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I've been asked the same question many times before and it always stumps me in a particular way that no other gadget-related issue can. Specifically, when someone asks me which mobile phone or software ecosystem they should aim for, I can't give them a definite answer. I can't just show them a Droid-based handset and say, "off you go" because it might not fit their particular use-case. I can't stick a deal for a Macbook in their face because that changes their software choice considerably.
Angry Windows 8 haters? I can't even turn them to Linux because they are gamers. And this is all made more of an acute issue thanks to ecosystem tie-ins with mobile phones, which you use everyday and are always in your pants or purses.
Recently, I realised that my phone is crap. Speed has dropped tremendously, multi-tasking slows it to a crawl, firmware updates are nonexistent and there are few options for replacement when it comes to batteries. In realising that I'm long overdue for an upgrade, I've been struck by the same plight as the people I help on a daily basis – which ecosystem do I target to suit my needs?
Here's the dilemma – I have a desktop and a netbook running Windows 8. I have Office 2013 installed on both and they're both updated fully. I also have a LG C660 running Android Gingerbread. I rely a lot on Google's services for e-mail and IM between myself and colleagues, although I also keep mail accounts with Outlook.com. I don't have all my contacts in one location and I don't have my passwords or bookmarks synced on all three devices.
I also don't have any fluidity between any of my devices. File sharing over my home network is done manually without using a homegroup and I don't have the exact same setup for Modern UI on my desktop or laptop. As I use Chrome and Firefox extensively, I can't have bookmarks or history accessed from my phone since I use Opera Mini to save on data. I don't like the Opera desktop browser either. I don't use Instagram, I barely use Twitter on my phone and I don't take any photos because the camera is terribad.
If I had to replace my phone, I need to consider which ecosystem I now want to tie myself into because I can't keep up a disjointed setup. With Blackberry a distant fourth wheel in the market, Symbian no longer alive or kicking and Firefox OS not yet available, I have only the big three to consider – Windows Phone, iOS and Android.
iOS – Not an option
Although the build quality of iPhones is often superb and the way iOS handles apps and third-party software is excellent, it's still a disjointed experience. I'd have to use iTunes for photo, video and music syncs and I absolutely loathe using iTunes on a Windows machine. If I was running a Macbook then this would be up for serious consideration, but I can't effectively use everything that Apple's ecosystem could offer me to sort out my digital life.
I can't effectively use iCloud either and it's one of the biggest draws of the Apple ecosystem. I've set it up once before for a customer when I was still working in retail and it was a seamless experience. Photos were synced once snapped, notes were accessible on any device, music was available through iTunes match and bookmarks and passwords were all there. Currently, this also extends to iMessages which also syncs up with the OS X desktop application as well.
Its possible to use Google services on Apple devices (even though Google Maps isn't available) so there is some versatility there. I'd also have access to Whatsapp, BBM, GTalk and Facebook chat. But as previously mentioned, because I don't use OS X or iCloud or even iWork, iOS isn't an option.
Android? Hrmmmmmmm
Android is arguably the half-way point between iOS and Windows Phone and it's as neutral as Switzerland in most regards. Like Linux, Google is always on the bleeding edge of innovation and the relentless pace of their mobile OS shows no signs of slowing down, swallowing the mobile market like a giant tsunami. Staying with the latest tech trends is a lot easier on the Android platform than any other.
Because I'm already using a good chunk of Google's services (including Google+ and Youtube) it would be a good fit. I can sync up emails easily, Google Drive offers a range of features like document storage, scan to PDF and online editing and there's QuickOffice available on most Droids with real-time editing available in Google Docs.
Hell, since I use Chrome already, bookmarks and history can be synced over if I have a phone with the ability to run Chrome for Mobile. I can keep an aggregated list of contacts and calendars and have it all synced up. Only, the issue is that Google Calendar currently does not sync between Outlook 2013 and the Google Sync service – it only works on Office 2010 and Microsoft is killing CalDav and CardDav support in Office for anyone not using Google Apps for Business. Meh.
Sure, I can access these through the online portals, but it's not that fantastic. Although Google apps are entrenched in my work and collaboration with other NAG Online staff, I can't effectively integrate them into my existing apps on the desktop properly. I don't want to live in the browser all the time and I don't want to move to Thunderbird for calendar syncing either. If I ever come up with a brilliant master plan for making money and save it in a document on Google Drive, Google's within their rights to steal that idea as well.
Although a new Android phone would work for me, not only will I be spending more money on data to keep things synced up, I'm still going to have a disjointed setup. With the deprecation of Google Talk for the desktop (now replaced by Hangouts) I can't even have synced conversations because Pidgin doesn't support it. Still, it might be a better solution than…
Giving all my base to Microsoft
Opting for a Nokia Lumia device seems like a logical idea. I can use a Outlook account to sign into all three devices and have contacts, calendars, bookmarks and history synced up along with the tie-ins from OneDrive with the Camera Roll, synced documents and a mobile version of Office. OneDrive contents are available on all devices and syncing performance is as good as Dropbox. As far as my needs go, Microsoft does have an answer to most of them.
All this, however, requires me to drop Google's services and use Microsoft's instead. This includes switching my calendar over to Outlook, syncing all my contacts to Outlook, having all my messaging handled by Outlook and having to deal with spam on a daily basis. In addition, I'd have to find alternative ways of using Google Talk or Hangout and I'd have to commit the most heinous of crimes – to actually use Internet Explorer. Eugh!
Mind you, since my colleagues don't use Outlook's calendars, this could pose a problem when it comes to collaboration between teams. Google does calendaring very well and we're all entrenched already in one way or another, so I'd be operating on my own in this regard.
There's also the issue that Microsoft's Modern UI apps for Mail, Calendar and People are not that great. The UI is big and clunky on Windows 8 and wastes a lot of screen estate that could be used more efficiently. At least Skype is somewhat good in a full-screened app, though I much prefer the desktop version. I could even use it as a Whatsapp replacement should Facebook ever screw that up, but who uses Skype for texting?
Seriously, anyone? Anyone use Skype for texting? Conversations aren't even saved online for searching later. Why hasn't Microsoft implemented that yet? Messages aren't even synced with offline Skype clients.
In the end…
I don't know what I'll choose even when weighing up the pros and cons. Flipping a coin between Android and Windows Phone is easy, but I have to live with the way in which each ecosystem handles integration and it may or may not work for me. I want it to just work – I spend enough time troubleshooting other's computers, I don't want to have to fix my own.
What are your experiences with adopting ecosystems when your hand is forced? What did you choose and why? Let me know in the comments below and in our forums.
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I was first introduced to Instructables by Noah (the AiR guru) as we became friends working as river guides for the same outfitter. Over the past few years, he'd continually encouraged me to apply to be an Artist in Residence to get a glimpse of the community and work on some cool projects. Finally, last fall, we organized my residency to fall nicely between my recent trip to New Zealand and the upcoming rafting season. I was excited to get a chance to work in the Instructables office, but because of the timing my residency was limited to only 5 weeks.
In such a short time, it was difficult to really get going in a high gear but I still produced a few interesting projects - a journal pen holder, a license plate frame, a clock, an ammo can silverware organizer, and a light-up pint glass coaster (check out my profile for the projects). It was very liberating to be in charge of myself completely - not only in deciding which direction to go within a given project but also in deciding which project to do in the first place! Throw in the proximity to TechShop, RadioShack, Cole Fox Hardware, and the imminent opening of the world's greatest shop at Pier 9, and you've got yourself what may actually be the greatest purely creative opportunity on Earth.
An opportunity like this opens doors for wonderful projects but also lets you more fully understand your own creative style. I'm 24 and I've been out of college for almost 2 years now, so I'm certainly still discovering my strengths and weaknesses as well as my preferred work style. One important lesson I learned simply by being immersed in the Instructables community (both in the office and online) was to be completely comfortable just making something just for the sake of making something. Studying engineering in college tends to make you see making things as black and white - either you're mindlessly fidgeting and tinkering with no clear goal or purpose or you're rigorously applying the methods and principles you spent so many all-nighters practicing - when in reality, the spectrum of design and creation is continuous, and there's no one there to tell you when you can or can't make something using method A or method B. It's very freeing, and I appreciate my time at Instructables for even indirectly and unintentionally leading me to this realization.
Another personal style I confirmed over the past 5 weeks was what path I like to take in reaching the end of a project. While some prefer to work meticulously on each step of a project, spending time up front to minimize the number of necessary iterations, I like to reach a functional (but not necessarily pretty or ideally designed) product without worrying too much about the details. This way, I learn from each iteration what works, what doesn't work, and what others think. It has pros and cons - on one hand it allows for more ideas to take shape and be tested/prototyped, but on the other hand maybe I also need to work on not rushing to get to that final product. It's probably a mixture of my time at Stanford's d.school studying their design thinking and prototyping methods and who I am on a deeper level; either way, I've come to this conclusion more concretely as I look back on the last 5 weeks at Instructables where I had such complete control over the trajectory of each project.
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And now, as I look forward to another summer on the river, I fondly look back on my time with Instructables, excited for what's next for everyone there and myself. If you're considering applying to be an AiR, do it. You'll wonder why it took you so long to finally click submit.
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The question of how to choose a weddingring, is an important and crucial point in the preparations for the wedding. The symbol of love, loyalty begin to look no less than two months before the celebration. Many centuries tradition preserved at the time of the wedding rings exchange. The round shape symbolizes infinity, with no beginning and no end, a love of the newlyweds. What kind of wedding rings is better to choose - to decide for themselves newlyweds.
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To have survived a lot of will andfolk beliefs associated with wedding symbols. Someone believes in them unconditionally, someone just wondering for general information. Signs are not taken out of nowhere, people for centuries tracked coincidence inherent in the events with a particular subject. Here are some of the signs and believe in them or not - think for yourself:
- Giving to measure your ring, either before or after the wedding can not be anyone.
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Choosing and buying wedding symbols - businesssubtle, requiring a delicate approach. There are many questions: who buys, when, what form should be a metal, decorated or not. First you need to find out whether someone has an allergy of a newlywed couple on certain types of metals. Sometimes can act as allergens cobalt, chromium, nickel, less noble metals. As a rule, the choice of a pair of rings is done together, but pays for the purchase of the groom. Select paired engagement ring or choose options that differ in design - it's the newlyweds.
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To ring looked nice on the hand, it is necessary to take into account the shape of the fingers:
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Classical basis for engagement ringsGold is considered to be 500, 583, 585, 750. When buying jewelry be sure to pay attention to the trial, which is put on the inside of the rings. Digital prompts percentage of the noble metal in the product. The highest gold sample is considered to be 958, the lowest - 375. On this depends the price of jewelery: the higher the sample, the more expensive the product.
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Traditional smooth rings may be differentwidth, moreover, they are very practical to use, because many years without impairing the appearance. Classic wedding rings are suitable for both men and women who do not like wearing jewelry. To somehow diversify the classics, on the inside of the product make engraved with your initials, wedding date or in any other memorable sign.
Of the several kinds of metals
In recent years, designers are increasingly offeringoptions for wedding rings of different types of metals. Using a single product of white, red and yellow gold at the same time, they beat an interesting shape parts. United together three colors symbolize loyalty, love and friendship. These rings are more suitable for those who like to mix styles in clothing.
Relief or ornament
Not less popular rings with different typesrelief drawings. The classic "diamond face" shimmers like a jewel, refracting light rays. A more refined look with jewelry designs in the Egyptian, naturalistic, or Art Nouveau. Weaving lozenges, ovals, smooth lines in the form of incisions on the surface of jewelry represent the union of male and female.
With rocks
Wedding rings, jeweledstones are more common in women. For decorative use diamonds or semi-precious stones are transparent or translucent shades. Exact inclusions among the intricate patterns and geometric shapes give the completeness of design ideas. Less wedding wedding become symbols with colored stones. Care must be taken when selecting and know some notation stones:
- Emerald - promises a happy love, wisdom.
- Agate - symbolizes longevity, good health.
- Amethyst - threatens the fragility of marriage, loneliness.
- Carnelian - ensures a quiet happy family life.
- Rubin - a symbol of passionate love.
- Garnet, Topaz - is the personification of fidelity.
- Brilliant - will demonstrate the purity, hardness intentions.
- Sapphire - is love itself, material security.
- Amber - give protection from the evil eye, good health.
By choosing a ring with a stone, check the suitability ofit is you. Put it in the right hand, and his left hand position as close as possible. If you feel the warmth and pleasant feelings - do not doubt your good choice. If you experience discomfort, do not take risks, try to look for other options for rings with stones, because the choice in jewelry stores is impressive.
Tips: How to choose an engagement ring
The custom of exchanging rings at weddingtransmitted by generations for centuries. According to some versions of the tradition it came from the ancient Romans, on the other - from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. In today's world it is not absolutely essential. The truth is that the couple exchanged during registration symbols while experiencing unconditional love, trust each other and hope for long-term family life.
During that as the bride wears the ring onring finger of the spouse, there is an influence on the "vein of love", which is believed by the ancient, directly related to the heart. With the help of the proposed video you will again be able to obtain information about the kinds of metals, which are made on the basis of the ring design decisions. Tips will help you choose the appropriate form and style of bridal jewelry.


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Some GCSE Arabic Results 2013-2014
Amatullah achieved an A* in her GCSE masha Allah. Jazakha Allaha Khair for all your help with the exam preparation. She just needs to decide now whether she will continue studying Arabic alongside her remaining GCSE's or whether she feels her remaining workload is too heavy.
Thakir, London, August 2014 (Parent of student)
Got an A!. 2 Units a star, 1 a, 1b
Ali, Chelsea, August 2014 (student)
Thank you very much for enquiring, and for your excellent last minute help. I got an A overall in my GCSE Arabic. The breakdown was 56/70, 64/80, 67/70 and 64/80. So, just an A! Thank you very much. You were outstanding – you responded so promptly to my last minute request for help and you were very clear and focused. Please feel free to use any of this as a quote. Best wishes, Judith!
Judith, North London, August 2014
Maryam got a B overall. A in speaking, A in writing, B in reading and C in listening.
Teacher, Croydon, August, 2014
Arabic GCSE results summer 2014. Sarah got an A!
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Two more GCSE Arabic updates 2013-2014
I am sorry for the delay in getting in touch as I had a few issues to sort out.
Alhamdulillah Kaleem managed to get an A ;he missed the A* by 2 marks.Qadr Allah mashafa'al.
Attached is the result in details at the very bottom .
Jazakhallah khayran for your help.
GCSE Unit June 2014 5AR01 ARABIC 1 68/70 Unit Grade a*(a*)
GCSE Unit June 2014 5AR02 ARABIC 2 74/80 Unit Grade a*(a*)
GCSE Unit June 2014 5AR03 ARABIC 3 59/70 Unit Grade a(a)
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Umm Kaleem, East London, August, 2014
Hi! Sorry for the late reply, I got an A* overall! Thank you 🙂
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Hoffa: Pilot Program Is An Attack on American Truckers and Warehouse Workers
The Teamsters on Wednesday sued to block the U.S. Department of Transportation from opening the U.S. border to dangerous Mexican trucks through an illegal pilot program.
"Opening the border to these dangerous, dirty trucks is an attack on highway safety, an attack on American truckers and warehouse workers, an attack on border security and an attack on our environment," said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. "It's outrageous enough that we've outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we're bringing foreign workers across the border into the United States to take our jobs. This is another pressure the American middle class doesn't need."
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Public Citizen and the Sierra Club challenged the program in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The suit claims the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration breaks the following laws:
It waives a law that trucks must display certain proof that they meet federal safety standards.
It breaks the law requiring the pilot program to achieve an equivalent level of safety because Mexican drivers don't have to meet the same physical requirements as U.S. drivers.
It breaks the law that Mexico must provide simultaneous and comparable access to U.S. trucks. Mexico cannot do so because of the limited availability of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel in Mexico.
It breaks the law that the pilot program must include enough participants to be statistically valid. The FMCSA's proposal ensures that only the best Mexican trucks participate, which would allow it to justify letting any Mexican truck over the border in the future.
It doesn't comply with the environment requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act.
"Congress has repeatedly and overwhelmingly set tough safety conditions for any cross-border trucking program, and this one clearly doesn't meet those conditions," Hoffa said.
The pilot program got off to a rocky start when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration approved trucking operator Grupo Behr from Tijuana, Mexico. The carrier owned one 20-year-old semi-tractor trailer with numerous safety issues. FMCSA had to disqualify it from the program after the Teamsters Union and others brought Grupo Behr's safety record to light. A second carrier, Transportes Olympic, of Monterrey, Mexico, started operating in the U.S. last month. Safety concerns have also been raised about Transportes Olympic.


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The LG Nexus 4 may be considered by some people as the latest and greatest Android-powered device to date, but the truth is it's far from perfect. In fact, it has a number of flaws that many users have gripes about. One such flaw is the lack of support for USB OTG, an important feature especially for all those who frequently rely on third-party accessories and external storage drives. Since neither Google nor LG plan to fix this USB-related issue, user CaptainMuon over on the XDA-Developers forum has taken matters into his own hands.
After putting in a bit of manual labor, CaptainMuon succeeded in enabling USB OTG on the Nexus 4. And now he is sharing the results of his work with the rest of the world. Apparently, all that's needed is to supply the necessary 5V to power whatever USB device gets plugged in and then to activate USB host mode on the Nexus 4 manually. It sounds simple enough, but it still requires a bit of careful tinkering and the ability to follow instructions.
Here's a video that explains the USB OTG hack for the Nexus 4.
If you have an LG Nexus 4 and would like to try out this unofficial USB OTG solution for yourself, simply check out the official steps listed via the source link below. But be warned, the author of this small "hack" has absolved himself of all responsibility should you "brick or blow up your phone." So think twice before you proceed.


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LFCC's fourth annual Wits for Wellness 5k Run/Walk is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, April 22 on the Middletown Campus. The race is open to everyone, regardless of whether they are affiliated with LFCC.
Registration runs from 7:30-8:45 a.m., although it can also be done in advance online. The entry fee is $15 for LFCC faculty, staff and students, and $20 for all others. All participants receive a Wits for Wellness water glass. There will be post-race refreshments.
Awards will be presented to the top male finisher and top female finisher in each age group, starting with 10 and under and going to age 70 and older.
But not everyone will be dashing to the finish line.
"There's a lot of people who are going to be walking," says Assistant Professor and Program Lead of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Stacey Ellis, who is coordinating the event. "We will be here as long as participants need to complete the 5k."
This year, the race's proceeds will benefit the W. Michael Larrick Memorial Scholarship. Michael and Britney Larrick established the fund in memory of their father, who died in a work-related accident in 2004. His family, friends and co-workers helped Michael and Britney complete their education, as their father had wished.
The scholarship is for a full-time LFCC student who has lost a parent or guardian and has graduated from high school within the past two years.
Mr. Larrick's son, Michael, tragically died in a car crash on March 22. As soon as she learned of his death, Ellis knew she wanted this year's Wits for Wellness cash to go to the scholarship. She knew Michael when he was a student and later when he organized the zombie-themed Outbreak 5k run to raise money for the memorial scholarship.
In addition to the run/walk, electronics recycling will be available in honor of Earth Day.
Register online or download a paper registration form at lfcc.edu/about-lfcc/special-events/wits-for-wellness-5k-runwalk-and-kids-fun-run/.
Founded in 1970, Lord Fairfax Community College is a multi-campus public institution of higher education. With four locations — Middletown, Warrenton, Luray-Page County and most recently, Vint Hill— the College serves eight localities in the Shenandoah Valley and northern Piedmont regions. The localities are the counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren and the city of Winchester. LFCC offers more than 75 associate degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of disciplines, in addition to providing access to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs offered on site by a four-year institution. LFCC also serves the business community by offering workforce preparation programs for employees and employers. LFCC serves more than 9,000 unduplicated credit students and more than 11,000 individuals in professional development and business and industry courses annually.
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FORMER Labour minister John Reid insists the accusation that voting No to independence is unpatriotic "is insulting to the vast majority of the Scottish people".
In a speech for the Better Together campaign in Stirling today, Reid, will say say independence puts at risk the pound, pensions and investment in public services.
Mr Reid, who was Secretary of State for both Scotland and Northern Ireland under Tony Blair and a chairman at Celtic FC, will say independence puts at risk the pound, pensions and investment in public services.
"In just over 100 days we will make the most important decision in the history of our country," he will say.
"The decision to secure the brightest future for Scotland will be made not by politicians or activists or campaign groups.
"The crucial decision will be made by the ordinary men and women of this country.
"These are people who don't stand on platforms, wave banners or make speeches.
"They go about their daily business, unheralded and unsung. They love their country as much as any Scot.
"The measure of your commitment to Scotland isn't about flag-waving or how many tweets you send. It's about acting in the best interests of your country.
"And I believe that a No vote is in the best interests of Scotland.
"No one campaign has a monopoly on patriotism. The accusation that to vote No is unpatriotic is insulting to the vast majority of the Scottish people.
"So, let me make it clear - a vote for Scotland to stay in the UK is a vote to protect Scotland and the welfare of Scottish people.
"We in Scotland face a stark choice.
"The Nationalists are asking us to take an enormous risk. They are asking Scots to risk the pound, their pensions and investment in public services. It is a risk that we don't have to take.
"We can have the best of both worlds - a stronger Scottish Parliament, backed up by the strength, security and stability of being part of the larger UK.
"It's because we are committed to Scotland that we will vote No."


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This world-changing suggestion starts, as all good things should, with the Cheeky Girls. Or more accurately Lembit Opik, the Lim Dem MP who rose into the public consciousness after getting engaged to one of the Romanian lovelies in a publicity stunt. Recently Mr Opik rode a Segway up and down up and down outside the Houses of Parliament, challenging ministers to have him arrested. Why did he want to be arrested? Well currently in the UK, Segways can only be used on private land as they are illegal to use on highways or pavements. However I believe that Segway's can save the Earth from Climate Change (well a little bit anyway), and I'm going to prove it here.
So what is a Segway? Well, if you haven't come across them, they're a bit like an electric stand up scooter, carrying one person at 12mph for up to 24 miles. As a guide in the UK, they cost £4,300 including VAT. Hailed as a revolution in transport, they're yet to catch on in the UK mainly due to their legal status and the still remaining stigma of the Sinclair C5, the last comparable electric vehicle. Segway themselves expected to sell 40,000 of them a year, but in the last 6 years only about 30,000 have been shifted in total.
Anyway, back to the point. How much CO2 in g/km is a Segway responsible for? Well, based on an estimated battery capacity of 0.8kwh, a full charge (and range of 24 miles) is about 0.42 kg of CO2, which being a little more realistic with a range of 20 miles works out at 13 g/km. Which is quite impressive if you compare it to taking the Tube (52.6 g/km), National Rail (60.2 g/km), Bus (94.3 g/km) or even the average Car (160 g/km).
So in carbon terms alone riding a Segway to work would produce less than 15% of the CO2 that taking the Bus does.
How about speed? 12 mph isn't fast is it? Well in London the average bus makes headway at just 8mph, the average tram 16 mph and tube 18 mph. So 12 mph isn't that bad at all.
How about range then? Well, taking a London-centric view again, the Segway would get you from Croydon to the middle of London and back on a single charge which is probably further than you'd actually want to travel.
OK then, biggest issue is cost. £4,300 is very expensive for a battery with wheels. Well taking the example of a bus again, let's say a new one costs £125,000. Well, that would buy you almost 30 Segways. Take into account the cost of driver's salaries and other running costs of about the same again every year. Assuming you could pick up and drop off Segways at bus stops along the lines of the Velib in Paris (and they were evenly distributed around a city), then realistically after 2 years, you will have paid for a Segway for every passenger (90) on an average bus.
Or from the commuter's point of view, an annual zone 1-4 Travelcard costs £1,384. That's 3 years and 2 months before you start saving money on your travelcard. And from then on, you're saving £1,369 a year on travel costs. (They cost about 7p to completely recharge every day that's £15 a year in "fuel" costs.)
So there you go. For a typical London commuter doing an 8 mile commute, a Segway would save about 200kg from their carbon footprint every year.
And this beautiful Utopian vision is all thanks to the Cheeky Girls.


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New Brunswick, N.J.– Research by investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) is showing new promise in the treatment of melanoma, the most serious of skin cancers. The findings, published in the May 27, 2010, online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology further validate the team's clinical and pre-clinical findings that blocking the signaling normally activated by a receptor called Grm1 results in decreased cell growth and decreased migration of melanoma cells, confirming that Grm1 is a potential target for the treatment of melanoma. The new studies continue to focus on a drug called riluzole, which is commonly used to treat Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS). CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Melanoma cells often produce the protein Grm1, which is normally produced in the central nervous system of mammals. Activation of this protein on the surface of melanoma cells increases growth and spread of disease. Riluzole, which is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of ALS (a disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord), has been shown to block Grm1's action. This study, The Glutamate Release Inhibitor Riluzole Decreases Migration, Invasion, and Proliferation of Melanoma Cells, takes a closer look at key pathways which are critical for Grm1 to send messages that initiate melanoma growth and spread and examines the role riluzole and another similar drug play in blocking those messages. The work is based on that of the laboratory of Suzie Chen, PhD, CINJ member and professor of chemical biology at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Previous studies by this team have shown that by blocking Grm1's signaling action, the activation of two different pathways (MAPK and PI3K/AKT) important for melanoma cell development, growth, and spread, becomes suppressed. In this study, the investigators focused on riluzole and the experimental agent BAY 36-7620 and the functional consequences of blocking the signaling along these pathways with these agents. They were able to show that treatment of melanoma cells that produce Grm1 with riluzole or BAY 36-7620 have decreased signaling along these critical pathways, but also that this decrease in signaling results in a decrease in melanoma growth and spread, thus confirming the functional outcome of the observed decreased signaling.
James S. Goydos, MD, director of the Melanoma and Soft Tissue Oncology Program at CINJ and associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the study's senior author. "We previously demonstrated that we could block the signals produced by Grm1 in melanoma cells. Now we have linked blocking of the signal with a decrease in growth, migration, and spread of melanoma, a critical step in validating Grm1 as a target for treating patients with melanoma. Because it is present in more than 60 percent of human melanomas, we have an appropriate 'bull's eye' in Grm1, and riluzole is proving to be an effective arrow," he stated. Dr. Goydos noted that targeting multiple pathways with new combination therapies involving riluzole would be ideal in producing the most effective melanoma treatments, based on their current studies.
Along with Goydos, the author team consists of Maithao N. Le, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Joseph L.K. Chan, CINJ and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Stephen Rosenberg, CINJ; Adam Nabatian, CINJ; Kim Merrigan, CINJ and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; and Karine Cohen-Solal, CINJ and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
The study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01CA124975 (Goydos) and a grant from the Elizabeth and Barets O. Benjamin Foundation.
About The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (www.cinj.org) is the state's first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to improving the detection, treatment and care of patients with cancer, and serving as an education resource for cancer prevention. CINJ's physician-scientists engage in translational research, transforming their laboratory discoveries into clinical practice, quite literally bringing research to life. To make a tax-deductible gift to support CINJ, call 732-235-8614 or visit www.cinjfoundation.org. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
The CINJ Network is comprised of hospitals throughout the state and provides a mechanism to rapidly disseminate important discoveries into the community. Flagship Hospital: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Major Clinical Research Affiliate Hospitals: Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital, Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Overlook Hospital, Cooper University Hospital and Jersey Shore University Medical Center. Affiliate Hospitals: Bayshore Community Hospital, CentraState Healthcare System, JFK Medical Center, Mountainside Hospital, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton (CINJ at Hamilton), Saint Peter's University Hospital, Somerset Medical Center, Southern Ocean County Hospital, The University Hospital/UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School*, and University Medical Center at Princeton. *Academic Affiliate
Contact: Michele Fisher
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Guys, we ladies know that you can be pretty clueless. Have you ever said something "innocent" that got your woman really mad? There are just some things a woman does not want to hear. If you want to keep peace in your relationship, take my advice and don' ever say this to your girlfriend/wife:
Mistake 1: "Your best friend is hot" She'll end up feeling threatened that you're attracted to someone so close to her. It cause tension anytime the three of you get together. If you think her friend, sister, cousin, etc. is a knock-out - just keep it to yourself.
Mistake 2: "Maybe You should go on a diet" Women are insecure enough about their bodies as it is. Seeing models and actresses on TV and in magazines makes many women feel like they're not good enough. You should never let her know that you notice her flaws, because she's probably already obsessing over them.
Mistake 3: "I don' ever want to get married" Most women are interested in long-term relationships. Plus, they love weddings. Telling her that you NEVER want to get married will definitely cause conflict in your relationship. Saying this to a woman may end your reltionship or lead to a psycho possessive girlfriend.
Mistake 4: "My ex used to do it different" Your new honey does NOT want to be compared to your ex. Do not remind her that you ever had sexual & romantic feelings for someone else. You might end up making her jealous. The exception is when you are making a comparison extremely favorable to your new girlfriend. However, you have to be careful - bringing up past lovers too often for no reason will make her think that your ex is still on your mind.
Mistake 5: "Maybe I should go without you" If you're going somewhere, and your significant other wants to come, just let her! You know that she might not enjoy herself, but denying her will make her suspicious. Besides, isn' it fun spending quality time together?
Mistake 6: "That fart you made was killer!" If you're both really close and comfortable with each other, this might be okay. However, when she lets one slip by accident and starts blushing, DO NOT laugh at her. It's an extremely embarassing situation and she doesn' need you to notice that she has "odors."
Mistake 7: "Why do you always want to talk?" I'll tell you the answer now so that you never ask her this. The reason females always want to talk, is because that's what they're good at doing. They've been doing it for years and that's what they're used to. Your silence can mean a lot of different things to a woman, some bad - so open up and let her know what's really on your mind. If you don' want to talk, say that you don' want to talk right now, but would be happy to in 1/2 hour. Anything else will make you look like an insensitive jerk.
Keep your woman happy and don' utter any of these offensive remarks. Remember that saying the wrong thing could mean that you end up sleeping on the couch tonight!
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At the beginning of last week, our four Himalaya searchers met in Switzerland for the beginning of altitude acclimatisation. On the schedule : high altitude walks, nights spent at over 3000 metres and a session at the ENSA in Chamonix (the National Ski and Alpinist School) for various physical tests. During the last few days, they were able to start the first phase of acclimatisation, by sleeping in a refuge at over 3000 metres. All went according to plan and the video team, who will be following their every step in Nepal, got their first footage of the trip.
On Saturday the 9th, the whole crew departed from Geneva. Despite some lost luggage problems which were swiftly resolved, a smooth trip was had by all. Sunday was a day devoted to discovering the city of Kathmandu and its inhabitants. Most notable was a visit to the famous Buddhist temple SWAYAMBUNATH – better known as the Monkey Temple. Per, Darius, Baptiste and Chris received the benediction of the monks who honoured them with a "third eye" (NOT to be confused with Rip Curl's own Third Eye goggle which the team will be using to film video sections for this very site).
"Meeting the people, the monks, was an amazing, incredible experience. There was a really special aura. It's strange, almost mystical" Chris Booth recounts. For Darius, our newest Search trip crew member, this experience was something he could not have even hoped for. "When I found out I was going, I called all my friends who had already done this trip. They gave me their advice and some key places to visit and one in particular was this Monkey Temple. I'm really into this kind of atmosphere so was completely at ease there. I can't wait for the rest of the adventure".
After 2 days spent in the Nepalese capital, with their trekking permits in hand, our riders were able to get to the next stage of the trip, Pokhara. From here they will fly to Jomson in the northern region of the country, to start the week long altitude acclimatisation period. At the moment, it is snowing even at low altitudes – conditions that are very rare for this time of year in the region. For heliskiing, however, the conditions are very favourable. In addition, to this effect, the layer of snow will have time to stabilise itself before the arrival of the team to the Manang area.
Namaste! (Nepalese salutation meaning " The light within me sees and honors the light within you").
Stay tuned on www.ripcurl.com/himalaya


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New Year's resolutions are a success throughout the beginning of each year, but it has received a bad recognition because of human beings giving up on their resolves. Statistics display that only 9.2% of people sense like they were certainly able to attain the resolutions they made.
Why do people give up? Some blame it on the lack of enthusiasm or ardor; however, those reasons are too shallow. If enthusiasm or ardor determined if we will reach our desires or no longer, then we would not be failing inside the first vicinity.
People have a tough time accomplishing their resolutions no longer due to the shortage of enthusiasm or ardor but because of constrained expertise approximately behavior change. Let's understand more approximately this primary and later we will take a look at 5 reasons why we can not hold our New Year's Resolutions and notice how we will repair it.
The Theory of Planned Behaviour by way of Icek Ajzen is taken into consideration to be one of the high-quality fashions for behaviors affecting New Year's Resolutions. This theory explains why these resolutions fail and state that intentions or desires are built on three elements that function the inspiration of being successful at preserving resolutions.
Attitudes round a behaviour
Social network's attitude closer to the behaviour
Belief in one's capacity to attain fulfillment at a behaviour
When all of the 3 elements are covered as much as aid your purpose it will likely be less difficult to attain achievement in something place you want.
Let's examine this example. If you prioritize true health and the humans you surround your self with do not smoke, you may sense robust enough approximately quitting smoking so putting your self up close to it won't be a trouble.
But if precise health isn't your pinnacle priority, and you are surrounded with folks who smoke and feature tried quitting, however, simplest to fail, then placing yourself up closer to quitting smoking might not be that clean.
Also, what we will note from this model is that aim setting isn't the ultimate step. It's essential to recognise that there is an opening among the goal or intention and the behaviour. This gap is the motive human beings fail at maintaining their resolutions. There is a want to behave and take at the right form of behaviour so that your intentions will grow to be a reality, because if now not, then goals will in no way be finished.
Once we understand this version, we will get a concept of the 5 motives New Year's Resolutions fail. Let's undergo those motives now.
Reason #1 – No Strong Reason Why
When you have got a susceptible mind-set in the direction of your desires, there may be a high threat that you'll fail at retaining your New Year's resolutions. Make sure you are clean on why your resolution is vital. Answer the reason why you need to reap your aim and what is going to manifest in case you acquire it or in case you do not.
Cultivate a sturdy mindset via making sure that the resolutions you are making will impact your life for the higher. In 2, three, or 10 years' time what do you watched existence could be like if you maintain your resolutions? The answer to that query might be a remarkable motivation, an energizer, and a way in order to live targeted so as to accomplish your goals.
Find a compelling answer to WHY you want to hold your decision.
Why do I need to accomplish my health aim? So I'll do well at my infant's college sports day in place of becoming an embarrassment.
Why do you need to tour? So I can treat my dad and mom who sacrificed their trips with a purpose to offer first for my wishes.
Why do you need to achieve success in your new enterprise task? So that I can offer a better lifestyle for my circle of relatives, my children can visit a better school and help my parent's pay for their loan.
Those are just some solutions to questions with the intention to keep you on track. Always keep in mind that a great solution to WHY will encourage you while it looks like you're approximate to give up.
Reason #2 – Weak Support Network
The 5 people you spend most of the time with is who you most possibly are or who you'll become. That's how critical a position the human beings you spend time with performs on your lifestyles. So, extra than thinking about surrounding your self with cool human beings, it's vital that you have cast near connections to those who will maintain you answerable for the accomplishment of your desires.
Even the maximum a successful person will now and again battle in locating the inducement and accountability to preserve a New Year's Resolution that is why surrounding your self with folks who care sufficiently approximately your success will assist preserve you centered.
Here are a few examples on how you may surround your self with the right individuals who will assist you gain your desires:
Do you want to be in shape? Join a gym near your region and tell your instructor to not go smoothly on you.
Do you need to start your own business? Find a networking agency and be part of them. Commit to wait for their conferences.
Do you need to very own a belongings? Consult and be mentored through an expert on property funding.
People who will venture you, preserve you responsible and push you to be better are what you want in existence. Go out and locate them if you have no now. Again, your close connections can either assist you or wreck you into preserving your dreams.
Reason #3 – Lack of Self Efficacy
Self-efficacy is a psychological construct first created in 1977 by using Albert Bandura. This notion is related to one's capability to achieve success in the accomplishment of dreams.
There are sincerely two approaches self-efficacy influences one's goals.
First, self-efficacy is related to how a person creates challenging goals. The extra assured they may be of themselves, the much more likely will they create desires which are greater difficult and satisfying. Second, self-efficacy determines how probably someone will take action after they are done putting their desires.
Cultivate self-efficacy day by day until you reckon that you are unstoppable. This is essential due to the fact of achieving your goals calls for that you consider in your self. Here are four exceptional methods to boom one's self-efficacy:
Performance Accomplishments
Goals may be damaged down into smaller bits in which each accomplishment is well known.
Vicarious Experience
Find someone who you recollect as a position version. Observe how they act and practice what you have got discovered from them.
Verbal Persuasion
Everyone wishes to be encouraged. Find someone, an existence instruct or a mentor perhaps, who will tell you the things you want to pay attention to boost your perception in your self.
Emotional Arousal
Before taking any considerable step towards the accomplishment of your dreams, condition your self through looking a film or listening to music. There are absolutely other ways to do that, however, the I referred to are the quickest methods to get you right into a positive state.
Reason #four – Lack of Compelling Goal(s)
A to-do listing isn't the same as a set of compelling desires. Just believe, if each of them had been equal, then human beings high-fiving at every different after they ticked off some thing from their buying list might be a common sight to look at the supermarket.
One of the things that makes a compelling aim exceptional is the pleasure that it brings as soon as you have achieved it. Compelling goals undertaking humans, they stretch out one's limits, calls for the development of skills, increase of know-how and enhancement of abilities to make the intention a fact.
For instance, in case you want to enhance your monetary scenario, a super first step can be starting financial savings account with a financial institution; however, considering that opening an account will just take seconds to do it just turns into an item inside the to-do listing, no longer a compelling purpose. A compelling intention would be to discover an aspect hustle so that it will in shape your month-to-month salary.
Another instance is that of a person who desires to write and publish a book. Yes, you could setup a blog so that it will take most effective mins to do however a compelling aim would be to complete an ebook after two months and begin publishing 1500-2000 articles each day.
If the intention is not too compelling, not inspiring or not difficult you to go beyond, then you're going to go south with the accomplishment of your New Year's Resolutions.
Reason #five – Lack of Action
A purpose will stay to be words on paper if they are no longer put into action. What to do to keep away from it being just mere words on paper is to ensure that your aim or resolution is crystal clean to be able to turn it right into a fact.
The hassle with taking motion although is that the majority are fearful of it in particular if the movement required isn't always something one has engaged in and efficaciously accomplished before. This is why a motion plan is deemed vital. Large goals may be broken down into smaller chunks and then you make your manner into engaging in every so progress can be made.
If you ever built a snowman earlier than, you understand that a number of attempt needs to be positioned into it to get going. You shape small snowballs first by rolling them round, this would appear to be taking all the time to do and you are going nowhere with it, but ultimately, you may note that the ball becomes bigger and you'll be desiring more snow to preserve to shape larger rolls.
The equal method is implemented with our desires. You'll need to behave small at the start, do it continually and you will be constructing momentum. Through the movements you've got taken, your know-how and experience are widened. In time you'll see that the development closer to your desires will increase as nicely.
Taking action ought to not be optionally available. You can not simply anticipate your intention to be achieved on its personal. There isn't any way that the law of attraction may be in effect with out-task the important measures on each possibility this is supplied to you. Make positive you're doing some thing – whether or not it is large or small, do something every day. No depend how small the steps you're making are, if it'll get you in the direction of realizing your goals or your resolutions, then do it.
Also, be wary of attractive inside the same behavior or technique as earlier than in particular if it did no longer work out the primary time. Go and do some thing unusual. Don't confine your self in a box, get out of your consolation sector and act on the matters in an effort to make you pass in the route of the accomplishment of your desires.
That's it! Now that you apprehend why New Year's Resolutions fail, it is time that you contain the steps taught right here while making plans your goals. I also have a goal placing playbook you might need to check out for greater help. If you have already got your goals set up, just alter it as a result with a purpose to consist of the recommendations we referred to in this text.
Give your New Year's Resolutions a lift with the aid of giving it the eye it merits. It's surely time to say goodbye at failing at your resolutions, and howdy to reaching success this yr and the years yet to come this is beyond what you may consider.


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Yan Chen and Onur Kesten have a new version of their paper on school choice mechanisms, inspired by the Chinese college admissions experiencewith what they call the "parallel mechanism": From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms
Abstract: We characterize a parametric family of application-rejection school choice mechanisms,
including the Boston and Deferred Acceptance mechanisms as special cases, and spanning the parallel mechanisms for Chinese college admissions, the largest centralized matching in the world. Moving from one extreme member to the other results in systematic changes in manipulability, stability and welfare properties. Neither the ex-post dominance of the DA over the Boston equilibria, nor the ex-ante dominance of the Boston equilibria over the DA in stylized settings extends to the parallel mechanisms. In the laboratory, participants are most likely to reveal their preferences truthfully under the DA mechanism, followed by the Chinese parallel and then the Boston mechanisms. Furthermore, while the DA is significantly more stable than the Chinese parallel mechanism, which is more stable than Boston, efficiency comparisons vary across environments."
The paper focuses on what they call the parallel mechanism, which falls between the Boston "immediate acceptance" and the Gale-Shapley "deferred acceptance" algorithms:
"While the sequential mechanism used to be the only mechanism used in CCA prior to 2003, to alleviate the problem of high-scoring students not accepted by any universities and the pressure to manipulate preference rankings under the sequential mechanism, the parallel mechanism has been adopted by 22 provinces by 2012. In the parallel mechanism, students can place several "parallel" colleges for each choice. For example, a student's first choice can contain four colleges, A, B, C and D, in decreasing desirability. Colleges consider student applications, where allocations among the parallel colleges are temporary until a student is rejected from all the parallel colleges he has listed. Thus, this mechanism lies between the Boston mechanism, where every step is final, and the DA, where every step is temporary until all seats are filled. [An alternative interpretation of the parallel mechanism is that it approximates serial dictatorship with tiers (Wei 2009). Note, however, in the college admissions context when colleges have identical preferences, serial dictatorship and DA are equivalent.]"
"Transitioning from sequential to the parallel mechanisms, five provinces7 have adopted a hybrid between the sequential and parallel mechanisms, called the partial parallel mechanism. In Beijing, for example, a student can list one college as her first choice which retains the sequential nature, but three parallel colleges as her second choice. While variants of the parallel (and the partial parallel) mechanisms, each of which differs in the number of parallel choices, have been implemented in different provinces, to our knowledge, they have not been systematically studied theoretically or tested in the laboratory. In particular, when the number of parallel choices varies, how do manipulation incentives, allocation efficiency and stability change? In this paper, we investigate this question both theoretically and experimentally. We call the entire class of parallel (and partial parallel) mechanisms the Chinese parallel mechanisms, the simplest member of this class the Shanghai mechanism.
To study the performance of the different mechanisms more formally, we first provide a theoretical analysis and present a parametric family of application-rejection mechanisms where each member is characterized by some positive number e in{1,2,...}of parallel and periodic choices through which the application and rejection process continues before assignments are finalized.
As parameter e varies, we go from the familiar Boston mechanism (e = 1) to the Chinese parallel mechanisms (e in { 2,...}), and from those to the DA (e = infinity)."
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
College admissions in China
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David Backhouse designed the "Animals in War" memorial honoring all those lost on behalf of the United Kingdom (including approximately 8 million WWI horses) during 20th-century wars. The memorial is located in Hyde Park where the Princess Royal (Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne) unveiled it on November 24, 2004. This image, by DonJay, depicts the northern section. Among the memorial's inscriptions are these words: "They had no choice." Click on the image for a better view.
Going home, at the end of the "great war," British soldiers - like the fictional Albert Narracott - wondered what would happen to their horses who were also veterans of the carnage. In some areas (like France and Belgium), they were sold at auction ("but only after assurances had been attained that French and Belgian butchers would not take the horses for their meat").
Although numbers vary, historians estimate that about 1 million horses served at the Western Front. Of those animals, approximately 67,000 returned home. That means at least 933,000 died under various conditions.
Horses also served in other locations during World War I. Historians estimate 8 million were lost, considering all locations and all battles.
Some of the horses were killed in combat, along with their riders. Others died from disease, or in the mud, where they were overcome by the constant, heavy burdens placed on them. Too exhausted to keep moving, some slipped in the dirt and grime - never to get up again.
Bill Cotgrove - a World War I veteran who lived until he was 105 - tells us what it was like to be with a real war horse. His confidant was called "Alfie," and together they helped to pull heavy guns into position near the front line. As he sat on Alfie's back, with shells exploding all around them, Bill and his horse did their job.
Before he died, Cotgrove was interviewed for a documentary about real war horses. He recalled:
You had to take every day as it came, because you didn't know if you were going to get killed or not, so I never used to worry about it. We'd just get on with our job - looking after our horses and the guns. (From a January 8, 2010 Daily Mail article, entitled "The Horses that Won Us the War: How a Harrowing Reality Inspired Michael Morpugo's Classic Novel.")
Alfred Henn, another veteran, kept a picture of his one-eyed horse (called "Nelson") with him for most of his own long life. Before he died, at the age of 103, Henn described what it was like to be caught in the middle of an artillery barrage:
One night, the horses stopped mid-track. They wouldn't walk a straight line, they kept swerving about, and I thought, "What has happened?" We couldn't see anything in the dark, but we'd just walked into an area where a shell had dropped.
There was smoke coming up and the wall was covered in pieces of flesh. It was a terrible sight, I tell you, and the poor horses were more frightened than we were. (Daily Mail, 8 January 2010.)
Horses were the best confidant for young soldiers far from home. Many of the fighting troops, still in their teens, needed someone safe to whom they could unburden their thoughts. Before writing his book, Michael Morpurgo - author of War Horse - heard such a story from one of those young men, since grown old:
We were all 17 or 18. We were all terrified, but we didn't want to look as if we were terrified because we knew everyone else was, so we never talked about that. Which meant that we never really talked about what we were feeling deep down. We talked about things to keep ourselves jolly.
The only "person" I could talk to about things that I really cared about - my family, my mum and my fear of dying - was my horse. And I'd go to my horse at night and I'd feed him and I'd stand there, and I'd stroke his neck and talk into his ear and I'd tell him ... and that horse listened. (Passage from the Daily Mail's interview with Michael Morpurgo, 8 January 2010.)
The horses aren't listening anymore because they, like all of their minders and riders, are dead now. In America and Canada, the "Great War" is so little-known it is called the "Forgotten War."
But in Britain - where stories have passed down, from generation to generation - real families (resembling the fictional Narracotts) remember. As Emily Watson, who plays Rose Narracott in the film version of the story, explains (in an interview with Mike Edwards, for Movie Vortex):
The Michael Morpurgo book is "Black Beauty goes to war." So if you're English, two of the most emotive subjects you could touch on are "Black Beauty" and the First World War. The crew were constantly in tears, as there were war memorials and everybody had a story in their family ... for English people, everyone is touched by that war.
Because of Morpurgo's novel - and the film, documentaries and stage productions following in its wake - people throughout the world, whose families have no personal connection to the conflict, will also be "touched by that war."
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His book - The Beauty and the Sorrow - is "a work of anti-history, an attempt to deconstruct this utterly epoch-making event [the war] into its smallest, most basic component - the individual, and his or her experiences." (Beauty and Sorrow, page xiii.)
Such a book helps those who do not care - because they do not know - to exchange ignorance for knowledge, to welcome reflection in place of disregard.


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