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I lost my mum in July, just a few days after her birthday. She was 83. I'm not posting this for sympathy, I just want to mark the moment, and celebrate her. I want people to know a bit about who she was.
She was evacuated from London during the second world war, something I can barely imagine dealing with as an adult, never mind a young child. Later, she left school when she was 14, and pursued her dream of being a dancer - working during the day, taking lessons by night, persisting through sheer hard work and determination, eventually finding herself on stage in several musicals, where she met my dad. Things weren't easy for her, and much later she lost my dad to cancer when I was 5. She was funny, independent, strong, smart, and quite unlike anyone I ever knew.
Before I left home, I didn't always appreciate what she did for me. Sometimes (many times) I was an idiot and thought she just wanted me out of the house. She didn't, she just wanted me to sort my life out, to be safe, to be provided for. She was the one who found the first college course (that I failed), the second one (that I passed), who brought me back when things went wrong, and helped get me over to London when my sister found me a job. She did everything she could to provide for me and make sure I could stand on my own two feet. She drove me utterly bonkers sometimes, she was no saint, nobody is - but she worked her arse off to protect me and give me a good start in life.
She loved a good laugh, and would instantly be reduced to a helpless, shrieking heap by Marty Feldman's "bishop of no fixed abode" sketch, Julian and Sandy, or anything by Morecambe and Wise. If a TV show looked like it was about to feature male nudity, she'd lean forward with glee, announcing "ooh, willies!"
Over the last few years, she developed dementia, and we had to watch as a strong, independent woman who raised 5 kids slowly lost more and more of herself. It was horrifying seeing her anger, frustration and fear at losing memories, words, and her sense of self. It's such a cruel illness, she was always smart but as it ate away at her faculties we had to talk to her as if she was a child, purely to stop her getting scared or upset. My amazing sisters and equally amazing brother-in-law bore the brunt of this, as they lived close to her, and rarely got any thanks - she didn't realise she needed help, and would get angry at them for interfering in what she saw as her perfectly normal life.
Towards the end, she needed constant care, otherwise she would forget to eat. This all had to be paid for, as the care assessment insisted that she didn't need medical care provided, just social care - despite the fact that she'd have been dead within a couple of days if nobody went around to feed her. The way it's set up leaves a lot of people in the position of having to piss away everything they've ever worked for, just to get some basic medical help. When they're destitute, *then* the system steps into help. It's shit, and I don't know how the people involved can sleep at night.
In August, we gave my mum a great sendoff with a lovely funeral service. We felt like we'd already lost her several years ago, due to the dementia, so I'm glad she's not in any more pain or distress. It was awful to see it gradually erasing the person we once knew, so now we get to try and remember her the way she was.
Maggie in Severance is named after her, as was Peggy in Cockneys Vs Zombies. My mum's name was Margaret, Peggy was her nickname (which she didn't like, so of course we used it a lot to wind her up), and both characters are a shout out to her - strong, funny, capable women who you'd want on your ass-kicking team. She was very pleased at being played by Honor Blackman, which was fitting, as they are both Cockneys by birth.
She always looked out for me, tried to give me the best life possible, and would have taken a bullet for me (and probably argued it back into the gun). Goodbye, mum. And thank you. And I'm sorry for reposting this pic of you with a sparkler in your dessert, about to down a flaming sambuca at your 77th birthday party:
Reader, I'm proud to tell you that she downed that flaming sambuca like a champ. With the waiter chanting "sucky-sucky!" at her. It was a moment.
If you're in the mood for charity donations, while you're here, please consider Carers UK (supporting carers who often look after relatives unpaid with no help), the Alzheimer's Society, Kirkwood Hospice (who looked after my sister Julia at the end of her life), and Thrombosis UK (who do vital research into a less well known condition that kills more than 33,000 every year).

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2009 Reads: All About The Series
After reviewing my 2009 Reads, I decided that the key to quantity is finding a good series. It was a year for the supernatural, Nick Hornby, and Nora Roberts. What an odd combination. Let's hope 2010 will bring another good series to my attention, as well as a much needed nonfiction book.
1. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
5. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
6. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
7. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
8. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
9. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
10. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
11. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
12. From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
13. Grave Sight – Charlaine Harris
14. Grave Surprise – Charlaine Harris
15. An Ice Cold Grave – Charlaine Harris
16. Shakespeare's Landlord – Charlaine Harris
17. Shakespeare's Champion – Charlaine Harris
18. Shakespeare's Trollop – Charlaine Harris
19. Shakespeare's Counselor – Charlaine Harris
20. Mister Monday – Garth Nix
21. Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix
22. Shakespeare's Christmas – Charlaine Harris
23. Sunshine – Robin McKinley
24. Mrs. Mike – Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman
25. Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris
26. Dead Silence – Brenda Novak
27. Dead Giveaway – Brenda Novak
28. Dead Right – Brenda Novak
29. Breathers – S.G. Browne
30. The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
31. How to Be Good – Nick Hornby
32. The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
33. The Shack – William P. Young
34. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
35. Mercy – David Lindsey
36. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – J.K. Rowling
37. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
38. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
39. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
40. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
41. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
42. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
43. Final Warning – Sandra Robbins
44. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
45. An Education – Nick Hornby
46. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
47. Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
48. Grave Secret – Charlaine Harris
49. Morrigan's Cross – Nora Roberts
50. Dance of the Gods – Nora Roberts
51. Valley of Silence – Nora Roberts
52. Blood Brothers – Nora Roberts
53. The Hollow – Nora Roberts
54. The Pagan Stone – Nora Roberts
55. Northern Lights – Nora Roberts
56. Montana Sky – Nora Roberts
57. The Summer Tree – Guy Gavriel Kay
58. Birthright – Nora Roberts
59. Angels Fall – Nora Roberts
60. James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
Books That Spoil Us
My lapse in blogging will be attributed to Harry Potter. I started reading the series in July, thanks to Jesse Jarnow's article "Of Potter and Proust" published in Paste magazine. Jarnow has a style of writing that makes the reader trust his opinion. He mixes humor with the perfect amount of authority, and before I knew it I was off to pick up copies of Potter and Proust. My time with Proust proved unsuccessful. Many apologies to Mr. Jarnow. I promise to return to Proust at a later date.
I spent three weeks with Harry. In that time, I woke up mumbling about muggles, and struggled over Snape's loyalty. One day I actually thought I witnessed a young boy with a wand. My glimmer of excitement was squelched when I realized it was a drumstick. Obviously Harry had my attention. Since my immersion I have been dwelling in the afterglow of a brilliant story. It is difficult to compliment a work so widely praised and admired. Doubting my own ability to bring something new to the Potter discussion I've decided to avoid commenting on the work. Instead I would like to talk about those novels that spoil us as readers.
Personally, once I've finished something so perfect it is almost impossible to move on. Since Harry Potter nothing else has captured my attention and emotions. I realize that coming out of a series is a bit more difficult because I was saturated in the fictional world for so long, but what is the cure for this reading illness? How do we move on after becoming so attached to certain characters? Or after settling down in another world? I don't have an answer for this. My usual solution is to spend weeks reading a lot of first chapters until I fall into another relationship with a captivating novel or series. Is there a better way? I'm hitting the bookshelves to find out.
For those of you who haven't experienced Harry Potter, please read Jesse Jarnow's article and then proceed to your local library or bookstore. Enjoy.
The Shack- My Shocking Opinion (about the book I didn't want to read)
You'll either love it or hate it–that is the general consensus from readers of The Shack by William P. Young. I was so sure I was going to hate it. Let me tell you why. In the past when churches have "created" a bestseller with all of their hype, I have not been a fan.
I wouldn't call myself a book snob because I enjoy many genres, including Christian fiction (by a few select authors), and I generally finish novels whether they are good or not. My curiosity wins out in the end.
After having many people ask me about the book I finally went out and bought a copy. To be honest, The Shack is a great novel. It is well-written, entertaining, and personally, I am not offended by any of the theology.
While reading I kept thinking of something my dad always quotes. It is a blurb he saw about the movie Deliverance. This might be a bit paraphrased: "Twenty minutes into the movie and you are in the canoe with them." The same can be said of The Shack. I was in the forest and in the shack with the main character, Mack. I cried with him and felt his anger. Mack is everyone.
Young's characterization makes it impossible for the reader to separate themselves from the situation and circumstances Mack is going through in the novel. I had to set it aside several times, reread a few parts, and haven't stopped thinking about the novel since reading the first page a few weeks ago. The only semblance of criticism I can bring myself to say is that the novel can sometimes make the reader feel too much.
Surprising even myself I have already recommended this novel to a friend. This discovery leads me on a new adventure to try some of the other books I casually scoffed at reading.
Edward or Eric: Which Is The Better Vampire?
I'm not ashamed to admit jumping on the vampire bandwagon. I read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer and stay up to date on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. Even though I enjoy the stories in each series I noticed a drastic difference in the qualities attributed to the vampires. Let's set aside the fact that Harris writes for more mature audiences. I want to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the vampires.
When writing about supernatural creatures authors have to make a decision. Will they keep to conventional rules or will they create their own? Meyer chooses to wipe the slate almost clean and rebuild what people know about vampires. She doesn't follow previous conventions about turning to dust in the sunlight or being invisible in pictures. At first this bothered me when I read her series, but I became swept up in the story. My mood changed when reading Harris' series because her vampires are more conventional. They are not around at all in the daylight hours. They have multiple weaknesses.
I read the two series back to back and I will admit not liking the Sookie books at first. After coming off my Twilight high with indestructible vampires who are around to protect you all the time, Harris seemed disappointing. It took almost a year for me to return to Sookie, but once I did the series was consumed within ten days.
What was the draw? Besides being well-written, Harris creates life-threatening situations that occur during the daytime. This poses a problem since the vampires, mainly Eric, will be sleeping—leaving Sookie to fend for herself or receive help from other supernatural characters who are not limited by daylight.
At least for me, it was exciting to see how Sookie was going to save herself. She couldn't rely on Eric or Bill to always be around, even though it does seem like Bill is always lurking. Obviously both series are fantasy, but Harris' take is more realistic, if that word can even be applied in fantasy fiction. She recognizes that sometimes Sookie not only needs to solve her own problems, but she can also help the vampires in dangerous situations.
The Twilight series portrays humans as fragile, worthless creatures. Bella is a prime example. Humanity wasn't attractive when the Cullen family was the alternative.
I love both series and enjoy the characters. However, I choose Eric over Edward. There is more humanity in limitations and weaknesses. It's comforting, and still leaves the outcome to be unpredictable.
(There will probably be more on this topic later. I must admit, it fascinates me.)
Promiscuous Reading
I haven't posted anything because I'm in a reading funk. There are too many books being read at the same time. All seem promising, but none of them have grabbed me and held on. I want a book that shakes me up and gives me reading fever.
I've experienced a reading funk before. The only way out of it, at least for me, is to find a saving book. A novel, play, short story, just something that makes me want to read more than anything. At the moment, the half-read stack beside my bed is overwhelming.
Each night I find myself in a different story, never finishing anything. It feels a bit like a series of one night stands. There is nothing meaningful going on with my reading. I want more. I want a relationship.
Originally, I thought the solution could be found by having a relationship with one author. So I bought and checked out some books by one author, and although they are good, they are not what I'm looking for. I want a relationship with an individual book. When the last page is turned I want to miss the characters. The writing should be so good it makes me feel like I can write. The bottom line is inspiration. I haven't stayed up all night reading in a long time. I miss it.
What is the next book I need to read? Which characters will drag me out of my funk and restore my reading health? I don't know, but I will continue looking.
I Miss Garp, Thank You John Irving
Sometimes there are characters we can't forget. T.S. Garp is one of those characters. Last November I read The World According to Garp by John Irving. Since then not only have I purchased the majority of his books, but I've also spent a lot of time thinking about Jenny Fields, Helen, talented bears, and Walt with "the undertoad."
Even last night as I began a new book with promising characters I wanted Garp.
We all have favorite characters we miss or even characters we just can't shake loose no matter how hard we try. Recently, I read Brenda Novak's Stillwater series and I'm still feeling creeped out by Joe. He was just one of those guys you're thankful you don't know in real life. Or maybe some of you do.
It's funny how certain emotions will bring back a character. When I was in high school I read The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. Now, years later, every time I feel sad I think of Bendrix and one specific line in the book when he's missing Sarah.
Even vacancy was crowded with her.
That quote always gets to me.
Now I must do what every reader inevitably does– read the next book. I will meet new characters, fall in love with them, fear them, hate them, but I will always miss Garp. He was special.
Steinbeck and Squirrel Watching
A few nights ago I was reading My War with the Ospreys by John Steinbeck. I should say he is not one of my favorite authors. I was reading the short story because it was assigned to my mom in her memoir writing class. As always I'm nosy about reading material. I need to know the reason people choose to assign certain authors. I decided if the instructor thought it was important, it might be worth my time. My mind was focused. I had every intention of giving Steinbeck another chance.
It wasn't long before zzzzzzzzzzz…….
My efforts failed. What is it with authors and nature? Frost, Thoreau, and many other great writers are inspired by the outdoors. I don't get it. Yes, trees are beautiful, flowers are captivating, and the ocean continues to amaze, but what about nature sends authors to the writing table?
A few nights ago I received my answer. I was watching a movie when I noticed movement outside my window. A squirrel was leaping around on a tree. He wasn't just any dumb indecisive squirrel. This guy knew exactly what he was doing. He was so fascinating I watched him for twenty minutes (totally ignoring the movie) and even took some pictures. Maybe I should rethink my attitude towards nature. Perhaps when I'm in need of inspiration I will seek out a nature trail.
Here is the animal that didn't inspire a book, but a blog post.
From the Cave to the Meadow
After devouring Hornby's, The Polysyllabic Spree, I decided to try his fiction. I chose How To Be Good. You might be wondering why I didn't choose High Fidelity or About a Boy. I will tell you why. I've seen the movies. The books are probably better and add much more to the characters than the movies, but I wanted a clean palate when I approached Hornby's fiction. I wanted the unexpected.
I have to say that even with only about thirty pages left in the book I still don't know what's going to happen. This book has been thoroughly enjoyable and worth every minute I've spent reading. There's nothing worse than a book that makes you feel like you're wasting your time.
While reading I started thinking about a certain kind of book. The kind that starts out a little behind where you think it should be, but it takes you with it on the journey. The kind of books that only get better with each chapter.
This may sound off the wall, but in the beginning of How To Be Good, I felt like I was walking through a cave. It was difficult to know where I was headed and I really was kind of uncomfortable as I moved through it. Then as the characters began to evolve I felt my surrounding cave start to morph, allowing for more light. I know this sounds strange, but now, towards the end of the novel I'm on the other side of the cave relaxing in a sunlit meadow.
Does that make me sound corny? Pretentious? I don't intend to be either. I'm trying to describe something we may all experience while reading. Surely you've encountered a book that gets better with each unfolding scene. Too many times I've never left the cave or made it to the meadow only to discover another cave in front of me. What a defeated feeling.
I can only hope Hornby allows me to enjoy the meadow through to the last page.
Should We Return to the Books We've Set Aside?
Saturday night I attended the premiere of a documentary on Hurricane Audrey. The documentary, All Over But To Cry, was produced by Jennifer John Block and Jake Springfield. Block and Springfield allowed survivors to share their stories of that terrible night in 1957 when Hurricane Audrey killed at least 500 people and devastated Cameron Parish.
The documentary was thought-provoking, emotional, and reminded me of a book I need to return to. The book is called Isaac's Storm, written by Erik Larson. It is about the hurricane of 1900 that destroyed Galveston, Texas. Larson is well-known for Devil in the White City, his book about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. It was after reading the latter that I decided I must read all of his books. However, it didn't take me very long to set aside Isaac's Storm because of all the scientific language. I have to admit, I felt very intimidated. After having time away from the narrative I think I've decided to give it another go. The documentary changed my reading mood, pointing me back to something I probably should've finished.
Once I decided to return to Isaac's Storm, I began to wonder what other books I've abandoned. I look on my bookshelves and see index cards, envelopes, and post-it notes popping out of various books. They remind me of all the half-read stories. Why did I choose those books to stop reading? Was it poor writing? Uninteresting characters? Or did I become a lazy reader? There are many reasons, but I must remind myself of why I bought each book. Obviously something caught my attention.
Thanks to the documentary I received an unexpected yet necessary nudge back towards my own bookshelves.


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Distribution of a 9.1-kb Insertion-Deletion Polymorphism Among Native and Admixed Populations from Argentina
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We studied five population samples from Argentina, four drawn from Native American groups of the northeast region (Wichı, Pilaga, Toba, and Mbya-Guaranı) and one from two small villages of the Cordoba province. In this study we report genotypes and allele frequencies of the 9.1-kb insertion-deletion polymorphism located on chromosome 22. The frequency of the deletion allele ranges from 0.276 in the Mbya-Guarani to 0.470 in the Pilaga. The coefficient of population differentiation is fairly low (FST = 0.013), does not reflect any geographic or linguistic pattern, and seems to be more related to stochastic processes than to directional forces.
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Demarchi, Dario A.; Garcia, Angelina; and Altuna, Maria Eugenia
"Distribution of a 9.1-kb Insertion-Deletion Polymorphism Among Native and Admixed Populations from Argentina,"
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The distributive property of exponents is a mathematical rule that applies to an exponent that acts on a term that is within parentheses. It says that if there is a single term in the base, such as "3x," and it is raised to a certain power, like "(3x)^6," the exponent applies to all parts of the term, in this case to both the three and the "x."Continue Reading
In the previous example, the distributive property of exponents says that "(3x)^6 = (3^6) (x^6)," and both forms can be used interchangeably.
In another example, "(8 x 4)^3" is the same as saying "(8^3) (4^3)." The problem can be simplified in two ways: (8 x 4)^3 = 32^3 = 32,768 and (8^3) (4^3) = (512) (64) = 32,768. Both ways are equally valid and will always yield the same results.
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I hope you and horses/ponies are fit & well. Here we are at the start of the winter slog but we do it because we love our equines don't we?
I moved my horses (well, one and a half as Cathy Broomfield has a half share in Buffy. Obviously, her half had to move at the same time!!) to Primrose Farm in Marten in summer and it is the best thing I could have done. In addition to the field there is barn with big loose boxes. Linda, the owner advises bringing them in at night during bad weather as their field can be very bleak. I have never had that option before but last winter Ruby lost a lot of condition so I think we will go with that.
The riding around the area is so much better and safer too so, we are all very happy. Ruby was going to harrow the field but it has been too wet so it will just be rolled. I hope that next year we can hold an event at the farm so I will ask Linda's permission and let you know.
Do many of you subscribe to Heavy Horse World? I have done so for years and I can really recommend it, even for those who don't have heavies. There is a wide variety of topics covered in each quarterly issue and much of the information is relevant to ponies too. More and more people are logging and those articles make great reading. The magazine is packed with colour photos. Have a look at www.heavyhorseworld.co.uk
Do let Lisa have your ideas for events asap. I hope to see a good turnout for our AGM and that we will have an active 2012.
Best wishes
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Last year, the intellectual property community lost an important battle in the war against IP abuse and infringements on the Internet.
The battle was the issue of domain privacy – an outdated and, until recently, largely unregulated service that had limited rules or guidelines to govern it.
Domain privacy services are provided by accredited domain name registrars that list alternative Whois details, providing anonymity to the registrant of a domain name. A similar product is called a proxy service, where the organization that provides the service (such as the domain name registrar) is the actual registrant and licenses the domain name to the user.
The Internet's Whois system is almost as old as the Internet itself, and wasn't designed for the hundreds of millions of domain names now being used, or the complexities associated with the rights to privacy and protection of intellectual property. Debate has been fierce, but has thus far rendered no significant structural change to the Whois system.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the main Internet governance institution whose primary responsibility is to manage the Internet's core infrastructure, acknowledges that the proxy and privacy services are among "the least developed of the Whois policy area"[1] and that there are limited rules or guidelines to govern these services, which at times results "in unpredictable outcomes for stakeholders affected by these services." In other words, it is a mess and they cannot agree on a way forward.
Domain privacy has been a thorn in the side of IP owners and law enforcement officials for many years. It is abused by miscreants ranging from cyber-squatters, counterfeiters, and copyright infringers to trademark violators, spammers and scammers, providing them with a safe harbor to conduct their online operations with relative anonymity and impunity.
Examination of the issue puts two distinct groups at odds: those who advocate for the right to protect users' privacy (pro-privacy); and IP owners and industry bodies who advocate for the greater protection of intellectual property rights (IPR groups) on the Internet.
There is clear discord, and with each push from IPR groups to reform domain privacy, there seems to be a visceral response from the pro-privacy camp that effectively halts any attempt to change the status quo.
Although many B2C domain name registrars fall into the pro-privacy camp, and have to date largely resisted changes to domain privacy, B2B domain name registrars (such as NetNames) generally support improved domain policy that protects the rights of IP owners.
Over the past five years, we have seen a much greater resolve by ICANN and government officials to address this issue. We have seen ICANN incorporate regulation into its Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for the first time, a working group established to look at reform, studies that have provided unequivocal evidence as to the activity occurring behind domain name privacy services, and despite not achieving the reform IP owners desired, it has put the service in the spotlight and created more accountability – and there will undoubtedly be other processes in the future.
B2C domain registrars and domain privacy
Most B2C domain name registrars agree that changes to the outdated Whois model are needed, but argue that Whois privacy is actually a better model than the public database because it reduces the provision of fake Whois details. They argue that criminals who give false details today will continue to give false details tomorrow, regardless of what the Whois model looks like.
So while IP owners want less stringent disclosure mechanisms for copyright and trademark complainants/infringements, many registrars have implemented very strict processes in order for registrant information to be accessed – specifically:
- a court order (in the same jurisdiction as the proxy provider)
- a subpoena (in the same jurisdiction as the proxy provider)
- proof of a pending civil action
- a decision from a WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) court in respect of a UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) case
Even in clear cases of intellectual property infringements, IP owners are often forced to wait for weeks – sometimes months – for proceedings to conclude and domain name information to be released.
Of course, a proportion of B2C domain registrars have a vested interest in not changing the current domain privacy system.
The reality is that many B2C registrars sell domain names at very close to cost, so margins are generally very thin. The B2C domain name industry is an extremely competitive sector, and often add-ons such as domain privacy represent the difference between making a profit or a loss. In other situations, domain privacy is given away as a loss leader to improve the registrar's overall domain name value proposition. It is an important product offering for many B2C registrars, and creates stickiness with their clients, so naturally they want to keep it.
Also, changes to the domain privacy system would likely put greater strain on the governance of the service, increase the resources required to manage domain name privacy and therefore erode the profitability of domain transactions. The decreased profits and increased work that reform represents make B2C domain registrars a very vocal opponent on this matter.
2013 RAA addresses privacy and proxy services for the first time
In 2011, privacy and proxy services became hot topics for policy makers when ICANN and the Registrars Stakeholder Group began negotiations over the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA).
The 2013 RAA included temporary measures for privacy and proxy services while more permanent policy could be developed. One of the measures (which was an important step forward) required providers of the privacy and proxy services to publish and abide by terms of service and description of procedures on their own website to handle complaints of abuse or trademark infringement. This was the first time privacy and proxy services were made to conform to any meaningful regulation, and although terms of service varied from provider to provider, it was a promising sign that policy makers were starting to address the issue.
The University of Cambridge and NPL study into domain privacy abuse
In 2013, ICANN commissioned a study that highlighted the current ad-hoc privacy controls in place with the Whois system. The study was conducted by the University of Cambridge and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and concluded – to no one's surprise – that privacy/proxy services were being abused by criminals.
It showed that the percentage of domain names used to conduct illegal or harmful Internet activities that were registered via privacy or proxy services is significantly greater than those used for lawful online activities.
NPL attempted to contact a sample of registrants using a privacy service that did not seem to be engaging in criminal activity, and found that up to 55% of the time they were unable to be contacted. For domain names that were being used in illegal activity, that number rose to up to 93%. This highlights the problems IP owners have in attempting to resolve issues of IP infringements directly with domain name registrants, who generally have to resort to subpoenas, litigation or dispute resolution to get access to this information.
The study also found that
- 55% of sampled unlicensed pharmacies used privacy/proxy-registered domain names
- 46% of sampled advanced fee fraud cases used privacy/proxy-registered domain names
- 28% of sampled websites hosting illegal child abuse sexual images used privacy/proxy-registered domain names
- by comparison, just 9% of licensed pharmacies and 13% of law firms studied by NPL used privacy/proxy services; on the other hand, 44% of lawful websites hosting adult content and 28% of legitimate banks studied by NPL used privacy/proxy-registered domain names
Some IP owners publicly supported the conclusions of the reports, such as the InterContinental Hotels Group, which responded to the report that the "study provides objective evidence to support urgent need for ICANN to initiate processes to oversee and regulate privacy and proxy services providers."
General Electric Company (GE) also responded that the findings were generally unsurprising, but also commented that the study did not fully elaborate on issues of media and software privacy, or trademark infringement (i.e. counterfeiting), and called on ICANN to undertake a full study that looked at the full gambit of IP abuse on the Internet via domain privacy and proxy settings.
Despite the report's limited scope, it provided clear evidence that the domain name privacy service was being abused by criminals and IP infringers, and encouraged ICANN to take steps to start to address the issue.
Lost battle: the Working Group recommendations
In October 2013, the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group was established to review the current domain privacy service. Fast forward 18 months and 60-odd meetings later, it published an initial report on the proxy services issues and policy development process, and invited feedback from the Internet and IPR communities.
The report's biggest coup for the IPR groups was the recommendation to clamp down on the availability of privacy and proxy services by domain registrars – particularly for commercial purposes.
This section in the proposal caused fierce opposition among the Internet community, small business, privacy advocates and organizations such as Google, which added its weight to the pro-privacy arguments (see its response here).
Two separate pro-privacy campaign websites were set up: www.RespectOurPrivacy.com and www.SaveDomainPrivacy.org. These campaigns were effective in raising public awareness of their concerns with these reforms, and garnered thousands of responses from a cross-section of the community (but mainly private persons) opposing the plans, which included several petitions. Over 11,600 responses were received, the large majority of which opposed the Working Group's key reforms.
There were some organizations in the community that generally supported the changes, including the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC), Facebook, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Unifab and other IPR owners, industry bodies and advocates, but they were definitely the minority voice in the formal feedback process.
Due to the fierce opposition, the Working Group was not able to reach a level of consensus as to whether domains used for commercial or financial transactions should be allowed to use privacy and proxy domain services. This was the key article in the reforms.
In the Working Group's final report, released in December 2015, it was concluded that the status of a domain name registrant as a commercial organization, non-commercial organization, or individual should not be the driving factor in whether privacy and proxy services are available to the registrant. Fundamentally, privacy and proxy services should remain available to registrants irrespective of their status as commercial or non-commercial organizations or as individuals.
This was obviously a win for the pro-privacy camp and a disappointing result for IPR groups given the progress made on this issue up until then.
It seemed that the pro-privacy camp was able to mobilize supporters to object collectively to the proposed changes to domain privacy, while the IPR camp failed to encourage IP owners and brands to voice their support of the proposed model loudly enough.
Essentially, the disparity in responses received – and the overwhelming opposition to the proposed changes – tied the Working Group's hands and it had no choice but to dump the commercial restrictions clause.
Political intervention
Some IPR lobby groups did not trust that the Working Group process would lead to any meaningful change, and ran parallel activities to lobby the US government to change the Whois system to better protect trademark and copyright owners.
In May 2015, the Coalition for Online Accountability (COA), which consists of members from various entertainment industries, made a testimony to the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, strongly arguing for much greater accountability and transparency for domain name private and proxy registrations. It was damning of the current privacy and proxy registration system:
"Tens of millions of gTLD registrations – one-fifth or more of the total – lurk in the shadows of the public Whois, through a completely unregulated proxy registration system that is the antithesis of transparency. These registrations need to be brought into the sunlight. While there is a legitimate role for proxy registrations in limited circumstances, the current system is manipulated to make it impossible to identify or contact those responsible for abusive domain name registrations."
Whether this lobbying has had an impact on policy makers' view on Whois accountability is hard to say, but what we do know is that at the same time the Working Group was changing heart on the issue, it was reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that the US government was advocating through the OECD to restrict domain privacy for websites engaging in commercial activity.
Through an article on the EFF website, it stated that on the same day the Working Group had accepted domain privacy should remain generally available for both private and commercial persons and entities, the US government held closed-door sessions in Paris to push through language for a new revision of the OECD E-commerce Recommendation that would require domain name registration information to be made publicly available for websites that are promoting or engaged in commercial transactions with consumers.
It seemed to many at the time that the US government was taking the position that if the Internet community could not address this issue through the Working Group process, then political intervention would be considered as the only way to address the issue.
Many within the domain name industry at the time remonstrated and publicly voiced 'deep concerns' about the US government and the OECD ignoring an open, multi-stakeholder consultative process. Although the OECD's recommendations are not binding, they are influential in the development of public policy.
There were also concerns raised by the EFF that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) policy makers would also be pressured to include language that would restrict commercial use of domain privacy for TPP members' ccTLDs; however, the latest version of the draft TPP document seems to have left the subject alone and not required domains to prohibit the use of privacy and proxy services (as the .au space does in Australia).
Where are we today?
Fast forward to 2016 and the debate seems to be for the most part over for the time being. The Working Group is in the process of coordinating the implementation process of the approved recommendations, and not much else has been heard from the US government or the OECD on the matter. The TPP avoided the issue, and the public debate seems to have subsided for now.
Some IP owners have vented their frustrations at ICANN for the lack of progress on this issue, but although partly responsible for the governance of the Internet, it does not dictate its policy to the community.
One of ICANN's clear guiding principles is to achieve broad representation of the global Internet community; and to develop policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes. This means that in the case of domain privacy, when the Working Group received 11,600 plus responses to its proposal – and 95% were critical of the key reform clauses – it had to listen and act accordingly.
If there is another opportunity to address this issue, much greater participation is required from brand owners – not just by industry bodies, but by the individual members themselves.
One letter from a representative body does not have the same impact on policy reform that a thousand letters from its members would have.
This issue has very sensitive elements to it, and both the IPR groups and pro-privacy camp are equally passionate about their respective positions. The difference on this occasion was a well-executed campaign by the pro-privacy brigade, and a lack of participation in the debate from individual IP owners.
The Working Group process will tighten some controls over the privacy and proxy service, but it will not have the same impact IP owners had hoped. This is a topic that will likely continue to play out in the public forum, courts and perhaps even in political chambers.
Watch this space.
[1] https://whois.icann.org/en/privacy-and-proxy-services


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Seemed to be a very flamboyent leader, Pictured as Zeus below,
I'll do some reading on him.
Originally posted by Gazrok
You really need to get over this black Jesus thing Colonel...
A. He was Jewish...
B. It doesn't really matter what color he is, or the color of the actor depicting him, when color has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the story anyhow!!!
He could be played by an asian for godsakes, and it wouldn't change the movie's message one bit!!!
Originally posted by Colonel
Yes, it does. Please see my post for the reason----its down a bit.
But, the nail sale is DEFINITELY BLASPHEMOUS!
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The Jews of the time lead the temples and Rome had them controlling the Jewish people at the time,
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It was the Romans and the Romanfrienly quisslings who killed Jesjuah, not the Jews.
Originally posted by SimpleTruth
colonel, you're the only one on ATS that i can't stand whatsoever.
That is not my problem.
my question to you is what is your agenda? why exactly are you so pissed off?
To deny ignorance and bring forth truth.
nails that are representative of the nails used in the crucifixion are being sold and distributed. so WHAT?!
Using the tools for the murder of the Son of God for money is blasphemous.
and are you a christian? it doesn't seem like you are. so why do you give a crap about whether something is blaphemous? if you ARE christian, then i apologize.
where do you find that Jesus was black? does it even MATTER?
It mattered enough that it was mentoined in the Bible, probably because someone knew that a theft of His majesty would occur as it is now.
i also read someone wondering why people want their children to see the movie and why they buy these nails. is it that hard to figure out?
Making money from the purposely inaccurate portrayal of the death of Jesus Christ is blasphemous and to have children see this film is to open them to unheard of bloody violence that children should not be permitted to see and continues the LIE for another generation.
it's historically accurate on the process of crucifixion! so lay off!!
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DENVER (Reuters) - A teenage Colorado girl whose remains were found dumped in a suitcase in a remote park area last month died from a drug overdose, the local coroner's office said on Tuesday.
Kelly Mae Myers, 18, was reported missing in the mountain town of Grand Junction in December by relatives who said she may have tried to hitchhike to visit friends in Salt Lake City.
Police believe Myers died at a hotel in West Valley City, Utah, and that her body was then taken to the Cactus Creek area of Colorado. They have named two people of interest in her death.
"The cause of death is mixed drug intoxication and manner of death is undetermined at this time," the Mesa County Coroner's Office in Colorado said in a brief statement.
It added that because of the nature of the investigation, no further information would be released at this time.
The West Valley City Police Department last week identified Raymond Cordova, 47, and Eduardo Nasario Delacruz, 30, as people of interest in the case. They are both in custody in Mesa County on unrelated drug charges, online jail records showed.
Police said Myers was believed to have been picked up by Cordova and to have driven to Utah with him. They said the hotel room in West Valley City was rented by Delacruz.
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There is also an access regulation in place called Napoli - AR.
Euro 1 minimum standard
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 08:30 - 18:30.
Most likely a winter ZTL will come into place like last year. Minimum standard then was Euro 4.
All vehicles Euro 0, including motorcycles & mopeds Euro 1
All the municipality of Naples.
Has signs similar to this, a banned vehicle sign with the requirements below:
Are enforced
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 09:00 - 12:30 and 14:30 - 16:30.
An administrative fine of between 71.05 and 286.38 Euros
There is currently no Italian national scheme, but regional as well as individual city schemes.
Zona a Traffico Limitato (ZTL) or Limitazioni della circolazione, the general name for all access regulation schemes, also used for Low Emission Zones.


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Discover the heritage of Hotel Danieli
The three palaces which comprise the hotel date from the 14th, 19th and 20th centuries: Palazzo Dandolo in Venetian Gothic style, once home to the noble Dandolo family; Palazzo Casa Nuova, previously the city's treasury; and Palazzo Danieli Excelsior, redesigned by Jacques Garcia, and featuring guestrooms with balconies overlooking the lagoon on its upper floors.
The three interlaced palaces house a rich collection of precious art and antiques that play witness to the city's history, artfully blended with contemporary comforts to meet the needs and expectations of sophisticated and cultured global travelers.
The noble Venetian Family The Dandolos, with four Dogi in the family, was the owner of the this magnificent building overlooking Riva degli Schiavoni at the end of the 14th Century. Palazzo Dandolo was one of the most pompous and richly decorated buildings where there were always social events.
On 24th October 1822 Mr Giuseppe Dal Niel, a hotel-keeper from Friuli nicknamed 'Danieli', rented the second floor of Palazzo Dandolo, turning it into a hotel. On 25th February 1824, thanks to his commercial success, Dal Niel purchased it and realized the importance of the building as a meeting place, the core of the town's cosmopolitan splendor.
In 1895, the new owners of the Hotel Royal Danieli started expensive restoration works to introduce some modern innovations: electric power, vapour radiators, lifts and everything that could add luxury and comfort for the distinguished tourists of that time. Before the end of the century the Hotel was connected with a nearby palace with a bridge between the two first floors. On 17th March 1906 in Venice, Count Giuseppe Volpi established the Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi and became the owner of the Hotel Royal Danieli, through the acquisition of the Venice Hotel Limited.
The last shops ruining the front of the building were then removed by architect Francesco Marsich. Between 1946 and 1948 the last structural works took place: all the buildings between Palazzo Dandolo and Palazzo delle Prigioni were demolished and a new marble-front building designed by architect Virgilio Vallot and named since then Danielino, was raised.
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Hi all,
we just started using a Picoscope5204 via Labview, using the VI examples and Sub-VIs provided by Picotech. However, when we try to launch one of the VIs the error "PICO_EEPROM_CORRUPT" is given. Furthermore, once this errors occured the picoscope is also no longer recognized as an "availabe device" from the Picoscope 6 software until the computer is restarted. What could be the reason for this problem?
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Special-Diet Travel Guide: Santa Fe New Mexico at Christmas Too!
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Are you dreaming of a fascinating place to explore thats friendly to your special diet? Spend a long weekend in picturesque north-central New Mexico. This region of the country is called the Land of Enchantment for good reason. Capital city Santa Fe and the surrounding area offer the taste of true Southwestern cuisine, along with a rich local culture, captivating history and striking landscape. A mecca for art lovers, Santa Fe boasts the second largest art market in the country. (Check out the options at santafegalleries.net.). The area also provides excellent opportunities for winter skiing (sandiapeak.com).


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WHITE LIES by AGONIST
White Lies is the new fragrance release from the Swedish perfume house AGONIST. A seductive scent that seduces you and everyone around you. Like a white lie it entices you yet holds a promise of a deeper truth. With a fresh and tempting top of Lemon, Rasperry and Lychee, it drags you in to a heart of Jasmine, Tuberose and Heliotrope. The deep and sensual notes of Patchouli, Orcanox and Vanilla in the base makes the composition truly unique and impossible to forget.
"White lies is a joyful and playful fragrance that doesn't reveal itself at first, just like a little lie. It is a smooth sensation that becomes stronger. We wanted to create a scent the takes you to another dimension where dreams, stories and fantasies come to life. In the end it keeps its promise and becomes a symbol of truth, yet with some intriguing shades." As Niclas and Christine Lydeen explained.
AGONIST is a Swedish perfume house founded by the creative couple Niclas and Christine Lydeen. Christine has a background in fashion and studied at Studio Berçot in Paris, where due to her French roots she lived and worked before moving back to Sweden where she met Niclas, an art director and visual artist. Today AGONIST is regarded as one of the most sought after and unique brands within the international niche market of perfumes. With a distinct focus on details and artistic expression, AGONIST also collaborated with Scandinavian fashion brand HOPE for a capsule collection of candles and fragrances, always conceived to be unisex and to keep growing a cult following around the world.
Olfactory Pyramid
Head: Lemon, Rasperry, Lychee
Heart: Jasmine Abs, Tuberose Abs, Heliotrope
Base: Patchouli, Orcanox, Vanilla
Available to buy at The Avery Perfume Gallery


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There is a word that reviewers deploy sparingly but hopefully with devestating effect: "Why?"
It's certainly the word that applies here because these 10 songs taken from Stevie Nicks' filmed-for-DVD concert in 2007 come off as variously dated (the dreadful Eighties synth-sound of Stand Back), or utterly lifeless (the glorious Sara which surged with emotion in its Fleetwood Mac version here levelled to remove all nuance and feeling). Most of these songs are workmanlike versions which have been beautifully recorded and professionally played to the point of rendering them antiseptic, and Nicks' voice broadcasts on a very narrow emotional frequency.
I have no doubt this concert looks great (the band have interesting Eighties hair) but this album just leaves you asking that old question -- here with even more annoyance because this is Nicks' first live album.


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|26 Jan 2013
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Hello, I have a Dell Dimension E520 which I am looking to upgrade, my budget is from £100 to £300. I'm looking to upgrade only the processor and the graphics card. Now I am in the middle when it comes to computers, I know allot but not enough to find out what is compatible. The Stock system specs are below:
Model: Dell Dimension E520 - Dell DM061
System Type: X64-Based PC
Power Supply: 305 PSU
Ram: 2GB (Mother bored can only handle 4GB)
Processor: Intel Pentium D CPU 3.40GHz, 3500 MHz, 2 Cores, Logical Processors
Graphics Card: 128MB Geforce 7300 LE
Hard Drive: 232GB
So I am looking to upgrade my processor and Graphics card, I know the best option is to buy a new computer since this one is outdated, although at the moment I am about to go to collage and right now this computer works, so I'd rather upgrade it. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Sean Hall.
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You would be better off abandoning trying to update the old Dell and put the money into a new PC. Even if you upgrade it (and it will be limited) you will still have the old technology E520. This is an obsolete BTX style motherboard (I had an E510 with a D925CPU). Replacing the motherboard is just about out of the question as there are very few BTX style motherboards available and Dell uses a proprietary and undocumented front panel connector, not the standard "ATX" connections so that too limits using a different motherboard.
With only 4GB max, you won't need the 64 bit OS as the big feature of a 64 bit OS is that it can address more than 4GB of RAM. If you use a 64 bit OS, it will address the full 4GB but you will still wind up with only 3 to 3.5GB of useable RAM, the same as you will get with a 32bit OS.
You can upgrade the Video card, but you will have to use low power video cards unless you replace the Dell power supply with a higher wattage model. The Dell power supply does not have a PCIe power connector that is also needed for many newer video cards.
But the best "bang for the shilling" would be to upgrade to the full 4GB of RAM, add a new video card and power supply. The E520 uses a standard ATX style power supply, its not a Dell proprietary. A "modular" type power supply is recommended as it eliminates most unused power leads (you won't have to stuff them inside the case). Crucial Memory is recommended as it is guaranteed to work in Dell's. Dell's have a history of compatibility with non-Dell memory and the reason for recommending Crucial. I used to do a lot of support on the Dell user forums and all the techie's there will recommend Crucial for non-Dell brand memory. Other brands can be used but its hit or miss. Avoid the Kingston Value Ram (KVR).
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More choice for customers in SWISSs 2009 summer schedules
Swiss International Air Lines offers a number of innovations in its 2009 summer schedules, which come into effect on 29 March. In addition to new non-stop services to Lyon and Oslo, customers will enjoy a wide choice of vacation destinations thanks to SWISSs collaboration with Edelweiss Air. The summer timetable will also bring new codeshare services between Zurich and Malta and on the Geneva-Montreal and Geneva-Washington routes. The present non-stop Zurich-Tripoli service is withdrawn; and services between São Paulo and Santiago de Chile and to and from Singapore will now be operated by SWISS partner airlines. SWISS will serve 90 destinations in 42 countries in its 2009 summer schedules.
SWISS will be offering two new European destinations from Zurich Oslo and Lyon in its 2009 summer schedules. Lyon will receive four daily flights operated by Avro RJ100 aircraft, while Oslo will enjoy a twice-daily service using Airbus A319 equipment. SWISS customers will also have the choice of a further daily SAS flight to and from Norways capital under a codeshare agreement. Malta also joins the SWISS network, with a new daily codeshare service to and from Zurich operated by Air Malta.
The new schedules bring innovations to SWISS services to Spain, too: the present four weekly flights on the Zurich-Valencia route will be increased to daily service from the start of the summer timetable period. SWISS will also be modifying its frequencies to and from London City Airport in response to changes in demand: between 20 April and 23 October, services on the Zurich-London City route will be reduced from nine to seven a day, while Geneva-London City services will be reduced from seven to six daily flights.
SWISS customers based in Italy will enjoy a substantially-expanded range of non-stop flights within Europe in the 2009 summer schedules, thanks to a new codeshare agreement covering the services operated by Lufthansa Italia. The carrier serves Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Lisbon, London (Heathrow), Madrid and Paris from its Milan base.
Intercontinental developments
SWISS is making a number of attractive enhancements on its intercontinental network, too. Customers to and from New York will be the first to enjoy the new Airbus A330-300 with its innovative cabin interiors, from 20 April onwards. The aircrafts new First and Business Class featuring Lantals exclusive adjustable air cushion technology promise an exquisite travel experience; and the Economy Class cabin is also totally new, and boasts its own top-quality seats and a state-of-the-art and easy-to-use inflight entertainment system.
Geneva-based customers will enjoy two new codeshare services operated by SWISSs Star Alliance partners Air Canada on the Geneva-Montreal route and United Airlines between Geneva and Washington DC. SWISS customers will continue to enjoy services between Zurich and São Paulo and onward to Santiago de Chile; but the São Paulo-Santiago leg will now be operated by future Star Alliance partner TAM Linhas Aéreas. SWISS will also be working more closely with a Star Alliance partner on services to Singapore: from 26 April onwards, SWISS will be cutting back its present operation here to a Zurich-Bangkok service, but Singapore can still be reached directly from Zurich on Star Alliance partner Singapore Airlines.
SWISS will also be making temporary modifications to service frequencies on certain intercontinental routes in response to changed and changing demand.
Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Chicago will receive six weekly flights (instead of the present daily service) from the end of April to the beginning of July. Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai and Johannesburg will also receive one weekly flight fewer during the same period. Service to Tripoli is withdrawn.
SWISS and Edelweiss Air team up to offer even more choice
SWISS customers will enjoy a wide selection of additional leisure travel destinations in the 2009 summer schedules through the carriers close collaboration with Edelweiss Air. A range of codeshare agreements between the two partners puts more than 35 destinations* in Europe and beyond at SWISS customers disposal including Olbia (Sardinia), Corfu (Greece), Varadero (Cuba) and Male (the Maldives).
Even shorter Zurich connections
With the first infrastructural modifications now complete, SWISS customers using Zurich Airport will feel the full benefit of Switzerlands adoption of the Schengen Agreement from the start of the summer schedules. The abolition of security and passport checks for transfer passengers using the Schengen Dock (formerly known as Dock A) will save travellers additional time. SWISS customers will feel a particular benefit here, as the airports recently totally-refurbished SWISS lounges are all located in the Schengen Dock. SWISS customers using the airports non-Schengen zone will be able to make use of a new Business Lounge and Senator Lounge sited conveniently close to the Dock B departure gates, along with the present facilities in Dock E.
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Enjoy the Racine Danish Kringles Green and Gold 2-Pack at your next Green Bay Packer football party or taiilgate event. These Green and Gold Kringles, one pecan and one cheesecake, are topped with sugary sprinkles in true green and gold team colors. A set of green and gold beads are included to get the party started. Perfect for Wisconsin football fans everywhere!


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A large crowd turned out for this annual event at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, which held greater meaning this year, the centenary of the 1916 battle for Irish freedom.
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"But by the extension of physical science to incorporate hitherto unavailable concepts, entirely new ideas, it became possible to successively build more and more complicated structures that incorporated a larger range of phenomena."
"The history of knowledge has tried for a long time to obey two claims. One is the claim of attribution: each discovery should not only be situated and dated, but should also be attributed to someone; it should have an inventor and someone responsible for it. General or collective phenomena on the other hand, those which by definition can't be "attributed", are normally devalued: they are still traditionally described through words like "tradition", "mentality", "modes"; and one lets them play the negative role of a brake in relation to the "originality" of the inventor. In brief, this has to do with the principle of the sovereignty of the subject applied to the history of knowledge. The other claim is that which no longer allows us to save the subject, but the truth: so that it won't be compromised by history, but only that it reveals itself in it; hidden to men's eyes, provisionally inaccessible, sitting in the shadows, it will wait to be unveiled. The history of truth would be essentially its delay, its fall or the disappearance of the obstacles which have impeded it until now from coming to light. The historical dimension of knowledge is always negative in relation to the truth. It isn't the other: the phenomena of collective order, the "common thought", the "prejudices" of the "myths" of a period, constituted the obstacles which the subject of knowledge had to surmount or to outlive in order to have access finally to the truth; he had to be in an "eccentric" position in order to "discover". At one level this seems to be invoking a certain "romanticism" about the history of science: the solitude of the original through history and despite it. It think that, more fundamentally, its a matter of superimposing the theory of knowledge and the subject of knowledge on the history of knowledge."
"Take for example medicine at the end of the 18th century: read twenty medical works, its doesn't matter which, of the years 1770 to 1780, then twenty others from the years 1820 to 1830, and I would say, quite at random, that in forty or fifty years everything had changed; what one talked about, the way one talked about it, not just the remedies, or course, not just the maladies and their classifications, but the outlook itself. Who was responsible for that? Who was the author of it? It is artificial, I think, to say Bichat, or even to expand a little and to say the first anatomical clinicians. It's a matter of a collective and complex transformation of medical understanding in its practice and its rules. And this transformation is far from a negative phenomenon: it is the suppression of a negativity, the effacement of an obstacle, the disappearance of prejudice, the abandonment of old myths, the retreat of irrational beliefs, and access finally freed to experience and to reason; it represents the application of an entirely new grille, with its choices and exclusions; a new play with its own rules, decisions and limitations, with its own inner logic, its parameters and its blind alleys, all of which lead to the modification of the point of origin. And it is in this functioning that the understanding itself exists. So if one studies the history of knowledge, one sees that there are two broad directions of analysis: according to one, one has to show how, under what conditions and for what reasons, the understanding modifies itself in its formative rules, without passing through an original "inventor" discovering the "truth"; and according to the other, one has to show how the working of the rules of an understanding can produce in an individual new and unpublished knowledge. Here my aim rejoins, with imperfect methods and in a quite inferior mode, Mr Chomsky's project: accounting for the fact that with a few rules or definite elements, unknown totalities never even produced, can be brought to light by individuals."
"So even though the process of, let's say, deriving knowledge of physics from data is far more complex, far more difficult for an organism such as ours, far more drawn out in time, requiring intervention of genius and so on and so forth, nevertheless in a certain sense the achievement of discovering physical science or biology or whatever you like, is based on something rather similar to the achievement of the normal child in discovering the structure of his language: that is, it must be achieved on the basis of an initial limitation, an initial restriction on the class of possible theories. If you did not begin by knowing that only certain things are possible theories, then no induction would be possible at all. You could go from data to anywhere, in any direction. And the fact tat science converges and progresses itself show us that such initial limitations and structures exist."
"That is true if you limit yourself to a fairly short period of time, whatever it may be. But if you consider a longer period, it seems to be that what is striking is the proliferation of possibilities by divergences."
"I would like to know whether one cannot discover the system of regularity, of constraint, which makes science possible, somewhere else, even outside the human mind, in social forms, in the relations of production, in the class struggles, etc."
"Why shouldn't I be interested [in politics]? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves."
"There is no longer any social necessity for human beings to be treated as mechanical elements in the productive process; that can be overcome and we must overcome it by a society of freedom and free association, in which the creative urge that I consider intrinsic to human nature, will in fact be able to realize itself in whatever way it will."
"If one understands by democracy the effective exercise of power by a population which is neither divided nor hierarchically ordered in classes, it is quite clear that we are very far from democracy. It is only too clear that we are living under a regime of a dictatorship of class, or a power of class which imposes itself by violence, even when the instruments of this violence are institutional and constitutional; and to that degree, there isn't any question of democracy for us… I admit to not being able to define, nor for even stronger reasons to propose, an ideal social model for the functioning of our scientific or technological society.
On the other hand, one of the tasks that seems immediate and urgent to me, over and above anything else, is this: that we should indicate and show up, even where they are hidden, all the relationships of political power which actually control the social body and oppress or repress it.
What I want to say is this: it is the custom, at least in European society, to consider that power is localized in the hands of government and that it is exercised through a certain number of particular institutions, such as the administration, the police, the army, and the apparatus of the state. One knows that all these institutions are made to elaborate and to transmit a certain number of decisions, in the name of the nation or of the state, to have them applied and to punish those who don't obey. But I believe that political power also exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in common with the political power, and as if they are independent of it, while they are not.
One knows this in relation to the family; and one knows that the university, and in a general was, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. Institutions of knowledge, or foresight and care, such as medicine, also help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
This critique and this fight seem essential to me for different reasons: firstly, because political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its try solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it. Probably it's sufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other. Well, if one fails to recognize these points of support of class power, one risks allowing them to continue to exist; and to see this class power reconstitute itself even after an apparent revolutionary process."
"Yes I would certainly agree with that, not only in theory but also in action. That is, there are two intellectual tasks: one, and the one that I was discussing, is to try to crate the vision of a future just society; that is to create, if you like, a humanistic social theory that is based, if possible, on some firm and humane concept of the human essence or human nature. That's one task.
Another task is to understand very clearly the nature of power and oppression and terror and destruction in our own society. And that certainly includes the institutions you mentioned, as well as the central institutions of any industrial society, name the economic, commercial and financial institutions and in particular, in the coming period, the great multi-national corporations"
"But if justice is at stake in a struggle, then it is as an instrument of power; it is not in the hope that finally one day, in this or another society, people will be rewarded according to their merits, or punished according to their faults. Rather than thinking of the social struggle in terms of justice, one has to emphasize justice in terms of the social struggle."
"I would agree that we are certainly in no position to create a system of ideal justice, just as we are in no position to create an ideal society in our minds. We don't know enough and we're too limited and too biased and all sorts of other things. But we are in a position – and we must act as sensitive and responsible human beings in that position – to imagine and move towards the creation of a better society and also a better system of justice. Now this better system will certainly have its defects. But if one compares the better system with the existing system, without being confused into thinking that our better system is the ideal system, we can then argue…"
"I would like to reply to you in terms of Spinoza and say that the proletariat doesn't wage war against the ruling class because it considers such a war to be just. The proletariat makes war with the ruling class because, for the first time in history, it wants to take power. And because it will overthrow the power of the ruling class it considers such a war to be just."
"… because I imagine that in general a system of centralized power will operate very efficiently in the interest of the most powerful elements within it."