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How Much Good Can One Intelligent, Wise, Brave Leader Do?
Our instinctive response, when faced with a complicated challenge, is to look for a leader who will solve it. It wasn’t just Obama: every president is elected after promising to change the way politics works; and almost every president then slumps in the polls as reality starts to bite. This isn’t because we keep electing the wrong leaders. It is because we have an inflated sense of what leadership can achieve in the modern world.
Perhaps we have this instinct because we evolved to operate in small hunter-gatherer groups, solving small hunter-gatherer problems… The challenges such societies faced, however formidable, were simple enough to have been solved by an intelligent, wise, brave leader. They would have been vastly simpler than the challenges facing a newly elected US president.
Libertarians almost instinctively cheer when they hear words like this. But should they? I maintain that an intelligent, wise, brave president could do enormous good. How? For starters, he could give full presidential pardons to everyone serving time for (federal) drug-related offenses. The president can’t end the drug war on his own, but he could free hordes of innocent people before his term (singular, no doubt) ran out.* And needless to say, there are plenty of other unjust laws a president could negate with blanket pardons.
The lesson: Libertarians should stop insisting that our problems are too complex for any human being to solve. Many of our problems can literally be solved with the stroke of a pen. Any intelligent, wise, brave leader who wants to solve problems faces vast orchards of low-hanging fruit. The only reason the orchards are so bountiful, unfortunately, is that people who are intelligent, wise, and brave rarely make it to the top.
* Question for Gary Johnson supporters: Couldn’t he have done a lot more for liberty by pardoning everyone unjustly imprisoned under New Mexican law? Running for president is an extreme long shot for liberty. Pardoning vast numbers of innocent people is a sure thing.
RE: Johnson, that is an extremely short-sighted view. You’re essentially limiting the utility to the extreme short-run. Pardoning all drug-offenders would likely cause a major public backlash. It would not help the effort to shift toward a more libertarian policy at the federal level and would in fact most likely hurt it–the line would be “Radical libertarians, see we can’t even consider what they’re proposing.” By entering the presidential race, on the other hand, Johnson is using the conventional means to advance libertarian thought. Even though he is not likely to get the nomination, he can have an influence in the ideological direction of the party, the way that Howard Dean affected the Democrats in 2004. In other words, the long-term utility is substantially higher in following conventional paths than attempting something radical.
Harford wrote: Perhaps we have this instinct because we evolved to operate in small hunter-gatherer groups, solving small hunter-gatherer problems… The challenges such societies faced, however formidable, were simple enough to have been solved by an intelligent, wise, brave leader.
And that’s why we keep electing such intelligent, wise, brave men as presidents, who are also really buff and can kill a buffalo with their bare hands.
Doing good is one thing, getting reelected is another. If any president ever dared do something like what you suggest the opposition would start a massive smear propaganda campaign that would get dash his hopes of reelection. It doesn’t matter that he’s done the right thing as long as the public perceives him as “soft on crime” or “soft on immigration” or “soft on defense” he’s screwed.
Gary Johnson is not governor of New Mexico.
Gary Johnson did not quit as governor of New Mexico in order to run for the President of the U.S.
Gary Johnson was in private life and decided to run for President of the U.S.
Of course, perhaps he should have pardoned a bunch of people when he was governor of New Mexico. But this has little to do with his run for President.
I don’t think that’s the proper way to look at it. Pardoning everyone convicted of a drug crime wouldn’t solve any problem, though it’d throw a huge monkey wrench in the drug war. I think it’d be more accurate to say that people in power can do a lot to negate the harmful effects of other people’s misguided policies, and the more power they have, the more they can do. But, on the other hand, that’s unlikely to happen, since you win points with the public by actively going forward with new things (not cleaning up after others), and going against other powerful people is a sure way to win enemies.
However unjust the drug laws may be, those who broke them are not “innocent” in any sense of the word. Every one in jail for a drug offense knew that he or she using or selling an illegal substance, and chose to break the law and accept the risk of arrest and incarceration. For a president or governor to free drug offenders on the grounds that they are “innocent”, before having struck the laws down would be a kind moral showboating inappropriate for someone with the actual power to influence lawmaking. While the “War against Drugs” is unquestionably a bad thing, it’s not so onerous as to counterbalance the unquestionably good principle that all citizens should obey the laws, even the ones they don’t agree with.
U.S. presidents have tended to be significantly taller than the median. Also, campaigns (and administrations) have featured physical and sports attributes when they could.
But you would be removed and your good undone. Have you read the Logic of Political Survival?
Without getting into specifics, I think there is a great deal of path dependence in the actions of any president. That Obama sounded so different from Bush but acts so similarly is good evidence that the actions of the office are highly constrained (perhaps more than ever) by the forces of public choice economics. Any president who wants to make a difference must be immune to those forces and would, by definition, need something just short of a miracle to win the office.
No one could be elected President if it were known that he planned to pardon Federal drug offenders. To get himself elected, he would have to lie about his intentions; this would be an offense against public morality.
To be elected honestly, the pardoning President would have to *become wise* only *after* he was elected. Even then, his later wise actions would betray the trust that the voters (in their unwisdom) had placed in him.
I’m a bit surprised to see you suggesting this “tyrant’s” move – I’m the boss these are my pardons.
It would be more libertarian if the President were to introduce legislation to achieve this goal.
Maybe he could help Governors of States wishing to legalise drug use.
But just giving pardons seems the antithesis of the libertarian way.
I said I’m surprised – maybe that should have been shocked.
If you think everyone in jail has broken a law, you should probably read the latest edition of Reason magazine.
“This American Life” has also had several good episodes about innocent people imprisoned for long periods of time.
While I think a blanket pardon would not be politically popular, I can easily imagine a candidate coming up with many examples of people in prison for drug offenses that a substantial majority of voters would agree were examples of injustice.
This would seem to be a particularly effective strategy against a “liberal” candidate like Barack Obama.
Obama could have simply ordered the military to repatriate all Guantanamo prisoners to a federal prison and then told Congress that they had the choice between accepting those people be tried in courts or pardon them.
Obama could have not been the President who presided over the greatest number of whistle-blower lawsuits by ordering his DoJ to not prosecute such offenses.
Also, I think Tim Hardford was not speaking of the problems where government action is the problem in and of itself. He was probably speaking of problems where the type of government action is the problem. On those problems, he is entirely right. The President can’t do as much as many think.
i have yet to hear an adequate explanation for why we imprison drug users. we dont even imprison those with mental problems who commit murder, instead going for the humane approach of putting them in psychiatric hospitals. how then can imprisoning drug addicts be helpful? unless people think drug addiction isnt a medical condition? and even then, prisons have become notorious for the drugs smuggled in, so it is impossible to make the argument that it is for rehabilitation. they will continue to use drugs, whether in prison or out.
my biggest problem with the “war on drugs” is that people are dying who are neither drug users nor drug dealers. innocent kids getting gunned down walking home from school right when a gang war breaks out. innocent men getting gunned down in their homes by police officers operating on the faulty word of drug addicted informants. can anyone honestly claim that things could get any worse if drugs were legalized? if anything, honest businessmen would drive out criminal organizations who need prohibition to operate profitably.
im convinced the drug war only persists because of police unions, prison guard unions, private prisons, and even the alcohol and tobacco industries who fear competition. not to mention district attorneys who make their political careers prosecuting drug dealers. they all have an interest in maintaining the current status quo, even if it means lowering the quality of life for everyone.
That’s a bit of a bait-and-switch. Fearless leaders caused the drug war; of course they can end it any time they want to. Similarly, Obama can call an immediate end to our occupation of Middle East states any time he wants to.
Leaders can immediately undo any problem caused by leaders. That’s not the same thing as solving a problem.
You haven’t really criticized libertarianism here, you’ve pointed out how easy it is to stop totalitarianism no matter how far it goes.
What is the basis for the claim that “all citizens should obey the laws” is a good principle, if not one’s faith that laws generally are reasonable and just? When some category of law so clearly fails to meet that requirement, shouldn’t that modify our expectations?
It’s probably morally permissible to disobey laws whose compliance would put your or another’s life in danger, or that make it impossible for you to pursue a lawful livelihood. But drug use is a recreational activity, and its prohibition, while foolish and unnecessary and heavy with negative social externalities, doesn’t threaten your life or ability to earn your living while you wait for the rest of society to come around to your view that it should be decriminalized. An opposing situation might be if the government one day decided to listen to the antivaccine crowd, and passed laws forbidding children to be immunized against smallpox, measles and rubella. That would call for some kind of civil disobedience — as would a new draft law that threatened to send unwilling conscripts into battle. But drugs are just one of life’s little extras for those who enjoy them, like water skiing and video games are for those who like that sort of thing. Thoreau was jailed (as I recall) to express his opposition a deadly government menace, the odious Mexican American War. Somewhere, there might be a brave and civilly disobedient soul who is willing to stand in the middle of the town square, sell what I believe they call a “nickle bag” of pot to another individual in full view of a policemen, and allow himself to be jailed in support of the principle that the government has no right to prohibit free exchange between willing parties. That would be an act of civil disobedience in support of a larger principle. But the people currently in jail are not testing the law like that — at least not purposely.
See the PBS American Experience TV show on the Freedom Riders. It’s excellent.
They were heroes, and should be honored as such.
Actually, a president could end the drug war on his own.
The reason this would work is that there is no constitutional authority for the war on drugs. To take the place of one, the US instigated a treaty called the UN Single Convention on Narcotics.
And the president can pull us out just by giving the UN one year’s notice. I don’t believe he needs the approval of Congress or anyone else before giving that notice.
Once we’re out of the treaty, the federal drug laws will be unconstitutional and would be struck down (assuming an honest Supreme Court, which I admit may be too much to assume).
@Faze: I think I would take a broader approach for civil disobedience. If the law violates your rights and violating it does not violate the rights of others, then breaking it is acceptable.
Let’s not deceive ourselves. The Drug War for all its flaws is very popular.
If a candidate (probably one who should know he’s not going to win anyway, like Ron Paul) wanted to invest time and energy to point out all the bad things that the war on drugs entails, it would probably make a significant difference. It would be necessary to show all sides the badness from their own point of view. For ezample, for conservatives it could be the costs. For social liberals, it could be the disproportionate negative impacts on minorities.
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Lagos State Police Command has arrested Abass Ope, a driver for allegedly stealing his former boss’ car, television sets and dog in the Magodo, Ketu area of the state.
Ope, who hails from Ogun State, was said to have sneaked into his boss’ home while he was away with his family members on a Christmas holiday in Delta State.
Together with three other accomplices, the suspect was alleged to have made away with a Toyota Avensis, 2013 model, a 100-inch LCD television, a 42-inch LCD TV, a dog, a suitcase and two DSTV decoders.
The victim, Ekinodo Ifoghale, upon getting a report of the incident, cut short his Yuletide trip and returned to Lagos.
He was said to have reported the case to policemen at the Magodo division.
The suspect was said to have been rounded up by a decoy team of the Rapid Response Squad in the Ojuelegba area on December 26, 2016.
A police source said the suspect was about to sell the Toyota Avensis for N2m when he was apprehended.
He said, “The suspect stopped working for his boss in August 2016. While the man was away for Christmas with his family, he sneaked into the house at a time he knew the gatekeeper would have gone to church.
“Since he knew where his boss normally kept keys to the rooms, the job was easier for him. He and his gang left with the man’s car, two TVs, two decoders, a suitcase and a dog.
“The former boss, on learning of what happened, called him to ask if he knew anything about it, but he denied.
Ope, in his statement to the police, allegedly confessed to the crime, adding that he stole the items because Ifoghale owed him eight months’ salaries.
He said he committed the crime to raise funds with which he would celebrate Christmas with his family members.
He said, “It has been four months since I left my former boss. I worked for him for four years before quitting in August 2016. I left because things were tough for him. I also left so that he could sort himself out. While things were tough for him, he owed me eight months’ salaries. This prompted me to take his property and the vehicle.
“I took the car because I had no money to take care of myself and my younger ones. They had no clothes and no shoes for Christmas. They looked up to me to take care of the expenses.
“The auto dealer wanted to pay N2m for the car, but I insisted on N4m because I knew it was worth more than that. He offered me N1m instantly and said the balance would be ready in a few minutes. But I decided to ignore the offer, hoping that he would call me back for a re-negotiation.
The complainant, Ifoghale, in his statement to the police, denied owing Ope any salary.
He said, “I am in shock. This was a guy I treated like a son. Aside from my wife, he was the closest person to me. He did my shopping for me. How can I owe him eight months’ salaries when he never worked for me during the period? He was never in my house during the period that he claimed.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, advised members of the public to always run a background check on their domestic helps to avoid falling prey to criminals.
She said Ope and the other suspects had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, for further investigation.

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I sat quietly at home earlier in the week and the sun was shining. It was blooming cold out but the brightness of the ball of fire in the sky made me think of Summer time and one of my most favourite things - Camp Bestival! As soon as I start to think about that magical place down in Lulworth my head becomes full of happy memories.
Last year at Camp Bestival saw us going as a family unit for the first time since 2011. This allowed me to go off and 'find myself' but, more importantly, gave us some much needed time together away from the strains and stresses of day to day life. With a myriad of things to do for families and children we once again planned more than we could actually manage but left feeling satisfied and content.
The simplicity of posting your bestie a postcard and watching Barn Owls up close.
Spending hours in the Kid's Field with the castle as a backdrop perfecting our plate spinning, hula hooping and diablo skills, making colourful pompoms in the craft tent, riding the carousel and people watching from inside the camera obscura.
The surrealness of meeting a servant girl and Oberon's wife upon Oberon's Observatory in the Magic Meadow and having Saturn and Pluto dabbed on the end of your nose!
Watching your all time favourite television presenter Steve Backshall show us an array of 'deadly' animals - including his huge snake, then dragging mum to the front to watch Ella Henderson belt out her tunes.
Shaking out the picnic blanket in the Spinney Hollow amidst the woodcarvers, sword makers, magic wands and pirate ship builders and lying down for a much needed rest.
Camp Bestival 2015 instilled yet more magical memories into our minds and bodies.
It truly is the best place to spend your summer.
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Hard to believe tomorrow is a new year already. This one flew by. I started the year researching adopting as a single and praying about whether God was saying yes or no or wait. No clear yes or no for most of the year so I waited and kept on praying. In July, I led a team of 24 to Uganda & Ethiopia and on the second half of our journey - we visited an orphanage and my life was changed in a moment. I got my answer. The moment I picked up a sweet little boy and he laid his head on my shoulder, hugged tight and made himself at home in my arms. I chose him but he chose me first it seems. What a little snuggle bug. My heart melted in an instant. I wish I could show you a photo my teammate Ashley took at that precise moment when he snuggled in and I closed my eyes and soaked up the moment. It is my most favorite photo and it's so neat that it was taken that very first moment we met. I will treasure it forever. Someday I'll share it with y'all - once it's ok to post his pictures.
I've spent the entire week off painting. I painted a living room dark brown and I painted my little guys room a blueish color called Misty Surf. I LOVE it. It's so cheery and yet peaceful. I cannot wait until his little feet walk on these floors and his little smile lights up these rooms. I can't wait till I get to wrap him up in his new hooded bath towels that my co-worker and friend Merrill made for him. I can't wait to tuck him into his bed and read him stories in the rocking chair that I will soon have. I can't wait to show him on the globe I got for his room where mommy came all the way across the ocean to find him. I can't wait to be the one who takes care of him and makes sure he's loved and well fed and healthy. I can't wait to be the one who kisses him goodnight and tells him how loved he is. I can't wait for all of it. I can't wait till he's home.
I'm praying that 2012 will be the year that I bring him home. I'm hoping and praying by summer but of course, the timing is not in my control or I'd already have him here. I hope and pray that this Christmas was my last Christmas without him here and I'm so looking forward to next Christmas together as a family.
As I head into 2012, I'm hoping, praying, believing I'll have my son home soon. I just hit $17,000 raised toward this adoption so far - that is just mind blowing. The Lord has been opening doors and putting it on hearts and so many people have given so generously to this adoption. Thank you, thank you! On behalf of me and my little boy - THANK YOU. And may God bless you in 2012 in so many ways!
LOVE! Happy New Year. I hope he is soon here too!!! He has a GREAT blessing in the mom he has... someone who already loves him well! So glad to have met you and thankful to be on the journey with you.
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Fall is officially here, and this week brings our first true wave of big premieres — along with some fall finales to wrap up a few fan favorites along the way.
The biggest series premiere this week is NBC's high-concept sci-fi mystery Manifest, about an airplane that inexplicably jumps five years forward in time. The pilot is an interesting pitch, and there certainly seems to be some legs there moving forward. Returning shows this week include NBC's acclaimed The Good Place, Fox's X-Men drama The Gifted, CBS's long-running (and soon-to-be ending) sitcom The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons on Fox, plus a few others.
Turning to summer finales, SYFY's cult hit Wynonna Earp bids farewell with its two-hour season finale, and AMC's much-improved zombie spinoff Fear the Walking Dead winds down its latest season (and will soon make way for the return of flagship series The Walking Dead).
Manifest (NBC), Monday 10PM - "Pilot"
SERIES PREMIERE: Returning to New York from a vacation in Jamaica, the Stone family is separated when adult siblings Michaela and Ben, along with Ben's gravely ill son Cal, are bumped to a later flight, while Ben's wife, daughter and parents fly ahead. When that later flight lands, the passengers are bewildered to discover that five and a half years have gone by. They attempt to reconnect with the loved ones who mourned their passing and moved on long ago.
The Gifted (Fox), Tuesday 8PM - "eMergence"
SEASON PREMIERE: In the Season 2 premiere, Reeva Payge purges the Inner Circle of those who disagree with her, and she emerges as their sole leader. Six months later, the remaining members of the Mutant Underground have relocated to Washington, D.C., where Sentinel Services is being even more ruthless about tracking down mutants. Desperate for answers, Eclipse and Caitlin secretly meet with criminal hacker Wire to get info on the Inner Circle. Meanwhile, Polaris prepares for the birth of her baby.
The Good Place (NBC), Thursday 8PM - "Everything Is Bonzer!"
SEASON PREMIERE: Michael intervenes in the near-death accidents of Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason on Earth, in hopes that a second chance at life allows them to become better versions of themselves. The Season 3 premiere.
Wynonna Earp (SYFY), Friday 9PM - "Daddy Lessons, "War Paint"
SEASON FINALE: Wynonna has a run in with the Revenants that leads her to an unexpected revelation about the curse; Waverly meets an important figure from her past; and Nicole tries to evacuate Purgatory before it's too late. Then: The Pledge Moon looms over Purgatory as Wynonna and Waverly must end the family curse before their demonic foe puts an end to the Earp line and humanity once and for all.
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC), Sunday 9PM - "... I Lose Myself"
SEASON FINALE: Morgan struggles to find the strength to help friends in dire need before it's too late.
The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Monday 8PM - "The Conjugal Configuration"
SEASON PREMIERE: In the Season 12 premiere, Sheldon and Amy's honeymoon runs aground in New York, while Penny and Leonard discover they are uncomfortably similar to Amy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler. Also, Koothrappali insults physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and starts a Twitter war.
Ghost Adventures (Travel), Monday 9PM - "Haunted Castles"
Zak and the crew investigate a Missouri mansion infected with violent spirits. Then the guys head to Washington State to investigate aggressive paranormal activity at a historic hotel.
Planet Earth: Yellowstone (BBC America), Monday 9PM - "Autumn"
Winter is around the corner, leaving just two months for the animals to get ready or get out. Elk move down from the mountains to find food, and beavers repair dams before ice freezes their ponds.
Expedition Unknown (Travel), Tuesday 9PM - "Extra Finds: Hunt for the Metal Library"
The Outpost (The CW), Tuesday 9PM - "The Vex Rezicon"
The Purge (USA), Tuesday 10PM - "Release the Beast"
American Horror Story: Apocalypse (FX), Wednesday 10PM - "Forbidden Fruit"
Episode 3 of "American Horror Story: Apocalypse."
The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Thursday 8PM - "The Wedding Gift Wormhole"
Ancient Aliens: Declassified (History), Friday 8PM - "Pyramids, Monoliths and Unexplained Structures"
Recent satellite imagery reveals what appears to be man-made pyramids across Antartica. In the southwest corner of the Wiltshire, England countryside lies the mysterious structure known as Rudloe Manor. On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a quaint English manor house, but researchers have argued for years that it has been the epicenter of British research into UFOs since World War II. Ancient stone monuments are explored.
MacGyver (CBS), Friday 8PM - "Improvise"
SEASON PREMIERE: The Season 3 premiere: Three months after quitting the Phoenix Foundation and moving to Nigeria, Mac puts aside his differences with his father and returns when he hears Jack is the target of a murderous dictator he double-crossed.
The Dead Files (Travel), Friday 9PM - "Revealed: Deadly Attraction-Wichita, Kansas"
Haunted Live (Travel), Friday 10PM - "9-28-18"
Ghost Adventures (Travel), Saturday 9PM - "Extra Pulses: Exorcism in Erie"
In an enhanced episode, Zak and the crew travel to Erie, Colorado, along with Bishop Bryan Ouellette to perform an exorcism on a young man in order to help rid him of a demonic attachment he obtained after trying to conjure an entity years ago.
God Friended Me (CBS), Sunday 8:30PM - "Pilot"
SERIES PREMIERE: Miles Finer, an outspoken atheist podcaster, finds his life turned upside down when he receives a friend request from God on social media.
The Simpsons (Fox), Sunday 8PM - "Bart's Not Dead"
SEASON PREMIERE: Bart takes a dare and ends up in the hospital; to cover for himself and Homer, Bart lies about meeting Jesus in Heaven; Christian producers offer the Simpsons a movie deal, but Bart struggles with guilt about lying.
Family Guy (Fox), Sunday 9PM - "Married With Cancer"
SEASON PREMIERE: Brian meets and falls in love with Jess, who reveals she has cancer; after she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her.
PREMIERE: Superpowered teens Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Quake, Patriot, American Chavez and Inferno join forces to battle an unexpected threat.
The Last Ship (TNT), Sunday 9PM - "Tropic of Cancer"
As the Nathan James and its allies attempt to prevent the enemy from moving north, Chandler's haunting visions manifest into reality.

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I love the idea of a happy memory jar. That sounds like a fun reminder.
Hope you have an excellent 2018!
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Houkago Princess‘ new single Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (真夏の夜の夢) was released on September 23.
It is the 7th single from Houkago Princess and their first release for 10 months.
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May we learn to see the darkness not as a depravity of light but as a depravity of all the eye can see.
May we learn to see the darkness as a way to stop looking for outward things and a way to start looking inward. May this darkness bring you comparison not to bodily form, but to the shape of the soul.
May the enveloping darkness reveal to us all which remains unseen, the concrete fade and the abstract arise. May we see not the superficial of life, of ourselves, of others, but the depths and the worlds within each other.
May the darkness give not to moments where our thoughts are tinged with regrets, but to moments where we see patterns and movements, purpose and conviction invisible in the light of our lives.
May we learn to use the darkness as a time to use our hearts and not our heads to see the world, and in so doing find the light that was hidden before.
May this cold freeze our fears and turn our tears to light-reflecting prisms.
May it numb our heart aches and fill our lungs with refreshed life.
May this cold chill the gloating voices of guilt, the ugly taunts of shame, the puncturing nails of anger, the blackened hands of all judgement, the grits of impatience, and the hot coals of jealousy.
May these deep snows fill our paths not to slow our journey, but to slow our efforts to be perfect, to perform, to slow our pace, to calm our raging hearts, to rest our weary bodies, and in so doing rest our weary souls.
May the wind blow through us and not against us. And when it blows unhindered through a howling darkness, all those icy, chilled off corners of our hearts? All those places we haven't found the courage to let go of? All those patches of black ice dotting our souls? All those angry, tight-wound pillars of cold we haven't been able to crush but have ruled our lives with malice and hate, abuse and injustice, destructive mental health and depression? May the cold winds that blow this January take these places with them.
May we learn to feel the cold not as a thing of torment, not as a feeding ground for depression, but as a place where we can hear and see the silent exhale of all the toxic, all the harmful.
May we learn to see the darkness not as a place to fear, not as place where howling monsters arise, but as a place where we are free in the presence of the holy.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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Towards Community-Based Marine Protected Areas, for Uruguay’s Coastal and Ocean Waters: "Guardians of the Whale and Dolphin Sanctuary"
The official status of national ‘sanctuary’ provides an important framework for minimising the impacts of unsustainable development for Uruguay’s coastal-marine environment. The next step is to analyse the impact caused by certain activities over the short to medium-term (1-5 years), alongside measures to mitigate collisions with large ships, contaminating pollutants and heavy metals, noise pollution and opportunistic tourism.
Responsible and sustainable whale watching (WW) is another useful tool, and it is necessary to continue reinforcing and applying good practice and marine regulations on WW. This includes training and monitoring of the certifications (eco-tourism) awarded by MINTUR, MVOTMA and OCC in 2015 (thanks by RSG support). To date, best practice protocols were delivered to 4 marine tourism companies; it is estimated that 75% of the 50 practices are being applied.
This project will enable follow-up, adaptation of marine traffic recommendations, and monitoring of their implementation to avoid collisions. New signage, designed with community and authority involvement, will be placed in strategic port facilities. Local participation and governance in conservation issues will be reflected in actions and complaints in cases of negative impacts and other marine conservation issues. School-children will take draft community-based management plans direct to the Uruguayan parliament, marking citizen influence on policy-making and regulation.
Furthermore, the sanctuary positions Uruguay internationally as promoting responsible tourism and sustainable WW. The project includes a regional focus, articulating with Brazil’s own sanctuary for whales and dolphins through increased networking, sharing, joint actions, and the 'twinning' between sanctuaries. It will also enable Uruguay to lobby at the IWC (October 2016, Slovenia) on the voting for international waters of the South Atlantic to be declared a sanctuary for whales.
Beach Clean Up In La Paloma.


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Before dive into the true motivational stories of two friends Kristo Kaarmann & Taavet Hinrikus. I would like to ask all of you one question. How many of you make mistakes in your daily life?
Answer may be, everyone make mistakes in their daily life. Mean 100% people make mistakes in the real life.
But how many of you learned a lesson from the mistakes? Answer would be 0% or 0.1% people learned from their mistakes and move forward in the life. That’s why those people suffer and have hard time in life.
Kristo Kaarmann took his mistake as challenge in 2008 and today he is the owner of a business worth £1.2 Billion(111,910,610,544 INR). Sounds interesting and motivational, right? Yes, it is.
Kristo Kaarmann was working in London as a management consultant. He awarded a Christmas bonus of £10,000 (932,918 INR). Kristo wanted to send this amount to his home in Estonia. Because interest rates were higher in Estonia at that time, though he wanted to earn more money by interest rates. But later he found that U.K. bank deduct his £500 from the transfer amount. Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann thought to make an arrangement to send money with fewer charges. So they invent an online money transfer project ‘TransferWise’.
Kristo inform on the reporter that he transferred £10,000 to his Estonian bank account. He paid £15 as transfer fee to the U.K. bank. A week later he found that he did not receive full amount as expected in his Estonian bank. It inspired him to invent some online solution to transfer money with fewer charges. Hence, they invent a solution called ‘TransferWise’.
Actually both establish the inspirational stories of success for lots of people around the world who trying to start their startup.
TransferWise is an organization with 1000+ staff as of 2018. With its Headquarters in London, United Kingdom. Currently, this is an online startup worth of £1.2 Billion ($1,570,650,000). Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann thinking to make it a global giant in terms of money transfer around the world.
Taavet Hinrikus added that we were able to complete more than $1 billion (71,245,000,000 INR) worth of transactions in the United States in 2018. But still we are a drop in the ocean as yearly consumer international approximate payments market is worth £334 billion (31,101,765,943,140 INR).
TransferWise currently is serving big regions like Europe, Canada, the United States, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. And having its offices in a number of cities including Tallinn (Estonia), New York and Singapore. Also to make it more user friendly USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD and more than 750 currencies supported by TransferWise. Users need to register on the website in order to send or receive the money.
Few investors in this project are Richard Branson(owner of Virgin group), Max Levchin(Co-founder and former, CTO of Paypal) collectively raised millions dollar.
If you are inspired by the inspirational stories of success of these two friends, then please share this story with your selected, creative friends also. Discuss with them about this startup. You can make your plans and start working on them.
No one knows you can be the billionaire after a couple of years in your startup.
Follow below steps, if you have some idea to start a startup.
Think of idea, Think how your idea will help people in the society. There may be other idea’s similar to yours. But how you make your idea easier/ efficient/ helpful for people around you. In the above article Kristo Kaarmann thought to make an online payment transfer method and save bank transfer charges.
Initially start with small scale then later start expansion.
Don’t Share the idea with each and every friend or employee, some friends may laugh on you and you will be demotivated. Or many of friends will start telling you negative points of your idea before even start.
Share your idea with the selected and creative friend, whom you trust more.
If you are not professional of that field, then you can take advice from an expert. If you don’t have the expert friend around you or in your school/college/ University.
LinkedIn is a great platform. You can connect with professionals of any field. Don’t just discuss your idea initially but first talk with that general discussion, become friends and when you are friends, then seek advice from him/her.
Browse our website more for inspirational short stories about life, inspirational stories of success, motivational stories for students to work hard and you will see the results.
Note: We will soon start publishing motivational stories in Hindi as well. Stay Connected with guide4info.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) as an adjuvant treatment for adult patients with completely resected melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic disease, according to Bristol-Myers Squibb, the developer of the PD-1 inhibitor.
The recommendation is based on findings from the phase III CheckMate-238 trial, in which the recurrence-free survival (RFS) rate at 18 months with nivolumab was 66.4% (95% CI, 61.8%-70.6%) compared with 52.7% (95% CI, 47.8%-57.4%) for ipilimumab (Yervoy) in patients with stage IIIB/C or IV melanoma. There was a 35% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death with the PD-1 inhibitor versus the CTLA-4 inhibitor (HR, 0.65; 95% CI, 0.53-0.80; P <.0001).
The European Commission (EC) will now review the CHMP recommendation and make a final decision on whether to approve nivolumab for this indication in the European Union.
In the CheckMate-238 trial, patients with stage IIIB/C or IV melanoma were randomized to 1 year of treatment with nivolumab (n = 453) or ipilimumab (n = 453), which was approved by the FDA as an adjuvant therapy for melanoma in 2015. Nivolumab was administered at 3 mg/kg every 2 weeks and ipilimumab was given at 10 mg/kg every 3 weeks for 4 doses then every 12 weeks. The FDA-approved recommended dose for adjuvant nivolumab is 240 mg every 2 weeks.
Baseline characteristics were similar across groups, with patients stratified by stage and PD-L1 status. In the nivolumab arm, the median age of patients was 56 years (range, 19-83). Eighteen percent of patients had stage IV disease, with the remainder have stage IIIB (36%) and stage IIIC (45%). Lymph node involvement was primarily macroscopic (59.3%) and 41.5% of patients with stage III disease had tumor ulceration. Of those with stage IV disease, 24.4% had M1c disease, with the remainder being M1a/b. Overall, 33.6% of patients tested positive for PD-L1 (≥5% expression) and 41.3% of patients tested positive for a BRAF mutation.
In findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine, median RFS had not yet been reached in either arm of the trial. The 12-month RFS rate with nivolumab was 70.5% (95% CI, 66.1%-74.5%) versus 60.8% (95% CI, 56.0%-65.2%) in the ipilimumab group. The median distant metastasis-free survival was not reached in either treatment group, with fewer events noted in the nivolumab arm (HR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.55-0.95).
Improvements in RFS were seen regardless of tumor stage. In those with stage IIIB/C, the 12-month RFS rates were 72.3% versus 61.6%, for nivolumab and ipilimumab, respectively (HR, 0.65; 95% CI, 0.51-0.82). In those with stage IV disease, the 12-month RFS rate was 63.0% with nivolumab versus 57.5% with ipilimumab (HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.45-1.10).
In those with PD-L1–negative tumors, the 12-month RFS rates were 64.3% versus 53.7%, for nivolumab versus ipilimumab, respectively. In those with PD-L1–positive tumors, the 12-month RFS rates were 81.9% with nivolumab versus 73.8% for ipilimumab. In those with a BRAF mutation, there was a 28% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death with nivolumab (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.52-1.00). In those with BRAF wild-type tumors, there was a 42% reduction (HR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.43-0.79). The FDA approval was granted regardless of PD-L1 or BRAF status.
Recurrence or death was reported for 34.0% of those in the nivolumab group and for 45.5% of those treated with ipilimumab. Overall, 28.5% of those in the nivolumab arm had received subsequent therapy versus 37.7% in the ipilimumab group. At the time of the analysis, data were not yet available for the secondary endpoint of overall survival (OS). In the EORTC 18071 trial, which led to the approval of adjuvant ipilimumab, improvements in RFS translated to later OS benefit. Follow-up of the CheckMate-238 remains ongoing.
Treatment-related grade 3/4 adverse events (AEs) were much more common in the ipilimumab group compared with the nivolumab arm (14.4% vs 45.9%). Additionally, there were fewer serious AEs (17.5% vs 40.4%) and grade 3/4 AEs (45.9% vs 14.4%) with nivolumab versus ipilimumab. Treatment-related AEs (TRAEs) leading to discontinuation occurred for 7.7% of those in the nivolumab arm compared with 41.7% of patients in the ipilimumab group.
There were 2 deaths (0.4%) in the ipilimumab group of marrow aplasia and colitis, both of which occurred more than 100 days after the last dose. There were no treatment-related deaths in the nivolumab group.
The most commonly reported TRAEs with nivolumab versus ipilimumab, respectively, were fatigue (34.5% vs 32.9%), diarrhea (24.3% vs 45.9%), pruritus (23.2% vs 33.6%), rash (19.9% vs 29.4%), and nausea (15% vs 20.1%). The most common grade 3/4 TRAEs with nivolumab were diarrhea (1.5%), rash (1.1%), and increased ALT (1.1%). With ipilimumab, the most frequent grade 3/4 TRAEs were diarrhea (9.5%), increased ALT (5.7%), increased AST (4.2%), rash (3.1%), hypophysitis (2.4%), and maculopapular rash (2.0%).
In the United States, the FDA approved nivolumab in December 2017 as an adjuvant treatment for patients with completely resected melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic disease, based on the same findings from the phase III CheckMate-238 trial.


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Voice duplications Rod Stewart/Amy Winehouse/Bon Scott..etc etc..
Available for all celebrations /corporate events / Weddings..
"Superb vocalist, caught his set whilst with relatives in a local pub in Newcastle. Whole lot of Rosie was just like listening to Bonn Scott. "
Have you seen Terry (Wilson) Slesser perform? Has Terry (Wilson) Slesser performed at your venue? Then why not leave them a review?


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That Might Be Right proposes eavesdropping. Every two months we invite you to join us to visit a place of work in and around Brussels. Work is a major part of every one’s life. As cultural workers there are many places we discover and dimensions we explore with our work but there are many fields and communities of work we have almost no knowledge of or contact with. By taking the first step into these worlds with sincere curiosity we try to learn from others and understand what they do and why they do it. This can be behind the scenes of a big factory or in the shop of your neighborhood bakery. We hope to broaden our view of work, learn about the role of work in individual and collective life, and understand our surroundings better by discovering the rambling and shambling production network in and around Brussels.
eavesdropping visited the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company, STIB (Société des Transports Intercommunaux Bruxellois) / MIVB (Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel).
Founded in 1954, STIB/MIVB operates 4 metro lines, 17 tram lines and 50 bus routes, 11 nightbus routes. It covers the 19 communes of the Brussels Capital Region providing transport for its 1.1 million inhabitants. 370 million trips were made in 2015 on the STIB/MIVB network. The company counts 8.000 employees working for our mobility every day of the week.
We visited the depot, repair-shop, and the training center Delta. What a wonderful world lies behind your everyday commute! Steel, power, and people are on the move each day to make sure you can get where you need to be. A technical and logistical operation but above all an effort of people working together on all levels.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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The Library Club will have 12 bottles picked by the winemaker including from Library stock, by quarterly shipment.
Aurum Wine Club. Renews on 1st February, 1st May, 1st August and 1st November.
Please note, this Wine Club is for our New Zealand based members.
For International Wine Club memberships, please contact us.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Without any fanfare or huge Apple Event, Apple has quietly replaced the iPad Air 2 with an even more affordable and faster replacement, but dropped the numbering. Known simply as the iPad, this is the cheapest full size (9.7-inch) tablet from Apple.
The move to drop the numbering of the iPad Air 2 to simply iPad may be the trend moving forward. It certainly means the end of line for iPad Air, released in October 2014. Apple is not going to bring back any old tablet so it made sense to simplify the naming and move on to differentiate between a standard iPad (what used to be iPad Air) and the more advanced iPad Pro line.
This is reminiscent of the time when the iPad Air was introduced along side the standard iPad 4; only now, we have iPad and iPad Pro. Still spotting the same tough, sleek and ultra slim body, the new iPad now comes with 32GB storage with 128GB as the next option up. It still keeps the WiFi and WiFi+Cellular options and upgraded the processor to use the 64-bit A9 chip.
Adopting the new processor A9 processor, replacing the A8X on the iPad Air 2, brings it closer to the iPad Pro models. iPad Pro spots the more powerful A9X. The A9 processor was first introduced in the iPhone 6S back in 2015. Still a very capable processor, together with that super crisp Retina 9.7-inch display, 10 hours battery life and cheaper price tag we expect this to be the tablet of choice for education.
As for the iPad mini, which before this was the most affordable tablet from Apple, has had some changes to the line-up. The cheap iPad mini 2 has been removed from the Apple Store. The iPad mini 4 also has the entry level 32GB storage model removed leaving only the more expensive 128GB edition. While it is still cheaper than compared to the new iPad 128GB, it certainly is not the most affordable hence making the iPad 2017 the ‘go-to’ Apple tablet for education.
Alongside these changes to the line of iPads, the portfolio of iPads consists of iPad mini 4, iPad (2017), iPad Pro 9.7-inch and iPad Pro 12.9-inch, Apple has also introduced a new red iPhone 7 and a video editing app called Clips.
The new iPad has the same foot print 240mm x 169.5mm as the iPad Air 2 but is slightly thicker at 7.5mm vs 6.1mm. That’s 1.4mm thicker.
The new iPad has the same 8MP f/2.4 main camera and 1.2MP f/2.2 FaceTime HD Camera.
The new iPad is also available in Space Gray, Silver and Gold.
While we enjoy faster and better performance from the more powerful processor, the new iPad 2017 comes with a thickness and weigh penalty, not that many potential buyers especially in the education sector would mind given its cheaper price tag and bigger starting storage.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Today I’ll be showing you the first step in how to line your Farrow Dress! It’s really very simple and great for slightly sheer or very silky fabrics. The dress above has a shell and facings made from ivory 4-ply silk crepe de chine with a slightly warmer neutral silk charmeuse lining. Now lets draft our pieces.
Find your two front pieces, 1 and 2. Draw a line across the pocket stitching lines to separate the pockets.
Cut off the pocket pieces and discard. You won’t need them for the lining.
For the front: Align the two cut edges to make one solid piece. Remove the center front seam allowance (1/2″) since you’ll want to cut this piece on the fold.
For the back: Align the stitching lines of the two back pieces to create one pattern piece. The seam allowances will overlap. You’ll still need to cut 2 of these.
Now we’ll need to mark the new facings and remove them from the patter pieces to create them and the final lining piece. I prefer to start over making new facings at the same time as the lining rather than use the facings that came with the pattern. There’s less room for error doing it this way.
To start, mark off a 2″ facing around the front armhole and front neckline on your pattern piece.
Cut the facings apart from the lining. You’re almost there, we just need to add seam allowances so that you can sew the pieces back together.
To each of the cut edges of the facings and lining, add a 1/2″ seam allowance. These will be your finished pattern pieces. Repeat these steps for the back.
The diagram above shows the pattern pieces you should now have as well as how many to cut of each one.
You’ll need about 2yds of lining fabric no matter whether you’re using 45″ or 54″ wide fabric. This measurement will also work for all sizes. Please note that in the layout above we have the back pattern piece flipped wrong side up!
That’s it for the pattern alterations, we’ll be back in our next post with how to sew it all up!
slightly confused — the linings require facings too, or does the shell itself require new facings?
The lining does require facings. You could use the facings included but since they’re not meant to be attached to anything they’re slightly narrower and I wanted to show how the facings are initially made in this tutorial. When adding a lining you’re almost never sewing the lining directly to the shell, but instead attaching the lining to a self facing that is then attached to the shell.
Took me a minute to figure out the dress was being displayed inside-out because the fabric peaking out at the bottom looks like a beautiful design feature!
Just a little confused as I’m pretty new: are the “self” facing pieces cut from the lining fabric or the garment fabric? Thanks!
Self fabric is always the main fabric of the garment, so in this case it would be the fabric you use for the outer dress.
So I remember reading a post about where you buy your lining, but for the life of me I cannot seem to find it 🙁 Would you mind letting me know where you buy lining or linking the post? Thanks!
Ahh thank you for sharing this. I made a botched lined Farrow and will try again with this technique.


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Every woman desirous to become a Mother. Her happiest moment in her life is when she gives birth to Healthy and beautiful child. To fulfill your desire note the following.
Obese women are more prone to problems during pregnancy, which is risky for the baby as well as the mother. There is also the added risk ofmacrosomia, a condition in which the baby grows too large leading to labor and delivery complications.
On the other hand, being underweight can diminish your chances of even getting pregnant. It also may increase your chances of giving birth to Low weight baby.
These small babies often have problems during labor and after birth. Therefore, it is important for you to maintain a healthy body weight before pregnancy.


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Meltdown – How does it work?
I thought some of you would be interested in a high level summary of the mechanism the Meltdown Exploit uses.
Meltdown is a relatively straight forward exploit to implement. It’s also a beautifully elegant attack – and demonstrates how modern hackers think and work.
To be clear the CPU issues don’t allow a process to directly access unauthorised memory or cache. They do allow any program to determine what is in any memory location on the computer using the following technique below called a “side channel attack”.
A side channel attack is where you observe a consequence of an action to determine something you can’t find out more directly.
An example would be if you thought a submarine were close to a ship. You pretend the ship is on fire to see if that causes the submarine to break silence and broadcast. You don’t know what the submarine broadcasts – and can’t locate the source – but if it broadcasts you can deduce it’s likely the submarine can see the ship.
Modern CPUs include a feature called pre-emptive execution. This is where a CPU executes code it expects to have to execute before being asked to execute it.
This would all seem to be OK as it saves a lot of time and a process never gets to actually see the results of something it shouldn’t do.
All modern CPUs contain caches. This is ultra-fast memory on the chip – and stores chunks of data for faster access. The caches are loaded from main memory when a program asks for a chunk of data.
When a chunk of data is already in the CPU cache accessing it is far faster than if it has to be obtained from main memory.
• A process sends a program to a CPU to read a byte of memory to which it shouldn’t have access. Based on the contents of the byte it loads one of 256 randomly selected chunks of memory. This causes the chunk of memory to be loaded into the CPU cache.
• The program is executed by the CPU in parallel with authorisation. The authorisation fails as the process doesn’t have permissions – so the results are then discarded.
A second program runs immediately afterwards that requests each of the 256 chunks of memory. It also records the number of clock cycles taken to load each chunk.
The chunk already in the processor cache will load far faster.
Clearly this process can be repeated to read several megabytes of memory per minute.
• Firstly this allows any process to access any memory. The process could be any program, driver, plugin or downloaded piece of code.
• Ironically as the CPU runs and discards the code snippet the anti-virus software has no opportunity to detect it. It’s effectively invisible – as from a logical perspective it was never run.
• “Software patches” are likely to be very costly and ineffective. They involve wrapping untrusted code before committing it to the CPU.
• The software that initiates the attack needs to be patched – software patches cannot protect a piece of software from being attacked.
• Operating system patches will not protect the whole system. Software running on the O/S can still use the exploit to snoop on other processes.
• This needs a micro-code fix to the CPU so that chunks of memory loaded during pre-emptive execution are not retained for future use. This is the only sensible way to solve the issue.
• The exploit can also be optimised for speed – determining the content of a single bit of memory only required two possible chunks. Using this technique a byte can be read using 16 rather than 256 memory requests. You would have 16 possible chunks – of which 8 were retrieved by the program – one for each bit.
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Mechanical Number Pad & Calculator.
Digit was created with a unique retro design with practical features. This time, we reinvented the number pad by combining it with a calculator: by swapping the mechanical switches with Bluetooth, Digit becomes the most intuitive pad to type with and is super portable. it will transform your working experience and bring a refreshing look and feel on your desk set.
Digit number pad easily supports Windows, IOS and Android. with Bluetooth integrated, you can connect it wirelessly with all devices such as keyboard, pad or phone. Digit only weighs 200g which is makes it easy to carry wherever you go. With its pocket size, you can use Digit anywhere, anytime with simplicity.
The Digit has both beauty and brains. Do your calculations and type the number with the best key tactile feel. The calculator can do all the basic calculation that you need. With it’s eye-catching physical features and practical functionalities, the Digit is the only calculator you’ll ever want.
We dedicate ourselves to keep the most sophisticated product simple and elegant, in order to benefit and reach more people. Pushing boundaries in product design is in our company mission and we've earned several Red Dot and iF design awards to prove.


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When on a diet, it is always a dreadful thought to have to eat out, attend a dinner at someone else's home or go to a party.
Cook up a storm without all the calories.
Craving something sinful? Here are some smart switches!
Are you tired of the same fast food establishments that surround your office or spending too much money per week on lunch? Do you want to stop eating leftovers for lunch? There are many things you can do to satisfy your hunger pangs especially if you don't have more than an hour to eat in between work. Here are some ideas to keep you excited every time you open your lunch bag.
The problem with being on an airplane for too long, aside from the discomfort of sitting on a chair for that many hours, is the fact that you are usually served less than pleasing food on the plane with a pretty high caloric count. This does not even include the snacks they hand out as well. In order to cut down on your calories while in transit, don't eat everything on your tray and consider bringing your own snacks instead of devouring the high-carb, high-fat ones the airline serves.
For many people, having to shovel down a certain number of servings of fruit and vegetables daily is not easy task. Some may say they have no time to prepare their own food and end up grabbing the easiest thing to eat on the go, while others simply dislike it!
Aside from hanging out with locals, the best and easiest way to get to know a new city is through their food. When visiting a new place, especially one as renowned for food as Paris, direct yourself to the nearest bistro and order a moderately priced but delicious meal every time you think of going to a fast food chain.
Here are five low-calorie cocktail recipes to make yourself on Valentineâ€™s Day with your partner, with an offering of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Each recipe makes cocktails for two!
"Man does not live by bread alone", but in France, you may as well! There are so many types of delicious loaves to choose from; you will find it hard to find yourself hungry or even bored with bread, as the variety is endless. Apart from just bread, there are so many condiments and fillings, both sweet and savory that you can eat with your bread.
What is usually known as a macaroon in America is a sweet treat made with shredded coconut, egg whites and sugar. French macarons, which require a little more technical finesse, are tasty confections made with almond flour mixed in a sweet meringue shell and sandwiched with flavored butter creams in gorgeous pastel colors.
When traveling, it's never fun to stick out like a sore thumb, and seeming as "local" as possible is the way to go. The French have the reputation for being unfriendly and not very welcoming to tourists, which is untrue, but they do appreciate it if you make an effort to adjust to their culture, instead of them adjusting to you.
It's true that the French love their cheese. A visit to France will introduce you to hundreds of different kinds of cheese. Like wine, cheese is regional and there are certain kinds that are certified as only being from that region. It all might seem confusing, but thankfully, there are specialty shops and delis in any country you may be, that carries cheese from around the world.
The most important meal of the day for anybody is breakfast and if you absolutely had to skip a meal it should definitely not be the first one of the day. A trip to Paris is not complete without having breakfast at a sidewalk cafe or buying bread at a nearby bakery and eating it at a park. If you are confused as to what to eat while in France, remember that breads and pastries are a good choice.
French food is always mistakenly thought to be posh and only for sophisticated palates, and while this might be true to a certain degree, mostly due to the uncommon ingredients used in French cuisine like frogs legs and goose liver, it is not always the case. The French like good food, and really take time to make sure they use the freshest ingredients and eat only "just cooked" meals, but this does not mean that their food can't be comforting and homey too.
For some cultures, wine is not a staple, it is something you drink during special occasions or when you are feeling a bit more sophisticated than your usual vodka tonic or mojito. In other parts of the world though, France being one of them, wine has been part of their daily lives for centuries. It is not uncommon to have a glass or two of wine with every meal when in France, and each major wine region boasts a different type.
The only thing better than a great meal is knowing that you will have an equally great and very sweet ending to it. The French love their food, and dessert is no exception. France has invented some of the most well-known desserts in the world and a lot of them are now made all over the world.
Vegetables - we either love them or hate them. Haters may have been traumatized by parents who used to force-feed them broccoli and peas, while lovers only remember to eat them when dieting.
Does Organic Really Mean Better?
Organic. A word you probably are seeing more and more on everything from food to beauty products and even clothes. What does it mean when something is organic anyway, you may ask? It means that produce is grown with little or no preservatives and artificial ingredients.
The fight against cancer continues. Although there is still no drug that can cure it, the best way to deal for now is prevention through diet. Numerous studies have been published supporting the reduction of your chances in developing cancer with simple and healthy tweaks in your diet.


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Choosing the flowers is such an important step when planning your wedding and choosing the right flowers for the right season can be tricky. Our partner florist is available to help you with questions you may have.
The Ioannidis family based in Athens is one of the leading florists in the market. Their heritage spans over 50 years in floral design and their know-how and flair will create something both visually beautiful and memorable forever!
With more and more brides keeping and framing their bouquets nowadays, it is important to choose the right flowers and style for you.
With so many options to choose from where one does begin? Dahlia, Roses, Peonies, Calla Lilies, Hyacinths, Tulips, Fresias, Orchids, Geraniums, Hydrangeas.


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The 47-story Crowne Plaza Yantai Sea View is located along the beautiful coastline of Yantai, wonderfully designed to satisfy the needs of both business and leisure travelers.
This eco hotel comprises a total of 120 rooms. It offers professional and courteous service, comfortable rooms, a convenient location and prices that make sense for individual business and leisure travellers alike. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and check-out service.
This eco hotel comprises a total of 118 rooms. It offers professional and courteous service, comfortable rooms, a convenient location and prices that make sense for individual business and leisure travellers alike. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and check-out service.
Built in 2008, this 130-room hotel is ideal for both business and leisure travellers alike. Facilities include a café, room and laundry services (fees apply), and a car park for those arriving by vehicle. Business guests will appreciate the conference facilities and business centre, and those looking for a new style can browse the shops in the on-site boutique shopping centre.

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Product (WxHxD) 18 7/16" x 13 7/8" x 20 7/8"
Shipping (WxHxD) 22 5/16" x 17 13/16" x 22 9/16"
Purchased for a craft shed. Lasted just past the warranty period then stopped cooling. Useless now.
We purchased this as a replacement for another same model this one is working very well and we are very please with the service as we had the extended warranty on the old one and have on this one as well.
The only kind of confusing thing during installation was the part about putting on the frame guides. But not being a dummy I figured it out. I tried both possible ways to set them and then line up the frame curtains and immediately saw how the guides must be inserted. A great discovery was that the way my window is designed I didnt need the sill support. Needed some wide packing tape to seal up an open area across underneath the unit but thats fine. Also my window is all metal so couldnt screw curtain frames in but a little more tape solved that. Got it running now and its very quiet and cooling quite nicely. :- no complaints whatsoever.
I bought this because I needed a heater and an AC.
We installed this AC in a bedroom that did not receive enough conditioned air from the central HVAC. Easy Instructions perhaps and hour to install. It is very efficient and quiet. An excellent choice if you have 250-350 sq feet.
Bought it for a guest bedroom. Very impressed with how well it cools in spite of the low fan speed. Fairly quiet overall happy with the purchase. I havent tried the heater yet.
I am glad that we bought this quiet unit 2 months ago. It has handled 100+ outside temperatures well and I look forward to using it in the winter for heating.
Quiet and has heat as well.
Needed a quiet unit for a small room but also needed to have heat. This fit the bill and has been great so far.
Very guiet and efficient. Great look. I will alway buy LG.
Bought for my work and wood shop and it is serving me well. When it is 100 degrees outside Im quite cool and so are my shop cats. Good product.
Air cools fast I dont know about the heat.
Im not happy with how cheaply it is made. It does cool well.
I have a large family room and needed something that would heat and cool it using a 120 outlet. this was perfect. Cools the whole room just right.
Our contractor recommended this for our loft that we enclosed to be a bedroom. The LG heater/air conditioner is small but powerfully regulates the temperature. The only thing that would make it more perfect is an oscillating feature.
It never says so in the specs but this AC uses resistance heat which is 25 1/4 the efficiency of the heat pump. The heat pump is how the AC works in the cooling mode. In the cooling mode it uses 670 watts of input power to produce 7500 BTUs of cooling. In the heat mode it uses 1260 watts of input power to produce 3850 BTUs of heat. In other words in the heating mode it uses twice the input power to get half the BTU output than it does in the cooling mode. Resistance heating is what all space heaters use and is the most inefficient and expensive way to generate heat from electricity. If you want expensive heat just use a space heater.
I bought this after lots of technical research. I love it and it does exactly as I expected. If you would feature the KWH /hr for both heating and cooling factoring in efficiency along with BTU/hr many customers would get a better idea of the hourly cost to run it. Most have an idea of what they are paying per KWH. at 100 eff 1 KWH = 3412 BTU.
Cools quickly and quietly. Havent tried the heater yet.
Had to replace previous different brand unit. Had become old and noisey. This product is really great. Had problems with heating cooling my studio and this unit does both and is extremely quiet and efficient. So far we are very happy with this unit. Also easy to install.
Cools and heats better than you might think. Happy. Love the heat.
About a month old still learning how to best use this unit the default to eco mode after restarting is a bit of a nuisance and you then need to hit the mode button once again for cool mode. The output is a little wanting and takes longer to cool our room than our last old unit once the room has cooled then all is fine. The heat side of this is modest but should be some help during our cold Indiana winters.
I bought this a month ago for my ad-on room. The unit works great keeping my room cool . The unit sounds very quite and the features are nice. This unit is compact but deliver great performance.
Purchased the unit over a year ago it works well in our sun room insuring that it does not get too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer.
Seem to be easy to install and run. It heated and cooled and has a remote. Cool.
This unit is fairly priced and does a good job. Thermostat is nice. Works well and quiet. The front cover doesnt latch well but will stay put if you work with it a bit not a big enough deal to uninstall and return the unit.
We have a small area that doesnt get air or heat from the home heat pump. This unit fit just right in the window in this area and does everything we need it to do and then some. very pleased.We have other LG products and have always been very pleased with them.
Purchased this for our Camping Travel Trailer. Its cools wonderfully and the electronic controls have several nice features We have not yet experienced the heat option but there is no doubt that its equally effective as the cooling. In the rather confined space of our camper we do have condensation on and around interior areas of the unit. This is easily managed with a drip pan and the fact that we are camping on the beach very high humidity.
I have no insulation in the room at the moment and even on the coldest days its doing well. Can wait to see how it works once I get this insulation.


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From success secrets to interviews with celebrities, Entrepreneur TV provides you the resources and tools that will get you motivated and inspired to succeed.
Actor Patrick Demspey shares stories about show business, social entrepreneurship and tragedy. Learn how Dwayne Johnson changed his career around to pursue his dreams.
Basketball star Amar'e Stoudemire of the Miami Heat tells you the difference between the court and business, while Tony Hawk discusses dreams, inspiration and motivation. Entrepreneur and best-selling author Tim Ferriss discusses happiness, success and more.


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Dr Jamie Foong is a specialist prosthodontist. Having graduated from the University of Melbourne, he worked in Queensland as a general practitioner for a few years, including several months with Brisbane Prosthodontics. He then returned to Melbourne and completed a three-year specialist degree in Prosthodontics.
Jamie is a visiting lecturer and clinical supervisor at the University of Melbourne Dental School. He is also a member of the Australian Prosthodontic Society and the Australian Dental Association.
Jamie’s prosthodontics care includes crown and bridge, occlusal rehabilitation, porcelain veneers and dental implants. His personal philosophy is to provide a friendly, caring, patient-focused environment for diagnosis, communication and treatment of patients’ dental needs.


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JOLY, Carlos A. et al. Diagnóstico da pesquisa em biodiversidade no Brasil. Rev. USP [online]. 2011, n.89, pp. 114-133. ISSN 0103-9989.
Biodiversity is a result of millions of years of biological evolution, and is the component of the system which supports life on our planet. Besides the intrinsic value of each species, all of them as a whole, as well as of the interactions among the species, and their interaction with the physical and chemical environment, result in ecosystem services vital for supporting life on Earth. Because of that, the science of biodiversity is largely recognized as a priority area of scientific investigation both in developed and developing countries. In Brazil, the research on biodiversity can be divided in three parts: 1) discovery and characterization of biodiversity - including marine and human-altered landscapes - systematics and taxonomy; 2) understanding the functioning of ecosystems and environmental services, including in marine and human-altered landscapes; 3) bioprospecting of the chemical diversity of the Brazilian biota.
Keywords : biodiversity; biological collections; electronic repatriation.

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Why not try something a little different on Mother’s Day with this celebratory serve? A fresh sangria made with Hayman’s London Dry. A delicate balance of flavour with juicy pear, piney juniper, crisp wine and spicy ginger.
1. Chop all the fruit as described.
2. Into a large jar or jug, add the fruit, Hayman’s Gin, white wine, ginger liqueur and honey.
3. Leave to infuse for 24 hours.
4. Strain and bottle the mix, adding the apple juice at this stage.
5. To serve, add 100ml of the Sangria into a glass.
6. Top with Ginger Beer.
7. Garnish with pieces of crystallised ginger.


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McGregor, Allister, Coulthard, Sarah and Camfield, Laura (2015) Measuring what matters: the role of well-being methods in development policy and practice. Working Paper. Overseas Development Institute, online.
In this paper we explore how the measurement of human well-being might contribute to making development policy and practice more effective. While most of the current initiatives are to develop measures of well-being at the level of the nation state (for the purposes of national policy deliberation or for between state comparisons), this paper focuses on a less prominent discussion about how the concept of well-being might be made relevant for the development frontline: for development policy and practice at the level of the project or programme (Rojas, 2008; Camfield and McGregor, 2009). In particular it considers how a comprehensive assessment of human well-being, and particularly one that integrates consideration of subjective well-being, might be adopted into the routines of development.


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Discussion in 'Help Desk' started by johnlarimer, Dec 23, 2008.
I keep getting a pop-up window. It stopped sending e-mail. I do not remember ever using a password and, of course, have no idea what it is. There may not be one. Any ideas about how I can fix it. The pop-up is very insistent. I do not know how to get my answer. If you send it by e-mail I will not get it.
What program is generating the popup box asking for the password?
Here is our guide for configuring Gmail pop3 access.
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It is fixed. Thank you for your help.


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February 1946: Cairo is engulfed by demonstrations against the British. Layla’s older brother Mahmud returns, wounded in the clashes, and the events of that fateful day mark a turning point in her life, an awakening to the world around her.
Latifa al-Zayyat’s acclaimed modern classic follows Layla through her sexual and political coming of age. Her rebellious spirit seeks to free itself from the stifling social codes that dictate a young woman’s life, just as Egypt struggles to shake off the yoke of imperialist rule.
"... gives a vivid sense of men and women caught up in historical events and yet continuing to have personal relationships and lives filled with joy, grief, and tension. Recommended for all libraries with Middle East and Arabic literature collections."
"Absorbing . . . Superbly translated . . . Arguably the best modern [Egyptian] novel not written by Nobel laureate Mahfouz."
"Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers."
"Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness."
"A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key."
"A pioneering work on many levels."
Latifa al-Zayyat (1923–96) struggled all her life to uphold just causes—national integrity, the welfare of the poor, human rights, freedom of expression, and the rejection of all forms of imperialist hegemony. As a professor of English literature at Ain Shams University, her critical output was no less prolific than her creative writing, but the creative, academic, and political strands of her personality were interwoven. The Open Door is generally recognized as her magnum opus.
Marilyn Booth has translated works by Hoda Barakat, Nawal El Saadawi, Hassan Daoud, and many other Arab writers. She is Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University.


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You have a gross household income of no more than £90,000 per annum.
You are unable to purchase a suitable home to meet your housing needs on the open market.
You do not already own a home or you will have sold your current home before you purchase or rent.
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A striking collection of 70 studio and one bedroom Shared Ownership apartments for those beginning to spread their wings in London’s most exciting part of town.
Located within Islington (Zone 1) at Berkeley’s landmark new development 250 City Road, The City Angel offers prime urban living above the buzzing superhighway of City Road that connects leafy, lively Islington to the tech start-ups of Old Street.
Cancel the commute, wave goodbye to the suburbs – this is how London-living was meant to be. You’re freed up, ready for a reboot and ready to enjoy all that the City has to offer including Islington, Shoreditch, the City, Clerkenwell, the East End; all within easy reach, especially with Angel and Old Street tube stations just a 10-minute walk-away. One or two stops from Angel, and you’ve arrived at one of the UK’s biggest rail hubs, King’s Cross, St Pancras International and Euston. A few stops south and you’re at London Bridge: the Shard, Borough Market, trains to Gatwick. Or the Jubilee line to Canary Wharf for that morning meeting. At The City Angel, it’s all about connections and convenience.
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