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"Just Peace - the dream that comes true"
09 June 2011
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary,World Council of Churches
Presentation to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2 June 2011
(delivered by Martin Robra)
1. Just peace: A definition, a declaration – and a dream
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends,
I want to thank the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for inviting me to address this august gathering and such a distinguished audience of politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, church leaders and others, representing all walks of life of the German society. It is great to be here together with you.
We have different languages when we speak about peace. As we represent different forms of knowledge, power, experience and wisdom, we also participate in different discourses, or, if I may use the image of the upcoming Pentecost, we speak with different tongues. As a leader in the ecumenical movement I want to take this opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts – my dream for peace. This dream is nurtured by the impulses from the Biblical tradition, from experiences churches have had, from events and programs in the ecumenical movement, from voices of church leaders I hear around the world, from testimonies from ordinary people living in all kind of contexts and challenges, from expectations you and others have towards the churches. I believe that those (of you) who are making decisions on behalf of others need different languages and different images to stimulate your creativity and your courage, to be able to see what is not yet a reality – but what we are striving for.
We need dreams. If we don´t have dreams about what we want to become true, we are not quite realistic. We are all quite used to setting goals. We should not underestimate the power of definitions, and how impoartant it is to define something not yet seen.
There are needs for definitions of what we are aiming at that have the power to change our plans and politics. Those definitions of what we are aiming at could be expressed as a dream. And we know the power of that language from the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
A radical realism in the form of dreams is required to open the space for serious dialogue on the challenges we are facing together. The weight of the problems around and ahead of us, is about to paralyze our capacity for common and decisive action. In such a situation it needs both, the courage to confront the seriousness of the threats, but also a vision for the future, a dream that
- gives us direction,
- is focusing our common efforts, and
- motivates us when we are about to despair.
We all need an open dialogue on both the problems we are facing and the vision that keeps us going. I am convinced that we urgently need a new dialogue of different actors in our societies, of politicians, scientists, and artists, of entrepreneurs and trade unions, of church members and, definitely, of people of different religions. We need a dialogue, which helps us to make new definitions, to overcome divisions and to develop a new language and understanding that will open doors for new solutions.
Why not make use of the forum that the German Kirchentag in the historically significant city of Dresden. Dresden will remain as a sign of the destructiveness of war and the ability to rebuild peace. What can this event provide us with to take new steps towards making a dream come true? It would re-energize this space and would, indeed, be congenial with the vision of its founders.
In addition to the dreams and the definitions, we need the declarations. One declaration about peace has been repeated more than many others: "Glory to God and peace on earth." Together with 1000 Christians from all confessions and continents, and some representatives of other religious traditions, we gathered two weeks ago in Kingston, Jamaica for an International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC). We shared our dreams under the motto of the declaration of the angels at Christmas, which has been echoed in Christian liturgy every Sunday since then. This double declaration: Glory to God – and peace on earth, is needed.
The work for peace needs a dimension that goes beyond any ideology, political system, superpower, military balance, above any religious movement or religious authority. To give glory to God is exactly the perspective the church is called to offer to all peace-making and peace-building. There is something more distinguished, more honourable, something which is lasting longer than our needs, something independent of our failure or success. To give glory to God above all human authorities will always be a sign of how we respect life as sacred, the value of each being created in the image of God. To make peace is to give glory to God who is above all our intentions and plans. This declaration of glory to God is exactly the message of the incarnation: We honour God the creator of all human beings and the whole nature of the world, the God who is becoming one of us, participating in the life of human beings in this world.
Under this declaration "Glory to God and peace on earth" we- the World Council of Churches – have developed our dream, or definition, our declaration, we have named it a Call to Just Peace (gerechter Frieden). It is formulated in a short document to inspire Christians all over the world to find ways to work for just peace for all on this one planet on which we are living, and where we hope some can be living after us. This dream is rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ and his declaration, his dream and his definition of the kingdom of God, and our prayer at this day of Ascension –as he taught us to pray: Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
2. A dream of just peace in the midst of our realities
In Kingston we discussed with one another, we shared experiences of violence, war, poverty and despair, as well as signs of peace and hope from all kinds of contexts and cultures around the world. We all know well four of the most burning issues for the survival of humankind and peace on earth today:
- The violence, as human suffering as well as systemic oppression, in many communities arround the world, from the family to the streets, to the nations;
- the challenge of climate change that severely damages the future of life;
- the daily deadly consequences of massive poverty and
- the enormous financial resources used to produce weapons and the capacity to destroy life with the horrific arsenal of nuclear arms that surrounds us.
We also know that the interactions between these factors make them even more dangerous and destructive, and that the most vulnerable are those who will also become the first victims. If we add to the list the issue of diseases we see that even more clearly: We know that the combination of poverty, environmental disaster, and disease is a deadly one.
3. A growing consensus towards just peace
It was against this background that the WCC pledged to develop its vision of just peace. We declared in our call to just peace, and discussed in the four days of our work in Kingston, that we are willing to work for just peace by making
- Peace in the community;
- Peace with the Earth
- Peace in the marketplace, and
- Peace among peoples.
Many do complain about the lack of will or even ability among politicians today to respond to these four challenges in coordinated international action. Surely, this is partly due to strong interests of powerful actors who still profit from the status quo. Another important reason for the paralysis we can observe, however, seems to be a lack of empathy for the lives and the suffering of others. I do believe that indifference to the plight of the other blocks ethical approaches to address those threats to life and undermines cooperation beyond the boundaries of nations and religions.
The Call to Just Peace that was shared with participants at the IEPC in Kingston speaks of it in the following way:
10. On the Way of Just Peace the justifications of armed conflict and war become increasingly implausible and unacceptable. The churches have struggled with their disagreement on this matter for decades; however, the Way of Just Peace now compels us to move forward. Yet, to condemn war is not enough; we must do everything in our power to promote justice and peaceful cooperation among peoples and nations. The Way of Just Peace is fundamentally different from the concept of "just war" and much more than criteria for protecting people from the unjust use of force; in addition to silencing weapons it embraces social justice, the rule of law, respect for human rights and shared human security.
11. Within the limitations of tongue and intellect, we propose that Just Peace may be comprehended as a collective and dynamic yet grounded process of freeing human beings from fear and want, of overcoming enmity, discrimination and oppression, and of establishing conditions for just relationships that privilege the experience of the most vulnerable and respect the integrity of creation.
Perhaps this sounds complicated, but the basic criteria and the direction in which we want to move forward are clear. Just peace is a vision, a dream that has already motivated the prophets in the Hebrew Bible when they saw the lion and the lamb in peaceful harmony. For Christians, it is a dream that already came true when Jesus Christ reconciled the world with God on the cross. Led by the cross of Christ, we can accept our own vulnerability so that we are free for the other, for her or his suffering and yearning for justice and peace.
The World Council of Churches was established after the great disaster of the Second World War. The message of the WCC has since 1948 been "No more war". We are today living a decisive moment of human history on our planet Earth. In 1974 the World Council of Churches addressed for the first time three interrelated threats to the survival of humankind: the nuclear inferno, the deadly consequences of massive poverty and the environmental crisis. The ever-accelerating development of science and technology coupled with the fossil fuel-based development path and an uncritical emphasis on unlimited economic growth were celebrated as models for progress. However, at the same time these increased the potential for self-destruction.It was clear that humanity had reached a threshold which required a change in direction.
In response, the WCC started to explore the vision of a just, participatory and sustainable society. Recognizing that the necessary turn-around had indeed a deeper spiritual dimension, which challenged the very being of the churches, in 1983 the WCC called for a conciliar process on justice, peace and the integrity of creation. The conciliar process was enthusiastically received by many people in a then-divided Germany. Ecumenical assemblies in both the GDR and the Federal Republic and at the European level in Basel (1989) prepared the way for the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of your country.
The changing historical context as well as the need to explore more specific responses to the threats, led the WCC to concentrate on the critique of the prevailing economic paradigmin the following years. This included support for the negotiations on climate change and on developing a programme to overcome violence as three distinct, but inter-related processes. In 2001, the WCC initiated a Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV), which ended this year with the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation(IEPC) in Kingston, Jamaica.
There is now a growing consensus among the churches and movements in the churches on the issues of peace. Let me point to some important factors that were manifested more strongly in the Peace Convocation this year:
There is a wider and more comprehensive understanding of peace established. This is reflected in the four dimensions through which we discussed peace in Jamaica. It means that the role of the churches as peace makers is seen from below. It is not only as negotiations among state leaders, but rather from the perspective of making change in the local realities, focusing on how ordinary people have a fair chance to build a future together and to overcome conflicts.
From this perspective, the effect of environmental and economic crises for the stability for life together becomes a matter of great concern for peace, locally and globally. This corresponds to the debates on the definition of peace related to the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, which has over many years followed the same line of expanding the dimension of peace making and peace building to include initiatives for social development, economic justice, care for environmental issues and basic human rights. The need for a multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of peace becomes very evident in a gathering of peoples from the churches around the world.
People living in areas of conflicts, injustice, killings and violence give a very realistic picture of the world today, and how the dialogue for peace must go deep into all dimensions of society in the many contexts of the world today. The churches represent and have a strong sense of what is going on among peoples in the world. I don´t know of any other network that is so present in the daily reality of our world. However, a gathering like this also offers examples of how churches as fellowships of human beings and as institutions can make a difference in many contexts.
The paradigms of war inherited from the 20th Century are fading away, and we get new focal points on how to overcome conflicts that are not any longer related to an ideological cold war or ideological conflict between nations. The Decade to Overcome Violence was more and more marked by the shift of the mainly US-dominated international system to the more complex multi-polar realities of today and the emergence of new conflicts and wars, often with an important religious component. However, the fact that religion is increasingly used as an ideology for giving identity and political direction in several parts of the world has also lead us to use of religion as ideology to defend use of violence and even conflicts that can be described in terms of war. This is often described in terms of extremism but we have to admit that it includes more than that.
The building of state identities defined by religion (Jewish state, Islamic states) implies potential and present discrimination of minorities, violence and potential conflicts between different groups. There is a growing consensus in the ecumenical movement and among many churches (so-called mainline churches but also evangelical and Pentecostal partners) that the use of religious traditions should not be linked to ideologies or political programs of this kind.
The WCC has promoted the position that any ethical discussion should be guided by the supreme call to prevent the disasters and destructions of war. This is increasingly our common focal point as far as I can see.
We realized in the debates before and following especially the two Gulf wars, the occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan that the old just war theory was no longer sufficient to guide the churches in their public witness and that we had to develop a new vision of just peace open to dialogue with people of other religions and other actors in society. The just war theory was originally an attempt to tame the deadly monster of war, but it had often been used to justify the use of military force even in violation of its own criteria. It clearly reached its limit with the availability and possible use of weapons of mass destruction and the dramatically growing toll of civilian victims in contemporary warfare. The main reason, however, to move on was the insight that the various war scenarios– from clashes between ethnic groups, civil war, and inter-state conflicts to military interventions by coalitions of states– required actions for peace at a much earlier state in the development of the conflict. It was necessary to take steps which were accepted by all conflicting parties as just solutions to the underlying causes of their tensions. Once people begin to fight, it becomes far more difficult, if not impossible, to shift from the use of weapons back to peaceful means of conflict resolution such as humanitarian assistance and education for disadvantaged groups, shared power agreements, etc.
There is, however, not yet an agreement among the churches about the role of the theories of "just war" and whether they still can be used to prevent war. One example was the disagreement exposed in Kingston between the peace activist Paul Oestreicher and the former prime minister of Norway, Kjell Magne Bondevik. The prime minister defended the right to military activity in the case of defense, but told how he refused the invitation by President George W. Bush to participate in the invasion of Iraq by declaring that there was no just case for this war – with an explicit reference to the discussion on just war – in this case strongly initiated by the WCC and followed up by the Church of Norway.
However, there is a growing agreement that the focus on the just war theory can result in more justification of war and use of violence more than preventing war to be used to solve conflicts, and therefore another focus in Christian ethics about peace is needed. Furthermore, the important discussions about the responsibility to protect (particularly after the terrible genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s) shows that this responsibility cannot be easily ignored, but can also be an unclear and blurred criterion (as we see in the present involvement of NATO in Libya where the initiatives to protect human beings from the attacks of Ghadaffi lead forces can result in a situation of war where basic humanitarian needs are at stake).
There is a growing understanding that "just peace" must be our focal point in any discussion about peace. Justice and peace cannot be separated in the work for peace. There is no sustainable peace without a proper level of justice, particular in the meaning of transformative justice which is focused on how reconciliation can be established and new life together can be nurtured. The opossibility to promote and build justice is very limited in a situation of war, and peace in the sense of solving conflicts is to a large extent a precondition for building a just and sustainable local or world community.
There is a growing consensus for just peace among the churches in the world in the sense that there is a growing commitment to work for justice and peace as an integrated part of our common Christian calling. This was manifested in many ways through the Decade to Overcome Violence and the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation. This focus is uniting the churches and there is a growing consensus that the unity we are aiming at as churches needs to reflect the values of just peace and actively include work for justice, reconciliation and peace.
4. Only a dream? The lack of empathy
The dream of just peace is – unfortunately – not a reality, but desperately needed in our time. So please bear with me when I disturb you now with some unpleasant remarks concerning our present context and some problems of the past that still haunt us today.
9/11 has forever become the number for terror, the most visible and yet incredible ability to ignore the rights, the dignity and sacredness of the life of others, of innocent people. Immediately after the event in 2001 there has been a rather wide but sorry to say, very short common understanding of the need for bringing the responsible to justice, but that it should not happen as an exercise of the same calibre to avoid even worse things to happen…
However, this lead to the so-called war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, to some extent the war in Iraq was given a motivation to stop terrorism.
From the last event some weeks ago, the so-called Operation Geronimo, many of you will remember the photos of US President Barack Obama and his team taken in the White House situation room. The group was watching the commando operation that killed the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. One of the photos shows the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, with her hand to her mouth. It looks like a gesture of anguish or anxiety. Ms Clinton, however, declared a day later that there was no reason to think that she might have had that kind of reaction – only preventing one early spring allergic cough. Why was it necessary for a person of power to reject the impression that she displayed a very human reaction to the terrible images of the death of a person? What does this say about the context she – and we - live in, that it is perceived to be a sign of weakness if she is affected by such a situation?
I am afraid the story of this photo is indicative of the dangerous lack of empathy for the other which troubles our societies and blocks the possibility for constructive, just and peaceful solutions for today's problems. Sensitivity to and empathy for the suffering of the other,and the recognition of our own vulnerability are pre-conditions for any inter-normative ethical approach that affirms the unity of the human race and our common humanity beyond our diverse realities and differences.
There are reasons to believe that lack of empathy for the plight of the other and indifference became endemic during the 20th century, which was the most violent century in human history, the century of the extreme wars and the development of weapons of extreme capacities. This explains growing insensitivity to the suffering of others and massive denial of the consequences of injustice and violence, as going hand in hand with the constant search for entertaining distractions with the phenomenon of what has been called psychic numbing.
5. Dreams become true in healing of memories and reconciliation
I am referring to this history because I do believe that we can only overcome numbing and denial if we confront ourselves with the deep memories that continue to block our openness to meet the challenges we are facing today. Healing of memories is an essential component of the process of reconciliation that liberates us from enmity and leads to renewed relationships and the sharing of life in new ways.
There are also encouraging examples, for instance of the German churches. Let me recall:
- the 1945 Stuttgart declaration of guilt which opened the doors to the participation of the German churches in the World Council of Churches (WCC);
- the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (Aktion Sühnezeichen), founded in 1958,which organized work camps for thousands and thousands of young people in western and eastern Europe with the goal of "reconciliation with those nations and peoples occupied by Nazi Germany or threatened with annihilation; and to develop the aptitude for peace"
- the widely debated EKD "Ostdenkschrift" that opened the way for reconciliation with Poland and the peoples of the former Soviet Union;
- the intense work of the church led by Präses Nikolaus Schneider for reconciliation with Herero and Nama in Namibia;
- and last but not least, the committed participation of many German Christian groups, congregations and churches in the WCC's Decade to Overcome Violence which culminated just a couple of weeks ago at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica (17-24May 2011). Let me here mention names like Margot Kässmann, Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz, Fernando Enns and Konrad Raiser as key figures in these processes and events. Without them and the substantial support from EKD and other ecumenical partners in Germany like Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst, Brot für die Welt and Evangelisches Missionswerk, the Decade, this event, and the accompanying documents would not have become a reality.
I could add to these examples from your country many other initiatives promoted or supported by churches internationally. The process of ending apartheid and the following process for promoting truth and reconciliation in South Africa remains an open inspiration to all of us. Next week I will hand over copies of documents from the WCC archives to the authorities of Brazil as a contribution to their efforts to let the truth be known about the former military dictaorship – as a process of healing memories.
There are many other stories to be told about healing of memories and reconciliation in many other countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Together with the WCC, churches have accompanied the peace processes in Northern Ireland and Sudan and have been working with great energy and commitment to overcome inter-religious tensions and conflicts in Nigeria, Indonesia and a number of other countries around the globe. Another major concern for the churches continues to be the struggle for just peace to end the conflict in Israel/ Palestine. Particularly in this conflict it is obvious how there can be no peace without a proper level of justice but I do fear (when I hear the rhetoric used now) that illegal settlements can become almost irremovable obstacles for a sustainable peace.
One of the most motivating examples for the engagement of young Christians in Israel/ Palestine is the WCC's Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel(EAPPI). This programme brings youth from around the world to the West Bank to experience life under occupation and to provide protective presence to vulnerable communities, monitor and report human rights abuses and support Palestinians and Israelis working together for peace. At present the 39th group of ecumenical accompaniers is in place.
I would love to say more about the convocation, but I hope that these few examples are clear enough! I trust you can see that once we begin to move out of the paralysis, out of the world of political correctness and polls that dictate what politicians have to say in the world of mass media, when we leave behind what haunts us, and start working for reconciliation and peace, we gain strength and build up our capacity not only to overcome the problems of the past, but also to address the challenges of today.
6. Crossing boundaries in a dialogue of life
At this stage, we invite not only Christians and churches worldwide for dialogue on the vision of just peace. This task leads us into new territories. We have to find new language and practices that help us to cross the dividing boundaries and to share life on our planet despite age old differences and tensions.
We cannot do this alone. While our own motivation is deeply rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ, we know that we have to find a common language with people from all different sectors of society and as people of faith especially with our neighbours of other religions.
I use the term "common language" in order to indicate that this is neither about relativizing the strong convictions of others nor to gloss over differences and the rich diversity of our various contexts and traditions, nor just a matter of agreeing to very general and rather "thin" principles that do not stand the test of real conflict.What the churches through the WCC offer is a dialogue of life at all levels – local, national, international – with no preconditions other than a readiness to engage in it and the common goal of fostering peace across the boundaries that separate us.
Let me, before I end, share with you a poem of a Norwegian poet that gives me courage to use the language of dreams in my work.
This is the dream that we carry through the world,
that something wonderful will happen,
that it has to happen,
that time will open by itself,
that doors shall open by themselves,
that the heart will find itself open,
that mountain springs will jump up,
that the dream will open by itself,
That we one early morning
will slip into a harbour
that we have never known.
(Olav H. Hauge/translation: R. Bly).
I hope I can find allies among you for carrying the dream of just peace through the world.
Thank you very much for your attention.


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I picked up Ally & Lucas and we drove up to Malibu on a perfect Sunday evening. Winding through the canyon roads and dipping in & out of tunnels until the hills opened up and revealed the beautiful coastline. After a bit of walking around cliffs, hiding our stuff under lifeguard stands, and nearly being blown into the ocean below, we found the perfect spot…a cove wrapped with rocks and a rising tide. Ok, a QUICKLY rising tide! Ally and Lucas threw down their bags, I grabbed my camera and we started shooting immediately.
We hopped between coves, timing the waves and snapping photos until the sun had dipped too low. There's something about the beach that no matter how little or much time you spend there, the waves seem to clear your mind and put your body in a tranquil state. We backtracked our way through the canyons with conversations about pizza & In n Out while listening to A$AP Rocky on a quiet repeat.
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Registration for Alpine Enduro Series
powered by SANTA CRUZ
The registration for series naming opens first. Participants who book the entire series have a secure starting place for all three races. Prerequisite is the payment of the series starting place within eight days.
At the individual races there will be as many starting places available as there are left after the allocation of starting places for the series starters.
Registration Dates:
For complete Alpine Enduro Series: Registration is OPEN!
Registration for single event Enduro Race Dolomiti Paganella: OPEN!
3 Länder Enduro Race: 31.01.2019
Conditions of participation and rules and regulations
Here you'll find the conditions of particpation and rules and regulations (in german and english language)
Teilnahmebedingungen und Reglement


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The Mackenzie Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Study (MAGS) is one of the continental-scale experiments approved specifically by GEWEX to better understand and model water and energy cycling at high latitudes. The project has gone through two phases since its inception in 1994 and conclusion in December 2005. Many scientific results have been achieved through MAGS research to advance our understanding of the Mackenzie River basin climate system. This article is a synthesis of its atmospheric research achievements through an integrative description of the basin's climate system, along with highlights of MAGS research that has advanced our knowledge and understanding of various key aspects of the system. In particular, the significance of MAGS research is discussed in the hancing knowledge of the basin's hydroclimate with focuses on i) the large-scale atmospheric processes that control the transport of water and energy into the basin, and ii) the interactions of the large-scale atmospheric flows with physical features of the basin's environment in affecting the weather and climate of the basin.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – American Meteorological Society
Published: Sep 2, 2007
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The last time Darren Clarke was in the Ryder Cup spotlight, the tears poured down his face before the Guinness spilt over his shirt. It is that extraordinarily emotional experience of 2006 which makes Europe's new captain believe he can withstand anything American can throw at him at Hazeltine in 18 months.
On humbly accepting the role handed to him by a five-man panel, including his three predecessors, Clarke was keen to stress that "this match will be about the players and not me". But the 46-year-old is wiser than that and realises that after Paul McGinley's expertise at Gleneagles and, more pertinently, Tom Watson's calamity, the focus will fall squarely on the captains in Minnesota.
In that regard, Clarke has the K Club to fall back on. Certainly he was the man in the glare that week as he somehow survived the turmoil of losing his first wife, Heather, to cancer six weeks previously to win all three of his matches.
"I think what I went through there was perfect preparation for whatever I would ever face in the game of golf afterwards, this included," he said. "Obviously that's been my most emotional experience in the game, and just with it being the Ryder Cup, as well, it was a very special week for me. The Ryder Cup is special to me.
"Emotion is part and parcel of the match. We've seen that before; we've seen that from Seve [Ballesteros] and José María [Olazábal] when they were partners. We've seen it so many times; it's a massive part of it. I think the European team has been obviously very successful in capturing that emotion and using it for their benefit."
This is why Clarke was given the nod over Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Thomas Bjorn. He has a better individual record than both in the individual and Ryder Cup arena and, on his day, is more than adept at handling the media and sponsors. But there is something more about his story that intertwines him with the biennial skirmish.
And that connection and continuity, along with the patronage of Rory McIlroy and eight more of the Gleneagles dozen, made his candidature irresistible to Paul McGinley, Olazábal and Paul McGinley, as well as players' committee representative David Howell and the Tour's chief executive, George O'Grady. The quintet took under two hours to decide at Wentworth, with McGinley commendably putting aside the sense of betrayal he felt as a result of his former friend going against him in the last captaincy race, to grant the players their wish.
"It was a unanimous decision, which was a delight for the panel," Montgomerie said. "In many was Darren has an unenviable task; America want revenge and have set up their task force to do it. But we have selected a captain I am convinced will retain the Ryder Cup. He will be a very good communicator and has the respect of the players. They know what he has done in the Ryder Cup and what he has meant to the Europe team."
Clarke is playing in South Africa this week and was by the hotel swimming pool with his wife Alison and his eldest son Tyrone, when he finally got the call. He confirmed that it had been an anxious morning, but his voice hinted not too anxious. If there had been shock with the news that Davis Love III will be reappointed as US captain next week, then Clarke's elevation was golf's worst-kept secret. The players wanted him and in this narrative of the Good Ship Europe having sailed to six victories in the past seven matches, that was essentially that.
"I think it's great," McIlroy said. "Darren is a stalwart of the European Tour, played in a lot of Ryder Cups, is a past Open champion, has been part of the team for so many years – he's a great choice. And everyone in America loves him as well. He's got a great rapport over there with the fan base. I couldn't think of a better guy to play under in 2016."
Clarke revealed that his first port of call for advice will be McGinley, but he will not be changing much, if anything. That means three wild cards, five assistants and as many inspirational tales from the Europe of yore as they can handle.
"I don't see any reason, and can't foresee any reason, to make any changes can you?" Clarke said. "We all know how good a job Paul did at Gleneagles and it would be stupid of me to move away from that. It was so successful."
But there will still be challenges; one of which will be to cope with the endless questions about whether he expects to see his good friend Tiger Woods at Hazeltine. As long as he keeps saying "we all hope so", he will be fine. And then there is his long friendship with Love, which goes back to the 2004 match at Oakland Hills, when the American's sportsmanship grabbed Clarke's heart.
How will he feel to have his favourite American as an adversary? "Listen, there isn't more of a gentleman in our sport than Davis Love and if it's him again, I'll be absolutely delighted. But, be sure, friendships are put on hold on that first tee on the Friday morning. The Europe team that will be there, will be there to win and that will be our only goal." For Clarke that mission starts now.
Darren Clarke's in-box
Meet McGinley
The pair have not been on good terms for years, but Clarke will sit down with the brilliant 2014 captain who helped elect him and take notes from his blueprint. Will also meet other past captains.
Will confirm the status quo
Is adopting the "if it aint broke.." technique and will keep qualification (three wildcards) and the number of assistants (five) as it was in Gleneagles. Just needs to make this official.
Think about assistants
Will obviously have to wait on the likes of Bjorn and Jiménez and perhaps even Westwood to see if they qualify as players first. But will already be modelling his back-room staff.


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Ramon Gil is an artist, scientist, and visionary who has spent the last 20 years on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua--a place with no automobiles, limited internet service, and millions of stars when the sun goes down.
You would like it.
This man is the owner and creative force behind Ensueños, enchanting cabañas built in a sustainable way among coconut and fruit groves that will remind intrepid travelers of Robinson Crusoe, Gilligan's Island, and Swiss Family Robinson (depending on how old you are!).
I recently spent a week at Ensueños, walking barefoot among plantain and almond trees, pineapples and iguanas, combative crabs and the ubiquitous coconut. It was a powerful juxtaposition to my life in Los Angeles, and I was incredibly struck by how happy Ramon and his family are.


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Florence, is a wonderful city bestows with high renaissance masterpiece with plethora of monuments and buildings for your admiration. One can easily satiate his/her fascination in this city. Walking around this historical city and uncovering the hidden gems within the city is a sheer pleasure.
Piazzale Michelangelo
This is a must visit place if you are visiting Florence. It's a large open space terrace located at the hilltop. You can admire the spectacular city view of Florence here. Once can easily recognize this place with its famous Michelangelo replica statue as shown in the photo below.
One will never forget Florence city view obtainable from this place. Such beautiful juxtaposition of the heritage buildings surrounded by the majestic mountain as the scenery backdrop. I can smell the high renaissance particles permeate within the air in Florence. You should come here to experience this wonder too!
Did you just fall in love with this wonderful panoramic view too? This place is also famous for wedding photo shoot. I bumped into a couple taking their wedding photo shoot during my visit too. Such a lovely place!
Cathedral of Santa Maria dei Fiore
This cathedral is named as Duomo too. This is the only cathedral with such magnificent dome in the entire Florence. You can easily spot this iconic building in the panoramic city view in the photos above. It gains its reputation with its unique wall design in repetition of rectangular shape pattern.
Visiting the piazza
There are piazza (or square in plain English) available in the heart of Florence. You can meander in this historical city and its piazza for your leisure activities. Some of the famous piazza are Piazza del Duomo (where the Duomo is), Piazza Santa Croce and Piazza Signoria. Again, you will bump into lively statue at some of the piazza.
Ponte Vecchio
This is the most prestigious bridge in Florence. Reason being there are shops on this bridge selling a variety of merchandise, inclusive the expensive watches and jewelry. It's already night time when i reach this bridge due to my day time indulgence. Hence, i am only able to show you the photo of this bridge at night, still looking good right?
I am really impressed by Florence due to its unique charm and the stupendous panoramic city view at Piazzale Michelangelo. Don't you fall in love with the view too? Perhaps you can consider to be one of the marrying couple taking the wedding photo shoot here too!


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Mateo has arrived ♥
I have known Joelle for almost 15 years and over the years, our paths will cross every now and then. At each intersection, we chat away as if no time has passed. I love that about us. So when I heard the news of this little guy coming into the world - I was beyond {{beyond}} excited. Joelle has such a huge heart and is the kindest human being you will ever meet and this little guy just hit the jackpot of Mom's. As we hang out during our session, my memory is instantly flooded of the times my kids were new to this world. The newness of it all. The exhausted look of complete bliss and overwhelming love one little person can bring out of you. The tiny feet, the tiny fingers, the little button nose...Mateo, welcome into our world.
Here is a peek into our session...
Congratulations Joelle!


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Published at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 - 07:04:44 AM. Patio. By Raymonde Souchon.
The typical patio furniture is composed of a table, 4 to 6 chairs with covers and some would come with an umbrella or parasol. In order to make your patio a great place to enjoy and unwind, it is better that you decorate it with additional things like barbecue grill, love seats, deep seats, bar seats and embellish them with throw pillows and scented candles for a romantic mood.
For all weather conditions, you want to consider teak furniture as highly suitable. Teak is water resistant, termite resistant and chemical resistant. With all these standard characteristics, teak furniture costs but is worth the price. What kind of patio furniture comes in teak? You may want to accentuate your patio with a teak bar table and chair. Enjoy a couple of drinks and laughs with your buddies or family outdoors! A teak seagull lounger comes as a seat but the back rest is quite low, almost reaching the bottom. This is a great lounge chair, an ideal spot to relax and steal a couple of minutes of sleep! You won't need to search for teak table and chairs. There are always many available, each with their different designs and styles. Even a simple teak bench comes in such beautifully carved patterns that it looks almost too grand to sit in!
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by Suzanne Niles
Does this make me look fat? I'm having a bad hair day aren't I! Do you notice anything different about me? These are just a few of the questions that make men want to run for the hills and hide. They know for a fact that answering them could possibly endanger their very existence. Skillfully answered they could end up the hero, but give the wrong reply and it's definitely the dog house.
Why do we do it? Are we really unsure of the answer or are we fishing? Do we need someone else's opinion or can we ascertain the truth by looking in the mirror ourselves. Are these questions even that relevant? What if we altered the questions we most often ask to look totally different?
Am I exhibiting self-control in my life? When you see me do I exude joy? Is it obvious that I have Christ living inside me? Aren't these the things that we should really be concerned about? In fact, why are we here? Is it to win a beauty contest or to win souls? Why do we get wrapped up in the importance the world places on the outward appearance when we should be focusing on the inward?
So, are you an innie or an outie? Most of you may be saying, well I focus on both and that is actually okay. We certainly don't want to go about sharing the joy of the Lord with someone when we forgot to brush our teeth and put on deodorant. However, we don't have to have every hair in place to greet someone at the store or share a kind word with those who paths we cross.
How many times ladies have we avoided someone or scooted down the next aisle because we ventured out unpresentable thinking we wouldn't see anyone.
How many divine appointments have we missed because we just didn't want someone to see us "looking that way"?
So strike a balance. It is important to be well groomed but put things in perspective. Check your heart before you check your lipstick. I have developed this belief that God allows people to see me the way that He wants me to be seen. He has given us His Holy Spirit to live inside of us and when we allow Christ to have control the beauty that is seen is His. Amazing when you think about it; the God of the universe makes us His temple!
Let's all be more concerned with the condition of our heart, the warmth of our smile, the kindness in our words and the willingness to help those in need than the impression we make with our physical appearance. Ask any woman who has lived into her senior years…time marches on and leaves it's footprints on your face! No matter how many creams, cosmetic procedures or units of Botox someone may utilize eventually age will get the better of you. But a beautiful spirit developed from a Christ like heart…that my friends, will reveal the very best of you.
I Peter 3:3–4 The Message
What matters is not your outer appearance — the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes — but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in.


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Fourth seed Kim Clijsters kept her Australian Open dream alive with a 6-1 7-5 victory over Daniela Hantuchova to set up a quarter-final showdown with former champion Martina Hingis.
Clijsters, making her final appearance in Melbourne after announcing she will retire at the end of the season, looked on course for another quickfire victory after storming through the first set in just 27 minutes.
Hantuchova responded in the second set and looked to have earned a tie-break as Clijsters wasted several match points at 5-4 – but the world number five regained her composure to close out the match.
Hingis, meanwhile, recovered from a below-par first set to derail 19th seed Li Na 4-6 6-3 6-0.
The sixth seed, who reached six consecutive Australian Open finals between 1997 and 2002, had conceded only nine games in reaching the fourth round but lost her first service game as the rising Chinese star surged ahead in the first meeting between the pair.
The five-time grand slam champion hit back with a break of her own but again failed to hold serve as Li opened up a 5-4 advantage before sealing the first set.
Several unforced errors helped Hingis level the match in the second set and the Swiss star secured a service break at the start of the third to take control


text: IllusiveMan #21 Posted August 31, 2018 Random aside, did anyone else feel like reading 'The False Sun' way in advance of 'The Unholy Consult' kind of spoil a. lot of that book's power? I love TFS, and it was a great read. But upon reading TUC, I realized so much of Kellhus's talk with Mek/The Dunsult hinged on this big revelation of the Inverse Fire and what it means/does to a person. Whilst reading TUC, it was already stuff I knew so nothing really struck me as particularly gripping until the Ajokli reveal. I guess that scene would have felt a lot more revelatory if one hadn't read TFS beforehand...the entire inner nature of the Consult and their goals/methods would have been revealed. As it was, I remember feeling disappointed that I didn't get much more info than I'd already known in the grand finale. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium opened Finding Dory and Friends: The Experience a few months ago. Kate and her Aquarium fans had a look through the exhibition last week and loved exploring the different setups.
Throughout the interactive journey, a Pipe Pals trail will guide and surprise little ones with tales of amazing underwater animals, leading you into Dory's Reef. Experience fun activities including Ridin' the EAC with Crush, Nemo's Anemone Challenge and using your own echo locator in Bailey's Maze.
Once you have explored the exhibition, make sure you continue a tour around the aquarium and have the kids touch beautiful starfish and shark eggs as part of the Rockpools and Mangroves experience, let their drawing come to life with the Art Aquarium experience, see some giant sting rays in the Mermaid's Garden, experience daily feeds and talks, see the penguins, see the 6.5 metre long salt water crocodile and lots more!
- Head to the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium during the week and take advantage of their Parent and Child Mid week ticket which is only $28.50 for one adult and one child under 5 instead of $40.50 for an adult.
- There is reduced parking across the road for Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium visitors, check their website for more details on the discount.
- Bring snacks and some water as the visit will make the little ones hungry and enjoy it in the café area looking at the beautiful fish aquarium where you might see a Dory or Nemo or two.
- The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is pram friendly with lifts on every floor.
- There are toilets with change rooms on most levels and a parents rooms near the Rockpools and Mangroves section.
For more ideas on what to do with the kids in the CBD, head to our Top 5 Free CBD Spots or our blog.


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Sophie Arzumanov '21
A couple of weeks ago, the Chorus went on its annual retreat to Vestal United Methodist Church. Before we departed Ithaca, I remember feeling like the school year was moving so quickly; the new members of the Chorus were already starting to feel integrated, our Homecoming Concert was a only week away, and I already had a prelim in my Electromagnetism class coming up. However, I decided to commit myself to letting all of those thoughts and concerns go and simply becoming immersed in our repertoire and our community.
This was only my second retreat, so my first one is still relatively fresh. I remember that in my freshman year, I thought retreat was a little scary. I already felt behind in my classes, I barely knew these people, and I definitely was still adjusting to living at Cornell; how could I commit an entire weekend to singing faraway? However, after going through it, I knew that the experience had the potential to foster amazing relationships in the group. With my freshman-year apprehensions in mind, I wanted to ensure that I contributed to creating a positive environment so the new members could feel comfortable and grow into the group.
With this mindset and goal, coupled with my experience in the Chorus community, my time on retreat this weekend was, well, truly a retreat – a refuge, a haven, a sanctuary. This time around, I felt particularly connected with the music. This included the technical stamina that our repertoire demands this year, as well as the emotional meaning behind many of the pieces. I also felt more connected with the spirit of our activities. I felt that I was able to open up more – Maggie Lin and Alexis Waite did an amazing job being our Game Masters, and really facilitated an open and fun environment for us this year. Even the skits made a great impact on me; now that I have spent a year in the Chorus, the inside jokes resonated with me more. It felt great to poke fun at ourselves, and to laugh after a long day of rehearsal.
This retreat was very special to me; I came back to campus feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Our Sunday performances were especially moving this year. The community at the Vestal United Methodist Church really does welcome us with open arms, and I am happy to participate in their reflective services and share our music with them. I also came back with a sense of purpose for myself within the Chorus; I am a sophomore now, and I am ready to step up as a leader and encourage others around me to grow as well. I feel closer to the new members and even with some returning members, and I am so happy that this retreat made me so excited for the future of the Chorus.


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Assessing the nutrient intake of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) diet: a hypothetical case study design
This week's research paper is from Auckland dietician Caryn Zinn and two colleagues and was published in the journal BMJ Open. You can click the heading for the pdf version of this paper.
In the article, Zinn and colleagues look at the nutrient content of the typical low carbohydrate healthy fat (LCHF) diet. One of the criticisms of the diet in nutrition circles is that it is devoid of nutrients and has a higher saturated fat content than is recommended in the dietary guidelines. The "saturated fat is the cause of heart disease" hypotheses or as it is more widely known the "diet-heart hypothesis" has been increasingly challenged in the last couple of years with a number of review papers (systematic reviews and meta-analysies) showing the lack of association between iontake of satiurated fat and cardiovascular disease. The PURE study published last year in the Lancet was the latest nail in the coffin of the diet-heart hypothesis. So the fact that the LCHF diet exceeded the saturated far guidelines is probably not an issue any more.
Back to the nutrient content.
In this study the researchers calculated nutrient contents for two typical LCHF diets, one male and one female. The diets chosen were not very low carb or ketogenic, but rather around the 130 gm of carbs per day defined as the upper limit of "low carb". The two diets reached adequate levels of all nutrients as defined by the Australian/New Zealand nutrient reference value (NRV) thresholds except for iron in the female where the iron levels were 86-98% of the RDI values.
One particularly interesting area in the Omega 6:Omega 3 ratio. Historically this ratio was thought to have been 1:1, but in recent years with the dramatically increased use of seed (vegetable) oils in cooking and processed foods this ratio in the so-called average Western diet or Standard American diet (SAD) has blown out to level around 15-20:1. These two diets had ratios of 3.5:1 (female) and 2.2:1 (male) - a massive improvement from the modern diet.
The article shows clearly that nutrient deficiency is not an issue with LCHF diets.


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Share the post "THE AUSTRALIAN PINK FLOYD SHOW – Exposed In The Light DVD"
The Australian Pink Floyd Show are one of the very few tribute acts in the world that have somehow seemed to move away from that genre and even though playing another bands music have turned into a band in their own right with a massive following around the world.
Not for these guys the local pub or small hall instead they can be found playing and selling out major venues and even arenas, they are adored by Pink Floyd fans everywhere and even get respect from members of the band, I particularly like the quote by Floyd drummer Nick Mason which says it all "Very good, probably better than we are,".
This two and a half hour release available on both DVD and Blu-ray was recorded on the bands 2012 'Exposed In the Light' European tour, not from one show but at various venues on this mammoth trek.
In the accompanying booklet which also includes a fantastic selection of photos by the official tour photographer the band acknowledge that this release is not a Hollywood style concert recording but simply a story of the tour, and it tells that story very well and with some style.
Rather than many concert DVD's which have the stage footage as the main feature and backstage/interview material available as extras this has the extra material intermingled so that a live number is followed by backstage stuff then the next number and so on throughout it's length.
For me this works really well as sometimes just watching an hour or so of extra footage on it's own can drag a little but with this style you really see piece by piece how a top show is put together.
Filmed in classy black and white not a lot is left out of the backstage material which includes - on the music side - interviews/chats with each member of the band and the sound engineer plus footage of the guitar/drum techs in action, the practical joke constantly played on the new drum tech relating to the gong is a diamond.
Away from the music side everything else is also covered documentary fashion including back stage catering, press interviews/photo shoots, issues with the laser show and how the band spend their time before gigs and also how they unwind after.
With all this extensive extra footage you get the impression and a full picture of what great guys and girls make up this band (drummer Paul Bonney particularly comes over as a real character) and if you pardon the pun shows them all in a great light.
On to the music/concert footage itself, both sound and picture quality well up to standard for this type of release and right from the off with powerful opening number 'In the Flesh?' (great choice of first number) you can see both the huge scale of the stage production with the banks of blinding lights and the huge back projection screen while also hearing the quality of the bands musicianship.
There are a couple of numbers in tribute to Syd Barrett on offer in this set including a spot on 'Astronomy Domine' with blazing red lights and hypnotic kaleidoscope patterns whirling around on the back screen until the mood changes during the slower keyboard (stunning display by Jason Sawford) and guitar segment when the stage is bathed in blue light.
The band perform music from the entire length of the Pink Floyd catalogue all with the same skill and obvious love of this great band, also impressed with the fact that apart from lead vocalist Alex other members of the band also take lead vocals at times.
As my personal Floyd favourite I paid great attention to their performance of 'Take it Back' and boy do they do it justice, lead vocalist Alex McNamara's vocals full of power and emotion superbly backed up by the three backing vocalists while the impressive laser display really enhances the spectacle.
The atmospheric 'Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun' is back to the early Floyd years and includes a stunning sax solo by the eccentric Mike Kidson wearing one of his multitude of weird and wonderful hats.
Another of my personal favourites 'High Hopes' is magnificently performed and the back screen imagery is particularly strong, the slide guitar work is also wonderful, 'Sheep' really rocks and the first visit to 'Dark Side of the Moon' with 'Time/Breath Reprise' is stunning, as with everything on the DVD played to perfection and this number has the laser show firing on all cylinders also I love the clever Australian re boot of the classic DSOTM album cover.
Staying on the 'moon' 'The Great Gig in the Sky', as always the time for the backing singers to shine and take the lead and Emily,Lara and Lorelei take their solo spots in spectacular style, a change of pace next with the powerful, angry, political 'Pigs' which included a fantastic talkbox performance by Steve Mac.
A special mention for the fabulous cartoon imagery that accompanied 'The Fletcher Memorial Home', which was followed by the return of the lasers and also this time spectacularly lit front stage light boxes for 'Keep Talking'.
'Us and Them' is beautiful, tranquil with breathtaking saxophone work and was followed in a complete change of pace by the full on wall of sound that is 'One of These Days' the stirring bass lines played to perfection by Colin Wilson and the spectacular light show was reminiscent of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and what a touch the introduction of a gigantic pink bouncing kangaroo makes (even takes a bow at the end !).
The closing number could not really be anything else as a spectacular 'Comfortably Numb' brings the DVD to a close with the classic guitar solos perfectly executed by Steve Mac and David Domminey Fowler.
Closing credits are shown over speeded up footage of the huge stage set up being dismantled ending one of the best concert DVD's I have seen, live footage fabulous, back stage material informative, humorous and – like the gig's themselves – well shot, this really tells the story of a tour.
Review by Andrew Lock
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Italian art: Below Gemona Cathedral
- WTI Magazine #114 Apr 20, 2019
Below the sacristy of the Cathedral in Gemona, a town in Friuli Venezia Giulia, near the splendid Cividale del Friuli, a few metres from a door of the ancient city walls, an underground complex was opened to the public in March, hidden for centuries between the foundations of the church: a discovery that surprised archaeologists and amazed the inhabitants of the Friulian town.
A small door along the wall of the sacristy leads to the staircase that goes down to some underground rooms already equipped. The first are two spectacular rooms covered with frescoes of the first half of the fourteenth century depicting stories of St. Michael the Archangel and St. John the Baptist and a Crucifixion likely work of the Gemona born Nicolò di Marcuccio, who contributed to the decoration of the cathedral.
The restoration of the paintings is almost complete, directly under the supervision of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage. This was the last intervention before it was opened to the public. Meanwhile, the lower room of the lapidary has been completed, together with the very complex one, in which the ossuary was recovered: a crypt incorporated in the foundations of the Duomo eight meters below the churchyard. In that space, which remained empty for centuries, the bones exhumed from the old cemetery of the Duomo had been piled up in bulk. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Napoleonic laws had imposed the closure of urban cemetery areas and so, in 1825, the ossuary was filled with earth, sealed and forgotten.
The 1976 earthquake in Friuli caused the collapse of the entire right aisle and the roof of the Duomo: during the excavation for the consolidation of the structures and foundations, the existence of the crypt was discovered, which remained underground waiting for the reconstruction of Gemona, then destroyed, to be completed. In 2008, work began to highlight and study the hidden treasure that also preserves unpublished elements of local history. The Duomo has a long past marked by earthquakes and reconstructions. The current building, consecrated in 1337 and one of the greatest examples of medieval Gothic architecture in Friuli, replaces and expands a previous church built between the tenth and eleventh centuries.
The facade was remodeled after the severe earthquake of 1348 and again in 1429 and later. The last maintenance works were recently completed and above all the excavation of the ossuary proved to be particularly long and laborious: preventive probing, removal layer by layer, sieved ground, every finding catalogued and studied. Thousands of bones were mixed in the 180 square metres of earth removed and among these ceramic fragments from different eras that gave information on the origins of the people buried.
Among the human remains have also emerged small coins of various metals produced in the mints of Veneto, but also German and Hungarian, which reveal the trade routes of the time: the change in use from the twelfth century onwards.
Waiting for the end of the pictorial restorations, the hypogeum complex is already open to receive visitors: a few steps below the surface is the sacellum, below is the lapidary and at the bottom of a spiral staircase is the restored ossuary crypt. Hundreds of skulls and thousands of bones are composed and arranged on a vertical wall of several metres: almost an installation of contemporary art.


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Illegal sports betting is really a serious issue with most avid bettors all over the planet. "Sports betting" is definitely an activity that predicts the outcomes of sporting events simply by betting on the outcome. Legality or general acceptance of sports gambling differs from one nation to another. For example, inside North America sports gambling activities are forbidden while in various other European countries the action involving taking sports gambling bets (this signifies bookmaking), is actually regulated but not regarded as a criminal act.
Legalized sports gambling supporters consider sports activities betting as being a hobby for fans that increases their enthusiasm as well as interest for a particular sporting event, which in return benefits the actual leagues, teams, and the players that wagers are placed upon, and further rewards them by way of huge attendances during matches, as well as high tv viewers. As opposed to that, people who are against sports betting point out that the integrity associated with amateur and professional sports activity is being threatened by sports activities gambling.
During the days long gone past, "sports betting" was always related to organized crime as well as unsavory elements who utilized this to fund crime and money laundering exercises. But these days, most Americans have sports wagering as a hobby. The advent of technology and the internet has made it very easy for thousands to indulge in the sport without leaving the ease and comfort of their houses. Even though "sports betting" is just not legal in the US and there are numerous sites that do not let US citizens to wager with them, it really is nevertheless getting increasingly hard to oversee the actual sports betting activities of the Americans.
A wide variety of gambling options are around for people who are enthusiastic about sports betting particularly online. "Sports betting" is no longer in the hands of bookies that are unsavory or the smoky back rooms of disreputable businesses. It is possible to find a huge number of websites today that will immediately accept your money and also offer betting alternatives, proposition bets, parlays or future wagers and so on. This ability to gamble of a sporting event has hence recently been revolutionized because of the World wide web together with the ability to maintain touch and correspond with other gamblers like you.
And endless choice of sports gambling forums provide a platform where sports bettors can easily talk about predictions of games, races and so on and also help each other to make informed decisions as well as suitable picks which will result in profitable profits. Different sites on the internet are around for novice as well as novice gamblers to avail of tips and advice, and even previews involving upcoming matches, races as well as other activities either totally free or for a price.
The actual repercussions of Illegal sports gambling in the United States should be kept in mind. It is necessary that you should understand all of the betting laws within your state and whether it is unlawful for you to participate in any kind of sports betting within your particular state or jurisdiction in that case it is better to go to Oregon, Nevada or Montana in which sports activities betting is legal.


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29 March 2017, 17:35
KChR's truckers declare endless protest action
Today, about 70 heavy truck drivers held a protest in Cherkessk, the capital of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) and demanded to reduce fuel excise taxes, cancel the "Platon" system and the transport tax.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 27 Russian truckers resumed their mass protests against the "Platon" system, launched to collect payment from heavy truck drivers for using federal highways. Protest actions took place, in particular, in Volgograd, Astrakhan, Baksan, truckers are also on strike in Dagestan and North Ossetia.
"We demand to establish the proper order with the transport tax and weight control, and to reduce fuel excises. We demand to abolish 'Platon' system," Vladimir Kaminsky, a participant of the action, told the" Caucasian Knot "correspondent.
The truckers' protest will continue until the demands are met, said Boris Ortabaev, another protester.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency 'Caucasian Knot'.
Author: Asya Kapaeva; Source: CK correspondent


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New England pop-punk group Traditions are streaming the new song "Ten Days" off their upcoming debut EP, Cycles. Check it out here.
Cycles is due out March 11th on Take This To Heart Records. You can pre-order the EP on digital, CD, or vinyl right here.
You can listen to another song from Traditions, "Wax and Wane," along with music from No Tide, Knockout Kid, and Fourth And Goal on this 4-way split from Take This To Heart.
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Recast - [Men]tal Health (feat. Nate Pyle & Dr. Bart Andrews)
June is Men's Health Month, so this week I'm rebroadcasting an episode we did about exactly that! Dr. Bart Andrews & pastor/author Nate Pyle join us to talk about all things related to men's mental health. Check out more info below, along with original show notes!
Things we mention in this episode/other resources:
- Here's the CXMH store I mention in the intro, and here's a direct link to the brand new 'Church & State' design.
- Dr. Thomas Joiner's book Lonely at the Top: The High Cost of Men's Success
- Also, listen to Dr. Joiner discuss the ideas in Lonely at the Top on The Social Work Podcast with Dr. Jonathan Singer.
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- "Jesus did not come to make men more masculine, but in fact came to make all people more human." (tweet)
- "Women are more likely to report experiencing distress than men. That doesn't mean men are experiencing less distress." (tweet)
- "The number of men who die of suicide is 3-4 times the number of women who die of suicide." (tweet)
- "The bulk of suicide deaths that occur in our country are occurring in men, particularly men over 35, especially white men." (tweet)
- "It's a myth that men communicate less than women. Men & women communicate the same amount, but we communicate differently." (tweet)
- "Women are much more likely to formally reach out for assistance than men are, particularly for mental health services." (tweet)
- "If you look at our suicide rate, I would suggest that depression (and certainly unhappiness, stress, & emotional pain) is at a crisis point in our country, particularly among men." (tweet)
- "When I was in a really bad spot, seeing reaching out & getting help as a weakness almost killed me." (tweet)
- "I don't think there's anything inherently masculine about not reaching out & getting help." (tweet)
- "Not showing weakness is a trait that we expect from our men, both in American culture and in American church culture in particular." (tweet)
- "To make it ok to ask for people to ask for help, no matter what circumstances they're facing, is something that would benefit everybody around us." (tweet)
- "We have made this artificial distinction between mental and physical, when they're the same exact thing. Suicide & depression are healthcare issues." (tweet)
- "Healthcare should include mind, body, & spirit. These are all important aspects of wellness." (tweet)
- "The whole range of human emotions is represented in Christian scripture." (tweet)
Let's talk about MEN! We're joined this week by two great guests who talk about masculinity, why men don't like asking for help, how our culture (& church culture) shapes that, and more!
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I am currently in universal studios Singapore blogging using my iPhone while waiting for my friends to be done with their rollercoaster ride. Yes I'm looking after the bags cause I don't like roller coaster rides, and I get giddy and I would feel like liking after I am done with such rides. Probably why I can never be a fighter pilot or a weapons systems officer. Haha.
The photo above was taken right below the roller coaster themed "Battlestar Galactica". There's two colours to ride on: red for humans and blue for cylons. Red is the normal roller coaster and blue is the suspended one where you can end up with your head pointing to the ground.
Perhaps you might ask, why go to universal studios when you can't take part in the rides. I'm just here to see the place and take part in the milder rides or the performances they put up. Anyway I paid $46 for the tickets as there is this lady who is a staff there so she is entitled to staff discounts. No she is not so nice because I am handsome but because she wanted to exchange her $100 voucher for cash and we did it for her. We were originally going to use the NTUC discount which would result in $50 per ticket. So it Kwan additional amount of money saved I guess?
Universal Studio Singapore is a very small place, and there are not many rides, so it is not that interesting. I guess the Osaka one would be much bigger and better? You can finish walking the grounds in 1 hour if you take a leisurely stroll. More of the time is spent waiting for the attractions.
Perhaps, I am not a theme park kind of person as I don't really like theme parks? I foresee myself coming very rarely and I would hate to come if there's only roller coasters and nothing else. Haha.
There are a lot of people despite being a weekday. It is the last day of school for MOE students, perhaps their parents took them out of school? There are a lot of poly or uni students here; or people of their age I guess.
I'm looking forward to buying the popcorn outside universal studios and perhaps buying something from the Hershey's shop.
Although I didn't take most of the rides, it is an enjoyable day nonetheless. It felt like I'm a tourist walking about. It is a good feeling that is hard to feel in Singapore. Haha.
Ah well. The weather is so hot. Hope my friends come out soon. Haha. =)


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Criminal Record Certificate from Ukraine
How to get a Criminal Record Certificate for the period of time spent in Ukraine
In order to get the criminal record check certificate from Ukraine an applicant should address the Consular Section in person and fill in relevant forms (Note: the forms are to be filled in Ukrainian).
A valid passport is required as an ID proof and should be presented on the day of application.
Also, the applicants are expected to provide the Consular Section with the exact address of the applicant's former residence address in Ukraine.
Applications are processed within 1-1/5 months average.
The Consular Section will be in position to issue respective document after the required data has been received from Ukraine's competent authorities.
|78 Kensington Park Road London W11 2PL. View on map
|+44 (0) 20 7243 8923. Hotline for emergencies as regards Ukraine's nationals: +44(0)75 5348 3628 (24/7)
|00 44 207 727 35 67
Mon: 10:00 am to 1.00 pm (new applications will be accepted until 12.30 pm only)
Tue: 10:00 am to 1.00 pm (new applications will be accepted until 12.30 pm only)
Wed: 1 pm to 4:30 pm (new applications will be accepted until 4 pm only)
Thu: 10:00 am to 1.00 pm (new applications will be accepted until 12.30 pm only)
Fri: 10:00 am to 11.30 am (only applications of pregnant women, families with
minors, disabled people will be accepted)
Fri: 11:30 am to 1.00 pm – all other applications (new applications will be accepted until 12.30 pm only)
The list of Ukrainian National Holidays in 2019:
January 1 - New Year's Day (The Consular Office will not operate on December 31, 2018)*
January 7 - Orthodox Christmas
March 8 - Women's Day
April 28 - Easter (The Consular Office will not operate on April 29)*
May 1 - Labor Day
May 9 - Victory Day
June 16, 17 - Trinity Day
June 28 - Constitution Day
August 24 - Ukrainian Independence Day (The Consular Office will not operate on August 26)*
October 14 - Defender of Ukraine Day
December 24 - Christmas
Please, note that we are closed on Ukraine's holidays as well as on bank holidays in the UK
|Mr Andrii Kuslii
Consul of Ukraine
|8 Windsor Street, Edinburgh, EH7 5JR. Citizen's reception hours on consular and legal issues: Monday, Wednesday, Friday:09:00-12:45; Tuesday:14:00-17:45; Thursday:09:00-11:00. View on map
|0044 131 556 00 23
|0044 131 557 34 60
Reception of citizens of Ukraine, foreign nationals and stateless persons:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 09:00 -12: 45
Tuesday: 14:00 - 17:45
Thursday: 09:00 - 11:00
for certain categories of citizens (disabled people, pregnant women, seriously ill nationals)
Reception of citizens by the head of mission will be held on the first Tuesday of each month from 09.30 to 12.00.
On weekends and holidays Ukrainians will be accepted in case of an emergency, loss of passport documents, accident, death, arrest, etc.
Emergency phone (strictly for Ukrainian nationals in life-threatening situations in Scotland & Northern Ireland Region): +44 7423290618.
|Boundaries of the consular district:
Scotland and Northern Ireland
One should pay consular fees by cards: VISA DELTA, VISA ELECTRON, UK MAESTRO DEBIT, MASTERCARD DEBIT
Social media use:
Consulate of Ukraine facebook page - http://on.fb.me/1FvvtkH
Consulate of Ukraine Twitter account - https://twitter.com/UKRinEdinburgh
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Fancy footwork has WR Darreus Rogers primed for bigger role
LOS ANGELES — Last week an impromptu dance contest broke out in the middle of USC spring practice.
Head coach Steve Sarkisian declared Darreus Rogers the best of the football playing dancers.
It was no coincidence.
The sophomore wide receiver is enrolled in a hip hop dance class at USC this semester.
"I'm working on my moves (to) get more elusive," Rogers said.
Turns out, he was a ringer.
"All" of the moves he used to win the dance contest were learned in his hip hop class.
He says the classes have helped his footwork, which is "really good," according to wide receivers coach Tee Martin. But there's no denying his hands.
"He's probably got the biggest hands in the room at receiver," Martin said. "Very, very strong hands. He can make those challenge catches — catches under duress, catches in traffic because his hands are so strong."
As a freshman in 2013, Rogers secured the third wide receiver spot behind Marqise Lee and Nelson Agholor and snagged 22 balls while averaging 11.7 yards per catch.
In 2014, with the departure of Lee, Rogers' role is expected to increase tremendously in Sarkisian's system as he is expected to transition from role player to featured receiver.
"I think the challenge for a guy like Darreus is finding the consistency factor of knowing you're not the third wide who goes in, kind of, every other down or every third down, that you're out there all the time," Sarkisian said, "and how important that the little things are from a preparation standpoint of the quarterback's counting on you to be right in your alignment and in your assignment every time you go. That takes time. That takes maturing."
Trying to grasp the new offense, Rogers has had to increase his study habits. To do so, he's working even closer with Agholor.
"He's teaching me a lot of things that he don't know he's teaching me," Rogers said. "He don't know I watch him every time.
"I just always wondered how he catch on to plays that fast. He tells me what he did and the next week I'm up (to speed with) tempo, knowing everything."
As he masters the playbook, Rogers has relied on his hands to make some tough catches this spring and, of course, his feet to shed defenders because as he showed, he can dance.
"You gotta know how to dance," he said.