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The South East Asian Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG) was inaugurated on May 12, 2007.
The SEAROG was organized to unite the member countries in the South East Asia Region, share common geographical location, disease patterns, resources, problems, and to work together to find solutions to these problems.
The idea of forming a regional radiation oncology society came up during the 1st Annual Convention of the IROS in February 2—6 in Lombok Island, Indonesia. Among those present were Dr. Richard Potter (Vienna), Dr. Katy Dinshaw (India), Dr. Joseph Wee (Singapore), Dr. Swee Peng Yap (Singapore), Dr. Miriam Joy Calaguas (Phillipines), and Dr Soehartati Gondhowiardjo (Indonesia).
A meeting followed in Manila, on May 2, 2006, the group met to prepare for the inauguration of the South East Asian Radiation Oncology Society (SEAROS). It was then agreed that the organization to be called the South East Asian Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG).
Finally, the SEAROG was inaugurated on May 12, 2007 at the National Cancer Center (NCC), Singapore. SEAROG members are national radiation oncology societies. The five original members of SEAROG are Indonesia (IROS), Malaysia (MOS), Philippines (PROS), Singapore (SRS) and Thailand (THASTRO).
(1) This organization shall be known as the South East Asian Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG). The organization is established to engage in any cooperation in the fields of radiation oncology, including international relations, clinical research, quality assurance, practice guidelines and education.
(2) The organization may at its pleasure by a vote of a membership body change its name.
The mission of the organization is to improve the quality of radiation oncology practice in the South East Asian Region by means of enhancing cooperation in education, research and Quality Assurance initiatives.
Membership of the organization shall be open to all radiation oncology societies from all countries in South East Asian Region who wish to take an active participation in improving the quality of radiation oncology in the region or oncology/radiology societies/institutes in countries where there is no existing society of radiation oncology.
the Education and Training Chair. All officers shall be elected for two‐year term.
Vacancies in any of the offices through death or resignation, removal from office, may be filled by the President of the Executive Committee from among the active members of the association for the unexpired portion of the term.
Any officer or member may resign at any time by giving written notice to the President.
No officer shall serve more than three terms in the one position.
Assist the President in coordinating and directing committee activities and the SEAROG’s operations and perform such duties as may be delegated by the president.
To coordinate regional Quality Assurance initiatives aimed to improve the existing practices in member countries.
To promote and initiate cooperation to ensure sustainable access to educational programs for member countries.
any MS of SEAROG. An honorary member will be officiated during the general assembly meeting.
advices or solutions for the development and improvement of SEAROG. Advisory member remains in office so long as he/she is willing and is still actively working in the field of radiation oncology.
SEAROG may create one or more ad hoc committees. Such ad hoc committees shall be chaired by the officer responsible for the particular task, and shall be filled by volunteers from the general membership in so far as possible. Appointment of such committees of the board shall be by majority vote of the directors then in office. The work of such committees shall be coordinated with the Board by the responsible officer.
The Executive Committee shall hold at least one annual general assembly meeting (GAM) per year. Other meetings, such as the EXECOM business meeting will be held as called.
delegation from the country can be appointed to represent, but without voting rights.
The Secretary shall prepare the official minutes of any business meeting within 30 days after the meeting. A copy of the minutes shall be provided to the Executive Committee.
The Nominating Committee shall be appointed by all member countries. Each member country shall present at least one nominee for President, and shall have obtained prior consent from each nominee. Elections shall be by voice vote or mail‐ballot, unless otherwise determined, with simple majority required for election. The nominee who gains the second vote shall be the Vice President. Other committee members shall be appointed by the President with prior consent from each nominee.
Amendments to these regulations may be made by an affirmative vote of 2/3 majority of those members in attendance in EXECOM meeting of SEAROG and to be officiated during the General Assembly Meeting, providing that membership has received notification of the proposed changes(s) at least five days in advance of the meeting.
The South East Asian Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG) was inaugurated on May 12, 2007 composed of National Radiation Oncology Societies of member countries which share common geographical location, disease patterns, resources, and challenges. SEAROG founding members were IROS (Indonesia), MOS (Malaysia), PROS (Philippines), SRS (Singapore) and THASTRO (Thailand).


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Welcome back loyal readers to this week’s episode of ROH on HDNet. There is lots of tag team action scheduled as well as a great main event match up. Let’s get right to the action.
The ROH World Tag Team Champions are taking on not one, not two, but three teams tonight. And first up are…these two nobodies. I’ve got a bad feeling about this. This is a four minute squash that shows nothing of the champ’s real talent.
The Kings no sell all the pathetic moves of these two jobbers. At least I’ve heard of one of these guys. I’ve seen Westgate before, and he wasn’t very impressive then either. This one lasts about two and a half minutes. I can’t wait to see what two lambs will be led to the slaughter next.
I didn’t know they had ninjas in Delaware, because these guys aren’t from the Orient. These guys are the Briscoes. Jay and Mark catch the Kings totally by surprise and hit the Doomsday Device for the quick win. Even with a good team, this was another quick match. I sure hope things get better as the show goes on, because we are not off to a good start.
Kyle Durden interviews Christopher Daniels. The “Fallen Angel” is in the main event tonight against Roderick Strong. If there isn’t any interference in the match, this one could turn out to be great. Unfortunately that seems to be the case more often than not these days.
Now this is going to be some real tag team action. As you know, I am a huge fan of the Wolves. They just never have a bad match. Here they can match the power of the DCFC and their athleticism isn’t even close. The Wolves dominate early with lots of high impact moves. They execute a double running dive through the ropes onto a prone DCFC at ringside. Richards gets Kory Chavis in the Texas cloverleaf and just for good measure Edwards hits a double stomp to Chavis’s back…from the top rope! Eventually the size advantage of the DCFC allows them to take control of the match, but only briefly. They try to double team Richards but he takes both men on and makes it back to his corner, dishing out some punishment along the way. Don’t they know it takes more than two men to stop “The Best in the World Today”? The match begins to break down as all four men get involved. And then it completely breaks down as The Embassy interfere as pay back for the DCFC coming to the aid of SkullKrusher” Rasche Brown last week. Oh well, another week, another unsatisfying DQ finish.
Here is the main event of the evening. These two were partners just a few weeks ago. Now Strong is in the middle of a full blown heel turn. Daniels is on a mission to claim his first ever ROH World Title and tonight is a great opportunity for him to take a step towards that goal. These are two highly skilled wrestlers and it shows early with lots of counter holds by both men. Daniels keeps going for submission maneuvers but Strong isn’t going to give up that easily. He gains the advantage and relentlessly stomps away on Daniels. He makes full use of the referee’s five count as he continues to inflict as much punishment as possible. This new aggressive heel persona suits Strong well. He continues to work the back of Daniels with a merciless array of back breakers, but he cannot put him away. Not even a back breaker on the ring apron is enough to get the win. I guess they don’t call Strong “the messiah of the back breaker” for nothing. Since Roderick can’t seem to finish the job, his “life intervention expert”, Truth Martini takes matters into his own hands by nailing Daniels with the Book of Truth when the referee isn’t looking. Strong then hits a vicious running boot for the win.
This turned out to be a good episode this week after all. It started a little slowly but the American Wolves were very entertaining, as usual, even though the ending to their match wasn’t. And the main event showcased two of the best workers the independents have to offer doing what they do best.

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As busy wedding professionals, you know there are a number of search engine optimization tactics to help your website get found by engaged couples. We talk about SEO often to make sure you’re up to date on the latest strategies, but it’s also important to know what not to do to make sure your business’ website is not being punished by Google!
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As you evaluate your traffic sources, you’ll see how people are referring visitors to your website. Do any of these links look suspicious? If so, their poor SEO value could be affecting your website’s ranking. You can avoid spammy inbound links by always avoiding link farms and directories that provide no other value – these sites can have very poor reputations with Google because they are not selective in which links they choose to list.
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Here's my piece defending New Year's Eve from today's Daily Express.
Can anyone guess who the old misery guts was who wrote 'I am proud that I hate New Year's Eve'- and who assures us he'll be tucked in his bed by 10.30pm tonight?. Here's a clue- he also hates Christmas Day- but does get pleasure from cheering on illegal wars of aggression, (from a safe distance of course).
Yes, it’s that time of the year again when gloomy and misanthropic social commentators dip their pens in acid and explain why they just can’t stand New Year’s Eve. Here’s one in suitably wrist-slitting mood. “To me, there is always an element of sorrow and pity involved, possibly at the idea of a load of idiots celebrating another year wasted, another load of opportunities passed by, another year of life gone”. Another writes: 'I am proud that I hate New Year’s Eve. Every year it serves up the same combination of discomfort, expense and misery…it is quite beyond me how any sentient human being could actually enjoy it’. The author of these words, who claims that his ‘proudest moment’ was going to bed at 10.30pm on December 31st 1999, and who assures us he will be doing the same this year, would no doubt heartily concur with the sentiments expressed in Woody Allen’s 1987 film Radio Days that ‘only creeps and crazy people go out on New Year’s Eve’. Expressing a hatred of New Year’s Eve and everything it stands for seems to have become fashionable in recent years-and there are no doubt millions of Britons who tonight will be long before Big Ben rings in 2006. I, however, will not be one of them. The saying ‘Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up on New Year’s Eve, middle aged is when you’re forced to‘- may hold true for some- but for me- New Year’s Eve is simply the most wonderful night of the year. I have loved New Year‘s Eve ever since, as a seven-year-old, I was allowed to stay up to watch Big Ben chime on television. More than thirty years later, I am just as excited about the coming of this most unique of evenings as I was then. In common with thousands of other ‘creeps and crazy people’, my wife and I will be spending tonight, not in bed with mugs of Horlicks, or in our living room watching Jools Holland and Natasha Kaplinsky usher in 2006 on t.v.- but celebrating New Year’s Eve in the best possible way: in the company of other members of the human race. The idea of celebrating with people you have never met before in your life-is repugnant to our misanthropic New Year’s Eve haters but the genuine camaraderie the night engenders is for me its great attraction. On 31st December 1999, while the gloom-mongers were tucked away in his bed, my wife and I were at a party in an ex-servicemen’s club in central London. Having enjoyed a few dances with the other couples and families present, we started talking with a family group at an adjoining tabel, who on hearing that our son was away in Hungary, insisted on giving us money to phone him to wish him a happy New Year we didn’t own a mobile then). As midnight approached, we made our way across to Trafalgar Square to see Big Ben chime in the millenium and to enjoy twenty minutes of greeting, kissing, and embracing total strangers. The atmosphere in central London that night was quite remarkable and the memories of it will remain with my wife and I for as long as we live. It’s true that for some, the coming of New Year’s Eve is a genuine cause of sadness. The loss of a loved one in the year which is just about to pass is heightened at the very moment the calendar changes. We all know, too, that calls to the Samaritans increase around Christmas and New Year’s Eve and that anyone who is in a bad way is going to feel worse if everyone else in the world appears to be enjoying themselves. Melancholic as the passing of the old year may be, there is every reason to accentuate the positive on New Year’s Eve. However disappointing 2005 was, here’s the perfect opportunity to start afresh. And if 2005 was a good one, let’s try to make the next year, even better. The New Year’s Eve Haters say that it’s all so arbitrary- why should one pay more attention to midnight on the 31st December than 3.47am on 15th April? What utter nonsense! New Year’s Eve denial is a sad business and the pretence that it is ‘just another night’ masks the fact that New Year spooks an awful lot of people. It forces us to take stock, to look back at the year just gone, to think about where we’re going and what we can do to make things better. Could it be that it is this process of self-analysis which the hater really wants to avoid?Whether its taking more exercise, not drinking so much, not being so grumpy in the mornings, or remembering Auntie Maud’s birthday, is there anyone who can say, in all honesty, that there is no aspect of their livesor their behaviour, which they could not improve? But before we can overcome our failings, we must first own up to them, which is why // making New Year‘s resolutions is a good idea. Even if we only keep a couple on our list -the important thing is that we at least have sat down to think about ourselves and our lives in an objective and critical manner. New Year’s Eve may indeed mark the end of one chapter but it also marks the start of another. T.S. Eliot put it beautifully: ‘For last year‘s words belong to last year‘s language/And next year‘s words await another voice/And to make an end is to make a beginning’. Far from being a night on which to take to our beds early, the passing of the old Year- and the coming of the new- really is cause for celebration.
Here's my review on the books 'Neo-Conservatism and Why We Need It' by Douglas Murray and 'Anti-Totalitarianism: the left-wing case for a Neo-Conservative foreign policy' by Oliver Kamm from today's Daily Telegraph.
Did neo-conservatism meet its end in 2005? The collapse of the levees in New Orleans and its exposure of President Bush's policy of paying for wars of intervention abroad, by cutting back on public provision back home, led many thinkers to believe that it had. Douglas Murray and Oliver Kamm are not among them. For these two young British writers, neo-conservatism is not only still alive and kicking- its finest hour is yet to come. Murray, described by historian Andrew Roberts as 'the Right's answer to Michael Moore', believes that the creed of Leo Strauss, Paul Wolfowitz and Irving Kristol should not only be the ideology of a rejuvenated Conservative Party, but of 'any political party committed to the ideals of freedom at home and abroad'. For Murray, neo-conservatism can provide the 'moral and practical answers' to the political and societal malaise of our country. As to the extent of that malaise there can be no dispute: Britain has the highest level of violent crime, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies and one parent families in Europe. But would the neo-con domestic agenda which Murray advocates make things any better? His attacks on welfare dependency, the glorification of misanthropic rap culture and other examples of multicultural idiocy are justified, and his call for 'broken windows' policing, an increase in church schools and for the state to withdraw from its life-long support of single mothers makes plenty of sense. Yet on what is arguably the main cause of 'societal defects' in Britain today- the pernicious effect of uncontrolled consumer capitalism, Murray is strangely silent. The problem for Murray is that economic liberalism -which he likes- fuels social liberalism which he doesn't. If we really want to see happy families promenading together again on Sunday afternoons, we need to erect “Keep Out” signs to stop the encroachment of market forces into areas they have no right to go. This is something which Murray, in his enthusiasm for a low-tax, deregulated economy, is unwilling to do. And when it comes to our political malaise- most visibly demonstrated by our leaders' failure to tell us the truth over Iraq- Murray once again falls short. Murray would have us believe that the government really did think Iraq possessed WMDs, and incredibly castigates Blair, Campbell and co for 'telling the public too much'. But if our leaders did think Iraq possessed the stockpile of chemical and biological weapons the various dossiers claimed- why on earth would they do the one thing which would provoke Saddam to use them? History tells us that countries attack others only when they are sure of their opponent's relative weakness- something one might have expected Murray to have learnt during his years at Oxford. In trying to put the case for “Left-wing” case for war against Iraq, Oliver Kamm is equally unconvincing. Having told us how the principle of deterrence worked so well during the Cold War, he fails to explain adequately why the deterrence of Saddam, which Secretary of State Powell had been lauding only months before 9/11, could not have continued. Kamm has fun baiting the woolly minded peace activists of the 1930s, and the supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament in the 1980s, but is on much shakier ground when trying to portray those who opposed the invasion of secular, Ba’athist Iraq as apologists for Islamo-fascism. In fact, it is the neo-cons themselves who have a track record of siding with Islamic extremists- either in Afghanistan in the 1980s or in the Balkans a decade later. Similarly, while lambasting the “amoral quietism” of the Major government for its non-intervention policy in Bosnia, Kamm fails to inform readers that the Bosnian leader Alija Izetbegovic- whose separatist cause neo-conservatives enthusiastically championed- not only wrote “the first and most important lesson from the Koran is the impossibility of any connection between Islamic and non-Islamic systems”, but also recruited for an SS division in the Second World War. It is difficult to think of a man for whom the term “Islamo-fascist” could be more appropriate - yet that didn't stop arch the neo-con Richard Perle acting as an adviser to Izetbegovic's delegation at the Dayton Peace Conference in 1995. On the issue of terrorism, there are double standards too. Terrorists, according to Murray and Kamm, should be always be condemned wherever they are found- but not it seems if they are the gun-runners, drug-smugglers and civilian-murderers of the Kosovan Liberation Army, on whose side NATO acted, with strong neo-cons approval- as an armed proxy in the war against Yugoslavia in 1999. And amid all their words of praise for Israel, there is nothing from either Murray or Kamm on the role that Zionist terrorism played in that state's foundation. If neo-cons really want us to take their ideas more seriously, a little more consistency- and honesty- is surely called for.
Before we all settle down to watch Scrooge- let's hope that all the self-serving politicians- the warmongers and those journalists who peddle their lies- are visited tonight by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. And that we wake up tomorrow to read that George Bush and Tony Blair publicly acknowledge their lies over Iraq, that Harry's Place has decided to advocate a left-right anti-war alliance and that Stephen Pollard has joined the campaign to release Slobodan Milosevic.
'At least he died enjoying what he did best' -the words of trainer Philip Hobbs on his Champion Hurdle winner Rooster Booster, who collapsed and died while exercising on the gallops.
Am I the only one to feel that on this occasion the oft-repeated words we hear on a racehorse's death somehow have a hollow ring to them? Those of us who defend horse-racing against its many critics don't have our job made any easier by the decision to keep in training a former Champion Hurdler- a horse who had achieved all there was to achieve- up to just days away from his 12th birthday. Amid the tributes to a wonderful horse we should not shy away from asking some awkward questions.
Here's my piece on the merits of cigar clubs from The First Post. These clubs, which are widespread in Europe and the US- but sadly not in Britain- don't have to be exclusive- membership of La Cape D'Epicure is not much more than £100 a year.
France has over 70, Switzerland has 20 and in Berlin there are two for women alone. Yet London, home to eight million people, has none.
While anti-smoking campaigners will no doubt be rejoicing that Britain has missed out on the cigar club culture sweeping Europe and the US, there is, I believe, a good reason to hope that cigar clubs will eventually spring up here too.
The point about these clubs is not so much the smoking, but their underlying philosophy. "Networking" and the exchange of business cards may sometimes play a part, but it is the spirit of epicureanism which predominates. Nowhere more so than at La Cape D'Epicure, a club for les amateurs de cigares, based in northern France.
its members meet not only to smoke and compare notes on cigars, but to enjoy the pleasures of friendship, conversation and good food.
Sadly, the spirit behind La Cape seems to be woefully lacking in modern Britain. Although Epicurus taught that "pleasure is the beginning and end of a happy life", he also emphasised moderation in all things, for the simple reason that excess leads to pain instead of pleasure.
Anyone doubting how far Britain is away from the Greek philosopher's ideal only needs to spend a night out in any of our towns and cities. Binge drinking, and the manic shrieking and undercurrent of violence which usually accompanies it, are not the signs of a society that knows how to enjoy itself - quite the opposite.
Cigar clubs, by contrast, represent cultures that still understand that having a good time does not mean indulging in excess but calmly savouring the things which really make us happy.
Where have all the chickhawks gone?
One week after I issued my challenge to seven prominent pro-war writers and the bloggers at Harry's Place to enlist in the Territorial Army, I have had my first reply, from Mr David Aaronovitch.
Come on you others!- please explain why you will not be answering the T.A.'s call for more recruits.
Here's a great piece on the important of a good night's sleep from today's First Post by William Leith.
For anyone who doubts the thesis, I have just two words: Margaret Thatcher.
I know what you're thinking, because I'm thinking the same thing, too. I'll set the alarm an hour early. Six hours sleep - possibly six and a half, if I can get off immediately - should just about do it. That way, I'll be able to finish everything tonight. I pick up the alarm clock and wind the nasty stumpy little hand a few degrees backwards. And then I lie there for a few seconds, feeling smug.
More and more of us are doing this. We have to work harder, and stay later, and the rush hour is longer. And everybody's solution is the same: reach for the alarm clock. Take the extra hour from the unconscious part of our lives. And of course, it's a vicious circle - when one person works a 10-hour day, everybody else must work a 10-hour day, too, just to keep up. And then the first person winds the stumpy little hand a smidgen further.
So you get more tired. So you drink more coffee. So what's the problem?
Actually, the problem is huge, and extremely sinister. Sleep is not just a chunk of time that you can't remember. It's amazingly complex. Left to sleep naturally, you would typically have five distinct dream sequences, the final one acting as a summing-up of the whole narrative. And dreams, as we know, counteract depression - they wash our minds clean, if you like, of negative feelings.
So that last hour of sleep is the most important bit. It's what keeps us human. It's the bit that keeps you calm when you get stuck in traffic.
If you're thinking of activating that nasty little thing on your bedside table, do us all a favour - don't go there.
They really are quite insatiable. Not content to have hijacked our two main parties- pro-war neo-liberals now want the Liberal Democrats to fall into line. The neo-conservative induced smearing of Charles Kennedy has nothing to do with Kennedy's perceived failings- but the fact that Kennedy stood at the last election on a programme of opposition to the Iraq war, renationalisation of the railways and higher taxes for the wealthy. The pro-war neo-liberals can never forgive him for that- and now want 'regime change' within the Liberal Democrats too. Stephen Pollard in particular seems to be obsessed with the removal of Kennedy- see his piece in yesterday's Daily Mail and in today's Times. Pro-war neo-liberals like Pollard purport to be great believers in 'democracy'- but what they really want is our three main political parties to be saying the same thing on the economy and foreign policy. What kind of democracy is that?
Another year, and still no call from Sue Lawley.
As it's Christmas, time for a little self-indulgence. Here's the twelve records I would take with me to the desert island (I know you're only allowed eight, but it's Christmas!).
Below is my selection ( in no particular order).
What about yours? The Exile, Holocaust Child, Bob, and all our other regular readers-I'd like to hear from you!
The Territorial Army announced today it needs another 7000 volunteer recruits to stem the flow of people leaving the organisation (currently running at 600 a month). The T.A. denies that the Iraq war is having an effect, but it's hard to believe otherwise.
To bolster the numbers of Britain's reservists, I would like to make an open challenge.
ps the challenge is open to Melanie Phillips and Andrew Roberts too.
I wonder how many British readers watched the first episode of BBC2's new series 'The Oligarchs', last night? The sight of robber baron Boris Berezovsky strolling around Riga with Neil Bush, brother of the U.S. President will have shocked many. But the links between Russia's oligarchs and Washington's neo-conservatives go back a long way. Here's a piece I wrote for the NS in 2003 on the unholy alliance between the oligarchs, the neo-cons and Israel's Likud party.
It is well documented that a cabal of Likud-supporting American neoconservatives played an important role in bringing about this year's illegal war against Iraq. What is less well known is the link the group has with the billionaire oligarchs in Russia and how theyare trying to use the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky to harden USpolicy towards Moscow. Richard Perle's gang of regime-changers andadvocates of total war are taking advantage of their disproportionate influence in the western media to portray the arrest of the billionaire businessman as a major international scandal and evidence thatVladimir Putin, a man whose elevation to power they largely welcomedthree years ago, is now the new Stalin. Perle's interest in Russiagoes back a long way. As for most Likudniks of his generation, the Soviet Union was the "evil empire" - not so much for its clampdowns on western-style freedoms, but for the support it gave to secular Arab regimes and its sponsorship of Palestinian liberation movements. Perle helped draft the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment which, to the chagrinof supporters of detente, made US-Soviet trade deals dependent onthe Soviets facilitating Jewish emigration. In the 20 years that followed, more than a million Russian Jews left for Israel, boostingthe electoral prospects of Likud and the far right. This also produced new settlements in the occupied territories, which did much to provoketoday's troubles.
The eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union and the shock therapyof Russia's road to a "market" economy were widely welcomed by Perle and his supporters, even though this led to the impoverishment ofswathes of the population. With the rapid transition to capitalism came the emergence of the oligarchs - seven businessmen who usedtheir connections with the corrupt Yeltsin administration to seize valuable state assets at knockdown prices. In the oligarchs, Perleand his fellow hawks saw a way in which the US and Israel could, by proxy, gain political and economic power in Russia and, by doing so,eventually gain control of enormous energy resources.
But seven years on from the heady days of 1996, when the intervention of the oligarchs and their backers in the west guaranteed re-electionfor the "reformer" Boris Yeltsin, things have gone very wrong. BorisBerezovsky, the "Godfather of the Kremlin", and his fellow oligarchVladimir Gusinsky are both in exile. Earlier this year, Russia'sstubborn holding of its line on Iraq infuriated the neoconservativesand increased their determination to work towards regime change atthe next presidential elections in 2004 - and to accelerate theirplans to secure Russia's energy resources.
Before his arrest, Khodorkovsky had been in talks with US oil companies over a merger with Yukos. Now, with their man in Moscow behind bars,it is time for the neoconservative propaganda war against Putin to go into overdrive. Perle was first out of the blocks, calling for Russia's expulsion from the G8 and its exclusion from any postwarIraq oil contracts, and accusing it of collusion with Iran's nuclearpower programme.
Bruce P Jackson - like Perle a member of the Project for the NewAmerican Century and president of the hawkish Project on Transitional Democracies - used his column in the Washington Post to arguethat Putin had established a "de facto cold war administration inMoscow" and that the Russian president's actions were motivated by anti-Semitism (a claim echoed by Ariel Sharon). "In dollar terms weare witnessing the largest illegal appropriation of Jewish property since the Nazi seizures during the 1930s."
For Jackson, Putin is not just a new tsar and a new Stalin, but a newHitler, too. In Britain, the Daily Telegraph, a paper not known forhanding its comment pages to refugees wanted for criminal activities in their own country, did just that. Boris Berezovsky condemned the"increasing totalitarianism" of the Putin regime.
In the unrelenting pro-Khodorkovsky, anti-Putin propaganda we have beensubjected to, much has been made of the oligarchs' role in buildingRussian "democracy" - as opposed to the crude attempts of the Russianpresident to shunt his country back to the days of Peter the Great. Butthe "democracy" that Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky stand for is the"democracy" of an elite of billionaire businessmen to buy themselves not just political power, but immunity from the laws of the land.
"We hired First Deputy Chubais," Berezovsky boasted in 1997. "Weinvested huge sums of money. We guaranteed Yeltsin's re-election. Now we have the right to occupy government posts and use the fruits ofour victory."
True democracy in Russia would mean not only the return of propertyheld by the oligarchs to their rightful owners - the Russian people -but the formation of a government that puts the needs and interestsof Russia first, rather than those of the US or Israel.
For all their lip-service to the democratic ideal, that is the last thing Richard Perle, the oligarchs and their supporters in the west really want.
believe that 'Islam will dominate the world' and are trying to make it so.
-and, if they get the chance, recruit for divisions of the SS in the Balkans in the 1940s.
ps the answer is not a or b.
Here's my piece from today's Times on why the last thing we want is more consensus politics. We already have far too much!
DAVID CAMERON says he wants an end to “Punch and Judy politics”. But the problem is not that we have too much Punch and Judy politics, but that we don’t have anywhere near enough.
On the biggest issues of the day — from Iraq to globalisation, from law and order to our economic system — both HM Government and HM Opposition have, for the past few years, been singing from the same hymn sheet. And it is this mind-numbing, anti-democratic consensus that is alienating voters; not that there are too many verbal brickbats at PMQs.
It wasn’t always like this. As recently as 1983, voters could still enjoy thrilling Punch and Judy politics and the cut-and-thrust of a real ideological debate. The choice was between the undiluted socialism of Michael Foot’s Labour, with its pledges to remove nuclear missiles from British soil and pull out of the EEC, and the full-blooded neo-liberalism of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives. During the campaign Denis Healey (a wonderful Mr Punch if ever there was one) accused Mrs Thatcher of “glorying in slaughter”; Mr Foot accused Lord Hailsham of “licking Hitler’s jackboots” and Kenny Everett called for Mr Foot’s stick to be kicked away.
The result of the rudest and most knockabout election since 1945 was a turnout of 72 per cent. Contrast that with the last two general elections, in which only 60 per cent voted in sleep-inducing contests between a pro-war, pro-privatisation government and a pro-war, pro- privatisation opposition.
With the election of Mr Cameron, things look like getting a whole lot worse. He not only dislikes Punch and Judy politics, he also thinks the Tories ought to stop “grumbling” about modern Britain. This narrows the debate still further — millions of people feel they have perfectly good reasons to grumble about modern Britain. With a “modernised” Tory party embracing Cool Britannia, who will there be left to speak for the Victor Meldrews?
Rather than extending consensus politics, here’s a better idea. Let’s have Mr Cameron call the Prime Minister a liar who led the country into an illegal and disastrous war. And let’s have Mr Blair retaliate by calling Mr Cameron an out-of-touch Hooray Henry. If it’s democracy we want, that’s the way to do it.
David Cameron, new Tory leader, says he wants an end to 'Punch and Judy' politics. But the problem is not too much 'Punch and Judy' politics in Britain, but not enough. On the biggest issues of the day, both H.M. Government and H.M. Opposition are singing from the same hymn sheet. Both are enthusiastic supporters of the global capitalist system, which puts a price tag on every human value. And both are enthusiastic supporters of the policy of perpetual war-and the use of B52s to make the world safe for western multinationals. This is the reality of 'democracy' in the New World Order- you can have any government or opposition you like, so long as it's neo-liberal and likes cluster bombs.
Here's a brilliant piece from today's Guardian by the consistently excellent Madeline Bunting. A couple of years ago my wife Zsuzsanna wrote a piece for the Guardian entitled 'Goulash and Solidarity' on how much better things were for the majority of people under 'goulash communism' than they are under capitalism.
We're not talking here only about real wages and living standards- but about the feeling of solidarity and warmth between fellow human beings. In the absence of religion or other value systems, capitalism destroys solidarity as sure as night follows day. The aim of the game is to turn us into selfish, acquisitive consumers- spending our whole lives trying to keep up with the Jones. But there is another way. It's called being human.
Consumer capitalism is making us ill - we need a therapy state Britain is becoming unhappier as depression, crime and alcoholism grow.
Having done so much damage to the self-image of Slough in The Office, the BBC had to make amends. So they made a series about trying to make Slough happy. Tomorrow, in the final episode, we get to hear if they succeeded. It has been a cheerful but loopy series that left happiness to be defined by a collection of endearing "experts" indulging their own idiosyncrasies, from dancing in woodland to launching a choir. They didn't achieve their aim (although it didn't stop them from claiming they had) but along the way, they made a fair bid at introducing a mainstream audience to a fascinating emerging territory of public debate.
The funny thing was that, while the series may not have been gripping TV, it ended up making you feel, well, rather happy. It's heart-warming to see a woman who has always hated her voice singing lustily on stage, and to see the 50 volunteers for the project making new friendships and enjoying themselves. It generated the kind of feelgood factor you get from the school summer fete: not a thrill, but a gentle glow.
The hunt for happiness is an ancient human preoccupation, so there is nothing new in all this, but it is being reframed in order to challenge our prevailing political assumptions. The argument starts from the fact that Britain may have got very much richer in the past 40 years but it has not got happier. In fact, by measures such as depression, crime, obesity and alcoholism, we have got very much unhappier. So isn't the preoccupation with rising GDP misplaced? Shouldn't politics be focused around more than just economic growth? Shouldn't politics be as concerned with measures of human happiness?
Second, research has established more clearly than ever what the most likely predictors of happiness are, and there are now proven methods to treat unhappiness - particularly cognitive behavioural therapy which aims to break cycles of negative thinking. Happiness is no longer an elusive fuzzy feeling; a body of data gives us the tools to analyse what it is and what causes it. Happiness has gone respectable, and it's been tagged to intellectual disciplines - the science of happiness, happiness economics - so it will be taken more seriously.
But neuroscientists and psychologists apart, there is an even more pressing reason to take happiness seriously and this is what is grabbing the attention of Whitehall - unhappiness is an expensive business. Most striking is the huge chunk of claimants who are on incapacity benefit because of mental health problems: a whopping 900,000 or 38% of the 2 million total. Mental ill-health is the biggest single cause of incapacity and costs the country an estimated £9bn in lost productivity and benefits. The weight on the NHS is enormous: GPs spend a third of their time on mental health and the prescription cost of drugs is rising.
Plus, there is a whole range of political issues which have roots in mental ill-health, from obesity and alcoholism, to parenting, the respect agenda and antisocial behaviour among children and young people. The combination of incapacity-benefit reform and this "behaviour" politics is giving unprecedented impetus to mental health, the long-time Cinderella of the NHS.
The most dramatic development of the "therapy state" will come with the announcement, expected later this week, of a big increase in the availability of cognitive behavioural therapy on the NHS. But there has been a rash of smaller initiatives as government departments grapple with how to integrate this new dimension into policy. The Department for Education and Skills launched new guidelines earlier this year on the social and emotional aspects of learning (Seal). The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is now proposing to introduce indices of welfare and life satisfaction and how they relate to sustainability.
Most of it is piecemeal and still relatively small-scale, but the old liberal concept that the emotional life of citizens is no business of the state is crumbling. It raises the prospect of a future politics where emotional wellbeing could be as important a remit of state public health policy as our physical wellbeing. In 10 years' time, alongside "five fruit and veg a day", our kids could be chanting comparable mantras for daily emotional wellbeing: do some exercise, do someone a good turn, count your blessings, laugh, savour beauty.
We might also be discussing how to regulate emotional pollution in much the way we now discuss environmental pollution. Top of the list would be advertising, which is bad for our emotional health. It induces dissatisfaction with its invidious comparisons with an affluent elite. Television is not much better for us with its disproportionate volume of violence and fraught relationships. It makes people unhappy, less creative and cuts them off from emotionally healthy activities such as sport or seeing friends. Meanwhile, there would be a strong rationale to increase subsidies for festivals, parks, theatres, community groups, amateur dramatics, choirs, sports clubs and lots of other lovely things.
To some, these kinds of interventions represent a nightmare scenario of a nanny state, an unacceptable interference in personal freedom. If people want to pursue their own unhappiness, then the state has no right to stop them. Critics conjure up the nightmare prospect of Brave New World and its soma-imbibing placid citizens.
But the problem is, as Richard Layard argues in his book Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, that the decline of both religious belief (which is a strong predictor of happiness) and the social solidarity movements of the 20th century has left a vacuum of understanding about what constitutes a good life and how to be happy.
The church has lost sway, and the state has retreated behind the single rationale of promoting economic competitiveness with its overtones of Darwinian selection (a major source of unhappiness in itself with its vision of life as a competitive struggle). That leaves the market a free rein to describe happiness - the new car, new sofa, new holiday - and to manipulate our insecurities around status.
Leave things as they are and the state will increasingly have to pick up the bill for how consumer capitalism effectively produces emotional ill-health - depression, stress, anxiety. Leave things as they are and the state is part of the problem, promoting a set of market values that produce emotional pollution. Take education for example, where the needs of the labour market have been the driving influence for more than a generation. Has the regime of testing, league tables and competitiveness had a cost in emotional health? Layard cites an international study of schoolchildren in which the 11-15 age group were asked whether they agreed that "most students in my class are kind and helpful". England came last of eight developed countries, below Russia.
The huge ambition of the small but growing happiness lobby is that the state resumes a role in promoting the good life, not just to chivvy us along in the global rat race, anxious and insecure.

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K beat the game time for a review.
Graphics 5/5 They might not be the best in quality but they sure are great in design. I especially loved chapter 5.
Gameplay 2.5/5 The thing is the game is too easy. Once you realize you can spam dodge to evade most attack you will be spamming dodge. Also once you get the teapot cannon the game becomes really easy. The only problematic enemy is colossal ruin but it's easy if you just keep your distance and move in with vorpal blade when it's stunned. The 2nd thing is that there is a lot of platforming. I personally don't mind it but some might find it boring. But my main issue with the game that there is only ONE boss in the whole game. Rather disappointing.
Story 3/5 Well it's a nice sequel to the original but for the first 3 chapters the story won't make pretty much any sense. And then you see the plot twist in which I honestly did expected something like that.
Music 4/5 The music is not as awesome as in first one but it's still good. My main problem is chesire's new voice actor. The old one fit him way better.
All in all the game is not that bad but there are few things that could have been done better. They should have worked a bit more on the combats, a bit more weapons and tried to implement more than one boss enemy.
Now for something more fun.
1. Sometimes when you attack an enemy and quickly switch from hobby horse to vorpal blade it is possible for Alice to warp into enemy and just make it disappear.
2: Sometimes the air vents won't function properly and will just float you in one spot without raising you up.
3: Sometimes when you fall off a platform it won't register as a fall and it will make you fall endlessly and in the end it will kill you making you reset to the last checkpoint instead of last platform.
4: When you're shrunk it's possible to get stuck when going up the stairs and sometimes in small objects as well. I had to restart chapter 5 because I got stuck in that fall trough keyhole.
2: The Mad Hatter has a voice actor. How awesome is that?
6: During chapter 5 you can see 3 blind mice on a shelf that look exactly like the mice from Shrek. But I wasn't really sure till I came to a enlarged version during the level and I can confirm that those look exactly like the blind mice from Shrek.
7: During radula room riddles chesire will ask you how are the Red Queen and a typhoon alike which is a ref to Alice 1. Hare asks you that when you get to him in Hatter's asylum.
I loved the game, at times it was very satisfying and the ending was very satisfying.
Graphic quality and design felt a bit inconsistent and dubious at times, although the mood was wonderful most of the time.
The camera was sometimes awful, a primary example being the giant card "executioner" chasing you while camera is in your face and you can't see the road before you, it was horrible.
The story was well done but rather cliche and I totally expected what will happen from the very beginning. The plot never managed to surprise me in any way. Also, the dialogs/script felt a bit forced and I felt it lacked the artistic quality consistency of Alice 1 (not always but often).
I liked the moody ambient music.
Even with all the problems, the game never frustrated me too much (while at the same posing a good amount of challenge) and was overall fun. I enjoyed the lovely insane nightmare and the ending was satisfying as well.
Btw, the battles were still in a way very satisfying and made me feel very powerful while dodging and gradually destroying the swarms of giant enemies.
I see. I do agree on most of those. But I did like that last doll head pinball minigame.
The battles were really easy for me at start because I used the dlc outfit for double damage and weapons.
But I turned off those during halfway of chapter 1 and played with stock weapons. I managed to die only once and it was in that darkness where those shark can om nom nom you.
I generally don't play 3d platformers, only played a few in my life, I remember the first Alice played more like an fps sort of game.
Well at least that's how I remember it.
Also if you really liked Madness Returns you should try to get Psychonauts if you can. That game is really great as well.
I checked it out but I hate the graphic design and the music/sound, and even characters overall. O: And it doesn't look all that similar at all, maybe very slightly in some very limited ways.
Oh? Well they are in my opinion. Well not in the start. But later. The game gets quite crazy.
Still, I'm sorry to say the graphic, music, and the characters are too much of a turnoff for me.
I'm still currently playing it, got interrupted byfree tf2 tho, so far i'm enjoying it a lot.
wish I could get it.
It's free, why wouldn't you able to get it?

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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The ViewClix team attended the recent Florida Senior Living Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. At the show, attendees were able to get an up close look at the ViewClix Smart Frame in action.
Rob Ranck, the President ViewClix, explains the challenges he faced when trying to stay connected to his senior parents across the country and how that struggle inspired ViewClix, a simple way to stay in contact with seniors that doesn't require them to learn any new technology.
Portland, Oregon, January 25, 2017: ViewClix LLC (www.viewclix.com) today announced availability of the ViewClix Smart Frame, the first video plus picture frame that's designed specifically to help seniors and families stay connected.
An important article was recently published in the New York Times entitled, "How Social Isolation Is Killing Us", (NY Times, Dec. 22, 2016). The article outlines that an increasing number of studies have indicated that more seniors are living alone and that has numerous negative effects on health and well-being.
The ViewClix Smart Frame was designed specifically to help families connect with seniors and its constant visual communications provide a great way to combat loneliness.

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Hello everyone I hope your week is going well and very positive.beautiful weather here on the west coast of Florida we are in the mid 70's sunny and just so nice.
I used my denim Blue Burlap Poinsettias from Crop Stop.
a white and Blue tag, bakers twine, cream lace .
I sewed around the edge of the Mitten with white thread. and added a piece of twine.
Thank you for visiting my blog today it is always a Blessing and Honor to have you stop by. I'd love to have you become a follower of my blog and I would be happy to do the same for you. I always enjoy making new blog friends.
Oh how fun!! You made a mitten card too!! Love your lace, flower, banner, and twine hanger!! Thanks for linking your work to the CropStop Blog!!
This is super cute, Dottie. I can tell that you struggled a bit in sewing those rounded corners. I always have a hard time going around curves with my sewing machine also. You did an adorable job. I forgot to use my mitten die-cut this winter. I might need to pull it out this week. You've inspired me!
Have a blessed week and thanks again for sharing with us.
P.S. i also wanted to let you know that you could share this project over at Paper Sweeties if you'd like. The inspiration photo is snowmen, winter, etc. You could link up there as well if you like.

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Our standee kits have become a holiday favorite with our customers. So much so that we couldn't resist adding more to the line this year. This kit contains 6 wonderful images of Father Christmas and sleigh, donkey, horse etc. They are printed on high quality archival paper and laser cut. In addition, each piece has it's own sturdy backer board, also laser cut and a small wooden stand. All you need to do is add a bit of glitter if desired, glue the artwork to the board, and attach the stand.
Because of the great details in these pieces of artwork, I have made these standees a bit larger so that they can be fully enjoyed. These average 1 " or less in height but the horizontal pieces can be as large a 1 3/8" wide.


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Unapologetic paceman Jimmy Anderson has admitted England doctored pitches during their Ashes upset - and called for more of it in the future.
The Ashes pitches became a talking point as the series wore on and all five Tests were wrapped up inside four days - with fixtures at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge threatening to be two-day affairs.
Michael Clarke used his final press conference as an Australian captain to detail his problems with the wickets which had been prepared.
Throughout the 3-2 series victory, England captain Alastair Cook and coach Trevor Bayliss steadfastly denied any involvement in the preparation of wickets this series.
However, Anderson not only admitted England were in the ear of groundsmen, but said it is something they had not done enough of in the past.
"I think there's certainly an element where we should've done it more in the past (and) we should it do it more in the future," Anderson said in a live panel discussion streamed on the Breathe Sport website.
Anderson also accused Australia and India of leading the way in that regard.
"When we go to Australia, they prepare the pitches to suit their team. When we go to India, the same thing happens," he said.
"Even if we did (doctor pitches), everyone else in the whole world prepares pitches to give them home advantage and I don't see why it should be any different here.
"We should prepare pitches that suit us.
"All the game, at some stage, guys got runs - even the game where (Stuart Broad) bowled them out for 60 (at Trent Bridge), we then batted on it and got a decent total.
"It wasn't as if it was unplayable."


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A great group closed out 2018 with a climb of Round Top via the West Ridge on Saturday, December 29th.
A beautiful day turned to high winds as we ascended the base of the ridge. We took a break behind some rocks just below the summit, preparing ourselves for a quick dash to the summit in blowing wind. But then it died!
We had great views, some snacks on the summit, took some photos, and headed back. The trip was about six hours car-to-car.

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Ariana Grande's new album, Thank U, Next, has arrived, showing us a more savage and more extra version of Ari than we got on her last album, Sweetener, which only dropped just six months ago. Perhaps the best example of that is the cut, "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored," which exudes shade and savagery in the title alone. It's also the final song in the 12-track album, which could be a statement in and of itself.
Ever since Grande revealed the song title at the end of January, fans have been theorizing who the subject could be. (Some even wondered if it was about her ex, Big Sean.) Although she hasn't named names, she did explain that her boredom is legit: "man....... forreal. i'm bored bored," she tweeted after revealing the track list.
Grande also shared a music video for the track, starring Riverdale's Charles Melton and actress Ariel Yasmine, who plays an Ari lookalike.
Stream Grande's Thank U, Next album in full here.
See the Lyrics to Ariana Grande's "NASA"
Kris Jenner Surprise Appearance in "Thank U, Next"

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We'll discuss the benefits of creating a deeply aerated soil and touch briefly on the importance of microbes in the soil.
We will also be demonstrating the technique we use in deep soil preparation: double digging! After demonstration participants will have the opportunity to practice the technique.

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I think it just needs MagickImageProxy::image to be extended to use ShortPixel if required; the tricky part is knowing the bit depth without reading the image into memory; probably needs to be found by the examiner and passed down that way. Otherwise you need to create a Magick::Image just to get the bit depth (it seems) which gets fiddly quite fast.
is that in 2.13.x only? Does it mean DCP-o-matic does no handle >8bit images in their native bit depth?
What about 10 or 12 bit video files.?
@carl or maybe just use FFmpeg.
It has never done > 8-bit image files in their native depth. Video files should be OK.
@carl: the existing FFmpeg code can load (e.g.) PNGs with no modification; the only question is how to sustain the existing image file / sequence behaviour. With FFmpegDecoder you get a 1-frame-length video.
It has never done > 8-bit image files in their native depth.
But that would have been true for images sequences as well, as the notorious 12Bit XYZ, or DPX sequences?
JPEG2000 image files are special-cased, but DPX, yes.
Should be fixed by using FFmpeg for images in 2.13.61 and above.


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I mentioned at the February meeting that Jon Crosby and I need volunteers on short notice to help finish clearing the Dancers Lane cycle path of bramble and black thorn. Your help is needed for Saturday, 23 March – please let me know if you can make it. We need 10 volunteers.
I am asking if the BCC will cover the costs of sandwiches, coffees, etc. back at the S. Mimms Services, which is just up from the work area. I can confirm this in my email to volunteers.
Has the concept of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood reached a turning point that will see it going from a fringe idea to a national or international movement? Will 90 years of car-oriented development now begin to be rolled back? The 100 strong turn-out at the excellent UDG-London Living Streets event on 31 Jan 2019, attended by Peter Hale and Charles Harvey, would seem to suggest that the moment has come.
Chris Martin from Urban Movement opened the event by illustrating two diametrically different approaches to urban design, firstly, a road traffic interchange in Huston, Texas, and secondly the entire urban core of Florence, which would fit comfortably within it. Points that he covered included the need to work with local people to identify and agree traffic cells, the connecting quiet streets, which streets will form the main traffic routes and which of these will need to be improved to become boulevards. Providing safe crossings where the link streets cross main traffic routes was essential.
Fran Graham from the London Cycling Campaign, argued that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods were an effective response to the impact of Satnav, Google maps, Waze etc which has led to increased through-traffic disrupting residential areas in the search for quicker, congestion free routes. Turning to cycling, she indicated that traffic levels as low as 2000, 1500, or 1000 PCU per day were preferred to enable safe cycling (PCU – Passenger Car Unit ) This is on a par with Manual for Streets which cites 100 vehicles per hour peak flow as a threshold level below which pedestrians will share highway space with motorists, and above which they will tend to treat the general path taken by motor vehicles as a ‘road’ to be crossed rather than as a space to occupy.
Rachel Aldred, for the University of Westminster discussed the research available to date. The Mini Holland schemes had been assessed comparing areas with interventions with control areas where no changes had been made. The results were positive with a notable increase in active travel in year 1, which continued into year 2 where there was a recorded reduction in car use. A scheme in Hounslow which involved no more than 2 planters had led new pedestrian and cycle journeys being made, amounting to a £500,000 health benefit. There were Equality Act reasons for considering low traffic neighbourhoods. The statistics showed that disabled pedestrians suffered 4-5 times more injuries from motor vehicles per kilometre than the general population.
· Using ped-sheds to get a far more accurate view of walkability than just drawing a circle around a point.
· School streets are valuable but more is needed – children do more than just go to school.
This publication provides plenty of detailed information on the physical measures that can be applied, as well as a series of steps to follow to take a scheme from an idea to a safer, cleaner, healthier and more social environment.
This response to the consultation is from (Barnet Cyclists), the local borough group of London Cycling Campaign (LCC). We represent the interests of cyclists living or working in Barnet and aim to expand the opportunities for all to cycle safely in the borough.
The draft plan in its current form does not fully address the issues faced by Barnet, in particular the lack of safe space for cycling on direct routes and within neighbourhoods.
Our response identifies further challenges and opportunities, focuses on why the borough transport objectives are not sufficiently robust to achieve the desired shift to walking, cycling and public transport set by the Mayor’s Transport Strategy up to 2041, and suggests further measures and targets.
The council are gathering views until Sunday 9th December on what their transport priorities should be over the next 3 years and looking forward to 2041.
You may wish to focus on your top 3 priorities for your part of Barnet and what you would like to happen. Don’t be put off by the 110-page consultation document – a lot is just copied from the TfL strategy. Look in particular at the delivery plan starting on page 62 and the long terms aims on page 80 to see what they are actually proposing or not proposing.
We have been approached by an organisation called THOCH (The Hope of Childs Hill). It runs a bike project at Basing Hill Park (Between Wayside NW11 and the Hendon Way NW2) with professional instructors and help from local volunteers. It teaches basic cycling skills to both adults and children. Times are: 12-2 Saturdays and 2-4 Sundays. They would like help with basic cycle maintenance and leading easy local rides for adults.
020 8455 5174 / 07961 194 771.
I feel it’s the sort of organisation Barnet Cyclists should be supporting. You wouldn’t be expected to make a regular commitment. You can turn up and help as and when you can.

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A piece of New Zealand history… for only 685K!
Our reader Caroline Glass contributed this visual symphony of 3 bicycles, an unspecified number of cars and heaps of concrete. Thanksalotta, Caroline! Another victim member of our steadily growing “Nest-besmircher Network”.
Photo © 2011 Caroline Glass.
The plot thickens: suspicious resemblances between Twizel’s vivacious village center, masterly captured by the one and only Paul Roper-Gee, and this piece of evidence.
Conspiracy experts might also enjoy the fairly spooky triple-exposure effect.
Photo © 2011 Paul Roper-Gee. Original here.
After the tragic death of the Phar Lap, his fans and the racing fraternity ennobled the memory of the champion gelding by sending his arse back to Australia, keeping his bones in New Zealand, and exporting his shoes to the Philippines. A thoroughbred, a complete horsey, bossing the track and strutting proud and free in his domain: this image could not be complete without a statue of a frozen horse riding a goods lift up towards heaven. Travel well, wonder horse.
Another more-than-just-exquisite guest post by the valorous designer, teacher and author Alex Gilks, accompanying this magical shot by the sensational Grant Dommen.
Photo © 2011 Grant Dommen. Original here.
The Beauty of Magic Water. And Concrete.
This shot is easily amongst the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. What is it doing here then, you ask? Told ya this project would slowly shape shift to “http://themostbeautifulshitunderthesun.com”, didn’t I?
This stunning photographic extravaganza was captured by the indomitable Paul Roper-Gee. Thanks so much, Paul!
Another masterpiece from the sensational Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. This time starring the typeface “Fence Sans Serif“ and documenting a message from a higher entidy.
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. Originals here and here.
Life’s a beech. This photo, on the contrary, is greet!
Thanks to the breethtaking Emily Walker.
Miniature railway proudly powered by the The Hutt Valley Model Engineering Society, Marine Parade, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand. Every Sunday from 1—4 pm, weather permitting (uh-oh…).
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Emily Walker. Original here.
Whenever european architects mess up so badly that more than a dozen people get injured or killed, they are exiled to New Zealand. Where they do stuff like this.
A big thanks to the bodacious Kristina D.C. Hoeppner for providing all these gems under a Creative Commons license! It feels good to act legally from time to time!
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. Original here.
Since 2007, an individual disguised as “Lazy Aussie” runs a site devoted to the mockery of Australia’s Perth and its – more or less global – surroundings: The Worst of Perth.
Kiwis seem to like are seemingly able to endure a lot when it comes to monuments. Every 50 metre there is some preposterious pile of rubble or twisted DIY-artwork with clumsily attached plaques well-meaning monument, reminding passer-bys of this or that. Those lost to the sea in this case, undeniably a serious and worthwile cause.
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From master anthologist Ellen Datlow comes an all-original of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" and "What Alice Found There".
I give this book 3 1/2 stars. This is a book I do think I'll reread and I do know that there were a couple of stories I wish were expounded into full series. I don't want to say which of those I enjoyed the most as I do think you need to explore this book as I did... knowing it would be fantastical and dark but not knowing which direction it would take.
Anthologies can always be so hard, they really are hit and miss on the stories inside. Glad there were some good ones though!
I think that most are hit and miss. This one was interesting!
I don't read many anthologies but I like that this one uses Alice as a central theme. That's a neat way to tie the stories together and it seems like there's so much one could do with Alice. ;) I'm glad you enjoyed this overall, Melissa.
In a way, Alice is perfect for an anthology if you think about it. So many ways to go with a story.
Anthologies are tough but when you find a hidden gem...and it's a ood way to discover new authors.
Anthologies are always a bit hit or miss, but I think they are fun. I'm glad you found some stories that you really loved in this one.
I agree! This one had a few great ones in it.
EVen though anthologies are hit and miss it is always nice to discover new authors and series you want to try.
Sometimes i find new authors this way. I hope McGuire publishes here story separately later.
ouch I don't have much luck with anthologies myself always end up skimming most of it, glad to hear that some of the authors had really good parts!
I always have a hit and miss luck with them so I don't mind anthologies at all.
I don't often either but I usually find a few in them I enjoy.
yeah. that's the thing with anthologies; in as much as you get variation, it doesn't guarantee you that you'll enjoy all of them. Did you have a favourite besides the one Ms. McGuire wrote?
I agree with your thoughts about anthologies; although, they are a great way to sample writing by a mixture of authors in one go.
I think that is why I like them most of all.
Anthologies are so hit or miss, but it's such a great way to discover new authors. I'm glad you found some here you really enjoyed! Great review.
What a unique concept for an anthology! I'm glad you enjoyed this one :) Thanks for sharing!
I thought so as well. Thanks!
Well when it leaves you thinking you'll reread at some point it's a good thing :) sounds like some were really nicely done!
I think so. It was crazy here so I'm sure I missed something.
I'm not sure if my comment went through, if so sorry for the double. :) I think this looks pretty good, I've liked McGuire's stuff so I'd be curious about hers at the very least.
No double! :) There were a couple of interesting ideas you might really like!
Okay, this looks like an anthology I should try.
Anthologies ARE such a mixed bag and that's why I'm not generally a fan. The stories you like you wish were longer and those you like less you wish weren't there at all. But I still keep reading them!
I like anthologies. I think it's because you get a bunch of novellas and the book is therefore in bite sized chunks and you can get to the conclusion of each story in a single sitting.
I've never read anything by McGuire, but maybe I should! Though they tend to be uneven, I love discovering new authors by reading anthologies and short story collections.
Glad there were some good ones in this anthology, that cover is creepy!
I like them for that reason as well. I'm just surprised there aren't more in the Alice universe. Does seem perfect for more anthologies like this one.
Library? Might be a way to try them out!
I do love dark stories (and horror), but personally I'm not a fan of anthologies. It's just so hard for me to get into short stories, knowing they won't be given enough time to develop into full ones.
Oh but a author that can tell a good short story (completely not a novella in a series) is someone who really can write!
I don't think this is for me! I love that you were able to discover some stories you enjoyed (even if you wish they had been expanded on). It's nice to discover new things! This cover is a little scary, though!
Not everyone likes an anthology! :) I do like them for the discovery.
Oh I think you'd like this one Mel!
I do love the cover to this anthology! I'm glad you enjoyed most of the stories.

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The War Museum of Thessaloniki (Greek: Πολεμικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης) is a military museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Thessaloniki War Museum opened its doors to the public in October 2000. It is housed in the building designed by architect Vitaliano Posseli and erected between 1900 and 1902.
The museum’s mission is to act as a base in Northern Greece for events organized by the War Museum in Athens and to help preserve historical memory and heritage in Northern Greece. Through its permanent exhibitions and various dedicatory exhibitions, the museum emphasizes the continuation of the Hellenic race throughout history, while simultaneously contributing to the documentation of the history of Greece at war.
The permanent collections show events which were a watershed in Modern Greek history from the turn of the 20th century to the liberation of Greece from German forces at the end of World War II. They include photographs of the times, Greek army, air force and navy uniforms, weapons of the Greek army, replicas of artillery and ships, works of art, stone engravings, maps, paintings, postcards, and similar items from the armies of other Balkan countries.
These exhibits give insight to the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Asia Minor Campaign, the Greco-Italian War, the Battle of the Forts in eastern Macedonia, the Battle of Crete, the Occupation and the Resistance, the part played by Greek forces in Allied action in North Africa, Italy and Normandy, as well as the liberation from the forces of occupation.
Outdoor, in front of the museum exhibits are arranged armored vehicles, artillery guns of different years, aircraft and torpedoes.
Visit all halls of War Museum of Thessaloniki (Greece) museum and learn story of each exhibit. ou don't need to go to another country, plan time for visiting and jostle with other visitors. Visit museums in calm environment near your computer.


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Chemical Machining works well for small proto-type work and large production runs. Low cost tooling, quick turnaround and easy revision change.
Italix is in the business of providing precision thin metal parts. Our primary service is Chemical Milling; some times referred to as Photoetching, Chemical Machining, Phototchemical Machining or PCM.
Besides etching we offer many secondary operations such as precision forming, heat-treating, plating, clean room packaging and more. This allows orders to be shipped complete to print.


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From US 101: Take the Central San Rafael Exit and turn west onto 3rd Street. Follow 3rd Street west through San Rafael and bear right at the San Anselmo hub onto Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Follow Drake Blvd. all the way through San Anselmo and Fairfax. We are approximately 7 miles west of Fairfax town center. When you see the turn off for the San Geronimo Golf Course, keep going for another 1/4 mile. Turn right into the first parking just before the events marquee.
From US 1: At Olema turn onto Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Continue on Drake Blvd. for approx. 9.5 miles, through Samuel P. Taylor State Park and the towns of Lagunitas and Forest Knolls. Just after the school crossing, look for our events marquee. The parking lot entrance will be just beyond, on your left.


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Rebrand Media prides itself in producing videos for some of the biggest fashion events in Charlotte.
Looking to create an visual online experience focused on providing a preview of your brand and space?
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The Horned Fox has three possible spawn locations in the Minotaur Tower which can be entered here.
He can spawn in the 3d floor of the Minotaur Tower, as well as the West end of -1 and South end of -2.
There is also a guaranteed chance of meeting him if you finish the minotaur task in the Turmoil of War Quest.
Found in Minotaur Mountain (West of Mines in Kazordoon Dwarf). You can kill him to complete a task of Turmoil of War Quest.


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I have to admit, I had given up on finding a game that could keep my ADHD mind interested enough to play it for days on end. But thanks to my boyfriend who added Prototype to my Gamefly queue, I was able to waste a few hours of my life without regret.
And the only logical subsequent train of thought had to be “I wonder how long this is going to last…” and soon enough I had my answer. All right. So after the intro you end up playing Alex Mercer at the beginning of his adventure with a significant reduction in available powers. This is the usual “Here’s a taste of what you COULD have if you keep playing the game” but I have to honestly say that the start-up powers aren’t that bad. By forcing you to have to learn your powers slowly throughout the game you definitely tend to remember how to use the moves more thoroughly as opposed to being thrown in the game with a huge arsenal and having to remember them all at once. In fact, at the beginning I only managed to use three or four powers because I wasn’t aware of all of the other ones I could have used.
So, without spoiling the game for anyone that hasn’t played it, I am going to give you a little review.
One of the first things that kept me going was the awesome powers available and the horrible things you can do with them. I enjoyed slashing or absorbing random pedestrians, policemen and helicopter pilots. It was quite satisfying to grab someone by the neck and then drag them up to the top of a building to then fling them off from the highest point down to their doom. I really enjoyed going down after the body as it was flailing through the air to see if I could find it before it hit the ground. It was quite addicting to bash through cars, trucks and playgrounds in shield mode while watching people flying up into the air or dashing through the streets hopping from car to car and quickly running up a wall and then go from building to building. Ok, honestly, I mostly enjoyed terrorizing the city instead of completing missions but who hasn’t spent hours on GTA stealing cars, crashing them and trying to kill as many people as possible?
I did like to infiltrate the police stations and learn needed skills by absorbing those people with a DNA symbol above them. Once you absorb everyone you need to then you can proceed to kill everyone else and take down their defenses for a while. Hijacking vehicles such as helicopters and tanks is actually very useful and enjoyable especially when you have to take down other vehicles.
As for the missions, they weren’t too bad. A bit repetitive but were still pretty challenging. As long as you keep upgrading or getting new abilities you should be able to finish the missions pretty quickly — but be ready to have a very sore right index finger. I found myself having to dash almost all the time, if it wasn’t because I was being chased by the military, it was because I was being chased by a zombie mutant (or chasing them in some cases). I often had to switch to my middle finger while holding down the trigger because of sharp pains shooting through my finger joints but at least the game didn’t cause any kind of physical damage like the infamous Mario Party thumb stick palm blister.
One thing some people seem to complain about is that it is hard to stay incognito while walking around the streets especially farther into the game. Often times the task force is deployed which results in Alex having to interrupt what he was doing and hide. I have to say I never had any issues myself since I always wandered around in the form of a pedestrian. You can get away with a lot before the police notice you. Just make sure you don’t absorb, or kill or destroy anything around any authorities. You can safely dash through the street and even hop on cars and run up walls without inciting much suspicion. Even if you do end up with the task force after you, it isn’t that hard to get away from them as long as you climb up as high as you can and then quickly drop back down in a relatively enclosed area like an alley and quickly switch to another form as soon as the icon tells you to. Another complaint that people seem to have is that the graphics aren’t that great. I am actually pretty impressed considering you have a lot of things to explore.
All and all, this game was fun and has some re-play value. The story line was the usual zombie/secret weapon plot and didn’t bring much to the table that hadn’t already been brought by other games such as Resident Evil but it was good enough to keep me engaged. I might not have been as critical of the game as IGN, but I honestly enjoyed this game and was happy to have found something that maintained my interest for that long. I’m still more of an old school gamer — I definitely enjoy the classics from the Megadrive (Genesis) and Nintendo/Super Nintendo a lot more than any pretty face the next generation consoles have to offer, but I just can’ t just use my Xbox for movies and TV shows only. It would be sort of a waste of a 47 inch 1080p HD television if I didn’t play any games on it, wouldn’t it?
I wouldn’t buy the game, but it is perfect to rent — and quite therapeutic.


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“Hot Press” is the always anticipated full-color newsletter published bi-monthly by NWWS and sent directly to the in-box of all members in good standing. It is filled with current news, artist interviews, important information, event notices, and much more.
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November 27 - Daniel Smith Store/Seattle: November Splash KATE BARBER, MARY SCHUMAKER, ERIC WIEGARDT & LOIS YOSHIDA. There is no December Meeting.
May 29 - Daniel Smith Store/Seattle; Carla O’Connor. Article: Watercolor Essentials, Putting it in Perspective by Donald W. Patterson.
Mar 27 - Daniel Smith Store/Seattle;Maria Coryell-Martin. Apr 24 - St. Andrews/Bellevue; Mark Mehaffey. Article: The Value of Watercolor by Laurin McCracken.
Jan 23 - Daniel Smith Store/Seattle; Eric Lin; Pizza & Paint. Feb 27 - St. Andrews/Bellevue; Digital Slideshow; Logo Design Submission; Signature Show Special Recognition Recipients; Waterworks 2017 Awards; Watercolor Reading List by Jeff Waters.
Nov 28 - November Splash - Jean Pratt Beouy, Molly Murrah, Joe Mac Kechnie and Cheryl Schmardebeck; No December Meeting; "Watercolor Portraits on DANIEL SMITH Iridescent Gold Watercolor Ground" by Molly Murrah; 78th Annual International Open Exhibition - Prospectus available online Nov 12.
Nov 24 - Demo-Molly Murrah; December - No Meeting; NWWS Shines in New Cascadia Art Museum.
Sept 22 - Demo-Bev Wozwiak; Oct 27 - Demo-Eric Wiegardt; Northwest Watercolor Society Members and Guests Are Invited to an Extraordinary Grand Opening of a New Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington!
Jan 27 - Demo-Mareth Curtis-Warren; Feb 24 - Demo Joe Mac Kechnie; Featured Artist - Thomas Schaller on "Light"
May 27 Demo-Anna Roedel; June - No meeting; Waterworks Prospectus.
Jan 28 Demo-Carla O'Connor; NWWS Paint-Out by Shirley Jordan; The Competition by Eric Wiegardt.
Step-by-Step Art Lesson by Soon Y. Warren; Interview with Artist Paul Jackson.
"The Business of Being an Artist-2" by Charlene Collins Freeman; Interview with Artist Nicholas Simmons.
"The Business of Being an Artist-1" by Charlene Collins Freeman; Interview with Artist Mary Whyte.
May 28 Demo-Lola K. Deaton; Interview with an Artist-Carla O'Connor.
March 26 Demo-Molly LeMaster; April 23 Demo-Mark Mehaffey; Interview with Artist Jeannie McGuire.
Jan 22 Demo-Kay Barnes; Feb 26 Demo-Cindy Briggs & Theresa Goesling; Interview with Artist Earnest Ward.
Nov Demo-Catherine Gill Nov 27; No Dec Meeting. Interview with Artist Charles Reid.
January Kathy Collins Demonstrator – Loose paintings done quickly - February Slide show of 2011-12 exhibition entries. Watercolor Reading List by Jeff Waters.
November - Dotti Burton, Demonstrator – Abstract watercolor and acrylics; No General Meeting in December – Enjoy this magical season!


text: Women subjected to domestic violence are disserved by the civil domestic violence laws that should effectively address and redress their harms. The Civil Protective Order [CPO] laws should remedy all domestic abuse and not solely physical violence or criminal acts. All forms of abuse, including psychological, emotional, economic and physical abuse, cause severe emotional distress, physical harm, isolation, sustained fear, intimidation, poverty, degradation, humiliation, and coerced loss of autonomy. Moreover, all abuse is interrelated, because, as researchers have demonstrated, most domestic violence is the fundamental operation of systemic oppression through the exertion of power and control. Given the effectiveness of CPOs in rebalancing the power in a relationship and decreasing abuse, this remedy should be available to all women subjected to domestic violence. This article proposes recrafting the civil law to provide a remedy for all harms of domestic violence and its operation of systemic power and control over women. Re-centering the narrative of domestic violence on this oppression rather than merely physical violence and criminal acts underscores the critical role of women’s agency and autonomy in legally remedying domestic violence, a role that is too often ignored by outside actors who choose to “save” women’s lives rather than effectuate women’s choices around the abuse in their relationships.

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