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|A Practical Architecture for an Anycast CDN
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|Hussein A. Alzoubi; Seungjoon Lee; Michael Rabinovich; Oliver Spatscheck; Jacobus Van Der Merwe
|IP Anycast has many attractive features for any service that involve the
replication of multiple instances across the Internet. IP Anycast allows
multiple instances of the same service to be "naturally" discovered, and
requests for this service to be delivered to the closest instance. However,
while briefly considered as an enabler for content delivery networks (CDNs)
when they first emerged, IP Anycast was deemed infeasible in that environment.
The main reasons for this decision were the lack of load awareness of IP
Anycast and unwanted side effects of Internet routing changes on the IP Anycast
In this article we re-evaluate IP Anycast for CDNs by proposing a load-aware IP Anycast CDN architecture. Our architecture is prompted by recent developments in route control technology, as well as better understanding of the behavior of IP Anycast in operational settings. Our architecture makes use of route control mechanisms to take server and network load into account to realize load-aware Anycast. We show that the resulting redirection requirements can be formulated as a Generalized Assignment Problem and present practical algorithms that address these requirements while at the same time limiting connection disruptions that plague regular IP Anycast. We evaluate our algorithms through trace based simulation using traces obtained from a production CDN network.
|Efficient Search Engine Measurements
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|Ziv Bar-Yossef; Maxim Gurevich
|We address the problem of externally measuring aggregate functions over
documents indexed by search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and
density of duplicates in the corpus. State of the art estimators for such
quantities [Bar-Yossef and Gurevich 2008b; Broder et al. 2006] are biased due
to inaccurate approximation of the so called "document degrees". In addition,
the estimators in Bar-Yossef and Gurevich [2008b] are quite costly, due to
their reliance on rejection sampling.
We present new estimators that are able to overcome the bias introduced by approximate degrees. Our estimators are based on a careful implementation of an approximate importance sampling procedure. Comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the estimators demonstrates that they have essentially no bias even in situations where document degrees are poorly approximated.
By avoiding the costly rejection sampling approach, our new importance sampling estimators are significantly more efficient than the estimators proposed in Bar-Yossef and Gurevich [2008b]. Furthermore, building on an idea from Broder et al. [2006], we discuss Rao-Blackwellization as a generic method for reducing variance in search engine estimators. We show that Rao-Blackwellizing our estimators results in performance improvements, without compromising accuracy.
|Characterizing Organizational Use of Web-Based Services: Methodology, Challenges, Observations, and Insights
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|Phillipa Gill; Martin Arlitt; Niklas Carlsson; Anirban Mahanti; Carey Williamson
|Today's Web provides many different functionalities, including communication, entertainment, social networking, and information retrieval. In this article, we analyze traces of HTTP activity from a large enterprise and from a large university to identify and characterize Web-based service usage. Our work provides an initial methodology for the analysis of Web-based services. While it is nontrivial to identify the classes, instances, and providers for each transaction, our results show that most of the traffic comes from a small subset of providers, which can be classified manually. Furthermore, we assess both qualitatively and quantitatively how the Web has evolved over the past decade, and discuss the implications of these changes.
|Camera Brand Congruence and Camera Model Propagation in the Flickr Social Graph
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|Adish Singla; Ingmar Weber
|Given that my friends on Flickr use cameras of brand X, am I more likely to
also use a camera of brand X? Given that one of these friends changes her
brand, am I likely to do the same? Do new camera models pop up uniformly in the
friendship graph? Or do early adopters then "convert" their friends? Which
factors influence the conversion probability of a user? These are the kind of
questions addressed in this work. Direct applications involve personalized
advertising in social networks.
For our study, we crawled a complete connected component of the Flickr friendship graph with a total of 67M edges and 3.9M users. 1.2M of these users had at least one public photograph with valid model metadata, which allowed us to assign camera brands and models to users and time slots. Similarly, we used, where provided in a user's profile, information about a user's geographic location and the groups joined on Flickr.
Concerning brand congruence, our main findings are the following. First, a pair of friends on Flickr has a higher probability of being congruent, that is, using the same brand, compared to two random users (27% vs. 19%). Second, the degree of congruence goes up for pairs of friends (i) in the same country (29%), (ii) who both only have very few friends (30%), and (iii) with a very high cliqueness (38%). Third, given that a user changes her camera model between March-May 2007 and March-May 2008, high cliqueness friends are more likely than random users to do the same (54% vs. 48%). Fourth, users using high-end cameras are far more loyal to their brand than users using point-and-shoot cameras, with a probability of staying with the same brand of 60% vs 33%, given that a new camera is bought. Fifth, these "expert" users" brand congruence reaches 66% for high cliqueness friends. All these differences are statistically significant at 1%.
As for the propagation of new models in the friendship graph, we observe the following. First, the growth of connected components of users converted to a particular, new camera model differs distinctly from random growth. Second, the decline of dissemination of a particular model is close to random decline. This illustrates that users influence their friends to change to a particular new model, rather than from a particular old model. Third, having many converted friends increases the probability of the user to convert herself. Here differences between friends from the same or from different countries are more pronounced for point-and-shoot than for digital single-lens reflex users. Fourth, there was again a distinct difference between arbitrary friends and high cliqueness friends in terms of prediction quality for conversion.
|A Specialized Search Assistant for Learning Objects
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|Cecilia Curlango-Rosas; Gregorio A. Ponce; Gabriel A. Lopez-Morteo
|The Web holds a great quantity of material that can be used to enhance classroom instruction. However, it is not easy to retrieve this material with the search engines currently available. This study produced a specialized search assistant based on Google that significantly increases the number of instances in which teachers find the desired learning objects as compared to using this popular public search engine directly. Success in finding learning objects by study participants went from 80% using Google alone to 96% when using our search assistant in one scenario and, in another scenario, from a 40% success rate with Google alone to 66% with our assistant. This specialized search assistant implements features such as bilingual search and term suggestion which were requested by teacher participants to help improve their searches. Study participants evaluated the specialized search assistant and found it significantly easier to use and more useful than the popular search engine for the purpose of finding learning objects.
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|Helen Ashman; Arun Iyengar; Marc Najork
|Integrating trust management and access control in data-intensive Web applications
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|Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati; Sara Foresti; Sushil Jajodia; Stefano Paraboschi; Giuseppe Psaila; Pierangela Samarati
|The widespread diffusion of Web-based services provided by public and
private organizations emphasizes the need for a flexible solution for
protecting the information accessible through Web applications. A promising
approach is represented by credential-based access control and trust
management. However, although much research has been done and several proposals
exist, a clear obstacle to the realization of their benefits in data-intensive
Web applications is represented by the lack of adequate support in the DBMSs.
As a matter of fact, DBMSs are often responsible for the management of most of
the information that is accessed using a Web browser or a Web service
In this article, we aim at eliminating this gap, and present an approach integrating trust management with the access control of the DBMS. We propose a trust model with a SQL syntax and illustrate an algorithm for the efficient verification of a delegation path for certificates. Our solution nicely complements current trust management proposals allowing the efficient realization of the services of an advanced trust management model within current relational DBMSs. An important benefit of our approach lies in its potential for a robust end-to-end design of security for personal data in Web scenario, where vulnerabilities of Web applications cannot be used to violate the protection of the data residing on the database server. We also illustrate the implementation of our approach within an open-source DBMS discussing design choices and performance impact.
|A hybrid approach for efficient Web service composition with end-to-end QoS constraints
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|Mohammad Alrifai; Thomas Risse; Wolfgang Nejdl
|Dynamic selection of Web services at runtime is important for building flexible and loosely-coupled service-oriented applications. An abstract description of the required services is provided at design-time, and matching service offers are located at runtime. With the growing number of Web services that provide the same functionality but differ in quality parameters (e.g., availability, response time), a decision needs to be made on which services should be selected such that the user's end-to-end QoS requirements are satisfied. Although very efficient, local selection strategy fails short in handling global QoS requirements. Solutions based on global optimization, on the other hand, can handle global constraints, but their poor performance renders them inappropriate for applications with dynamic and realtime requirements. In this article we address this problem and propose a hybrid solution that combines global optimization with local selection techniques to benefit from the advantages of both worlds. The proposed solution consists of two steps: first, we use mixed integer programming (MIP) to find the optimal decomposition of global QoS constraints into local constraints. Second, we use distributed local selection to find the best Web services that satisfy these local constraints. The results of experimental evaluation indicate that our approach significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of computation time while achieving close-to-optimal results.
|Modellus: Automated modeling of complex internet data center applications
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|Peter Desnoyers; Timothy Wood; Prashant Shenoy; Rahul Singh; Sangameshwar Patil; Harrick Vin
|The rising complexity of distributed server applications in Internet data
centers has made the tasks of modeling and analyzing their behavior
increasingly difficult. This article presents Modellus, a novel system for
automated modeling of complex web-based data center applications using methods
from queuing theory, data mining, and machine learning. Modellus uses queuing
theory and statistical methods to automatically derive models to predict the
resource usage of an application and the workload it triggers; these models can
be composed to capture multiple dependencies between interacting applications.
Model accuracy is maintained by fast, distributed testing, automated relearning of models when they change, and methods to bound prediction errors in composite models. We have implemented a prototype of Modellus, deployed it on a data center testbed, and evaluated its efficacy for modeling and analysis of several distributed multitier web applications. Our results show that this feature-based modeling technique is able to make predictions across several data center tiers, and maintain predictive accuracy (typically 95% or better) in the face of significant shifts in workload composition; we also demonstrate practical applications of the Modellus system to prediction and provisioning of real-world data center applications.
|Friendship prediction and homophily in social media
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|Luca Maria Aiello; Alain Barrat; Rossano Schifanella; Ciro Cattuto; Benjamin Markines; Filippo Menczer
|Social media have attracted considerable attention because their open-ended nature allows users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the interplay of the social and topical components of social media has been only partially explored. Here, we study the presence of homophily in three systems that combine tagging social media with online social networks. We find a substantial level of topical similarity among users who are close to each other in the social network. We introduce a null model that preserves user activity while removing local correlations, allowing us to disentangle the actual local similarity between users from statistical effects due to the assortative mixing of user activity and centrality in the social network. This analysis suggests that users with similar interests are more likely to be friends, and therefore topical similarity measures among users based solely on their annotation metadata should be predictive of social links. We test this hypothesis on several datasets, confirming that social networks constructed from topical similarity capture actual friendship accurately. When combined with topological features, topical similarity achieves a link prediction accuracy of about 92%.
|A model-driven methodology to the content layout problem in web applications
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|Sara Comai; Davide Mazza
|This article presents a model-driven approach for the design of the layout in a complex Web application, where large amounts of data are accessed. The aim of this work is to reduce, as much as possible, repetitive tasks and to factor out common aspects into different kinds of rules that can be reused across different applications. In particular, exploiting the conceptual elements of the typical models used for the design of a Web application, it defines presentation and layout rules at different levels of abstraction and granularity. A procedure for the automatic layout of the content of a page is proposed and evaluated, and the layout of advanced Web applications is discussed.
|Extracting information networks from the blogosphere
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|Yuval Merhav; Filipe Mesquita; Denilson Barbosa; Wai Gen Yee; Ophir Frieder
|We study the problem of automatically extracting information networks formed by recognizable entities as well as relations among them from social media sites. Our approach consists of using state-of-the-art natural language processing tools to identify entities and extract sentences that relate such entities, followed by using text-clustering algorithms to identify the relations within the information network. We propose a new term-weighting scheme that significantly improves on the state-of-the-art in the task of relation extraction, both when used in conjunction with the standard tf*idf scheme and also when used as a pruning filter. We describe an effective method for identifying benchmarks for open information extraction that relies on a curated online database that is comparable to the hand-crafted evaluation datasets in the literature. From this benchmark, we derive a much larger dataset which mimics realistic conditions for the task of open information extraction. We report on extensive experiments on both datasets, which not only shed light on the accuracy levels achieved by state-of-the-art open information extraction tools, but also on how to tune such tools for better results.
|FoXtrot: Distributed structural and value XML filtering
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|Iris Miliaraki; Manolis Koubarakis
|Publish/subscribe systems have emerged in recent years as a promising paradigm for offering various popular notification services. In this context, many XML filtering systems have been proposed to efficiently identify XML data that matches user interests expressed as queries in an XML query language like XPath. However, in order to offer XML filtering functionality on an Internet-scale, we need to deploy such a service in a distributed environment, avoiding bottlenecks that can deteriorate performance. In this work, we design and implement FoXtrot, a system for filtering XML data that combines the strengths of automata for efficient filtering and distributed hash tables for building a fully distributed system. Apart from structural-matching, performed using automata, we also discuss different methods for evaluating value-based predicates. We perform an extensive experimental evaluation of our system, FoXtrot, on a local cluster and on the PlanetLab network and demonstrate that it can index millions of user queries, achieving a high indexing and filtering throughput. At the same time, FoXtrot exhibits very good load-balancing properties and improves its performance as we increase the size of the network.
|Navigating tomorrow's web: From searching and browsing to visual exploration
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|Marian Dörk; Carey Williamson; Sheelagh Carpendale
|We propose a new way of navigating the Web using interactive information visualizations, and present encouraging results from a large-scale Web study of a visual exploration system. While the Web has become an immense, diverse information space, it has also evolved into a powerful software platform. We believe that the established interaction techniques of searching and browsing do not sufficiently utilize these advances, since information seekers have to transform their information needs into specific, text-based search queries resulting in mostly text-based lists of resources. In contrast, we foresee a new type of information seeking that is high-level and more engaging, by providing the information seeker with interactive visualizations that give graphical overviews and enable query formulation. Building on recent work on faceted navigation, information visualization, and exploratory search, we conceptualize this type of information navigation as visual exploration and evaluate a prototype Web-based system that implements it. We discuss the results of a large-scale, mixed-method Web study that provides a better understanding of the potential benefits of visual exploration on the Web, and its particular performance challenges.
|Cache-Based Query Processing for Search Engines
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|B. Barla Cambazoglu; Ismail Sengor Altingovde; Rifat Ozcan; Özgür Ulusoy
|In practice, a search engine may fail to serve a query due to various reasons such as hardware/network failures, excessive query load, lack of matching documents, or service contract limitations (e.g., the query rate limits for third-party users of a search service). In this kind of scenarios, where the backend search system is unable to generate answers to queries, approximate answers can be generated by exploiting the previously computed query results available in the result cache of the search engine. In this work, we propose two alternative strategies to implement this cache-based query processing idea. The first strategy aggregates the results of similar queries that are previously cached in order to create synthetic results for new queries. The second strategy forms an inverted index over the textual information (i.e., query terms and result snippets) present in the result cache and uses this index to answer new queries. Both approaches achieve reasonable result qualities compared to processing queries with an inverted index built on the collection.
|A Methodology for SIP and SOAP Integration Using Application-Specific Protocol Conversion
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|Goran Delac; Ivan Budiselic; Ivan Zuzak; Ivan Skuliber; Tomislav Stefanec
|In recent years, the ubiquitous demands for cross-protocol application access are driving the need for deeper integration between SIP and SOAP. In this article we present a novel methodology for integrating these two protocols. Through an analysis of properties of SIP and SOAP we show that integration between these protocols should be based on application-specific converters. We describe a generic SIP/SOAP gateway that implements message handling and network and storage management while relying on application-specific converters to define session management and message mapping for a specific set of SIP and SOAP communication nodes. In order to ease development of these converters, we introduce an XML-based domain-specific language for describing application-specific conversion processes. We show how conversion processes can be easily specified in the language using message sequence diagrams of the desired interaction. We evaluate the presented methodology through performance analysis of the developed prototype gateway and high-level comparison with other solutions.
|Workload Characterization and Performance Implications of Large-Scale Blog Servers
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|Myeongjae Jeon; Youngjae Kim; Jeaho Hwang; Joonwon Lee; Euiseong Seo
|With the ever-increasing popularity of Social Network Services (SNSs), an understanding of the characteristics of these services and their effects on the behavior of their host servers is critical. However, there has been a lack of research on the workload characterization of servers running SNS applications such as blog services. To fill this void, we empirically characterized real-world Web server logs collected from one of the largest South Korean blog hosting sites for 12 consecutive days. The logs consist of more than 96 million HTTP requests and 4.7TB of network traffic. Our analysis reveals the following: (i) The transfer size of nonmultimedia files and blog articles can be modeled using a truncated Pareto distribution and a log-normal distribution, respectively; (ii) user access for blog articles does not show temporal locality, but is strongly biased towards those posted with image or audio files. We additionally discuss the potential performance improvement through clustering of small files on a blog page into contiguous disk blocks, which benefits from the observed file access patterns. Trace-driven simulations show that, on average, the suggested approach achieves 60.6% better system throughput and reduces the processing time for file access by 30.8% compared to the best performance of the Ext4 filesystem.
|Beyond Social Graphs: User Interactions in Online Social Networks and their Implications
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|Christo Wilson; Alessandra Sala; Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy; Ben Y. Zhao
|Social networks are popular platforms for interaction, communication, and collaboration between friends. Researchers have recently proposed an emerging class of applications that leverage relationships from social networks to improve security and performance in applications such as email, Web browsing, and overlay routing. While these applications often cite social network connectivity statistics to support their designs, researchers in psychology and sociology have repeatedly cast doubt on the practice of inferring meaningful relationships from social network connections alone. This leads to the question: "Are social links valid indicators of real user interaction? If not, then how can we quantify these factors to form a more accurate model for evaluating socially enhanced applications?" In this article, we address this question through a detailed study of user interactions in the Facebook social network. We propose the use of "interaction graphs" to impart meaning to online social links by quantifying user interactions. We analyze interaction graphs derived from Facebook user traces and show that they exhibit significantly lower levels of the "small-world" properties present in their social graph counterparts. This means that these graphs have fewer "supernodes" with extremely high degree, and overall graph diameter increases significantly as a result. To quantify the impact of our observations, we use both types of graphs to validate several well-known social-based applications that rely on graph properties to infuse new functionality into Internet applications, including Reliable Email (RE), SybilGuard, and the weighted cascade influence maximization algorithm. The results reveal new insights into each of these systems, and confirm our hypothesis that to obtain realistic and accurate results, ongoing research on social network applications studies of social applications should use real indicators of user interactions in lieu of social graphs.
|Exploiting External Collections for Query Expansion
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|Wouter Weerkamp; Krisztian Balog; Maarten de Rijke
|A persisting challenge in the field of information retrieval is the
vocabulary mismatch between a user's information need and the relevant
documents. One way of addressing this issue is to apply query modeling: to add
terms to the original query and reweigh the terms. In social media, where
documents usually contain creative and noisy language (e.g., spelling and
grammatical errors), query modeling proves difficult. To address this, attempts
to use external sources for query modeling have been made and seem to be
successful. In this article we propose a general generative query expansion
model that uses external document collections for term generation: the External
Expansion Model (EEM). The main rationale behind our model is our hypothesis
that each query requires its own mixture of external collections for expansion
and that an expansion model should account for this. For some queries we
expect, for example, a news collection to be most beneficial, while for other
queries we could benefit more by selecting terms from a general encyclopedia.
EEM allows for query-dependent weighing of the external collections.
We put our model to the test on the task of blog post retrieval and we use four external collections in our experiments: (i) a news collection, (ii) a Web collection, (iii) Wikipedia, and (iv) a blog post collection. Experiments show that EEM outperforms query expansion on the individual collections, as well as the Mixture of Relevance Models that was previously proposed by Diaz and Metzler [2006]. Extensive analysis of the results shows that our naive approach to estimating query-dependent collection importance works reasonably well and that, when we use "oracle" settings, we see the full potential of our model. We also find that the query-dependent collection importance has more impact on retrieval performance than the independent collection importance (i.e., a collection prior).


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We are a distributor that distributes quality audio product and we carry the world's best brands.
We supply our products to our dealers; besides we also provide technical training, after sales support and product warranty.
Vozaudio has both offices in Singapore & Malaysia is engaged in distributing car audio systems in the initial years of business. Our distribution channels have since expanded and our network includes the region of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, as well as some of the Asian countries.
We truly believe in Genuine Service, Product Quality, Reliability, Trust and Professionalism; achieving great customers' satisfaction is vital to our success. We are continuing to expand our networks based on our strong belief and confidence in our products, as well as unwavering support from our partners. With these qualities, Vozaudio will soar to greater heights.

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Based in Fife but play regularly throughout Scotland and across the UK.
With over 20 years experience playing throughout Scotland Velour Amour have built up an unrivaled reputation for providing quality entertainment. If it's a wedding, corporate event, birthday, anniversary or office party, Velour Amour are recognized as one of Scotland's premier live function bands.
Velour Amour are professional musicians and customer focused businessmen, and by liaising closely with the client they ensure a polished, unforgettable experience. Ultimately, outstanding entertainment is guaranteed whatever the occasion.
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Abba - Take A Chance, Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Waterloo
Al Green - Lets Stay Together
Amy Winehouse - You Know Im No Good, Rehab
Bay City Rollers - Shang Alang
Bee Gees - Medley
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Bobby Darrin - Somewhere Beyond The Sea
Brian Adams - Heaven
Chic - Greatest Dancer, Rappers Delight, Freak Out, Good Times
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
Cockney Rebel - Come Up And See Me
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Duffy - Mercy
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Frank Sinatra - Moonriver
Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Ian Durie - Rhythm Stick
Jack Johnson - Better Together
Jackson 5 - Blame It On The Boogie
James Brown - Sex Machine, Living In America
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Lonestar - Amazed
Madness - It Must Be Love
Michael Buble - The Way You Look Tonight, Everything
Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
R&B Medley - Gimme Some Lovin, Hold On I'm Coming, Mr Pitiful
Ray Charles - Shake A Tailfeather
Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You - Angels
Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All
Scottish - Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant
Slosh Medley - Amarillo, Knock Three Times
Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Soul Medley - Heard It Through The Grape Vine, Soul Man, Sweet Soul Music
Steelers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle
Stevie Wonder - Superstition, Sir Duke, Master Blaster, Happy Birthday
Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
Take That - Shine
The Beatles - Get Back, Come Together
The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away
The Proclaimers - 500 Miles, Let's Get Married
The Trampps - Disco Inferno
The Verve - Lucky Man
The Zutons - Valerie
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual, Delilah
U2 - One
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl, Have I Told You Lately
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by Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Waa su'aal da' weyne, dalka yaa iska leh?
Kan dejiyey aqoontoo, dadku ka aflaxaanoo,
Daabacaa taclintaa leh…
Kaan diidin howshaa leh, kaan lacag ku doorsannoo,
Wax kasta u dulqaatoo,
Ku dibjiray dhexdiisaa leh!
The late bard Abdi Bashiir Indha-Buur
Gabbal baa u dumay, reerihii geliga Booc yiille
Abidkii rag waa go'i jiree, tanise waa gaw'e
Lix hal oo u wada gaar ahaa gocanayaa mooyi
The late poet Ali Jama Haabiil
Ads By GoogleAs the year 2014 is drawing to a close, it is with sadness to look upon a year in which Somali society had lost four dedicated and devoted luminaries and legendries: (1) Professor Ioan Myrddin Lewis on 14 March, (2) Professor Hassan Mohamed Omar 'Ookiyo' on 13 May, (3) Abdulkadir Osman Mohamoud 'Aroma' on 15 July, and (4) Ambassador Mohamed Osman Omar on 5 October. With the passing of the four, Somali Studies has now become an invisible orphan both intellectually and academically, for all were distinguished scholars who had made outstanding – in many cases, even exceptional – contributions to the study of Somali society, state, culture and contemporary politics. One is obliged to honour them with the full veneration and reverence they must have merited. Without sanctifying and saying prayers on them would render self-reproach on my part. I was extremely engrossed in completing my forthcoming academic book, when they had suddenly passed away between March and October. With no spare time to embroil in anything else, I publicly could barely pay tribute or note down an obituary piece of tacsi for them. To call Voltaire: 'To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth'. There was one element of truth they had in common: no one had the temper and tendency of accepting criticism, especially a Spartan lad like me who is a natural-born critic. In consequence, we debated and disputed, offending and upsetting each other, many so often. Professor Lewis and Professor Ookiyo were the most sensitive. So was Abdulkadir Aroma. A quite tolerant, Ambassador Mohamed Osman used to think his critics rather than his readers. With care and consideration, any sympathetic Somali would escort all of them to their graveyard peacefully and conclude: 'Geesiga dhulkiisa, guusha u horseeda, geerida dishaay, geedkaa ha ga'o!'. Let us move to the 'however.
Lewis in March. Spending most of his academic career at London School of Economics (LSE), Professor Lewis was an icon in the field of African anthropology, following in the footsteps of the eminent Edward Evans-Pritchard, his mentor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Oxford in the 1950s. Pritchard was the man who not only redefined African anthropology but also donated a young man called Ioan who would redefine the embryonic field of Somali Studies. I am both an admirer and an adversary of Lewis, perhaps more of the former than of the latter. In recent article titled 'In Memory of I.M. Lewis', the Norwegian Somalist Jan Monteverde Haakonsen has criticised me for chastising hard on Lewis in an earlier piece I had assessed Lewis's corpus of work spanning more than fifty consecutive years. This is a criticism I do take it without hesitation. Upon the appearance of my review article on his Festschrift at the Anglo-Somali Society, as well seeing my doctoral proposal to Oxford University (both of which I criticised him to such an extent that I used the word 'parochial'), Lewis chose not to talk to me again until I later assuaged and assured him on the phone that I have an innate trait of appraising critically all classic works, including his superb definitive study Pastoral Democracy. Fortunately, I had to escape with my miniature apology. After all, criticising him was like – as Christine Choi Ahmed once put it – attempting to hit 'the straw man'. Indeed, some of the criticism levelled at him are epistemologically unfounded. Those Somalis and their non-Somali supporters who constantly accuse him that he had divided Somali society along clan lines hardly understand the social anthropological tools, methods and approaches, which tended to demand and decree in his time the narrow specialisation of one single clan or community. The most ludicrous group are those who claim that Lewis and colonialism constructed clanism, in spite of the evident historical fact that clanism had obtained its determinant and detrimental dwelling in Futuh Al-Habash, the sixteenth-century war diary of Ahmed Gurey's jihad against the imperial Abyssinian regime in the medieval ages.
In a Malinowskian-world of anthropological academe, Lewis defied the rule. Abetted by the celebrated Somali scholar Muuse Haji Ismail 'Galaal', the first Somali he met, Professor Lewis became not merely an authority on a specific clan or community, but on the whole Somali clans and communities – from Baajuuni to Bartire and from Ciise to Cowramaleh. With half a century association with Somali society, Lewis was a typical Somali pastoralist in terms of culture, custom and tradition. I detected – through conversation and observation – that he too became a pastoralist not only in attitude but in behaviour and politics, involving himself in clan politics by siding with specific clans at the expense of others. Usual of ordinary Somali way of curious inquiry, Lewis would ask about one's clan. If, for instance, one Somali – an imitator of Western-style sophistication for that matter – might say 'I don't want to disclose my clan', he would reply thus: 'I know your clan, for there are two groups in Somalia who most certainly choose not to proudly proclaim their genealogical clan background'. Employing subtle social anthropological gadgets, Lewis was able to identify the clan identity with such a perceptive and poetic precision. It was in this way how he had figured out that the great young Somali novelist Abdirizak Yusuf Osman (the author of the acclaimed best-seller novel, In the Name of Our Fathers, published by Haan in London in 1996) belonged to the Murusade/Hawiye clan. A real nomad with modern sense of method to wander, my friend Abdirizak lives in Copenhagen, but has recently spent a year in – inter alia – Hargeysa and Garoowe. Is he currently in Mogadishu? I have not heard from him for two years, since the summer of 2012, when I last saw him in Copenhagen.
I had an appointment to see Professor Lewis in the summer of 2013 and take him to a Somali restaurant in north London, not far from his Highgate home. Due to ailing and old age, Professor Lewis preferred to go out during the summer in his last years. It was this age-related reason that he could not make it to the memorial service in April of 2013 for Dr Virginia Luling, an anthropologist he had supervised her PhD at University College London in 1971. Completing her doctoral fieldwork in Afgooye in late 1960s, coupled with neutrality in Somali politics, Dr Luling was more Somali than anyone else, considering the pain she would not hide on the interminable suffering of Somali society, when I visited her Camden home in one early dreary morning in April 2013. Luling too passed away in January of 2013. Besides Luling, the only other of Lewis's student – Somali in this case – was Dr Ahmed Yusuf Farah, the only real Somali anthropologist who had done his PhD at LSE under his superb supervision. Alas, Dr Ahmed died of cancer at a young age. When one warm evening in August of 2013, I asked Professor Lewis who this Ahmed Farah was, he would frankly enough to tell me about his clan and from which area he hailed: a Dir/Samaroon from Somaliland. Professor Lewis was emotional to express how he felt devastated at the death of Dr Farah, a man whom he liked and called 'a different Somali than other Somalis', apparently quite a contrast to the world of wild Somalis, a world where the stronger seeks to stick up the weaker. Well before The Somali Republic was even born on 1 July 1960, Lewis observed in his first archival ethnographic work on 'the other Somalis' as 'unruly', 'belligerent', 'divisive' and 'deeply clannish' people, playing upon politics in a pervasively bellicose culture. Here, he was nuanced in his analyses on the Somali society, except that he could not extricate himself from the concept of lineage segmentary system – a concept he borrowed from Evans-Pritchard's Nuer. More often than not, Lewis overlooked to look at the Somali political economy and the traditional Somali system of social stratification extremely hostile the so-called Jareer and Midgaan skilled communities, as incisively and influentially pointed out by Professor Catherine Besteman. The most peculiar thing of Lewis was when he condescendingly lambasted Besteman, one of the most highly-respected in the field of Somali Studies, for a lack of understanding of the Somali language. Both remarkable and ridiculous, as it were, Lewis himself was unversed with the Somali language. All in all, he has a lasting mark in the field of Somali Studies.
Ookiyo in May: Professor Ookiyo was erudite and encyclopaedic in things Somali. With full mechanical memory, he could narrate – so to speak – the backgrounds of Somali personalities, politicians and bystanders: who is who. He was a perfect of the African proverb that laments the death of an African elder is tantamount to a burned library. I wish he had written a book or books about his lived experiences and life memory, especially in the 1960s Somalia, where he had vivid reminiscences and recollections of how Somali society developed into a democratic nation-state with scarce resources unparalleled in other African experiences of stateness. This was the time, when – as a young man, just graduated from Colleggio Ferrara – he joined the Somali Police Force under the adept leadership of General Mohamed Abshir Muuse, albeit he did like him. Ookiyo soon left the police to read law at the Somali National University where he would embark on an academic career as a lecturer in commercial law. His most brilliant student Avvocato Osman Warsame 'Haayoow' is now practising law in Mogadishu, while another of his, Avvocato Omar Mohamoud Abdulle 'Omar Dhegey', currently serving as the legal adviser to the Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. Two more of his students, Abdi Farah Bayle 'Abdi Ga'amey' and Abdikadir Ahmednur Ali, are now resident in London. The generosity for his students had extended to many other students living across the continents.
Professor Ookiyo was a man of letters, a real Abu Waraqa, as well as a prominent and brilliant authority who would debate and dispute over Somali issues with other Somalis, so much so that his incisive and insightful ideas were impressed by not just younger generation, but also his peers. Upon nearly a decade of contact by phone and by email, I had the unique privilege to visit him at his home in a small town outside Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2012. On a bright sunny day, he welcomed me at his car park with my friend Mohamed Salaad who drove me. We stayed from mid-day until late afternoon during which he opened his archival library. On top of extensive books, I inspected cassettes and rare primary sources and documents. I would request his children to preserve these valuable materials for the Somali posterity. I also had another unique privilege of hosting him at my home in August of 2013 during the Ramadaan period, sharing him with Somali food (made cooked for him less salty), when he came to London to see annually as usual his bed-ridden maternal uncle Avvocato Mohamed Sheikh Ahmed 'Gabyow', a former Minister of Constitution in the Governo Somalo, the self-governed decolonisation government headed by Prime Minister Abdullahi Iise Mohamoud (1956-1960). When we together visited Avvocato Gabyow, disabled by a stroke, at Kilburn neighbourhood in London to converse with him over the politics of decolonisation, he suddenly started laughing and reflecting upon his days with Abdullahi Iise from which his wife – a granddaughter of the great Somali nationalist religious leader Sheikh Hassan Barsane – inquired us astoundingly: 'Tell me guys, what did you tell him that made him happy and energetic today?'. As the spiritual religious leader of the Gaalje'el clan of the Hawiye, Sheikh Hassan Barsane was the man who resisted to the Fascist Italian rule against which he fought without the support and sympathy of other Somalis before he was captured by colonialists in April of 1924 and poisoned peculiarly by the Italian fascists in January of 1927.
Aroma in July: The passing of Abdulkadir Aroma, a man who dedicated most of his entire lifespan to a life of writing and researching Somali history, culture and society, at the Royal Free Hospital in London, was both unexpected and untimely. Living most of the time with his family in Mogadishu, but with another family in London, he had been waiting for a spare liver for nearly fifteen years. In October of 2013, he had undergone a liver transplant operation in which hepatologists successfully connected to his body. Author of more than five well-researched books, Aroma was a renowned scholar in the Somali-speaking scholarship as evinced by his annual involvement of the big festivals hosted by the Somali-speaking authors in the Diaspora. Outspoken and inspirational, he was a man who wrote against state terror and politico-war entrepreneurship so palpable in the Somali world since the coup of 1969. He loved controversy so much and, in this regard, he was not unlike to the recently deceased famed French-political scientist Patrick Chabal, one of the most outspoken Africanists in the field of African Studies. Aroma was not so dissimilar from Chabal, when it comes to valiantly test new empirically-guided theories in various academic circles and putting it into a publication and practice. I was first introduced to Aroma by Avvocato Abdulkadir Tallman (now resident in Minneapolis, USA) in Mogadishu in early January of 1998. With a cut-price negotiated agreement, I helped Aroma typeset his first book-length study, Sababihii Burburka Soomaaliya (the Root Causes of the Somali Collapse), first published in 1999 in Toronto by Neelo Printing. In pursuit of a life-long learning, Aroma was an autodidact man who first learnt English from the American Peace Corps Volunteers during the 1960s Somalia. His works on the Somali culture, politics and history are replete with confidential information and unique insights into the Somali conflicts and will surely be a classic in post-conflict Somalia.
In March of 2001, Abdulkadir Aroma encountered the most distressful yet demoralising after his beloved and most favourite son, Keysar, was killed in a gang-related knife crime on the streets of west London. Aroma was no more Aroma and never Aroma again; no sense of humour and no usual elegance. With his health dramatically deteriorating, he developed serious complications of liver cirrhosis. In passing, Keysar's mother – the first of Aroma's wives – was the daughter of Haji Mohamed Abdallah 'Hayeesi', one of the thirteen young Somalis who founded the first Somali nationalist movement, the Somali Youth Club (SYC) in May of 1943, later transforming as the Somali Youth League (SYL). Loathing despotism and dictatorship, Aroma immeasurably loved justice, only justice and justice for all Somalis. This he had experimentally proved in my own eyes. I was approached last year by a Somali merchant whose house in Mogadishu was denied to inhabit by a senior officer at the current Somali Custodian Corps. The merchant bought the house from a senior man from the old ousted military regime who presented himself as the owner. The house – classified as a 'government property' – was soon claimed by the Custodian Corps authorities who went to court with the buyer. The Banaadir court reached a verdict that the house belonged to the Corps and then again to the buyer, a clear illustration of the judicial nature of the day-to-day politics of contemporary Somalia. Realising that Aroma knew both groups and thus might resolve the issue with an outside court settlement, the buyer sought to see him with no avail. Upon hearing that I was a friend of his, the buyer asked me to connect him to Aroma. It was a bit cold late evening on 5 April 2015 and we visited him at his home in East London, not far from Walthamstow train station. In spite of his poor health, Aroma fought tooth and nail to guarantee justice not just for the merchant, but for the Corps as well.
Mohamed Osman in October: I worked with Ambassador Mohamed Osman during President Abdikassim Salaad Hassan's government. A man of effectiveness and efficiency, he was then the Chief of Protocol of the Presidential Palace. On 16 May this year, it was a privilege for me for modestly inviting him for a lunch at a Moroccan restaurant in Finsbury Park, north London, along with Ambassador Hassan Mohamed Ahmed 'Hassan Turki', another senior Somali civil servant, who had served for Somalia as a diplomat in the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Ankara (Turkey), Ottawa (Canada) and Bonn (Germany). A distinguished diplomat who joined the Somali civil service as a journalist on the eve of the birth of the post-colonial Somali Republic, Ambassador Mohamed Osman embarked on his career as a clerk in the Mogadishu Post office in 1957, rising through the ranks until he became an ambassador to the Sudan, Iran, India and Yugoslavia. Nonetheless, it was India – where he replaced the recalcitrant General Mohamed Farah Aideed who wanted to keep his ambassadorship – which was to shape and influence on his life to the better in his later years. While in his post at New Delhi, the regime Ambassador Mohamed Osman was representing had to be ousted ignominiously on 26 January 1991 by none other than his former predecessor. The country collapsed as a one-single state, while the ousted dictator insisting to fight on until he had to ensure his clano-dictatorial reign reinstated and for him to return to the Villa Somalia. Somalia slid into clan cataclysms, where the Hawiye and the Daarood militias fought viciously and veraciously in Southern Somalia over who had the right to inherit General Mohamed Siad Barre and to sit the Villa to milk the State spoils like the Reer Kooshin had done under his protection. Ambassador Mohamed Osman began to write and reflect upon why the collapse and the role in which the regime had played, hence the publication of his first memoir, The Road to Zero: Somalia's Self-Destruction, published by Haan in London in 1992.
A pacifist and peaceful man who disliked bickering, a distinctive of his Shaanshi/Reer Sheikh Suufi/Abdalla Iimaan and a clear contrast to the pastoralist background of Siad Barre, Ambassador Mohamed Osman was close to the late great Sheikh Mohamed Sheikh Ahmed Mohamoud 'Sheikh Abba', a Sufi scholar with immense wide-ranging knowledge. Ambassador Mohamed Osman suffered while serving and servicing for Somalia and Somalis. After all, anyone who had to deal with the Somali – the Soomaal in Burtonian term – had to prepare himself for a physical fight at least once in his lifetime. Unfortunately, the ambassador had his own share. He reported in his book a very distressing personal agony that occurred in 1981, where a bodyguard of Siad Barre 'punched' him on the nose. As the Chief of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mohamed Osman had to accompany with a Siad Barre's entourage travelling to Italy, the country that corruptly sustained the clano-dictatorial rule (note the Fondo Aiuto Italiano [FAI] scandal). During the course of the visit, the Chief of the Protocol had to report to the president over the daily meeting schedule in every early morning. Upon leaving from his room to the president's, a new Red Beret and fresh camel man, just recruited from President's Reer Hassan Kooshin sub-sub-sub-clan, had denied access to enter Siad Barre's room. Overlooking the bodyguard rendered Ambassador Mohamed Osman to feel the hard knock on his nose. Bleeding and bawling, he rushed to his room to rinse and relieve the bleeding wound. At this point, I presume that the illiterate bodyguard was whispering to his team thus: 'What the hell is this old Reer Hamar guy talking to af-aanan-garaneyn doing around our President?'. When Siad Barre was told about the incident, Ambassador Mohamed Osman recalled that he 'said nothing, not even an apology which was too much to expect' (pp. 124-125). This outrageous incident exemplifies on how the dictator entrenched in clan cronyism in protecting his clan cronies around the inner circle by hook or crook, a phenomenon we are experiencing to this day from anywhere, anytime in the post-Siad Barre Somalia(s).
I do pray Allah, the most merciful whom everything flows from him and everything returns to Him, for forgiveness on all the four above luminaries and legendries.
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis is a PhD student in Modern History and African Studies at the University of Oxford. He can be reached at: [email protected] or [email protected]


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I think we can all unanimously agree that, when it comes to movies, we all tend to develop a crowd mentality. This is a very basic observation that can be made; any monkey in a movie theater can determine that a movie makes us all laugh, cry and text together in unison because we can all agree that we are enjoying or not enjoying something as one collective body. However, movies can also create a sense of individualism and segregation; one movie can be loved by very few, yet hated by others. We are all guilty of this act and I shall participate in this act of self-punishment by sharing with you my Top 5 Cinematic Guilty Pleasures.
5. "Death Race" (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2008)
This movie is a modern remake of "Death Race: 2000" starring the ever-lovable, never-understandable Sylvester Stallone. This remake completely forgets the self-aware undertones and subtle parody in lieu of fast cars, hot women and bloody decapitations. This movie is pretty laughable but for some reason I'm drawn like a fly to a windshield. The film has a lot of heart and the action is enough to keep you motivated when the talky bits start to wear thin. Plus, kudos must be given to Statham and McShane. These two are definitely the stars and do a damn good job of reminding us of that.
4. "Redline" (Takeshi Koike, 2009)
This next one is just a coincidence but this second racing movie is another big guilty pleasure for me. Anime fans and non-anime fans may agree on this film having a lot of bright colors and seizure-inducing action scenes. But the moments when the film doesn't involve racing are boring, weird, laughable and pedantic. I, on the other hand, love this movie to bits. I can watch it again and again and not be bothered by the fact that a movie about a simple plot revolving around an intergalactic scf-fi Grand Prix turns into a political thriller with Kaiju monsters. Oh, Japanese anime, don't ever change.
3. "Speed Racer" (The Wachowski Siblings, 2008)
Ok, I think I have a secret fetish for racing movies. Actually, wait… yea, "Days of Thunder" and "Ricky Bobby" still suck taint, so scratch that theory. Anyways, we are not here to laugh about that, we are here to mock me and this film is perfect ammo. I know it's a mindless film with not a lot of substance and the same flavour being shoved down your throat ad nauseum but you have to give the Wachowski siblings this: at least it's not another fucking Matrix sequel. For an adaptation of the popular "Speed Racer" manga and anime series from the 60s and 70s, they did a pretty good job. The racing segments are decent and Roger Allam plays one of my all time favorite movie villains. If not for the racing, watch it purely for Allam; that guy needs more work, dammit.
2. "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist" (Steve Oedekerk, 2002)
Ok, let's move on from the racing movies into a new category: kung-fu movies. This one isn't particularly a kung-fu movie, more like a parody of a kung-fu films with the director providing not only himself but all the voices for the other characters. This movie is sillier than chipmunk shit; for most people this is just a poor attempt at trying to emulate the accidentally bad lip-dubbing of the past with goofy noises and bad fight choreography. This is a big guilty pleasure but I think one of its most endearing features is how damn quotable it is. I'm sure I can find a person who has only seen it once while half-asleep who can provide at least one Betty quote.
1. "Little Nicky" (Steven Brill, 2000)
Ok, I know I am going to receive a lot of flack for this, yet I don't really know why. To be fair, I can understand why a lot of people would hate this film; Sandler doing bad voices and funny faces has only seemed to work a few times but for some reason it bombed in this film. I think the jokes are funny enough and the concept of the Prince of Darkness being a meek and quiet shy-guy who loves rock and roll is pretty funny in and of itself. I just like it because, for once, Sandler steps out of his comfort zone and acts in a movie where he doesn't dress in sweats and work boots, fuck up his life and act like an insufferable dick-trumpet. I stand by the effort of this movie; most would give it an A for atrocious, I give it an A for amicable.


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In particular, the eHealth Exchange has added small- and mid-sized medical groups, dialysis centers, as well as pharmacies to its membership. To date, the collaborative includes more than 13,000 medical groups, 3,400 dialysis centers, and 8,300 participating pharmacies across the country.
Historically, the eHealth Exchange has been known as an exchange for large care providers, health information exchange organizations and government agencies. Whats particularly interesting about the new growth statistics is the increased connectivity with other types of care settings, such as pharmacies, dialysis centers and small and medium sized medical groups, said John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange and vice chair of the eHealth Exchange coordinating committee.
An initiative of The Sequoia Project (previously Healtheway), a non-profit collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable nationwide HIE, the eHealth Exchange already has the distinction of being the largest HIE network in the United States representing a third of U.S. hospitals and 100 million patients. In late June, Healtheway was renamed The Sequoia Project as part of a rebranding effort.
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In October, SGI representatives attended the UN General Assembly First Committee and related activities on the margins, including the Humanitarian Disarmament Forum (13-14 October).
During the First Committee, SGI supported a side event titled "To Safeguard Future Generations—Multi-Faith Responses to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons" held on 16 October. The event was organized by the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, and sponsored by the governments of Austria, Nigeria, Thailand and South Africa.
Following the opening words by Ambassador Thomas Hajniczi, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ira Helfand, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War presented on the humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons. Hayley Ramsay-Jones spoke on behalf of SGI on the panel of respondents, along with Imam Saffet Catovic, Muslim Chaplain Drew University; Rev. David Charters, Permanent Observer Mission of The Holy See to the UN; and Dr. John Hartley, Evangelicals for Peace.
SGI's remarks included the history of its nuclear disarmament activities, originating from the time of Josei Toda's 1957 declaration against nuclear weapons to its participation in the negotiations of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). References were made to the dignity of life, the link between structural violence, discrimination, physical violence and the manifestation of nuclear weapons, as well as the importance of peace and disarmament education. The full text of the remarks can be found here.
On 17 October, SGI representatives presented the joint statement by the Faith Communities Concerned about Nuclear Weapons to the Vice Chair of the First Committee, Ms. Marissa Edwards (Guyana).
Hayley Ramsay-Jones and Anna Ikeda of SGI have also been supporting ICAN's efforts towards the entry into force of the TPNW, particularly in the Caribbean region. They held a meeting with Ambassador Sherman-Peter, new Permanent Observer of the Caribbean Community to the UN, to discuss the importance of the Treaty and possible activities in the region.


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I remember receiving a comment a few years ago, and although it burned, it stuck. The reader accused me of sugar coating things, saying that I never spoke about the bad things, and basically - that everything in my life was hunky-dory. I remember sitting gape jawed, because I try to always, always be honest in this blog, even if it's unflattering to me. So, when I had a really truly bad Tuesday morning, I thought I'd tell you what happened. And, yes - I know I really do have it easy, because my kids are healthy and I'm not dealing with terminal illness/broken bones/turned off power/negative checkbook balance/empty pantry/no running water.
But this morning was bad enough, thanks.
Alarm went off at 5:40. Before I got out of bed, I ready my emails and checked my daily calendar - to see that it said the words I almost never see - THERE ARE NO EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY. Wow, I thought to myself. This never happens. I LOVE TODAY! I got up, walked down the hall to wake three kids, went downstairs to wake the fourth. I made a cup of coffee, unloaded the dishwasher, switched over the laundry, tossed in another load. I made a chocolate protein shake and 3 strawberry/banana/spinach smoothies. I toasted four bagels and packed two lunches.
Four kids groggily dressed and made their ways to the table. Breakfast commenced, slowly, and people slowly came alive.
I badgered kids to wash faces/apply deodorant/wash faces/get socks and shoes on, and oh! the humanity! I made the kid with eczema apply lotion to the bad patches, which - when coupled with the acne gel - was simply too much for one kid to tolerate.
I handed out asthma meds, allergy pills, ADD meds, reminded them of deodorant and toothbrushing and shoes and socks. People most emphatically did not appreciate this and were expressively verbal, I was accused of badgering - and we were running super late for early period band, so I elected to load up the smoothies (still unfinished), the lunches, the note cards, the sneakers the hairbrush, the untaken medicine - and turned around to see one of my kids crying.
She cries every day. Literally. Every day, multiple times a day. It's nothing new. What it is is exhausting.
We got in the truck and drove off, and the bickering started between the shorties. They bicker like it's their life's mission, no one wanted to drink their smoothies, people were prickly and easily annoyed and I (loudly, if I tell the truth) instituted a NO TALKING ONLY DRINKING SMOOTHIES ban.
Which, you know, went over about as well as a hamburger casserole at the local Vegan meeting.
Three minutes from the school, we were still facing a 3/4 undone smoothie issue, which didn't go over well. Crying started again. One kid still had unbrushed hair, so she elected to do it herself.
Fine with me. I have no issues with people doing their own hair - they mostly do a good job, and if they don't, eh, whatever - unless it's an important day, I let it go.
Except that when we arrived at school, she looked as if she'd brushed her hair with an egg beater - and today was a Mass day. So I said I'd fix her hair - and I was NICE about it, dammit - and she started crying AGAIN. "You think I'm ugly! You think I can't do my hair!"
You're right about the hair part. Today was not your best day, kid.
Crying ensued again. What? I didn't even say ANYTHING.
I fixed her hair, standing in the parking lot, with the staff of the front office watching my kid sob - and as I loaded her up with bookbag/lunch box/oversize instrument/computer/extra shoes for PE - I noticed that there was a textbook on the floor. I asked if she needed it, she said no, and her sister - who knows ALL THE THINGS - decided she'd tell her sister that it would be in her best interest to bring the book anyway - for, you see, she'd already done 5th grade and and her sister should really just do everything she said and then she'd never have a problem
and the watching audience was treated to one shorties screaming at another to Leave me alone!!!! Stop telling me what to do!!!
And I looked at them as they walked away, to see that I'd sent my kid to school in her dress uniform for Mass with a rub on tattoo peeking out of the sleeve of her dress shirt. Actually, no – not peeking out. More like strong and proud and fully visible. Not a tiny one either, God help me.
I won alllll the awards for parenting on this day.
When I got home, my husband had me help him mark the sprinkler heads in our lawn because the power seeding was booked. In order to find them, he turned the sprinkler on - and the head was right behind me and I got soaked with cold water when the sprinkler shot water all over.
And then I went into the bathroom to wash the grass off my feet, I took the shower head down, and I guess it had been changed from soft spray to forceful jet - and the shower head shot all over me - cold water again. This time, all over my front.
So. All the angst of a week, before 8 a.m.
Oh, and my husband's idea, to help everyone get into a better mood in the mornings?


text: I watched this film a while ago and although it's not amazing it's still enjoyable. Starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning this film has a touch of sci-fi and action. If you're into films with powers and things that we can't do in the real world then I suggest giving it ago. It's nothing special but if you're a fan of Evans or Fanning then watch it. They have a cute sibling relationship in the film as they go on their difficult adventure. There isn't really a meaning for telling this story and there isn't an end point really because it ends where it should have started in my opinion. The ending is where Fanning's character sets out to save her mother, I think that's where it should have begun. If it did then I think the plot would have been stronger and the film would have had a sequel if necessary.


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Back in Business
Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson
Shay Mitchell as Sophia Mikaelson
Charles Michael Davis as Marcel Gerard
Zendaya as Danielle Mikaelson
Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire
Meaghan Rath as Serena Vivian
Yusuf Gatewood as Vincent Griffith
Riley Voelkel as Freya Mikaelson
Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Werewolf Arc
- Main article: The Originals Fanfiction (Series)
Over a year later, Klaus returns to New Orleans, hoping to repair his relationships with his brother, Elijah and niece, Danielle whom he has been estranged with. When Elijah begins a fresh start in his life with the help of Katherine, Danielle continues her rule of New Orleans with a few new changes and with the support of Marcel and Davina. Meanwhile, as Leon's bond with Danielle continues to develop, he comes across a new enemy....the Mikaelsons' first sire and Sophia returns to Tokyo with unfinished business.
Main Cast
- Daniel Gillies as Elijah Mikaelson (10/10)
- Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson (10/10)
- Shay Mitchell as Sophia Mikaelson (10/10)
- Charles Michael Davis as Marcel Gerard (10/10)
- Zendaya as Danielle Mikaelson (?/10)
- Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire (?/10)
- Meaghan Rath as Serena Julia Vivian (?/10)
- Yusuf Gatewood as Vincent Griffith (?/10)
- Riley Voelkel as Freya Mikaelson (?/10)
- Janina Gavankar as Qetsiyah (9/10)
- Nathaniel Buzolic as Kol Mikaelson (?/10)
Recurring Cast
- Ricky Whittle as Leon Dominic (?/10)
- Kerry Washington as Shania King (9/10)
- Nina Dobrev as Katherine Pierce (10/10)
- Odette Annabelle as Eileen Remis (10/10)
- Keiko Kitagawa as Karen Takeda/Ceres (10/10)
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoruhoshi Takeda (9/10)
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Sora Kurai/Mikagi (8/10)
- Ryan Guzman as Mason Edwards (8/10)
- Jason Dohring as Will Kinney (?/10)
- Andrew Lees as Lucien Castle (?/10)
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Anastasia (?/10)
- Oliver Ackland as Tristan de Martel (?/10)
- Ariana Grande as Daphne (7/10)
- Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes (?/10)
- Lucy Hale as Aria (7/10)
- Shelley Hennig as Diana Truska (4/10)
Guest Cast
- Sean Teale as Agapios (1/10)
- Konstantinos Argyros as Aaron (2/10)
- Takashi Kashiwabara as Tomoya Mamoru (3/10)
- Nozomi Sasaki as ________________ (a victim of the murders)
- Indiana Evans as Allison Mitchell (1/10)
- Nelsan Ellis as ________________ (1/10)
Special Guest Cast
- Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson (10/10)
- Spencer Locke as Jayne Rutledge (1/10)
- Nathalia Ramos as Charlotte Whittaker (1/10)
- Leon Thomas III as Luke McConnell (1/10)
- Katharine Isabelle as Verona Townsend (1/10)
- Michael Malarkey as Lorenzo St. John (1/10)
- Jennifer Lopez as Kylie (1/10)
|Moonlight & Mistletoe
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|HAPPY HOLIDAYS (THE ORIGINALS MEETS NIGHTFALL)--Before heading off to Tokyo, Sophia decides to throw a big holiday party for her family and friends.
|Back in Business
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|A WAR BREWING BETWEEN THE SIRE LINES--Finally back in New Orleans, Klaus hopes to restore his bonds with Elijah and Danielle while Freya searches for a way to heal their fractured bond and return their family to the way they once were. Leon returns from London and meets Lucien who has arrived with a mysterious agenda involving the Mikaelson's remaining sire lines. Danielle continues her role as Queen of New Orleans and is approached by Vincent and Detective Kinney, learning from them of there being a serial killer on the loose. Serena returns to New Orleans and decides to help the lost souls who were victims of the unknown serial killer. Marcel and Davina will be on opposite sides due to Davina's new role and a decision she makes. Meanwhile, Sophia and Rebekah are in Tokyo, having to deal with Sophia's old rival and are forced into an unexpected job that deals with someone from Sophia's past.
|Sun & Moon
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|NEW THREATS & A NEW FUTURE--Danielle reluctantly works with Klaus on finding the culprit of the murders. Lucien delivers to Elijah an unsettling warning about the war brewing among the sire lines. Rebekah and Sophia take on a new case involves Karen's best friend. Karen questions the strange things happening to her and begins to see the horrifying violent side of Sora. Tessa also finds herself butting heads with Shania with the unexpected offer she gave to Sophia. Meanwhile, Serena is finally reunited with her mother and learns of a prophecy involving the Mikaelson siblings which causes Klaus to take extreme measures to determine the validity of this potential impending threat.
|Heaven or Hell?
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|OUR FIRST SIRES--With tension running as high as ever, Klaus and Elijah are forced to come together in order to uncover Lucien's true motives in New Orleans. Leon gets some unexpected information on Klaus' past with Lucien. While working on another case, Rebekah discovers Sophia's connection to Ceres as Marcel and Leon get an enticing offer. As Danielle confronts Lucien, she learns something unexpected about his past with Klaus and Sophia is called in for an unexpected meeting with Sora. Finally, someone from Elijah's past comes to New Orleans and delivers a warning to Danielle about the coming threat to the Mikaelsons and Ceres lashes out.
|The Axeman's Letter
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|THE STRIX ARRIVE--Trying to figure out Tristan's motives, Elijah decides to attend a gala being thrown by The Strix, while Katherine invites herself as his date. When he suspects Tristan is hiding something, he enlists Marcel's help to find out what he's up to. Rebekah, Sophia and Tessa find themselves having to deal with the aftermaths of Ceres' wrath. Something in Lucien's plan goes wrong and he enlists Klaus' help. Elsewhere, Davina struggles with her role as Regent and seeks advice from Danielle. Meanwhile, Karen is given an explanation about her family history.
|I've Got You Under My Skin
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|RAISING SOPHIA--A mother's love for their child is a powerful thing. Tessa finds herself living a life to what it could have been like if she could have gotten to raise her daughter. Rebekah questions Klaus' loyalties as Leon is targeted by the Strix and finds a unsettling discovery. Meanwhile, Tessa and Karen have been kidnapped by Sora's family and Sophia does whatever it takes to save them.
|The Uncontrollable Angel
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|WHERE DOES ANASTASIA'S LOYALTY LIE?--As Rebekah may be the next target the Strix's latest plan, she is reunited with her first sire, Anastasia. Serena and Katherine have a dangerous run-in with a member of the Strix and Aria to heads to Tokyo after hearing of the murder that is connected to her but a secret is revealed. Sophia hopes to reunite Karen and Sora but two reckoning forces get in the way. Meanwhile, Danielle continues to butt heads with Lucien and finally, Leon and Davina finds themselves face-to-face with a dangerous new threat.
|Stir of Emotions
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|A DEADLY DINNER--Klaus and Elijah invite Lucien and Tristian to a Mikaelson Dinner in an attempt to negotiate a truce. After hearing from Sophia, Danielle and Freya make a move, leading to a deadly three-way confrontation. Ceres learns of an unsettling piece of information from Sophia and Karen begins to feel conflicted about Sora. Elsewhere, Leon, Davina and Rebekah find themselves fighting for their lives.
|Sisters Forever
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
Meanwhile, Danielle and Freya team up with Vincent to take out Tristian.
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|Yakusoku Shimasu--Before making their return to New Orleans, Rebekah and Sophia begin to say their goodbyes to Karen and the others.
|Writer: Cori11
|Director: Cori11
|A NEW PACT WILL REPLACE ALWAYS AND FOREVER--Knowing what they want next in their life, Rebekah and Sophia inform their family and friends of their decision.
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might be added...
- This will be Sophia and Katherine's final season as they will depart to the new spinoff.
- Danielle, Davina and Leon will also depart from the series as well.
- This season will be a bit different as we will be going back and forth from New Orleans and Tokyo. Rebekah will possibly be traveling to London for an episode or two.
- Qetsiyah will be become a series regular.
- Japanese mythology and a Jack The Ripper theme.
- Sophia will possibly learn a new element.
- Rebekah and Sophia will have new jobs.
- Expect to see a samurai sword and bow & arrows to be used.
- Tessa and Shania will clash.
- This season won't focus on much romance but there will still be romantic scenes for three to four pairings.
- A vampire will switch off their humanity.
- Danielle will continue to explore her powers as an Elemental Witch.


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Family Fall Sessions… please fill out contact form and allow a week to hear back and schedule. There is high demand for September, October and early November.
**Please understand that I don't have set office hours to answer all forms of messages. I am on location several days a week for photo shoots and not able to answer messages during that time. I'm asking my clients to please bare with me as I am in the process of integrating a new ticketing system. My response time could take up to a week depending on my books. Thanks to everyone who continues to support me — i'm THIS BUSY because of YOU guys — you are my tribe! Thank YOU!


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It's a new year, a new shop name and new inspiration for you to look forward to!
Every month on the 10th, all of our wonderful designers come together to show you a collaboration of ideas. We will play along with a different theme each month and share with you how you can turn a 'blank page' into something amazing!
January Challenge DT Reveal This months theme is: Turquoise, Silver and Sparkle!
Ice Skaters Winter Fabric Tag
Simon Says Monday Stamp Challenge - This week the challenge is "Winter Blues" Create something with a spot of blue somewhere on your project. There are no rules as to what you may create – whether you are a card maker, mixed media artist, scrapbooker, or any other kind of crafter you are welcome. You may enter up to 5/week. Simon Says Stamps will be giving away $50 voucher to the shop. Challenge Rules
Artistic Stamper Challenge of 2018 is "Anything Goes" which means you can do anything you like as long as it has rubber stamping in it. Then link up using the Inklinkz. (maximum 3 entries per person). One randomly picked entrant will receive a stamp of their choice from the Artistic Stamper. More info can be found HERE.
1. Cut out 2 rectangles of creme muslin fabric (4x5") and trim into a tag shape. Next, stamp the children using black ink along the bottom edge. Tie a "knot style" faux bow with a small length of muslin fabric.
2. Layer the two tag shaped pieces and machine stitch around the edge of the tag using a contrasting thread. Use a needle to unpick the threads of the fabric and gently fray the edges. (1/4")
3. Use masking tape to attach the tag to a piece of cardboard or box lid to protect the edges from the spray mist. Apply turquoise mist and use your finger to work it into the fabric. Color the faux bow with turquoise mist and set both aside to dry.
4. Apply white crackle paint onto the upper portion of the tag and create snow drifts along the bottom edge. Set aside to dry.
5. When the crackle paint has set, stamp a flurry of snowflakes around the children. To make the children appear in front of some snowflakes, mask off the children with a bit of scrap paper, stamp the snowflake while overlapping the paper, and then discard the paper. Repeat masking off the edge to create snowflakes extending off the tag while maintaining the crisp edge of the stitching and frayed edge.
6. Apply silver glitter glue along the ground around the children's feet and accentuate the snowflakes by adding iridescent glitter glue over them.
7. Attach a loop of twine to the top and adhere the faux bow. Finally, wrap a bit of twine multiple times along the lower edge, embellish the tag with a scattering of teal sequins, and adhere a selection of small snowflake buttons.
7. Attach a loop of twine to the top and adhere the faux bow. Finally, wrap a bit of twine multiple times along the lower edge, embellish the tag with a scattering of teal sequins, and adhere a selection of small snowflake buttons.
A Closer Look:
1. Silhouette Style Children Ice Skating Winter Art Rubber Stamp
2. Winter Wonderland Art Rubber Stamp Sheet Set (snowflakes)
To purchase the stamps to complete this project, visit www.blankpagemuse.com
Other Supplies: black & teal ink pads, muslin fabric, turquoise spray mist, silver glitter glue & iridescent glitter glue, white crackle paint, embellishments: sequins, gems, & small snowflakes, twine
Join Us in the NEW Monthly Creative Challenge
Come checkout the Blank Page Muse Creative Challenge. This month's theme is Turquoise, Glitter, & Sparkle. Create a new project following the theme and add it via the Inlinkz linky tool. There will be a random prize drawing for a Blank Page Muse Gift Certificate. You can find all the guidelines HERE.
For more inspiring paper-craft projects from the Design Team, be sure to visit us at the
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Hi it's me again. When you feeling down and you don't want to talk about.bit you want your friend to realize your down in the dumps.
Tip 1: Your friend will realized there is a change in your attitude of not right away from the moment you greet them. Which would be you best friend or just a really close friend but it would be someone that knows you well.
Tip 2: of v your friend didn't realize in tip one than tip 2 will help I hope. Basically when you down don't really wanna do anything and you put on this fake smile that even your enemy could tell it's fake. Also when you say ya ,whatever, I don't care and negative stuff like that they are bound to know something's up.
Tip 3: This is the best tip I could give you is just tell your friend be honest with them because if something is bothering you you need to let it out . Trust me I know how it feels :)


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text: How do you come up with ideas for your work? Ideas for my seasonal creations come in dreams. I dream entire fash ion show productions that have all my designs on the runway. Elegant, dramatic and whimsical are the three words that describe my designs for the vast range of my creations. While executing a design, it begins to take on a life of its own. When I finish I say "Thank you Lord," because I don't know where that design came from. What else inspires you? My greatest inspirations in life are music, nature, especially birds and flowers, and oddly the sky. I can sit outside just staring at the sky and come up with so many ideas. They seem to never end. My morning prayer time and connecting with nature are ingredients in life I also consider to be inspirational. Who is wearing your hats? My designs are worn by hundreds of women in the Las Vegas Valley. They are very popular with the Dress for Success "Little Black Dress Club" and The Chapeau Society, several private tea groups and many church attendees. Social groups who travel to Delmar for opening day are also my clients as well as an awardwinning journalist in New Orleans who shows them off at the finest eateries in the city. My hats are also highlighted yearly in the Historic French Quarter Easter Parade in New Orleans. What's on your calendar of future events? Throughout the year I have events with Dress for Success Southern Nevada, Las Vegas Fashion Council, Children's Discovery Museum, PBS and The Chapeau Society. I round it all out with the Louisa Voisine Sewing School where I continue to offer classes throughout the year. ◆


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Chittagong University student and Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Diaz Irfan Chowdhury, who was found dead at his house in the port city last year, had been murdered, according to the 2nd autopsy report.
The Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital carried out the fresh postmortem on the body of the Bangladesh Chhatra League leader.
'We have received the autopsy report where it was mentioned that Diaz was murdered,' said Human Kumar, senior assistant police super (Chittagong zone) of the criminal investigation department and the investigation officer of the case, on Sunday.
On November 23 last, the forensic department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, that conducted the 1st postmortem, described the incident as a suicide in its report.
However, his family had rejected the autopsy report, alleging that he had been murdered.
Diaz, assistant secretary of the central BCL committee, was found dead and his body was hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence near Gate-2 of Chittagong University on the night of November 20 last.
On November 24, Diaz's mother Jaheda Amin Chowdhury filed a case against 10 people, including CU BCL president Alamgir Tipu and CU assistant proctor, with the court of chittagong senior judicial magistrate Shiblu Kumar.
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To stay updated with the latest information in the livestock farming industry to can check out our raising livestock latest news. On the other hand in case you are new to livestock farming and desire to begin professional livestock rearing now download a copy of our Profitable Livestock ebook.
When livestock is kept in the pasture-based system they are allowed to graze openly and eat nutritious green grass and other green plants that are easily digested by their bodies. The livestock welfare is greatly increased when they graze on pasture.
Sustainable livestock raising also helps in reducing damage to the environment plus the produces such as pork, eggs and milk is more nutritious and taste better than food from factory farms.
Livestock Health Benefits:
Livestock that are kept in limited factory farms have less quality life than those raised on pasture. Livestock when raised on gree pasture can move around and live an all natural life where else in factory farms the animals are all crowded in confined facilities. These facilities do not have sunlight or fresh air allowing bacteria to grow and affect the livestock. This then leads to the animals being provided with antibiotics which is not best for the livestock.
Since a great deal of animals eat grass, grazing them on pasture has a number of benefits. Some of the benefits will be the animals are able to produce drool which is great for neutralizing acids that is in their digestive tract. Since grain fed livestock produce less saliva they frequently suffer from dehydration, intestine damage and even death.
Human Being Health Benefits:
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It's no question that sustainable livestock farming is the way to go if you would like to be a successful livestock farmer. The livestock are reared in a healthy way and the produce is good for us human beings.


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Education Support Personnel ~ ESP!
SEA recognizes that we cannot run a school division without our Education Support Professionals (ESPs).
Our nurses, secretaries, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and custodians are vital! We can't make a school division run without you!
W know that our ESPs face unique challlenges. Our ESP committe advocates for your particular needs. Ask us how you can become involved.
Lisa Ehmer, para-professional at Lee Hill ES, is the chair of our ESP committee. All of our volunteers are critcal to the success of SEA.
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