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"Do you not have your passport?"
"But you should have your passport!" "
- Exchange between me and a policeman, (who was violating my civil rights).
In the autumn of 1999, I went to San Francisco. Pioneer had developed DVD drives for their navigation systems, but these could not play DVD movies. We found out that an American company had
developed a PC card that could play back DVDs from a DVD ROM drive like we had, so we asked them to modify their software to run in our navigation system. One of their engineers was stationed in
Kawagoe for a couple of months to implement this, and I did a lot of translation work with him. As the production deadline came closer, we still had a lot of bugs that we wanted them to fix. At
this stage DVD movies were still not so common, and the people who made them made a lot of mistakes when using the technology in their disc authoring. Some of the problems could be overcome by
the software, and we wanted to minimise the number of bugs that might be reported as problems in our product. The engineer responsible was sent over to the company's office in California, and I
was asked to accompany him as a translator. Many of these bugs were in porn movies, so we had to be careful about bringing the actual software through customs! The work we did there was hectic,
continuing past 9PM or 10PM every night, and on the final day we did not finish up until 4AM. When we got back to our hotel, the electronic room keys had already been rendered invalid.
It was interesting to compare the work environment of a Silicon valley start-up with the much stiffer environment of Japanese companies. People here wore shorts to work, everyone was on first name terms, and there were free soft drinks and snacks, including Japanese instant noodles, on hand for those who worked late, and these could be eaten while watching movies on the big screen of the home theatre system in their conference room.
We had the Saturday free so we decided to go sightseeing in San Francisco. We got a BART train from Fremont, where we were staying, and as we were waiting at the station, a woman asked me which train she should get. I told her that I was literally the worst person to ask, because being straight of the boat, I didn't know either. She eventually got on the same train as us, and spent the journey telling a large portion of her life story to the older woman who had told her what train to get. (It was by eavesdropping on this that I found out which train to get.) Complete strangers conversing like that was something that is rarely seen in Japan.
We tried to get ride on a cable car, but the queue at the terminus would make even a hardened Tokyo Disneyland visitor cry, so we abandoned that plan and decided to get a ride on one of the ferries that toured around the Golden Gate Bridge and Alacatraz. That obviously meant we had to go down to the harbour, so we had lunch at the famous Pier 39. The afternoon was spent finding a store in the centre of town that sold a particular brand of bag that my colleague's wife wanted, and that he had been ordered to buy during his trip. For the Sunday morning, I called a friend of mine, Kevin, who used to work in Pioneer's Tokorozawa factory and had lived three floors below me. He was now working in San Jose, and he drove us to the airport after a pleasant lunch spent catching up on old times.
In November of that Year, Alex left Pioneer to go work for Bose in Boston, having been headhunted on the recommendation of Damian, who had gone there a year earlier. This was a surprise, not only because he did not mention it before he made the decision, even though he had even travelled to Boston for an interview, but because of all the foreign workers in Pioneer, Alex was probably the most content, satisfied with his work and enjoying a good social life. None of the "little things" about Japan that seem to bug most people bugged Alex. When he left, the original Kawagoe group of foreigners was all gone except for myself, but I had been joined by Chris who had moved here from Shizuoka, so I wasn't totally alone.
Also in November of that year, I spent a long cold night standing in a field just outside of Kawagoe, waiting for the Leonid Meteor shower to come along so I could photograph it. There were a number of couples and families there to watch the event, and I had set my camera up a bit back from the road to avoid the street lighting. Doing long exposure shots, I got a few photos of meteors, showing up as bright streaks across the semi darkness of the sky. At around 4AM I decided it was too cold and I was too tired to continue so I packed up my gear and prepared to leave, but as I was walking back out to the road, a burst of gasps and screams was followed by chatter and exclamations from the people around me, as a bright flash streaked across the sky. As I was cursing my luck for missing what was probably the best shot of a meteor that anyone in Japan could have expected to get that night, the smell of a burnt firework wafted across the fields. Somebody, it seemed, was playing a little trick.
Because he knew of my interest in photography, the owner of Simple Simon, who was an avid swimmer at the sports club we both frequented, asked me to photograph a swim meet in which he was taking part. This involved getting up very early to travel into Tokyo, and spend a day in a hot, humid swimming arena photographing the members of the club swim team. Now you may be thinking, "Cool, babes in bikinis!" but there were more "Baachans" (grannies) than babes, and competition rules forbade bikinis. I did, however, meet several nice girls, and gained many friends. Since they spend most of their time under the water, I concentrated on photographing their diving, since that was the most active movement which would make for a good photo. As it turned out, everybody was delighted with this because it allowed them to examine their diving form, which they normally could not do because the club does not allow diving at the pool. The result of this was that my photography became extremely popular, and I was asked to do a lot more of their swimming competitions after that. In return, I got invited to their "uchiage" parties after each event.
At one swim event, which was held at an large international swimming pool in Tokyo, (what exactly makes a swimming pool "international" anyway?) I was snapping away from the balcony above the pool, when a couple of old women started asking me questions, where I was from, was I a competitor, was I taking photos of friends, and the like. I thought they were just being nosey, and I was busy trying not to miss a shot, so I was rather curt with them. When I mentioned the encounter later to Shimano, he said that the organisers had been having problems with photographers who had nothing to do with the swimming teams sneak in to take photos of the female swimmers and then release them on the internet, so those two women were probably checking me out. This is something I had not even considered, since the swimsuits were quite conservative and most of the women were not young, but I was quit shocked to realise I had been suspected of being some kind of peeping tom!
Now, being suspected or accused of something you didn't do is an unpleasant experience, even if your accusers are a couple of powerless old women. But when the police themselves start accusing you of something, it becomes a lot more serious. I have not been a fan of Japan's police since the incident in Ikebukuro with my brother, and another encounter one night in Kawagoe made things even worse. Walking home from work, I passed the local railway station, where a policeman was standing near the "koban" police box, watching over the bicycles parked outside the station. I missed the green man at the crossroads, and as I waited for the light to change again, he walked over to me, opened his coat to show me his uniform and asked me for identification.
(The following conversation is as close to the facts as I can remember, transcribed the following day. I was a bit too enraged at the time to be taking notes, so this is not verbatim, and the translation is my own. (Even if I say so myself, the translation, and my understanding of these events, is not the subject of any doubt. By this stage of my life in Japan I could speak and understand the language excellently. Nothing that was said to me in the course of the following discussion was in any way unclear.)
P = Policeman:
M = Me:
P: Hello , I'm a police officer, do you mind if I talk to you?
I did not verbally respond, but looked at him in a way that said, "carry on".
P: There have been various ("iroiro") incidents recently in which we believe foreigners may have been involved. May I see some identification?
(I took out and passed to him my alien registration card. Even at this point he was, technically speaking, exceeding his authority, as he had to have a specific and worthwhile reason to be asking me questions at all. He examined this momentarily, and then said;)
P: Do you not have your passport?
M: No!
P: But you should have your passport!
("pasupooto wo motsu gimu ga aru"; Under no circumstances was this a language misunderstanding. I remember this moment with outstanding clarity because I thought at the time;
"DAMN! THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING TO ME!! I SHOULD HAVE MEMORISED WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THAT (Dave Aldwinkle's) HOMEPAGE!!!))
M: I have never heard that before!
P: Even if you have a registration card, it does not mean you have a visa. The expiration date of this card is not the same as the visa.
M: But the expiration date of my visa is written on this card!
(I pointed to the "Period of Stay" section, valid until October 2002.)
P: But this card would be issued by the city office even if you don't have a visa. That's why you have to carry your passport, to show you have a visa. It's not something we would arrest you for,
(putting both hands together in a handcuffed position for dramatic effect)
but you do have to carry it.
M: That means this (alien registration) card is meaningless!
P: To the police this has no meaning. This is issued as a means of identification in case of accidents or whatever. Not as a proof of your visa.
M: I have never heard that before! In fact I have been told before that I don't have to carry my passport!
P: By who?
M: A policeman!!!
(This was a blatant lie, but it shut him up!)
He then started to tell me how it was unfortunate that he had to do this as most foreigners were honest and hardworking, but I shouldn't take it badly. I responded to this by saying that if a
report had been filed of Japanese person committing a crime they would not stop and question all Japanese people, but he responded by saying that they would stop anyone who fitted a given
description, and in the case of foreigners, we all look alike, in the same way that Japanese and other Asians look alike to western eyes. I wasn't sure if he meant that the police can't tell the
difference or the witnesses can't, but either way I saw the argument going downhill. The signal changed to green, so I said "gokurousan"(*) and walked away.
(*) A Japanese phrase that means "job well done" or some such. The intonation I used quite clearly said "Fuck Off"!
I left the scene in a rage, and had a few beers at my local bar to calm my nerves. On my way home I stopped at a "yatai" mobile ramen stand. Just as I was finishing my ramen, a van pulled up behind me and two men got out. One of them flashed a plainclothes officer badge, and asked for ID. When I gave him the alien registration he started the "Don't you have your passport?" routine but I made it quite clear that that I had already been worked over once and the alien registration was all he was going to get from me that night. I then asked him what specific crime they were investigating that required questioning of foreigners, and he said that a woman had been attacked and robbed, and the only description they had to go on was "foreign male". He said he understood it was unfortunate that the majority of foreign residents were being bothered by this type of investigation but it was a "sho ga nai" ("nothing can be done") situation and I should expect it to happen again over the next few days as the investigation was ongoing. I saw or heard nothing after that.
Looking at this on one level, it was a legitimate stop and search on the grounds that I fitted the description (i.e. foreign male) of a suspect in an ongoing investigation. (Indeed, as the second officer said, "sho ga nai", the police have a job to do and they were doing it! If I were to start considering these events on a "bad cops are out to get me" basis, it would leave me subject to a citywide police conspiracy theory, and as King Lear said, "That way madness lies".)
No, this was the straightforward police exercising straightforward police policy. But therein lies one problem! They only took down my name and address on both occasions. There was no "Where were you on the night of the 15th" type questioning! Having taken down my name and address, what did they intend to do with it? Knowing whether or not I was a legal immigrant would not help their investigation of the assault, so I can only assume they were using the opportunity to do a sweep for illegal immigrants. I was being treated as a suspect, solely because I was foreign, and I don't think it had anything to do with any crime that had actually taken place, since the first officer did not specify what the crime was. Rather, I think he saw a foreigner standing in front of him, and used the ongoing investigation as an opportunity to check me out for a valid visa, something he would not have been allowed to do otherwise.
But what really bothered me most about this incident was the fact that that policeman lied about the law. I am not obliged by law to carry my passport, if in possession of an Alien Registration Certificate. (I later confirmed with a friend in the police that this is correct, although even he avoided answering my question in front of a third party.) So why did this officer state that I must? I am sure that from the police point of view, having everybody carry identification would make it tremendously easy to apprehend illegal aliens and other criminals, but Japanese society has chosen to value personal privacy over the convenience of police investigations, so that individuals should not have to face the indignity of being suspected of a crime without due cause, and it is not acceptable for policemen to make up their own laws to try and get around that.
Further, if they are not willing to accept an officially issued and legally valid identification document, (which was issued to fulfil exactly the purpose for which they were requesting my passport, what is the point of having to carry it at all? By making me wonder "Have I been breaking the law all these years?", this officer was guilty of oppression and intimidation, subjecting me to several days of uncertainty and insecurity, and that is the opposite effect of what the Japanese Police are there for, to improve the actual security, and the perceived security, the feeling of being safe, of all law abiding people, not just the Japanese, living in Japan.
As a result of this incident, my view of Japan and of living here was tarnished in a way from which it would take a long time to recover. I went online to confirm my understanding that I did not need to carry my passport, and in the course of that research I was put in contact with a person called Dave Aldwinkle, who later changed his name to Arudou Debito when he took Japanese citizenship. I had seen his homepage previously, in which he reported an occasion when he was stopped at Haneda Airport and asked for identification for no reason other than he was foreign, and he had put together a guide indicating how to protect oneself from such intrusive questioning and avoid being hassled in such a way without justification. He quoted the law which specifically prohibits the kind of random, unjustified checks that he and I had experienced, and that is why his name came to me in the course of my conversation with the officer that night.
He asked me to write up a report of my encounter, which I did, for a homepage he was involved in about human rights issues in Japan, but I don't think it ever got used. He also invited me to join mailing lists which discussed such issues, and I became quite interested in the topic. Reading all the complaints and gripes that people had (it was the nature of the list that there would be few people with positive experiences to recount) about living in Japan, I started thinking about all the negative aspects of living in Japan, even if they didn't directly affect me. I found myself frustrated by the treatment of foreigners as opposed to Japanese nationals, as regards visas, housing, voting rights, and discrimination in general, right down to trivial things like the way some people try to speak English to you even though they can't, and won't speak Japanese to you even when you have made it clear that you can. As a result of this I found myself becoming gradually more and more impatient, intolerant and downright rude to people, taking offence whenever I felt I was being treated like a foreigner, because I expected people to recognise immediately that I was a long term resident and not a short term visitor. In short I was becoming a person I did not like. I decided to take a step back and reassess my opinions of the place in which I had chosen to live and its people, and came to realise that since most of the petty little annoyances that were bothering me, would not bother me if I didn't let them, I was left with a lot of good things to be thankful for about the society in which I lived. There are a lot of things that I think should be changed in Japan, for the sake of the Japanese people as much as for a foreigner like myself, but it is up to the Japanese people as a whole to change them, not me. I have seen a lot of change in the years I have been here, and am sure there will be even more radical change in the years to come, but overall I think Japan is heading in the right direction and will continue to do so. I resolved to remain watching from the wings, offering support, assistance and advice in any way I can.
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Thierry Mugler Angel Eau Sucree
Angel Eau Sucree is the latest release by Thierry Mugler and it follows Angel Men, Alien, Womanity and Muse. Of course we can't forget the original Angel which was Mugler's first fragrance and something of a groundbreaker. It was the first perfume to have gourmand notes, boldly breaking away from old trends. This creation has remained iconic to this day, paving the way for Angel Eau Sucrée. First of all lets start with the bottle which is very striking; it is shaped like a star and is illuminated with frosted glints and sugar coated. Then there is the scent. Angel Eau Sucree is a sweet, summery scent that evokes the mouth-watering memories of your childhood. This fragrance is very sweet but not on the saccherine level and it sets on your body very nicely and is really very delicious to sniff. The lasting time is around four to five hours before you need to reply again.
The top notes contain the tangy delight of a red berry sorbet, the heart notes consist of the sweet delight of a caramelized meringue and the bottom notes are the voluptuous delight of patchouli and vanilla. The result is drop dead gorgeous! This fragrance is every you need for a perfect warmer scent. Sweet, warm yet very refreshing.
Thierry Mugler Angel Eau Sucree is priced at £45.00.
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Number: 178
Country: USA, 125 minutes
Spoken Languages: English, Arabic
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director(s): Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Oded Fehr, Jonathan Hyde, Erick Avari, Bernard Fox, Stephen Dunham
Medium: Original DVD,
Storyline: An English librarian called Evelyn Carnahan becomes interested in starting an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra. She gains the help of Rick O'Connell, after saving him from his death. What Evelyn, her brother Jonathan and Rick are unaware of is that another group of explorers are interested in the same dig. Unfortunately for everyone, this group ends up unleashing a curse which been laid on the dead High Priest Imhotep. Now 'The Mummy' is awake and it's going to take a lot more than guns to send him back from where he came from.
Location: Library
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Usually, I don't post anything here personal on this SUGAR SHOCK! blog. Inevitably, there's a connection to my book SUGAR SHOCK! In fact, many readers, I suspect, aren't even aware of the fact that I'm a single, available chick living in Manhattan and that I have ample time to play these days now that my book is published.
But today, after much blog-soul-searching, I'm going to break new ground and get personal, because my two worlds collided recently in the most unexpected way imaginable. (Perhaps I got motivated by advice from popular blogger Melissa Lafsky, who I interviewed this afternoon on my Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Radio Show, which you can listen to now.)
…So, having said that, I invite you to go back with me in time about a week and a half ago to one of the Whole Foods locations in New York City, where I was going through first-get-together rites with a good-looking, interesting, charming man. (Let's call him "Dignified.")
Dear readers, I invite you to imagine now the following scenario: So there we were, my brand new acquaintance and I, sitting at a counter at Whole Foods.
Picture us: I'm eagerly relishing my scrumptious salad while Dignified chomps an organic Fuji apple and pulls out his just-purchased copy of SUGAR SHOCK! (Honest, it wasn't my idea to buy the book at the Border's upstairs!)
As my companion and I went through getting-to-know-you questions ("Where are you from originally? What are your favorite sports?," etc.), along comes a slim, attractive blonde.
She stops dead in her tracks when she spies SUGAR SHOCK!
She then looks directly at Dignified and asks him point blank, "Have you read that book? That's a great book. I've given it to a number of friends."
Needless to say, my jaw dropped! A slim, pretty woman, who read SUGAR SHOCK! pops by out of the blue to talk to a new friend and me about my book?


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ST. LOUIS — Many people view income inequality as a social ill, but public policies that seek to redistribute wealth would probably result in lower economic growth for everyone. That's one point emphasized by economist Thomas A. Garrett in the October issue of The Regional Economist, the quarterly journal of business and economic issues published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The publication is also available online at: www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/default.cfm.
Income statistics in Garrett's analysis show that although the real income of the wealthiest five percent of households rose by 14 percent between 1996 and 2006, and the poorest 20 percent rose by 6 percent. These numbers do not take into account household size, noncash resources received by lower income households, and the tax payments made by wealthier households to fund these transfers. When the inequality statistics take these factors into account, the income share of the wealthiest 20 percent falls by 25 percent and the income share of the poorest 20 percent nearly triples.
And while there are shortcomings in the way income inequality statistics are calculated, Garrett emphasized that some form of inequality will always exist. This being the case, is the reduction in income inequality worthy of public policy?
No," said Garrett. "An individuals ability to largely determine his level of economic well-being encourages innovation and entrepreneurship. Economic studies have documented a positive correlation between entrepreneurship/innovation and overall economic growth.
Garretts analysis suggests that a redistribution of wealth would increase the cost of entrepreneurship and innovationthe result being lower overall economic growth for everyone, regardless of income.
Poverty and income inequality are related, but only the former and not the latter deserves a policy response. Sound economic policy to reduce poverty would lift those out of poverty (increase their productivity) while not reducing the well-being of wealthier individuals. Tools to implement such a policy include investments in education and job training.
With branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis serves the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which includes all of Arkansas, eastern Missouri, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. The St. Louis Fed is one of 12 regional Reserve banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., comprise the Federal Reserve System. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates U.S. monetary policy, regulates state-chartered member banks and bank holding companies, provides payment services to financial institutions and the U.S. government, and promotes community development and financial education.
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Frivolous Lawsuits
I recently served on a jury for a civil lawsuit that was utterly without merit. It was a complete waste of time and money for a judge, his staff, and fourteen private citizens that could have been contributing to the GDP or serving on a case of actual import. I do cherish the fact that we live under the auspices of a system that allows any of us to seek redress for legitimate claims, but anybody who frivolously disrupts said system in such a manner deserves to be slapped hard in the face with an engorged penis.
Today's strip was inspired by this ridiculous lawsuit. Fortunately, the spuriousness of this litigation was airtight enough for the judge to summarily toss it out of court.
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Archive for July, 2017
Kathryn asks the question – what's your blog all about? Well? Probably life, including bereavements family parenting music movies reading some library? In fact if you want to know, my most popular post ever is …. da da Holy farting Birkenstocks – true. I think because it is a problem (suction, air, farting noises at times) […]
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Someone, not someone, a dear friend…sent me an email today. A photo of a rainbow and the wish that i had rainbows in my line of sight… Perfect. Dont want to feel anxious about a bunch of projects at work, so concentrating on other things right now… Started reading 'all the light we cannot see' […]
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Greetings, Laguna Blanca Latin! Some of you might know of me, but for those of you that don't….that's your loss. 🙂 I'm just kidding. I know your teacher. Anywho, the reason I'm writing this post is because yesterday I took a trip with a colleague of yours, William Jones, to a place that is relevant to your studies as Latinists. Studying Latin makes you a student of history, culture, and literature as well a student of language. As you get better at Latin, this becomes more obvious. Our trip was to a place in England called Bath. I'm going to tell you a little bit about Bath as I take you through our adventure. Hopefully, this won't be too boring for you, and maybe it will provide a nice break amidst the bustle of your action-packed Latin classes.
So, we took a train from Cardiff to Bath. Cardiff was our starting point because that's where Will is from and where we've been staying. I booked the wrong train tickets so we had to go really early in the morning. That's the story I gave Will, but really I wanted to go that early. Please don't tell on me.
Our first and most significant destination was the Roman baths. I'll need to give you a brief history lesson here, so please bear with me. To the ancient Greeks and Romans, Britain was seen as a land of mystery. Many thought that it didn't exist. Those that did hardly knew anything factual about it. Some knew that the land was abundant in the metal tin, and the name Britain comes from a Phoenician word "Baratanic" which means "Land of Tin". It was only a matter of time before the rapidly expanding Roman empire came into contact with the island, though. When the Roman general Julius Caesar was conquering the Gauls in Germany around 55 BCE, he came up with a plan to invade Britain. Why? Caesar claimed that the Britons were helping the Gauls fight the Romans, so he wanted to punish them. Suetonius, the Roman historian, says that Caesar was looking for gems, and Cicero writes about how disappointing it was that no gold or silver was found. In other words, Caesar might have been looking for $$. Either way, Caesar's first invasion of Britain was a big fail. By the way, reading Suetonius in Latin is awesome.
Not one to be easily deterred, Caesar came back in the winter of the same year (55 BCE), this time with more men. Caesar was too cocky to really accept defeat. This time, when he landed he was able to form a base on the island and won a number of battles against the locals. One king surrendered and swore allegiance to the Romans, but most of the Britons were still up in arms against Caesar. Deciding to leave while he was ahead, Caesar went back to Gaul. But when Caesar left this time, the Romans had a foothold in England, and the scene was set for a later invasion.
Augustus Caesar, first emperor of Rome, had some invasions planned but he flaked out because he had other, more important things to do. A few decades later, in 40 CE, the political situation in Britain had changed, and no Britain kings were sympathetic to the Romans anymore. The emperor at the time, Caligula, a young fellow who went mad while he was emperor, decided to attack Britain. If Suetonius can be trusted, Caligula had his army form up on the beach and throw spears into the English channel, as if they were attacking people. He then had them gather sea shells from the ocean as plunder. If this sounds absolutely nutty, it's because it was. If you don't know about Caligula, fix that. Unsurprisingly, Caligula was assassinated. His replacement, an interesting fellow named Claudius, decided to actually invade Britain. People thought Claudius wasn't much of a warrior, and they were right, but Claudius wanted to prove them wrong and did so. After Claudius' invasion, the Romans successfully subdued most of the tribes throughout Britain, and set up their own military outposts and colonies. You might notice that a lot of towns in England are named something-chester (manchester, winchester, etc). This is because the chester ending comes from the Latin word castrum, which means military camp. Those -chester towns were founded on earlier Roman military towns. The Romans stayed in England until the 4th century CE, at which time their empire was being assaulted on all sides by Goths, Huns, you name it.
Yawn! So wasn't I talking about Bath? Yes. When that Claudius emperor fellow was conquering Britain, he came across a local, Celtic town named Sulis. Sulis had a remarkable hot spring, a bath if you will, and the locals had a shrine there dedicated to a local divinity, also named Sulis. The Romans thus called the town Aquae Sulis, the waters of Sulis. They identified Sulis with their own goddess Minerva, and Minerva became the favorite goddess of the city. The city flourished as a Roman colony until the 4th century when, after being evacuated by the Romans, it fell into disrepair. Eventually, the city got rediscovered and rebuilt by the British, and it was given its modern name of Bath. About a thousand and a half years later, Will and I got off the train at the thriving modern city of Bath:
If it looks gray outside, it's because it is. For those that don't know, the weather in the UK is perpetually horrendous. Like Caesar, though, Will and I are not easily deterred, and we set off in search of the old Roman baths. Even though I am directionally impaired, Will got us there pretty fast. We knew we were close when one the buildings had this on display:
Cool. This was set up by the British to commemorate the old Roman baths. The funky looking inscription on the top that isn't in English is in Ancient Greek, but the English put it up there. I learned Ancient Greek at college before I learned Latin, and I encourage anyone who is seriously interested in the history of ideas and culture to study this foundational language (along with Latin, of course). The inscription you see is in Greek capitals, which you might see later in the names of fraternities or sororities in college…ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ ΜΕΝ ΥΔΟΡ, or in lowercase Greek, αριστον μεν υδορ. To write out the sounds in English letters, it would sound roughly like ariston men hudor. In English this means "The water is best." Our English root hydro, which means water, ultimately comes from the ancient Greek root hudor. Lots of English words come from ancient Greek, and lots of Latin words come from ancient Greek as well (note: Latin came from other languages, and compared to other languages Latin is downright young). Anyway, "water is good". This is kind of the motto of the town. Really, couldn't they have come up with something a little better than "the water is good"??? Wow, British people. Then we saw this statue outside which confirmed that this simple saying was all over the place. Look on the base of the statue.
Although simple, you can ask Ali that I generally believe in this principle. You should drink 5-6 liters of water a day, and I'd say that about one third of health is drinking the right amount of water (really). But the Romans and also the modern British think that the water at Bath is particularly healthy to bathe in, not just to drink. That's because through the complicated process that it undergoes underwater, it gets treated with sixteen different minerals. We'll talk more about this later. So, Will and I found the modern museum that is built on top of the ancient Baths and got started. I pretended to be a student so I got a sweet discount on my ticket. At first we had a top down view of the waters. The building around it is 18th century British, not Roman. The Roman foundations are mostly underground. Some of the statues around the top, though, are ancient.
These waters are hot. You might notice the bits of steam drifting off of the surface. This water is not considered safe because the Romans used some lead pipes when they were piping the water around their system of baths. Apparently it's also chock full of infectious diseases and bacteria (a girl got meningitis swimming in it and died). For safe exposure to the wonderful waters of bath, the modern Spa pipes in the hot springs in a safe fashion. There's enough water to go around, since the hot spring sends up more than a million liters of water a day. The modern Spa is wildly popular. In full disclosure, Will drank the water a little later and was fine! I warned him against it, but whatever. Anyway, check out the statue at the end:
Anyone recognize this goddess? She's the patron goddess of the city, Minerva (or as the Greeks would say, Athena). That word "patron", comes from the Latin word patronus, which means protector. Any Harry Potter fans out there? Exspecto Patronum! JK Rowling was all about the classics. Anyway, scope out the acronym on her statue base: SPQR. That stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus: Roman Senate and People. Although far away from Rome, people from these distant colonies were basically just as Roman as their Italian counterparts, politically speaking. Our curiosities sufficiently piqued, Will and I went indoors to look at the exhibitions on display. The first thing we saw was a small chunk of an ancient inscription. You can read the museum's caption for an explanation.
This inscription shows that a lot can be done with a little. Obviously we don't have the whole thing, we only have a fragment of the beginning: VES.VII. VES is an abbreviation for the name Vespasian. Because we know how other inscriptions like this are set up, we can tell that this means "in the seventh year of Vespasian's consulship. Have your teacher tell you more about consuls, but it was a significant political position in the Ancient Roman Republic. Once Emperors came around, Emperors were also the consuls (emperors don't usually like sharing power). Vespasian was a really good emperor, especially compared to, say, Caligula. Anyway, just with that little bit of info VES. VII, we can date the inscription, because we know when Vespasian was emperor from literary sources. So, we can tell Bath was around at this time (76 CE), and this is the earliest inscription we've found at Bath. Around the corner was a drawing that showed the ancient layout of the city. Look closely and you can see a check out the theater near the baths.
I like how neat and tidy everything looks, although inevitably this is a simplification that doesn't do justice to the hustle and bustle that the ancient city really would have been like. Also, notice that the buildings have colored roofs. When people think of ancient Rome and Greece they often think of statues and buildings of white, polished marble. In the ancient world, though, those statues and buildings would have been painted with vibrant, juicy colors. I say juicy because some of the dyes were actually made from plant juices. Extra note: Roman women sometimes dyed their hair with berry juice. To see more closely, what the bath complex would have looked like, take a peek at this:
As you can see, this is quite a complex of buildings and hallways. The building in the top left of the picture is a temple to Minerva, and in the back right there is a small, round temple called a tholos style temple. It's the only one of its kind found in Britain. Before I get into the topic of Roman bathing and why these baths were so big, I want to talk a bit about the temple to Minerva that would have been here in the ancient world. Unfortunately, the temple has not survived because in the 4th century CE the Roman empire, or at least the people in positions of power, converted to Christianity. At this point, the temples to the Roman gods and goddesses were either converted into Christian churches or destroyed. This temple didn't make it. We can tell from the ruins in the ground, though, what it may have looked like. They've made a reconstruction of the temple in Sydney, Australia (random, I know), and here it is for your viewing pleasure:
Inside the temple a cult statue of Minerva was kept. Gorgeous Corinthian columns, and fascinating pediment sculpture. The pediment is the triangular bit at the top. We know what was at the top of the pediment because bits of it survive, and those bits are kept at the museum. Will and I walked down the stairs to see this:
Good guesswork by archaeologists can give us a glimpse at what it would have looked like in full, and the museum projects a visual display on top of the ruins so that you can see what the whole thing would have looked like. Pretty cool, IMO:
But wait: if this is a temple to Minerva, what is that weird, bearded dude doing in the middle? Why are there snake-like things coming out of his hair? This is a source of great controversy amongst those that probably care about it a little too much, and as one of those people I'll spare you all of the theories. Suffice it to say that it could be the god Neptune, who was sometimes paired up with Minerva, and maybe he's shown here lying in the bath with his hair all wet. The thing is, we just don't know. Scholars generally agree that local Celtic craftsmen helped the Romans make this, so maybe there is something totally different going on here. The takeaway point here is that we don't have everything figured out, and probably far less than we think we do. Another takeaway point is that these baths were a place of worship as well as leisure, thought as well as play. Appropriately awed, we progressed through the museum. At this point, we were hoping it would never end. The next bit of the museum showed as artifacts that had been found in Aquae Sulis. Look at this one, an gravestone with a dedicatory inscription.
A horse is trampling a man to death in the image, which is perhaps a hint as to how this fellow got killed?! The Latin is not easy to make out because of the crumbled state of the gravestone, but it can all be made out. Latin inscriptions are loaded with abbreviations, but some of them are quite common so that we know when we see an F lying around it probably means filius. Also, since the Romans only had a few first names, and Lucius was one of them, when you see an L lying around it's probably Lucius. If you are interested in Roman names, pester your teacher. If you aren't interested in Roman names, pester your teacher about something else. I'm going to transcribe the Latin for you, which means just writing out the Latin as I see it. When something is abbreviated, I'll fill out the word, but in parenthesis so that you can distinguish between what is on the stone and what is implied. I'll break it up into the lines that you see on the gravestone.
L(ucius) Vitellius Ma [note: the M is pretty much obliterated] ntai f(ilius) Tancinus cives Hisp(anus) Caurie(n)sis eq(ues) alae Vettonum C(ivium) R(omanorum) ann(orum) XXXVI stip(endiorum) XXVI h(ic) s(itus) e(st)
Does that look intimidating? Perhaps. Let me rewrite it now in just the Latin that it is:
Lucius Vitellius Mantai filius Tancinus cives Hispanus Cauriensis eques alae Vettonum Civium Romanorum annorum XXXVI stipendiorum XXVI hic situs est.
The name and father of this fellow you can see in the first five words. His name is Lucius Vitellius Tancinus, and you can see that he is filius Mantai, son of Mantaius. Mantai is genitive singular. It seems to be a shortened version of Mantaii. Anyway, cives is a third declension noun meaning citizen, it's nominative singular, and it's in agreement here with Hispanus and Cauriensis, all of which are referring to our man Lucius. Caurium was a Roman colony in Spain, and Cauriensis is a third declension, i-stem (ask your teacher) adjective that basically means Caurian. So, we learn that this fellow Lucius is a citizen of Caurium, and he's Spanish (hispanus). Yes, Spain get's it's name from Latin. Moving on, eques means Knight, and ala, alae is a first declension noun that means either the wing of a bird or the wing of an army, like a squadron. Here it means squadron. It's in the genitive case, so Lucius is a knight of the squadron of the Vettones (Vettonorum, genitive plural of Vettones). The Vettones were a Spanish tribe that existed even before the Romans conquered Spain. The next lines let us now that Lucius died when he was of 46 years. Yay for Roman numerals. It also notes that he is stipendiorum XXVI: of 26 years of military service (stipendium, neuter – military service or pay). The final line is common on many gravestones, and finally gives us the one and only verb of the sentence! Hic situs est. Situs, a, um is an adjective that means "placed" or "laid down". In this context hic is an adverb that means here, and est is the third person singular of the verb to be. Lucius is still our subject. So we might say "Here Lucius lies." This gravestone shows us how interconnected the Roman empire was, such that a Spanish (but still Roman) soldier might end up in England and die there. I think it's pretty cool. Moving on, we saw this. The caption says it all:
Awesome! Next up we saw a few odds and ends from Bath that gave us a fresh reminder that the Romans generally had lives like ours with coins, spoons, knives and uhhhh, not sure what's on the bottom right. In the picture below, you see combs and other assortments. Not sure what a few of them are.
I like seeing this sort of stuff because I'm interested in the regular aspects of Roman life as well as the sensational things that we read in our literary sources. In the past fifty years there has been more attention given to the study of normal people, not just the elites. This is because MOST PEOPLE WERE NORMAL. Anyway, we found something that didn't seem very normal, namely a statue of a woman with a pretty whack hairstyle:
Not exactly attractive in my book, but different, exotic hairstyles like this could become all the rage in the ancient world. I can't say the times have changed too much, as celebrities these days do pretty loopy things with their hair as well sometimes. I'm going to show you one more inscription, and I promise you that it's easier than the last one. It's very sad, so get the tissues out.
Now, first up look at the big letters in the top right and left corners. D and M. These are letters found on thousands of gravestones from ancient Rome, and they are abbreviations for Dis Manibus, or Deis Manibus, both of which are dative plural. This means "To the divine shades". Shades are spirits in the underworld. So this kind of means, "to the spirits of the dead". The Latin origin of dis manibus is actually kind of tricky, so I don't want to get too into it, for fear of losing you all, half of which I probably already have. One last note on DM before I move on. Even though D M is clearly tied in with pagan Roman ideas about religion and death, later Christians also continued to use D M on their gravestones, as in this one here which also has some ancient Greek on it for those that care:
On a general note, Christians decided to keep using Latin and Greek as the official languages of the Church well after the Roman empire had been destroyed and Latin had turned into the modern Romance languages.
Back to our inscription! Here's my transcription of the Latin, which is pretty easy to make out. The trick is knowing when to put spaces in, because there aren't many spaces in the inscription:
D(is) M(anibus)
Merc(atilla) Magni l(iberta)
alumna vixit an(num) I
m(enses) VI, D(ies) XII
Or: Dis Manibus, Mercatilla magni liberta alumna vixit annum I, menses VI, Dies XII.
Mercatilla is the proper name here, and it's feminine, singular, nominative. So we are dealing with a girl here. Agreeing with Mercatilla is liberta and alumna. A liberta was a freedwoman, in other words a slave that had been freed by their master. An alumna was a girl foster child, or someone nourished and raised by another. When you say that you are an alumnus or alumna or your school, you are saying that your school nourished you. So, we know so far that Mercatilla was once a slave, but she was freed and then in fact adopted by her master. And who was her master? Well look at the word before liberta: magni. She was the freedwoman of Magnus (Magni is genitive singular of Magnus). So, next we have our verb: vixit. This is the verb vivere in the perfect tense, which you may or may not have learned yet. Long story short, it's a past tense verb, so Mercatilla lived. Then we get some items in the accusative. What did she live? annum I, menses VI, and dies XII.
Mercatilla lived 1 year, 6 months, and 12 days. She must have been a pretty cute baby to get freed and adopted so fast!!! But I don't mean to joke; I'm really crying on the inside.
Anyway, Will and I kept moving through the museum, and our eyes were drawn to this mosaic from the floor of one of the rooms in the bath complex. It's hard to say what exactly these animals are, but a plaque told us they are meant to be sea creatures. Seahorses maybe?
I've always been a fan of mosaics. For art on a smaller scale, check out these gemstones that have been carved and drawn upon. Sorry that I only have the side view and I didn't bother to rotate the image because I'm sometimes really lazy. The actual gemstones are found on the top and below are some enlarged versions so that you can see what is on them.
I want us to loop back for a second at something we saw earlier, the plan of the bath complex. The reason why there are so many chambers isn't just because so many people would come here to bathe on a daily basis. A traditional Roman bath also had a few different chambers, and the bather would take something of a route through them all, going through a variety of cold, hot, and warm chambers until completion. For Romans, going to the bath was something of a social ritual. This was a place where the elite would sit shoulder to shoulder with lower class citizens, and at many of the baths, women would be alongside men. At some baths they were split up (what's the fun in that?). In cities all across the Roman empire, having a bath complex was a sign of their Romanitas, or Roman-ness, if that makes any sense. This practice of bathing the Romans probably stole from the Greeks, but the Romans designed their own style of bathing complex and heating methods, because they were architectural wizards. Here is a little chart that shows some of the intricacies of the bathing process:
Pretty awesome. The baths at Aquae Sulis were special because they were drawn from those special underground springs, which treated the water with minerals. One doctor as late as the 1700s observed that, "If they can't be cured by drinking and bathing at Bath, they will never be cured anywhere." Modern doctors are a bit more cautious, but some still observe that there may be some therapeutic effects of bathing in hot mineral springs. For a similar experience, there are hot, mineral springs in Ojai, California which, when not frequented by creepy local dudes, is actually really awesome. Will and I saw many more things than this, but I hope my selection of things to show you managed to at least mildly interest you. On our way out, we noticed in the guidebook how people from all over the world come to see these remarkable remains of the ancient Roman culture that is so similar yet so different from our own:
But our story isn't quite over. Upon leaving the Museum, one is struck by a massive structure on the other side of the road, a magnificent abbey called, unsurprisingly, Bath Abbey. Take a peek:
This abbey has a long history, founded in the 7th century CE and repaired and restored a number of times because somehow the British were always either fighting themselves or fighting other people up until the end of World War II, and the abbey got damaged along the way. But, after restorations and additions, the abbey is now a splendid piece of architecture. Take a peek at the inside:
But I'm not as concerned with beautiful churches as much as I am beautiful Latin, and this is why I was drawn to the door to the abbey, a stunning piece of woodwork:
Latin was the language of the church, remember? (and to a certain extent, still is). It was also the language of philosophy and history up until the 18th century, which is why learning Latin is so important for those that want to read closely the history of ideas and of the Western world generally, and for those that want to read some of the world's best literature in its original language. But here I am getting sidetracked from the door. Look at the Latin on the ribbon, beginning on the bottom left with Ecce. Can you make it out? I read: Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum est. Ecce means behold, and quam in this context means how. Behold how good and pleasant it is! It is of course the door. Cool. It is indeed good and pleasant.
Leaving the Abbey behind, Will and I checked out the river and crossed it.
We took a pause in a nearby Park:
We took just enough time to get refreshed and mentally prepared to see Iron Man 3 because, you know, you can't spend all day learning, and balance is key. As to why Iron Man 3 was out in the UK before it's out in the US? Another one of life's big mysteries IT WAS AWESOME:
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While I stayed in Utah for a week after the 4th of July, I took the kids VERY last minute to get some pictures done. I schedule the appointment in the morning and we went at 2:30. We were scrambling through the clothing items I brought and we put together a nice little combo.
Fotofly in Draper is only $88 for all these pictures! Amazing deal! At least I thought it was!
There were lots of other pictures but these ones are my favorites!


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Kazakhstan at the forefront of civil service reformSep 8, 2016
Kazakhstan is taking the lead in overhauling its civil service and is at the forefront of initiatives aimed at strengthening the professional civil service and enhancing regional and international cooperation in this area.
In 2013, the Government of Kazakhstan and UNDP founded the Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana, a resource centre for the key players involved in reforming this sector in Central Asia and beyond. The Hub brings together government officials, academics and other stakeholders from the 32 countries and five international organisations taking part in the project.
"Given the importance of civil service excellence to sustainable development, this Hub will help position Kazakhstan as a leader in the implementation of the new sustainable development agenda," UNDP Administrator Helen Clark told delegates at the Astana Economic Forum in May 2015.
The Regional Hub aims to promote this excellence by introducing more merit-based principles and connecting people in different countries so they can share their experiences and best practice.
The Hub has already had a positive impact on shaping government policy, with its suggestions feeding into Kazakhstan's new Law on Civil Service which took effect on 1 January 2016.
"Our most recent recommendations to the Government were to delineate the functions of political and career civil servants as well as introduce a competencies framework and pay-for-performance practices," says Yernar Zharkeshov, the Hub's Head of Research Team.
This new civil service law is a key element of Kazakhstan's plans to modernise its society, with the aim of joining the ranks of the 30 most developed nations in the world by 2050. In the 100 Concrete Steps reform programme, unveiled by President Nursultan Nazarbayev in May 2015, reforming recruitment practices in the public sector was defined as a priority for Kazakhstan. The programme recommends a shift to a career-based model with promotion dependent on qualifications and work experience.
On gaining independence in 1991, Kazakhstan inherited a centrally-planned, Soviet-style civil service. In the mid-1990s, officials started the groundwork to move away from top-down policy-making and to put in place greater accountability in the public sector.
Initially, civil service reform in Kazakhstan introduced structural and functional changes. It reduced the number of government agencies and civil servants at the national and regional levels and defined the scope of work that each agency performed. The next step was to introduce a greater degree of professionalism.
The reform process gathered pace at the turn of the 21st century, with major achievements secured such as the adoption of specialised laws on Civil Service and on Administrative Procedures, and the creation of a Code of Ethics for Public Servants.
"An open, accountable and professional civil service is important to build public trust and confidence in governance and service delivery," says UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Kazakhstan Munkhtuya Altangerel. "It is reassuring to see that Kazakhstan has embarked on this road and is carrying out a number of reforms that are designed to further strengthen its civil service."


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To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, the Smithsonian Museum prepared an exhibit featuring Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This exhibit unleashed a maelstrom of controversy, since it defied the national consensus promoting the necessity of the atomic bomb. In the wake of the Smithsonian exhibit, two historians, Ronald Takaki and Wilson Miscamble, entered the debate surrounding the necessity of the atomic bomb. In his book entitled Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, Takaki claims to bring "historical accuracy" to the debate rather than simple political correctness.[1] Miscamble, however, wishes to "directly challenge" previous scholarship on the matter in his book, The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan.[2] To determine the necessity of the atomic bomb, Miscamble discusses the state of the Pacific Theater toward the end of the war, the Japanese attitude toward surrender, atomic diplomacy with the Soviet Union, Truman's personal motivations behind his decision, and the morality of the usage of the atomic bomb. Takaki explores similar themes in his own study for the same purpose, with the addition of racial prejudice against the Japanese. While Takaki and Miscamble explore similar figures and events in their studies, their analyses and resulting arguments differ.
Takaki presents a passionate argument against the necessity of the atomic bomb. He posits that the use of the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan was unneeded from a military point of view, unlike what is commonly believed by the public. Rather, Takaki argues, Truman's decision to use the bomb against Japan stemmed from a desire to threaten the Soviet Union, racial prejudice against the Japanese, and Truman's innate need to prove himself decisive and capable, not a "sissy."[3] Miscamble disagrees by rejecting any explanation that attributes the use of the bomb to "postwar international politics" (i.e. Takaki), Miscamble maintains that Truman's motivation for using the bomb was primarily militaristic and was essential in forcing Japan's surrender and sparing American soldiers from a costly land invasion.[4] In addition, he finds the use of the atomic bomb morally justifiable, since it prevented a prolonged war that would have resulted in more deaths.
Takaki endeavors to place the decision to drop the bomb in a global context. He makes extensive use of primary sources throughout his study, including declassified military documents and personal diaries. Through these records, Takaki examines the events surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki from various points of view. He successfully exploits the differences between these accounts to determine the necessity of the bomb's deployment. Hiroshima casts a wide net; Takaki's cast of characters ranges from Harry Truman to the citizens of Hiroshima to the editors of Time magazine. While Miscamble also utilizes various memoirs and personal papers, he places a heavier emphasis on previous scholarship particularly the studies that claim the bomb's use unnecessary to make his argument. He often re-visits the theses of these works in order to dispute them. Yet, Miscamble's review of the revisionist literature would be more appropriately placed in a review article. His lack of primary sources makes The Most Controversial Decision seem under-researched in comparison to Takaki. Miscamble and Takaki discuss similar figures in their studies. Miscamble focuses more heavily on Truman and Byrnes. His approach is chronological and textbook-like, displaying his emphasis on the decision-making process that led to the bomb's use. Takaki's approach, on the other hand, lies in historical anthropology, providing a dense description of the players surrounding the decision to deploy the bomb. This reflects Takaki's desire to challenge the necessity of the bomb by analyzing its effect on various players.
Hiroshima and The Most Controversial Decision are both classic examples of the revisionist-orthodox interpretations that followed the deployment of the atomic bomb during World War II. By its nature, revisionist discourse on the bomb's deployment is more controversial than the orthodox, as it goes against the national consensus surrounding the atomic bomb's necessity. The public, as seen in the Enola Gay controversy, strongly prefers the orthodox interpretation. Yet, while very well-argued, Takaki and Miscamble do not contribute original interpretations to the revisionist-orthodox debate. In its emphasis on atomic diplomacy, Takaki's revisionist argument mostly follows the school of thought first presented in Gar Alperovitz's 1965 book The History of the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. Takaki's thorough description of Anglo-American prejudice against Japanese immigrants, however, is more original while Miscamble heavily echoes the pre-existing orthodox argument. His contribution to the orthodox interpretation does not stem from his argument but rather in the timing of his study. In recent years, scholars have favored a revisionist interpretation. Miscamble instead spearheads the neo-orthodox interpretation.
Takaki and Miscamble are both wonderfully concise and clear in their arguments and positively contribute to the historiography surrounding the use of the atomic bomb against Japan. Yet, the reader may find the images Takaki and Miscamble provide of Truman as somewhat off-putting. Their opinions of Truman lie on opposite ends of the spectrum. Takaki portrays Truman as struggling to overcome an "inferiority complex" and prove his decisiveness, which in turn prompted Truman's desire to deploy the atomic bomb.[5] Miscamble similarly acknowledges that Truman was similar to a "struggling student" in the initial days of his presidency.[6] Unlike Takaki, Miscamble does not attribute Truman's struggles to insecurities. He instead puts blame on Franklin D. Roosevelt's "disgraceful failure" to inform Truman on FDR's foreign policy views.[7] While one would expect differing views on Truman from two authors with opposing arguments, the images of Harry Truman presented by Takaki and Miscamble possess a two-dimensional, caricature-like flavor. Takaki is too critical in his approach, assigning too much blame to Truman while Miscamble is too defensive of Truman and does not assign enough blame. What studies of this type need is a rounded and unbiased portrayal of Truman that more aptly describes Truman's strengths and weaknesses.
While Takaki and Miscamble present opposing arguments, their studies do not stand in opposition to each other. Together, these works provide insight that one cannot solely find in either study. A reader may appreciate reading these studies conjointly, as doing so better creates a platform to "examine critically" the true necessity of the atomic bomb.[8]
Alicia Espinosa is a junior at Boston University. She will be graduating in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and minors in Anthropology and Public Health.
Espinosa, Alicia. Review of The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan and Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History 6, no. 2 (Nov. 2016).
[1] Ronald Takaki, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995), 11.
[2] Wilson D. Miscamble, The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 4.
[3] Takaki, Hiroshima, 109.
[4] Miscamble, The Most Controversial Decision, 151.
[5] Takaki, Hiroshima, 102.
[6] Miscamble, The Most Controversial Decision, 31.
[7] Ibid 26.
[8] Takaki, Hiroshima, 11.


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Born 1970, Bangalore, India.
BFA,Painting, CAVA Mysore, 1990-95.
Work Experience: Kanoria Centre for the Arts,Ahmedabad, 1996. Designing for Print Media, Mysore, 1997-2005.
Participation in group shows and art camps.
Vestigium of solo show, paintings in an old unoccupied building in Mysore, marked for demolition, 2007.
Sachiddananda lives and works in Mysore, India.


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State Secretary of Hungary for Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs visited the Academy
Today Head of the International Turkic Academy (TWESCO) Darkhan Kydyrali received a special delegation led by István Mikola, State Secretary of Hungary for Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs.
The delegation included Miklós Gaál, Head of the Department at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Professor Miklós Kásler, and Hungarian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kazakhstan András Baranyi.
Dr. Kydyrali briefed the distinguished guests in details on the TWESCO activities and its international cooperation. Additionally, he introduced major implemented projects of the organization and shared its plans for the future. Dr. Kydyrali also talked about flourishing cooperation and partnership between Hungary and the Academy.
Mr. Mikola, in his turn, drew attention to great similarities between the Hungarians and nomadic people in terms of their spiritual and cultural heritage. As Secretary Mikola noted, the Turkology and Oriental studies have very deep roots in Hungary. This is proved by the fact that the first faculty of Turkic studies in the world was opened in Budapest in 1870. Therefore, the Hungarian side is interested in sharing knowledge and conducting research in this field. In his speech, Mr. Mikola expressed gratitude to the Academy for strengthening scientific and educational cooperation between Hungary and the Great Steppe heirs, as well as for contributing to the study and promotion of the common heritage.
At the meeting, the parties agreed to continue the projects they have been working on, and discussed opportunities for joint future activities.
At the end of the meeting, Dr. Kydyrali presented valuable publications prepared by the Academy to Secretary Mikola.
It is worth noting that in June 2017 Mr. Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, has filed an official application for obtaining Hungary a full-fledged observer status to the Academy. In addition, the famous Hungarian Turkologist Istvan Konyr Mandoki's personal library, consisting of 16,000 books and valuable manuscripts, is kept at the International Turkic Academy library.
Dear friends!
Welcome to the official portal of the International Turkic Academy!
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2 Dec 2014 12:47:06
Give tired looking skin, eye bags and an ageing complexions the finger, once and for all, with some basic changes to your skin care routine. For years, men all over have been trying to crack the code of age reversal. Whilst there's plenty of high end products out there that will certainly help you along the way, the fundamentals behind younger looking skin, in fact, needn't cost you and arm and a leg. Forget about taking out a second mortgage to fight off those crows feet and instead gentlemen, welcome age in all the good ways with open arms, with a little help from the grooming experts.
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To those who keep asking me to re-up stuff - I said wouldn't, so stop asking!!
Welcome to my blog!
UPDATE: Mediafire have suspended my account and locked my downloads. Having endured the tedium of re-uploading everything I had previously hosted on Mega Upload onto Mediafire earlier this year, I can't be arsed re-uploading everything again.
So please don't ask for things to be reuploaded!
I undertake this venture knowing that I don't have the spare time to do it, but feel that these artists NEED TO BE HEARD (please excuse my shouting!). Or is that I think I need to be heard? Or that there are (or have been) some great music blogs that have inspired me to wanna jump on the bandwagon? Probably all of the above??I hope you enjoy the blog. If I turn one person onto these bands that turned me on then it will all have been worth it!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Various Artists - Alternative NRG
Unlike some of the other compilations I've posted, I can't say I love this album, but I love the concept - all tracks were recorded live using a solar-powered mobile facility.
Highlights include REM's legendary funk version of Drive, Soundgarden performing the awesome and malevolent New Damage with Brian May, and JC by Sonic Youth.
Also good to see two Aussie bands featured - Yothu Yindi and "The Oils"!
Various Artists - 1994 - Alternative NRG
1. Drive - R.E.M.
2. Ring The Bells - James
3. Until The End Of The World - U2
4. Tell Me The Truth - Midnight Oil
5. Everyday Life Has Become A Health Risk - Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
6. New Damage - Soundgarden / Brian May
7. New Kind Of Kick - The Jesus And Mary Chain
8. Sing Our Own Song - UB40
9. Cold - Annie Lennox
10. Looking Through Patient Eyes - P.M. Dawn
11. Sweetmeat - Soup Dragons
12. Search And Destroy - EMF
13. Yolngu Boy - Yothu Yindi
14. JC - Sonic Youth
15. Fam Ram - Boo-Yaa Tribe
16. Shitlist - L7
FLAC Pt1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4, Pt5
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Now *that* is an interesting mix of artists- a couple of which I haven't thought of in years. I'm wary cause of your not in love with it status, but I'm scooping it up if only for the Sonic Youth. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Adelle, didn't mean to scare you off!ReplyDelete
I don't love this album as there are a few bands here I hate (Soup Dragons, EMF), a few I dislike intensely (UB40, James), and a few I just plain dislike (Annie Lennox).
But the rest is good to excellent!
Maybe I was should have mentioned JAMC and the Disposables in the "highlights"? "...Kick" is far from JAMCs best songs but it's still cool!
thank you.ReplyDelete
thanks for this link, for long times I surfing but did not find it. Link is dead... pls re-up this link dude...ReplyDelete


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For many up-and-coming companies, producing consistent revenue growth is the primary sign of success. When a company gets better established as a key player in its field, as Chinese video game giant NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) has, turning that revenue into profit becomes at least as important to demonstrate its leadership in the industry.
Coming into the third-quarter financial report on Nov. 15, NetEase investors were ready to see further bottom-line pressure even as they anticipated another big jump in revenue. NetEase saw the expected boost to its sales, but a substantial jump in operating costs held back any potential profit gains. Let's look more closely at NetEase and what its latest results indicate about its prospects.
NetEase posts mixed results
NetEase's third-quarter results had their ups and downs. Revenue once again showed considerable strength, with a 35% rise in local currency terms working out to $1.88 billion, which was roughly in line with what investors were expecting to see. Adjusted net income growth continued to deteriorate, with the number climbing by just 0.25% and working out to $454.6 million, or $3.43 per share. That was flat compared with year-earlier figures, although it did beat the consensus forecast among those following the stock.
NetEase's segment performance was fairly similar to what we've seen in the past, although growth in some key areas decelerated. The massive online game services business saw net revenue climb 24%, or only about half of the growth rate that NetEase saw in the second quarter of 2017. Mobile games continued to important, although the proportion of revenue that came from the mobile side of the business actually fell sequentially from what the company saw three months ago. Meanwhile, the email, e-commerce, and others segment posted 80% year-over-year growth in its top line, approaching 30% of the overall business. The advertising services business brought up the rear in terms of revenue growth, with the segment seeing a 12% increase in sales on strength in ads from automobile, real estate, and internet services customers.
Yet one key challenge that NetEase hasn't yet overcome is controlling its costs. Operating expenses soared 37%, and the company blamed higher staff-related costs from higher headcounts and average compensation, as well as higher selling and marketing expenses. Costs from the e-commerce business also weighed on NetEase's ability to maximize its earnings. As the gaming segment has shifted more toward mobile gaming, NetEase has seen gross margin figures for the unit drop, because monetizing mobile has proved more difficult than doing so for traditional online games.
CEO William Ding took the results in stride. "We continue to amass one of China's preeminent mobile game portfolios," Ding said, although the CEO also noted an expected slowdown in the game Onmyoji among Chinese players.
Can NetEase get rolling again?
Even with headwinds, NetEase has high hopes for the coming year, pointing to new launches of expansion packs and new mobile titles that have customers have warmly received. In Ding's words, "There remain ample growth opportunities in China as we further diversify our portfolio by exploring a variety of genres."
As we saw last quarter, however, weaker profits spurred NetEase to cut its dividend yet again. With a payout tied to after-tax net income, NetEase decided to pay out just $0.72 per share in dividends for the quarter, down from $0.83 last quarter and $1.08 per share in the first quarter of 2017.
NetEase shareholders seemed satisfied with the results despite the sluggish growth in some key metrics, and the stock was up about 2% in after-market trading following the announcement. Investors would prefer to see stronger bottom-line growth, but NetEase still seems to be working toward solidifying its dominant position in the Chinese gaming industry while looking at smart international expansion plans as well.
Dan Caplinger has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends NetEase. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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