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New childhood disability fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
20 May 2019
This exciting new funding partnership will see dedicated investment of £270,000 for a real impact on the lives and health of children with disabilities across the UK.
Response to research on compulsory vaccinations
17 May 2019
RCPCH's immunisation expert Dr David Elliman says "compulsion may work in some countries, but it is not for us".
RCPCH backs #fightfatigue campaign
16 May 2019
The national Fight Fatigue campaign aims to raise awareness of the impact of fatigue and shift work on the NHS workforce. It's a joint initiative of the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
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16 May 2019
Has your baby been cared for in a neonatal unit in England, Scotland or Wales? Enter our competition! We'd like photos that tell a story about your baby's care. We'll use some of the photos in our reports.
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16 May 2019
If you joined us this week at #RCPCH19, we hope you enjoyed your time and are returning to work energised and inspired! We now invite you to give us feedback and get your CPD certificate.
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15 May 2019
The End Child Poverty coalition has released new data today which show that inequalities are widening. From the data, they propose that child poverty is becoming the "new normal" in parts of Britain. Professor Russell Viner, President of the RCPCH responds.
Climate change and air pollution update
13 May 2019
The RCPCH shares the concerns of its members about the damaging effects of climate change, and in particular air pollution, on child health.
Time to raise the standard: children presenting to emergency departments in mental health crisis
10 May 2019
For the first time, the College has developed an audit toolkit to support Emergency Departments treating children to monitor how well they are meeting the 70 "Facing the Future" standards. Dr John Criddle and Dr Virginia Davies discuss the development of the toolkit and its impact for children in me...
Medicines for Children app will help parents manage their children's medicines
10 May 2019
Our first version is now ready for stress testing by a select group of parents and families from our charity partner, WellChild. If you're joining us at RCPCH Conference and exhibition on 13-15 May, come to our stand for a sneak preview!
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10 May 2019
Our new report says the current workforce must expand, with an increase of 42% consultant paediatricians, to deliver the appropriate standards of care to children and young people.


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Fremont High history teacher Kenia Gomez didn't have much of a summer break. Neither did her students on the school's Academic Decathlon team. They spent three days a week on the South Los Angeles campus, prepping for next year's competition.
Last spring, the squad finished in 13th place in the Los Angeles Unified contest — just out of the running for a spot in the state finals. That's not bad for a team that placed 47th three years ago.
At the contest finale, Gomez was voted coach of the year by teachers supervising the district's other decathlon teams. "My kids; they're the ones who did the work," Gomez said. "They made me look good."
I thought of Gomez and her students when I read about Supt. John Deasy's back-to-school speech at Garfield High last week. He called on principals, counselors and teachers to go the extra mile for struggling students to keep them from dropping out.
Taped to every seat in the auditorium that day was the name of a high school student that an administrator is supposed to mentor until graduation. The students singled out for special attention have been truant or in trouble. Most are failing classes. Many are still learning English. Some live in foster homes or have disabilities that impede their progress.
Those attributes fit many students at Fremont High, which had performed so poorly for so long that it was shut down by the district four years ago and reopened with a new staff, new money and new plans.
Since then, attendance, test scores and graduation rates have risen every year. But improvement is a work in progress; only 25% of Fremont students are at grade level in English and 8% are at grade level in math.
Deasy has planned an early morning visit to the campus Tuesday as students return for the fall term. "It's a school that has seriously focused on changing the narrative for students," the superintendent said. Teachers such as Gomez are "rock stars" in his view.
Gomez has spent all four years of her teaching career at Fremont, and she sees support for the decathlon as a sign of success. The principal found money in the budget to keep the campus open during winter break so the team could gather to cram. Calculus and literature teachers volunteered to help her students study for those subjects on the grueling, 10-subject exam. Co-coach Leslie Hayden made sure every student got personal attention.
Gomez didn't need a note taped to her chair to recognize how important that is.
Twenty years ago, the district's best decathlon coach was one of those troubled students.
Gomez grew up in Bell — where she still lives — with a single mother who worked long hours and a grandmother who couldn't keep up with an adventurous teenager.
"I was free to roam and hung out with a bad crowd," Gomez admitted. "I was one of those kids who wasn't really connected to school; I just went through the motions." She dropped out in ninth grade, and by the time she went back she was two years behind.
Three things kept her on track to graduation: soccer, band and the encouragement of a middle school counselor with whom she's still in touch.
At 35, she shares her life lessons with Fremont students. "I tell them I'm not a genius, I just work hard.... You've got to make them feel like they belong to something, and help them take pride in that."
The Academic Decathlon team is a testament to that. Fremont used to struggle to field a team. Now dozens of students compete for the nine spots. "We have to get the kids to buy into it," she said. "It has to feel like fun."
So Gomez lets the decathlon students eat lunch in her classroom and play Super Nintendo while they cram. Team members get special hoodies each year, which they help design. "Kids want to join for the hoodies," she joked. "People see how close we are.... We pull them in, then we torture them with all the work that's required."
And they rise to the challenge, she said. "I gave them summer reading and they did it. They tweet about things they need to study when I'm not around. They start to hold each other accountable."
That makes their teachers proud.
Some students, she said, are off-the-charts smart. "But the hard work and the discipline is just as important as having that big brain. They have to realize it's going to hurt a little bit, they have to struggle."
Gomez struggles too. Most days, she gets to school by 7 a.m. and doesn't leave until after 5 p.m. "I'm not going to lie to you, at the end of the day I'm wiped out," she said. "But at the end of the day I'm always able to find something to feel good about. You have to look for the positive and just go with that."
Even when that "positive" is an 800-mile round trip to deposit a carload of students at UC Davis for a summer enrichment program. She and coach Hayden drove back up to retrieve them at the program's end.
"These kids, they totally deserve it," Gomez said. "They're the ones going above and beyond."
And she's just one of the teachers in their corner.
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It's a Boy!
'Girls' Actress Gives Birth to a Son
Fans of HBO's Girls were curious about who Lena Dunham could be talking about when she tweeted, "one of my friends had a baby" earlier this month. The friend in question was confirmed on Friday afternoon: Dunham's co-star, Jemima Kirke (who plays Jessa Johansson on the show) recently gave birth to a son. Kirke named the baby, her second child, Memphis. Maybe his famous future lies not in hipsterdom but in country music?


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art installation at the 'Festival des Architectures Vives'
At first site, Reframe appears to be a simple modern cube in an old courtyard.
By walking around the object Reframe provides a series of gradually changing and surprising experiences of the monumental interior space and the cube itself. Due to the discovery of the contrasting object the existing architecture comes alive.
In addition Reframe creates a game between the visitors of the architecture festival, which shifts the experience of observer to observed and of having control to be controlled.
2011, Montpellier, FR
In collaboration with Association Champ Libre, Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur
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A Massachusetts pizza shopowner says he is heartbroken after someone smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary he had placed on a traffic island.
Antonio Liquori, owner of Liquori's Pizzeria, placed the statue on the West Springfield island last year as part of a city beautification project.
But people complained, and the city ordered him to take it down in May because it violated the constitutional separation of church and state. He did, but Mayor Gregory Neffinger allowed Liquori to put it back, pending a legal opinion.
Liquori told The Springfield Republican someone smashed the statue last month while he was in Italy visiting family.
"She was too heavy to steal so they just smashed her to pieces," Liquori said. "Someone has to be very mean to do this. My heart is completely broken. I just don't understand why."
Liquori said he placed the statue only to beautify the area. But the Italian immigrant remains determined, saying that he will place a picture of the Virgin Mary in its place while he discusses the matter with the community.
"Honestly, I don't want to be in the middle of all this. I don't want any trouble," Liquori told The Springfield Republican. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens. Right now the only thing I know for sure is that I don't want to go through this heartbreak again."
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In general, rangelands are extensively managed for ecological values, rather than intensively managed for commodity values.
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After dates ranging from the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, the Rochester (NY) Jazz Festival (yes, that's right - Jazz Festival) to the hugely popular Grey Fox Festival, Della Mae will be coming over to the UK for the second half of July with some Channel-hopping for one date in France at Craponne-Sur-Arzon, France.
In May, Della Mae released their third album simply called 'Della Mae'. Produced by Jacquire King (who has previously worked with Of Monsters and Men, Norah Jones, Dawes & The Kings of Leon) this follow-up to the Grammy-nominated 'This World Oft Can Be' will certainly win them even more fans with this collection of very strong songs that are all delivered with passion - none more so, the opening track 'Boston Town' - see the video at the end of this article.
Do not miss the opportunity to see Della Mae during July!
- Jul 19 SummerTyne Americana Festival
- Birtley, United Kingdom
- Jul 20 The Bullingdon
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jul 21 The Musician
- Leicester, United Kingdom
- Jul 22 Waterfront Studio
- Norwich, United Kingdom
- Jul 24 Festival Country Rendez-Vous
- Craponne-Sur-Arzon, France
- Jul 25 Ramblin' Man Fair
- Maidstone, United Kingdom
- Jul 26 Nell's Jazz and Blues
- London, United Kingdom
- Jul 28 Manchester Academy 3
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Jul 29 Oran Mor
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Jul 30 Southern Fried Festival
- Perth, United Kingdom
- Jul 31 Southern Fried Festival
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The Bay View Community Center has programs for people of all ages, from infants to seniors. We present enrichment programs for adults in several categories: Health and Wellness, Arts and Crafts, Food and Nutrition, Life Skills, Recreation/Fitness, and Trips.
Specialized programs for seniors aim to increase socialization and connection to the community while providing experiences for learning and for fun.
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Annually the Center Serves over 700 children who receive gifts through our Holiday Gift programs, while hundreds of homebound seniors are delivered a box of homemade Christmas cookies. Many families also receive "baskets" to help them celebrate Thanksgiving.
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Family activities, parent/child interactive programs, parent education workshops, and parenting support groups are all offered as a part of the Center's drive to strengthen families. The desired outcomes of such programs are to increase parenting skills as well as confidence and enjoyment in parenting, to increase family communication, and to decrease stress while enhancing the capacity of parents to foster optimal development of their children.
Last year over 250 families participated in the Center's many family activities and classes. The Bay View Community Center's Food Pantry also helps strengthen families by relieving the stress that can come with economic issues.


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When you learn to curb negative thoughts and replace them with positive thinking, you gain more than just a moment's relief from your embarrassment. There's an actual physical change in the body.
"When you repeatedly focus on your trauma, your middle brain responds, which releases cortisol (the stress hormone) into the body, causing a physical stress reaction," Duane T. Bowers, LPC, CCHt, a Washington, D.C.-based therapist told Discovery Fit & Health. On the other hand, if you think about something relaxing, like a great massage you once received, the frontal lobes of your brain will activate and release "feel good" hormones, which cause your body to relax.
Therefore, Bowers recommends this: "Keep a list of positive memories in your pocket. Surround yourself with pictures of wonderful experiences. Play uplifting, positively powerful music to help to you manage where you keep your attention."


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Bread - as many as you can fit in your tray ;)
I used 6 slices.
Milk - 1 cup
Eggs - 3
Salt - Pinch
Butter - 2 tbsp
Cream Cheese - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cinnamon and Nutmeg - 1/ tsp optional.
Pecans roasted - 2 tbsp
Chop off the corners if you want, Since I love them I kept it.
Mix all the ingredients except pecans and keep aside.
Arrange the breads in two layers, pour the milk-egg mixture evenly on top of it and in between the layers.
Cover it and refrigerate overnight.
Spread the toasted Pecans over the top.
Bake them next morning at 375F for 35mins.
Keep water in other tray inside the oven just to avoid the above layer from turning brown.
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We knew there were some clowns working at McDonald's but the fast food giant's latest product really is an edible abomination.
Hailed as a new 'innovation' and 'a surprising and unique menu item', here comes the McChoco Potato; essentially fries drizzled with chocolate sauce.
Once the fries are ordered, diners (yes, we know the seats are bolted but it still classifies as a restaurant) will also get a choice of white or milk chocolate to trickle over their golden strips of potato, which McDonald's claims makes for a "wonderful salty and sweet harmonious taste".
We get it. Sometimes you want sweet, sometimes you want savoury, but surely anyone with a single IQ point would do the entirely normal thing of wolfing their fries, washing it down with a large soft drink and then finishing with the greatest dessert of them all: the McFlurry.
Launching in Japan (obviously), there's no word on whether this unholy matrimony of chocolate and fries will ever reach these shores. And that's probably for the best.


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Mylestom is on Pacific Highway (A1)
Mylestom is a small town between the Bellinger River and the ocean with a General Store and a Bowling Club. Visitors to Mylestom can pick up brochures of things to see and do in the area from the local caravan park.
The visitor information centre for Mylestom can be found in Urunga.
Pacific Highway,
Urunga NSW 2455
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Fax: (07) 6655 3007
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Those that know me know my love for simple, natural, minimal goodness.
They also probably know my love of prints, although my rented walls aren't the really the best canvas for hanging things. It certainly makes finding spectacular things such as One Fine Print upsetting to say the least!
One Fine Print work with talented Australian photographers to produce a range of artwork perfect for covering your empty (owned or rented) walls. It's a perfectly curated collection of organic and abstract images that make absolutely stunning prints.
The range is forever changing and very limited, so you'll want to get your little paws on a print as soon as you fall in love with it! There's a range of stockists to be found on the One Fine Print website, or you can click here to buy one online.
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- There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. -- Johnny Depp
Can there be a scientific study of the human soul? (Soul blog)
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Science of the SoulEdit
Such a science would be concerned with scientific investigation of the universal human cultural feature of belief in a soul. There are many websites (for example[1][2][3][4][5]) and published books dealing with the idea that there can be a science of the soul. These various approaches to a science of the soul range from that of Francis Crick (very materialistic[6]) to many New Age speculations about how non-material spirit links through a soul to our material bodies.
Science, Pseudoscience, Protoscience?Edit
Two conventional positions within modern Western culture have dominated attitudes about the soul. According to one view, souls clearly exist and the idea that science could have anything to say about souls seems absurd. According to the other major perspective, souls clearly do not exist and it would be a waste of time to attempt a scientific study of the soul. One minority view suggests that there has long been available objective evidence of the soul, but that the "scientific establishment" will not admit the facts because they do not fit into conventional materialistic thinking. It is also possible that some scientists would like to work within a science of the soul, but they fear being rejected by their scientific peers.
Probably the most prominent recent attempt by a group of trained scientists to develop a scientific study of the soul comes from the efforts of quantum physicists. Some proposals have been advanced by which unconventional physical processes might account for the existence of conscious beings beyond the domain of conventional material objects. At best, such efforts are protoscience, with their advocates struggling to gain recognition from their peers to the effect that they are actually doing science. A harsher view is that such attempts to develop a physical account of the soul should be classified as being pseudoscience.
However, one aspect of the science of the soul seems to have been clearly established within the bounds of conventional science. Francis Crick's book The Astonishing Hypothesis has the subtitle, "The scientific search for the soul". Crick holds the position that one can learn everything knowable about the human soul by studying the workings of the human brain. In his book, Consilience, E. O. Wilson took note of the fact that sociology has identified belief in a soul as one of the universal human cultural elements. Wilson suggested that biologists need to seriously investigate how human genes predispose people to believe in a soul. Daniel Dennett has championed the idea that the human survival strategy is heavily dependent on adoption of the intentional stance, a behavioral strategy that predicts the actions of others based on the expectation that they have a mind like one's own (see theory of mind). This behavioral strategy is probably facilitated by mirror neurons in brain regions such as Broca's area. The intentional stance is so successful that people tend to apply it to all aspects of human experience leading to animism and other conceptualizations of soul. Thus, we can clearly begin a scientific investigation of the soul by studying how it is that our genes predispose us to belief in a soul.
Multidisciplinary studiesEdit
This Science of the Soul Wiki should be fundamentally multidisciplinary and it would be desirable to invite many others from outside to join in the development of this wiki and share their perspectives. Since science as a human enterprise and investigation of the soul have often diverged, it will be important restrict material at this proposed wiki to efforts that have a real connection to science. Much of the material in this proposed wiki is expected to be speculative, but the wiki's rules for article style should force participants to try to frame all discussion in the language of science. Speculations about the nature of the soul will need to be expressed in terms of hypotheses and the goal of finding objective methods to test those hypotheses. h
List of multidisciplinary approaches to soul scienceEdit
- Lyricus - The Wingmakers and Lyricus Teaching Order approach to the soul.
Biology of BeliefEdit
One of the areas of science that is mentioned in the Wingmakers material as being important for scientific understanding of the soul is the study of cultural evolution. Just as the study of genes has become central to biology, memes (cultural units of inheritance) are central to the study of culture. Beliefs are memes and we can describe beliefs as being formed by neuronal networks in brains. Complex human behaviors such as belief in a non-material soul may be shaped by the human genome.
Philosopher Dan Dennett has popularized the idea that humans make use of "the intentional stance" as a key component of the human survival strategy. Evolutionary psychologists have introduced the related term "theory of mind" to describe the fact that for some species of animals each individual seems to have an innate ability to respond to other individuals by making the assumption that other individuals have their own mind and share similar thoughts, emotions and sensory perceptions. There is currently a lot of experimental work being done to determine which species are able to constructively shape their social behavior by making correct assumptions about what other members of their social group are likely to know at any given time.
The intentional stance is such a successful behavioral strategy that people tend to automatically apply it all the time. In many situations we even try to understand and interact with inanimate objects as if they have a human-like mind. As our scientific understanding of the natural world has grown, we have been able to increasingly account for many processes in nature by making use of the "physical stance". We can come to identify sets of mechanical rules which govern many natural processes.
In the past few decades it has become possible to ask if purely physical processes can account for human thought, beliefs, consciousness and what people in all human cultures have conceptualized as the human soul. Some neurobiologists have suggested that we can account for human beliefs about the soul in terms of conventional physical processes that take place in our brains. A path of discovery that is open to us is by way of biology and our increasing understanding of how the brain allows us to have the beliefs that we have. Our innate use of the intentional stance is fundamental to the kinds of beliefs we tend to have.
To what extent does the intentional stance shape human beliefs about the nature of the soul? The ability of the human brain to adopt the intentional stance makes it natural for people to imagine spirit or mind in all parts of the world we find ourselves in. Since the physical basis of most complex and interesting phenomena are not easily accessible to our senses, it is easy for us to imagine that there are non-physical spirits or minds or souls that make things happen in the world.
If this view is correct, then we have to expect a natural progression of change in human thinking about why things happen in the world. Our species evolved under conditions of ignorance about physical processes, conditions that have favored the idea that non-material spirits are dominant. As hard-won scientific knowledge about the physical world has accumulated, the number of processes that might require the intervention of spirit has decreased and it has been possible to assume that purely mechanical forces account for what happens in many situations. 100 years ago there was much debate about what Life is. Vitalists were sure that physical objects such as dead molecules could never account for Life. However, biochemists were able to discover the special molecules that make life possible and now we have an excellent physical account of the difference between living things and non-living things in terms of molecular and cellular processes. Neurobiologists are now asking if our beliefs about the nature of the soul can all be accounted for by the activity of neuronal networks in our brains.
As an example of a topic that would require speculation, the Lyricus website mentions "neo-sciences". It is expected that there will be additional information about the nature of "neo-sciences" in the future at the Lyricus website, but for now the Wingmakers community must speculate. One idea is that neo-sciences center on efforts such as the field of quantum consciousness and the study of interactions between consciousness, spirit and matter.
Historical perspectiveEdit
A portion of the wiki should provide an historical perspective from Aristotle [7] to Blavatsky[8] and on in to the 20th century approaches towards a science of the soul that have been suggested by workers in specialized fields such as physics, computer science, and neurobiology.
Spirit and Soul WebringsEdit
Circle of Soul WebRingEdit
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Circle of Soul
The Circle of Soul WebRing is a community of spiritually based websites that knows no restrictions or biases - the website must only be dedicated to esoteric matters, whether they be religious, New Age, poetry, inspirational writing or any other site with Soul.
Soul WebringEdit
Websites in any way- truth / expression / writing / art / music / &/or soul-related. What is soul? Inpenetrable, unique, perfect - sometimes illusive, always teaching us along this journey called life.
- Return to the soul webring navigation page.
Suggest additional webringsEdit
There are many webrings dealing with spirituality. If you know of any that would be suitable for this website, list them here:
- Multi-Dimensional Science Project would probably be of interest. Comments always welcome to my email address email@example.com. Robert Searle is the contact name, and originator of MDS.


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I have used Feeding The Ducks and went for a rustic look when I colored it up with my Prismacolors.
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Installed at our customer's site is a Cognex camera and light on our custom stand. The panel is mounted lower on the other side. This had to fit over the end of the conveyor for the camera to see the ink printed on the end of the carton – after a 90=degree transfer.
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All JAE Automation guarding is reviewed with a safety engineer with respect to Ministry of Labour Regulation 851 for Industrial Establishments and CSA Standards applicable to the equipment involved in the project.
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As part of the development of any automation solution, all of our systems are modeled in a comprehensive 3D design software called SolidWorks. This gives the project and plant manager the ability to complete a virtual walk through of the project. During this review, often forgotten component placements can be viewed prior to construction. As an example: location of HMIs, control stations, walk ways, head room clearance, lift truck aisles, conduit and tubing runs – to list a few.
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The robot cell has been tested in our onsite test facility which helps to reduce integration time for our client. If you would like to review the idea of using a robot in your facility either for welding or pick and place please contact us and we can arrange a meeting at our facility to demo one of our robots.


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All were destroyed for security reasons on Churchill's orders after the war. This is a replica, built by 60 volunteers, which was fired up last Tuesday.
At 61⁄2ft tall and running on no more power than a kettle, the Bombe could unravel 158 trillion possible combinations to unlock a seemingly random series of letters sent by the Nazis to the front lines, which were, in fact, highly complex codes, changing daily. Typewriter-like Enigma machines scrambled the letters using three or four rotor wheels. …
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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - film trailer
The trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series has been released online.
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort.
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The Intermediate program run at the state-of-the-art Padukone Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence attracts accomplished players from all over India and abroad. Here, former Youth Olympic Silver Medalist and Junior National Champion Aditya Prakash heads the coaching team of youthful and energetic coaches with inputs from the experienced Balachandran, Technical Head of PPSM. Sessions are a mixture of stroke practice, multi-shuttle drills, and shadow practice and games sessions. The conditioning sessions comprise weight training, agility training, long distance runs and sprints. The curriculum here is almost a replica of that followed by Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy which has honed its style after more than two decades
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Barry e Robin Gibb hanno programmato una serie di apparizioni televisive (delle quali alcune in diretta dal vivo) ed una serie di interviste in concomitanza con l'uscita della raccolta "Ultimate Bee Gees", prevista per il prossimo 2 novembre. Lo scorso 24 ottobre l'edizione domenicale del quotidiano inglese "Times" (Sunday Times) ha pubblicato un'intervista ai due fratelli. L'intervista (ed un sondaggio) è disponibile su timesonline.uk
Si inizia Il 31 ottobre con la presenza nella popolare trasmissione televisiva inglese "Strictly come dancing", in onda su BBC1 a partire dalle 19.50. La trasmissione dovrebbe essere disponibile tramite l'iPlayer del sito della BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbyy0 ) . Barry e Robin canteranno dal vivo in diretta "You should be dancing".
Il giorno 1 novembre i fratelli Gibb appariranno sulla CBS, nel corso del programma "Sunday Morning", che prevederà una sezione dedicata ai Bee Gees, con un'intervista (registrata) a Barry e Robin.
Il 3 novembre sarà la volta di due interviste televisive trasmesse in Inghilterra. La mattina si inizia con la televisione inglese ITV, sul canale GMTV (l'intervista sarà poi disponibile sul sito web del canale televisivo ( http://www.gm.tv/ ) . Durante il pomeriggio SKY UK trasmetterà un'altra intervista con i due Gibb. Si tratta in entrambi i casi di interviste pre-registrate.
Un'altra apparizione (questa volta dal vivo ed in diretta TV) è prevista il 17 novembre, quando Robin e Barry si esibiranno nel corso del seguitissimo show della televisione americana ABC, "Dancing with the stars".
Il 18 novembre la televisione tedesca Kabel Eins dedicherà la popolare trasmissione "Number One!" ai Bee Gees, e nel corso del programma sarà trasmessa una intervista (registrata) a Robin e Barry. Recentemente "Number One!" ha visto le presenze degli U2 e dei Bon Jovi.
I Gibb hanno inoltre concesso altre interviste in Inghilterra (Daily Mirror e Daily Telegraph), in Germania (Welt Am Sontag, Bunte, ZDF radio e Cable One), Australia (Sunrise), USA (saranno in seguito precisate) e Giappone (Nihon TV, Fugi TV, Music e Nikkei).
Secondo quanto dichiarato da Robin, Barry è arrivato il 28 ottobre in Inghilterra, dove resterà per quasi due settimane. I due Gibb concederanno altre interviste (giornali, radio e TV) proprio in questi giorni in cui anche Barry sarà in Inghilterra. Ulteriori dettagli su queste interviste ed altre iniziative di Robin e Barry saranno rese note quanto prima.
(Fonti: timesonline.uk , robingibb.com, google news )
Barry and Robin: TV and interviews to promote "Ultimate Bee Gees"
Barry and Robin Gibb have planned a series of television appearances (some live) and a series of interviews in conjunction with the release of the "Ultimate Bee Gees" collection, planned for the next 2 November. The last 24 October the sunday edition of the English newspaper "Times" (Sunday Times) has published an interview with two brothers. The interview (and a Bee Gees poll) is available on timesonline.uk
You begin on 31 October with the presence in the English popular broadcast "Strictly as dancing" aired on BBC1 from 19.50 (GMT +1) . The show should be available through the site of the BBC iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbyy0) . Barry and Robin will sing live "You should be dancing".
Day 1 November, Gibb brothers will appear on the CBS during the "Sunday Morning" programme, that will provide a section dedicated to the Bee Gees, with an interview (pretaped) Barry and Robin.
3 November will be the time of two television interviews transmitted in England. The morning begins with English television ITV, channel GMTV (the interview is then available on the website of the television channel (http://www.gm.tv/).) During the afternoon SKY UK will pass an interview with the two Gibb. It is in both cases of pretaped interviews.
An appearance (this time live in TV) is planned on 17 November, when Robin and Barry perform ongoing very popular American television ABC show, "Dancing with the stars" .
On 18 November German television Kabel Eins will dedicate the popular transmission "Number One!" to the Bee Gees, and in the course of the show will be aired an interview (registered) with Robin and Barry. "Number One!" has recently dedicated to U2 and Bon Jovi.
The Gibb have also granted other interviews in England (Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph), Germany (Welt Am Sontag, Bunte, radio ZDF and Cable One), Australia (Sunrise), USA (will be soon specified) and in Japan (Nihon TV, Fugi TV, Music and Nikkei).
As stated by Robin, Barry arrived on 28 October in England, where will remain for almost two weeks. The two Gibb will grant other interviews (newspapers, radio and TV) precisely in these days where Barry will be in England. Details about these interviews and other initiatives of Robin and Barry will be disclosed as soon as possible.
"The Bee Gees: 50 years on - Robin and Barry Gibb talk about 50 years of the band, from tragedy to how they changed the world" (Rob Fitzpatrick, Times)
Robin and Barry Gibb are so overpoweringly familiar that just sitting opposite them feels odd. Robin, now 59 and still pencil-thin, is the sharper, the more protective of the two. Robin's the one you can imagine having an actual stand-up fight in defence of the Bee Gees' good name, while Barry, 63, seems rather more relaxed, beatific even, his snow-white hair artfully draped over his shoulders, a small smile never far from his lips.
The pair arrange themselves on the long black sofas at the back of Studio A at Hit Factory, in Miami, looking entirely at home. Of course, they should do - in the mid-1970s, Barry, Robin and their late brother, Maurice, pretty much moved in here to create some of the biggest-selling records of all time.
By that time, they had already enjoyed enormous success as a neo-psychedelic pop-rock group signed to the same management company as the Beatles. Then they had split. Then they had suffered three full years without a single hit. It's a long, long way from being in such a crushing slump that you're reduced to banging out gags between your oldies in a Yorkshire variety club to writing and recording a soundtrack album that sells in excess of 30m copies, but the Bee Gees made that journey in just three years.
The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever made the Bee Gees as famous as it is possible for a human being to be. So famous, in fact, that they were easy to mock - Hair! Teeth! Chest wigs! - easy to make a joke out of. Yet 50 years after they began singing together at home in Manchester, a lot of their music still sounds utterly remarkable, whether it's the late-1960s hipster Bee Gees of albums such as Idea and Horizontal ("Oasis absolutely love that record," Robin says proudly), the global-superstar Bee Gees of Nights on Broadway, You Should Be Dancing and Jive Talkin', or the radio-eating, grown-up super-pop Bee Gees of How Deep Is Your Love or You Win Again. There is a reason that their catalogue of songs is one of the most profitable in pop history.
"It's taken us six years to come back from Maurice's death," Barry says. "His passing scattered everything to the wind. Robin drove himself on, but I couldn't find the passion, I couldn't force anything else out. I thought we were done."
"Ours is such a long story," says Robin, a glass of water in front of him. "But when we were young, the only risk was not taking the risk. We always knew we'd win it if we were in it..."
Products of a show-business home - their father, Hugh, was a band-leader who met their mother, Barbara, at one of his gigs - the Gibb brothers began singing together in cinemas while growing up in Manchester. In 1958, the family emigrated to Australia, and the three boys began performing professionally, playing pubs and speedways, singing on TV, even doing pantomime. Four years later, they would leave Australia by boat, spending three months working their passage to England. While on board, their single Spicks and Specks - their 13th stab at a hit - went to No 1 back home. The Bee Gees arrived in Southampton in February 1967 - three weeks later, they'd signed a five-year management deal with Robert Stigwood, the director of NEMS Enterprises, a company owned by the manager of the Beatles, Brian Epstein.
"We had a blind belief in ourselves," Robin says, laughing suddenly. "Luckily, we were also blind to the immense amount of competition there was."
"We were pretty bad then," Barry says. "But we were fearless."
Stigwood insisted on a group, so the brothers' Australian friends Vince Maloney and Colin Peterson were hired. They signed a deal with Polydor and delivered a huge hit, New York Mining Disaster 1941. The band's debut LP, Bee Gees 1st, was a critical and commercial smash. Wonderfully picturesque songs such as Harry Braff and Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You pointed clearly towards a Britpop sound still 30 years in the future. Just teenagers, the brothers became part of the pop royalty of the day.
"We went to nightclubs like the Cromwellian and the Bag O' Nails," Robin says. "I liked the Speakeasy - when you went down the stairs, there was this coffin at the bottom. If you had your membership card, the wall would turn around and you went in."
"The Beatles and the Stones would sit around like kings," Barry says. "And we became part of that scene."
In 1969, the Bee Gees released the double-LP epic Odessa, an album so rich in fantastic songs and ideas - Melody Fair, "an Eleanor Rigby sort of thing", is brilliantly dramatic, while Whisper Whisper is surely the sharpest, most morally complex song ever written about a drug-dealer - that, 40 years later, it remains a remarkable document to free-spirited creativity.
"Odessa was our madness," Robin says. "We were recording in the studio the Beatles had been in, and we were unafraid to work with whatever came into our heads." Sadly, more progressive recordings were scaring off their fan base. Arguments followed and the brothers fell out. "There are periods even Robin and I don't talk about," Barry says. "That's one of them."
Between 1970 and 1975, the Bee Gees scored only a handful of hits. It was the opening track of 1975's Main Course record that pushed the brothers into a whole new stratosphere of fame and success. Jive Talkin' was an immediate, huge hit in America and Britain, as was the follow-up, Nights on Broadway, which featured Barry's crystalline falsetto. Their next album, Children of the World,went platinum, with You Should Be Dancing kicking off a string of hits.
The brothers were recording in France when Stigwood called to ask if they would be interested in creating the soundtrack to a new - as yet untitled - film. Six or seven songs should do it, he told them. Oh, and could they come up with a title for it?
"You never really know if something's a hit or not," Barry says. "Apart from Staying Alive. When we played it to George Martin really early on, he took two steps backwards and said, 'My God! I've never heard anything like it!'"
The film was 1977's Saturday Night Fever, and the album produced six No 1 hits. Night Fever was the Bee Gees' first UK No 1 for a decade. Soon, one out of every seven families in America would own a copy. "Fever introduced the most creative recording period in our lives," Barry says. "The following five years, we had a ball. We were the biggest thing around."
"This was the peak of record sales in all of history," Robin says. "Since 1967, there have only been three albums that have truly affected the culture, and that's Sgt Pepper, Fever and Thriller. There's not many people who know what that feels like. We're like the guys who've been to the moon."
"John Lennon said he wished he'd got a song like Fever," Barry says. "But we were under fire straight after. We became the people who had to be punished, so we gave our best songs to other people to secure our reputation as songwriters."
By the end of the 1970s, the Bee Gees were involved in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit with Stigwood, and they stopped recording as a group. Barry wrote Guilty for Barbra Streisand and Heartbreaker for Dionne Warwick, while the brothers came together to write Islands in the Stream for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, as well as creating the startling Chain Reaction for Diana Ross. No new Bee Gees album would emerge until ESP - and the hit You Win Again - in 1987, their first UK No 1 for eight years. The 20th - and, to date, last - Bee Gees album, This Is Where I Came In, had definite echoes of their late-1960s pop-rock glories and was released in 2001.
"We've made some of the best records of all time," Robin says as a Japanese film crew prepares for his arrival next door. "And that's because we're not afraid of trying new things. We're only really afraid of losing an idea."
Would they like to start again? "God, no!" Robin laughs out loud. "Pop music used to be so much more gregarious, more flamboyant. Today, it's so conservative."
"We've had incredible happiness and incredible sadness in our lives," Barry says. "But we know there are songs we have written that will always touch people."
(Sources: timesonline.uk , robingibb.com, google news )


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The NFL is celebrating the start of preseason football in song.
In a new ad spot released Thursday, past and present NFL players, fans, coaches and more members of the sports community can be seen singing along to the lyrics of Motley Crue's 1985 hit "Home Sweet Home" to ring in the return of football season. The video, posted to the NFL's YouTube page, was uploaded with the message: "It's finally time to come home to football."
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"Florida Water"—popular through most of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth—was neither water nor a product of Florida. It had a surprising number of uses, medicinal and otherwise.
Developed in the United States, its bottles are now excavated at historic sites across that country as well as Canada (Sullivan 1994). The product was the North American equivalent of perfumed spirits that Europeans called eau-de-cologne (a.k.a. Lavender Water or toilet water). Florida is the feminine form of florido, meaning "flowery." The liquid was actually alcohol—ethanol (i.e., drinking alcohol), typically diluted.
By the 1830s Florida Water was a generic product, so, in addition to the largest brand-name, Murray and Lanman (from 1842), many drug companies created their own version. To the traditional citrine bouquet (predominately from the orange flower) were added a great variety of scents that invariably included lavender. Recipes for Florida Water were given in The Druggists Circular and Chemical Gazette of June 1889 (p. 134).
Like other toilet waters, the product had a wide range of uses: as a breath freshener, aftershave, air deodorizer, and supposed disinfectant (especially in the sick-room). It was added to bath water to invigorate the body, applied to the temples to treat "nervous headaches," used as an antiseptic, and employed as a treatment for acne. It was even taken orally as a cordial and stimulant. According to Sullivan (1994, 79), "Scientific men" tried "to discredit colognes and toilet waters as healing substances from the middle of the 19th century."
Pictured here is an example of the genre from the author's collection. It is of aqua glass, blown in a two-piece mold, measuring about 23/16" diameter by 87/8" tall, and embossed "GENUINE / FLORIDA WATER / PROF. GEO. J. BYRNE / NEW YORK." Its shape is typical of other bottles for Florida Water (Fike 2006), while those for cologne and toilet-water tended to be fancier forms (Beck 1973, 16, 35).
"Professor" Byrne was listed as a "perfumer" in New York, at 122 Liberty in 1891 and 107 Liberty in 1896. In 1891 Byrne's product was advertised as "Prepared for H.K. & F.B. Thurber & Co., New York" (Fike 2006, 242). My bottle may be earlier.
Beck, Doreen. 1973. The Book of Bottle Collecting. London: Hamlyn Publishing Group.
Fike, Richard E. 2006. The Bottle Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Historic, Embossed Medicine Bottles. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 242–246.
Sullivan, Catherine. 1994. Searching for Nineteenth-Century Florida Water Bottles. Historical Archaeology 28:1, 78–98.


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A year of revolutions in and around the Middle East has led to a changing political environment that has overwhelmingly altered the power structure of the region and presented an opportunity for more consolidated leadership in the Gulf for both Saudi Arabia and Iran. Beginning with an overview and analysis of the historical Saudi-Iranian relationship prior to 1979 through the present day, this paper highlights and discusses the challenges and successes of the past that have defined the relationship between these two leading Gulf powers, highlighting three core factors that have had the most influence on their relationship. The analysis and evidence will demonstrate that while in recent years the Saudi-Iranian relationship has improved, conflicting interests will result in a continued competition between these two nations as they seek to guarantee alliances within the Gulf and secure the perpetuity of their own regimes.
About the author:
Ariel Jahner is a first year Master of International Business student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, MA. As a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow, she will join the US Foreign Service at the conclusion of her graduate studies.
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The aerospace manufacturing industry holds an important place in Canada's modern history. The fledgeling industry's triumphs, along with its struggles to get off the ground, illustrate the tension between Canadians, their government, and their colonial ties abroad in the 20th century. But despite some early difficulties, Canadian aerospace manufacturing now sits as the 5th largest aerospace industry in the world and the 3rd for civil air and engine production.
Manufacturing accounts for 70% of the aerospace industry's total GDP in Canada. It includes civil and national defence activities, as well as the space industry. The country ranks highly in the production of civil aeroplanes, helicopters, and flight simulators. Large aerospace manufacturers, like Pratt & Whitney, have their base of operations in Canada.
The heart of the aerospace industry in Canada has always been Quebec. It remains so to this day. Quebec has played a historic role in the industry since its inception in the early 1900s, with support from academic and technical institutions and attractive tax incentives to keep firms in the province. It's been said that one can build an entire aircraft from parts sourced within 30 miles of Montreal.


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Mythic Astrology: Internalizing the Planetary Powers. Llewellyn Publications, 2004. Abstract
Myths to Live By. Bantam, 1984. Abstract
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region. Revised ed. Knopf, 2001. Abstract
Naturopathic Handbook of Herbal Formulas: A Practical and Concise Herb User's Guide. 4th ed. Herbal Research Publications, 1995.
The New Book of the Dead. Harpercollins, 1992. Abstract
New Choices in Natural Healing for Women: From Aromatherapy and Herbs to Massage and Vitamin Therapy–Drug-Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine. illustrated edition. Rodale Press, 1997. Abstract
The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Student's Guide to Techniques. 6th ed. Wiley, 2003. Abstract
Out of the Trap: Selected Lectures of Alan W. Watts, Edited by Mark Watts. And Books, 1985. Abstract
Parkers' Astrology. DK ADULT, 2003. Abstract
The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications, 2006. Abstract
Excellent treatment. He leaves out a few important tips, such as the separation of the salts and the best way to calcine the solids, but overall, quite good.
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Edited by Arnold Kotler. Later Printing ed. Bantam, 1992. Abstract
The People's Pharmacy. Revised ed. St Martins Pr, 1988. Abstract
Persephone Unveiled: Seeing the Goddess and Freeing Your Soul. North Atlantic Books, 2006. Abstract
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations. Harper & Row, Publishers, Submitted. Abstract
Picatrix [Ghayat Al-Hakim] Volume One: The Goal of the Wise. Ouroboros Press, Submitted.
Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs, Edited by Pamela Hirsch. Healing Arts Press, 2000. Abstract
Pocket Herbal Reference Guide. Crossing Press, 1992. Abstract
The Portable Jung, Edited by Joseph Campbell. Sixteenth printing. ed. Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976. Abstract
The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy: An Herbalist's Guide to Preparing Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs. Healing Arts Press, 1985. Abstract
Needs to be read carefully, but is an excellent treatment.
The Practice of Magical Evocation. Dieter Ruggeberg / Wuppertal, 1975.
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification. illustrated edition. North Atlantic Books, 2004. Abstract
PRESCRIPTION FOR NUTRITIONAL HEALING. 2nd ed. Avery Publishing Group, 1990. Abstract
Professional Tarot: The Business of Reading, Consulting and Teaching. Llewellyn Publications, 2003. Abstract
Pyramid Power. Destiny Books, 1985. Abstract


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As Xi Jinping embarks upon his first India trip, the relationship now being built between newly elected BJP strongman Narendra Modi and his Chinese counterpart is likely to be crucial to the overall balance of power in Asia, with far-reaching consequences for domestic and outward-facing policy.
Trade between India and China is growing, although still relatively underdeveloped, but as they learn from and compete with each other while playing a complex, wider regional political game, their leaders are likely to find new ways of cooperating.
The Indian media, political environment and popular debate are all obsessed with comparisons with China, both favourable and unfavourable, while China's intellectuals and journalists focus on specific areas of contrast: outlets like the The People's Daily highlight India's relative success in delivering a popular culture that is widely consumed and loved domestically, and her relative failure in handling problems of education and poverty. In all cases, from the Xi Jinping's sojourn to the public soapbox, comparison between the two nations is proving influential. Why is this comparison so important, and what are its parameters?
China and India currently account for almost 40% of the world's population and for more than a decade have been broadly identified as the new engines of global economic growth. Both nations started their recent modernisation at around the same time: in 1992, Deng Xiaoping's Southern China Tour Speeches announced the whole-hearted, state-backed liberalisation of the economy and one billion people's ambition for material success was immediately unleashed. In the same year, India embarked on its own package of economic liberalisation, and the very low "Hindu Rate of Growth" was successfully abolished for the next 20 years. A new era had begun.
Since then, India and China have experienced rapid economic growth and urbanisation which have transformed their positions in the world, their view of themselves and their impact on the planet.
Nevertheless, their economic growth largely builds on constrained natural resources and high social inequality. According to the International Energy Agency, China and India combined are projected to create 50% of the world's energy demand increase in the next 20 years, having already claimed the dubious honour of taking the lead in global carbon emissions in the 21st century.
Meanwhile, according to the World Bank, China and India together are home to around 40% of the world's poorest people. Though the two countries, especially China, have done a remarkable job in poverty alleviation, their obsession with growth has disguised a failure to address the burdens of development: environmental degradation, social and regional inequality, physical and mental health problems, mass migration and grassroots riots.
As a consequence, despite their economic successes, these two countries are amongst the most unequal places on earth in terms of household income, gender equality and opportunities for social mobility – all factors that are potentially destabilising.
China and India's large populations, their importance to the global economy and future balance of power, their huge impact on the world energy landscape and the environment and the potential consequences of their developmental issues mean that their success or failure is crucial. Indian and Chinese regional policy, often balancing the desire to work with or learn from each other with the legacy of border disputes and competition, is also testament to this.
How are Xi and Modi likely to cope with slowing economic growth and widening inequality? How do they solve the problem of escalating energy demand and the deteriorating environment upon which the survival of billions of people rests? How do they find a balance between "traditional" values and fast-changing social sentiment? And how do they transform themselves from aid-receivers and "free-riders" into more constructive stakeholders in global governance?
Trends in Modern China/India Comparison
In fact, although both countries face many of the same challenges they tackle them in very different ways, reflecting their contrasting political and social systems. A comparison reveals a unique pattern of like and unlike that can be useful in shedding light on the practice of international relations, politics, economics and social development.
Academic study of China and India exists in several intersecting areas – for example, divinity, especially Buddhist studies; political science and international relations, especially borders disputes, resource conflicts, and strategy in global governance; development studies, especially social policies and political economy; and culture, both "high" and "low". But perhaps the most influential areas for study are economics and history.
Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in economics, has been one of the key figures pushing the envelope on India and China comparison since he published Poverty and Famines in 1982. He found that after Independence, India had successfully prevented famine even though its per capita food production was less than China. He argued the crucial difference was India's more transparent and responsive political system compared to that of China under Mao.
However, by the 21st Century Sen's work, which seemed to favour the Indian system and the adoption of democracy as a route to development, was no longer fashionable. China's "economic miracle" overturned Sen's thesis. A round of analysis to determine the "winner" of the economic future ensued. Young academic stars, such as Professor Yasheng Huang from MIT and Professor Tarun Khanna from Harvard, raised the question of who would come out on top in this new era, characterised by a philosophy of growth-at-any-cost.
Their well researched data showed that although China attracts more than 10 times the foreign direct investment (FDI) of India, the latter's home-grown entrepreneurs may give it a long-term advantage over a China hamstrung by inefficient banks and capital markets. Their 2003 paper Can India Overtake China? published by Foreign Policy magazine, did not feed people's expectation of the supremacy of the "China Model", but it did signal a new round of China-India comparisons in both public and academic spaces.
Scholars from China also actively took part in this emerging debate. For example, Qin Hui, the renowned professor and public intellectual from Tsinghua University in Beijing, investigated the long-term economic growth patterns of China and India. He too found that his data recognised China's superiority in terms of economic growth, depth of liberalisation and strength in building infrastructure. Qin argued that India's disadvantage compared to China in the post-reform era is largely attributed to the higher transaction fees of economic reform in a democracy.
Analysts were beginning to look beyond economic statistics and starting to discuss how institutions – financial, educational, innovative, etc. – make a difference to China and India's development.
With this in mind, in 2011 the well known political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, published the superlative The Origin of Political Order (vol. 1). In this book, spurred by his question as to why one seldom finds "serious comparative analysis of why an institution developed in one society but not in another", Fukuyama sets himself the task of tracking China and India's unique development back to their ancient history.
He argued that the divergence in China and India's development started as early as the formation of their statehoods – both China's wars for a centralised dynasty and India's rise of Brahmin priests between the second and the first millennium BC embedded kings in tangled networks of religious obligations.
Nevertheless, his argument is certainly not universally accepted, and as respected a figure as Fukuyama has become, his methodology in performing his comparison has not provided any final answers either.
An Odious Comparison?
With a sustained contribution from leading scholars and interest from the general public, we are now seeing the burgeoning and multidisciplinary analysis of India. In the past this kind of work has been strongly, albeit justifiably, criticised. Comparative techniques have long had a reputation for being "odious", but also for floundering into either cultural relativism, or simplistic hierarchical assessment.
The numerous "Dragon and Elephant" airport books that have appeared since the early 2000's have only fed the image of a simplistic democracy versus authoritarianism, efficiency versus diversity – arguments that leave much to be desired, dumb down the facts for the public at large, and generally undermine the field, even as they stoke a sort of neo-Orientalist interest in it. But as we have found in our very different research areas, there are good reasons for doing such a comparison.
Until now, one of the main sticking points in this area has been the conclusion, from the social sciences especially, that what and how we compare depends heavily on theoretical approaches dominant in each country. These approaches however, are neither consistent nor cohesive, and given that the global reality is also diverse, it is surprising that we should expect them to be so.
The effect is a mismatch between the structure of comparative theory and the reality of comparative practice, a point brought home to Barbara Harriss-White, senior member of the Juxtapose team, when she co-organised a 2010 conference at the British Academy on China and India's development pathways.
At the conference senior scholars on China and India from a variety of disciplines were divided into pairs and given the same topics to examine, with the expectation that a comprehensive comparative study would emerge. Although the conference itself was extremely successful, the resulting book took nearly four years to publish simply because the terms of comparison, and how to go about it, were elusive.
New Comparative Frameworks
How are these methodological and theoretical problems to be overcome? Can we form a better comparative framework to understand India and China in our changing world? And if so, how? How is this challenge being tackled in different disciplines and industries, and what can we learn from different approaches to collaboration and comparison?
In order to answer these questions, in January 2013 the authors co-founded the Juxtapose Project at Oxford. With a core belief in pluralism of culture, discipline, and participation, we conceptualised the Project as a platform for scholars, artists and policy practitioners to discuss China and India and to promote mutual understanding through academic and cultural innovations.
The annual Juxtapose Conference series is devised as simultaneously a scholarly gathering, with invited guest speakers and global contributions, an outlet for creative cooperation, an opportunity for in-person discussion and problem-solving and an online space where contributions can be made by academics, policy-makers and other interested parties.
It is intended to be truly inter- and multi-disciplinary, effectively providing a space for parallel processing of the methodological challenges of this important comparative turn in the study of India and China. With the support of Professor Harriss-White, and several research funds based at Oxford, the inaugural conference at Oxford in April 2013 attracted more than 200 participants from 12 countries, both in person and online.
Later this month the conference is going to Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, in order to integrate more South Asian scholars. We plan to triangulate with a third university in China in order to bring together a multilingual network of scholars working comparatively on the two countries.
China and India's emergence in the 21st century has shifted the global political economy in many ways, in the process destabilising modes of thinking about development and politics. Both countries have no choice but to push forward a smooth transition into more equal and sustainable societies at the same time as performing rapid industrialisation, urbanisation and globalisation. This is a problem that has never been faced before in this way, and to tackle the challenge and deal with its human and cultural consequences, we need more ideas, collaborations and actions from all nations.
Through an understanding of the state of the field, and simply our experiences in running an international platform on China-India studies, we realise that when we look into the complexity of a subject and try to make sense of what underpins it, there is no absolute answer as to who is winner or loser. By comparing we aim for understanding, experience-sharing, better scholarship, a more balanced relationship between the Western academy and that of Asia (especially China and India) and better practical solutions to these global problems.
We have tried to show that there are many different points of emphasis and opinions in this scholarship. As Professor Harriss-White puts it: "We welcome this pluralism. This open attitude is not opportunistic, instead, it is based on grounds of principles: honesty to the facts, rigour to the methodology, and democracy to the debate".
Yuge Ma is a DPhil student in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the Juxtapose Project.
Danielle Karanjeet J. de Feo-Giet is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the Juxtapose Project.


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It was all razzle-dazzle at the Plaza last week, where New York's power elite (Mayor Bloomberg among others) joined hands with New York's fashion elite at the—it's a mouthful—2010 NYC & Company Foundation Leadership Awards Gala. Anna Wintour and Diana von Furstenberg were among big names in attendance. Dare Dis Duds? We declined. Everybody looked perfect, anyway. Yet their shoes can use backups in case they (gasp) ever decide to wear the same outfit twice. We came prepared.
Donna at her inimitable best, shows off city chic through dress and accessories. The splash of gray-spiked sundial necklace and black leather gloves are wonderful testaments to the staying power of the Donna Karan brand. We would love to see this outfit mated with the design instincts of daniblack. A for-instance? We have our eyes on the daniblack Eliana Black Suede pump.
Anna Wintour…what a delicious study in Posh on Toast! Anna looks great in this three-piece ensemble that makes the most of tweed with fur trim. Biviel has the perfect boot to pick up the darker shades of brown in her fur trim. We say it's the Biviel BV2816 Engineer Boot Antelope Suede.
We adore the casual grace that model Alec Wec-brings to clothes. She looks every inch the supermodel in this patterned dress with softly draped neckline and capped sleeves. We're interested in shoes that can carry this dress for day wear, and the answer is Dolce Vita. This is the Dolce Vita Mariel Brown Leather sandal, perfect for all portside gladiators.