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Hours into historic U.S.-Cuba talks in Havana, a Cuban official came out to boast about the "relaxed" atmosphere at the meeting between the old Cold War adversaries.
"Look at my face. I think it reflects the spirit in which we are talking at the moment," Gustavo Machin, the Cuban delegation's spokesman, told reporters with a smile under his thick mustache.
It was a stark change from the days of recriminations between communist Cuba and the United States, when Havana slammed "Yankee imperialism" and Washington condemned the Castro regime.
The mere presence of the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the sunbaked Caribbean island since the Cold War marked a turnaround after five decades of glacial relations.
After barely speaking face-to-face since the 1960s, the United States and Cuba took big steps toward normalizing ties, even though the talks highlighted enduring rifts between the nations.
Old disagreements about migration and human rights resurfaced on Wednesday and Thursday. And both sides acknowledged that normalizing relations will be a long and complex endeavor.
We have ... to overcome more than 50 years of a relationship that was not based on confidence or trust.
— Roberta Jacobson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Even after Roberta Jacobson, the top State Department official for Latin America, met with dissidents in Havana on Friday, the Cuban government said the negotiations would continue despite its "big difference" with Washington regarding such critics.
But U.S. officials spoke of "productive" and "positive" discussions, while the Cuban side commended the "constructive" and "respectful" nature of the talks.
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— Department of State (@StateDept) January 22, 2015
While the week's talks did not produce major announcements and no dates were set for the reopening of embassies, analysts said the talks themselves were a big achievement.
"The fact that they were meeting in and of itself is what matters," Ted Piccone, a Latin American expert at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, told AFP.
"It's important because it signals that we are in a new era, we are going to have direct talks regarding a whole basket of issues," said Piccone, a foreign policy advisor in former president Bill Clinton's administration.
It was the first get-together since U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro announced in December their intention to normalize ties.
After being estranged all these years, the two sides had lots to talk about, like how to upgrade their "interests sections" into embassies with ambassadors.
Tougher questions came up, with Jacobson pressing Cuba over human rights.
"We have ... to overcome more than 50 years of a relationship that was not based on confidence or trust," Jacobson said.
The Cuban delegation responded with its own statement accusing the United States of committing a host of human rights abuses.
The Cuban foreign ministry's U.S. affairs director, Josefina Vidal, said her government "has never responded to pressure" but that countries with deep differences "can live together."
She reiterated Havana's demand that Washington tear down an embargo that the regime blames for its economic troubles, but which only the U.S. Congress can end.
What's important for now is to establish diplomatic relations because it has been a big obstacle.
— Jason Marczak, analyst, Atlantic Council think tank
The two sides agreed to hold more talks in the future in order to reopen their embassies, a step that analysts say is important in order to open a regular channel of communication.
The broader goal of normalizing relations will take more time.
"What's important for now is to establish diplomatic relations because it has been a big obstacle," said Jason Marczak, Latin America analyst at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.
"With diplomatic relations, we will have an official channel to chat about more important things for both countries," he said.
Vidal said Cuba could not open an embassy in Washington as long as it remains on a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism. The embargo, she added, has blocked the consulate from accessing banking services for its operations.
Obama has called on Congress to lift the embargo and used his executive powers to ease some travel and trade restrictions.
He has also given the State Department six months to review whether Cuba should remain on the terror list.
To be removed, Cuba must not have sponsored terror in the past six months and promise to not do it in the future, Piccone said. The Congress then has 45 days to override the decision.
"The process is technically easy," Piccone said. "But politically it will be an opportunity for opponents of the normalization process to say that Cuba is not cooperating."
Jacobson warned that this week's talks were "just a first step" and "many more" meetings are needed.
By Laurent Thomet
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2015


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The election of Igor Dodon 'gives even bigger clear hope' for fixing the cooperation with Russia.Reuters
The results of the presidential elections in Bulgaria and in Moldova give hope for improvement of those countries' relations with Russia, head of the parliament's lower house international committee Leonid Slutsky told a news conference on Nov. 14.
"Bulgaria's president-elect, who always has been for equal and effective relations with Russia, first of all in the economic sphere, I believe, most likely will move the policies of official Sofia towards a constructive approach to Russian-Bulgarian relations," said Slutsky.
As for Moldova, he continued, the election of Igor Dodon "gives even bigger clear hope" for fixing cooperation with Russia.
"He [Dodon] clearly and persistently is for Moldova joining the Eurasian Economic Union, for improvement of relations with Russia," he said. "I believe he will make quick and persistent steps towards the development of mutual relations with Russia."
Rumen Radev won the Bulgarian elections with 59.08 percent of the vote. The president-elect told his first news conference he hopes for "a deep dialogue with Russia."
In Moldova, with 99.9 percent of the ballots counted, Dodon has won 835,010 votes, which is 52.25 percent. He is leader of the Party of Socialists, which is for rapprochement with Russia.
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PsychoanlysisDecember 15th, 2012
Paul is the psychoanalyst. Laura was doctor, had 29 years when it initiated the psycotherapy. The initial complaint of the patient age in relation to its boyfriend, Andrew, it wanted to be married, but it was in doubt. Its first sexual relation is counted when it decided that it would be its last session.
David, was a older man, was housed in its house for its father some times, Laura already knew David and its wife, passed a time with them when its mother died, it was personage of its sexual desires to the 16 years. Par-ul obtained to make with that it understood that in its first sexual experience where it found that she was the seducer, in the truth it was seduced. The principle, seemed to be this the cause of its symptom. Laura has fear to assume a commitment, to feel itself imprisoned. Its rela to you are marked them by treasons, endings and returns in the relation.
It it always speaks of the difficulty in feeling pleasure. It confessed to have if gotten passionate for the therapist since the first session. For Paul, David destroyed the capacity of communication of Laura with the men in not-sexual contexts. The fact not to have sex between it and the men do not want to say that they do not recognize its capacities. Laura demonstrates mood changes and behavior, you pray it is sad, it prays is smiling. Its sexual stories detailed in the intention to provoke and to seduce Paul demonstrate a histrico behavior, make seduction game. It counts the fancies that have with the therapist when it is flirting with other men, in some cases, when it arrives in hour H wants to give up to consummate the act.
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BRIGHOUSE Town hit the FA Cup trail on Saturday after successive wins in the league.
Town are at home to Atherton Collieries (3pm) and then head to Bridlington on Monday afternoon to take on Scarborough Athletic in Evo-Stik Division One (3pm).
Last season, fellow League members Warrington Town netted around £250,000 for their televised FA Cup games with Exeter City and Gateshead, and, on Saturday, Town will earn a modest £1,925 if they see off the Leigh-based side.
The incentive is there in this preliminary-round tie against last season's North West Counties Division One champions as the carrot for the first qualifying round is another £3,000.
On Saturday, current EBAC Northern League Division One leaders Morpeth Town visit Newton Aycliffe, currently seventh, for the right to come to the Dual Seal Stadium or visit Atherton, on Saturday, September 12 (3pm).
Town's opponents on Saturday, who have commenced their Premier Division season well, were watched last Saturday by Development team manager Charlie Tolley in their only defeat so far, when former Conference side Northwich 1874 beat them 3-1.
He reported back to manager Paul Quinn that they were a big, strong side and will have to be given total respect despite playing a level below Town.
They beat Bootle 2-0 on Merseyside to qualify for this tie and since then they have beaten Maine Road 4-3, lost to Northwich 1874 and then on Tuesday night won away 4-3 to Blackpool club Squires Gate.
Town warmed to their task with a very workmanlike performance – they were especially tight at the back – at Farsley in front of 260 spectators with at least half of them having travelled over from Brighouse.
Town officials understand the Greater Manchester side, who have midfielder Josh Messer on a dual registration from Salford City, will also be well supported at the tie.
Striker Danny Facey is expected to be back for the game and his class alongside Ernest Boafo, who was marked by two defenders all the game at Farsley but did allow Ryan Hall plenty of room and Steve Hollingworth plenty of space, will be a key component in a must-win game.
Town have opened up their team coach on Monday to supporters who want to travel to the Hudgell Solicitors Stadium for the game with Scarborough Athletic who may just have this season to see out on the road down the coast at Bridlington as their local council have passed plans for a 2,500 stadium in the seaside borough. The cost is £10 and bookings will be taken on Saturday if there still room.
Town's commercial manager Andy Stewart, who put in a six-hour shift on Sunday fixing new groundside advertising hoardings, has taken on a most welcome assistant.
Avid Norwich City fan and former Ship landlady Marsha Jones has teamed up with the club's former goalkeeper to bring in more sponsors and advertising for the ground and match programme.
Marsha, who is now mine host at the popular Pallet Bar in Ladyship Mills, Ovenden, after leaving her Bethel Street hostelry three months ago, is looking forward to getting round the town and surrounding districts and taking some pressure off Andy who has his thriving business, Halifax Pest Control, to also oversee.
"I was delighted to help out when he asked me and I am even getting hold of a paint brush on Thursday night to work on the clubhouse," she added.


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Boynton commissioner to leave office, run for state seat
Boynton Beach City Commissioner Joe Casello announced this week he plans to run for state office in 2018. He hopes to replace Lori Berman, who is term-limited, in the House District 90 seat.
Casello was first elected as commissioner in April 2013 to replace former Commissioner Marlene Ross. He was reelected in March 2014. He ran unopposed in the recent March election, and won a three-year term.
In order to run, the commissioner said he will have to submit a letter of resignation to the city in June. But, he can stay on the dais until the state election, which is in August 2018.
"We're excited about it," Casello said, adding that he has dedicated his life to public service. Casello previously was a firefighter with the Worcester Fire Department.
If elected, he plans to continue pushing issues such as education and public safety. He also thinks local administrations should have more of a say in governance.
Berman, who was elected in November, has been a state House representative since 2010.
District 90 mainly covers Boynton. The south border is Boynton Beach Boulevard, and the district stretches from Interstate 95 west to Florida's Turnpike and north to just north of Greenacres.


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|1) Software Architecture for complete system
|Requirements Gathering & Analysis, Uses cases, Architecture
development, identification of functional components.
|2) Linux application development
|U boot, Linux board bring up on i.MX6 based TS4100 SoM.
C / C++ application development to control and monitor the water purification process, close / open valves, switching and speed control of motors at different times based on sqlite DB settings. Multiple error conditions checking and failsafe mechanisms to protect against system failures.
The system monitors temperature and salinity of water, pressure at various parts of the system, water level in tanks, and controls valves and motor to achieve the required level of water purification. The system protects the itself against faults like clogging and pressure build up.
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|Nextion custom display firmware. Page creation using nextion IDE. Full duplex serial communication with host CPU for display and touch screen commands.
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Teen Movie: Eighth Grade
Rated R
April 24th at 3:30am
"An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school."
Family Movie Night: Mary Poppins Returns (rated PG)
Friday, April 26th at 6pm
"Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives."
Drop in Coloring night for all ages, all supplies provided, every Friday 6-7 pm. (packets also available for use in library anytime we are open)
After School Programming for Teens
Sewing Club
Every Monday unless closed at 6:30pm starting in October. Start date TBA.
Teen Book Club
Third Wednesday of each month at 4pm, please visit Reading Groups Page for information on book of the month.
April 17th– The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Pick up your copy at the library!
Teen Creative Club
Fourth Wednesday of each month at 4pm, teens create different artwork, decor and more, including: bullet journals, altered clipboards, bath bombs, slime and more!
No club in April
Teen Book Reviews
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
"Former assassin Celenea Sardothian finds herself in a work camp of Endovier for prisoners. But a prince come to her with a deal. She'll be his chosen warrior for his father's competition for the the king's champion. If she wins, she'll be freed after 4 years. But if she loses, she'll be sent back. Along the way, she'll re-open wounds of the past, find love, and make friends. But what will happen when the final duel arrives?"
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
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A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Paper Towns by John Green
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
The Eragon Series by Christopher Paolini
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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OnlineColleges.net has relaunched their site to become the Center for Online Education with the hopes of providing students centralized college resources and informational guides. Students who are looking for colleges and universities in New Hampshire or out of state can find in-depth information by state, by degree, or common questions, concerns and helpful financial and scholarship resources.
For New Hampshire students who are looking to stay in state I thought you might be interested in:
Because of the project's non-biased approach and focusing only on not-for-profit public and private higher education institutions, they have become a valuable resource for educational and governmental entities throughout New Hampshire.
1. http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-online-schools/
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To define the necessary quantity of a fiber for its addition in concrete it is necessary:
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ВСМ it is possible to add in the concrete mix transported by ready-mix trucks (automixer). Time of hashing of ready concrete mixes after addition ВСМ increases on 10 – 15 %.
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An important question that I feel is often left unanswered in both academic and journalistic writing is "so what?" – the writer may make interesting and important observations, but unless those findings are connected to the real world by way of actionable solutions or suggestions, they may be forgotten before they have a chance to be useful.
I recently wrote a mini analysis of a discourse interaction between my sister and my mother for this blog. I point out that strategies in discourse may be used to achieve power over or solidarity with another person, or they may be used to show power and solidarity simultaneously (as in the example between my sister and mother).
So what?
The crux of this argument is simply that the strategies an individual uses to communicate an intended relationship message to another, may differ from person to person. Communicative style develops from even the most early interactions we encounter as children and no two styles are the same (though they may be similar). Therefore when we interact with someone who seems to clash with us, or whom we perceive as being passive aggressive or confrontational, it may not be that they are trying to be aggressive, it may just be that our own style does not align with theirs. This does not mean that we should attempt to accommodate the different style to assuage the encounter (although that may be a strategic option), instead it is important to be aware of these stylistic differences and their varying meanings. What I mean may not necessarily be what you hear, and what your listeners hear may not necessarily be what you intended.
Take away: In any situation where you aren't "getting along" with someone, take a step back. Pay attention to how language is being used and think about its various and polysemous meanings. Maybe your meaning is getting lost in translation.


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The primary ant pest in Texas turf is the red imported fire ant. Fire ants do not damage turf directly, but their numerous mounds are unattractive, can hinder mowing operations and can smother the grass. Their presence is also a potential hazard to people and pets since these ants can inflict painful bites and stings.
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Robotic process automation - what's in it for me?
Software 'robot' is a software interacting with the screen user interface (UI) of computer system in the same way that a human would. This is major difference to traditional forms of IT integration based on database, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or common layer (integration bus, middleware, service bus etc.).
Robotic Process Automation makes use of application business logic, hidden behind the UI. Therefore, RPA deployment does not require any knowledge of the system internals (e.g. database structure, APIs). Traditional approach to system integration can't be done without this knowledge.
Software robot is a kind of virtual worker who can be rapidly "trained" (meaning - configured) by a business user. The intention is to provide an agile and configurable capability to non-technical business users in operational departments.
Robotic process automation is workflow oriented and complements business process reengineering. Thus, RPA enables operations departments to self serve.
Reducing process-related costs, increasing speed and improving reliability.
Why not assign your resources where they are most needed? Free them from performing repetitive, manual activities? Your employees may do something much more productive and demanding. Reassigned staff may focus on their business expertise, where technology can not help.
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This is great! As publisher of Finance & Commerce, I am thrilled that we have partnered with MNCAR to present the 2017 Top Brokers Awards. As the leading daily publisher of commercial real estate news and information in Minnesota, it's a perfect fit. Our reporters cover these transactions in detail as they happen. It's great to see this type of accomplishment
recognized within the industry.
This section was designed as a complement to the Top Brokers event, which was held Feb. 15 at the Guthrie Theater. In this issue you will find profiles of 17 transactions in seven categories. There are three honorees and one winner in the Office, Retail, Industrial, Investment and Greater Minnesota categories. There are two new categories, Medical and Hospitality, each with a winner. We hope to build on these categories next year.
Congratulations to everyone who worked on these transactions.
There are also profiles of the Broker of the Year Jill Rasmussen, Rising Star of the Year Teresa Lingg, and Volunteers
of the Year Bill Rothstein and Barb Chirinos. Congratulations to each of them on their accomplishments and contributions to the industry and community.
They say past performance is not a guarantee of future success, but the people, companies and organizations being honored here sure make it look like there's a lot of success in our future.
-Bill Gaier
Greater MN Transaction of the Year
Bluestem Industrial Distribution Center (Finalist)
River Center West (Finalist)
Digi-Key Distribution Facility (Winner)
Continental Properties/Quarry Road Eagan (Winner)
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My Pillow (Winner)
Artis Minneapolis Value-Add Industrial Portfolio (Finalist)
The Bridges and The Knoll (Finalist)
Mayo Clinic Square (Winner)
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Excelsior Crossings (Winner)
Prime Therapeutics Boulder Lakes Campus (Finalist)
Treasure Island Center (Finalist)
Topgolf (Finalist)
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Broker of the year
Jill Rasmussen (Winner)
Rising Star
Teresa Lingg (Winner)
Volunteers of the Year
Barb Chirinos (Winner)
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Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.
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Against the Avant-Garde? Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia – Part 1: Introduction
Introduction: this study day explores different ideas of avant-garde art in the early twentieth century, and in contemporary practice
Otaïti 1930 by Francis Picabia
Picabia's so-called 'transparency' paintings – of which Otaïti is a prime example – have not been the subject of much technical ...
Portrait of a Doctor c.1935–1947, by Francis Picabia
Portrait of a Doctor is actually two paintings: one was painted on top of the other at a later date ...
The Fig-Leaf 1922 by Francis Picabia
A sardonic attack on censorship and prudery, The Fig-Leaf provoked the conservative art establishment when it was exhibited in 1922 ...
The Handsome Pork-Butcher c.1924–6, c.1929–35 by Francis Picabia
This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects ...
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and ...
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances
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Trekking in the Everest region is famous because of the Everest Base Camp trail. Friendly Sherpa people and their lifestyle are the main attractions of this trek. Their colorful festivals and the Buddhist monasteries make the Everest Panorama trek more interesting. We have designed some short treks viewing the need of short time trekkers. They can enjoy with the superb views of the world's great peaks- Mt. Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam. Hence, one of our short treks available is the Everest Panorama trek. This trek is ideally suitable for family and children.
The Everest Panorama trek begins at Lukla, reached with a 35-minute flight from Kathmandu. The ultimate destination of Everest Panorama trekking is Tengboche Monastery (3,867m/12,894ft) which is over thousand years old. Additionally, the Khumjung village is another popular settlement of Sherpa people. Khumjung is the home town of many great Sherpa climbers. The flora and fauna are other jewels of the Everest Panorama trek. The story of the Yeti in the region is still a mystery to the rest of the world. In conclusion, Everest Panorama trek is a great introduction to Sherpa society, their culture and traditions.
Extend this trek to Everest Base Camp
This trek requires 9 days and it is possible to reach the famous Everest Base Camp with 3 additional days. After all, the center of attraction in the adventure world is of course the Mount Everest Base Camp. There is nothing to worry about special physical requirements. The views are simply great when you get closer to the mountains. You may wish to check our Everest Base Camp trek itinerary.
- Scenic mountain flight to and from Lukla
- The gateway of Everest Base Camp and Sherpa hometown- Namche Bazaar
- Magnificent views of Mt. Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam
- Sherpa culture and traditions in Khumjung village
- Enchanting Tengboche monastery
- A perfect blend of fun and adventure


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Following Jesus
Christian faith starts with the life and teachings of Jesus. Most people find Jesus striking; his teachings and actions call for equality, compassion, and integrity. He provides impressive insights into the human heart and behaviour, which powerfully resonate with people's experiences down the centuries.
But was Jesus anything more than just a wise teacher? Well, it is clear that everything Jesus did flowed from his unique relationship with God. The gospels witness Jesus speaking and acting with God's direct authority, whom he calls "Father". This has lead Christians to see that the way to make real sense of Jesus is to share the gospel's vision of Jesus as being God himself; the divine Son who has become human. Through the Holy Spirit, Christians experience Jesus as being eternally alive, even today sharing God's rule and inviting people to live in fellowship with him.
Therefore to have a Christian faith, to follow Jesus, means striving to discover Jesus as the living God. It means discovering for ourselves Jesus' intimate relationship with the Father. It means discovering that each of us is loved and redeemed by God – a lasting source of confidence, courage and peace. It also means discovering that this love enables us to fulfil our potential, by trusting God to transform us.
Christian faith grows little by little, as we begin to see how God is at work in our own lives. Jesus knows what it means for each of us to flourish and come into our own. Having a living relationship with him enables us to discover how God can empower us to achieve this, transforming the way we see ourselves and others.
For each Christian then, faith is a constantly changing process of discovery and reorientation. Some days will bring clarity, wonder and joy, while other days will bring confusion and doubt. But prayer, the Bible and the Eucharist are there as means by which Christians can explore and guide their faith. Furthermore, Christians also know that their faith has been shared by billions of others, passed down through two thousand years. This continues to this day in the Church, which as a community supports, challenges and broadens each other's faith.
Come with an open mind and open heart, and you too can discover the profound freedom, comfort and joy that knowing Jesus makes possible.


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Result of FY 2010 Survey of the Implementation of the Agricultural Land Soil Pollution Prevention Act
December 26, 2011
The MOE compiled the result of the FY 2010 Survey of the Implementation of the Agricultural Land Soil Pollution Prevention Act. The survey result consists of the continuous monitoring reports submitted by the prefectural governors. Under the Act, each governor shall continuously monitor the condition of agricultural land soil pollution caused by designated hazardous substances (cadmium, copper and arsenic).
Summary of the survey result:
(1) As a result of the continuous monitoring, 6 areas exceeded the regulatory standards for designated hazardous substances (cadmium).
(2) There was no newly designated Countermeasure Area.
(3) There was no Countermeasure Area where the designation was canceled.
(4) There was no Countermeasure Area where a new Countermeasure Plan was formulated.
(5) At the end of FY 2010, 6,651 ha out of 7,575 ha including Countermeasure Area have completed measures.
The complete survey result can be accessed on the following website (Japanese only):


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The Siemens Magnetom Trio at the University of Pennsylvania is a 10-foot-tall, 14-ton "functional magnetic resonance imaging" machine -- fMRI, for short. It promises to be the most formidable lie detector ever built. By peering directly into our brains, its keepers aim to set a new gold standard for the recognition of honesty in everyone from politicians to criminals to lovers.
The check's in the mail.
That was wonderful.
I'm from Washington and I'm here to help you.
In the pipeline are several cheaper, faster, easier-to-use brain-examining technologies, all intended as major improvements on the unreliable chicken-scratching polygraph we use now. Some seem to identify mental preparations for telling a lie even before the liar opens his mouth -- verging on mind-reading. Another is meant to work from across the room, even if you do not wish to cooperate. Think of it as the "mental detector" at your airport screening, and not without good reason. Much of this research is being funded by the military as part of the anti-terror juggernaut.
You're chambered into this dimly lit tunnel of truth like a shell into a shotgun. First you are instructed to twist plugs far into your ears. Then you lie on a gurney narrower than a stretcher. A woman in a lab coat slides a helmet over your head. It is not really like a Hannibal Lecter mask, although the researchers like to make that joke. Your nose barely clears the equipment, your eyes can only look up, and your head is cradled to discourage movement.
Into your hands the researchers place a box with two buttons. The left one, when punched, signifies a "yes" response to questions. The right one means "no." When they slide you into the bore, it is barely wide enough for your shoulders. To your hip they've taped a bulb that you are supposed to squeeze if you have a panic attack, because there is the possibility that no one will hear you scream -- when the machine goes to work, it pounds like a high-frequency jackhammer, except when it shrieks like the klaxon on a submarine when somebody shouts "Dive! Dive!"
All of this in the service of making every atom in your brain align in the same direction to banish lies forever. A seductive thought. Especially if you believe, as does Ruben C. Gur, director of the Brain Behavior Center at Penn, that "the brain is the soul."
To get this far into a quest for the future of truth, you've had to answer hundreds of medical questions. One of them is whether you suffer from anxiety.
The Profit MotiveSixteen hundred years ago, Saint Augustine defined lying as having one thing in one's heart, and uttering another. Two U.S. companies are for the first time gearing up to offer brain scans meant to explore exactly such conflict for anyone with several hundred dollars and a burning desire to -- like The Shadow -- know what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
This commercialization is derided by many researchers as premature. It is not yet clear, they say, how well this technology identifies different kinds of lies, or how well it works across a great array of people, or how well it stands up to countermeasures.
Nonetheless, the University of Pennsylvania has licensed the technology developed there -- on which it has applied for a patent -- to the California firm No Lie MRI Inc. The firm planned to scan for lies the brain of its first customer yesterday. But at the last minute, with NBC and CBS camera crews standing by to record the event, she decided she didn't want to put to the test her assertion that she had not cheated on her husband while he was in alcohol rehab, according to Joel T. Huizenga, the company's founder.
No Lie MRI's Web site has proclaimed that the company hopes to revolutionize truth telling in America, offering "objective, scientific, mental evidence, similar to the role in which DNA biological identification is used," to everyone from the FBI, CIA and NSA to the Department of Homeland Security.
No Lie is not alone. Its Massachusetts competitor, Cephos Corp., has licensed competing fMRI lie detection technology from the Medical University of South Carolina.
The boundless desire for a way to dig through deception is why political consultant John Zogby, president of Zogby International, expects the new brain scanning devices to be in widespread use in the 2008 presidential election. He can clearly see a demand to discover what voters really think of candidates -- and their commercials.
Brainy GameAt the Treatment Research Center at Penn, Daniel D. Langleben -- who was the first to show that lies and truth look different in the brain -- is proud of more modest accomplishments. He can detect whether you're lying about playing cards.
Here's the setup: He gives you two playing cards. He doesn't know which they are. You memorize them -- for example, the seven of spades and the five of clubs. Then he asks you to lie about whether you have one, and tell the truth about whether you have the other. Into the fMRI you slide, and cards flash randomly on a screen above your head, one every three seconds. From the pattern of your brain's reaction to them, his team can tell you which two are in your mind, and which one you were lying about, with what he characterizes as 86 percent accuracy. As the gear is tweaked, he expects the accuracy rate to rise well north of 95 percent.
The "Guilty Knowledge Test," as it is known, is considered hot stuff in the research community.
"No question it is important," says Antonio Damasio, the neurologist who is director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. For 15 years, Damasio, the author of "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain," has pioneered the understanding of how the brain processes feelings and decision making.
"It is a very deep problem," Damasio says. "I don't do any work on lie detection. But you are in essence having to detect a discrepancy between an overt behavior and an internal representation. It is complicated enough to find out what is going on when the idea and the behavior are consistent."
Card recognition, unfortunately, is not a terrific representation of the real world. Human lies are rarely so neat and clean, yes and no, with zero shades of gray.
So Langleben's next round of research is more ambitious. He is trying to determine whether his machine can handle a much more common set of lies -- for instance, those told by somebody applying for a job who has cooked his résumé.
He invites a reporter to be only the second subject in this round of tests.
Langleben's fictional scenario is that the subject is applying for a job as a writer at the lab. The reporter submits a résumé in which he carefully includes 16 lies -- some of them whoppers, like that PhD from MIT -- but many of them more subtle, like the bachelor's degree he actually didn't get from that university he attended for four years. In this case, Langleben selects three truths and three lies from this résumé and prepares them as yes/no questions to be displayed on the fMRI's screen. ("Is this your house?" "Did you serve in the military?")
Each of these six questions is accompanied by a picture. "Do you work for The Post?" for example, is accompanied by a picture of a Washington Post front page. The images that go with the lies are concoctions -- a phony diploma, phony Marine discharge papers, and a copy of the cover of the magisterial book "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life," in which the name of the author, Harvard's Sissela Bok, is, with her permission, replaced by the name of the reporter.
Langleben keeps the rest of the lab team blinded to what is true and what is a lie.
On the big day of the trip into the fMRI machine, the reporter is asked an astounding number of preparatory questions. Was your mother right-handed? Have you ever taken antidepressants? Have you ever worked with welding machinery and is there any possibility you've got any metal imbedded in your eye?
The reporter's date of birth makes them nervous. He is significantly more a geezer than the sort of grad student subjects they usually use. Will the decrepitude of his brain affect how it actually works?
No one knows the answer. Nonetheless, they prepare him and the giant machine for a rendezvous with deviousness.
Nature's FibsLies have been around for a very long time. Only four pages into Genesis, the Lord asks Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" and he replies, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" Deception is a fundamental part of evolution, establishing who eats and who is eaten. Gorillas and chimpanzees routinely lie to obtain food and attract mates. Birds feign a broken wing to lure a raptor away from the nest. Even a tasty species of butterfly deceives about its delectability by emulating another species with a bitter flavor.
Attempts to detect lies are almost as venerable. According to an ancient tale from India, a village turns out to have a thief. To determine who it is, a wise man puts into a dark tent a donkey he says has magical powers: if a guilty man pulls his tail, the donkey will sing. When every man in the village, one after the other, has entered the tent to pull the donkey's tail, the wise man then lines them all up, and sure enough, the identity of the thief is obvious. Turns out the wise man had covered the donkey's tail with lamp black, and only one man had clean hands.
Harnessing science to truth-telling is scarcely 100 years old. One of the early contributors was the psychologist William Moulton Marston. He invented the systolic blood-pressure test as a "lie detector" that is still a component of the polygraph. With another part of his brain, he also invented "Wonder Woman," with her lasso that forced scoundrels to tell the truth.
The polygraph, which means "many writings" in Greek, is so called because it records a variety of physical reactions simultaneously -- such as blood pressure, heart rate, sweating and breathing. As a lie detector it entered widespread use in the second half of the 20th century. It was soon joined by other dubious means to detect deception, including voice stress analysis, psychological profiling and "truth serum."
Polygraphs are so notoriously unreliable -- they are rarely admitted as evidence into court -- that an $860,000 National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council report concluded in 2002 that "polygraph testing" is "intrinsically susceptible to producing erroneous results." In a hypothetical group of 10,000 government employees that included 10 spies, the report says, even if the polygraph achieved better results than is usually found in the field, it would still miss two spies and falsely accuse 1,598 innocents. If it were set to greatly reduce the false positives to only 39 innocents, it would miss eight spies.
Nonetheless, as the 3,200-member American Polygraph Association observes, the polygraph remains in widespread use -- there has been nothing better. The center of the federal government's polygraph world is the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute (DoDPI -- pronounced DOD-pie) in Fort Jackson, S.C. Its main building is the length of a football field. Andrew Ryan, its research division chief, estimates that the world of national security employs five times as many polygraphs as does that of criminal justice.
There are three main additional criticisms of the polygraph:
· It doesn't measure lying, it measures the body's reaction to stress. As a result, it doesn't catch people who can lie stress-free, such as the FBI turncoat Aldrich Ames. It also unfairly implicates those innocents who are freaked just by being accused.
· Even after all these decades of use, the NRC said it could find no large-scale, scientifically rigorous, readily replicated clinical trials that examined exactly how well the polygraph works, on what kinds of people, under what sorts of circumstances.
· Results are highly dependent on the skill of the person who administers the test. Polygraphers admit that their work does have elements of an art. Critics hear "art" and think "voodoo."
Advocates hope brain scans will be superior on all counts.
In 2003, the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for discoveries that have made magnetic resonance imaging possible. X-rays make good pictures of hard bones and teeth. Magnetic resonance imaging has revolutionized understanding of how the body works by producing more highly detailed pictures of soft tissue than had ever before been possible. In the United States, more than 20 million MRIs are performed each year.
The greatest impact has been on brain research. Its consequence is often compared to the telescope's contribution to physics or the microscope to biology. If an ordinary MRI gives you stunning internal snapshots, an fMRI is like a movie. As different parts of the brain work, demanding oxygen, researchers can watch the flow deep in the brain, in three dimensions, in close to real time. If you are shown a photo of someone about whom you have deep emotion, for example, you can watch parts of the brain rage like a Santa Ana brush fire ripping through a California canyon.
What the lie detection research has shown so far is that "the truth is always simpler," says Gur, of the Brain Behavior Center. "To make a lie you have to know what is true, and you have to distort it. That is the extra work that goes into lying." It lights up the parts of the brain that control behavior, watch for mistakes, and create physical reflections of your thoughts such as blushing. Gur compares it to a stutter.
But much is not known.
Customer PoolEntrepreneurs who would commercialize fMRIs for lie detection take one look at the apparently telltale brain pictures and, ding ding ding, they think they have a winner.
"We've never advertised or marketed, but people keep calling -- from Australia, Spain, Italy, other parts of the world," says Huizenga, the founder of No Lie MRI, whose résumé includes a bachelor's degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado, a master's in molecular biology from the State University of New York at Stonybrook, an MBA from the University of Rochester, and a background in business development of diagnostic systems for pharmaceutical companies. No Lie plans to charge $900 for a half-hour test.
His clients' questions, Huizenga says, all seem to revolve around "sex, power or money." So far, everyone wants to prove their innocence, not establish someone else's guilt -- which is convenient. Moving your head a fraction of an inch will ruin the images. He has women who want to demonstrate their fidelity to jealous boyfriends and husbands, men in divorce cases who want to refute charges that they touched their children inappropriately, one incarcerated fellow who feels he was railroaded into a plea bargain, and even a client who is trying to prove he didn't steal a large amount of cash from a family member's purse.
Damasio and other skeptics are concerned that Huizenga is engaging in nothing more than "neo-phrenology." Phrenology is the discredited 19th-century idea that you can figure out a person's character by examining the bumps on his head.
"It's not a question of putting someone in a scanner and see what lights up," says Damasio. "The idea of going immediately to the commercialization of a product identifying different mental states is premature."
Steven Laken, the founder and CEO of Cephos Corp., has a résumé that includes being a recipient of the MIT Technology Review 100 Young Innovators Award, being instrumental in developing four commercially available DNA-based diagnostic products, and holding a PhD in cellular and molecular medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
For him, "admissibility is the Holy Grail. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think that admissibility" of his product into court as evidence was feasible. "We won't go commercial until we have the scientific data."
Laken sees a huge opportunity in government top-secret security testing that he says has not been well served by the polygraph. "The accuracy rates are not high enough." Like No Lie, Cephos says it has no government clients yet, although Laken says the intelligence communities "have given good constructive feedback."
At the same time, Laken can imagine his product being useful to someone who "looks like Martha Stewart" and, "when accused, in desperation mode, you need to clear your name."
"Martha has not called yet," he adds.
The True TestThe day the test results arrive from Langleben's lab starts portentously. His e-mail is stiff and formal: "I would like to debrief you over the phone about the extent you followed my instructions in the scanner and about any strategies you may have used during the task." Turns out there were some surprises.
The three truths showed utterly predictable, calm brain activity. They clearly register as the truth.
But the lies -- each of which featured complex shades of gray -- take remarkable bounces. They revealed perhaps even more about the dark recesses of the mind than was intended.
The reporter had followed instructions to behave like someone who really wanted the job he was supposedly applying for. To that end, he had tried to direct his attention not to the question about whether or not he had that bachelor's degree, but just on the university where he'd spent all those fruitless years. He tried to focus not on whether he had written the book "Lying," but on how intently he had just read it. Finally, he tried to concentrate not on the false idea that he had ever been a soldier but on his memories of the Marine Corps, on which he had reported extensively, even accompanying troops into simulated combat in a war game in Oakland, Calif.
The university degree claim registered as a roaring, soaring, leaping, screaming lie. Not a shadow of a doubt.
The counterfeit book produced a less vivid response -- but well within the profile of a lie.
The phony discharge papers from the Marine Corps and the question "Have you ever served in the military?," however, registered as the truth.
Even more jaw-dropping, a portion of the brain lit up that never before had been observed as important. It is about as far away from the conscious thought lobes as you can get. It was the amygdala, that portion of the limbic system popularly known as the "reptilian brain" that is associated with intense emotional response.
"You love the Marine Corps! Or maybe you hate it. You have an emotional response to the Marine Corps!" Langleben exclaimed. "All our findings focus on the cortex. We don't know much about the limbic system. Your test is the first. Hard to imagine. We never carefully looked there. We deemed it unreliable.
"You should start working on your disability claim. You should claim 100 percent post-traumatic stress from the invasion of Oakland, California."
Honest QuestionsThe researchers reacted with aplomb to their brand-new experiment blowing up in their cortexes. Just another fascinating day at the office in a business where you learn something new every day if you're not careful. Their first reaction was to start figuring out how they could reconstruct the experiment in the future to more efficiently lasso and hog-tie this messy reality called human nature.
It takes more effort to get them thinking about what a society without lies might be like.
The day after the experiment, Gur, of the Brain Behavior Center, writes in an e-mail:
"About the future world in which my children will live . . . .
"Our interest in lie detection technology is just as a practical outcome of our work on neural systems . . . focusing on schizophrenia. We neither invented lie detection technology nor can do much about the need for it, we have just devised a more reliable version. You know that polygraphy is rampant 'as we speak,' and its imperfections can cause honest people their jobs, or worse, or set loose real bad people. Wouldn't my children's world be better if more innocent people are released and more bad people caught?
"Of course, if the public and its representatives believe that there is a threshold beyond which this technology should not progress, I am ready to stop and focus my energy in other directions. I can understand the ethical revulsion against a 'truth-telling machine.' . . . Every technology can bring good or bad results, depending on who uses it, no? It's the scientist's job to try to push the envelope, and it is the job of people like yourself, the public and its representatives to help gauge when we are approaching a danger zone.
"As a researcher, more than anything, I for one need some guidance."


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Commonwealth Managed Investments Limited, the Responsible Entity of CFS Retail Property Trust Group (CFX), has announced that CFX intend to enter into conditional agreements to sell four sub-regional shopping centres.
The agreed contract, priced at approximately $446.5 million, was entered with Pacific Retail REIT, a newly-formed fund that will seek to be listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
The centres to be divested are Altona Gate, Brimbank, Corio and Rosebud Plaza shopping centres, all of which are located in Victoria.
CFX will retain ownership of development land at Altona Gate, valued at $4.5 million, which will be subject to a 12 month put and call option with Pacific Retail REIT, assuming the divestment transaction is successful.
The agreements remain conditional on Pacific Retail REIT successfully raising capital via an initial public offering (IPO). The completion of the transaction therefore remains uncertain.
Assuming that the IPO is successful, the transaction is anticipated to settle in early September 2013.
CFX Retail fund manager Michael Gorman said the transaction was part of the company's strategy to sell non-core assets.
"Given the higher yielding nature of the centres, their divestment will result in some short- term dilution of earnings, which over time would be partially offset by the reinvestment of the proceeds," Mr Gorman said.
Mr Gorman said the transaction would also reduce the trust's exposure to suburban Melbourne, with the REIT's exposure to Victoria falling from 53 per cent to 50 per cent if the sale was successful.
"Other benefits of this transaction include increased exposure to regional shopping centres and retail outlet centres and a decrease in our exposure to suburban Melbourne," he said.