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How much do we really know about the relationship between urbanization and poverty?
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In the fourth plenary session of the 2012 GDN Annual Conference, focusing on urbanization and poverty, we took one step closer to seeing the inter-linkages between the two. It quickly became obvious that it is very hard to get a handle on urbanization without addressing poverty.
Chaired by Gabor Kezdi, Professor and Head of Department of Economics, with the Central European University, the session discussed the interplay between these two notions, to better understand how to create maximum impact for the developing and undeveloped worlds.
Robert Buckley (New School of Research, USA) was the first speaker. He magnified themes related to urbanization and development and pondered whether cities were becoming Malthusian. Still optimistic about the market, Buckley argued that it is mainly a public policy issue, characterized by speculation.
The growth issues we need to understand
Beginning with a few seemingly basic questions about the growth issues involved, in the urbanization process, and how migration impacts policy, Buckley then provided background information on Malthus, and the era he focused on, where conditions were not so good. And where for a very long time, the situation was rampant with pessimism, disease and superstition, posing major problems for development.
A closer look at Africa, as case study
Using the African context, as an explanation to the Malthusian question posed earlier, Buckley underlined how the continent is indicative of what happens in developing cities of today's world. Indeed, taxation, policies, and the status quo in Africa reveal many parallels within the rest of the developing world.
What also becomes evident is that future world population growth will be overwhelmingly urban. But thanks to urban innovations, the city, has now become inhabitable. Cities are no longer "dark Satanic mills," where density was deadly.
What does urbanization look like today?
Twenty-first century urbanization is different, with opposing trends between North and South, what may seem self-evident in a globalized world. International migration has also had a seminal role to play, in this scenario. There is a strong argument for migration, contending that when people are able to migrate, gains are massive, with up to a tenfold increase in income.
Buckley concluded his session by offering a number of conceptual and practical solutions, that involve rethinking restrictions on migration, recognizing and enhancing the capacity of slum communities, getting people's energy involved, and making greater use of new technologies.
What role does an informal economy play in this scenario?
Ravi Kanbur, a member on the GDN Board of Directors and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, was the second speaker and talked extensively about the informality lens, or the informal economy, how to define, understand, and make better use of it.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6stXWgGeX0&w=420&h=315]
Kanbur started by shedding light on informal sector employment, and underemployment, and how they both have aggravated urban poverty. Informality has now become a prominent feature of the urban landscape in developing countries, with a strong association between poverty and informality.
Exactly what is informality?
Formality is defined as employment under the ambit of state regulation and informality is the opposite of that, where workers don't have social protection by employers, and are beyond the scope of regulation. There still is a large percentage in the developing world and seems to be on the rise.
Taking a closer look at informality, a number of scenarios are introduced, including economic activities which have purposely adjusted out of the ambit of the law, where studies have come up with three types: the evaders, avoiders, and the outsiders.
We do not have solid empirical evidence of the magnitude of these different categories, but do know that technology has changed the name of the game, and now makes economies of scale less relevant than ever. Technology allows for shrinking the size of enterprises, and their labor force, and thus, changing the entire dynamic.
The role of policy
As we discuss these issues, policy gains significance, and it is usually provided as an explanation for many of these economic behaviors. The Economist argues that thanks to baroque regulation, half the labor force toils in an informal economy, unable to reap benefit from technology and a greater scale. And that is also how seemingly outrageous quotes such as "93% of the workforce is informal," come into being.
We soon find that the study of urbanization has to involve informality, from a variety of different perspectives. Although an old and much investigated topic, many questions remain unanswered.
A closer look at today's urban phenomenon
The third and final speaker, Carlos Vainer (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) offered an interesting perspective on urban poverty, largely defined in sociological and economic terms.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcY8iDomiC0&w=420&h=315]
Vainer addressed the issue of the impact of large urban projects and mega-events on social conflicts. As a result of the policies that try to attract these large urban projects and mega-events (such as the FIFA World Cup), according to Vainer there is an increase in inequality and a decrease in democracy in the cities. The role and resistance of civil society organizations is therefore very important – and this give reasons for hope as these movement can challenge the new form of authotarianism that is emerging in connections to mega-events.


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Dear Friends at and for TCA,
For time sake I want to make several statements with little commentary. As a TCA Board Member and
My statements are not meant to be completely authoritative. These are NOT official statements of the Board of Directors or Staff. They are, however, somewhat more informed than most I have heard as of late. Please take the time to read this entire post and give yourself and others the opportunity to move away from a "soundbite controversy" to an informed conversation. By the way, the soundbites that have come out in feedback are filled with heart and passion, but fairly inaccurate and, therefore, misleading in hallway or car line conversations. Please dig a little deeper at this time and be ready with open minds and hearts. There is not one administrative or Board level leader that I know, who does not want to make TCA the best school it can be for our families and students.
Here is food for thought....(In no particular order of importance)
1. PARENT ELECTED: The TCA Board are Parent Elected Individuals (which means the power to make decisions ultimately rests in the lap of the parents who vote for Board Members, run for the Board and participate)
2. PARENT PARTICIPATION: Few Parents run for the Board. (and many don't speak up until a misunderstanding like this comes up)
3. PARENT PARTICIPATION: Few Parents come to the Board Meetings or read Board Communications (which are open to anyone)
4. CLASS SIZE DECISION: No class size decision has been made. (only research, proposals, deliberation, feedback)
5. NO QUICK DECISIONS: An entire staff of TCA leaders has dedicated 100's of hours to protecting TCA from a financial, academic & cultural standpoint. Meaning...the business folks have not come up with the class size increase absent of input from the academic and instructional philosophy folks. This is NOT rash and quick reaction on anyone's part.
6. NOT REALLY AN INCREASE: To the best of my knowledge, the suggested increase is not an actual increase at all. For 11 years or so, TCA ran VERY SUCCESSFULLY at a slightly higher class size. It was only a recent shift backward that seems to be causing much confusion. My family was very involved in the research, conversation and decisions that led to the lower "16" student class sizes. At that time, my child was actually part of a pilot program where key philosophical items were adjusted at lower levels, class size being one of them. From a parent standpoint I said "yes" to the ideas, yet from a TCA Model standpoint I said "not sure" this is going to be sustainable. So, I do not believe it is necessary, nor possible to maintain the model of 16 per class and maintain our present TCA Model, no matter how much I like the class size.
7. WE ARE A CHARTER SCHOOL: The fact that we are a Charter School and therefore have to raise funds each year to be successful is a very well known fact. The staff and administration make this visible and known to every single family in the school, over, and over, and over. And still, we are at less than 50% of families giving to the annual fund.
8. SMALLER IS BETTER: We all love the idea of smaller class sizes, no argument there. Not one person on the Board or Staff are cheering for larger class sizes. The planning process is for a sustainable model, from every aspect, including the cultural, educational and philosophical aspects, supported by the finances, facility, staff, etc....
9. STILL ONE OF THE SMALLEST: If TCA were to raise class sizes by the suggested amounts we would STILL have some of the very smallest class sizes in the district and state, even among Charter and Private Schools.
10. REAL QUESTIONS: The real question may not be, how do we keep this class size. The real question may be, how do we maintain the TCA model of culture and instruction?
11. REAL EVIDENCE vs. PASSIONATE OPINION: There is not one shred of convincing evidence, besides the understandable feelings of some parents & teachers, that a slight increase in class size would damage the TCA model. It will mean change, adjustments and possibly cause a slight shift in classroom dynamics. This is a true statement. However, this does not mean the TCA model is broken, or even seriously affected. There is no evidence of serious impact until class sizes get closer to 25 or 30 kids, at least from the research I have looked at.
12. FULL PICTURE: The TCA staff and board are fully aware of the ramifications of the increase, in regard to the need to increase the tutor population, adjust classrooms, give special attention to students where needed, etc..I would hope we could put trust in our staff to consider the implications of this change and to adjust to protect the delivery of a great TCA education. From what I have witnesses, they are being very detailed and planned out.
13. PERSONAL NOTE: I have a 1st grader who is legally blind. His teacher would obviously have more time with each child, and more time with my special needs child, with classes at 16. However, I am completely confident that my child will continue to receive one of the best educational opportunities in the city or state, even if classes increase to 18 or 20. It will mean adjustments and will take time to figure it all out, but I am confident in the TCA staff and faculty.
15. WE ARE MORE THAN CLASS SIZE: TCA leadership is working very hard to protect other aspects that keep TCA, TCA; like resisting federally dictated Common Core, attracting & keeping Highly Trained and Aligned Teachers and Staff, Unique Curriculum and Philosophy Guidelines, Safe and Secure Campuses, Character Focused Culture, etc......these things will be present no matter what the class size is. Meaning, there is not just one key issue, class size, responsible for the success of TCA. Don't be drawn into a "soundbite" conversation where the chant for "smaller class size" comes without consideration of the things being mention here. They all have strong impact on the success of TCA, along with class size.
16. AGREEMENT: Not everyone will agree. There is no way over 2500 families will agree about class size. So, this can't be our goal. However, I am fully aware, unfortunately, that many of the educational, informational, and investment opportunities afforded to parents are not taken advantage of. This leads to more disagreement, more soundbite conversations and more uneducated opinions about the success factors and future decisions of TCA. Complete agreement cannot be our goal, Success, based on our Core Values has to be our goal.
17. GET EDUCATED: How many parents have read and understood the core values document, the parent agreement, the instructional philosophy information, the various parts of our educational delivery system and the writings of people like Dr. Coulter and others? How do we know 16 students in 1st grade is the magical number? How do we know 18 or 20 is bad? Do we really think our amazing staff are so weak and shallow that they cannot figure out how to deliver excellent results with the added children? Do we really believe the Board, Staff and Teachers are willing to sabotage the TCA we have come to love? Have we talked to Elementary teachers from other schools, districts and states, in order to truly compare? I would suggest that the right people are doing the right work and the right conversations are being raised. The "alarm" that some feel about classes RETURNING to the class size that made us so successful, is good. It makes everyone stop and think, to rethink and to think again. But, I challenge everyone to depart from simple sound bite opinions and to get educated about the details.
18. DROP AND GO: How many parents come to drop their kids off and rarely darken the doors of the campus, except to see their kids play sports, activities or attend parent teacher meetings?
19. NO SECRETS: No one is holding back information about class size changes. The PROPOSALS necessary to make budget decisions for next year, 5 years and 10 years are what have been looked at. Nothing more.
20. POSSIBLY MOST IMPORTANT: Please follow this carefully. The main drivers, from my vantage point, for the class sizes being RETURNED to the size TCA had them for most of our successful years, are for...
* Teacher salary & compensation (our teachers are underpaid with few increases in recent years and steadily falling further and further behind other schools,while being asked to deliver a higher level of work, investment, time and energy)
* Short & Long Term Sustainability (EXPERTS who love the TCA family and philosophy have worked hundreds of hours on what it takes to keep TCA, TCA, from both a financial, academic, philosophy and culture standpoint. This is not a rash or quick decision or shallow conversation. The EXPERTS we have entrusted to lead our school, as well as those at large in school districts around us, have all led to common conclusions about long term sustainability)
* Recurring Per Pupal Revenue from the State is our number one source of income, inside a $24 million budget, that sustains our main recurring costs. And we must fund recurring costs like teacher salaries with recurring sources of income. Even if we double or tripled the parent given in Annual fund, our teacher salaries would suffer and this level of parent given cannot be predicted from year to year.
21. OUR TEACHERS: Our Teachers are worth more, deserve more and must be treated better, from a salary and compensation standpoint, This creates better classroom education through better retention and attraction of the best teachers.
22. HEROES OF TCA: MANY parents, teachers, staff and students are involved, give, serve, lead and sacrifice for the TCA Community. It is my desire to honor the hard work of this growing minority, and to make the best decision for the long term success of TCA, not the short term, fear based, decisions that will ultimately make TCA a more difficult place for my 1st grader to grow up. We are in this together.
23. WHERE WILL WE GO from here. If TCA raises class size at early grades to 18, or even 20, we are still one of the best schools in the State, with the best teams, (don't discount their ability), the best philosophy, the best parents, the best structure with the best kids. What school will I take my kids to with smaller class sizes? What school will I go to with better character education, or community? Where is the better school, just because of class size? I suggest that it is very hard to find.
24. TCA IS NOW AND ALWAYS WILL BE A "SMALLER CLASS SIZE" SCHOOL. No matter what happens, TCA will always be smaller in class size than your average public, charter or private school. We will always focus on the core values we have grown to love and will always focus on the key areas that cause the success we have enjoyed to this point.
25. Think about these soundbites as your conversations continue......think about how important these are, how educated you are, and how much you care about each of these items.
* TCA is a parent/school partnership, where parents elect leadership, thus have ultimate authority over Board Level Decisions. Daily Operations is delegated to President & Staff.
* TCA attracts and hires some of the best administration, teaching and coaching staff.
* TCA is a character development driven community.
* TCA is a classical education experience
* TCA is a charter school institution with the rights and burdens granted by this fact.
* TCA is not a prep school, drop and go school or wealthy choice-in school.
* TCA uses Socratic method in classroom instruction.
* TCA uses Charlotte Mason educational techniques & philosophy
* TCA is a young school institution working hard to make sure it lives strong another 15 years
* TCA has only half of parent participation in the annual fund
* TCA sports & activities are not part of the financial issues, they are mostly self supporting
* TCA is built upon servant-leadership, which means we ask questions that are good for us all, not just my family, my kids, my grade level, my feelings or my opinion. We serve the community as a whole.
IN THE END....Class sizes may go up, they may stay the same, either way, TCA is one of the best schools in the country. I hope all of us will keep this in mind. There is huge opportunity for mistake or panic at this point. I suggest we support accurate research, professional staff, invested stakeholders and the surrounding community to plan for a future that allows us another decade of success.
Feel Free to Email me with comments or concerns.
Again...THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL STANCE OF THE TCA BOARD OR STAFF...just one man's thoughts on the issue.....


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On an exceptionally shorter-expression chart, the alternative is accurate. Considerably less information and facts goes into Every candle, and therefore each candle is considerably less trustworthy as a forecast of foreseeable future candle formations.
Pullback trading A pullback entry relies over the strategy of finding a inventory or ETF which has a clearly established development, and then looking ahead to the 1st retracement (pullback) right down to aid of both its primary uptrend line or transferring normal to get into the industry.
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The Margin Disclosure Statement and Settlement (PDF) is available for download, or it is obtainable at among our branch workplaces. It includes information on our lending procedures, fascination prices, and the risks connected with margin accounts.
Daily trader's task is to locate a repeating sample (or that repeats adequate to generate a profit) then exploit it. To do that You do not have to have a degree or designation, nor do you might want to read through through hundreds of publications.
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The SEC adopted policies in 2001 that declared anyone who can make in excess of 4 trades in a 5-working day interval inside a margin account to be a "sample day trader." Compared with regular margin accounts which demand a deposit of $2,000 to open, broker-dealers registered with NASDAQ or even the NYSE demand that working day traders retain $25,000 equity within their accounts on any working day that day trading happens, although they've not executed any limited product sales.
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A number of cents excess on the Fee is worth it if the organization could help you save hundreds or A large number of pounds when you have a pc meltdown and may't get out of your trades. See five Ideas for Finding an awesome Forex Broker. Significant financial institutions, though they provide trading accounts, commonly are not the best option for working day traders. Costs are usually increased at important banking institutions, and lesser brokers will commonly give extra customizable fee and Fee buildings to day traders.
Day trading isn't a shoestring Procedure. You will need to have a lot of money in an effort to produce a revenue. Lots of expert traders recommend setting up with not less than $one hundred,000.
Previous calendar year, I wrote a reserve about working day trading ("Start out Day Trading Now"), so I'm not fully goal. Nonetheless, I concur with Hoffman. Only all over 5% of retail traders make money as full-time working day traders. The likelihood of achievements is trim. The most effective assistance regards hedging, which happens to be another way of getting diversified. You can hedge with solutions (purchasing places or phone calls), or with gold along with other commodities, or with bonds. It's Terrifying to guess anything around the hope that the marketplace goes in one direction.
We basically make more money when the market goes down than when it goes up. Let's know Should you have any questions on nearly anything in general, or something that we write-up right here within the day trading blog site. We normally like to hear from new and seasoned traders alike.
Selection trading is a method that assumes a inventory's value will proceed to trade within a price tag selection or channel.
All estimates are in local exchange time. Real-time previous sale details for U.S. stock rates replicate trades claimed as a result of Nasdaq only. Intraday details delayed no less than 15 minutes or for each exchange necessities.
Every single day trader has losses, so don't kick you once the occasional trade doesn't go your way. Do, however, confirm that you just adopted your founded working day trading rules and didn't get in or out at the wrong time.
Possessing a program and sticking to it is actually crucial to profitable working day trading. Some principles that traders use involve putting a halt-loss order at the same time the trade is executed to limit any loss to a set proportion of financial investment, closing a place when an predicted function does not transpire, despite financial gain or decline, and never keeping a place overnight, underneath any conditions.
If day trading futures, give attention to trading concerning 8:thirty am and 11 am EST. Futures markets have official closes at various times, but the last hour of trading in a very futures contract also generally offers sizable moves for working day traders to capitalize on.
I wish to exclusively wish to indicate that many people do think that they're going to start generating funds working day trading immediately. Mastering the way to working day trade normally takes a lot of self-control, time, and tolerance. A lot of people don't start generating funds right away and people tales are certainly not typical.
Still, you will find specific marketplace circumstances in which day trading approaches get the job done. In the event the marketplaces crashed in 2008, Hoffman stated, he built a here lot of money day trading. "In 2008, an extraordinary number of new working day traders shorted the market for a stretch of time," he noted.
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This section of the course (Fall 1999) meets MTWF 8:00AM-8:50AM in Ritter Hall 128.
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Calculus is a clever way of studying functions. It is a particularly pleasing way of studying functions because one can get some understanding of its most basic concepts by staring at a graph of a function (e.g. a tangent line to a graph or the concavity of a graph, terms which I will explain very early in the course). Calculus ranks up there with fire, the wheel, and the modern electronic computer as one of the great discoveries of humanity because of its many applications to difficult problems in economics, life sciences, social sciences, engineering, and even within mathematics itself. I will focus on such applications during the course. The image above illustrates another of the nice geometric ideas which will arise: the method of Riemann sums for computing the area under a graph.
Here is the course schedule which gives the specific topics to be covered and corresponding section numbers in the book.
There is also a very terse course description contained in the SLU Undergraduate Catalog (PDF format). The course prerequisite is a "C" or better in MT A141 Precalculus or four years of high school mathematics.
Textbook Information
The required text for the course is Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Points of View, Volume 1 by Arnold Ostebee and Paul Zorn. The authors maintain a web page for the book which has links to the publisher, ordering information, and errata. Students can get the text from the SLU Bookstore.
Graphing Calculator
Because we will be approaching calculus from the graphical point-of-view suggested above, you are required to have a graphing calculator for this course. We strongly recommend the TI-82 or TI-83 (the TI-81 is unfortunately not adequate). For students who haven't used these calculators in previous courses, there will be Graphing Calculator Workshops held Wednesday, Sept. 8 from 3:10-4PM in Ritter Hall 222 and on Thursday, Sept. 9 from 3:00-3:50PM in Ritter Hall 223. Optional equipment which you'll probably want: translucent colored slide cases so you look fashionable in calculus class.
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There will be some homework problems every week, unless otherwise indicated. Here is the latest homework assignment. You are encouraged to discuss homework problems with your classmates, but each student should prepare his or her own set of solutions. The Student Solution Manual which accompanies the textbook is on reserve in Pius XII Library.
There will be three in-class exams given September 17th, October 12th, and November 9th; together these exams make up 50% of your final grade. The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8th from 8:00-9:50AM; it is comprehensive and is worth 35% of your final grade. Class participation (group work) accounts for the remaining 15%. Make-up exams will not be given. The College of Arts & Sciences has a policy concerning academic honesty with which you should be familiar.
Getting help
- The Mathematics Department offers help sessions run by graduate students for all lower division courses. These begin around the second week of classes, and are held in Ritter Hall 23, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:00PM and Wednesdays from 2:30-4:30PM. This is a great (and underutilized) resource for calculus students!
- Free tutoring is also available from Student Educational Services in the Academic Resources Center, Room 016, phone 977-3319.
- There is a helpful handout distributed by the Mathematics Department called Success in Mathematics which discusses study skills, problem solving techniques, studying for and taking exams.
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Ok, I'll get right on that.
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At least that's that latest scare tactic the media seems to be using.
OK, it is true that fertility drops after 35. But that doesn't mean that we need to have a child before then. If we based our life decisions on when we were most fertile we'd all have gotten knocked up at 16.
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In the dating world that same mindview makes you a social climbing tramp.
The career build is based on the idea that what you do today determines your success tomorrow.
In the dating world things like chemistry and trust are usually based on things that happened in childhood, and can't be changed today.
Most importantly, the career world wants us. The dating world hasn't been that kind. Because while the media is pressuring women into the a reproductive mania, it is also telling guys that they don't need to settle down. Magazines like Maxim and Stuff keep up the idea that the happiest man is a single man, and that marriage will just cramp their style.
Is it any wonder that the dating world is so tough with all these mixed messages?
So, for my fellow 20 and 30 year old women who are feeling their biological clock going off, consider these words, "So what?"
So what if you have a harder time getting pregnant? So what if you aren't able to have children? Would you rather be miserable as the wife and mother in a marriage based on desperation or happy in a life you picked for yourself.
It was almost a year ago when I learned that I probably can't have children. My hormones are fucked up, my uturus is hostile, and I don't even ovulate most of the time.
When I first heard that I might not be able to have kids I lost it. It was the lowest point in my life. And then the next day I felt free. I didn't have to fit my life into some timetable of fertility. I didn't have to try and fall in love with someone who's genes I wanted to pass on.
Oh, I still want to be a mother. But it isn't as if there is a lack of parentless children in this world. When the time is right I can always adopt. Although, honestly, fostering appeals to me more. If only so that I could help as many kids as possible.
Don't let someone scare you into changing your life. Just be happy and try to do good in every moment. Stop looking down the road at some dream that might or might not happen. Right now is the only thing that matters, and so that's where your attention needs to be.
And join me in writing a letter to the Boston Globe to let them know that we don't appreciate having stories about female reproduction in the career section. At least not until they have similar scare stories focused on the men.


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The 2-Year Delay
Once in the hall, Wang Lin was greeted by a foul smell; similar to decomposing corpses. This smell was very familiar to him. He immediately took a few steps back. He looked at the lady on the bed, carefully inspecting her neck, arms and legs.
Round, violet petals were seen on the skin of her body.
Looking at these round, violet petals, an image unexpectedly appeared in Wang Lin's mind; a place filled with corpses. Each of them had the petals on their body. A black clothed man was squatting on the ground, examining the bodies. At times, he seemed to be deep in his thoughts, and at other times, he would mix and match some herbs!
After the image disappeared, Wang Lin felt a throbbing headache. The colour on his face changed. He couldn't help but feel goosebumps. Some important messages surfaced in his mind.
Corpse Flower Poison! This must be Corpse Flower Poison. And it seemed that it had progressed to the second stage.
The lady noticed Wang Lin's expression. She cynically said, "You must be afraid."
With the information about Corpse Flower Poison, Wang Lin knew that the second stage was when the poison would be most contagious. He looked at the lady, muttered to himself softly and smiled.
The lady's eyes became even colder. She said, "You have some guts. The other slaves were scared to death when they saw my real appearance. You are the first one who managed to smile. But that's alright, your fate will still be the same as others."
Wang Lin laughed, pulled up a chair for himself and sat on it.
The lady was stunned. She had never expected Wang Lin to sit in front of her. She coldly said, "It seems that you are not only gutsy, but also……"
"You desperately look for men to sleep with you with the very intention of spreading your disease to others. Are you hoping that by doing so, you would be cured?" Wang Lin interrupted her. His eyes were shining brightly.
The lady immediately sat up. With fiery eyes, she asked, "Who told you that?"
Wang Lin remained calm and collected. He continued, "The way you are doing, it won't cure your disease, but instead, make it even worse."
The lady stared at Wang Lin eerily and said, "I don't know who told you that. It doesn't matter. I shall let you experience this Mandara illness."
Wang Lin kept quiet and stared at her calmly. He noticed the subtle scowl on her face.
As the memory regarding the Corpse Flower Poison became clearer, he said, "Based on the round red petals on both your arms and legs, I am guessing that your whole body is already stiff and numb. Every movement brings unbearable pain. Your hair has begun to fall out. Mouth full of ulcers. Aches and pain all over your bones and joints, and your vision has become blurrier. Am I right?"
Her expression turned from eerie to shocked. Her breathing became laboured. Most of the things that Wang Lin had just said were true. She had never told anyone about her symptoms. Thus, none of the servants would have known about these.
Because Mandara disease was so rare on the Empress Mainland, only a handful of people would know about the illness in detail.
"How….. How do you know?" Her voice was already shaking.
"Mandara disease can be divided into three stages. Once it progresses to stage three, the only outcome is death." Wang Lin looked at her and coolly said, "You are very lucky to meet me during the second stage of the disease. I know how to treat this Mandara disease."
The lady took a deep breath, sat up straight and said, "Mandara disease is fatal. What makes you think that you can cure me?"
"If you are not being treated, death within one year is inevitable!" Wang Lin looked at the lady expressionlessly.
After a moment of silence, she pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I will let you treat me. But if you are lying to me, I definitely…"
"Treatment would require that you pay a price," Wang Lin smiled while interrupting the lady again.
"What do you want? Wealth? An ID as a free man? High level spells? Say it." The lady said in disdain.
"An ID as a free man. A quiet place to stay where I would not be bothered. Spells…. that would do too. Give me a set of high level spells. You need to also ensure my safety after your recovery." Wang Lin knew that in the near future, he would not be able to leave the place. The most important thing now was to survive and grow stronger.
"Not a problem. But, how do I know that you are not lying to me. If you are really confident of treating my disease, you will take this pill now. On the day of my recovery, I will give you the cure. Wang Popo, restrain him." the lady smiled coldly while retrieving a wooden small box.
Wang Lin heard a sigh from his back, followed by an icy cold energy going into his body. In the blink of an eye, his whole body was immobilised. Other than the mouth, all other parts of his body became stiff.
"Young man, it's in your best interest to take this pill. I am already old. I do not wish to use the Soul Chain technique on you. You must have heard about the Soul Chain technique. There is a one third chance of failure where the soul would be scattered. However, if successful, you would be a living zombie whose job is only to obey commands." A hoarse voice came from Wang Lin's back. The old woman was actually Wang Popo.
Wang Lin smiled and said, "Alright, I shall swallow the pill." Once he said that, his entire body returned to normal. After stretching and moving his still slightly numb arms and legs, he took the wooden box without saying anything.
Using two fingers, he slowly removed the pill from the box and immediately inserted it into his mouth and swallowed. He said, "Mandara disease needs a long period of treatment. I need two years. Every month I will give you a prescription of herbs. You will recover after two years."
In actuality, the treatment for Corpse Flower Poison was not as slow as what Wang Lin claimed. With the information he had in his memory, he was confident that he would be able to cure this disease within three months. Stating two years was only to buy time for himself.
He did not believe that the lady would hold the end of her bargain regarding his safety. After spending some time thinking for the past month, he had learnt that it's in his best interest to put his fate in his very own hands.
At the southmost part of the mansion, there was a quiet and secluded court where Wang Lin was sitting. All the servants nearby had been transferred out. So now, apart from him, there wasn't anyone else.
At the time, the day had grown dark. Apart from a strange looking rectangular lamp, there were two other objects in front of Wang Lin. One was his ID as a free man, another was a book made up by yellow silk cloths.
Looking at them, Wang Lin gave a deep sigh.
Whatever he had now was closely related to the crystal he discovered at Jian Yu Island. Besides giving him fragments of weird memories and recollections, the crystal had slowly changed his personality and attitude.
It wasn't wrong to say that the crystal gave him a new life. Currently, his survival was the only thing which mattered most. In order to survive, he needed to become strong! Wang Lin gave a resolute look and picked up the yellow book. However, once he flicked through the book, he frowned. There wasn't a single word that he recognized.
Lucky for Wang Lin, besides words, there were illustrations of human bodies. However, focusing on the red and green curvy lines on the illustrations gave him a headache.
Putting down the book, Wang Lin laughed bitterly. Apparently, there was something he had to do first; learn how to read.
Back in his room, Wang Lin pushed the tea cup from the table onto the floor. He picked up one of the bigger broken fragments, then laid on his bed. However, he had difficulties falling asleep. Although he was no longer worried that he would disappear like other subjects, he couldn't help but feel that he was still in great danger.
Any wrong move in San Xiao Jie's room would have resulted in death.
He was trapped in a hopeless situation. However, Wang Lin believed that if he were like the other subjects, his fate would be different. The other subjects had been forced to sleep with San Xiao Jie and died after contracting the Mandara disease.
The fate of his fellow subjects were clear examples of what could have happened.
Therefore, when he recognized that Mandara disease was actually Corpse Flower Poison and that it was curable, he smiled because he knew he had the key to get out of this deadly situation.
Actually, when San Xiao Jie wanted him to consume the poison, she would not have needed Wang Popo's service to force him. Wang Lin understood his situation and would unhesitantly take the pill in exchange for two years of preparation time. It was his belief that all of these would change completely in two-years time.
Finally, Wang Lin fell asleep. He had not changed his clothes. The broken fragment of clay was still in his tight grasp. To him, this was a weapon to defend himself.
After a restful night's sleep, Wang Lin woke up very early the next morning. After briefly washing his face, he looked into the mirror. The man in the mirror looked ordinary; with a rather dark skin tone and coarse skin. There was a confused look on his face.
How could he continue surviving? By making himself strong, that's the only option. He needed to be strong!
However, the most important thing now was to find the herbs required to treat the Corpse Flower Poison. He was prepared to go outside and get a better understanding of this strange world. When he stepped out of the courtyard, Wang Lin noticed two armored female guards standing at his door.
One of them looked at Wang Lin and raised her hand to stop him. She said, "Without San Xiao Jie's permission, you cannot leave this place."
Wang Lin smirked, laughing in his heart. He loudly said, "You let San Xiao Jie know that I need to go out to buy the herbs. Also, call Chun Lan to come here with enough money for the purchases." After saying this, Wang Lin returned to the courtyard, sat on the stone chair and continued reading the spells book.
The guard looked shocked. After hesitating for a bit, she gave an eye signal to her partner and left quickly.
Not long after, the guard returned with Chun Lan following behind. Chun Lan was surprised to see Wang Lin. She felt curious as to why he was not killed like the other men on the second day. But she understood that she should not ask about things which she was not supposed to know. "San Xiao Jie gave me a thousand crystal coins, what medicine do you wish to buy?" After saying that, she suddenly noticed that there was a black piece of paper on the stone table. She gave an astonished look. She recognized that. It was the ID of a free man!
Wang Ling closed his book and stood up. He gently smiled, then said, "Bring me to the place that sells herbs so that I can have a look first."
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I finished some fun new art pieces and posted them for sale on my Etsy site today: www.etsy.com/shop/connieartz . I haven't put anything new there in a while, so it feels good to be back.
Check out these paperweights made from my digital collages:
If you like them, come by my Etsy shop. I'd love to share them!


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Well, since we werent' able to get too many day of running in last week, we did Week 5 Day 3 (run 2 miles) this morning. Unfortunately we ended up 1 lap short (1/2 mile) because my hubby had to leave early this morning to drive the bus for football practice. We def. could have done that last 1/2 mile; we were doing great! Since it had been so many days since I had run last, it wasn't an easy task, but I pushed through. I didn't eat the best either this weekend, so I've really gotta get back on it this week. So far today I've done okay with my eating. I'm ready to shed some more lbs already! Tomorrow I WILL run a minumum of 2 miles!!
Thanks for reading!! ….and keep on running….


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Betsy West
Warren Lemley…
Karen Reese….
sorry but enjoy FL
Betsie Trew
visiting Rotarian and former member of our Club but now with the Monongahela Club. Betsie is always welcome!
Ken Baker
happy to celebrate the success of
program last week on making schools and students safe; Jazz Society's upcoming Brunch on March 11 featuring the W&J Jazz Club…try to support them and in turn
Diane Ambrose:
80 Kindergarten children for registration in cooperation with the Washington School District and this on the same day as Trivia….
Good Luck Diane!
Betsy Trew:
ready for her annual date with
selling tickets for the Monongahela Rotary Club's Comedy Night to be held on March 24 and giving 8 complimentary tickets to the Washington Club; also happy to announce that our own
Kathy Sabol will be receiving the Washington Community Foundation's Waller Humanitarian Award.
Kathy Sabol:
$1.00 to say THANK YOU!
Karen Reese:
Beyond HAPPY to go to Florida for 2 weeks.
Mike Pecosh:
going to NYC with his wife for a conference and anxious to visit the MET…he's returning cultured!
Bill Allison:
$5.00 because he intends to win the 50/50 for the 3
week running (didn't happen)
Shirley Moore:
happy the man in her life (we know him) took her to dinner at the newly renovated Century Inn. Shirley advises everyone to go and be sure to take your wallet! Dave…what a guy!
Brandi Butler:
$5 for the new 100 lb puppy in her house.
Bill Mesler:
no longer having extra family living in the house…they moved to Pittsburgh. What happened to Sandy?? HaHa
Susan Price:
has enjoyed having niece with us but she is leaving for Oregon on Monday.
Susan Priest:
made a trip to the ER but HAPPY it was just a bad reaction to blood pressure medication. Thankful it is being balanced and is under control.
MaryJo Podgurski:
$5 happy Thankful dollars for Rotarians who worked with the "Let's Talk"program last week and for the great news coverage by the
Next "Let's Talk" program is scheduled for April.
Dorothy Tecklenburg:
gave a weird dollar
as they went to dinner (at PaPa J's) and the theater and when they came out of the theater, PaPa J's was on fire so she guessed this was the "last supper".
John Tecklenburg:
asks only that everyone GO VOTE on March 13 no matter your party affiliation.
Joe Marsh:
so happy to being having lunch with 7 of his closest friends (Joe sat alone at the table)
Trivia Night Friday:
47 teams now formed and registered. Set up begins around 2:00 to prepare for a great night! All hands appreciated if you can spare some time.
Roadside Cleanup:
in April but date not yet established details to come later so stay tuned.
Let's Talk About School Safety
: great beginning and more "Let's Talk" issues to be scheduled.
Let's Listen:
program needs caring adults to join for the 25
Annual Youth Conference on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 in the Rossin Ballroom from 8:30am-1:30pm. Watch and listen for more details.
Sad Note:
We extend our sympathy and support to the Hillberry Family on the passing of Bob's mother Edna Dell Hillberry at age 96. Friends will be received on Friday March 9 in Coleman-Taylor Funeral Home, 3378 Millers Run Road in Cecil Township (Rt 50). Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of one's choice.
PROGRAM: Rotary Trivia
Susan Priest
led us in our annual program on Rotary Trivia. As usual we learned how little we actually know about Rotary and especially our own Club. Did we have fun????
Thank you again for your efforts
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Getting to Fish Therapy involves mastering the maze of medieval alleys built on the remains of Byzantine paths and Roman roadways. The solid stone houses are stabilized by arches that span the alleys and keep the walls on either side from collapsing or leaning or ever allowing for an urban renewal plan that would widen these streets so that something more than one motor scooter and one pram can pass at once. Occasionally, an open door reveals a long, low, cave-like room bisected twice by the kind of archways you see in Gothic churches—massive stone ribs criss-crossing the room and ending in the corners, north, south, east, west. The houses appear to be three times deeper than they are wide; the largest have three floors. So interesting are these glimpses of interior lives, that you continue alley after alley until you find yourself at a dead-end confronting a sizable Rhodian frau in a flowered smock and striped apron aiming to toss the dishwater into the street whether you stand there or not. She huffs at your camera as you back away. As you dive deeper into the city, a different level of light filters into the alleyways. This happens because the defensive wall that encircles the entire Old Town casts a long shadow that only some streets have evaded. In such a street you might find a dozen or more smaller alleys, wide enough for a bicycle, leading to pensions and boutique hotels offering six or seven rooms duded up like seraglios or Ottoman fantasies. You'll also find the occasional explanatory placard that tells you that there exists here a Crusader style that combines rude fortress building with touches of French and Spanish domestic architecture. Neither of those styles has been immediately apparent to this eye though the Master's Palace, quite a splendid fortified castle at the top of the highest hill, is chockablock with French religious furniture—prie-dieus, pews, altars, choir stalls—to complement the mosaics lifted from ancient Roman houses on the surrounding islands. It's rather like the Peshtigo Fire Museum I wrote a book about 30 years ago: nothing in the museum comes from Peshtigo because everything there went up in the fire. Apparently everything here vanished when the Ottomans took over.
(I think this paragraph begins to give you the maze-like sense of traversing the Old Town of Rhodes, though maybe the paragraph is a touch smoother than Rhodes' roads which are entirely constructed of egg-sized stones pushed into a concrete base. In places, the white and black stones are set in handsome patterns. Everywhere, the musical humming of wheels is a joy for little boys on bicycles who play tunes by speeding up and slowing down, hitting the rounded stones straight on or on a bias.)
Such a long walk calls for lunch and a couple of dishes tried for the first time. Chick Pea Soup: made with whole chick peas, quite a bit of olive oil, lemon juice, and, probably, chicken stock. Served lukewarm while the peas are still crunchy. Aubergine: cut into long strips, sautéed in olive oil, sprinkled with crumbled feta cheese, and festooned with Chinese parsley. (I'd use dill here, I think, and maybe a handful of pine nuts, but I'm not complaining. The neighborhood cats, however, did complain. They do not fancy Chick Pea Soup or Fancy-Pants Aubergine. They glowered at me till the veal steak arrived, and then they were all sweetness and loving caresses of my ankles. Across the square the caged parrot made spectacular wolf whistles at every woman who passed. And when eleven cats chased after a single tossed scrap of meat, the parrot hissed and screeched and provided both sides of a bloody battle. To passing men, he can say hello in 8 or 9 languages.)
The history of fish therapy is a little murky. The young woman tending the shop said the therapy originated in Turkey. But the necessary fish, the Garre Rufa, are from Thailand. These happy therapists are somewhat oversized guppies, and they shine a silver-blue in the clear sweet water tanks. Here's what the brochure says, in six languages, none of which is Spanish or French: "Close your eyes and enjoy the unique feeling, which only small fish called Garre Rufa, known as 'fish doctors,' can give you. During the treatment, the fish suck only the dead skin from the feet, leaving them soft and rejuvenated. The fish releases an enzyme which helps restore and regenerate the skin and simultaneously they energize needle points which help balance of the nervous system. This natural peeling method is the best and most amusing way for a day of relaxation…."
It's all true, and heavenly to boot.
The shop lies just below street level in one of those cave-like arched openings whose depth seems to disappear in blackness. Along the walls are orange plastic benches elevated five feet above the floor. Below them, the tanks, a dozen in all, are arranged so that twelve people can dangle their toes in bliss at once. The Garre Rufa swim aimlessly in the unused tanks, ignoring each other, but moving at brisk speed, giving off bright glints of blue light. But as soon as your feet enter the tank, a sense of purposiveness overtakes them in mid fin waggle, and they are on you, scores, maybe hundreds of them all vying for the tastiest dead meat. They have no teeth, so they content themselves with sucking on your toes and insteps creating a semi-erotic, demi-ludicrous sensation that causes the handsome young attendant to avert her eyes from yours. Then the piscine armada regroups and, like banditos, "zhey head for ze heels." They apply themselves as assiduously as leeches (the mention of which made the attendant grimace when I told her my father collected them for a pharmacist on Staten Island in 1920). But every once in a while, one Garre Rufa would drift away in an apparent ecstasy, float upside down, do a loop or two around an ankle and re-attach on a digit or cuticle.
Einstein said relativity is easy: Two seconds sitting on a hot stove is an eternity; two hours with a pretty girl seems a second. Half an hour with your feet in the tank, for only ten euros, is perhaps less than a pretty girl, but then she'd better be really pretty.


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Deciding on a birthday cake theme this year was very difficult for Dominic. So many super-heroes to pick from...it is a hard decision. It is hard to top last years superhero volcano cake. So here is the Hall of Justice Cake. He even had a pinata with superhero villains on the top. He had a great party playing with his cousins and his friends. He spent most of the next few days playing Legos that he got from his Godparents. Still can't believe my baby is 6 years old! See here for previous birthdays age 2, age 3, age 4, age 5. 11.6.11
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Happy 6th Birthday Super-Dominic
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