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Craig Eaton: Police 'determined' to catch 2004 killer
Police in Merseyside have said they are "still as determined as ever" to catch the killer of a man who was shot dead in the street nine years ago.
Care assistant Craig Eaton, 22, was shot twice in Molyneux Road, Kensington, late on 24 February 2004.
Mr Eaton, who worked at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, was on his way to a friend's house.
A £10,000 reward is on offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of his killer.
Local people tried to give him first aid and called the emergency services but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Merseyside Police believe he was killed in a case of mistaken identity.
Det Ch Insp Neil Clark said: "It has been nine years since Craig had his life tragically cut short, and still the family are still finding it difficult to come to terms with their loss.
"He was a young man who was in the prime of his life and he had no link to any criminal groups.
"We believe the suspect is part of the criminal world and there are people out there who know who did this.
"I would urge those people to search their consciences and come forward so we can bring the family the justice they deserve."


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Salmon fillets are cold-cured with salt, sugar, pepper, dill and liquor to make gravlax. The salmon must be absolutely as fresh as possible. No cooking required. Plan ahead -- this will take about three days. Gravlax is a sophisticated appetizer that is a good choice for a summertime patio party.
This recipe is taken from "Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking" by Mark Bittman.
What You'll Need
- 1 3- to 4-pound salmon (weighed after cleaning and beheading, skin on)
- 3 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon black pepper (freshly ground)
- 1 bunch dill (roughly chopped, stems and all)
- 1 tablespoon liquor (brandy, gin, aquavit, lemon vodka)
How to Make It
- Fillet the salmon or have the fishmonger fillet it for you; the fish need not be scaled.
- Lay both halves, skin side down, on a plate.
- Sprinkle with the salt, sugar, and pepper, spread the dill over the salmon and splash on your liquor of choice.
- Sandwich the fillets together, tail to tail, then wrap tightly in plastic wrap.
- Cover the salmon "sandwich" with another plate and something that weighs about a pound -- an unopened can of coffee or beans, for example. Refrigerate.
- Open the package every 12 to 24 hours and baste, inside and out, with the accumulated juices.
- On the second or third day, when the flesh has lost its translucence, slice thinly as you would smoked salmon -- on the bias and without the skin -- and serve with rye bread or pumpernickel and lemon wedges.
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|Total Fat
|16 g
|Saturated Fat
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|Unsaturated Fat
|5 g
|101 mg
|1,833 mg
|2 g
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Chelsea avoided Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-finals draw but Atletico Madrid are no soft option, Atletico's former title-winning coach Radomir Antic warned on Friday.
Surprise Spanish league leaders Atletico stunned Barcelona in the quarter-finals, sealing a 2-1 aggregate win this week with a 1-0 home victory, but are still considered the dark horses to win the trophy for the first time.
Antic, who became the fans' hero when he won the Spanish league and cup double with Atletico in 1996, believes the current side put together by Diego Simeone can be even better.
"Atletico are the fittest team in Europe at the moment and their confidence will be very high after beating mighty Barcelona," the 65-year-old Serb told Belgrade daily Informer.
"They did it despite their two best players Diego Costa and Arda Turan missing the return leg and hence their surge in Spain and Europe should no longer be viewed as a surprise.
"The club will head into the Champions League semis knowing the other teams will not fancy the prospect of playing them."
Atletico are top of La Liga with 79 points from 32 games, one more than Barcelona who they visit on the last day of the season and two ahead of Real Madrid, with six games remaining.
Courtois can face Chelsea without penalty fee
Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois will be able to play against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals without the La Liga club having to pay them a penalty fee, an Atletico director said on Friday.
Belgium international Courtois has been on loan at the La Liga side from parent club Chelsea since 2011 and the two clubs were paired with each other in the last four of Europe's elite club competition in Friday's draw.
Atletico president Enrique Cerezo said after Atletico qualified there was a clause in the loan deal which meant the club would have to pay "a lot of money" to Chelsea if Courtois were to play against the Londoners.
Spanish media reported it would have been 3 million euros ($4.2 million) for each game.
However, Atletico director Clemente Villaverde and European soccer's governing body UEFA both said on Friday such a clause would breach competition rules.
"Courtois can play whatever happens," Villaverde said in an interview with Canal Plus after the draw.
"There is a UEFA regulation which prohibits any agreement between clubs that prevents a player from participating freely in the competition," he added.
"The regulation would have been breached if the player had not been allowed the freedom to participate."
UEFA published a statement that said if Chelsea enforced the penalty clause for the two-legged semi-final tie they would be sanctioned.
"Both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations contain clear provisions which strictly forbid any club to exert, or attempt to exert, any influence whatsoever over the players that another club may (or may not) field in a match," the statement said.
"It follows that any provision in a private contract between clubs which might function in such a way as to influence who a club fields in a match is null, void and unenforceable so far as UEFA is concerned."
Courtois has been a key figure in Atletico's recent success and turned in another brilliant performance in Wednesday's 1-0 victory against Barcelona which put them through to their first semi-final in 40 years.
Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay confirmed on Friday the club would allow Courtois to play but did not directly address the issue of the penalty fee.
"The loan was arranged back at the start of the season. He can play against Chelsea, that's never in doubt," Gourlay said on Sky Sports.
"Regarding the UEFA statement we'll evaluate that in due course," he added.
"As far as we are concerned we will comply with loan rules. He can play in both ties against Chelsea if selected. That is fact." ($1 = 0.7204 Euros)
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I was introduced to Corporate Chaplains of America through my previous company who provided chaplaincy services. I was excited to learn I would have a new confidant and weekly touch point when my current company provided a CCA chaplain.
I will always remember my chaplain's involvement when I was about to become a father 5 years ago. He offered me consistent wise counsel through scripture and other helpful resources on the topic of fatherhood. When my daughter was born, he even drove my one-hour commute to our local hospital to see her. It meant so much to both my wife and me.
My family went to church when I was growing up and my wife and daughter had been going to church without me. I didn't know that Frank and my wife had been praying together for my salvation.
In the fall, I was coaching a youth soccer team, which incorporated weekly devotionals. It really moved me how much the kids enjoyed God's word and what He was doing in their lives. During Frank's weekly rounds that same Fall on Friday, September 26, I told him I didn't know what it meant to be saved. I thought I had done enough good things. He shared the Gospel with me and explained that salvation isn't based on a scale of doing more good things than bad. We prayed together and I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. My wife and I were baptized this Spring and became members of a church. Again, Frank was there to celebrate with us.
There has been such a weight lifted off me. I am thankful to Frank for walking with me through life to freedom in Christ. I never knew I could feel this great at 40 years old.


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Allergies & Diabetes & Birthdays
As I celebrate my 58th birthday today, I realize what it means to live life. Sometimes it is about change, sometimes big changes, sometimes small. So here are 2 changes that are in the works for me:
1) I am heading to a protein diet. The big change in this for me will be to eliminate cereal from my diet. Too many carbs. Although all of us are different there seems to be those that respond to insulin and those that do not. I am a do not. From extensive testing on myself I have come to the conclusion that my body cannot use the insulin it produces or the insulin that I inject. The next try from the Dr. is the pump. so if my body cannot use insuling, then I need to severely cut my carbs, so that is where I am headed.
2) I have only tried this for a week and have been very happy with the results, not having to take any sinus meds all week, even though my truck is covered with yellow pollen each morning. My brother told me about this.
Each time you come in from the outside, WASH YOUR FACE. Why? Pollen sticks to your skin & your nose, keeping you ripe for the allergies to kick in. I cannot believe the difference it has made.
Best to all of you, Jim
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Happy Birthday, Jim. Hope you continue to see improvement with lower carb eating.
Maybe the better pollen control will help, too. I'm in the middle of major sinus season right now and my numbers are a little higher than I like :( I need to rinse off my face and exposed skin to keep the symptoms down. Of course having a few warm sunny bee friendly days in March started it a little early. I was fine until I spent time standing in the middle of some Quince bushes.
A high protein meal plan sounds good for you. You might want to look over the meal plan with which I have had success. Look at it here ~ http://www.diabeticconnect.com/discussions/14... I pray it might be helpful to you.
Oh and take a look in your inbox for a birthday card. I just turned 60 in Feb of this yr. I wish you many happy returns!
Blessings, Jim
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Theme 1
Often times, an action or choice is neither right nor wrong. Since no choice is perfect, whether or not an action is correct may purely depend n the values and principles of others.
Table of Contents
Plot Summary
Analysis Covering:
Style Devices
Theme 1
"'It cannot be called disobedience to save these animals when they'll be needed, for God's sake, half-an-hour after this is over. And if we stay here, how can they avoid being killed?'" (183)
Theme 1
To Juliet: act of heroism
To Captain Leather: act of betrayal
Although Robert chose the right course of action, he became a military criminal by doing so. Therefore, the legitimacy of his actions to be dependent on the moral principle of others. Without an optimal course of action, Robert made the best choice he could under the circumstances.
Theme 2
One should not end his life prematurely due to obstacles because to live is to struggle.
The Wars
Part 5
By: Chris Still, Yuxiao Zhou, Hao Jin & Stefan Carlberg
Theme 2
"He might have said 'No.' He might've said 'never.' He might've said 'Yes.' But he said 'not yet.' There, in two words, in a nutshell – you have the… essence of what it is to be alive" (195).
Theme 3
Robert chooses to continue living despite his horrific physical condition and his potential punishment
Life is precious
Must continue living
Embrace uncertain future
Suicide or euthanasia not an option
By struggling forward, mankind gains knowledge and experience that they would otherwise not be able to.
Theme 3
Wars breeds madness and brings out the worst in people
Theme 3
"he thought: 'If an animal had done this – we would call it mad and shoot it,' and at that precise moment Captain Leather rose to his knees and began to struggle to his feet. Robert shot him between the eyes" (184).
Theme 3
Robert's personailty changes after his terrible experiecnes with the war
Now cold-hearted and brutally decisive
Murdered two fellow soliders
View others involved in the war with hostility and hatred
"When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Revelation 6:5-6
"The horse was a fine black mare, standing about sixteen hands. She had been well cared for up till now and someone had obviously ridden her every day" (188).
Significance of Revelations
Black mare signifies rampant inflation during and after the war
"War and inflation are always Siamese twins". - Manfred Zimmel
Inflation results to famine
Famine results to the scarcity of provisions
Recall: "Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
Style Devices
To refer to another literary work or
passage outside of the text
Findley's Reason
"... Someone had ridden her everyday..."
Indirectly suggests that soldiers during the war lacked provisions and often left hungry.
To exemplify the conditions of the war
The location of the quote and the biblical location at the end for both books (
The Wars
and The Holy Bible)
A person, place or thing that represents something beyond itself
Simile, Metaphor, and Personification
Symbolizes destruction and pain
"Within less than a minute of the fire being set, the rear portion of the roof fell into the barn - and presumably, onto the back of the horses" (192)
Symbolizes Love and Hope
"Juliet's candle was wedged in the earth in an upright position. Somehow - it had been set alight"(182).
Symbolizes life, joy, and peace
"The air was filled with the sweet, sad smell of pollen and the bees had begun to buzz" (167).
Symbolizes irritation
"The earth had baked beneath their feet and the air was filled with a fine, grey powder that matted in their hair and scorned the rims of their eyes" (186).
Plot Summary
Prior to the battlefield
St. Aubyn's Hospital
Magdalene Woods
Bath House
On the battlefield
Release of the horses
Leather kills Devlin
Robert kills Castles and Leather
Mickle attempts to kill Robert
After the battlefield
St. Aubyn's Hospital
Symbolizes drowning and death
"Many of them didn't want to bathe and were afraid of water" (172).
Symbolizes Cleansing
"When he was through and had lain in the water till the pads of his fingers and the soles of his feet were wrinkled, he got out and rinsed himself with four wooden buckets of clear, tepid water from the cistern" (172).
Phallic Imagery
Relationship between penis and gun
"Bang-bang-bang! went the guns at the front. Robert didn't listen. He undid his trouser buttons almost languidly" (168).
Robert's gun represents power
Robert's penis size metaphorically states his lack of power
"He made a fist around his penis. He thought how small it was" (169).
After being raped, Robert seeks for his pistol.
"Gun. Gun. He wanted his gun" (176).
His experience loses part of his masculinity, as such he seeks for power - his pistol.
Man vs. Man
Robert vs. The Army
This conflict is first demonstrated when Robert is raped by his fellow army comrades.
"His assailants, who he'd thought were crazies, had been his fellow soldiers. Maybe even his brother officers. He'd never know. He never saw their faces" (175)
Robert believes his army comrades are crazy
Army comrades do not like Robert
Robert vs. The Army
Robert vs. The Army
Robert shoots Private Cassles in the face with no hesitation.
"Private Cassles was certainly killed by someone and there are two witnesses... - both of whom claim that Cassles went out - unarmed - to prevent Robert's passing and that when the private made a grab for Robert's reins, Robert shot him in the face" (189).
Shows disconnect from humans as Robert feels no remorse.
Robert vs. The Army
Robert hits his breaking point when he rips his lapels off and leaves the battlefield
"Then he tore the lapels from his uniform and left the battlefield" (184).
Ripping off the lapels demonstrates that Robert quits the army which completes his disconnect from humans and the army
With this complete disconnect from humans Robert becomes closer with Nature.
Man vs. Nature
Robert is pantheistic and animistic.
Robert loves animals
"Captain Leather rose to his knees and began to struggle to his feet. Robert shot him between the eyes. It took him half-an-hour to kill the mules and horses" (184).
Robert kills humans easily
Robert has difficulties killing animals
Robert vs. Nature
Robert vs. Nature
Robert and Captain Leather disagree about what to do with the horses.
"Robert went inside at one point to request of Captain Leather that he be allowed to take the horses and mules he had just brought forward and make a strategic retreat with them so they might be saved. But Captain Leather, who was underneath a table at the time, was adamant in his refusal" (182).
Captain Leather sees horses with a military perspective.
Robert sees horses as a symbol of innocence and they should not be in war.
Robert vs. Nature
Robert demonstrates his connection with animals when he is inside the barn surrounded by Major Mickle.
"Robert called out very distinctly: 'We shall not be taken'" (191).
'we' demonstrates Robert's love and association with horses.
Robert is trying to make a stand against the army for the protection of the horses.
Robert does not care if he lives or dies.
Man vs. Himself
Mrs. Ross vs. Herself
Mrs. Ross has difficulties coping with Robert being in the army.
Mrs. Ross vs. Herself
"I know you're going to go away and be a soldier. Well - you can go to hell. I'm not responsible. I'm just another stranger. Birth I can give you - but life I cannot" (23).
Mrs. Ross is furious at Robert for joining the army.
Mrs. Ross vs. Herself
"The day that Mister Ross and Mrs. Ross received the news that Robert was 'missing in action' Mrs. Ross refused to dress. She remained in her nightgown and wandered around the house on South Drive with a bottle in one hand, a glass in the other" (184).
Mrs. Ross is torn apart
Mrs. Ross still loves Robert
Mrs. Ross vs. Herself
"'Help me,' said Mrs. Ross.
Mister Ross put out his hand.
'Where?' said Mrs. Ross. 'Where? Where are you?'
'I'm blind,' said Mrs. Ross. 'I've gone blind'" (185-186).
Due to the traumatic event Mrs. Ross has gone through she is now blind.
Mrs. Ross can now see what she did to her son.
Mrs. Ross is like Oedipus.
Both of them traded sight for insight.
Mrs. Ross vs. Herself
"Mister Ross was the only member of his family who came to see him buried" (196).
Mrs. Ross could have attended Robert's funeral.
She would not be able to physically witness the burial, but she would be able to connect with him spiritually.
1. Robert Ross
2. Captain Leather
3. Marian Turner
Robert Ross
Loss of Sanity
Unfortunate Events
"Through a foul-up on the part of one of the Sergeants at the Depot, Robert was sent to one station and his kit bag was sent to another...It was strangely disconcerting to have lost it" (165).
"His assailants, who he'd thought were crazies, had been his fellow soldiers. Maybe even his brother officers. He'd never know" (175).
"He tore the ticking off the pillows and the air filled up with feathers. Gun. Gun. He wanted his gun" (176).
"I'm going to break the ranks and save these animals" (183).
Captain Leather
Respected & Cruel
Marian Turner
"Even when Robert Ross was taken to surgery, the M.P stood outside the door. It was because he'd killed a man. I never fathomed that" (194).
"...I said: 'I will help you if you want me to.' And I knew he understood–because he said: 'Not yet'" (195).
The End
"What would it look like?...We should never live it down" (182).
Any Questions?
The Four Elements & Empedocles' Philosophy
Empedocles' Philosophy
- Empedocles was a Greek philosopher
- Stated that the four elements: Fire, air, water earth are "roots"
-Life is structured and consists of the 4 elements.
-During the presence of strife (war) 4 elements
becomes representations of death.
Symbolizes burial
"The fallen animals were dragged, still living, to the ditches where unavoidably they burned or were drowned. There were no acts of mercy" (187).
Symbolizes security and housing
"The country he passed through now was beautiful and utterly peaceful. The guns had not yet started their pounding, but even when they did they were so far away they seemed to be in another world" (167).
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Nature of Warfare in China
While my expertise is greatest in the area of tactics and actual military history, these topics have been thoroughly discussed in our earlier books and will be extensively explored in our two immediately forthcoming works. Therefore, in order to discuss the wider questions initiated above, I have chosen to de-emphasize this aspect of our inquiry, but would still like to provide some minimal orientations.
Until the advent of hot weapons and their gradual, often blundering adoption by the worlds armies, Chinas military science was, as in many other areas, whether for better or worse, virtually light years ahead of western practices. When the Greeks were struggling to escape the confining nature of the phalanx and its single tactic of the mass collision, China had already perfected numerous formations and methods of deployment, as well as an underlying hierarchical organization based upon the squad of five that, when coupled with precise training methods, allowed articulation, segmentation, and the execution of both orthodox and unorthodox tactics. Only centuries of Confucian domination as the orthodox state philosophy perhaps prevented the development and acceptance of the advanced firepower that characterized the west subsequent to the longbow. However, Chinas comparative stagnation or decline in the military sphere after astounding technical developments, including the discovery and application of gunpowder, during the last thousand years remains a question much debated, certainly one deeply related to its approach to science and technology in general and the prevailing doctrine of cultural superiority.
As already mentioned, Chinas history was one of almost unremitting conflict, waged by every sort of force imaginable ranging from village peasant squads suddenly confronting armed raiders to massive campaign armies and highly organized reserves of hundreds of thousands. In antiquity, combat was largely confined to conflicts between a few thousand noble warriors, but commencing with the Spring and Autumn period, professional officers, universal conscription, barbarian mercenaries, provincial militia, personal retainers, private family and estate armies, steppe peoples, and eventually vast religiously motivated hordeswho usually proved the most brutal of allall fought vigorously in the service of governments, revolutionaries, religious visions, and inspired zealots.
War being the greatest affair of state, the Chinese military thinkers emphasized a thoroughly analytic approach to mounting campaigns and initiating battles, one that stressed calculation, intelligence gathering, training, planning, and preparation.31 Sun-tzus Art of War canonically defined the approach, particularly in the first chapter entitled Initial Estimations, where another critical concept is found gaining victory at the least cost possible. Minimizing the destruction to the enemy is equally advocatedno doubt for reasons of potential gain, although it may well be a vestige of the earlier, avowed humanistic approachand coercing the enemy to submit without even fighting by bringing overwhelming strategic power to bear, as in the Gulf War, was regarded as the apex of strategic skill. The following lengthy passage, which delineates the fundamentals, bears citing:
Naturally this was an ideal rarely realized in practice, despite Needhams over-emphasis on its importance, but those interested in observing the current situation in Asia may see a similarly framed attempt to retake Taiwan while preserving it intact.
In the area of organization, theory and practice essentially cohered. Chinese forces were strictly hierarchical, generally based on the squad and organized in multiples of five up through the level of armies, producing a fundamental infantry strength of 12,500 men per army. Discipline was extremely strict, with the troops bound by mutual responsibility and intimidated by severe corporeal penalties for disobedience or any failure in battlefield performance. Training being thorough and extensive, by the Warring States even massive campaign forces were capable of segmentation, small unit action, and various deployments on command, including the famous eight formations much discussed in the tactical treatisesespecially the circle, square, horizontal, and awl formations. The art of command and control was highly developed, buttressed by a detailed psychology of motivation and spirit, known as manipulating chi, while an extensive, functionally defined general staff, with well articulated responsibilities, early appeared.32
Initially, Chinas companies were chariot centered, but by the middle Warring States period three component forces had evolvedchariots, rapidly being phased out; cavalry, just developing but already displacing the chariots for certain mission requirements; and massive infantry units. All three generally being present in the eras campaign armies, the component forces could be flexibly selected to execute situationally appropriate, terrain-based tactics. Weapons were numerous in type, but ran the full gamut of long and short, missile and shock, also being mixed in deployment. Bows, and later crossbows, were especially emphasized for their long-range capabilities and withering firepower.
Logistics, which always lagged behind the armys warfighting potential, also developed, although self-reliancethe carrying of essential rations by the soldiers themselveswas emphasized, while foraging supplemented the reserve supplies brought up by ox-drawn wagons. The forces were expected to move rapidly beyond the constraints of accompanying baggage trains when necessary, covering thirty miles a day for sustained periods. Specialized equipment for river crossings, mounting sieges, and other purposes were increasingly included as urban assaults became more important, and are extensively discussed in Needhams recent volume.33
Pragmatic Tactics
While there is, as already suggested, a significant discrepancy between the tactics advocated in the theoretical treatises and the more limited number actually realized in battlewith the rule being the more massive the forces, the less flexibility and imagination employedChina generally stressed what might be termed the theory of maneuver warfare, the key elements of which are indirection; manipulating the enemy into disadvantageous circumstances; surprise; the recognition and exploitation of topography, also known as configurations of terrain; and the unorthodox. Every resource should be employed to create and exploit opportunities, particularly by deceiving and befuddling the enemy so that an attack may be mounted when unexpected and where undefended. An extensive science of tactical principles thus evolved, largely but not exclusively upon Sun-tzus and Wu Chis initial formulations and defining thrusts, which may be seen in the hundred principles explicated and illustrated by historical battles in a remarkable text entitled the Hundred Unorthodox Strategies. (This work, available in our translation in 1996, has enjoyed enormous popularity in the past decade in China.) Methods for coping with various levels of relative strength and power were also developed, providing alternatives to simply launching massive attacks or hopelessly assaulting a vastly superior foe. Important concepts, such as the dominant strategic configuration of power, the tactical imbalance in power, and the inter-relatedness of the orthodox and unorthodox, early defined by Sun-tzu and subsequently elaborated to underpin their approach and conceptualization, were all striking developments, whether taken as military science or simply philosophical concepts.
In sum, the Chinese approach to battle tended to avoid head-butting and wasteful direct attacks in favor of manipulating and destabilizing the enemy to create temporary, exploitable local advantages. (To take a single example analyzed in the introduction to our translation of Sun-tzus Art of War , the Battle of Li-che River: The armies of Wu and Yüeh deployed along opposite banks of the Li-che River in preparation for battle on the following day. However, Yüeh opted to undertake a rarely attempted night assault, one made more difficult by the need to ford the river and ascend an unfamiliar bank. They initially dispatched two regiments from each flank to cross as noisily as possible, immediately alerting Wus perimeter guards to their approach and stimulating a massive, though confused, response as Wus troops rushed to defend the corresponding flanking positions. Yüeh then launched a focal attack against the rapidly emptying center by silently crossing four regiments over to suddenly spring a surprise attack. This naturally terrified Wus commander into recalling the units already rushing to the perimeter, forcing them to literally turn in their tracks and abandon the outer defenses against what they now perceived might only be a ruse. At this point the flanking forces struck fervently, with a great clamor, and simply rolled up Wus flanks, crushing the befuddled troops into the middle where they were too disorganized and compacted to fight effectively. Naturally these tactics, designed to destabilize the enemy, compel them into motion, create gaps, exploit voids, and use surprise, resulted in a great victory.)
Turning, at least briefly, to the last aspectthe consequences of warfare, the most immediate and obvious being death, destruction, and ruin, widely recognized but often too terrible to either document or contemplate. The great battles of the Warring States period, which saw as many as 450,000 men from one side being slaughtered following a defeat, drastically reduced the adult male population at single strokes. Moreover, lengthy campaigns guaranteed immense and widespread suffering among the troops from illness and accidents, while wounds incurred on the battlefield were often debilitating if not fatal despite the most advanced medical treatments available anywhere in the world. During the conflicts that raged whenever dynasties collapsed, such as the Chin and Han, untold millions perished and populations dropped drastically, both from combat and the economic and agricultural desolation that followed, particularly when vital earth and water works were destroyed. The several centuries following the collapse of the Han saw various nomadic peoples drawn into Chinas conflict to frequently establish alien dynasties in the north, splitting the country in half, a phenomena that recurred after the Tang. Millenarian revolts or peasant movements, depending upon ones perspective, such as the Red Eyebrows, the Yellow Turbans, the Five Pecks of Rice, the Red Turbans, the White Lotus, and the Eight Trigrams all caused immeasurable destruction and loss of life, but were still readily embraced by the common people. That anyone, that Chinese civilization survived, is remarkable.
Early in this heritage of sorrow, perhaps in the fifth century BC, the Ssu-ma Fa detailed a number of prohibitions that righteous campaign armies should observe. While they no doubt reflect self-interest, they were clearly designed to minimize the brutality and destruction:
However, shortly thereafter Mo-tzu was compelled to decry the current state of affairs thusly:
Apart from combat related losses, undertaking extensive military campaigns was thought, at least by the military theorists, to economically ravage ones own state. In a passage that could equally well have been a comment on the Vietnam debacle or the horrors of World War I, Sun-tzu described the enervating effects of prolonged warfare:35
Hsün-tzu, the conservative Confucian philosopher previously encountered, analyzed the tragedy of combat from both perspectives, ones own and the enemys people, discerning certain troublesome factors, concluding the larger and more sustained the battle effort, the more enmity and determination are fostered among the enemy, while ones own populace grows weary, disaffected, and hateful.36 Even Lao-tzu, whose work actually embraces a number of interesting military concepts within a quietest perspective, decried the effects of warfare and advocated swiftness,37 and in a much quoted chapter, unequivocally asserted warfare is evil and inauspicious:
Military campaigns, even when successful, result in severe economic impact, including rampant inflation, the exhaustion of resources, the imposition of heavy burdens on the remaining populace (just as upon American farmers in World War II, which resulted in using German POWs as agricultural labor), and the destruction of products and materials, thereby both stimulating and lessening productivity. Sun-tzu himself estimated that a 100,000-man campaign army would consume seventy percent of the peoples wealth, and sixty percent of the rulers.39
Embarking on warfare is also perilous because it may render the state vulnerable to external attack should it be defeated.40 Apart from this likelihood of extinction, it was early observed that numerous battles will equally exhaust a state, similarly making it easy prey for its enemies. Wu Chi and Sun Pin both admonished against engaging in multiple battles, even if generally successfulsuccess of course being seductive in itself, especially when riches and easy gains might be achievedwhile Kuan Chung asserted that:
Apart from the recurrent theme of apex of warfare is not to engage in combat, the passage reflects the Ssu-ma Fas general principle that warfare must not be over-emphasized: Even though a state may be vast, those who love warfare will inevitably perish.
Han Fei-tzu pointed out the social disorder that arises from warfare unless the state has assimilated the proper military values:
Against the Legalist position and the tendency of rulers to be enthralled with easily wrested gains of people, riches, and territory, military theorists such as Sun Pin stressed that warfare is a necessary measure for self-preservation rather than a means to profit. Thus Sun Pin stated:
The example of Chins rapacious rise and meteoric demise might well be viewed as proof of the correctness of Sun Pins observation!
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If you are having a hard time figuring out what to get that special motorcyclist in your life, let us suggest something from the recently formed Spirit Motorcycles brand.
The British marque's first offering is a trio of motorcycles: the GP Street is a naked street bike, the GP Sport is its fully faired sibling, and the GP Corse R is the full-fledge track supersport machine.
The base model machines make 160hp from their three-cylinder engine, and tip the scales around the 320 lbs mark. But, if you want to spring for the R-spec models, you are looking at a 180hp and 309 lbs machine, sans fuel. Do we have your attention now?
To power their machines, Spirit is using a repurposed Triumph Daytona 675 engine, which has been boosted to 750cc by stroking out the triple. Engine compression has been modified to help boost power, as well.
Like many things on the Spirit lineup, the chassis is of note, as the chrom-moly steel tubes have been brazed-welded together, for added flex. Spirit says that the chassis steering angle, rake, and trail is fully adjustable. The swingarm is made from cast aluminum, and the fairings are carbon fiber.


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2005 Women's Rowing Championships: Day
2005 Women's Rowing Championships: Day OneMay 27, 2005
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- The 2005 NCAA Women's Rowing Championships kicked off today under clear skies on Lake Natoma at the CSUS Aquatic Center. Brown (Div. I), Mercyhurst (Div. II) and Ithaca (Div. III) each began defense of their 2004 national championships as Brown is attempting to win back-to-back championships for the second time (1999-00).
Top-ranked Cal and seventh-ranked Virginia each performed impressively in the first day of competition. The Bears, who just won their second-straight Pacific-10 Conference championship two weeks ago at Lake Natoma, finished first in both their varsity eight and second varsity eight heats, as well as a second-place finish in their varsity four heat. Virginia, which has placed at least seventh in the team competition at each of the eight previous NCAA Women's Rowing Championships, placed second in its varsity eight heat, and first in both its second varsity eight and varsity four heats.
Yale, Cal, Princeton, Virginia, Harvard, Stanford, Tennessee, Michigan, Washington, Ohio State, Brown and USC all advanced to the semifinals of the varsity eight event (which take place Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.).
Yale kicked off the three-day event by winning the day's first race (Div. I Eights, Heat 1) with a time of 6:22.06, followed by Virginia (6:22.83) and Brown (6:23.50) to round out the top three, respectively. In heat two of the Div. I Eights, Princeton was victorious with a time of 6:21.00, followed by Harvard (6:24.36) and Ohio State (6:24.42) to round out the top three. Cal won heat three with a time of 6:26.08, followed by Stanford (6:31.35) and Washington (6:33.49). The top three finishers in each of the varsity eight heats automatically advanced to the semifinals tomorrow. Michigan, Tennessee and USC qualified for the varsity eight semifinals after clinching the top three spots, respectively, in this afternoon's repechage.
In the Div. I second varsity eight competition, Virginia and Cal posted the top times in their respective heats, automatically advancing to Sunday's grand final at 11 a.m. Brown, Michigan, Yale, USC and Princeton will race each other in Saturday's first repechage race (10 a.m.) while Ohio State, Michigan State, Harvard, Washington and Wisconsin will square off in the second repechage (10:15 a.m.). The top two finishers in each repechage advance to Sunday's second varsity eight grand final.
In the Div. I fours event, Virginia and Washington earned the top spots in their respective heats, automatically advancing to the grand final on Sunday (10:45 a.m.). In the first heat, Virginia finished with a time of 7:20.37, followed by Brown, Michigan, Yale, Princeton and Harvard, respectively. In the second heat, Washington raced to a first-place time of 7:25.22, followed by Cal, Wisconsin, USC, Ohio State and Michigan State, respectively. The repechages of the fours competition will take place on Saturday, with the top two finishers in each rep advancing to Sunday's grand final. Brown, Wisconsin, Yale, Ohio State and Harvard will square off in the first repechage while Cal, Michigan, USC, Princeton and Michigan State will take face each other in the second repechage.
In the Div. II eights competition, Mercyhurst, Nova Southeastern and Western Washington all advanced to the Sunday's grand final, which begins at 10:15 a.m. Barry, Florida Tech and UC San Diego will square off in Saturday morning's repechage with the winner of that race advancing to the grand final.
Western Washington and Mercyhurst will also be competing in the Div. II fours grand final on Sunday (9:45 a.m.). Florida Tech and Nova Southeastern will be racing in Saturday's repechage for the remaining spot in the grand final.
Trinity and Ithaca were each winners of their heats in the Div. III eights category. Those two schools will be joined by Smith, Puget Sound, Williams and Colby who advanced by finishing first through fourth, respectively, in today's grand qualifier) in Saturday's grand final at 11:30 a.m. Smith II, Ithaca II, Coast Guard, Puget Sound II, Tufts and Trinity II will each compete in Saturday's petite final (11:15 a.m.).
All 30 crews return to action on Saturday, May 28, for the second day of the championships. Racing kicks off with the Div. II eights repechage at 9 a.m., and concludes with the Div. III eights grand final. The Div. III national champion will be crowned on Saturday while the Div. I and Div. II national champions will be crowned on Sunday.
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PERA's head office is in the ancient Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray. And what comes to mind when the words Melton and Mowbray are pronounced. Why pork pies and Stilton cheese of course. I had planned to arrive at Melton Mowbray half an hour earlier to visit one of the retail outlets of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association but I missed my exit while overtaking a stream of ponderous Eastern European lorries with the result that I arrived at the registration desk with just 20 minutes to spare. I asked a member of PERA's staff where one could buy a pork pie and portion of Stilton after the talk was due to end. She had a word with someone in the PERA staff canteen who offered me a massive pie and an enormous chunk of cheese for £6.80. Now how about that for customer service!
But fine dining is not all that PERA do. Before introducing the guest speaker, Dr. Mark Wareing, commercial director of PERA who chaired the meeting, told us that PERA had been founded immediately after the Second World War, that it does a wide range of consultancy work, that it employs 280 scientists and engineers, that it has connections with some of the biggest names in British industry, that it was the first business to comply with the new British standard in collaborative working, that it never seeks to retain intellectual property to the intellectual assets that it creates for its customers and that it has considerable experience in writing proposals for grant funding and accessing investment.
Among the people it helps are private inventors and one of them, a Mr. Alfred Hamer of Lincoln, sat next to me in the conference. He told me that he had obtained considerable assistance from PERA. Mr. Hamer has great concerns about enforcing intellectual property rights which he expressed in a question to Lord Digby Jones which, with his permission, I shall discuss at length in a future post.
Anyway, as I have mentioned, the top of the bill was Lord Digby Jones and here are my recollections of what he said. After expressing contentment at finding himself in the East Midlands and reeling off a list of the directorships of public companies and other posts of responsibility that he held in the region he made clear that he was not wedded to any political party. He referred to one well known politician as a "furry little creature elected on the block vote of the RSPCA" - which raised a few guffaws - and to another as having just finished his gap year - coming as it did an hour after the Chancellor had described the growth (or rather flat lining) figures as "good news" that reference raised a nervous titter from the audience. He told us how he had been offered a job in Gordon Brown's government and that he had accepted the offer for the good of business and the good of the country. He did so on two conditions. The first was that he would never have to join the Labour Party - though he accepted the Labour whip in the Lords - and the second was that he would be able to resign his office within 18 months. It was imperative in his view for government to work with the grain of business and not against it.
The main message that he had for us was that the 21st century was Asia's century in the sense that the 19th century had been ours and the 20th century the USA's. No doubt dreaming with BRICs he included Brazil in Asia. Demonstrating his mastery of the one-liner, he declaimed:. "You know they have just discovered Saudi Arabia off Rio" referring of course to the Tupu oil discovery.
Returning to China Digby Jones spoke of the tacit agreement between the Chinese government and its populace whereby the people would make no trouble provided the government improved steadily their standard of living. That deal was fuelling the rapid growth of China's economy. Such growth was a threat but also an opportunity for British industry but to resist that threat and take advantage of that opportunity we had to invest much more in R & D and even more in education. He excoriated the illiteracy and innumeracy statistics of our school leavers. Folk in Asia like a taxi driver from Chennai whom he met in the Gulf and the Chinese peasant. Unless we innovate, invest in R & D and proper training they would get it.
For all of this to happen, the mood music in the UK had to change. Folk who had acquired their wealth through business were objects of envy whereas those who had acquired it by pure chance such as a lottery win were feted. That attitude was wrong.
In the Q & A that followed Mr. Hamer complained about the difficulty of enforcing IP rights. His Lordship agreed that it was a problem. Being first in the market was the solution he proposed. Someone else asked about the prospect of default in Washington. "Too awful to contemplate" was Lord Digby Jones's reaaction, "but it shouldn't happen because the politicians are very close to a deal.
After I chatted with Mr Hamer and another inventor over a cup of tea Brian Binley MP rose to speak. Unlike most of his fellows on the green benches Binley had had a life in business before politics though it meant that at age 63 he was one of the House's oldest entrants. He made a number of interesting points:
(1) civil servants are good at getting facts and figures but not so good at management;
(2) we gold plate EU regulations when we implement them into our law;
(3) legislation should have sunset clauses and there should be impact assessments on the effect of new legislation on small business;
(4) SME should be exempted from some legislation such as maternity and paternity rights;
(5) banks should be made to play fair with SME; and
(6) practical skills should carry the same prestige as degrees.
Most interesting of all in view of the growth figures that morning was his call to stimulate demand. That could only come with a recovery in the property market he said. He called for the return of MIRAS at least for first time buyers to stimulate the housing market.
In Q & A I suggested that closing down the RDAs and local Business Links without putting anything in their place had turned out badly. He had several answers to that one of the most startling of which was that the local enterprise partnerships had access to funding. He later modified his answer by saying that RDAs had been a good thing in the North but perhaps less successful south of the Wash and that Business Link had been good for engineering.
The discussion lasted until 18:00 after which I trundled off up to Sheffield for a conference with a client on the way home. Though I didn't agree with everything that Digby Jones and Binley had to say it was a good day out for which PERA are to be congratulated.


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As a Music major with a Composition emphasis, you will follow an integrative approach to advanced musicianship. You will study music theory, aural skills, and music styles and history from early Middle Ages to the 21st century. In addition, you will study music composition, technology, instrumentation, and orchestration. You will have the opportunity to reflect on the integration of music and faith, as well as your sense of vocation, as you study in depth such great works as Bach's "St. Matthew Passion," Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," Brahms' "German Requiem," and Mahler's "Resurrection Symphony."
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Air Cadets - A Parent's View
We are very pleased that your child is considering joining the Air Training Corps. Hopefully the following age should answer some frequently asked questions and to give guidance about our organisation and your child's involvement with us. The Commanding Officer who runs the local Squadron is always available should there be any problems with your child's membership. You can be assured that they are looking to join an excellent youth organisation. Our adult staff who are all volunteers are highly trained to ensure that all activities are carried out safely and effectively. There are many activities for your child to take part in, some of which can be found on other parts of this website
The Air training Corps
Is a national organisation with Headquarters at RAF College Cranwell. The country is split into six Regions and each Region is split into Wings which have a number of Squadrons under their control. Although we are connected with the Royal Air Force they are under no liability to join the Services. Many of our cadets do go on to join not only the RAF but the Army or the Navy. Others go on to join the Police or go onto University and into many and varied careers. All will have found their training and experiences in the Air Cadets an advantage.
Parents responsibilities
You will be responsible for your child getting to and from the Squadron safely. You are also responsible for the uniform that we will issue them with. The uniform costs about 200 per cadet. However do not worry as you will not be expected to pay this as the uniform is on loan to them. It is important that it is looked after and only used for air cadet activities. Cadets will become proud of their uniform and are encouraged to keep it in good order themselves. Do not be upset if your child ask you not to iron their shirt as there are certain ways of doing it and they generally like to iron their own once trained. When they leave the cadets you are asked to make sure the uniform is returned. Boots / shoes are not generally issued and you will need to supply these. Most Squadrons will be able to advise you of where these can be obtained from and their cost.
You will also have to pay their subscriptions on time and an explanation of where the money goes and how Squadrons are funded is in the next paragraph. Subs are important and prompt payment helps everybody.
All organisations need funding. We are luckier than most. The Royal Air Force provide the money for uniforms, premises, flying and several other activities your child may take part in. However many other activities are not covered and have to be funded by the Squadrons. To do this each Squadron has a Civilian Committee, also volunteers who are responsible for raising and spending these "Non Public Funds". Some money from each cadet also goes to fund activities at Wing level such as sport, training courses etc. You can be assured that your contributions are well cared for and spent on the cadets and their activities. Currently subs can range from £2 to £10 per week but it is up to the local Committee to set their requirements. The payment is required whether your child attends all parades in the period concerned or not. No refunds will be given if they leave in a period for which you have paid.
Secondly , most of our Squadrons are registered for Gift Aid, which means that if at least one of the parents/guardians is a tax payer by them signing a simple form and returning it to the Squadron, they can claim a further 25p in the pound of subscriptions paid directly from the Inland Revenue. This makes a great difference.
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Squadrons are always looking for new Staff at Squadrons and new members for Civilian Committees. The biggest source of these new people is the parents of cadets. If you feel you might be interested in joining the Squadron staff either as a Civilian Instructor or as a uniformed member or if you think you could spend a little time helping on the Civilian Committee please contact the Commanding Officer of the Squadron who will be pleased to talk about it to you. There is no doubt that being a part of our organisation is very worthwhile to adults and young people alike.
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The more your child is involved in the more may be the costs. General funding is by the subscriptions you already pay but camps in the UK and abroad and adventure training etc may lead to additional costs which you will be asked to pay. These will always be the minimum we can make them.
We also realise that there are cases of hardship among parents who are out of work or have large families etc. and we can address genuine hardship in several ways so that the Cadet does not miss out. Please talk to the Commanding Officer in confidence if you have a problem.


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9 Nights Sri Lanka ramayan Trail from 1500/- per person
If golden beaches, rising waves, misty mountains, mighty elephants, stealthy leopards, giant whales, a majestic past, lovely tea and warm smiles could sum up a country, that would be Sri Lanka.
With many sites and scenes bottled up in to a small island, a traveller could be riding the waves in the dawn and admiring the green carpeted mountains by dusk. Travel destinations in Sri Lanka provide an array of holiday experience from sun kissed beach holidays to a marathon of wildlife watching, adrenaline pumping adventure sports and pilgrimage to some of the oldest cities in the world.
The smiles and hospitality of Sri Lanka id world famous and so are its spicy food, exotic fruits and array of sweetmeats found nowhere in the world. With so many cultures living next to each other life in Sri Lanka continues among a series of festivities throughout the year, an ideal recipe for fun and leisure.
With a recorded history of nearly 2500 years and an unrecorded history of at least another 2500 years, Sri Lanka is home to many legends including of Kings who rules over universe, dagger nailed people, believed to be a sub species of humans and technological advancement that seems to be equal to divine intervention.
With recorded and unrecorded tales of Kings who constructed mega structures involving technologies that are beyond our comprehension, extinct species so exotic that it fuelled up the imagination of generations and wars fought with such might that they found their way to religious mythology of even neighbouring countries, Sri Lanka's folklore is a treasure trove to the curious
DAY 01 - UK to NEGAMBO
Today you board your flight to Colombo from London Airport.
Arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport. Transfer to the hotel in Negombo. In the afternoon proceed to visit the Muneeshwaram Temple and Mannavari Temple. Manavari is the first place where Lord Rama installed the Siva Lingam and prayed after the end of the war with King Ravana.
After early breakfast, drive to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. A home for about 90 elephants, out of which some are baby elephants, found abandoned or orphaned in the wild. Later proceed to Anuradhapura (a World Heritage Site), the first capital and undoubtedly the majestic city of the ancient Sri Lanka
Today visit the archaeological sites in Anuradhapura, the Sri Maha Bodhi (Sacred Bo-Tre). At over 2200 years old it is said to be the oldest historically documented tree in the world. Under this tree, Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment. Also visit the Isurmuniya rock temple and Mihintale. Drive to Habarana for overnight stay.
Today drive towards Polonnaruwa to visit the ruins of the Royal Palace and Gal Viharaya to view the statues of Buddha and of King Parakumbahu. Also monuments of worship such as the Shiva Temple, Lankathilake, Watadage, Galpotha, Kiri Vehera and the remains of a former Temple of the Tooth Relic. Visit a wood carving factory. Later experience the thrill of an elephant back safari in Habarana, in to the jungle, accompanied by a Mahout. In the afternoon return to Sigiriya and climb the Sigiriya Rock Fortress which is a world heritage site, known as The 'Lion Rock'. Visit the world renowned frescos of the 'Heavenly Maidens' of Sigiriya. (You have to walk up about more than 200 steps to see the frescos. All natural steps are safe to walk). Afterwards visit a Batik Factory where you can see the manufacture of beautiful Batik prints. Return back to the hotel in the evening.
Today visit Dambulla cave temples, world heritage site, and the most impressive of Sri Lanka's cave temples - caves with over 2000 sq. meters of painted walls and ceilings containing 150 images of the Buddha. Later visit the spice garden in Matale. Drive to Kandy to visit a gem factory to see artisans in a workroom cutting and polishing the gems found in Sri Lanka. Visit the Kandy Garrison cemetery, well maintained garden cemetery, founded in 1817 for the internment of British-era colonists and managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Witness a cultural show.
Today visit Temple of the Tooth Relic before been transfer to Peradeniya railway station for your train journey to Nanu Oya. Transfer to the hotel and in the afternoon take a city tour of Nuwara Eliya known as "Little England", Visit the Gayathri Pe(e)dam, this is believed to be the place from where King Ravana's son Meghanath propitiated Lord Shiva with penance and pooja's and in turn was granted super natural powers by lord Shiva. Later visit to the tea plantation, a tea factory and enjoy a cup of pure Ceylon tea.
Today visit Sita Amman Temple, Ravana falls & Ravana Cave. These caves prove beyond doubt the architectural brilliance of King Ravana as the tunnels served a quicker and a secret passage through the hills. Later drive to Dickwella visit blow hole.
Drive to Galle to visit Dutch Fort and the stilt fishermen in Ahangama. Drive to Colombo (on a free way). Do a city tour and visit Panchamuga Anjaneyar Temple, dedicated to Anjaneyar in Sri Lanka.
DAY 10 - COLOMBO to UK
Goldi sands Negambo
Location : Within easy reach of Negombo Beach, St. Sebastian's Church, and Negombo Fish Market, this Negombo hotel is located by the sea and set on the beach.
Hotel Features : At Goldi Sands Hotel, catch some rays at the beach, pamper yourself at the full-service spa, or enjoy water skiing. Guestrooms have safes, minibars, and coffee/tea makers; rooms also include hair dryers and private bathrooms.
Galway Miridiya Anuradapura
Location : With views of beautiful Nuwaravewa Lake, this property offers low-cost accommodation close to one of Asia's most ancient sites. Located just 15 kilometers from Anuradhapura airport and 10 kilometers from the city center, the Galway Miridiya Hotel enjoys a quiet forest setting replete with local flora and fauna, and provides an ideal base from which to explore Anuradhapura's sacred ruins
Hotel Features : The hotel prides itself on the quality of its cuisine, with local, western and Chinese menus served by the pool. Rooms are simply and vibrantly decorated, opening out onto green landscaped gardens where guests are greeted every morning by birdsong.
Chaaya Village Habarana
Hotel Features : At Chaaya Village Habarana, recreational amenities include an outdoor tennis court and an outdoor pool. The resort also features a full-service spa and a bar/loungeTelevisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature air conditioning, minibars, and coffee/tea makers
St. Andrews Nuwara Eliya
Location : Nuwara Eliya or the 'city of light' is located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka about 170km away from the Bandaranaike International Airport. Renowned for its picturesque landscape of lakes, tall mountain ranges and sprawling tea plantations it was nicknamed 'Little England' by the English planters who settled there. The town is also a quaint reminder of a bygone era as its official buildings are built in the style of 19th and early 20th century English architecture.
Hotel Features : St. Andrews the well designed rooms are complete with all the necessary facilities. Hot and cold water, Wi-Fi, a mini bar, tea/coffee making facilities, laundry and safety lockers are part and parcel of the excellent service. We have a boutique and souvenir shop as well as a snooker room with a 117 year old antique table. Tour tea plantations, go horse riding or even hop over for a round of golf at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club which is next door.
Galadari Colombo
Location : Situated near the beach in Colombo, this hotel is close to Bank of Ceylon Tower, Galle Face Green and Colombo World Trade Center. Also nearby are Dutch Hospital and Pettah Market.
Hotel Features : In addition to 3 restaurants, Galadari Hotel features an outdoor tennis court. Other amenities include bars/lounges and a poolside bar.LCD televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature wireless Internet access (surcharge), high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge), and air conditioning.
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Inspiring videos
I've always loved to see a good video/movie , one that wakes up a feeling in me , one that touches me somehow . I thought I should show you some of them , they can really make a change in your life , they can influence you so that you change you mentality without even noticing :)
When I first saw this video I couldn't help myself . The video is about a father who carries his son 'through' the triathlon . It meant a lot to me . It kinda' taught me that if you really want something , working hard you'll get it ! (not to mention that the song completes perfectly the video)
This video speaks for itself ..
I find this short movie pretty awesome . I think that everyone who loves his(her) mother cries at the end of the movie . I was so touched to see that this awesome idea came from a romanian man. It's worth watching from the beginning to the end :)
The awesomEST thing he said , in my opinion , was ' if you don't build your dreams someone else will hire you to build theirs ' . What can I say ? True story :)
I've never been really patriotic but I know that our country has to offer more than people know . They hear just the bad things about Romania ; instead of the good ones . The problem is that we don't know/don't care to evoluate . We have such a beautiful country , for exemple : we have mountains , a sea , we have all the 4 seasons (spring , summer , autumn , winter) , we have beautiful sights , we have rivers .. I don't want to over-apreciate , but I think it's one of the most beautiful countries in the world . It's a shame that romanians don't join each other for a better country/life :)
She's amazing ..
I included this video in my post mostly for the quotes , but his story is pretty amazing too :)
Probably everyone knows his speech , but still , it is unbelieveble . He had a crazy lifestyle and he still ended up pretty fine .. R.I.P :)
I really hope you enjoy all the videos :) they're worth watching !!
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The internet here won't allow me to view videos! I'm in a coffee shop using a public wifi... Would love to watch those videos someday if I can get internet connection in my new house... I bet those videos would really touch me just how it touches you...RăspundețiȘtergere
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Guest blog by by Henry Fagg, 9th June 2016
Henry is a tutor and the founder of Thetutorpages.com, an award-winning directory of private tutors in the UK - one of the few such websites of which we approve.
If the British media were your only source of information about private tutoring in the UK, you'd end up with some pretty warped views.
Two media tropes
Firstly, you'd think that only the super-rich can afford to employ tutors. The favoured term is the 'super-tutor': usually a young Oxbridge graduate who is paid thousands of pounds to dispense knowledge to their charge, perhaps on board a yacht or in the relaxed atmosphere of the family's Swiss chalet.
The other common media story focuses on the so-called educational arms race. Here, the private tutor becomes a parent's secret weapon in a results-obsessed view of learning. The prize is always the 'best' school or university, no matter what might be right or wrong for the child. It is a tutoring wild west, where opportunistic educators collude with 'tiger mums' to hothouse their exhausted children.
The essence of tutoring
At its core, tutoring is a benign, yet powerful force with an excellent pedigree. Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle, the Dalai Lama was tutored by Heinrich Harrer ('Seven Years in Tibet') and now millions of children across the globe benefit from it as well. Most parents intuitively know it works but there is also hard evidence supporting it as an educational approach.
In the educational psychologist David Ausubel's conception, a tutor is in the unique position of being able to teach according to what their pupil already knows. For the child, being able to build on current knowledge is both the foundation of learning and also the wellspring of confidence. It can be difficult to create such conditions in the classroom, where the pace must inevitably be set to what is best for the group, and where peer pressure can mean a child can be afraid to ask questions, make mistakes or even get something right.
By contrast, parents instinctively know that with a private tutor a child can come on in leaps and bounds. As trust develops, the child can feel safe enough to check their understanding and ask questions without fear of ridicule. Before they know it, they are questioning just to satisfy their own curiosity and are beginning to enjoy themselves. A virtuous learning circle can thus develop within this framework and a child is happy to deepen their learning just because they can. This benefits them not just academically but in terms of their self-esteem and overall emotional development.
Not just for the super-rich
Private tuition is now more popular than ever and that means the market has created many different forms of tuition service. Paying large sums of money is not necessary and there are many ways in which parents can avoid being exploited when employing a tutor. You can employ a tutor independently or through an agency, face-to-face or online. Each tutor will have their own specialisms, strengths and weaknesses and they can range from enthusiastic, young graduates to those with years of experience, sometimes as classroom teachers. One of the best ways to find a tutor is through word of mouth. The important thing is to ascertain the tutor's credentials, get references or recommendations from other parents and then observe how they get on with your child.
The average cost of an independent tutor is actually around £30 per hour. Prices often reduce for block bookings, for younger pupils, for online tuition (where there are no travel or time costs for the tutor) or for small group tuition at centres such as those run by Explore Learning or Kumon.
The ethnicity of pupils receiving tuition challenges stereotypes about the background of those paying for a tutor. Studies suggest that primary aged pupils from ethnic minority groups are more than twice as likely to receive private tuition as their white peers. Further, a number of educational charities now recognise private tuition as an effective way to transform the lives of children from any background. For example, Action Tutoring trains volunteers to work as tutors with under-privileged children.
Not just a sausage factory
The media line on the rationale for employing a tutor is that parents are hothousing their offspring for exams, often for entry into the country's selective schools. It's worth bearing in mind, though, that only about 7 per cent attend independent schools and 5 per cent attend selective state schools. In addition, when surveyed, only about half of children stated that the main reason for having a tutor was to pass an exam.
This illustrates that what the sprawling private tuition industry has to offer is much more diverse than the media make out. Those who work in this sector know this and are aware that tutors use their diverse skills to achieve a multitude of aims.
Firstly, hard to measure traits such as confidence, resilience, inquisitiveness and love of learning naturally thrive under the right kind of private tuition. In addition, there are diverse reasons why tutors are employed: to learn a subject not on the curriculum, to catch up at school after an illness, to assist with homeschooling (an approach recently gaining in popularity) or for support with special educational needs such as dyslexia, ADHD or autism.
Tutors are also uniquely placed to develop skill sets traditionally associated with adult learning such as interview technique, communication skills, public speaking, career development or entrepreneurship. Finally there are all the subjects available which are usually viewed as extra-curricular - such as musical instrument tuition or sports, fitness and wellbeing.
Reality check on private tuition numbers
Part of parental anxiety over private tuition is the sense that 'everyone' is employing a tutor. This anxiety is again driven by the media which consistently report that about a quarter of all children - or half in London - are receiving private tuition. However, this figure is inaccurate and actually represents the proportion of children who have reported ever having received tuition in their lifetimes. The real proportion of UK children currently receiving tuition is much closer to 10-12 per cent, as one recent analysis has found.
Private tuition is often a wonderful opportunity for a child but it is by no means obligatory, necessary or 'right' in all cases. The great thing about private tutors is that they can be called on at any stage in life, whether it is to help brush up on a foreign language, achieve greater confidence socially or in the workplace, or to take up an entirely new skill.
With this survey of the private tuition landscape, my aim has been to puncture some of the myths surrounding this thriving educational world.
Although, in the main, private tuition remains an opportunity only available to families who can afford it, a combination of technology and market forces is making this opportunity both more accessible and affordable. Moreover, state schools are increasingly bringing in tutors to work with individual children, and often those from deprived backgrounds.
In a civilised society which valued the potential of each child, the chance to study with a private tutor should, when necessary, be available to all.


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Who likes mercurial? I do. Lately, I even started using mercurial as a client for subversion repositories. Let me describe the hgsubversion installation steps that worked for me; on my laptop that is boldly supplied with The Only Right operation system…
I heavily borrow from excellent entry by Ben Collins-Sussman and from outrageously diligent post by Dave Cameron. I want to focus on the smallest possible installation routine on windows. Also, I want to emphasize that you don't have to build anything on windows. All the prepackaged installables or binaries are ready, waiting for you to grab them.
Oh right, here are the steps that worked for me:
- Install mercurial (TortoiseHg)
- Clone hgsubversion
- Configure hgsubversion extension
- Start cloning svn repos!
- Understand the gotchas
- Stay happy
1. Install mercurial (TortoiseHg). I installed TortoiseHg (mercurial + tortoise). Your cmd should nicely take: hg version.
In theory you can install different Mercurial client. However, there is a huge advantage of installing TortoiseHg: you don't have to install python, svn python bindings & make your Mercurial use it. All because TortoiseHg comes with python+svn bindings (thanks Afriza for a hint!).
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgsubversion SomeFantasticFolder
In my case SomeFantasticFolder is c:\projects\open-source\hgsubversion. At the moment I cloned hgsubversion the tip was the changeset 500.
3. Configure hgsubversion extension. Add extensions to your USER_HOME/.hgrc, which on windows is Documents and Settings\SomeFabulousName. In my case SomeFabulousName is sg0897xxx (after years in IT industry I'm still just a number…). Note that hgsubversion is duplicated at the end – that's fine. Your .hgrc should contain something like:
[extensions] rebase= #do not quote the path if it has spaces! svn=c:\projects\open-source\hgsubversion\hgsubversion
Your cmd should print enabled extensions at the bottom of the screen when you do: hg help extensions
Instead of cloning repos with "hg clone" I suggest to "hg pull" instead. Pull is better because it can continue in case something breaks (cloning very large repo can takes hours).
hg init example cd example hg pull http://example-for-hgsubversion.googlecode.com/svn example-for-hgsubversion
- gotcha 1. If svn requires authentication, you may be asked to enter user/password… 3 times. Don't worry, just enter correct credentials patiently. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. (update) Augie Fackler, the mastermind of hgsubversion points out svn+http or svn+https can be used to work around this gotcha
- gotcha 2: After updating changes from svn (hg pull, hg update) never use 'hg merge', instead use 'hg rebase'. Merges are not yet supported by hgsubversion I heard. If you accidentally do hg merge you probably have to rollback the merge in order to push.
- gotcha 3: (new) From my experience it is better to clone entire repo, not only trunk. Cloning trunk worked for me but I noticed exceptions thrown during unsuccessful rebase. Working with full repo clone was smooth for me so far.
- gotcha 4: (new) Commands you should know:
hg help svn hg rebase --svn hg svn info hg svn rebuildmeta
- last gotcha: I'm not a mercurial expert so feel free to comment & give feedback. Also, newer (different) versions of before mentioned installables should work as well. If links to binaries are dead then get creative and google for it – I don't guarantee all links will work forever.
6. Stay happy. Are you kidding me? You know what to do =)


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Rapper Meek Mill will reportedly only face a misdemeanor charge after his initial arrest for felony reckless endangerment in New York City on Thursday (17Aug17).
The 30-year-old MC, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, was taken into custody after he posted videos of himself online performing "wheelies" - a vehicle maneuver where the front tire comes off the ground - in Inwood on Wednesday night (16Aug17).
Mill was subsequently slapped with one count of reckless endangerment and was scheduled to be arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday.
According to TMZ, prosecutors have since decided to not move forward with the felony charge, choosing instead to reduce the count to a misdemeanor.
In a video posted on the website, Williams' lawyer insists the arrest and the reckless endangerment charge was not warranted.
"You have a situation where a guy popped a wheelie for literally 10 seconds on the street with no one else around and the police were there and saw him that night and they didn't arrest him, they didn't charge him with reckless endangerment, they didn't even give him a traffic ticket...," Joe Tacopina said outside the courthouse.
"And then they only arrested Meek Mill, despite the fact that like, eight people were around, in one of the most outrageous fashions I've ever seen...," he continued. "They had 22 police cars to arrest Meek Mill on a traffic violation. I think when (mob boss) John Gotti was arrested there was (sic) like, four police cars. It was ridiculous."
Nicki Minaj's ex-boyfriend has yet to directly comment on his legal trouble.


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Title: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Some said he had been a German spy, others that he was related to one of Europe's royal families. Nearly everyone took advantage of his fabulous hospitality. And it was fabulous. In his superb Long Island home he gave the most amazing parties, and not the least remarkable thing about them was that few people could recognize their host. He seemed to be a man without a background, without history; whose eyes were always searching the glitter and razzamatazz for something... someone?
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Huge expensive cars, jazz music, glamorous parties and fountains flowing with champagne: this is the roaring twenties – this is Jay Gatsby's world. But who is this Gatsby, this phantom of a host, this mysterious stranger, who lets a great mass of people invade his house every Saturday so they can let off the steam? Who is this man, the subject of so much gossip? – the question wouldn't stop bugging Nick Carraway, the young clerk who's just moved to Long Island, or to be exact right in the neighborhood of Gatsby's mansion. He soon gets an answer. And another. And another. The complexity of Jay Gatsby's personality and the romantic, gloomy setting of his past seem to mesmerize Nick. There's only one thing that's certain: Gatsby is in love with a woman, who is no other than Nick's cousin and who is happen to be married.
I read the book for the second time now, and the reason why I decided to do so is that we're going to discuss it on my American Literature class in a few weeks' time. Well, first of all, I have to say I'm so glad I re-read it! This time I was able to enjoy the atmosphere of the Jazz age much more than I had for the first time. I'm not a party-goer, you see, and so the idea of endless partying kinda terrifies me, but I understood more of what motivated the characters and this gave me a different grasp on the story and through that on the twenties' America.
Gatsby is by far the most fascinating character for me in this book, he strangely stands out of the crowd that surrounds him all the time. He is beyond the meaninglessness that pervades the summer air his guests breathe, he has a dream, he has a goal: to get his love, Daisy back. I like how determined he is, I like the fact his ambition to make a fortune – whatever illegal way he'd done that – was based on love.
His rival in the story – Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband – is a total brute, I have no idea how Daisy can bear him. As for Daisy, I don't know whether I like her or not. I imagine her as a beautiful, seemingly confident woman, but she's not independent, she craves to be controlled and she needs someone, who would make decisions instead of her.
Nick, our narrator, is a lovely guy. He's from the west and he's as much an outsider as Gatsby is, maybe that's why they understand each other (Isn't that so, old sport?).
Other than the characters I adore the parallel that Fitzgerald draws between driving and living in the novel. Careless driving indicates the same way of leading one's life, which can result in serious consequences.
As you can tell, and I can only repeat myself, I enjoyed the Great Gatsby very much. You will too! Go and read it!