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The co-creator of Halo, Marcus Lehto has a new first-person shooter, titled Disintegration set to arrive some time this year. As is customary for multiplayer shooters, the game will receive a closed Beta towards the end of this month.
Developer V1 Interactive announced that the closed Beta for Disintegration will commence on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 28 from 8 am PT to 11:59 pm PT and Wednesday, January 29 from 8 am PT to 11:59 pm PT.
We won't have to wait long for the public Beta, which will begin on January 31 and end on February 1. During this time players on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will have access to two of the multiplayer modes coming to the game at launch.
The available game modes are Retrieval, which will see one team tasked with delivering a payload to the enemies base, while the opposing team will have to try and stop them. The second mode in the Beta is Control. In this mode both teams must battle to take over the battlefield by capturing certain points on the map.
While the Beta will focus on Multiplayer, the game is set to include a single-player story on launch, which sees humanity ravaged by a deadly virus that forces them to transfer their consciousness into robot avatars.
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- it takes 18 - 24 months to make good sour beer (patience is a virtue eh?)
- be careful to not infect your non-sour beer batches by having dedicated equipment and or dispose of the cheaper equipment after you use it with the souring yeasts
- there are types of sour beer (Oud Bruin - Flemish Sour, others..)
- wooden casks are use to sour beer by exposing the beer to the right proportion of sour producing yeast
- some sour yeasts were mentioned (lactobacillus, brettanomyces [lambicus or bruxellensis] , pediococcus damnosus)
- Jamil Z on The Brewing Network Podcast talked about brewing sour beer
- Dell is no expert ;-) (I think he's being modest.)
- Dell has a large celler of beer. (I've seen it. He ain't kiddin' ;-)
- the book Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrow is recommended
- Pierre Rajotte's book Belgian Ale was mentioned by Nate.
Here are some other things I've found as well. Feel free to tell me whether or not these are any good. I figure if its on that there internet, it must be true ;-)
- I checked out Charlie Papazian's, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing and he says you can sour your mash or your malt extract, kill the sour bugs after its partially infected by boiling. Then you make your wort with it and ferment it. Anybody out there try this?
- Lambic Beer FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) from HBD.org - Seems to be pretty thorough, but, I haven't read it yet.
- Books mentioned can be found at the Brewers Association website store. I would link to each, but, they website doesn't allow for that. (I am a member of the AHA, but, I don't make money via them.) Amazon seems to have better prices.
The floor is still open. Anybody have something to say about sour beer? Release your inner sourhead!


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1.2.1. Global Self-driving Cars Production and CAGR (%) Comparison by Type (Product Category)(2013-2025)
1.2.2. Global Self-driving Cars Production Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2017
1.2.3. Passenger Vehicle
1.2.4. Commercial Vehicle
Chapter Two: Global Self-driving Cars Market Competition by Manufacturers
2.1. Global Self-driving Cars Capacity, Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.1.1. Global Self-driving Cars Capacity and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.1.2. Global Self-driving Cars Production and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
2.2. Global Self-driving Cars Revenue and Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
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3.1. Global Self-driving Cars Capacity and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
3.2. Global Self-driving Cars Production and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
3.3. Global Self-driving Cars Revenue (Value) and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
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PIERRE, S.D. – Secretary Steve Pirner, head of the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, appeared in front of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight today to testify about the Corps of Engineers' attempt to charge for "surplus water."
At the invitation of Sen. Mike Rounds, chair of the subcommittee, Secretary Pirner spoke to the senators about the Water Supply Rule proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The rule would eventually allow the Corps to sell water it deems to be surplus and would require certain users to obtain water storage contracts from the Corps in order to utilize water from Missouri River reservoirs.
Citing the 1944 Flood Control Act, the cabinet secretary questioned the Corps' ability to impose such a rule. "This creates a monumental change to the law and steals South Dakota's rights to natural flows that, by tradition and law, are under the jurisdiction of the states," he told the committee.
Pirner described the Missouri River as the largest, most reliable surface water supply in South Dakota and explained that the Corps seeks to control who can draw water from the Missouri River in South Dakota. That role historically, and legally, belongs to the state. The secretary closed by urging the committee to put a stop to the rule.
"This rulemaking effort tramples state's rights and needs to be stopped now before the Corps finalizes the rule in September. The future of South Dakota, I believe, is linked directly to having a Missouri River water supply that we manage as a state. Please do not let the Corps take that away from us," said Pirner.
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With Chanukah on the way, internationally-known Judaica artist Gary Rosenthal is making sure that hundreds of Jewish families in New Orleans are equipped to celebrate the holiday.
The Hiddur Mitzvah Project from the Gary Rosenthal Collection has teamed with congregations across the country to provide more than 500 unique Chanukah menorahs and dreidels to replace pieces that were lost in the hurricane.
The pieces will be distributed at the New Orleans Uptown Jewish Community Center's Chanukah party on Dec. 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Rosenthal, who will attend the party, is teaming with Dashka Roth to present the hand-crafted pieces.
Roth, whose Judaica and jewelry store is located in the French Quarter, said "the event will be a homecoming for the Jewish people of New Orleans and mark our community's resilience."
Debbie Pesses, Jewish enrichment director at the Uptown JCC, said the celebration "means so much to our community... so many people here have lost so much, but for this one evening we will have the opportunity to celebrate our Judaism, reconnect with other Jewish families, and return to a bit of normalcy."
Groups at synagogues across the country made cut-glass mosaics that were sent to Rosenthal's Maryland workshop, where they were melted, fused and mounted onto menorahs and dreidels.
Rosenthal said the project's activities "work to teach Jewish youngsters about the role art plays in Jewish ritual, but also, we hope to teach them about the responsibility of helping others, especially in times of need."
Among the congregations participating are Anshei Israel in Tucson, Ariz.; B'nai Jeshurun in Pepperpike, Ohio; the Cherry Hill JCC in New Jersey, the Denver JCC, Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School in Phoenix; Schechter Krieger Day School in Baltimore; Temple Aliyah in Needham, Mass.; Temple Bat Yahm in Newport Beach, Calif.; and Temple Beth Shalom in Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
In Denver, Jewish families from around the area made 150 menorahs. In addition to the JCC, Denver B'nai B'rith Youth and Shalom Denver's sheltered workshop held events, as did over 350 Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists at the Windows to the Design art show.
After the Chanukah party, the project hopes to donate Shabbat candlesticks, tzedakah boxes and other items.
Leslie Fischman, assistant executive director at the Uptown JCC, said the JCC in Stamford, Conn., sent Chanukah gifts that will also be distributed. A Mitzvah project coordinated 150 wrapped toys, 150 book bags with school supplies, and 150 Chanukah kits including candles, gelt and latke mix. "It is a really wonderful donation," she said.
Other toys have been donated to the JCC and Jewish Family Services. They will work with Jewish Children's Regional Service on distributing them at the Dec. 20 party. "All the kids are going to get Chanukah presents to take home," Fischman said.
The authors of "Images of America: The Jewish Community of New Orleans" will be at the party signing copies of their book, which was published in late July. Irwin Lachoff is the associate archivist of Xavier University of Louisiana, and Catherine Kahn is archivist of Touro Infirmary, and project chair for Jews of New Orleans: An Archival Guide.
The party will also include hot dogs and latkes.
With more families expected to move back to New Orleans in mid-December, in advance of schools reopening in January, Fischman said "we hope we'll have a lot of people back to enjoy it."
Pesses said, "We are so appreciative of Gary Rosenthal's efforts to make sure that Jewish families in New Orleans have the opportunity to celebrate Chanukah this year."
The homecoming events will continue on Jan. 8 at 4 p.m., as the JCC hosts a Rick Recht concert and free spaghetti supper.
Reopened JCC
The Uptown JCC reopened its fitness center in late October, along with several other services. Fischman said the JCC plans to have its entire program up and running by the first of the year, including resuming regular hours. The JCC lost roughly 40 percent of its staff after Katrina, and the professional staff of 18 is currently down to eight.
The Metairie campus is being repaired following the flood. While the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans offices are open on the third floor, reopening of the rest of the facility will likely be in March or April.
The Uptown JCC will offer its summer day camp, and expects a full enrollment by picking up campers from facilities that will not be reopened. Likewise, the nursery school will reopen on Jan. 3, and Fischman said because several others in the area will still be closed, such as the one run by Tulane University for its faculty's use, they expect to be full.
About 150 members are using the fitness center each day. Aerobics classes and YABL and Mellowball have also started meeting, with league games expected to begin in January.
FEMA is also using the Mintz Auditorium as an operational headquarters.
The JCC is already offering the "Katrina Recovery Daycare Center," which has about 40 children ages 1 to 5 enrolled. While the facility hasn't offered day care in the past, as families began moving back, many called to see if the JCC could offer a program. Enough nursery school teachers returned early that they were able to set it up.
Fischman explained that this helps parents who are resuming work in the area, or who are working on renovating their homes and don't need to look after young children while they are trying to work in that environment.
"Winter Welcome Home Mini Camps" will be held the weeks of Dec. 19 and Dec. 26, for Kindergarten through sixth grade.
The JCC is also making changes in its membership policy by introducing monthly membership, instead of annual membership. "So many people don't know what they are doing one minute to the next," Fischman said. Many have moved into Uptown from other areas, while many Uptown residents have moved away.
"We're trying to make life as normal as possible for the community," Fischman said.
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah (Aug. 3, 2015) — Mountain Accord, a historic agreement 30 years in the making, was signed today by Gov. Gary Herbert and members of the Executive Committee in shadow of the Cottonwood Canyons.
"The Central Wasatch is important for all of Utah," Herbert said. "[Mountain Accord] is a comprehensive and significant document that gives us a blueprint to accommodate the challenges we face as a fast-growing state."
The signing event represented the culmination of two years' worth of public feedback, stakeholder involvement and leadership decisions. Salt Lake Mayor Ralph Becker lauded the consensus-based process that brought many groups to the table from government agencies, environmental and recreational advocacy groups and ski resort and private landholders.
"The Central Wasatch Mountains tower above the valley and are a constant reminder of our stewardship over these resources," Becker said. "Our quality of life and prosperity are dependent on this mountain range. We have, through Mountain Accord, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to come to a common understanding about what the future should bear."
Now approved, the Mountain Accord will enter Phase 2, which includes significant research into each recommendation, continued public feedback and completing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as part of the required NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act, process. The Mountain Accord represents the culminating commitment of more than 20 organizations who, through a voluntary, multi-year, public, consensus-based planning process agree to proceed with a suite of proposals designed to ensure that future generations can enjoy all the activities we do today, while preserving our watershed and natural environment.
"The Mountain Accord is a model process for future decision making," Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams said. "We are making generational decisions here and coming forward with the Mountain Accord we have a road map that represents our plans, hopes and vision for protecting the Wasatch, our water and the land that gives so much life in our region."
The Accord is intended to influence future, local, regional and statewide planning and to initiate efforts to enact meaningful protections and preservation for the Central Wasatch. Important highlights of the Accord include:
The Accord proposes to petition the U.S. Congress to create "A National Conservation and Recreation Area" in the Central Wasatch. The federal land designation will specifically prohibit expansion of ski areas onto public lands beyond the resort area boundaries. The ski areas are in support of the land designation, and are willingly agreeing to this preservation package.
A series of proposed land exchanges among the US Forest Service and ski areas, primarily in established base areas, will clean up the map and organize the piecemeal mess of land ownership in the Central Wasatch. This will enable better decisions and planning in the future.
The signers of the Accord recommend considering alternatives that dis-incentivize single occupancy vehicle use in the Cottonwood Canyons.
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The Accord proposes an effort to clean up and organize the trails system in our canyons, to control erosion and protect the watershed.
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Nauk gra-Olad is a miner living in Karthgad. She wants the player to help her by clearing out the spikeworm infestation from the nearby Kerlingroff Mine. During the quest, the player can be aided by the half-crazed Breton miner Erond. After the player completes the quest Nauk gra-Olad will award them. Inexpensive ore would be a fitting award for Nauk gra-Olad to give. The player can also get an award from Thane Grondvrd if they ask around.
Use the existing topic "the worms" for quest dialogue and GetDeadCount to detect when the unique worms in the mine are killed.
Worsas already wrote some dialogue for a quest similar to this. I've adapted it for my revised version. The quester should use this along with any extra dialogue they need to fill in the blanks.
Place additional quest-related greetings under Greetings 5
Nauk gra-Olad - greeting (already included)
Greetings. Ignore the mess, if you will. I'm too tired after exploring caves all night for ore deposits to take care of house chores. If Kerlingroff Mine hadn't become overrun with spikeworms, my lot in life might have been easier.
Back again? I really ought to get going to the mines soon. I think I saw an actual iron vein last evening, and I'm anxious to check it out. If Kerlingroff Mine hadn't become overrun with spikeworms, my lot in life might have been easier.
Nauk gra-Olad - overrun with spikeworms
There are hundreds of them. The Kerlingroff Mine northeast of here has been standing still for three decades and those monstrosities have infected every single tunnel and chamber. Thane Grondvyrd's useless guards can't be bothered to take care of them. If you can clear them out, I'd stand to gain a steady source of income.
Player agrees
Really? You'll clear out the worms? I'll believe it when I see it. Come back when you have put an end to the worm-plauge and I will reward you any way I can.
player says no for now
Fine then. Not like I expected help from a stranger anyway.
Erond – overrun with spikeworms (this entry already exists)
Worms, worms, and more worms! The whole cave is lousy with worms and I can't get rid of them. A real shame, since the iron here is top notch stuff.
Play response: Choice 1: "I will slay the worms" Choice 2: "Goodbye"
Will you really do that?... You will? I will come with you.
Erond – overrun with spikeworms
I can't believe that they are really gone! %PCName, you are my Saviour! From now on I will go unmolested mining day for day till I die, hahaha.
Flavor dialogue to go along with quest:
Guards - overrun with spikeworms
We're too busy protecting the village to take care of the spikeworms in Kerlingroff Mine. Wouldn't be worth the time clearing them out anyway, if you ask me.
Guards - overrun with spikeworms
Is it true that you cleaned Kerlingroff Mine of those worms? That must have been quite the ordeal.
Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
Feel free to take care of the spikeworms in Kerlingroff Mine. That problem has been around for much too long.
Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
I heard you were able to drive the spikeworms out of Kerlingroff Mine? In that case, I owe you my thanks. This helm was made of ore harvested from Kerlingroff Mine long ago. Now it is yours!
*player gets the armor pieces*
Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
Kerlingroff Mine is finally free from the worm-plague. It's about time.


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Warm-up Your Interior with Pastel Pink
The phycology behind coloursA lot of research has been done on how colour impacts emotions, providing information that inspired this stunning pastel design trend. As soon as your eyes connect with a colour, your brain releases different chemicals that impact your moods and emotions. Pastel colours, then, became interior design's help hand to creating healthy, happy spaces.
The phycology behind pastel coloursPastels, though lighter and softer than standard colours, still have an impact on our emotions. In fact, pastel colours are dynamic because they are even more calming than other uplifting colours. Pastel takes the edge off of any colour, even if it was a calming colour to begin with. At the same time, it creates sophistication in an environment- with the help of stylish interior design, it can really bring a room to life, softly.
Why you should choose pastel pinkPastel pink is definitely hot on the South African market at the moment. The colour brings elegance like none other into a room, look at how these stunning rooms incorporated it:
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Sometime in the 900's, three new inventions showed up and spread rapidly. They changed everyone's lives because they changed how people grew food.
The first of these was the plow. Prior to the invention of the plow people went into their fields and poked holes in the ground with a stick and dropped seeds into them. The plow was a way to turn over the ground in straight lines. People could use the plow on a field, then walk down the rows dropping their seeds. This was so much faster and easier then doing them one at a time. The amount of food being grown went up immensely.
The second of these was the horse collar. A horse can pull almost as much weight as an ox, but only if hooked up correctly. Horses were cheaper then oxen so more people could afford them. However to pull weight you can't just throw a rope around a horses neck; you would choke it. So, the farmers needed something to protect the horse's neck, and some very smart medieval person figured out how to make a horse collar.
The final important invention was the horseshoe. A horseshoe protects a horse's feet so that it can do the work you need without getting hurt.
With the amount of extra food being grown there was enough food left over that the noble was able to provide food for men who didn't have to work the field, but could instead learn how to fight better. This was the birth of the Knight.


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What did I tell you guys, huh? I said, Calm down and trust Bryan Elsley, and then — SHAZZAM! — the extended Skins USA trailer dropped yesterday and whoo, boy!
Skins USA has been under scrutiny from the word "American," and I get it — really, I do! — but yesterday's trailer has me more excited than ever for the adaptation, in large part because of a little someone called Tea. Tea, Tea, Tea.
First there's this:
And then there's this:
A complicated, three-dimensional lesbian character on a teenage television show that doesn't shy away from sex? No, it's not your imagination: It's actually happening! On MTV! In only a month! I know there's still going to be plenty of hate from Skins purists, and that's OK. Not everyone is going to love the adaptation. But it's got enough fresh content and Tea-ness and Elsley-ness to get me totally stoked.
I saw some people panicking yesterday because of the shot of Tea making out with Tony. I don't know what's happening there, but I remember a little someone called Naomi Campbell — your pick (and my pick) for best lesbian character EVER — making out with a little someone called James "Jimmy" Cook back in her day at Roundview.
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Copyright law not flexible enough to protect Bikram Yoga Sequence
Thursday 15th October 2015
Article written by: Thomas Huthwaite
Last week, we reviewed the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision holding that the "Batmobile" was copyrightable as a character. [1] This week, we review the opinion of Judge Wardlaw in the same Court, holding that a sequence of yoga poses and breathing exercises was not entitled to copyright protection.[2]
The case is an important follow-up to the Batmobile decision because it addresses head-on the idea/expression dichotomy. Copyright does not protect an idea, but rather, a particular expression of an idea. The issue before the Court was whether a particular Bikram Yoga Sequence was the proper subject of copyright protection.
The idea/expression dichotomy
The Court held that the Yoga Sequence fell squarely within the 'idea' exclusion to copyright protection, codified in section 102(b) of the US Copyright Act 1976:
In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
This exclusion is a familiar copyright concept, despite not being codified in other equivalent legislation, such as the New Zealand or Australian Copyright Acts.
In early English case law, it was said that copyright belongs to "the person who has clothed the idea in form".[3] The Australian Court said: "copyright does not operate to give any person an exclusive right to state or to describe particular facts. A person cannot by first announcing that a man fell off a bus or that a particular horse won a race prevent other people from stating those facts."[4]
The fitting French term, scène à faire (literally: "scene that must be done"), provides that a commonplace idea or standard scene within a particular genre of work cannot attract copyright protection. An example might be the concept of a story's protagonist taking refuge from a storm in a church building,[5] or an alien with supernatural powers, stranded on a planet and hunted by an authority.[6]
With that background in mind, consider the facts of the Bikram's Yoga case.
Bikram Choudhury's Yoga Sequence
In 1971, Bikram Choudhury introduced the ancient Indian practice of yoga to Beverly Hills, California. Choudhury was born and raised in Calcutta, India, where he had studied yoga since he was 4 years old. Over time, Choudhury developed a particular arrangement of 26 'asanas' (poses) and two breathing exercises, which he called the "Sequence". Choudhury dictated that the Sequence was to be performed in its precise order, over 90 minutes, and in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.6 degrees Celsius) to simulate the Indian climate.
In 1979, Choudhury published and registered the Copyright in his book, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class, which included descriptions, photographs, and drawings of how to perform the Sequence. From 1994, Choudhury also provided a Bikram Yoga Teacher Training Course, which two of the defendants (Mark Drost and Zefea Samson) completed.
In 2009, Drost and Samson founded their own company, Evolation Yoga, and started to offer "hot yoga", which used the same Sequence, performed over 90 minutes, in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. In July 2011, Choudhury alleged copyright infringement.
Stretching copyright protection too far
In some ways, it's easy to have sympathy for Choudhury, who undisputedly developed a particular and novel arrangement of asanas and breathing exercises, performed over a particular timeframe (90 minutes) and at a particular temperature (105 degrees). Choudhury describes his Sequence as being designed "scientifically", with each asana forming the perfect basis for the next, to be "particularly beautiful and graceful". The Sequence became hugely popular, and is now practiced around the world.
Here are some examples of the poses in Choudhury's Sequence:[7]
When seen in visual form, it's easy to ask: why should this Sequence not attract copyright protection? We know that the simple arrangement of names and phone numbers as a telephone book does attract copyright protection,[8] as do the characterisation of the Batmobile,[9] James Bond,[10] and Godzilla,[11] despite their changing appearances in different stories.
Judge Wardlaw's opinion suggests that the answer lies in the well-established idea/expression dichotomy. As with any original literary work, Choudhury's book (including the specific images contained therein) is certainly copyrightable. No one else may take and publish those same images and words, which are a particular expression of Choudhury's Sequence and practice.
But, says Judge Wardlaw, the particular expression is not what Choudhury seeks to protect here. Instead, Choudhury seeks to prevent others' from performing and teaching the Sequence. That Sequence (and the practice of that sequence) is described by Choudhury as a "system" and a "method" designed to yield physical benefits and a sense of well-being. Judge Wardlaw held that the Sequence is therefore not a particular expression of an idea; it is the idea. No one may secure copyright protection for an idea, system, or practice – even (or perhaps especially) if it relates to human well-being.
Lest we forget, Choudhury's Sequence was also founded on, and chosen from, an ancient practice. Choudhury may have breathed new life into that practice and introduced it to the modern Western world, but the US Court has made it clear that he does not own the practice (or his Sequence) to the exclusion of everyone else.
Numerous other systems have fallen into this same trap, including: a book-keeping system,[12] the performance of surgery,[13] the recipe or procedure for producing food,[14] and a process of meditation.[15] These are not concrete expressions like literary or artistic works, or even choreographic works or compilations. While each of these systems may have been novel at the time of their creation, they do not represent the "unique clothing of an idea";[16] rather, their sequences are the idea, or at the very least scène à faire for the idea.[17]
Choreographic works
One aspect of the decision that is difficult to grapple with is the section on choreographic works, which have been expressly copyrightable in US law since the effective date of the Copyright Act 1976. Movement patterns expressed as choreography may be protected if they meet three criteria:[18]
- (a) The work must be a "choreographic work", defined by the US Compendium of Copyright Practices[19] as: "the composition and arrangement of dance movements and patterns". "Dance" in turn is defined as "static and kinetic successions of bodily movement in certain rhythmic and spatial relationships." While Choudhury's Sequence would not be colloquially termed a "dance", it does seem to meet this definition. As a sequence, the 26 steps are not a simple routine or step – like the Waltz step, or a pirouette, which could not be protected by copyright. Choudhury has not sought to protect one "building block" of the Sequence, but the entire combination of 26 steps – a choreography of movements, argued Choudhury.
- (b) The work must be original. Choudhury's Sequence is likely to be original, despite its 26 individual components having been chosen from many more of the ancient practice of yoga.
- (c) The choreographic work must be "fixed in any tangible medium of expression" in a manner that it "can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."[20] Choudhury's Sequence has been set down visually in his book.
Looking at these criteria, it seems the Sequence could be protected as a choreographic work. Judge Wardlaw disagreed, and dealt with the issue of choreographic work by again referring back to the idea/expression dichotomy: ""successions of bodily movement" often serve basic functional purposes. Such movements do not become copyrightable as "choreographic works" when they are part and parcel of a process. Even if the Sequence could fit within some colloquial definitions of dance or choreography, it remains a process ineligible for copyright protection."
In other words, the Sequence is an idea, and an idea cannot be copyrighted. It does not matter whether the idea can be defined as a "choreographic work". On our reading, there is an element of circularity to this reasoning: if a work meets all the definitional requirements of an original, tangible medium of expression, how can it only amount to an "idea"?
The position in New Zealand
The idea/expression dichotomy was briefly discussed in a recent New Zealand High Court interlocutory decision involving sensory mazes. There, the plaintiffs described their copyright as subsisting in a "series of "maze-like" rooms, each filled with varying special effects and illusions".[21] The defendants argued that there was no copyright "work" because what was claimed was copyright over bare ideas and concepts,[22] for example, the idea of a "tactile room" or a "room filled with bouncy balls".
The High Court disagreed, saying that the copyright claim "is in relation to the overall look and expression of those ideas, as expressed in the sum total of Infinity [the name of the maze attraction park]. In the same sense, the concept of having a theme park with different roller-coasters cannot be claimed as copyright, but the particular combination of rides and themes could be expressed in a particular way which is capable of copyright."
This indicates that our Courts may adopt a lower threshold than the US Courts for determining what forms of expression may amount to a copyright "work".
The latest Bikram's Yoga decision may still be appealed. In the future, Choudhury may be better off seeking protection in the US via other means, such as patent registration (if applicable),[23] contractual terms, or any relevant trade practices or consumer protection legislation. While copyright is one of the more flexible forms of intellectual property, it can only be stretched so far.
[1] http://baldwins.com/to-the-batmobile-let-s-go-a-review-of-copyrightable-subject-matter/
[2] Bikram's Yoga College of India, L.P., & Bikram Choudhury v. Evolation Yoga, LLC, & Mark Drost & Zefea Samson, no. 13- 55763 F.3d (9th Cir. 2015)
[3] Donoghue v. Allied Newspapers Limited (1938) Ch. 106
[4] Victoria Park Racing and Recreation Grounds Co. Ltd v. Taylor (1937) 58 CLR 479 at 498
[5] Cain v. Universal Pictures Co., 47 F. Supp. 1013 (1942)
[6] Litchfield v. Spielberg, 736 F.2d 1352 (9th Cir. 1984)
[7] http://www.bikramyogashelton.com/about-2/
[8] Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349 (1991)
[9] DC Comics v. Mark Towle, no. 13-55484 F.3d (9th Cir. 2015)
[10] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. v. Am. Honda Motor Co., 900 F. Supp. 1287, 1295–96 (C.D. Cal. 1995) at 1296
[11] Toho Co. v. William Morrow & Co., 33 F. Supp. 2d 1206, 1216 (C.D. Cal. 1998) at 1216
[12] Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879)
[13] Ibid at 102–05; see also Sega Enters. Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510, 1526 (9th Cir. 1992)
[14] Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp., 88 F.3d 473 (7th Cir. 1996)
[15] Palmer v. Braun, 287 F.3d 1325 (11th Cir. 2002)
[16] Donoghue v. Allied Newspapers Limited (1938) Ch. 106
[17] Cain v. Universal Pictures Co., 47 F. Supp. 1013 (1942)
[18] Horgan v. MacMillan, Inc., 789 F.2d 157 (2d Cir. 1986)
[19] Compendium II §§ 450, 450.01 (1984)
[20] 17 U.S.C. § 102(a)
[21] Dreamtech Designs & Productions Pty Limited v Clownfish Entertainment Limited [2015] NZHC 1143
[22] Referring to Beckmann v Mayceys Confectionary Ltd [1995] IPR 543 (CA)
[23] See Bikram's Yoga at pages 9 – 10, 13 - 14
This article is intended to summarise potentially complicated legal issues, and is not intended to be a substitute for individual legal advice. If you would like further information, please contact a Baldwins representative.


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Mining for gems… (Nehemiah 3)
What do you do with sections of Scripture that just seem like they are just long lists of people or places, when they seem boring or just plain irrelevant to your life or are just detailed for you to care?
The lists in the bible contain some gems! You just need to take the time to look for them.
In this list we have here in Nehemiah 3 we have a record of all those who responded to the call by Nehemiah in 2:17&20 to rise and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, detailing what they contributed to the rebuilding project and where they worked.
So, what gems are there in this list?
1. God sees everything
The very fact that all these people's names are here all recorded for us underlines what elsewhere Scripture explicitly teaches – that God sees everything. God sees, He looks for obedience and service (that's the majority of this list), and God sees disobedience/unwillingness (see vs 5). Our lives and how we live them really matter! The details of our lives matter to God and so it should matter to us. How we respond to the Gospel, how we spend our days is all recorded in God's books (Revelation 20:12) because God is looking to reward us for obedience and faithfulness with that which He has entrusted to us.
2. Kingdom advance is a community thing!
God's plan to restore Jerusalem was not a private project of Nehemiah's. No God mobilised a whole host of diverse people to work together, to literally work alongside one another. In this one chapter the phrases 'next to him' or 'after him' are mentioned 27x in just 32 verses! The big idea is that this was a joint effort, the purposes of God was achieved in community, partnering with others.
3. Know what's your responsibility
Verse 28 says of the priests repaired a portion of the wall 'each opposite his own house'. So often we are waiting for someone to do what we have seen needs doing! "Who's going to reach those children/mom's/school's…..?", "Who is going to gather the young adults?", "There isn't great pastoral care in this church!", "Who's going to fix that tap at the church building or door that's banging…?"
If you have seen something, if you have been sensitised to a gap in your church's ministry to people may I suggest that maybe you now have a responsibility, a mandate from God to do something about it! Serve where God shows you need, where God sensitises you to things others might not have seen, take responsibility for your portion, a portion of the wall, something you can say over; "I've got this, you can count on me!"
4. Don't ever think we graduate from serving
In verse 5 we read that the novels 'would not stoop to serve their Lord'. This is not a good situation. It appears as though this group of people thought that helping with the rebuilding project was beneath them, it wasn't for them. Serving, getting stuck-in in practical ways is something we should never graduate from. After all we serve Jesus who came not to be served but to serve and give His life for us… May we always be like Jesus.
5. Serving in families
In verse 12 we read about Shallum who repaired the wall, 'he and his daughters'. May we be like this guy and his daughters, families on mission together, serving God as family units! Parents that might mean supporting your child as they want to serve on sound, or set-up or children's ministry, dropping them off early fetching late to enable them to serve. Children that means sacrificing time with mom or dad sometimes so that they can minister to people or take responsibility, it might mean sharing your home with others who are being ministered to through a Community Group or something of the sort… Let's be such families that live not just for one another in the family unit but seek to encourage and support one another as we serve God with all of our unique talents and abilities.
So there they are, five little gems in this passage. Did you uncover any more as you read? Never disregard any section of Scripture but ask God to show you the gems.
Prayers that criss-cross (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you (2 Thessalonians 3:1)
The Apostolic gift lifts local eyes from considering only the local church and personal issues to see the broader need, and in so doing the worldwide mission of Jesus remains in focus always. The apostle Paul has addressed local questions that the believers had amongst themselves, but now he calls them to join him in Jesus' mission to the whole world.
Paul asked these young believers to pray that the gospel 'would run and be glorified'. He is asking them to pray that the gospel would advance and that it would be honoured (3:1). The gospel advances through local churches, through preaching, through the lives of all believers living out their transformation and sharing Jesus.
What do you pray about? Only local, personal things or are you prayers about the gospel speeding ahead, spreading out all across the world. I urge you from Scripture to widen the scope of your prayers if that's needed, to care about church planting, and the gospel's advance reaching to all unreached people of the world.
He also asked them to pray that people would respond wholeheartedly to the gospel, that lives would be transformed (as had happened in Thessalonica) by the gospel (3:1).
2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
In Paul's mind, gospel advance was linked to danger and oppression. So he asked them to pray that we may be delivered from wicked & evil men (3:2) and yet even as he is praying he knows, the Lord is faithful, he knows, he is confident that God will establish them and guard you against the evil one.
So he closes praying that the Lord would 'direct their hearts' (3:5). Only God can lead and direct us at a heart-level so that we end up loving God more and becoming more and more robust/steadfast like Jesus.
This little section starts with Paul asking them to pray, and ends with Paul praying for them! May our prayers for one another criss-cross like this, us praying for others and others praying for us – partnering in prayer knowing that prayer is the power God's given us to open and shut doors.


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LOS ANGELES — Colin Farrell wanted a cigarette, but he didn't have one on him. He was sitting poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, which seemed like the kind of place where one would smoke. So he asked a pretty hostess if she had a pack; she did not.
LOS ANGELES — Colin Farrell wanted a cigarette, but he didn't have one on him. He was sitting poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, which seemed like the kind of place where one would smoke. So he asked a pretty hostess if she had a pack; she did not.
"You want a cigarette?" asked an interloper standing nearby who had overheard the exchange. "I'm going to get you one right now."
A few minutes later, the stranger returned, cigarette in hand. He asked Farrell what movies the actor had coming up, adding that he was producing a few.
"Good luck with it. Good luck with it, brother," Farrell replied. "Thanks for the smoke."
He sat back down in a bungalow and sighed.
"See," he said, "you really can get anything."
Well, sort of. Cigarettes and booze and drugs and girls and hotel rooms have all been at Farrell's disposal since he became famous, he says. But the actor, who kicked a years-long substance abuse problem in 2005, has had a more difficult time earning respect as a leading man in Hollywood. He's certainly been given plenty of chances: In the last decade, he's starred in a reboot of the sci-fi classic "Total Recall," a remake of the vampire comedy "Fright Night" and the swords-and-sandals epic "Alexander." None of them worked at the box office.
With his latest effort, a time-travel love story timed for Valentine's Day, "Winter's Tale," Farrell is trying his hand at playing a romantic hero. In the film, based on Mark Helprin's lengthy fantasy novel, Farrell plays a charming thief who falls for an heiress stricken with tuberculosis.
The movie, which marks the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, faces a tough challenge, going up against the remake of "RoboCop" and several other movies aimed at couples celebrating the Feb. 14 holiday.
Even if he isn't a huge box-office draw, the 37-year-old Farrell has earned a reputation as a compelling actor with a surprisingly wide range. In December, he earned strong reviews for his supporting role as P.L. Travers' endearing alcoholic father in "Saving Mr. Banks." He may have the looks for glitzy studio fare, but he often seems most at home in grittier independent films — "In Bruges," "Seven Psychopaths," "The Way Back" — movies in which he has given some of his most well-regarded performances.
But even Farrell isn't sure where he fits into the movie business. His resume of late, he admits, "paints a picture of a very confused actor who has no idea what the hell he's into." Here's what he does know: He doesn't want to do any more films with guns. Part of that might be because he has two young boys and he's begun to think about the effect violence in movies has on society. But he's also interested in telling different kinds of stories now — ones with fewer explosions.
"The scripts I'm drawn to now are ones that deal in a greater degree of emotional and psychological minutiae," he said. "I just don't know that I want to be part of things that are superficially entertaining. … Without getting too high and mighty about it at all, I have to have a greater level of justification if I'm going to do something that involves that kind of violence again."
He's not just saying that, either. In the weeks leading to production on "Saving Mr. Banks," director John Lee Hancock said, Farrell sent the filmmaker dozens of emails about his vision for the character.
"You don't often get letters from actors, and he was writing this beautiful stuff about what the character meant to him," Hancock recalled. "He's such a soulful guy with this Irish poet's soul that I totally believed he could play a father a little girl would idolize."


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But to start it off I have the best thing EVER a new release image from Sandra Caldwell that you can find here.
I also did something that I don't usually do... which is to tape the video of my making one of my typical Christmas cards :) Hope you enjoy that video:
and here is my card. The paper is from American Craft and I think it was from the target dollar spot.
I'm not sure if I will be entering challenges or not...
So that's it for me! Have a fabulous day and weekend!!!!


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Water seeping through the black flooring, creating a small lake in the middle of the stage.
Reflection of the water and the dancers's shadows on the back wall.
Men lying on the floor wearing white towels, as if in a hammam. Women stand next to them, head down, long hair hanging over them. They brush their hair slightly in rhythm.
The men sit on black chair. The women come crawling on stage and stop next to them. They pet their hair.
'My grandmother had 10 children!' she says after ten dancers come out from under her dress.
In the darkness, two women walk into the water with torches, and pick things up in their dresses (seafood?)
A male dancer sits cross-legged on the floor. To impress a girl, he throws a pillow high up in the air and as the pillow comes down he moves his leg and jumps slightly so the pillow is now under him. The girl, also sat on the floor, is impressed so he does it several time until he finds his way around her. He turns on himself, taking her with him.
'I am too fat for you!'
The men make a long line, holding hands, across the stage. It seems infinite as the last man in the line walks up to the front, and it goes on off stage and re-appears. The women do the same, going down into the audience.
The empty space around women's arms when the men they were holding leave their place.
A female dancer is lifted by a man and held horizontally as he turns and turns and turns. Several men replace him. When she is finally back on her feet, she is dizzy.
A branch balancing on a head, with inflated plastic bags hanging at each side.
A picnic.
A row of men slowly moving across the stage, from one sitting position facing the audience, to the same one facing the back. At the back, a row of women also do a routine of gestures all together, which takes them across the stage. They all smile happily at one another, and even hum the Tom Waits song that is playing.


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It's been a while since I blogged. Shit happens and your days get filled with things you hadn't anticipated. "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans" as the divine St John of Lennon says.
Anyway. I have just been re-re-re-re-reading (I normally read it once a year, and first read it in 1990 – you do the math(s)) Shōgun, the incredible novel by James Clavell, and thought I should due obeisance to its wonders. (I also must give my appreciation to my dad, who gave it to me when I was but 11. He was in many ways a fuck-up, but he was a pathfinder, the one amongst his peers who discovered and passed on Tolkien and Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and The Orb and all that good stuff).
In brief, Shōgun is a story of the first Englishman to set foot in Japan in the year 1600. Piloting a Dutch ship from Amsterdam which was the first ship outside the Portuguese and Spanish monopoly on the Cape of Good Hope and Magellan's Strait, he lands with around ten men remaining from the three hundred who first sailed, all weakened with scurvy and a year-long voyage. Japan had then had the Portuguese in it for around forty years, though in a far more controlled way than the Conquistadores and priests who had plundered and destroyed the civilisations of South America. Trading was restricted to one port, Nagasaki, though the priests were free to move where they would if they were decorous. Japan then was still largely a feudal society, its lands controlled by around two hundred warlords (daimyos), its people divided into castes with the warrior caste of samurai at the top, then peasants, then merchants (as commerce is widely despised) and then the despised eta, who butcher and handle the dead. What's great is how Clavell immediately sets up these oppositions and conflicts: the immaculate and decorous Japanese landfall village of Anjiro compared to the cockroach-ridden, death-rich ship Erasmus; the polite Japanese villagers as against the foul-mouthed and unrestrained rabble of the remaining sailors; the arrogant samurai and the deferential and silent-hating villagers; the Portuguese desperate to retain their toe-hold on Japan and the English and Dutch aching to dislodge them; the Catholic and Protestant schism; the New World and Old; East and West… Clavell invests much of these in his characters and sparks fly right from the off. But these aren't one-dimensional characters who only speak according to their types (if you've seen Wall Street you'll know what I mean). The first daimyo we meet, Kasigi Yabu, has a torture fetish and the morality of a shark; the village head man is a Christian (and, as we later learn, a lot more besides); Blackthorne is an intelligent sea-faring man with five languages, a family he misses, a fondness for Shakespeare (a late scene with men digging for earthquake-lost swords is straight out of Hamlet and the gravediggers) and a temper; and Toranaga, perhaps the most complex and great man I've ever read of. (Well, maybe excluding Gandalf, if you count him as a man).
So immediately the setting is vivid, despite its complexity to someone four hundred years distant. What's even better than that though is they way Clavell guides you, the reader, through the gradations of Japanese society, all the way to the highest daimyo, and to the intricacies of Japanese politics. Like R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars, Blackthorne is our guide, the outsider in the midst of great events. After twenty years of Japanese unity under the dictatorship of the Taiko, he had died leaving only a seven year-old son and an appointed Council of Regents to rule until his heir comes of age at fifteen. When Blackthorne lands the Taiko had been dead a year and the Council split between Toranaga, the greatest general of the age, and Ishido, the Guard to the Heir and protector of Osaka Castle, the strongest military and political stronghold (where the Heir resides) in Japan. Clavell makes Japanese politics – its regard for "face", the self-control, the concealment of one's inner desires, the manipulation, the outer courtesies and protocol – wonderfully vivid. One way he repeatedly does so is to contrast what characters are saying in a dialogue, and what they are actually feeling. (You might say Shōgun predates Peep Show by thirty years in this technique, though obviously Peep Show does it for comedic effect and Shōgun more for dramatic purposes). This also heightens conflict, so that any conversation (with useful plot-moving properties) can have double the impact, or even more, if the character's true feelings illuminate helpful backstory. For example, at one point Kiri (the chief consort of Toranaga) and Mariko (the daughter-in-law of Hiro-Matsu, Toranaga's chief general, and one of the book's leading characters) talk. Clavell fills us in about Kiri's feelings about Buntaro, Mariko's husband; about Mariko's father, who is important to her psychologically and thus to the outcome of the whole book; and about the backstory of the Taiko and Toranaga, how they had battled together and won Japan). But on the outside the conversation is polite and little more than formal.
(The veneration for face and self-control, in fact, makes you see politics in a different, less emotional light. I do sometimes despair of people who say they just want politicians to be honest, not seeming to realize that politicians reflect the hypocrisies of the electorate, not from any natural or developed drive. Drugs and tax policies are two of the best examples. This is not to say that I welcome the grotesque cynicism of Karl Rove or the pseudo-wonkery of Paul Ryan, but to say that you see political moves more analytically. Someone fucked you over? Well, are you going to need them tomorrow? Better stay on good terms. Rivals with someone? Better to conceal your disdain until ready to strike. And so on.)
Another marvellous aspect of the novel is the range of characters and the humanity Clavell displays in evoking them. It goes from pit-digging villagers (Uo, the fisherman, once won the inter-village farting competition) who bawdily lust after the beautiful courtesan Kiku to the inscrutable grand vizier Jesuit Martin Alvito, thirty years in Japan and official translator to the leading daimyos, from the ferocious guileless aged general Hiro-Matsu to the plump primped pimp mama-san Gyoko, holder of secrets and threats. Toranaga stands supreme amongst them all, the spider at the center of an incredible web. His humanity too shines through: here is a man of majesty and power, with more men under arms than the King of Spain, but who prefers low-born consorts (always zesty and grateful) and simple peasant dishes and enjoys a piss and a fart. Then again he is no vulgarian: he is a man who enjoys poetry and expanding his mind. The scene where he encounters Blackthorne dancing a hornpipe and insists on learning the steps is indicative of Toranaga's lack of ego, his hunger to learn, his openness to new influences. (No mean feat for a man in his fifties: already, in my thirties, I find it hard to keep my mind open to new music and books etc).
Shōgun is obviously a novel to savour, and it bears repeated re-readings. Despite the complexity (for newcomers) of its setting, the prose style is functional, and the story-telling always focused on character. There are immense amounts of dialogue and surprisingly little amounts of physical description. The characterization, as I've suggested, is supreme: Clavell's humanity and instinct for the desires of all sections of society are miraculous. This above all is what makes Shogun one of the best novels I have ever read, a trait he shares with other supreme writers like Shakespeare, Stephen King, and Dickens. (Clavell wrote a series of other Asian novels, with dates ranging from the 1960s (Nobel House) to the 1800s (Tai Pan). His novel King Rat has a very good film version, with a bunch of actors you'll definitely recognise. But Shōgun is at the apex of them all, in its range, drama and exotic setting. Go read!


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Dann Zinn: Shangri La (2014)
By Dan Bilawsky
Published: October 6, 2014
Maybe we've had it all wrong about Shangri-La. Instead of viewing it as a fictional utopian locale, as laid out by author James Hilton in his famed Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933), it can be alternately viewed as a wide-open musical state of being waiting to be explored. That's what saxophonist Dann Zinn seems to go for on this aptly-titled release.
For this project, Zinn put together a flexible trio capable of blurring lines. Atmospherics and solid-state jams exist simultaneously, peace and war work in the same space, empty canvases can turn busy at a moment's notice, and the line between the scripted and the spontaneous is often hard to read. Zinn's musical version of the titular idyllic wonderland is really as multi-dimensional as you can get. Zinn and his partners on this journey—guitarist Chris Robinson and drumming icon Peter Erskine—are open-minded and open to anything. When these three get going, there's no telling what they'll do. Serenity gives way to heat ("Daydreams"); the raw and raunchy come to the surface ("Wanderlust"); a Green Day pop hit is re-imagined as a vehicle for wood flute ("Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life"); the allure of the matador comes into focus ("The Bullfighter"); and a state of questioning is explored to the fullest ("Rain").
Along the way, there are lots of sonic marvels and technical wonders to behold. Zinn's register-hopping groove creation during "Voodoo" is a gas, his epic battle with Robinson on "Wanderlust" is an obvious highlight, and his sensitive looks at dissimilar artists—Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, and Green Day—are each beautiful in their own way(s). Erskine, as always, can whisper or grind to perfection, and Robinson proves to be a man of many moods and colors. Have these three found the mystical realm they were looking for? There's no way to truly answer that, but they've certainly carved out some great music that speaks to their strong chemistry and skills.


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A week ago, at the small guest house where friends and I stayed while visiting Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV) in Bamiyan, eight of us huddled around one cell phone to participate in a conference call organized by Fellowship of Reconciliation members in the United States. The call was part of an ongoing effort to foster a connection between the AYPV and volunteers at the Rachel Corrie Center in Gaza. The Gazan center was started by Cindy and Craig Corrie, whose daughter, Rachel, had tried to stop an Israeli bulldozer driver from destroying the home of a Gazan family that had befriended her. The bulldozer driver crushed her to death.
I had asked the call planners to notify a close friend of mine who volunteers at the Center, hoping he might be included in the call. My friend -- I'll call him Firas - had extended courageous hospitality to Audrey Stewart and me when we crossed into Gaza during the last four days of the Israeli Operation Cast Lead assault which was waged against Gazans for 22 days, beginning in December 2009.
Firas, whose home has been bombed four times in the past several years, has tried hard to cope with living in a land under siege. He has survived periodic bombings and the tragic loss of close friends. When we were with him in Gaza, he took us to visit patients who had been wounded by tank-fired white phosphorous weapons. We sat with villagers, in ransacked homes, whose family members had been burnt to death. On our last day with him in Gaza, Firas described having been with Rachel Corrie on the day she died. Filled with anguish by the memory, he put his head in his hands and cried.
When the Fellowship of Reconciliation coordinators placed the call to Gaza, Firas answered the phone.
The AYPV was represented, that day, by their youngest members-- Zekerullah, 15, Ali, 14 and Gulamai, 11. The others were busy harvesting potato crops, tending small shops, or going to classes.
These young boys understood the importance of making connections with people who share similar circumstances because they live in war zones. They were remarkably patient with the technical difficulties of an international skype call between developing countries.
It wasn't easy to hear the speakers at all. What's more, every comment required translation and participants were frequently asked to repeat what they'd just said. The call was cut and then restarted several times. But nothing broke the serious concentration as the boys worked to establish a dialogue with Firas.
Firas began by describing his situation in Gaza. Abdulai responded by noting that the situation in Bamiyan is better than in Gaza. "It's a little more secure than other provinces," Abdulai reported. "Kandahar would be similar to Gaza."
Firas told the boys that he and his family sometimes slept with their boots on for fear that they might have to escape a bombardment in the middle of the night. "We wonder," he added, "if we lose our house, where will we go? Still, we must ask, what about the others? People in Gaza who were forced to move into schools and mosques after bombings are looking for apartments, but they have no funds to rebuild. Thanks to God, we have repaired our house."
"Firas, said Ali, "if bombings start again near your house, please go someplace else!"
"Yes," said Ghulamai. "Come to Afghanistan!"
Firas explained that he has no permission to leave Gaza and that he often feels trapped.
Abdulai then asked for the phone. "I understand," he said. "My family ran from the Taliban. My father was captured and killed by the Taliban."
This seemed to touch something in Firas, prompting him to revisit another memory. "OK, guys," he said, "I will tell you more of my story." During a bombing, he and his friends decided it was time to leave their homes, but one of Firas's closest friends, someone he had grown up with, realized he had left behind something he needed and decided to run back and retrieve it. A bomb exploded. They were all running to rescue survivors and get people to the hospitals. Firas's friend had disappeared. "Didn't you see him?" his loved ones later asked Firas. "Wasn't he with you?!"
Firas could only reply that they couldn't find him. To this day, nobody has any information about him.
"Many people face this kind of uncertainty," said Firas.
Zekerullah then recalled a terrible time in his young life when people being attacked in his village tried to hide in drainage ditches or in potato storage bins.
Ghulamai told Firas that he has an uncle who disappeared and was never found. The uncle went missing ten years ago, after a bombing. "Did the uncle live, or was he put in prison?" Ghulamai asked, repeating the question his loved ones still ask. "To this day," he said, "my family and I feel the pain."
Zekerullah spoke up about the day his uncle was shot -his body was filled with bullets. "It was a terrible situation, like what you have just described."
Then Ali nodded his head, indicating he wanted to take the phone. "Please remain strong and brave," he said. "We will endure this together, with you. If it's beyond enduring, please call us. Life will pass, but if it's beyond enduring," he repeated, "you must call us."
"Yes," said Ghulamai. "We share your pain. You are not alone. Please don't give up."
"Please take care of yourself," said Zekerullah, closing the call.
Two day later, Cindy and Craig Corrie were in an Israeli court for a hearing related to the death of their daughter. Rachel was killed in March, 2003. An internal Israeli military investigation concluded that no charges should be brought and the case was closed. Earlier this year, the Corrie family had filed a civil suit charging the state of Israel with responsibility for Rachel's death. It's expected that the case will be concluded sometime later this year.
The October 20th, 2010 hearing entailed four hours of testimony from the former soldier who drove the bulldozer that knocked Rachel down and then killed her.
Following the hearing, Cindy Corrie said she was relieved to get this difficult day behind her. She had brought her daughter's writings with her into the courtroom. "I wanted to keep Rachel's humility and compassion for everyone in my heart today," she said, "but it was very hard as I did not hear one word of remorse from this witness today. That saddens me."
It's agonizing to slow down, stop and experience the shared pain of war. The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers have spoken, several times, with Rachel Corrie's parents. They believe it's crucial to express what is called, in their Dari language, "hamdard," meaning "shared pain."
They understand Firas's isolation, but in spite of living in remote places under circumstances that are poorly understood, if at all, by the occupiers and invaders of their lands, they still feel deepest confidence in the values of empathy and compassion. To those who are caught in war's cruel clutch, they extend a simple truth: you're not alone.
Kathy Kelly (firstname.lastname@example.com) is traveling in Afghanistan with David Smith-Ferri and Jerica Arents. All three are co-coordinators of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org).


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Report: Woman Dies After Receiving Yellow Fever Vaccine
PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS Seattle) – A woman from Oregon had a fatal reaction to the vaccine for yellow fever, a report about the case confirmed.
The woman was in her 60s and was healthy before receiving the vaccination. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention obtained by LiveScience, the woman wanted to protect herself from yellow fever before embarking on a trip to South America. Six days after receiving the shot, she suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, and shortness of breath and was admitted into a hospital emergency room.
According to the report, ten hours after being admitted, her condition worsened. She was eventually put on a ventilator and developed heart damage and kidney failure. She died three days later while still in the hospital.
An autopsy revealed she had a tumor in her thymus. The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system, located near the heart. She was not diagnosed with the tumor prior to her death. The autopsy also revealed that she has yellow fever virus genetic material in multiple organs and in her blood.
Doctors said she died from yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease. It is a serious reaction to the yellow fever vaccine which caused the virus replicates out of control. This reaction is rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say four cases are confirmed out of every 1 million vaccines that are distributed.
People are more likely at risk if they are 60 or older, or have a disease in their thymus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say if the disease was caught before her vaccination, she would not have been recommended to receive the vaccine.
Thymomas is very rare and there is no recommended screening for it.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention say that yellow fever is spread by mosquitoes and occurs in tropical areas of South America and Africa. Symptoms of the disease range from mild fever to liver disease. Fatality can occur in 20 to 50 percent of the cases. It is recommended to get vaccinated if people are living in or plan to travel to South America or parts of Africa.
The CDC noted that the risks of getting a vaccine usually outweigh the risks of getting the disease.
"When determining whether a patient should receive yellow fever vaccine, the patient and clinician should discuss the risk for travel-associated yellow fever disease as indicated by season, destinations and duration of travel, likelihood of exposure to mosquitoes while traveling, and vaccination status," the researchers said.