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Orchid Garden Family Resort has a house for a traditional sanctuary for worshipping ancestors and the family activities.
For guests 4 secluded bungalows, surrounded by a variety of tropical trees and orchids, have been built in traditional Vietnamese architecture and with equipped with modern convenient facilities. Each bungalow has the name of a kind of orchids that you can find in our garden
All rooms at our house are separate bungalows, ideally for couples and family with kids. Each bungalow has the name of a kind of orchids that you can find in our garden
- Daily breakfast for single or double occupancy
- Free of charge for 1 child under 12 years old sharing the existing bed with adults (breakfast included)
- The above rates are valid for internet user book thru Orchid Garden Website only
- Instant tea, coffee daily in room
- Bicycles to discover every corner of Hoi An
- Internet usage at the lobby house
- WIFI access available throughout the homestay
- Free use of swimming pool
Services and facilities
The facilities in the grounds, such as parking facilities, swimming pool, restaurant, internet, and WIFI offer wonderful tranquillity for a relaxing holiday or short break. Other activities are joining the family on a trip to the market, interaction in preparing meals and guidance in Vietnamese cooking. And of course, you can be guided about propagation and care of orchids.
Orchid garden homestay resort facilities
- internet access
- wifi access thorughout the house
- swimming pool
- parking
- guest laundry
- bicycles
- restaurant
- daily newspaper
- books
- safe deposit box
- luggage store
Bungalow facilities
- cable TV
- IDD telephone
- individual air conditioning
- comb, hair dryer
- tooth brush, tooth paste
- shampoo, shower creams
- one living room, one bedroom, one kitchen, one open air bathroom per bungalow
- sewing kit
- kettle
- ashtray
- bathrobe/slippers
- umbrellas
- refrigarator
- mini bar
- baby cot
- instant tea and coffee daily in room
Guest services
- airport/train station transfer
- mail portal and message services
- tour arrangement
- room service
- cooking class with the family
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Volume 23, Issue 3, Fall 2005
Besieged Bats of Mentawai
By Scott Heinrichs
The plants and animals of the Mentawai Islands have been evolving in isolation since the Mentawais split away from the big Indonesian island of Sumatra 500,000 years ago. The unique native mammals attract extensive scientific attention. But little of that research has been aimed at bats, and now the forests are disappearing so fast that the islands could lose entire bat species before we even learn they existed – much less try to save them.
Only nine species of bats have been formally reported on the Mentawai Islands, so I was incredulous when my own research quickly found 16 species – one of them previously undescribed.
I came to the islands to assist primatologist Lisa Patculli in her behavioral study of the endangered pig-tailed langur (Simis concolor), but I also had the opportunity to survey the region's bat species. My goal was to increase public awareness of the values of bats and the impact they have on these islands.
Located off Sumatra's west coast, the islands of Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai are known as the Mentawai Islands. My research site was on North Pagai, in an area called Betumonga. When I arrived, the site comprised 335 acres (135 hectares) of forest, some of it surrounded by villagers' gardens. Fully half of that lush forest was illegally logged over the next few months.
I wondered if this devastated habitat had driven the bats away or concentrated them in the remaining patches of vegetation. The latter proved to be the case: My survey began even before I had erected my mist nets. I quickly discovered a sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura monticola) roosting under my desk, then located an entire roost of sheath-tailed bats with pups in a rocky shelter beside a small stream.
As I began setting mist nets at the study site, the research house and the edge of the forest, I captured and released a number of short-nosed fruit bats of the genus Cynopterus. I also caught a Hill long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus sobrinus) and a fruit bat known as Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaulti), the first of its kind recorded on the islands. My nets also revealed several insect-eating bats, including a large leaf-nosed bat of the genus Hipposideros, which is probably an undescribed species, and three species of horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus) – the first recording of any horseshoe bat on Mentawai.
I was joined by an Indonesian graduate student, Mai, from Andalas University in the fall, when durian trees were in full bloom. We sampled the bats attracted to their pale white flowers and were amazed to find six species of fruit bats. We added the dawn bat (Eonycteris major) and Geoffroy's rousette fruit bat (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) to the list of first recordings from North Pagai Island.
My brief research in North Pagai almost doubled the number of bat species confirmed on the island. Yet many more species likely await discovery and more work is urgently needed to conserve this rich diversity of bats.
Scott Heinrichs, who used a BCI Global Grassroots Grant in 1999-2000 to help curb the over-hunting of fruit bats in Indonesia, founded the Flying Fox Conservation Fund to build a fruit bat research and rescue center on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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"Some persons will shun crime even if we do nothing to deter them, while others will seek it out even if we do everything to reform them. Wicked people exist. Nothing avails except to set them apart from innocent people."
— James Q. Wilson, Harvard Professor and Crime Expert
My youngest sister was the joy of our close family. When a teenager murdered her and her husband in 1990 in suburban Chicago, she was pregnant with their first child. She begged for the life of her unborn child as he shot her. He reported to a friend, who testified at his trial, about his "thrill kill" that he just wanted to "see what it would feel like to shoot someone."
This offender is now serving three life sentences in the Illinois Department of Corrections. According to Charles Stimson, a leading expert in criminal law at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, he is one of 1,300 cases nationally of a teen killer sentenced as an adult to life, sometimes called JLWOP (Juvenile Life without Parole).
There are advocates who wish to minimize these offenders' culpability simply because of their age. As a high school teacher, I have worked lovingly with teens all my life and I understand how hard it is to accept the reality that a 16 or 17 year old is capable of forming such requisite criminal intent.
We in America have to own this particular problem, with weapons so easily available to our youth, and the violence-loving culture in which we raise them. The Innuit people of northern Canada had no juvenile crime at all until 1980 and the introduction of television into their culture.
Both sides in the debate about JLWOP agree: Teens are being tried as adults and sentenced to prison for murder at alarming rates in the United States. But this actually disproves juvenile advocates' reliance on the "underdeveloped brain" argument. If brain development were the reason, then teens would kill at roughly the same rates all over the world. They do not. Advocates often repeat, but truly misunderstand brain research on this issue. The actual science does not, according to experts such as Professor Stephen Morse, and others, in any way negate criminal culpability.
The offender in our case was a serial killer in the making. He came from privilege. Whenever he got in trouble, his parents fixed it. After a series of other crimes, he planned the murders for months, carefully and privately. He did not act on impulse or because of peer pressure. He was not mentally disabled — in fact was quite intelligent. But he got a rush out of breaking the law and ultimately started work on his other plan for mass murder at a local bank. Bragging to friends led to his arrest.
There are no words adequate to describe what this kind of traumatic loss does to a victims family. So few who work on the juvenile offender side can truly understand what the victims of their crimes sometimes go through. Some never recover.
The nationwide campaign to end JLWOP has spent millions of dollars advocating for these convicted murderers to be set free. Not a dime has been allocated for victim outreach or support.
With absolutely no regard to the impact on victims' families, they have published glossy "reports" widely distributed to the media and legislators. They feature propaganda photos of 7- and 8- year-old child models on the cover, with misleading headlines that the United States was "sentencing children to die in prison."
For the record, the nation is NOT sentencing children to die in prison. This photo is pure propaganda.
The juvenile death penalty was abolished here years ago and a life sentence still allows a great deal of good living to be done – even from behind bars – far more than these teen killers gave to our murdered loved ones.
Many JLWOP offenders are repeat violent offenders and many have killed multiple people. The propaganda campaign by the well-funded juvenile advocates attempts to paint a different picture.
Consistently, they don't talk about the facts of the crimes, just the "poor children in prison." And while we respect their right to advocate for reform, some of which is needed, we have begged them to embrace the victims of these crimes as well, and take a truly inclusive and restorative justice approach to their advocacy. Our pleas have fallen on mostly deaf ears.
The offender advocates have also promoted another horrible lie — that the United States is the only nation that sentences teens to life for murder. In fact, at least 11 other nations do, according to Stimson's research. Many nations do the equivalent and far worse -– the juvenile death penalty, selling teens into sexual slavery, forced labor, sexual mutilation and the list goes on. Many nations do not have separate juvenile justice systems such as the enlightened system we have here, and many nations torture offenders of all ages without regard for human rights.
Legislative proposals for reforming JLWOP have been retroactive but without any victim notification, in full violation of constitutionally protected victims' rights. Advocates who wish to believe in the nobility of their actions cannot wrong murder victims' family members in this way without losing all credibility. Restorative Justice shows us the way out -– a conversation focused on victims needs, with all stakeholders at the table.


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Please enjoy this guided tour of E3's enormous showroom floor—including the big booths of companies like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft—presented by your friendly guide, Kotaku's Stephen Totilo.
This first video is of the South Hall, featuring third parties like WB, 2K and Square Enix.
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The buyer of a used car will need a used car bill of sale to register the vehicle at the DMV. The bill of sale allows the state to calculate auto sales tax. It also documents the identities of the buyer and seller, as well as identifying the vehicle by VIN number to help protect against the sales of stolen vehicles.
- Find used car bill of sale templates online. An unofficial DMV web site online provides sample bill of sale forms by state. Check out the bill of sale resources at DMV.org. Enter your state of residence, and click into a sample bill of sale form to see what is included in this document
- Print out bill of sale forms. Make paper copies of bill of sale forms to keep on hand when you are shopping at private party used car sales
- Take the bill of sale form with you to the closing. When you have decided you're ready to buy, bring the bill of sale along with you, and collect the title from the seller. The buyer and seller should go together to a notary to sign over the title, and possibly to the DMV to take care of any other paperwork concerns
How to Fill out a Used Car Bill of Sale with Payments
In most cases, a used car bill of sale only includes the sales amount that was paid for a vehicle by the buyer to the seller. However, there may come a time when you want to sell a vehicle to a buyer who may not be able to pay you all of the money for the car at one time, or maybe you have made an installment agreement with the buyer. If this is the case, you need to know how create a vehicle bill of sale form that informs interested parties that the vehicle has not been paid for in full.
Find an Acceptable Bill of Sale Template
You need one that indicates that a deposit only has been made and that a balance on the vehicle remains. Look for forms that mention a "Promissory Note".
Find a Promissory Note Form Template
Search for a Promissory Note form. You don't need a complicated Promissory Note. Just make sure it includes the following:
- Name of Maker (You) and name of Borrower (Buyer)
- Date of the agreement
- Amount of deposit or down payment
- Amount of monthly payments
- Date on which first payment is due (and subsequent due dates)
- How the default (non-payment) of the loan will be handled
Fill Out the Forms
Fill in the blanks on both template forms. Make sure to calculate payments correctly and make sure to list how long you will wait in the event that the loan goes into default. You don't want to have to wait for many months before you can reclaim a vehicle due to non-payment.
Consider a Notary Public
You should consider have the documents notarized in order to make them more credible should you need to take the buyer to court for default or non-payment on the vehicle contract.


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Pullmantur to reintroduce Brazil sailings
Throughout 2015, Pullmantur's range of Brazil itineraries proved to be very popular, taking passengers to a range of relaxing beach destinations over the course of three or four nights. Over the last two years, however, Pullmantur has placed a higher emphasis on cruises within Europe and the Mediterranean, with three of the fleet's four vessels being positioned within the continent. Now, it has been confirmed that the line will be returning to South America to offer a range of short cruises along the coast of Brazil.
Commencing in the 2017-18 cruising season, Pullmantur's Sovereign will operate a range of sailings between Santos and Rio de Janeiro. The majority of these itineraries will be four-night sailings, but there will also be special seven-night sailings for Christmas, New Years and Carnival. Full distribution details have yet to be confirmed, but this is certainly an exciting and great value option if you have ever wanted to visit this majestic and colourful country.
Santos is one of the most renowned states of Sao Paolo, attracting visitors from around the world. As you might expect, this area is popular for its range of relaxing beaches, but there is plenty more to see. Running parallel with the beachfront is a huge garden that stretches more than 5km in length – making it the longest beach garden in the world – making for a pleasant stroll. Santos is also where the Coffee Stock Exchange was once located and, today, it houses the Museum of Coffee.
Stretching out to the east is Rio de Janeiro - a city which many mistake as being the capital of Brazil. It is worth noting that Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of the Portuguese Empire and, therefore, the only capital of a European nation to ever be located outside of the continent. Much of this colonial history still remains visible within the city, with many buildings reflecting the rise of the Portuguese empire. This contrasts with the relaxing atmosphere and culture, with some of the most stunning beaches in the world, fine food and fascinating landmarks such as the Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugarloaf Mountain.
In between enjoying both of these stunning destinations, passengers will be able to enjoy the amenities available on board Sovereign. There are plenty of sun loungers available in which to soak up the sun and pools to help you cool down. These are fringed by bars, which enable you to take advantage of the all-inclusive drinks package. There are also facilities available for younger passengers to enjoy including kids clubs, climbing walls, a video arcade and much more.
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Alexa and Google Assistant have been taking over homes for a few years now, so it's probably easier to name the companies that haven't made a smart speaker. The options are seemingly endless. Audio gear that harnesses a virtual assistant comes in all shapes and sizes, with some making big claims about the quality of sound they get out of such small devices. Panasonic is doing just that with its $250 SC-GA10; however, the company's promise of "premium hi-fi sound" failed to make a lasting impression.
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- Google Assistant features work well
- Design blends in on a shelf
- Works well with Chromecast apps and devices
- Bluetooth and auxiliary connections
- Pricey compared to the competition
- Audio quality is just okay
- Physical controls can be awkward
- No 360 audio like several competitors
As you should expect, Google Assistant works just fine here to deliver a "smart" speaker experience. But, Panasonic doesn't deliver on its promise of high-quality audio, and the GA10 is much pricier than a lot of its competition.
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A lot of smart speakers are round, cylindrical affairs, but Panasonic chose to go the boxy route with the SC-GA10. The speaker's cube shape isn't novel, but it's different enough from a lot of the popular options (Echo, Google Home, etc.) that it feels somewhat unique. Sure, it's rather plain, but I kind of like that. The GA10 blends in easily on a shelf, thanks to its unassuming aesthetic.
Panasonic offers two color schemes for the SC-GA10: a mix of black and silver or white and silver. Both of those varieties are pretty standard fare for smart speakers. The SC-GA10's look is simple, with some Panasonic branding on the front and power and auxiliary jacks around back. There are also a few white lights on the front edge: one stays lit when the speaker is on, while others light up in a row whenever Google Assistant is active. Other than those few items, this speaker is basically a box that looks a bit like a miniature tower speaker.
As with many speakers, not just the smart ones, Panasonic put all of the physical controls up top. While this is the most convenient position, the height of the SC-GA10 poses some issues. All of the onboard controls are on a touch panel on the top of the speaker. There are controls for power, volume, muting the microphone, play/pause and several input options.
So far so good… until you try to make any tweaks when the speaker is sitting at eye level (or above) — like on a shelf. Unless the SC-GA10 is sitting in a spot where you have a full view of the top, you really have no idea what you're tapping. Play/pause is pretty easy to remember because it's alone in the center, and I quickly learned the location of the volume controls, but there are no raised dots or anything to let you know which of the features you're close to. This may seem like a small thing for some people, but for me it was frustrating.
Sure, this is a voice-controlled speaker, and most of the time I just used spoken cues. For things like volume adjustments, though, I prefer to make the change manually rather than rely on Google Assistant. A lot of smart speakers, like Google Home and the Sony LF-S50G, solve this with gesture controls. There can be a bit of a learning curve with those as well, but you don't have to worry as much about where you place those speakers, since you don't really need to see the top. As frustrating as the gestures were on the LF-S50G at first, I found myself wishing the Panasonic SC-GA10 had them.
When it comes to smart speakers, there's a range of sound quality. While most aim to simply get the job done, others offer impressive audio in a compact device. Sonos One is a perfect example of the latter. With the SC-GA10, Panasonic promises "premium hi-fi sound" and tosses the word "supreme" around. But I found the sound to be mostly just… fine. It will certainly fill the void if you're looking for a smart speaker, but if all you're after is voice control, there are more affordable options, like Google Home Mini, Echo and Echo Dot. Even the Sonos One is $50 cheaper, and it offers both Alexa and better sound quality.
While the audio on the SC-GA10 is crisp and clear, the EQ tuning is where Panasonic lost me. Across a range of genres, the sound lacks dynamics: the midrange is overemphasized, without the necessary amount of bass or treble. I noticed it most with bass-heavy genres like hip-hop. The low end is just muddy and lacks the punch or depth other speakers offer. At higher volumes, the EQ blends together and the overall audio quality is noticeably worse. There is a Panasonic app where you can make EQ tweaks, but in my experience, it didn't offer much help. I'll admit Sonos has spoiled me a bit, but the sound was noticeably better on the Sony LF-S50G too. With the claims Panasonic was making about the SC-GA10's audio chops, I expected it to at least be comparable to the Sonos One. Instead, it's just okay.
Despite the clothlike material wrapping the entire top of the unit, the SC-GA10 isn't a 360-degree speaker. Two tweeters are angled to the sides, and there's a single subwoofer, but the sound is beamed entirely out of the front. Other smart speakers blast tunes in all directions, but even though Panasonic's smart speaker looks like it does the same, that's not the case.
Of course, audio is just one piece of the equation here. Google Assistant is the main reason to consider the SC-GA10. I'm happy to report that the smart features, like voice control, work just fine for the most part. There were times when it had trouble picking up my commands, but that was rare and usually happened when the speaker was blasting music at a considerable volume. My wife had trouble with the speaker hearing her spoken queries more often than not, but I had far less trouble. Of course, my voice was programmed into the Google Home app, but that didn't make a difference on other speakers I've tested. (The Sony LF-S50G even reliably understood my three-year-old.) Most of the time, though, the SC-GA10 picked up my voice cues without issue. And thanks to the Google Home app, setting up the speaker takes only a couple of minutes.
At $250, the SC-GA10 is at least $50 more than a lot of its competition. If you're looking for Google Assistant alternatives, Google Home is $129, and Sony's LF-S50G is $200. The Sonos One currently works only with Alexa, but at some point it will also work with Assistant for $50 less than the SC-GA10. And of course, Amazon has a bunch of options at various price points if you don't have a virtual assistant preference. Again, in terms of overall sound, Sony and Sonos are better options.
With all of the other options on the table, Panasonic's SC-GA10 is a tough sell. Unless you really want touch controls on your smart speaker or just like the look of it, there are cheaper and better-sounding devices to consider. I'll admit I like the design of the SC-GA10, but when it comes to audio gear, you can't make decisions based on looks alone. Sure, Google Assistant does an admirable job here, but the mediocre sound quality and high price make this one of the less compelling additions to the smart speaker heap.


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could come to PS4 and Xbox One in future, though the developer hasn't "put any thought into this yet".The ambiguous answer comes from co-director Yui Tanimura, who told Edge that while such a thing may very well come to pass, no firm decision had been made either way."We have not put any thought into this yet," he said, "so I unfortunately can't answer at this point."
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The basic thinking behind how Dark Souls II is developed has not changed.Elsewhere in the interview, he explained that the decision to focus on the older consoles was made because the team felt a lot of potential remained there, and doing so would enable the studio to "deliver the game to fans as soon as possible."
He also touched on the size of the world, saying it was comparable to that of the original Dark Souls but with more freedom, and reassured anyone concerned that previous director Hidetaka Miyazaki wasn't returning that there's nothing to fear.
"The basic thinking behind how Dark Souls II is developed has not changed. Team structures and members have changed a little bit, and we may think a little more together to bring ideas together. But because we are aligned in regards to what has to be communicated with the game, we have not faced any major changes internally. Miyazaki is still involved as a supervisor, and I seek advice when necessary."Dark Souls II will launch on Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America on March 11, 2014, with a European release date three days later on March 14. The PC release should come shortly after, and no DLC is expected for the game.
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The second entry in my workstation build focused on the parts we chose for the computer. Now that we have them, it's time to put them together into a functioning workstation!
Getting Ready for the Build
Before we start putting parts together, it's important that we have a plan. There isn't one right way to assemble pc parts, but there are some general principles that all builders use to create their computers.
Firstly, we want to build from the inside out, that is we start with the components inside the computer then work to the ones that are more external like the power supply, etc. You should also have all of the documentation from your components handy along with a few tools like a philips head screw driver, tweezers, an anti-static wrist band and perhaps a few small containers for screws. A clear and well-lit work-space is also a good thing. I use a small flashlight at times to see areas of the case that may be too dark to see with the main lighting.
The Motherboard
After removing the Asus X99 A II motherboard from it's static plastic wrap, put the wrap on top of the motherboard box and then lay the motherboard on top of that. Handle with care and try not to touch any of the circuits on the motherboard.
Now we will be installing the 4x8GB Corsair memory sticks. Check the manual to make sure you are putting them in the right configuration and that the sticks are aligned correctly. Next, we'll install our SSD drive (M.2). The slot for the SSD is pretty obvious, but you should check the motherboard manual to be sure. Slide the SSD into the slot then tighted the screw provided so that the drive is firmly held into place. Once the drive is installed, we'll move on to the CPU.
The CPU
You'll need to take the most care while inserting the Core i7-6800K processor. This is a highly sensitive part and you must handle it with care; only holding it by the edges. First, we remove the cpu cover on the motherboard, then lift up the two latches that hold the cpu down. Make sure you orient the small triangle on the corner of the cpu with the triangle location on the motherboard itself. Carefully place the cpu in the motherboard (it should fit easily) then slip the two latches back in place. This holds the cpu firmly in place.
cpu and dram installed on the motherboard
The Case
Putting the motherboard aside, we'll work on assembling the computer case. We'll need to install the power supply, the liquid cooler and the motherboard shield into our NZXT case. I really like working with the NZXT H440 case. It's roomy and not too heavy. The case is also tool-less so you don't have to worry about losing screws, although at times the finger-screws provided were difficult to screw in.
Our Corsair XM 650 power supply is modular, so we need to determine what power leads we need and attach them to the psu before we actually install the unit into the case. I'll be using the Quadro M5000 GPU which requires one external power cable, two SATA hard-drives, two motherboard power cables and one additional old style cable for external fans.
Installing the power supply is a snap. Once this is in I'll arrange the cables through openings in the case near where they attach. The H440 case is well build in this regard and cable management is the best I've ever seen in a PC case.
The Kraken X61 liguid cooler fits perfectly into the top of the case. It's simple to remove the cover on top of the case, then use the screws provided to attach the two fans to the liquid cooling radiator. Orientation of the tubing for the radiator is important here. Check the Kraken manual to be sure. I've chosen to bring the tubing in to the right of the cpu primarily because the space is there and because I don't want it hanging directly in front of the rear case fan.
Case with motherboard installed
Installing the Motherboard Into the Case
Now that we have everything in place, we'll carefully install the motherboard. Firstly, we snap in the rear motherboard shield. Secondly, we carefully arrange the two power cables for the motherboard so that we can plug them in just before we lay the motherboard inside the case. There isn't much room to install the cables after the motherboard is in place, so now is a good time to do it.
The motherboard fits over stand-offs on the case. Place the motherboard so that it snaps into the shield on the back of the case and is placed directly over the stand-offs. This might be tricky for first timers, but be patient and you'll get it right.
With the motherboard in place, place the screw in the center of the board first. It's obvious were this is placed, but you can check the manual if you need to as it has a diagram. Now, attach the other screws on the outsides of the board so that it is secure. It's important that the motherboard is held firmly in place.
Installing the CPU Cooler and the GPU
Our NVIDIA Quadro P5000 is a long card and it requires a bit of finesse to fit it in to the PCIE slot on the motherboard. Once in attach the power cable. Be sure to route the cable into the case slot nearest the gpu. It's a good idea to be cable-conscious as you assemble the pc as it will pay off later.
I've never used liquid cooling before having always gone with huge heat sinks and fans. It's surprisingly simple to install the Kraken X61 cpu cooler. After some confusion about whether the backplate is attached to the Asus motherboard or not (it is), we simply put in the tall screws on the four corners of the cpu then lay the liquid cooling cap right over the cpu. I'm so used to using cpu paste that I instinctively think somethings wrong, but the paste is already on the cooling cap (smart idea, Kraken!) This process is surprisingly easy. When completed the cpu is cover by the cooling cap with two hoses running from the cap to the radiator that is well secured in the top of the case.
liquid cooling cap on the cpu along with tubing to the right
Installing Fan Power and Front Case Cables
I hate this part. The cables we are using are very small and I have large hands. It's tweezer time. I use the motherboard manual extensively for this part. In fact, I've downloaded the pdf from Asus website and have the relevant section open on my laptop so I can see the cable diagrams more clearly.
I've chosen to attach most of the case fans directly to the motherboard instead of using NZXT's fan hub. Mostly because I want to see how they show up in the new Asus motherboard bios.
Minor Problems in Assembly
The workstation pc is essentially assembled now. However, I do want to relay a few minor issues that came up while I was putting everything together. These minor issues necessitated research online and pouring through the various manuals that came with the hardware.
The first issue that came up was power related. The manual shows that three power cables are required for the motherboard to power on. I know the two main ones, but the third is strange to me. It's a extra four-pin cable. But the problem is that there is only one four-pin cable included in the Corsair power supply bundle. Eventually, after several hours of research I discovered that the extra cable was optional. Wish the motherboard manual had made this clearer as it specifically states that all three power cables are required.
Odd 4-pin power input on Asus X99 A II motherboard.
The second issue came up while installing the front case cables. These are the small cables that connect your power, led lights, speakers and headphone outlets on the front (or top) of the case. Asus supplies a small plastic block you can plug these very small cables into and then use the block to connect to the motherboard. The problem was that the block did not match the pins on the motherboard. Yikes! I eventually abandoned the block and inserted the cables directly into the tiny motherboard pins using tweezers, a strong light and a large magnifying glass. Tedious work, but eventually all of the cables went to the right pins.
Our computer has been assembled. All in all it took about 4-5 hours for assembly if you include research and slow-downs because of issues that came up during the build.
Helpful Links:
- Asus North America YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/asusrog/playlists
- NZXT How to Build a PC YouTube Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfdElTlhP76mR8FUUDA5Hb8EvMNNnfid
- Tom's Hardware forum - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/


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Help! My iTunes Backup is Encrypted and I Cannot View/Read It without Password!
Some people like to keep their personal data very secure, others less so, this is an individual preference. An iPhone and the backups created in iTunes can hold an incredible amount of personal data. In order to keep data secure when creating an iTunes backup, you can set up a password to encrypt iTunes backup.
However, there will be certain cases, such as iOS upgrade failure or accidental iPhone, iPad, iPod touch factory reset, you might want to get hold of the iTunes data to restore your iPhone. What if you forgot or lost the password you set on the iTunes backup? You have no access to this backup. In this case, how can you view your encrypted iTunes backup? As long as you know your iTunes backup password, you can access your backup data instantly. Then the next to do is to find the iTunes backup password to access the backup to restore.
Part 1: How to Find iTunes Backup Password?
Over the last year, we have received many user queries regarding forgot iPhone backup encryption password and cannot restore iPhone from the iTunes backup. So I will give you advice on finding your lost password for iTunes backup. Recalling old password you ever used before is the common and first choice we can occur, but if you are unfortunate to meet your passcode from the old passwords, what to do now?
No worries, we have developed our iPhone Backup Unlocker application which gives full access to encrypted iTunes backups by recovering the lost password within minutes. Simple steps needed to perform it, as below:
Step 1: After right download and install iTunes backup password unlocker to computer, import encrypted backup to this program. Click "Open" to finish the file importing.
Step 2: Choose a right and proper attack strategy: Brute-force Attack, Brute-force with Mask Attack, Dictionary Attack.
Step 3: Click "Start" to initiate the password recovery. After a while, there will be a box displaying with your password.
Amazing, right? Learn more about unlocking iPhone backup password.
Part 2: How to Read/View Encrypted iTunes Backup?
After going through the above steps, you must have got your iTunes backup password. Now, you can copy the password to your iTunes where asks for the password. Then you can restore iPhone from backup freely.
To restore iPhone from iTunes, simple and free: Launch iTunes, then go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices. You will see a window with all of your backups listed on it. Click "Restore from Backup".
If you still have any problem on restoring your iPhone lost data from backup, you can try to recover iPhone data without backup.


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The commitment of the Catholic Church to providing health care is part of the early history of San Bernardino County. The community of Mentone, just east of Redlands, was home to such an effort in the form of St. Thomas Aquinas Sanitorium.
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Heather and I met April 5th, 2011, here on Zoosk. When I originally signed up, I never thought in a million years I would be on a dating website. I had just recently moved out to Arizona and didn't really know many people out here. A friend of mine told me about this site, talked me into signing up and so I did. It was only a couple of days of being on this site that I met Heather. She created a profile but had not yet paid for a membership and noticed my photos. She winked at me and I replied. Realizing that she couldn't write me back unless she was a member almost turned her away. She decided at the last minute to just pay the sign up fee and talk to me. We started talking one night for about an hour, then I asked her to just text me and so she did. After about two weeks of talking we decided to finally meet and the date was amazing. We had so much in common and both of us wanted the same things in life. I knew right away that I was going to spend the rest of my life with this amazing woman. I proposed to her on May 21st. We already purchased a home and we're getting married next April 2012. Both of us are so happy with one another and she really makes me realize just how wonderful life can be when you have someone very special to share it with. I'm beyond blessed and I have to thank Zoosk for the amazing future it has allowed me to have. We plan on purchasing a Cane Corso Mastiff and we're going to name him "Zoosk" in honor of this site bringing us together. I don't know where I would be without Zoosk. So for that, I'm so thankful. Heather gives me so much more than I could have ever imagined in this short life and I'm going to live the rest of my life for her.
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under the model treaties
Tax information is valuable in a world where capital markets are integrated but governments seeking tax revenues are bound by sovereign borders. Countries have always tried to bargain with information by agreeing to share it in the context of tax treaties, but while the mechanisms for finance and capital flow have rapidly evolved over the last century, the tax information bargain has remained remarkably stagnant.
This article looks at the information sharing provisions of the OECD and UN model tax treaties and shows that the slow pace of change in tax cooperation is transforming information into a valuable commodity. As the model treaties fall further behind, information becomes ever more valuable to those who can protect it and ever more expensive to those who would seek to gain access to it for the purpose of extracting tax revenues.
A better grand bargain is possible, but now so extremely costly that it is likely all but impossible to achieve.
Information sharing has always been an integral feature of international tax coordination, the "prevention of evasion" half of the raison d'être of tax conventions.
Sharing information is part of the tax treaty bargain because tax information is very valuable. It is valuable to taxpayers, whose ability to control what governments know about their available resources impacts how much of such resources they will be asked to contribute to society. It is valuable to tax advisors, who can trade on their expertise by selling tax planning services to taxpayers.
It is also valuable to nongovernmental organizations and other members of civil society, who can use information to make and express policy positions1.
Finally, it is valuable to governments, which can choose to collect or not to collect it, and share or not share it, as a matter of controlling their own access to taxpayer.
For all these reasons, tax information is very valuable depending on who has it, who can get it, and who can use it. Countries should therefore expect to pay for access when what is sought belongs to another2. But governments do not typically exchange information for cash. Instead, they tend to use information as part of the tax treaty bargain, offering each other reciprocal glimpses into their stored vaults of tax information in connection with their agreements on the sharing of revenues between them.
This basic bargain is entrenched in the international tax community by means of the model treaties promulgated by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations. From the very first model tax treaty produced by the OECD, the concept of sharing information on a regular and reciprocal basis has served as a complement to the revenue sharing to be achieved by international agreement. The text of paragraph 1 of Article 26, the main information sharing provision in both the OECD and UN models, shows the remarkable staying power of the language of information sharing. (See Table 1).
Two features of information sharing are evident from this progression. First, there is cross-institutional influence, but it only travels in one direction: from the OECD to the UN. The UN has sought to add modest clarifications about the connection between information and tax evasion, and the OECD has chosen to completely ignore these modifications. Second, both models are evolving at a glacial pace. This might imply that the sharing mechanism works reasonably well and therefore requires little by way of substantive change.
The evidence of information sharing in practice suggests that this is not an accurate picture. Perhaps the most that can be said is that since treaty terms are subject to interpretation on a case by case basis, the practice of information sharing could be evolving faster than the models themselves.3
The information sharing structure might seem rather unremarkable, were it not for the counterweight that has stubbornly persisted through all the iterations of both Models, namely, the opt-out clause found in paragraph 2. In the 1963 OECD Model, this paragraph read as follows:
In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 be construed so as to impose on one of the Contracting States the obligation:
a) to carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws or the administrative practice of that or of the other Contracting State;
b) to supply particulars which are not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the other Contracting State;
c) to supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, or information, the disclosure of which would be contrary to public policy (ordre public).
This language has appeared, virtually unchanged, in every version of every UN and OECD model treaty through the present. Its basic function is to allow countries to opt out of information sharing on grounds that domestic privacy or confidentiality laws prevent the government from collecting or sharing the information that might be sought by the treaty partner. However, following the OECD harmful tax practices initiative, the OECD attempted to cut off some of the power of the opt-out by adding two more paragraphs to the information sharing article:
4. If information is requested by a Contracting State in accordance with this Article, the other Contracting State shall use its information gathering measures to obtain the requested information, even though that other State may not need such information for its own tax purposes. The obligation contained in the preceding sentence is subject to the limitations of paragraph 3 but in no case shall such limitations be construed to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply information solely because it has no domestic interest in such information.
5. In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 3 be construed to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply information solely because the information is held by a bank, other financial institution, nominee or person acting in an agency or a fiduciary capacity or because it relates to ownership interests in a person.
This language reappears without change in the OECD 2010 model, and the UN 2011 model adopts the new paragraphs verbatim. The addition seems on its face to foreclose the possibility that countries will strategically employ domestic confidentiality laws to avoid the sharing they agreed to in paragraph 1.
If that is indeed the outcome of adding the two new paragraphs, the UN model's wholesale adoption of the OECD language might seem uncontroversial, at least in terms of scope. But that is in all probability not the case, since the provision only prohibits opting out "solely" because of who holds the information or who it relates to. But even if the opt out problem is solved by the new provisions, the persistent problem of reciprocity has not even been addressed, much less solved in the UN 2011 model.
It has always been the case that the formal provision of reciprocity in information sharing does not always mean that information sharing is mutually beneficial in practice. In some tax treaty relationships, the information sharing mechanism may only benefit the capital-exporting developed country (usually a developed country), while the compensation for the source country (usually a developing country) for providing the information may lie solely in any market signalling effect the tax treaty might produce4.
But the bargain seems to at least acknowledge that information is valuable, even if it does not necessarily provide adequate compensation therefor. The more recent trend involves attempts to extract information from some countries without any quid pro quo, namely, in the form of tax information exchange agreements. These efforts do not seem to be producing significant returns, perhaps because these agreements seem to fail to account for the value of information at all5.
With the value of information going up, it seems increasingly clear that revenue allocations are not the only imbalance in a treaty that involves uneven flows of capital between the parties. The burdens and benefits of information sharing also clearly fall unevenly on the treaty partners.
The UN model was originally promulgated as an answer to the OECD's model, which generally assumes and is suited to a reciprocal economic relationship between two developed countries6.
The UN Model intended to mitigate uneven tax revenue sharing in the context of uneven development among the treaty partners, mostly by allocating more primary taxing rights to source countries. But on information sharing, as shown above, the UN model is virtually identical to its OECD counterpart.
In a comparison of two prior UN and OECD model tax conventions, Michael Lennard, chief of the International Tax Cooperation and Trade Section at the UN Financing for Development Office, called the practical application of the exchange of information standard "a 'black box', operating in the shadows more than the light."7
That does not seem to have changed with the new UN model. Nor does Lennard's other concern, that "developed countries will expect [less developed countries] to provide information, and will use their economic power to ensure this happens, whereas some developed countries will not be so forthcoming in providing information to allow other countries to protect their tax bases and reverse 'encouragement' will not be possible."
Lennard identifies this particular example of imbalance as one very good reason to have a tax policy group that is working independently on international tax standards in order to protect the interests of poorer countries. Since the UN is the only institution capable of doing that currently, its wholesale adoption of the OECD standard is therefore discouraging.
An information sharing standard that fails to recognize the uneven benefits and burdens of bilateral information flow will also fail to understand the value – and therefore the cost – of information as currency in international tax agreements. Once tax information is acknowledged as a valuable commodity, we must be concerned that access to it is likely unevenly distributed under a reciprocity-based treaty exchange system.
It seems particularly important then that a model for treaties between developed and developing countries take steps to account for the costs and the values being distributed via tax treaties.
The UN model could do so by approaching tax information sharing in the same manner as it has approached tax revenue allocation, namely, by making space for non-reciprocal arrangements where reciprocity creates imbalanced outcomes. This is admittedly a difficult task since the value of information to any given country may or may not match its ability to extract the desired information, or use it if so extracted.
The slow pace of change in both Models suggests that change in the standards written into model treaty language is hard fought. The evolution of information sharing in practice may be even more contested. In the meantime, the value and the cost of information sharing are quickly climbing.
If countries cannot bring themselves to devise standards for acknowledging the value of information and therefore allocating the burdens and benefits of information sharing, we should not expect information to be freely shared. Instead, we should expect that the problems currently embedded in the models will persist and worsen.
That has been the path to date, but it need not be the path going forward.


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The latest new gadget for the future has finally arrived. Predicted to be the greatest handheld game console of all time the new Nintendo 3DS has players perched for the arrival of it's new games. Though pricey, Nintendo pulled off a great idea once again to grab people on a look of the new gaming system. Is this really that good though? Having 3D view in glasses is quite interesting, but now without any glasses? What on earth is going to happen to our eyes. Though the cons can be that is quite pricey, but now the Health problem comes in priority. Kids under the age of 6 cannot use this game system due to eye development. Which means if your <6 then no 3DS for you! More glasses is another result. After the release of the 3DS, companies have planned release for games soon.
The new game system that might make history in all of technology has a price of $250! People could rather bye a Playstation 3 game console for that price off of Ebay! The new 3D interface will make it much, much more fun to use other than just playing games. Nintendo has made a brilliant idea with the user interaction to make it much more user friendly for people to use. Again every new system has some problems. Here's a major one. The 3DS has 3-5 hours of 3D game play, while the DSi has 9-14 and the DS Lite has 14-19 hours of game play. If you ever get bored on the airplane bring you 3DS in which it has plenty of thing to do, with better camera and customizable Mii's just like using the Nintendo Wii, but portable and better. But just don't forget one thing on the plane… you're charger in which there are outlets in the restrooms from my experience on Lufthansa, Air Canada, and Delta (never go on Delta!!!). If you ever feel left out without the 3DS, trust me… there's no point of having a $250 game console that only allows 3-5 hours of game play. That is the worst amount of hour game play I have ever seen in my entire life. Though the 3DS is really fun especially without the glasses. But $250 is worth to play 3D games (other than battery) without glasses, and with top notch gaming.


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The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics
Cornell University Press, 2 feb 1988 - 452 pagine
Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and aspirations.
In a brilliant analysis of this complex and sensitive national question, Ivo Banac provides a comprehensive introduction to Yugoslav political history. His book is a genetic study of the ideas, circumstances, and events that shaped the pattern of relations among the nationalities of Yugoslavia. It traces and analyzes the history and characteristics of South Slavic national ideologies, connects these trends with Yugoslavia's flawed unification in 1918, and ends with the fatal adoption of the centralist system in 1921.
Banac focuses on the first two and a half years in the history of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, because in his view this was the period that set the pattern for subsequent development of the national question. The issues that divided the South Slavs, and that still divide them today, took on definite form during that time, he maintains. Banac provides extensive treatment of all of Yugoslavia's nationalities; his sections on the Montenegrins, Albanians, Macedonians, and Bosnian Muslims are unique in the literature. In this unbiased account, all of the principals and groups assume a tragic fascination.
When published in 1984, The National Question in Yugoslavia was the first complete introduction to the cultural history of the South Slavic peoples and to the politics of Yugoslavia, and it remains a major contribution to the scholarship on modern European nationalism and the stability of multinational states.
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A Note on Transliteration Terminology and References
Great Serbia and Great Yugoslavia
The Hard Opposition
The Autonomist Opposition
The Building of Skadar
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Craig J. Calhoun
Anteprima limitata - 1997
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Perched on a hilltop just outside the pretty village of Rakh and surrounded by terraced hillsides – Rakkh is one of the best resorts in India to stay in the lap of snow-clad hills at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. The 5 star hotel in Himachal Pradesh, situated in the midst of the scintillating Dhauladhar ranges has an in-house spa, and fifteen cottages and two interconnecting rooms with the perfect blend of authentic design using local materials and all the modern comforts one would expect of a top hotel in India. You get a stunning 180-degree view of the surrounding hills and valleys while indulging in delicacies at our multi-cuisine restaurant at one of the most luxurious hotels in Dharamshala. We host "dhaam" feasts on special occasions at our traditional village kitchen. Our dedicated and passionate activities-team organizes guided mountain biking, hiking trails, and climbing wall activities, slacklining as well as dedicated camp skills workshops for our younger guests.
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Who Wins From Anti-Russian Brainwashing of Baltics? US Arms Contractors Do
The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia intend to at least double their spending on new defense equipment in the next two years over the "perceived threat" from Russia. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Bryan MacDonald, an Irish journalist, specializing in Eastern Europe and Russia.
"[Of the three Baltic states] only Estonia has been able to match the NATO target of 2 percent of the GDP to be spent on defense," Bryan MacDonald noted.
When asked about the likelihood of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia boosting their defense spending due to the imaginary Russian aggression, Bryan MacDonald said that the Baltic states are small countries bordered by a much larger and much more powerful neighbor.
"They are susceptible to the bombardment of Western propaganda, particularly from American sources, about the imminent danger from an imminent Russian invasion, which, of course, is utterly ridiculous since the Baltic states are under NATO's protection and any attack against them would presumably lead to a war with the United States, which has the most powerful military in the world," he said.
Moreover, these countries are under extraordinary pressure by various lobby groups, domestic and foreign, including US arms manufacturers, to increase their arms spending, and who are benefiting from these contracts.
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, the so-called threat of a Russian invasion has been constantly used to justify military expansion in Eastern Europe.
Russia has constantly called these claims absurd and ridiculous, but this imaginary Russian threat has been used to boost military spending. When asked why and who wins from this, Bryan MacDonald said that "the arms contractors win."
"There are dozens, even hundreds of think tanks and various groups that are funded by American arms contractors like Northrop Grumman and Raytheon and also by the Atlantic Council, which is also funded by the US Defense Department. They are looking for markets, just like any business. The Baltic countries are spending over $600 million on defense and all this money will go to these arms makers because these countries have no domestic munitions capability and manufacturing of their own," he emphasized.
When asked if he had a chance to speak to ordinary Eastern Europeans, including in the Baltic countries, would they be aware of all this, that they are the ones who are actually paying for all this military buildup, Bryan MacDonald said that he had recently been to a small town in Latvia and spoke to many people there who said they were alarmed by what was going on.
"You know, ordinary people and governments are entirely different things. The leaders of these countries simply refuse to talk to Russia, period," Bryan MacDonald said.
NATO has been reinforcing its military presence in Europe, particularly in the Eastern European states, since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, citing Russia's alleged interference in the conflict as a justification for the move.
Moscow has repeatedly denied the accusations, calling NATO's military buildup near Russia's borders provocative.


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Hanna Heath has cultivated a life of exquisite detachment. Raised by an aloof and often absent mother, she has eschewed any kind of deep emotional involvement. But—as an expert on rare books and an Australian whose nationality makes her the least controversial political choice to inspect a priceless Hebrew codex—Hanna is about to be plunged into a dangerous drama that will force her to confront both her past and the passions she has worked so hard to conceal.
It is 1996 when Hanna first flies to Sarajevo. The city's peace is new and still tenuous, but the opportunity to inspect the famous Sarajevo Haggadah is a career maker that she cannot pass up. A lavishly illuminated medieval Hebrew text, this haggadah is an anomaly that has fascinated scholars for generations and its survival in war-torn Bosnia is hailed as "a symbol of the survival of Sarajevo's multiethnic ideal."
Initially put off by her armed U.N. escort and the intense scrutiny of the National Museum, where she is forced to perform her delicate work, Hanna is nonetheless mesmerized by the book's astonishing beauty. She studies its inks and parchment and recovers a fragment of an insect wing, salt crystals, wine stains, and a single white hair from between the delicate pages. She also notes that the clumsily rebound book is missing its original clasps. Each discovery is a clue that offers to unlock a chapter of the haggadah's mysterious history.
But Hanna becomes involved with more than the book during her time in Sarajevo. After she completes her initial documentation and repair work and leaves the city, she remains haunted by the few nights of intimacy she shared with Ozren Karaman, the Muslim librarian who braved enemy shelling to rescue the hagaddah. As she travels from Vienna to Boston and then to London in the hope of deciphering her scant evidence, Hanna fleshes out shadows of the book's past. Simultaneously, Brooks reveals the gripping tale of survival behind each miniscule artifact.
During World War II, a young partisan is saved by the same Muslim who risks his life to protect the haggadah from the Nazis. In fin-de-siècle Vienna, a Jewish doctor unwittingly plays a role in the theft of the book's clasps. In Inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest's most damning secret spares the book from burning. In Tarragona in 1492, a poor scribe completes the text just days before the expulsion of Spain's entire Jewish community. And in Seville in 1480, the unlikely artist paints a self-portrait into the Seder illustration.
Hanna is thrilled by her discoveries, little suspecting that her professional and personal worlds are about to come crashing down around her. When she returns to Sarajevo under very different circumstances, Hanna can no longer remain a dispassionate observer and finds that she has become one of the "people of the book" whose passions and sufferings, nobility and frailty, contribute to the hagaddah's continuing history.
The author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning March and Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has made a name for herself as one of the foremost novelists of our era. In People of the Book—inspired by the true story of the Sarajevo Haggadah—she brilliantly interweaves an epic historical saga of persecution and survival with a powerful modern-day tale of private betrayals and international intrigue.
Geraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire andForeign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.
I love to find stories from the past where we can know something, but not everything; where there is enough of a historical record to have left us with an intriguing factual scaffolding, but where there are also enough unknowable voids in that record to allow room for imagination to work.
Q. What do you think it is about the real Sarajevo Haggadah that has allowed it to survive the centuries?
It's a fascinating question: Why did this little book always find its protectors when so many others did not? It is interesting to me that the book was created in a period—convivencia Spain—when diversity was tolerated, even somewhat celebrated, and that it found its way centuries later to a similar place, Sarajevo. So even when hateful forces arose in those societies and crushed the spirit of multiethnic, interfaith acceptance, there were those individuals who saw what was happening and acted to stop it in any way they could.
Q. Were you already working on People of the Book when March won the Pulitzer Prize? How does winning such a prestigious award affect your writing?
I was working on People of the Book even before I started to write March. I'd been struggling quite a bit with the World War II story: It's such a picked-over period and I was looking for a backwater of the war that wouldn't perhaps feel so familiar to readers. That search was leading to a lot of dead ends when I suddenly got the idea for March and it was so clear to me how to write that book that I just did it.
The "Pulitzer Surprise," as my then-nine-year-old son so accurately dubbed it, affected my writing only in that it interrupted it for a while by drawing renewed attention to March. But after a few weeks of pleasant distraction I was back at my desk, alone in a room, simply doing what I've always done, which is trying to write as best I can, day after day.
Q. Book conservation is hardly a glamorous job, but Hanna's framing narrative is every bit as action-packed and compelling as the stories in the hagaddah's history. What inspired her creation?
Because I like to write with a first-person narrator, getting the voice of the book is everything to me. I'd struggled a lot with my first idea, which was to have the conservator be Bosnian. I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. But I wasn't getting the voice and the book was stalled as a result. Then I suddenly thought, Well, why shouldn't she be Australian? That's a voice I can hear clearly. Hanna came alive in my head and as a result the contemporary story, which I'd originally thought of as merely a framing device for the stories from the past, became much more important.
Q. The scientific resources that Hanna employs to find out more about the book's artifacts are really fascinating. How much of that is drawn from actual research and how much springs from your imagination?
I went to labs. I interviewed scientists and conservators and observed their work. But the book is fiction, not a technical treatise, so experts will be able to spot a place or two where I took some small liberties.
Q. The Jewish people have endured extraordinary trials. How much about this history did you know before writing the book?
Most of it. The whipsaw of Jewish history has fascinated me since I was in junior high.
Q. Who is your favorite character and why?
That's like asking a parent to name a favorite child. Hanna became like a good mate, and I actually miss hanging out with her. But I feel a certain tenderness towards all of the characters, perhaps especially the most flawed ones.
Q. People of the Book is set in so many different eras. Was it a more difficult book to research and write than your previous novels?
There was definitely more to research, but it wasn't difficult. I loved the various journeys—actual and intellectual—that it took me on. Seeing the domes and spires of Venice shimmering in the watery morning light; having the great privilege of meeting Servet Korkut, who supported her husband in resisting fascism; watching Andrea Pataki painstakingly take apart the real Sarajevo Haggadah—these are experiences of a lifetime.
Q. Will the book be published in Bosnia, and if so, what kind of reception do you anticipate?
I hope it will. I have no idea about the reception. It's very presumptuous, what I do—meddling around in other people's history. When I went back to Eyam, the plague village, I fully expected a faction of the townsfolk to want to have me clapped in the stocks. (They still have them there.) To my intense relief, the people I met had really embraced the book. I had the same feelings of trepidation when I went to read March in Concord, Massachusetts. I was delighted to be met at the reading by Louisa May Alcott (Jan Turnquist, director of the remarkable Orchard House Museum, in costume), who thanked me for being one of the very few who had tried to understand and appreciate her father. So I hope the people of Bosnia will forgive me for taking liberties with their history and see the book as a tribute from someone who was inspired by the remarkable spirit of Sarajevo.
Q. What are you working on now?
I'm just at the earliest stages of exploring an intriguing story set very close to home, on Martha's Vineyard. It concerns people who lived on this island in 1666, one of my favorite years, and seems to have just the right mix of knowns and unknowables—a lovely incomplete scaffold to build on.


text: I live in South Florida, on the east coast. Since the day the DWH blew up I have been completely overwhelmed by the mind-boggling ecological disaster unfolding in the Gulf. This piece was created with this in mind. It's called "Spill, Baby, Spill" and I made it using an antique 3-inch porcelain doll body splattered with black paint. A tiny, sterling silver dolphin, colored black with patina is trying to escape the doll's head. I really like the result. Will be showing this in an upcoming art show in Sept called "Raging Art".


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The year is 2112…
Earth agriculture is under siege from an aggressive form of mold that is affecting cereal grains on a global level. Over the course of the past decade, the mold has infected the majority of airable land worldwide. Although numerous attempts have been made to eradicate and delay its growth, to date none have been successful. It is currently predicted to infect all remaining airable land by 2115. Unless something changes, widespread starvation is expected by 2114. In recent months, food prices have skyrocketed and there is legislation making food hoarding illegal.
A former for-profit corporation, Space Ag, that was shuddered in 2102 by the United World Government, had a once thriving Lunar Agricultural Project. Contained within the station is a resilient seed that was thought to be resistant to this currently devastating mold. It is known that this station is in a state of dangerous disrepair. Earth Space Command was able to utilize one of the few remaining transports available to get you and your team to the station. Can you locate and extract the seeds that will save the Earth?
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hat in hand
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Related to hat in hand: tip my hat
(with) hat in hand
In a meek or submissive manner. (The removal of one's hat is typically a gesture of respect.) I can't believe I have to go back to my old boss with hat in hand and ask for my job back.
(with) hat in hand
Fig. with humility. (Fig. on the image of someone standing, respectfully, in front of a powerful person, asking for a favor.) She stormed off but came back with hat in hand when she ran out of money. We had to go hat in hand to the committee to get a grant for our proposal.
hat in hand
Also, cap in hand. In a humble manner. For example, They went to her, hat in hand, asking for a change of assignment. This expression alludes to removing one's headgear as a sign of respect and has survived the era of doffing one's hat. [c. 1700]
hat in hand
In a humble manner; humbly.


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William S. Aiken, Bernard Wiener
Sep 1955
Horizontal-tail loads were measured in gradual and abrupt longitudinal maneuvers on two configurations of a four-engine jet bomber. The results obtained have been analyzed to determine the flight values of the coefficients important in calculations of horizontal-tail loads.
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