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Kenai Peninsula Intergroup
The Kenai Peninsula Intergroup is here to help men and women who may have a drinking problem. We help new members find local meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous on the Kenai Peninsula.
Our sole reason for being here is to carry the message of AA and to be of service to the AA groups in the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
The KPIG listing of meetings and information is provided by the groups themselves.
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Tim Cahill,
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
(Bantam, 1987)
Brazen stupidity will get you anywhere in life. That, and complete and utter irreverance.
The adventure travel book Jaguars Ripped My Flesh offers rather stunning proof of this. One of Outside magazine's founding editors and a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone, Tim Cahill regales us with tales of fearsome and certainly humourous adventure written from his very unique, quirky perspective. Diving with sharks, caving in Kentucky, skydiving in California, filming poison sea snakes in the Philipines and exploring ancient ruins in Peru. The author has done it all and kept us laughing through his experiences.
"Personally, I've found that it doesn't pay to take these accomplishments too seriously. I spend a lot of time laughing at myself." Cahill sums it up nicely, just like a walk in the park. Next minute, he's flying with the Air Force Weather Reconnaissance Squadron into the eye of a hurricane. Admittedly, what else can you do but laugh in the face of danger when you're already too scared to throw up?
Comprised of thirty stories under separate and appropriate divisions, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh is not all bold-faced humour in light of death-defying adventure, although there's plenty of that. The author offers us a compelling take on many things seen in the course of his travels, from ecological rape in Mexico to his dark account of the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. However, most of the stories in this book are written in a light vein and are all a delight to read.
It's difficult to say exactly where the true appeal of this book lies. Obviously, in the sense of adventure and the author's self-deprecating sense of humor, but I'd be tempted to say it's the general combination of many things -- with the added bonus of the inspiraton they provide to do things we would only dream of considering.
As the author says, "I suppose all this sounds like some adolescent daydream. In a sense, it is. Most of us abandon the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and the first job. Our dreams die under the dark weight of responsibility. ... Because competence and courage continue to elude me, others have been inspired to realise their own fantasies, reasoning, quite cogently I think, that they could hardly do worse than I have done. I like that: I like to think that I am in the business of giving people back their dreams."
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A one-time follower of mass murderer Charles Manson who in 1975 tried to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford told a mental health examiner in a decades-old taped interview that an "X" she carved in her forehead was meant to set her apart from "the system."
The Sacramento Bee won a release of the tape from a federal judge and posted portions of the recording involving now-65-year-old Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme on its website late on Wednesday.
In 1975, Fromme aimed a semi-automatic pistol at Ford at an appearance in Sacramento and was restrained by a Secret Service agent. She was convicted of attempted assassination of the president and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. She was released on parole in 2009.
In the 1975 recorded interview with a psychiatrist, Fromme discussed everything from her drug use and her vegetarian diet to what she called misconceptions about the Manson crime family.
At one point, the psychiatrist asked Fromme about an "X" she marked on her forehead. Fromme and other followers of Manson marked their foreheads during Manson's 1970 murder trial.
"Well, it has different levels," Fromme told the psychiatrist, according to the tape. "On one level it is a cross that's a following cross. On another level it is an 'X' and the 'X' is we are marked out of the system as it stands. We don't go along with it."
In another portion of the tape, Fromme admitted to taking the drug LSD about 30 times.
"I became aware of the possibilities of different realities as seen through different eyes, as seen through the Chicanos for example," Fromme said on the tape. "I traveled in my mind into their world, the east Los Angeles. And then I traveled into the ghetto and I traveled into high society."
In the tape, Fromme also talked about being a follower of Charles Manson, a charismatic ex-convict who assembled a group of runaways and outcasts. In the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people, including actress Sharon Tate, in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war.
Manson, 79, is serving a life sentence at Corcoran State Prison in California for the seven Manson Family killings and the murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman.


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TANZANIA'S four largest banks are controlling almost 50 per cent of market share in term of assets, capital, deposits and loans and advances for two consecutive years.
The Bank of Tanzania's Directorate of Banking Supervision in latest report shows CRDB, National Microfinance Bank, National Bank of Commerce and Standard Chartered Bank are holding 48.58 per cent of the total assets, 47.54 per cent of total capital, 49.82 per cent of total deposits and 49.4 per cent of total loans advances and overdrafts.
The four banks share of market in 2015 and 2016 were almost the same and CRDB lead the list with assets of over 5.0tri/- and deposits of over 4.0tri/-.
It is followed by NMB that controls almost over 4.5tri and 3.5tri/- of assets and deposits while NBC is third on the list with 1.6tri/- assets and 1.3tri/- deposits.
The fourth on list is StanChart with slightly over 1.6tri/ in assets and 1.2tri/- deposits. The report shows that the next six largest banks control around 20 per cent of market share in term of balance sheet and the remaining some 30 per cent.
The country has 56 banks by 2015. On the other hand, local banking institutions' share of the total banking sector's assets was 53 per cent, slightly higher than that of foreign banking institutions at 47 per cent.
The number of bank branches reached 728 at the end of 2015 with most of them, 60 per cent, located in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, Mbeya and Moshi.
Dar es Salaam had 263 branches, equivalent to 36.13 per cent of all branches, followed by Arusha, 51 branches (7.01%), Mwanza 49 branches (6.73%), Mbeya 41 branches (5.63%), and Moshi 33 branches (4.53%).
During the same period, 3,299 bank agents were in operation where most of the agents were concentrated in major cities of Dar es Salaam (34.63%), Arusha (8.51%) and Mwanza (8.39%).
On other hands, Pemba and Katavi had the lowest number of branches with only three branches, Simiyu and Rukwa six branches each, and Singida and Kigoma eight each.
In the second lowest regions a low number of bank branches are Dodoma, Njombe, and Lindi which had 10 branches followed by Manyara 11, Pwani and Ruvuma 12 each and Iringa 13 branches


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Lets says I had a website about the internet. On the index page I went on about what I knew about the internet. On a different page I talked about internet browsers. On a 3rd page I might talk about cable modems...etc. My question is if someone searched cable modems would the serp show the url to my 3rd page or would it show my index page where I talked about the internet?
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hello java-forum
I want to know the ip of all pc's that are connected to current pc.
Plz help me.....
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hello java-forum
I want to know the ip of all pc's that are connected to current pc.
Plz help me.....
Just forget about the Java and stuff. In general say in windows, how you find all the IPs in a PC?
You've to execute a command, isn't it. You can execute the same in Java. Think about first.
I am new to networking i dont know how we find in windows.
but i heard abt InetAddress which give local host ip address and host name
What happen if you type ipconfig on command prompt in Windows? Using that method you build up a method to find the IP address, on windows.
Actually what you have to look around is something like, which is the best way to do it using Java for any OS.
Read Java DOC for more details.Code:
InetAddress address= InetAddress.getLocalHost();
if you are a java socket server you could use
try {
Socket s;
s = ss.accept();
String client;
client = s.getInetAddress().toString();
} ...
It give the local socket address which is in use at the minute. I think our OP wants to find all the IPs added in the PC.
This is what Java DCO says.
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Cycling, though an affordable and undeniably sustainable means of transportation, can be a fashionista's nightmare, and these chic biking updates provide a great alternative to most available items. Bulky helmets, overly revealing mount designs, and spandex can scare away otherwise enthusiastic cyclists. To the relief of cycle-istas everywhere, the changing needs of two-wheeling consumers have been addressed with stylish products for bike-lovers.
From luxury designer cycles to haute couture helmets, even the most unlikely of brands are giving the biking industry a much-needed makeover. Many have seen a wide array of stylish alternatives, updates and inventions all in the name of changing biking into a more attractive means of transportation.
Enhancing the cycling market by targeting new customers while developing chic biking updates for an increasingly wider market demographic, these stylish biking updates are alluring and functional.
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ATLANTA | While some states push to tighten gun control laws after the Connecticut school massacre, some lawmakers in gun-friendly Georgia want to ease rules preventing some mentally ill people from getting licenses to carry firearms.
Legislators in Georgia's House voted 117-56 on Thursday to allow people who have voluntarily sought inpatient treatment for mental illness or substance abuse to get licenses. The same bill also attempts to make it easier for officials to check on whether applicants have ever received involuntary treatment. Georgia also may change its laws to allow people to carry guns in churches, bars and on college campuses, contrary to what's happening elsewhere in the United States.
Judges in Georgia now have discretion over whether to grant a license to carry a weapon to anyone who has received inpatient treatment at a mental hospital or substance abuse treatment center in the last five years, whether it's voluntary or not.
"Simply being hospitalized doesn't make a person a criminal or a threat," said Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, the bill sponsor, in a statement. The legislation now heads to the state Senate.
That change is part of a larger package showcasing the local Republican philosophy on guns. The plan, backed by a gun owners group called GeorgiaCarry.Org, would allow people to carry weapons in churches, bars and college campuses - despite the objections of higher education officials. In response to a shooting rampage that killed 26 people in Connecticut, it would allow school officials to arm their employees.
Democrats resisted the proposal, although they conceded it would likely pass in the GOP-dominated House of Representatives. They argued that allowing guns in more places will not make society safer and may lead to more deaths.
"I'm not, by nature, a worrier," said Rep. Scott Holcomb, a Democrat. "But I worry that the mix of alcohol, drugs, sex and immaturity on college campuses could be fatal."
The law may make it easier for judges to check on some mental health issues. Right now, judges can require that people seeking a license authorize the release of treatment records and allow the judge to get a recommendation from treatment providers. Because there is no single clearinghouse for treatment information, judges would have to send waivers to multiple hospitals or treatment centers to get that information.
By contrast, Jasperse's bill would require that courts submit involuntary treatment orders to a database that would be consulted before judges issue licenses to carry weapons. The legislation would also ban people whom law enforcement officials hear making threats against others in the last five years from carrying weapons. Those represented by guardians or conservators because of mental illness or drug abuse would also be disqualified.
One prosecutor said he was concerned about the provision because not everyone with serious mental illness is forced to receive treatment, meaning they would be eligible to carry weapons.
"My concern would be there's got to be people who voluntarily seek inpatient treatment who wouldn't be any less dangerous than if they're sent there involuntarily," Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said Wednesday.
Federal law prohibits giving or selling guns to anyone who judged to be "mentally defective" or those committed to a mental institution. States set their own standards on who can carry weapons. Some states use the same mental health threshold when deciding whether someone should be prohibited from carrying a gun.


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Your mental health and wellbeing is everything.
You don't need to face your challenges alone.
Amelie is a chat-bot everyone can connect with for support with their mental health and well being concerns.
Simply message Amelie on Facebook to immediately discover trustworthy resources that are relevant to your needs.
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Macdonald Mines Begins Exploration at its Charlevoix Silica Property
Toronto, Ontario – February 23, 2017 -MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. (TSX.V: BMK) ("MacDonald Mines", or the "Company") has begun exploration programs at both its Wawa-Holdsworth Gold Project near Wawa, Ontario, and its Charlevoix Silica Property located approximately 42 kilometres north of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. The sampling program conducted at Charlevoix suggest that the high purity quartzite unit mined at the Sitec Silica Mine extends on the property.
Wawa-Holdsworth Project
Havenan Brothers completed 62 kilometres of line cutting at the Wawa-Holdsworth Project in order to conduct magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the property. The Company intends to utilize this data to map, model and highlight prospective drill targets.
The Wawa-Holdsworth Project is comprised of 18 contiguous patented mining claims covering approximately 285 hectares, located 20 kilometres northeast of Wawa, Ontario. Three gold targets have been identified on the property:
- Lode Gold in traditional quartz veins, known as the "The Soocana Vein",
- an oxidized cap at surface developed over a massive pyrite zone (Algoma Iron Formation) known as the "The Oxide Sands", and
- the precursor to the Oxide Sands - a massive pyrite zone (Algoma Iron Formation) at depths, known as "The Massive Sulphide".
The Company believes that there is potential to find additional high-grade gold mineralization at the Wawa-Holdsworth Project.
Charlevoix Silica Property
MacDonald Mines carried out a reconnaissance and prospecting program in January 2017 at the Company's Charlevoix Silica Property. The objective of the program was to assess access to the property and collect outcrop samples.
Results of the quartzite composite samples are as follows:
A total of 12 composite samples were collected, 6 of which were of the quartzite unit being targeted by the program, and several structural measurements and bedrock locations were recorded. The presence of the quartzite unit and its projected location on the claims was confirmed, and it was traced for approximately 500 meters in length (see Figure 1).
Quentin Yarie, MacDonald's President and CEO commented, "The assay results support Charlevoix's high purity silica potential. Despite the snow cover, it is apparent that the presence of the quartzite unit as mapped by the government exists. We have every reason to believe that our property, located only 15 km from the Sitec Silica Mine, hosts high purity silica. The fact that the Charlevoix quartzite unit consists of a fold should provide a much thicker quartzite unit on our property."
The Sitec Silica Mine has been in production for more than 50 years. It produces approximately 250,000 tonnes of silica a year and has an estimated future mine life of over 20 years. Silica from the Sitec Mine is shipped to plants in Bécancour, Chicoutimi and the United States. Silica produced at Sitec is used at foundries and glass factories as well as in the production of solar panels and high-tech components.
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Investors are invited to visit booth #2512 on March 5-8, 2017, to meet with MacDonald's management and staff to discuss the Company's recent activities and projects.
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About MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd.
MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. is a mineral exploration company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Previously focused on Copper and Zinc (VMS), and Nickel exploration in the Ring of Fire area of the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, the company recently acquired the Charlevoix Silica Property in Quebec and entered into an option and joint venture agreement with Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. to advance exploration on Noble's Wawa-Holdsworth Gold and Silver Project in Ontario.
The Company's common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BMK".
For more information about the Company visit www.macdonaldmines.com
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This news release contains forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "should", "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "predicts", "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.


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Parents in the East Midlands urged to spot the deadly signs of sepsis
A nationwide campaign to help parents spot the symptoms of sepsis to protect young children and save lives has been launched today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
The campaign is principally aimed at parents and carers of young children aged 0-4 and will include a new film featuring mother and campaigner Melissa Mead, who lost her baby son William to sepsis in December 2014.
The UK Sepsis Trust estimates that there are more than 120,000 cases of sepsis and around 37,000 deaths each year in England.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Sepsis is a devastating condition that we need to far get better at spotting it across the NHS. By raising awareness and improving clinical practice we will save lives in the fight against this horrible illness. I'd like to thank those who have worked with us to campaign for better awareness of sepsis, including Melissa Mead and other families who have tragically lost children to sepsis."
Campaign supporter and UK Sepsis trust ambassador Melissa Mead said: "Sepsis is a cruel, ruthless condition which doesn't discriminate and can affect anyone. I hope this campaign reaches as many people as possible, so all parents out there know about sepsis and how serious it can be. The more parents know, the quicker they can act if they suspect their child may be suffering from sepsis – it could be life-saving." I will never hear my sweet child say 'mummy I love you'. I will never know the man that William would have grown to be. So please, it is too late for me to 'think sepsis', but it's not too late for you."
Millions of leaflets and posters are being sent to GP surgeries and hospitals across the country from tomorrow. These materials, developed with the Royal Colleges, will urge parents to call 999 or take their child to A&E if they display any of the following signs:
• Looks mottled, bluish or pale
• Is very lethargic or difficult to wake
• Feels abnormally cold to touch
• Is breathing very fast
• Has a rush that does not fade when you press it
• Has a fit or convulsion
Sophie Jeffrey's son George contracted sepsis in 2013, when he was just three weeks old. Sophie, from Belper, Derbyshire, had carried Step B while she was pregnant, and both she and George were on antibiotics, however, George was showing signs of struggling with his breathing.
Upon an initial trip to the doctors, the GP suggested George might have wind. Once back at home, Sophie ran an internet search on his symptoms and sepsis came up. She called 111 who sent a paramedic to her house, who immediately recognised George's symptoms as sepsis and took him to A&E. He spent a week in hospital and received a further course of antibiotics.
Sophie said: "George has experienced some tummy issues and allergies which may be as a result of the antibiotics, but otherwise you would have no idea that he had been so ill, he was very, very lucky.
"I can't urge other parents enough to trust themselves when it comes to the health of their children and learn about sepsis, its symptoms and when to seek help."
Dr Vanessa MacGregor, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control at Public Health England East Midlands said: "We know that acting quickly in cases of sepsis can save a child's life and it is important parents have the information to take action. This campaign gives parents vital information about sepsis, helps them identify the symptoms of sepsis, and encourages them to seek the appropriate medical attention. It is important that these messages are widely received which is why PHE's Director of Health Protection and Medical Director Professor Paul Cosford, and NHS England's National medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh have written to all NHS medical directors to highlight this campaign and the importance of making all staff aware of the signs of sepsis."
Dr Ron Daniels BEM, Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust which will help deliver the campaign, added: "With sepsis claiming over 37,000 lives annually in England, this awareness campaign is a crucial step forward. Clinicians and members of the public can save thousands of lives every year if they just ask: could it be sepsis?"
"The UK Sepsis Trust welcomes this initiative, but system-wide improvements to sepsis care must follow. We're delighted to have developed campaign materials that will empower parents to identify sepsis symptoms in their children and seek medical attention immediately."
Sir Bruce Keogh, National Medical Director for NHS England said: "This time last year NHS England published a blueprint for action to tackle this dangerous condition, and since then a huge amount has been done. NHS England has made available funding worth up to £2m for big hospitals to implement systems that speed up the recognition and treatment of sepsis. Pop-up reminders for sepsis also now appear on GP systems, and information on sepsis is included in the 'Red Book' for new parents. For healthcare professionals, NICE has published guidance and Health Education England has produced educational materials.
"This work has been driven by the desire of doctors, nurses and other health professionals to unite and take action. This campaign is an important addition to our ongoing work – we will never treat sepsis in time unless everyone 'thinks sepsis'."
The campaign, delivered by Public Health England and the UK Sepsis Trust, comes on top of a number of measures already taken by the NHS improve early recognition and timely treatment of sepsis. We have introduced a national scheme to make sure at-risk patients are screened for sepsis as quickly as possible and receive timely treatment on admission to hospital. We are also working with Health Education England to make sure all health professionals have the knowledge and skills to identify and treat sepsis.
The campaign will involve a range of activities including the release of a series of new symptom awareness films led by Melissa Mead and supported by other families who have been affected by the condition, including Hayley Astley whose daughter Layla contracted sepsis aged 13 weeks and Patrick Kane, now 19, who developed the condition aged nine months. The campaign is also being supported by a partnership with Netmums, the UK's biggest, most trusted and influential parenting site.
For further information on sepsis, visit nhs.uk/sepsis or www.sepsistrust.org


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AS you can probably gather from the front of this week's GO! section, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz will be performed in the new city this week.
On Monday, perfect for Half Term, the show will be playing at Stantonbury Campus Theatre at 2.30pm.
Follow Dorothy Gale and her pooch pal Toto as their house is swept away by a cyclone and they wind up in a strange land called Oz....
Enter the Munchkins, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion on the journey to the Emerald City. But will Dorothy ever make it home to Kansas?
It's perfect for little tikes aged four years and up, and clocks in at 90 minutes long.
Call MK 324422 to book.
>We told you last week that the Gilbert & Sullivan deliveries Cox & Box and The Sorcerer were being staged at Stantonbury Campus, and performances continue through to Saturday, before the group move to St George's Church from Tuesday, for a two day stay with Godspell.
Tickets are a snip at afiver.
If you want to enjoy the rock musical based upon St Matthew's Gospel, pick up the phone and call MK 262250 or call in to 1st Night Costume Hire in Stony Stratford.


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In the Montreal summer of 1993, Evelyn Farha did what no mother should have to do: She watched her only son die.
Two-and-a-half years earlier, Ron Farha had broken the news to his parents and three sisters after he could no longer hide the telltale brown lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma on his face and neck: He had contracted HIV in the mid-1980s but it was now full-blown AIDS - and he didn't have much time left. He tearfully revealed that his mother would not get her oftstated wish that her children would outlive her.
Then 67, Ms. Farha spent her days cooking her son's favourite Lebanese dishes - yabra (stuffed grape leaves), fatayer (meat pie) and koussa (stuffed zucchini) - and delivering them to him at the Montreal General Hospital. She sat with Ron, worried, and wept.
She also threw herself into studying everything she could find about AIDS, a disease that was first described only a dozen years earlier and seemed confined to gay men.
Ron believed a cure was just a few years away.
"It was hell, what we went through," she said.
The year before he died, Ron, who had taken over his father's garment manufacturing business, launched a foundation to raise awareness and money for research into the disease. He had raised about $200,000 for improving outpatient services for those with AIDS and purchased everything from comfortable beds and chairs to intravenous pumps. Evelyn was willing to let that initiative wind down as she witnessed her son die of pneumonia in July, 1993.
He was 36 years old.
"Just before he died, I said to him, 'Let all of this go when you do,' " Ms. Farha told the Montreal Gazette in the autumn of that year. "But he said, 'No, Mom, keep it alive.' So that's what I do."
And that's what she kept doing for the next 25 years, driven by her son's memory - "I just look at his picture and think of his strength," she said. As honorary president of Montreal's Farha Foundation, Ms. Farha picked up the torch and threw herself into speaking at schools and conferences, beating bushes for money, even talking to random young people about safe sex.
Though she had no experience in fundraising and very little in the business world, she and the foundation are credited with distributing more than $10-million to dozens of Quebec organizations that provide care and services to people living with HIV/AIDS, along with prevention and education programs.
"Her goal was to see that no other family suffers the same loss as her by educating the community that the disease is preventable," noted the Fondation québécoise du Sida, which merged with the Farha Foundation last April.
Local reporters took to calling her a "dynamo" and "relentless." She was a fixture in the foundation's annual Ça Marche AIDS walkathon. Though she was battling arthritis in later years, she ditched her wheelchair in favour of her walker for the entire seven-kilometre walk.
Ms. Farha died in Montreal on Jan. 18, also from pneumonia, at the age of 92.
Being a private person, Ms. Farha conceded that she would have preferred to keep her grief to herself. But the more she learned about AIDS, the more she wanted to dispel the myths and stigma surrounding the disease that claimed her boy. She was shocked, in the early 1990s, to learn that some people thought you could get AIDS by touching somebody.
"People were afraid to sit next to someone with AIDS. In many cases, parents rejected their children with AIDS," she told the Gazette in a 2013 interview. "It shows you how ignorant people were about the disease. And they still are."
At the same time, advances in science turned AIDS from a killer disease to "just another chronic illness." That made people complacent, "and that's a shame." It can also strike anyone, she stressed, not just homosexuals.
She expressed amazement when people asked whether she was embarrassed to say her son had died of AIDS. "Unbelievable. I tell them, 'Of course not.' " But had the disease spared her son, "I don't know how I would have accepted AIDS," she confessed to The Gazette. "I probably would have remained ignorant, like a lot of people."
Ms. Farha was "a trailblazer and a very determined woman," said Yves Lafontaine, editor of Fugues, a magazine for Montreal's LGBTQ community. When he first met her, he found "an impressive, strong woman who turned the death of her son into a crusade to help a community which was in much need of outside support."
She "helped change attitudes toward men and women living with HIV/AIDS, when they were usually shunned."
The oldest of five children, Evelyn Farha was born in Montreal on Sept. 14, 1925, to the former Faride Koury, who was born in Beirut, and Joseph Malacket, who came to Canada at age 13 from Damascus, Syria, to join his brother. Evelyn was a baby when the clan decamped for Brownsburg, Que., about 80 kilometres northwest of Montreal, to open a small general store. Despite rationing during the Second World War, workers at a nearby munitions plant were able to snap up radios, dresses and refrigerators there.
Evelyn left school to work in the family business. "She dressed the whole town," her daughter Linda said. She met Joseph Farha, a lingerie manufacturer, on a church trip. Later, she approached him at a fashion show to buy crinoline for the store. The couple married in 1954 and moved to Montreal.
They accepted the fact their son was homosexual and understood that wasn't going to be easy, given the times.
"She was accepting of gays," Linda said. "She was a mother who didn't turn her back on her child because of his lifestyle. A lot of parents did."
Talking about sex was something else.
"In my generation, you would never think of talking to kids about safe sex," Ms. Farha said in 1993. "And even now, a lot of parents think it's never going to happen to their kids. But nobody can afford to ignore AIDS. We need to reach kids and make sure they practise safe sex. And we need to make sure parents keep talking to them about it."
She took her message wherever she went, even to teenage boys on the street. "I tell them, 'You boys are wonderful, such handsome young men. I hope you do use protection if you have sex.' They tell me, 'Oh it's good to remind us. Thank you.' Not one of them said to me, 'Mind your own business.' " Her mother "had some weird conversations for a woman her age," Linda recalled. "She was a mother and grandmother people could talk to.
She was not shy."
The children of Gary Lacasse, executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society in Ottawa, were among the beneficiaries of her advice.
"She even talked to my kids at a benefit about safe sex a few years ago and the joy to be had in living," he recalled. Ms. Farha was "destigmatizing HIV with every person she met, always educating. We have lost a great leader within our HIV community."
Ken Monteith, the director-general of COCQSIDA, echoed the sentiment, noting that Ms. Farha became an ally of the community as soon as she made the choice to embrace her son after his diagnosis rather than rejecting him, which was all too common in that era.
"Even recently, she was happy to overcome social barriers to raise the issue with fellow residents in the retirement community she lived in," he noted.
"Were their grandchildren aware of HIV and protecting themselves in their sex lives?
[It's] not something that most people would bring up in such a setting, but again an excellent example for the rest of us."
Ms. Farha's accolades included the 1999 Governor-General's Caring Canadian Award, which noted that when not working on foundation business, she spent hours each week visiting hospices in the Montreal area, "providing comfort to persons living with and dying of AIDS." A few years later, she received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. And in 2013, she was awarded Quebec's Médaille d'honneur de l'Assemblée nationale.
Her husband died in 1998. Ms. Farha is survived by her daughters, Linda, Nancy and Carolyn, four grandchildren and two sisters.
Like many ordinary people thrust into prominence, she once said, she never thought she would be capable of what she achieved. "It's surprising when you're forced into something what you can do. Maybe my son was right when he asked me to be the mother behind the foundation." To submit an I Remember: email@example.com Send us a memory of someone we have recently profiled on the Obituaries page.
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Activist Evelyn Farha, centre, was widely regarded by local reporters as a 'dynamo' and 'relentless' in her crusade to raise money for HIV/AIDS research and education.
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Bucharest (Sep. 21)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish community in Transylvania, the Hungarian province annexed to Roumania, finds itself between the anvil and the sledge as a result of the school question now agitating Transylvania.
Since Transylvania was incorporated into Roumania a bid for Jewish support has been going on between the Roumanian government and the Hungarian minority. The Hungarians strive to include the Jews in their group, claiming that Hungarian is the mother tongue of Transylvanian Jews. If the Jewish group is added to the Hungarian group, their claim for Hungarian as the language of instruction in the Transylvanian schools would receive added strength. This demand formulated by the Hungarians was, however, refused by the Roumanian Minister of Education, Petrovitch. The question has now assumed an acute form because of the visit to Bucharest of Count Bethlen, Hungarian prime minister. He has intervened in this matter with the Roumanian Minister of the Interior, Goga.
The Hungarian pagers in Transylvania blame the Jews for the attitude of the Roumanian government in the Transylvanian school question. The Roumanian school inspector, Pecancu, conducted an investigation in the town of Satumare, where there is a large Jewish community. He declared on the basis of his survey that a majority of the Jewish inhabitants in Satumare declared themselves to be Jews, not Hungarians.


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Bacterial Flora & Antimicrobial Resistance In Imported Farmed Seafood
Posted on August 29, 2013 by willgriffiths
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to farmed fish ventures has long been disease control; not just how to stop diseases out-breaks within the farms themselves, but how to do so without over-medicating and thus encouraging the growth of antibacterial resistant strains. Using too high a quantity of antimicrobials can lead to presence of antimicrobial resistance bacteria in stomachs of humans and animals.
On land, livestock are treated through use of antibiotics in their feed, which prevent and control diseases within the farmed populations. The same happens in fish farms, though less is known about how often they are used or how effective they are.
A new study from the University of Copenhagen associated with the SEAT project has shown that antimicrobial resistance is unlikely to be found naturally occurring in farmed seafood at the point of harvest. This indicates that it is not when the fish are removed from the ponds they are grown in ready to be processed, that they contain drug-resistant bacteria.
Why is this important?
If bacteria are drug-resistant and prevalent in our foodstuffs, it is possible for humans to become infected. It is important to ensure that current aquaculture practices do not encourage the development of antimicrobial resistant bacteria strains so that consumers can be assured that farming methods provide seafood which is safe for humans, and importantly is not resulting in resistant bacterial strains.
This however, does not mean that farmed seafood is never contaminated with virulent strains; handling by humans during processing, as with any food product, can be where bacteria is passed onto a food product. It is these areas of the supply chain where efforts should be concentrated to ensure the greatest degree of hygiene and so minimise bacteria.
The full article: Bacterial Flora and Antimicrobial Resistance in Raw Frozen Cultured Seafood Imported to Denmark, can be viewed here.
To cite the article: Bacterial Flora and Antimicrobial Resistance in Raw Frozen Cultured Seafood Imported to Denmark (2013), Noor Uddin, G. M. Larsen, M. H. Guardabassi, L. & Dalsgaard. Journal of Food Protection. 76: 490-499.


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04.29.10 - Several costumes and props from Resident Evil: Afterlife will be auctioned at the Premiere Props Texas Frightmare Weekend Live Auction on Saturday, May 1 in Irving, TX. Bids can be placed online -- go to premiereprops.com for information on registering to bid. A full list of items available can be found here -- several items were worn or used by Milla!
04.27.10 - A photograph of Milla from Heroines by Bettina Rheims [ Amazon ] was used in an article in The New York Times Style Magazine (US) April 25, 2010:
Milla discusses Jovovich-Hawk designing Alice's clothes and more in this Entertainment Tonight set visit to Resident Evil: Afterlife:
CraveOnline.com set visit to Resident Evil: Afterlife:
"Just as aggressive as ever. Always really super aggressive and she still is but now it's even more so. I think there's a relaxation in this one for her as a character that she hasn't had in the other movies because in a way she's earned some freedom. She's taking advantage of it and making some good relationships within the movie."
Q: Is there any other action hero you'd like to play?
"Gosh, I feel like I'm sort of at the limit that I could do action wise. It would be almost disloyal to Alice to be another action Heroine so I'm kind of just doing independent films and comedies and fun things that just help me kind of grow as an actress and get better for the next Resident Evil."
Q: What's next for you?
"Well, I've got a movie that I'm working on right now called Dirty Girl which is fun. It's a comedy, not an adult film, okay? It's with a child. I'm working with a child. I'm working with Juno Temple, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Macy, Tim McGraw, a really wonderful cast of people, really fun. I play Juno Temple's mom which is really funny. I'm like an Oklahoma girl that had a baby at 16. Stone, which is pretty crazy, man. I just watched it the other night actually. It's not for everybody but it's a pretty crazy movie. It's very tense, very dramatic, just deep. It's about a man who's in prison and he's trying to convince his parole officer to pretty much say, "Look, I've done my time. Are you the only one that can judge me? How can you judge me? You've never done anything wrong." It's really talking about good and evil and where we stand in life."
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04.21.10 - Milla discussing her daughter Ever getting into show business:
"When I'm not working, I want to be with my baby. The multitasking-Milla is a thing of the past. I'm about prioritising now. I can't do all the modelling and movies that I want and still have time for my baby and my family."
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04.19.10 - Behind the scenes video of ICB Spring/Summer 2010 photoshoot:
04.18.10 - Ann Taylor ads:
04.13.10 - Resident Evil: Afterlife set visit from ShockTillYouDrop.com.
ICB ad, L'Oréal ad:
04.11.10 - Milla has been tweeting (@MillaJovovich) and posting pictures from the set of Dirty Girl:
- Hey every1! I'm on set w my fave actor bill macy! We r having such a gr8 time, but pulling another late night! Tgif!
- I'm trying to set bill macy's twitter up on his phone, but he forgot his password! Lol! we'll get it though! Never give up, never surrender!
- Ok we finally have @williamhallmacy up and running on twitter folks! Say hi to him every1!
Harper's Bazaar (Singapore) April 2010:
04.05.10 - The MillaJForum is back up and running! Join other Milla fans in the forum for lively discussions about Milla and many other topics.
Milla discussing Faces in the Crowd (from FEARnet): "Faces in the Crowd is this really interesting script about this woman who gets an injury and she can't recognize faces. It's an actual syndrome, where, you turn around, and, when you look back, the person's face is totally different. And she runs away from this killer and she falls off this bridge, and pretty much the syndrome happens to her. So she doesn't recognize the killer even though she saw his face. So it's this really cool Hitchcockian thriller. It's gonna be fun."
More from WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco:
More Resident Evil: Afterlife articles:
- SCI FI Wire (April 5, 2010) interview with Milla discussing how Alice has changed:
"She's nicer, I think,. She is a nice person, and she's fun. I think now that she's defeated the control that Umbrella has on her; she's kind of more of a regular person in the sense that she's not so scared to make ties with people and become friends with people because she knows that they're going to be killed by Umbrella if they're close to her. It gives her a new freedom as a human being to just be more open to people around her, which I think is great, because the last few films, she has been so closed off and trying to deal with the virus and deal with this satellite control that they have, so it's made her much more of a loner. I think in this one she opens up more and is able to accept people into her life, which is wonderful."
- Bloody-Disgusting (April 5, 2010) set visit and interview with Paul discussing the game's influence on the film:
"I was writing the script before the game came. Once the game came out, it had huge elements that were already in the screenplay. Capcom is so funny. Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom, it's like seeing the Umbrella Corporation. They won't give you straight answer about anything. So I kind of new they would tell me that Wesker was in the game, kind of, but never really confirming it. Sure enough, he was the main villain and he was the main villain in the movie, as well. Completely by coincidence, a large chunk of this movie takes place in a big ship and there was the ship in "Resident Evil 5". We have an awful lot of stuff that they already put into "Resident Evil 5". So I did a whole big pass on the script to bring it more in line with the imagery from the latest game because I felt the latest game was fantastic. I think it kind of reinvented the video game franchise. I wanted to take a lot of it, frankly, kind of steal from it and put it into the movie. There is a whole fight scene with Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller that's taken almost shot by shot from "Resident Evil 5". It's the one when Chris and Shiva are fighting Wesker. So we're putting Claire in there instead so it's brother and sister fighting against Wesker. So what's great in the game is its one continuous shot where the camera rotates around Wesker fighting the two and he kicks their asses. They never cut which of course, you can do in animation. It's a bit more difficult in live action. Se we're probably going to shoot the fight in 10 different segments then seam it together in visual effects. So the finished effect will be as if the camera never stops rotating around."
- FEARnet (April 4, 2010) set visit and interview with Milla:
Do you enjoy being back on the Resident Evil set?
"I have an incredible life. I get to come to this set every day, act like a kid... everyone feels like a kid on this set. Guns are going hot! Zombies are coming out! You've gotta love it. We have the family together, we get to spend so much time with our baby. I have friends who hardly see their kids until the weekend. We get to see our daughter every day at lunch, and every night before sleep. We have her on LA time, so she gets to stay up later. By the time we get home from work, we have a few hours to play. It's hard when we are both working on separate projects. Next year when I go off on a new project, daddy's not going to be there. It sucks."
How different is it for you to shoot in 3D?
"It's pretty interesting. I got punched in the head the other day because you have to get super-close to make [a shot] work. In a normal 2D screen, you aren't seeing the same depth, so they don't see that a punch is a complete miss."
04.03.10 - Milla, director Paul W.S. Anderson, and Ali Larter presented the 3-D trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife last night at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco! The trailer is embedded below. Larger versions can be seen at MySpace Horror Movies.
From Milla's Twitter (@MillaJovovich):
- I hadn't seen it w all the effects yet, OR in 3D, so it was incredibly exciting! It looks SICK!!!!!!!! WHAT?!!!! AHA, YEA BAEEEBBAAAYYY!!!!!
- WOW!!! That was awesome! We jst PREMIERED the RE4 teaser at Wondercon in san francisco and it ROCKED!
- We had SO MUCH fun at wondercon! Ali,Paul & I talked to a GR8 panel of ppl! Thank you guys so much 4 your enthusiasm and support of RE!!!!
Other articles:
- ComingSoon.net (April 3, 2010) describes the trailer
- FEARnet (April 3, 2010) reports on the trailer being unveiled at WonderCon 2010.
Milla: "It's Resident Evil, man. It's my brother's favorite video game! What's amazing about Resident Evil is you get a chance to do a really great story and have fun. It's like going to Disneyland or going to Magic Mountain. It's fun to make a movie where you're flying and you're kicking butt and you're training and you're doing so much stuff that you would never do..."
- MTV interview with Paul (April 2, 2010):
You've worked with your lovely wife Milla on all these films, but this is the first Resident Evil you've shot since she gave birth to your daughter. Now that she's a mom, was Milla less eager to do some of the more hard-core stunts?
"No, it was the other way around, in fact. I have to keep her away from dangerous things on the movie set, because she'll do absolutely anything and wants to do everything. There'll be times when I say, 'Look, you just cannot do this.'"
Over the course of these movies, she's done some pretty insane stuff.
"There's no stopping her. She is fearless, and she is very committed. That's the great thing about Milla -- she really commits to what she does, and that's why I think she is so good in these movies; she sells the reality of it. She's there, 150 percent. She believes in the characters, she's committed to the films and she wants to really deliver for the audience."
It must help you save a few bucks on stunt women.
"Well, she knows she can do it, and when you see her face doing it she delivers. She does it better than any stunt woman, that's for sure. All the stunt women we work with are great, and sometimes you do have to use stunt women because things are so dangerous that you would never want to put your leading actress in that position. You'd be irresponsible to do it. So yes, we have stunt women, but they mostly just sit around and watch Milla do it. She's an amazing, versatile actress."
- iF Magazine (April 3, 2010) asked Milla about the possibility of more Resident Evil films:
"I have a lot left in me, but it is really up to the fans. If they think I look good and they believe it and love it... I will make as many Resident Evil films as they want me to make. What makes these films special is that they are made such love and so much passion from everyone involved. Each film stands on its own. The films aren't made on a business level. It's not about the studios asking us to write another script. The script comes from ideas of creators and we bring it to the studio. It always comes from the inspiration and that's what's fun."
- UGO.com (April 3, 2010) set visit and interview with Milla discussing changes to the Alice character:
"Yeah a little bit, but I think the interesting thing about this movie is, which is one of the arguments I had with Paul, she loses her powers in this movie. It's actually a really great thing because in some sense it makes her human again which is what she always wanted. It also gives her a sense of relief to just be a badass again and not have to be a superhero and I think that shows throughout the rest of the movie a joy of just being herself again."
Finally, the official site for Resident Evil: Afterlife is up at residentevil-movie.com. International release dates can be found here.
Trailer screencaps from ResidentEvilMovies.net:
04.02.10 - High-res images from Resident Evil: Afterlife from Dale:
Don't forget, Milla, director Paul W.S. Anderson, and Ali Larter will present the 3-D trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife and be part of a panel discussion at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco this weekend (April 2-4, 2010). The trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife will be online at MySpace Horror Movies tomorrow at 2:15pm.
04.01.10 - The Tommy Hilfiger Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign handbag went on sale today! From Vogue:
Breast Health International is a globally renowned organisation committed to finding a cure for breast cancer. Hilfiger will donate 50 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of each bag to Fund For Living, a BHI initiative.
The bag arrives in the Tommy Hilfiger flagship store today as well as online at www.tommy.com/bhi2010.
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Andretti Green Inks Marco Andretti for 2009 IndyCar Series Season INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 11, 2008) - Andretti Green announced today that it has signed Marco Andretti to drive its ...
Andretti Green Inks Marco Andretti for 2009 IndyCar Series Season
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 11, 2008) - Andretti Green announced today that it has signed Marco Andretti to drive its #26 IndyCar Series entry for the 2009 season.
Andretti will once again be part of the team's four-driver IndyCar Series lineup, which includes 2004 IndyCar Series champion Tony Kanaan, 2008 Bombardier Learjet Rookie of the Year Hideki Mutoh and 2005 Bombardier Learjet Rookie of the Year Danica Patrick.
Andretti enters his fourth season in the IndyCar Series coming off a 2008 campaign that saw him lead 330 laps, which ranked fourth among all drivers and tallied more than his previous two seasons combined. The 21-year old son of team owner Michael Andretti scored four podium and six top-five finishes in 2008, including a third in the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 - his second top-three finish at Indy in just three starts.
In addition to his IndyCar Series responsibilities with the team, Andretti has also made two starts for Andretti Green's A1GP World Cup of Motorsport effort and is expected to compete in several more events for A1 Team USA in early 2009.
Marco Andretti:
"I'm really looking forward to 2009 at Andretti Green. As a team, we have a lot to prove next year and I want to be a big part of that. I learned a lot last year that I can build on going forward and have every reason to believe that we can be a factor all year long."
Michael Andretti, co-owner, Andretti Green Racing:
"It's good to get Marco's contract done. He is a big part of the future of our team and is someone that we expect big things from in 2009. As a team, we are working very hard to improve our entire program for next season and Marco will play a big role in everything we achieve."
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Celkon Mobiles unveils their latest Kitkat phone in the range of budget today as Celkon Campus Mini A350 is now official. While Google Android One project might be step to come up with smartphone at $100, Indian vendors are coming out with more smartphone at $50 mark and Celkon Campus A35K is one priced at just Rs 2999.
Celkon Campus Mini Review
Campus Mini is considered to be an upgraded version of Campus A35K. The device will be sporting the 3.5 inch touchscreen display and powered with dual core processor. That's the major difference between the Campus A35K and the Campus Mini.
Celkon Campus Mini A350
|3.5-inch touchscreen display
|1.3 GHz Dual Core processor
|Software: Android 4.4 Kitkat OS
|Dual SIM: Yes
|3.2 MP rear camera with LED Flash
|VGA front facing camera
|Adreno 203 GPU
|Storage: 512 MB Internal + Micro SD card slot up to 32 GB
|1500 mAh Li-ion battery
|Bluetooth, WiFi tether, WiFi
|GPS, FM Radio
Celkon Campus Mini A350 Price in India
Celkon Campus Mini A350 is price at Rs 3799 India and it's available for purchase via Snapdeal.com. It will be only sold in White color variant.


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Wagner - The End Of The Ring
( Originally Published 1894 )
THE fire has always fascinated and charmed me. When I was a child myself I used to watch it till my eyes ached, and my habit of throwing sticks and paper into it to see them burn was a terror to all my aunts. A bonfire was a delicious joy, and fireworks, especially if I could set them off myself, were the summit of happiness. Even now, whenever I see a house on fire I am afraid my pleasure in watching it is much greater than my sorrow for the people who are losing their property or their home. I do not want houses to burn, but if they must burn 1 want to see them. As for the fire on the hearth, that is my counsellor and friend. When we are alone together I sit and gaze into it, and it tells me of old, happy times, of other friends who are far away now, and of the pleasant nights we had together. It speaks to me of old hopes, it is glad with me in their fulfilment or it cheers me in their loss. It talks of bright, new hopes, and tells me that even if all else fails, it will still be true to me and will try, if I will come back to it, to cheer and help me again as it cheers and helps me now.
As I sat in this way with the fire, the little girl came and took a low stool beside me. She looked into the fire too, laying her cheek upon my hand, which rested on the arm of the chair. She does not care for our talks about other hearth fires that long ago went out, so we had to do something else to entertain her. " Did you want to know more about the Daughter of the God and the Hero who knew no fear?" I said. " Well, I can see them both now, just where we saw them last on the mountain top, with the fire burning around them as it did before, but not so high and fierce as before, because it is not needed for a guard so much as it was.
" The Daughter of the God is telling her hero that he ought to go to seek more adventures. Perhaps he may find other things for his magic sword to kill besides dragons and wicked dwarfs, and the more such things he does the better she will love him when he comes back. Oh, she knows all about heroes and what they ought to do. He does not like to leave her at all, but if he knows that she really wants him to seek adventures, you may be sure he will seek them. Before he goes, he gives her the ring that he got from the dragon's cave, with the curse upon it, but they are not the sort of man and woman to trouble themselves about curses. In return she gives him her horse and her shield, not that he will need it much against his enemies, with that magic sword, and besides she knows how to cast a spell upon him so that he cannot be wounded in battle; but the shield may keep off the rain, if he has to sleep out of doors. So he goes away down the mountain and she waits for him to come back.
" Now all the fire changes to a shining river. It is the same river where the treasure was once kept by the nymphs, only now we are above it instead of under it. On the bank is the hall of a king and I see the king himself sitting on his throne, with his sister, a beautiful princess, beside him. With them too is their half-brother. He is a strange fellow and you ought to know him. His father is the dwarf who stole the treasure, and his father has told him all about it many times and has taught him to hope that some time he may get it again, so that they two may divide all the riches between them, and with the ring and the helmet may rule the world. He is just as wicked as his father, all he cares for in the world is to get that treasure, and you may be sure that he will try to get it in every way that he can find, good or bad.
" He is trying at this very moment, and in rather a strange way, you may think at first.
He is telling the king that he ought to have a wife, and that ^his sister ought to have a husband. The king asks, just as everybody always asks when he is told that, ` Whom do you want me to have ?'
" ` The most beautiful and the most royal of all women,' says the half-brother, `lives upon a rock with fire all around it for a guard, and who-ever shall break through the fire and come to her shall win her for his wife.'
" This does not encourage the king at all. He never walked through a fire or did anything of the sort, and he does not even care to try. You see the difference between a king and a hero. But the half-brother says that he knows of a hero who would be glad to go through the fire and get this woman for the king, if only he might have the king's sister for himself. The princess is not displeased at all at the notion of a husband who is so brave and can do such wonderful things, but she fears that such a hero must long ago have seen and loved some woman more beautiful than she, and that he will not care for her at all. But the half-brother answers : ` There is a magic drink which you shall give him, and it will make him forget any other woman he has ever seen, no matter who she is.'
" The half-brother knows very well, I believe, that the hero already loves the. Daughter of the God, and it is she that he means to make him forget before he sends him to get her for the king. Of course the king and his sister know nothing about this, or they would have nothing to do with such a wicked plan, for they are reasonably good people. The half-brother says that the hero is going about the world to find adventures and is sure to come here before long, and true enough, even while he is speaking they see him coming with his horse in a little boat on the river. They call to him to come on shore, and they welcome him as if they were never so glad to see anybody before in their lives.
" Perhaps, indeed, they never were so glad to see anybody, and I am sure the princess never was. A form so full of life and action and vigor, or a face so full of freedom and courage and cheer surely she has never seen. The fine frankness of his ways and the young grace of his motion are new to her too, and that she can hope to win him at once for herself is almost more than she can believe. She would not think of such a thing at all if she knew how little he thought or cared about her. He is charming and polite enough, of course, but as often as he thinks of her or of anything else once he thinks of the Daughter of the God twice, and when his thoughts are not especially drawn away he thinks of her all the time. But now the princess offers him a horn filled with the magic drink that is to make him forget. Oh, if only that clever little bird were here now to warn him, as it did when the dwarf mixed the drink for him, how much trouble might be saved ! But, you know, he never thinks of danger, so he drinks, and then he thinks of nothing at all—nothing at all but the princess.
" Well, that is not surprising, for you know she is only the second woman he ever saw and he has forgotten the first. You would scarcely believe how much he has forgotten her. Why, if the king were to tell him at this moment that a woman slept under a shield, guarded by fire, that a young man came through the fire, cut open her armor, kissed her, awakened her, and vowed that he would love her forever, he would not remember that he had ever known of any-thing of the kind or had ever heard of such a young man. For him there is no woman in the world now but the princess.
"The king does tell him a little of this story, when the hero asks him, still thinking of the princess, whether he has a wife as well a sister. ` No,' the king answers, ` I have no wife. The woman I want for my wife I fear I never can win; she is far away upon a mountain and a fire burns all around her. He who could pass through the fire and come to her might win her, but I could never do it.'
" It is just as I told you. This absurd young man does not know that he ever heard of a woman in the middle of a fire before ; he does not know that he ever learned to fear, so he says : ` I am not afraid of a little fire ; I will go and get your bride for you if you will give me your sister for mine.'
"' I will give you my sister gladly,' says the king ; ' but how is my bride to be made to think that it is I who come to her and win her, instead of you?'
" `That is easy,' says the half-brother ; ' with that helmet which he wears he can take any form he will, and he can make himself look exactly like you. He shall bring the woman away through the fire and then he shall leave her to you, and she will never know that it was not you who came to her rock.'
" Now, the hero, you know, never knew what could be done with that helmet. He only took it with him from the dragon's cave because the little bird told him it was good for something. Now that he has learned its use everything that he and the king want to do seems simple enough, and they set off in the little boat for the rock with the fire around it. The half-brother stays on the shore and looks after them, with his pale face and his wicked eyes. The woman far away on that rock has the magic ring. When the king brings her here as his bride he will find some way to get the ring, and then what will he care for kings or brides, for princesses or heroes? He and the wicked dwarf, his father, will rule the world.
" The fire burns up high and clear again and within its circle sits the Daughter of the God. She does not sleep now ; she sits and gazes at the ring her hero gave her, thinking nothing of the curse upon it, and wonders when he will come back to her. Ah, when will her hero come back to her? Do you remember how once on this very rock the daughters of the god met to ride together to his castle, and how they came each riding on her flying horse, racing with the driving wind and the hurrying clouds ? With just such a leap and a flash of a sudden flame up into the smoke I can see one of them riding now. So quickly she gallops through the sky that I can scarcely see what she is till she reaches the rock, springs from her horse, and stands before her sister. Her sister runs to meet her and to ask if their father is still angry with her.
" The war goddess has sad things to tell of their father. He sits in his castle with the gods and his heroes around him. They do not go out to fight and kill each other, and to be made alive and well again at sunset any more. The Father of the Gods only sits there and looks at his broken spear, and the rest, full of dread, look only at him. He is weary of ruling the world, weary of all the trouble that has come from the wrong that he did in not giving that treasure back to the river nymphs. He is not sorry that his spear is broken and he would gladly hasten the end of all. He has made his heroes cut down the great ash tree from which his spear was made, the tree that spread its branches over all his castle, and they have piled the wood high around the walls. When the end comes it will help the castle to burn. And now the Father of the Gods says that, if the woman who has the magic ring whose curse has been so heavy would but give it back to the river nymphs, all his great sorrows would be over.
" This his daughter, the war goddess, heard, and hastened here to tell it to his daughter, the woman. Will she give up the ring ? Will she help the gods to find the rest that they long for? Ah, but a war goddess knows as little of women as she does of men. No, no, the woman loves the man who gave her the ring and she would not lose it for a moment to gain ages of peace for the gods whose homes she shares no more. She cares nothing for weary gods ; she has a hero. The war goddess cannot under.. stand her sister. She leaves her and is away again, toward the castle of the gods, riding on her flying horse, galloping against the driving wind and the hurrying clouds.
"A horn sounds down in the valley. There is only one horn in the world like that, and the woman springs joyfully up to meet her hero. He comes and walks through the fire as he did before, but oh ! how different he is from what he was before ! Then his face was young and fresh and noble and his form was graceful and light ; now his face and his form are those of the king. Is this the promise that the Father of the Gods made to his daughter ? He said that none should ever come to her or win her but the bravest of heroes. Yes, this is indeed the promise and this the hero, but how sadly for her the promise is kept ! When he saw her before he gently lifted off her helmet and kissed her and learned to fear before her; now he thinks only of the princess, away there by the river, and he tells the Daughter of the God that he is the king and that she must come with him and be his bride.
" She resists him, and he seizes her to force her. She holds out her hand to him with the ring and bids him beware its power, which will protect her from him ; he seizes her hand and pulls the ring from her finger. She is helpless ; she faints in his grasp ; he carries her through the fire and down the mountain to where the real king is. He leaves them together and goes back alone to the hall by the river and to the princess.
" Very glad is the princess, you may be sure, to see him come back so quickly and so safely, and glad too is the half-brother, but for a different reason, for he sees the ring on his finger. Now they call all the people together to greet the king and his bride as they come in their boat on the river. There are shouts and cheers, and men with waving banners and women who scatter flowers ; the king smiles upon his people and thanks them for their greeting, and there is only one who is not merry and glad. And whom do you think the king's new bride sees in all this happy crowd ? Only her hero, in his own form again, and, if her heart was wounded and sad before, it dies within her now, when she sees him leading the princess out to meet them and knows that he thinks no longer of her. She turns pale and faint at first and then angry and fierce. She cries out that this man was her lover, that he has betrayed her for the princess and that he has betrayed the king too.
" Of course, nobody can understand that at all—nobody but the half-brother—but you can think how everybody must be shocked and astonished, and how everybody tries to make out what she means, and fails. To be sure, she understands it herself as little as the rest. She knows nothing about the magic drink that made her lover forget her ; she knows only that he swore always to love her and that now he loves the princess. The king does not know that the hero ever saw his bride till he went to her mountain to bring her for him, so he supposes that, if he ever told her that he loved her, it must have been then; that would be betraying the king, his friend, in a most cruel way, of course. The princess knows only just what the king knows, and if the king has been deceived and betrayed, she must have been deceived and betrayed a great deal more. As for the poor hero himself, he does not remember that he ever saw this woman before, he does not know how he can have done any wrong, and he is more puzzled than any of the rest. Only the half-brother knows all about it, that nobody is to blame at all except himself, and it is he whom nobody thinks of suspecting. The hero lays his hand on the half-brother's spear and swears that he has never wronged anyone here ; if he has, he says, may this very spear slay him.
" Now is the time for the half-brother to work the hero's ruin and to try to get the ring that he wears. When all have gone but him and the king and his bride, he whispers to her that he will help her, and will kill the hero to revenge the wrong that he has done her. ` You kill him ! ' she cries. ` If he once looked at you, you would not dare come near him.'
" ` Yet,' he says, ` there must be some way that I could do it; tell me what it is and you will be revenged.'
" ` I cast a spell upon him,' she says, ` so that he could not be wounded in battle, but I knew that he would never turn his back upon an enemy, so I set no spell there ; )70U may strike him in the back.'
" Now, he tells the king that nothing but the hero's death can restore the honor that he has lost. ' To-morrow,' he says, ` we will go hunting ; I will kill him with my spear, and we will tell the princess that it was a wild boar that did it.'
" ` It shall be so,' they all cry ; ` he must die.'
" And whom do you think I see now ? The river nymphs again. Not before the king's house, where we have been so long, but in an-other part of the river, all shut in by wild woods and rocks. They are swimming and playing on the water, just as they did under it when we saw them first, and they seem just as careless and happy as they did then, but they are still mourning for their lost treasure and longing to get it back again. If they could only get the ring it would do as well as the whole treasure, for the ring is the magic part of it. And now to this very spot comes the hero, who wears the ring on his finger. He has wandered away from the king and his men, who were hunting with him; and as soon as the nymphs see him they beg him to give them back their ring.
" He says that he will not, at first ; it was too much trouble for him to win it from the drag-on. But he really does not care so very much about it, and I think he would let them have it in the end if it were not for a great mistake that they make in asking for it. They tell him about the curse of the ring, and that if he keeps it he will be killed this very day. Now, you can see easily enough that that is the very worst thing they could say if they hoped to get the ring from him, for he is not in the least afraid of being killed, and he will not have any-body believe that he is afraid. They shall not have it, he says, happen what will. They will have it, they call back to him, and this very day ; and so they dive down under the water and leave him.
" Now come the rest of the huntsmen and sit about in a circle to rest here in the shade and to talk. The king is gloomy, thinking still of the wrongs that have been done him. His half-brother asks the hero if it is true that he knows what the birds say. ` I listen to them no more,' he answers ; ` but to cheer the king I will tell you some stories of the things that I have seen and the things that I have done.'
" He tells them of the dwarf who kept him and brought him up that he might fight the dragon ; he tells how he mended the magic sword, how he killed the dragon with it, and took the helmet and the ring from the cave. A bird then sang to him, he says, and told him that the dwarf would try to kill him, but he killed the dwarf instead. Here he stops, for he cannot remember anything about the mountain top with the fire around it, or the Daughter of the God, or even what the bird sang to him next. But the king's half-brother squeezes something into his wine and tells him to drink it and it will make him remember better.
" He drinks, and it does make him remember better. He tells of the lovely woman who slept with the fire all around her, and how he kissed her and awoke her. Then suddenly the king understands it all ; he remembers the drink of forgetfulness that they gave the hero, and he knows that nobody has done any wrong but his wicked half-brother ; he it was who told him of the woman in the fire who should be his wife, he who said that the hero should bring her to him, he who bade them give him the drink to make him forget, he who first said that the hero must die. The king would gladly save the hero now, but it is too late.
" It is too late, for of a sudden two ravens fly up from beside the river and away over the heads of them all. They are the ravens that fly all over the world and then to the Father of the Gods, to tell him all that they see and all that they hear. They are going now to tell him that the end of the gods, the end that he longs for, is near. The hero starts up to hear what they say. He turns his back to the others, and the half-brother, before the king can stop him, thrusts his spear into his back. The hero turns for an instant to rush against the murderer, but his strength is gone, and he falls helpless upon the ground. All the rest cry out in horror, and the half-brother turns from them and strides away.
"And what now of the hero? He speaks no word to those who stand about him as he lies here dying on the ground. Where are his thoughts now ? He is thinking of the only time he ever feared. He is back again upon the rock, with the flames curling and whirling all around him. Before him once more lies the Daughter of the God. Again he kisses her lips. She awakes. He sees again those deep, blue, wonderful eyes. He does not see the rocks, or the trees, or the sunlight—only her. Again for one last moment he knows that in all the world there cannot be another woman such as this. They look each into the other's eyes and into the other's heart. He is dead.
" They lay him on his shield and lift it upon their shoulders, and so they bear him back to the king's house by the river. The half-brother is there before them and tells the princess that her lover has been killed by a wild boar. She does not believe him, and when the others come she calls the king and all the rest his murderers. The king indeed wished his death once, but he is sorry enough for it now, and says that it was his half-brother alone who did it. ` Well, then,' cries the murderer, ` it was I, and now I will have my reward ; I will take the ring.'
" The king cries out that he shall not have it, and draws his sword. The half-brother draws his own and rushes upon him, and before the men can run between them the king too lies dead upon the ground. Then again the murderer turns toward the body of the hero to take the ring, but, as he comes near it, the hand that wears the ring rises of itself, as if it were not dead and would ward him off. He falls back in terror, and so do all the rest.
" But now comes the Daughter of the God. She bids them all stand back from her hero. ` He was mine, not yours,' she says to the princess; ` he loved me and I loved him before you ever saw him.'
" ` Then it was all the fault of this wicked man who has murdered him,' the princess answers he gave me the drink for him that made him forget you.'
" She turns away from the hero and bends over the king, her brother. The Daughter of the God understands now ; he was never faith-less to her of himself. She tells the men to build a funeral pyre. They pile up the wood and the women scatter flowers upon it. Then she takes the ring from her hero's hand. While they lay his body on the pyre she bids them bring his horse, the horse that once was hers, that flew with her through the clouds when she was a goddess, and slept on the mountain top with the fire around it where she slept. With a torch she lights the pyre. See how the flames leap up and catch at the wood and stream and grow. Once more the ravens fly up from the river bank and away into the sky. Now the end for the gods comes indeed.
" The Daughter of the God springs upon the horse and with one bound they leap into the middle of the flames. Yet, as soon as they are there, they are gone, nor can I see the hero there any more. The pyre all falls together ; but in the middle of its hot, red embers I see something brighter than all the rest. It is the ring. The water of the river rises and rises till it flows over the fire and puts it out. Then on the surface, swimming and playing about as always, I see the river nymphs. They have found the ring, and their treasure is their own again. But the wicked half-brother of the king, the son of that dwarf who stole it at first long ago, tries one last time to gain it. He .plunges into the river to seize it from the nymphs, but one of them holds it up high in her hand and swims away from him, and the others twine their arms around him and draw him down and down under the water and he is seen no more. The river sinks back to its old bed. The treasure that was stolen is restored. All the evil and the punishment that came from the curse of the ring is done."
A big stick that had been burning brightly and steadily for a long time suddenly fell in two and the quick flames and the sparks sprang high up into the chimney. " See, it is the castle of the gods itself that is burning and lighting up all the sky. The wrong that they have done and the sorrow that they have suffered are past, and their end has come. But the fire burns fiercer still. It seizes upon everything, in the sky and on the earth. Perhaps it is bet-ter that it should. The world that we have seen in our fire here grew so selfish and cruel and bad after the gold was stolen from the river that it may be best for it to end in these flames. They will last for only a moment. Even now they are not so fierce. I can see the sky again. There is a beautiful brightness in it, like the coming of the morning ; yet it is more than that, for it streams and flashes like the northern lights. I can see the earth again too, but it is not as it was before. It is a new world. It has all the beautiful things that the old one had, the green pastures and plains, the silver rivers, the blue mountains. Some of the gods have come back, but not those who did such wrong and made the old world so wicked. The God of Summer, who died long ago when the evil began, has come again ; and if he and all who were good and beautiful before are to be here still, I am sure that the Daughter of the God and the hero who knew no fear must find their way here somehow. A new world that is to be all unselfish and brave and true needs such a woman and such a hero."


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OLPC 2.0: A Striking eBook and a Step In the Right Direction
Here is the the next-generation OLPC. It will consist of dual touchscreens on a single spine and include keyboard, face-to-face, and ebook functionality. The touchscreens will be built by a start-up by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. These screens will be readable in direct sunlight, just like the OLPC. I'm glad that the second generation OLPC is more of an ebook than a laptop. While… Read More


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Mark Nottingham wrote: > (digging up an old thread; since this discussion, we created <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/117>). > > On 11/06/2009, at 8:00 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > [...] I meant to say that caches should invalidate the cached > > response if the cache sees a later response which indicates the > > resource have changed, even if the new response itself is not > > getting cached for some reason. This should be independent on > > which conditions the response is being seen. > > > > The request part is just ways to trigger the conditions where this may > > be needed. The request is never what causes the invalidation, the > > response to the request is, in specific conditions. > > > > The tricky part is defining "indicates the resource have changed" I > > guess, [...] > > Been reading the specs again, and in "RFC2616 13.1.1 Cache Correctness" > > the condition of receiving a newer response where a previous response is > > in the cache seems to be specified at only a MAY level, implying that > > it's fine for the cache to keep the previous response as "current" for > > as long as it's fresh. I could not find the corresponding section in > > httpbis-p6. If it's really the intention that caches only MAY replace > > the previous response with the newer response in the cache storage then > > there is also no need for the invalidation requirements in the HEAD or > > caching of negotiated resources sections to be any stronger than a MAY. > > In p6 2.2 we have: > > Caches MUST use the most recent response (as determined by the Date > header) when more than one suitable response is stored. > > This is derived from 2616 13.1.1's: > > A correct cache MUST respond to a request with the most up-to-date > response held by the cache that is appropriate to the request Below is not a response to the specific question of "MAY level requirement"; it is a response to the general issue of invalidation when a "later" message indicates that a server resource has changed. 1. What should happen when the Date header is accidentally set far in the future due to misconfiguration or faulty clocks, and then corrected on the server? That could result in a response stored in a cache whose Date is "more recent" than any later response for a long time. Transient misconfigurations can lead to erroneous behaviour; that's not unexpected and is acceptable, but when misconfigurations are corrected it is highly desirable that caches will recover in a sensible way, where possible. 2. All the discussions regarding a "later response" invalidating an older one do not talk about what happens when responses are received in parallel through the same cache. For example, if the proxy starts receiving response #1, then 10 seconds later starts receiving response #2 which clearly indicates the resource has changed relative to #1, then 20 seconds later finishes receiving response #1. (Substitute "minutes" for "seconds" if it makes the separation clear; that's realistic for large responses). Should response #2 cause response #1 to be dropped from the cache when #2's headers indicate the resource has changed, even though #1 is still being received? What if the requests were sent in the order #2 then #1, but the responses were received as above? It would be ambiguous which response corresponded with the most recent state of the server resource - and therefore wrong for _either_ of them to force invalidation of the other stored one. It is better for the cache to store _both_ in that case, if Etags are available. In cases where Etags aren't used, Date is probably a better indicator of which response corresponds to the most recent state of the server resource, and therefore a good reason for cache logic to be specified in terms of most recent Date header seen, rather than imprecisely specified transfer order (imprecise because it does not discuss parallelism or which points in the sequence are being compared). I think there is no satisfactory answer which offers useful guarantees (in the HTTP cache model), just as there is no way for invalidation-due-to-newer-response to offer useful guarantees to clients because they may connect via different caching proxies. Because there are no useful guarantees, there is probably no benefit to making invalidation-due-to-newer-response a MUST level requirement. SHOULD or MAY might be useful practically, but there is no technical benefit I can see for making it a MUST. Clients and servers must have other strategies to avoid problems due to old cached responses, such as not using long cache times, using Etags where it is important, or using content-dependent URIs in referring documents. -- JamieReceived on Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:53:20 UTC
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Bonfire Under the Moonlight: Suenalo! + Xperimento
As we transition from "Winter" to Summer (there are no seasons, really, only subtle differentiations of the same heat), gone are the crisp, blue days of our slightly cooler months. But as Miami turns up its world-famous heat, our music programming is getting even hotter. This Thursday, our Bonfire Under the Moonlight is back and […]READ ON


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Over the years I have been one of the many Trinbagonians who regularly descend from foreign to play mas and party. Essentially, we are the pilgrims and Trinidad Carnival is the "Mecca". We (along with our fellow island dwellers) gladly dish out big money to participate in a week or so of unbridled debauchery and wanton abandon.
Recent I have been grappling with my own perception of Carnival and what it has evolved to. I did not participate this year and I am eager to hear my friends' (masqueraders and spectators alike) assessment of Carnival 2014. I play mas in what we dub 'bikini and beads' bands, whose owners are concerned primarily about dollars and whose masqueraders just want a good time.
It has been customary for men not to don their full costumes on Carnival Tuesday. Most are content as long as they have that all-important wristband and cup promising an endless supply of "Johnny and coconut water". Women's costumes, provocative as they may be, are more or less regurgitated designs distinguished mostly by elaboration of feather quantity. And then of course, we have men and women alike who are eager to display sculpted physiques, the result of months in the gym and strict dieting (I know, I have been guilty of some of the above myself).
The preliminary assessment (so far) is that spectatorship in Port of Spain was way down. The crowds in and around the Savannah as well as downtown were absent (hard luck for street vendors). All this saddens me. One can only imagine what Carnival nowadays seems like to a child. I remember looking at the parade of the bands on TV with my grandmother and being awed at the kaleidoscope of costumes crossing the stage. Alyson Hennessy and the Dateline crew would not have much to talk about today.
When my brother and I were old enough to roam the streets of Port of Spain as children, I remember stumbling upon Peter Minshall's Jumbie storming down Ariapita Avenue. Witnessing those shadowy masqueraders in elaborate cardboard headpieces amid PowerGen's cooling towers in the twilight skyline still burns in my memory.
The criticism concerning the lewdness and vulgarity has been loud, particularly from the older heads. This has been and will be always part of Carnival. What makes it so obvious now is the mas is now devoid of mas. The creativity is absent. Simply put, TV cameramen do not have anything interesting to shoot aside from drunken revellers getting on bad (and here perhaps the criticism is warranted).
This is not a knock on the masquerading elite and middle class. For they, like small bands, fancy sailor mas, steelbands (along with the chippers), spectators and of course the average bottle and spoon men are the ingredients in the pie that is our unique Carnival. The problem is the latter ingredients are fast becoming scarce, thus making for a lacklustre pie.
Whether initiatives such as use of the Socadrome will mortally wound Port of Spain Carnival is yet to be determined. The main fear of course is the segregation between THEM and WE Carnival. The big bands perhaps have too much clout and influence nowadays and this makes me wonder why we have the NCC or NCBA at all. Carnival is an intangible commodity that belongs to the people and we have been dismal in its nurturing, development and management (Kiddies Carnival is at least a consolation). In the meantime I may as well just stop my whining and take heed of Machel's song and live meh life. Or maybe I just vex ah miss mas this time around.
Damian Quan King
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