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by Claire Dederer
We lived in Phinney Ridge, a North Seattle neighborhood filled with educated, white, liberal, well-intentioned people. Which pretty much describes all North Seattle neighborhoods. Phinney Ridge is notable for being even more liberal and even better intentioned than most. In Phinney Ridge, people don't have BEWARE OF DOG signs. They have PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF DOG signs.
When I complained about my back, which I did often and with gusto, the people of Phinney Ridge all had the same answer: Do yoga. My doctor said, "There are poses that will strengthen your back." The checker at Ken's Market told me I could buy a good yoga video at a nearby New Age bookstore. The homeless guy selling the homelessguy newspaper outside Ken's Market said, "Be sure to get a mat! It's really hard to do yoga without a mat."
I had a number of preconceptions about yoga. I thought yoga was done by self-indulgent middle-aged ladies with a lot of time on their hands, or by skinny fanatical twenty-two-year-old vegetarian former gymnasts. I was also unsettled by the notion of white people seeking transformation through the customs of brown-skinned people—basically, to my mind, a suspect dynamic.
Despite these sloppily thought-out but strongly held reservations (my specialty), I had suspected for years that I probably ought to do yoga. I was a nervous kind of person. A self-conscious, hair-adjusting kind of person. A person who practically burned with worried energy. I had a constant tremor in my hands, so that the whole world knew how anxious I was. Just a couple of weeks earlier, I had been hanging out at a coffee shop, feeding Lucy bits of cracker and navigating the coffee cup from the saucer to my mouth with trembling hand. A gentleman approached and introduced himself to me as an "energy shaman." Before I could think of a way to get rid of him, he took my shaking hand in his and pronounced gravely, "You could use a lot of work."
"Oh!" I said, grinning nervously. "I'm sorry! I just, I have this tremor that I've had since I was a little kid, and I'm not getting a lot of sleep because of the baby. And I guess I've had a lot of coffee," I concluded lamely.
"Do you eat a lot of chicken?" he asked. "That can cause energy problems."
I stood up, spilling my coffee, and swiftly loaded Lucy into her stroller.
"Well, goodbye!" I waved cheerfully, and left the café, fairly thrumming with energy problems.
Yoga seemed like just exactly what I wanted: something to calm me down. It also seemed like just exactly what I didn't want: a place where everyone could see what a mess I was, could see my tremor and my anxiety and my worry. There was something about holding still, about inhabiting a pose, that was scary. What was under all that anxious chatter?
But now things were different. I had a baby. It was imperative that I be able to lift her. I would do anything to be able to lift her. Yoga class, however, was beyond me. Like everyone else, I was terrified of a roomful of people who were good at it. Little did I know then that only very occasionally in yoga do you stumble into an entire roomful
of people who are good at it. And when you do, they often turn out to be assholes.
I figured a video would be the best approach; maybe I could get the benefits without all the pesky humiliation. On an Indian summer afternoon I decided to head over to the New Age bookstore. Amid much pinching, I wrangled the baby into her stroller. This engendered another form of mother guilt: recently strollers had come under the North Seattle mother's list of banned substances. Apparently the baby felt alienated so far away from its mother, and preferred to be snuggled up against the mother's back or—there was no escaping its Perónlike hegemony—her breast. You were supposed to strap your baby into a sling or a Snugli (known around our house as a Smugli). There was some theory about the baby wanting to see the world from the same perspective as its mother. Which looks crazy as I type it, but that was the argument. At any rate, putting your child in a stroller was fast becoming yet another way of letting the world know that a) you didn't really love your kid and b) you were an uneducated dumbshit.
That was all well and good for people with those lightweight babies made from balsa wood, but my pleasingly substantial daughter and I were devoted to strolling. And so we made our way through the fall afternoon to the bookshop, the baby graciously tolerating her dumbshit, unloving mother.
I had walked by the New Age bookshop many times but had never gone in. Wrestling the stroller through the door, I was hit with the ecclesiastically grubby smell of incense. Everything in the store was dusty and slightly off plumb. The magazine racks tilted; the books were piled haphazardly; the posters of chakras and mushrooms and stars were at various subtle angles.
I found a teetering wire rack of yoga videos. Some of the people on the covers were orange. Some wore headbands. Some were peeking out from behind swirling, vaguely medieval purple writing. I chose a beginning yoga tape. It looked safe. The woman on the cover was not orange and she wore no headgear. The graphics did not look as if they'd been drawn up in an asylum.
I located a yoga mat, and paid, and then the baby and I got the hell out of there.
That night, Bruce gave her a bottle (to which she had adapted nicely, thanks) and I went into the room with the TV, which, like everyone on Phinney Ridge, we refused to call the TV room. I put on my tape. The blond woman gazed into the camera from her serene world, a place where potted orchids thrived. There was some discussion about not overdoing it and going at your own speed, and then the yoga session was under way. The woman sat there with her eyes shut. I sat there looking at her. Apparently we were warming up.
This pleasant state of affairs continued for a while. Unfortunately, soon it was time to do asana. This had a forbidding sound.
"Jump your feet about three feet apart on the mat," said the blond lady. This I did. "Turn your left foot in about forty-five degrees, and your right foot out." Done and done. Check me out! "Extend the right hand over the right foot, and gently rest the hand on the shin, the ankle, or the foot, wherever is most comfortable." Tippy, but I was on it. "Slowly rotate your torso upward, and extend your left arm toward the ceiling." Aaand I'm out. I sat down with a thud and watched the woman with her strangely unshifting expression. She was a puddle on a windless day. In a calm voice, the way you talk to old people when you're convincing them to take a few steps across the hospital room to use the bathroom, she said, "Tri-ko-na-sa-na." She lingered on the word, obviously enjoying the sound of the . . . what was it? Sanskrit? "Triangle pose," she translated.
I rewound the tape. I tried again. Right leg out. Feet turned at an angle. Extend right arm. Drop right hand to right shin. I started to worry. How was I going to get that left arm up? How was I going to turn my torso? Oh, shit, now or never. I flung my left arm into the air and twisted my torso maybe a millimeter up. Pinch.
I caught a glimpse of myself reflected in the darkened window. I was hunched up like "It's Pat!" from Saturday Night Live. I rewound the tape again, and followed the directions again, and ended up, again, bunched in an odd shape. I could feel parts of my body bumping together that had never bumped before. Something hurt. I had a feeling it wasn't supposed to hurt.
Looking back, I can see that I had just learned a paramount yoga lesson: Get a good teacher. Or at least a live one. My back still hurt, and though muscle relaxants exerted a powerful allure, the muscle-relaxant lifestyle was not really doable for me. I made my living as a book reviewer. (A terrible idea, by the way.) When I took muscle relaxants, the novels I read for review tended to improve dramatically. Since my critical faculties were really all I had going for me, I reluctantly went drug free.
There was this notion in my mind that somehow yoga was going to make me better. Better than I'd been, better than everyone else. More virtuous. I liked the idea of myself as a yoga person. (I could not bring myself to say yogi, or yogini.) Lithe, probably thin, with some kind of ineffable glow. And my back wouldn't hurt. Clearly it was time to try an actual yoga class. The following week, on a rainy October day, I left the baby with my mother and drove across town to the yoga studio my friend Katrina went to. Katrina was sort of nutty, but she had a gorgeous ass, so I thought, What the hell.
Inside the front door of the studio was an entry vestibule, decorated in the style of "Don't Be Afraid, We're Not a Cult." The walls were painted white and screened with tasteful shoji panels; the blondwood floor was uncarpeted and spotless; neat cubbies awaited shoes. All was white and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or Swedish people. The only spot of color came from the Tibetan prayer flags strung over the doorway into the studio.
In flagrant defiance of my longtime policy of never entering a structure adorned with Tibetan prayer flags, I removed my shoes, paid my ten bucks to the wan girl at the desk, and walked into the studio, where eight or ten young women were sitting on their mats. Even though we were there for a beginner class, they all looked incredibly fit and somewhat stern. Their ponytails were glossy and neat. Those ponytails were ready for business. The women sat cross-legged, with straight backs. They all gazed straight ahead into the middle distance, as if they were about to break out into a collective fit of landscape painting.
I smiled apologetically. This is my worst habit, and I hope to break it by the time I'm eighty. When I'm an old lady I'll finally be able to swagger into a room with a fuck-you attitude. I laid out my mat and sat on it. I felt the onset of the deep sorrow that, maybe peculiarly to me, precedes any new physical undertaking. I have never been good at sports; I always feel like a spectator, even when I'm in the middle of a game.
The shoji screens filtered the light from the vestibule, spreading it on the floor in a grid. My sense of futility grew larger. I looked at the serene ladies and wondered if they really believed that enlightenment would find us here, in a drafty room in a strip mall in North Seattle.
As I looked around at the fair-skinned women and the prayer flags over the door and the little altar in the corner, my preconceptions about yoga seemed immediately and all too amply confirmed. The scene was the very picture of white female self-indulgence. There were no Indian people in this room, that was certain.
A woman in her late twenties entered and rolled out her mat in front of us. Her thick blond hair was cut in an expensive bob. Her eyebrows were fancily mowed. Her outfit was black and tight. She looked as though she had been a step-aerobics teacher until about five minutes ago. She looked like her name was Jennifer.
"I am Atosa," she said. Like hell you are, sister.
"Come to a comfortable sitting position," she said. "Please bring your fingers into the gyana mudra. Mudra is the yoga of the hands." She made a circle with the thumb and forefinger of each hand, and I followed suit. It felt corny but sort of wonderful at the same time. My hands looked enlightened.
"We will begin the class with one long om," Asha intoned. "Breathe in, and om on the exhalation." I sneaked peeks around the room. The other women looked peaceful and relaxed, as if they were in an ad for bubble bath. I breathed in and let out my om, which came in a wheezing gasp. Atosa's om boomed and wavered beautifully.
"The om travels up from the seat, through the heart, and out the top of the head. It passes through all the chakras." Atosa listed all the chakras by name, location, and color. Yoga seemed to involve a lot of talking.
We did a series of wildly uncomfortable movements that I now recognize to be sun salutation A. We reached for the sky, we touched our toes, we lunged one leg back. Then we pulled back into downward dog: both hands on the floor, both feet on the floor, bottom jutting up toward the ceiling. We lunged again, touched our toes again, and there we were, where we started, reaching for the sky. I was red and breathing hard and trembling. As we sank into a deep runner's lunge, Atosa looked at me with worry. It wasn't "I'm worried about you" worry. It was "I don't need anyone collapsing in my class" worry.
"You need blocks," she said abruptly. She got some foam blocks from a shelf and had me prop my hands on them. She kept an eagle eye on me.
"We're going to work on trikonasana today," she said. My nemesis. "Please turn your mats so they're perpendicular to mine. Jump your feet apart about three feet," she said, and then we were off to the races.
We did trikonasana over and over: at the wall, in the center of the room, with a partner pulling on our front arm. Each time I bunched up like a cluster of grapes. I shook; I sweated; I clenched. It was exactly as I had always suspected: yoga was a kind of magnifier for my limitations.
Triangle was especially baffling because it was, in essence, so simple. You stood with your feet apart and rested a hand on your shin. Easy as pie. Except it wasn't. (Even pie itself is not that easy, if you make your own crust.) There seemed to be an infinite number of ways to get it wrong.
Atosa began to lecture us. Well, actually, she began to lecture me. "Think extension. The pose is about creating space." I thought extension. I tried to create space. I bunched.
At the end of class, we all lay flat on our backs in savasana, or corpse pose, sprawled loosely with our arms at our sides. Even this seemed painfully beyond my reach. My eyes were shut tight, but I could sense Atosa looking at me, noticing my tensed shoulders, my knit brow, my clenched jaw.
Finally we sat up. Atosa led the class in a final om, and said that if anyone had questions to feel free to approach her after class. I took her at her word, more fool I.
"Yes?" she said, raising a perfectly shaped eyebrow.
"Uh, I was wondering if you could help me with triangle."
"Oh, you mean trikonasana?" she asked.
"Yes, trikonasana."
"Well, you just need more extension. Here, look at this." She stepped into a beautiful shape, legs angling apart, torso twisting gracefully, eyes gazing upward as if she could see infinity beyond the acoustic tiles. She jumped back to standing. "See?" she said brightly. I was reminded of Julie Peterson showing off her cartwheel in first grade.
I gave it a go. "No," she said. "Try extending your trunk more. You're too hunched."
I smiled apologetically at her and said, "I'll work on it." And I left.
I never wanted to see Atosa again. In a just world, she would've been deported, maybe to an island populated by fully extended human beings.
Even so, for some reason I still wanted to try yoga. The next week I noticed a little storefront yoga place near my house. It didn't look like much. It had a stylized brushstroke drawing of a yogi—or was it a Buddha?—as its logo. I didn't want to do yoga in a place that looked like a half-assed noodle joint. Nonetheless, it was only five minutes away and offered a beginner class at 7 p.m., which is the time of day when I customarily begin to be alert and look around and notice things. I thought I'd give it a try.
It was dark by the time I got there, and the foyer to the studio was a pool of cheerful yellow light.
I approached the desk, which was manned by a serious-looking fellow with a dork knob. My heart sank. After Atosa, I couldn't take any more coldhearted grooviness. I introduced myself and gave him my ten bucks. "Welcome," he said ominously, Vincent Price in a tank top.
I went into the studio. The room was filled with not-girls! Which is to say, there were all kinds of people there. A few young men in workout gear and two older women in stretchy purple Lycra and a couple of slightly lumpy women my own age, clearly moms, all but lactating through their leotards, and one old fellow who was wearing jeans and a leather belt. A leather belt! Even I knew better than that. I enjoyed a nanosecond of feeling superior, but was thrown off guard when the students turned and smiled and said hello. In all my days—well, day—of yoga-going, I had never seen anything like it.
Dork knob came in. He sat down silently and I got myself ready for some more vague sanctimonies. Instead, he looked around the room and smiled. Something in him lit up, like there was a big switch on his back that had just been flipped on. He started laughing before he started speaking. "Hi, I'm Jonathan," he said. "Beginning is hard. But it's also lucky. Because you have the chance to build something beautiful from the ground up, with no old mistakes, no bad habits." I know now that this was basic yoga boilerplate, but the thing was,
Jonathan really believed it. He finished the speech and laughed again, like: Can you believe we're all doing this crazy thing in this room together? I looked around. Everyone was smiling.
We sat and breathed for a while. Then Jonathan popped up and said, "Tonight we're going to work on triangle!"
I got ready for the bossing: First we would jump our feet apart, then we would try to extend, whatever that meant, and then I would look like "It's Pat," and then the teacher would frown at me. Alrighty.
Jonathan did have us spread our feet apart, but we didn't jump. We just lazily separated them. Once our feet were positioned, he said, "We're going to work on angulating our hips. That's all triangle really is. It's a hip position."
His right foot was in the leading position. He cocked his left hip to the left and said, with excitement, "Look! See how the simple action of pulling my left hip back creates a crease between the top of the right thigh and the hip? That crease is what we want. That's where triangle comes from."
We all cocked our left hips. As one, we gazed down at our right thighs. And, lo! There were creases. We beamed.
"Look at those hip creases. That is triangle," said Jonathan. He looked genuinely happy for us. "You are doing it. You can add more. You can extend the right arm out over the right leg, and drop the hand, and turn the body, and raise the left arm to the ceiling. But those are all additions. You are doing triangle right now."
I cocked my hip over and over again, and watched that crease appear. I had been living inside of my body more than thirty years, and it was showing me a shape I had never witnessed before.
After a while, we tried gesturing forward with our right arm. It felt great, like the movement was growing from that creased hip. Then we dropped our right hands. "Just anywhere," said Jonathan. "Anywhere that feels good." Mine landed on my knee. We turned our bodies gently. And then we raised our left arms as best we could. Mine was not exactly straight up. It was in the general direction of up. It was the beginning of up.
Jonathan walked around the room looking at us. He stopped by me and said, "Try pressing the little toe of your back foot." I tried it, and all of sudden the pose made more sense to me. I was able—or abler—to understand what I was doing, and didn't feel quite so much like I was at war with my own body. I was amazed by the change. It was like having someone show you that you could fix a car's crankshaft by adjusting the side mirror.
Here was a place where someone would tell me what to do, and there were identifiable results. Unlike motherhood, where the rules seemed to shift all the time and the standards seemed as high as the moon.
Of course, this was no different from what happened at any exercise class—at step aerobics, for instance, they were only too happy to tell you what to do, and had the headsets to prove it. But I intuited, or guessed, or, let's be honest, devoutly hoped that in yoga there was another outcome. You would do what they said and you would be better. Yoga would allay my anxiety by teaching me to breathe and relax. But it would also allay my anxiety by elevating me to a more superior, evolved state of being, where I would no longer have to worry about whether or not I was doing everything right.
Jonathan continued. "Imagine your body is being pressed between two huge planes of glass. Gently pressed, of course."
I tried to imagine this. It seemed sort of silly.
Jonathan went on. "This plane, this space between the two imaginary panes of glass, is called the coronal plane. You want to keep your body within this plane while you do the pose. Don't lean your torso forward or let your behind stick out. Keep it within this coronal plane."
This seemed like the most pointless piece of information I had ever heard. In fact, triangle itself was an exercise in pointlessness. Who could imagine herself into being a triangle? It brought to mind that old They Might Be Giants song about "triangle man," who goes around beating people up. Maybe that song was secretly about yoga.
These thoughts ran through my mind as I tried to fit myself into a triangle. At the same time, Jonathan spoke with such confidence, as though the coronal plane and fitting oneself into it were crucial information. Maybe he was right. Anyway, I couldn't quit now. I just stood there and held the pose. This small submission would yield huge and strange returns that would reverberate across the next few years. Yoga had come into my life, with its strange, unknowable, even funny logic. For good or for ill, it had arrived. What the hell, I thought, as I extended my hand toward the sky, and creased my hip, and tried to fit myself into the coronal plane.
At the end of class, we lay in savasana. I felt tired and content. The immobility had a pastoral quality to it, as if trees swayed overhead.
Jonathan's voice was quiet now. "Thank you for sharing this evening with me. In yoga, we say 'Namaste,' which means 'I bow to the divine in you.' " He bowed his dork-knobbed head and said, "Namaste." We bowed back and mumbled, "Namaste." On my tongue, the new word felt as though it contained its own foreign spice.
Excerpted from Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Posesby Claire Dederer. Copyright @2011 by Claire Dederer. Excerpted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giraux. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Claire Dederer's first book, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, was published in the U.S. and the United Kingdom in January 2011 as well as the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Korea. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, Dederer's articles have appeared in Vogue, Real Simple, The Nation, New York, Yoga Journal, on Slate and Salon, and in newspapers across the country. Poser was recently released in paperback by Picador in January 2012.


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On this date Feb 11, 2008: *From the History Channel
Tolkien heirs file Lord of the Rings lawsuit
In the latest of a series of legal battles involving J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved trilogy The Lord of the Rings and film adaptations made of the books, several of Tolkien's heirs join a group of publishers in filing a $150 million lawsuit against New Line Cinema on February 11, 2008, in Los Angeles Superior Court.
New Line, an independent movie studio owned by Time Warner since 1996, earned critical acclaim (and struck box-office gold) with three Lord of the Rings films directed by Peter Jackson: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). According to the lawsuit, the three films together grossed more than $6 billion internationally. They were also nominated for a total of 30 Academy Awards. At the 2004 Oscars, The Return of the King won in all 11 categories it was nominated in, tying Ben-Hur and Titanic for the most Academy Awards ever.
Behind the film trilogy's phenomenal success, however, was a tangled web of legal conflict, as recounted in a February 2008 New York Times article on the most recent lawsuit. Film rights to Tolkien's books were acquired in 1969 by United Artists, who in turn sold them to the Saul Zaentz Company in 1976. Miramax, then owned by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, licensed the rights in 1997 and sold them to New Line the following year. The Saul Zaentz Company had already filed charges against New Line for preventing it from auditing the accounting for the movies. For its part, Miramax had also sued New Line, alleging that the other studio defrauded it of $20 million in foreign revenue from the Lord of the Rings films. (That lawsuit was settled after a counter-suit from New Line.) Finally, in the Tolkien lawsuit, the holders of a trust for J.R.R. Tolkien, who died in 1973, stated that they had failed to receive any money from the films. According to the literary-rights agreement signed in 1969, they said, the trust was entitled to 7.5 percent of the gross revenue from any film adaptation of Tolkien's novels.
New Line's troubles didn't stop there: A group of supporting actors native to New Zealand (where the films were shot) had previously filed a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay them a share of an estimated $100 million profit made from film-related merchandise. Finally, Jackson himself settled a bitter and lengthy lawsuit against New Line in December 2007. The director, who also co-wrote and co-produced the Lord of the Rings films, had accused New Line of cheating him out of tens of millions of dollar after they sold subsidiary rights for books, DVDs and merchandise to other Time Warner companies for less than market value.
For Tolkien fans, the settlement of Jackson's suit was good news, as it meant he could move ahead with his involvement in New Line's long-anticipated film version of Tolkien's other classic novel, The Hobbit. It was announced that Jackson would co-write and co-produce the film, but that Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican director of the acclaimed fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth (2006), would direct. Meanwhile, New Line's other legal troubles wore on, a complicated legacy of Tolkien's novels, Jackson's films and the passion they inspired.
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- 评分 5 / 5来自 ^L^,3 年前Thanks a lot, to this very, very smart extension ! :o)
FAQ+REQUEST: A place/site/help-text with a example list of real search engines & parameters would't be fine.
PS: Some search codes & strings from my FF (Foto) https://abload.de/img/add-on-swift-selectio8pj02.jpg
UPDATE 2.Sept.2020 -> PATH FOR LOCAL (Offline) ICONS: (In Windows must be in this Format) file:///c:\blabla\my-efb.ico
(Works only for the Context-Menu-Icons, not in Pop-Up) MORE: https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues/135
- 评分 5 / 5来自 Mark Gutierrez,3 年前Amazing app! Makes browsing easy and I love the fact that I can customize which sites appears on the toolbar.
- 评分 5 / 5来自 Khan Mohammod Shohan,3 年前I used Opera instead of firefox because opera had this feature as default. now after installing firefox i thought why not try to search if firefox has same king of add ons and i came upon this. this is such a excellent extention. i 200% recommend this to everyone. must have in my opinion.
- 评分 5 / 5来自 Firefox 用户 15972315,3 年前used to use contextsearch addon but this is an excellent replacement.
- 评分 5 / 5来自 Firefox 用户 14304524,3 年前Edit: developer responded with solution.
Incredibly irritating that using this extension, instead of opening results in a new tab, replaces the current page, and also makes it so that you can't click the back button to go back to the previous page. So if you accidentally click a search (say, after highlighting to copy-paste), then you lose the current page you are on.
开发者回应发布于 3 年前EDIT: Have you tried the options menu yet? Not sure if you saw this reply.
There's a short text that tells you useful things after installing the addon, but you might not have seen it, so: SSS has a TON of options that you can change! ;)
Opening searches in a new tab instead of the current one is changed in the "Popup/icons behaviour" section. Please look for "Left mouse button click" to change this behaviour. SSS opens in the current page by default since it's what Firefox does by default as well.
Regarding the back button being unavailable when opening a new search, SSS shouldn't cause this and I had no other reports of this problem before, so I suspect that some other addon or a Firefox setting could be the culprit in your case. I suggest trying to disable your other addons and/or run SSS in a clean Firefox install to see if the problem persists.
I hope this helps!


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Jew #1
Trafford Publishing, 31 aoűt 2005 - 546 pages
This book will be of particular interest to those persons who are seeking to identify the circumstances leading to the destruction of the world (end times) and the coming of New Jerusalem, heaven.
Nothing is quite as intriguing as "End Times"
Nothing is quite as intriguing as "End Times" prophecy being fulfilled before your eyes. This author offers "defined options" to the reader; that is, what does the reconstruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem have to do with me and my life? Will these events place me in the position of having to make choices and what are the implications of those choices?
If Biblical prophecy is true (and so far it has been fulfilled, down to the smallest detail) then your life will, within 3 1/2 years of the re-building of Solomon's Temple, never be the same. Events will unfold very quickly. The first 3 1/2 years will be peaceful. The Muslims, the Jews, the Christians and all other world religions will feel that world peace has broken out.
It is at the end of the 3 1/2 year period that the Great Tribulation will begin and it will start when the anti-Christ (not a devilish looking person, but a very handsome, very persuasive man) declares religion, temples, mosques and churches as places that must be destroyed. He will tell the world that religion is a silly, divisive pursuit, designed to sway and control the masses and what is needed is a "one world" economic and political system devoid of false gods.
People will be required to accept the Mark of the Beast, (not some ugly tattoo, but an implanted chip on their right hand or forehead) in order to have transactions. No "chip", no buying and selling. Those who know their Bible know that this is a critical turning point in history. If you accept the Mark of the Beast, if you buy into the compelling rational view of the one world economy with a single political system, you will be sealing your death sentence with God. God expressly forbids His children to succumb to the one who has desecrated His Temple and forbidden all forms of worship.
God will send "two witnesses" to oppose the anti-Christ. They will have the power to withhold rain for this entire 3 1/2 year period and no one will be able to destroy these two. They will become the enemy of the anti-Christ and the people, due to the drought and due to their pronouncements of impending doom. At the end of 3 1/2 years they will be killed, their bodies will lie in the street for 3 days and the world will celebrate their death, celebrating and sending each other gifts. The celebration is premature. At the end of the third day, these two rise up and ascend into heaven and shortly thereafter the Battle of Armageddon commences. God's enemies will be destroyed and His people will be protected.
Then there will be a 1000 year period of peace. The promised land, from the Nile to the Tigris-Euphrates will be restored and Israel will live in peace. Satan will be bound for this millennium period.
At the end of 1000 years, some of those who were not pure blooded Israelites, will, along with Satan who has been loosed for one final attack on God's people, mobilize to destroy Israel. However, God will step in and destroy all of His enemies.
Then the Great White Throne Judgment will commence. Jesus Christ and His angels will separate the sheep from the goats, the saints from the sinners and those who are sinners will be consigned to Hades and the earth and everything on it will be destroyed.
Then New Jerusalem, heaven, will descend and all of God's people will be eternally with God in perfect peace and harmony, forever.
Pages sélectionnées
Table des matičres
Defining The Body of Believers
Gods Love and Mercy Toward the Jews
Has Israel Been On Hold for 2000 Years?
Life One Twosided Page
God Has Revealed Himself to Every Man
Omnipotence Omniscience and Omnipresence
Prepare to Flee The Final Exodus
Why Would God Be Angry with His People?
How Could a Loving God Allow His Children to Die?
Failing to Revere His Word An Opportunity Lost A Critical Error
The Prince of Peace or the prince Good and Evil Personified
The Mark of the Beast a Choice for Eternity
The Battle of Armageddon The Prelude To a Restored Kingdom
The Unpardonable Sin
Sanctification a Result of Gods Grace
I Have Been a Sinner My Entire Life Salvation is Too Late For Me
My Sins are Such That God Would Never Allow Me to Enter Into His Presence
The Grace of God Our Only Hope?
The Firstborn
The Holy Spirit
Fear Should Bring Us to Our Knees it will
Die Twice or Be Born Twice Your Choice
How Terrible Will It Be to Be Separate from God and Those You Love?
If There Is One God Why So Many Different Bodies of Believers?
The Scattering and Gathering of the Jews
Peace and Safety a Prelude to Calamity
The Unmistakable Events Which Chronicle the Tribulation
The Two Witnesses Drought and Fiery Judgment
How Does One Define the Remnant?
The Messiah Then the Tribulation or the Tribulation and Then the Messiah?
Why Hasnt Fulfilled Prophecy Led to Repentance?
Satan Bound for 1000 Years
The Kingdom Restored
The Lame the Deaf and Those Who are Last Will Emerge as First
The Fruit of Righteousness A Fig Tree Does not Give Off Olives
The Restoration and Cleansing of the Promised Land
The Rebuilding of the Temples 3 and 4
The New Covenant a Very Old Promise Finally Realized
These Bones are Going to Walk Around Again David as King
Justice or Mercy Which Do You Prefer?
The Enemy is Defeated the Messiah Establishes New Jerusalem
Repent Serve the Lord Not Satan Pressed for Time? Read This First
A Jew Speaking to Jews as Only a Jew Could
The Word the Very Essence of Truth A permanent Promise
Got Eternity?


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This page provides the required docuware for the EMF Validation 1.4.0 Release Review, as part of the upcoming Helios Simultaneous Release.
The EMF Validation project provides the following capabilities.
- Constraint Definition - Provides API for defining constraints for any EMF meta-model (batch and live constraints).
- Customizable model traversal algorithms - Extensibility API to support meta-models that require custom strategies for model traversal.
- Constraint parsing for languages - Provides support for parsing the content of constraint elements defined in specific languages. The validation framework provides support for two languages: Java and OCL.
- Configurable constraint bindings to application contexts - API support to define "client contexts" that describe the objects that need to be validated and to bind them to constraints that need to be enforced on these objects.
- Validation listeners - Support for listening to validation events.
New in this release
EMF Validation is undergoing it's participation in the Eclipse Simultaneous release as it has for each and every release. This is the fifth yearly June release of EMF Validation.
Accordance with project plan themes and priorities
See the EMF Validation project plan at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=modeling.emf.validation
APIs have not changed this release.
- The project lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release.
- Metamodel definitions and corresponding implementations are considered APIs.
- API Tooling has been employed.
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Nothing has been deprecated.
Bugzilla snapshot for the Helios release.
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Nothing has changed.
EMF Validation is a "+1" component in the simultaneous release.
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No committers changes on EMF Validation for Helios.
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As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often have to deal with people who are convinced that they must get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before they begin talks about their new venture. They seem shocked to learn that most professional investors and advisors, myself included, routinely decline such requests, due to costly litigation and administrative nightmares.
My view is that non-disclosures won't protect you from unscrupulous business contacts, so you simply shouldn't deal with the flood of unknown people who will contact you via the phone or Internet. Stick with people you meet through warm introductions, or count on the integrity of professionals who have a visible reputation and references, instead of a legal document.
Yet I recommend to every entrepreneur that there are still situations where an NDA (sometimes called Confidential Disclosure Agreement) makes sense compared to normal situations, where your risk of losing an investor or advisor is greater than the risk of your idea being compromised. Here are my guidelines for when a signed agreement is required, versus other alternatives:
Insist on a two-way NDA for partner negotiations. Most often, your best partners are in some way a competitor, or already in a business complementary to yours. They could easily copy your business, so a mutual non-disclosure is required for protection in both directions. It pays to talk to competitors about the business, but not your business.
Get an NDA before detailed patent disclosures. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, until after a non-disclosure or other contract has been signed. Potential investors don't need this data, except perhaps as part of a final due diligence after an initial signed agreement.
Never disclose trade secrets without a contract. Some entrepreneurs avoid the patent process, since patent details become public once a patent is issued. Trade secrets, which may be recipes, formulas or processes, should only be disclosed on a need-to-know basis, even to employees, and then always accompanied by a contract.
Don't ask for an NDA from trusted investors and advisors. If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive. These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.
Don't even respond to unsolicited requests for details. If you receive an email or phone call requesting details on your plan from someone you don't know, don't assume that asking them to sign an NDA will protect you. The same is true for strangers who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Prepare a high-level pitch.
Read NDAs carefully for scope and duration. In today's world of rapid innovation and new technologies, any individual or company should be hesitant to sign an agreement that limits their activities for more than two years, or is too broad in scope. If a longer term or scope change proves necessary later, any agreement can be amended as required.
In my experience, trying to tantalize a person of interest to you by dangling an NDA for signature, almost always backfires, to define you as too risk averse or paranoid to be a successful business person. In fact, if you have a good idea, you need smart investors and professionals to spread the word to other good people, so you really want them to talk and get feedback for you.
I also recommend that you practice explaining your concept in marketing terms through social media, networking opportunities, and crowdfunding. If that doesn't get any attention, the details probably don't need protection. Demanding an NDA too early is a sure way to kill your dream before the people who can help you even know what you have to offer.
Marty Zwilling
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THURSDAY, March 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Two key House panels on Thursday cleared the Republicans' plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, amid growing backlash from consumer and medical groups that oppose the GOP plan.
Following a marathon session, the House Ways and Means committee approved the plan early Thursday morning, rejecting a variety of Democratic amendments along the way.
And later on Thursday afternoon, the House Energy and Commerce Committee also approved the legislation on a party-line vote of 31 to 23, after debating the measure more than 27 hours, The New York Times reported.
Next, the controversial bill heads to the House Budget Committee before a final House vote, slated for the week of March 20.
Defending the GOP plan, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday described the repeal-and-replacement effort, outlining both the strategy and major provisions of reform.
The bill currently moving through House committees is a "reconciliation" bill, he explained. It is written in a way to prevent a Senate filibuster, and it represents the first leg in a three-pronged approach to reform. It does not address every aspect of reform.
Ryan added that U.S. Health and Human Services (HSS) Secretary Tom Price has wide discretion to administer health care. He said the second leg of the reform strategy would involve administration action, whereby the HHS Secretary "deregulates the marketplace and allows more choice and more competition."
In addition, Ryan envisions moving additional bills independently. He said such measures would deal with "interstate shopping" for health insurance, for example, and the creation of "association health plans that allow national industry groups to offer health insurance to their members, for example."
"This is the closest we'll ever get to repealing and replacing Obamacare," Ryan asserted.
But opposition continues to grow as the bill winds its way through the House.
Seven major hospital groups have joined major physician and consumer organizations in opposing the GOP replacement plan.
In a letter to Congress, hospital groups, including the American Hospital Association, warned that the proposal is likely to substantially reduce the number of Americans able to afford health insurance or maintain coverage under Medicaid.
The proposed legislation would preserve some of the most popular features of the controversial health reform law sometimes called Obamacare, while eliminating some aspects that never caught on with the public.
Young adults could still stay on their parents' health plans until age 26, and insurers still could not deny coverage or charge more to people with pre-existing conditions, according to a summary released Monday evening by the House Ways and Means Committee.
House Republican leaders also have said they would maintain the Affordable Care Act's ban on lifetime insurance coverage caps, according to The New York Times.
The proposed legislation would eliminate two of the Affordable Care Act's most contentious provisions -- the employer mandate and the individual mandate. Companies would no longer face penalties for failing to offer workers a health plan, and people would no longer face a penalty for not being insured.
Instead, the Republican plan would penalize those who allow their coverage to slip. Insurance companies would be allowed to charge an additional 30 percent to anyone who has a lapse in their coverage.
Insurance companies also would be allowed to charge older customers more for coverage. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required that insurers charge their oldest customers no more than three times the prices charged to the youngest, but the proposed GOP legislation would allow them to charge five times as much.
The ACA's complex system of income-based subsidies to help pay insurance premiums and cover out-of-pocket expenses would be replaced by a simpler system of refundable tax credits for the purchase of state-approved health insurance.
The new tax credits would be based on age, rather than income. People under age 30 would get a $2,000 annual tax credit to buy health coverage, with the credits increasing to a maximum of $4,000 for people over 60. A family would receive a maximum $14,000 in tax credits each year.
The tax credits would be available in full to people earning less than $75,000 and households earning less than $150,000, but would be reduced for those who earn more.
In addition, the Republican plan would expand people's ability to funnel money into tax-free health savings accounts.
Under current law, individuals can put $3,400 a year into health savings accounts, which are designed to hold pre-tax dollars for future medical expenses. Families can currently set aside $6,750. The new limit would be at least $6,550 for individuals and $13,100 for families.
Big changes to Medicaid funding proposed
The proposed legislation changes a laundry list of other ACA provisions. For example, it repeals a tax on medical devices and prescription medications, and delays the "Cadillac Tax" on high-cost employer health plans until 2025.
The bill also calls for some wide-ranging changes to federal health care funding.
Medicaid -- the government-run program for the poor -- would be converted to a state-based block-grant program, with federal funding capped per enrollee and based on how much each state spent on Medicaid in fiscal year 2016.
The 31 states that chose to expand Medicaid would continue to get additional federal funding until 2020. However, funding would be reduced for anyone who tries to enter the program after 2020, or those who leave the program and then come back.
For the 19 states that balked at expanding Medicaid, the bill would provide $10 billion over five years to help extend coverage to the poor.
The House Republican proposal also would cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood. The women's health organization would no longer be eligible for Medicaid payments or federal family planning grants.
Two key House committees -- Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce -- are expected to start working on the new health care package on Wednesday, the Times reported.
House Republicans said they expect the committees to finish their work this week, so that the full House can pass the measure before a Congressional spring break scheduled to start on April 7.
The Senate then would have to pass its own version of health care reform, and any differences between the two worked out in conference.
Proposal has both supporters and detractors
Health policy analysts, interested parties and other stakeholders offered widely differing opinions of the draft proposal.
Those who supported the expansion of private health insurance and Medicaid under Obamacare were generally critical of the GOP blueprint. Opponents of Obamacare, meanwhile, offered mixed reactions to the plan.
Edmund Haislmaier, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the proposal misses the mark. "Congress should continue to focus on first repealing the failed policy of Obamacare and then act to offer patient-centered, market-based replacement reforms," he wrote in a blog post.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus, representing conservative Republicans, vowed to do just that. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said he would be reintroducing an Obamacare repeal bill so that a "patient-centered" plan that brings down the cost of insurance could be enacted.
Atlanta otolaryngologist Dr. Elaina George said "the problem with Obamacare was it stripped away patient choice" and offered no price transparency.
"You had no idea what the costs were, and you were stuck with purchasing a product that you couldn't afford," she said.
George is author of the book Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control And How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild A Better System.
While she said she's happy to see that the GOP plan eliminates the individual mandate, what's unclear is whether the proposal provides some clarity on health care prices.
"People need to understand what the true costs of health care are," George said.
Ron Pollack, executive director of the health advocacy group Families USA, offered a sharp rebuke to the Republican proposal.
"The GOP health care proposal would be laughable if its consequences weren't so devastating," he said.
Although the House bill provides no indication of the number of Americans who would be covered by insurance, or its cost, Pollack's read is that "millions" would be stripped of coverage. He said the measure would "drive up consumer costs."
Leighton Ku, professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, said a fair evaluation of the bill requires input from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO is charged with providing estimates of the legislation's cost and coverage.
"My quick assessment is that the bill will make insurance less accessible for millions of Americans, particularly working-class Americans," Ku said.
John Auerbach, president Trust for America's Health, said the GOP proposal would eliminate an Obamacare provision that established a national fund for prevention and public health. That cut would erase 12 percent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget, including $625 million annually for state and local public health efforts to prevent diabetes, heart disease and cancer, he said.
"Losing this funding would wreak havoc on our efforts to reduce chronic disease rates, immunize our children, stop the prescription drug and opioid epidemic, and prepare the public health system to prevent infectious disease outbreaks," Auerbach said.
Dan Mendelson, CEO of the consulting firm Avalere Health, said there are no easy answers. "Health care is expensive and it becomes more expensive every year," he said. "Under the GOP plan, it will be more expensive every year just like it was under the Democratic plan."
Still, he called the Republican plan a feasible alternative, the Associated Press reported.
More information
For more about the House Republican plan, visit the House Ways and Means Committee.


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My Farm Roots: Touch the ground
As a young man, Elisha Pullen never imagined he would spend his days on the farm.
Growing up near rural Bell City in southeastern Missouri's "Bootheel" region, Pullen longed to leave the farm and get an education.
"I grew up in the day and time when we had to do a lot of chopping and stuff like that. Hard labor," Pullen said. "I'm going to college, I'm getting my degree and I'm going to work in the air conditioning."He went to Southeast Missouri State University where he earned a degree in accounting with a minor in computer science and later got a job with Missouri Utilities Company. Then his brother got sick and asked Pullen to come home and help on the farm.
"I didn't know what I was getting into," Pullen said. "He didn't get better right away, so I ended up buying the farm."
Pullen lives in a modest white home on his 100-acre farm where he primarily grows soybeans off of an old dusty county road. When I visited a couple weeks ago, he took me around the farm and showed me a pair of old trucks, a combine that caught fire a few years ago, and some struggling milo. It's here on this farm that Pullen is carrying on two family traditions – as a farmer and as a pastor at a church in nearby Sikeston, Mo.
Pullen's grandfather and grandmother both moved to rural Missouri from Mississippi. His grandfather's family came in the 1920s and settled near Bell City. He called his grandfather a "devout deacon" in the church.
"He loved the Lord. He loved the song 'None but the Righteous shall See the Lord,'" Pullen said. "He brought his children up on the fear of the Lord."
His mother's family moved to Missouri during the Depression. The move was extremely difficult on her. They nearly starved to death on the journey and the experience had a lasting impact.
"My mother was very slow to throw away anything because it might come in handy," Pullen said. "It took up some years to get to all of that, to understand why she did some of the things that she did."
Pullen's father was a large man with a big, booming voice. He bought a farm of his own and became a pastor in two churches.
"To us, he was just Daddy. But some people said he had a 'voice of many waters,'" Pullen said. "That's the description that is given in the Bible about God. The 'voice of many waters.' So that was really an honor."
Even though Pullen does not have any children of his own, a few of his godchildren come by the farm to help him out. But when it comes time to retire, he says he doesn't know who will take over.
"Most family have gone," Pullen said. "I only have a nephew that is farming now, and I'm not sure if he's really interested in it. He's just doing it because it fell in his lap."
Despite his early reservations about life on the farm, it's now hard for Pullen to imagine himself anywhere else. He has grown accustomed to being the only person on his county road where he has room to stretch out.
"It's just always been spacious, you know. Your neighbor, you wave at him way down, at least a quarter-mile down the road or something," Pullen said. "To have one close enough to where he could almost look into your house, oh no, I don't know."
Pullen has travelled to the Philippines each of the last three years on mission trips and this year he plans to go to Haiti. The overseas travel is eye-opening and inspiring, but his farm's gravitational pull is too much to overcome.
"I like the open air, the fresh air. I like the ground," Pullen said. "I like being able to touch the ground instead of walking on concrete all the time. And you know, whenever I go somewhere, in a few days I'm ready to go back home where I can relax and be free."
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Re: Down on the Farm
I think it will. He's not ready just yet - he's still swinging too hard too often - but I do believe he's the leadoff hitter for this team next year. If we're going to be subjected to a left fielder who can't throw (a reality we're faced with every time Dave Roberts' name is in there), we might as well get a guy who is a true burner in there to balance it out.
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Office of the Press Secretary
President Obama has named 11 individuals and 4 organizations as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The mentors will receive their awards at a White House ceremony.
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, awarded by the White House each year to individuals or organizations, recognize the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students studying science or engineering—particularly those who belong to groups that are underrepresented in those fields. By offering their expertise and encouragement, mentors help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers while ensuring that tomorrow's innovators reflect the full diversity of the United States.
Candidates for the Presidential Mentoring Awards are nominated by colleagues, administrators, and students in their home institutions. The mentoring can involve students at any grade level from elementary through graduate school. In addition to being honored at the White House, recipients receive awards of $10,000 to advance their mentoring efforts.
"These individuals and organizations have gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that the United States remains on the cutting edge of science and engineering for years to come," President Obama said. "Their devotion to the educational enrichment and personal growth of their students is remarkable, and these awards represent just a small token of our enormous gratitude."
The individuals and organizations receiving the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring this year are:
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· Anthony Carpi, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, NY
· Isaac J. Crumbly, Fort Valley State University, GA
· Jo Handelsman, Yale University, CT
· Douglass L. Henderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
· Bruce A. Jackson, Massachusetts Bay Community College, MA
· Marigold L. Linton, University of Kansas, KS
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· Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
· Baccalaureate and Beyond Community College Mentoring Program, State University of New York, Purchase College, NY
· Grinnell Science Project, Grinnell College, IA
· Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Initiatives, Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois-Chicago, IL


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12 March 2009
Dr. John Hamre,
President John Frisbie,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I want to thank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the US-China Business Council (USCBC) for hosting this event. It is a real pleasure to meet friends, both old and new, here. Over the years, the CSIS and the USCBC have stood at the forefront of China-US exchanges and worked hard to promote mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation between people of our two countries. And all of you present have done a great deal to push forward our relations. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute and express sincere thanks to you for your efforts.
We are now in early spring. There is an old Chinese saying which goes, "A year's success starts from work in spring." It means that plowing and sowing in spring is crucial to agricultural production and harvest of the whole year.
The most important purpose of my visit is to make preparations for the meeting between President Hu Jintao and President Barack Obama in London in early April. Yesterday, I had good discussion with both Secretary Clinton and Secretary Geithner. We covered a wide range of issues, including the bilateral agenda and regional and international affairs, and reached much consensus. Both sides agree that solid ground work has already been done by the two sides for the very important London meeting between our two heads of state. Today I will have the honor of meeting President Obama and Vice President Biden. I'll also see National Security Adviser General Jones. Let me say that the two sides share the view that the upcoming meeting between our two presidents in London is of great significance for China-US relations in the new era. Both sides are committed to pushing forward this vitally important relationship between our two countries.
Early this year, our two countries held big celebrations of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. I attended these commemorative events with many old and new friends. A review of the past gives me a lot of food for thought. The tremendous progress of China-US relations goes well beyond what those who were most optimistic about this relationship 30 years ago ever expected. People want to know, in the 21st century when mankind faces major opportunities and challenges, what is the strategic foundation of China-US relations. This is a question that I often ask myself too.
I for one believe the strategic foundation of China-US relations lies in our major and unique responsibility of maintaining world peace and stability. As permanent members of the UN Security Council and as the world's largest developing country and largest developed one respectively, China and the United States have maintained close consultation, coordination and mutually beneficial cooperation in many international affairs. We have worked together to manage complicated and tough regional hotspot issues, fight terrorism, proliferation and transnational crimes, meet global challenges such as climate change, energy and the environment and undertake necessary reform in the international system based on justice and equity. One can hardly find an area where China-US cooperation is not needed. Comprehensive cooperation in the global sphere has tied our two countries and peoples to each other.
I for one believe the strategic foundation of China-US relations lies in our ever expanding common interests in promoting sustainable economic development in the world. We live in a world where countries are more interdependent with their interests more closely interconnected than at any time in history. At a time when the international financial crisis continues to spread and develop, the primary common interest of China and the United States is to weather the storm together like passengers in the same boat and support each other to get through the tough times and emerge from the crisis victorious. We should make due contribution to bringing about a new round of world economic growth. Even when the train of world economy drives into fairly smooth areas one day, there will still be the need for China and the United States, the two big engines, to jointly push it forward on a continuous basis.
I for one believe the strategic foundation of China-US relations lies in the longstanding friendship and mutual-learning between our peoples. They cherish a keen interest in each other's diverse culture and a strong wish to know each other better. Social and cultural exchanges between our two countries are becoming increasingly dynamic and intensive. The geographical distance of 10-plus hours' flight has not stood in the way of interflow between the Chinese and Americans. Each day, over 5,000 people travel across the two sides of the Pacific Ocean. Ever closer exchanges and interaction between people of our two countries contain enormous energy and have far-reaching impact. They will make people better appreciate the fact that the world is a diversified place, human civilizations are colorful and all countries should live in harmony.
In the face of the profound changes in the international landscape and mounting global challenges, China and the United States have a new historic opportunity for the development of their relations. Our two countries shoulder greater responsibilities for world peace and stability, have more common interests and enjoy broader prospects for cooperation. Exchanges, cooperation and mutual benefit should be the defining features of the 21st century. Gone should be the days when countries competed at the expense of each other's interests under a zero-sum mentality because those who preach such a competition approach and model are bound to be the biggest losers today. China and the United States should and can set an example in achieving win-win progress and making greater joint efforts for an even better world.
We are happy to see that in the past 50 days since the new US administration took office, our two countries have worked together and ensured a smooth transition of our relations. The two sides have established good working relations at the top level and between various government departments. President Hu Jintao and President Obama talked by phone and reached important agreement on advancing China-US relations in the new era. Secretary Clinton paid a successful visit to China last month, which contributed in a big way to our mutual understanding and cooperation. The two countries have maintained close consultation and coordination in bilateral and multilateral areas. "A good beginning is half the success." This good start has laid the groundwork for the further growth of China-US relations.
We should now set our sight on the longer term and draw up a good blueprint for China-US relations in the coming years. We should make concerted efforts and promote sound and steady growth of our relations.
To advance China-US relations in the new era, we should adopt a strategic and long-term perspective and keep the relations on the right track.
During his telephone conversation with President Hu Jintao at the end of last January, President Obama stated the US commitment to a more positive and constructive relationship with China. Secretary Clinton said to me during her visit to China last month that US-China relations are embracing a new era of positive cooperation. We welcome such statements from the US side. We believe that China and the Unites States now have more common interests and a broader foundation of cooperation on a series of major and pressing issues facing today's world. The strategic significance and global influence of China-US relations have further increased. Our relations in the new era should be broader and deeper, and we should work together in an all-round way to raise China-US relations to a new and much higher level of cooperation in the 21st century on the basis of mutual respect, seeking common ground while shelving differences and cooperation for win-win results.
Mutual respect means that we should respect international law and norms governing international relations, view each other in an objective and sensible way, respect each other's choice of development path and core interests, and refrain from doing anything that may harm each other's sovereignty, security or development interests. Seeking common ground while shelving differences means that we should preserve and highlight the positive aspects of our relations. We should work hard to resolve differences and put aside those that cannot be resolved for the time being, so that they will not stand in the way of the overall development of our relations. Cooperation for win-win results means that we should expand practical cooperation and converging interests, actively respond to the opportunities as well as challenges brought by globalization, pursue common development and progress and make contributions to world peace and development.
To advance China-US relations in the new era, we should maintain close dialogue and exchanges at the top and other levels and cement the political foundation of the relations.
Over the years, leaders of our two countries have maintained close communication on major issues concerning China-US relations through mutual visits, meetings, telephone calls and correspondence. These exchanges have given a strong boost to the sustained, sound and steady growth of our relations. The legislatures, militaries and government departments of the two countries have also engaged in productive exchanges and cooperation on issues of mutual interest. And the two countries have put in place diverse mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation in a wide range of areas. All these are effective ways to promote our relations and should therefore be maintained.
In two weeks' time, President Hu Jintao and President Obama will meet in London. It will be the first meeting between our heads of state since the new US administration came into office. Both sides attach great importance to this meeting and are making intensive preparations for it. I am confident that with joint efforts of the two sides, the meeting will be a great success and chart the course for the future growth of China-US relations. President Hu Jintao has invited President Obama to visit China at a mutually convenient time and we look forward to his early visit.
Through consultation, the two sides have agreed in principle to establish the "China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogues" mechanism and decided upon the relevant arrangements for the mechanism. We hope the two sides will work together and launch this mechanism at an early date so that through continued discussions on strategic, overarching and long-term issues of mutual interest, we will further enhance mutual trust and cooperation.
To advance China-US relations in the new era, we should expand mutually-beneficial cooperation and inject fresh impetus into the relations.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The priority for China and the United States at the moment is to tackle the international financial crisis through intensified cooperation and work together to maintain and promote world financial and economic stability. Let me in this connection say a few words about what China will do to counter the financial crisis this year. The Chinese Government will focus on the implementation of a four trillion yuan investment program, including 1.18 trillion yuan that will come from the central budget. This program will kick-start growth by boosting domestic demand, reinvigorating industries, developing science and technology, and improving the social safety net. Some of these measures have already produced initial results, as evidenced by the recent signs of economic recovery. We will issue more than five trillion yuan of new loans to help enhance financial regulation and support economic growth with adequate money and credit supply. We are confident that we will maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth this year.
We have been following closely measures taken by the US Government to stabilize financial markets and stimulate economic recovery. We sincerely hope these measures will achieve the desired results and restore the US economy to growth soon. This is in the interest of the United States, China and the rest of the world.
Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, China and the United States have engaged in close and effective communication and coordination, and played an important part in the international efforts to tackle the crisis. China is ready to strengthen macroeconomic policy dialogue with the United States, work with you to oppose protectionism, and make fresh contributions to the stability of international financial markets and growth of the world economy. We also want to work with the Untied States and other countries for positive outcomes at the London G20 summit on the basis of the achievements of the Washington summit. In times of hardships, it is all the more important for China and the United States to broaden and deepen bilateral trade and economic cooperation, properly handle possible frictions and differences, and forge a stronger bond to weather the crisis.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
China and the United States share important common interests with respect to climate change, energy and the environment. Energy security, clean energy, energy conservation and pollution reduction feature prominently in our respective national development strategies. China stands ready to strengthen dialogue and consultation with the United States, pursue practical cooperation in energy conservation, new energy and renewable energy, and work with other parties under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" to ensure the success of the Copenhagen conference scheduled for the end of the year.
Our two countries should broaden bilateral cooperation in such fields as counter-terrorism, non-proliferation, military-to-military relations, science and technology, culture and health. We should also strengthen coordination and cooperation on the Korean nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue and other regional and international issues.
China-US coordination and cooperation on the Korean nuclear issue has become a highlight in our bilateral relations. The Six-Party Talks are now at a critical juncture. China will work with the relevant parties to maintain patience, demonstrate flexibility and overcome difficulties. We will move the process forward by building on past progress, and strive for early denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and enduring peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
To advance China-US relations in the new era, we should respect and accommodate each other's core interests and make every effort to minimize potential disruption and damage to the relations.
The question of Taiwan concerns China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and represents China's core interests. Relations across the Taiwan Strait have been improving and have embarked on the track of peaceful development. There have been frequent people-to-people contacts, close economic links and dynamic cultural exchanges between the two sides of the Strait. We will continue to promote cross-Strait dialogue and exchanges under the principles of establishing mutual trust, laying aside disputes, seeking consensus while shelving differences, and jointly creating a win-win situation, and bring about new progress in the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.
Here I want to stress that no matter how the situation across the Taiwan Strait may evolve, we will never waiver in our commitment to the one China principle and will never compromise our opposition to "Taiwan independence", "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan". We hope that the US side will honor its commitments, prudently and properly handle Taiwan-related issues, and take concrete actions to support the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.
Of equal sensitivity are issues related to Tibet. Tibet is an inalienable part of China's territory and Tibetan affairs are exclusively China's internal affairs. Since the launch of democratic reform 50 years ago, Tibet has made remarkable progress. Its economy has registered rapid growth, various undertakings have advanced by leaps and bounds, average life expectancy has almost doubled and people's living standards have improved steadily. The fine traditional culture of Tibet has been well preserved, and the people there enjoy all rights prescribed by law. I hope that people from various sectors in the United States will appreciate these facts, and understand and respect the Chinese people's position of upholding state sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Dear Friends,
To advance China-US relations in the new era, we should promote dialogue and exchanges between people of the two countries and build stronger public support for the relations.
We will not forget that the ice in China-US relations began to thaw with the mutual visits of our ping pong teams. And the tremendous progress made in our relations over the last 30 years would not have been possible without the active involvement and support of people from all walks of life in both countries.
We should think creatively and continue to promote dialogue and exchanges between our legislatures, academic and business communities and media organizations. We should also step up exchanges at the local level. Through such efforts, we will mobilize more people to support and contribute to the growth of China-US relations. It is of particular importance to look ahead to the future and vigorously promote and support exchanges and cooperation between the young people, so that the cause of China-US friendship will endure and prosper further.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
China and the United States should build sustained, sound and stable relations, as this not only serves the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples, but also contributes to world peace, stability and development. The development of China-US relations has proven time and again that China and the United States are partners for cooperation, not adversaries or enemies. Cooperation brings benefits to both countries, while confrontation hurts both sides. Some Americans often say, "It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived." So let us join hands and work together for a splendid future of China-US relations.
Thank you.


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I like your comment about the "hot stock tips" as well. These almost never pan out. I work in an office building and hear about so many crazy investment ideas. They almost always crash and burn.