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The function of a paragraph is that it contains one idea. At the same time it is newspaper practice to have a full line at the top of a leg. It does look odd to have a short line, as you often have at the end of a paragraph. Here the person responsible for the appearance of the page has taken the easy way out and simply run two paragraphs together. So you have a paragraph about both rats and the castaway, and it grates. In my view the words should take precedence, and you need to find a different way to do it. This might involve cutting a few words somewhere to change where the end of the paragraph falls. A suitable cut here would have been 'secure' from the first full par shown, since a haven by definition is a safe or secure place. You could also take out 'after a survey of the islands'. Or you could change the size of the picture, in this case the map. It is a pretty pathetic map anyway since you would need a magnifying glass to see where the Shiant Isles are.
Incidentally, 'castaway' is a noun, not an adjective, so 'castaway woman' is strange. You could say 'the female castaway' or just 'the castaway'.

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--Friedrich Nietzsche
These musings follow those of Dr. Larry Nannery on the thorny subject of Truth vis a vis Science and Philosophy. If one reads the history of philosophy in the West, it will not take very long before one realizes that there is from its beginnings an irrationalism that regularly manifests itself in anti-scientific biases of one sort or another. Certain varieties of 19th century romanticism fit here. One discerns it immediately in the writings of Nietzsche, perhaps the best known philosopher to first point out the Dionysian and the Apollonian in ancient Greek culture.
There is nowadays a widespread suspicion of the achievements of science coming close to an outright rejection of the idea of factual truth. This applies to academic circles too; to radical movements and "theories" such as cultural constructivism, deconstruction, radical feminism, and various other politically correct anti-empirical ists and isms. Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt have already ably analyzed this thorny issue in their book in Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. They show that this new hostility to science is part of a more general hostility to Western values and institutions, an anti-Enlightenment hostility that "mocks the idea that … a civilization is capable of progressing from ignorance to insight."
And then of course there is The Two Worlds of C.P. Snow. Few literary phrases have had as enduring an afterlife as "the two cultures," (1959) coined by C. P. Snow to describe what he saw as a dangerous schism between science and literary life. More than 50 years ago Snow, an English physicist, civil servant and novelist, delivered a lecture at Cambridge called "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," which was later published in book form. Snow's famous lament was that "the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups," consisting of scientists on the one hand and literary scholars on the other. Snow largely blamed literary types for this "gulf of mutual incomprehension." These intellectuals, Snow asserted, were shamefully unembarrassed about not grasping, say, the second law of thermodynamics — even though asking if someone knows it, he writes, "is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?"
The deeper point of "The Two Cultures" is not that we have two cultures, that is quite obvious. It is that science, above all, will keep us prosperous and secure; culture is merely frosting on the cake. Scientists, he argues, are morally "the soundest group of intellectuals we have," while literary ethics remain suspect. Literary culture has "temporary periods" of moral failure, he argues, quoting a scientist friend who mentions the fascist proclivities of Pound and Yeats and Wyndham Lewis, and asks, "Didn't the influence of all they represent bring Auschwitz that much nearer?" Obviously, the table is being turned around here.
Snow's essay provoked an ad hominem response from the Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis — who called Snow "intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be" — and a more measured one from Lionel Trilling, who nonetheless thought Snow had produced "a book which is mistaken in a very large way indeed." Snow's cultural tribalism, Trilling argued, impaired the "possibility of rational discourse."
For the past two decades, John Brockman has promoted the notion of a "third culture" to describe scientists — notably evolutionary biologists, psychologists and neuroscientists — who are "rendering visible the deeper meanings in our lives" and superseding literary artists in their ability to "shape the thoughts of their generation." So why did Snow think the supposed gulf between the two cultures was such a problem? Because, he argues in the latter half of his essay, it leads many capable minds to ignore science as a vocation, which prevents us from solving the world's "main issue," the wealth gap caused by industrialization, which threatens global stability.
Some of this sounds familiar; for decades we have regarded science as crucial to global competitiveness, an idea invoked as recently as in Barack Obama's second presidential campaign. But in other ways "The Two Cultures" remains irretrievably a cold war document. This is, I think, why Snow's diagnosis remains popular while his remedy is ignored. We have spent recent decades convincing ourselves that technological progress occurs in unpredictable entrepreneurial floods, allowing us to surf the waves of creative destruction. Yet "The Two Cultures" actually embodies one of the deepest tensions in our ideas about progress. Snow, too, wants to believe the sheer force of science cannot be restrained, that it will change the world — for the better, and it will happen naturally, without human guiding hand. The Industrial Revolution, he writes, occurred "without anyone," including intellectuals, "noticing what was happening." But at the same time, he argues that 20th-century progress was being stymied by the indifference of poets and novelists. That's why he wrote "The Two Cultures."
This question is the aspect of "The Two Cultures" that speaks most directly to us today. Your answer — and many different ones are possible — probably determines how widely and deeply you think we need to spread scientific knowledge. Do we need to produce more scientists and engineers to fight climate change? How should they be deployed? Do we need broader public understanding of the issue to support governmental action? Or do we need something else? "The Two Cultures" initially asserts the moral distinctiveness of scientists, but ends with a plea for enlisting science to halt the spread of Communism. In this sense it is a Cold War document. Neverthless some scholars have pointed out that contrasting scientific and humanistic knowledge is a repetition of the Methodenstreit of 1890 German universities. In the social sciences it is also commonly proposed as the quarrel of positivism versus interpretivism. Snow takes the philosophical position of scientism in conflating the complex fields of knowledge of the humanities.
As soon as it appeared, the brief work became a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. By 1961, the book was already in its seventh printing. I personally read it while I was in college in 1965. Its fame got an additional boost in 1962 when the critic F. R. Leavis published his attack on The Two Cultures in The Spectator. Leavis derided what he considered the "embarrassing vulgarity of style," his "complete ignorance" of history, literature, the history of civilization, and the human significance of the Industrial Revolution. He can't be said to know what a novel is, so continues Leavis, he is "utterly without a glimmer of what creative literature is, or why it matters."
The extreme reaction was partly a response to Snow's own extremity. But the questions raised by The Two Cultures—and by Leavis's criticisms remain . There is little doubt that since Galileo and beyond the gulf between scientists and literary intellectuals has grown wider as science has become ever more specialized and complex and seems unbridgeable. The more pressing issue concerns the fate of culture in a world increasingly determined by science and technology. Leavis described C. P. Snow as a "portent" revealing modern society's tendency to trivialize culture by reducing it to a form of diversion or entertainment. For him, it was not surprising that The Two Cultures so captured the public imagination: it did so precisely because it pandered to the debased notion of culture championed by established taste. As we look around it is hard not to notice a civilization and its culture bent on cultural suicide: the triumph of pop culture, the glorification of mindless sensationalism, the attack on the very idea of permanent cultural achievement—in the West. All this in tandem with unprecedented material wealth and profound cultural and intellectual degradation. C. P. Snow may be the canary in the mine. He is a symptom of something deeply troubling.
The tone of The Two Cultures is intriguing in itself. It swings between the anecdotal and the apocalyptic. In some "afterthoughts" on the two-cultures controversy that he published in Encounter in 1960, Snow refers to his lecture as a "call to action." But what is the problem? And what actions does Snow recommend given the gulf of mutual incomprehension of which he talks? On one page the problem is reforming the schools so that "English and American children get a reasonable education." A bit later the problem is mobilizing Western resources to industrialize India, Africa and Southeast Asia, and Latin America, and the Middle East, in order to forestall widespread starvation, revolution, and anarchy. The Soviet Union, as far as Snow is concerned. It all appears as a terrible muddle. It would be nice if "literary intellectuals" knew more science, the gulf as described by Snow seems unbreadeable. Snow uses "literary intellectual" interchangably with "traditional culture." This fusion yields the observation that there is "an unscientific," even an "anti-scientific" flavor to "the whole 'traditional' culture." What can this mean? Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Locke, Kant: are there any more "traditional" representatives of "the whole 'traditional culture'"?
At the beginning of his lecture, Snow affects a generous even-handedness in his attitude toward scientists and literary intellectuals. There's a bit of criticism for both. But this show of even-handedness soon evaporates. The "culture" of science, Snow tells us, "contains a great deal of argument, usually much more rigorous, and almost always at a higher conceptual level, than the literary persons' arguments." Literary intellectuals are "natural Luddites"; scientists "have the future in their bones." This is a formulation that Snow likes enough to repeat: "If the scientists have the future in their bones," he writes, "then the traditional culture responds by wishing the future did not exist." To clinch his argument that literary intellectuals ("the traditional culture") "wish the future did not exist," Snow holds up … George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four—as if that harrowing admonitory tale could have been written by anyone who did not have a passionate concern for the future!
Snow is especially impatient with the politics of "the traditional culture." He indicts "nine-tenths" of the great literary figures of the early twentieth century (1914–1950) as politically suspect. Scientists, too, appreciate the tragic nature of human life—that each of us "dies alone." But they are wise enough to distinguish between the "individual condition and the social condition" of man. As Leavis notes, the second law of thermodynamics is a piece of specialized knowledge, useful or irrelevant depending on the job to be done; the works of Shakespeare provide a window into the soul of humanity: to read them is tantamount to acquiring self-knowledge. Snow seems oblivious to this distinction as are most professors selling capitalism and entrepreneurship nowadays. A similar confusion is at work in Snow's effort to neutralize individuality by assimilating it to the project of "social hope." But what is the "social hope" that transcends, cancels or makes indifferent the inescapable tragic existential condition, the angst of choosing one's destiny of each individual as pointed out by a Kierkegaard? Where, if not in individuals, is what is hoped for … to be located? This is for Leavis the central philistinism and, the deeply anti-cultural bias, of Snow's position. For him, a society's material standard of living provides the ultimate, really the only, criterion of "the good life"; science is the means of raising the standard of living, ergo science is the final arbiter of value. Culture— literary, artistic culture—is merely frosting on the cake. It provides us with no moral challenge or insight, because the only serious questions are how to keep increasing and effectively distributing the world's wealth, and these are not questions culture is competent to address. "The upshot" of Snow's argument, Leavis writes, "is that if you insist on the need for any other kind of concern, entailing forethought, action and provision, about the human future—any other kind of misgiving—than that which talks in terms of productivity, material standards of living, hygienic and technological progress, then you are a Luddite."
The progress of science may be inexorable but Leavis is not prepared to accept that science represents a moral resource or that there is such a thing as a culture of science. Science may tells us how best to do things we have already decided to do, not why we should do them. Its province is the province of means not ends. That is its glory and its limitation. In this sense the statement by Albert Einstein makes perfect sense: our age is characterized by perfection of means and scarcity of goals.
One word that is missing from Snow's essay the editors of The Spectator note in an unsigned editorial, is "philosophy"—"that effort to impart moral direction that was found in the best nineteenth-century English writers." Chief among them Matthew Arnold whose Rede lecture delivered in 1882—the same as Snow's lecture, and titled "Literature and Science"—was itself a kind of "two cultures" argument. But his point was essentially the opposite of Snow's. Written in response to T. H. Huxley's insistence that literature should and inevitably would be supplanted by science, Arnold argued that, "so long as human nature is what it is," culture would continue to provide mankind with its fulcrum of moral understanding."
Arnold, like Leavis is concerned with "the cultural consequences of the technological revolution." He too argues passionately against the trivialization of culture, against "a superficial humanism" that is "mainly decorative." And both looked to culture to provide a way of relating the "results of modern science" to "our need for conduct, our need for beauty." This is the crux: that culture is in some deep sense inseparable from conduct—from that unscientific but ineluctable question, "How should I live my life?" Leavis's point was the same. It is exactly the upheavals precipitated by the march of science and technology that has rendered culture—the arts and humanities—both more precarious and more precious. So the preservation of culture as a guide to "conduct" is now more crucial than ever. For Arnold, if mankind was to confront the moral challenges of modern science "in full intelligent possession of its humanity" and maintain "a basic living deference towards that to which, opening as it does into the unknown and itself unmeasurable, we know we belong," then the realm of culture had to be protected from the reductive forces of a crude scientific rationalism.
The temptation to reduce culture to a reservoir of titillating pastimes is all but irresistible nowadays. Rock music, "performance art," television, video games (not to mention drugs, violence, and mindless sex): since Descartes we are everywhere encouraged to think of ourselves as complicated machines for consuming sensations—the more, and more exotic, the better. Culture is no longer an invitation to confront our humanity but a series of opportunities to impoverish it through diversion. We are, as Eliot put it in Four Quartets, "distracted from distraction by distraction." C. P. Snow and his entrepreneurial cohorts represents the smiling, jovial face of this predicament. Critics like Arnold and Leavis offer us the beginnings of an alternative. Let those who have ears, let them hear.


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BREAKING NEWS : Arsenal 'Willing To Sell' Fabregas IF The Offer Is Right
Breaking news reaching us from BBC is that Arsenal are willing to play ball with Barcelona for Fabregas IF the proper offer is received.
A senior officer within Arsenal, had this to say
- "The Offer was made formally in writing to our chief executive officer(Gazidis), and we said no straightaway. And if an improved offer is made, then yes, we'll possibly have to sell"
We'll keep you posted on updates but as we reported earlier on why we should sell him, the club must realise they can't play hard ball for so long. We are expecting an improved offer and if we get 35M + Thiago, then we should sell.
EXCLUSIVE : Why Fabregas Must Leave Arsenal & £18M For Mata | Still No Samba & Gervinho
You're probably wondering if I'm nuts or something and why I'd want our best and most valuable to leave the club. Well, remember the story of the Israelites that wanted to leave Egypt and how Moses kept begging for Pharaoh to LET MY PEOPLE GO. And how it had to come to ten plagues and the near destruction of Egypt beefore that happened.
What's my point? Well, right now, we're on the fence with this deal, Barca don't need Fabregas but they want him. So let's try and get the best possible deal. If he doesn't leave this summer, at the end of next summer he won't be worth much because he'll have just two years left on his contract and Barca can afford to wait. Let's face it, barring some freakish Miracle that would see us win the treble next season, Fabregas WOULD NOT sign any other contract or extension with Arsenal.
So I say, get the best possible deal for him now, if we can get 35M & Thiago Alcantara, I'd be happy. Incase you haven't heard of or seen Thiago play, I have, and like I said on twitter a few weeks back, he's like The Love Child Of Xavi's Father & Iniesta's Mother, yes, he's that good and ready for the big time. Let's make it happen.
Transfer news, after getting all hyped from watching clips of Ricky Alvarez who was rumored to be only interested in a move to Emirates, looks like we're about to be dashed on that front. Inter Milan have reportedly made a better bid than ours, offered more in terms of wages & the allure of Argentine mates at Inter might prove too strong. I hope we still bag him, he's like a cross between Kaka & Di Maria in his style of play. Nuff said.
Instead, news broke all over spanish media yesterday that we put in an 18M bid for Juan Manuel Mata who is a very exciting player than can play across the midfield. Word is, he wants to join a champions league team seeing as Valencia did not make it(which also rules out long time suitors) and with his club's account well in red so much its fading to pink, they might sell him. 18M??? That's not our way but I'm glad and I hope its true. That might just be the end of Nasri OR might convince the likes of him & Cesc to stay. Mata or Alvarez? You pick.
The window is not yet open officially, but where United that just won the league have already bolstered their ranks, we're no closer to where we were when the season ended. Samba deal is still unclear, despite his public outcry to join us. Just make it happen already as Samba seems to be everyone's preferred choice ahead of Cahill & Jagielka because of his physical attributes and his footballing ones as well.
Same goes for Gervinho, too many twists and turns, now word is, we haven't even put in an official bid according to their president, even though the Ivorian has told the club to make something happen. So we're definitely going to see movement this week.
From wherever you're reading, have a splendid day and for the impatient ones, we still have 65 days till the window closes. Cheers
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Another windy day at Crissy Field. Here's a shot of Steve Bodner (USA4) taking a downwinder on his slalom gear. There was also plenty of freestyle action.
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UN blames South Sudan government for famine, says it is still buying arms
South Sudan's government is mainly to blame for famine in parts of the war-torn country, yet President Salva Kiir is still boosting his forces using millions of dollars from oil sales, according to a confidential United Nations report.
UN sanctions monitors said 97 per cent of South Sudan's known revenue comes from oil sales and that at least half of the budget and probably more is devoted to security.
'Revenue from forward oil sales totaled approximately $243 million between late March and late October 2016,' the panel of UN monitors said in the report to the UN Security Council, seen by Reuters on Thursday.
'Despite the scale and scope of the political, humanitarian, and economic crises, the panel continues to uncover evidence of the ongoing procurement of weapons by the...Government for the SPLA (South Sudanese army), the National Security Service, and other associated forces and militias,' the report said.
Christian aid agencies have mobilised individually and as part of the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee in an attempt to urgently address the crisis. 'While there have been poor rains in many parts of the country, there is no doubt that this famine is man-made, due to insecurity and poor economic management,' said a letter from South Sudanese Catholic Bishops.
Evangelical NGO World Vision has long term work in South Sudan and has previously examined the impact of armed conflict. 'Children live in fear,' a report says. 'They believe that the armed conflict may again be directed at them and their families. Many remember when armed men forced them to leave their homes, and most experience fear and distress without the comfort or familiarity of home.'
The United Nations has declared a famine in some parts of the world's youngest country, where nearly half its population – some 5.5 million people – face food shortages. A civil war erupted in 2013 when Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, who has fled and is now in South Africa.
'The bulk of evidence suggests that the famine...has resulted from protracted conflict and, in particular, the cumulative toll of military operations undertaken by the SPLM/A in Government in southern Unity state; denial of humanitarian access, primarily by the SPLM/A in Government; and population displacement resulting from the war,' the report said.
The United Nations says at least one quarter of South Sudanese have been displaced since 2013.
The annual report of the sanctions monitors to the 15-member Security Council comes ahead of a ministerial meeting of the body on South Sudan next Thursday, which is due to be chaired by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
While the previous US administration of President Barack Obama was heavily involved in the birth of South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, and led Security Council efforts to try to end the civil war, the policy of new US President Donald Trump toward the African state is unclear.
In December, the Security Council failed to adopt a US-drafted resolution to impose an arms embargo and further sanctions on South Sudan despite warnings by UN officials of a possible genocide. The UN monitors again recommended in their report that the council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan.
The Security Council set up a targeted sanctions regime for South Sudan in March 2015 and has blacklisted six generals – three from each side of the conflict – by subjecting them to an asset freeze and travel ban.
The UN monitors said all parties to the conflict continue to commit widespread human rights violations 'with near complete impunity and a lack of any credible effort to prevent these violations or to punish the perpetrators'.
UN peacekeepers have been in South Sudan since 2011.
Additional reporting by Reuters.


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Those who do not find it weird to take pictures of others without any hesitation have to rethink their action after the passing of a law against "Upskirting" in England.
Upskirting is the practice of filming up someone's clothing without their consent or without them knowing. This new legislation was passed by the upper house of parliament on Tuesday and is now awaiting the rubber stamp of approval of Royal Assent.
The campaign was started by Gina Martin to outlaw Upskirting, online in 2017. After two years of her constant efforts, finally, the bill has passed that the offender will have to face up to two years in jail.
The campaign got hype after Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse took the matter to Parliament. It faced a setback in June 2018 when its progress was halted by lawmaker Christopher Chope, prompting cries of "shame" from other lawmakers.
The bill got attention and support of government officials when UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "disappointed" the attempt to make it a criminal offence did not progress.
After this news, Gina Martin posted a tweet saying she was over the moon that the bill had passed.
"After becoming a victim and recognizing the gap in the law, I.. partnered with Ryan Whelan, of Gibson Dunn and began 18 months of exhaustive, emotional and life-changing work," she wrote.
"I always thought politics was (impenetrable), but with the right help and the willpower you can do it"
This law is already practised in Scotland since last ten years and several US and Australian states have legislated against the behaviour and it is illegal in New Zealand and India.
Now we have to see how much time it would take for our government to focus on such matters as they play a lot of role in how a society operates.


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Cagliari President Tommaso Giulini confirmed Inter's offer for Nicolò Barella "is not satisfactory" and other clubs are interested in the midfielder.
There are reports of a proposal worth €35m plus a player in exchange, but so far the two clubs have been unable to agree on who to include in the deal.
"There are many clubs who want Barella, as he had five extraordinary years here, plus on loan at Como," Giulini told Sky Sport Italia.
"This could be the definitive years of his consecration in a club that plays in Europe. We'll see which of these clubs will make Cagliari and the player happy.
"Inter are interested, as are other clubs. They made a serious proposal, we are evaluating it, but so far it is not satisfactory. We'll see if he ends up a club in the Champions League or Europa League, but either way he has shown for Italy that he can have his say on certain stages."
Milan are reported to have renewed their approach for Barella, offering €35m cash plus another €10m in performance-related bonuses.
Meanwhile, Giulini confirmed the news that midfielder Luca Cigarini has extended his contract to June 2022, while Cagliari "like" Gregoire Defrel.


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Rwandan election commission has announced that incumbent president Paul Kagame has won the election with a landslide for the third term.
According to the Rwandan election commission, Mr. Kagame has won 98% of the votes. His supporters began celebration even before the announcement, though.
The other contestants in the election have accused the ruling group of intimidating them and they demand that the low-turnout in the election proves their allegations.
The ruling party, however, denies all the accusations.
Mr. Kagame has been in power for 17 years. President Kagame is still quite popular in the country as he is seen as the figure who ended the horrors of 1994 genocides and brought stability and peace back in Rwanda.
In 1994, he ended a long bloody genocide that killed around 800,000 people. The nightmare ended after his rebel group took the control of the capital, Kigali.
His supporters credit him with the economic development Rwanda so far achieved and regard him as the symbol of stability of Rwanda.
The constitutional referendum in 2015 allowed Mr. Kagame to seek for the third term and gave him chance to stay in power until 2034 if he wants.
Mr. Kagame sees Singapore and South Korea as models. He is seen as a military genius who helped the country recover from the wounds of horror that killed tens of thousands in 1994.
His critics, most of who are outside the country , accuse him of suppressing the opposition and alleged him of assassinating his critics.
Mr. Kagame denies any such allegation however. His supporters say that he championed women's right. In Rwanda, most of the members of the parliament are women.


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Two of Chicago's collar counties--McHenry and Will--lead the nation in homeownership rates, a new study shows.
McHenry, Will counties lead nation in homeownership
A report by researchers at University of Illinois at Chicago shows homeownership rates at 85% in McHenry County and 84% in Will counties in 2004. The national average was 69%.
The other three collar counties--Lake, DuPage and Kane--came in among the top 30 out of 230 counties studied. The researchers used U.S. Census data and the study includes only counties for which there is sufficient data to report results annually.
Cook came in at 188 with homeownership rate of 61%. But Cook County ranks higher than other metropolitan counties such as New York and Los Angeles, which have homeownership rates of 23% and 50%, respectively.
The high homeownership rates in the collar counties are partially due to the availability of land. For example, housing is being built in previously agricultural areas in Will and McHenry counties. In these fringe areas, the land costs are low and relatively large homes are selling for lower prices than other communities.
"Most of the expensive areas are surrounded by major foothills or topographic constraints. They cannot expand. The supply of land that's available land for urban development is limited in the western and eastern markets. In the Midwest, we don't have that problem," said Siim Soot, director emeritus of UIC's Urban Transportation Center.
He says 20 years ago, the Chicago area was more typical of large metropolitan areas, with homeownership rates around 50%. Rising incomes and relatively moderate housing costs in the two outlying collar counties have pushed that number much higher for McHenry and Will. DuPage, Lake and Kane counties homeownership rates are not as high in part because they also have more rental housing.
"For someone that is starting their career and wants to buy home, the Chicago area is one of the best places to do that," he says.
He adds that high homeownership in Will and McHenry implies that sprawl is caused by low land prices and growing prosperity rather than by highway expansion but expects it level off.
"With McHenry around 85%, it's difficult to go beyond that," Mr. Soot says.


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The minute I met Nicki and Andy at a wedding fair back in 2016 I kept my fingers crossed they would book me. They seemed fun, full of life and very much in love. At this point they didn't have a venue so just took my business card and said they would be back in contact. A few months on, Nicki rang me to say she would like to meet up to chat with me about their wedding plans, to say I was a little excited is a slight understatement. We met up at their home and chatted for ages, I also got to meet their little furry friend Heath the moggy (very cute). We looked at albums, drank tea and had a giggle. I was absolutely over the moon when Nicki rang me early January 2017 to say they wanted me to capture their wedding day for them, I couldn't stop smiling. They had booked the Elvetham Hotel in Hampshire on the 6th January 2018 for their special day, a very grand hotel indeed for a beautiful winter wedding. My second photographer was also booked to capture the grooms preparations.
Prior to the day we met again, this time at The Elvetham for their pre-wedding shoot. It was a lovely Autumnal day, bright with a little bit of a nip in their air. We walked and talked, caught some lovely natural images and of course, had a laugh too.
When their big day arrived I was there early, Laura my second photographer had also arrived with Andy and his groomsmen at their home. I went to meet the blushing bride and all her bridesmaids to start capturing the story of their day. Photographing all the beautiful details of the brides preparations are one of my favourite bits, so pretty and well thought out. I always think its these details that have taken ages to gather and get just right and can't be missed out of their story. When it comes to getting into a wedding dress there is usually a bit of tension in the air, Nicki however was totally cool and had this bit nailed. Her Mum needed a little bit of guidance with doing up the buttons on the back but all quite normal, a hair pin took care of that little job! Dress on, makeup and hair done she was ready to meet her husband to be. A quick round up of the little bridesmaids and she was off to see the registrar.
I positioned myself at the front of the ceremony taking pictures of the nervous groom and guests as they waited patiently for Nicki to arrive. This bit is another favourite of mine, just seeing the look on the bride and grooms face as they approach each other is priceless, one indeed for the album. The ceremony went without a hitch (you know what I mean!!), from vows to first kiss it was emotional! It was soon over and they were on their way back down the isle. Procecco in hand and lots of congratulations from their guests we were on our way to capture their group shots.
To say it was a tad chilly on this January day is a little understated! I was kindly wrapped up in one of the bridesmaids wraps to keep me warm whilst Laura and I worked through their group list. Nicki, Andy and I then went for a little walk in the grounds to capture their romantic shots. So many beautiful places to do this at The Elvetham, it was a job to stop shooting!
Back into the warm, guests were being called into the reception. Dinner promptly served and speeches planned to take place just before desert we took time out to recharge and rest our feet. Dinner eaten and feeling refreshed we were called back in to the reception to capture their speeches which were brilliant. The best man deserved an Oscar for his speech, so funny and a little embarrassing for Andy here and there but that's supposed to happen right??
We then had cutting of the cake and their first dance, the day was going to fast but was so wonderful to be part of it. We were loving every minute.
The secret of the day, fireworks! Nicki's Mum had contacted me to arrange timing for her surprise gift of fireworks and boy was it a fabulous gift. The look on Andy and Nicki's faces when the first firework when up was priceless. One after the other lighting up the sky, lots of oohs and arrrhs from guests, it was simply magical.
Shortly after the last firework was our time to leave the celebrations. Bidding our goodbye both Laura and I left feeling high on life, absolutely loving our jobs and slightly jaded! Nicki and Andy were both so appreciative of our help throughout the day, her comments and warm thanks made me feel proud knowing I've done my job.
Roll forward a few weeks, I presented Nicki and Andy with their images. I am yet again smiling all over my face when I hear their comments. This is why I love my job, hearing couples in love with their images, reliving the day through my lens is like no other job I've ever had, its magical and makes me very happy.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post, if you did and would like to leave a comment please do, it would be great to hear from you.
Sally-Anne x
Photography: Photography By Sally-Anne
Laura Anderson Photography (Second Photographer)
Venue: The Elvetham, Hartley Wintney, Hook, Hampshire – Facebook Page: The Elvetham


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Hold onto your hats people, your high tea is about to go sky high. This pretty much means you'll never have to worry about impressing your date (or mate) again—you're welcome.
For the first time ever, you can now board the Luna Park Ferris Wheel and stuff yourself silly (in a classy way) with bite-sized eats like cucumber and cheese sandwiches, goats curd quiche, traditional English scones (our fave) and macaroons.
In total high tea style, there'll be champagne, coffee and tea (obvs), so start practising your table manners and planning your outfit.
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On 21 September, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, gave a lecture on "The 2005 Convention: its legacy and the new challenges to the next ten years" in the opening of the International Seminar on Culture and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was opened by the Minister of Culture of Brazil, H.E. Mr João Luiz Silva (Juca) Ferreira and was attended by a large public including researchers, students and members of civil society.
The seminar celebrated the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the 70th anniversary of UNESCO.
"We are on the verge of a new creative economy, and the 2005 Convention is the roadmap we need to harness the potential of this global change", said the Director-General.
By reviewing the impact of the 2005 Convention, she declared: "Over the decade, this Convention has become the leading global platform to collect information and strengthen cultural policies, with instruments and databases of innovative examples from around the world, accessible to everyone, from policy-makers, to artists and citizens." The Director-General referred to the tremendous influence of the Convention on international cooperation, bringing together countries as Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia.
She underscored the importance of the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, not as a simple trade and commerce issue, but as a vision of society and humanity. "This is about a vision of human beings as cultural beings, for whom the ability to create, to express oneself, to transmit heritage to future generations is vital, as important as the air we breathe, the food we eat," said the Director-General.
The lecture was followed by an institutional video presenting the aims and objectives of the Convention's International Fund, prepared in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and concluded by a concert of Mr Gilberto Gil, UNESCO Artist for Peace.
Earlier in the day, the Director-General met Minister Juca Ferreira, who explained Brazil's position on the Convention of underwater cultural heritage. He also expressed preoccupation regarding the increasing traffic of cultural goods due to the lack of an inventory which would enable identification of artefacts. Lastly, the Minister expressed Brazil's interest in the creation of a UNESCO Chair on cultural policies management.
The Director-General visited the Museum of the Indian, where she met with Indigenous leaders and received the "Memorial das Línguas em Extinção" (the Complete Dossier and Grammar of Endangered Indigenous Languages). This publication is part of a partnership between UNESCO, the Museum of the Indian and the National Foundation for Indians that has allowed more than 30,000 indigenous people to benefit from 42 projects of documentation on Indigenous languages and cultures.
The Director-General had a friendly and fruitful exchange with Mr Nizan Guanaes and Mr Oskar Metsavaht, two committed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors with the aim to develop future joint actions related to world heritage.
The candidature of the Valongo Wharf Archeological site, inscribed in the tentative list, was presented to the Director-General.


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The Brazos Twisted Oak Walking Cane is a best-seller for good reason! It's the perfect walking aid for anyone looking for handcrafted quality along with natural beauty. The smooth, polished wood will feel good in your hand and make you feel safer, knowing you have a strong, solid companion at your side to help keep you balanced. A majestic twist highlights this classic walking cane, made from the choicest oak -- a strong wood with an attractive finish. The handle is intricately shaped to perfectly fit your hand. Like all of our finely crafted walking sticks and canes, the Twisted Oak Walking Cane is made in the USA by our skilled craftsmen using the highest quality wood and time-tested methods.
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Mashkov Viktor A.
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University J. Evangelista Purkinje in Usti nad Labem, a member of the Academy of space exploration Ukraine (Czech Republic)
Docent Viktor Mashkov was born in 1955. Graduated from Kiev Military Aviation Institute (KMAI), faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1977. Received PhD degree in Technical Diagnosis from KMAI in 1984 and Dr Sc. degree in Cybernetics and Technical Diagnosis from Military Academy of Ukraine in 1995. Academician of the Ukraine academy of Space.
Since 1984 has worked in different positions ranged from assistant professor to professor. From 1984 to 1997 worked at Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, at KMAI and at Military Academy of Ukraine. From 1999 to 2007 visiting professor at Czech Technical University (CTU) and Charles University in Prague. Since 2007 until now Docent at the University of J.E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic).
Supervised 4 PhD students and advised 2 Dr Sc. Theses.
Prepared the courses and delivered lectures on the subjects:
· Software fault tolerance, dependability of distributed applications (in the English language) Univerzitas Carolina Pragensis, matfyzpress, Praha, 2005
· Modern approaches to providing fault tolerance of software systems and distributed internet-based applications (in the English language) Univerzitas Carolina Pragensis,matfyzpress, Praha, 2006
· Dependabilita softwarových systému (in the Czech language) University of J.E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem, 2008
· Dependability of information systems (in the English language) University of J.E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem, 2012
His major research focuses on dependability of computer systems, software fault tolerance, system level self-diagnosis and multi-agent systems.
Program committee member of several international conferences (Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-agent Systems CEEMAS, Intelligent Decision Making Systems and Applied Aspects of Information Technologies ISDMIT).
Investigator on more than ten research projects to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine while working at KMAI. During 1999-2003 wrote six Technical Reports at the Gerstner laboratory, Department of Cybernetics, CTU (Prague, Czech Republic).
Participated in more than ten International Conferences of IEEE, IASTED, ICSOFT, HIS (held in Hungary, Spain, Chili, Austria, China, the USA, Virgin Islands, Cyprus) where his contribution papers were published in the proceedings of the conferences.
Since 2008 member of DIG of the EU project DEPLOY. Currently, local coordinator of the International (Czech Republic – Germany) project InWest "Transfer of Information Technologies".
Author (or co-author) of nearly 100 papers, journal articles and books.
List of publications for the last three years
1. V.Mashkov, J.Fiser. Samokontrola a samodiagnostika na systémové úrovni. Lviv: Ukrainian Academic Press, 2010, ISBN 978-966-322-169-4, 176 stran. (in Czech language)
2. V.Mashkov. Selected problems of system level self-diagnosis. Lviv: Ukrainian Academic Press, 2011, ISBN 978-966-322-365-0, 184 pages.
Journal articles:
1. J.Fiser, V.Mashkov. Alliance and coalition formation. Int. Journal of Applied Computer Science, Vol.18, No.1, Poland, 2010, pp.19-38, ISSN 1507-0360.2. V. Mashkov, J. Barilla, P. Simr. Applying Petri Nets to Modeling of Many-Core Processor Self-Testing when Tests are Performed Randomly, Springer, Journal of Electronic Testing (JETTA), Vol.29, No.1, 2013, pp.25-34.
3. V.Mashkov, J.Barilla, P.Simr. Illustrative modeling of coalition formation. In Proc. of International scientific-practical conference "Innovative Information Technologies", Part 2, Prague, 2014, pp.337-345. ISSN 2303-9728.
4. V.A.Mashkov. System level self-diagnosis and system fault-tolerance. In Proceedings of ISDMCI'2014 International conference, Zaliznyj Port, Ukraine, 2014, pp. 15-21.
5. V.A.Mashkov. Modeling of coalition formation. In Proceedings of ISDMCI'2014 International conference, Zaliznyj Port, Ukraine, 2014, pp.12-15.
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AH, IT'S THAT TIME of the year again. That time for movie critics and purist fans to lambast The Remakes Nobody Wants Or Needs.
This summer, that title falls to Len Wiseman's re-imagining of Paul Verhoeven's Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring movie, based on a Philip K. Dick short called We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, entitled 'creatively' Total Recall.
On one hand, I can see where the derision comes from. Verhoeven's Total Recall is a classic that many people still like to watch. Just like the problem with The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony Pictures does love to raise people's hackles by making money out of recycling classic stuff. But on the other hand, it's ridiculous to say that a remake wasn't necessary. Filmmakers are rarely able to get a pitch perfect portrayal of Philip K. Dick concepts, so as long as the note is still off-key, everybody is welcome to try to polish them to flawless perfection on screen. And I'm glad Len Wiseman took the chance but, really, this so-called remake is not that bad.
There were homages all over the place to the original Total Recall. This is not surprising; Wiseman claimed that he was a fan of the original film. But he chose to set the story on Earth, instead of Mars, and made it as if the event in his film happened for real in the life of his main character, Quaid. These things make the story less fantastical but equally thrilling as the original. I like the ambiguity provided by the original, but the 'this is real' sensibility of the story gives the remake added depth.
Neither film came close to interpreting accurately what Dick wrote in his short story. This, too, is unsurprising but if I have to choose which one is closer to the original, I would perhaps pick this 2012 version over the 1990 version. Quaid's adventure involving Rekall is closer to Quail's journey with REKAL (although I thought Rekall was severely underused in Wiseman's movie) and Dick's concept of dystopian society was more clearly emphasized in this one, without anyone having to travel to another planet (really, nothing says 'dystopia' more than a post-apocalyptic Earth). And if the 'not going to Mars' factor is the one that worries people most about the story, I would encourage them to stop fretting. Wiseman has, against all odds, created a very cool concept to replace Mars and make the story work through his designs.
And that – the design – is the strength of this remake. Wiseman and his team created a look for their universe that doesn't only feel plausible, but also cool. Take the hover cars for example. They are ten times more doable for manufacturers to produce in a few decades' time than the cars seen in Minority Report. The sprawling cityscape of the Colony, with its interconnected buildings, river down the middle and multicultural elements, is also a marvel to look at that. And if that's not enough, there's The Fall – it's Wiseman's ace in substituting Mars for Earth, which definitely screams 'science fiction'.
The biggest miss of the movie is the cast. Individually, these actors bring a lot of credibility to their character. Colin Farrell's Quaid was good enough, Kate Beckinsale's Lori was a proper badass and Jessica Biel's Melina was decent. There should be no complaints, except neither of them had any chemistry with each other. I could hardly believe that Lori had a grudge against Quaid and that Melina and Quaid had something romantic going on. Either they were too focused on doing the action scenes rather than making their interactions real, or they were just really a mismatched group of people. There is no doubt that Wiseman had a very good ensemble on his hands; it just seems like he didn't know what to do with them and would rather focus on designing cool hover cars and other high tech transport systems.
So this film – this remake – is both a hit and a miss. As an adaptation, it works. As a remake, it's not bad. But as an individual piece of cinema, it's an incomplete one. It's probably not going to change the face of genre cinema, nor will it lose the derision of the purists and skeptics, but perhaps it'll do its job in introducing the Dick/sci-fi concepts to the modern mainstream audience. It's worth seeing in the cinema but you probably won't be interested in collecting the DVD.
Len Wiseman's vision of a futuristic dystopian society works in this remake that no one wants. Sadly, while the highest profile project of his career is not hateful, it certainly won't be loved.
The Indonesian version of this review will appear in Total Film Indonesia Issue #35, out in September 2012.


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