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|Reference : Element removal in harvested tree biomass: scenarios for critical loads in Wallonia, ...
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|Life sciences : Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
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|Element removal in harvested tree biomass: scenarios for critical loads in Wallonia, south Belgium
|Bosman, Bernard [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Ecologie végétale et microbienne >]
|Remacle, Jean [Université de Liège - ULiège > Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement > Ecologie végétale et microbienne > >]
|Carnol, Monique [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Ecologie végétale et microbienne >]
|Water, Air & Soil Pollution : Focus
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|[en] base cation uptake ; Belgium ; catchment ; critical loads ; nitrogen ; Picea abies ; Quercus robur
|[en] The critical load concept is now widely used as a tool for developing emission control policies in Europe. As a signatory country of the Convention of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, critical loads for acidity, nutrient nitrogen, nitrogen and sulphur have been calculated for the Flemish and Walloon regions in Belgium. This paper describes the methodology used for estimating critical loads for forest soils in the Walloon region according to the Steady-State Mass Balance equations. As an example the methodology was applied to the catchment `Waroneu', situated in a sensitive area of the Haute Ardenne. Main input parameters to the equations were derived from precipitation and runoff data of the catchment study. Improved estimates of nitrogen uptake (Nu) and base cation uptake (BCu) were obtained by intensive sampling of Picea abies and Quercus robur trees. Nutrient contents (Ca, Mg, K, N) and nutrient to nitrogen ratios of Picea abies reflected the poor soil quality at a site with high N deposition. Quercus robur nutrient contents increased from stem to higher order branches with a high proportion of nutrients located in the bark. However the simulation of stem only harvesting had a minor effect on critical loads. Measured wood densities were lower than reported literature values with a main effect on Nu and BCu estimates. The use of recommended default values and/or data derived from the experimental site resulted in a wide range of critical loads, some of which were largely overestimated. Results demonstrated the importance of site specific data for critical load calculations.
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We had a great class at Heartwood for my spring 'Introduction to SketchUp'. 12 students fill all the available seats and we covered a wide range of skills ranging from accurate modeling techniques, presentation, and compound timber joinery.
I took 3 courses here in 1999-2000 or so. That reinforced a love of building and design and set me on a path that I've been wandering and refining since.
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Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has explained the decline in cargo volume at the Dar es Salaam Port, attributing the situation to enhanced supervision aimed at controlling tax evasion. It, however, noted that despite the drop in cargo traffic, the port has continued to perform well in terms of revenue collection.
According to a TPA report presented recently to the Parliamentary Committee for Industry, Trade and Environment, between 2011/2012 and 2015/2016, the authority's revenue collection increased by an average of 16.85 per cent per year.
In 2015/2016, a total of 694,383bn/- was collected, compared to 679,331bn/-, which was raised in 2014/2015. Dar es Salaam Port has been attracting cargo from the neighbouring landlocked countries of Zambia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC and Zimbabwe.
TPA Director General Deusdedit Kakoko told the 'Daily News' in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the drop in cargo volume was not only being experienced in Tanzania but also in other countries such as Kenya and South Africa.
Mr Kakoko said that according to a report by TPA officials who visited the countries, the Port of Durban in South Africa registered a 10 per cent decline in cargo volume in the first quarter of this year while at Mombasa Port, it dropped by 1.5 per cent for the same period.
He cited China's economic downturn as one of the reasons behind the decline of cargo volume in many ports, since 34 per cent of the world's economy depended on the Far-East country.
The DG explained that cargo traffic at the Dar Port has decreased by 800,000 tonnes between 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. He added that despite the high volumes recorded in the past, some traders tended to evade from paying taxes thus denying the Authority revenue.
"It is true that cargo volume at the Dar es Salaam Port has dropped. But the situation has not affected our revenue collections because even with the high volume recorded in the previous years, TPA could not get its fair revenue because some traders were not paying taxes as required by law. We have strengthened supervision to ensure tax compliance," the DG said.
Mr Kakoko said, however, that the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) on transit cargo should not be considered as the main reason contributed to the decline in cargo volume at the port because the mechanism became effective in this financial year.
"The drop in cargo volume started to be experienced even before the introduction of VAT, although some traders may have decided to shun from using the port but this should not be regarded as the main reason for the drop in cargo volume because it became applicable in the past two months," Mr Kakoko noted.
The Tanzania Revenue Authority's Director of Education and Taxpayers' Services, Mr Richard Kayombo, told the 'Daily News' that the drop in cargo volume involved mainly cargo for domestic consumption and to a lesser extent on transit cargo to DR Congo as fuel cargo and those on transit to Zambia and Burundi went up.
Mr Kayombo said that the government's initiatives to control tax evasion loopholes at the port may be the main reason for the fall in cargo volume.
"It is obvious that revenue collection could drop with the decline in cargo volume but it has not been so ...it seems that traders who shunned using our port are the ones who were evading taxes," Mr Kayombo charged.
TRA statistics show that while cargo volume at Dar Port has dropped, customs revenue in 2015 ranged between 200bn/- and 300bn/- while in the period between December last year and August this year, the average of customs revenue per month has been between 400bn/ and 550bn/-.
Last week, the Parliamentary Committee for Industry, Trade and Environment said it plans to invite the Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa, key stakeholders and ministries responsible for ports' management to a meeting to find a solution to the decline of cargo volume at Dar es Salaam Port.


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text: Centurion - The Dolphins thumped the Titans by 393 runs to end a bleak Sunfoil Series campaign for the defending champions, who ended the four-day competition without a single win.Set 463 to win, the Titans crumbled to 69 all out in just 21 overs, as Keshav Maharaj snared a maiden five-wicket haul in franchise cricket for the visitors, who also ended their season with three wins in a row.The Dolphins, who had won the toss and elected to bat first on day one, set their victory up by amassing 456 all out in their first innings, with Vaughn van Jaarsveld (101), Khaya Zondo (51) and Daryn Smit (79) the stars for the visitors.By contrast, the Titans could only manage 218 in their innings, as Mthokozisi Shezi snared four wickets to hand the initiative firmly to the Dolphins. Instead of enforcing the follow-on, the Dolphins chose to bat on in their second knock, and Van Jaarsveld capped a fine personal display by clubbing 83 quick-fire runs on the third morning.He received handy support form Divan van Wyk, who chiselled out a typical 57 at the top of the order. When the declaration came, the Dolphins set about running through the Titans with surprising ease, as the hosts wilted to a calamitous, mid-innings wobble, which saw them lose five wickets for just six runs, to plummet from 51/4 to 57/9 in the space of five overs.Maharaj, extracting turn and bowling to an attacking field, thrived in the circumstances, picking up the scalps of Farhaan Behardien, Mangaliso Mosehle, Marchant de Lange, CJ de Villiers and, fittingly, bowling Rowan Richards to end the innings with wonderful figures of 5-11, a career-best for the left-arm spinner.The Dolphins picked up a mammoth 20 points for their total display, with the Titans earning just 5.36 to end their campaign on the lowest possible note. Van Jaarsveld was chosen as man of the match for his two brilliant knocks.


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On Oct. 28, 2012, at approximately 4:00 p.m., deputies with the Pima County Sheriff's Department Foothills District responded to a home invasion in the 7700 block of North Stargrass Drive.
After talking to the victims, deputies learned that two individuals had made contact at the front of the residence. They asked if the homeowner needed yard work done and then asked for water.
When the victim opened the door, he was overwhelmed by the intruders, beaten and put in a choke hold. The assailant held a gun to the victim's head and forced him back into the residence.
Two females who were also inside the house were forced to the back of the building at gun point by the second suspect, an African-American male. The perpetrators demanded valuables and money. After taking two wallets and a cell phone they left.
Deputies found out that the entire incident was caught on surveillance video. A third suspect, who appears to be Hispanic, can be seen on the video entering the residence after the first two suspects.
Detectives with the Sheriff's Robbery/Assault Unit were able to develop a credible lead early in the investigation which lead to the identification of the African-American male as Dominique Tyron Dixon (27). Surveillance was set up on Dixon and he was arrested yesterday in the parking lot of the Tucson Mall.
Anyone with information on this case or who can identify one of the other two suspects is urged to call 9-1-1 or 88-CRIME. The investigation continues.


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ALBANY - Just three more days.
It's raining again but forecasters say sunny skies await on Saturday and Sunday.
The sun - it's there behind the clouds - rose on rain in much of the region Wednesday morning. Temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Meteorologists say there is a 30 percent chance of rain during the day.
The chance of rain increases overnight and forecast calls for thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday.
But so far things look potentially better on Saturday and Sunday when meteorologists predict partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s and 80s.


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Halloween maybe over but the terror is only beginning. It is a fact that clowns are the most frightening creatures on Earth. Intellectually I know they are human, but in my mind they are evil demon creatures like Pennywise from Stephen King's It. In this horrific video a gigantic sad clown named Puddles sings Lorde's hit song Royal. I'm not sure what this video is trying to prove other than it can give you nightmares. Watch at your own peril.


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By WAYNE GRUMET
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 8, 2001
DADE CITY -- Land O'Lakes' week got a little longer.
It already had fought for two wins in 23 innings. Wednesday, Pasco stretched Land O'Lakes into extra innings once more. But this time, Land O'Lakes didn't have enough as Nate Strayer's single in the eighth gave the Pirates a 3-2 win.
Pasco (5-5) missed an opportunity to win it in the seventh when it loaded the bases with no outs. But in the eighth, Strayer fought off a fastball with two strikes to lace a two-out single to rightfield, scoring Matt Prowant.
"I just wanted to put the ball in play and make them make a play," said Strayer, a junior. "I just wanted to make contact and give my team a chance."
Land O'Lakes (6-2) had its share of missed opportunities. Second baseman Greg Rosenthal tried to score from second on a first-inning single by pitcher Rich Neste. But centerfielder Orlando Rosales' throw beat Rosenthal by more than 10 feet. Rosales nailed Rosenthal by about the same margin in the seventh after a Jeff Baisley single.
"We've kind of been like a cat with nine lives, and we ran out of lives," Land O'Lakes coach Calvin Baisley said. "We've been on a pretty good string here, but I just thought for whatever reason we were flat there today for five innings."
Pasco scored quickly off Neste. Lee Cruz hit a home run in the first with Rosales on base. Pasco starter Trey Evans held that lead through five innings.
Evans walked Jeff Baisley and hit Brian Baisley to start the sixth. Jeff Baisley scored on a Neste single, and Brian Baisley scored on a fielders choice by Brandon Vari.
Pasco coach Ricky Giles said he was thrilled to see his team open a six-game home stand with an emotional win.
"Hopefully, we can use this right here to boost our morale a little bit," Giles said. "I think this right here might get us over the hump."


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Whether a witnessed act is violent, sketchy, discriminatory, oppressive or otherwise; perhaps Sai's in-the-moment response was the most appropriate & productive (btw, thx & bravo for your vigilance, Sai!). Does the no-picture-taking-policy extend to alleged unexcellent behavior? If not, capturing these unexcellent acts on cameras may be the best protection we have. Maybe even a The Good, Bad & The Ugly page on the wiki could be implemented...I always thought occupysf would have benefited from same but never implemented it.

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University of Texas athletics director Steve Patterson would like to have a new football staff in place before the end of the dead period on Jan. 15.
Patterson met with reporters prior to the Alamo Bowl, which will mark the end of Mack Brown's 16-year tenure at Texas.
Patterson said several coaches have expressed interest in the job, although "the guys we're talking to are not filling out applications."
As far as a timeframe, Patterson said: "We've got to be back open for business by the middle of the month once the dead period ends so we need to get it done before then. The coach has to put together a staff and be up and running, making sure we keep the recruits we got in the spots we've got."
Patterson said UT would honor all recruiting commitments made under Brown.
Another interesting nugget from Patterson is that UT is not looking to break the bank to sign the next coach.
"That's not our approach, we're not out to set a new threshold," Patterson said. "You need to be a good steward to the resources you have."
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (release) -- The 20th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers will see some familiar faces in the opening rounds of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships.
The Vols (17-10) will play the first and second rounds at Duke in Durham, N.C., as the No. 2 seed in the four-team region, the NCAA released Tuesday. They will face 54th-ranked Elon in the opening round. If the Vols win, they would advance to face either 11th-ranked Duke or unranked Winthrop.
Tennessee beat Duke 4-2 in an indoor thriller at home early in the season.
Former Vol John Collins, who finished his degree at UT in December, is now a volunteer assistant coach at Elon. Bryan Swartz and Edward Jones, both part of the Vols' 2010 and 2011 SEC championship teams, are working with the Winthrop program.
The schedule has not been released for the Duke site. Matches will be played from May 10 and 11.
24: Total NCAA selections since the championships changed to its present-day team format in 1979. Head coach Sam Winterbotham has led the team to the national tournament his first seven years at Tennessee. Tonight was his squad's eighth selection.
41: Wins the Vols have enjoyed in the NCAA Championships. The Vols' all-time record is 41-24.
17: During Sam Winterbotham's first seven years at Tennessee, the Vols are 17-7 in the NCAA Championships. The team has advanced to the round of 16 five times during that stretch. The Vols have reached the quarterfinals or beyond three times.
3: Times the Vols have reached the NCAA title match. Tennessee reached the finals in 1990, 2001 and most recently in 2010, falling to Southern California 4-2. The Vols have reached the quarterfinals or better on nine occasions.
The 64-player singles and 32-team doubles fields for the NCAA singles and doubles championships will be released Wednesday evening.
Juniors Mikelis Libietis and Hunter Reese will likely both receive bids in both singles and doubles. Libietis and Reese are currently ranked second nationally and won their first collegiate major title in the fall at the ITA All-American Championships.
In singles, Reese is now ranked 27th and Libietis is 34th.
The Vols are heading on the road for the opening round for the seventh time since the regional/early round format was adopted in the mid-1990s. Tennessee last played a road regional in 2012, beating UNC Wilmington 4-1 and losing a rain-delayed second round 4-0 to North Carolina.
The University of Tennessee women's tennis team will head back to Chapel Hill, N.C. for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament on May 9-10, as announced by the NCAA Tuesday night.
The Lady Vols are making their 20th straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament dating back to 1995 and 24th overall NCAA showing.
Tennessee (13-12) will face Georgia State (12-8) on Friday, May 9, while seventh-seeded and host team North Carolina, will play VCU in the first round.
The winners of those matches will square off on May 10 for a chance to advance to the Round of 16, which takes place in Athens, Ga. The championship site hosts the final four rounds from May 15-20.
"There has been anxiety all year," said Co-Head Coach Mike Patrick, "and we are going to have five freshmen and one junior playing in NCAAs. Getting in was a great thing and I am excited that they did get in; it will give us a lot of experience. We will go out there and play hard and see what we can do."
"It was a nervous but exciting experience," said junior Joanna Henderson. "It has been an up and down season and we weren't really sure what to expect but I think when our name got called it was just a lot of relief and happiness."
This will be the first time that the Lady Vols and Panthers have faced off against each other. The Panthers enter the match on a three match win-streak after capturing the school's first ever Sun Belt Conference Championship. They will make their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2009.
"This is such a good group, they work hard every day. I really can't ask much more from them. It is asking a lot for five freshmen to go out there and make the NCAA Tournament and they did."
"We went to North Carolina and we had a close match with them. With this format it is you win you keep going, you lose and you're out. So you just have to go out there ready to play."
· The winner of the match will face the winner of the North Carolina (24-5)/VCU (12-9) meeting.
· The series between the Lady Vols and North Carolina is tied at 14-14 after the Tar Heels defeated UT 4-1 last season in the Round of 32 at the NCAA Tournament.
· The two teams have now met twice in the NCAA Tournament, a 2004 meeting in Chapel Hill resulting in a 4-3 victory for the Lady Vols and last season's UNC win.
· Tennessee and VCU have met in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the last two seasons, both 4-0 wins for the Lady Vols. UT holds a 3-0 all-time series lead, with all of the meetings coming in the NCAA postseason.
· The NCAA Individual Championship selection will be announced on Wednesday, April 30 at 6 p.m.
· All-American's Alison Ojeda and Kata Szekely will also return to the NCAA Tournament this season, but with different teams.
· Ojeda, an assistant coach at Baylor, will host the first and second rounds as the 14 seed where they will face Texas A&M Corpus Christi
· Szekely and DePaul won the school's first ever Big East Tournament this season and will stay in Chicago for the NCAA Tournament when they head to Northwestern's campus to face Notre Dame.


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Harden his own worst critic after practice work
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, April 27, 2008
Rich Harden threw a 50-pitch simulated game Saturday afternoon and manager Bob Geren said Harden allowed only two hits, including one to Eric Chavez, and recorded "a lot of strikeouts."
"Business as usual," A's bullpen coach Ron Romanick said. "No problems at all."
Nevertheless, Harden wasn't altogether pleased with the outing, because his location wasn't perfect.
"After talking to him, he seemed very upset, but personally, I thought he threw the ball very well," said outfielder Travis Buck. "His location wasn't what he wanted, but the ball was still hard to pick up. And he looked like he felt fine except for missing his spots."
"He looked pretty good to me," catcher Rob Bowen said. "He had good life on his fastball and being a little off with his location is to be expected. The main focus is to make sure he's feeling good, and he is. The last thing you need to worry about with Rich is throwing strikes, we know he can do that."
Harden has been out since April 2 with a subscapularis strain. If he comes out of Saturday's effort feeling good, he will throw either another simulated game or make a rehab start in four days, and five days after that, he'll likely make a rehab start. That makes the A's May 9-11 series at Texas a possible spot for Harden's return to the rotation.
Keith Foulke, who is on the DL with neck soreness, made 30 throws from a distance of 100 feet in Phoenix and according to Geren, the reliever said he felt little to nothing in terms of the neck problem.
Briefly: Left-hander Lenny DiNardo was sent down to Triple-A Sacramento to open a roster spot for starter Justin Duchscherer. This is just the third option year for DiNardo, whose minor-league time in 2006 was while on a rehab assignment rather than the result of an option. DiNardo hadn't pitched in nine days, so he'll start Wednesday for the River Cats and remain stretched out. He's likely to be recalled in the not-too-distant future if the A's need long relief. ... First baseman Daric Barton was struck in the lip by a ball that took a bad hop while fielding grounders during batting practice. He came back out of the clubhouse with a bag of ice, but he still took his turn hitting and said he was fine. ... Barton had a hand in Bobby Crosby's tremendous game-ending play the night before, with a big stretch for the throw from Crosby to retire Adrian Beltre. Barton said he'd felt bad about not making the scoop an inning before to snare Crosby's bouncer; the play that was charged as an error on Crosby. "Oh, yeah, I definitely should have had it," Barton said. "It short-hopped me, but if I got out there more, I would have got it. I screwed up for Bobby, so I made sure I picked him up on that amazing play he made. I just tried to get out there as far as I could."


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RIO DE JANEIRO - FIFA have fined the Algerian Football Federation 50,000 Swiss francs ($F106,725) for a laser beam shone in the face of Russia's goalkeeper by Algerian fans during their final group game.
The federation was also reprimanded over the use of the laser beam, flares and smoke bombs during the June 26 Group H game which ended in a 1-1 draw and saw the Algerians progress to the latter stages of a World Cup for the first time.
A FIFA spokeswoman said Algeria had been "held liable for the improper conduct among its own group of spectators."
Russia coach Fabio Capello said at the time that goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was "blinded" by a green laser beam shone in his eyes seconds before Islam Slimani's equaliser.
The Algerian FA said in a statement that it "deplores" the behaviour of troublesome fans at the World Cup. The fine was announced a few hours before Algeria played Germany in the World Cup last-16.
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Wiped out in the 1929 Wall Street crash, Fred Warner (Conrad Nagel) is no longer able to support his spendthrift wife Eve (Catherine Dale Owen) in the manner to which she is accustomed. At first resistant to readjusting her lifestyle, Eve finally relents, selling her jewels to help Fred get back on his feet. His return to wealth is slow and laborious, and along the way Eve tires of her husband and begins keeping company with other men. When Fred finds out, he confronts Eve in their boudoir, pulls out a gun and shoots her. But -- is this the end of the story? Its ridiculous denouement aside, Tiffany Pictures' Today does a reasonably good imitation of a deluxe MGM "special."
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BOLTON LANDING — The Sagamore has a new executive chef with a highly upscale pedigree.
Adam Savage — seen at right at the recent Epcot International Food & Wine Festival — will oversee all cuisine and catering of the historic hotel's dining venues — La Bella Vita, The Club Grill, The Pavilion, Mr. Brown's and Caldwell's.
"We are thrilled to welcome Chef Savage into this new position," said Tom Guay, general manager of the upscale Lake George facility. "His vast and impressive experience, combined with his innovative techniques and extensive culinary training, will elevate The Sagamore's overall dining experience to a new level of quality and excellence."
Most recently, Savage was executive chef at the AAA Four Diamond holder Delray Beach (FL) Marriott. Prior to that, he was executive chef at the AAA Four Diamond holder Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, FL. His various kitchens also have earned DiRoNA Awards, Wine Spectator awards and the Five Diamond award from the Academy of Hospitality Sciences.
The Sagamore is on a private 70-acre island on Lake George. It is a seasonal resort featuring a golf course, full-service spa, private beach and marina and a replica 19th century sightseeing tour boat, The Morgan.
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The Phenomenon That is The Hillsby Free Britney at . Comments
Continuing its immensely popular spring run, The Hills returns with an all-new episode tonight on MTV. Over the weekend, the Boston Globe's Joanna Weiss throughout examined the obsession millions of people have with The Hills...
I still remember the first time I stumbled on The Hills, and how confused I was. It couldn't be scripted, since the dialogue was awful and the characters could barely deliver lines. But it couldn't be a reality show, because the scenes played out too perfectly. Cameras always happened to be rolling when the phone rang or the meaningful text message arrived.
It is, of course, a reality show, but a strangely innovative one.
Lauren Conrad and her friends in Los Angeles might replay scenes they've already lived through, or make carefully timed entrances into rooms so the cameras can get the right angle, but they never give a hint that they're being filmed.
The Hills, a coming-of-age follow-up to MTV's hit Laguna Beach (which also starred Conrad) drops the pretense of the confessional and the sense of manufactured conflict in favor of a new charade: pretending that the cameras aren't there.
As viewers, we're expected to keep up our end of the bargain.
Forget all about Lauren Conrad and new clothing line or her Mercedes, forget the single Heidi Montag recently released. Pretend these are normal, struggling young women, trying to make it in the cutthroat world of L.A.
The Hills' Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port.
One girl, a smart, poised journalism student in Boston - whose life must be very different from LC's - told me she likes the show because she can relate.
She's not the only one.
The Hills is an unmitigated MTV hit, and not just among the college crowd. John McCain, who won an endorsement from Heidi Montag, told Time magazine he never misses the show, and it's hard to tell if he was being facetious.
The first of the current eight-episode run of spring "bonus" installments of The Hills drew 4.8 million viewers, the show's highest ratings to date.
The day after it aired, the episode drew 1.8 million streams from MTV.com.
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One of the great things about doing hands on workshops is that there is always someone there to push you learn something you didn't know! Or someone there to tell you something you didn't know. Now, some instructors may not like that – but I'm all for it!
On Tuesday, Tim Siftar of Drexel University asked me we could embed Google Calendars into our websites. My answer? "I dun oh" But after a bit of poking around I found out that you can in fact embed a Google Calendar into your website. Here is my example.
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Tom Moody, a fight manager, and Lorna Moon, his mistress who wants to marry him, are having an argument about Tom's wife, who will not give him a divorce. Tom, wanting money for the divorce, needs to find a winning fighter. While they are talking, Joe Bonaparte arrives to tell them that Moody's fighter has broken his hand and cannot fight that night. Joe, whom nobody knows, persuades them to let him substitute, and he wins.
Joe, a musician, had always wanted a good violin, and his father had bought him one for his twenty-first birthday. When Joe returns home, his father, who has not been told of the fight, reads of it in the papers and is very much distressed. He tries to persuade Joe to give up fighting and continue his study of music, but Joe wants to fight. His father, hurt, does not give him the violin.
Joe fights well after that, but there is a serious conflict between the sensitive musician that he truly is and the brutal fighter he has to be. He holds back in the ring, fearing that he will ruin his hands for the violin. When Moody tries to persuade him that fame and money will be more important than music, he succeeds only in antagonizing Joe, who threatens to quit. Lorna agrees to try to persuade Joe to reconsider. Joe is basically a musician, but he has been ridiculed and hurt by people. Fighting is not a part of his nature, but he wants to fight back and music cannot do that for him. While he is explaining all this to Lorna, he has already decided to remain in the ring. When Joe is preparing for a fight tour, Mr. Bonaparte asks Lorna to help the young man find himself. When he tries to give Joe the violin, the boy refuses it. Then he asks for a blessing, which his father refuses to give.
Joe's tour is a great success except for one fight. He did not fight well on that occasion because he saw a man with a violin and was reminded of his music and his own past. Moody realizes that Joe has to be prevented from having any contact with his family and his past.
The fight world changes Joe's personality. He likes the money and the notoriety. He buys an expensive sports car, which he drives recklessly, and he becomes difficult to manage. Eddie Fuseli, a...
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Sharp, a 1972 graduate of the system's flagship institution – Texas A&M University – has more than three decades of experience in state public office, including terms with the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, as a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, and as the 35th Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He is a native of Placedo, Texas.
"John's years of combined service to our state and to Texas A&M make him an ideal choice for this role," said Richard A. Box, chairman of the A&M System's Board of Regents. "Throughout his career, he has remained dedicated to ensuring the A&M System's success, and as a board, we believe he can provide the steadfast commitment it will take to achieve our ongoing preeminence in teaching, research and service as one of the country's leading university systems.
"During his many years in state government, he has become acutely aware of the many challenges that our universities, state agencies and health science center face," Box added, "but he also understands the tremendous opportunity that lies within the A&M System."
While a student at Texas A&M, Sharp was a member of the Corps of Cadets and Corps staff, and served as student body president. Following graduation, he served four years in the U.S. Army Reserves.
Sharp, 61, served as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts from 1991 to 1998, where he received numerous accolades for his focus on government efficiencies. He is a former legislator, serving in the Texas House between 1979 to 1983 and the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1987. He was elected Texas Railroad Commissioner in 1987, where he championed reforms to the state's trucking regulations and the development of new natural gas markets. Sharp and his wife, Charlotte, have two children, Victoria and Spencer. He and his family are members of St. John Newman Catholic Church in Austin.
About the A&M System
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View from the Corner: HBO boss resigns
Published 11:53 pm, Saturday, July 23, 2011
Opening flurry
HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg, once regarded as the most powerful man in boxing, resigned from the network under pressure last week despite having several months remaining on a multimillion dollar contract.
Greenburg, 56, a San Antonio native, presided over the largest budget in televised boxing — about $35 million a year — to buy fights.
Reports say Greenburg's downfall can be traced to HBO losing Manny Pacquiao to Showtime for his May 7 fight with Shane Mosley. Pacquiao's major fights had all been on HBO or HBO Pay-Per-View.
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Marquez wins: Juan Manuel Marquez's tuneup against Likar Ramos turned out to be more a sham than a fight.
Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KOs) stopped Ramos (24-4, 18 KOs) at 1:46 of the first round July 16 at Quintana Roo, Mexico. Ramos went down on the first serious flurry of punches and was counted out.
Alvarez on PPV: The fight between Saul Alvarez, the most popular fighter in Mexico, and Alfonso Gomez has been confirmed for Sept. 17 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The bout will be part of the HBO Pay-Per-View split package the same night featuring Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz in Las Vegas.
Canseco woes: A celebrity boxing promoter has won a $7,600 judgment against Jose Canseco for breach of contract after the former baseball slugger agreed to a bout March 26 in Hollywood, Fla., but tried to trick the promoter by sending his twin brother, Ozzie, instead.
Cotto-Margarito site: The details are still being worked out on the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch Dec. 3, but officials last week announced the site for the fight, Madison Square Garden.
Marquardt overseas: Middleweight Nate Marquardt signed a multifight deal this past week with the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts, less than a month after he was dumped by the UFC.
Marquardt (31-10-2) fought under the UFC banner from 2005 through June 2011, culminating in his failed title shot against Anderson Silva in 2007.
Koen mourned: Friends are mourning the death of Dr. Lyle Koen, 67, an Austin ophthalmologist and longtime ringside doctor, who died July 5 in a plane crash in Matagorda Bay.
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Kennedy bout set: Tim Kennedy returns to the cage as part of Saturday's Strikeforce card in suburban Chicago headlined by heavyweights Fedor Emelianenko vs. Dan Henderson.
Kennedy, a Texas Army National Guard soldier stationed at Camp Bullis, is scheduled to face knockout artist Robbie Lawler in a middleweight bout.
Showtime will telecast live at 9 p.m.
Leija Jr. bout: James Leija Jr., who is 5-0 competing at 141 pounds, will compete in the Games of Texas in Waco, July 28-31.
S.A. boxer beaten: Super bantamweight Jesus Rivera (0-1) of San Antonio lost his pro debut to Oscar Tovar (3-0, 2 KOs) of McAllen on July 16 in Harlingen. Rivera lost by TKO at 1:24 of the first round.


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Tomb Raider: Legend release dates
Tomb Raider: Legend has been out already for quite some time on other platforms, but the game did so well Eidos decided to port it to the Gamecube, DS and GBA as well. This is the first time a decent Tomb Raider game gets released on a Nintendo platform.
That's not entirely true, but I don't count the crappy 2d clones on the GBA. The DS version features a 3D engine and it looks rather nice, although not as good as the PSP version. While the DS version has a touch screen, judging from the screenshots it's not being used for puzzles or any other exciting things, it's just choosing weapons and getting stuff from your inventory unfortunately. The handheld versions will be released on the 3rd of November and the Gamecube version will follow almost a month later on the 1st of December.
03.11.06 - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (NDS, GBA)
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Hustle Gang takes it to the car wash for their newest video, "Poppin 4 Sum." The trio of Young Dro, B.o.B. and Young Booke offer a bouncy flow over some sparse production by DJ Spinz. Rappers like Future and Chief Keef have hopped on the stop-start flow trend, and these guys are having fun adopting the style here. You can find this track on the recently released, G.D.O.D.
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Sherlock leaned forward against John, his tongue trailing up Johns neck. John let out a long moan as his face flushed and his arms wrapped around Sherlock's shoulders. Sherlock's hands started lifting up Johns shirt revealing his stomach when John stopped him right there.
"Sherlock, wait. What are you doing"? John asked him.
"John, come on this has been meaning to happen ever since the time at the pool when I was taking that bomb off of you. Now you cant tell me that you weren't interested in me because it was you who asked if I had a boyfriend, meaning you did have a interest and still do now." Sherlock said remembering all of it.
John sat up and gently pushed Sherlock back. John got up and walked out to the kitchen. Johns hands were slightly trembling as he poured the boiling water into his cup setting the tea bag inside it. Sherlock walked up behind John resting his hands on Johns shoulders.
"John, your trembling, did you have another nightmare."? Sherlock asked smelling the tea.
"Its always the same, starting off good then ending with my comrades pinned down calling for my help. But no matter how fast or how long I run for I don't get there in time." Johns grip loosened on the cup.
Sherlock reached down grabbing the cup before it had a chance to smash to the ground. He placed the cup back on the counter and wrapped his arms around John. John turned around in Sherlock's embrace to face his Vampire flat mate. Sherlock lowered his fangs and moved his mouth towards Johns warm pulsing neck.
"If it's the war you miss so much let me give you a taste of that thrill again." Sherlock said his fangs inches from Johns skin.
John froze and let Sherlock sink his fangs into his flesh. Instantly when Sherlock started sucking some of the blood from John, he felt the rush he had been missing. The drive to keep going again. John arched his back against the counter as Sherlock moved his hands around Johns hamstrings lifting his legs up and turning towards the bedroom again. In a flash John whipped his head around landing on Sherlock's bed. Sherlock tossed his shirt to the floor crawling on the bed towards John. The blush on Johns face grew more intensely, the closer Sherlock got to him. John started lifting his shirt up taking his time, partially thinking he was going mad by doing this.
Sherlock helped John remove his shirt observing Johns skin. John was the one to make the first move wrapping his arms around Sherlock pinning him to the bed. John slid his hands over Sherlock's icy skin and shivered from the cold. Sherlock noticed this and grabbed the blanket throwing it over his chest so John wouldn't be as cold. At once Sherlock sat up abruptly almost banging heads with John as he did so. Sherlock looked over to his closed bedroom door and heard Mycroft's voice on the other end.
"Sherlock will you unlock the door there are some important matters I would like to discuss with you, and John as well." Mycroft said deducting that John was in there with Sherlock.
Sherlock turned his head clenching his jaw at the door when John pulled Sherlock into a kiss distracting him from the door. It worked and Sherlock had John pinned against the headboard of the bed, John was starting to get mildly aggressive. Biting Sherlock's lip harshly trying to pour out his lust all over Sherlock. Sherlock started nipping at Johns skin hearing him whimper and gasp. The door was broken down and Sherlock turned his head seeing Mycroft's shocked expression while he almost dropped his umbrella from his hand. Johns face turned bright red from embarrassment while Sherlock removed his teeth from Johns nipple throwing a blanket over John pushing him back onto the bed.
Sherlock got off the bed grabbing his shirt throwing his arms into the sleeves as he approached Mycroft walking him out the now busted door to the living room. They both sat in a quite awkward silence for about 20 seconds.
"Mycroft what is so important that you had to disturb me."? Sherlock asked annoyed and slightly temperamental.
"I came to send you a warning Sherlock." Mycroft's tone was serious as usual.
"oh, is that all well you could have just left me a note then brother." Sherlock took it casually.
"Sherlock this is serious, I have men downstairs to escort you, John and Mrs. Hudson to a secure facility until we find the person who wants you dead." Mycroft stared Sherlock down.
Sherlock finally took this somewhat seriously, but considering how many human skulls he would be able to bash in with out as much as batting a eye. He felt it was safe enough to not have any round the clock guards on hand.
Suddenly Sherlock heard a slight disturbance coming from his room where John was. Sherlock sprang from his chair and ran into his room stopping in his tracks. John was there alright, along with Todd who had his left hand over Johns mouth and the other hand around Johns which held his gun pointed at Sherlock. Sherlock actually rolled his eyes at this almost predicting it and feeling it to be cheesy in a way. Sherlock dashed over grabbing the gun tossing it over to the wall. John still stood there frozen. Todd slashed at Sherlock but missed and Sherlock pinned him to the ground calling for Mycroft to get his men and seize Todd.
Todd was taken away and Sherlock ran over to John who was still standing in place unmoving. Sherlock wrapped his arms around John. John snapped back into reality and instantly looked over to where Sherlock used to be and sighed in relief that Sherlock was not hurt.
"wow I was right after all." John said into Sherlock's shoulder.
"And what is that John"? Sherlock asked.
"you risk your life to prove your clever as always." John said trying to not laugh.
Sherlock chuckled almost uncontrollably. John chuckled a bit nervously and stepped back from Sherlock. Instantly Sherlock's laughter stopped and he starred at John. John gave Sherlock a look and shrugged at him. Sherlock looked at John puzzled.
"your upset that I risked my life again." Sherlock stated lowering his shoulders.
"No that's not it Sherlock."
"then what John"? Sherlock asked taking a step forward.
John gripped Sherlock's shirt pulling him closer. "Turn me Sherlock, please that's all I ask. Just turn me.." Johns hand was trembling.
"John, no its dangerous."
Instantly Johns trembling hand stopped and he looked up at Sherlock. Sherlock rolled his eyes and took in a deep breathe.
"Fine, but this is going to hurt."
Sherlock drew out his fangs and craned Johns neck lowering his mouth closer to John. Sherlock bit into John letting his venom spread through Johns body causing John to clutch onto Sherlock. John slumped to the floor and Sherlock was right there holding onto him. Slowly Johns breathing was getting shallow and his heart was starting to slow. This tortured Sherlock literally hearing and feeling John die in his arms.
"Sherlock, remember..I want this.." John said weakly.
Sherlock kissed John on the lips, hearing Johns heart stop in the process. Sherlock wrapped John even tighter in his arms as he tried to force the tears back. A few silent moments later Sherlock's crying was disturbed when he felt a hand on his cheek wiping the tears away.
Sherlock moved his hair out of his eyes to see John staring up at him with red piercing eyes just like Sherlock's.
"Hello Sherlock." John said smiling, his fangs in full view.
Almost makes me sad to finish these, but i hope you all like the story along with the ending. Chow for now :)


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Travel Guide Asia Malaysia Selangor Sepang
The sleepy town of Sepang is a former rubber plantation town in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The town has a population of just around 200,000 in the last 2010 census. The sleepy town is only known when the government decided to build the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the Sepang F1 Racing Track and Cyberjaya, a relatively unsuccessful Malaysian version of Silicon Valley in the area.
The Kuala Lumpur International Airport is located in the city of Sepang itself. There are thousands of daily flights to all parts of the world including regular flights within South East Asia and further afield towards North America, Australia, Europe and Africa.
The ERL electric train stops at Salak Tinggi (the capital city of Sepang). There is a twice-hourly http://www.kliaekspres.com|KLIA Transit service]] to KLIA and KL Sentral.
This is by far the best way to getting around the Sepang area.
Golden Palm Tree Iconic Resort & Spa stretches out from the Sepang coastline, almost a kilometer into the sheltered waters of the Straits of Malacca with 392 luxuriously appointed sea villas that shape a palm tree.
A local chain offering no-frills accomodation for families. Located near the Bagan Lalang beach, the hotel offers mostly Malay based breakfast and dinner.
Located in Sepang, home of the Formula One racing championships, Empress Hotel Sepang offers true Malaysian hospitality in an innovative setting. The hotel is only 8 kilometres away from the KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport), offering great convenience as a transit or stopover hotel.
See also International Telephone Calls
Pos Malaysia is the national postal service of Malaysia. Rates for sending a standard letter locally is 30 sen (20 gram) to 40 sen (up to 50 gram). International airmail has minimum rates ranging from RM1.00 to RM2.00, depending on destination. It costs 20 sen to send a postcard or aerogramme locally, or 50 sen to send a postcard or aerogramme to anywhere in the world.
Expedited Mail Service (EMS), branded locally as Poslaju, is available for both domestic and international destinations. Domestic EMS has a next day delivery guarantee. International EMS guarantees mails and parcels to be delivered out of the country by the following day. The time required to arrive at its destination will depend on clearance by authorities and the postal service of the destination country. For most countries, delivery of documents can be done in 3 to 5 days.
If you need to receive mails or packages from home, there is Poste Restante service available at all General Post Offices (GPO) in the country. There is one GPO in almost every capital city of every state, and in all federal territories. Mails sent from Singapore and Brunei will be retained for one month while mails from all other places will be kept for two months, after which if unclaimed, will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
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VIDEO BLOGS: The video blogs, with all their limitations, are going down very well. I'm getting a lot of positive feedback about them so I will indeed keep them going.
The quality's the thing. I really need to get a decent camcorder to make these video blogs all they could be. That's where I could be doing with your help. I have to convince my accountant – one Joanne Scott – that it would really be an essential purchase.
That's where you come in. Now, I'm not about to hand out Joanne's email address but I will say this: if you want to send Joanne a list of reasons why I should have this new toy – and it has to be convincing - leave a comment or indeed email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will pass on your message to the lady in question.
I don't hold out any hopes but you never know!
RUNNING: Two friends of mine were running the Boston Marathon on Monday. I don't know if you caught any of this online but the conditions were appalling. Something like 2400 entrants didn't even turn up! It was wet, cold and very, very windy. People were being hauled off the course suffering from hypothermia.
Our friend Scott Cameron, from Guelph, put in an amazing time. I actually spotted him on the web cam at the finish line! Everyone else seemed to be wearing hands, rain jackets, running tights. But there was our Scott, in singlet and shorts!
This makes perfect sense if you think of it. Scott has Scottish blood in his veins and his forebears thought nothing of taking to the hillside with nothing much more than the plaid to work, live, love and sleep in.
In fact I'm sure Scott has actually run a marathon or two wearing a kilt!
All this puts my little running ambitions in context. On May 26th I'll be running in the Tiree 10k – the second running of the event. Last year I did the course in about 1 hour 6 minutes. This year I really want to bring it home in under an hour.
Thanks to the 'Healthy Living' programme I am indeed running a bit faster so here's hoping.
Maybe it was the inspiration of my friends taking part in Monday's event but on that same day I signed up for the Baxter's Loch Lomond 10k, which is in October. And I'm thinking about taking part in a 2-lap 'fun race' segment of one of Will Wright's Scottish Cross Country Mountain Bike stages, maybe in August.
Can I do any of this? 52 in December, you know! And yet when I train and look after myself I feel so well. Better than I can remember feeling in about 30 years!
The fact that we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this year has nothing to do with the decline in my physical well-being. It's just a coincidence.
But seriously, wouldn't it be great to get back down to the weight and fitness level you had when you were married?
Back then I was a size 28 waist. I know for a fact that if I got back down to that again people would be convinced I was ill. I think that's a bit of an unrealistic ambition anyway.
Joanne is also determined to get back into shape. Now Joanne isn't a runner and that's fine. So we're going out on long walks, regularly. It's really helping. Keeping it up is the challenge.
Oh and we've also started going to Will's Gym on a Friday night.
Do I sound like a right smarty-pants? Believe me, all of this is hard work.
But 75% of the work is done in your head. I find that I can really be looking forward to going for a run or a cycle and then I'm only a little along the road when that little voice starts talking to me:
Why are you doing this? Still time to start back and put your feet up, you know!
Who are you trying to kid? Why don't you act your age?
What was that little twinge in your side? Are you trying to give yourself a heart attack?
Truth is, sometimes I go out for some exercise and I just don't want to do it. What drives me on is the way I know I'll feel if I don't do it:
Miserable. Guilty. Unfulfilled.
In other words it's a lot less painful doing the exercise than not doing it.
And all I have to do is haul myself outside to find – surprise, surprise – the weather isn't quite as bad as I had imagined, the wind isn't blowing all that strong, really – and when I get back I feel like I have risen to the challenge, that I've overcome the obstacle and that I can be … well … reasonably pleased with myself.
If at all possible I encourage anyone reading this who would love to do some exercise but think they are 'past it' to go along and see their Doctor, get the 'OK' and get on with it.
There's no better feeling than taking on something you felt was impossible, only to find the only limits are those that you place on yourself.


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|Chant of the Doves by Stephen Coan
|Saturday, 30 August 2008 10:46
Chant of the Doves is Stephen Coan's first collection of poetry. And I hope that it will be the first of many. It is a slim, pocket-sized collection, comprising approximately seventy short untitled poems. A large number of these are haiku poems – although not in the strict ninth-century classical Chinese style, but rather more loose and open-ended.
Coan has made a name for himself as feature writer at Pietermaritzburg's daily newspaper, The Witness (where he is assistant editor), and also as a researcher on the work of H. Rider Haggard. In 2000 he edited for first-time publication, Haggard's account of his 1914 visit to southern Africa, Diary of an African Journey. And in 2007 he edited (with Alfred Tella), Mameena and Other Plays: the Complete Dramatic Works of H. Rider Haggard.But it is Coan's double life as retreatant and meditation teacher at the Buddhist Retreat Centre near Ixopo that gives rise to the sustaining metaphor of place that runs through the collection. The poems then are a loose series of reflections both on physical place and landscape (the hills and valleys that Paton sang of so lyrically in Cry, the Beloved Country), and on the practice of a meditative lifestyle that encourages silence and contemplation. In this way, much of Coan's poetry – in style and content – reminds me of the quiet and simple, but profound, epiphanies of the Trappist monk, Thomas Merton at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky.
Like Merton, Coan's writing is inspired by his patient observations of nature (in particular the bird-life around him), rooted strongly in a sensory attentiveness: 'opening the door / the smell of honey / inside the walls at night'.
There is also a gentle humour that runs through this collection, which helps the reader, and the poet himself, not to take the contemplative life too seriously: 'ringing the bell / for the sheer bell of it' and 'stretched out on the bench / by the dam / for as long as it takes / to suck a boiled sweet'.
But apart from the quiet and unassuming strength of the poems, I must also applaud the design of the book itself. Printed on a pale khaki paper and using artistically blurred black and white photographs taken by Coan as dividers between the various sections, designer Fiona Crooks has come up with a delicate visual complement to the poems.
Chant of the Doves cuts through much of the pretentiousness and posing within contemporary South African literature, obsessed with the writer's ego and self-promotion. It is a small collection with a very compassionate heart.


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The two Purim celebrations seemed worlds apart.
At the Chabad-run service, a Lubavitcher rabbi chanted the megillah to an audience segregated by gender, and Beijing's kosher restaurant catered the meal after the reading.
At Kehillat Beijing's service, a woman did a speed-reading rendition of the Megillah rendered almost entirely in English. The dinner afterward included non-kosher meat and dairy products.
Yet the celebrations of Purim in Beijing highlighted how this city's Jews support each other despite divergent religious ideologies. Organizers said the events, which took place on successive evenings, purposely were scheduled on separate nights to give Jews here the opportunity to attend both celebrations.
Max Parness, 23, was among about 15 people who took advantage of the scheduling to attend both events.
"There are two main communities here, and I've found that both are really welcoming, regardless of what your background is,†he says.
The Purim celebrations were one sign of how Beijing's divergent Jewish religious denominations have developed a relationship marked by an unusual level of mutual respect. That's because in a community as small as this — Beijing has about 1,500 Jews — it's important for the Jews to stick together, particularly if they want Jewish life in Beijing to thrive, members of the community say.
"The result of being such a minority in China means that the Jewish community here seems pretty tight-knit," Parness says.
Kehillat's Hebrew school uses the Chabad day school building and even shares its teachers. The Chabad's rabbi, Shimon Freudlich, often meets with the head of Kehillat's school, Elissa Cohen, to discuss curricula.
"We sit down together just to work out the concepts and ideas of Judaism that we have in common, and that's what we teach, as opposed to the differences,†Freudlich says.
Cohen recognizes that it's rare for liberal and Chabad communities to do so much together.
"Rabbi Shimon is really open minded and tries to be as inclusive as he can,†she says.
As recently as just a few years ago, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that harmony would be the rule in Beijing's Jewish community.
The organized Jewish community here really began in 1979, when Roberta Lipson and Elyse Silverberg, two women from New York's Long Island, met each other in Beijing, started a business and began celebrating Jewish holidays together.
The pair hosted their first seder together in 1980, with more than 25 people at a Beijing hotel and matzah brought over from Taiwan.
Two years later, Lipson and Silverberg organized High Holidays services. They advertised in the new English-language newspaper, the China Daily, but their ad was cut. They feared it was because Judaism is not an officially recognized religion in China, but it turns out the editor was concerned about security: Beijing has many Palestinians and a PLO delegation.
"He told us, 'We need to keep you safe. Don't disclose your location,'†Lipson recalls.
Over the years the women organized regular Shabbat and holiday services, adult classes and a Hebrew school. By 2000, Kehillat Beijing had a home, a Torah and a core group of congregants. It was an egalitarian lay-led community that blended Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative beliefs and traditions.
Then Lipson heard that a Chabad rabbi in Hong Kong wanted to talk about coming to Beijing.
Lipson was not pleased. She says her e-mail response to him was, essentially, "We don't need you, stay away.â€
"It was the most impolite I ever was in my life,†she says.
Lipson feared Beijing would see a repeat of what happened in the Shanghai Jewish community, where she says a liberal Jewish community was "subsumed†by the arrival of Chabad.
In 2001, Freudlich came to Beijing, met Lipson at a Starbucks and assuaged her fears.
"He said, 'You have a vibrant Jewish community. There are things you are not doing that we will do, and we will be respectful. However, if we can help you, we will,'†Lipson recalls.
Freudlich says he understood their perspective.
"They didn't want to divide their little community," he said. "I reassured them this wouldn't happen, and so far, so good.â€
One way they avoid fragmentation is by scheduling holiday events to maximize attendance. As with Purim, Passover celebrations are scheduled for successive nights: Chabad puts its advertising energy into the first seder, while Kehillah hosts its community seder on the second night.
Although some Orthodox organizations might not choose to cooperate with liberal ones, Freudlich says he considers the dedication of Kehillat's leaders "a blessing.â€
The support goes both ways. When Chabad first came to Beijing, Chinese authorities asked Lipson and Silverberg if Chabad was fanatical or if the authorities should be concerned. Both women reassured them that Chabad was kosher.
Today, Lipson acknowledges the Chabad's contribution to Beijing's Jewish life. Chabad has supported a kosher restaurant, opened a small Hebrew day school mostly for preschool and kindergarten, and built a mikvah facility.
"We thought we were meeting everyone's needs, but it turns out we were not,†Lipson says.
At the Chabad Purim celebration, many participants said they rely on Chabad for their religious needs.
French native Gilles Perez said that when he was offered a job in Beijing, "the first thing I did was open the Jewish travel guide to find if there was a day school.â€
If not, Perez says, he would not have come. His son Raphael attends the Chabad school.
Americans Akiva and Liora Pearlman have been in Beijing for two years, and Akiva often orders lunch at work from the local kosher restaurant.
"We're not Lubavitch but observant,†Liora says. "Our only choice is Chabad.â€
The Russian Jewish community in Beijing also has benefited from Chabad's arrival. Mostly from Azerbaijan, the community of some 300 people was living in Beijing for about 10 years but never knew a Jewish community existed there.
A member of the Azerbaijan community stopped Freudlich on the street, and the rabbi decided to bring an additional rabbi to Beijing, Rabbi Mendy Raskin, "to cater to them and perform their customs and speak to them in their language.â€
"Every community," Freudlich says, "has their own challenges.â€


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In a previous article (see Tackling Niche Countries) I suggested that countries such as Croatia, where eCommerce is as yet relatively undeveloped, might represent an opportunity for UK retailers to find easy / cheap incremental growth in markets with little competition. The pre-conditions for eCommerce are almost all in place: broadband penetration, appropriate use of payment methods, reasonable logistics, legal framework, EU membership ensuring no issues with tariffs, Google, Facebook etc. But even if you think a country of only 4.5 million people is worth the effort, you could reasonably argue that it is simply too early to target it. There is a real risk that first-mover in reality means no sales. If customers aren't really ready to shop online, then you'll be wasting valuable marketing spend on persuading them of the merits of online shopping itself, rather than on driving them to your site and converting them.
On the other hand, you could argue that many "obvious" countries are already overcrowded. The US is very competitive, and marketing there is very expensive for example. In another previous article (see The Structure of eCommerce Overseas), I considered whether the pure-play dominated environment of Germany made it an easier country for external retailers to target. It probably does, but Germany is still a tough target with aggressive local competition. Ecommerce penetration in Germany is not yet as high as in the UK, but it's rapidly getting there (at least in non-food). With Croatia you could argue that it is too early; with Germany or the USA you could equally argue that it is too late!
So, if it's too early for Croatia, or too late for Germany, when is that Goldilocks moment when it's just right?
One possible answer to this question is provided by some intriguing analysis presented by BCG1:
The first thing to say about this research is that the target audience is not retailers, and that it has a definite "agenda": its objective is to persuade CPG companies that their particular category is now sufficiently online that they should take eCommerce seriously, and preferably buy BCG's consulting services to assist them in doing so. (If any CPGs are reading this: I'm a much cheaper alternative option!).
Setting this agenda aside, its basic thesis is worth consideration. Essentially BCG are suggesting that when a category reaches somewhere between 3% and 5% online penetration (in a country or market), then e-commerce suddenly accelerates.
Personal experience suggests this is both reasonable and surprisingly consistently true. Online grocery in the UK provides a nice current example: it recently reached 5% online penetration and suddenly, alongside convenience stores and discounters, eCommerce has become one of the key factors discussed when considering possible strategies for the supermarkets. Previous engagements in the fashion and DIY sectors also implied the existence of such a tipping point somewhere around the 5% mark. Of course in the UK we're well past that 3%-5% stage in almost all plausible online categories, but elsewhere this is not yet so.
So, if you want to target countries which will be relatively cheap to market to – because there isn't so much local competition – but which are sufficiently developed to already have a reasonable customer base – because eCommerce is already "happening" – then a plausible, and simple, strategy implied by this tipping-point idea is to consider countries where eCommerce penetration in your particular categories is around the 3-4% Goldilocks mark.
In practical terms, this is fairly easy to find out: category level online-penetration data is typically available for most remotely plausible countries. It may also throw up interesting opportunities: penetration of eCommerce into clothing/fashion in Canada, for example, is just around that 4% mark right now.
Just right for a baby cross-border website?
1 - www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/digital_economy_consumer_products_digital_future_game_plan_consumer_packaged_goods/