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:: Principles of Macroeconomics
Spring 2019
@UH Manoa Outreach
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Hazel Hotchadani
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01/07/2019 - 05/10/2019
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This is an online class offered via Laulima. After registering for the course, students may access the class at https://laulima.hawaii.edu. Students are required to use their UH account (email@example.com) for the duration of the course. For additional information about online classes, see www.hawaii.edu/dl.
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An introduction to macroeconomics—the study of the overall economy. Topics include the determination of national income, causes and effects of inflation, unemployment, and income inequality; causes and consequences of international differences in economic growth; sources of business cycle expansions and contractions; role of government policy in stabilizing the economy and promoting long-term growth; financial markets and monetary policy; taxes, spending, consequences of budget deficits, determination of trade imbalances, exchange rate fluctuations, and balance of payment crises.
Books may be purchased at the UH Manoa bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/manoa/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
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The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
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It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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Tuition for extension term classes is charged per credit and is NOT included in Fall/Spring semester tuition. Students receiving UH Manoa financial aid should contact Financial Aid Services (808-956-7251 or email@example.com) before registering for extension term classes to assure that their financial aid package will cover these classes.
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That same year, the North Queensland University Association, through an appeal to the people of North Queensland, established two Halls of Residence for male and female students in Townsville. Duncragan, located in Cleveland Terrace, on Melton Hill, could accommodate 22 women; Stuart House, in Wulguru, could accommodate 66 men. A third Hall of Residence, Olsen House, in Stagpole Street, West End, was established in 1963 and accommodated 38 men. There was a Principal in charge of each Hall who was responsible for its administration and tutorial organisation, and financially, each Hall of Residence was managed independently from the University College. Full board at the Halls of Residence cost £6 per week.
|The Common Room at "Duncragan", which was described in the University College Handbook of 1965, as "simply but adequately furnished" for recreational purposes.
In 1962 the Townsville City Council gifted a parcel of land covering approximately 400 acres on the southern side of the Ross River to the University of Queensland. The land later became the Douglas Campus of James Cook University. The campus at Douglas was designed in 1964 and work began on the site in 1965. The first building at the site, the Humanities I building, was occupied in 1967. This is now the Ken Back Chancellery building. This was followed by the University Hall student residence in 1968, and by 1969, there were 4 buildings in the ring – Humanities I, the Library, Engineering and Biological Sciences. Outside the ring, the early parts of University Hall, John Flynn, Saint Mark's and Saint Paul's were completed or underway.
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|(Left to Right): Dr Ken Back (University College Warden), Alan Wilson, Keith Brazier, Bill Hooper and Rex Moss viewing the plans for the new Douglas campus on site in 1964.
|A showcase of a range of plans for the university site, including the original 1964 site plan.
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But is it acceptable to insinuate that being Muslim is a 'smear'? That is a question Muslims, many of whom are Obamaniacs, are asking.
What if Obama was a Muslim? Would it make his message less hopeful? Will it make his personality less charming? Will it make his candidacy less viable?
A recently released report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, titled 'U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,' shows 70 percent of Americans affiliated with a religion or denomination said they agreed that 'many religions can lead to eternal life'- a sign of progression towards a more inclusive and pluralistic society. And yet despite this progress, a Presidential candidate is being forced to go to unprecedented lengths to counter smears.
Last week New York Mayor Bloomberg speaking in front of a Jewish audience in South Florida stated that the deceptive campaign against Obama, 'threatens to undo the enormous strides that Jews and Muslims have made together in this country.' He went on to say, 'This is wedge politics at its worst, and we've got to reject it - loudly, clearly and unequivocally.' Despite the Mayor's commendable efforts, one audience member was reported in the New York Times to say, 'I still have doubts about him (Obama).'
Rumors often stick, which is why rumor mongering persists. Rumors are particularly lethal when they are easy to remember (Obama's middle name is Hussein thus it is easy to insinuate his alleged Muslim links) and they exploit emotive stereotypes (Muslims are out to destroy America). Simply dispelling the rumor without addressing the stereotype that makes such rumors stick is like treating the symptom without isolating the cause.
Thus, potential for blowbacks continue to fester. Given that Obama has not vigorously challenged the inherent bigotry behind the 'Muslim' rumors, some of his supporters got the errant message that any association between Obama and Muslims is potentially damaging to his candidacy. At a rally in Detroit last week, volunteers from the Obama campaign, citing 'a sensitive political climate,' prohibited two head scarf donning Muslim women from sitting too close to the stage lest they be visible in photo and video footage. Obama, to his credit, later apologized to the women and his campaign put out a message that the volunteers were not carrying out any campaign policy.
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Most Muslims were dismayed by Obama's clumsy denials. Many more were offended by his support for an undivided Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. Yet they are willing to look past them, partly because they perceive the alternative to be worse. They believe that Obama will restore lost civil liberties, is less likely to start a war and instinctively favors diplomatic resolutions to contentious foreign policy issues.
The second camp thinks that Obama will be so bloodied by the time he takes office that to prove his toughness he may swing to the right of Bush. They cite his comments that he may unilaterally send U.S. armed forces into Pakistan if he had actionable intelligence, as a grave concern. This group though small is prepared to sit out this election if their concerns remain unaddressed.
A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that while Muslims remain a small minority in the overall electorate, they are however likely to play a decisive role in the swing states of Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Obama ought to reach out to the Muslim community much in the same way he has reached out to Evangelicals and Jews. His claims of a holistic attitude towards all faith groups require consistency in engaging all groups.
Obama needs to not only continue assuring people that he is not a Muslim but also challenge the collective conscience of this nation to not let their fears undo the progress we have been making towards racial and religious tolerance. His ultimate legacy will not only be judged by becoming the first person of color to be elected President but more importantly what he does after he is elected.
Obama's vision of 'One America' needs to be more than mere rhetoric.
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Senator Obama is NOT a Dirty Muslim!
"What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge," says Mr. Obama, while denouncing statements of him being a Muslim as a smear. Why is the presidential candidate who claims to be religiously inclusive is treating the word "Muslim" as an insult? Apparently, it is OK for Mr. Obama to be associated with terrorists like William Ayers or racists like Jeremiah Wright, but God forbid somebody would call him a Muslim! No, he won't stand for that kind of smear! We admit that most terrorists are Muslims, but most Muslims are not terrorists and the statement on Mr. Obama's website is insulting to hundreds of millions of people.
How could a man who discards his family heritage in favor of political expediency be even considered for presidency of the United States? Where are all the so-called "Islamic civil rights groups" like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, etc. who are quick to defend every Islamic terrorist, but are silent when Muslims in general are being denigrated? Would Mr. Obama have the same reaction if someone claimed that he was raised as a Jew? We sincerely doubt that.
"In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope", page 261.
Well, the political winds did shift in an ugly direction. Is equating "Muslim" with "smear" Obama's idea of "stand[ing] with [Muslims]?
Muslims Against Sharia demand immediate removal of "SMEAR: Barack Obama is a Muslim" statement from the official Barack Obama's website as well as an apology for giving the word "Muslim" a negative connotation.


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In 2004 Ellowes Hall was designated Sports College status to raise standards of achievement in Physical Education and sport for all our students across the ability range leading to whole school improvement. Due to our success we were then redesignated in September 2008.
Ellowes Hall is a local focal point for promoting excellence in PE and community sport, extending links between families of schools, sports bodies and communities, sharing resources, helping to provide a structure through which young people can progress to careers in sport and physical education. We are determined to increase participation in physical education and sport for all pre and post-16 year olds and develop the potential of talented performers. As a Sports College we intend to be a dynamic force in education, demonstrating how high quality P.E. and sport can make a distinctive contribution to whole school improvement.
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As well as encouraging every student to take part in a range of activities, we are determined to provide all possible support and encouragement for those students who excel in a particular sport. We are part of a national initiative that aims to help County team players (or equivalent) to develop their talent and at the same time keep their lives in balance, managing the demands of their academic work, social life and families, alongside their fixtures and training.
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Anyway, here's the story:
I have been working as a part-time tutor, earning the good money. And I met this one guy, Middle-Eastern and in his twenties, who wants me to tutor him in economics, which is fine. So I meet up with him at my house (with my family at home) and we do a little introductory lesson, just seeing where I need to help him. The lesson finishes and that's the end of it, for 6 months (no contact from him).
Recently, just a few days ago, he calls me. I ask him how I could help, ie. why are you calling me? He tells me he's sorry he's been away for a while and wants to catch up... something along those lines. I wonder why he's still calling me since the university he goes to has already finished exams and the beginning of the next semester is in 4 months time, he could not possibly be wanting me to tutor him 4 months in advance, despite him hinting to me how hard working he is from our first lesson. So I tell him I can't meet up because I have exams, which is true, and that I'm going on holidays straight after exams, semi-true. So the conversation ends and he tells me that we should catch up when I finish exams, before I go away for holiday. In my mind at the time: 'not going to happen'.
I've realised I am actually really naive, ignorant, innocent... however you may put it, because I really DID NOT think much of it. Until just now. A text message:
"Hello how are u? What's your plan for the weekend?"
The weekend is a rather personal thing to ask about, we were NOT friends, I have only seen him once and talked to him (briefly) three times. Him and I being only in a tutor-student relationship meant this was very out of place and unusual. Luckily I was in the car with my older brother, who knew exactly what was going on and was the perfect advisor. I showed him the message, laughing at it on the outside but inside I scared and confused as hell . "He obviously likes you," he tells me. That just set the panic alarms ringing. It was creepy. And so here comes the relevance of the title, my brother advised me to text him back saying that I was going to go to the movies with my boyfriend. So I did, but I attempted to sound more natural:
"I'm good, I'm planning on studying and just going to the movies with my boyfriend."
A minute later:
"Cool good luck with your study :)"
I instantly notice how he pedaled away from wherever he aimed to go with the conversation. I hope I'm not being bias because realisations could spark more realisations or simply biases and I really cannot tell the difference sometimes. But really, here he could have still told me what he wanted, e.g. "Oh, well I hope to meet up with you and talk about my economics unit and that you could help me prepare sometime this weekend. But now that I know you're busy, good luck with your study." Something like that? But no. So anyway, I text back:
"Thanks" thinking that was the end of it.
7 minutes later:
" :) "
I'm scared. I am NOT going to meet up with this guy again. Nope, not going to happen. He can find someone else to tutor him. I hope never calls again but I don't think he's got the idea. That last smiley face may be sent because he's not Westernised enough and didn't know that guys don't generally send emoticons but I'm not stupid enough to mistake kindness for an 'approach'. Maybe not stupid enough? Maybe he's just being kind? Because he was a very nice person from the lesson we had... No, he is being kind, but for the wrong reason. Safer to think this, I guess, best to be more cautious and just avoid any unnecessary future contact.
by *micmojo
So yes, apparently I have a boyfriend now, it's a cool feeling, sometimes saying certain things aloud or writing it out (instead of keeping stuff in the mind) brings a certain sense of truth to it, like bringing something false to life and making it seem real (if you know what I mean) and it feels nice to think that what I wrote back was true. But let me clarify, he's imaginary, I don't have a boyfriend and still have never had one. This kind of 'thing' coming from strangers may have happened to girls everywhere, and maybe even many times. But this is my first time and this blog was brought to existence to record my psychological and moral growth, this needs to be recorded here.


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My thoughts are running along the lines of layered sheers to make a very light piece. I am going to be constrained by the requirement to have a minimum of two layers held together with stitch but I am hoping to find a way to keep everything floaty.
Today I have been playing with some monoprinting and stamping on some of the fabric I intend to use:
I should really have been working outside in my studio but it's in a state of disarray so I took over the kitchen.
Not long after it looked like this
The piece of styrofoam at the top of the picture is my favourite toy. I picked it up on the seafront where seagulls had been pecking at ti and had wonderfully distressed the surface.
These silicon pastry brushes made some wonderful marks and I can see them becoming a popular tool too.
So far I've worked in black and white but there will soon be colour. Some of the photos above have the drop cloth underneath showing through and that is going to become some lovely pages for my sketchbook.
I am aiming to work in the style of Pojagi when I assemble the quilt so I just hope I have time to get it all done. I have another idea for my entry for the FOQ itself and will need to get cracking with that very soon too. Maybe I should give up sleeping........


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So September is over. I cannot believe it! The autumn just started and here one month of it is already gone! NO! Please autumn, do not leave me!!! Okay, tears wiped away, nose blown it is time for the September Wrap Up! And in this beautiful month I have managed to a read a total of 5 books! Booooo! BUT I also got my University Diploma so ain't that bad after all? Maybe?
So what I actually did read in September?
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Soo as you can see I have finished three series this month and I am so so happy *happy dance*! I know I also had Outlander on by list for the September TBR but it is slow...it is going but my hopes are to finish it before end of October at least. The thing is...I do not like it at all. It is torture to me, but unfortunately I am one of these people who just cannot deal with DNF and well...dragging we are on Outlander.
What did you read in the month of September?


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Turkey has many market drivers that make it an ideal location currently for property investment. Here we look at some of the reasons why Turkey is one of the world's hottest investment property locations.
Land prices in Turkey have risen in recent years and, in many cases, doubled. In 2005 to 2006, property prices have risen by 25–40%. Recent research shows that by comparison investments made since 1994 have yielded the following average returns:
Taking an average of 25% capital growth, a property purchased at GBP 60,000 with sustained growth over five years will have a market value of GBP 183,105, entailing a huge 305% return on investment.
Turkey is currently at the very start of the long road to possible EU inclusion, meaning there are still another 5-10 years before prices rise substantially. Prior to EU membership, there are many factors yet to be discussed and many of Turkey's issues that need to be corrected before incorporation will be seriously considered. However Turkey has some strong backers for its entry and when it does get accepted into the EU, it is reasonable to expect the price of property to rise greatly in line with a huge surge in tourism.
Many investors are purchasing in Turkey with EU inclusion as a major driving force, while looking to take advantage of the current low property prices and growing rental market.
With so many indicators, many of which are outlined on this page, its clear to see that Turkey is at the beginning of a "property boom". A boom period generally indicates a time when demand for property outstrips supply. This is currently the situation in Turkey especially in the major investment areas such as Bodrum, Istanbul and Dalaman.
The Turkish economy is currently very strong and undergoing much growth. After an average growth of only 2.8 % for ten years from 1993 to 2002, Turkey was able to achieve a growth rate of 5.9 % in 2003 and a substantially higher rate in 2004. Turkey now has the 22nd largest economy in the world.
What is really attracting interest from international property investors is the current value for money of properties in Turkey. The Turkish market still offers excellent quality properties at prices that most other locations of a similar calibre could not offer 10 years ago. These prices, combined with the outstanding expected growth and powered by strong market drivers, offer property investors a unique opportunity.
A major indication of the current state of any property market is the tourist trade. In Turkey the tourist market is expanding massively as the country gains more exposure in the international press. The possibility of it becoming an EU member country is slowly beginning to take hold.
Current demand for Turkey is reflected in the 25 million tourists it attracts per annum. This translates into solid rental yields by buy-to-let investors who purchase in the best tourist locations.
Golf has been a strong market driver in many successful property markets around the world for many years. Spain has used golf to generate a very strong secondary season with thousands of golfers flocking to its shores to play golf during a time when they can't play their sport at home. With golf being so popular around the world many developments are now being constructed around or near golfing facilities. Turkey and namely Antalya is no different.
Many emerging markets have limited infrastructure and this is always a problem that can stunt development. However Turkey has a solid and modern infrastructure that is rapidly growing in line with its economy, tourism and property markets.
Turkey is a dynamic and emerging country equipped with a network of well-developed infrastructure and a globally competitive work force. Its unique position at the crossroads of the world trade routes and its proximity to the developing energy producing areas in the Caspian and Central Asia are factors that further raise its economic potential for the coming years.
Turkey is also home to a thriving tourist industry and a fast growing property market, attracting huge international interest.
Land prices in Turkey are said to have doubled over the last 2 years.
"A property that cost £35,000 in 2004 but starts from about £60,000 shows that prices have increased by as much as 30% in some areas but the build quality is of a high standard and, relatively speaking, property in Turkey remains a bargain." (The Times Online February 2005).
Turkey also offers some tax incentives that are of high interest to property investors, such as its regulations regarding capital gains tax. If you sell your property after four years, there is no capital gains tax. Property that is sold before the period is over will be charged at the standard rate of income tax (between 15% and 35%), calculated on the difference between the buying and selling price.
The Turkish economy is composed of a mix of industry and commerce. Along with a traditional agriculture sector that still accounts for more than 35% of employment, it has a strong and rapidly growing private sector. However, the State still plays a major role in basic industry, banking, transport, and communication.
The largest industrial sector is textiles and clothing, which accounts for one-third of industrial employment; it faces stiff competition in international markets with the end of the global quota system.
However, other sectors, notably the automotive and electronics industries, are rising in importance within Turkey's export mix. In 2004 GDP growth reached 9%. Inflation fell to 7.7% in 2005 - a 30-year low.
Turkey offers a very competitive cost of living. This is another driving factor for tourists and those looking to re-locate. Money still goes much further in the warmer Turkish environment.
A beer will cost you about €0.60 and a meal in a restaurant starts at about €8.00. (2005 Turkish Embassy information).
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by Alexander Fernandez
The holy artifact bonded around Marisylia Malludar's neck gives her incredible physical and magical powers—at a price. The bloody piece of vein is consuming Marisylia's body inch by inch, her skeletal hands and feet only the beginning of a slow death. A cruel sorceress and her assassins are on the hunt for Marisylia to steal the artifact. Religious fanatics, volatile and unstable in their blind faith, also seek her to exploit the vein's most dangerous purpose—liberating the erratic Creator of the World, Lysielle, from her 1,000 year incarceration.
With the vein the key to Lysielle's freedom, Marisylia must use her abilities to survive long enough to find Lysielle first. Then her most grim challenge awaits—deciding if the Creator has truly repented for attempting to destroy all life. To achieve global peace, Marisylia must discover faith in the unpredictable Lysielle or rely on her own instincts to set the world's fate.
Marisylia blinked and rubbed milk out of her eyes, but the mob wasn't finished. A stiff hand shoved her from behind and she stumbled against the table. Unfinished slices of pie and rolls of bread pelted her.
With nowhere to hide, she dove into the horde and tried to shove her way out. Most of the people only yelled insults as they let her pass. Others bumped her roughly with their shoulders, tried to trip her, or pushed her around so she bounced back and forth between pairs of hands.
One woman caught Marisylia and carefully steadied her. She peered into the woman's eyes, one friendly person amid the riled swarm. The lady smiled softly, then suddenly spit into Marisylia's face.
When the saliva splattered her cheek, Marisylia stopped caring why the citizens acted like this. Whether due to fear of the religious power, worry that it would infest Three Fingers, or simply senseless anger, none of it mattered anymore since the time to quit had arrived.
All of her determination to succeed had been ripped to shreds by the crowd. Each hand that shoved, every object that struck, drained her enthusiasm. Her devotion to the religion had drowned in the woman's spit. It was all too much. Marisylia didn't have Milick's iron skin or Shri Lilyn's boldness. She had nothing, only the desire to run away and forget everything.
~Buy TEARS FOR A WORLD on Amazon.
-What inspired you to become a writer?
Hello Mary, I'm very grateful to you for hosting my novel. As a kid, English was always my favorite subject because I loved reading cool stories in class such as A Wrinkle in Time, Of Mice and Men, The Westing Game, and many others. Most kids saw the reading and writing assignments as a chore, but the stories enthralled me to the point where I would get in trouble for reading in class when we weren't supposed to. Writing was exciting, and since youth I wanted to create my own stories.
-If you could visit your book's world for a day, what one thing would you do?
Wow. Meeting the Creator of the world, Lysielle, would top my day. Who wouldn't want to meet a deity? The moment would be awkward with her being stuck in prison, but at least she wouldn't run away. Maybe I could give her an interview, much like this one! Then again, I might be too fascinated (or afraid) to say anything. After all, Lysielle is accused of trying to destroy the world if set free.
-Give us a fun or interesting fact you learned researching this book.
I had a blast reading about the different terminology and methods used to create and manipulate musical notes. In the story, the Song of Earth is used to move terrain and communicate with special, holy beings called Drests. I wanted to create a unique language out of music, a way for the protagonist, Marisylia, to communicate with the Drests. She had to create the Song in her mind and alter things like trills, chords, crescendos, ballads, sharps, flats, bass, and tempo.
-Which of your characters would you go out for drinks and pizza with?
General Aerilly Kishineous would by my date…er, companion. I don't think that warrior has ever had a day of fun in her life. Way too uptight and hard-nosed. Maybe a few cold ones and some tasty food like pizza would help her relax. Who knows, she just might lapse into chill-mode and actually be cool to hang around with. If not, I'm sure a gauntleted fist to my nose would end the night.
-If you could go back in time and give your pre-published self one piece of advice, what would it be?
Good question. I think many writers out there always have that "one thing" they could have done better or been more prepared for. After stepping out of my time machine, I would tell myself to do more research on promotion and marketing before release day. That way I would have a better grasp on social media, networking, and getting my work out there. Mountains and seas of books everywhere, physical and digital, make it difficult for new writers to get recognition.
-Is there a genre you could never write? Which and why?
I love horror stories and movies, even the cheesy ones that are supposed to be scary but make you laugh. My attempt at writing horror might produce that same result. I would love to write a story and put a good, serious fright into people, but instead a whole lot of cheese may be the outcome. As much as I enjoy it, horror seems like a tough genre to crack.
Alexander Fernandez was born in Santa Monica, CA and grew up in Rancho Cucamonga. Currently serving over 20 years in the United States Air Force, he lives with his wife Helem in Rocklin, CA.
Alex has been writing fantasy stories since early childhood for both school and for pleasure. He hopes to make a lasting emotional impact in his readers. He thrives in the exhilaration of creating memorable characters and adventures that become a part of the reader's life.
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Established by David Lagettie, founder of the popular VBS series of military simulation software (VBS1/VBS2), Virtual Simulation Systems is a ground breaking company developing new and custom solutions to military or civilian simulation needs. We offer an innovative range of products in the synthetic training realm and are constantly developing new technologies to meet cost-effective outcomes.
VSS designs and builds custom simulators, full procedural or part task trainers, and replica weapons to suit any needs and any budget. From vehicles to aircraft, virtual marshalling to JTAC devices, projection domes to helmet mounted displays, we can provide an affordable service and bespoke workmanship. VSS also specialises in custom software, terrain and 3D model development for military and civilian customers.
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This Suzuki Samurai called "Groundhawg" was brought to the United States in 1985 and came with a 1.3 L four-cylinder engine producing about 63 horsepower. After the factory engine blew the owner decided to go with something that matched their personality. At first the owner considered using a diesel VW engine or a Geo tracker engine but none of these seemed unique enough. Finally the owner settled on a RevTech motorcycle engine which is a knock off of a Harley Davidson engine from South Korea producing around 115 horsepower and 120 lb-ft of torque.
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I love my suzuki and i love how it can go any where i want it too even with it all stock. BUT i want it to be faster. it was brought to my attention that i could put a haybusa engine in it. which sounds pretty awesome. what do you think of that idea?
I think it would be great
I find myself asking why I havn't seen this before!
Nice. I have a Suzuki Samurai 88. I love my Suzuki, and it needs an engine soon, the old stock and OEM engine has reached its final days.
A Hayabusa engine sounds nice, would it cost too much?? how difficult would it be?
You couldn't use a Hayabusa motor. It has a built in transmission and chain final drive not to mention the clutch would never hold up to the sammys weight. A better engine swap would be a direct shaft drive motor that could be coupled to the stock transmission such as a 2 or 3 cylinder inline snowmobile or watercraft motor. I went off roading in Arrowhead, Ca. and saw a nicely modded samurai with an old two rotor RX-7 rotory motor swap that was fantastic.
Many people have done hayabusa engine swaps and they work great, improve mileage and even have better torque than OEM. Check out youtube there are some really sweet builds.
Thanks Mack for helping.
I WANT ONE. I need some more info. on the mating of the motor to transmission.


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Ryan Paul at Ars Technica reports a shocker – Microsoft has signed up as a $100,000 per year sponsor of the Apache Foundation which produces their number one Web server competitor.
Today at the OSCON open source software convention, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) got an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF, joins Google and Yahoo as a platinum sponsor of Apache development.
The ASF is a nonprofit group that exerts loose organizational guidance role over a sprawling ecosystem of autonomously managed software projects, including the Apache web server and a host of libraries, frameworks, toolkits, and programs. The culture of the ASF is built upon what they call the "Apache Way," a philosophy of consensus-based collaborative stewardship and volunteerism.
I spoke with Apache Software Foundation (ASF) president Justin Erenkrantz, who views Microsoft's sponsorship of Apache as a step forward for interoperability. He believes that this move is based on a legitimate desire by Microsoft to foster collaborative development of Apache technologies that implement Microsoft standards. In particular, he points out an ASF project called Apache POI which offers native Java libraries for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats.
Erenkrantz told me that Microsoft has been moving in this direction for quite some time. The company recently invited several Apache contributors to visit its Redmond headquarters for informal interoperability talks. Microsoft's recognition of the role that open source software will play in enterprise infrastructure comes directly from the top, he says, and isn't just confined to rogue elements within the company.
Microsoft's Sam Ramji offers this elaboration:
It's critical to understand two things about our sponsorship of the ASF: what it is, and what it is not.
It is not a move away from IIS as Microsoft's strategic web server technology. We have invested significantly in refactoring and adding new, state-of-the-art features to IIS, including support for PHP. We will continue to invest in IIS for the long term and are currently under way with development of IIS 8.
It is a strong endorsement of The Apache Way, and opens a new chapter in our relationship with the ASF. We have worked with Apache POI, Apache Axis2, Jakarta, and other projects in the last year, and we will continue our technical support and interoperability testing work for this open source software.
I'm sure there will still be a certain amount of suspicion of Microsoft's motives but customer demand for interoperability makes strange bedfellows and the lack thereof in Microsoft server products is always a prime competitor talking point.


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Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Museum founder Charles Lang Freer and painter Thomas Dewing met in 1891 and developed an enduring relationship based on shared aesthetic sensibilities and genuine friendship. Early in their acquaintance, Dewing noted that Freer's attitude toward the artists whose works he collected was different from "most people who buy pictures." Dewing confided to Freer that he had never hoped to meet "someone in the world so faithful to me and my art."
Dewing received his early education in his hometown of Boston, where he worked as an apprentice with a well-known local lithographer and began his artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1874 he established himself as a portrait and landscape painter. Two years later, in 1876, he left for Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian. Dewing became the first American in a long line of aspiring young painters from across the Atlantic to enroll in that prestigious private art school. After he returned to the United States in the fall of 1877, Dewing launched his painting career in New York City.
During the early 1880s, Dewing worked in the style of British aesthetic painters and particularly admired the Pre-Raphaelite poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882). Critics noted that Dewing's paintings of this period were overly decorative and lacked narrative or symbolic meaning. He later developed a more tonal style similar to that of James McNeill Whistler, and he banished virtually all remnants of narrative from his art.
Dewing's contemporaries knew him as "an artist's artist," whose restrained style appealed largely to the most discerning of viewers. The painter Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924) attributed "an air of refinement" to Dewing's work, a quality that made his paintings particularly attractive to Freer. The collector's growing reputation as a connoisseur was enhanced by his association with artists who, as one writer claimed, "had withdrawn . . . from the commoner aims, pursuits, and circumstances of a commercial generation." Freer eventually acquired forty-one works by Dewing, including oil paintings, pastels, silverpoint drawings, and a pair of bifold screens.


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"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place."
To understand what Jesus means by the "law" and "the prophets," one must consider their origins and context. The law refers to the commandments listed in the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, which Moses gave to the Israelites. The prophets that Jesus mentions would eventually take these commandments and paraphrase them for the people – there were, after all, over 600 of them. Together, the law and the prophets make up the majority of the Old Testament and give an idea of provide a framework of what worshiping the one true God actually entailed.
Neither Jesus nor Paul dismissed the Old Testament outright. They both recognize what it did for the Jewish people. God gave these commandments to His people with the intention of establishing a kingdom. Considering that Moses's people started with no land, no rights, no education, no power, and hardly any experience with civilized life since most of them were slaves, God's commandments held enormous importance. With His commandments, God essentially created society out of nothing.
When the Israelite kingdom later disintegrated under the corrupt descendants of Solomon and finally fell under the conquest of the Babylonians, many prophets forewarned such a disaster. Through these holy men, God tried to warn His people to follow His commandments; to do otherwise would destabilize their society and have them regress once more to the status of slaves. Prophets like Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Elijah often castigated the Israelites for their infidelity and their sinfulness. However, almost as a kind of consolation, they would also foretell of a messiah who would reestablish God's kingdom and restore His people. A great many Jews kept looking for this Messiah as they tried their best to keep the commandments. The two books of the Maccabees offer a glimpse of this history between Babylonian captivity and the time of Roman occupation in the gospels.
Interestingly, the Sadducees and Pharisees were divided on the validity of the Law and Prophets. The Sadducees, a politically connected party of affluent Israelites, believed only in the Law, but not the prophets, and had a strictly materialist understanding of life, rejecting the notions of a resurrection, angels, or the soul's immortality. The Pharisees believed in the tradition of the prophets in addition to the law and in the spiritual realm. While not as connected or wealthy as the Sadducees, they were respected and supported by the common people.
Despite their differences, what united these two parties was a desire for statehood. Both of them wanted to usher in a golden age for Israel, one that would rival that of King David. Hence, they both looked at the law as a means of making this happen. Instead of hoping in God or themselves, they hoped in this set of rules which they had come to associate with greatness; it is not an overstatement to say that they made the mistake of idolizing the commandments. Elevating the prophets to a place of honor did not necessarily save the Pharisees from this error. They only pursued their idol with more zeal and violence than the other party.
Jesus and His disciples have the challenge of confronting this fanatical legalism. They do this by acknowledging the Law's benefits as well as its limits. Jesus has a bigger goal in mind than rebuilding some worldly kingdom, and He has a more ambitious desire than creating an upstanding law-abiding people. He wants to establish a spiritual kingdom of all kinds of people, and He wants the denizens of this kingdom to be saints. The time had come for transcendence, for heroism, for God Himself.
In His miracles, His teaching, His sacrifice and resurrection, Jesus completes, or "fulfills," what God's Law promised: a heavenly kingdom with heavenly inhabitants. He liberates the individual from a pattern of sin and death. Furthermore, He does this for all mankind, not just the Israelite people. What happened on the earthly plane of the Old Testament, Jesus brings to the spiritual plan in the New Testament. This change challenges disciples even more than before, but they will receive an infinitely greater reward and have God's help "until all things have taken place."


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Dorylas Moreau is the bishop of the Quebec Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda. If that name sounds familiar it is because he was the bishop who petitioned the Vatican recently for the twisted Sr. Pierrette 'the pastor' Thiffault to be allowed to witness a wedding and perform the ceremony. In a recent interview with ICI Radio-Canada and an in an article he wrote in the 6 June 2017 diocesan newsletter, L'Église de Rouyn-Noranda, Moreau shared what Francis told him and the bishops of Canada when they met in May 2017 for their ad Limina Apostolorum visit. (Underlines are ours for emphasis.)
"The Pope said to me, 'Listen, you are forgetting two things: the future of the Church is more about the word of God than (it is) about the Eucharist,' paraphrases the bishop. Because the word of God does not necessarily need priests to be expressed and implemented in our environments. And he insisted very much on the works of mercy. This is new, it is doing good, caring for the poor, being open to justice, and so on. This is what will give the testimony of the Church. "
"When you are in front of him, you get the impression that everything is there. He does not pay attention to anything else. We have access to him very easily, we give him the hand. "
"He is an extremely simple man, a man who speaks much more by his gestures than by his words. He is not so much an orator as might have been John Paul II or the great theologian as is Pope Benedict XVI, he is really a man on the ground. [He is] a man of gesture, a prophet in my opinion, close to the Gospel, and then [he is] not embarrassing at all. For example, at coffee-time, during breaks, it was the pope himself who served the coffee."
source: ICI Radio-Canada, L'évêque de Rouyn-Noranda rencontre le pape François
"Faith is concrete, he said, the works of mercy will mark the future of the Church. These are, in short, interpellations and give global testimony of a Christian life inspired by the gospel. The practice of the works of mercy is also the health of the Church! Finally, there was a lot of discussion of the importance of docility to the Holy Spirit and of the [absolute] essentialness that support be given to the poor. 'To touch the poor is to touch the flesh of the Christ!' I want a poor church for the poor, seemed to recall Francis."
source: L'Église de Rouyn-Noranda, « Église du Québec, lève-toi et avance ! », 6 June 2017, p. 4
And there you have it dear readers, straight out of the mouth of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future of the Novus Ordo church is one with Mercy granted to all (even the unrepentant) as well as one without priests or the Eucharist!


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Date(s) - 11/03/2017
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Winter means root vegetables, and no better day to roast some up than a snow day from work. And if you're gonna roast some veggies, might as well do a nice big batch. I got carrots, beets, and turnips in my CSA on Saturday. Well, I've never been crazy about carrots, I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten beets, and I've never had a turnip in my life!
So I went into this with a positive mentality: If I wasn't crazy about the veggies, I'd at least have some delicious whipped goat cheese to dunk them in. Turns out, roasting just about anything makes it taste pretty good!
The carrots taste bright yet caramelized, the beets are sweet and earthy, and the turnips turn crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside. And the dip doesn't hurt either. Though, of course, as soon as the beets come in contact with it, this happens…
At least it's pretty! And delicious spread on some homemade bread, too.
Roasted Roots with Whipped Goat Cheese
For the veggies: This technique works with whatever hardy roots you like. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Thoroughly wash the veggies and trim off the tops and bottoms. Cut veggies into 2″ chunks and toss with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Roast for 45 minutes to an hour, flipping every 20 minutes or so, until easily pierced with a fork. If you're roasting beets, wrap them in a foil before sticking them in the oven. I prefer to peel the beets before I cook them, I feel the juice stains less when raw.
For the whipped goat cheese:
- 2 oz goat cheese, room temperature
- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt, room temperature
- 2-3 cloves of roasted garlic (or 1 raw clove, minced)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- juice of half a lemon
- Thoroughly mix together all ingredients with an immersion blender, blender, or food processor. Season to taste with salt. Try to wait to eat it til the veggies come out of the oven.


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Harvard affiliate Joslin Diabetes Center is mounting a CME research project with funding from a pharmaceutical company whose products are tangential to the therapeutic area.
It's uncommon for industry to fund CME without an aligned, proper commercial interest, and even more uncommon to fund research in CME. But Pfizer, which lacks a major product in diabetes, just committed a $300,000 challenge grant to the diabetes center to test the usefulness of different CME assessment methods, said Joslin executive director of professional education Julie Brown.
Pfizer has supported 50% of the grant as a challenge to other commercial supporters to step up and support the research, according to a statement issued by Joslin.
The firm's 2010 funding report lists $10,000 given in the fourth quarter as the "placeholder" for the full Pfizer commitment of $300,000, Brown said. The full grant will be awarded when it's fully funded through commitments from added supporters, which Brown is confident will be announced in the near future.
Why is Pfizer funding research in professional education without a clear product tie-in? "Pfizer recognizes the value of medical education," said its chief medical officer Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall in the Joslin statement, adding that med ed can provide valuable information about treatment that may reduce the burden from chronic illness.
The firm eased up on metabolic R&D years ago after withdrawing Exubera, an inhaled insulin which never caught on in the marketplace. The closest drug in its portfolio would be Lyrica, approved for treating the pain of diabetic neuropathy, but the education and research has nothing to do with DPN, Brown said, adding that Pfizer's products are not relevant to the education that forms the basis for the research.
The goal is to analyze different outcomes methods that accredited CME providers use to measure performance of doctors.
From the June 01, 2011 Issue of MM&M - Medical Marketing and Media


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RoadSync needed a custom payment platform to secure investment.
RoadSync recognized the shipping and trucking industries lacked a custom electronic payment platform. To secure initial customers and new investment, it approached 352 for a new brand identity and a robust minimum viable product (MVP) of its SaaS product. In just 90 days, we delivered a feature-rich platform which enabled RoadSync to garner new investment, onboard customers and grow its own team.


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Photo used with permission from Laura Pickett Calfee.
For artists, bloggers, poets, writers and students
Creative Prompt: Mom Gave It To Amy
Photo used with permission from Laura Pickett Calfee.
3 comments:
- James Parker said...
Parson Brown had come to visit,
A hundred years ago today
To console my dear young Grandma,
When Great Grand-Dad passed away.
Maudie Jones and all the girls,
Stopped by for Tuesday Tea,
All decked out in finery..,
Oh, what a sight to see!
When Dad-to-be first met my Mom,
He sat inside the parlor,
Beads of sweat ran down his face,
And soaked his starched white collar.
All those times the tea was poured,
From this graceful little pot,
What wondrous tales that it could tell,
Cos I'm sure it heard a lot.
When Grandma died, she passed along,
This teapot down to me,
Now I've grown old and will do the same,
For my grand-daughter, dear Amy.
- February 08, 2010
- Sarah-Paige said...
Teapot silver and true
reality refracted
in its curvature sides
my counterfeit muse.
On a capsule of age
handle and spout aligned
along the meridian divide
holding candle lit rage.
But lies could not tame me
eyes a piercing suprise
all went dark as I heard,
'mom gave it to Amy'.
- February 09, 2010
- Meandering Michael said...
Amy got the teapot
Charlie got the car
Millie got the mansion
Chuck, the old guitar
Betsy got the silverware
Frank got all the dough
Florence got the jewels
It was very apropos
My mother left me nothing
Had already what I need
'Cause she shared with me with her wisdom
And the life skills to succeed
- February 09, 2010


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At Audi, doing less is something we're trying to do more of. We're working to use less fuel, release less CO2 and waste less energy. It's why we've incorporated a number of more efficient technologies into the Audi A3.
When a vehicle brakes, the discs convert the kinetic energy into thermal energy, which is wasted as it cannot be used. With a recuperation system, like the one that is fitted as standard on all A3 models, the kinetic energy is converted into useful electrical energy. The way it works is simple. While the car is coasting or braking, the alternator voltage is raised above the level of the basic electrical system, which enables the alternator to generate electrical energy and store it temporarily in the battery. When the vehicle accelerates, this energy is used to relieve the load on the alternator, resulting in a fuel saving of up to 3%.
Even cylinder heads can be intelligent, as Audi cylinder on demand proves it. Two of the four TFSI engine's cylinders shut down automatically under partial-load conditions.This helps to lower fuel consumption and emission at the same time without the switchover even being noticed or imparing the driving dynamics.


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- Thought I was our neighbour.
- Thought I was a friend and had kidnapped our baby.
- Thought I was a man and had imagined having a baby.
- Thought I was a person with multiple personalities who was stuck on 'Claire Griffiths' and wouldn't move on from that 'fantasy'.
- Thought I was in coma and could only communicate with my eyes.
- Thought I was in a strange sort of game where I had to pass levels to give birth.
- Thought my baby would die soon.
- Thought a neighbour had killed my partner and baby and hit me on the head with something heavy but I survived.
- Thought my partner was poisoning me in my food.
- Thought my partner was giving me my medicine wrong on purpose.
- Thought my partner was trying to kill me and my baby.
Thursday, 13 July 2017
My Psychosis and me: Memories, the things I thought I was'
Monday, 10 July 2017
My Psychosis and me part two: The beginning of my madness.
It's taken me more than two weeks to write this blog post, editing and re-editing, how much to share? What to say? Is it too much? Is anyone even interested? I was reminded yesterday after reading an inspiring PP blog that the reason I'm passionate about writing these blog posts of my own story is to raise awareness of Postpartum Psychosis, because if nobody is talking about it then how are you or other people supposed to realise that something out of the ordinary is happening to you? who can flag up those warning symptoms in order to keep you safe? It is an illness that very quickly spirals out of control, the longer it is left the more psychotic, distressed and dangerous you can become, which in turn can effect both your own and your friends and families health.
So here goes:
My gorgeously perfect daughter was born at 2am on valentines day 2016, I suffered a seriously sleep deprived build up to the labour due to immense pain in my hips at night, I had not slept more than a couple of hours in 10-20 days and was already completely exhausted with nothing left to give.
Unfortunately we had to stay in the hospital a few extra nights because I was having intravenous antibiotics due to the high-temperature and suspected infection. Both of my hands had cannulas and I had a catheter, which I found incredibly restrictive and invasive, because of this I just couldn't hold my baby properly or comfortably and breast feeding became just impossible! I was obsessed with pumping or hand expressing for her, it felt like it was the only thing I could do to help as she was loosing weight and my quest to breastfeed just didn't seem possible, every time I tried it was just so difficult.
I would also find time at night to obsessively write my delusional ideas down, I remember knowing that 'things got darker at night' and dreading the build up to bedtime. I was writing scribbled notes all over my birth plan papers and anything else I could find so that I would not forget the things that I thought were happening and so I could tell the midwives the next day, this writing became habitual and something that I believe may have helped me in recovery.
Monday, 19 June 2017
My Psychosis and me: part one
So many things have happened since I wrote my last post back in 2015, experiences both traumatic and wonderful, I want to start sharing these things in a format that could help other women and what better way than blog posts! (And maybe vlogs at some point).
So what happened? Well I became a mother last February, it was inevitable that this would change me, I love our daughter River more than I could ever imagine and I'm so happy we were able to expand our family by one amazing, inspiring little girl, she's now 16 months old and Im loving this stage, she's learning new things every day and we have such fun together it's like I've got this little best friend/side-kick who is always up for being silly and having a laugh (like most of my good adult friends!) it's all gone so fast though, and I'm sure it will keep going fast from now on!
Motherhood is only part of the journey I've been on, the other big event in my life that coincided with River's birth was that I suffered Post Partum Psychosis, it's not something I had ever heard of or knew to be looking out for as I've never had any major previous mental health issues, it's reasonably rare and happens to 'one to two' women in every thousand births. In this short series of blog posts I'd like to write a bit about what it is, how it affected me personally and how I've come to a point where I feel pretty much recovered (whatever that means!).
What is Post Partum Psychosis?
"Postpartum Psychosis (also known as 'Puerperal Psychosis' or PP) is a debilitating form of postnatal mental illness that follows one to two in 1,000 deliveries (Kendell et al. 1987). Episodes onset in the days following childbirth and should be regarded by health professionals as a psychiatric emer- gency. Symptoms include the rapid onset of hallucinations, delusions, mania, bizarre behaviour, severe confusion, elated mood, and depression (Brockington 1996; Heron et al. 2008). PP can affect women from all social classes, education levels, and occupational backgrounds. Many episodes occur 'out of the blue' to women without previous psychiatric history, but women with a history of bipolar disorder are at particularly high risk, with PP episodes following around 25% of deliveries (Jones and Craddock 2005)."
But this is just a medical description, a list of signs and symptoms with none of the realness, the harshness, how it actually feels, the way it effects you, the way it can effect your life and turn what is meant to be a joyful time into a very dark and very, very scary time! I've come through what has been the hardest time in my life, I am recovered but it has been such a tough journey with lots of hard work, I have ended up with some residual anxiety and maternal OCD but both are managed well with medication at the moment.
On Saturday 17th of June I did some training for the amazing charity 'Action on Postpartum Psychosis' I'm now one of their peer supporters in an online help forum and will also be giving support through 1-1 emails to mums who might be struggling, I just want to do everything I can to make other people's experiences of PP as easy as possible by giving hope that there is life after PP, that you can get through it no matter how dark or lost you feel.
In my experience it's better to learn about things from a first person account, so in the next few blog posts I will be sharing my lived experience to raise awareness of Postpartum Psychosis, the more people we reach the better chance someone might have of being diagnosed sooner and given the support they need before it gets to a critical level so please feel free to share my blog posts about the illness.


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An increasingly violent insurgency in Somalia is fuelling a fresh refugee crisis with nearly 40,000 people arriving at a desert camp in north-eastern Kenya this year despite the border being closed.
The Dadaab settlement now hosts more than 210,000 people, making it the world's biggest refugee camp. With at least 200 new arrivals every day, aid workers are struggling to cope.
"We are already at bursting point," said Maeve Murphy, field officer with the UN Refugee Agency in Dadaab, 60 miles south of the border with Somalia. "And more refugees are on their way."
The refugees are fleeing the worst fighting in Somalia since the early 90s, when the country's descent into anarchy began. On one side is the internationally recognised but weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG), supported by thousands of Ethiopian troops. Waging an increasingly effective guerrilla war against them is a broad-based, Islamist-led opposition, whose hardline wing last week took over the strategic port city of Kismayo.
More than 8,000 civilians have been killed in Somalia since the beginning of last year, while nearly one million people have been internally displaced since September 2007. Drought, hyperinflation and year-on-year food prices increases of up to 700% have compounded the humanitarian crisis.
The UN's Food Security Analysis Unit on Wednesday described the situation as "alarming and profound". Some 3.2 million people - nearly half the population - needed emergency assistance, it said, up from 1.8 million people in January. One in six children under the age of five is acutely malnourished.
But aid delivery is more difficult than anywhere in the world, with the possible exception of Afghanistan, humanitarian workers say. Pirates prevent food relief arriving by sea, while ambushes, roadblocks and targeted assassinations have had a severe impact on field operations. All of south and central Somalia and large parts of the northern Puntland region are almost completely off-limits to international staff.
The capital, Mogadishu, remains the centre of the insurgency and it is there that many of Dadaab's new arrivals start their journeys. Paying £50 for a seat in a truck or minibus, they make the 600-mile journey south to the Kenyan border, which has been officially closed since early 2007 but remains porous enough for the refugees to sneak through.
Abdullahi Shimoy Mukhtar, 40, who arrived in Dadaab with his family on August 1, said that the insecurity had made it impossible to earn a living in Mogadishu.
"If the government soldiers or Ethiopians suspect that you support al-Shabaab [fighters from the Islamist wing], they will kill you in the street, and vice-versa."
Dadaab, where temperatures often touch 40C (104F), consists of three neighbouring camps, though a fourth may soon have to be built. The newcomers' shelters are desert igloos; bent branches covered with plastic sheeting and blankets. But Mukhtar's brother Muhammad said: "Even if we have nothing else here, we have security. There is a dark future for Somalia."
Few Somalia watchers would disagree, at least for the short term. The TFG's president, the former warlord Abdullahi Yusuf, whom most observers now regard as serious obstacle to progress, is locked in a power-struggle with his prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein. The political arm of Islamist opposition, known as the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS), is also deeply divided.
Desperate for some sort of peace deal, the UN and western diplomats have been pushing the "Djibouti Agreement", which creates deadlines for a ceasefire, the deployment of international peacekeepers and the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops. On August 18, the TFG finally signed the deal with the moderate ARS faction headed by Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
But though some Islamist military commanders strongly support the agreement, the more militant arm of the ARS, headed by the Eritrea-based cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, remains opposed to it. Aweys, who has his own field commanders, also has close ties to al-Shabaab, and to Hassan al-Turki, another veteran Somali radical with his own militias.
All three are on the terrorist list drawn up by the US, which strongly backed Ethiopia's invasion in late 2006. Some European countries believe the alleged links to al-Qaida are exaggerated and unhelpful to the peace process.
Various Islamist militias from the hardline ARS faction helped win the two-day battle for Kismayo from last week, assisted by local clan militias opposed to Barre Hirale, a warlord and MP who controlled the town.
One western diplomat described the victory as "photocopy" of what had occurred in September 2006, when Islamist forces captured Kismayo from Hirale before Ethiopia's intervention.
If they keep hold of the port, the Islamists will net millions of dollars in annual revenues, can easily ship in weapons, and will effectively control the coastline all the way south to Kenya.
"Ethiopia and the US have to think quickly about how they want to respond," said a Somalia analyst in Nairobi. "It's a pretty bold move by the Islamists."
Somalia's current crisis dates back to early 2006. Backed by the local population, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) defeated a group of warlords that had controlled Mogadishu for more than a decade. A mix of moderates and more extreme clerics, the ICU was viewed by Ethiopia and the US as a potential terrorist threat. When the Islamists expanded their reach, challenging the unpopular Transitional Federal Government, Ethiopian troops poured across the border. Virtually unchallenged, they occupied Mogadishu in December 2006. Most Somalis resented the Ethiopian occupation, and the remnants of the ICU began an insurgency. Ethiopia has since become bogged down in its own "mini-Iraq", unable to defeat the insurgents or to withdraw without also ensuring the swift demise of the Somali government.


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Still down? or is it just me?
Its still down.
"Sometimes someone just needs to be the OP" -Tellenta Philosopher of our People.
Server is back up now just logging in, time to cap stuff before other faction load up.
Just tried to have a play at NC, hadn't given them a go yet, too see if I liked them.
Holy fuck is that team filled with idiots or what? There was about 30 people sitting shooting at a base shield, instead of taking out the generator about 30m behind them that was controlling the shields. Went to another base that was getting capped. We took it, then got instantly cut off from the rest of the territory. Instead of going out and re-connecting these fuckers camped the base, like it was fucking Custers Last Stand or some shit.
Dont think I'll be logging that character on again any time soon.
Double Post.
Lost connection to the server appearently. And now i can't get back in. When I hit the big green play button at the character scree, nothing happens. -_-
Great fun!
had the same thing, restart the game 10 times and finally it let me in
Esamir is so fucking foggy ... flying there is like diving in milk.
What the fuck!?
If you put it that way ... still, how to disable it? Only fog-related thing in there is "FogShadowsEnable=0"
SweetFX and all other injectors will result in a ban; not worth it.
Soe posted something about using the sweet fx and other shit and ppl getting banned for modding the client even tho their client is shit. The .ini stuff is okay. Anyways its somewhere in this thread http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...cations.54265/