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How Kato meets Kyoko and the rest of the villagers in his new home.
February 21st, 1977.
I thought I was going to be all alone after the deaths of Midori-chan and Michiko-chan, but then I found some new allies. Or rather, they found me.
Her name was Iijiri Kyoko. She was a bizarre and energetic woman. She reminded me of a younger Michiko in high school. There was always light in Kyoko's eyes. Her voice always seemed to be laughing at life itself. The laugh lines added onto her strong happiness that always floated around her. She just latched onto people without even trying. I met her when she knocked on my door early in that morning on February 21st, 1977. I had just moved into the village after my wife's death. At the time, I kept to myself. I just wanted to be left alone in my misery, easy to see why after losing my wife and daughter. Too bad Kyoko didn't see it that way at the time. They pounded on the door hard.
"Leave me alone!" I yelled inside. Kyoko did the opposite. The person knocked on the door harder. I kept trying to ignore the knocking at first. Maybe they'll go away after a while. Slowly she kept knocking on my door. I gritted my teeth and rolled my eyes.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" I said at last as I clenched my fists. I pushed the door wide open. A tiny woman stood before me with a huge smile on her face. I looked her up and down. She looked about my age. Her deep royal blue hair was in two tight braids. Her brown and red hand-knit shawl was wrapped tight around her thin body. Her western-style clothes looked odd on her. Somehow she shouldn't be wearing jeans and a red shirt. She would've looked better in a kimono. This woman looked so tiny to me. I blinked as I thought that I saw Michiko standing before me. I looked at her funny.
"What do you want?" I asked. The woman grinned at him. I still looked at her oddly.
"Hi..." I mumbled. My neighbor stared on still. I looked at her as I tried to figure her out. What did she want with me? What was she doing here on my doorstep and why wouldn't she go away?
"Can I help you?" I asked. My neighbor smiled still as she gripped her shawl tighter around her body to block out the winter breeze.
"Just saying hi!" she chirped. I didn't seem to believe her. Something told me she wasn't going to leave right away.
"Why?" I asked.
"May I come in?" the woman asked. I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Why?" I asked again. The woman didn't answer. She just pushed past me and let herself in. I became slightly offended.
"Oh come right on in, why don't you?" I mumbled sarcastically under my breath. I slid the door shut behind them.
The woman walked around the house looking around as if she was in an art museum. I watched her annoyed as I followed close behind.
Feel free to leave now!, I thought over and over again. Then, Kyoko turned around to me with a puzzled look on her face. I stared at her as I tried to keep faking a hint of pleasantness.
"What?" I asked. Kyoko shook her head.
"You have no pictures," she pointed out. I narrowed my eyes at her with a flat look on my face.
"So?" I asked.
"That's so sad!" she announced in a pixie-like tone. I thought she had just lost her mind. I didn't know how much longer I could take of her upbeat mood. I began digging in my mind for an excuse to get her out of my house.
"And?" I asked. The woman shrugged at me.
"Don't you have any family?" she asked. Oh, she really pushed me over the edge with that question. She really hit a nerve there with me. I glared at her.
"They're dead!" I hissed. The glow in her face began to die away as she lowered her head.
"I'm so sorry..." she mumbled. I said nothing. I just leaned against the wall. I was tired from the grief and feeling helpless. I just couldn't take it anymore. The woman must have seen the sorrow in my eyes when I leaned against the wall. Though I couldn't see it at the time, I really needed someone. So, Kyoko leaned against the wall with me in silence. I didn't look up at her. Yet, I knew I had a new ally-somehow.
"What is your name?" she asked.
"Kato Iwao," I said.
"Ah," the woman said. "My name's Iijiri Kyoko. I live down the street."
"Ah," I said.
"This is a nice village. Nobody bothers you here. Not many find this place too easily. Did you just wander here?" she asked.
"Yeah," I mumbled.
"Ah. We barely get anybody young here," Kyoko said.
"You don't?" I asked puzzled.
"No. There is my daughter and Jamie's son. Tohma's boy is already in college and engaged," she explained.
"Jamie?" I asked.
"She's another lady in this neighborhood. She's half-American," Kyoko replied.
"Oh. How old is your daughter?" I asked.
"Twelve." Then, Kyoko paused for a moment. "Tell me, would it be too early to wonder if she's gay or not?"
I gave her a strange look. "Huh?"
Kyoko shrugged at me as she shook her head. "I don't know. She never seems to have any interest in boys."
"I wouldn't know," I said.
"Alright. Sorry for asking," she said.
"It's okay," I replied.
December 27th, 1977.
I sat in my living room looking at Midori-chan's old hand-made Christmas cards. Each one had cute little kitty cats with Santa hats on. Pigs were for my birthday. That was all she could draw. Still, those cats and pigs became my joy. Looking at those cards only made my heart hurt around this time.
My thoughts were interrupted by footsteps. I looked up and saw Kyoko walking in from the kitchen with a tray of tea.
"You looked like you needed," she said. I said nothing; I just waved the tray over to the table. My friend set it down likewise as I moved my cards.
"Cute cards," Kyoko spoke up.
"Yeah," I mumbled. The woman poured me some tea.
"Riku made me a Christmas card this year," she said.
"Ah," I said. Kyoko poured herself some tea.
"Funny," she said. "Eleven months and I don't know you." I glanced at her.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked. My friend shrugged.
"You haven't told me about your home or family," she said. I said nothing. Kyoko pressed her lips together as she picked up her cup.
"Midori-chan," I answered. Kyoko glanced up at me.
"Hm?" she asked.
"My daughter's name was Midori-chan," I said softly.
"What was she like?" my friend asked. I lowered the four Christmas cards in front of him.
"You have to promise me," I said.
"Promise you what?" Kyoko asked. I looked up at her with desperate eyes. I leaned in across the table.
"Stay by me no matter what," I pleaded. "Promise me that!" Kyoko gave me a sharp nod.
"Okay," she said. I took a moment to tell her my story.
"I used to be a priest in another village. However back in '59, I met a young woman named Hino Michiko-chan," I began. Kyoko looked at me with big eyes.
"Hino?" she asked. "You mean the sake brewers?" I nodded at her.
"Yeah," I said. "I originally intended on staying chaste for the rest of my life, but me being young and naive then, I fell in love with her. Michiko-chan was a bright and beautiful sweetheart. Very rich too, she came from a wealthy high-class family. I didn't care about any of that. I loved Michiko for who she was. There was a problem, however. I tried to keep my vow of chastity, but that soon became close to impossible.
"I turned my boss at the time for help. He told me to act on my feelings in a pure way. He suggested to take it slow. I wasn't sure at first. In the end, I asked Michiko out on a date. She said yes. From there, we became a couple.
"Four years later, Michiko-chan and I were married. We were a happy couple. Yet, Michiko-chan kept having the feeling that we were missing something. She didn't know what it was for years. So one day, I wished that the answer would find her. Then in summer of '68, Michiko-chan started feeling sick. I thought my wife had come down with a stomach virus. Turns out, Michiko-chan was pregnant. She had finally gotten her answer. On February second '69, our little angel, Midori-chan, was born. Her mother and I loved her so much. You could say that we were an ideal family. But then, it all went to pieces.
"A month after her sixth birthday, Midori-chan fell ill. At first, it was minor with a little cough. But then, it just got worse and worse. The doctors couldn't help her. Michiko-chan and I didn't know what to do. All we could do was watch our daughter's life slip away. On September twelfth, Midori-chan died. It didn't help that she died on the day after my birthday. I couldn't even do the funeral ceremony. Another priest had to take my place. Then a month later, Michiko-chan became ill as well. It all started out with the cough and got worse to the point that she ended up in the hospital just like our daughter. Six months later, she was dead. It was as if after Midori-chan died, my wife had lost the will to live." I felt myself being drained of everything that I had left within me. But, I still went on as I had to do so.
"I have great healing powers," he went on. How ironic! A man with great healing powers and I couldn't even save my own family from illness! After that, I lost interest in life. I quit being a priest after Michiko's death and have kept to myself ever since." Kyoko reached out and touched my hand.
"It's okay," she whispered. I tried best to smile at her.
"I'm sorry I brought you down," I said.
"That's okay," my friend insisted.
"Promise me that'll you help me on my mission."
Kyoko blinked at me. "What mission?"
"I want to help someone in any way to make up for not being able to my family. And I need all of the help I can get."
"Say no more. You always have people that will have your back no matter what."
I really began to smile for once since I came this hidden village. Within in a year, I had come to befriend Kyoko, Jamie, Tohma, Yuji, Miyuki, Hitomi, and Kenji. They all became my team for my mission that would occur six years later.


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Two years after C. William Struever's real estate empire collapsed and the once-ubiquitous developer dropped off Baltimore's radar, the urban visionary has reappeared as a managing director of a new company, working on the same kinds of projects that helped make his name.
Struever is one of the founders of Cross Street Partners, a real estate venture made up of 28 employees who all once worked for Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse, the company that changed Baltimore's landscape and that of other East Coast cities before coming apart in the throes of the recession, leaving a trail of lawsuits and unfinished developments.
Struever's re-emergence on the Baltimore development scene is being hailed by civic leaders who hope to see revitalization in Baltimore pick up as the economy improves — and to see Struever play a role.
"He's certainly one of the great citizens of Baltimore and one of the people most dedicated to making the city a better place, and one of the most imaginative," said Robert C. Embry Jr., president of the nonprofit Abell Foundation. "The fact that he is at work and involved with the city is a great plus for Baltimore."
But Struever's resurgence was not welcomed by everyone, as the collapse of Struever Bros. left many contractors and subcontractors, not to mention banks and others, unpaid.
This month, a judge in Providence, R.I., appointed a special master to sell Paragon Mills, a Struever Bros. project left unfinished. Joseph J. Reale Jr., a Providence attorney who represents some of the contractors who filed mechanics liens against Struever for unpaid work, estimated that subcontractors are owed more than $1 million for labor and materials.
Reale said nonpayment by Struever has been "a significant hardship." Told that Struever was part of a new business, Reale said it "didn't seem fair" that projects are moving ahead with Struever's involvement when many contractors and subcontractors are still awaiting payment.
For many years, Struever was a fixture on the local development scene, advocating innovative ways to take advantage of Baltimore's waterfront, investing in the Urbanite magazine and offering ideas in public forums. It was Struever who pushed for the creation of the Downtown Partnership and the Waterfront Partnership. It was Struever and designer Alex Castro who put a winking Mr. Boh sign atop the former National Bohemian brewery. And it is Struever who has tried to save Fort Carroll, the Civil War fortress in the Patapsco River.
During the depths of the recession, in late 2008 and 2009, Struever dropped out of public view. He said at the time that he was keeping a low profile because he was concentrating on paying off debts and not launching any new developments.
But in recent months, Struever has become visible again, participating in such events as a waterfront planning conference in November, where he took part in a session on completing Baltimore's shoreline promenade. And in December, he met with Urban Land Institute experts seeking ways to revitalize downtown's west side.
"We're still throwing out a million ideas, just in a different way," Struever said during a recent interview at the new company's offices, housed in a renovated 1929 industrial structure at Tide Point called the Trestle Building.
He declined to answer questions about the status of Struever Bros. or respond to his critics, preferring instead to discuss Cross Street. The new venture is "all about being of service to others," Struever said.
"I want to be useful in any way I can," he said. "That's my goal in life: to be useful."
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Launched quietly last May and just beginning to draw attention, Cross Street is working locally in many of the same areas — and on many of the same projects — where Struever Bros. made its mark, including Canton, Locust Point and Harbor East.
The scope of Cross Street's activities is in many ways similar to that of Struever Bros. — from project planning and general contracting to marketing, property management and tax credit consulting. Cross Street now manages some of the projects Struever originally developed or renovated, including Belvedere Square in North Baltimore, the Can Company in Canton and Tide Point in South Baltimore.
But Cross Street is by no means a clone of Struever's earlier venture. While Struever Bros. owned many of the projects it built, Cross Street Partners does not intend to own real estate, at least initially. Instead, it is using a fee-for-service model, working to manage, develop or reposition properties owned by others.
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The new arrangement allows Cross Street to stay lean and nimble, assembling teams of experts to work on specific projects. Before the recession hit, Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse employed as many as 367 people.
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WASHINGTON - Georgetown University seniors Meghan Farrell (Bethesda, Md./Georgetown Visitation), Hannah Franklin (Phoenix, Md./McDonogh School) and Kelyn Freedman (Newtown Square, Pa./Radnor) have been selected to play in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association's 2014 Division I North-South Senior All-Star Game. They will join 40 other senior student-athletes in the event on June 7 at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa.
Farrell was the fourth-leading scorer for the Hoyas this past season. The attacker had 29 goals and nine assists for 38 points after starting all 20 games for the Blue & Gray. She was also 5-of-9 on free position shots and had 14 ground balls along with 10 caused turnovers.
In her career, Farrell finished with 56 goals and 23 assists for 79 points in 60 games played with 42 starts.
Franklin, a midfielder, earned a spot on the All-BIG EAST Second Team this past year marking her first postseason honor. The co-captain was fifth on the team in scoring with 25 goals and six assists for 31 points. She scored eight free position goals on the season in her 20 starts. Franklin was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll in the first week of the 2014 season.
She finished her career with 83 goals and 16 assists for 99 points in 72 games played with 43 starts to her credit. She ranks among the all-time Georgetown leaders in goals.
Freedman was a two-time All-South Region honoree and named First Team All-BIG EAST this past season marking the second conference award of her career, this time as a unanimous selection. She was selected the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week once in 2014 and led the team in goals with 37 and ranked second in points with 45. Freedman also posted eight assists. The co-captain led the squad in ground balls (33), draw controls (47), free-position goals (15) and was second in caused turnovers with 27.
The midfielder is ranked among the career and season all-time leaders in draw controls. She ranks among the career leaders in points (120), goals (98) and caused turnovers (68) as well as sitting at seventh on the all-time list in draw controls (135). Freedman is also among some of Georgetown's best in a season in both draw controls (46, 47) and caused turnovers (27).
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February 16, 2010
Roger Ebert: 'There Is No Need to Pity Me'
In profiling the critic's battle with cancer, Esquire has a great story about a great writer
In one of the best pieces I've ever read about Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, Esquire magazine gives us a well-written and sensitive look into the life of a man who has lost his voice but not his spirit or gift. Arguably the best film critic of all time, Ebert is an interesting study -- he's an atheist in a world (big-time newspapers) that's generally populated with hard cynics, but he is full of joy, wit, and wonder, even as his life slips away.
"There is no need to pity me" he tells the Esquire writer, Chris Jones, by writing on a scrap of paper. "Look how happy I am."
Later in the story, Jones writes (italicized portions are Ebert's direct quotes):
Ebert is dying in increments, and he is aware of it.
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled "Go Gently into That Good Night." I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
There has been no death-row conversion. He has not found God. He has been beaten in some ways. But his other senses have picked up since he lost his sense of taste. He has tuned better into life. Some things aren't as important as they once were; some things are more important than ever. He has built for himself a new kind of universe. Roger Ebert is no mystic, but he knows things we don't know.
I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
I saw Roger Ebert, many years ago, quote John 3:16 during a film review (it might have been about "The last Temptation of Christ.") He appeared genuinely touched by the story and obviously had some religious background to be able to quote Scripture. Pray that God softens his heart and grants him saving faith before it's too late.
Ebert is a lapsed Catholic whose background has come through in his many reviews over the years. When _The Passion of the Christ_ was an automatic punching bag for other critics, Ebert gave it a positive, understanding review. He also responds to e-mails or comments he receives, to which I can personally attest. When I commented favorably several years ago on intelligent design at his web site (for some now forgotten reason), I received a polite but firm e-mail letting me know he definitely didn't agree! I wish him well, and like Ron Mar, hope his obvious head knowledge of the Gospel will reach his heart.
Ebert states:
"What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter."
- But Roger - there is nobody to give you that gift. You are an atheist.
Roger Ebert does not define himself as an atheist. For a more nuanced description of his beliefs, read this blog entry from last year:
Thank you for that blog entry from Mr. Ebert. I'd call him an atheist based on reading that. But if he wants to say he's a secular humanist...
To Mr. Ebert:
Secular humanism is self-contradictory
The secular-humanistic worldview champions rationalism and irrationalism simultaneously. On the one hand the universe is said to be ruled by chance—a chaotic flux of disjointed particles. Such a view rules out any possibility of knowledge or meaning because if everything is changing, then science and its definition of things can only apply to things at a particular instant of time. [9] As time moves on, those things could very well turn into their opposites. In a chance universe, why not? In such a scheme of things man is a mutating speck in a universe of mutating specks. The only constant is change itself. This is the worldview of nihilism, absurdity and irrationality.
Yet while holding to such an absurd, irrational view of reality, the secular humanist proclaims himself the champion of rationality and science! Without an absolute, unchanging, ultimate starting point, real knowledge and science are impossible. So what does the secular humanist do? He makes man the source of meaning. Man becomes absolute, the unifier of knowledge. But how can man who is both a product of chance and finite be the source for meaning? He cannot. According to the secular-humanistic worldview man does not have a soul or spirit but is solely a material organism. All of man's endeavors and emotions are simply the electro-chemical responses of the brain. "Bertrand Russell has written a much quoted paragraph to the effect that man is the product of causes which had no prevision of his emergence; that his hopes and fears are the accidental collocations of atoms; that no heroism or intensity of thought can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all human labor, inspiration, and genius are destined to extinction and will be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins." [10]
The creed of secular humanism is: out of the chaos of pure chance comes meaning and order; out of atoms floating randomly in the void comes man the giver of meaning. Secular humanism is a religion based solely on faith. That it is irrational, self-contradictory and arbitrary does not seem to bother its adherents. It is a blind faith in man.
About 6 or 7 years ago I was waiting at the L.A. International Airport for a flight back to Boston. To kill time I went into Chili's to have some lunch. The waitress sat me beside Robert Ebert. I was wearing my clerical collar. He didn't seem to mind a bit. We struck up a conversation. I was impressed with his unassuming personality and great sense of humor; a really fine and likable individual. Before I left I shook his hand and I told him how lousy the movies are on the plane. His response, "I know... I've seen them all." God bless you Robert, agnostic or not, I'm praying for you. Peace
The bible makes it clear that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess to God. Romans 14:11. It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment." Hebrews 9: 27.
Thanks to Terrence for his openmindedness and kindness. You are worthy of the cloth (and you have a great anecdote there, too.)
I have to say, though, even for the benevolence implicit in some of these comments hoping for Ebert's conversion, I'm disappointed in the lack of understanding here. To call a man impoverished by his lack of faith - or rather, by his faith in a universe fundamentally different from that in which you believe, one without afterlife, or without God(s) - when he can be as optimistic and as strong as he is after suffering so much is missing a very significant opportunity to learn about the fortitude of the human heart, even in the absence of belief. Whether or not human intellect, or life, or love, or wonder, or laughter, are the creations of a supernatural divinity, they are deserving of recognition in this striking person. Have respect for his choice of faith, even if you do not agree; how can your hearts be discontent knowing that even a man without belief can be so good? Rejoice in human beauty, or at least in this thrice-admirable creation of God.
Those are seemingly deep and wonderful words on the surface, but they lack truth... and truth is the only thing that will matter in the end.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever beleiveth in him shall be saved"
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
Without God, we have no purpose for living. Our whole existance is based on serving him and glorifying him. God gives us a choice- to serve him and be part of him or to disobey him and be eternally seperated from all that is good and great... to go to a place of eternal torment.
This life is short and eternity is...forever.
May we all seek God's will and not ours.


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From ofabeautifulnight on tumblr come these maps of the United Kingdom and London, pinpointing the exact locations of many of the places mentioned in Harry Potter. If you were wondering just how far Harry had to go to get from Little Whinging to Hogwarts, this is your reference guide.
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lady hale on women judges October 2, 2013Posted by Bradley in : gender , add a comment
From the Independent:
Lady Justice Hale, who is still the only woman amongst the 12 Supreme Court judges, said: "While I am flattered and proud to have been the first woman to have been appointed as a law lord in 2004, I don't want to be the last. I'm disappointed that in the 10 years since I was appointed, not one among the 13 subsequent appointments to this court has been a woman."
what it would be like to teach a course based on decisions of women judges… September 28, 2013Posted by Bradley in : gender , add a comment
A thought experiment prompted (in part) by reading this article.
gender and economic policy October 26, 2012Posted by Bradley in : eu, gender , add a comment
MEPs rejected Yves Mersch as a candidate for the ECB Executive Board on the basis that insufficient attention is being paid to the issue of gender (the decision is here). If Mersch is appointed to the Executive Board it will likely be all male at least until 2018.
Press reports suggest that the Parliament's emphasis on the need for gender diversity at the ECB is a distraction from the serious issues of addressing the crisis, and make the EU look less credible. But this downplaying of the issue seems to me to be emblematic of the problem. Not working to take advantage of the talent of women as well as of men is short-sighted.
The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report for 2012 which examines the gender gap in countries around the world states:
The correlation among competitiveness, income and development and gender gaps is evident… While correlation does not prove causality, it is consistent with the theory and mounting evidence that empowering women means a more efficient use of a nation's human talent endowment and that reducing gender inequality enhances productivity and economic growth. Over time, therefore, a nation's competitiveness depends, among other things, on whether and how it educates and utilizes its female talent.
increasing participation of women in corporate boards March 5, 2012Posted by Bradley in : gender , add a comment
The EU Commission launched a consultation today on gender imbalance on corporate boards (see the Progress Report). The consultation questions move from asking how effective self-regulation is to asking whether there should be sanctions for not meeting objectives. Meanwhile the OECD has a Gender Browser which provides access to data on this issue.
uk government consults on gender and insurance December 9, 2011Posted by Bradley in : financial regulation, gender , add a comment
The UK is consulting on its proposed response to the Test-Achats decision. The announcement of the consultation states:
The Consultation document seeks views on the Government's legal interpretation of the judgment and the accompanying draft regulations that amend the Equality Act. It also seeks comments on the Government's impact assessment and requests additional data that would contribute to a better understanding of the impact on consumers and insurers. Finally, it asks for views on some of the key issues arising from the judgment, such as the scope of indirect discrimination.
underinvestment in girls September 1, 2011Posted by Bradley in : gender , 1 comment so far
Jad Chaaban & Wendy Cunningham, Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls : the Girl Effect Dividend, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (August 2011):
Although girls are approximately half the youth population in developing countries, they contribute less than their potential to the economy. The objective of this paper is to quantify the opportunity cost of girls' exclusion from productive employment with the hope that stark figures will lead policymakers to reconsider the current underinvestment in girls. The paper explores the linkages between investing in girls and potential increases in national income by examining three widely prevalent aspects of adolescent girls' lives: early school dropout, teenage pregnancy and joblessness. The countries included in the analysis are: Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Paraguay, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The authors use secondary data to allow for some comparability across countries. They find that investing in girls so that they would complete the next level of education would lead to lifetime earnings of today's cohort of girls that is equivalent to up to 68 percent of annual gross domestic product. When adjusting for ability bias and labor demand elasticities, this figure falls to 54 percent, or 1.5 percent per year. Closing the inactivity rate between girls and boys would increase gross domestic product by up to 5.4 percent, but when accounting for students, male-female wage gaps and labor demand elasticities, the joblessness gap between girls and their male counterparts yields an increase in gross domestic product of up to 1.2 percent in a single year. The cost of adolescent pregnancy as a share of gross domestic could be as high as 30 percent or as low as 1 percent over a girl's lifetime, depending on the assumptions used to calculate the losses.
today is international womens' day… March 8, 2011Posted by Bradley in : gender , add a comment
and Judi Dench and Daniel Craig team up at weareequals.org:


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Ciena adds software to enhance network control
Engineers at Ciena have developed software to provide service providers with greater control over their networks. The operators' customers will also benefit from the software control, using a web portal to meet their own networking needs.
"Networks can become more dynamic," says Tom Mock, senior vice president, corporate communications at Ciena. "Operators can now offer more on-demand services." If much work has been done in recent years to make the network's lower layers dynamic, attention is turning to software to make the networks programmable, he says.


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Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's government is preparing for a possible collapse of the euro region, the destination for about 30 percent of its exports and a source of tourist revenue, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said.
"We cannot deny the possibility" that one or more major members of the euro zone will exit the bloc, Steinitz, 53, said in an interview yesterday at Bloomberg's headquarters in New York. "If the euro zone will disintegrate, that's a whole new crisis. We have an emergency plan in the worst case scenario."
The Finance Ministry reduced its growth predictions for 2012 this month, to 3.2 percent from 4 percent, citing Europe's sovereign debt crisis. Greece, with a total 350 billion euros ($454 billion) of debt, is in talks with bondholders as it seeks to avert a default. More than half the respondents in a Bloomberg Global Poll published yesterday say one or more nations will leave the euro in the next 12 months.
Israeli stocks are rebounding this year from declines in 2011. The benchmark TA-25 Index rose 1.5 percent to 1,130.25 at the 4:30 p.m. close in Tel Aviv, bringing the gain this year to 4.1 percent. The Bloomberg Israel-US 25 Index of the largest Israeli companies traded in the U.S. advanced for a seventh day yesterday. Allot Communications Ltd., which makes equipment for monitoring Internet traffic, led gains as the Defense Ministry ended its probe on whether the company's gear was sold to Iran.
Partner Communications Co. dropped to the lowest level in almost six years in New York after Citigroup Inc. cut its recommendation on Israel's second-largest mobile-phone company.
Exports in 'Jeopardy'
The Bloomberg Israel-U.S. index has added 0.3 percent to 92.80 and is up 11 percent this year.
Steinitz said yesterday the government is prepared to assist exporters and provide state guarantees to industry in the case of a breakdown of the euro region.
"If the euro collapses, it's not just exports that will be in jeopardy, but tourism may be an issue as well," he said.
The country may see fewer European visitors and more Israelis may chose to vacation in Europe because it will be cheaper for them, he said.
Steinitz, who was a lecturer in philosophy at Haifa University before entering the Knesset, Israel's legislature, in 1999 as a member of the Likud Party, declined to provide specifics of the government's plan.
The Bank of Israel, led by Governor Stanley Fischer, cut its benchmark interest rate on Jan. 23 for the third time since the end of September, saying that Europe was facing a recession that was hindering the domestic economy. Israel's shekel has weakened 9.9 percent versus the greenback over the past six months.
'Reasonable Level'
A rate of 3.7 to 3.8 per dollar is a "reasonable level" for the shekel as Europe's debt crisis persists and the outlook for the global economy worsens, Steinitz said.
The weakening is "very positive" for the Israeli economy as it makes exporters more competitive, Steinitz said. The nation's central bank is no longer intervening in the market as the currency has reached an acceptable level, he said.
The shekel rose 0.5 percent to 3.7463 a dollar at 4:54 p.m.
The nation's economy grew 4.8 percent in 2011, triple the average pace for the most advanced economies forecast by the International Monetary Fund on Sept. 20.
Steinitz said local and foreign real investments in the economy in 2011 were 35 percent above levels in 2009 and 2008, which helped create more jobs.
Developed Market
Israel, whose population of 7.8 million is similar in size to Switzerland's, was upgraded to developed market status by MSCI Inc. in May 2010, the same month the 63-year-old country was accepted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Israel has about 60 companies traded on the Nasdaq, the most of any nation outside the U.S. after China.
Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel-based Partner dropped 5 percent to $7.97 yesterday, after the Tel Aviv shares dropped 6.2 percent to 30.20 shekels, or the equivalent of $8.02. Citigroup Inc. cut its recommendation on the company to "sell" from "buy." The shares gained 1.3 percent to 30.60 shekels, or $8.17 in Tel Aviv today.
Allot jumped 6.1 percent to $16.55 in New York yesterday. The Defense Ministry cleared Allot of wrongdoing, saying its product had no encryption capabilities and didn't need a military export license, according to a ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak on the matter. The Tel Aviv shares climbed 6 percent to 62.87 shekels, or $16.78 today.
Hod Hasharon, Israel-based Allot's equipment for monitoring Internet traffic was sold to Iran via a distributor in Denmark, Bloomberg News reported on Dec. 23. The Jewish state bans trade with Iran, which has called for its destruction.
Topping Forecasts
Mellanox Technologies Ltd., the Israeli adapter maker partly owned by Oracle Corp., soared 12 percent to 134.20 shekels, or $35.82, in Tel Aviv today. The U.S. shares fell 2.4 percent to $31.16 yesterday.
Fourth-quarter revenue surged 79 percent to $72.7 million, beating the mean estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg of $71.4 million. Mellanox reported earnings of 31 cents per share, above an estimate of 29 cents, the company said in a Business Wire statement yesterday after the markets closed.
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Economic Surplus and Derived Demand
AbstractMost demand -- especially labor demand -- is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates that the usual analysis of economic rent, as typically explained for the case of consumers' surplus, carries over to the case of derived demand.
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You did not do a Treasure Planet genderbend!!!! *dies*
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get to know me meme | favorite movies: the lion king (1994)
↳ "You have forgotten who you are and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life."
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Nokia has reportedly confirmed that a tablet running Windows 8 is coming.
"In June 2012, we will have a tablet that runs on Windows 8," Paul Amsellem, head of Nokia France, told French paper LesEchos, according to reports from Reuters and others.
It's good, and expected, news for Nokia fans and developers. A report this week from IDC and Appcelerator (CP: Amazon Fire and Windows Phones have developers' interest, says report) found 38% of developers who participated in a worldwide survey to be "very interested" in developing for the Windows Phone OS ��a new high for Microsoft.
Pushing the OS higher up developers' priority lists, said the report, were the new Windows Phone Mango release and "potential for tablets and Windows 8 integration."
"What's interesting is how different parts of the world view the importance of Windows Phone and why," said the report, "We looked at Windows Phone interest across geographies and saw differing levels of interest and rationale."
In Europe and Asia, developers' number one reason for interest in the OS was said to be Microsoft's partnership with Nokia. In North America, it was the potential for a tablet with Windows 8 integration.
The news from France should please all of the above. Amsellem added that Nokia and Microsoft also have additional Lumia handsets planned. Likening the Lumia 800 to a BMW 5 Series, he suggested that a higher end, flagship device would be offered (the BMW 7 Series equivalent), as well as a lower-end, 3 Series, as it were.
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My clockday submission, enjoy!
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 24, 2010
I suupose is good,but there was more clours than clocks,don`t worry I liked!
Heh, happy you liked, and happy to up your response rate. :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars December 21, 2008
OMG one word
Glad you liked it :)
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars July 9, 2008
It's a sweet little FBF flash saying Happy Clock Day,the song was pretty cool and it's nice to see this style of animation in a Clock Day submission too though it is very overrated on the score. :P
I know, but it's probably the best of all the CD'07 submissions, lol
Rated 3 / 5 stars March 6, 2008
Uh, okay.
Well, I suppose I can't say that this submission is bad by any means, because it really isn't. It's nice to see something different for clock day, nowadays, but it just seemed to not fit in with the whole clock day idea. I mean the small amount of clocks altogether really just made me wonder why throughout this submission and because of that I really could not get into it. Meh.
Yeah.. It's kina on the wierd side, eh?


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Haha wonderful site! It certainly looks professional :)
Haha wonderful site! It certainly looks professional :)
I can't say thank you enough.
If someone had told me three weeks ago that I'd have a site like this put together, I would've laughed in their faces. Words cannot express my gratitude to everyone who contributed -- especially everyone here at The Cartographer's Guild -- the fact that so many fine artists were able to produce so much high quality product in such a short amount of time has me at a total loss of words.
Thank you very much for helping me take my goofy "magecrammer" idea and turning it into something that was truly spectacular.
If anyone would ever be interested collaborating on a project, I'd be happy to work with everyone here. Who knows? I may start poking around the rest of the forums, as well.
If you ever need anything or would like to work together, please don't hesitate to e-mail me at thesecretdm at gmail dot com.
Thanks again -- have a great weekend!
you too - I hope the recipients of the joke enjoyed it :)
Aha! Found you! :P
As one of the "victims" of this prank, I'm glad I have not logged onto the Cartographers' Guild in the last few days. Magecrammer has been a great suprise and bumping into this thread would have taken the shine off a brilliant joke. (And I say this as someone who doesn't like April Fool Jokes.)
Thanks to everyone here who made something (even the things that didn't get used).
I am a big fan of Spelljammer (and have been for many years). Spelljammer was (and still is) a fantastic concept, but with it being such an unusual concept, it has been less easy than other campaign settings to find things that can fill in some of the gaps in the original product line.
I actually signed up with the Cartographers' Guild last year, because I think that the only way I'm going to get some of the stuff that I need is to learn how to make it myself. Here is my "hello" thread: Hi folks. I need to learn how to map the *entire* Spelljammer universe. I was more focusing on working out how to create planetary maps there (because I've worked out from the blog of a professional RPG designer called Robert S. Conley that building a map of a planet makes it much easier to build the fanon content I want to create to dovetail with the TSR material). But ship maps (in the style you did) are also something that is really needed for Spelljammer fandom.
Spelljammer has lots of ships, but TSR never made all of the maps. In the original SJ boxed set alone, there are six groundling ships (Caravel, Cog, Drakkar, Drommond, Great Galley and Longship) where they give stats (a keel length and beam length and some nerdy SJ stuff) in Concordance of Arcane Space, but don't provide any description in Lorebook of the Void (or plans on ship cards). For the ships that Spelljammer does cover well (the ones that are designed by "spacefarers") TSR gives pictures and deck plans (for almost all of them) but then they have an "Other Configurations" section in Lorebook of the Void that talks about variant forms of the "standard" versions of these ships. TSR never made any deck plans for these "Other Configurations" and some of them are funky enough that the original deckplans do not do the job. Take the Hammership, for example. That can have "Multiple Turrets" (including weapon turrets on the bottom of the ship), "Greek Fire Projectors" (just a change of the front weapon - but you need to make or scan the deckplan to do that), "Heavy Hammerships" and "Armada Busters" (both mostly similar to the Multiple Turret version from a mapping point of view), "Lizard Man Crews" (same deck plans, but with a flooded gravity plane - I suppose that could be done with a photocopier and a blue highlighting pen), "Mind Flayer Crews" (same plans, but with the windows changed) and "Elven Crews" (the plans would again be unchanged).
I've also been speaking to a couple of the authors of HackJammer (the HackMaster version of Spelljammer) and he thinks that rather than the Hammership being a 60 ton ship that was exactly 250ft long in the keel and exactly 25 foot across its beam, there would be variations in sizes at different shipyards. (This idea also works around the fact that inconsistent TSR artwork shows Hammerships in different proportions - and even with a slightly different arrangement of the top deck and external parts.) Something like that would mean that the Multiple Turret idea could instead stretch the ship and provide space for a third weapon turret.
That sort of thing would mostly only help Spelljammer fans, but less funky looking ships (groundling ships to SJ fans) would be things that could be used by fans of any RPG setting based on the sea. Freeport is a good example of a setting based around a sea-port. I'm sure fans of that setting would love "normal" ships.
Anyhoo, what I'm getting at is: the answer to your question is: "yes" - there is an audience for this style of ship drawing. :oops: :D
Awesome idea - and nicely executed, good job all!
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Pahiyas Festival Lucban, Quezon May 15, 2011 A colorful Pahiyas window - adorned with "kiping", farm produce like rice, fruits, vegetables and even poultry like ducks and chicken. Each window during the "fiesta" was decorated as thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. The colorful chandelier like décor is the local "Kiping" made of rice flour, shaped using "kabal" leaves and colored in vibrant hues. Learned that a regular "kiping" costs around six pesos apiece and each round on the chandelier would consists of at least 100 "kiping" thus a regular small chandelier or "anok" for the locals would costs a little over two thousand pesos. Indeed an expensive offering of thanks. "Pahiyas" which literally means "to decorate" happens annually in the town of Lucban, Quezon every May 15.
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