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On the face of it, UK department stores have not changed much in recent years.
There is the familiar scene that greets you at the entrance: a sea of perfume counters staffed by friendly ladies easing awkward gentlemen through the latest offerings from Chanel, Givenchy and Jade Goody.
And then you have the menswear department - with the rows of cufflink-and-tie sets and at least one well-groomed sales assistant brandishing a tape measure.
Up a couple of levels you find the home section, with a feel that is undeniably homely: all lights, pastel bed linen and picture frames.
But look more closely and something has changed from just a couple of years ago.
In fashion
In the past, the fortunes of department stores have moved up and down as much the escalators connecting ladies fashion to sports equipment.
But judging by Christmas sales figures, they are firmly back in vogue with customers when other prominent retailers, such as Marks & Spencer and Next are looking to batten down the hatches.
At House of Fraser, bought in 2006 by Icelandic investors Baugar, like-for-like sales were up by 2.4% in the five weeks to 3 January.
And Selfridges - which has outlets in Birmingham and Manchester as well as London, saw sales climb by about 9%.
Meanwhile John Lewis - which was last week was voted the UK's favourite retailer - reported an 6.2% rise in same store takings during the five weeks to 5 January.
This included a 4.6% rise during the first week of its end-of-year sales.
And while there are still a few heavily discounted Santa Claus cookie jars and 'make your own festive biscuit' sets on display in its flagship store on London's Oxford Street, they are rapidly giving way to Easter decorations.
Analysts estimate that growth in the sector will more than double in the next five years - after a period which has seen less successful chains being snapped up by their bigger rivals or, as happened with Allders, fading away.
"The market was having a particularly tough time up until a couple of years ago," says Verdict Research retail analyst Maureen Hinton.
She likened the staid feel that some stores had at that time to the Grace Brothers department store in TV comedy Are You Being Served.
"The word for them was unfashionable, but the likes of Harvey Nichols and Selfridges have done quite a bit to reinvigorate the general feel of department stores, to make them much more hip and the place to go."
She points to consolidation in the sector and efforts to improve outlets by the big players as they compete for the customer's cash.
Premium brands
House of Fraser is one of those trying to make itself more desirable - its efforts intensifying since Baugar's £351m takeover.
Refurbishing 15 of its 59 stores has already helped sales it says, with the remainder to be refitted within three years.
"Customers have so much choice in where they shop and a business which does not invest in its environment is going to struggle," says brand manager Matt Chambers.
"Flagship stores and city centre stores are of course very important but what we are going to do is invest in the entire estate."
House of Fraser has also increased the number of brands it offers - an extra 500 in the past six months alone - many of them more upmarket products than it had previously sold.
However it stresses that the often-cheaper private label (or own-brand) goods still have a place.
"Under the new management we have deliberately begun to offer more premium products," says Mr Chambers, "without forgetting we have a very wide customer base."
Local management, which best know their customers and catchment areas, influence heavily what is stocked in each store, he adds.
"We are very clear that what is a premium product in Cwmbran is not the same as what is considered premium in Glasgow."
Online goals
Most observers agree that the ability of department stores to pull such a range of products "under one roof" is key to the success of a department store.
"When you compare moving from shop to shop with what we offer: so many brands in one store, in the warm with friendly staff and great service, we think that is a real competitive advantage," says Mr Chambers.
And being able to offer that range is something which also comes in to its own through online shopping.
House of Fraser's fully-functioning website is just in its infancy, though the firm says it is happy how its first Christmas went.
And while there are no figures to digest. it will be hoping to replicate the success of John Lewis. which in Christmas week saw online sales up by 67.5%.
"The internet is a key attraction, especially for John Lewis," Ms Hinton said.
"They have only 26 stores but a reputation which spreads much wider and their online presence allows them to capitalise on that.
"People appear to be coming to the stores after looking at something on the website, or buying something online after seeing it in store, so the two really complement one another."
Supermarket battles
It is not just technology which is helping department stores win back fans, with the stores also give credit to their staff in helping to build an aspirational environment.
Selfridges talks of offering good service on a day-to-day basis, while House of Fraser says that staff have been empowered by relationship between local stores and head office.
And at John Lewis, staff have a stake in the business and are involved in some of the decision making at a local level.
In Glasgow, for example, workers on a steering committee agreed to extend Christmas trading hours by 15.5 hours from 2006 - helping bring about a 3.8% rise in sales.
Back in John Lewis on Oxford Street, and uniformed waiters lay table at the third floor brassiere and bistro - its menu a far cry from the hot chocolate and a scone that used to be the staple in such shops.
"Visiting a department store is becoming more of a leisure experience," Ms Hinton said.
"You can go for lunch or have a drink. It's not just about going shopping which perhaps enables them to differentiate themselves from the big supermarkets which really have become a department store of sorts.
"They sell electricals, music and clothes as well as food, but they are still more functional than department stores which are pushing themselves on the more indulgent end of the market."
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I put this site together to post sermons I delivered during the years I ministered at Wayfarers Chapel, together with a selection of sermons from earlier in my career. I am grateful for the open-hearted support of those of you have worshiped with me at the Chapel.
On May 1, 2012, I started my new ministry at the San Diego Swedenborgian Church. Sermons delivered in San Diego are on a new site.
Embracing the New, Recorded at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Swedenborgian Church, July 2, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Enclave Warden and Quartemaster
Appearance and Personality
One of the older surviving members of the Enclave, the mission which led to their jump in time Joakim intended to be his last. While considerably skilled and experienced, his grumpy and brooding attitude combined with a questionable past made him generally not well-liked and distrusted among the previous knights and grandmaster, and thus he was never considered for promotion; after the time travel incident, he turned such offers down with "I'm too old for this crap". Nowadays, he's more than happy to serve as a quartermaster, the man whose stone-cold glare hapless recruits have to face if they want to have snazzy new toys.
Joakim is a tall, burly man with pale and scarred complexion. His shaggy hair is steel grey with few persistent black strands here and there, and his wrinkled face bears uncanny resemblance to aged Clint Eastwood ("Who?"). His eyes are silver grey and very bloodshot. He's usually seen wearing a traditional Circassian outfit, sans the dagger when foolish modern laws prohibit it. In his chest pockets he carries three silver bells, which decorated handles are always visible.
Reconcilio: Joakim has several weapons bearing this glyph, including a longspear and a crossbow. Most notable is a masterwork dagger he attempts to carry wherever he goes.
Glyph of Warding: Inscribed upon Joakim's clothes, when activated this glyph burns spiritual creatures who try to touch him. It also increases his resilience against their attacks manyfold. There are rumours that the users skin will turn into steel if the glyph is kept up long enough.
Glyph of Recollection: Engraved upon first one his bells, this glyph makes the sound of the bell return lost memories. It's intended effect is to revert hollows to their human personalities, making them want to be purified, but failing that, their momentary confusion offers a good oppurtunity to cut them down. The glyph works best on recently formed hollows, who haven't yet been stained by foreign hakus and evils committed as a hollow; as it relies on sudden remembrance, hollows who already remember their past won't be effected. It can also recover memories lost due to trauma or brainwashing, though this is not always a good thing.
Glyph of Exorcism: Engraved on the second bell, when activated the sound of the bell forces out spirits possessing bodies not their own. It is meant to drive away hollows possessing mortals, but it can also drive a Shinigami out of a gigai, a spirit out of another spirit or interrupt a hollowfication process.
Glyph of Holding: Engraved on the third bell, when activated the bell's sound stops everyone who hear it on their tracks. It's only safe if the user and his companions have plugged their ears; otherwise, the battle is decided by which party breaks the spell first.


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Smoke-free dining benefits employees and patrons
By Julie Yurek
Staff Writer
Working in a smoke filled environment 40 hours a week can wreak havoc on a person's health.
To combat the effects of secondhand smoke, many restaurants in Wright County are becoming smoke free.
"It's really a protection for the people who work in that environment," said Alison Horstman, public health educator with Wright County.
Wright County Public Health and Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) put together a brochure listing all smoke-free restaurants.
"All the businesses listed are smoke-free voluntarily," she said.
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School had nine students in TATU last year, said Health Councilor Jodi Woyke.
The smoke-free dining brochure was inserted in area newspapers this spring. It will probably be updated annually in order to include new smoke-free establishments, Woyke said.
Restaurants must designate at least 30 percent of the total seating capacity as non-smoking and must be available for patrons at all times, according to the Minnesota Department of Health web site, www.health.state.mn.us.
Non-smoking and smoking-permitted seating must be separated by a four-foot wide space or a physical barrier 56 inches or more in height or an outdoor (fresh) air ventilation, according to the Department of Health.
Scotty's offers smoke-free dining
Scotty's Family Restaurant in Waverly is one of the 50 plus restaurants listed as smoke free.
Owner Scott Czanstkowski is a non-smoker and so it was just natural for him to have his business be smoke fee, he said. It is his first restaurant.
"It's easier for a smoker to go into a smoke-free environment than it is for a non-smoker to go into a smoking environment," he said.
"By going into a smoke-free place, it's not doing any damage to you like a smoking environment does," he said.
Scotty's has been open for five months and offers a full menu and a lunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Smoke free has become a trend, Horstman said, citing cities such as Duluth, Rochester, New York City, and Boston that have passed smoke-free laws for restaurants, bars, and other establishments.
States that have also passed laws include California and even the country of Ireland, she said.
It's usually the employees who speak up about the smoke, not the general public, she said. However, she stressed that the "population needs to speak up."
Wright County Public Health mailed 800 random Wright County residents a survey in April asking them their beliefs on secondhand smoke, Horstman said.
The survey was developed by the University of Minnesota, she said.
The response rate back was 66 percent. The results of the survey are expected back within a month, she said.
HLWW students get involved in TATU
Besides the smoke-free dining brochure, the TATU program includes peer teaching to younger children about the dangers of smoking and other drugs.
Wright County gives Woyke the materials for TATU program, she said.
HLWW high school students in TATU visit groups of children who are split into two groups, kindergarten through third grade and fourth through sixth grade, Woyke said.
The TATU students give presentations on the negative effects of tobacco.
Presentations are about one-hour long, which include a video, an emphysema test, a taste test, showing students two pairs of lungs one healthy, the other with cancer, and explaining the chemicals that are found in cigarettes.
Students in TATU have the option to attend a two-day training session at Camp Koinonia near Annandale in November, Woyke said.
Woyke advertises the TATU program around school and students can sign up if they are interested, she said.
The TATU students also take part in Chemical Awareness Week at HLWW. Each day is dedicated to a different topic, Woyke said.
That week students go to the elementary schools to talk and let the youngsters ask them questions about smoking, peer pressure, or anything they can think of, she said.
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The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the agency's inspector general issued a classified report in the spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used on the prisoners "appeared to constitute cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, as defined by the International Convention Against Torture."
Harman's letter provides a more thorough account of the possible reasons CIA officials destroyed the videotaped interrogations, which, according to public accounts, took place in November 2005, more than two years after Harman sent a letter to Muller voicing disapproval about purging the videotapes. It also suggests intelligence officials heeded prior warnings to preserve the videotapes and destroyed the videotapes only after evidence of the agency's covert interrogation practices were revealed publicly in news reports.
Harman's letter did not raise concerns or express disapproval about the CIA's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques." Moreover, her letter advising the agency against destroying the videotapes were made out of concern the footage CIA agents captured "would be the best proof that the written record is accurate, if such record is called into question in the future." It is believed Harman was referring to information about the 9/11 attacks and other purported plots against the United States.
At the time Harman wrote to Muller, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson was in the midst of an internal investigation into the agency's interrogation methods, which Truthout reported last week. Helgerson personally viewed the videotapes that showed two detainees being subjected to waterboarding by CIA officers, which formed the foundation for his still classified report on the CIA's methods of interrogation.
"In his report, Mr. Helgerson also raised concern about whether the use of the techniques could expose agency officers to legal liability," according to a November 9, 2005, story in The New York Times was published around the same month the tapes were destroyed. "They said the report expressed skepticism about the Bush administration view that any ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment under the treaty does not apply to CIA interrogations because they take place overseas on people who are not citizens of the United States."
"The officials who described the report said it discussed particular techniques used by the CIA against particular prisoners, including about three dozen terror suspects being held by the agency in secret locations around the world," The New York Times reported." They said it referred in particular to the treatment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is said to have organized the Sept. 11 attacks and who has been detained in a secret location by the CIA since he was captured in March 2003. Mr. Mohammed is among those believed to have been subjected to waterboarding, in which a prisoner is strapped to a board and made to believe he is drowning.
Last week, the Justice Department announced it had opened a formal criminal investigation into the destruction of the videotapes headed by John Durham, an assistant attorney general from Connecticut. Helgerson, who had been investigating the circumstances behind the tapes' destruction before the launch of the criminal probe, said he would recuse himself from the matter.
Helgerson launched a review of the CIA's interrogation techniques less than a year after a meeting was convened at the White House in July 2002. It was at this meeting former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, Justice Department attorney John Yoo, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's attorney David Addington, and unknown CIA officials discussed whether the CIA could interrogate Abu Zubaydah, a high-level al-Qaeda detainee captured in Pakistan in March 2002, more aggressively in order to get him to respond to questions about plots against the United States and its interests abroad.
Yoo, Gonzales and Addington gave the CIA the green light to use a wide variety of techniques, including waterboarding, on Zubaydah and other detainees at several secret prisons overseas to "break" them and force them to cooperate with interrogators, according to an account published in Newsweek in late December 2003. Less than a month after the meeting, on August 1, 2002, Yoo drafted a memo to Gonzales that was signed by Jay Bybee, the assistant attorney general at the time. That memo declared President Bush had the legal authority to allow CIA interrogators to employ harsh tactics to extract information from detainees. Human rights organizations and Democratic and Republican lawmakers have characterized the methods outlined in the Yoo memo as torture.
During this time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff advised the CIA that its agents had the legal authority to use what was referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques" on Abu Zubaydah, according to a little-known report published in The New York Times in January 2005.
Chertoff was head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division when CIA officials inquired whether its agents could be charged with violating the federal anti-torture statute for employing interrogation methods such as waterboarding. The tactic causes detainees to slowly drown, and is generally terminated before the detainees die.
"The CIA was seeking to determine the legal limits of interrogation practices for use in cases like that of Abu Zubaydah, the Qaeda lieutenant who was captured in March 2002," says a January 29, 2005, New York Times story. That story quoted unnamed sources who told the newspaper "Chertoff was directly involved in these discussions, in effect evaluating the legality of techniques proposed by the CIA by advising the agency whether its employees could go ahead with proposed interrogation methods without fear of prosecution."
During his Senate confirmation hearing in February 2005, Chertoff maintained he provided the CIA broad guidance in response to its questions about interrogation methods and never specifically addressed the legality regarding waterboarding or other techniques.
Chertoff told former CIA General Counsel Scott Muller and his deputy, John Rizzo, that an August 1, 2002, memo widely referred to as the "Torture Memo" put the CIA on solid legal ground and that its agents could waterboard a prisoner without fear of prosecution. The memo was written by former Justice Department attorney John Yoo.
Yoo's memo said Congress "may no more regulate the president's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield."
In the summer of 2004, Yoo's memo was publicly disclosed which led the administration to reject the former Justice Department official's legal opinion on interrogation methods. A new opinion made public in December 2004, signed by former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, rejected Yoo's interpretation of the law defining torture and more restrictive standards defining it were adopted.
"But a cryptic footnote to the new document about the 'treatment of detainees' referred to what the officials said were other still-classified opinions. Officials have said the footnote meant coercive techniques approved by the Justice Department under the looser interpretation of the torture statutes were still lawful even under the new, more restrictive standards," according to a November 9, 2005, report in The New York Times.
The new legal opinion meant agents involved in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah could have found themselves in legal jeopardy if their conduct had been exposed publicly. And it was just a matter of time before details of the CIA's covert operations surfaced.
Shortly before Helgerson completed his internal investigation in the spring of 2004, he tapped Mary O. McCarthy, a career CIA official, as deputy inspector general to assist him with a number of investigations including his probe of the CIA's interrogation methods.
McCarthy was also personally briefed on the existence and content of the videotapes, according to several CIA officials who worked closely with her, however it's unknown whether she viewed the material. McCarthy also oversaw the inspector general's investigation into the treatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. But something related to the CIA's treatment of detainees had disturbed McCarthy enough to confide in her friends that the CIA covered-up the methods officers used when interrogating certain detainees.
According to a May 2006, Washington Post story, McCarthy "worried that neither Helgerson nor the agency's Congressional overseers would fully examine what happened or why." Another friend said, "She had the impression that this stuff has been pretty well buried." The Post story reported, "In McCarthy's view and that of many colleagues, friends say, torture was not only wrong but also misguided, because it rarely produced useful results."
McCarthy was among a group of former intelligence officials who late last year signed a letter opposing the nomination of Attorney General Michael Mukasey on grounds he would not denounce waterboarding. She alleged - two years or so after she and Helgerson completed their report into the agency's interrogation practices - CIA officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post.
"A CIA employee of two decades, McCarthy became convinced that 'CIA people had lied' in that briefing, as one of her friends said later, not only because the agency had conducted abusive interrogations but also because its policies authorized treatment that she considered cruel, inhumane or degrading," The Washington Post reported.
In April 2006, ten days before she was due to retire, McCarthy was fired from the CIA for allegedly leaking classified information to the media, a CIA spokeswoman told reporters at the time.
The CIA said McCarthy had spoken with numerous journalists, including The Washington Post's Dana Priest, who in November 2005 exposed the CIA's secret prison sites, where in 2002 the CIA videotaped its agents interrogating a so-called high-level detainee, Abu Zubaydah. The videotaped interrogation of Zubaydah, which is said to have shown the prisoner being subjected to waterboarding, was destroyed after Priest's story was published, and is now at the center of a wide-ranging Congressional and Justice Department investigation. Priest won a Pulitzer Prize for her expose. The CIA did not say whether McCarthy was a source for Priest's story.
Following news reports of her dismissal from the CIA, McCarthy, through her attorney Ty Cobb, vehemently denied leaking classified information to the media. However, the CIA said she failed a polygraph test after the agency launched an internal investigation in late 2005. The agency said the investigation was an attempt to find out who provided The Washington Post and The New York Times with information about its covert activities, including domestic surveillance, and it promptly fired her.
The Washington Post reported, "McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration's venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted US counterterrorism policy. After seeing - in e-mails, cable traffic, interview transcripts and field reports - some of the secret fruits of the Iraq intervention, McCarthy became disenchanted, three of her friends say."
"In addition to CIA misrepresentations at the session last summer, McCarthy told the friends, a senior agency official failed to provide a full account of the CIA's detainee-treatment policy at a closed hearing of the House intelligence committee in February 2005, under questioning by Rep. Jane Harman (California), the senior Democrat," The Washington Post says. "McCarthy also told others she was offended that the CIA's general counsel had worked to secure a secret Justice Department opinion in 2004 authorizing the agency's creation of "ghost detainees" - prisoners removed from Iraq for secret interrogations without notice to the International Committee of the Red Cross - because the Geneva Conventions prohibit such practices."
The fact the videotapes were allegedly destroyed during the same month The New York Times published a story about Helgerson's classified report on CIA interrogation methods, and The Washington Post published a story exposing the CIA's covert interrogation activities at overseas prisons, suggests the CIA may have decided to destroy the videotaped interrogations because it feared that if the tapes became part of the public record it could expose its agents to a federal criminal investigation.
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(Reuters) - A book by newly installed Roman Catholic Pope Francis will be translated into English for the first time, publisher Image Books said on Tuesday.
"On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century," which was first published in Spanish in 2010, will be released in the United States and Canada on May 7, Image Books said.
The new pope, formerly Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, co-wrote the book with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires, as a series of conversations.
Their exchanges cover topics such as God, atheism, abortion, the Holocaust, same-sex marriage, fundamentalism and globalization among other topics, the publisher said.
The book is billed as offering Francis' views on his efforts to strengthen relations between faiths.
Francis, who took his name after Saint Francis of Assisi, was elected the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics on March 13.
He has received high marks from U.S. Catholics and the American public, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, but many respondents said they knew little about him.
Francis has published 11 books in his native Spanish.
The Spanish-language version of the book, entitled "Sobre el Cielo y la Terra," will also be published by Vintage Espanol in the United States and Canada.
Image Books and Vintage Espanol are imprints of Random House Inc, which is owned by Germany's Bertelsmann.
Reporting by Eric Kelsey, editing by Jill Serjeant and Cynthia Osterman


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How do you tell if a warning you receive by e-mail, fax, SMS, or text is an urban legend? How was South Africa's great hurricane hoax easily identifiable as an urban legend?
Here are ten rules for spotting an urban legend in your inbox:
1. Public health and safety warnings are always issued directly by the relevant authorities, such as the police, emergency services, weather bureau, or traffic department. If you receive it second hand, immediately be suspicious.
2. Public health and safety warnings are not distributed by chain letter or by individuals e-mailing their entire address books. If you receive a mass-mailed warning, assume it is an urban legend.
3. Urban legend-based mass-mailed warnings are almost always accompanied by the name of the supposed authority that issued it, including the name, position and phone number of the individual responsible. This does not mean it is authentic.
4. In most cases, the authority figure or individual named as the source of the legend did not issue the warning. Where the individual cited in the "document" did issue the warning, but mass-mailed it by e-mail or fax rather than through formal channels, it was usually based on that person having received the warning second-hand, and not having the experience to identify it for what it is. The individual then used his or her position of authority to give weight to the warning, despite his or her organisation or department not being the appropriate one to issue the warning. It is difficult for members of the public to spot the difference in such cases, but journalists should know (and often don't).
5. If the e-mail urges you to forward the warning to all your friends, don't. The more exclamation marks used in this request, the more certain you can be that it is an urban legend or hoax.
6. If the senders tell you they don't usually forward such e-mails, obviously their common sense has finally given up the battle, and they have joined the ranks of the gullible.
7. If someone tells you it was received from a lawyer, doctor, historian (all real examples I've seen) or similar authority figure, and that this person is highly educated and/or very level-headed, you can be certain you are dealing with an urban legend. Firstly, educated people do not have a monopoly on common sense. Secondly, elite, wealthy and respected professionals are no more level-headed than ordinary users of municipal buses. Thirdly, the very need to justify the warning, by invoking the profession of another person who fell for it, indicates that even the sender realised the warning was suspect to start with.
8. Any mass-mailed warning that tells you "This is NOT an urban legend" is an urban legend.
9. Always check on the well-known urban legend reference sites, such as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, better known as Snopes, About.com: Urban Legends, and The AFU & Urban Legends Archive. Chances are, a variation on the same hoax is already dcoumented there.
10. Never, ever, forward mass-mailed e-mail warnings. Just don't do it.
Finally, there is one exception to Rule 10: you are welcome to forward such hoax or urban legend e-mails to me, so that I can track variations when they emerge.
Arthur Goldstuck revisits and updates the urban legends that have appeared in his various books, and monitors new ones as they appear and disappear from the psyche. The focus is on South African urban legends, but sometimes goes global.
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
Hoaxes and legends: the rules
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I am impressed with your clear explanation of hoaxes and legends and I plan to send the link to some of my more gullible friends. Not to say that I have never forwarded such emails but I will be more circumspect in future.
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I was really looking forward to Sesquicenternary road race on 30-Sept 2012. I have been road running for many years and really enjoy the solitude that Bandra's empty streets offer at 5.30am. This was the first time I would actually run a race, even if an ex-students race. A brisk walk to the school background served as a warm up before the run. I was greeted with the background filled with kids from schools around Bandra of all shapes and sizes. There were the barefoot runners from St. Catherine's Home, Cardinal Gracias and Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir Bandra East to the well kitted boys and girls from the local schools.
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Our over 40's 1K race eventually began at around 7.30 am and was over in a flash. It was astonishing to see Br. Conrad Fonseca (Class of 1957) sprint off with the younger guns till he ran out of steam. Fr Joseph Prabu ran and walked and completed the race, so did Fr Leo Soares even with his knee strapped up. It was astonishing to see Fr Juan hike up his cassock and start the run with us. A short 1K race calls for a sprint from start to finish. I made the mistake of staying at the back of the pack and there was no hope of catching any of the much younger runners. I consoled myself that I had passed many much younger runners along the way and this was my first competitive race at 51. I was even cheered "Come on Uncle" by a group of girls at the finish.
I decided that since I was at St. Stanislaus, I might as well visit Central Hindu Hotel (Balaji in its new avatar) and have an idli and filter coffee for old time's sake. It is still the long narrow restaurant of old with everyone rubbing elbows and where no conversation is personal. After placing my order I noticed a group of four kids from Stanislaus who had also just completed the race. I did not know who they were but let's call them Abdul, Khalid, Vinay and Brendon. They looked like 5th or 6th standard boys as they studiously read the menu looking for items who's cost matched the money in their collective pockets. Abdul was the obvious leader of the group as he suggested what they should order. He then ordered everyone to contribute Rs 30 each so that they could order between them 2 masala dosas, 1 punjabi samosa and one sada dosa. Brendon threw his hands up and said he did not have any money. Without any hesitation Abdul said " Chal Brendon ke pas paisa nahe hai aur dus rupia nikalo" (Brendon does not have any money, contribute Rs 10 more) The rest duly obliged without question. I was truly astonished by this behavior where buddies look after each other. Of course I could not just sit by and ended up paying for their bill. Abdul loudly asked "But why Uncle?" I did not tell him that at such a young age he was already living the "Spirit of St. Stanislaus" I mumbled that we were Stanislites and we had just run the same race. All four Stanislite loudly chorused "Thank You Uncle"
Little did they realize that they had made my day memorable!
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Mayor, City of Cape Coral
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Mayor, City of Hawthorne
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Mayor, City of Freeport
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Johnsonville® Italian sausage is one of my favorites. I use it to prepare the Zuppa Toscana soup; we make it at least once a month. Using this Italian sausage to prepare the Stuffing Recipe for thanksgiving, was a no-brainier. I used to find stuffing very boring, but adding some mushrooms and sausage to it, really does make it a meal of its own.
Stuffing is a thing you must have during your Thanksgiving dinner. It's very simple to prepare and can be done ahead of time, making a Thanksgiving dinner one step easier.


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Scientists understood the climate 150 years ago better than the EPA head today | John Abraham
John Abraham: Scott Pruitt denies basic science that weve understood for over a century
The current head of the US Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt does not believe or understand long-known principles of climate science and basic physics. Recently he claimed on CNBC that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming:
I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and theres tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So, no, I would not agree thats a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we dont know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.
There are two undeniable ironies in this statement. First, taken at face value it would suggest that we actually need to do more analysis but the current administration is proposing draconian cuts in our climate science research budget. They are doing just the opposite of what he recommends.
The second irony is that scientists have known about the importance of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas for well over 100 years. There is no debate among any reputable scientists that carbon dioxide is the most important human emitted greenhouse gas. Furthermore, humans have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 43%. These are facts.
So, I wanted to revisit some of the first studies on carbon dioxide and its effect on the climate to put into perspective how backwards Pruitt is. One of the first works, and certainly a seminal study was completed in 1827 by Jean Baptiste Fourier. An excellent summary of the contributions of his work is provided here.
While Fourier produced multiple publications, my favorite is the one from 1827. From his work, scientists were able to describe how heat entered and left a planets system. He described heat loss by infrared radiation from the Earth and other planets. He correctly concluded that energy transferred within the Earth was negligible compared to that transferred by radiation. He also recognized the important nature of the atmosphere that it is transparent to visible light but not to infrared light. This is why the greenhouse analogy to our atmosphere is so apt. Shockingly, Fourier knew more about climate change than does the current head of the EPA.
So what was happening in the world back then? Well, both Beethoven and William Blake died that year. The first African American newspaper was published. The Russian-Persian war was ongoing. The Stockton and Darlington railway had just opened in England. Life expectancy in the UK was approximately 40 years, and less than that elsewhere in the world. I would have shown a photograph of what the world was like in 1827, but photography had not yet been invented.
Another major discovery occurred in the 1860s by researcher John Tyndall. He studied various gases and their ability to absorb radiant heat. Among the gases he studied were oxygen and nitrogen which he found were virtually transparent to radiant heat. On the other hand, he found that some gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide can absorb heat, even though they are present in small amounts.
The genius of Tyndall was his measurement device. He used a galvanometer with a tube that he could fill with various gases. He couldnt use glass to make the walls because glass is a radiant heat absorber. In fact, his original paper was filled with a detailed description of his experiment and the issues he had to address to ensure quality results. But, in the end he was able to quantify the importance of trace gases on the energy absorptivity of our atmosphere. A nice review of his work is available here. Shockingly, Tyndall knew more about climate change than does the current head of the EPA.
What was the world like when Tyndall did his work? Well, America was at war with itself in the most deadly US war to date (the US Civil War). Russian serfs were freed by Tsar Alexander II. Oil refining had begun and soon whale oil would be replaced. Telegraph lines connected the East and West coasts of the USA. Victor Hugo published Les Miserables. A terrible Indian/settler conflict brewed in my home state of Minnesota. The Emancipation Proclamation became law, and the Gatling gun was invented.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/31/scientists-understood-the-climate-150-years-ago-better-than-the-epa-head-today


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Mikurajima Dolphin Tours
Mikura island is a secret place... This island still has a rich natural environment. Beautiful sea, untouched forest, people have simple lives. And a lot of wild dolphins have lived around there for a long time. They are really friendly so people can swim with them. Swimming with wild dolphins is a great experience. Why don't you come here and have a great time with us!!
- Company NameMikurajima Dolphin Tours
- Company TypeSwim with wild dolphins in Mikura island
- Activities Available
- Scuba Diving
- Snorkeling
- Trekking
- English Speaking Staff?Yes little.But now,I'm studying very hard.
- Other Languages SpokenNot Applicable
Location Information
- RegionKanto
- PrefectureTokyo
- City / AreaMikura island
- Nearest Train StationNot Applicable
- Minutes from StationNot Applicable
- Pick up service available?Yes
- Nearest Expressway / Interchange / InterchangeNot Applicable
- Nearest National RouteNot Applicable
- Getting ThereIt takes 7 hours by ship from Takeshiba Sanbashi port. The ship leaves only once a day at 10:30 p.m. and arrives at Mikura around 6:00 a.m. the next day.
- Map
- Google Map Link Click here for Google Map
Contact Information
- AddressMikura island in Tokyo
- Telephone090-4539-1824
- FaxNot Applicable
- EmailSend email messages, questions or bookings through the Online Booking Request Form below.
- Web sitehttp://www17.ocn.ne.jp/~tamagide/eindex.html
- Contact NameTamami Hashimoto


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We are always looking for ways to improve our instruction and to meet the needs of all our students. One topic that is always a concern is the number of interruptions during the school day.
There are interruptions that cannot be eliminated, but there are interruptions that we can at least minimize. These types of interruptions are usually brief typified by intercom announcements and brief queries at the classroom door.
"These brief interruptions actually steal about three minutes each. That is the time that elapses from the point of interruption through its end and until most children in the classroom are once again engaged in academic work. Now consider that the classroom is once again engaged in academic work. Now consider that ten such interruptions would eat up about thirty minutes of engaged instructional time. Every day. Two and one-half hours every week. Two whole school days every month!"
After considering the accumulative effects interruptions can have, we respectfully request for our students to arrive to school on time. The number of late students has drastically increased. This late arrival not only affects the student who is late but every student who is in that classroom loses time when the late student arrives. We understand things happen in the mornings that can affect a morning schedule, but we would appreciate anything you can do to help reduce the number of late arrivals.
We also try not to disrupt learning to ask students to come to the office to pick up forgotten items. They can always check in the office before going to lunch to pick up a lunch before lunch time or their instrument before music. Please try to make end of day pick up arrangements with your student in the morning before he/she leaves for school. Giving a student a message may seem to not be obtrusive, but as you can see from the above information, it can become an interruption in learning.


text: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:12:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > For those of you who are afraid about reliability of a DNSBL, > I can highly recommend cbl.abuseat.org as the absolute minimum. > This list (called CBL for short) has the following properties: > > * Takes its data from very large spamtraps. > * Only lists IPs which are open-proxy-like. > * Only lists individual IPs, never lists "IP ranges". > * It's completely automated to prevent human error. > * Tries very hard not to list "real" SMTP servers. > * Everybody can remove any IP from the list without any questions at all. Well, let's not get too ahead of ourselves praising CBL. I've recently experienced the situation where the CBL people were way too trigger-happy in listing IPs in their blacklist. I happen to have one group of users whose traffic is routed through a server that I run, and I block their outgoing SMTP traffic and route their outgoing HTTP traffic transparently through a Squid proxy. At one point, half a dozen machines (out of around two hundred) contracted some sort of a worm-virus which wanted to send spam. The problem was the fact that the same worm-virus was trying to be a bit too shrewd for its own good, and before trying to actually send spam, it went and preemptively sent a HTTP request to the CBL web site in order to de-list itself from that blacklist. The CBL folks experienced a DDoS due to the sheer volume of these requests, and decided to automatically list all IPs that sent them those HTTP requests in the blacklist. Unfortunately, they did not check for X-Forwarded-For headers (or whatsitcalled) to see whether the queries were actually proxied, nor did they cross-reference the list of those IPs with their actual spamtraps to see whether they actually sent any spam. This resulted in my gateway IP address being banned, because of two dozen HTTP requests of clients behind it. There was no notification to hostmaster, postmaster, nothing (admin contacts readily available via WHOIS and/or DNS). Because the same IP also happened to run a (legitimate) mail server, it caused other mail servers which check on SBL-XBL (which includes CBL) to reject our (legitimate) mails. (I later separated these two functions to different IPs in order to avoid this kind of nonsense in the future.) I had to send several e-mails to CBL people and it took us two days before we finally cleared up the situation. The first operator that I talked to didn't really understand what was going on, until I managed to guess what they were doing and then another person finally started talking in real technical terms to me and then we wrapped it up nicely (based on information that that person gave me, I was able to ban rogue HTTP requests and isolate infected machines). Hence, I must disagree with the blanket assessment that they "try very hard" not to list real servers. I know getting DoSed is a pain in the ass, and I know that my users need to be shot for running Windows^W^W letting viruses abuse their machines. Yet, reacting to such things with knee-jerk measures is not really trying very hard. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.


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Franchise news
International franchising: best US restaurant concept named
The US magazine, Nation's Restaurant News, has published its list of what it believes are the best American restaurant concepts. According to a report on the Internet portal, cafeFuture.net, the awards took both the quality of the concept for consumers into account as well as for the food service branch as a whole. Three franchise systems were also among the prize winners.
One of the winners was Which wich, a sandwich chain founded in 2003 which sells a range of around 50 different sandwiches. Which Wich currently has 28 locations: this number should have increased to 50 by the end of 2007 and to 100 by the end of 2008. A further winner was the WingStreet franchise system which sells chicken wings and belongs to Yum! Brands, the group which also owns well-known franchise brands such as KFC and Pizza Hut. The prize for the best business re-start went to the Big Boy restaurant chain. The history of Big Boy began back in 1936; however, after various takeovers the business went bankrupt in 2000. A new investor then took over Big Boy: today the company has over 450 locations. Further information about these and the other winners can be found at www.nrn.com .


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The Challenge
The SEM / Online Marketing Industry has 2 dire issues, Lack of Knowledge and Talent.
Global SEM Partners empowers people with the knowledge to increase profits, while empowering businesses with flexible solutions to acquire and leverage that knowledge-able talent.
We'd like to tell you a bit about the industry challenges/opportunities, and how Global SEM Partners fits in:
Many businesses don't realize it, but their biggest opportunity (and the biggest threat) comes from other countries. In this day of the internet, going global is not just opportunistic, it's crucial. We help you drive your global marketing strategy, and overcome language and operational challenges.
We are much more than just an "SEM" company for you. We help with overall business consulting, user experience, conversion optimization and more. That being said, the number one priority of every business is customer acquisition. The most scalable and consistent solution is SEM. Accordingly, we focus on helping our clients master SEM first.
Building a business is a complex challenge. Just "doing SEM" can hurt you, not help. You need a partner. You need every team member involved in your business to be invested like they are a partner. We are your partner, and we lead by example. Global SEM Partners has a sacred commitment of partnership, not only to your business, but to our own employees. You can have the confidence that our employees are invested in, and are partners in your business, partners that YOU want.
"How do we act like partners?" you ask?
We look beyond "metrics" like CPC & CPA, to understand how the internet impacts your bottom line, and identify how to drive the maximum profit for you. Our team isentrepreneurial and empathetic. Our partners help you take things like "customer experience optimization" from an ephemeral concept to tangible steps that will make your customers happier, and you richer.
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David Jaeger
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David Jaeger is an industry veteran, having launched his own startup in 2004. Since then, he's personally helped over 200 businesses not only profitably scale their marketing (using SEM), but also consulting with them, to optimize profit and customer experience throughout the saels/fulfillment lifecycle.
Prior to launching Global SEM Partners, he worked for a variety of companies likeRazargator, doing their business strategy & SEM. In 2008, he launched the PPC/SEM division for National Positions, an INC500 SEO company, which grew to managing over $30 million/year in revenue. In 2014, with the success of the division, it was spun off into it's own company – Lagentia Internet Marketing. Along the way, he had the honor of helping businesses troubleshoot a number of challenges, and mentor close to 2 dozen employees.
He left Internetmarketing.net in 2014 to launch Global SEM Partners, to focus on helping the industry in a much larger way.
He's a die hard adrenalin junkie, father of a beautiful little boy, and (very) amateur snow-boarder and MMA fighter.
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Michael's years in senior business directorship boasts of celebrated successes. His vaunted accomplishments are applauded throughout the international business community. His celebrated successes span the global plain of commerce, from Payment Processing to Marketing and Branding, Michael is responsible for bringing a variety of mid-size corporations to the billion dollar caliber.
Michael's keen business vision and astute command of the science of branding has been credited for his innumerable accomplishments. Identifying, capturing and maintaining the attention of the consumer demographic is key for any business and Michael has proven to own this.
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For over 20 years, Haim has been applying Customer Experience and Human-Centered Design principles and methods to developing digital strategies and insights for real people, as a practitioner, trainer and coach, for Fortune 500's like Kaiser, down to small businesses.
His secret passion is improving people's lives, driving value, increasing revenue by fostering an organizational appreciation for human-centered design and design thinking, and integrating these valuable methods into all processes.
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Partner, Director of Usability & Conversion
Tony is an experienced usability and conversion optimization expert. He's developed custom scripts for Google Tag Manager, and is a certified Google Analytics partner. The conversion optimization audits and tests he's run have lead to lifts of 30-80%, and millions of dollars in increased revenue.
Team Leaders
Andrew Peek
Partner, Senior Business
Andrew Peek has been in the internet marketing and sales industry for nearly 6 years. His career began working with an importer in Tallahassee, Florida who sold their products on eBay, Amazon & their own domains. Andrew managed their AdWords advertising and optimized detail product pages to increase conversion rates. After a move to his home town of Tampa, Florida he partnered with a previous real estate investor to start a Automotive accessories etailer. Andrew grew this company from $0 in revenue to over $7 million at it's peak. Andrew's primary focus and interest is in Internet Marketing & Advertising Management, he decided to leave this company to work with multiple clients to provide the same success.
Oded Gross
Partner, Senior Business
Previously the CMO at Cellz.com, Oded has broad ecommerce and paid media buying experience. His broad experience driving millions of dollars in revenue in competitive ecommerce industries allows him to help clients master both Adwords and the overall online marketing and retention strategy.


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1. What is the relationship between Tesman and Julle in the play, HEDDA GABLER?
2. In Act 1, what is the role of Berte in the household?
3. What is the profession of Jorgen Tesman?
4. What did Julle buy in honor of Hedda?
5. Which are the most appropriate words to describe Hedda in the first act?
6. What was Hedda's life like before she married?
7. From where are Tesman and Hedda returning?
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Met – New IRA 'sent parcel bombs'
Scotland Yard has confirmed that the new IRA used a recognised codeword to claim responsibility for sending packages to military career offices in Oxford, Brighton, Canterbury and the Queensmere shopping centre in Slough last week.
Earlier they had sent similar packets to Aldershot, Reading and the RAF careers office in Chatham, Kent.
A spokesperson for Scotland Yard said: "We are aware of the claim of responsibility for the devices that were sent to army recruitment centres in England last week.
"The claim was received on Saturday 15 February by a Northern Irish media outlet using a recognised codeword. The claim was allegedly made on behalf of the 'IRA'.
"The public is urged to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious to the anti-terrorist hotline, 0800 789 321."
The new IRA came into existence in the summer of 2012 when the Real IRA merged wit armed vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs and independent armed republican units in County Tyrone.
They released a statement to the Guardian confirming that they were now to be known as the IRA and vowed to continue the "armed struggle" against the Northern Ireland state and the British government, and its armed forces.
They ambushed and shot David Black, a Northern Ireland prison officer on Northern Ireland's M1 motorway in November 2012.


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