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Despite having this big plan of moving in and being super organised and tidy and minimalist I am still living in piles of stuff and lots of muddled mess.
My mum offered to come round this Sunday morning to help us out and to spend time with the boys. However as the weather was so nice I suggested us going out to the local Owl Sanctuary and to the adjoining indoor flea market and antiques shop.
I had this thought of putting a new unit in my lounge to put my hi-fi on but was quite specific with what I wanted and what I had in mind.
We had a look at the ducks, turkeys, guinea pigs and owls and then looked in the antiques shop.
Although I didn't find exactly what I had gone there for on that day, I did find a painted, old ladder which I am now using in my bathroom as a towel rail, and also a dressing table style mirror which had also been painted up, so I was pleased with my purchases.
My mum treated us to an ice cream and we drove home so she could get back to her house.
After this I went shopping with the boys. We popped to get some bits for dinner and also needed to get food for lunch which we decided would be a picky lunch. It was a lovely lunch we went for and both boys ended up trying something new which was good!
We had then planned to watch a film together but both boys were engrossed in their tablets and I ended up having a nap on the sofa.
The rest of the night was dinner, bath, and bed routine and pretty relaxed. I went to bed early as I was shattered, even though we hadn't really done anything too busy.


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Four days after the closure of the border in Röszke, the Hungarian government found itself on the defensive again. From Friday the 19th of September, thousands of refugees and migrants were transported in trains or buses from Tovarnik or Opatovac towards the non-secured sections of the Hungarian border. In the following four weeks – against all rules and regulations and bashfully concealed by Orbán – a migratory route opened across the green border. During these four weeks, three to four Hungarian special trains transported the refugees and migrants without further registration to the Austrian border in Hegyeshalom, at the crossing to Nickelsdorf. At the same time, the Hungarian government began to hastily construct another fence at the sensitive sections of the Croatian-Hungarian border. In the end, just as during the previous month in Röszke, 4.000 refugees per day squeezed through the remaining small hole.
More than 200.000 people were brought to Hungary between the closure of the Röszke border and the closure of the hole in the fence. The UNHCR infographic demonstrates that the vast majority of migrants passed via Serbia and Croatia through the green border to Hungary, while the passages through Slovenia remained in the low double-digits until 17th October 2015.
It remains unknown how and through which channels the tacit agreement between Croatia, Hungary, Austria and Germany was reached during the hectic days between September 14 and September 18. The skills of the Austrian diplomacy, with their sensitivity for the instabilities and animosities between the states of the former Yugoslavia, can be assumed to have played an important role. All actors involved were aware that any bottlenecks on the route could lead to riots and unpleasant images in the world press, of which more than enough were already circulating.
The state authorities – police and soldiers in riot gear – who were not able to stop the people on the move, alternatively made use of their martial threat potential to at least make them line up in rows of two. The breakthrough in Gevgelija on 22 August, the March of Hope on 4 September, the militancy in Röszke and the breakthrough in Tovarnik on the following day were not the only important features marking the strength of this movement and the creation of the temporary possibility of quasi free passage. The successive numbers of migrants, who came to Greece via the Aegean – more than 7.000 per day in October and in November more than 6000 – simultaneously carried particular significance.
In the meantime, Greece had established a regular ferry connection from Lesvos and the other arrival islands in the Aegean to the port of Piraeus, and was deploying buses for the quick onward transport of the migrants from Piraeus to Idomeni. In Gevgelija, on the other side of the Greek-Macedonian border, around four or five trains per day were going across Macedonia to the Serbian border. The journey took three hours for 180km and was then followed by another 8km across the border to Presevo. There, chains of buses were accumulating for the northward transport to Sid. Once there, another 2km by foot through mud and corn fields awaited the people in order to cross the border to Croatia. In Croatia, they were received by Croatian police and escorted to the buses to Opatovac.
It was a surreal situation and probably nothing could express more the power of the ongoing refugee movement and the fear of governments of these struggles: more than 1600 refugees were transported last Saturday night at 10 p.m. to the little train station of Botovo. It lies outside the small village of Croatia and is very close to the Hungarian border. A lot of policemen, volunteer fire fighters, red cross personnel and about 150 activists from the open border caravan were expecting them. Hundreds of young people mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, but also many families with hundreds of children, very old people, even handicapped persons with wheelchairs left the extratrain, which was ordered by the Croatian government. Most of the refugees were held in a Croatian camp before, in Opatovac near the Serbian border, after having arrived by boat on the Greek islands and having gone through northern Greece, Macedonia and Serbia. Now they were facing a very strange border crossing. First they met local supporters and activists from the open border caravan and they were offered drinks, food and clothes (and information such as the w2eu-visitor cards) on the street, which looked like a night bazar. Then, escorted by the Croatian police, these 1650 refugees were led through a small dark forest to the green border of Hungary. Barbed wire was everywhere at the borderline, but the armed hungarian soldiers opened a small path through this fence and the refugees were asked to cross it with not more than two persons beside each other. Finally the hungarian soldiers escorted them through a field to another train, which was waiting nearby with 20 wagons. From a small group of hungarian supporters the refugees received some more food through the windows.
Nobody could imagine, that bureaucratic states can become so creative and even organize transport through their green borders to avoid the struggle of refugees. They obviously learned from two earlier experiences: first in Macedonia at the border to Greece the military had to withdraw their forces after the refugees did not stop their protests and stormed the provisional fences. A huge media attention was given and the pictures were in all news, when soldiers have beaten refugee families with their children.
Hardly to imagine, that the governments in Austria and Germany did not know about the stately organised border-smuggling between Croatia and Hungary. And this means, that the whole european borderregime appears now more helpless and chaotic as ever before.
When will Budapest shut the borders?
The Balkan route no longer dominates the headlines, but only because Hungary has temporarily given up on trying to stop the movement of migrants. With the closure of the border to Serbia and the coming into force of massively tightened border regulations in mid September, the number of entries plummeted, but only for a few days. Now, the refugees travel via Croatia, where the authorities transport them immediately to the Hungarian border. Since the emergence of this new route, Hungary started to construct another fence. According to the Hungarian chancellery minister Janos Lazar, the fence is 99% finished. Provisionally, the entry of asylum seekers is tolerated, and lately around 6000 persons entered per day. They are transported to the border with Austria.
However, the coming to an end of this routine is just a question of time. In the domain of interior policy, it is difficult for Orban’s government to explain why considerable effort is being invested into securing the borders against allegedly dangerous people fleeing due to economic reasons, while nevertheless allowing thousands to pass. Orban’s argument that Budapest is the only country complying with EU regulations is equally insubstantial.
Currently, Hungary is waving through refugees in contradiction to the Dublin Regulation just as Greece and Austria. During the visit of Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic this week, it was unofficially stated that the current regime will be maintained for the time being, possibly until the elections in Croatia in early November. The precondition is, however, that Germany does not change its generous admission policy.
However, the last hole in the fence along the Hungarian-Croatian border was already closed in the night to Saturday 17th October. Certainly not accidentally, Germany simultaneously closed the border to Austria – only for a few hours, but nevertheless issuing a clear warning to the states along the new corridor, to Croatia, to Slovenia and also to Austria, that the passage without registration would not be tolerated permanently. Croatia reacted immediately and left thousands of migrants stranded in the undefined territory between Serbia and Croatia. Another thousand were blocked in Opatovac.
Vienna / Graz / Salzburg / Ljubljana – This weekend, the Hotspot for refugee arrivals to Austria has shifted from the Hungarian-Austrian to the Slovenian-Austrian border. After Hungary ultimately closed the border to Croatia at midnight, the people seeking protection had to travel via Slovenia to Austria, as most of them still want to reach Germany or Northern Europe.
Approximately 2600 people had entered Austrian territory in Bad Radkersburg and Spielfeld during the course of the weekend until Sunday 4pm. Oberst Klaus Jäger, head of central transport management in the federal refugee crisis committee told the Standard that the numbers were low because Slovenia only allows 2400 people per day to enter from Croatia, and also registered them. A notification from the Slovenian interior ministry, which alleged that Austria had requested Slovenia to only allow 1500 refugees per day to transit, was denied by the Austrian interior ministry.
While 4155 persons arrived in Nickelsdorf on Saturday, now there is „zero rush“ at this border crossing. In Austria itself, around 200 people made an asylum application on Saturday.
Those crossing the border from Slovenia are brought to Graz Ostbahnhof station; the central station of Graz is not approached. According to Jäger, the refugees can continue in regular trains from Graz – but not into the city of Salzburg, where the emergency shelters are overcrowded.
Instead, the people are being brought to transit camps in Northern Austria close to the border with Germany. Most of them stay here for a night, until continuing towards Germany, usually on foot.
On Saturday, the atmosphere was tense. According to Jäger, an „alarm notification“ was disseminated in the federal crisis committee, stating that Germany had closed all border crossings except those at Freilassing for pedestrians, but the notice was withdrawn two hours later.
According to Jäger, the German authorities attempt to channel the migratory movements with this method – although they know that barring the official crossing points result in a higher number of crossings via the green border, which is equally undesired. Jäger: „Because then Germany would have to deal with an unpredictably high number of new asylum applications, which could strain the capacities“.
Meanwhile, the German police union argued for the construction of a fence at the border with Austria. Moreover, the opposition of the CDU fraction to the refugee and migration policy of German chancellor Angela Merkel is increasing. As the Bild newspaper reported in its Monday edition, a group around the chair of the CDU parliamentary circle for the middle class, Christian von Stetten, wants to force Merkel to end her policy of open borders by preparing a motion for the closure of the borders.
Slovenia had successfully kept the route of migratory movements away from its territory in the days after the border closure in Röszke. In Harmica, the border crossing with Croatia, the Slovenian police used tear gas, also against women and children when migrants and activists demonstrated for the Right to Move collectively. Moreover, a train with migrants and refugees on board was stopped shortly after the border.
Before Slovenia became the new transit country four weeks later, the notorious stages of defence, chaos and eventual adjustment repeated themselves. One of the few constant factors in the „Fall of Migration“: when the Balkan route moved to a new state, governments initially reacted with panic. And it always took a few days until they realised that the solution of the ‚problem‘ could not be the iron hand of the state, but the efficient organisation of transit. The situation that had caused intolerable conditions after September 14 repeated itself in the days following October 19 in Slovenia. The first step was the declaration of an emergency situation, in order to be able to deploy military units at the border.
The interior ministers of Slovenia and Croatia had already announced that they would organise the ‚corridor‘ together before the border was closed; nevertheless Slovenia limited the number of permitted transits per day to 2500 – which had the consequence of provoking an accumulation of people in Croatia and Serbia. The train connections between Croatia and Slovenia were suspended for one day. At the same time, as rain continuously poured down and the winter cold started, thousands of people got literally stuck in the mud, whilst 5000 new people coming from Macedonia arrived every day.
Thousands of refugees, among them many women and children, are camping in the cold and rain at the Croatian-Slovenian border. They try to protect themselves from the constant rain with blankets and tarpaulin and light small fires to keep warm. The Slovenian police is blocking the border and violently preventing the people from continuing to Austria and Germany. The police in Ljubljana stated as a justification that Slovenia’s reception capacities are exhausted.
More and more refugees on the so-called Balkanroute are trying to reach Central Europe via Slovenia. According to the Slovenian police, 12.600 people crossed the border to Slovenia in the past 24 hours. The aid organisation Care highlights that the refugees are not prepared for the winter. According to the reports, more than 34.000 people arrived in Slovenia between Saturday and Thursday morning. In addition, thousands of refugees are waiting in Croatia and at the Slovenian border to Austria. The Croatian authorities allow smaller groups of people to pass the Berkasovo/Bapskanur border crossing adjacent to Serbia, because their nearby preliminary reception camp Opatovac is already overcrowded with 3500 people.
On 20th and on 21st at Berkasovo-Bapska (SRB-CRO) border crossing once again, people were stronger than the barricades the croatian police put up there. After the night spent in the mud and cold, 2500 people overcame the fence or went around it over the “green border”. People are arriving exhausted from all the difficulties of traveling and they are told that the border is closed. But what does this “the border is closed” mean at all? In the moment when people run over the fields the imaginary line which supposed to be the border simply stopped to exist. The human fence of robocops became ridiculous. After overcoming the barrier (the border line), an even larger problem appears because the organized-fully controlled corridor disables all the possibilities to continue the travel independently. People have to wait again for the organized buses (that sometimes do not exist), or in order to enter the camps, in proper(!) lines, enduring police/military shouting at them, and all the humiliation that comes with illegalization. In the meanwhile, these people should be considered the lucky ones who get the chance to pass through the safer way which the new corridor enables.
Generally the so called “humanitarian”corridor for a more human migration towards the EU, or the chosen country of exploitation, controls almost all movement of migrants that can not enter in a legalized way. The governments, together with the big humanitarians (UNHCR, Red Cross and other NGOs) can propagate a humanistic image of a ‘helper’ and at the same time they are responsible for sufferings at the borders (example: EU funds at the same time finance NGOs working on the so called “migrant issue” and the construction and maintenance deportation prisons). Also the intermediate people (volunteers, translators, … ) play an important role, because they are there for concrete help and have certainly good intentions, but therefore are often being put in a position of power which can take away or hinder the power of the migrants in that moment, patronizing them. Just talking about bad conditions but not about the policy which causes them, calling governments on building more proper shelter facilities, but not calling them to remove barricades, withdraw army forces, and to stop every form of violence, is leading to a strange continuity of “migration management”, which includes often cooperation with police in order to have “everything under control”.
The situation at the Slovenian border was similar: Migrants were exhausted from the rain, had to line up in formation and were then escorted to the transit camp Brežice in a line led by a police officer on a horse.
The Slovenian Opatovac is called Brežice – a hastily constructed camp, set up behind a police station in the village of Dobova belonging to the municipality of Brezice close to the Serbian border. It is made up of tents standing outside in the cold on the hard floor of a parking lot.
The refugees are squeezed behind the police barriers and the iron fences around the terrain of a large empty building in the Southern Slovenian municipality Brežice. Bettina Sillinger, an energetic and hands-on young woman studying in Vienna, is passing bread through the fences. Many hands stretch through the grids, everybody wants to have their share.
It is an unnerving scene, reminiscent of hard times in the last century. Dignity is not preserved. If they had not brought 1500 sandwiches donated by the Islamic community in Vienna, even more people would have remained hungry.
Unrest is spreading among those waiting. „Germany, Germany“, they chant. They do not want to wait any longer, the onward transport to Germany is too slow. Special police units take position, several dozen police officers equipped with shields move towards the barriers, which further increases the volume of the chants. In addition, three vehicles of the Slovenian army are parked in front of the camp, armoured transporters whose big wheels leave deep marks on the soft grass. Now and then helicopters circle above the area.
In the afternoon, three vehicles with a total of 60 soldiers arrive. Nevertheless, one cannot speak of this as a large-scale deployment of the army in Slovenia. … The army has secured the station and there are several jeeps, and soldiers smoking cigarettes in the cold. Exhausted migrants are trying to rest. At least they made it until the station, and will be brought to Spielfeld at the Austrian border with the next train.
Burning tents, freezing children sleeping outside – and more and more people keep arriving. The control system is collapsing at the Slovenian-Croatian border.
The smell of burnt fabric hovers above the fenced tent town. A police helicopter is constantly circulating around the reception camp in Brežice. A camera drone flies above the remaining sticks of the burnt tents.
Thousands of refugees are travelling to Austria via Slovenia. The situation at the border in Spielfeld is becoming increasingly chaotic and the transit camps are overcrowded. Many people start the journey towards the North by themselves.
Until now, the procedures in Spielfeld follow an orderly fashion; the Slovenian police brings the refugees to the border in groups of around 200 persons, where the Austrian authorities take over. But the situation escalated during the past days: on Tuesday evening, 4000 people who did not accept to continue to wait for their onward journey in Slovenia, arrived in Austria. They pushed against the barriers and climbed over the fences, brief tumultuous scenes unfolded at the food distribution. After the initial agitation, the situation calmed down quickly. Most of the people were able to continue their journey during the night and the last refugees were brought to accommodation centres on Wednesday morning.
The Austrian Spielfeld is the new centre of the refugee crisis. Austria capitulated vis-à-vis the refugees arriving from Slovenia and allows them to cross the border. Gripping scenes unfold. „Everybody sit down immediately. Follow our instructions. And no fights.“ This announcement sounds through the no-man’s-land at the border between Slovenia and Austria in Arabic and English. The refugees follow the instructions. They are hungry, thirsty and visibly strained from the struggles. Approximately 1000 people sit down on the cold asphalt. Who does not follow the instructions is not allowed to continue the journey, the announcement threatens.
These are the days when the propaganda movie from Aust&Co on N24 was created, which later received a television award and is available on the website of The World. The film criticises Merkel, portraying her as the person to blame for the misery of the migrants, but it was filmed on 28 October and willy-nilly shows some of the migrants in the aforementioned tense situation.
EU states and the West Balkan countries want to slow down the flow of refugees on the Balkan Route. „We will discourage refugees from moving to the border of another country in the region“, the declaration states. „A policy of waving through refugees without informing neighbouring countries is unacceptable.
Along the Balkans, refugees are to be filtered in so-called Hot Spots. The Balkan states should carry out the dirty work for Angela Merkel.
The proposals made by chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission president Juncker at the Balkan emergency summit in Brussels sound harmless, almost humanitarian. Improved exchange of information, more help for refugees, joint management of the migration flows from Turkey to Germany: who could oppose these proposals?
However, an unspoken objective is hidden behind these words: the Balkan is to be turned into a transit zone, where „legitimate“ and „illegitimate“ refugees are registered, selected and deported. What Merkel is not able to implement in Germany, should now be shifted to Croatia, Bulgaria or Greece.
Simultaneously with the EU summit in Brussels, activists on the other side called for a demonstration in Spielfeld: for freedom of movement, against border fences! In Spielfeld and everywhere!
Thousands of refugees and migrants are currently waiting squeezed between fences at the Slovenian-Austrian border close to the town of Spielfeld and are demanding their right to continue their journey and freedom of movement.
Austrian military and police are forcing the people into queues and kettles for registration; many have been waiting the whole night outside in the cold, and all of this after they have already been exposed to enormous strains on the Balkan Route for days.
We close this chapter at this point – but not without noting, that the pressure of the migrants did not cease in the course of autumn, and that the plans of the EU summit turned out as foam and false dreams under this incredible and constant pressure. The subsequent chapter will report on Idomeni. What persists are the dreams of the people on the move themselves – a dream, which has been associated with the name Merkel, but which primarily contains a demand for self-determination and happiness.
After the Slovenian blockades were overcome, the route became passable again – but soon limited to persons from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Heated tents and provisions, charging stations for mobile phones and free Wifi were provided at almost all places the refugees and migrants had to pass. Trains in Gevgelija were available for 25€ per person, the buses waited in queues in Presevo to bring the migrants to Sid for 35€, then the trains continued free of charge through Croatia until the new registration camp in Slavonski Brod. Even Dobova/Brežice became a functioning transit camp. The migrants only needed 3 to 4 days for the 1.200 kilometres through the Balkan states until Austria – all a result of the chain of struggles and determination described here.
How big is the danger that the Balkan states will close their borders? The following assessment by the German security authorities suggests a sequence of events similar to the events in Idomeni after 18 November, when people who are not from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan were prevented from continuing their journey. There were rumours that not only Morocco and Algeria, but also Afghanistan will be designated as ’safe third countries‘. There were discussions about large camps in Greece. But the authorities in the analytical hubs are well aware that the autonomy of migration cannot be planned and cannot be controlled by decree. An event of the century of the best kind.
German security agencies are preparing for the worst scenario. An internal analysis of the situation expects „rushes on the borders“ and „panic and chaos“ in the case of border closures by the Balkan states.
Given the increasing numbers of refugees, the German security agencies are preparing for the border closures by Balkan states. This information is contained in the confidential situational analysis on „Illegal Migration“ by the „Joint Analysis and Strategy Centre for Illegal Migration“ (Gasim), to which „Welt am Sonntag“ has gained access.
The situational analysis cites a „rush on the borders“ as a scenario. Moreover, it states that a „dead end“ on the Balkan Route without European support could „trigger panic and chaos among migrants and authorities“.
The agencies involved with the Gasim in Potsdam include the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Federal Police, the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, among others.
The security agencies warned that refugees cross the Balkans to Central Europe in an increasingly short amount of time. The „transit time“ has „reduced further“. But in the case of simultaneous border closures in Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary, the „revolving door system in Greece“ would „come to a standstill“. The „organised onward travel“ of migrants along the Balkan Route would be interrupted, the situational analysis states.
According to the evaluation of the security agencies, „preventing all crossings of the terrestrial borders“ is only realistic „with substantial human resources and technical efforts“. Otherwise the „green border“ would turn into a „gateway“. In the case of systematic and sustained border closures along the Balkan route, the agencies expect further „congestion“ and a „further deterioration of the humanitarian situation“.
The situational analysis depicts several scenarios. Routes could shift to Bulgaria, or refugees could travel via Albania and to Italy by boat. Greece would have to take on a more prominent role and conduct returns to Turkey. In the case of accumulations in Turkey, refugees could restart trying to reach Italy by cargo boat („Ghostships“).
The analysis expects a further increase of the refugee flow. „Migration on the maritime route from Turkey to Greece has risen again in October“, Gasim ascertained last week. The analysis refers to „an increase in the number of Syrian nationals coming from Lebanon and Jordan“. 50% of Syrians in Jordan intend to “ leave in the near future“. 91% of them aim to reach Europe, according to the analysis.
 http://ffm-online.org/2015/10/19/thousands-of-refugees-rush-into-croatia-after-days-in-no-mans-land/ Concerning the situation in Presevo during these days, cf chapter 2.

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HI @DawnAndGraeme what's Orange like for living? is there much to do out there? Im having visions of horse trekking, cheap rentals and wineries?
Aw no thats not nice! How is your treatment going anyway? (dont answer that). I guess its nice to know that people are there if you need then. In Guernsey, if someone had a baby or was just out of hospital, local people would rally around and bring food dishes to see them through the week.
Nurses: Anyone found an employer to sponsor 457 recently?
were you sponsored in regional NSW @xxlornaxx ?
Hi - apologies if this has been covered already, but Im wondering if anyone has found a hospital employer that provides sponsorship recently? The bulk of the jobs are looking for residents (rightly so too as I believe the auzzie graduates arent getting jobs) - theres no longer a shortage of nurses I have 10 years experience in acute care and AHPRA reg - not sure where to start now though as I cant find any sponsorship vacancies. Have had emails back from employers saying theyre looking locally first. Looking for posts in NSW or Adelaide Have looked on Seek.com.au. Any other job sites for nurses? Anyone in the same boat?
cost of living OZ vs UK?
Yeah - Im not sure what I am anymore really - if I have to be labelled. so therefore were unsure where to live when we come to OZ. Grew up in a large town - Trained in Edinburgh city - Lived in Sydney (loved it) - Lived in Melbourne (hated it) - lived in Guernsey which is a small island 7miles x 3 miles (best time of my life -still have lifelong friends from here - cant live in guernsey though due to workvisa) Back in Edinburgh city now but on the edges so were a 10 min trip to the hills and beach which i cant live without.

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OFFBEAT MAIL: Harsh sanctions for Sudan?
Let us thank China for pressuring Sudan to finally accept the deployment of some 26,000 peacekeeping troops in the Darfur region. However, it is not without a bargain. At this time, Sudan wanted that all the troops be made up of Africans. Of all countries, it seemed only China has the clout and influence to exert pressures on the Sudanese government, which was believed to be one of the prime sources of oil for China.
Needless to say, Sudan has not choice at all except to kneel down to what China wanted, considering that the latter has a big stake in Sudan's oil development projects. And who knows, maybe, China is also supplying arms and ammunitions to Sudan, in exchange for oil? Whatever it is, it seemed the ball is now in the hands of the U.N. body. However, the U.N. is still facing a dilemma on how to deal with the political crisis head on. The crux of the matter now is that lies as to whether the U.N. is capable of sourcing our the 26,000 peacekeeping troops that it needed for deployment to end the conflict in Darfur, where some 200,000 have been killed already since the war erupted there.
According to the Aug. 4th issue of The Economist, the African Union is having trouble finding the 8,000 troops for Somalia and some 17,000 troops for Congo. The question now is whether Sudan is really serious in its efforts to attain peace in Darfur or not? Otherwise, it should not be given ample leverage to do its share of the bargain by imposing its will on the U.N. It appears that Sudan has still the upper hand in the decision-making process, which could be misconstrued by the international community as nothing but highhandedness and hypocrisy on the part of the Sudanese government. But it is in the position to do such?
And it isn't fair and uncalled for that a government that has committed murders against innocent people is still given the leeway to pick a choice for its own advantage. Why can't they just agree squarely on getting things done and instead source out troops from outside Africa, whom they feel are neutral for the cause of international humanitarian peace. Until the Sudanese government and the U.N. meet halfway to iron out a concrete solution, the grim nightmares that haunt many Darfuris will continue to be a great concern for the world to see. A good suggestion, perhaps, is for the U.N. to give harsh sanctions to Sudan, should it fail to commit to peace and harmony in Darfur, in consonance to the U.N. Security Council resolution. At least, it will give Sudan and other rogue nations a lesson to learn from their mistakes.


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So you’ve heard the one about the cigar-chomping coach giving his team a shellacking after a first half shocker? Oh you haven’t? Well, there they are sitting in the sheds sucking on the half time oranges, ruminating on the game so far and licking their wounds.
Coach: So, can you win this game? Team: (half-heartedly) Maybe. Coach: SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT! TEAM: (with gusto) MAYBE!!!
Evangelism in the modern West is sitting in the sheds after, if not exactly a shellacking, a tougher end to the first half than they were expecting and it is “MAYBE’S!” all round. The last decade of evangelism putsch has, in the West at least, increasingly seen more ball in our own half, and at least two or three heart-in-mouth goal line scrambles.
Despite all of the books and conferences, despite all of the programs that promise, despite all of the radical calls to this and that, evangelism in the West is firmly in the “MAYBE!” camp. We don’t seem to be winning. We don’t seem to be winning even with all of the resources thrown into dozens of programs over the past two decades. We don’t seem to be winning despite the surge of interest in apologetics and the face-offs between Atheists and Christians that attract entrenched supporters who cheer their teams and then go home.
And if the solution is, seemingly, just try harder, just be braver, just give that Two Ways To Live presentation to the bloke at work, then it’s no wonder that more and more players are wanting to sit in the shed sucking on an orange, long after the whistle blows to get back on the pitch.
Modernity just loves the discrete. By that I mean it has a tendency to compartmentalise life into segments. Secular programs on offer, such as money making schemes, simply focus on the scheme itself whilst rarely assessing where it might fit into the rest of our lives; our kids, our spouse, our sick parents, our penchant for depression, our work anxieties and struggles, whatever. In other words the program sits independent of all of the other variables of life, assuming an ideal world that will not hinder your ability to make money like the guy with the shiny teeth insists you can.
But life is not so easily disentangled. Each section of our lives blurs and bleeds into the others. The same is true of the Christian life – we call it “discipleship”. And the problem with many evangelism programs is that, in order to simplify the process, they tend to break discipleship up into discrete segments in order to find their place. Now I venture to say that many evangelism programs don’t have the intention of doing that, but that is the end result.
But evangelism is a subset of a life of discipleship that includes equally important components such as holy living, costly decisions regarding money and time, thoughtful responses to cultural trends. Oh, and an overriding decision to preference meeting with the people of God on an ongoing and regular basis, often to the cost of the things that our culture views as the good life; sports/leisure/chilling out at a cafe every Sunday morning etc, (hey, I just preferenced traditional church every week for 52 weeks per year excluding holidays, so shoot me!).
The problem with discrete methodology is that it always looks and feels discrete to both the evangeliser and the evangelised. And people can smell “program” from a mile away these days. They just can. And we know it, so we tend to come over all nervous and apologetic for it – as we probably should be!
The problem of course is that a discrete call to follow Christ makes everything look a bit “plug and play”, an option to fit into an already fairly busy life that is quite satisfied, but could do with a boost. At heart we know that is not what we think it is, but it sounds to others that that is what we are offering them. And since it is all done outside the life of a discipled person in the context of a discipling and discipled community it feels clunky.
I’ve said this before, but a big part of our struggle with evangelism is that our presentation of the gospel to our mates suddenly looks like the only strange part of our lives. We have tried to be too sensible, and it is backfiring on us.
I reckon our lives just aren’t strange enough. By the time we get to that gospel doodling on a piece of paper that should be the “Aha, so that’s why!” moment for our mates, but often it’s far from it. That should be the point they start to make sense of why our lives never really made that much sense to them; why we make the curious decisions we do; why we treat people so darn differently; why the corporate ladder just doesn’t hold the allure; why we aren’t afraid to apologise – publicly – for getting something wrong; why we didn’t have hopes and dreams in the same order as their hopes and dreams.
Let’s face it, if you are a middle class semi-professional or professional who is a Christian, the great temptation you have is to ensure that other semi-professional and professional people view you as just as sensible as they. Just as ordered and non-threatening in what you believe. Well I believe those days are over.
I simply don’t think we are revelling in our strangeness anywhere near enough, and to be frank the sharp turns in culture these days have many middle class Christians frightened, because they have so much social capital to lose should they not conform on matters of sexual ethics etc. We’re playing catch up in the strange stakes, and it’s painful.
One of the biggest ways to crush the sensibleness out of us is to rediscover the “enchanted” world, and to normalise it in our engagement with the secular framework. Now by enchanted I do not mean “fairies at the bottom of the garden”, but in the way that Charles Taylor talks of it in A Secular Age. His contention is that the secular context refuses to countenance anything outside the immanent frame; anything enchanted, and has thus disenchanted the world, and the language we use to describe what happens in the world.
I believe this has affected us more than we think, and conservative evangelicals could learn a lot from our more charismatic brothers and sisters. Let me give you an example from my own life. We sold our 90 year old house last week after having it for 16 years. When I first bought it it was run down and in need of repair. I spoke to my neighbour across the road whose front porch view looks into the front yard. She is a widow twice over, losing her first husband (and a son) to the dreaded Huntington’s Disease, and a second husband to cancer. She is the only Christian in her extremely pagan family. She is also of a fairly extreme charismatic brand of Christianity.
My initial response (to my shame), was to think; “Right! Why would God care about a prayer like that?”. In other words why would God think to graciously answer the prayers of an elderly widow who had come to faith in him late in life and been through her fair share of misery. My problem? I was just looking at life too sensibly! I had forgotten the enchanted world and had been sucked into shaping my life from within the immanent frame. And if it was like that with another Christian, it was certainly like that with non-Christians.
My neighbour simply assumed (and still does at 81 years of age) the enchanted world. I, on the other hand, well-educated, and fearing people feeling sorry for my stupidity more than hating me for my faith, have had to wrestle an enchanted framework back into my life and into my everyday language. I think that’s the part we are scared to try because it is just so confronting to those whose default is the immanent frame.
Charles Taylor goes on to say that our apologetics is a prime example of us losing the game before we even begin by agreeing to play by the disenchanted rules of secularism. We try to engage the literary and academic culture in a “I’m just as smart as you are” match, whilst desperately trying to smuggle in a world that includes God before they catch on. Since the standard practice of the Richard Dawkins’ and Lawrence Krauss’s of this world is to dismiss such a belief at the start of their debate with us, we end up gasping and flapping on the riverbank like the landed bass we are. Anyone who has been to one of those types of debates recently will testify to how contorted the Christian interlocutor becomes in trying to make his or her argument sensible. I’ve come to find them cringeworthy if I am honest.
My thinking is that we need to junk the sensible stuff. Why? Not simply because it doesn’t work for us, but because there are plenty of people out there, who despite the secular hegemony are still asking the question “Is that it? Is this all there is?” Sensible, disenchanted answers may have been letting them down for years, and they could well be looking to us for something more than that. What a pity if we only have another version of “sensible” to offer them, one gilded with some religious terminology.
Now go out there and win this game!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on how this hope or vision of the future or enchanted framework might play out Stephen.
Yeah – that’s what I am piecing together at the moment. Have you read Jamie Smith’s book “How Not to Be Secular”? I reckon you would enjoy it. It’s kinda like a primer to Charles Taylor’s big work, A Secular Age, but as a charismatic scholar he nails this immanent/disenchanted framework stuff in a way that made all of my reading group go “aha!” Only a short book and you wouldn’t need to have read all of Taylor’s opus (i have read it in dribs and drabs) to make sense of it. Worth getting a couple of copies and handing it around I reckon.
I am (and now several friends are) glad to have stumbled on your blog! (Thru a Gospel Coalition link, I think.) Great analysis. Jamie Smith’s book just came in the mail; looking forward to it all the more now. (Taylor’s? May not have time for that monster.) I’Ve been thinking about this for a while. I am excessively concerned with being normal; too little concerned with talking, so others can hear, about the invisible realities as if they are really real. How does that help anyone?
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This is one of those “niche” films that will appeal to a specific target audience (mostly younger males), but have a very limited draw with other segments of the moviegoing market (like grandmothers).
The whole Transformers series (this is the 3rd installment) is based on the original Hasbro toys, where boys with toys could “transform” trucks into robots (and back again) by mechanical manipulation. Kinda creative. And now that we have all this computer graphic imaging (CGI) technology, in 3-D no less, it’s just a lot of fun to watch these transformers constantly morphing, complete with sound effects, and then we concoct some grand comic-book-type plot where the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, and we’re all set for the kind of animated violence where you have lots of explosions and mayhem and destruction, and then the good guys win in the end. Simple, right?
Not quite. It turns out that there are good guy and bad guy robots, and also good guy and bad guy humans. The good guy robots, called Autobots, lost the civil war on their own planet, and the other Cybertronians, called Decepticons, are now wanting to conquer the earth so they can make slaves of all the hapless humans. And, of course, there are some “turncoat” humans (Patrick Dempsey, we hardly knew ye), but the Autobots are friends of the humans, including our unlikely hero Sam (Shia LeBeouf), the young man who previously helped save the world (with a medal from President Obama to prove it), but now has a hard time even finding a decent job.
Now, just for kicks, we have this back story inserted of how the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon was surreptitiously supposed to investigate the crashed spaceship that was discovered on the “dark side” of the moon. It seems that there was evidence of an advanced alien technology, which, it turns out, was Cybertronian. But the American politicos have been covering it up for years, even keeping critical parts of the story from their friends the Autobots. But it’s all coming home to roost. The Autobots discover that not only were there power sources available that the humans hid from them, the Decepticons are counting on the turncoat humans to lead them to those power sources, which will bring the Cybertonian civil war to earth, with the earthlings as the collateral damage.
Confusing enough? Well, it’s all really just an excuse for a lot of cool graphic imagery and a lot of explosions with sound effects. In fact, there are so many combat sequences that the story is practically lost, but no matter. We just want Sam to rescue his girlfriend Carly (the stunning English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) and also save the world, not necessarily in that order.
What’s interesting to think about is that as we are even now developing the “thinking” machines (like IBM’s “Watson” that can now beat any human at chess), will we eventually build them so lifelike that they will have their own wills, also? And if so, will they decide the world would be better off without the humans? Just wondering.

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It's time for another challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week we have a word prompt challenge - Candy Cane. I can't wait to see what you create!
This paper reminded me of a candy cane. I used a new PaperArtsy JOFY stamp set. I really love this big present. I fussy cut some paper scraps, layered with some kraft and white card stock and added lines with my Faber Castell Pitt Pen to add a little interest. It's an easy and cute Christmas card. Thanks for stopping by!
I was seriously thinking only 'candy canes' with the prompt, you've taken this one outside the box Donna (pardon the pun), you are so very clever!!
How incredibly cute!! I love that little present!! Looking forward to working alongside you at Christmas Card Challenges!!
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So Looking for Alaska was sad, and An Abundance of Katherines was funny, and now there's Paper Towns.
It's hilarious. I laughed through quite a lot of it, as per usual when it comes to Mr. Green.
It's sad. Not in the bawling-my-eyes-out way that Alaska was, but in a way that makes you feel like life is passing too fast, and that everyone is connected, yet stays utterly disconnected. It makes you a little blue about life, even if it makes you a little bit hopeful too. I have to say that this is better than them both, even if the characters are not QUITE as loveable or memorable or touching, but just the point of the whole story is good. There isn't a happy ending, but there isn't an unhappy one either. It just ends, and that makes it a lot like real life.
The main character, Q (Quentin) is totally typical of a John Green protaganist - nerdy, loveable, self-deprecating, and constantly underestimating himself. He is also totally in love with his next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegalman.
At first I loved her. If she had been in the story more, I probably would have totally loved her. But when you get through the story, you're not supposed to love her, and that's why he wrote her that way. Although she makes me want to read even more, and road trip. Anyways.
As with any Green character, he has sidekicks. In this case, they are the ultimate horny nerdy band geek white boy, one Ben Starling, and the 'token black guy' (as he calls himself), band geek and internet expert they call Radar. They are both funny and loveable, Ben especially, but in the way that you love him from afar and are really glad you don't actually know him in person. Radar...his family has possibly one of the most hilarious random true things John Green has ever put in a book. Q says in the book that every time he hears Radar talk about it, he laughs, and it really follows that every time it is mentioned in the book - you laugh.
My only real problem is that the "caste warfare" in high school is completely exagerrated. Everything else - the way friends backstab each other and boys cheat and whatnot, all true.
Regardless, I really enjoyed this book, more than his other two which I really liked a lot. Its more hopeful but not as positive, if that makes sense. I think he's developing really well as an author, and is one of the best voices speaking to the younger generations today. There are not many authors out there who can so deeply appeal to both males and females, but he definitely can. There's enough romance to appeal to girls, and there's enough perviness to cover up the emotion for guys. I'm excited for whatever he does next.
Location: ...I thought you had the map?
There's enough romance to appeal to girls, and there's enough perviness to cover up the emotion for guys. I'm excited for whatever he does next.
But the author IS a guy - he incorporated both the perviness and the romance into the novel - so how does this make sense?
I've only real Looking For Alaska, but his main character in that novel was so unlikeable.
Reading? Is that a word?
At the International Bigfoot Society affair last May, they had several books by John Green for sale.
Upon looking into them, I discovered they reprinted Greens first two books in one and his third in the other.

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It’s a terrible feeling to wonder if the water you are drinking is safe. We normally put our blind trust in those who provide us with water services and supplies. We can’t survive without water, so it’s terrible to think that drinking it could cause serious or even terminal illness.
We now know that at the North Carolina Marine Corps base of Camp Lejeune, the drinking water was laced with toxins from the 1950’s through the 1980’s. At the time, no one was aware of the situation, and even after the toxic exposure came to light, it took years for the proper investigations to ensue, and even longer to offer compensation to the exposed veterans. For many veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, this information is still breaking news, and both the VA and the veteran community are working to get the word out to those who may have been exposed. Some veterans may already be ill and unaware that their cancer or other medical condition could be due to the time they spent at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987.
Although many details are left unreleased to the public, recent investigations show definitive evidence that for those three decades the water contained toxic chemicals and volatile organic compounds. Not only were people drinking water laced with dry-cleaning solvents, degreasers, and chemicals such as benzene, but they were also bathing in it and cooking with it for years.
Service members and their families living at Camp Lejeune may have experienced one of the worst water contamination issues our country has ever known and were not alerted about it until decades later. Many veterans suffer from multiple conditions that we now know are most likely caused by their exposure. Many of these diseases are insidious too, meaning they don’t manifest until years or even decades later.
At first, 15 different health conditions were brought to light as being linked to the contamination, with the US Department of Veterans Affairs offering free healthcare to those at the base from January 1, 1957 to December 31, 1987. These 15 conditions were: esophageal cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, leukemia, multiple myeloma, renal toxicity, female infertility, scleroderma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndromes, hepatic steatosis, miscarriage, and neurobehavioral effects.
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Café 195 - We Only Open On Days Ending With "Y"
Good friendships can be formed over great meals. This has been the experience of the business partners Mr Vamvakas and Mr Pardasani. Ironically their meeting was at Mr Vamvakas’ restaurant where Mr Pardasani was a guest. In just over a year, Café 195 and Bistro has already made its mark in the busy Warrens business district, now operating seven days a week and producing breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
You will not be at all disappointed by the beautiful décor which was deliberately designed to bring you into a modern, chic, eating experience with amenities such as WIFI and charging stations available at every table. The appearance does not fall short on excellent service delivery and consequently the restaurant has a constant flow of customers. Anyone who has been there has complemented the service as equally as they have the food. Mr Vamvakas, who also functions as head chef to the restaurant, says this has been done so deliberately. He has over eighteen years in the restaurant business locally and agrees that good service must accompany great food.
You may wonder, why the name Café 195? Well, some coffee lovers would know that the perfect brewing temperature for coffee is between 195 and 205 degrees. Since one of the owners is an avid coffee lover, the café was so named.
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Friday after work limes, can have a good blend of ambience, Happy Hour and good food. Happy hour begins at six and ends at eight. The house band sets the pace at seven and ushers you into the perfect start for your weekend.
The restaurant is known for breakfast and lunch, however if you are tired of Sunday cooking they have a treat in store for you as well! Brunch is available every Sunday from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon and special occasions such as Father’s Day can be made that much more memorable.
So whether in a rush for lunch, needing a good sturdy breakfast, a nice weekend lime or a Sunday break, you can find Café 195 at the Dome Mall to meet all of your needs. Not only will you be well pleased with your food, but awed by their service. Cheers!
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There’s an updated and improved version of the Isuzu N-Series light-duty truck arriving in dealerships now.
Some of the big changes include additional models of the big-selling offering Independent Front Suspension and Rack and Pinion Steering.
Isuzu saying this gives the N-Series a more “car-like” feel and makes the truck an even more attractive proposition for tradies and other users who might be coming out of a ute or a van.
There’s also an updated version of the Isuzu Automated Manual (AMT) in the offering, again, changes that are likely to entice potential first-time truck buyers.
Other changes across the expansive Isuzu N-Series range include an updated infotainment system with truck-specific sat-nav, 12-month service intervals, new NPR/NQR variants suitable for eight-pallet bodies and Euro 5 compliance on the 4HK1 engine.
Check out our review of the updated Isuzu N-Series here.


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Old Carignane (100%). Grapes from steep slate hillsides and terraces picked by hand into 10kg boxes. Selected berry by berry on a double sorting table and then transferred to tanks by gravity.
Fermentation in 15 and 30 Hl wooden tanks.
Malolactic conversion and aging in fine-grained, medium- and lightly-toasted French oak barrels for 18 months.

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‘Belle’ is a Dutch magazine for young girls. Editor in chief (and creator of the magazine and website) Eline has a vision for young girls. Eline: ‘Girls are powerful and vulnerable at the same time. I want to give them the right tools and rolemodels for them to come to making good choices and develop strong character’.
And that she does with her magazine ‘Belle’! So for me, seeing disabled models on their cover comes as no surprise. It’s not a cry for attention, it comes from a true desire to change the attitude towards differences. And I love ‘Belle’ for doing that!
I love it! How about you? So let’s all show some love for ‘Belle’ and their online community ‘Huis van Belle’.


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The purpose of this thesis work done at Ericsson Research in Luleå was to investigate the possibilities of encoding 5.1 surround sound for low bit rates using the AMR-WB+ audio encoding technique. In the first phase of the work, investigations of the inter-channel dependencies were carried out, and the main tool used was Matlab. Several efforts were made aiming to reduce the total energy of the signal. This was done by decorrelating the sound channels using ordinary linear predictors. Decorrelation attempts were performed in the time domain as well as in the frequency domain. After decorrelating the channels, each channel was encoded in an individual bit rate using the mono mode of AMR-WB+ with bit rates proportional to the relative energy content. However, listening tests combined with studies of the energy reduction achieved by decorrelations indicated that, for a given bit rate, there is in general no advantage decorrelating the signal compared to not doing so. The second phase of the thesis work mainly consisted of modifying the existent C code of the AMR-WB+ mono coder in order to suit it for 5.1 sound encoding and decoding. The goal was "the simplest possible", an encoder that encoded each unmodified sound channel individually, distributing the bit rates over the channels aiming to keep the sums of the bit rates over the channels approximately constant over time. Opposed to the five "normal" sound channels, the encoding of the LFE (Low Frequency Element) was done in a specific way making use of this, compared to the other channels, somewhat constrained signal. Furthermore, the method of encoding high frequency sounds of AMR-WB+, the BWE (BandWidth Extension), needed to be modified at some extent. Finally, the third phase consisted mainly of evaluation of the product made and of making comparisons to competing low bit rate multi channel coders.
Avhandlingen är en könsteoretisk studie av organisationsförändringar i industrin - med fokus på kvinnor som arbetar med produktionsarbete. Avhandlingen beskriver vad som händer med organisationsstrukturen och med genusordningen i organisationen när företaget försöker införa en platt integrerad arbetsorganisation. Empirin omfattar åtta svenska industriföretag: fem massa- och papper, ett tvätteri, ett charkuteri och ett elektronikföretag. Resultaten visar att återställare och dämpande krafter ute i lokala arbetsorganisationer drar organisationen tillbaka till sitt ursprungliga utseende. Många av återställarna har koppling till "kön" och genusordningen. De lokala organisationernas utgångsläge inför organisationsförändringarna bygger ofta på en struktur som ger olika villkor för kvinnor och för män. Denna könsordning är en förklaring till många återställare och det är dessutom ofta just den som återställs. Genusordningens segregerande och hierakiserande krafter gör att människor lätt återskapar gamla könsmönster i nya organisationer. Detta innebär att de nya organisationsmodellernas strävan efter integrering, tillplattning, kompetensutveckling och flexibilitet riskerar att motarbetas. En stark och omfattande könsmärkning och könsuppdelning i utgångsläget inför organisationsförändringen innebär många återställare och därmed svårare att införa den platta integrerade arbetsorganisationen.
Det finns positiva tecken på att något ska hända med arbetslivsforskningensvillkor. Mer bekymmersamt är att facket och arbetsgivarna vill återskapaett nationellt centrum för arbetslivsforskning i Stockholm. Vi börinte fortsätta att reproducera bilden av att svensk arbetslivsforskningförsvann när Arbetslivsinstitutet lades ned. Det finns många starkaforskargrupper på universiteten ute i landet. Nu är det viktigt att vi ser tillatt de positiva signalerna blir verklighet på ett klokt sätt så att bredden iarbetslivsforskningen säkras.
This empirical article presents a gender analysis of long-term impacts of some of the many organizational change projects in Swedish industrial work organizations during the 1990s. Based on the results of return visits to three industrial companies and their change projects (implementation of Lean Production or other modern organizational models) that I studied more than a decade earlier, I discuss how the work organizations eventually had changed and specifically how and whether organizational internal gender patterns had changed. The initial study showed gender-based restoring responses to strategic organizational changes, especially in the gender-segregated and gender-homogeneous work organizations. These responses conserved gender patterns as well as the organizations’ culture in general, resulting in less productive work as well as a problematic work environment. The follow-up study showed that the organizations slowly changed according to the modern organizational models (e.g., Lean Production), but at the same time, in some cases, keeping the same gender segregation and stereotypical gender markings of skills and work tasks or with new variants of unequal gender order. In addition, the follow-up study showed other and more positive results with emerging pattern of gender equality, at least in the form of reduced gender segregation and less stereotypical ideas concerning gender. The material indicates that the studied companies, in some aspects, developed into less gendered production organizations while taking some steps toward a modern organization and this was done without gender equality interventions. Therefore, the material indicated that, at least in part, gender equality could be seen as a prerequisite or perhaps even a side effect of modern organizational concepts. This article contributes to the emerging literature on an organizational theory of undoing gender as well as to the research of conditions and consequences of the modern organizational models.
Raises questions about the links between gender and organizational changes, and between gender and learning at work. The empirical base is a qualitative study of organizational changes in the pulp and paper industry, electronics industry, food industry, and laundry industry in Sweden during the late 1990s. In the studied companies, restoration responses in the work organizations brought the organization back its original form and function. Shows that gender exerts an influence on the existing work organization and on the organizational change. The learning organization, with its focus on integration and decentralization, challenges gender order, which is a strong system, built on segregation and hierarchy. Concludes that gender segregating and stereotypic gender-coding of workplaces and work tasks were strong restoring mechanisms and obstacles to strategic organizational changes, and to individual and to organizational learning.

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In the early 1800's the Duke de Choiseul-Praslin, was suspected of murdering his wife. However, a vial of arsenic and a corrupt government would prevent justice from being served. The injustice evident in this case drove the French lower-class into a frenzy that would eventually lead to the revolution.


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This committee plans, coordinates, and organizes the annual Foundation Gala and Auction which raises money for the Foundation's grant and scholarship accounts.
The Akron Bar Foundation provides scholarships to law school students as well as grants to local agencies providing programs that are law-related in nature.
The next Foundation Gala is scheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2019. To donate an auction item, please contact the Development Director.


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You may be wondering why I haven't written a post on my blog for over a month… well, it’s because I have been lucky enough to have been abroad and very busy. July and August have flown by so quickly it’s only now I’ve been able to sit down and have the time to fill you in on my amazing yet exhausting summer I’ve had. Just over a week after the British Triathlon Championship in Liverpool I was back at the airport with a suitcase and my bike box. This trip was to last 3 weeks, 3 weeks of hard training, racing and no parents.
From the 22nd of July to the 4th of August I trained with the West Midlands Triathlon Academy, we travelled to France where we stayed in Morzine. I had already been to Morzine twice before to go Skiing and to watch the Tour de France go up Avoriaz, from this I knew the trip would be all about the hard cycles and getting used to training in the warm weather. Training with the West Midlands Triathlon Academy was great, training with people of the same standard as you really helped you work hard but also have a great time.
Out of the three disciplines in a triathlon I find cycling the most enjoyable and exciting, so the camp was perfect for me! After a long day of travelling, the first day was spent going up small climbs. We decided to make the rides more interesting by making our own Tour De France with us all competing for the white, yellow, polka dot and green jerseys. I decided to go for the white jersey, along with Ben, Jordan and Sian. Our Tour De France got very competitive as the days went on, which only meant we were training even harder. Avoriaz is an amazing place to go and we cycled to some amazing, some of the climbs we went up were the Col de La Ramaz, Col de Joux Plane and more! I was really pleased with the rides and climbs we’d completed and even more so that in the end I won the white jersey by 1.40 in front of Ben!
We mostly ran after the bike rides, we would do an hour of steady run down by a cold river. We also did hard run sessions, the first, on a football pitch involving 8x400m which was extremely hard due to the sun beaming down on us. The second hard session was a 5x1k along the river; this was a brilliant session apart from the odd person, dog or duck we had to run round. My favorite run of the camp was a 2 hour run up a mountain I had skied down. Although when we got to the top the only way back down was to walk or run, meaning our run was a total of 3 hours long!
The swimming was varied; we did some in the pool and the main sessions in open water. We had the opportunity to train with the D Squad, this was an open water session which consisted of a 2k straight WARM UP round the lake. This involved lots of swimming, I’ve never done such long sets, just when I thought it was time for a warm down we were told 2x1km efforts. This was definitely the hardest open water swim I have ever done.
The camp came to an end, but it wasn’t the end of Sian, Jimmy and I. We were back to the airport and boarding our next flight to Hungary, nothing about Easy Jet is ‘easy’, but without any adults we successfully got on the right flight! We travelled to Hungary for the week to train and race in the Junior European Cup Race, this would involve the Semi Final on the Saturday and if we were to finish in the top 14 we would go through to compete in the final on the Sunday. The training during the week leading up to the race was steady and easy, and having just been in the hot weather in France we were used the boiling weather of Hungary.
This was a European Junior race so I was competing in the junior age group which was 16-19 year olds so I would be one of the youngest competing having only turned 16 in July. Saturday soon came and the semi final took place in Tizavarouse, there had been a storm the night before so the weather was much cooler which I very happy about, I much prefers to race in the cooler weather. The race consisted of a 500m swim, 12km flat bike and a 3.2km run. My semi final race went well exiting the water in 4th place then onto the bike with a group of 5 athletes, we all worked well together. I was able to relax on the run and get into a good stride finishing in 7th place, which was an easy qualification due to there being 14 spots in my race available.
I’d never done two triathlons in two days, so this was something new and exciting. Sunday was the final, I felt prepared, a bit nerves but very excited and ready to go! The course consisted of the same swim but with a different bike and run course. I had a good start on the swim but coming up to the first buoy I found myself under the water being dunked and couldn’t find my way to the surface, this put me right back on the swim but I got myself together and carried on, I’m really proud of myself for not letting it ruin my race. I exited the water 20s behind my semi final time which was not good but there was nothing I could do it about but work my hardest on the bike.
The bike was hard with only me and another athlete pulling the whole group up to the 2nd chase pack. Being in the chasing position and doing all the work is hard, I was exhausted going onto the run and there were still lots of work for me to do. My run was slow, hot and very very hard, but I finished in 18th place. Although this is a lower position then I had hoped, I’d made the final and had a great experience.

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The Snowy Owl at the Dead Creek WMA goose-viewing area on Route 17 in Addison put on a good show this afternoon, flying between treetops and the viewing pavilion.
During a brief stop at Potash Bay we saw one Mallard, five Common Goldeneye, six Common Mergansers and one Great Black-backed Gull. With today's temperatures it looked as if the water was going to freeze at any moment in mid-wave. The ice (rime ice?) forming along the trees and shrubs along the shore was spectacular.
On Goodrich Corners Road a Peregrine Falcon was harassing a flock of Snow Buntings (there may have been Horned Larks as well). A Rough-legged Hawk was hovering in the area.
We saw three more Rough-legged Hawks in other locations, all along Route 17. Throughout the day we saw many Red-tailed Hawks, all perched fairly low in the trees.


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Downside Of Fha Loans The Pros And Cons Of FHA Loans | The Smart Investor – FHA loans are not the perfect loans but they are the best fit for some situations. The main benefit is the ease it provides in getting a new property – but as we have mentioned, there are also trade-offs.
How to Make a Million Dollars – kiplinger.com – He uses the loan proceeds to replenish the line of credit and pays down the loan with the rent he collects. who still works 52 hours a week as a firefighter and recently launched a construction.
Fha Loans For First Time Home Buyers FHA and First Time Home Buyers | Learn All About FHA Loans – FHA Loans for First Time Homebuyers FHA and First Time Home Buyers Remain a Good Fit A first-time home buyer is defined as anybody who hasn’t bought a house in the last three (3) years; any person who never owned a house with the deed under their name before.
FHA 203k Mortgage : A Construction Loan From The FHA – The FHA 203k program is an all-in-one mortgage program for home construction projects. It combines the mortgaged amount with your estimated home repair costs, and bundles them into one.
How to Get FHA Construction Loans – loan.com – Federal Housing Association (FHA) construction loans are something to consider if you have construction or remodeling in mind. Most first time buyers often go with FHA construction loans that can be used for construction financing, refinancing, modernization, remodeling, equipment, and expansion.


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Shorter winter days can feel a little dark and gloomy, but here are some ways to brighten up your country home this winter and increase the cozy factor all at once!
Soft lighting is warm and inviting and can give help give your home a welcoming feel. You can achieve this by adding dimmers to your already installed ceiling lights or by incorporating lamps throughout your home to create a cosy atmosphere. Candles are another great alternative as they produce soft lighting while also spreading a scent throughout your home.
There’s nothing quite like snuggling up on the couch with your favourite book and a blanket while it’s raining outside. Add a range of pillows to your couch and invest in rug that both feels good and looks good. A few extra pillows on your bed and a colourful throw on the end of your bed will create a relaxed and comfortable feel in your bedroom.
Art is a great way to add character and create interest in your home. It could be as simple as getting a poster framed that you picked up from the Sunday market or hanging that large canvas piece that you have had sitting aside for an extend period of time.
Gardens can still be full and lush during the winter months and with the help of the winter rain, it is a great time for the planting vegetables that like the colder conditions. Add vegetables such as broad beans, peas, cabbage, spinach and even tomatoes closer to the end of winter for a variety of foliage and textures.
A small vase of flowers can brighten up any winter day. They instantly draw the eye and lend a fresh new look that makes you feel good about your living space. Coordinate bouquet colours with your home, or place a bright bouquet on your kitchen bench, coffee table or even in your hallway to welcome your visitors with some colour and light fragrance.