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Speech to the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism
Michael Ignatieff, PC, MP
Leader of the Opposition
Ottawa, Ontario
November 8, 2010
Merci. Bienvenue à Ottawa.
As the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, I'm here to say that the cause that you are united around today does not know partisan division.
Our party is proud to endorse the London Declaration. In fact, as I read the London Declaration I thought to myself, had there been a London Declaration in 1936, the history of our would be different.
And so we are united today in the fervent hope and the determined belief that we want to make anti-Semitism nothing other than a terrible memory rather than a part of our lived present.
We're here in Ottawa to identify a new phenomenon – the new anti- Semitism. One of the things that I never thought I would live to see as a person of proud Russian heritage, is to see the disgrace and vile Tsarist forgery: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, circulating in the 21st century, on the Internet.
That's one way to describe this new and hateful phenomenon.
I never thought that I would live to see a world in which you could go into a UPS depot or a FedEx depot in Yemen and send a package loaded with explosives to blow up a synagogue in Chicago.
This is the reality that we have to stand together against. This is what we have to fight. And we have to say whatever our origin, whatever our politics, whatever our past, whatever our religions, whatever our faith – anti-Semitism is not just a threat to the Jews, it's a threat to every single one of us and to all humanity.
And in Canada which thinks of itself as a place of tolerance and decency, a haven in a heartless world, a refuge for those who are tormented and have escaped persecution as my family did – from the persecution of Communist Russia – we have innocence in Canada that we need very urgently to shed.
Some of my innocence on the issue of anti-Semitism was shed in September of 2006 when I went to a religious school in Montreal and with my own eyes – as some of you did I'm sure as well – saw the sight of what a firebomb does to a religious school. You see the stain of black smoke on the walls. You realize how close this came to horror and disaster. It was stopped, in fact, because compassionate neighbours phoned the police and fire department to make it stop, but we came very close to something terrible.
And then a year later, again in Canada, this time in Mississauga, I had the unfortunate experience of visiting a mosque whose windows had just been broken. Canada cannot be innocent. Canada cannot be naive. Canada cannot take its tolerance in multiculturalism, its respect for others for granted.
This is a fight that we have to win every day against the forces of intolerance and injustice.
We also have another obligation as citizens of a democracy and in this Parliament of Canada which we are proud to serve, we have an obligation as democratic citizens to defend democracy.
When we look at the Middle East, we see a democracy under siege as Israel defends itself against terrorism and the Palestinian people suffer under the shadow of extremism.
The Middle East conflict both fuels and is fuelled by this vicious, modern anti-Semitism. Too many people use the conflict in the Middle East as an excuse to fuel their hatreds. There is no justification. There is no excuse for this hatred. But it seems to me mere prudence to say that eliminating anti-Semitism does require a commitment to peace.
Two states for two peoples. Justice and security for the people of Israel. Justice and security for the people of Palestine.
But let us also be very clear – a democratic state like Canada cannot be neutral as between a democratic state and terrorist organizations. There is no honest broker between those two.
Our position must be clear – democratic states have a right to be recognized, to live in peace, they have a right to defend themselves, they have a right to the recognition of their neighbours. They have a right to live in peace and security. Canada must never equivocate on that question.
There is another issue about which we need to be very clear – that is to understand the distinctions between legitimate criticisms of the policies of the government of Israel and those criticisms which de-legitimize the state itself. Not every criticism of the government of Israel is anti-Semitic.
But there is a form of criticism of the state of Israel which passes into active de-legitimatization of a recognized democratic state. I refer, of course, in my own country to Israel Apartheid Week. Israel is Israel. Apartheid South Africa was a crime against humanity – to conflate the two is to de-legitimize a democratic state and Canadians must stand against it.
A democratic society like Canada must always create a space where it is possible to criticize any government – including our own – including the state of Israel, but not to de-legitimize those governments.
But that is what has happened on Canadian campuses. When a protest against Israeli government policies becomes a protest against Israel's right to exist, it crosses the line.
When Israel Apartheid Week makes it impossible for Jewish students to stand up and affirm their point of view and identity, it also crosses the line.
Et en tant que parlementaires, en tant que députés démocratiques, nous avons le droit de nous lever et de dire haut et fort, c'est inacceptable dans les campus et les universités du Canada.
Let us also be clear what our obligations entail on the international stage. We should seek to end the parade of one-sided anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations.
We should use whatever influence we have to restore balance to the work of the United Nations' human rights bodies. We don't claim that Israel is perfect, but singling out one country for repeated denunciation while ignoring the human right abuses of others is a flagrant misuse of the United Nations and its principles.
Nor is it acceptable for Canada to take any part in what Irwin Cotler so famously called the "festival of hate" at Durban.
We cannot be part of international organizations and international groups which single out one state, to the exclusion of all others, for unique and single condemnation. It's unacceptable. This poisons the wells of democratic debate on the international stage.
We must also be very clear about Iran. We must be very clear that the anti-Israel Holocaust-denying rhetoric of the president of Iran and the government of Iran, is utterly unacceptable on the international stage. Canada cannot be in the room when this occurs.
If you will allow me to say one slightly less than partisan note: To claim a defeat as a moral victory seems to me to be a mistake.
To have lost the seat on the Security Council of the United Nations is a defeat, especially if you think and realize that it is at the Security Council of the United Nations that sanctions against Iran are going to be deployed.
If Canada wishes to defend Israel against Iran, as it should, it would have been nice to be on the Security Council of the United Nations and I don't see how we as Canadians can avoid acknowledging that fact. ¸
But what is done is done. Now Canada must stand somewhat more on the sidelines to speak out against the strategic threat that Iran presents not just to Israel but to all the states in the region. And we must add our voice to those who think that the Republican Guard should be added to the list of terrorist organizations.
Ultimately, we must defend Canada as a proud defender of the tolerance, a proud defender of the fairness, a proud defender of the justice that we have always stood for on the international stage.
When I was at a meeting on Friday night in Peel, there were a thousand Canadians in the room, and as I went from table to table as a politician does I was struck by the number of Canadians who have come here and made a home escaping from horror overseas.
I talked to a Christian group from Iraq who just had their churches firebombed in Baghdad this very week. I talked to Ahmadiyya- Muslims who just had their mosque firebombed in Pakistan.
I have just spoken to members of the Jewish community who could cite examples of desecration in their graveyards in countries around the world.
This is very close to us. This is very intimate to us. This is very important.
Canada must stand with all of you under any government – Liberal, Conservative, or whatever the people decide. We must stand against this form of hatred which destroys everything that we love and fight for in our home and native land.
Thank you very much.


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LONDON — Charging 60 euros, or $82, for carry-on bags deemed too large to go in the cabin.
Assessing a penalty of €70, or almost $100, for not checking in online.
Bombarding passengers who take a 6:15 a.m. plane with in-flight announcements hawking everything, including snacks, lottery tickets and smokeless cigarettes.
Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of the budget airline Ryanair, has vowed to address the criticisms that have made his carrier, Europe's biggest and most profitable, its most reviled.
It is a change of heart motivated mainly by pragmatism. Even as Ryanair has added routes every few months, Europe's weak economy has taken its toll, leading Mr. O'Leary to issue a warning on profits. Simply put, the company can no longer afford to risk losing customers who would rather pay more to fly on another carrier than endure Ryanair's cattle-car approach to air travel.
The shift in tone may not come easily for Mr. O'Leary, a 52-year-old Irishman and famously pugnacious former accountant who has led the airline for nearly 20 years.
He is perhaps best known for past proposals like onboard pay toilets, or standing-room "seats" at the back of the airline's Boeing 737s, or charging higher fares to "fat people" — suggestions that never came to fruition but seemed carefully calibrated to offend.
Even recently, over coffee one morning, he puzzled aloud about the British news media squall that had followed his first live chat on Twitter the day before, as part of Ryanair's effort to embrace social media — a communications form that Mr. O'Leary has long disdained.
During an hour of Twitter posts on Oct. 21 — which was followed by another a few days later — Mr. O'Leary gamely parried a volley of online curiosity and invective with a mix, mostly, of courtesy and quick wit. Yet he had been unable to resist an occasional inappropriate remark — as when he commented on the profile photo of a female questioner, with "Nice pic. Phwoaaarr!" To another poster's sarcastic suggestion that Ryanair consider adding extra seats in the cargo hold, he replied: "Not seats but beds. Mile high club anyone?"
The coarser posts, said Mr. O'Leary — a married father of four young children — were "just to endear myself to all the feministas."
"God bless them," he said with a shrug, before quickly veering back on-message. "I think you have to separate the weirdo, cranky, pantomime publicity-generating hound that I am," Mr. O'Leary said, sighing, "from what is a phenomenally successful airline delivering a phenomenal customer service."
For many passengers, "phenomenal" and "customer service" might seldom travel in the same Ryanair cabin. The airline has been dogged for years by tales of travelers abandoned to their own devices whenever strikes, erupting volcanoes or foul weather have forced flight cancellations. Last month, Ryanair was pilloried in the British press for charging a doctor from Leicestershire 160 pounds, or nearly $260, to change his flight from Dublin to Birmingham after his entire family had died in a fire. (The airline subsequently decided to waive its fee policy in that case and refund the passenger.)
But for all the detractors, it would be hard for anyone to dispute Ryanair's explosive growth — or the role that its ruthlessly cost-conscious business model has played in transforming Europe's once-cossetted air travel market into one where airlines fiercely compete for every passenger.
The airline, founded in 1985 by the Irish billionaire Tony Ryan, has grown from flying 80,000 passengers a year on a single route — Dublin to London — to shuttling roughly 80 million annually among 180 destinations, on a network that extends from Estonia to the Canary Islands.
That puts Ryanair well ahead of Europe's next-largest airline by number of passengers, Lufthansa of Germany, which last year transported just over 64 million people.
Yet as Europe's economic slump grinds on, even Ryanair is starting to feel the pinch of weakening travel demand. Simply promising low fares and punctual flights — the airline has a good record on both measures — is not enough. Last month the airline warned investors that net profit for its current financial year could fall below last year's record €560 million ($773 million) as it scrambles to fill unsold seats. That would be the Ryanair's first earnings decline in a decade.
And so, many analysts say, Mr. O'Leary must find ways to transform its brand to appeal to the millions of travelers who consciously avoid Ryanair.
"The history of the airline industry is littered with shuttered carriers that once led in their parts of the world, but took their eye off the ball, and part of that was taking their eye off the customer," said Henry H. Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst for Hudson Crossing, a San Francisco consulting firm. "As the low-cost market matures in Europe, Michael O'Leary realizes that Ryanair has to think of ways to make customers prefer the airline."
Ryanair's new charm offensive includes giving airport staff and cabin crew more discretion in dealing with common issues like oversize carry-on luggage. It also plans, in coming months, to reduce the fees it charges to check a bag, among other reductions. And planes departing before 8 a.m. will now be designated "quiet flight" without those blaring sales pitches.
But the main thrust of the plan is digital. Elements include a redesign of its deliberately cumbersome website, which was designed to thwart online ticket resellers. The smartphone app is now free, instead of costing €3, or about $4, to download. And there is the embrace of Twitter.
"I've been incredibly, I suppose, dismissive of social media for the last four or five years," Mr. O'Leary conceded. "I think so much time is wasted by so many people exchanging inanities on social websites. Yet, I am now persuaded in recent weeks and months that actually, use of sites like Twitter is a very good way to disseminate our message."
Analysts said Ryanair's belated preoccupation with brand-burnishing comes as other carriers with better reputations — including global brands like Air France-KLM and British Airways — have begun to push more aggressively into niche markets.
"The whole low-cost space in Europe has become much more cramped," said Craig Jenks, an independent airline consultant in New York, rattling off a list of competitors that included London-based easyJet; Air Berlin of Germany; Vueling in Spain; Wizz Air in Hungary; and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
It also comes as Ryanair finds itself struggling to find new sources of revenue.
Analysts say Mr. O'Leary has little choice but to find ways to increase average ticket prices, which would mean appealing to a higher-paying clientele.
"The more you can attract people who are prepared to pay a higher price, the better," said Chris Tarry, an aviation consultant based in London. "The most price-insensitive traffic that has a need and will book late — by definition, that's going to be business traffic."
To that end, Mr. O'Leary said Ryanair was trying to identify extra services that business travelers would be willing to pay a premium for, like reserved seating and priority boarding.
Mr. O'Leary said he hoped a more proactive approach to public relations would help offset the impact of "the unrepresentative one in 100,000 sob stories" that make their way into the media. And he said he recognized the need for a subtler tone.
"Shouting and screaming is fine when you're growing very rapidly and being the kind of challenger," he said. "But we're no longer the challenger brand. We're now the establishment brand. And I think we need to evolve and be a bit more sophisticated in the way we communicate."

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Hey I know Aggie fans are having a great time joking about Texas QB, Vince Young, who reportedly scored a 6 on the NFL Wonderlic test.
Young didn't score that. It was wrong and the NFL has admitted the error.
BUT….you know how people are. We are talking about the NFL draft and teams are trying to find negative things.
Young's official Wonderlic score is 16. That might kill his chances to be a spokesman for Motel 6.
If you read enough of this draft talk you know folks think the following:
Vince Young isn't smart and is falling out of the top five.
2005 Heisman winner Reggie Bush is not going to hold up as an every down back and the Texans will trade the number one pick to the Jets.
2004 Heisman winner Matt Leinart can't throw the ball deep.
Vandy QB, Jay Cutler is the next Brett Favre and will be the first QB drafted.
It's just talk. All talk. Don't buy into all the hype and you believe all the negative you hear about players.
If Vince Young falls to the Raiders at number 7..look at it this way. Young isn't the QB Daunte Culpepper is, but he's got the tremendous talent. Put Young in that Raider offense with WR's Randy Moss & Jerry Porter…add in the running back, Lamont Jordan…look out!!
You must remember the games Young played in. He brought Texas back from deficeits at Ohio State and in the Rose Bowl against the two-time national champions. You can not forget his body of work. Joey Harrington of the Lions had a high Wonderlic test. Would you want Joey as your starting quarterback? The fans can't stand this guy in Detroit. He's one soft hombre. Steve McNair of the Titans had a low Wonderlic score. McNair took the Titals to a Super Bowl and has won the NFL MVP award.
Last year's top pick, Alex Smith of the 49ers almost had a perfect Wonderlic score. He was terrible on the field for the 49ers in 2005.
As for the Cowboys who pick 18th. I think they will go with a linebacker..again. Look at DeMeco Ryans of Alabama or Bobby Carpenter of Ohio State.
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Eulampius & Eulampia the Martyrs; Our Righteous Father Theophilus the Confessor; The 200 Monk-martyrs of Nicomedia; Vassianos the Righteous of Constantinople; The 14 Holy Elders of Optina Monastery; Pinytos, Bishop of Knossos; Paulinus, Archbishop of York


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Readings: Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126:1-6; Phil 1:4-6.8-11; Luke 3:16
I've been thinking once again about Christian universalism, the idea that, in the end, everyone is saved, that all attain heaven. The reason I have been pondering universalism is because I just read a great antidote for it: C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce. Since becoming a Christian in my mid-20s, my conception of last things (i.e., death, judgment, purgatory, heaven and hell) is fairly consonant with Lewis'. Setting aside any detailed attempt at analysis and comparison, what I want to note is that, without a doubt, God is generous with salvation. After all, revelation tells us that God desires all to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4).
In The Great Divorce Lewis does a masterful job of illustrating how the refusal of salvation might look. It basically boils down to one's refusal to repent, that is, to resist being changed, or failing to even to grasp that one needs to change, and to demand, in a godlike manner, that reality be reduced to my measure and conform to my will. This refusal takes as many forms as there are refuseniks. It boils down to refusing to let go of anything and everything that is antithetical to the end for which one exists. In the end, what you desire for yourself must conform to what God desires for you.
Praying the Office of Readings today (something I do when I don't pray Morning Prayer) I came across an excerpt of a treatise on patience by St Cyprian. In this portion of his treatise, Cyprian sought to highlight the importance of perseverance and patience to salvation: "Dear brethren, we must endure and persevere if we are to attain the truth and freedom we have been allowed to hope for; faith and hope are the very meaning of our being Christians, but if faith and hope are to bear fruit, patience is necessary."
It occurred to me that the phrase- "if faith and hope are to bear fruit, patience is necessary"- expresses the spirit of Advent very well. Advent is a time of waiting. Waiting, as we all know, requires patience. Since waiting constitutes most of history and a lot of our lives, it seems that practicing waiting is an important way to begin each new year of grace.
Before anything else, a Christian must experience metanoia, or repentance. Why? Because everything else depends on this experience. Maybe the best way to describe repentance is the realization both that I need to change accompanied by some idea of what and how much I need to change, followed by the realization that I am incapable of completely transforming myself. In other words, repentance is a process that takes time. It is not a one time deal akin to what many call "getting saved."
Can God change me in an instant? Sure. In truth, through baptism God does bring about such an instantaneous change. God also does this whenever I make a good confession. God is merciful. But what good is the offer of mercy if you don't accept it? How can you accept it if you don't think you need it?
Because repentance is a process, so is justification. But even after baptism, even after making a good confession, the pull of my godless ways remains. We call this pull concupiscence. Because this is the reality in which we live, fallen though it be, we need to learn patience, not just patience with God, but also patience with ourselves, as well as patience with others. Letting one's self be changed in this way is the main work of any Christian's life.
St Paul assured the Christians in ancient Philippi of his confidence that God would "continue and complete" the "good work" He had begun in them until the coming of the Lord. I firmly believe that those of us who have experienced repentance can also rest assured in the Apostle's promise. For those who have not repented, it is not too late. In this life it is never too late. This is the call of the Baptist, which we hear anew each year on the Second Sunday of Advent: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths" (Luke 3:4).
Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
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Transcendence and Immanence
Some of the things that I have been blogging about this fall are the trinity, and really trying to understand Augustine's Book on the topic. I find the current teaching on the trinity to be very upsetting. I always hear it like this. "God sent his Son to do his will, to redeem humanity by dying on the cross, and blah, blah, blah, etc., this is a model for the marriage relationship, for how husbands should treat their wives." That is how it sounds. So Augustine is quite a relief to me. Augustine makes it clear that there is no difference in authority between Father and Son, nor is the trinity a model for human relationships.
Second, blogging about the Eternal One, as in Adon Olam , has finally made the meanings of "transcendent" and "immanent," relating to God, sink in. God is the one who existed before the material universe and will exist afterword. God is outside of matter, and all that is mortal. God is also supposed to be "present with us." This is what Rosenzweig wrote in the early decades of this century. What does that mean, given the holocaust? This is the dialogue I am having with theology this fall.


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There are two ways to make a pittance. One, work hard for people who don't pay you much. Or two, accept your pittance in exchange for room, board, and spiritual fulfillment. This week's jobs have a bit of both:
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Potential to earn like a CEO without the stress. Call for an interview
May involve drugs. Might involve stolen goods. Probably involves both. Once again–run!
3. Florida: Charity needs attorney who hates the banks
One of our donors was served Monday on a complaint by a American Express in Volusia County, FL.
We will pay for the fees. We need to respond to the complaint.
We are successful in the defense when we ask for proof of debt, such as an invoice.
We are 100% successful when we ask for a "competent fact witness" from American Express.
No witness, no affidavit of debt, no case.
* Compensation: $150+ / hr
An attorney could make a career out of hating the banks these days.
4. New Hampshire: October Jobs Are Brewing
Farm in NH is seeking applicants with a great work ethic for our Halloween events.
Those applying must be dependable, enjoy working with adults and children, offer a neat appearance, be at least 18 years of age, have own transportation and be available to work the complete event of their choosing.
These are stipend programs and not an hourly wage. Applicants are generally those who are looking for a fun experience and not a financial one.
The events are as follows:
Pumpkin Festival (daytime 9:30 am to 4:00 pm) October 3 & 4, 10 & 11, & 12 $200.00 for the complete event
Harvest of Horror (Nighttime 6 to 11 pm) October 9 & 10 & 11, 16 & 17 & 18, 23 & 24 & 25, 29 & 30 & 31 $400.00 for the complete event
For $6.66/hour–yes, that's less than minimum wage–it better be fun. Really, really fun.
5. New Zealand: Caretaker for Buddhist Monastery
Buddhist Monastery is looking for a responsible and kind man to help with the maintenance of our land and buildings. This position includes free room and board, a $100 weekly stipend, free meditation workshops, free opportunities to regularly hear talks on the teachings of the Buddha and to seek advice from the resident and visiting Buddhist teachers. It would be helpful to have skills in land management, building or landscaping.
* Compensation: free room and board plus a $100 weekly stipend
This is somebody's dream job.
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Are UK 'Dog funds' facing extinction?27 July 2017
Latest Spot the Dog report identifies £7.6 billion languishing in consistently poor performing investment funds
Bestinvest, the online investment service, is set to publish the latest edition of its controversial bi-annual Spot the Dog report this weekend. The report will 'name and shame' 34 consistently poor performing equity funds open to retail investors which collectively represent £7.6 billion of investor's savings. Each fund has underperformed its market benchmark for the last three consecutive 12-month periods on the trot and by more than 5% over the entire three-year period.
The report is loathed by fund management companies who have already been battered by recent criticism in a study by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority over lack of competition on costs. While the already embattled industry is unlikely to bark for joy with the publication of the latest report, it does however offer a ray of relatively positive news as a sharp fall in the number of outright howlers is revealed.
Significantly the latest report found only one solitary UK equity fund – the St. James's Place Equity Income fund – which had met its criteria for inclusion. This was down from six UK equity funds at the start of 2017 and is the lowest level in the two decades that Bestinvest has published its report. Another area where dog funds were found to be a dying breed is Japan, with a single fund highlighted. No Global Emerging Market funds hit Bestinvest's filters in this edition.
Even in the arena of US equities, a notoriously difficult market for active fund managers to add value and regularly one of the largest kennels, the number of funds that met the criteria for inclusion tumbled from nine at the start of 2017 to six. The biggest pack of dog funds continues to be found across the global equity fund universe, with 17 funds included (up from 16 in the last issue), but Bestinvest points out that 8 of these have income generation as part of their brief which in most cases means they will have been underweight the soaring US equity market as it is relatively low-yielding.
UK-listed Aberdeen Asset Management, which is currently in the process of a mega-merger with Standard Life, headed the hall of shame with over £2 billion of assets, representing 27% of the total, across five of its funds. The primary culprit here is the firm's £1.3 billion Asia Pacific Equity fund which has lagged the MSCI AC Asia Pacific index by -7% over the three years to end of June 2017.
Snapping at Aberdeen's ankles in second place with £1.7 billion of assets in three funds is advice group St. James's Place. SJP appoints external fund managers to run its fund and its main offender in this edition is its Great Dane sized £1 billion Equity Income fund, run by boutique RWC, which carries a hefty 1.61% pa ongoing costs.
Jason Hollands, Managing Director at Bestinvest, said: "Pleasingly there are just two funds that are 'big beasts', both have over a billion of assets, with most of the funds included in this report being pretty small in size. The overall drop in funds hitting our exacting criteria is also encouraging but it remains to be seen whether this is a technical blip or a sign of more meaningful trend coming through."
"The shift to lower cost, commission-free share classes a few years back is likely to have helped reduce the number of underperformers, as has fund consolidation activity. But another technical factor that is likely to be at play here was the rally in the second half of 2016 in stocks that were seen as sensitive to reflation. This bounce, which has since faded, will have lifted – at least temporarily - some of the more value orientated managers out of the doldrums after a prolonged period where quality growth companies have led the way. The jury is therefore out on whether the industry has really cleaned up its act.
"Importantly, these filters are only designed to highlight the 'worst of the worst' and there are a great many more pedestrian funds out there including closet-trackers which largely follow the index but charge excessive fees for doing so. Their performance may not be amongst the very worst, but such funds represent poor value for money. A real challenge for investors is that equity markets have delivered such strong returns in recent years, boosting the value of funds which have lagged the market, this has masked the lack of value added by some managers and will have left many investors unaware that they could be doing considerably better elsewhere. It is therefore vital to periodically thoroughly review your investments to make sure you are in funds that can truly justify the fees charged."
Readers offer: Members of the public can get a free copy of Spot the Dog by downloading it from www.bestinvest.co.uk/dogs or calling 020 7189 9999
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The Slovenian incumbent Telekom Slovenije has asked the country's regulatory authorities for permission to enter two new markets.
Poslovni reports that while telecoms will remain its core business, it plans to take advantage of its large subscriber base to start selling electricity, as part of an 'all in one' package, by the end of this year.
Furthermore, it aims to enter the insurance business next year, developing its presence in it until 2020.
Analysts say that by entering the two new markets Telekom Slovenije may be able to reverse a recent trend of falling revenues.


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Confession, a little book for the reluctant, by Monsignor Louis Gaston de Segur, this eminent and popular writer from the 19th century -- when the sacraments were taken much more seriously -- explains the sacrament with kindness and wisdom -- spurring you on to the protect and cleanliness God desires for you and your family! CLICK HERE
Many are the "examinations of conscience."
Here's one.
Here's another.
Here's what the bishops suggest. Here's one on the cardinal sins. What about your relationships with others? Here is yet one more, meaty one. And one by Father John Hardon.
The best one comes through the Holy Spirit. He illuminates. It thus comes through prayer. If you pray, He will give you an "illumination of conscience," in one form or another, in His timing. This is a better way than through drastic events. As one website put it:
"The Examination of Conscience is one of the fundamental means of furthering personal sanctification. For Catholics, the most common use of examination of conscience is in the preparation for Confession. For all Christians, examination of conscience can be an effective means to greater holiness through fostering obedience to God and conformity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. To that end, and through the application of an objective measurement of how well we conformed to the will of God, the examination of conscience helps us avoid the self-deception of thinking that our behavior, thoughts, and motives are not sinful when they actually are, as well as avoiding scrupulosity, which is seeing sin where there is none.
"There are two basic types of examinations of conscience.
"The 'General' examination is useful for measuring our behavior in light of God's commandments and is well suited to preparation for Confession. The general examination of conscience is most effective when it is practiced daily and once it becomes habitual, does not take more than a few minutes. Saint Ignatius in his Spiritual Exercises suggests five points for the examination of conscience.
1. An act of gratitude to God for all His benefits. (This will dispose the soul to the correct attitude for contrition.)
2. A petition for grace to know and detest one's sins.
3. An accurate examination of one's actions, thoughts, and motives throughout the hours of the day.
4. An Act of Contrition and an appeal for pardon, the principal point of the whole exercise.
5. A resolution to amend, a petition for God's assisting grace, and finally an Our Father.
"The 'Particular' examination of conscience is a specific method employed to assist in acquisition of one particular virtue or in the elimination of one particular vice. As such, it is very useful for anyone who wants to grow in holiness.
"On rising in the morning we resolve to avoid during the day the specific fault with which we have habitually struggled, or to perform certain acts of a particular virtue in which we would like to grow.
"About noon we consider how often we have committed that fault, or practiced that virtue and record the number so that we can keep track of our progress or decline. We then renew our resolution for the rest of the day. At night we examine and mark again, and make resolutions for the following day. In doing so, we act like careful businessmen who track a particular portion of their business for profit or loss. St. Ignatius further suggests that we impose upon ourselves some penance for every one of the faults committed and that we compare the numbers marked each time with those of the preceding day, the total sum at the end of the week with that of the preceding week, etcetera. 'The general examination is a weapon of defense. The particular, of attack. The first is the shield. The second, the sword,' said Saint Josemaria Escriva."
Hugely important are sins that have to do with pride, as well as lack of charity.
Instead of thinking negatively about someone -- instead of reviewing in our mind or with words their faults -- did we take the time to pray for them? Did we pray evil not enter them?
We are held accountable for helping others. In the afterlife we will be amazed at the effect of prayer (from the heart).
Do we truly feel for those who suffer (or just give lip service: "Poor dear")?
As a most helpful booklet called The Seven Capital Sins points out, "Pride was the first sin committed. It was the sin of Lucifer. It was also the root of the Original Sin committed by Adam and Eve. Pride is the greatest of sins because it is the summit of self-love and is directly opposed to submission to God. 'From pride all perdition took its beginning' (Tobit 4:14)." See also Gloria Polo's startling book Struck By Lightning. Or, The Secrets of Purgatory.
We are often blinded to our own shortcomings. This is the time of year to rectify that! The veil is thin.
Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth. We all need a "reality check" (and soul searching). And not just during Lent.
But it's a good time to start or heighten this endeavor.
And with that in mind, another examination of conscience offered by a church goes as follows:
Daily General Examination of Conscience Based on the Ten Commandments
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: "I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me."
• Have I performed my duties toward God reluctantly or grudgingly?
• Did I neglect my prayer life? Did I recite my usual prayers?
• Did I receive Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin or without the necessary preparation?
• Did I violate the one-hour Eucharistic fast?
• Did I fail to mention some grave sin in my previous Confession?
• Did I seriously believe in something superstitious or engage in a superstitious practice such as palm reading or fortune-telling?
• Did I seriously doubt a matter of faith?
• Did I put my faith in danger -- without a good reason -- by reading a book, pamphlet, or magazine that contains material contrary to Catholic faith or morals?
• Did I endanger my faith by joining or attending meetings of organizations opposed to the Catholic faith such as non-Catholic services, Freemasonry, New Age cults, or other pagan-like religions (see: yoga)? Did I take part in any of its activities?
• Have I committed the sin of sacrilege such as profanation of a sacred person, place, or thing?
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT: "You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain."
• Did I fail to try my best to fulfill the promises and resolutions that I made to God?
• Did I take the Name of God in vain? Did I make use of God's name mockingly, jokingly, angrily, or in any other irreverent manner?
• Did I make use of the Blessed Virgin Mary's name or another saint's name mockingly, jokingly, angrily, or in any other irreverent manner?
• Have I been a sponsor in baptism or participated actively in other ceremonies outside the Catholic Church?
• Did I tell a lie under oath?
• Did I break public or private vows?
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT: "Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day."
• Did I miss Mass on a Sunday or a holy day of obligation?
• Did I fail to dress appropriately for Mass?
• Did I allow myself to be distracted during Mass, by not paying attention, by looking around out of curiosity, etcetera?
• Have I performed any work or business activity that would inhibit the worship due to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, or the appropriate relaxation of mind and the body, on a Sunday or a holy day of obligation?
• Did I fail to generously help the church in her necessities to the extent that I am able?
• Did I fail to fast or abstain on a day prescribed by the Church?
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT: "Honor your father and your mother."
For parents:
• Have I neglected to teach my children their prayers, send then to church or give them a Christian education?
• Have I given them a bad example?
• Have I neglected to watch over my children, to monitor their companions, the books they read, the movies and TV shows they watch?
• Have I failed to see to it that my child made his first Confession and first Communion?
• Have I failed to see to it that my children have received the sacrament of Confirmation?
For children:
• Was I disobedient toward my parents?
• Did I neglect to help my parents when my help was needed?
• Did I treat my parents with little affection or respect?
• Did I react proudly when I was corrected by my parents?
• Did I have a disordered desire for independence?
• Did I do my chores?
For adults with parents:
• Have I supported my parents in times of need to the extent that I am able?
• Have I ensured that my parents are adequately cared for in terms of food, clothing, and shelter?
• Have I spoken to my parents respectfully and been tolerant of their shortcomings?
• Have I listened to their advice patiently and humbly, with an eye toward learning from their experience?
• Have I made an effort to visit my parents and to allow them time to visit with grandchildren?
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: "You shall not kill."
• Did I easily get angry or lose my temper?
• Was I envious or jealous of others?
• Did I injure or take the life of anyone?
• Was I reckless in driving? Did I drive "under the influence"?
• Was I reckless in the operation of mechanical equipment, chemicals, or other potentially dangerous items?
• Was I reckless in the use of firearms? Did I fail to keep firearms secured so that others, including children, could not access them?
• Was I an occasion of sin for others by way of conversation; the telling of jokes which are religiously, racially or sexually offensive; dressing; inviting somebody to attend certain shows; lending of harmful books or magazines; helping someone to steal, etetera? Did I try to repair the scandal done (at least through prayer)?
• How many persons did I lead to sin? What sins were involved?
• Did I neglect my health?
• Did I attempt to take my life?
• Did I get drunk or use prohibited drugs?
• Did I eat or drink more than a sufficient amount, allowing myself to get carried away by gluttony?
• Did I participate in any form of physical violence?
• Did I consent to or actively take part in direct sterilization such as tubal ligation, vasectomy, etcetera? Do I realize that this will have a permanent effect on my married life and that I will have to answer to God for its consequences?
• Did I consent to, advise someone about, or actively take part in an abortion? Was I aware that the Church punishes with automatic excommunication those who procure and achieve abortion? Do I realize that this is a very grave crime?
• Did I cause harm to anyone with my words or actions?
• Did I desire revenge or harbor enmity, hatred, or ill feelings when someone offended me?
• Did I ask pardon whenever I offended anyone?
• Did I insult of offensively tease others?
• Did I quarrel with one of my brothers or sisters? Did I always forgive?
THE SIXTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS: "You shall not commit adultery" and"You shall not covet your neighbors wife."
• Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts?
• Did I consent to evil desires against the virtue of purity, even though I may not have carried them out? Were there any circumstances that aggravated the sin: affinity (relationship by marriage), consanguinity (blood relationship), either the married state or the consecration to God of a person involved?
• Did I engage in impure conversations? Did I start them?
• Did I look for fun in forms of entertainment that placed me in proximate occasion of sin, such as certain dances, movies, shows, or books with immoral content? Did I frequent houses of ill repute or keep bad company?
• Did I realize that I might already have been committing a sin by placing myself in a proximate occasion of sin, such as sharing a room with a person I find sexually attractive, or being alone with such a person in circumstances that could lead to sin?
• Did I fail to take care of those details of modesty and decency that are the safeguards of purity?
• Did I fail, before going to a show or reading a book, to find out its moral implications, so as not to put myself in immediate danger of sinning in order to avoid distorting my conscience?
• Did I willfully look at an indecent picture or can an immodest look upon myself or another? Did I willfully desire to commit such a sin?
• Did I lead others to sins of impurity or immodesty? What sin?
• Did I commit an impure act? By myself, through masturbation (which is objectively a mortal sin)? With someone else? How many times? With someone of the same or opposite sex? Was there any circumstance of relationship (such as affinity) that could have given the sin special gravity? Did this illicit relationship result in pregnancy? Did I do anything to prevent or end that pregnancy?
• Did I have friendships that are habitual occasions of sexual sin? Am I prepared to end them?
• In courtship, is true love my fundamental reason for wanting to be with the other person? Do I live the constant and cheerful sacrifice of not putting the person I love in danger of sinning? Do I degrade human love by confusing it with selfishness or mere pleasure?
• Did I engage in acts such as "petting," "necking," passionate kisses or prolonged embraces?
For married people:
• Did I, without serous reason, deprive my spouse of the marital right? Did I claim my own rights in a way that showed no concern for my spouses state of mind or health? Did I betray conjugal fidelity in desire or in deed?
• Did I take the "pill" or use any other artificial birth-control device before or after new life had already been conceived? (Just confess; God will forgive.)
• Did I suggest to another person the use of birth-control pills or another artificial method of preventing pregnancy (like condoms)?
• Did I have a hand in contributing to the contraceptive mentality by my advice, jokes, or attitudes?
THE SEVENTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS: "You shall not steal" and "You shall not covet your neighbors goods."
• Did I steal? How much money or how much was the object worth? Did I give it back or at least have the intention of doing so?
• Have I done or caused damage to another person's property? To what extent?
• Did I harm anyone by deception, fraud, or coercion in business contracts or transactions?
• Did I unnecessarily spend beyond my means? Do I spend too much money because of vanity or caprice?
• Do I give alms according to my capacity?
• Was I envious of my neighbor's goods?
• Did I neglect to pay my debts? My taxes?
• Did I knowingly accept stolen goods?
• Did I desire to steal?
• Did I give in to laziness or love of comfort rather than diligent work or study?
• Was I greedy? Do I have an excessively materialistic view of life? (Very important.)
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
• Did I tell lies? Did I repair any damage that may have resulted as a consequence of this?
• Did I unjustly accuse others?
• Did I sin by detraction, that is, by telling the faults of another person without necessity?
• Did I sin by calumny, that is by telling derogatory lies about another person?
• Did I engage in gossip, backbiting, or tale-telling?
• Did I reveal a secret without due cause?
If you remember other serous sins besides those indicated here, include them also in your Confession.
Shorter Daily General Examination of Conscience Based on the Ten (some a repeat)
• When was my last good Confession? Did I receive communion or other sacraments while in the state of mortal sin? Did I intentionally fail to confess some mortal sin in my previous confession?
• Did I willfully and seriously doubt my faith, or put myself in danger of losing it by reading literature hostile to Catholic teachings or by getting involved with non-Catholic sects?
• Did I engage in superstitions activities such as palm-reading and fortune-telling?
• Did I take the Name of God in vain? Did I curse or take a false oath? Did I use bad language? Do I listen to negativity about others?
• Did I miss Mass on a Sunday or a holy day of obligation through my own fault, without any serous reason? Did I fast and abstain on the prescribed days?
• Did I disobey my parents or lawful superiors in important matters?
• Was I selfish in how I treated others, especially my spouse, my brothers and sisters, my relatives, or my friends?
• Did I hatefully quarrel with anyone or desire revenge?
• Did I refuse to forgive?
• Did I cause physical injury or even death?
• Did I get drunk?
• Did I take illicit drugs?
• Did I consent to, advise someone about, or actively take part in an abortion?
• Did I willfully look at indecent pictures or watch immoral movies? Did I read immoral books or magazines?
• Did I engage in impure jokes or conversations?
• Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or feelings?
• Did I commit impure acts, alone or with others?
• Did I take contraceptive or abortifacient pills, or use other artificial means in order to prevent contraception?
• Did I steal or damage another's property? How much was it worth? Have I made reparation for the damages done?
• Have I been honest in my business relations?
• Did I tell lies?
• Did I sin by slander?
• Did I sin by detraction -- telling unknown grave faults of others without necessity?
• Did I judge others rashly in serious matters? (Did I say something complimentary while thinking the opposite?)
• Have I tried to make restitution for any damages of reputation that I have caused?
If you remember other serious sins besides those indicated here, include them also in your Confession. Mainly, know this: even when we lack mercy, God never does; He forgives all (look at the thief on Calvary) who, in humility, seek His forgiveness! He turns into white even scarlet sins.
[resources: The Seven Capital Sins and Confession: Its Fruitful Practice]
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Within the fabric of deceit, I'm reminded of why I question my makers purpose. The nature of me being, and this inevitable escape from how being's defined. Occasion after occasion, I imagine our dark mistress reaching to caress my presence while she insists I hear her say I'm far less than adored. I question how being defined as a tool of fabrication this legacy is. For the father of lies I'm device every lying tongue seeks when searching refuge from themselves. though within our heart I'm a misrepresentation to those using the same device to administer deliverance unto their salvation. Unto our mistress I'm a device for her sins increase. Unto salvation, I fear this thing's a thing renounced because this thing's despised. Thus! I lament within me while enduring the storm's threshold. Assuming her gesture contradict her words. Unto the first perhaps I will always be our righteousness presence. For this thing selfsame decor. For the deviant, perhaps I am selfsame corruption unto wicked things. From her gesture a sinner I am, tempted of sins devices. A gate-keeper between vexation and realization of what our purpose is as defined. Let the truth of vanity hide behind the charade of peace no longer. Vain deceit stains humanity creating opportunity of being defined less than acceptable. A delusion dictated from desperate, frightened dictators. Mass of fabricated promises separated as a result of fault. The covenant seeks the prince of peace but reject classless, race-less and sexless communist societies. They live behind the fantasy appearance they create for themselves while denying the steadfast standards their dictators created. Nearing the end of my fantasy I ask what this mistress gains from this many levels of manipulation. Is the benefit the same for all delusional participants of this existence? Perhaps her caress is enough to defy the things I fear? Will she conquer the cynicism of a faithful heart?
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In the beginning , nearly no-one foreseen the infatuation and want manifesting for us. Not in the same instant, but during evolution of our sins, a culture developed. From the dexterous hand of a musician, we must believe the seed of our desires were sewn within us. Because without balance we are not symmetrical. Without accord, we ar not harmonized with the things we adore. We do not adore those things without inspiration. We want nought without encouragement. Like Eve unto Adam, many believe in destined romance. Like each step of an octave our woes are pre-ordained. From e-string to e-string of a guitar todays musician has more influence for their own device than the lyrist of any renaissance. From the same diatonic time line, lovers posses many infatuations. Like any dire, enchanted garden, infatuation is more than a biased obsession. For the mediators of desire for nothing, seduction composed from the neck of a guitar, allows opportunity for activation of any lovers device. Inheriting both land and lovers. Women are an association to the land of mans' inheritance, according to some Biblical tales. Now, salvation unites lovers because they believe similar beliefs. Salvation was something rewarded for repentance of sin, and transgressions of sinners. Because of our domesticated society lovers might never live their emerald dream, or play those alluring masterpieces. Thus! Humanity shall stand smitten with a derision stronger than a thousand swords. We stand affronted by the court of cliché, severed from the fountain and the crystal chalice. Waiting, like sorcerers after casting a spell for manifestation of our want. Mistress, plunge in thy dagger! For our sins, our suffering is not greater than our want. Let us be as a pestilence to non-believers. If they suffer nought for our sins then let them suffer because of their own device. Let us believe they day of salvation has not come. Let us witness the eve of our deliverance unto one another. The Eve of Salvation will fall nigh unto the dawning of reconciliation for our sins. Because we can only see the thing bound to our hearts, and despair for the things we await. For reconciliation of our sins we're accepted because we can accept everything and everyone.
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View distribution
Couchbase Server uses hash-partitioning to distribute data evenly across the cluster. For example, in a cluster with four nodes, on an average each node will contain about 25% of active data.
When using views, the view indexer runs locally on each node and indexes the subset of data that resides on that node. The partial view generated contains about 25% of the view results. Views use a process called scatter-gather. View data is scattered and distributed evenly across the cluster nodes.
When you query a view, the request is sent to a randomly selected cluster node with the data service, and is forwarded to all data nodes in the cluster. That's the scatter piece. Depending on the options specified when querying the view, each node will either send the most current data in its partial view index, update the partial view index and send the data, or send the data and update the partial view index. The view results corresponding to each node are collected together and collated before the aggregate result is returned to the client.
View distribution works well for a small dataset and a small number of nodes. However, for large amounts of data, the fan-out for the scatter-and-gather will be huge and will involve transferring large amounts of data.


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Sanders Elected Secretary of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors
CHAPEL HILL –Estelle "Bunny" Sanders, mayor of the town of Roper, was elected by acclamation today (June 8) as secretary of the UNC Board of Governors, the policy-making body of the 16-campus University of North Carolina. She was tapped to complete a two-year term begun by Patsy Perry of Durham, who will retire from the board on June 30. Sanders will serve through June 30, 2008.
First elected to the Board of Governors in 2003, Sanders is former director of the Elizabeth City State University Small Business and Technology Development Center. In addition to her service as mayor, she has also served on the Washington County Child Advocacy Board, the Gateway Bank Advisory Board, the Washington County Travel and Tourism Board, and the Washington County Hospital Board. Currently a member of the Board of Governors' Committee on Educational Planning, Policies, and Programs and vice-chair of its Public Affairs Committee, Sanders has also served on several ad hoc board committees, including the Committee on Economic Development and the University. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Howard University and has pursued graduate studies at George Washington University.
The oldest public university in the nation, the University of North Carolina enrolls more than 202,000 students and encompasses all 16 of North Carolina's public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees. UNC campuses support a broad array of distinguished liberal-arts programs, two medical schools and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary school, a school of pharmacy, 11 nursing programs, 15 schools of education, three schools of engineering, and a specialized school for performing artists. Also under the University umbrella are the UNC Center for Public Television with its 11-station statewide broadcast network, and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the nation's first public residential high school for gifted students.


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Illinois-based photographer Paul Octavious has embarked on a personal mission to "match all the PANTONE colors" to things that he finds in everyday life.
In the ongoing series called "#ThePantoneProject", Octavious holds up a PANTONE swatch in each picture and matches it to an object in the background.
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Stockholm–Changing human society to insure we all, animals and plants included, survive well on a healthy planet is no small undertaking. But uniting the best and brightest, Nobel Laureates and global leaders, to improve our roadmap for change should help. I certainly hope so.
Over the next four days in Stockholm, the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability will convene more than 40 leaders to address the theme of "Transforming the World in an Era of Global Change." The first such meeting in Potsdam four years ago included some 15 Nobel laureates and 20 scientific leaders and yielded the Potsdam Declaration calling for a Great Transformation with global investment in sustainability science. The second, in London, produced the St. James Palace Memorandum , eventually signed by 60 Nobel laureates, calling for a global climate change agreement with related efficiencies in energy use and limits to deforestation.
As with such international and highly choreographed meetings, the framework and speakers are set for this 3rd Symposium and many of the conclusions are already in draft. The discussions are slated around three themes, the role of ecosystem services in human well being, the boundaries of human enterprise as it affects global well being, and the role of social innovation in creating large scale transformation.
The principal product of the 3rd Symposium, the Stockholm Memorandum, will be presented to the UN High–level Panel on Global Sustainability. This memorandum will be modified presumably as the various discussions unfold and there will be adequate ceremony as King Carl XVI Gustav presents the work of those convened to UN representatives. The proceedings themselves are covered by the Chatham House Rule to allow frank discussion among functionaries which will not be directly attributable. However, the final day of the symposium will provide an open discussion with members of business and civil society as well as key scientists, policy makers and representatives of a large, concerned populous.
The challenge, of course, is not in just identifying problems, but finding ways to engage broad constituencies and changing behavior. What has happened since Potsdam? Or St. James? International conventions and communications have achieved only modest traction, particularly in the U.S. where human effected climate change is contested and global agreements are severely hampered. This glacial pace will not stem glacial loss.
The solutions divined by the laureates and experts assembled, I believe, must seriously call for and suggest marketing strategies and budgets that will effectively guide global citizens to expand their personal geography. For those who are informed, local decisions, envisioned on scale, have increasingly visible global consequences. Like the choice to use wind-generated energy or reduce driving personal cars. But for most, the problems are too distant and individual action is deemed to miniscule to matter. That must change.
The ambitions of this 3rd Symposium are smartly defined and are on the right track. But I do wonder about the capacity of the leaders assembled. Are they well enough versed to envision new ways to communicate human dependence on functioning natural systems? Most of the laureates have their strengths in physics, chemistry, some in literature and politics. To communicate the value of "ecosystem services," a concept in need of a linguistic makeover, requires not only those who have studied the concept, like Gretchen Daily, thankfully invited, but also those who are strategic marketers versed in tweeting and pitching in tailored ways through many different frames. Are these innovators in the halls as well? We will see.
I will be watching intently as to which mechanisms will arise, and how the Stockholm Memorandum will take the concept of Great Transformation quickly to action. Perhaps strong leadership, creatively transmitted, will light a brighter path for those open to change.
John Francis serves as Vice President for Research, Conservation, and Exploration at the National Geographic Society, directing funding of these disciplines through the Committee for Research and Exploration, the Conservation Trust, and the Expeditions Council, Young Explorers, and Waitt grants programs. Francis also serves on boards for the National Park System, UNESCO, and the IUCN. John received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution studying the behavioral ecology of marine mammals. Since his beginning roles as grantee and then producer of wildlife films for National Geographic, he has worked to enhance connections between the scientific/conservation community and the public– made possible through the Society's funding of path breaking projects and global media reach.


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È stato scelto un vincitore tra 32 design presentati da 16 designer.
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Our target clients are not just the ultra affluent. In fact our average client's median house-hold income is between $40k and $90k, although we do have a contingent of ultra affluent as well.
We want our site to be visually accessible to all types of end users, the integration of Facebook and YouTube connectors, as well as a site search (see wireframe sketch), and we'd like our primary product/service logos to be embedded in the design at the bottom, and when clicked take you to that page of the site.
We intend to be more active in scheduling of new clients from the web site, as well as the heavy use of YouTube embeds from our YouTube channel to showcase procedures and before/afters from our clients.
NO FLASH PLEASE. Animations in certain elements of the design are acceptible but we intend to utilize video in many places so make animations minimal if at all.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The Chromolithographs of Fidelia Bridges
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- Eugene Arenhaus said...
Chromolithography is probably the most artistic method of color printing invented to date. The color effects possible with it are wonderful to see in person, it supports offset color mixing, color layering effects, and spot color - and the subtle texture of the stone is more pleasing than offset printing rasters.
- May 3, 2016 at 10:41 AM
- Tom Hart said...
What I found most interesting about the post was that people of the day found these prints to be overly saturated with color. However, maybe that relates to Eugene's comment about chromolithography being particularly impactful in person, and maybe the saturation just doesn't come across as strongly here. Then again, maybe the difference in perception (if there is one) is evidence of how accustomed we are to saturated color these days.
- May 3, 2016 at 2:23 PM


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When my kids were babies and I was exhausted and whiny all the time, it really helped when my mom friends of older children reassured me, "Don't worry, it does get better. You will sleep again. Trust me."
So the way I see it, those congratulatory birth cards are nice, but it's after the baby has been here for a few days ... weeks .. months ... that moms most need those gestures of support and hope.
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Here's a sample at left, but there's also a greeting card that encourages breastfeeding.
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Others cards in the line poke fun at all the pediatrician lingo on growth charts and percentiles, and even reach out to the discouraged pregnant mama, telling her "this will all end in something wonderful" and complimenting her on "how good her boobs look."
One mom saw the cards at Walmart, but you can also personalize your own card and message on Hallmark's online site. Click to see the breastfeeding encouragement card.
My friends were right. It does get better, but I could still use a card now and then that says "you will see the inside of a restaurant again" and "the whining phase will end eventually."
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Bridge Kids is an after school club for children in years K-6.
Bridge Kids meet every Friday in school term in the church hall in Kirribilli from 3:30pm-5:00pm.*
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"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." … Frederic Bastiat
Evil talks about tolerance only when it's weak. When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good and innocent lives is an ongoing witness against it. So it always has been. So it always will be. And America has no special immunity to becoming an enemy of its own founding beliefs about human freedom, human dignity, the limited power of the state, and the sovereignty of God. – Archbishop Chaput
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The Ultimate Inflation Casualty
All of this is to hide or disguise the impact of inflation. One goes to the store, buys a bag of sugar for the price they paid for it a few years ago and thinks little if anything about it until they realize that they ended up with one pound less sugar than they might have assumed.
Now, I give you the ULTIMATE INFLATION CASUALTY - yes indeed - the lowly but glorious roll of toilet paper.
Look at the following picture and weep for our old familiar friend... the roll of toilet paper on the right is the old sized roll. The new, inflation adjusted roll is on the left - I actually took out a ruler and measured the thing - it is 5/16" of an inch narrower. Think about how much wood pulp that saves the paper manufacturer. The result - VOILA! the package of the new paper costs as much as the old sized rolls cost but you get that much less.
Alas, let us pause for a moment of respect at the passing of the dear friend of our derriere.
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Excellent post, great review. I pay my respects :-(ReplyDelete
Okay, times up.
Finger lookin good, - DanReplyDelete
That's what happen when one offshore plants in a metric-system based country.ReplyDelete
They should really start publishing a "toilet paper index." They shrink the physical size of the roll (picture above), the size of the sheets and the number of sheets. The current "double rolls" are not much bigger than the good old "single rolls" of a couple years ago. And, this is one item that almost everybody in the modern world uses on a "regular" basis, unlike big mac's.ReplyDelete
Inflation reflects on the products we're buying from the market. If inflation get worse, that toilet tissue would become the half of its original size, LOL.ReplyDelete
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5 Reasons the World Is Still a Wonderful Place
Things are—how shall we say it?—a little bananas these days. Real Simple asked five experts to remind us about some of the good stuff that can get lost in the shuffle.
Libraries Still Exist.
When you're a child, if your home is perhaps unhappy or else just cramped or dull, and you are too poor for the mall to hold any appeal for you, there is a third, magical space you can go to on a rainy day: the library. A place where you can go without a penny in your pocket and be given a room full of worlds. For each book is a doorway you can walk through into another land. There are a million people, from across the world and through time, who are sitting on those shelves, dying to tell their stories and become your friend. It is a place where you will be valued not for what you wear or how you look, but for how many words you have collected and stored in your head (corybantic, uxorious, shagreen, mimosa). Most important, it's a place where you can just sit on a chair and read all the rude bits from Judy Blume books. And we invented these facilities! We made them happen. How cool is that? This is humanity's greatest achievement. — Caitlin Moran
We're Not Alone.
In my work with grieving kids, I am confronted with the fact that terrible tragedies happen both in our world and in our personal lives every single day. But I also get the privilege of witnessing kids starting to smile and laugh again with the support of their peers. In a group of people with similar experiences, they not only feel more "normal" but also feel understood, validated, and inspired. A newer kid can see someone who has been through the process and say, "Wow, look how far he's come. I can do that, too." Just by being together, we can lift each other up. — Jill MacFarlane
Beauty Surrounds Us.
We can create joyous experiences for ourselves anyplace, but heading outside brings a special magic. Studies have found that being in nature actually changes your brain physiology. In Japan, they have "forest bathing," or shinrin-yoku, where they create parks for people to get out of the city and take a walk to escape. Being in nature improves your mood and gives you a better sense of balance and meaning in your life. And it is something that is available to all of us. You feel better about yourself and the world when you're out in a beautiful spot. — Janice Kaplan
We Have the Power to Change Our Perspective.
There is this idea in couples therapy that if you could get couples to be nicer to each other, you could turn things around for them. But research suggests that it isn't so much about being nicer; it's about learning to notice when your partner is being kind. The problem is, we see what we're looking for, and many of us focus on the negative—both in our relationships and in life. The good news is, we can flip this. We can seek out what is going well and call it out. Maybe it is listing three things that you are grateful for that day; maybe it's sending your partner a text to let him know that you're thinking of him. But we have to make that choice. — Zach Brittle
We Look Out for Each Other.
A few winters ago, my husband and I were walking to dinner in Chicago on a very cold and very snowy night, which is pretty much what all Chicago evenings in the winter are like. I foolishly walked out of the house without a hat—we were only going a few blocks—and I was freezing. I was walking down the street with my hands cuffed over my ears and, at a stoplight, this young man—he was maybe 25 years old or so—looked at me and said, "Would you like this hat? You look cold." He made such an impression on me. Just a human being at his best, in a very, very simple way. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Caitlin Moran is The New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Woman and, out this month, Moranifesto. Her hit UK sitcom, Raised by Wolves, will soon be adapted for American television by Diablo Cody. She lives in London.
Jill MacFarlane is the program director at the Sharing Place, an organization that provides grief support for children and their families in Salt Lake City.
Janice Kaplan is the author of The New York Times best seller The Gratitude Diaries. She divides her time between Connecticut and New York City.
Zach Brittle is a certified Gottman therapist, the founder of ForBetter.us, and the author of The Relationship Alphabet. He lives in Seattle.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the author of more than 30 children's books and the memoirs Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal (out this fall). She resides digitally at whoisamy.com and for real in Chicago.


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The protests against the Education Law, which implies almost totalitarian cuts in worker rights, continued on Thursday in Mexico. Thousands marched through Distrito Federal and in many other cities through the North American country, along with other measures like blockade of roads, suspension of classes, etc.
The government responded with massive police deployment, which is feared will be the main means that the contested President Peña Nieto will use to enforce his power, also as he attempts to privatize the oil company PEMEX, the backbone of the country's limited prosperity.
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Paramount has released a new TV spot for director Michael Bay's incredibly promising black comedy Pain & Gain. Based on a true story, the film stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as two bodybuilders who get caught up in an extortion ring and kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. The film's first trailer is fantastic, and this TV spot does a great job of showcasing that pic's charm and comedy. Pain & Gain looks like it could actually be Bay's most entertaining film yet, but I have a feeling they're keeping some of the story's more sordid details under wraps. The real life ordeal is fairly horrific, though I expect Wahlberg and Johnson will bring enough levity/ridiculousness to the film to make it palatable.
Hit the jump to watch the latest TV spot. Anthony Mackie, Rob Corddry, Ed Harris, Tony Shalhoub, and Rebel Wilson co-star. Pain & Gain opens April 26, 2013.