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This is a very nice story that I hadn't heard before: the son of one of the founders of Hamas converted to Christianity and for a decade, worked closely with Israel's security agencies to frustrate terrorist attacks. He now lives in California and is about to publish his memoirs:
The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership, Haaretz has learned.
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank. The intelligence he supplied Israel led to the exposure of a number of terrorist cells, and to the prevention of dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts on Israeli figures.
…Yousef's memoir, "Son of Hamas" (written with Ron Brackin) will be released next week in the United States. Yousef, 32, became a devout Christian 10 years ago and now lives in California after fleeing the West Bank in 2007 and going public with his conversion.
Yousef was considered the Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, earning himself the nickname "the Green Prince" – using the color of the Islamist group's flag, and "prince" because of his pedigree as the son of one of the movement's founders.
During the second intifada, intelligence Yousef supplied led to the arrests of a number of high-ranking Palestinian figures responsible for planning deadly suicide bombings. These included Ibrahim Hamid (a Hamas military commander in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti (founder of the Fatah-linked Tanzim militia) and Abdullah Barghouti (a Hamas bomb-maker with no close relation to the Fatah figure).
The linked article quotes an Israeli who credits Yousef with considerable courage. That seems like an understatement!
Under the circumstances, Yousef's views on Hamas are worthy of consideration:
"I wish I were in Gaza now," Yousef said by phone from California, "I would put on an army uniform and join Israel's special forces in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. If I were there, I could help. We wasted so many years with investigations and arrests to capture the very terrorists that they now want to release in return for Shalit. That must not be done." …
"Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a cease-fire, and no one knows that better than I. The Hamas leadership is responsible for the killing of Palestinians, not Israelis," he said. "Palestinians! They do not hesitate to massacre people in a mosque or to throw people from the 15th or 17th floor of a building, as they did during the coup in Gaza. The Israelis would never do such things. I tell you with certainty that the Israelis care about the Palestinians far more than the Hamas or Fatah leadership does."
I'm looking forward to reading Yousef's book. You can order it here; it looks like it's shipping next week.

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It is very important to discover the cause of hemorrhoids. Just getting relief from hemorrhoids symptoms isn't going to get you anywhere, if you don't have a strategy about how to get rid of them for good. The following self-care measures may relieve the symptoms, but they won't make the hemorrhoid disappear. See your doctor if you don't get relief in a few days, or sooner if you have severe pain or bleeding.
Many products are sold for the treatment of hemorrhoids. These often contain the same drugs that are used for treating anal symptoms such as itching or discomfort, because they will probably reduce the symptoms of hemorrhoids too. Products used for the treatment of hemorrhoids are available as ointments, creams, gels, suppositories, foams, and pads. Ointments, creams, and gels - when used around the anus - should be applied as a thin covering. When applied to the anal canal, these products should be inserted with a finger or a "pile pipe." Pile pipes are most efficient when they have holes on the sides as well as at the end. Pile pipes should be lubricated with ointment prior to insertion. Suppositories or foams do not have advantages over ointments, creams, and gels.
Most products contain more than one type of active ingredient. Almost all contain a protecting ingredient in addition to others. For the temporarily relieve of pain and other hemorrhoid symptoms that you experience like swelling and inflammation, you can read the following self-care measures and detailed products.
- Apply a hemorrhoid cream or suppository containing hydrocortisone, or use pads containing witch hazel or a topical numbing agent.
- You have to take minimum eight or nine glasses of water per day. Also check the amount of fiber you are eating and adjust it accordingly.
- Keep the anal area clean and dry. Take a bath or shower (a bath is much better) daily and clean the skin around your anus gently with warm water. Soap isn't necessary and may aggravate the problem. You should dry the affected part of your body to avoid any irritations.
- Apply ice packs or cold compresses on the anus to relieve swelling. Make sure the ice is wet and slippery, not sticky. Insert it in the anal hole like a normal suppository.
- A Seitz bath fits over the toilet. For this treatment you will need one plastic tub with warm water. You can get one at a medical supply store or some pharmacies. It is suggested to use this treatment for 15 minutes three times in a day. This treatment will reduce pain and swelling most effectively, as this is an easier treatment for hemorrhoid relief. Or you could just buy some Epsom salts, and put them in a bath, then sit there for ten minutes to gain hemroid relief, longer if necessary.
- Do not use dry toilet paper when wiping your ass. To help keep the anal area clean after a bowel movement, use wet and moist towels or wet toilet paper that doesn't contain perfume or alcohol.
- If coming from the anal hole, you can also try to gently push them back. Once they back in, the pain should disappear very quickly.
- Exercise your body. Keep in mind that staying on the toilet for more than five minutes at a time aggravates your hemorrhoids. Take several short walks a day.
- You can find relief from hemorrhoids using a hemorrhoid cushion. A hemorrhoid cushion is an inflatable rubber ring, similar to the inflatable rings that kids wear at the beach. When you sit on it, the cushion is minimizing the contact pressure between the sitting surface and the hemorrhoid.
You can use aspirin or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) to help relieve your discomfort temporarily. Here are some medications you should know about:
- Local anesthetics temporarily relieve pain, burning, and itching by numbing the nerve endings. The use of these products should be limited to the perianal area and lower anal canal. Local anesthetics can cause allergic reactions with burning and itching. Therefore, if burning and itching increase with the application of anesthetics, they should be discontinued. If the hemroids are really painful, a cream or lotion with tetracaine is a very good anesthetic.
- Vasoconstrictors are chemicals that resemble epinephrine, a naturally occurring chemical. Applied to the anus, vasoconstrictors make the blood vessels become smaller, which may reduce swelling. They also may reduce pain and itching due to their mild anesthetic effect.
- Protectants prevent irritation of the perianal area by forming a physical barrier on the skin that prevents contact of the irritated skin with aggravating liquid or stool from the rectum. This barrier reduces irritation, itching, pain, and burning. There are many products that are themselves protectants or that contain a protectant in addition to other medications.
- Astringents cause coagulation of proteins in the cells of the perianal skin or the lining of the anal canal. This action promotes dryness of the skin, which in turn helps relieve burning, itching, and pain.
- Antiseptics inhibit the growth of bacteria and other organisms. However, it is unclear whether antiseptics are any more effective than soap and water. Bepanthen is a hemorrhoid home remedy that contains an antiseptic. Proctosedyl is also a good suppository for hemorrhoids that contains an antiseptic.
- Keratolytics are chemicals that cause the outer layers of skin or other tissues to disintegrate. The rationale for their use is that the disintegration allows medications that are applied to the anus and perianal area to penetrate into the deeper tissues.
- Analgesic products, like anesthetic products, relieve pain, itching, and burning by depressing receptors on pain nerves.
- Corticosteroids reduce inflammation and can relieve itching, but their chronic use can cause permanent damage to the skin. They should not be used for more than short periods of a few days to two weeks. Stronger corticosteroid products that are available by prescription should not be used for treating hemorrhoids.
Some good hemorrhoid creams on the market would be Anusol, Zenmed Zero and Preparation H. You can also apply zinc oxide based creams - they will help with the relief of pain and discomfort.


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PLANTATION — Mention a miniature golf course and visions of small windmills and perhaps a large, concrete dinosaur come to mind.
But a planned miniature golf course that received preliminary approval from the City Council Wednesday in this city is not going to look anything like a typical gooney golf course, the project`s owner says.
``You`ve never seen anything like it,`` said Al Paonessa II, part-owner of the course, which is to be on a 40,000-square-foot site on the west side of University Drive, just north of State Road 84.
``It`s all going to be done with landscaping and waterfalls,`` he said, adding that 160 trees are to be planted on the 18-hole putting course.
The holes also will not be carpeted or made of Astroturf, Paonessa said. The greens, constructed of sand and sythetic materials, will putt much like grass on a regular golf course.
Panoessa, who is part owner of three courses in Canada, said the planned course will be the only like it in the area.
At the council meeting, Councilman John Gibbs said he drove by the site earlier that day and saw work had already begun.
``They are apparently building a golf course before second reading (approval),`` Gibbs said. ``I just hope somebody doesn`t come in here for a refuge plant and think they can do the same thing.``


text: (AllHipHop News) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony group member Layzie Bone has refuted allegations that his brother Flesh-N-Bone struck their mother with a gun, causing a one inch gash on her head. Flesh, born Stanley Howse, was arrested on Sunday (March 28) during Bone Thugs-N-Harmonys highly anticipated reunion concert in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. It was the first time he had been in the city in twelve years. The celebration was short lived, as police arrested Flesh on ten-year-old warrants for domestic violence and felonious assault. "That's a damn lie," Layzie told The Plain Dealer today (March 30) during an interview. "My brother never struck my mother. "I was right there. What happened was, some dudes walked up and were hating on us, and my mother got in the middle of it. She was trying to protect her children. And then they're gonna say my brother hit my mother -- c'mon, man. We aren't barbaric.Their mother, Pamela Howse, was actually at the show watching her sons perform. The drama caused her to have an anxiety attack, resulting in her hospitalization. Layzie, 35, denied that his brother knew of the arrest warrants and denied having previous knowledge that the police were planning to arrest his 36-year-old brother. He also questioned why they decided to do it during their reunion show at the House of Blues, one of the most anticipated dates on their 34-city outing. They did their job and obeyed the law, as well as we did. We knew them guys. We went to school with 'em. We went to school with the police, man, Layzie told the Plain Dealer. But why did they let us go onstage if we couldn't finish the show? That was disrespectful. To say Flesh was trying to run -- run where?"


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February 20, 2006
The angry extremes
Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University writes a short piece in the Opinion Journal today on the dangers of political anger. Brooks doesn't provide the source research for the claims he makes in this oped, but I'm not going to argue. The professor is "preaching to the choir" as far as I'm concerned.
To begin with, there is abundant evidence that extreme political opinions lead to the personal demonization of fellow citizens. Consider, for example, how those on the far left and far right respond when asked for a zero-to-100 score of their feelings toward people with whom they disagree politically. Political scientists find that scores below 20 on these so-called feeling thermometers are very unusual--except on the political fringes. Indeed, according to the 2004 National Election Study, one in five "extremely liberal" people gave conservatives a score of zero, a temperature you or I might reserve for Osama bin Laden. The same percentage of "extremely conservative" people gave liberals a zero.
Ironically, these angry folks tend to feel that they are more compassionate than others--while their personal actions tell a different story. Take people on the far left. According to the General Social Surveys in 2002 and 2004, those who say they're "extremely liberal" are 20 percentage points more likely than moderates to say they feel concern for less fortunate people. But this doesn't appear to translate well to a deep concern for any individual: This group is also 20 points less likely than moderates to say they'd "endure all things for the one I love." To some, this might support the stereotype that the far left loves humanity--but only in large groups.
Like extreme liberals, extreme conservatives are more compassionate in theory than in practice: They are slightly more likely than centrists to say they "feel protective of people who are taken advantage of." Unless, it seems, they are the ones taking advantage: It turns out they are substantially less likely than moderates to act honestly in small ways, such as returning change mistakenly given them by a cashier.
These results certainly square with my personal experience. I also agree with Brook's assertion that the number of Americans out on the angry extremes is growing, and that this is bad news for America.
A candidate winning a governorship or the presidency usually mutters a common platitude to the effect that they intend to be the "President of all the people." A few of the more centrist-minded might even mean it. Of course, it is literally true; G.W. Bush is the President for all Americans including Democrats. We know that they are unhappy about that, but the more interesting question is how does Bush, or any such political leader, feel about the people who opposed him in the election.
Does winning the election mean "it's pay-back time!" or is it a call to relax the ideological barriers and try to appreciate and integrate the ideas and desires of all one's constituents. I'm not so naive to believe that the highly partisan candidates of today will magically transform into centrist coalition builders upon election, but I do not think it unreasonable to ask that leaders feel respect for all the people they lead, not just those that donated to the campaign war chest.
There are powerful voices in our political debate who make a point of bragging their depth of hatred for a large chuck of Americans. I hope I am not alone in finding that distressing. Even more distressing is the thought of such people gaining power over the country. In the heat of a campaign it can be difficult to remember that the "other-guys" are fellow Americans, neighbors, whom we supposedly respect and even love. Difficult to do but vital. If the guy I didn't support wins the election, I am disappointed. That's natural, but I can remain calm and constructively involved in the community if I believe that the new leader takes my well-being seriously. But if the new leader openly expresses his hate for me, because of my religion, or race, or because I have tended to vote for people with different priorities and ideas; well then I might get pretty nervous, and be less eager to cooperate.
As bad as things are in the U.S., they seem worse abroad. "Sowing the wind" seems the common practice throughout the Muslim world, and we all dread the harvest. Our old friends in Europe argue over whether it is better to hate the U.S. for doing too much in the middle-east, or for doing too little. Being clever fellows, perhaps they will find the means to hate us for both.
I take refuge, in my less rational moments, in a happy dream about a candidate and a party who are not defined by hatreds and anger, and a country that tires of bile and snarling, turning, perhaps in boredom, to the "refreshingly-new," old idea of American optimism. Some of us can remember how the Reagan campaign in 1980 felt after a decade characterized as 'malaise." Are we too cynical now to be moved by such a corny approach? Have we become sophisticated like the Euro's, expressing the customary pleasantries and believing none of it?
As I said, it's just a day-dream, but it keeps me moving these days...
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Don't be boring…. If you're bored make a change. Here are some tips on how to be sexier:
- A little mascara and a brow always go a long way.
- Eye Contact. Interact with your eyes. People will notice your confidence.
- Use your brain. Sexy is not just an outer appearance trait – we've all met a gorgeous person without any education/knowledge. Be able to hold a challenging conversation.
- Use your emotions… without being overly dramatic.
- Be witty/Humor Counts. Having a sense of humor is sexy.
- Treat Yourself. Having chipped nails is the biggest pet peeve of mine (you will literally never catch me with chipped nails unless you live with me, in which case you will smell nail polish remover every three to four days).
- Get a Blow Out. If you haven't taught yourself already, there are salons everywhere that specialize in blow outs (hint hint: Dry Bar). Clean hair and a fresh blow out make me feel like a new woman.
- Need I say more… Never tacky, always elegant.
- Showing more is NOT sexier. Leave something for the imagination. For example, either show off the puppies (aka your boobs) or your legs. Never both unless it's in the bedroom.
- Don't dress like your box shaped. No matter what size you are – show your bod off – meaning get things tailored. I still struggle with this sometimes.
- I've said it once before and I refuse to repeat my reasoning.
- Get rid of the insecurities. Even if that means "friends"… Also note to self that life is not a runway and we are not Victoria Secret models.
- Don't over pluck those brows. Sperm brows are out. Natural and thick are in (not the uni though – don't get carried away).
- Wear Heels. I know they can be a real bitch sometimes but never choose a man over your heels. Heels give you a leg lengthening affect.
- Be sexual. Use your body language with your man (or a man your interested in). Soft hand touches. You get my purnt.
- Challenge yourself. Hikes, new workout classes… all of these will build your confidence.
- Don't overdue the sweatpants. Change it up every now and then when your home. Cooking in a pair of heels, lingerie, and an apron works like a charm.
- Nothing over powering. A natural scent will work.
- Now I know I said we are not VS models but that doesn't mean you cant use some of their photos for inspiration. (All I meant was do not compare yourself to them).
- Most people say to wear the color red because it appears to be more attractive to men. I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm just saying…did you see The first episode of The Bachelor this season with Nick?! Six girls wore red and it did nothing for them. I've always been sold on a sexy little black dress.
- Be kind, never phony.
- A spray tan gets me every time. It gives your skin a healthy glow.
- Invest in yourself. (Whatever you get out of that, but don't be afraid to make changes to things you are insecure about just don't get carried away).
- Play up your best features!
- Undo yourself. Salt spray in the hair provides texture. Smudged eyeliner is sexy.
- Try New Things.
- Have more sex.
Most importantly: Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin.


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'We're not true folkies, except for Laura who grew up on Lindisfarne,' say the band. Which could be a good or a bad thing, depending where you sit on the folk fence.
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A university professor spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since a photograph of his heavily blood-stained face, taken shortly after the Edgware Road bomb, was published.
John Tulloch, 63, who is making a good recovery, said: "It has been a roller coaster. I don't remember hearing any noise or blast. But I could see a strange nasty yellow light and then it all went black.
"I was on the floor and I felt my face was wet with blood. I did not know what had happened and I thought it was just me.
"I couldn't see very well without my glasses - they had been blown off - and I rolled over to ask someone to help me. Then I saw people lying covered in blood and I knew it was a major event."
He paid tribute to an off-duty RAF officer - "a ministering angel" - who jumped through the window of the Circle Line train shortly after the explosion and started talking to him to help him remain conscious.
The Australian, a research professor of sociology at Brunel University, said: "He told me all about himself in such detail. I know all the universities his daughter is considering going to. He asked me about my sons in Australia. He mopped me up. It was a huge psychological bridge. He kept me going."
He added that it was "like a nightmare" in the train, which was dark and quiet with "a bit of moaning".
Prof Tulloch, whose eardrums were perforated, which means that he is suffering severe vertigo which affects his balance, is being treated in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
He expressed concern that all his luggage, including his grandfather's 110-year-old watch, had been taken away for forensic examination.


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On Monday, Dec. 19, the new Flagler Memorial Bridge will open to both vehicular and pedestrian traffic with one eastbound and one westbound lane on the bridge and the south sidewalk open to pedestrians.
To prepare for the traffic switch from the old bridge to the replacement bridge, the old bridge will be closed to all traffic beginning at 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, with the new bridge opening at 6 a.m. Monday. While the bridges are closed, all eastbound and westbound traffic will be detoured to the Royal Park Bridge to cross the Intracoastal Waterway.
When the replacement bridge opens, eastbound traffic will access the bridge from Quadrille Boulevard. Westbound traffic will access the bridge at Royal Poinciana Way. The following restrictions will be in place:
• Flagler Drive will continue to be closed in both directions from Fourth Street to the Flagler Memorial Bridge while the road is reconstructed.
• Flagler Drive will be closed in both directions from north of Seventh Street to the Flagler Memorial Bridge while the road is reconstructed. Only local traffic will have access. Westbound traffic exiting the bridge will no longer be able to access Flagler Drive to go north.
• Eastbound traffic exiting the bridge will not be able to turn left onto Bradley Place.
The following detours (see map) will be in place:
• Drivers going west on Flagler Memorial Bridge should go to North Dixie Highway to go north or south.
• Drivers going north on Flagler Drive from south of Fourth Street should go west on Banyan Boulevard, north on North Dixie Highway, east on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard to Flagler Drive.
• Drivers going south on Flagler Drive from north of Seventh Street should go north/south on Flagler Drive to Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, west on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, south on North Dixie Highway, east on Banyan Boulevard to Flagler Drive.
The Flagler Memorial Bridge Replacement Project includes replacing the existing bascule (draw) bridge with a new bascule bridge connecting the Town of Palm Beach and the City of West Palm Beach over the Lake Worth Lagoon and the Intracoastal Waterway (ICWW). The Flagler Drive overpass is being replaced with an "at-grade" intersection. New lighting, pedestrian features, traffic signals, drainage, and landscaping are also included. Active construction began on Sept. 10, 2012, and will last until spring 2017. The estimated construction cost is $105 million.


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Some different methods of racking and shelving include free-standing units with multiple set levels, adjustable levels, or anchored levels, as well as wall- or ceiling-mounted metal racks. It is also possible to create combination systems that include configurable wall-mounted and free-standing units to meet different space requirements.
One common type of shelving method involves the use of a standard case system, wherein the structure has solid walls anchored to a solid base and top layer, often with a backing plate or sheet. Within the case are several horizontal shelves that run the full width, or half the width in the case of larger shelves, typically attached to the sides with pegs or locking mechanisms. Some case shelving methods also allow for adjustable center shelves, though the base and top must remain stationary to ensure structural integrity. Variations on these systems include the use of poles at the four corners rather than solid walls to create a sense of open space.
Wall-mounted shelves are another common racking method that involves affixing support beams to a wall using special screws to match the wall material. These rods include adjustable tracks that allow shelves of various lengths and heights throughout the system. Similarly, ceiling-mounted shelving racks drop down from the top of the room and provide single levels of storage high above the ground.


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A key Medical University of South Carolina board committee Thursday unanimously approved 2013-2014 budget plans for the university, the hospital and the physicians' group.
The full board must approve the plans at its Aug. 9 meeting before it becomes official.
The university will need about $621 million to operate next year, said Ravi Srinivas, director of reporting for the university's budget office. That's about $2 million less than the current year.
About $83 million, or 13 percent, of that comes from state appropriations and other state sources. The rest will come from a variety of sources, including tuition, federal grants and contracts and private grants and gifts.
The Medical University Hospital Authority expects to bring in about $1.1 billion next year, about $30 million more than the current year. The hospital is expected to turn a profit of about $26 million after covering expenses.
The physicians' group is expected to bring in about $281 million in operating money, about $2 million more than in the current year. And it is expected to incur about $250 million in operating expenses, leaving about $31 million in operating income.
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Samsung Electronics, COSCO Pacific, Ayala Land and Cathay Pacific are some stocks that will fare well even as market volatility and economic uncertainty continue into the second half of the year, according to a report by HSBC Global Research.
Herald van der Linde, Head of Equity Strategy, Asia Pacific and Garry Evans, Global Head of Equity Strategy of the British bank, looked at criteria such as earnings resilience, structural changes in demand, strength of corporate balance sheet and valuations, and picked the stocks they think would likely to outperform regardless of up or down swings.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics, for example, will benefit from the shift from notebooks to tablets, thanks to Apple's iPad, HSBC said. The company's Note, a smartphone-and-tablet hybrid offering, is expected to increasing its blended average unit selling price over the next few months and keep operating profit margins of its handset unit at 20 percent.
The bank also likes China's COSCO Pacific, one of the top five port investors in the world and the world's third-largest lessor of containers.
"COSCO Pacific remains our preferred play in the Asian port and shipping sector, given its attractive valuation and relatively resilient earnings outlook," van der Linde and Evans said in the report.
We believe that a turnaround of COSCO Pacific's terminal investments (Piraeus, Guangzhou-Nansha) and a strong leasing business will drive its profitability (10 percent profit CAGR in 2011-14) in the forecast period."
HSBC has a 12-month target of 1,760,000 won ($1,519) for Samsung's stock, representing an upside of about 41 percent, and a target of HK$14.40 ($1.85) for COSCO Pacific, or a 42.5 percent increase from the stock's current price.
Other Asian stocks that will be able to weather a global downturn include Ayala Land, Philippines' largest listed real estate firm, which could rise about 11 percent to 24.15 peso (57 US cents), and Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's flagship airline, which HSBC forecast could gain 41 percent to HK$17.50.
"We expect Ayala Land to progressively develop and/or re-develop land parcels across the country held under its strategic land bank segment," the bank said. "Increased mortgage availability to a wider segment of the population and on better terms is likely to drive demand for residential property in locations where developments were previously not feasible."
Cathay Pacific is HSBC's favorite premium airline in Asia and while the bank expect a somewhat "lackluster outlook", there could be a silver lining in lower oil prices.
"All else same, every 5 percent fall in fuel price could raise our 2012 recurring net profit estimate for Cathay by 10 percent," the analysts say. "We therefore believe that lower fuel price will help to offset a weak revenue environment. We argue that Cathay's strong home base, which we believe is the best positioned gateway into southern China and its greater exposure to North America generate a superior medium-term outlook."
Other than these firms, HSBC also likes India's Titan Industries, Powergrid and HDFC, Thailand's Total Access, Taiwan's AUO, China's Hengan, Hengdeli and China Overseas Land and Investment, Indonesia's Kalbe Farma, South Korea's Hyundai Motor, and Singapore's Sembcorp Marine.
- By CNBC's Jean Chua.


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I can expect to live until I'm 82 if I'm a girl and 78 if I'm a boy. If I'm a girl, I've got a one-in-three chance of reaching 100. If I'm a boy, my chances are one in four (although some people will live to 130 or beyond).
Information technology will advance so quickly I will have to constantly retrain for new jobs. During my professional life, I can expect to have around 20 different jobs and switch careers up to five times.
By the time I'm an adult, there's a 70 per cent chance that I'll be a non-believer.
I am part of the first cashless generation. Payments by cards, mobiles and other electronic devices are expected to account for more than half of all transactions by as early as 2015.
There is only about a five per cent chance that I'll be a smoker by the time I'm 15 – half what it is today.
I am one of around 720,000 babies that will be born in England and Wales this year. Chances are, my name is either Sophie or Oliver (predicted to be the most popular names for a girl and a boy in 2012).
By the time I'm in my sixties, climate change will have helped Scotland to become one of the world's top wine-producing regions.
There is a 50 per cent chance that my parents will be divorced by the time I'm 16. If I marry, then I'm most likely to do so at around 32 if I'm a girl and 35 if I'm a boy. However, by the time I'm in my thirties, the rate of cohabiting will be twice what it is today. Only one in three male adults in Britain is expected to be in a marriage in the 2040s.
Population growth in Britain means that, by the time I'm four, there will be 40,000 more children looking for a place in primary school than there are today. By the time I'm 16 the population of the UK will have increased by around seven million, five million of whom will be either immigrants or children of immigrants.
Thanks to a combination of factors – the rise in the global population, water shortages, climate change and an increasing demand for biofuels – I'm going to have to pay more for my food. Real meat will become so expensive it will be replaced on supermarket shelves by "in vitro" hamburgers, sausages and lamb chops, grown by scientists from animal stem cells. It will also become more common to eat insects, as traditional sources of protein become scarce.
By the time I'm 40, most cancers will have become stable chronic conditions, similar to diabetes, rather than fatal diseases. Tiny molecular "motors" will be able to destroy cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue.
Whether I'm a boy or a girl, I can anticipate retiring in 2085 at the age of 73.
I'm far more likely to emigrate. The "mobile office" will be so portable by the time I start work that I'll be able to work wherever in the world I want. For economic reasons, it will be increasingly common for companies to send their staff to Brazil, China, India or Russia.
I'm going to need anything between £60,000 and £123,000 to get me through university.
I'm going to have to pay almost £70,000 more in taxes during my lifetime than my parents in order to pay off government debt.
If I'm a girl, there is a 17 per cent chance that I will never have children. If I do have children, I'm likely to have two and will probably be able to pay to have selected genes turned on or off during the creation of those offspring, to give them, for example, keener eyes or more slender shoulders.
By the time I'm 20, hedgehogs, red squirrels, harvest mice and several species of butterfly are likely to be extinct in Britain.
SOURCEs: Office of National Statistics; population matters; BuyAssociation.co.uk; Nameberry.com; ASH; The Payments Council; moneywise.co.uk; Centre for Social Justice; the Lancet; Michio Kaku; Martin Ford
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Yobs trash headstone of tragic teen girl found dead at pal's party
HEARTLESS hooligans have repeatedly vandalised the gravestone of a teenager who died suddenly.
Dione Melville was laid to rest by her granddad after she was found passed out at a friend's bash.
A youngster was later charged with supplying illegal drugs after the tragedy in East Calder, reports the Daily Record.
But Dione's family have been dealt a fresh blow after ornaments and vases around her headstone were trashed.
"We just want our beautiful Dione to be able to rest in peace with her grandad"Family statement
In a statement, the family said: "This has been soul destroying for us as a family and it feels like we've lost Dione all over again.
"We are absolutely devastated by this and the family has been in pieces since.
"We just want our beautiful Dione to be able to rest in peace with her grandad, and for us as a family to be able to grieve."
Inspector Drew Elliot, of Livingston Police Station, said: "This was a despicable act which has caused significant upset to a still grieving family.
"Graveyards should be a place of respect and there will be an increase in patrols in this area over the forthcoming days."


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A spare part stuck thousands of miles away in Korea put Simon Fenny's car off the road for two months.
It left the Cleveland police officer and his family without wheels during the worst winter weather.
Simon, who needs the car for work, his wife, Victoria, and 15 year-old daughter, Elizabeth, had to rely on cadging lifts from family, friends and colleagues.
And no matter how hard Simon battled, he got the same reply from the manufacturer's British HQ and the AA Service Centre in Hartlepool where in December, the car failed its MOT on gas emissions.
Poor old Simon faced what he describes as the most frustrating two-months of his life as he fought to get his Daewoo Matiz back on the road.
Until Watchdog sorted it.
We solved not only the mystery of the missing part, but won #200-worth of major car services as a goodwill gesture from Daewoo.
"I'm convinced I would still be without a car and waiting for the part but for Watchdog," says a grateful Simon, who works with the Youth Offenders' Team in Stockton.
His problem started a month before the car's MOT was up.
Being a forward-thinking man he took the Matiz to the garage well before its certificate ran out on January 6.
Time enough, you might think, to find the #206 sensor part needed to keep the car within legal gas emission limits.
But it wasn't. Nobody could find the part anywhere in the UK. The only hope was thousands of miles away in Korea.
By then, Simon had decided a policeman's lot was definitely not a happy one.
"It was appalling," says Simon. "I was faced with the atrocious situation of being without a car during the worst weather of the winter.
"It meant I had to ask for lifts from colleagues, take more time going by public transport or ask young offenders to come to see me."
With every query hitting a brick wall, the frantic 40 year-old decided to call in Watchdog to end his motoring nightmare.
Simon had already written to Daewoo UK and was told they would investigate and respond within seven days.
They didn't.
The AA Service Centre found its hands tied because they couldn't fit a non-existent part.
A couple of exploratory phone calls to the Daewoo Customer Service Centre from Watchdog produced nothing.
The first time, the computer was "down". The second time they thought the elusive part might be there "by early February".
The part finally arrived and was fitted in half an hour on February 5.
And the Matiz passed its MOT with flying colours.
"I am convinced I would still be waiting if the Gazette hadn't sorted it for us," says Simon.
"We asked for help from a lot of people, including BBC's Watchdog, without any success.
"Once the Gazette's Watchdog took up our case, it brought almost immediate success and we are very grateful.
"I'm over the moon with the result and believe it means you are the champions for the cause of the common man."
But there was another worry for Simon and his family. What if the whole nightmare happened again if another part was needed?
So again Watchdog got in touch with Daewoo UK's managing director, Andy Carroll.
We pointed out the whole sorry story had caused Simon huge inconvenience, especially as the car was needed for work.
We asked him to reassure our readers that these sort of problems have been solved and wouldn't happen again.
Straight away, Andy agreed it was all a pretty shameful state of affairs.
He apologised for not responding to Simon within seven days, but said the person responsible no longer worked for the company.
Like the gent he is, Andy accepted a mistake had been made by Daewoo which was recently taken over by General Motors and is now GM Daewoo.
And because they got it wrong, Daewoo are paying for the car's 40,000 and 50,000 services...a gesture worth #200.
Mr Carroll, commenting on General Motors taking over Daewoo, added: "Whilst every effort had been made to ensure a smooth transition, due to our Head Office re-location, problems with our computer systems resulted. Orders for parts were having to be handled manually. Please accept my apologies."
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Concealer - a necessary thing in the beautician, a kind of must-have for all occasions.It helps to hide skin blemishes and even out tone.However, in our country, most women have no idea what a concealer.Moreover, many confuse it with creams.Let's try to answer for what use concealer and that it actually is.
Concealer - he proofreader, the name and easier, and far more accurately reflects the essence of what a concealer.Simply put, this means for the correction of minor skin blemishes.Foundation itself is not able to provide an absolutely perfect even tone and hide circles under the eyes, pigmented age spots, redness.Just as one concealer will not be able to completely replace the tonal foundation and cream.
There are a lot of different concealer - solid, liquid, creamy.Each type kolnsilerov suitable for a certain type of skin.for example, solid concealers well with oily skin, while the creamy better suited for women with dry skin as creamy version will provide the necessary moisture to the skin.Sol
to understand what concealer, consider now what color he is.
There is something else that needs attention, if you decide to buy a concealer.Feedback from customers and make-up - that's what you want to study and what to focus.And if you want to use the tool for yourself, then buy a large amount of you do not need, and it is better to do a little jar.According to color theory, there are colors that enhance each other, or vice versa, mute.And there are those which are obtained by mixing a dull gray color.This and the principle of action and selection of concealers.For example, concealer eye, which is intended to hide the circles and swelling must be light purple.The fact is that when applied to the yellow circles of light purple means creates the effect of muted colors.As you know, a neutral color hidden by foundation much easier.
At the same time, in order to hide the dark circles under the eyes, and even bruising best suited orange concealer.Like the violet, it will mute the brightness of a bruise that will ensure a smooth tone.Finally, green concealer is very useful to teenagers and all those who have problems with the skin.It works wonders when it comes to redness.If you want to create the perfect image, features a whole palette of different colors concealers that should be applied strictly to certain areas of the face in order to achieve maximum effect.In essence, such means perform the function of correcting the face.The question of what concealer is inextricably linked with the question of how to apply it.So, it is best to do a small brush made of artificial cloth, instead of fingers.Only by using such a brush can achieve proper spot correction.


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I googled Flat Earth theory because some asshole on YouTube said it's where Bruce Lee got his powers from. I wasn't expecting that it literally meant the world is flat.
There are hundreds of video's about the earth being flat. Books and blogs written about it. I've never heard of a more crazier, zanier conspiracy theory than this.
Supposedly the North Pole is in the center of our flat earth and Antartica is the border that holds us all in and circles the diameter. It's actually really cool if you think about it.
This explains why planes aren't allowed to fly over Antartica and why the military won't let anyone go passed a certain point.
The sun and moon are the same size, satellites are fake, stars are fake, not to mention the moon landing, we're all under one massive dome like in the movie The Truman Show. The earth doesn't spin or rotate, everything revolves around us.
I'm not a believer in the earth being flat mainly because of my iPhone app that shows where all the stars and satellites are even if they're below me. Are the app makers in on the conspiracy too?
They have arguments for everything but can't explain a simple app on my phone. My phone which has more computing power than the Apollo spacecraft.
But this one guy in particular has a cool theory….none of his other cohorts mentioned it.
His theory is that the earth is smeared, superimposed just like with particles and waves. Waves are broken down when measured, they are broken down into particle form. This guy says the earth is flat until we look at it. It's a flat wave of possibilities when we turn our heads away.
Forget about the world being flat, let's take a look at time.
Physic's can prove that past, present and future exists at this very moment simply by utilizing Einstein's theory of relativity.
If aliens are viewing us from lightyears away, they will see our planet as it was before dinosaurs came into existence. However, if those same aliens start heading towards our planet while continuing to view us, time will fast-forward and they will see into our future. Maybe like the doppler effect? Time slows when you move away from the object you're viewing, but speeds up and condenses when you move towards it at light speed?
I don't know, I've watched a ton of YouTube vid's about time and they can explain it better than I can. I don't understand the math of it, but according to them, time can fast forward or go in reverse depending on where you are in space while looking at earth. On whether you're coming towards it or going away, and the math and the experiments are all there to prove it. That all time exists simultaneous.
That's more mind-blowing to me than having a flat earth. Who cares about a flat earth when my future can be seen by extraterrestrials? They can watch us like a DVD with a fast forward and rewind button. We can be stacked on their shelves with hundreds of other DVD's depicting the beginnings and endings of numerous worlds.
A class taught at their alien high school would be "The Past, Present, and Future of our universe 101" and earth will be one of the DVD's they play on movie day. The little alien children love movie day. They rest their heads and close their eyes. They zone out or pass secret notes to each other.
I personally believe in the hologram theory. Aliens are merely viewing our hologram, it's not actually real what they're seeing. We're not actually real. Even at this present moment.
Let's view it from another angle (I have gobs of time these days).
Ok, we all have DNA, right? DNA is a blueprint of everything that we are down to our personality types and mood swings. What's printed in our DNA is predestined to happen to our bodies sooner or later.
So let's say (for analogy purposes) DNA is the originator, and your body is the hologram emitted from the DNA originator. Your body is a hologram because there's something on the inner that we cannot see, orchestrating everything on the outer that we can see.
So that means the DVD about earth is the outer observation of it, it doesn't depict the inner. It doesn't show the DNA portion of it. It only depicts the likely probability of our outcome, and not the actual.
If this is true, there are multiple, infinite dimensions occupying the same space as us, using our same resources (which are also holograms).
It's like a ship that sailed over the horizon, you can still see it because gravity refracts the light from it, but it's not really there. The light originates from somewhere else.
The reason I came to this conclusion is because even our DNA can be altered with what we believe. People suffering from severe cases of multiple personality disorder can change their eye color depending on who they are at the time. Their hologram body can't be mapped out with their DNA since they can change it at will. There only exists probability. And there's an infinite number of them.
Take for instance, the double slit experiment.
With the double slit experiment, when one single particle is fired out at a time, no matter how many times they fire one particle with absolutely zero interference from it's brethren to get in its way, it'll always act like a wave thereby interfering with only itself. It splits up and the multitude of possibilities interferes with its ultimate ending location.
What does this mean?!!!! Oh god I don't know! It's ending location is guided by the laws of probability?
The picture above shows how a particle acts in wave form. When the experimenter isn't watching or measuring each particle, it acts like water. Even if particles are fired out of the machine one at a time, still water.
But when the particle is being observed, it looks more like this: Two lines of light for two slits.
I'm getting transfixed again…..oh shit.
Maybe our souls are in wave form? And our bodies are in particle? Oh god it's just too much for my little brain. Too much.
So when aliens look at us from a distance, whether it be our past or future they see, it'll look like a wave form. All possibilities taking place at the same time. All dimensions gathered together in one, but consciousness can't grasp this concept so the wave must be broken down by the viewer, the aliens who're looking at us. The time dimension they see is completely by random.
I need a break from this. I'm hungry. I haven't eaten all day.
Whenever I dig money out of my bra and throw it on my desk at the end of the day, I look at it and you know what I think? "Gee, I wonder how much food I can buy with that."
It's always about food. I freaking love it. My brothers dog loves it too. He got his Bark Box in the mail today and went nuts for it. Now he's depressed because he ate his treat for this month and has to wait until next month to get another.
He got a new toy too so he dragged it up on my bed with him, but it's not enough to satiate him.
I get depressed after eating something spectacular if I'm not completely full from it. And I get depressed after doing something fun if I'm not completely worn out from it after.
As long as I'm full, and as long as I'm exhausted, I'm happy. It's queer when you think about it. How most Americans work their tails off because they feel like they're accomplishing something by being exhausted all the time and fed all the time. And they're too exhausted and too busy to know what they're really missing.
Our brains tell us that exhaustion and fullness equals completeness, or satisfaction. So we keep striving to reach that point over and over again. At least I do anyway. And my brothers dog too.
I got a pedicure. My toes look pretty amazing don't you think? I guess that's another one we strive for….satisfaction in looks. It's a new one to me, never much cared for it before I started getting fat.
I had my chin and upper lip lasered a few weeks ago and now I have zero hair on my face. It took only that one visit. 10 minutes and $200 of my time and money.
I'm going to order take-out, come back home and watch a movie or something and I'll continue this post later.
What about our past? Is that a hologram too? To the aliens, yes. But to us, it's our story. It's what makes us unique.
I think about this stuff because I want to write a time travel book one day.
The only way anyone can grasp the concept of past, present and future plus all possibilities existing simultaneously is to experience emptiness. That's the only way. And I experienced it for two seconds! It's actually real. What's out there in the universe, it's in us too.
As for the Flat Earth people……
They want the world to wake up, for us to open our eyes. To show us that we're brainwashed and led to believe everything we're told by the masses. And I love that about them, but they're essentially becoming their own worse enemy. The eyes wide shut type. They don't want to listen to reason, just that they're the new messiah exposing truth and liberating us. I'm pretty sure the flat earth people are all religious zealots, which is fine but, whatever.
This one guy on YouTube sounds completely sane and rational. Down to earth with a level head. But if you dig around looking for ANYTHING, you're going to find it thanks to the law of 5's. No matter how ridiculous it may be, you're going to find it.
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President Obama used the n-word to make the point that racism is still alive and well in America.
Obama was on comedian Marc Maron's podcast, when he said, "And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say n***** in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not."
It was a calculated move for sure on Obama's part. Obama has been criticized by some African
American activists, including Byron Allen, for not speaking out more forcefully about the plight of blacks in America.
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Coolest Pix Of 2013 Week 05
That was January done and dusted, roll on February. I still can't see any real improvement in the way the world turns though. Which is your favorite image?
Women scuffle with a soldier during a protest near the National Congress in Tegucigalpa. STRINGER/REUTERS
A rescue worker walks with an unidentified injured man during an uprising at the Centro Occidental (Uribana) prison in Barquisimeto. STRINGER/REUTERS
Passenger ferry travels past submerged truck that crashed into commuters waiting to board a ferry at the Likoni crossing, at the coastal port town of Mombasa. Joseph Okanga/REUTERS
Indian soldiers march during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS
People look for things to salvage after a fire at the Smart Fashions garment factory in Dhaka. STRINGER/REUTERS
Balloons fly during the 35th International Hot Air Balloon Week in Chateau-d'Oex. VALENTIN FLAURAUD/REUTERS
Fighters from the Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al Sham brigade fire back at Syrian army during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS
Farmworkers attempt to recapture one of about 15000 crocodiles that escaped from their pens during flooding near Mussina. MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS
Skaters dressed in traditional Dutch costumes skate on the canal in Hindeloopen. MICHAEL KOOREN/REUTERS
Demonstrators march during a protest by teachers against government austerity policies in Lisbon. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS
The San Gabriel Mountains are seen in the background during cloud cover over the Los Angeles skyline. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS
Military enthusiasts take part in a re-enactment of a World War Two landing to mark its 69th anniversary in Anzio, near Rome. TONY GENTILE/REUTERS
A pilot performs aerial acrobatics at the Ilopango Air Show 2013 in San Salvador. STRINGER/REUTERS
A Hindu devotee takes a ritual shower before his pilgrimage to Batu Caves Temple during Thaipusam outside Kuala Lumpur. STRINGER/MALAYSIA/REUTERS
A girl blows soap bubbles at a park in Shanghai. ALY SONG/REUTERS
A Hindu devotee in trance during a pilgrimage to Batu Caves Temple during Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves outside Kuala Lumpur. BAZUKI MUHAMMAD/REUTERS
Fire-fighters try to extinguish a fire at Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria. STRINGER/BRAZIL/REUTERS
A man walks out of a burning building after a Syrian Air force air strike in Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS
Malian soldier Ousmane Cisse stands guard on an open road outside Sevare, Mali. JOE PENNEY/REUTERS
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
No. 2 Pencils
Photo by Alex
Today was the start of the tutoring program that I volunteer for. Believe it or not, I'm the high school level (and 8th grade) Algebra tutor. I spent about thirty minutes sharpening pencils, tons of dull pencils. One of the first things that struck me was the crappy, weak, electric pencil sharpener made available for the job. It would shudder and shake, overheat and seize up - and that was with me going very easy on it, not trying to shove the pencil down it's throat in the least. Anyway, I was thinking "Whatever happened to the old silver hand cranked models?". Those worked just fine. Heavy duty industrial all metal parts. Now we get half plastic crap from China.
I was also struck by the fact that 9 out of 10 pencils, besides being dull leaded, were in fine shape. Full length, almost brand new shiny yellow No. 2 pencils. But, and there always is a but, the erasers were rubbed down to nothing on more than half of them. A pretty, almost brand new pencil, but with the eraser gone in the first few uses of its life.
I wonder what this means? What can this tell us about a school, or a weekend tutoring program, or even the state of our educational system nation-wide? What can it tell us about an economic demographic in a particular area of a city when the erasers are all rubbed to a nub.
I wonder.
3 comments:
- Mtnhighmama said...
My home has one of the old school, wall-mounted pencil sharpeners. When we moved in, I asked the previous own about it and he told me that it had been there since he was a kid, in the late 40's. My son still uses it nearly every day.
- September 11, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- Misty said...
This may sound like a dumb question...but what brand of pencils are those in the picture? I like the fact that it has green erasers. Please let me know!
- August 30, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- AlexTangoFuego said...
Hola Misty!
Not a dumb question at all.
# www.megabrands.com
I forget where I bought them.
Good luck!
- August 30, 2010 at 5:39 PM
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When the lovers Anja Harteros and Jonas Kaufmann go to their deaths together in Andrea Chénier with "Viva la morte insiem!" or when Kristine Opolais as Rusalka kills her lover with a kiss, its impact is immediate, powerful and intense – especially if you happen to be sitting right in front of the stage. Now the word "live" can be seen in big letters on the facade of the Bayerische Staatsoper. It's time for some thoughts on 'liveness' in opera.
These days we can distinguish between two forms of dissemination: live and mediatized. The concert and its edit; the football match and its live programme; the opera and its TV broadcast. But it hasn't always been this way. Before we had this counterpart – that is, the recorded version shown in various forms or, more generally, before we had film, television, radio and the internet - culture could only be experienced live. As such, there was no reason for the word 'live' to be part of our vocabulary, since this quality was never in any doubt, as media and culture expert Philip Auslander points out.
The fact that actors and spectators inhabit the same space has been essential to theatre - that is, the live experience – ever since ancient times, says eminent Theatre Studies specialist, Erika Fischer-Lichte. So, according to the basic definition:
person A plays role B while C watches. It is then possible for spectator C to interact with the singer or actor A.
A soprano may be uplifted by enthusiastic applause and sing with even more feeling for the rest of the evening, but if a scene is booed, this may also have an influence on the production's execution and the audience as a whole. Production and reception happen simultaneously. And so every performance is unique, because you can't rehearse an audience reaction. By contrast, a Youtube video doesn't change with hindsight depending on the viewers' responses. Music albums and films are even more static, since they can't be modified once they've been released. Then again, a recording can be played, potentially, an unlimited number of times and can therefore reach an audience of millions – the opera house only has seats for 2101 people at once. (Musical) theatre needs the performative moment, the presence of actors and audience members in the opera house. This way the event is exclusive to those present, and is influenced by the conditions of that particular evening.
Live can also mean authentic, in the moment, unrepeatable, exclusive and interactive
These days 'live' is a sign of quality because we're all familiar with the other side of the coin: no one will admit to only having heard a recording of the aria "Come un bel dì di Maggio". Musicals – which use fewer musicians and more laptop recordings instead of an orchestra - as well as their stars, are often criticised for miming during a concert. Those visitors who've been looking forward to a direct and authentic experience are disappointed when they don't get what they want – the ambience of a live event is lost. "The future of theatre is ensured by liveness", explains Theatre Studies expert Andreas Englhart. "Its atmosphere, the real-life presence of actors and spectators, the direct gaze of other people, is something very special that continues to assert itself against the shallow virtual reality of our media-based visual world."
Yet today, with TV, radio and internet, the qualities of liveness have been expanded from the spatial to the temporal. After all, live-broadcasting and public screenings also take place during the opera or sporting event, not afterwards. As such, the excitement and atmosphere is, for the most part, retained. In any case, Auslander would disagree with Englhart's statement: as a result of technical innovations like film clips and electronic sound effects in theatre, productions are no longer purely live. Web 2.0 also offers new ways for audience members sitting in front of a PC or smartphone to interact. And some even experience culture more directly when they're watching it from the 'front row' of their TV, so to speak. The result is: the boundary between live and mediatized becomes increasingly blurred. The director of the Munich Institute for Theatre Studies, Christopher Balme, simply broadens the definition of audience to include the 'public'.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be inviting you to test out these boundaries between live and direct transmedia experiences. We'll be taking you backstage and showing highlights from the opera festival via Facebook live. So our Facebook fans around the world can take part in the festival too, even if they're not sitting right in front of the stage...
More information at www.staatsoper.de/live.
Texts for further reading:
Philip Auslander: Liveness – Performance in a mediatized culture. London/New York 1999
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Ästhetik des Performativen. Frankfurt am Main 2004
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Semiotik des Theaters. Das System der theatralischen Zeichen [Band 1]. Tübingen 1983
Andreas Englhart: Das Theater der Gegenwart. München 2013
Christopher Balme, Josef Bairlein (Hrsg.): Netzkulturen: kollektiv. kreativ. performativ. Intervisionen [Band 11]. München 2015


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How pet therapy can help stroke survivors
by Lucy Lazarony
Working with therapy dogs can assist stroke survivors in their physical and cognitive recoveries and lift their spirits.
"People will think 'Oh, I'll brush the dog' but really what they're doing is their arm and hand exercises, says Karen Stalmann, who has been working with therapy dogs for 15 years. Stalmann, who lives in Thornton, Colorado is a volunteer with a nearby Easterseals program. She visits rehab centers and brings her German Shephard to visit and cheer stroke survivors.
"People do get to relax and get soothing relief from an animal," Stalmann says.
Stalmann uses highway cones with poles to assist stroke survivors with balance exercises, there are ramp-walking exercises, support-and-aid exercises with stroke survivors and a therapy dog walking on thick mats, strength-training exercises, and cognitive exercises in which stroke survivors are asked the difference between a therapy dog and a stuffed toy dog that Stalmann brings along.
All the exercises are cleared by a stroke survivor's physical therapist. And Stalmann is close by for every exercise.
She's seen breakthroughs, too. Like when a stroke survivor, who was struggling with saying the letter "s" said the word "sit," a command on a flashcard for a therapy dog.
Or when a stroke survivor proclaimed, "I can use my arm" after brushing a dog's hair, using a brush with an elastic strap.
"Those little things are monumental things," Stalmann says. "It's a huge breakthrough."
To find a pet therapy dog near you, Stalmann suggests visiting Alliance of Therapy Dogs or Pet Partners.
Before trying any type of exercises at home with a family pet and a stroke survivor, be sure to consult the stroke survivor's physical therapist, Stalmann advises.
The last thing you want to do is to ask a stroke survivor do an exercise that would interfere with the work they are doing with a physical therapist.
"They can do things at home if their therapist gives them permission," Stalmann says. "They have to make sure everything is done by direction."
Once you have a physical therapist's OK, always make sure there is someone there with the stroke survivor and the dog, even for simple exercises such as snapping an unsnapping a leash, tying and untying a bandana around a dog's neck, or reading a book to a dog.
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The breakup of the Soviet Union and the consequent extraordinary problems faced by Eastern European nations raise pressing economic questions. The case studies in this book examine significant parallels between the situation in Eastern Europe today and the issues facing Europe and Japan after World War II, offering insights on what kinds of policy actions will be most effective in this difficult period of reconstruction. The essays address such topics as the relative roles of government and the market; economic openness; industrial conversion from war to peacetime production; the roles of institutions, enterprises, the business community, and their work staffs; and external control of policy measures, of resources made available by the outside world, and of the general external environment. In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview that addresses the question of whether reconstruction can ever be managed smoothly. Rudiger Dornbusch is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilhelm Nolling is President of the Landeszentral Bank in Hamburg, Germany. Richard Layard is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.Contents: Openness, Wage Restraint, and Macroeconomic Stability: West Germany's Road to Prosperity 1948-1959, H. Giersch, K. H. Paque, M. Schmieding. The Lucky Miracle: Germany 1945-1951, H. Wolf. Inflation and Stabilization in Italy 1946-1951, M. De Cecco and F. Giavazzi. Economic Reconstruction in France 1945-1958, G. Saint-Paul. Reconstruction and the U.K. Postwar Welfare State: False Start and New Beginning, P. Minford. A Perspective on Postwar Reconstruction in Finland, J. Paunio. The Reconstruction and Stabilization of the Postwar Japanese Economy, K. Hamada and M. Kasuya. The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program, J. B. De Long and B. Eichengreen. Lessons for Eastern Europe Today, 0. Blanchard, R. Portes, W. Nolling.
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New York Times -- Obama Urges Excise Tax on High-Cost Insurance
Like a holiday guest who just won't leave, health care is still hanging around Washington.
The president is trying to get control of the terrorism discussion, his party's electoral outlook grows more stormy by the day, and his health plan has lost the support of even nominal Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger after a welter of sweetheart deals and secret negotiations. ("We'll put it on C-SPAN" may end up being one of Obama's most damaging broken campaign promises.)
Heck, the budget director who was the primary architect of the plan is defending his move to propose to another woman after fathering a child with his former girlfriend.
Obama wanted to be at this point on health care six months ago so he could pivot to other things in an election year. But, the final step of merging the House and Senate bills still awaits, and the president must now take more direct ownership of the process.
Writer David Hersezhorn reports that in his meeting with congressional Democrats, the president called for a tax on premium health benefits, a move detested by labor unions and the more liberal House.
Just a reminder – Barack Obama now supports the basic health plan proposed by Hillary Clinton with the same funding mechanism proposed by John McCain even though some of his campaign's toughest attacks were over a health-insurance mandate and a health-benefits tax.
"The Senate proposal would impose a 40 percent excise tax on the cost of individual insurance policies above $8,500 and on family policies above $23,000, with higher thresholds for retirees and employees in high-risk fields like police officers.
The tax would raise $149 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Senate bill would cost $871 billion over 10 years, while the House bill would cost nearly $1.1 trillion."
USA Today -- National security adviser: Airline bomber report to 'shock'
National Security Adviser James Jones tells writer Susan Page that the report on the failures of intelligence and action that led to the underwear bomber's chance to attack will be a doozy.
If it can beat turning away the pleading father of the terrorist on three beseeching visits to the U.S. embassy asking for help in stopping his son, it really must be something.
Jones, who has been keeping a low profile of late, has a surprising description of where the president is on terrorism:
"'That's two strikes,' Obama's top White House aide on defense and foreign policy issues said, referring to the foiled bombing of the Detroit-bound airliner and the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in November. In that case, too, officials failed to act when red flags were raised about an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan. He has been charged with killing 13 people.
Jones said Obama 'certainly doesn't want that third strike, and neither does anybody else.'"
Los Angeles Times -- More former Guantanamo detainees returning to militant activity, Pentagon says
The military doesn't seem to particularly like the president's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, especially the part about releasing a bunch of the inmates.
So the military bean counters helpfully provide a running tally of how many of the enemy combatants have returned to their old ways or even learned some new tricks.
Writers Julian Barnes and Christi Parsons explain that more than 20 percent of former residents are known to have gotten back into the game.
"The Pentagon report on the released detainees remains classified and officials refused to discuss it publicly. But Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell acknowledged the numbers had risen since April, when the department said about 74 former detainees -- about 14% of those released -- had returned to hostile action against the United States."
Washington Post -- Republicans put new hold on TSA nominee Erroll Southers
Sen. Tom Coburn has joined Sen. Jim DeMint in blocking the nomination of a new head for the TSA over fears that he would allow collective bargaining for the agency's 60,000 security workers.
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Writer Robert O'Harrow explains:
"A spokesman for Coburn said that he 'will object to Mr. Southers's nomination moving forward until he provides the committee with a more complete and accurate description of the circumstances surrounding his censure.' He said Coburn thinks that 'Mr. Southers' failures are significant because they pertain directly to his potential role as the head of TSA.'"
New York Times -- Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.'s Work
Writers Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Mar Mazzetti provide an arresting look at how the Jordanian doctor (jailed for illegally helping Gazans) who was turned into a double agent after being sent to spy on al Qaeda killed so many high-value American targets at once.
Predator drones are have been raining hellfire down targets in Pakistan and the CIA is claiming a huge body count in retaliation for the suicide bombing that killed 7 CIA employees.
"Their deaths were a significant blow to the agency, crippling a team responsible for collecting information about militant networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and plotting missions to kill the networks' top leaders. And in one sign of how the once male-dominated bastion of the C.I.A. has changed in recent years, the suicide bombing revealed that a woman had been in charge of the base that was attacked, Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province."
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