ug/kg
ME 3768 kcal/kg
ME 366 kcal/cup
Nutritional Adequacy
Animal feeding tests using AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) procedures substantiate that Innova Large Breed Puppy Food provides complete and balanced nutrition for growth. This product is intended solely for large and giant breed puppies under 2 years of age. For large breed dogs older than 2 years of age refer to Innova Large Breed Adult Dog Food.
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First three ingredients are named meat products, uses good quality ingredients throughout
Insufficient meat content
The first three ingredients in this food are all named meat products. The first two of these are meat inclusive of water content (around 80%) which, once removed as it must be to create a dry product, will end up weighing around 20% of their wet weight. Since ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that they are truely the first ingredients in the food but would be more accurately place further down the ingredient list. The third ingredient (and true first ingredient) is also a meat product, this time in meal form.
There are three grain products and potatoes following the meat, which combined are likely to outstrip the meat content by a substantial margin. Although using good quality ingredients, this food appears rather light in meat content. This is the primary complaint about this product and precludes a higher rating. Users of this product might consider adding additional meat to the diet.
We appreciate the inclusion of fruits/vegetables and whole eggs in the product.
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Applying Nanotechnology to the Challenges of Global Poverty
Bryan Bruns*
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Billions of people around the world still suffer from inadequate access to clean water, energy, information, shelter, health care, and other basic needs. Even with continuing progress in poverty reduction, many people will probably still be poor when molecular manufacturing technologies become available. Advanced nanotechnologies could help poor people improve their lives, if developed in ways that are appropriate and accessible. This presentation uses examples of potential molecular manufacturing products to illustrate future opportunities and strategies for applying nanotechnology to reduce global poverty and promote sustainable prosperity.
Research and development of appropriate applications could increase the potential benefits from applying advanced nanotechnology. Point-of-use water filtration could purify water for those who do not have clean and reliable water supplies. Solar cells integrated into roofing panels could yield a safe and sustainable source of inexpensive energy. Continuing drastic reductions in the cost of information technologies, enabled by nanotechnology, would facilitate universal access to computing and communications. Packaging of integrated systems applying advanced nanotechnology for diagnostic testing, custom formulation of medication, and targeted delivery of treatments, could help deliver medical care where doctors and hospitals are scarce. Materials formulated with molecular precision could provide better shelter and tools. Molecular manufacturing could enable clean production and new methods for environmental remediation, enabling global abundance to be both feasible and sustainable. Actual applications of nanotechnology will depend on a range of factors, including the evolution of related technologies such as biotechnology and information technology, economic systems, and institutions regulating intellectual property. Illustrative examples of possible applications such as those discussed above, may be useful for planning scenarios, identifying objectives for research and development, and formulating strategies to improve access to the benefits of advanced nanotechnology.
Access to the benefits of molecular manufacturing will depend on how the technologies are developed and made available. A range of strategies could expand access. Many technologies will lend themselves to commercial provision, with market dynamics helping to reduce costs and deliver decentralized solutions. Appropriate design could pro-actively adapt technological solutions to the needs of poor people. Open standards could facilitate universal availability. Suitable design of intellectual property institutions could help to expand access to useful knowledge and improve incentives to solve problems. Guidelines, templates, and procedures for safe design and operation could reduce risks of abuse and promote affordable international access.
Application of advanced nanotechnology is likely be profoundly disruptive, posing challenges of socioeconomic transition. Useful lessons can be learned from earlier transitions from agricultural to industrial to service economies, and transitions from command to market economies. Molecular manufacturing could not only help to alleviate material deprivation, and illness, but also expand opportunities for personal growth and participation in larger endeavors. Suitable policies and programs could facilitate individual and social adjustment to expanding opportunities for personal growth, experience, exploration, and participation in challenging projects.
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TitleUN launches a video on saving lives through preparedness
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2 July 2012 - 4:36pm
We can't prevent natural disasters, but through preparedness we can prevent the human tragedies they cause
OCHA and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new animation video highlighting the urgent need to invest more in preparing for and preventing natural disasters, which have claimed more than 1 million lives since 2000.
The video, Act Now, Save Later, is funded by OCHA and UNDP and produced by Ataboy. It highlights that every dollar of foreign aid spent on averting and mitigating disasters saves an average of US$7 in humanitarian disaster response. The video also shows how practical solutions, such as building retaining walls and earthquake-resistant structures, and distributing drought-resistant seeds, can help avert the devastating effects of disasters.
Since 2000, it is estimated that floods, cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural hazards have cost the world more than $1 trillion in destruction. Last year, natural disasters including the drought in the Horn of Africa, and earthquakes and floods in Asia and Latin America killed almost 26,000 people. The estimated cost of these disasters was $380 billion, making 2011 the most expensive year in history.
Despite the increased frequency of extreme weather events around the world, only 1 per cent of international aid funding has been spent on disaster risk reduction over the past few years. The UN estimates that an investment of about 10 per cent of international development assistance per year could help avert the enormous cost of destruction and help communities cope better with future disasters.
OCHA has been working with UNDP and other development partners to make sure that building the resilience of people and communities is at the forefront of humanitarian response. In countries that are affected by drought, such as Somalia, humanitarian response plans include projects to build back livelihoods and agricultural assets to help people recover from years of recurrent crises so that they are better prepared for future emergencies, whether they are climate related, social or political.
OCHA also works with local authorities to develop national disaster response and preparedness plans in disaster-prone countries such as the Philippines.
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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved (View Workflow)
Priority: Major
Resolution: Won't Fix
Component/s: maven-plugin
Environment:Platform: All, OS: All
When setting up multiple Maven2 projects with the dependencies specified as
version ranges, Hudson doesn't trigger downstream builds if a built version of a
dependency matches the version range as specified in the downstream project.
The above URL points to my mail in the Hudson users list archive. It describes
the setup I used to detect this defect.
From the sources: the culprit is in hudson.model.MavenModule, method
buildDependencyGraph(DependencyGraph), line 355:
MavenModule src = modules.get(d);
modules is a HashMap with ModuleDependency objects as the key. All
ModuleDependency objects in there have a normal version number since they
represent the version information from the modules themselves.
On the other hand, the lookup with ModuleDependency 'd' can contain a version
range as the version string. Since the key lookup in the Hashmap works using the
equals method of ModuleDependency, even if the range matches according the Maven
versioning concepts, there will be no match from this lookup.
I think the best way to solve this is to incorporate the usage of the following
Maven2 interface and classes:
The last class has the most interesting method ever:
I'll see if I can find the time to create a patch...
- is duplicated by
JENKINS-12735 No upstream or downstream resolution with Maven version ranges
- Resolved
Created an attachment (id=497)
Initial cut at support for Maven2 dependency version ranges
I attached an initial version of a patch supporting Maven2 dependency version
ranges. I took the shortest path possible as you can probably see. However, it
doesn't work completely as expected and I need a bit of input here.
My Hudson test setup has the same set of Maven2 projects setup twice. Once in a
normal way with the dependency version ranges, and once via an active profile,
specified in the Maven2 goals and options field (-P the-profile). The profile
redefines the version property to become a SNAPSHOT-to-SNAPSHOT dependency chain
between all modules.
With the patch applied, my Hudson Maven module for pres.d:9.10.2 (a released
version) eventually gets "app.d 9.10" and "app.d 9.10.x" as downstream
dependencies. The former app.d is the one with the active profile, which I
expect not to match since the dependency should be 9.10-SNAPSHOT and not the
version range.
Now my question: where are the active profiles taken into account when building
the dependency graph? It seems to work for the SNAPSHOT-to-SNAPSHOT dependency
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|New Value
|Open [ 1 ]
|In Progress [ 3 ]
Hmm, this is rather old and a lot has changed in the maven plugin in the mean time.
Is this still a problem with current Jenkins versions?
I still have the problem with the current version of Jenkins, the range works well on my computer using only maven, but doesn't work on my server using Jenkins.
Any news about this issue ?
No, not yet.
I'll have a look at the patch, but I cannot make any promises on the timeframe.
In fact, it depends of the build plugin I think...
On my Jenkins, poms build with maven-assembly-plugin works fine with version range, but those using maven-petals-plugin don't. I'm looking if there is an issue about version range compatibilities with maven-petals-plugin.
Clément, this issue is about the automatic job dependency detection in Jenkins based on the POMs and not about some general build problems. Are you sure, we are talking about the same problem?
Or asked otherway: what is your concrete problem with the dependency ranges?
After reading it carefully, it seems not to be the same problem, I skimmed through the issue .
Mine is just about a Project build with version range, not the automatic downstream builds...
Sorry about that, I'll read carefully next time .
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Won't Fix.
We believe that version ranges are a bad practice by themselves and especially when doing continuous integration.
See http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/Any-opinions-on-dependency-version-ranges-support-for-Maven2-3-td3766478.html
for more information.
Given that this wasn't supported in Jenkins from the beginning and this bug got only 3 votes so far, the feature doesn't seem to be missed so much anyway.
|In Progress [ 3 ]
|Resolved [ 5 ]
|Won't Fix [ 2 ]
That's just nice. In both, you tell your own opinion when "asking a question" (obviously just looking for confirmation), and using that as "documentation" that your WONTFIX is warranted.
The reason that ranges isn't used more widely (hence keeping the vote-count down), is EXACTLY because so many 3rd party projects sucks with ranges. Thank you for keeping Maven a pain.
I'm sorry that I have an own opinion and that it doesn't match yours.
I have to admit that I didn't ask the questions as open as I should, but fact is:
- Dependency ranges are not officially documented until today (based on my - probably opionated - view on what official means)
- 2 Maven core resp. core plugin committers recommended to not use dependency ranges - at least as they are implemented today
- there are some unsolved problems with ranges - especially how SNAPSHOTs are handled
- no one really spoke up and had to say something positive about them - okay except you now
- they ARE a bad practice when using CI. That's again a opinion, of course
- you CAN use Jenkins with dependency ranges. It's just that automatic linking of jobs via SNAPSHOT dependencies doesn't work. Everything else should work fine
First of all, I'm sorry that I was being bitchy, but the way it was WONTFIXed kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
While we certainly agree that there are problems (and not small ones) with ranges, they are also a major help when having several smaller components, especially in an OSGi context where the compiled and runtime version of the dependency can be different anyway.
One of the ideas behind sematic versioning is exactly that you "should" be safe, as long as you don't go beyond the current major version, and ranges helps to exploit that, keeping some of Maven's pains manageble.
To make ranges reproducible, maybe it would be a good idea to add some kind of metadata that stored which final target was used for the build? In that way, the build should be easily reproducible (especially if there was a way to export a fixed-version POM from the metadata to reproduce the build).
Dennis, if you want to have this fixed in Jenkins a good way is to adapt the patch (convert it into a Github pull request) to work with the current Jenkins sources.
Also some general improvements to the patch are needed IMHO. Namely to improve the performance by not iterating over all modules each time and of course adding a unit test to verify the changed behaviour.
Thanks, I'll probably take a look when we have a hole in the schedule.
This issue is duplicated by
"Meanwhile, in a secret room a lot closer than you might think."
Hello kutzi,
I see your comment "you CAN use Jenkins with dependency ranges. It's just that automatic linking of jobs via SNAPSHOT dependencies doesn't work. Everything else should work fine"
If I understand correctly, our current project (containing some range dependencies) should be able to be build on jenkins ?
Cause it's not I get ...
..... Failed to collect dependencies for [com.....myjar:myjar:jar:[4.0.0,) (compile)
(on my machine all is well)
Am I missing something ?
AFAIK, dependency ranges support was added to Jenkins in the last weeks, but I also remember that this triggered some bugs (but more for too eager matching). Sorry, wasn't following this closely.
If you're having problems with dependency resolution you should ask on the users list which is a much better forum to get help than an issue tracker.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Body farms: Where the cadavers sink and swim
Q. Ever heard of the world-renowned "dead body farm"?–D. Frankenstein
A. At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on secluded parts of the campus, bodies of human donors are left to decompose naturally– some in the sun, some in the shade, some buried or wrapped in coverings, says Cornelia Reichert in New Scientist magazine. The aim is to gain information to help police and pathologists solve potential homicide cases, where cadavers turn up in various places and under suspicious circumstances.
One common place is along a coast, possibly a suicide or an accident victim. Often, there is little that forensic medicine can offer, leaving bereaved relatives with tragic uncertainty. Hence forensic entomologist Gail Anderson has set up an underwater version of the body farm, using pigs (humanely slaughtered) to study the decomposition process. Contrary to what happens to bodies on land, where the head usually goes first, marine fauna will leave the head and face until last. So when a body bearing facial wounds but otherwise unharmed washes up, Anderson is confident that foul play was involved.
"It's a macabre project," Anderson concedes, "but one of potentially immense value to the families of those lost at sea."
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A. Right, it's blogging, the newest thing in the healing e-arts. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings, says Jessica Wapner in Scientific American.
A modern electronic version of ancient journal writing, blogging is basically a way of complaining to potentially like-minded people, and as such is self-administered therapy, a sort of personal placebo. This self-expression has even been found to help cancer patients, who feel markedly better both mentally and physically afterward, compared with those not writing. Hospitals have started hosting patient-authored blogs on their Web sites, encouraging a community of connected recoverers.
Q. Why, if the Bible is taken literally, was a miracle required to keep Noah's ark afloat in the Flood?–F. Abraham
A. The book of Genesis says "all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered." This seems to mean there were 10,000 to 20,000 feet of water, or more than half a billion cubic miles, says Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos in Innumeracy. Since 40 days and 40 nights computes to 960 hours, an average 15 feet of water must have fallen per hour– "enough to sink an aircraft carrier, let alone an ark with thousands of animals on board."
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History's No. 1 Draft? Top choice might be '09
Group featuring Trout, Strasburg, Goldschmidt stands tall in a decade of strong classes
A lively debate among insiders might accompany this week's Interleague meeting in Washington between Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, representing the Angels and Nationals, respectively.
Which First-Year Player Draft was superior: 2009, which featured Trout and Stephen Strasburg, Harper's teammate -- or Harper's talented group the following summer?
It's still relatively early, but the 2009 collection of draftees could go down as the greatest ever. It runs almost as deep as the Pacific Ocean.
Eleven first basemen had been tabbed in that Draft when the D-backs, in round eight with pick No. 246, reached for a big kid from Texas State University in San Marcos. Hello, Paul Goldschmidt.
Five rounds later, with pick No. 399, the Cardinals identified Matt Carpenter of Texas Christian University.
Pure gold can be found in the hills and valleys of America.
Taken by the Angels out of Millville, N.J., with the 25th overall pick -- compensation for the Yankees' free-agent signing of Mark Teixeira -- Trout has quickly emerged as the game's premier all-around player.
Strasburg, the No. 1 overall choice in '09, has shown flashes of greatness and has the tools to be an elite starter.
Thirty of the 49 first-rounders in 2009, 61 percent, have reached the Majors. Joining Strasburg in a pitching-rich group are Shelby Miller, Patrick Corbin, Zack Wheeler, Mike Minor, Mike Leake, Joe Kelly, Garrett Richards, Tyler Skaggs, James Paxton, Tanner Scheppers, Jacob Turner, Drew Storen, Aaron Crow, Chad Jenkins, Kyle Gibson and Rex Brothers.
Any manager would take that group and say, "Thank you, baseball gods."
A lineup made from that Draft would be loaded with championship-caliber talent as well: Trout, Goldschmidt, Brandon Belt, Wil Myers, Carpenter, Jason Kipnis, Nolan Arenado, Kyle Seager, Dustin Ackley, A.J. Pollock, Khris Davis, Chris Owings, DJ LeMahieu, Brian Dozier, Yan Gomes, Tony Sanchez, Scooter Gennett, Matt Davidson and Nick Franklin.
Kids being kids, the 2010 class is making noise that it intends to be just as formidable as Trout, Strasburg and Co.
Big names already have emerged -- Harper, Manny Machado, Chris Sale, Matt Harvey, Andrelton Simmons -- with depth from Jedd Gyorko, Christian Yelich, Addison Reed, Nick Castellanos, Tyler Thornburg, Drew Smyly, Mike Olt, Michael Choice, Drew Pomeranz, Derek Dietrich and Yasmani Grandal.
On their way: Taijuan Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Jameson Taillon, Aaron Sanchez, Joc Pederson, Barret Loux and Delino DeShields Jr., among others.
The waves of talent keep coming.
As he surveyed his infield during the 2012 World Series, Giants catcher Buster Posey saw Belt, a fifth-round pick, at first base, and fourth-rounder Brandon Crawford at shortstop on what was about to become a championship team.
"What it shows," Posey said in reflection, "is what an inexact science scouting is."
Identifying raw personnel is the lifeblood of every organization. But more than any other major sport, baseball is hit-or-miss. Each summer's Draft produces startling surprises and numbing disappointments. Sure things miss and late-round stabs turn into stars.
Even Posey, taken fifth overall in 2008, was passed on by four clubs that would snatch him in a heartbeat if the Draft could be redone today. Crawford, stolen as the 11th shortstop taken that June, would be a high first-rounder now.
Five of those 11 shortstops taken ahead of Crawford have made it to the Majors, none approaching his impact.
"I wanted to go higher and was expecting to go higher," said Crawford, a huge Giants fan growing up in the Bay Area. "It's satisfying to be here, in the big leagues. If I had gone earlier, somewhere else, I wouldn't have ended up with the Giants. So, it happened for a reason. This is where I was supposed to be."
Belt, chosen with pick No. 147 in 2009, likely would be a top-10 selection if it was done all over. Primarily a pitcher before experiencing shoulder issues, the angular athlete was a late bloomer as a power hitter.
"That was a pretty strong Draft," Belt said, conceding that lasting until the fifth round served as an added incentive. "I think it comes into play with a lot of people, being as competitive as we are. I wanted to show I could hit."
If offense revs your jets, 2005 was a very good Draft year, with a collective WAR of 293.6 among its first-round choices, according to Baseball-Reference.com
After Justin Upton was taken No. 1, along came Alex Gordon, Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan Braun, Troy Tulowitzki, Andrew McCutchen, Jay Bruce, Cliff Pennington, Jacoby Ellsbury, Yunel Escobar, Jed Lowrie, Colby Rasmus, Chase Headley, Brett Gardner, Michael Brantley, Nick Hundley, John Mayberry, Will Venable, Austin Jackson, Peter Bourjos and Matt Joyce.
That's a whole lot of thunder, accompanied by prime-time leatherwork. But the pitchers lacked depth after Clay Buchholz, Matt Garza, Travis Wood, Jeremy Hellickson and Jon Niese.
The 2006 pitching class is off the charts. The game's best, Clayton Kershaw, was the sixth pitcher and seventh player overall taken. Tim Lincecum (No. 10 overall), Max Scherzer (No. 11) and Ian Kennedy (No. 21) followed Kershaw. Joba Chamberlain and Chris Perez arrived late in the first round, followed by Chris Tillman, Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill, Justin Masterson, Joe Smith, Zach McAllister, Alex Cobb, Chris Archer, Doug Fister, Mark Melancon, Kris Medlen and Mat Latos.
Evan Longoria (No. 3 overall pick) and Chris Davis (fifth round, No. 148) were the offensive forces of the 2006 Draft.
Top to bottom, the 2002 class takes its place at the head table. Consider the depth: Joey Votto, Prince Fielder, Zack Greinke, Matt Cain, Jon Lester, Cole Hamels, Brian McCann, Russell Martin, Howie Kendrick, Curtis Granderson, Josh Johnson, Scott Kazmir, Nick Swisher, James Loney, B.J. Upton, Denard Span, Jeremy Guthrie, Adam Lind, Brandon McCarthy, Joe Saunders, Chris Denorfia, Craig Breslow, Brad Ziegler, Scott Feldman, Jesse Chavez and Sam LeCure.
Draft-day hauls came each year in the decade, in addition to 2009, '06, '05 and '02.
2000: Yadier Molina, Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Utley, Adam Wainwright, Cliff Lee, Edwin Encarnacion, Kelly Johnson, Grady Sizemore, pitcher Chris Young, David DeJesus.
2001: David Wright, Joe Mauer, Ryan Howard, Teixeira, Dan Haren, C.J. Wilson, J.J. Hardy, Gavin Floyd, Ricky Nolasco, Jim Johnson, Edwin Jackson, Kevin Youkilis, Mark Prior.
2003: Matt Kemp, Adam Jones, Aaron Hill, Nick Markakis, Jonathan Papelbon, Andre Ethier, Michael Bourn, Carlos Quentin, Chad Billingsley, Delmon Young, Tim Stauffer, John Danks, Paul Maholm, David Murphy, Scott Baker, Sean Marshall.
2004: Dustin Pedroia, Justin Verlander, Jered Weaver, Gio Gonzalez, Yovani Gallardo, Homer Bailey, Jason Vargas, Neil Walker, Billy Butler, Hunter Pence, Ian Desmond, Ben Zobrist, Mark Trumbo, Huston Street, Stephen Drew, Glen Perkins, Kurt Suzuki, Chris Iannetta, Casey Janssen.
2007: David Price, Freddie Freeman, Giancarlo Stanton, Madison Bumgarner, Josh Donaldson, Jason Heyward, Jordan Zimmermann, Jonathan Lucroy, Matt Wieters, Mike Moustakas, Jarrod Parker, Matt Dominguez, J.P. Arencibia, Rick Porcello, Todd Frazier, Sean Doolittle, Zack Cozart, Eric Sogard, Darwin Barney, Derek Norris.
2008: Posey, Crawford, Andrew Cashner, Craig Kimbrel, Pedro Alvarez, Eric Hosmer, Brett Lawrie, Alex Avila, Brian Matusz, Yonder Alonso, Gordon Beckham, Jason Castro, Justin Smoak, Ike Davis, Lance Lynn, Wade Miley, Robbie Ross Jr., Tyler Chatwood.