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We firmly believe all children can learn. We understand that children learn in different ways and should be provided with a variety of instructional approaches to support their individual learning levels. We are committed to providing an educational programme and service to support the individual child.

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What kind of animal is the Japanese macaque?

Among the 180 species of monkeys that exist, the indigenous Japanese macaque is known to be the most northern non-human wild primate in the world. Most non-human primates tend to enjoy a more tropical or subtropical area, and I think a lot of people will agree with that mindset. Though the Japanese macaques are found all over Japan, only those at the Snow Monkey Park in Jigokudani-Yaen Koen are famous as the “snow monkeys” for to their tendency of entering the hot spring water.

Male monkeys weigh 6 – 18 kg (13 – 39 pounds) while females weigh 6 – 14 kg (13 – 30 pounds) with a height that ranges from 47 to 60 cm (1.5 – 2 feet), depending on the age. The monkey has a short tail, about the same size of a human finger, which is different from the typical long-tailed monkey image most people have. It is estimated that just over 100,000 Japanese macaques live across Japan.

Why do the snow monkeys bathe in the onsen (hot springs)?

The reason why the monkeys take a hot spring bath is quite simple; to survive from the cold! So during the winter season (December to March) you’ll see monkeys sitting in the bath. You might also see monkeys in the hot spring at other times of the year for different purposes, such as to get food fallen in the bath, to swim or simply to relax.

Their habit of sitting in an onsen was first discovered at the ryokan (Japanese inn) Korakukan, located right next to where the Snow Monkey Park currently is. The onsen was originally made for the human guests, but at one point the monkeys got interested in it too. The problem with monkeys however, is that they do their business anywhere. So in order to have a clean bath for the humans but also a safe place for the monkeys, they decided to make a designated monkey onsen nearby. This is how the monkey park originally started.

How many monkeys are there in the park?

In the Snow Monkey Park there are about 150 Japanese macaques. Around 60 to 70% of the 150 monkeys are female. The park staff know pretty much every single one of the monkeys by their facial characteristics or even color of their fur.

Monkeys move in troops and and they consist of both adult males, adult females and their babies. The males tend to move from group to group or they leave to make their own small independent troop. To avoid confrontation with the stronger troops, they do not come down to the park and are more likely to appear near the human residential area. You may bump into those monkeys in the area where the snow monkey park bus stop is located. In that case, you should take caution with plastic bags, as the sound is very interesting for them because they think it might contain food, or when holding food since they might try to take it from you.

How can we distinguish male and female monkeys, and individual monkeys?

In their childhood it is very difficult to see whether a monkey is male or female. When they start maturing however, it becomes more apparent due to the scrotal sac on males or the nipples on females. Also, females tend to have a lighter fur and males a darker fur.
As for distinguishing one monkey from the other, the older they get, the more wrinkly their face gets and the darker the fur color. Also, the character of the monkey really begins to shine through. The wrinkles, fur color and attitude make it easier to identify the monkey. However, being able to identify each monkey takes years of practice, even for the park staff.

How old do the snow monkeys get?

The average life expectancy is about 25 to 30 years. The oldest monkey in the park is currently around 24 years old. As they age, their skin gets wrinkly just like humans, and they tend to get a crooked spine and become a little smaller.

How do they communicate among each other?

They largely depend on facial expression, attitude, or verbal sounds to communicate with other monkeys. They use verbal sound not as language, rather as a way to show their attitude. When you hear the monkeys chatter, take a guess and try to translate what they are saying to the others!

Where do they sleep?

The monkeys generally go back up the mountain next to the Monkey Park. They make their sleeping place somewhere else just about every day. One day they might have their sleeping quarters in the top of a tree and the next on the side of a cliff. They do tend to sleep with relatives or close friends and cuddle up during cold nights.

What do they eat besides the barley given by the park staff?

Especially during the spring and autumn they can forage the mountain for wild vegetables, nuts, flowers, fruits etc. The winter season is a troublesome one for the monkeys as there is close to no food to be found in the area. Only tree bark and winter buds are found. This is not the favorite food for the monkeys as the barely eat this in spring and autumn. The barley provided at the Snow Monkey Park at regulated times is much appreciated by the monkeys as it helps them survive.

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What are the differences between the Japanese macaques and other monkeys around the world?

The Japanese macaque are the only monkeys able to live under extreme cold weather conditions going as low as minus ten degrees Celcius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit. The snow monkeys bathing in the onsen to survive the wintery cold is a a unique scene only seen at the Snow Monkey Park.

Visitors find the monkeys generally very friendly and docile compared to monkeys in other parts of the world. The monkeys tend to just ignore you as long as you don’t stare at them, or growl when you get too close to them.

Can I bathe with the monkeys?

The hot spring at the Snow Monkey Park is just for the monkeys. However, if you want to try and take a bath with the monkeys, you might try your luck at the nearby Korakukan Onsen. There is a possibility the monkeys will join you while you bathe in the open-air bath at the ryokan. Even in the off-season people can be seen bathing in the onsen, sometimes with a not a lot covering them up…

Do they bathe during the spring / summer / autumn too?

Sunbathing? Yes. In the hot spring? Not so much. You might see them in the bath taking a swim or bathing while enjoying lunch prepared by the park staff, but unlike the winter months there are definitely days when the monkeys just don’t feel like entering the bath.

The monkeys behave in different ways depending on the season and temperature of the day. When it’s very cold in the middle of winter, they tend to stay still to preserve energy and cuddle to warm each other or get in the onsen. When it’s warm and the sun is out, they tend to be more active and move around in the area. You’ll see monkeys grooming each other and kids playing under the sun.

Winter is not the only time you can see the snow monkeys as most of their time is spend at the park.There is however always a possibility of monkeys not to come down to the park because they are wild animals. When this happens the park staff will go to great lengths to try and get the monkeys to come down to the park. They will go up the dangerous mountains to see if they persuade the macaques into joining the visitors at the park.

What do the park staff do for their work?

Next to cleaning up the occasional feces, they are in charge of feeding the monkeys at set times and to ensure a harmonious coexistence between monkeys and humans. The latter is mostly done through enforcing some of the rules of the park.
①By not letting the monkeys be fed by visitors and feeding them at any given time, they make sure that monkeys won’t get into the habit of begging or stealing. It happens that occasionally a monkey tries to take something, but that is more out of curiosity than it is to get food.
②By not letting the visitors touch or get too close to the monkeys they not only protect visitors from possible monkey attacks, but also keep distance between the animals and humans so the monkeys hold on to their wild nature.


[1941] Sergeant York

sergeant-york-belgian-movie-posterHyperreal violence plays a role in postmodern American culture. It continues to be the defining moment in each day chronicled and it is glorified in stone in film and television. Fast, clear, and present danger is always under the next shag rug; the grass will kill you; and we better be ready for the imminent, always imminent, rise of the autonomy of things. First our cars will drive us, and then they will drive us off a cliff.

But ocean red, the hue that resonates the blood-shot reflection of a dead solider, will always be the cornerstone of American fascination with War. The Patriotic film demonstrates the hellish torment of battle, with corporeal guts and bones the ultimate sacrifice. This message is simple and meaningful and, when overdone, can be visually stunning and worthwhile as a statement, or just a way for a production studio to run the world a little dryer of #ff0000. But before color ubiquity in media, directors needed to dig a little deeper to represent the horrifics of war and death. Before it becomes unfashionable, the ultimate sacrifice is and was for of Our Lord the Christian God. Gary Cooper as Alvin York, in the titular Sergeant York, answers the call to demonstrate the harsh brutality of what it means to die in the arms of the ethereal. Continue reading “[1941] Sergeant York”

[1941] The Little Foxes

21355-the-little-foxes-0-230-0-345-cropIn formal probability theory, mathematicians and armchair enthusiasts sometimes describe a technique called “coupling.”

This technique allows for seemingly random variables, x and y, to interact with one another in otherwise random way. Suppose walks that way and this – how can we measure how likely it is that they meet? Or that they never will? Probablists introduce a measure of their own creation to force an interaction, then measure success or failure. This technique allows for the creation of path dependence and bias determination that otherwise could not have been measured.

This is a phenomenal approach to a problem of no consequence. Sure, we care what should happen, but we really only measure what does happen and try to predict, with some accuracy what could happen, given xy, and the medium. Sometimes, with enough certainty, our best guess is correct, and we begin to understand the difference between a graphite prediction and a graphic realization. The Little Foxes, whose production brought Bette Davis and William Wyler together again in 1941, is a film-proximate take on coupling.

The actress and the director make magic; theorists can couple together as much evidence as they want, but there is no measurement for spark and collaborative creativity that can outperform expected results. The Little Foxes proved this in the early 1940s. By way of a proud story, the film pairs together an actress at the height of her career with a director at the height of his. The story had been scene-tested on stage and was destined for imprint on film, with interpretive authority to be canonized as one of the five best of the year. Given this footstool of facts, mathematics aside, a critic from a reel away could have predicted this film’s success from the onset.

And it was almost derailed. Continue reading “[1941] The Little Foxes”


NL Budget 2016 Revolt – Jon Parsons

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Even the Rich Can Enjoy Capitalism with a Basic Income

Even many within the 1% should be willing to accept capitalism that involves a basic income where there is no poverty, and people compete for relative rather than absolute wealth.

Why would some people who have so much money under the current system prefer a system where they are still well off, but have less (in absolute terms)?  Because their relative rank would go up (in terms of wealth/recognition etc.)

Redeeming personality-types are found in all fields and sectors of society as are sinister personality-types.  Some genuinely kind-hearted people do find their way into realms of affluence.

They have a lot under the current system, but what they don’t realize is they would have MORE under a system where there is LESS inequality.  In a less oppressive society where there is no poverty (and only minor inequality,) there is greater truth.  Greater truth only threatens sinister personality-types that hurt others to get ahead in society.  Someone like Oprah would also be successful in a world without poverty.  However, many people who did questionable things to become richer than her might have a much harder time doing so in a humane society.  Thus, her relative rank goes up.

And it’s not just about wealth either.  In a world of zero poverty and genuine honesty, more compassionate human beings receive greater recognition and are actually less inhibited in their service to humanity.

Nobody’s perfect.  I feel Oprah has promoted excessive materialism and a very specious form of spirituality (i.e. colourful, but empty.)  I don’t like how she lauds the United States, describing it as “the greatest country in the world,” as if the ascendancy of Rome should eclipse the ruthlessness of its empire.

Having said that, I do think she is somebody who genuinely wants to alleve human suffering.  Leading up to the Iraq war, she did have a show that expressed her distaste of violence over peace.  However, it was met with the typical hysterical ultra-nationalism that applauds itself in suppressing any criticism or dissent.

So many of us have so much to say but can’t because there is no platform where such words are considered acceptable without sinister personalities taking advantage of the convenience of oppressing on behalf of (arbitrarily accepted) intellectual authorities.  Zero poverty allows truly resilient personalities to survive long enough to defend truth.

The more genuine characters within the 1% actually advance in terms of relative wealth/recognition in a society where there is no poverty at all.  Thus, there is some impetus for the rich to favour their wealth being redistributed fairly and properly (especially since the idea of property was arbitrary and anti-democratic to begin with.)

Ending poverty is also just the right thing to do and success within a system that is fundamentally elitist/oppressive is like being a major success in North Korea—is that really something we applaud?


On the Use of Soul Mirrors

The very first step on our magical path is to understand what we are not. Some magicians refer to humans as spiritual beings in meat-suits. We are conjoined to the flesh we were born into and still there seems to be a difference between 'us' and our bodies. As we progress further on the path we begin to realise that we are not only vested in a suit of meat, but also in a suit of emotions and a suit of mental patterns. All of these together create the makeup of our mortal personalities, the house we live in.

— C.S. Lewis

Thus before we can get anywhere in magic - or life in general - doing a thorough inventory control of what is present within this house is a first and crucial precondition to success. The goal is to gain a minute understanding of all the different layers of materials we were created from - as well as the specific qualities, compositions and dynamics these substances assumed over time as part of our personality. It is this knowledge and understanding of ourselves that enables us to alter and change ourselves as we progress - and to ultimately turn ourselves into effective tools of magical work as Adepts.

Of course there are many ways to gain this knowledge of ourselves. We could call life a school that doesn't teach any other subject but to realise ourselves. So the good and bad news is: there is no rush towards these lessons, yet also no way to avoid them. The only thing we get to choose is how uncomfortable or painful the process of realisation will be.

In general the simple rule applies: the more we walk away from them, the harder the lessons will be. Yet, the more often we decide to walk towards them voluntarily, the more choices we might be given on the context we will be learning in.

So what are the techniques our magical lore gives us to walk towards these lessons of self-realisation? The answer is, they are legion, but they all start with introspection

Introspection is the self-examination of one's conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies exclusively on the purposeful and rational self-observation of one's mental state; however, introspection is sometimes referenced in a spiritual context as the examination of one's soul. Introspection is closely related to the philosophical concept of human self-reflection, and is contrasted with external observation. Introspection has been a subject of philosophical discussion for thousands of years. The philosopher Plato is thought to have referenced introspection when he asked, "…why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?" (wikipedia)

Now as we embark on the adventure of introspection, the problem one quickly encounters is that we lack a language for observing ourselves. The predominant amount of our vocabulary is directed externally, towards the outside world. As a matter of fact language was created to describe the visible world and make interaction with it easier. Once we enter into the subjective realm of our minds the boundaries of language easily start to blur. Philosophers, priests and magicians have wrestled with this challenges for millenials - to bring objectivity to our subjective inner realms - while artists have greatly enjoyed it.

Overcoming this barriers in most cases goes along with an either-or decision. Either we give up on language at all, we stop trying to verbalise what is going on inside of us and silently withdraw into a state of pure observance. This is the path of Eastern Mediation, the Zen path of self-realisation through silence and observing. This path recently has been re-discovered by western psychology and mental science in their attempt to leverage it for healing chronic mental disorders. The fascinating results can be studied under the term 'Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy'.

Or we can chose another approach to pierce through the veil of inner subjectivity. Supplementing the Eastern path of silence here we discover the Western mystical path; rather than on non-attachement it relies on direct involvement, conscious experience and active introspection. Where the former aims to calm our mind into a state of non-perceiving or all-perceiving, the latter leverages the nature of the mind to grasp on to anything and everything and to realise itself through experience.

What follows are two specific techniques of introspection taken from the Western path. As mentioned above, they can be supplemented by applying meditational techniques and observing in silence. Yet, their real strength lies in using the power of our minds to actively examine the nature of our mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.


Self control

“But if we take a wider view we see that people exhibit extraordinary self-control in a whole range of ways in many different areas of their lives. It’s just that these different modes of self-control are not equally valued or celebrated by society. And society expects different people to exert different types of self-control. Gender is an obvious example, with women often expected to be particularly self-controlled in how they express their sexuality, how they control their weight, and how they suppress anger and assertiveness. You only need to look at media coverage of the drinking habits of young New Zealanders to see a highly gendered idea of self-control at play. Inevitably the media uses images of rowdy, out of control young women as the symbol of our youths’ “drinking problems”, even though their behaviour is similar to that of young men.

Some people perform jobs that require immense resolve and patience in handling challenging scenarios and pressures. Flight attendants, nurses, teacher aids for kids with behavioral challenges, to name a few. These professions must practice self-control, perseverance, and self-discipline in often testing situations. But they are rarely deemed worthy of an inspirational article about self-control. Watch carefully the work these people do. It’s often a masterclass in self composure and restraint.””

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Oishii Ginza -Delicious Ginza-

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The food section of the department store

I hate air travel.Therefore I had few chance to travel abroad.Only, I went to Singapore 20 years ago.I went to Takashimaya in Sngapore.Takashimayahas an abundant line-up of products, so shopping was fun.Thereafter I go to buy Japanese food for the food section of the department store frequently in Japan.
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In Japanese, “Depa-chika” refers to the basement floors of a department store where the delicatessen sections are usually located.This is the comic which backstage of “Depa-chika” was drawn on.The comic name is “Oishii Ginza”.
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Department store in Ginza

The story is set in a department store of Ginza, Tokyo.Tokyo, Ginza is the area where a Japanese longs for.The place that land prices are the highest in in Japan is Ginza.I am interested what kind of food will be sold in the department store in Ginza.I read this comic from now on.
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Posttraumatic Growth and its Dimensions in Patients with Cancer

Mehdi Heidarzadeh, Maryam Rassouli, Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahbolaghi, Hamid Alavi Majd, Aman-Mohamad Karam, Hamidreza Mirzaee, Mamak Tahmasebi

Background: Physical and psychological stresses produced by diagnosis and treatment of cancer can lead to positive psychological changes or posttraumatic growth. The aim of current study is to assess posttraumatic growth and its dimensions in Iranian patients with cancer, and the impact of demographic characteristics on posttraumatic growth.

Methods: This was a descriptive study on 452 patients with cancer who referred to the oncology wards of two main hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The instruments were the Demographic Characteristics Scale and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. SPSS version 15 was used to analyze the data.

Results: The mean age of participants was 46.2±14.2 years, 59% were female and 39% had metastatic cancer. The mean PTGI score of the participants was 68.6±14.6. The most acquired percentage of score was for "spiritual changes" and "communication with others". Age, educational status, income, and type of cancer had significant correlation with posttraumatic growth score.

Conclusion: The findings of the current study indicated that the score of posttraumatic growth in Iranian patients with cancer was higher than in patients of Western societies. The most improvement was seen in the "spiritual changes" dimension.

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Sarah's Kine Justice, A Story of Modern Hawaii

Sarah's Kine Justice, A Story of Modern Hawaii

ABOUT Hermann Schachtschneider

Hermann Schachtschneider
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Action & Adventure in Hawaii!
“Couldn't put it down,” was the comment added by the first Amazon reviewer.

Now, two genetic engineers have found a way to force the United States to give back the islands, and they've given notice that all non-Hawaiians must get out or die.

Sarah Kiley is one of a few thousand pure-blooded Hawaiians who stand to inherit Hawaii under the scientists' plan. While investigating the murder of a friend, she finds herself a key player on the inter-agency task force that's trying to stop them. Given the opportunity to change the history of her people and return their stolen sovereignty, she must decide which side will win.

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This story is told from a Christian worldview. The main protagonists are not morally perfect, but they are practicing Christians. They pray, and they find strength in their relationships with their Creator and Savior. The author has taken care to not include expletives, blasphemous language or the sorts of story events and elements that he finds morally offensive in many popular thrillers and mysteries. The result is a first class thriller that you can recommend unequivocally to any Christian book lover.

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The Spirit Of Eid Al-Fitr

In the spirit of Eid ul-Fitr, Allah and His greatness are acknowledged, His blessings for humanity are acknowledged and thanked. The faithful make a promise to Him that everyone will live together in peace. There is no prescribed ritual for Eid ul-Fitr except for the two units of namaz or prayer.

Gifts of sweets distributed on the day of Eid represent the true spirit of this Islamic festival.The Prophet of Islam once said that an exchange of gifts promotes love in society. So, sweets are not simply sweets: they also have a spiritual meaning. Sweets represent not only the spirit of Eid, but also the true spirit of Islam.

Eid ul-Fitr represents the reward of Allah, which will be granted by God to those who observe one month’s fasting. In other words, fasting represents dutiful worldly life and Eid ul-Fitr represents the reward that will be given in return by Allah to man.

According to tradition, the day of Eid is the day of divine reward. When believers observe their duty in the month of Ramzan in the true spirit of the season, Allah declares: “O angels, be witness that I have decided to bestow upon them paradise in the world hereafter.”

Precisely, the month of fasting represents the responsibilities of the believers in this world and Eid ul-Fitr represents the reward given to them in the world hereafter. Precisely

Let’s hope that this auspicious occasion would be the harbinger of peace, progress, prosperity and happiness and would strengthen the bonds of communal harmony, brotherhood and amity, which are the hallmarks of J&K’s glorious pluralistic traditions.


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Rules Relating to Discipline of Attorneys

Rule 226
Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct

3.7 Advocate: Lawyer as Witness

(1) the testimony relates to an uncontested issue;

Advocate-Witness Rule
[3] To protect the tribunal, paragraph (a) prohibits a lawyer from simultaneously serving as advocate and necessary witness except in those circumstances specified in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(3). Paragraph (a)(1) recognizes that if the testimony will be uncontested, the ambiguities in the dual role are purely theoretical. Paragraph (a)(2) recognizes that where the testimony concerns the extent and value of legal services rendered in the action in which the testimony is offered, permitting the lawyers to testify avoids the need for a second trial with new counsel to resolve that issue. Moreover, in such a situation the judge has first-hand knowledge of the matter in issue; hence, there is less dependence on the adversary process to test the credibility of the testimony.
[5] Because the tribunal is not likely to be misled when a lawyer acts as advocate in a trial in which another lawyer in the lawyer's firm will testify as a necessary witness, paragraph (b) permits the lawyer to do so except in situations involving a conflict of interest.
Conflict of Interest
[6] In determining if it is permissible to act as advocate in a trial in which the lawyer will be a necessary witness, the lawyer must also consider that the dual role may give rise to a conflict of interest that will require compliance with Rules 1.7 or 1.9. For example, if there is likely to be substantial conflict between the testimony of the client and that of the lawyer, the representation involves a conflict of interest that requires compliance with Rule 1.7. This would be true even though the lawyer might not be prohibited by paragraph (a) from simultaneously serving as advocate and witness because the lawyer's disqualification would work a substantial hardship on the client. Similarly, a lawyer who might be permitted to simultaneously serve as an advocate and a witness by paragraph (a)(3) might be precluded from doing so by Rule 1.9. The problem can arise whether the lawyer is called as a witness on behalf of the client or is called by the opposing party. Determining whether or not such a conflict exists is primarily the responsibility of the lawyer involved. If there is a conflict of interest, the lawyer must secure the client's informed consent, confirmed in writing. In some cases, the lawyer will be precluded from seeking the client's consent. See Rule 1.7. See Rule 1.0(b) for the definition of"confirmed in writing" and Rule 1.0(f) for the definition of "informed consent."
[7] Paragraph (b) provides that a lawyer is not disqualified from serving as an advocate because a lawyer with whom the lawyer is associated in a firm is precluded from doing so by paragraph (a). If, however, the testifying lawyer would also be disqualified by Rule 1.7 or Rule 1.9 from representing the client in the matter, other lawyers in the firm will be precluded from representing the client by Rule 1.10 unless the client gives informed consent under the conditions stated in Rule 1.7.


Natural Remedies

Although it can not seem, a cough is a measurement of protection of the body in healthy individuals. A cough is an involuntary reflection (something that we cannot avoid) that is initiated by two classes of nerves with conclusions in the lungs. Toser is an action that the body takes to get rid of substances that irritate the air passages, and a cough begins generally to clear an accumulation of flema (snot) in the trachea. When a person tose, the air can move through this passage in up to 300 MPH. What causes a cough? If an individual is a smoker and does not have a x-ray of the normal chest, the causes most probable of a persistent cough are asthma, heartburn, or nasal gotereo. Other causes of the chronic cough include chronic bronchitis and conventional medication indirect effect certain such as inhibiting ACE.

A cough can also be a symptom of an infection or a respiratory bronchitis superior, pulmona, or tuberculosis. The natural remedies of the cough can help to alleviate the associated malaise to cough attacks. The individuals that smoke often have what it talks about like " cough of fumador" , a noisy cough that often gives rise to the expiration of flema. It is advised whenever the individuals stop to smoke of a natural way, as much to alleviate the cough of the smoker and to live one more a healthier life. The coughs in children are common, and accompany generally many by the normal diseases of the childhood such as influenza and bronchitis. Toser can also be driven by the food that goes underneath the incorrect route, and when this happens it is because epiglotis has not done its work correctly in the safekeeping of the food outside the trachea. Aid for a cough A cough that continues by several days or increases of severity authorizes a visit to a doctor to eliminate other diseases.

Repairing A Relationship

The training to burn fat are an integral part of any program of exercises if you are aiming to lose kilos fast. Learn more on the subject from actress. After all, with the purpose of to become thin, it is necessary that all the objectives aim to burn the excess of fat that you have managed to accumulate in your body. A training to burn fat does more than only to burn all fats of the body, but also uses the fat like fuel to move your body. What are the exercises to burn greasy? A series of slow and aerobic exercises that extend by a long period of time considers that it is an exercise that burning fire the fats. These training have as primary target gruposde muscles in the body and the use of the fat stored in the body like primary fuel source, which aid to lose weight.

Nevertheless, if it is wanted to manage to lose kilos fast, it is important to maintain the intensity correct of these training. This must to that to low intensity, the body uses the fat like fuel. Nevertheless, when happening to a training of high intensity, your body changes to fat burning fire of the reserve of the body carbohydrates. What exercises help to burn fat? There are several exercises that will help you to burn fat and to lose kilos. These are: Aerobic dance – If you dance one hour, you can burn up to 330 calories! And when it is combined with a diet to lower of weight, you can burn the fat in your body and obtain the additional benefit to obtain strong muscles in the leg. Aerobic exercises – These exercises have like objective the area around the waist and to burn the fat of this region. Also aid to strengthen muscles of the final stage and inferior. Cycling – To walk in bicycle is considered like one of the best exercises for the fat burning fire, develops to the muscles of the thigh doing them more forts.

Losing Belly Fat

Everybody wants to learn like losing fast belly. And there are several good reasons to wish it. On the one hand, the fat of the stomach or a belly that is not most attractive of the world. On the other hand, the studies are beginning to demonstrate that those with a high abdominal fat concentration are in risk of undergoing serious problems of health, like diabetes, cardiac diseases and high cholesterol. So to lose and to undo of that fat so much talks about to shine well and to stay healthful. And, luckily, there are 2 simple things that you can make to squash that belly right now. Good comma Contrary to the popular belief, you do not have morirte of hunger, and to spend weeks with the sensation of extreme hunger, with the purpose of to burn fat and to lose weight.

You can eat a pile and even so to have a flat stomach. The trick is in eating the correct type of foods. The foods that are high in low protein and in carbohydrates, like eggs, thin meats, grain whole numbers, fruits and vegetables are your better options. On the other hand, to avoid carbohydrates refinings, which it means to avoid foods done with white flour and white sugar. Also desire that you stay remote of saturated fats. Refreshments a full one no, no.

These are full of sugar and empty calories. Beginning of the correct type of Cardio the physical activity greasy burning fire. And if one becomes jumbled in a vigorous physical activity of pumping of the heart, you will burn more fast fat. In fact, any thing that you can make to obtain your heart rate during 20 to 30 minutes helps to burn the fat that is in the stomach. Nevertheless, the majority of people thinks that doing 100s of abdominal they obtained a flat stomach. This process of thought is erroneous. It is necessary to include other exercises in his routine. This could mean to register in aerobics class, or the purchase of the videos that can be followed in house. But also it can include to participate in activities for the diversion, like swimming, to dance or to play a game of basketball with your friendly. Having a long walk by the district once to the day it is even the trick. to make some type of cardiovascular exercise has two advantages. First it is that burning fire the fat. Second it is that it helps to stimulate the metabolism. Your metabolism is, basically, the speed in which the greasy body burning fire. Whichever major is your metabolism, greasier you would burn, and? more weight you will lose. Now already you know like losing fast belly. In fact, it is that simple. If you eat more of the suitable types of foods, you eliminate the mistaken type of foods, and realise the type of cardiovascular exercise at least 3 or 4 times to the week, estaras in perfect abdominal the correct way to have a flat belly and in the smaller time. The Truth visits next On Abdominal the Perfect one

Health And Inflammation

Cardio Weightloss Exercises

The exercises of cardio? they have become one of the most popular aspects to lose weight, already all the nation entered the state of health-conscious that it is now. Like question in fact, there are good programs and exercises that concentrate in cardio to lose fat more than in any other session of exercise. The key is here, by all means, in the burning fire of calories, but in fact there are some things to have one more a deeper glance to before jumping in the tape. First of all, you must consider the types of training on the base of cardio to burn fat. There are mainly three and each of them will be discussed in detail. Each has an aspect different in the burning fire from calories and all has their pros and their cons, which enumerate themselves down also. Interval of formation of Alta Intensidad (HIIT) This interval is it last more of all these programs, since it demands Sprint to him to his maximum capacity soon to rest and to repeat.

The good thing is that it only takes about fifteen minutes to realise it. Points to favor: It increases your metabolic rate in rest. This even means that your metabolism increases, when is in rest. It is very important to even maintain our metabolism participating in rest with the purpose of to increase the rate of fat burning fire. A slow metabolism is friendly with an increase of weight. Burning fire calories even after making exercise. She has been famous by the form in which it much later continues burning calories of which it has finished with the exercises. This means therefore that him burning fire the fat even when it is not training. You are not going to suffer loss of muscular mass, a common problem with a session of exercises of cardio prolonged.


Laura Esquivel: “Every picture and every word heals”

Nov 30, 2016 | Interviews

Interview with Laura Esquivel
by Rayma

In the Miami Book Fair, we had the privilege of interviewing the Mexican writer. She presented her book “Pierced by the Sun.” We talked about the defining features of her work and her clear vision of the contemporary world.

What is the central topic of your work?

I think, it is love. It has always been in my work, its obstacles and complications. There is another topic related to a deep belief and conviction in the human transformative capacity.

How they can reinvent, transform and purge themselves, to become a different person.

So, literature is a shamanic practice of healing?

Every picture and every word heals. Sometimes, I address things people do not like, such as the responsibility of those in charge of pictures and words. The work is not about being successful or not, getting recognition or not, selling or not, but getting in touch with the sensible world of the readers, the world of their feelings. A world connected with the world of the reason, because there is no division between them. When you touch the heart, you touch the mind, sharing information that brings out the best of people. Therefore, I believe there is an alchemical process in literature, music, cooking, in everything.

Latin America grew up from magical realism, and we have been in trouble since then because we are constantly looking for magical solutions. You, as a writer, have made a contribution with images and metaphors to this topic, but I have read your interviews, and you express with a clear mind. How can you address sensitive topics throughout metaphors?

Going beyond the functions of language and images is necessary. We all have unconscious archetypes with us. They come to our minds when we get in touch with certain information. I mean, instead of talking about murder and death of a loved one, we could understand that death is not real because life is not related to the body but with something beyond. In the novel, Like water for chocolate, the apparition of Tita’s mother is not magical realism. A castrating mother will appear before the daughter until she confronts her. That’s what Tita does; she says “I hate you, I hated you, I hate you, ” and the mother goes away.

Now, I go further in my last novel: Tita’s diary. There is a reassessment and reconciliation with the mother. It is beautiful because the book shows twenty lost years of Like water for chocolate. So, I work those symbols and images again.

Are your books parts of a whole?

Now, I was invited to the Fair for my book Pierced by the Sun. But I have a new book Tita’s diary; this is the second part of a trilogy. The next year the last part will come.

Kitchen and woman are topics always present in your work. Ironically, in the contemporary world, the most renowned chef are men. I have a friend, a Venezuelan chef (Elena Ibarra). She says men are chef because they need to kill their mothers.

Usually, professional chefs are looking for money, not for providing welfare or love. They do excellent work, but that’s different. TV shows about chefs in the US are contests where quick cooking is the plot. However, time doesn’t matter for women cooking in our countries. Their aim is spiritual nutrition and it is not important what chef is better because the idea is to continue traditions.

So, the sacred femininity is shown: joining, giving with generosity and love, energy always circulating.

You give a place among your characters to anonymous women and anti-heroines, like the one in Lupita.

They are heroines to me. They work from intimacy with actions that make no sense for a world dominated by production, consumerism, where time is money and surviving means crushing others. So, these violated and ignored women, day by day, fight a personal struggle from resistance. Lupita is my favorite character because she is the sacred feminine archetype. She is a mirror for women who tell me “I am Lupita”; This is a compliment to me.

This topic goes beyond gender. It’s a revindication of the feminine role.

I try to show a worldview of those women, marked by the historical past. Let us ask, how many generations succumbed to alcohol? How many generations have suffered violations and abuses? How many generations does it take for a country to realize that their problems are the stolen elections, plundering, humiliations, be left on its own?, What does a person should think? And why do people not overcome that condition? That’s the reason of the character, Lupita.

Do you think women have to reinvent themselves or should continue competing with the establishment?

This country had a woman candidate for presidency. It was unthinkable in the past.

Worthy women have contributed to this system, but we are not on the right path. Who needs this terrible government?

Fear is the only thing that can paralyze a person. That’s why there are policies to generate fear, but how should we face fear?

We have to take a different way than division, extreme individuality, the law of the jungle, predation and collective suicide.

The right way to go is based on collaboration, sharing in community, and fostering values. The solution is to create sustainable communities: small, integrated and coordinated. We have to go back to basics to create and change. How long will it take? Nobody knows, but it’s time for the first step.

Published books

Like water for chocolate (1989)
The law of love (1995)
Íntimas suculencias (1998)

Estrellita marinera (1999)
El libro de las emociones (2000)
Swift as desire (2001)

Malinche: A novel (2004)
Pierced by the Sun (2014)
Tita’s Diary (2016)


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Quick-fire interview round

5 minutes with the PMC Lead of EE4J

What is Jakarta EE? What does it mean for a project to go open source like Java EE? In this interview, Ivar Grimstad, the PMC Lead of EE4J, gave us five minutes of his time to tell us about EE4J and Jakarta EE.

A language by any other name

How do we define Java?

What is and isn’t part of Java? The question has a more in-depth answer than you may suspect. In this article, Simon Ritter discusses the differences in definitions between terms such as Oracle JDK and OpenJDK.

Watch Sarah Saunders' JAX London 2017 session

The monster coming over the hill – Is enterprise coding dead?

Every code snippet that you will ever need is probably somewhere on the internet. All you have to do is ask for it. So why do we keep writing code? What’s our value as developers? Sarah Saunders talks about the skills that underline our job description as developers.

Open source makes everything better

Why are so many machine learning tools open source?

Packt Skill Up report 2018: Results are in

Report: What is the next big thing in web development?


Ford Taunus GXL

Thursday 27 June 2013
In 1970 a new Taunus, the Taunus Cortina (TC), was introduced, as a two- or four-door sedan, station wagon (or Turnier) and coupé. This model also formed the basis of the UK-only Cortina Mk.III, but with different door skins and rear wing pressings to lose the "coke-bottle" styling of the Cortina. Also, the Taunus was available as a coupe, a bodystyle that the Cortina was never made in.
Both cars were developed under the auspices of Ford of Europe, and most major components including key parts of the bodyshell were identical. From 1976 Taunus and Cortina models were identical in all but name, 'Taunus' being the name used in left hand drive (LHD) markets, and 'Cortina' in right hand drive ones, although the Cortina name was used in LHD Greece, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan. The Mk III was also sold in Scandinavia, alongside the Taunus.

Technical data:
- engine: 6 cylinders
- capacity: 2600 cc
- horsepower: 125 HP
- gearbox: 4+1
- top speed: 180 km/h

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Beautiful, in Argentina we had one equal. Great miniature!


Fidget spinners banned from schools for making too much noise

Caroline Mortimer
Fidget spinners have taken off in popularity following their use by YouTube bloggers

A school has banned fidget spinners after a pupil complained that the latest must-have toy was too noisy in lessons.

Churchill Academy headteacher Chris Hildrew announced that the gadget, which is a palm-sized spinner containing ball bearings which can be flicked and spun around, would be banned from all lessons at the Somerset school because they made too much noise.

The toy, which was designed by Florida inventor Catherine Hettinger in the 1990s, has primarily been used to help pupils with ADHD and autism but has recently become a fad after YouTube bloggers gathered millions of views by performing tricks with them.

He posted the letter of an anonymous Year 7 pupil on Twitter who said there were now too many of them going off during lessons and it was making it hard for her to concentrate.

She said: “I find [the toys] disruptive [because] they are noisy and so when you are trying to focus on your work all you can hear is it spinning round and round.

“Another reason is that if someone around you has one you kind of get attracted to it because they are trying to do tricks and everyone else is looking at it.”

Mr Hildrew said pupils with special needs will still be able to use “squidgy stress balls and blutack”.

Although they were not designed for the purpose, the toys have been in use in schools for many years as therapy for children who have neurological conditions which make it difficult to concentrate.

Dr Tony Lloyd, the founder of the ADHD Foundation, which provides training on the condition for teachers, told The Independent that the toys were a way for children to express their need to move in order for the brain to produce dopamine, which helps concentration, learning and memory.

He said: “The scientific evidence linking movement and improved thinking skills is well established – and indeed in the case of children with ADHD – their body moves and fidgets compulsively as away of enabling the brain to produce dopamine – a neurotransmitter linked to learning, concentration and memory.”

The psychologist said he understood why Mr Hildrew had decided to ban the toys, as they could be distracting to other children, but said he was glad the headteacher was offering special needs children other options.

But Carol Povey, the director of the Centre of Autism at the National Autistic Society, said she hoped they would make an exception for children who need them.

She told The Independent: “Autism can affect each child differently, which is why it is so important that schools put the right support in place for each individual.

"Background noises, sights and smells can make it difficult for a child on the autism spectrum to focus on what the teacher is saying, and having an object to focus on that spins or twists can help to manage sensory overload and anxiety.

“It is vital that schools develop a proper understanding about autistic pupils so their specific sensory needs can be met. We therefore hope allowances are made for particular children if they find that a fidget spinner or similar toy helps them concentrate, relax and learn.”

The Somerset head is not the first to ban the toy, with schools across the US having already moved against them.


St.Lucia Weather

Find more about Weather in Vigie, LC

As is the case with many Caribbean islands, St. Lucia’s visitors should expect hot and humid weather conditions year round due to the island’s proximity to the equator. Fortunately, visitors will rarely feel uncomfortable as mild trade winds bring cool breezes off the water that offer some respite from the heat.

Due to its location near the equator, St. Lucia does not have very well defined seasons. There is, however, a rainy season that generally falls between June and November. During this season, vacationers should be prepared for heavy, but sporadic showers that come on quickly. Visitors should not worry about traveling during the rainy season as the showers may come about rapidly, but blue skies are quick to follow.

…cool off on a hike…

St. Lucia is located in the hurricane belt and it is possible for severe tropical storms to arise. The hurricane season is generally during the same time as the rainy season, June through November. Visitors should be cautious, but not deterred from visiting St. Lucia during this season. With advanced meteorological technology, storm prediction and detection will help prepare visitors and locals on the island for any potential danger. Visitors can take measures to protect themselves by researching weather conditions before traveling to St. Lucia and prepare accordingly.


Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DCHP)

What is DHCP?

A protocol is a set of rules used to determine how computers on a network communicate. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol commonly used to automatically generate an Internet Protocol (IP) address and other configuration details, like the Domain Name System (DNS) server address, subnet mask and default gateway to client host computers connecting to a network.

Before it can connect to a local or internet network a computer, or any other device, needs to be properly configured to communicate on the network. With DHCP the configuration takes place automatically instead of manually, and as a result DHCP is often used with numerous devices that connect to networks, like computers, smartphones, servers, etc.

Common Types of Malware and how to Avoid Them

Malware is a catch all phrase that includes any sort of program designed to do harm to a computer or that disrupts its normal processes. This includes viruses, spyware, adware, and much more. Malware is one of the biggest enemies of any computer that has access to the Internet, be it a company computer or a personal one. The most common types of malware that you might acquire and they way in which they affect a computer are outlined in detail below.

Remote Administration Tools

Remote Administration Tools are also known as RATs. If you have a RAT infestation, it means that somebody has planted malware on your computer that will give a remote user administrator rights to your files. This can include gaining access to your personal software as well as some hardware like your computer's microphone or webcam. Essentially, anything you can do with your computer, somebody using a RAT can as well. This malware is usually spread by getting users to click on a link that they think is safe, especially via social media channels or file sharing networks. You should make sure to avoid any unknown files or links, as a single mistake can lead to a RAT infestation that can destroy your privacy.

Pros and Cons of Windows Remote Desktop Services

The Windows Remote Desktop Services, or Windows RDS for short, is Microsoft's remote desktop tool which is customized specifically to the features of Windows in all its various iterations. This service is available in both Windows 7 and Windows 8, and offers a free way to access a Windows computer remotely. Remote Utilities also supports RDP connection.

More information about RDS, including a complete rundown of all the pros and cons of this software, can be found below.

What is RDS?

This service, which is also known on some systems as the Windows Terminal Services, is targeted toward providing access from a distance for Windows users. This is ideal for businesses, especially if you have a centralized file storage but have employees who do a lot of traveling or who work from home. Because the technology was developed specifically by Microsoft, it has a great deal of compatibility with Windows and takes advantage of some special Windows only features. You can generally expect this system to work with both 32 bit and 64 bit applications on Windows, although you may have some compatibility issues when it comes to the remote access of certain third party products and programs.

A Look at Modern License Management

Software licensing has changed over the years, with software piracy and other end user situations complicating the distribution of programs. While various digital rights management, or DRM, techniques have come into play, many companies instead opt for the use of floating software licensing and a license manager tool. The use of both can help you to secure your software and also enable remote distribution to many different users in a simple manner.

What is a Network Administrator?

Virtually every business that has an IT department has a network administrator. Despite the common nature of this position, few people truly understand what such an individual does. By understanding what a network administrator does, you can communicate more effectively with your own administrator and also make sure that you know which qualities to look for if you are ever in the position where you need to find somebody to fill this role.

The Position at a Glance

A person in this position is responsible for performing support services for a variety of different information systems related to an organization. This may include the company's local area network, or LAN, a wide area network, or WAN, a company's internal intranet, or another Internet or network system. Individuals in this position can also perform general IT duties and systems repairs, but their specialty is in network operations. If you are having issues with your Internet or intranet, if you need to set up a new private network for specific individuals within your organization, or if you are looking to streamline your office's network activities, your network administrator is the person you should speak to.

Guide to Virtual Private Networks

Imagine leaving your home wearing a clearly legible sign around your neck that provides all of your most important and private information: your name, address, contact information, banking and other financial data, all of your shopping habits, places you frequent and what you do while you are there. Most of us would not want to share this information with complete strangers, for many obvious reasons. This data can put you at risk in any number of ways, including potential theft and physical harm. Yet, that is exactly what many people do every time they use internet.

When individuals and businesses use the internet without encryption they leave all of their information out in the open, and put themselves at great risk. A virtual private network (VPN) can ensure the security of your connections and your most important information. A VPN utilizes a public network (most commonly the Internet) to link distant sites or users. In the past computers had to be connected via hardwiring. A VPN uses "virtual" connections directed through the Internet from the individual or organization’s private network to the distant site or employee location. There are several advantages to using a VPN. As shown above, a VPN can be used to establish a secure connection to a remote network using the Internet. Many businesses use VPNs to enable employees to access to files, software, hardware, and other company resources. Individual users can also utilize a VPN to safely access their secure home network from a remote location.

VPNs are extremely useful to organizations that need to securely connect several networks. As a result, businesses of nearly every size depend on a VPN to connect and share servers and other assets between multiple locations around the world. Individuals can also utilize a VPN to connect their home or additional networks for personal use.


||    4 March 2014 @ 06:15
Presidential Candidates - Hakainde Hichilema, Michael Chilufya Sata, Nevers Sekwila MumbaPresidential Candidates – Hakainde Hichilema, Michael Chilufya Sata, Nevers Sekwila Mumba

[Continued from Part One]

[Updated 7th March 2014. Added one chart and a clarification.]

President Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) government is increasingly becoming deeply unpopular for various reasons I cannot fully delve into, suffice to say that escalating commodity prices, broken promises, perceived tribalism, worsening governance record, poor economic decisions and alleged corruption are among the main ones. Zambians have had almost two and a half years to reflect on their decision to throw out Rupiah Banda unceremoniously, albeit with a slender margin of 6% in favour of Sata. In 2011, voter turnout was only 54%, the lowest ever in a normal election cycle (the 2008 contest recorded 45% which was normal for a By-Election). Compare with 68% in 2001 and 71% in 2006. Even Frederick Chiluba’s second election in 1996 produced a 58% turnout.

What this means is that Sata’s 2011 “soft” win is precarious, to say the least. It can be overturned more easily than most people realize. Zambians are getting regularly disappointed with the failure of the PF government to deliver and they are likely to give Sata and PF the boot in 2016 because they had high expectations (I still recall the spontaneous celebrations in the streets of Lusaka after the results were announced). Every week without fail, I see people upset and complaining about the PF, including once staunch supporters who are now thinking that the devil they knew for many years may have been better than this angel they are just getting to realize is not so angelic after all.

The levels of disappointment are greater than anything I have seen since former president Chiluba’s reign when the national coffers were extensively pilfered. It is worth noting that Mr Sata was at the center of corruption accusations during Chiluba’s time when he was a minister and National Secretary of the MMD. The late president Levy Mwanawasa went on record to say that he resigned as Chiluba’s Vice-President partly due to Sata’s alleged corruption. Zambians have a low tolerance for corruption in presidents which is why to this day, most people remember Chiluba more for sticking his fingers in the national kitty than for all the good economic decisions he made. In 2001, 71% voted against the ruling party in the presidential election. I see ominous signs of history repeating itself.

Presidential elections 2001-2011

Presidential elections 2001-2011

What is the likelihood of United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema winning the 2016 presidential elections? The statistical results of the four previous elections suggest a huge uphill battle for him, despite the confident chatter of his supporters saying “Haleisa Haleisa” (a play on his name and initials and the Bemba word “Aleisa”, that means “He is coming”). The equally creative chants by opposing camps say “Hakaivotela Heka” (derived from “Akaivotela eka” meaning “He will vote for himself alone”).

Despite the strong financial advantage Hichilema has over the other opposition parties, big question marks surround the viability of his 2016 election bid. Firstly, UPND votes have declined in three consecutive elections (2006, 2008, 2011) after Mazoka’s 2001 run. Hichilema has lost 7 percentage points in his 3 elections and 9% from Mazoka’s 2001 peak. As a consequence of the 2006 consolidation of votes around the “Big Three”, there is great difficulty in making dramatic gains in the absence of earth-shattering events. If Hichilema is to win, he has to swing the vote TWENTY TWO percentage points in his favour from the 18% he got in the last election to get to the magical winning number of 40%, as explained in Part One. This means that PF and MMD have to drop about 11 percentage points each or some other combination that adds up to 22%. Is this likely, considering the massive financial war-chest PF has? What if MMD have regrouped by 2016?

Another challenge with the candidacy of Hichilema is that he has been in alliances and pacts three times and they all either came to nothing or collapsed. His 2006 “United Democratic Alliance” (UDA) with UNIP and FDD only managed to give him 25% of the vote. His decline to 20% in 2008 and then 18% in 2011 suggests that the alliance is what propped up his numbers. For example, 2006 was the year UPND managed to get parliamentary seats in Eastern Province (four) and this appears to have been due to the campaigning of UNIP and FDD, whose party presidents (Tilyenji Kaunda and Christon Tembo) were both from the East. UPND has not won a seat in Eastern Province before or since then.

His pact with the PF prior to the 2011 elections collapsed amid accusations and counter-accusations. His alliance with the MMD soon after they were kicked out of government lasted less than a year. A lot of voters may begin to view these events with suspicion and begin thinking that there is something seriously wrong with Hichilema. They may not know exactly what it is but sometimes the appearance of something negative that you do not understand is more powerful than something you can see. Indeed speculation has been rife that he insists on being at the top of any presidential ticket even though his party is less influential.

Members of Parliament (2001-2011)

Members of Parliament (2001-2011)

The biggest indictment of Hichilema’s candidacy however is simply that he is not a factor in four key provinces. Luapula, Northern, Eastern and Copperbelt. He has not even managed 5% in these provinces after 3 election cycles. In 2011, UPND won zero Parliamentary seats in these four provinces as well as Lusaka. Currently, there are no MPs in these five provinces except one in the Copperbelt. Copperbelt, Lusaka, Northern and Eastern are the biggest four provinces in terms of registered voters adding up to 56%. To make things worse, Hichilema has not yet locked up North-Western and Western Provinces (he has been beaten by the MMD candidates). Although he is likely to win these two provinces which have been MMD strongholds, the victories may not be emphatic enough to make a significant difference in his favour. The two provinces have the lowest number of registered voters (Western 8%, North-Western 6%).

Members of Parliament by Province (February 2014)

Members of Parliament by Province (February 2014)

In 2001, UPND won 49 seats in Parliament. In 2006, MMD increased by 4 to 73, while UPND (working together with FDD and UNIP under the UDA) dropped by almost half to 26, with PF making a massive jump to 43 from 1 seat just 5 years earlier. In 2011, PF moved up their tally to 61. MMD dramatically lost a quarter of their MPs and dropped to 55, while UPND hardly moved, adding 3 seats to get to 29. The drop in popularity of the UPND on the Parliamentary front has been much more drastic than the presidential.

Their MPs reduced from their peak by 43% and this will be a big factor in the 2016 Elections because incumbent MPs have a strong influence on the presidential vote by campaigning for their party leader. The evidence suggests that you need not less than 50 MPs to get a decent chance of winning the presidential election, meaning that UPND needs to increase their parliamentarians by about 60% in 2016. Prima facie, the major fight shall be between Mumba’s MMD and Sata’s PF, barring significant new factors.

What about the viability of Nevers Mumba? His candidacy is a complex concoction of positive and negative factors which may play out in all sorts of ways. Aside from the fact that MMD lost to PF by only 6%, they have some major advantages over all other opposition parties.

1. Their party structures are everywhere, having been built for over 20 years and the perceived persecution of their leaders will likely cause the structures to strengthen. Both PF and UPND have not yet built theirs to rival MMD.

2. They presided over Zambia’s transition from strong Socialism to a more liberated economy in which the private sector thrived and has produced tangible improvements in standards of living for the average Zambian. There is much nostalgia for the MMD in many circles. More people are realising that PF is not doing much that is new but merely continuing the MMD projects.

3. Their president Nevers Mumba is very charismatic and a great speaker.

4. Mumba poses the biggest challenge to Sata’s dominance in the North, partly because he is a “true” Bemba, unlike Sata who is Bisa. The ongoing antagonizing of the Bemba Royal Establishment by Sata plays into Mumba’s hands (lots of low-lying fruit to pick here).

5. MMD cannot easily be accused of being a tribal party, something the UPND is being smeared with by the PF constantly.

6. MMD is a well-established party whose existence and future is not tied to its president, unlike almost all the other parties. For example, one cannot see a clear path to succession after Mr Sata leaves office.

However, MMD has some major disadvantages. Among the main ones are:

1. They no longer have access to state resources. Media reports have suggested they have struggled financially. Money is a big factor in elections. UPND has a huge advantage over MMD on this point as Hichilema is very wealthy and well-connected.

2. Mumba and other MMD leaders have been kept busy in court with case after case which takes away valuable planning, fundraising and campaigning time, not to mention depletion of financial resources due to high legal fees.

3. The nullification of MMD seats in parliament and the poaching of some of their MPs by the PF has weakened the party significantly. In 2011, MMD won 55 seats but have since then lost a total of fifteen seats (about 27%). The chart below shows the current composition of the National Assembly.

Members of Parliament in 2014

Members of Parliament in 2014

4. Coverage of the MMD in the media is currently very sporadic and their online presence is almost non-existent. These two factors have an important influence in Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces which have the most registered voters who are more educated and economically better off. The MMD message has been muffled and this is working against them.

5. Mumba is yet to define himself with a short, sharp, clear message that can resonate with voters the way Sata did in 2011.

6. MMD is yet to shake off the image of a corrupt party that is perceived by many as dead and gone like UNIP.

As for the last point, I am not persuaded that most of the 36% of voters who supported MMD in 2011 will suddenly switch to another party, especially as the PF failures increasingly come into sharp focus. Comparisons with 1991 are misplaced because UNIP lost to MMD by a huge margin of 24% to 76% whereas MMD lost to PF by 36% to 42%. The nostalgia factor in favour of MMD cannot be under-estimated, especially as people begin to compare the respective records of MMD and PF when approaching 2016.

As for the rest of the 2016 potential candidates, both existing and yet to emerge, they will have to work extra, extra, extra hard to get anywhere close to Plot One. For one thing, they need lots of money to be able to travel and sell their message. For another, they have to build party structures everywhere which takes many years. They also need to have a superior message, compared to the three titans of Zambian politics.

[In Part Three, possible outcomes for the 2016 election results. Read Part One]


Infertility in Women

  • Female infertility is a common condition which results in an inability to conceive.
  • A female is identified as infertile if she is unable to conceive subsequent to 12 months of regular, unprotected intercourse. In addition to this, women who conceive and face miscarriages are also categorized under the condition of infertility.
  • The causes of female infertility are numerous. Age is considered as a primary cause for female infertility.
  • As a woman gets older her chances of experiencing infertility is higher. At age 30 a woman’s chances of conceiving drops to 20% and by age 40 the percentage drops to 5%.
  • Moreover hormonal problems such as failure to produce mature eggs, malfunction of the hypothalamus and malfunction of the pituitary gland can also lead to female infertility.

Factors such as Poorly Functioning Fallopian Tubes, Endometriosis along with behavioral factors such as smoking, alcohol, drugs and inappropriate diets and exercises can cause female infertility.

Additionally environmental and occupational factors such as medical treatments and material, lead, Ethylene Oxide etc. increases the risk of infertility.

In many cases of female infertility, women are not aware of their condition until she has trouble conceiving. This occurs since female infertility reveals very few symptoms apart from being unable to conceive. One such symptom is irregular and unusual menstrual cycles. On such occasions women are advised to consult a doctor to carry out relevant tests.

The process of female infertility testing generally starts by measuring a woman’s follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). Afterwards the fertility specialist will carry out tests such as Cervical mucus test, Ultrasound test, Hormone test, Hysterosalpingogram (HSG), Hysteroscopy, Laparoscopy or Endometrial biopsy. Through these tests the specialist will be able to identify the exact cause of the condition.

Once the cause is identified the woman can initiate treatments. Generally treatments can be carried out by form of drugs or surgery. Female infertility treatment drugs include Clomiphene citrate (Clomid, Serophene), Gonadotropins, Metformin (Glucophage), Letrozole (Femara) etc. Female infertility surgical treatments include procedures of tissue removal, Tubal reversal surgery (microscopic), Tubal surgeries etc.

All the above-mentioned drugs and surgeries address varying issues by targeting different causes of infertility. Thereby it becomes crucial to correctly identify the root cause of the problem in order to accurately overcome the condition of female infertility.


The Holy Ydoran Empire, also known as Holy Empire Yudora, existed in Ivalice 1,200 years prior to the plot of Final Fantasy Tactics. Saint Ajora Glabados was secretly working against them until Germonique reported him to the authorities. Ajora was executed, but a large wave destroyed the place of power of Pharism, which was then the dominant religion, resulting in the rise of the Church of Glabados.


Homelessness Essay

How many times have you passed by people sitting on the street, with a plastic glass or a small cardboard box asking for spare change? Have you ever noticed the amounts of people who have neither home, nor a job to sustain themselves? Perhaps you think it is their own fault; you might think if they wanted, they would have it all. “Go find yourself a job” is a regular phrase homeless people hear. However, this advice is pointless, because there are objective reasons why people lose homes and jobs, and why they cannot return to normal life.

One of the most frequent causes of homelessness is property-destroying disasters of any kind. It can be an earthquake (like in Japan in 2011), a hurricane (like in New Orleans), a flood or tsunami, and so on. At the same time, it can be a disaster or accident of a smaller scale, but still a significant one. Domestic fires, for example, destroy hundreds of residences annually; usually, if a brigade of firefighters does not manage to arrive on time, people suffer severe material damage. Left without a home, victims of these disasters also often lose their IDs, property documents, credit cards, cash stashes, and so on. It can take months (or even years) to renew them. And friends and relatives are not always willing or capable of helping a victim during the time he or she recuperates (IFR).

Another group of factors leading to homelessness includes unhappy marriages and their outcomes. Divorce and abusive relationships are among the major factors of homelessness (Homeless Resource Network). In particular, divorce can often leave one of the spouses homeless. When divorcing, former family members usually try to divide the property they acquired in marriage; in some cases, one of the spouses can find themselves deprived of any property, including a place to live in. Another possible reason for homelessness is domestic violence. Although it is usually considered that women suffer from domestic violence more than men, it is not true; as a result, a number of people of both genders prefer to live on the streets rather than stay in abusive relationships.

The institutional backgrounds of people can cause them to end up living on the streets (Shelter). In particular, people who served in the armed forces and participated in war conflicts can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, which can prevent them from fitting into normal life, living with their families, and so on. As a result, they are at risk of not being able to get along with the peaceful environment around them, and end up on the streets. Another group of people who can potentially become homeless are former prisoners. A prisoner does not necessarily remain a villain after getting out of jail; moreover, such people could have committed some minor crimes, or even were unjustly convicted. Still, non-criminal citizens usually do not give them a second chance, so they often become homeless as well.

It is obvious that homelessness is caused not only by a person’s unwillingness to work and sustain themselves; rather often, there exist objective factors causing people to become homeless. Among them, one should mention disasters (both natural and human-caused), divorce, abusive relationships, PTSD, and non-conducive backgrounds like being a former convict.

Doe, John. “What Causes Homelessness?” IFR. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2015.

“Factors Contributing to Homelessness.” Homeless Resource Network. N.p., 03 Aug. 2011. Web. 27 May 2015.

“What Causes Homelessness?” Shelter. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2015.

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The Issue of Homelessness in US

Homelessness is a huge area of concern in the United States and it is something that social services and government officials are struggling to deal with. It is estimated that at any given time there are more than 500,000 people homeless in the United States. Of the half a million homeless Americans, approximately a quarter of them are children. One of the biggest factors that is contributing to the large number of homeless people in the country is that there is a substantial lack of affordable housing. Let’s take a look at some of the most important facts.

Who Is Affected By Homelessness?

If you have never had any personal experience of homelessness, it is likely that you have a pretty inaccurate idea of what, or who, a homeless person is. It is very easy to assume that homeless people are the stereotypical drunken bums we see in the movies. However, in reality homelessness is something that can affect anybody. As already noted, around 25% of homeless people in the United States are children and there are currently around a million children in the public school system who are classed as homeless. It is hard to pin down an exact figure because different organizations define homeless as different things. For example, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development base their figures on people who are living in homeless shelters, transitional housing, in cars or on the streets. However, the National Center for Homeless Education also includes children who are sharing housing on a temporary basis and those currently waiting for foster care placement since they have no fixed address of their own. It is believed that several thousands of homeless children are unaccompanied, meaning that they have no parent or othe adult caring for them.

Another group of people who are a large part of the homeless population are veterans. On any given night at least 57,000 veterans are homeless and almost 40% of them will sleep unsheltered in parks and alleyways. This accounts for more than 11% of the total homeless population in the United States.

Contributing Factors Of Homelessness in The United States

One of the biggest causes of homelessness in the United States is a severe lack of affordable housing and with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development having their budget slashed this is set to continue. It is estimated that around 10,000 units of subsidized low income housing are lost each year. Since 2001 one eighth of the nation’s low income housing has been permanently lost. It is not only the low income families who are suffering. It is estimated that most people are spending half of their income on rent and since 2008 one in ten mortgaged properties has been foreclosed on, making the demand for affordable housing even greater. Public rental assistance does exist, but waiting lists are several years long. As an example, Charlotte, NC just opened up their applications after 14 years of not accepting new applicants and 10,000 families applied!
domestic violence

Another major contributor to homelessness is actually domestic violence. It has been suggested that as many as 90% of female homeless people are victims of physical, sexual or mental abuse. They have found themselves homeless after fleeing from their homes often in fear for their own lives. They have nowhere else to go and are forced to make the choice between remaining in a dangerous and abusive situation or sleeping rough.

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Other Problems Stemming From Homelessness

Being homeless and not having a safe place to sleep is a big enough issue by itself, but it also leads to many other issues. For example, a growing number of cities across the country are criminalizing homelessness meaning that not only are people battling homelessness, but they are also at risk of gaining a criminal record making it harder for them to get a job or rent an apartment thus making it even more difficult for them to get out of homelessness. The National Law Center conducted a study in 2014 on Homelessness and found that 18% of the 187 cities asked consider sleeping in a public place illegal, 43% will arrest someone sleeping in their car and 53% make it illegal to sit or lay down in certain public places.

Another major issue relating to homelessness is the detrimental affect that it has on health. Statistic show that 6% of the general population suffer from severe mental illness. However, in the homeless population this figure rises to 25%. Around half of these people are self medicating and are likely making the situation worse by adding addiction and poor physical health into the mix. Studies suggest that homeless people have a life expectancy of 30 years less than the average person. The average life expectancy in the homeless population is just 47, but homeless women are unlikely to live beyond 43 years of age.

In conclusion, homelessness is a big issue in the United States and it is one that affects people from all walks of life. A lack of affordable housing and support for the poorest of our population has resulted in large numbers of people left with no place to live.

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Ancient Sicily: A Mediterranean Crossroads

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  • Sicily sits in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its history is shaped by its position at the intersection of several cultural worlds. This course will explore the causes and consequences of human mobility in ancient Sicily from its first human inhabitants to Greek and Phoenician colonization to the Roman empire and beyond. Over centuries, willing and unwilling migrations shaped the social landscape of Sicily though a complex history of settlement, violence, and movement. There is a rich and manifold body of material that illuminates Sicilian history, so students will spend significant time and effort on the interpretation of literary sources, but they will also utilize material and documentary evidence. Students will learn not only the demographic history of a major Mediterranean island, but also the major questions being asked about ancient Sicily, and how those and other questions can be answered through critical analysis of written and archaeological records.


Saturday, November 10, 2007

Commercial Comedy and the Problem of Seriousness

Brothers, Sisters, and Transgendered Comedists Everywhere,

This week a couple of deep philosophico-theological Comedist questions were raised by good brother Hanno -- well, brother Hanno, anyway. So let's consider them both.

Brother Hanno asked,

How can an all perfect God allow unfunny things to happen?
Ah, the Comedist version of the problem of evil. This is a matter of some debate amongst Comedist theologians (or at least will be when there actually are Comedist theologians...) One view is that all Creation is part of a great inside joke that only the Cosmic Comic understands and what we see as unfunny is actually funny to one with infinite humor. Another blames human free will for that which is unfunny. A third view is that a joke requires a set up which is not funny in order for there to be a punchline which is, so that all of the unfunniness you see in the world just proves that reality is not a one-liner. A fourth response is to simply laugh at the person who asked the question.

It was also asked,
What is the status of humor used in commercials? Is it a sin before the comedic God, the use of something holy to feed rampant consumerism? Or is it a mitzvah, making bearable though humor what is a fact of life, the commercialization of everything?
A complex case indeed. On the one hand, we must remember "Render unto Sid Caesar, that which belongs to Caesar, and render unto the Lord that which belongs to the Lord." Only the Cosmic Comic stands outside of all historical context, we limited finite beings must understand that we are to be funny wherever we are. Comedy is not incompatible with capitalism, especially small scale markets where consumer and producer meet face to face. Bargaining, if done well, can be frickin' hilarious (no, no, no, you're supposed to 'aggle).

That said, humor is a powerful weapon that can be used for good or ill. Comedy can be misused to lead people into oppression and large scale corporate capitalism can lead to lives devoid of the joy and laughter that Comedists see as the well-lived human life for all. The idea of a sweatshop, for example, can be pretty funny:
Clerk: And what about this one?
Customer: No, too gym sockish, I was looking for something a little more musky.
But what we've done with the Marianas Islands, for example,is a disgrace and humor used to contribute to or divert concern from this deliberate destruction of human joy and well-being for profit would be very much counter to Comedist teachings.

But, then, there are some really really funny commercials. I've found some of the "Need to get away?" spots particularly amusing. What do you in the congregation think are the funniest commercials ever?

Live, love, and laugh,

Irreverend Steve


Moscow: Large pieces of the Russian Progress M-12M space freighter have not been found after it crashed in Siberia because the spaceship most likely burned up in the earth's atmosphere, an official said.

“Large pieces of the space freighter have not been found because they probably burned after an explosion of the third stage of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket. There had to be a lot of kerosene and liquid oxygen in the fuel tanks at the time of the emergency,” a space industry source said on Monday.

The Progress M-12M, carrying food and other items to the International Space Station, fell in South Siberia's Altai Republic on August 24 after failing to separate from its carrier rocket.

This was the first loss of a Progress freighter in the history of Russia's space industry. A rocket engine failure caused the accident.