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Derek and Emily Chivers, of Anchorage, announce the birth of their daughter, Kenzie Jean Chivers, at 5:36 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, at Alaska Regional Hospital, in Anchorage. She weighed 6 pounds 9.3 ounces. She is an eagerly anticipated first child. Her grandparents are Gayle Erickson, of Soldotna; and Clay Chivers, of Wyoming; and Pam and Larry "Spanky" Witte, of Kenai.
Arnold Dwight and Elena Diaz Sullenger of Nikiski announce the birth of their son, Dwight Diaz Sullenger, at 9:29 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna. He was 8 pounds and measured 20 inches.
He joins brother Jack Joseph Diaz Sullenger. His grandparents are Margie Diaz and Arnold and Mary Sullenger.
Brian and Wendy Waters, of Soldotna, announce the adoption of their son, Easton Andrew, born Sept. 8, 2010, in Knoxville, Tenn. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 19 1/4 inches. He joins big brother Zack and big sister Shyanne. Easton's grandparents are Ralph Waters and Steve and Marcia Morgan; and his godmother is Melanie Lewis.
The Kenai Community Library will be closed Monday, March 7, through Sunday, March 27, so staff can move books and furniture from the existing library into the library addition. Items currently checked out will not be due during the closure period. Items may be returned into the book drop during the closure. When the library re-opens Monday March 28, the public will use the new entrance located off Main Street Loop.
Visit the Library website http://www.kenailibrary.org or check the Library Facebook page for any possible changes.
The Wednesday Soldotna Creek Market is back! The market will run for 11 consecutive Wednesdays, June 1 through Aug. 10, 2011. Vendor spaces will cost from $15-$30 per Wednesday. Vendor spaces must be reserved in advance. Please call Rae at 262-2729 for more information and to reserve your space!
St. Francis by the Sea church will host a pancake supper on Tuesday, March 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the church at 110 South Spruce Street in Kenai. Proceeds will go to support the Methodist church food pantry. Cost is $10 per family or $3 per person.
The regular monthly meeting of the WomenHeart Cardiac Support group will be held Monday, March 7, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Mt. Redoubt Room on the lower level. Speaking will be pharmacist Justin from the Soldotna Professional Pharmacy, speaking about cholesterol-lowering medications. This meeting is open to both men and women. We hope to see you there.
For more information call Sharen Sleater at 907-262-7913.
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Man files RTI plea over Rs 100 traffic fine, gets lunch invite from cops
After the applicant asked why he wasn't given a receipt by the constable, DN Nagar cops contacted him, requesting him to meet them to resolve the matter, he alleges
Panvel resident Rajendra Pratap Gupta has to travel often across the city for attending business meetings. During one such trip last October, his car was stopped by traffic police opposite Laxmi Industrial Estate in DN Nagar, Andheri. Gupta and his driver Shantaram identified the constable as Shanmukhanand Gosavi, who collected Rs 100 as fine for the vehicle jumping the signal, but didn't provide a receipt, which every citizen is entitled to.
Speaking to MiD DAY, Gupta said, "At the time we crossed the signal the lights had turned orange, so this is not precisely a crime. Shantaram was driving the car at the time, when we were stopped and asked to pay Rs 100 as penalty. I didn't argue and gave Gosavi the money. Following this, he took off."
Gupta says he called out to the constable, but he replied to him saying that he was only going to get the receipt.
"But he never came back. I searched around a bit, but couldn't locate him anywhere near the junction," Gupta added.
Following the episode, Gupta filed an application under Right to Information (RTI) Act, asking why he wasn't given a receipt for the Rs 100 he had paid. "Instead of replying to me in writing, the staff from DN Nagar traffic police started calling me frantically, asking me to meet them over lunch and sort out the matter."
Gupta says he declined the offer, as he felt that the constable's conduct was akin to extortion. "I received a letter from ACP Govindrao Giri on June 21, from which any layman would conclude that he was trying to save the accused and turning a blind eye towards departmental corruption by not providing me the details I had sought. He said that inspector Ravindra Patil had conducted an inquiry and no evidence was found against the constable. Gosavi called me later and claimed that he had got a phone call from his senior, for which he had to rush to office after collecting the fine."
This incident had taken place on October 12 last year. Gupta added, "It's likely that this cop is taking money from a lot of people on a daily basis and not issuing receipts. Gosavi called me at 1.30 pm on March 28 and requested me not to pursue the matter."
He maintained that action should also be taken against Giri for encouraging such extortion by junior cops.
When MiD DAY probed constable Shanmukhanand Gosavi, now posted at Gamdevi, about the episode, he said, "What evidence does he have in his possession to prove that I have taken Rs 100 from him?"
He added that drivers of many cars stopped by traffic cops merely place Rs 100 into the hands of the personnel, in the form of penalty, when asked to show their licences.
On being asked why did he and his senior call up Gupta to settle the matter if they were innocent, he said, "Inspector Ravindra Patil knew that I wouldn't do anything wrong, as in my 10-year-long career not a single complaint has come up against me. That's why we called him."
Get the message?
Some of the SMSes sent by Ravindra Patil to Gupta:
>> "Sir , can i call u pls…. inspector Ravi Patil .. Traffic police DN Nagar." 12.13 pm on March 15, 2013
>> "Sir , can i call u pls…. inspector Ravi Patil .. Traffic police DN Nagar." 7.44 pm on March 18, 2013
>> "Sir , no problem…whenever u get time we will meet… there r some problems which i ve to discuss with you… and the people like u r d gem of society..gd nt sir." 7.36 pm on March 19, 2013.

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He is the PR of UE. It would be pretty poor PR if they didn't appear reasonable, and understanding.oth this and the tone of his email strike me as far from the unreasonable stance that has been alleged in some quarters.
Accompanied with this "polite" letter was a demand of some 200,000 euros.There were no lawyers involved and our letter was polite.
Another tactic of trying to start rumours that discredit and undermine IMSLP.Apart from this, we have no idea why the website was taken down - and why it is still down, although everyone seems to think they were in the right. Can it really be true that a whole site has to close simply because UE complains about 70 works? Is it really not possible that there might be another reason? Is it not a happy coincidence to be able to point the finger of blame at a respected publishing house?
Mahler is PD, the only thing that they claim copyright for is an unknown editor. What UE did, for Mahler, is unimportant. They are just trying is avoid and change the subject.The idea of the IMSLP is applaudable. But please remember, for them to freely distribute public domain sheet music, someone has to publish that sheet music in the first place. Is it not ironic that the site includes sheet music by Mahler, who would be widely unknown today (as he was in the 1960's) if it were not for UE?
To formalise all the legal implications that have been set forth through precedent by UE. This cannot be done by Feldmahler, (he could run the site, just not deal with legal issues) and it has to be done by Gutenberg or someone else. IMSLP is dealing with these issues and discussing transfer. UE didn't demand it's closure, but it's closure is a result of what UE have done.So why is IMSLP still down?
I also have responded to everyone. I have had also had extensive correspondences with Mr. Irons (16 emails in total), and his tone has been increasingly nasty, even degrading, demeaning and insulting to Feldmahler. He has often (here also) described Feldmahler as incompetent and neglectful.When I replied, thanking him for taking the time to reply, he told me that everyone who has emailed UE has been replied to.


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Drought Continues In Tri-State
source: U.S. Drought Monitor
(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) – Although southeast Indiana's status hasn't changed, parts of Indiana are falling deeper into drought.
The US Drought Monitor released its weekly update Thursday. It shows about a quarter of Indiana – southwestern, western, and come central portions – in an exceptional drought.
Extreme drought conditions persist for 59 percent of the Hoosier state. Eighty-four percent is in at least a severe drought.
Locally, northern portions of the tri-state are in a severe drought, while areas from Cleves, Ohio to Versailles and south are in a moderate drought. Some portions of southeast Indiana are up to eight inches behind their normal rainfall in the past 90 days.
Not helping dry conditions in the tri-state is the heat. The National Weather Service in Wilmington says the Cincinnati area experienced its sixth-hottest July on record with an average temperature of 81.2 degrees. The all-time record – Cincinnati records have been kept by the weather service since 1872 – occurred in 1901 when the average temperature was 82.3 degrees.
Meteorologists say there were 21 days of 90 degrees or higher temperatures in July, the fourth most in Cincinnati history. Four days touched at least 100.


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Still alive... Even if life seems sometime escape too fast...
- Building of the boat is going ahead... Not so fast that I would like, but an once of hope is now in my mind...
May 2010 :
- Refit of the website guydelage.com
- End of realization of all front panels of Dagda
- Search for financial partners to equip Dagda
April 2010 :
- study of missions of Dagda in the Pacific…
March 2010 :
- The first prototypes of feasibility of the system of ventilation are operational. Several forms have been carried out and tested, and to ensure the main benefits of the system: a. efficiency of the ventilation - b. barrière anti-rain without destroying the flow of air - c. pliability and speed of installation- manufacturing costs reasonable.
- 16 March 2010 : Guy Delage and Larysa unite their fate to Antigua.
February 2010 :
The ass of Dagda is finished !!!… What an operational work surface for scientific expeditions !!
January 2010 :
The engines of Dagda are tested and operate even completely submerged. Dave Tether is withdrawn from the loop by Nigel Calder and the Homewood director … After a new calculation of dragged by Emanuel Alban, we are moving toward a version twice 9kW rather than twice 18kw. This will allow of having a margin on the production of the of the 22kw genset and we will reach 6,5 nodes on a normal cruise without very low energy consumption. Against the winds of 55- 60 kts, it will be possible to keep 3.5 - 4 kts speed.
December 2009 :
The society which must provide the Dagda electric engines have finally found a new partner for producing the engines and generators : Homewood, a subsidiary of Westinghouse… The problem is unlocked and all the materials grouped near Chicago.
November 2009 :
Guy Delage filed a new patent concerning the ventilation breakdown of boats at anchor. This new product allows the sailboats to be vented through the deck hatches even in harsh outside conditions (rain).


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Nickel and Diming Athletics
Some small private institutions are bristling at a set of National Collegiate Athletic Association rule changes that will require them to spend money on very specific upgrades to their sporting facilities.
Citing the economic downturn, the Presidents Council of the Centennial Conference, a group of Division III institutions mainly located in the Lancaster Valley of Pennsylvania, has asked the NCAA to reconsider a handful of association-wide changes the Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved last year. The panel, which includes representatives from all three divisions, mandated that all football-sponsoring institutions provide referees with wireless microphones to announce penalties. It also ordered that all basketball-playing NCAA members have shot clocks that display tenths of seconds and are mounted on each backboard. All backboards must also have lights that illuminate when the shot clock has expired.
Though the changes do not become mandatory until fall 2010, and institutions will have had more than two years to make the necessary upgrades, the Centennial presidents argue that, given the recession, it is not prudent for them to spend money on these changes to their sporting facilities when they have other grave financial concerns in their academic departments.
Steven F. Ulrich, executive director of the Centennial Conference, said his member institutions are not objecting to the rule changes. Instead, he is lobbying the NCAA to delay the deadline for complying for at least a year, given the state of the economy. The changes, he argued, will affect Division III institutions the most, as they are often smaller and do not have the financial resources Division I and II institutions have to make facilities upgrades.
While Ulrich is all for compliance, he acknowledged that some of the presidents in his conference are puzzled by the changes coming from on high, especially given the small size of their athletics programs.
"The highest attendance in Division III football comes in the Midwest," Ulrich explained. "In the Mid-Atlantic, we're not drawing more than 3,000 people for a football game. When I noted to our presidents that they were going to have to spend $5,000 on wireless microphones for referees to announce a holding call, they all said, 'Can't they move closer to the stands?' In some respects, I understand what they're saying. Sometimes we're told, 'It's good for Division I, so it must be good for Division III.' Well, that's not always the case."
The opinions expressed by the Centennial presidents are part of a larger tension that still exists within Division III. Last year, the non-scholarship division nearly split apart to create a Division IV, due to differences of opinion as to its future. Among the more serious items of concern for those in favor of the split included the ever-increasing operating costs of their athletics programs.
If institutions do not comply with the new facilities requirements in the time given, they will be ineligible to host NCAA championship events "because their facility would not be considered in full compliance with NCAA playing rules."
Ty Halpin, NCAA liaison for the Playing Rules Oversight Panel, said it will be up to a financially strapped institution to decide whether this penalty is severe enough to compel it to make the requested changes, noting that some might not consider this burdensome.
"While the panel understands the economic issues that many institutions and conferences are dealing with, the group believes the rules committees have given a proper amount of time and notification for the alternations that may cause some financial impact," Halpin wrote in response to the Centennial Conference's request, noting that a survey of Division III programs showed that a large number were already in compliance.
In an interview, Halpin defended the rule changes, noting that they would lead to a more equitable experience for athletes at all levels of college play. He also argued that they might lead to better officiating in the lower-profile divisions.
"When football players are penalized by their number or even penalties are announced over a loudspeaker by the referee, that's part of the experience student-athletes want to have," Halpin said. "Also, in relation to the basketball changes, having a light come on when the shot clock has expired might help [officials in Division II and III] make proper calls. As most of their games are not televised, they often don't have the benefit of a courtside monitor to review plays."
One of Centennial's presidents, however, believes the "student-athlete experience" is fine just the way it is today. In fact, if he had it his way, he might even get rid of some of the more recent changes.
"I think this raises an issue that we have to figure out as Division III programs," said John Strassburger, president of Ursinus College and chair of the Centennial Conference Presidents Council. "Athletics, at our institutions, are vying with a whole array of costs. Division I and II institutions often have large fund raising apparatuses. We don't. The NCAA is not taking into consideration the welter of institutional needs aside from athletics. What I want to see is a moratorium on any additional costs to be imposed on Division III institutions."
The last major facilities changes mandated by the NCAA went into effect last year. All NCAA men's basketball arenas were required to move the three-point line further from the basket. Much like the forthcoming changes for football referees and basketball shot clocks, institutions had to foot the bill.
Centennial is currently lobbying the Division III Management and Presidents Councils to fight for a stay of these facilities mandates. By the guidelines of the Playing Rules Oversight Panel, however, the deadline for compliance can be pushed back only for all member institutions; there cannot be individual exceptions.
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transitive verb-·cat·ed, -·cat·ing
- to accustom to home life; make domestic
- to tame (wild animals) and breed for human use
- to adapt and cultivate (wild plants) for human use
- to introduce (foreign animals or plants) into another region or country; naturalize
- to bring (a foreign custom, word, etc.) into a region or country and make it acceptable
Origin of domesticatefrom Medieval Latin domesticatus, past participle of domesticare, to tame, live in a family from Classical Latin domesticus from domus: see dome
Archaic to become domestic
transitive verbdo·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing, do·mes·ti·cates
- To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.
- To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.
- a. To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.b. To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.
A plant or animal that has been adapted to live in a human environment.
Related Forms:
- do·mes′ti·ca′tion
(third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)
- To make domestic.
- To make fit for domestic life.
- To adapt to live with humans.
- The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
- To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
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"Once upon a time, in a faraway land, the sun rose and bathed the Earth in light."
When I paused, Jacob stared at me expectantly. "And?"
I frowned. "And what? There's your fairy tale."
My best friend glanced out the window, observing yet another rainy Forks morning, and nodded. "Ah. Good story."
I sighed and poked absently at the eggs scrambling in the pan on the stove. It was a good fairy tale, because it always rained in Washington. I wasn't sure why they bothered to have a weather segment on the news. Paying a meteorologist seemed like a waste of money. Although I supposed they had to have someone to calculate the rainfall totals and to hit "copy/paste" on the forecast models.
Sometimes I really missed Phoenix. Today was turning out to be one of those days, and it was only seven-thirty in the morning.
The microwave beeped, and I reached over to pop open the door. Beside me, Jake turned away from the window to lean back against the counter, crossing his ridiculously long legs at the ankle. I smacked his hand when he tried to snag a piece of bacon from the tray I set on an empty burner. When he opened his mouth to protest, a high-pitched voice reminiscent of pink bubble gum and pigtails screeched, "Isabella Marie Swan!"
Jake and I both cringed, but I added a few choice expletives under my breath when I dropped my spatula in the eggs. As I plucked it back out, Jake glanced toward the dining room. "Well, the leech is awake."
"And demanding her breakfast," I muttered, wiping the spatula's handle on the dishcloth. Yeah, I thought as I cleaned away egg goop, I really missed Phoenix.
And my mom.
But I couldn't go back. My mom wasn't in Phoenix anymore. She was in Florida with her new husband, Phil the Minor Leaguer. And since her wedding a little over a year ago, I'd been living in the anti-Phoenix with Charlie, my father, whom she had divorced when I was a baby and whom I had barely known until I'd moved in with him.
The move to Forks had been my decision. I'd thought it was only fair to live with Charlie during my last two years of high school to allow Mom the freedom she needed to travel with Phil. And despite my aversion to his location, living with my father hadn't been that bad in the beginning. We'd discovered we were a lot alike, both introverted and independent, and we'd settled into a comfortable routine. We'd even grown close in our own way.
Then he'd met and – for some reason unknown even to him, I think – married Victoria at the beginning of my senior year. She was the devil. Her fraternal twins Jessica and Lauren were hell spawn. And Charlie and I were so busy trying to avoid them that we rarely saw each other anymore.
Through it all, I never forgot that it had been and still was my choice to live in Forks. I had the option to move to Florida with my mother at any time, which Victoria would love, but I couldn't do. I couldn't tie my mom down again when she was so happy with Phil. But that didn't mean I didn't regret it sometimes. Like now.
As though he had read my mind, Jake commented, "I don't understand why you stay here. You should go live with your mom and Phil."
I kept my gaze carefully locked on the utensil in my hand. "They're talking about moving again," I told him.
"I thought they were settled."
"The team didn't work out. Phil thinks he may take a coaching job in Sarasota." I shrugged as I scooped eggs onto plates. "Besides, it's only a few more months until graduation. Then I'm out of here."
"And until then you just get treated like Cinderbella?" Jake's voice was a low growl. I didn't look up to see his expression. I'd seen the overprotective fury before. "That's not right, Bells."
"I can handle it."
"I'd love to see what Charlie would say if he ever saw how she treated you."
"That won't happen." I shrugged. "She's too good at evasion. And I'm not telling him. I can't do that to him. And she'd send me to Florida. I'm not—"
I winced as my name shook the house. "I'll be right back."
Before he could respond, I grabbed the three plates of eggs and bacon and hurried out of the kitchen. Victoria and her spawn were sitting at the dining room table when I came in. My stepmother was still in her robe, her wild, artificially flame-colored hair piled on the top of her head in a messy bun. She didn't look up as I slid her plate in front of her. "You're running behind this morning," she accused disinterestedly, flipping the page of her gossip magazine.
"Sorry," I muttered, moving around the table to give my stepsisters their plates.
Jessica sneered. The expression always looked odd under her insanely curly hair, giving her the appearance of a demonic doll. "It's because your little boyfriend's in the kitchen, isn't it."
I shot her a glare but didn't respond. All three of them knew that Jacob was like my brother, but Jessica in particular enjoyed goading me about him, especially since he was sixteen, a whole year younger than my stepsisters and I. Thankfully, Lauren wasn't as entertained. "He's always in the kitchen, Jessica," she said. "You know what happens when you feed stray dogs."
I slammed Lauren's plate down in front of her. She glared at me briefly before looking down at her food. Then she glowered up at me again. "Eggs? Really, Bella?"
"We're out of crème brulee," I told her stiffly.
For a moment she considered retaliating. Then she decided to dismiss me with a flip of her long corn silk hair. "Jess," she began, turning to her sister. Because of their five-inch height difference, she had to slouch a little to avoid the attack of the killer curls and actually look Jessica in the eye. "Did you see that email from Bree?"
"About…" Jessica's expression turned reverent, and I knew where this was going before she even whispered the words. "Edward Cullen?"
I bit back a groan and headed for the kitchen. Behind me, I heard Lauren sighing, "Yes," and it took all I had not to sigh myself – in annoyance.
Our school didn't have the requisite really hot guy all the girls fawned over, so we had to borrow one from another town. Edward Cullen was the lucky chosen one. He was a senior from a private school in Port Angeles whose father "happened" to be an extremely successful doctor. Like almost every girl in our corner of Washington, my stepsisters were obsessed with him. I heard more about him and his "dreamy bronze hair" and "gorgeous green eyes" than I could stand. Every day there was some new report about him riding around in his stupid silver Volvo or playing baseball at the park. He had more followers than Robert Pattinson. It was sickening. And I had to hear all about it unless I managed to escape the room fast enough.
Sometimes it was all I could do not to run screaming at the sound of his name.
In the kitchen, a much calmer Jacob was waiting for me, a piece of bacon in his hand and an amused look on his face. "I heard the name Edward Cullen and figured you'd be back pretty quick."
"They got another Bree-mail," I muttered.
"Ah." Jake shuddered and took another bite of bacon. Even though he was Quileuete and lived and went to school on the reservation in La Push, fifteen minutes from Forks, he didn't need an explanation. Jessica and Lauren's friend Bree was infamous throughout a fifty-mile radius for her stalker-quality emails about everything Edward Cullen. "What did he do this time? Finally comb his hair?"
I snickered. "I think that would upset them more than anything. They love his 'tousled Adonis' look." I grabbed two glasses of juice and a mug of coffee. "I'll let you know in a second."
When I took the drinks into the dining room, Victoria had joined the conversation. "—single father," she was saying. "Men can't raise teenagers by themselves." She watched me place the coffee in front of her. "Just look at how Bella was before I married her father."
Grinding my teeth, I put the juice on the table and turned to leave. "You're so right, Mom," Lauren replied pointedly. "You gave dear Bella a purpose."
I was frowning darkly when I entered the kitchen again. Jacob grinned at me from the breakfast he'd gathered for himself. "You make the most amazing food," he commented, shoveling a forkful of eggs into his mouth.
My frown melted a little. "You are such a guy," I teased. I grabbed a piece of bacon from his plate and nibbled on it. "You know, Victoria would have married Dr. Cullen if she'd had the chance."
"Edward's dad? Of course she would have. Half of Washington would." Jacob shrugged. "He's rich."
"That's why all the girls love Edward."
Jacob fluttered his eyelashes. "That, and he's so hot," he mimicked.
I laughed and shoved him. "Really, though. The only reason she married my dad is that he was convenient." Victoria's house had been foreclosed, leaving her essentially a nomad. My father, the chief of police, was the first single man she met when he dealt with some of her legal issues. She was conniving, and he felt bad for her – and wanted a mom for me. It hadn't taken her long to move in with us.
Jacob was silent a moment. "When did your dad leave this morning?"
"I don't think he came home last night." I toyed with the bracelet on my left wrist, fingering the single charm that dangled from the silver links. Jacob had carved the small wolf – a symbol of his tribe – out of reddish brown wood and given me the bracelet for my last birthday. I wore it every day; the charm was as soothing to me as Jake's presence. "He says he's working some case, but I think he just sleeps at the station," I added quietly, still fiddling with the charm.
Jacob noticed my nervous motions, but he didn't comment. "Can't say I blame him," he said instead, shooting a wrinkled-nose look toward the dining room.
I tried to smile, but it faltered. "I miss him."
Jake looked sympathetic as he slung an arm around my shoulders. We ate breakfast in a companionable silence, standing at the counter and sharing a plate. When we finished, I cleaned up the kitchen and dining room and waited until Jessica and Lauren had sauntered out in their short skirts and tight sweaters, huffing and swearing about the rain messing up their hair. Then I grabbed my jacket and followed Jake out the front door.
My faded red '53 Chevy pickup was parked along the curb. Charlie had bought it for me when I'd first moved to Forks. I adored it. My stepsisters despised it.
The best thing about my stepsisters was that they were too snobby to be seen riding in my truck. So they left it alone, and it was all mine, just as their used BMW was all theirs.
I paused beside the cab of the truck to squint through the rain at Jacob. He was about to climb into the old VW Rabbit he had rebuilt last summer. Its faded red paint was newer than my truck's, but it gave my siblings a similar snob attack. And of course, I loved it and was incredibly proud of his work. So I smiled when I looked over at his car, and part of me wished I was going with him. I wouldn't see him again until the next day. At least tomorrow was Saturday. "Have fun at school," I called as he opened his door.
He smiled back at me. "You, too."
"You still driving me to work tomorrow?"
"Yeah. I'll be here." He smiled a little wider. "Pancakes tomorrow?"
I nodded. "Sure. Bye, Jake."
"Bye, Bells." He waved as he climbed into his car. I watched him drive off, then I sighed and eased my truck away from the curb, heading for another boring day at Forks High.
"You're going to Forks?" Emmett McCarty stared at me in disbelief. "For what? There's nothing there. It's like a black hole, man. Sucks the life out of everything."
I rolled my eyes at my best friend. "It's getting me out of class for a day. That's all I really care about." I shrugged and took a gulp of my orange juice. "Carlisle's going there for some training thing for the nurses at the high school. I said I'd help him out with it."
Emmett stuffed half a waffle in his mouth and proceeded to talk around it. "I hope you come back alive, Edward. That place is boring as hell. Rose made me go there once to visit her cousin. I thought I would die."
He looked absurdly earnest. Six-foot-five and huge, his cheeks puffed out with waffle, he resembled an overgrown little boy horrified by the thought of his friend having to face the monster under the bed. "Your girlfriend dragging you to visit some random family member is traumatic for you, isn't it," I commented.
"Just wait," he told me, forcing the other half of the waffle in around his words. "You'll see. Nothing there. Boring as hell." He nodded decisively and chugged orange juice.
I shrugged again. I really didn't see what was so exciting about Port Angeles, either, but I didn't mention that in front of Emmett and his competitive streak. He would start comparing the two and trying to make our town look better. And even though I didn't find it to be any more thrilling than the next town, I didn't need to hear him expound upon its virtues. I was content here; I liked my routine well enough. Going to school, hanging out with Emmett, tolerating his girlfriend Rosalie, spending my evenings with books or music… It was simple and easy, and I liked it that way. Even if it was boring, it was good enough for now. And that was all I could ask for.
"And," Emmett added, "I bet it's raining there already."
That probably was true. I glanced out the window at the overcast sky. It wasn't raining here yet, but it always rained in Forks. I suppressed a sigh at the thought. Even though this training session with Carlisle was getting me out of school, I knew that it wouldn't be an exciting change of pace. I hadn't had reason to go to Forks in the two years since Carlisle Cullen had adopted me, but I had heard about it from more than just Emmett. Everyone thought the town was boring. And if the people here thought that, then I had no hope for the place.
Maybe I should just go to school after all.
Before I could decide, a smooth voice floated in from a distance. "Edward? Are you ready to go?"
I sighed and glanced toward the stairs. "Yeah, Carlisle. I'm ready."
A moment later my adoptive father walked into the kitchen. His blond hair was perfectly combed, his white dress shirt tucked neatly into his black slacks. He was the exact opposite of Emmett, who had syrup on his chin and another waffle in his hand. "Oh, good morning, Emmett," he greeted the slob graciously, seeming not to notice the disgusting display.
"'Sup, Doctor C." Emmett raised his waffle in greeting before taking another massive bite.
Carlisle didn't flinch. "I'll be in the garage, Edward. I'm going to pack a few things. When you come out, bring my bag and the papers beside it from the table?"
"Have a good day, Emmett." Carlisle smiled at my friend briefly before starting out of the room. He always was ridiculously polite.
"You too, Doctor," Emmett managed as he gulped down a bite that made me gag a little.
Carlisle wandered out. A second later I heard the door to the garage close quietly. "Em, you're sick," I informed him, shoving the last remaining waffle back into the freezer before he could pop it in the toaster.
"You a doctor now, too?" he demanded, finishing off his juice.
"And you're an idiot," I concluded.
"Dude," Emmett exclaimed. He had completely ignored me, his eyes lit with some sudden revelation. "I bet they know you're coming."
I cringed. I knew exactly what he meant. Ever since Carlisle had adopted me, I had become a celebrity of sorts. The girls in the area seemed to know my every move. I knew that it was because I now was the son of a rich doctor. But I didn't care about his money. I liked the Volvo he'd bought me, but beyond that, his wealth meant next to nothing to me. He allowed me my independence as much as possible, and that was all I needed. I didn't want anything else from him. If all those girls knew that, knew how I refused his money as much I could, maybe they would leave me alone.
But they didn't know that, and they kept stalking me – ruthless gold diggers who had no idea there was no gold to dig. At least the girls in my school had learned that I wasn't interested in dating any of them. But at a different school… And with Carlisle the Rich Bachelor, who drew attention of his own from the all the older females…
"Damn," I muttered. I reached out and snatched the baseball cap off Emmett's head and jammed it on my own, covering my unruly, unusually shaded bronze hair. Maybe if I could just keep them from noticing me…
Emmett snickered. "You're like the long lost Jonas." He perked up suddenly. "You play the piano. You really are like the long lost Jonas."
"Emmett…" I trailed off, at a loss for words. I couldn't even correct him and say that I used to play the piano. Two years ago. Thoughts of that time left me cold. I shoved that away, focusing on how Emmett's new choice in music made me nauseous. I managed, "Jonas? Really, man?"
He shrugged. "Their music is catchy."
"Jesus." I turned away from him and grabbed Carlisle's bag and papers. "Get out of my house."
"If they eat you, man, I get your music collection."
"You wouldn't even know what to do with it," I muttered. "Jonas. Christ." I headed for the door. "Leave."
Emmett shrugged and waved over his shoulder as he wandered lazily toward the front door. "Good luck, Edward. And think positively. Maybe the girls will kill you before boredom does."
I shook my head and stepped out into the garage. As long as I kept the hat on, no girl would notice me enough to try to kill me. But I did expect to be bored. What interesting person could possibly exist in Forks?
I laughed as a tiny figure lunged at me the second I walked through the doors of the high school. "Hey, Alice," I greeted the pixie. "What are you doing? Lying in wait for me?"
She waved that off dismissively. "I could hear your truck clear down the road. But I definitely wasn't waiting for you outside." She stepped back to survey me critically. "You're soaked."
"It's raining," I pointed out, moving past her to get to my locker. She trailed behind, bouncing entirely too energetically for this early in the morning.
Alice Brandon had been my best friend from my first day at Forks High last year. It still amazed me that she had grown so attached to me. She was a fashion guru, loving all things new and trendy. Right now I was sure she was wrinkling her nose at my damp jeans and T-shirt, wondering when she would be able to get me into something more stylish – something like the terrifyingly frilly skirt and blouse she currently was wearing. Her inky black hair was cropped short and spiked crazily in all directions, and didn't have a single drop of rain in it anywhere. My long brown hair was dripping onto my jacket and already curling damply about my face. It had to be driving her insane.
I noticed a tall, lanky guy standing a few feet behind her. He was holding an umbrella and smiling at us. Jasper Hale, Alice's boyfriend and personal fashion protector. His golden hair was a little damp from his getting out of the car first, but he seemed a lot drier than I was. "Hey, Jasper," I said, letting my backpack drop to the floor at my locker with a wet splat.
"Hello, Bella," he replied. He emanated a calm that was unperturbed by his girlfriend's energy. "I wouldn't open my locker if I were you."
I frowned. "Why?"
"Did you hear about the latest Bree-mail?" Alice demanded.
I groaned loudly. "Alice, not you, too!"
"No, Bella, really. Edward Cullen is coming to our school today." Alice looked grave. "He'll be here any minute."
"Oh, God." I glanced around, noticing for the first time all the cleavage and leg that was visible around me. Almost every girl in the hall was wearing as little as she could and checking her makeup in her compact. I shuddered, remembering the outfits Jessica and Lauren had been wearing, and imagined the stampede that was imminent. "Why is he coming here?"
"No idea. But we have about five minutes at the most if we want to get out of here alive." Alice looked urgent. "Leaving?"
I cringed and resisted the urge to pull the hood of my jacket up over my head. "Shit," I muttered, leaning my forehead miserably against my locker. "Why can't he leave me alone?"
Mike Newton was weaving his way toward me, his carefully gelled blond hair bobbing in and out of groups of students. Even after almost a year and a half of rejection, starting with my first day at Forks High, he still thought he had a shot with me. Somehow even the scantily clad girls he passed didn't deter him. His eyes never left me, his gaze making me feel as though I were wearing a skimpy tank top and barely-there shorts just like the girl with the locker next to mine. I shuddered and swallowed bile at the thought of dressing that way, and at the thought of him seeing me dressed that way.
A small hand gripped my elbow with surprising force. "Let's go, Bella," Alice urged, pulling me away from my locker.
I reached down to grab one strap of my backpack and yank it up off the floor. As I turned, I slung the backpack up to throw it over my shoulder – and connected with someone walking behind me.
The person let out a gruff "Oof" and stumbled back. I fell sideways, slamming my elbow into the row of lockers and seeing stars. Something scattered all over the floor. It was nothing of mine – my backpack was still closed and hanging loosely from my shoulder. I looked back to see that I'd knocked a pile of paperwork and a black satchel out of the person's hands.
"Oh, God, I'm so sorry," I exclaimed, kneeling to help pick everything up. Large hands already were scooping up the papers, so I collected what was closest to me. When all the papers were together, one of the large hands wrapped around the handle of the satchel and picked it up as its owner stood, losing the baseball cap off his head in the process.
And then all hell broke loose.
"EDWARD CULLEN!" someone beside me shrieked. I jumped and nearly dropped the papers in my hands. The guy in front of me spat a sharp expletive and took a step back. I flung the papers in his direction and took off down the hall just as every female in the entire school descended on the poor guy, sharks drawn to fresh blood.
Alice and Jasper were waiting for me at the door of the school. Alice waved frantically as Jasper casually stepped outside and opened his umbrella. I darted out behind Alice and drew in a deep breath of the cool, damp air.
When we reached my truck, I let out a chuckle. "I never thought I'd say this, Alice," I said, amused, "but Edward Cullen just saved me from Mike Newton."
She giggled. "Let's just hope he survives saving you. Jasper and I will meet you at my house."
I nodded and climbed into my truck, still grinning. Maybe this day wasn't so bad after all.
The girl tried to kill me. And then she ran off – in the opposite direction.
I was walking down the surprisingly crowded halls of Forks High, heading for the front office with Carlisle's papers and his satchel and trying not to stare at the impressive amount of skin the Forks females were baring, when a soaking wet backpack suddenly slammed into my stomach. It punched the air out of me with a manly "Oof" and knocked Carlisle's bag and papers to the floor. I stumbled back with the blow. My hat slid back on my head as I heard the book bag's owner fall into the lockers with a painful-sounding bang.
I didn't bother to look up or to fix my hat. I had to collect Carlisle's things before anyone looked too closely at the tumult – and me. Quickly, I knelt and started gathering his papers, crumpling a few of them in my rush.
Suddenly delicate, pale white hands began helping me collect the pages. "Oh, God, I'm so sorry," a gentle, oddly soothing voice apologized.
A girl – a girl with a great voice, but a girl – had almost knocked me off my feet. I took a moment to feel slightly embarrassed by that, another when I shot a brief glance at her and noticed how small she was. Standing, she would be almost a foot shorter than I, and she was slender in her jeans and T-shirt and jacket. But she packed a mean swing, I thought, feeling the dull ache in my abdomen where her backpack had hit me.
As I reached for a paper near her, it registered with me that she was as soaked as her backpack. Her jeans were dark with rainwater and her jacket dripped a little on the floor. And she was covered. She wasn't flaunting herself like the rest of the girls in the hall. Her clothes were modest – and extremely damp – but nice. She looked… good. And she smelled amazing, I realized as she moved again. Freesia and strawberries, all enhanced by the rain.
I dared a fast glance up at her face, but she had turned away from me to scoop up the papers to her right. Her thick, dark hair fell over her shoulder and concealed her face. Before she could turn back and meet my gaze – and recognize me – I grabbed the last paper and reached for the satchel. When I stood, she stood with me.
And my hat fell off.
I didn't even get to see her face before someone shrieked my name in a maddening pitch. The girl flung the papers into my chest and bolted. Away from me.
She knew who I was and she ran away.
I stared after her, watching her long brown hair stream behind her as she raced down the hall. Her lethal backpack bounced crazily. I was right; she was about a foot shorter than I was. And she was little. Nowhere near as tiny as the girl with the spiky black hair waiting for her at the door, but still small.
I lost sight of her as the girls in the hall converged on me. But I did notice a blond guy shoving his way through the crowd and staring after the girl who had disappeared outside.
And I wasn't sure why, but I didn't like the expression on his face.
I jammed my hat back on and ducked my head to push my way through the crowd with Carlisle's work clutched to my chest. I hated him passionately at that moment, but I knew that it wasn't his fault. Even so, when I made it to the office and slammed the door behind me, I glared at him. "I hate you."
He simply motioned for me to put his bag on the counter. "Thank you."
I shook my head and did as he asked, then sat in a chair against the wall to wait for his instructions. And wondered why, exactly, I couldn't get the smell of freesia and rain-kissed strawberries out of my head.


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Under Marc Soustrot and with the internationally acclaimed tenor Klaus Florian Vogt, the northern elite ensemble will perform orchestral songs of Richard Strauss ...
Elīna Garanča is particularly fond of Mozart, as well as the Romantic repertoire. And she will enthrall and entrance the audience with a selection of vocal pearls from works by Massenet, Verdi and Berlioz ...
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Streichquartett D-Dur op. 18/3 (1799)
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Neige d'Ete, Paris – Feb 2017
Other visits: June 2016
I was doubly impressed on my return visit to this much-loved one star restaurant situated in the Paris left bank, confirming the good things that are happening in Hideki Nishi's kitchen today. We had visited for a weekday lunch, and requested their full dinner taster menu, in advanced, to which the restaurant were happy to lay on for us. 90euroes for 8 courses plus canapes and petite fours.
Do excuse the overused cliche, as I can think of no better way to describe Nishi san's cuisine other than being truly elegant. To eek out this much colour, in the dead of winter really is pretty respectable indeed. My opinion is that Nishi san is cooking above the 1 star rating. 1.5 stars by Paris standards and perhaps closer to 2 in London terms. For me, Nishi san's handiwork is that good. His timing on the bincho alone is worthy of 2 stars. Then again, Etxebarri is on one, so maybe, bib doesn't think that highly of BBQ? Who knows. I would not be surprised if he gets promoted someday.
Of note this trip are the BTG wines. I started with a glass of Kuheiji sake and drank a perky 2010 NSG "Les Quatre Vignes" from Domaine Laurent Pere (for 16euroes). Of note however was the white wine with the fish course; a glass of 2014 Blanc Fume de Pouilly from the revered Didier Daggernau, for under 16euroes. Fantastic value for money, and well worth considering during your next visit there.
In all, we paid 357.50euroes for two people for all food, wine, water, coffee and service. Good QPR.
Pictures and notes below.
0.1 Hors d'oeuvres. Pommes souffle with shellfish puree
0.2 Amuse: Polenta crisp with beetroot cream, duck ham and a butternut squash foam
1. Tuna tartare, aubergine caviar and caviar Kristal (+20euro supplement)
Noble product on noble product, what's not to like? This comes with an additional interplay of umami and freshness in the form of a cream of Iberico, against a vinaigrette made from a Japanese citrus called dai dai.
2. Roast Britanny scallop, chorizo paella
Superb XL sized hand dived scallop from Brittany, perfectly pan fried to a mi-cuit centre. Off the charts natural sweetness with a high affinity for the well seasoned chorizo paella. Maximum deliciousness.
3. Ray wing, seaweed butter sauce, Spanish baby (?) shrimp, roasted fennel
Sauce + fried shrimp, along with a little kick, perhaps a pickled chilli, that is redolent of a very mild belacan. An appetising umami concoction well-tuned for the fish and fennel. I would have preferred just a touch less cooking on the pan fried fish, otherwise a classy dish.
4. Guinea fowl from Loué, grilled over bincho tan, served with garlic purée, roasted roscoff onion, perigord truffle infused jus
Incredible grilling, just perfect. Deboned leg and breast. There's some white pepper sprinkled over which goes very well with the flavours, not unlike say Cantonese crispy chicken.The bird was very moist and tender (brining I wonder) with a golden crispy skin and bags of flavour. Probably the best guinea fowl I've ever had.
5. Iberico pork rack, grilled over bincho tan. With white carrot purée, white beetroot, black salsify, confit citrus, jus
Pork heaven redux. The cooking of the meat is so spot-on, perfect temperature, comprehensively moist and juicy….oh man, I could have this again. Amazing work.
-cheese platter- (10euro supplement, one to share)
6. Pre-dessert of pink grapefruit granita, fromage blanc sorbet
Simple, refreshing and balanced.
7. Kabocha pumpkin crème brûlée with mandarin sorbet
This was the only dish that fell flat. There is something of a early 2000s Nobu about this pudding, and mainly I thought the starchy texture of the custard – being a little lumpy and heavy due to the pumpkin – wasn't great.
Form recovered with the detailed work on the petite fours. Macarons, madeleines and marshmallows, all well-made and as tasty as they look.
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€90 Dinner + drinks
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This looks Masterchef standard
It all looks delicious, great photos, we will certainly have to visit the restaurant when we're next in Paris. Thank you 🙂


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Kruger, H. and Grun, E. and Landgraf, M. and Baguhl, M. and Dermott, S. and Fechtig, H. and Gustafson, B.A. and Hamilton, D.P. and Hanner, M.S. and Horanyi, M. and Kissel, Jochen and Lindblad, B.A. and Linkert, D. and Linkert, G. and Mann, I. and McDonnell, J.A.M. and Morfill, G.E. and Polanskey, C. and Schwehm, G. and Srama, Ralf and Zook, Harald (1999) Three years of Ulysses dust data: 1993-1995. Planetary and Space Science, 47 (3-4). pp. 363-383. ISSN 0032-0633. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0032-0633(98)00115-9 ) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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The Ulysses spacecraft is orbiting the Sun on a highly inclined ellipse (i = 79 degrees). After its Jupiter flyby in 1992 at a heliocentric distance of 5.4 AU, the spacecraft reapproached the inner solar system, flew over the Sun's south polar region in September 1994, crossed the ecliptic plane at a distance of 1.3 AU in March 1995, and flew over the Sun's north polar resion in July 1995. We report on dust impact data obtained with the dust detector onboard Ulysses between January 1993 and December 1995. Wt publish and analyse the complete data set of 509 recorded impacts of dust particles with masses between 10-(16) g-10(-7) Together with 968 dust impacts from launch until the end of 1992 published earlier (Grun et al., 1995c), information about 1477 particles detected with the Ulysses sensor between October 1990 and December 1995 is now available. The impact rate measured between 1993 and 1995 stayed relatively constant at about 0.4 impacts per day and varied by less than a factor of ten. Most of the impacts recorded outside about 3.5 AU are compatible with particles of interstellar origin. Two populations of interplanetary particles have been recognized: big micrometer-sized particles close to the ecliptic plane and small sub-micrometer-sized particles at high ecliptic latitudes. The observed impact rate is compared with a model for the flux of interstellar dust particles which gives relatively good agreement with the observed impact rate. No change in the instrument's noise characteristics or degradation of the channeltron could be revealed during the three-year period.
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Magic Self-Deification and the Everlasting Gospel
Ellen Myers
Robert Schuller's "gospel of success" is a prominent example of this false teaching. For him the "unchristian strategy of attempting to make people aware of their lost and sinful condition" is "destructive to human personality and, hence, counterproductive to the evangelism enterprise" (Hunt and McMahon, p. 15). This although Christ Himself said that He came to call sinners to repentance (Luke 5:32)! On an Amway motivational tape to its sales force Schuller said, "You don't know what power you have within you!. . You make the world into anything you choose. Yes, you can make your world into whatever you want it to be" (p.25). This concept is presented by Schuller and other prominent "Christian" preachers and teachers as quite compatible with the Bible. They encourage us to become wealthy, healthy and happy by such means as "commanding prayer" ordering God to do our will in "faith" that He will and must obey us!
Why, then, did our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ refuse to "command" the Father to send His angels to deliver Him, but rather prayed at Gethsemane, "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42)? Why did He not consider equality with the Father a thing ~o be grasped at" (Philippians 2:6)? True Christianity is to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God (I Peter 5:6) that He may exalt us in due time (the time set by Him). Christ taught us to pray to our Father in Heaven, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10).
The chief technique taught at business management seminars, weight loss "behavior modification" classes, government training sessions and, alas, among huge numbers of Christians today is "imaging" or "visualizing" one's desired goal. "Image" yourself strong, wise, healed, slender, successful, rich, freed from childhood traumas and hang-ups it works? "Image" another person doing what you want him to, such as making a contribution to your church or missionary outreach it works! Hunt and McMahon cite a striking example of this technique by the congregation of "positive thinking" preacher Norman Vincent Peale (p.148). Nevertheless, `imaging" or "visualizing" the state of altered reality you desire is, as Hunt and McMahon show, an ancient "shamanistic" or witchcraft technique. To seduce Christians into accepting and practicing it, bold promoters of the "gospel of success" will even call Christ Himself the greatest "shaman" (sorcerer, witchdoctor) or "positive thinker" of all times, the possessor of "psi power" (p.131). Such teaching stands condemned under Mark 3:22-30, where Jesus warns us that "he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation." Christ is not a witchdoctor any more than He is an "avatar" in "New Age" or Eastern pantheist religious thought.
Belief in evolution is an integral part of this false gospel of magic self-deification. For example, an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times by the First United Methodist Church of Hollywood promoted the appearance of "SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI . . . She will awaken in you the force thai will change your life and change the world. This awakening. . grants inner peace, health and joy. It is the last evolutionary step, promised by traditions that stretch back to the beginnings of human spiritual awareness ..." (p.75). A founding father of this false gospel of self-deification is the late evolutionist priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His disciple Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations where he has worked for thirty-six years, "builds his speeches around Teilhard's philosophy of global evolution and of the birth of a collective brain to the human species' "(p.77). Muller considers himself and is accepted by Catholic educational circles as a bonafide Catholic Christian; he was the keynote speaker at the 82nd annual convention, religious education congress and exposition of the National Catholic Education Association in St. Louis on April 8-11, 1985. This congress also featured other leading "New Age" personalities such as Carl Sagan and Robert Theobald. Some effect of their thinking upon Catholic parochial school education is inevitable.
Teilhard's disciple Jean Houston is director of the Foundation for Mind Research of Pomona, New York. Besides conducting seminars at Catholic institutions such as Kansas Newman College, Wichita, in February 1984, and being a workshop leader at the 1984 National Catholic Education Association convention, she also instructs businessmen and high government official in Washington in "self-realization" techniques. She has groups act out purported memories of their evolutionary advance from fish to amphibian, reptile and early, furry human, and might then tell them "to extend yourselves even further-into. . the next stage of your own evolution" (Hunt/McMahon, pp. 75-76). Houston conducts workshops and seminars around the world. The wealthy Institute for Conscious Evolution in San Francisco offers "evolutionary counseling services" and provides "courses in Conscious Evolution toward M.A. or Ph.D. degrees" (p. 93p.
Besides evolution, the perennial "gospel" of magic self-deification rests upon the pantheist premise that all is one, including God. Of course the "God" of pantheism is not the God of biblical Christianity, Magic self-deification must reject God as the Creator and absolute, sovereign Lord of the Bible, because He could not be "altered" or "commanded" by man's magic methods, nor could fundamental reality as His creation Out of nothing by His Creative decree in the beginning. To their great merit, Hunt and McMahon stress this point repeatedly. You must have a pantheist-evolutionist world if you would magically manipulate the guiding "forces" or "spirits" of this world to be your own god.
How, then, is it possible that people sincerely believing themselves 10 be Christians cannot see that this leaching is the opposite of Christ's and the Bible's? Were basic, indispensable parts of the true biblical gospel of salvation neglected in their conversion and nurturing? Have they forgotten have they never learned in their hearts, minds and souls that salvation in Christ does not include a guarantee of earthly well-being and power, but demands the mortifying -the crucifixion -of our old self? that Christ's promise is salvation from sin and granting of repentance unto eternal life? that true Christianity presupposes biblical creation and man's fall from original perfection in God's image and likeness? that man's goal is to be restored in his original likeness to his Creator by the Holy Spirit? that without repentance and remission of sins thanks to Christ's blood shed at Calvary we are "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1, 5)?
How is it that people professing faith in Christ can be persuaded to turn to faith in themselves by trusting in their own "mind power," "positive thinking," "expanded consciousness" or "the divine principle within them"? How can they not see that our purpose in this life is not to "esteem" or strengthen our own selves, far less to Set up our own selves as gods whose will must be done but rather to die to self 50 we might be made new creations in Christ (II Corinthians 5:15. 17)?
How can Christians not see, professing to know the only true God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent (John 17:13), that this God neither will nor can serve us as a cosmic slot machine, altering reality to our wish and command when we pull the correct magic lever? Yes, our prayer has power, and we "have the petitions that we desired of Him" if we ask any thing according to his will (I John 5:14-15). I could deeply desire that my prayer could raise up a beloved husband, a beloved child and a beloved grandson from the dead, and grant normal mental faculties to my dear daughter with Down's Syndrome (as a fellow Christian believing in "commanding prayer" once demanded of mel -but His blessed will was and is that my beloved dead be present with Him (PhilippianS 1:23, II Corinthians 5:1, 8), and that my "retarded" child remain childlike and loving in Christ, and relatively immune to temptation all her life. Our God is not merely the earthly satisfier of our earthly desires but the heavenly, eternal Sanctifier of our immortal souls. He is the aweful, wonderful, altogether loving because altogether merciful and righteous God who alone is worthy to be worshipped and praised. His Spirit "makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God" and "we know that all things (including grief, pain, poverty, persecution and death) work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:27-28). We can have power and authority only in Him. not over Him; this is why Jesus told His seventy disciples not to rejoice that the spirits they had cast out in His name were subject to them, but rather "because your names are written in heaven" (Luke 10:20).
Our God, our Creator, our holy and righteous God against whom we all have sinned and of whose glory we all have fallen short (Romans 3:23) is unchangeable (James 1:17). He is not the putty god of evolutionist pantheism submitting to magic manipulation so our own will might be done. If He were consider it well we could never trust Him.
Look at our situation if biblical creation were not true, and if God were part and parcel of an ever-changing evolutionist world. Man exercising self-deifying dominion by science or magic (modern science actually arose as a branch of magic, and is now largely returning to it see Hunt/McMahon, Chapters 3 and 8) would be unhindered by absolute standards of good and evil in God's character/law. In any evolutionist universe what is considered "good" today may well be "evil" tomorrow. Realizing that in such a universe I, a "half-Jew" raised in Nazi Germany, could never call Nazism absolutely and always evil first compelled me to seek the God of the Bible. Since man's dominion of the world makes "good" and "evil" meaningless or contentless terms by confounding their absolute difference, it makes man's dominion ultimately meaningless absurd as well. Only dominion under God is ultimately meaningful (Genesis 1:26, 28).
Most ominously, in a pantheist-evolutionist world of magic self-deification "might is right," as the Nazis consistently proclaimed from within that world view. Any benefit to one's self can only be temporary and uncertain as other selves, too, seek to exercise magic dominion over the world for their profit. Moreover, "faulty" magic would backfire against its practitioner, just as do plain material objects falsely used. This means that even in simple "result-oriented" terms, the gospel of magic self-deification is a fraud which can never keep its illusory promises.
The confrontation of our day is clearly between the delusion of self deification by modern magic techniques in an evolutionist-pantheist world, and the full biblical gospel of salvation in Christ founded on biblical creation. It is our Lord's eternal providence and blessed will for our time that the everlasting gospel of biblical creation, too (and not only the enemy's seduction) is proclaimed today around the world as never before. It is the "everlasting gospel" preached by the angel of Revelation 14:6-7: "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." More than ever before it is evident that the gospel of biblical creation must be presented in truly biblical evangelism, and in truly biblical nurturing of Christian believers. This everlasting gospel is our invincible and indispensable armor and weapon against the satanic counterfeit "gospel" of man's dominion over the world through magic self deification.
Note: Related articles by this writer in past issues of the CSSH Quarterly are:
"Pantheistic Mysticism vs. Created Reality" (IV:3, Spring 1982)
"The Ultimate Evolutionist Model: Evolution by Purposive 'Forces' (IV:4, Summer 1982)
"Denying True Reality Mystic Evolutionism in Practice" (v:1, Fall 1982)
"Self-Image or Created Identity in Christ" (VI:2, Winter 1 983)
"Damned Nonsense" (VI:3, Spring 1984)
A List of "New Age" / "Positive Thinking"/ "Self-Esteem" / "Gospel of Prosperity" Infected Personalities and Ministries (...emerging church; contemplative spirituality; seeker friendly; centering; new age; eastern mysticism)
Source: Dave Hunt & T.A. McMahon, The Seduction of Christianity (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, Third Printing, September 1985)
|Ministry / Organization / Concept
|Bennett, Rita
|You Can Be Emotionally Free
|wife of Episcopal priest
|Bristol, Claude
|The Magical Believing
|Capps, Charles
|The Tongue - A Creative Force.
|"Positive Confession Movement"
|Cho. Paul Yonggi
|The Fourth Dimension
Solving Life's Problems
|pastor of huge church in South Korea
|Clark, Glenn
|The Soul's Desire.
| founder: "Camps Farthest Out"
|Copeland, Kenneth
Copeland, Gloria
|"Positive Confession Movement"
television ministry
|Douglass, Stephen B.
| Making the Most of Your Mind (with Lee Roddy)
|Ferguson, Marilyn
|The Aquarian Conspiracy publisher.
|"Brain/Mind Bulletin"
|Foster, Richard
|Celebration of Discipline.
| professor: Friends University, Wichita. KS
|Goines, Frank
|publisher, "Prophecy and economics Newsletter
|Grubb, Norman
|missionary; "Union Life"
|Hagin, Kenneth
|"Positive Confession Movement
|Hill, Napoleon
|Think and Grow Rich
|"Positive Mental Attitude" (PMA)
|Holmes, Ernest
|The Science of Mind
|Church of Religious Science
|Houston, Joan
|Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space (with Robert Masters)
|Foundation for Mind Research
|Kelsey, Morton T.
|The Christian and the Supernatural
|Episcopal priest
|Larson, Bruce
|The Whole Christian.
& others
|Presbyterian leader
|Linn, Dennis
Linn, Matthew
|Praying With Another For healing
(with Sheila Fabricant)
|Jesuit priests
|Lovett, C. S.
|Longing To Re Loved
|"Personal Christianity
|Mandino, Og
|The Greatest Secret in the World
|Masters, Robert
|Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space
(with Jean Houston)
|Meyer, Paul
|Success Motivation Institute
|Miller, Calvin
|The Table of Inwardness
|author; publishes with Word
Publishing. Waco, TX
|Mitchell, Edgar
|Institute of Noetic Sciences;
former astronaut
|Muller, Robert
MacNutt, Francis
Nightingale, Earl
Osborne, Cecil
|Asst. Sec.-General, U. N.
Catholic author
Success Motivation Institute
"Primal Integration Therapy"
("Christian" version of "Primal Scream Therapy" of Arthur Janov)
|Paulk, Earl
|Satan Unmasked
|Peale, Norman Vincent
|The Power of Postrive Thinking
| minister, author
|Peck, M. Scott
|People of the Lie.
The Road Less Traveled
|Price, Frederick K.C.
|pastor, TV minister,
Los Angeles
|Prophet, Elizabeth Clare
|"Church Universal and
"I AM" group
|Roddy, Lee
|Making the Most of Your Mind
(with Stephen B. Dougleas)
|Romney, Rodney R.
|Journey to Inner Space Finding God-in Us Seattle, WA
|pastor, First Baptist church
|Samuels, Mike, M,D.
| The Well Body Book;
Spirit Guides: Access to Inner Worlds
|Sandford, John
Sandford, Paula
|The Transformation of the Inner Man
|"inner healing"
|Sanford, Agnes
|The Healing Light;
The Healing Gifts of the Spirit;
many others
|author, seminar leader
|Schuller, Robert
|Self-Esteem, Living Positvely One Day At A Time; & others
|minister: TV ministry
|Spangler, David
|Reflections on the Christ
| Findhorn Foundation
|Stapleton, Ruth Carter
|The Experience of Inner Healing
|"inner healing"
|Stone, W. Clement
|Success Through A Posiuve Mental Attitude
|Stoop, David
|Self Talk: Key to Personal Growth
|pastor; clinical psychologist
|Sutphen, Dick
|Self-Help Update
|Valley of the Sun Books and Tapes, Scottsdale. AZ
|Teillhard de Chardin, Pierre
|The Divine Milieu; The Phenomenon of Man
& others
| Jesuit priest (d. 1955)
|Tilton, Robert
|pastor, Word of Faith Outreach, Dallas, Tesas
|Treat, Casey
|pastor, Christian Faith Center. Seattle, WA; tape ministry
|VasWig, William L.
|l prayed, He Answered
|Lutheran pastor
|Volkman, Bill
| "As Gods" Without Denying Our Humanity
|Wilkerson, Ralph
|ESP or HSP? Exploring Your Latent Seventh Sense
|Melodyland Publishers (in southern California)
|Wimber, John
|Signs and Wonders and Church Growth
| instructor. Fuller Seminary School of World Missions
|Wise, Robert L.
|Heating of the Past.
|pastor, author; in Presbyterian Renewal Movement
|Ziglar. Zig
|See You At The Top
|"Christian Success Movement"


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North American gas trade winds continue to blow toward an expanding year-on-year shortfall of net U.S. imports.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 21, 2013
NYC-based PIRA Energy Group reports that North American gas trade winds continue to blow toward an expanding year-on-year shortfall of net U.S. imports. In Europe, seasonal demand and expected cold weather are supporting day-ahead prices. In Asia, winter LNG buying will decline rapidly to seasonal lows in the second quarter. Specifically, PIRA's analysis of natural gas market fundamentals has revealed the following:
*U.S. Import Deficit Growing Year-on-Year
North American gas trade winds continue to blow toward an expanding year-on-year shortfall of net U.S. imports. Western Canada's recent production rebound appears to have run out of steam, and near-term prospects look challenging. Meanwhile, U.S. exports to Mexico are poised to increase steadily year-on-year in 2H13 due to a boost from new pipeline capacity.
*Day-Ahead Prices Supported by Seasonal Demand and Cold Weather
Gas demand is well down year-on-year and versus what is normal for mid-February. However, these days mark the high point for gas use during the calendar year and that temperatures are expect to be below normal in the next 10 days. The other major price support for day-ahead levels is the strong use of U.K. storage over the past few weeks. U.K. stocks have dipped below the five-year average, which means that more of the weather-sensitive demand that will be emerging in the weeks to come will have to be met by U.K. imports from Norway and the Continent.
*Asian Winter Buying Will Decline Rapidly in 2Q
It is well understood that, in the next six to eight weeks, Asian winter buying is set to tumble from annual seasonal highs in the first quarter to annual seasonal lows in second quarter, taking spot prices and purchases down with it. With very little storage in the region, a direct line can be drawn between buying and seasonal gas demand. This winter, colder-than-normal temperatures have spurred a spot-buying frenzy, not only in the usual corners of Korea and Japan, but also in the northern regions of China, which has a similar weather profile.
NYC-based PIRA Energy Group reports that EDF recently stated that French nuclear output will be up year-on-year in 2013. In North America, PIRA estimates that January Eastern Interconnect loads were higher year-on-year. Specifically, PIRA's analysis of electricity and coal market fundamentals has revealed the following:
*EDF Sees Higher French Nuclear Output During 2013
During the recent presentation of 2012 financial results, EDF stated that French nuclear output during 2013 will be higher Y/Y, with the expected gains exceeding PIRA's assumptions. EDF's nuclear output assumptions are bearish for shorter-term electricity balances, as PIRA has been arguing that EDF may need to cut nuclear output by a larger extent, given the weakness in French electricity demand; the higher renewable output, both in France and outside; and competitive coal-fired generation. In addition, EDF reasserted the idea that the nuclear power sold to its competitors should be priced at the full economic cost of the nuclear power.
*Eastern Interconnect Loads Increase Y/Y
Weather in the Eastern Interconnect remained warmer than normal in January, with the largest temperature departures from normal in the Southeast. PIRA estimates that loads increased year-on-year, with demand climbing in ERCOT. Net generation in the East increased by slightly less than loads, as imports from Canada rose. Northeast spot power prices surged in January as rising gas space heating loads limited volumes available to the power sector, which was forced to resort to more expensive alternatives.
*Bullish Supply Developments Unable to Prop Up the Coal Market
The coal market shrugged off bullish supply developments last week due to the lack of Chinese buying activity, and prices lost approximately $2.00/mt across the board. API#2 (Northwest Europe) prices declined by the largest extent, perhaps in an adjustment to the jump last week immediately after the strike began at the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.
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The series premiere will take place from the Super Bowl at Indianapolis. Scheduled to appear:
- Roger Goodell – NFL Commissioner
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- John Harbaugh – Head Coach, Baltimore Ravens
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What does lever mean?
Definitions for leverˈlɛv ər, ˈli vər
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lever.
Princeton's WordNet
a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
lever, lever tumbler(verb)
a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy(verb)
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
"The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Webster Dictionary
more agreeable; more pleasing
a rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures
a bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it
an arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it
Origin: [Old compar. of leve or lief.]
A lever is a machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum. It is one of the six simple machines identified by Renaissance scientists. The word comes from the French lever, "to raise", cf. a levant. A lever amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force, which is said to provide leverage. The ratio of the output force to the input force is the ideal mechanical advantage of the lever.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
lē′vėr, adv. an obsolete comp. of lief.
Lever is creating painless software that fits with every company's HR process.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lever in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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That is a lever we can pull.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The Russia project will be the biggest lever and have the biggest impact ... We don't have a plan B.
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- رافعةArabic
- pákaCzech
- HebelGerman
- μοχλόςGreek
- baskuloEsperanto
- palancaSpanish
- اهرمPersian
- vipu, vivuttaa, vivutaFinnish
- levier, manetteFrench
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- 梃子Japanese
- ბერკეტიGeorgian
- 지레Korean
- vectisLatin
- hua, tūwhitiMāori
- лостMacedonian
- pengumpil, pengungkil, tuil, tuasMalay
- hendel, hefboomDutch
- dźwigniaPolish
- alavancaPortuguese
- рычагRussian
- полуга, polugaSerbo-Croatian
- hävstång, spakSwedish
- kaldıraçTurkish
- levî, djîsseWalloon
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The State Organization Index provides an alphabetical listing of government organizations, including commissions, departments, and bureaus.
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May a special state employee serve as a consultant for a private organization?
May a consultant/attorney who works part-time for a House Committee also represent a private organization which is interested in establishing off-track betting facilities in the Commonwealth?
An attorney may serve as special municipal counsel representing a board of health in a state lawsuit.
Municipal police officers cannot be employed as private security guards in their own town, outside of the official municipal "paid detail" system, because the private security work might impair the officers' independence of judgment in the performance of their official duties. Therefore, the private employment is "inherently incompatible" with the police officers' official duties, and is prohibited by G.L. c. 268A, section 23(b)(1).
A part-time intermittent police officer may work as a security guard in the same city where they serve as a police officer as long he is not on active police duty.


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by Colin Robinson
Since 1945 there have been repeated Western attempts to construct or reconstruct armies in the developing world. At least four spring easily to mind: in South Vietnam, by the French and Americans since the early 1950s; in the Congo/Zaire, mostly by Belgium, since 1960,[1] in Afghanistan, by the Soviet Union from 1980-1990 and by the United States and its allies since 2002,[2] and in Iraq from late 2003.[3] There are also a host of lesser examples. Since 1998 and the creation of the new domain of security sector reform (SSR), many of these programmes have been described as SSR.
Security sector reform can be described as the effort to make all the security agencies of any given state democratically accountable (through parliamentary, citizen, and other open scrutiny) and effective. Army construction or reconstruction efforts however have usually focused much more on imparting effectiveness. Yet such efforts have often made observers wonder whether forces are being made more effective in carrying out repressive functions: many United States army reconstruction efforts in Central and South America have had questions raised in this regard.
While noting such potential problems, this paper asks to what extent the experience gained since 1945 can be pulled together in a unified framework to guide army reconstruction efforts. Surely the mixed record since 1945 might be aided by a coherent set of guidelines? Since 2007 there have been at least two attempts by the British and United States armies to write doctrine for their efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the French Army is also understood to be examining this question. But how effective are these national frameworks, and how universally useful might they be beyond their specific nationally-tailored circumstances?
There are at least two major problems involved in building a universally applicable army reconstruction framework. The first is the growing record, now almost accepted as a working rule, that development and indeed security sector reform efforts should be context-specific.
The second is that projects involving the importing of Western values and standards into the developing world appears from experience to be very risky. Yet if a framework could be designed which balanced a certain level of ubiquity with flexibility for local conditions, it might prove very useful indeed. Armies have major political importance, and refashioning them seems certain to be an ongoing political and operational challenge.
Heiner Hanggi has said '..[I]n practical terms, SSR varies substantially according to the specific reform context. There is general agreement that no common model of SSR exists and that, in principle, each country adopting SSR constitutes a special case and hence a different reform context.'[4] This reflects decades of pre-SSR development experience, as it was learned sometimes slowly and painfully that 'economic development,' in the original conceptualisation, was not appropriate for all countries and regions. The problem is that army reconstruction sees the same group of international interveners – mostly the United States and the British armies, and their retirees serving as contractors – deploy time and again to new settings, mostly attempting to implement variants of their previous military experience.
Context-specific development and SSR efforts is much more sustainable, as it is tailored to local conditions. But when do we trade away Western core values? Where northern expectations conflict with local practices, donors and other Westerners involved are faced with complicated choices. Part of the answer may involve remembering that human rights may not be as cross-culturally applicable as they might seem.[5] The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights was an essentially Western construct, and Northern thinking dominated many of the following legal instruments as well. Scheye and Andersen suggest that a contextualisation of human rights standards may provide part of the way forward: '..choosing between different values, or at least in the short to medium term refraining from attempting to promote them all at once.'[6]
To adjust to each specific situation, it might be best if designers of army reconstruction programmes clearly identified which SSR standards were most important for each programme. Trade-offs might then need to follow, probably, to ensure sustainability, for the medium term at least.
Despite these perennial problems, a number of army reconstruction / defence reform models have been developed, some for very specific use in Afghanistan and Iraq. There appear to be two existing army reconstruction models, developed by the British and U.S. Armies, as well as more general defence reform constructs developed by U.S. contractors in Georgia and the United Nations. The author also developed an army reconstruction model during the process of his doctorate.
First compiled was the British Army's Doctrine Note 07/16, Developing Indigenous Armies, completed in 2007. The Note says that 'development of an indigenous army is easier to describe than to define.'[7] It divides the task into preparation, recruitment, training, and operations, while noting that these kinds of distinctions are not so clear in real life. Training an indigenous army should be 'characterised by understanding and assessment of the indigenous soldiers' capabilities.'[8] Ideally, the content of the training would be decided by the indigenous soldiers themselves, though this is usually not possible from the outset.
The final stage is transition to self reliance, in which one needs to express success or failure of the reconstruction effort in terms of regional normality. Developed-world standards are not necessarily applicable. Timing the transition from directing efforts to mentoring indigenous trainers or commanders is ultimately an intuitive judgment based upon the level of indigenous capability and the capability levels normal in the region.
The comparable U.S. Army manual, Field Manual 3-07.1 Security Force Assistance, was published on 1 May 2009. It defines Security Force Assistance as 'the unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, host-nation, or regional security forces in support of a legitimate authority.'[9] The manual focuses on the mechanics of training foreign forces. The task according to the U.S. model includes organize, train, equip, rebuild and build, and advise and assist phases. The U.S. manual presents building up foreign security forces as almost a purely technical activity – as the text lacks consideration of political factors, in contrast to its British counterpart.
The U.S. and British manuals take a differing approach to the quality and nature of the new force: while the British manual says that 'every …plan for engagement with indigenous forces should be steeped in cooperation with local and regional military-cultural normality,'[10] the U.S. manual has a stronger emphasis on replicating U.S. practices: '..many armies lack a professional NCO corps; establishing one for a foreign security force may prove difficult. In the meantime, adjustments will have to be made..'[11] The two manuals' principal weakness is their tactical focus, but this is inherent in military doctrinal manuals intended to be used by soldiers in the field. The political maneuvering and compromise required to successfully arrange army reconstruction programmes, or other stabilization lines of operation, is not usually covered by military manuals.
Based upon the dissertation research, the author's model has three major components. Vital preparatory considerations, including the peace accord, lead to either the immediate creation of interim forces, or a more extended assessment and design phase based upon the OECD Handbook's ideas. Perhaps the most vital factor in the entire process is not strictly related to armies at all – a wide-ranging national security and defence debate, to build consensus on the shape of the future state armed forces. Another important factor to note is the grey oval representing the ubiquitous presence of non-state security actors, usually far more influential that state forces.
The point of this paper is not to advocate one or the other approach, though the author would argue his own approach is based on significant research and consideration. The issue at hand is whether such a universal post-conflict army reconstruction framework is possible, and to what extent it is usable and useful. Therefore the author offers these models above and the basic question for discussion.
[1] Colin Robinson, 'Army Reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2003-2009,' Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 23, No.3, 2012, 474-499, available online 11 June 2012.
[2] See for example Antonio Giustozzi, 'Auxiliary Force or National Army: Afghanistan's 'ANA' and the COIN Effort 2002-2006,' Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 18, No.1, March 2007
[3] International Crisis Group, Loose Ends: Iraq's Security Forces between U.S. Drawdown and Withdrawal (Baghdad/Washington/Brussels: October 26, 2010)
[4] Conceptualising Security Sector Reform and Reconstruction, DCAF Yearbook, p.1
[5] Andersen, Møller, and Stepputat, Fragile States and Insecure People? : Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century, 2003, 241.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Headquarters Land Warfare Centre, Doctrine Note 07/16, Developing Indigenous Armies, 2007, p.1
[8] Doctrine Note 07/16, op. cit., p.14
[9] Field Manual 3-07.1 Security Force Assistance, Department of the Army, May 2009, p.1-1
[10] British Army HQ Land Warfare Centre, 'Developing Indigenous Armies,' Doctrine Note 07/16, 2007, Page 07/16-3 point 8.
[11] United States Army, Field Manual 3-07.1, page 2-4, section 2-25.


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