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Dear Fellow Pro-Lifers: We won! We know this because now even The New York Times' Resident Really Smart Fellow has written that he is pro-life, too! His recent column titled "Why I am Pro-Life" even ran in the Sunday Times, where all the important stuff appears. Friends, this is almost as big as the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
No scare quotes in the title, Mr. Friedman writes Pro-Life out straight. Amazing. The Gray Lady is now giving us the same respect she normally reserves for Ansar al-Sharia.
Thomas Friedman must be reading the Gallup Polls, too, where 51 percent of Americans say they are pro-life. And perhaps Friedman has read fellow journalist Joe Klein in Time Magazine. Mr. Klein says that ultra-sound has made it "impossible to deny the reality that that thing in the womb is a human being." One of our major parties, most of our media, and the vast majority of Hollywood celebs are going to have to work harder now to deny The Reality. (By the way, Joe Klein, we would respectfully submit that that "thing" is actually a child. But you're coming around. Bless you for it.)
Now, of course, Thomas Friedman puts something of his own spin on what Pro-Life actually means. He names New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the country's leading pro-lifer. Mayor Bloomberg has forced medical residents in city hospitals to kill unborn children as part of their training. That's an odd definition of "leading Pro-Lifer" to us, but Bloomberg did ban Big Gulps.
Thomas Friedman doesn't actually sit in the Chair of St. Peter, but his pronouncements nonetheless have the authoritative ring of papal bulls. Or some kind of bull, anyway. As a newly converted Pro-Lifer, Friedman says: "I will not let that label apply to people for whom the sanctity of life begins at conception and ends at birth." No sooner has Friedman joined our pro-life ranks than he starts excommunicating heretics!
Well, we won't let that label apply to people who reject the Sanctity of Life after birth, either. We have always supported marriage of mothers and fathers as the best protection for children – born and unborn. We support a vibrant civil society that does a better job of protecting children than too many of our public institutions do. Churches, synagogues and schools, including home schools, are nurseries of civic engagement. Edmund Burke said it well: "The family is that little platoon in which we move in society." We who defend the right to life of the unborn child must also defend those little platoons. We embrace social justice for the poor and we think protecting true marriage is the best way to achieve it.
Thomas Friedman deplores pro-lifers whom he says are indifferent to mass murderers like the Aurora shooter. No one we have ever met in the Pro-Life movement is indifferent to murder. We believe in strong law enforcement and in the right of Americans to defend themselves. There is no inconsistency.
Mr. Friedman thinks we want to protect all "fertilized eggs." Actually, sir, science knows there is no such thing. When a mother's egg descends into the Fallopian Tubes and is fertilized by the father's sperm, the new human life thus created is called a zygote, by definition a single-celled embryo. Very soon, this zygote divides and the embryo – an embryonic child, as one would say in laymen's terms – continues the wonder that is development of a new, unique life. Friedman's definition of Pro-Life means he gets to decide which unborn children should be protected. We agree instead with the late Gov. Bob Casey (D-Penn.).
When pressed on the heinous crimes of rape and incest, Gov. Casey said he favored vigorous prosecution of such crimes and the greatest compassion and practical help for the women who are victims. But he could not agree that an unborn child must be killed for the crimes of her father.
Thomas Friedman thinks that some unborn children should die. And he thinks Gov. Casey was an extremist for thinking otherwise. Pennsylvania voters thought otherwise. In 1990, they gave Gov. Bob Casey the greatest re-election victory of any governor in that state's history. Were those voters extremist, too?
Thomas Friedman should meet Ryan Bomberger. Ryan is a young Pennsylvanian whose life began after the horrible crime of rape. His mother chose life and made an adoption plan for Ryan. Now, this young Pro-Lifer leads the Radiance Foundation and speaks out against the black genocide of abortion (Mr. Friedman's city, New York, has a 59.8 percent black abortion rate.).
Thomas Friedman has written that he wishes the U.S. were ruled by the Chinese leaders for just one day. Why? So we might have their forced abortions, their toll of female infanticide and their targeting of unborn girls for destruction? Worldwide, some 200 million unborn children who are identified as female have been killed. There, sir, is your real War on Women.
Thomas Friedman gained international acclaim for his book, The World is Flat. Maybe soon, he will learn that the earth is round and it is enriched, not impoverished, by a flourishing human family.
Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by David Prentice. Robert Morrison is Family Research Council's Senior Fellow for Policy Studies. Dr. David Prentice is a cell biologist and Director of the Center for Human Life and Bioethics at the Family Research Council.


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Recently mikroElektronika has been so kind to send us a couple of samples of their latest ARM development tool series.
mikroElektronika is known for their broad range of development boards especially in the PIC series where the most common board is their EasyPIC board. Now they have done it again and come up with a new product line – the ARM series.
The great thing of their development boards are the high quality boards with a lot of peripherals, connectors and on-board features together with good and thorough documentation. mikroElektronika has also made their own compiler series for both Basic, C and the Pascal language. Therefor all of their boards of course also comes with a great number of example project for use with their compiler, which can be downloaded for free in a code size limited demo version.
I have been using their old EasyPIC5 board a lot in the past and I've actually gained a lot of my initial microprocessor knowledge thru that board.
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When I bought my EasyPIC5 years ago mikroElektronika hadn't decided to go into the ARM industry yet. Though recently they decided to do and there started designing development boards with ARM devices.
This ended up in a complete new ARM Solution series where the new development boards contained the Stellaris Cortex-M3 ARM processor running at 80MHz. As for today they have two different ARM development boards in two different price ranges. And as they've always did they also decided to make their own compiler for this selected ARM microprocessor series (Stellaris ARM). This ended up in of course both a Basic, C and Pascal version.
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The board does also contain an on-board programmer and debugger, so there is no need to invest in this for the prototyping. And of course the programmer/debugger integrates nicely with their IDE.
If this board is too big for your development/prototyping needs or budget there is also a cheaper and smaller alternative. The Mikromedia for Stellaris® M3 is a small touch screen enabled device with Audio codec, USB, microSD and Flash.
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By a click on the Generation button the required code for your desired language (Basic, C or Pascal) is easily generated. Afterwards the code can be opened with the selected compiler/IDE where you can then add your own custom action code, compile it and upload it to your device.
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As mentioned mikroElektronika were so kind to send us a couple of samples of this new ARM series. They decided to send us the following tools:
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- Mikromedia for Stellaris® M3
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- mikroC PRO for ARM
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You can visit the links for more information about each tool.
As you can see the list contains many different products so to give you an overview and a short introduction of each tool, I decided to make an unboxing video of the samples where I show the content of each product box and explain my first impressions.
In the video above the tools and the box content is simply shown to you guys.
In the following month I will be uploading some ongoing but separate videos about the review of each of the tools.
To make everything even better I will also be doing a couple of projects with the board where the code will be uploaded to our blog and their online code distribution community, LibStock
I hope you will enjoy this video unboxing and the upcoming reviews.
A big thanks go to mikroElektronika for their kind donation of these development tools.


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Every time I see a headline from The Babylon Bee I have two reactions: 1) "That's pretty funny," and 2) "I wish I had created something like The Babylon Bee."
I admire that anybody is doing aggressive, biting satire from a right-leaning, pro-Christian standpoint, and the consistent quality of their work makes me admire it all the more. Some other people have made an effort, and I'm glad they did, but I think we have to be honest with ourselves and admit that when you say "Christian comedy" the expectation of quality tends to be the same as when you say "Christian music."
The Babylon Bee has made a name for themselves, though, and not a well-I-guess-that's-the-best-we-can-hope-for name. A good name. A name you can count on for funny.
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In the past, the Bee has listed on their site their requirements for reader submissions. Sometimes those requirements are easy to find and sometimes not, I'm assuming based on how much time they have to look through the deluge of submissions.
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Once I had access to the headline forum, I immediately created a new Google Doc to keep track of my headline ideas, of which I was sure there'd be plenty.
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SOUTHEAST DISTRICT -- Students combined giving locally and nationally with a good time during the last day of school before winter break at John R. Lea Middle School.
To promote giving back during the holiday season, the Middle School group called Community Angels planned the second annual dodgeball tournament, inviting parents to join in.
"They chose all the team captains. They did all the advertising," school librarian Chris Collier said. "Part of what they do is, before they set anything into motion, they have to go and meet with (Principal) Mrs. (Patti) Arnold and make sure everything is OK."
Eighth-grade students Shey Hopkins and Elijah Rowland said the Community Angels started planning the dodgeball tournament in November and decided what kind of drive would be held.
In order to participate in the tournament, each student had to take in a canned good to donate to the Apple Creek United Methodist Church.
Collier said 125 cans were donated.
"I like that the students are learning to give to others," Arnold said.
The dodgeball tournament pinned the seventh-graders against the eighth-grade students, with teachers and administrators playing as team captains.
"The kids enjoy the competitive nature, and no one really gets hurt," seventh-grade intervention specialist Nick Teter said. "It gets kids up and moving before Christmas (break)."
Parent John Lane said he enjoyed spending time with his sons, playing dodgeball with his eighth-grade son, Vincent, and seventh-grade son, Samuel. John Lane said it had been 30 years since he last played dodgeball, but he had a vacation day from work so he was able to play with his sons.
In addition to the canned food drive, other students created snowflakes to send to the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Using coffee filters, students cut out snowflakes and got them prepped to send to Connecticut.
"I think that for us, and for the kids, they want to show their support. It concerns them; it concerns everybody. They want to make sure that the kids that are there feel loved and safe," art teacher Rebecca Saurer said.
"They really wanted it to look like hope when they come in, so that the whole school looks just beautiful with snowflakes and sparkle and color," Saurer said.
Collier said she thinks the dodgeball tournament will take a few years to build up for an annual tradition, but so far the reception has been good.
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The Mariner King Inn is proud to be featured in the Nova Scotia Tourism promotion video for the South Shore! Take a look at "The Places in Between" video campaign promoting seven regions of Nova Scotia, South Shore being one of them! Check us out on facebook as well and share with friends! The Places […]
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Lunenburg Included in Google's World Wonders Project
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We all perform preflight inspections on our airplanes (right?). Check the fuel, check the oil, walk around the airplane, peering into spots when able, moving control surfaces, looking at tires and brakes (when wheel pants aren't in the way). I started using a flashlight when I saw an air carrier crew member walk under the wings, looking up into wheel wells far above his head, using one of those Maglight flashlights. Lighting inside the hangar is usually far from adequate, so the flashlight seemed like a no-brainer. My preflight checklist identifies an inspection of the cabin: Cabin door, flight controls, mag switches, fuel quantity, fuel shut-off valve, seat belts, ELT, loose items for aerobatic flight. That's it. Not near enough for me. The front pilot station has the occupant's legs a foot below an inverted fuel tank that has five fittings/lines going to/from the tank. Five opportunities for leaks. Of course it's dark up there, thus the flashlight. Always a part of my preflight is having a look at each fitting and line for fuel stains. Never found one in the many preflights I've done. That is until a few weeks ago!
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The story can be read here in Chinese, but I'll give you the gist of it:
Hunan Province 2nd People's Hospital Addiction Treatment Center back in December 2014 had to treat a patient who was apparently brainwashed by a cult sales (pyramid sales / pyramid scheme ) organization. The victim, 27-yr old female, lost her job in October 2014 when her company lost the product distributorship, and was recruited by a friend to go to Nanning where supposedly things are better. About two months later, she called home and want her mom to come along and make lots of money. Her mom went for a visit, and realized victim was in the clutches of a pyramid sales organization and had been brainwashed for two months and is totally under their control, with full personality shift.(article continues after this break)
The victim was an introvert before and rarely use more than two sentences at once. Now she'll go on and on, even supplemented by hand gestures and pacing. And she kept asking mom for money, more money, more money to invest... Mom had to lie about she had money at home to drag her home.
Upon reaching home, even intervention by the entire family, plus uncles, aunts, friends, and so on, the victim cannot be persuaded, and kept planning escape, all the while proclaiming "even if you imprison me for years I am still going back to Nanning, and I will take all of you along so we can all get rich!" Then she went on a hunger strike. Mom and pop tried feeding her, but there was no love there, and she sometimes even verbally and physically abused her parents, which is unheard of in China.
At their wit's end, mom and pop had no choice but to remand her to addiction treatment center, where the doctors diagnosed her with paranoid disorder. The doctor interviewed her and she's perfectly coherent and cooperative, until anything that had to do with pyramid sales was mentioned. Then her personality shifted, including attempt to recruit the doctor and nurse about following her to make money money money. Furthermore, she can't sleep at night, just tosses and turns in bed. The treatment center managed to sufficiently deprogram her after ten days of intensive treatment, so she can feed herself and no longer hate her parents.
The resident chief of the treatement center said this was the second case EVER he had treated like this. Earlier in 2014 he had to treat a 20-something male who was also remanded by his family for similar addiction to pyramid cult sales.
The doctor further analyzed that people who are vulnerable to pyramid sales shows certain personalities traits.
1) They are more emotionally manipulatable than average,
2) They are irrational optimists, in that they believe they can gain sudden riches, and pyramid sales offer exactly what they crave.
3) pyramid sales have a carefully designed system to emotionally manipulate people. There are various "award ceremonies" and "recognition" when you get your pay check, sales leader, and so on. When one "wins" such, everybody claps. This sort of recognition, even if artificial, is uncommon in society, and that makes it that much more addicting.
4) University students don't have the social experience to spot such scams, is optimistic about the future, may even be hungry for "opportunity".
What do you think? Was the doctor right? Should younger people be declared vulnerable population?
Vemma specifically went after high school kids and college kids.
In Israel Tzachi Gozali organized a cult around Herbalife complete with separate compound, uniforms, regimented living, celibacy (unless the girls want to f*** him instead) mandatory weight loss, mandatory 5 shakes a day, only communicate with "elders" (not outside nor each other)... He was eventually suspended by Herbalife.
When will the US recognize the danger of cult sales addiction? This happened many times before in the US. There were several deaths in the 90's and 2000's linked to Amway that I recall.


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Archives for January, 2016
Egyptian cartoonist arrested for running website without a license
From the New York Times: An Egyptian cartoonist, whose work is occasionally critical of government figures, was arrested in the capital, Cairo, on Sunday and charged with running a webpage without a license, the country's Interior Ministry said in a statement. The arrest of Islam Gaweesh appears to be part of an intensified clampdown on […]
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Tom Richmond Featured On Minnesota Original television show
Posted on: Jan 29, 2016, Section: Caricature, Comments: 1 Comment
Between Friends Cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy Starts Speakers Series
From Niagra This Week: Bell-Lundy has invited some of her comic friends to form a speaker series aimed at inspiring a new generation of comic creators. She has teamed up with the Grimsby Public Library to offer three evenings of comic-centred discussion beginning next month. The speaker series runs the first Thursday of the month […]
Posted on: Jan 28, 2016, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Peter Dunlap-Shohl publishes graphic novel about living with Parkinson"s disease
Former Anchorage Daily News editorial cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl has published a new graphic novel entitled "My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's." From the Anchorage Daily News: When Peter Dunlap-Shohl, the former editorial cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News, received a diagnosis of Parkinson?s disease at age 43, he saw his whole world collapsing. Thirteen years later, […]
Posted on: Jan 15, 2016, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Hilary Price to teach class on cartooning
Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price will be teaching a class on cartooning in April. The description from the course website: What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, setting, characters, surprise… all in a snapshot.) Each day's lecture will focus on a different element of panel cartooning and I'll assign exercises to strengthen that […]
Posted on: Jan 15, 2016, Section: Cartoons, comic, Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
On the Fastrack and Dick Tracy cross over
This Friday, Bill Holbrook and Mike Curtis and Joe Staton are crossing over On the Fastrack and Dick Tracy. Below are one panel samples from each as a teaser. Dick Tracy: On the Fastrack: To see these features online, you can see Bill's work on Comics Kingdom and Mike and Joe's work on GoComics.
Posted on: Jan 12, 2016, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 4 Comments
Video: Greg & Karen Evans appear on Forefront to talk about Luann
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Scottish Parliament proposes January 7 Cartoonists Day to highlight free speech
Cartoonists Rights Network International reports that one member of the Scottish Parliament is proposing that January 7, the anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, become Cartoonists day. French-born MSP Christian Allard proposed the motion that the parliament ?reflect on the events that took place in Paris on 7 January 2015 at the […]
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Angouleme International Comics Festival opens Grand Prix into a write-in
From the Guardian: This week the largest comics festival in France announced its 30 nominees for what many consider the most prestigious prize in comics, the Grand Prix. Not one nominee was a woman. Usually there are at least few women on the longlist for the Angoulême International Comics Festival (known in French as the […]
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Ann Telnaes and Signe Wilkinson appear on C-SPAN to discuss free speech after Charlie Hebdo anniversary
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Cartoonist call for boycot of Grand Prix d' Angouleme
The Grand Prix d' Angouleme is one of the highest awards that can be conferred upon a cartoonist. Previous American honorees include Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb and Bill Watterson. This year's list of 30 nominees did not include the name of any woman and that has many cartoonists upset. Leading the charge is Jessica […]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2016, Section: Cartoons, International, Comments: 2 Comments
Yahoo! News closes down comics page
Newspapers aren't the only medium cutting comics. Yahoo! has announced it has closed down its online comics page that ran on their Yahoo! News portal. From the NY Post: The comics appeared as part of Yahoo! News, which attracts some 43 million unique users per month. A Yahoo! spokeswoman said: ?We never had a destination. […]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2016, Section: comic, Comic strips, Comments: 24 Comments
Charlie Hebdo posts cover commemorating first anniversary of terror attack on offices
From The Guardian French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since an attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: ?One year on: the assassin is still out there.?
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Wongawilli is an Australian 'bush band' - really a folk music band.
This is the first recording from 1992 and pioneered a revival of 'collected' Australian bush tunes through their association with Australian folklore collectors such as John Meredith, Rob Willis, Alan Scott, Peter Ellis, Dave de Hugard.
The recording has won 10 awards at the Australian Bush Music Awards and Bush Band Championships which are now defunct. www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au


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Amidst the ongoing JNU controversy, the news of a few rebellious ABVP activists burning Manusmriti as a mark of protest, for allegedly being 'anti-woman', at the JNU campus posed a serious question before me. Although it is not for the first time and it will, in the foreseeable future, not be the last time that Manusmriti was burnt as a mark of protest against so-called Brahminism whenever the Leftist forces are a stakeholder in any protest. It has to be said that such acts, of burning a copy of Manusmriti or any other scripture belonging to any faith, does fall well within the realm of the freedom of expression which has been evolved as one of the most crucial human rights over the past few decades.
Having said that, one does have the right to question the rationale behind such protests, for a protest just for the heck of it is nothing more than a lamentable exercise of thoughtless and needles show of strength. We have witnessed a ramped up surge of such protests ever since a government of the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance has been elected on May 16, 2014.
Now coming to the rationale, the most potent argument to be dished out in support of such protests is that the Manusmriti is an allegedly misogynistic and anti-dalit scripture which supposedly advocates the Brahminical supremacy. Of those who come up with such frivolous arguments, few have even actually attempted to read up the content of Manusmriti. Also it is another matter that an overwhelming majority of Brahmins today say that Manusmriti has never been discussed in their homes or they've never heard of it before political stunts such as burning copies of Manusmriti started taking place.
So, why are they keen on burning copies of Manusmriti, a scripture which is neither followed nor discussed even by Brahmins who are accused of imposing the Brahminical supremacy through that very scripture? Or, like some suggest, will the anti-Hindu forces relent and stop making vicious attacks on Hindu scriptures if Hindus publicly disown Manusmriti, a scripture which is neither followed nor discussed by Hindus? The answer to both the questions is a big NO. We must understand that the real target is not Smritis but the Shrutis themselves and hence if Hindus cede even an inch they will lose the ground forever.
Some background on the Manusmriti
Manusmriti is the popular name of the work, which is officially known as Manava-dharma-shastra. It is attributed to the legendary first man and lawgiver, Manu.
- Of over fifty manuscripts of Manusmriti which are now known, the earliest discovered, most translated and presumed authentic version since the 18th-century has been the "Calcutta manuscript with Kulluka Bhatta commentary". However, modern scholarship states that this presumed authenticity is false. The various manuscripts of Manusmriti discovered in Bharat being inconsistent with each other, and within themselves, raise concerns of its authenticity, insertions and interpolations made into the text in later times.
- It is variously dated to be from 2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE, and it presents itself as a discourse given by sages Manu and Bhrigu on topics such as duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues and others.
- It was one of the first Sanskrit texts translated during the British rule of Bharat in 1794, by William Jones, and used to formulate the Hindu law by the colonial government.
- The text's fame spread outside Bharat, long before the colonial era. The medieval era Buddhist law of Myanmar and Thailand are also ascribed to Manu, and the scripture had an influence in past Hindu kingdoms in Cambodia and Indonesia as well.
- Most scholars consider Manusmriti a composite scripture produced by many authors put together over a long period of time.
The core values of Manava-dharma-shastra
There are 2669 verses in the modern version of Manusmriti (some scholars claim that the original text had around 100,000 verses). Manusmriti covers four broad areas in its 12 chapters viz. creation of the world, source of dharma, the dharma of the four social classes, law of karma, rebirth, and final liberation.
While most of the Left-liberal commentators repeat ad-infinitum a few verses which align with their Hinduphobic agenda, they overlook the core of the scripture. Some hidden facets of Manusmriti are as follows:
- The structure and content of Manusmriti suggest it to be a document predominantly targeted at the Brahmins (priestly class) and the Kshatriyas (ruling class). The scripture dedicates 1,034 verses, the largest portion, on laws for and expected virtues of Brahmins and 971 verses for Kshatriyas. The statement of rules for the Vaishyas (merchant class) and the Shudras (artisans and working class) in the scripture is very brief.
- Rules of Action for a King (7.1 – 9.324) contains 960 verses, including description of institutions and officials of state, how officials are to be appointed, tax laws, rules of war, the role and limits on the power of the king, and long sections on eighteen grounds for litigation, including those related to non-delivery under contract, breach of contract, non-payment of wages, property disputes, inheritance disputes, humiliation and defamation, physical assault, theft, violence of any form, injury, sexual crimes against women, public safety, and others; the section also includes rules of evidence, rules on interrogation of witnesses, and the organization of court system. Fair taxation guidelines are described in verses 7.127 to 7.137.
- Manusmriti lays out the laws of a just war, stating that first and foremost, a war should be avoided by negotiations and reconciliations. If war becomes necessary, states Manusmriti, a soldier must never harm civilians, non-combatants or someone who has surrendered, that use of force should be proportionate, and other rules.
- Manusmriti lists the recommended virtues to be, "compassion, forbearance, truthfulness, non-injury, self-control, not desiring, meditation, serenity, sweetness and honesty" as primary, and "purification, sacrifices, ascetic toil, gift giving, vedic recitation, restraining the sexual organs, observances, fasts, silence and bathing" as secondary.
- Manusmriti has numerous verses on duties a person has towards himself and to others, thus including moral codes as well as legal codes.
- Manusmriti in verses 3.55-3.56, declares that "women must be honored and adorned", and "where women are revered, there the gods rejoice; but where they are not, no sacred rite bears any fruit."
- Verses 9.72-9.81 allow the man or the woman to get out of a fraudulent marriage or an abusive marriage, and remarry; the text also provides legal means for a woman to remarry when her husband has been missing or has abandoned her.
- Manusmriti provides a woman with property rights to six types of property in verses 9.192-9.200.
The concluding verses of Manusmriti state,
एवं यः सर्वभूतेषु पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मना।
स सर्वसमतामेत्य ब्रह्माभ्येति परं पदम् ॥
(He who thus recognizes in his individual self (atma), the universal atma that exists in all beings, becomes equal-minded towards all, and enters the highest state, Brahman.)
Mahatama Gandhi had said, "I hold Manusmriti as part of Shastras. But that does not mean that I swear by every verse that is printed in the book described as Manusmriti. There are so many contradictions in the printed volume that, if you accept one part, you are bound to reject those parts that are wholly inconsistent with it. (…) Nobody is in possession of the original text." A Louis Jacolliot translation of the Calcutta version of "Law of Manu" was reviewed by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche deemed it "an incomparably spiritual and superior work" to the Christian Bible.
In order to comprehend Manusmriti, it is essential to view the scripture in a correct perspective. While protesting against it, people often forget that neither Manusmriti is the jurisprudence in Bharat, nor is any demand being made to enforce a jurisprudence based on Manusmriti on the people of Bharat. The fact that Manusmriti is a scripture of historical importance and not a relevant contemporary document blunts all the arguments of those who burn copies of that scripture in order to express their 'solidarity' with the feminist cause or the dalit cause. It has been almost 70 years since we gave a constitution to ourselves, and it can always be amended if found lacking in running our affairs smoothly.
Secondly, being a historical document, any commentary on the Manusmriti must weigh upon the prevalent circumstances when Manu composed his Manusmriti. It being the first ever legal text, Manusmriti marks a milestone of our glorious civilization. It is a benchmark to which we shall compare our social progressivity and be proud of the miles we have traversed from Manusmriti to reach where we are today… So what if someone finds Manusmriti primitive or obsolete in today's context? Just because today we possess advanced missile technology, is it fair to mock or abuse Von Braun and his V2 rockets? Or is it fair to denigrate the ingenuity of Von Braun just because the missile technology has evolved to what it is today?
To sum up, even if one finds anything objectionable in Manusmriti, s/he can at least find solace in the fact that unlike other faiths, Hindus are not pressing on enforcement of any particular Canon Law; rather they have pledged to adhere to the secular constitution the people of Bharat gave to themselves. Those who squander their efforts and energy in burning copies of Manusmriti, which is neither followed nor discussed anymore, should make some real efforts in woman empowerment and uplifting those who are oppressed and marginalized. Let's move beyond theatrics and photo-ops.
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Trinity Yard is an educational organization that serves the youth of Cape Three Points, Ghana, and the surrounding communities — rural areas where access to educational opportunities is limited.
Due to the lack of government-run secondary schooling, opportunities beyond junior high school are particularly limited, and local students are often prematurely pushed off the academic track, limiting their potential for growth. Trinity aims to bridge that gap in three ways:
- By providing a fee-free secondary education option with a focus on English and Reading Comprehension, Math, traditional Kente Weaving, and a variety of extracurricular activities and vocational workshops
- By helping students plan for their futures through individualized career counseling and, thereafter assisting in the placement and funding of our graduates in senior high schools, vocational institutions, and apprenticeship programs of their choice
- By organizing cooperative programs between visiting student travel groups and the organization's student body, which promotes cultural exchange, community service, and educational growth.
All volunteers should submit a volunteer application to the Trinity staff; applications are reviewed to ensure a good-fit between volunteers and the tight-knit family of Trinity staff living, eating, and sharing life together.
Generally volunteers should consider applying for one of the following:
1 month – for skilled volunteers (farming, carpentry, etc)
6 months – for teacher, skilled farmer, grant writer, tech
11 months – full time teacher, school administrator
The project offers a beautiful coastal setting, and volunteers do all they can to help serve the vision of Trinity Yard School: to empower the youth of Cape Three Points and surrounding villages through education and vocational arts.
Opportunity types
Typically, one month minimum stay. Generally:
1 month – for skilled volunteers (farming, carpentry, etc)
6 months – for teacher, skilled farmer, grant writer, tech
11 months – full time teacher, school administrator
Inexperienced volunteers, or those not joining for the full terms, are asked to cover their food and housing costs which typically costs about $120 a week (personal items not included).
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With road tubeless technology finally starting to catch on, Schwalbe's latest addition to the category is a rather fortuitous one. Based on the strong success of their Ultremo ZX tubeless offering Schwalbe's One Tubeless Road Tire represents the pinnacle of Scwhalbe's tire technology.
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A revamped tread compound ensures that the One Tubeless will maintain the tenacious grip Schwalbe's reputation is based on, while the company's V-Guard breaker belt employs the same material used by NASA for the Mars rover's inflatable landing bags. Featuring an extremely tight weave, the material protects against punctures without drastically affecting the One's supple ride qualities.
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Kevin Rouse may have been a bit late to the bike-riding party, but he's certainly making up for lost miles. Having discovered cycling while studying journalism at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he enjoys long days in the saddle whenever—and however—he can get them. You can usually find him on two wheels, but if not, you'd be well served to check the nearest coffee shop.


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MIC's Listen to Norway series continues with Oslo String Quartet's Johan Svendsen - String Quartet / Quintet.
With caution, respect and emotion the Oslo String Quartet interpret central Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen's (1840-1911) two early chamber music works String Quartet in a-minor op.1 and Sting Quintet C-major op. 5. With a careful touch and respect for the emotional content the string quartet is interpreted masterfully with the second movement's melancholic beauty and the intensity of the finale being the undisputed highlights. The rendition of Svendsen's String Quintet is augmented by viola master Henning Kraggerud and one is immediately struck by the ensembles rich sonorous quality. The performance is vital and exciting with each ensemble member complimenting the others in a coherent and unified form of expression. This release is important not only for the high performance standard on display – the release also holds an important historical aspect as it documents two very central Norwegian chamber works.


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WASHINGTON—President Trump has vilified the pharmaceutical industry and made bold promises to lower prescription drug prices. But when it comes to staffing the health care agencies empowered to oversee those efforts, he has turned regularly to the pharmaceutical industry.
His Food and Drug Administration chief, Scott Gottlieb, was a longtime industry investor and adviser to major players like GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb. A senior adviser at the Health and Human Services Department, Keagan Lenihan, joined the administration after running the lobby shop for the drug and distribution giant McKesson. Tim Clark, the White House liaison for political personnel at HHS, was still lobbying for pharma company Eisai earlier this year. And Trump has a former Gilead lobbyist, Joe Grogan, reviewing health care regulations at the Office of Management and Budget. The chief of staff at HHS, Lance Leggitt, lobbied for a whole host of drug clients, even last year.
This week the president named Alex Azar, who spent more than a decade at the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, as his health secretary nominee.
It's a lengthy list that highlights just how reliant Trump is on the industry he has promised time and again to rein in. And his picks stand out when compared with those of previous administrations. In a STAT review of the public biographies of more than five dozen top health officials and advisers across the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations, only a handful of individuals appear to have joined the administration directly from the private sector.
"The trends in pharmaceuticals kind of run in parallel to the trends in the financial sector and Wall Street—you have an industry that Trump ran against pretty aggressively, with pretty strident language in 2016, and he is now seeing those industries as essentially farm clubs. He's going to bring them up to the major leagues of his administration," said Jeff Hauser, who runs the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "It's unusually stark and unapologetic."
The personnel decisions also raise ethical and conflict-of-interest concerns, Hauser and several other ethics experts said. While Trump's hires probably don't run afoul of the nation's narrow ethics rules that ensure officials don't directly profit from government work or oversee specific cases related to companies they've worked for, there's still a reason to be concerned, said Kathleen Clark, a Washington University law professor who studies government ethics law.
"If you've been employed at Lilly, you might well have a similar kind of attitude toward another drug company, even if it's not Lilly. Our ethics standards don't reach that concern at all," she said. Given that, "the health policy is likely to reflect the values, the priorities of people who have recently been making their living in pharma."
The former pharmaceutical industry players could leverage their experience to pursue reforms. Indeed, that's the argument from several Republican officials, including Grogan, the OMB program associate director for health, who this week suggested the administration would be better able to bring down drug prices because it has more pharmaceutical industry perspective in its ranks than the Obama administration did.
Republicans on Capitol Hill reflected a similar confidence in their statements of support for Azar, nearly all of whom praised his "private sector experience."
"Alex Azar has the qualifications and experience to get results," said Senate health chairman Lamar Alexander, whose committee will oversee Azar's pending nomination and who oversaw Gottlieb's earlier confirmation process.
Republicans have also highlighted both Azar's and Gottlieb's long experience in government itself. Both were former Bush administration officials; Azar was a deputy secretary at HHS and Gottlieb spent time at both the FDA and CMS. Leggitt and Grogan also served under Bush.
"The President selects the highest caliber of individuals from an array of backgrounds and experiences – including industry leaders – to fill positions in his Administration," Hogan Gidley, deputy White House press secretary, said in a statement. "The White House takes seriously the need for appointees to resign, recuse and divest where required. The White House Counsel's Office and agency ethics officials work closely with all presidential appointees to avoid conflicts arising from their former places of employment or investment holdings."
But consumer advocates—and Democrats—argue that at least so far, Trump's track record on reining in pharma has amounted to little more than showmanship. The administration has not yet delivered on any legislation or executive orders that might lower drug prices. Instead it has delivered several major industry priorities, like a major funding package for the FDA and regulatory changes to a drug discount program the industry hopes to overhaul.
"At a time when the United States pays, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, the last thing we need is to put a pharmaceutical executive in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said of Azar's nomination.
Pointing to statements from Azar that reflect many of the industry's positions, Public Citizen president Robert Weissman went further.
"If Alex Azar's nomination is confirmed," he said, "then Big Pharma's coup d'etat in the health care sphere will be virtually complete."
Azar is the first person nominated to the health secretary with such a direct path from industry. Every other top health official to hold the spot in the last 30 years had gubernatorial experience, served in Congress or helmed another agency. Only Donna Shalala, President Clinton's pick for health secretary, and Louis Sullivan, President George H. W. Bush's pick, did not—but both came from academia, not from industry.
Gottlieb, too, stands out among FDA commissioners. Nearly every former FDA commissioner in the last 30 years has joined his or her administration from an academic or medical post, a nonprofit, or another government position. The same holds true for administrators of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Just one of the 15 officials who held either of those posts since 1985 came from industry: Tom Scully, who helmed CMS under George W. Bush, had led the Federation of American Hospitals, a trade group for for-profit health systems. Though Bush appointee Lester Crawford did not join directly from industry, he did ultimately plead guilty to hiding financial interests in the food and pharmaceutical companies he regulated at the FDA.
The same pattern holds for all of the top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health and among surgeons general over the last 30 years: None worked at a for-profit company right before they joined the administration.
It's harder to assess the career paths of less well known advisers and senior officials who often don't go through public confirmation processes, like Grogan, Clark, Leggitt, and Lenihan. But in a review of resumes, biographies, and lobbying disclosures for dozens of health care officials, advisers, and program directors across the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, STAT found only a handful of individuals who joined the administration directly from an industry position. Just two came from the pharmaceutical industry.
(Lobbying disclosure reports like the ones the Trump administration officials filed were first required in 2008, making earlier industry ties harder to discern for individuals not directly employed by a given firm.)
President George W. Bush hired Doug Badger, whose lobbying clients included Biogen, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer, as a health policy adviser. He also brought on Ann-Marie Lynch, a lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, to be his principal assistant deputy secretary for planning and evaluation.
In the 1990s, President Clinton's health care advisory task force was notoriously kept secret, ahead of a public unveiling of legislation that would ultimately fail. But the group did oust one high-ranking member, Thomas Pyle, because of concerns over his stock ownership. A 1993 New York Times article noted that there were no apparent conflicts of interest among the dozen other named individuals leading the group.
President Barack Obama put in place a clear ban that kept anyone with recent lobbying experience out of the administration. But he was nonetheless criticized for several hires that were further removed from their lobbying experience. Bill Schultz, the HHS general counsel, had lobbied for Barr Laboratories and other pharmaceutical firms, about two years before he joined HHS. Liz Fowler, who held several roles at Obama's HHS and the White House, had previously lobbied for the insurer Wellpoint, now Anthem. And Obama appointed a Monsanto lobbyist, Michael Taylor, to oversee food safety at the FDA.
Trump's lobbying ban weakened some of the rules Obama put in place. Now, recent lobbyists like Grogan, Lenihan, Leggitt, and Clark can join the administration as long as they don't work on any of the issues they'd been lobbying on for two years. They wouldn't have been hired under Obama.
Trump has also retained the Obama-era practice of granting some individuals ethics waivers, though he has not made as many public as his predecessor did. Both Leggitt and Lenihan have waivers in the public files available on the White House website, according to several reports from this summer. As of this week, however, the White House files do not list their names, nor Grogan's, among those with ethics waivers.
Republished with permission from STAT. This article originally appeared on November 16, 2017


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SeavisTours, a family operated eco tour and excursion agency operating in resort towns throughout the Dominican Republic has relaunched operations, following a brief pause, with new health and safety protocols in place. The agency currently offers various adventure tours for travelers throughout Punta Cana, Bayahibe and La Romana.
More information is available at http://www.seavisbayahibe.com
Specializing in small tours with dedicated guides, each excursion guarantees personal attention, passionate tour guides, and authentic cultural experiences, and allows guests the choice between water or land adventures.
In its 17th year of operation, this family-run operation is popular among tourists to the Dominic Republic, with a 4.9 out of 5 star rating, and over 3000 website reviews, while remaining a number 1 pick on TripAdvisor.
Among the most popular excursions currently being offered is the Saona Island Excursion tour, which includes a speedboat ride to one of the most secluded and beautiful beaches on the Saona Island. For those looking to explore the world famous rainforests of the Dominican Republic, SeavisTours also offers ecological jungle tours along the Chavon river, which includes canoeing and a visit to the Yuca Yena Jungle Ranch.
While these tours are offered year-round, seasonal trips include whale watching excursions along the bay of Samana, where humpback whales typically breed and give birth, and are regularly spotted. This tour is offered from mid-January to mid-March.
Along with planning all aspects of the tour, including providing food and snacks, SeavisTours arranges for guests to be picked-up and dropped-off at their respective resorts and hotels.
Adapting to the current reality of a post-pandemic world, SeavisTours has upgraded their cancellation policy. Their website includes testimonials, photos, pricing and up-to date availabilities, as well as discount offers for early bird and last minute bookers.
For more information on SeavisTours and their range of private tours see the URL above.
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Monste Prom is one of the most exciting dating sim games, mainly because it comes with that amazing multiplayer option. But even in single player, it is a great game. And we're here to help you score all the dates by sharing a complete guide to all the Monster Prom endings.
There are multiple endings for all characters, plus secret characters that you can date for Prom Night, so multiple replays of the game are required. We're here to make everything a lot easier by sharing a complete Monster Prom guide to all endings.
It's worth mentioning that in most cases, it's best to go for the long game route – either in single player or multiplayer, in order to give you enough days to build up the stats and items required to unlock a specific ending. There are endings that can be unlocked in short games, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Polly: Reverse Romanian Wilkinson secret ending
This is probably one of the easiest endings to get in the game, as dealing with Polly and choosing the answers that she loves is pretty simple. You always have to select the most fun answers or the ones that seem to put her in a better light.
Therefore, make sure that you always select these types of answers and, of course, that you always hang out with Polly – especially in the cafeteria, if no other option is available.
In order to prepare to complete this ending, start collecting money: you will need $10 in order to do it, so make sure you visit the library often and raise the required money.
After you keep talking and staying close to Polly (I repeat – go to the cafeteria for lunch time), she will eventually confide in you that one of her biggest regrets is not doing the Reverse Romanian Wilkinson. It is vital now to answer that you know what that is.
After a few in-game days, an event will trigger, causing The Coven to talk to you about the Reverse Romanian Wilkinson and telling you what is needed for it. In exchange for your silence, they will give you one of the required items (the marbles).
Next, you have to visit Valerie the shopkeeper and buy the Penguin mask. Have in mind that once you do so, you suffer and instant and huge hit to your Smarts stat!
Finally, after a few more days, you will start arranging a meeting with somebody who is selling guacamole. When you meet, you will see that it's actually one of the in-game characters. There, you will have to blackmail him and you will receive the guacamole for free.
Now that you have all the items required for this, simply invite Polly to go to prom with you and you'll get the chance to experience the Romanian Wilkinson with her.
Valerie: Secret character & Secret ending
Yup! You can actually end up dating Valerie and taking her out to Prom Night with you in the game, and it's also a pretty simple thing to do. Here are the steps that have to be done in order to get the secret ending with Valerie in Monster Prom:
– First of all, make sure you visit the Library to prepare for this and get +2 in Wealth.
– When you have this, you need to visit the shop for 3 times in a row and buy nothing. After this, Valerie will interact with you, telling you that the next time you come, you will get her.
– It's not that easy, though. But when you do arrive the next time, she will get in an argument with Slayer. Pick the first option in the dialog to continue this story.
– You need to be working on your Wealth and Boldness and keep visiting the library.
– Eventually, when you visit the Library next, you will find the Covenant there, as well as Valerie. Make sure to always go with the first dialog choice in order to pick the correct answers.
– Next, during Week 6 at the evening, go Outdoors to meet Valerie having a fight with the Prince. From there, if your Boldness is high enough (otherwise it won't work – so aim for 15 and above) choose the option to start a fire.
– This is it! When the option to go to prom appears, choose to go alone and you'l have a surprise waiting for you. Well, not that much of a surprise now since you know about it, but still it will be fun!
Damien: Secret Ending Guide (Hairdresser)
This one requires you to have very high Boldness ratings, so make sure that you do everything possible to increase these first.
Starting with the correct answers and spending time in the caffeteria with characters that increase your Boldness stat is a good way to make your life easier when it comes to getting Damian's secret ending, Hairdresser.
You have to wait until your Boldness is really high, over 13 and all the other stats are around 10, when you should go to the library.
If your stats are high enough, you should start an event in which you talk to Liam first, but discover Damien eventually, giving a makeup to a corpse and telling you about his dreams of becoming a hairdresser.
During the conversation, tell him that seeing a loved one in a near death experience will increase creativity. Liam will shoot you in the leg, prompting Damien to give you a makeover… and this is when your quest to get him to Prom with you really begins.
Keep boosting your stats, especially boldness (you need Boldness of 17+ and fun over 10 in order to succeed). Also interact with Damien and build the relationship with him up. That's basically all you have to do.
When prom night comes, invite him to the prom with you. He will tell you that he doesn't know how to bring it to his parents about his dreams of becoming a hairdresser. Choose the option to tell them through violence and a very funny moment will begin, and you will unlock his secret ending.
As you can see, this is still a work in progress and we still have a bunch of endings to unlock and complete. However, it's a great starting point with tons of endings in the game.
Check back soon for the updated guide to getting all endings in Monster Prom or comment below if you have suggestions for the ones we didn't get.
Until then, you can check out this Steam page where more endings are explained, although a bit more cryptic (but still a lot better than nothing!)


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In January, as part of our trip Backpacking in Asia with our kids, we visited the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand for a day.
On past trips to Thailand we have had elephant rides, but this was totally different and opened our eyes to elephants in Thailand.
Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation centre where you can visit and volunteer to help the plight of the animals - elephants, dogs, cats and even buffaloes and other animals.
Lel Chailert founded the park in 1996 as a sanctuary for rescued elephants. Visitors come to the park to see the elephants in their natural environment rather than in a show or for rides. You can feed the elephants,
help bathe them in the river
and observe and learn about them.
We learned about how elephants are a part of Thailand's culture, economy and history. Elephants were used heavily in the logging industry until 1989 when logging was banned in Thailand. Many families who owned elephants to help with their logging work, suddenly found themselves with a huge burden of an elephant to take care of and feed, but no income to do so with. Many people sold their elephants into tourism as a result or the elephants were neglected and suffered accordingly.
Lek has dedicated her life to helping elephants and this sanctuary is an amazing ongoing achievement and a shining example of what one person can achieve.
During our visit to the park, we also watched a video that showed what elephants in Thailand go through to become trained for rides and tourist shows. We saw a video of "the training crush" where elephants are forced into a cage a tied there so they cannot even sit down. They remain there for days, sometimes being beaten or stabbed to 'break' them and make them more obedient. It was horrific and heartbreaking to see the way these animals are treated, and made us re-think our views on elephant rides, no matter how well the animals appear to be treated.
We also heard and saw the stories of the elephants at the sanctuary and why they are there. Stories of elephants being forced to work when heavily pregnant and losing their babies as a result, also terrible cases of abuse and beatings.
But being at the sanctuary for the day and seeing the great work that is being done to care for these amazing animals, seeing all the volunteers who are helping to feed and care for them and the tourists who are happy to pay their money just to be close to the elephants, and feed and bathe them; gave us hope for the future of elephant 'tourism' in Thailand.
Lek is leading the way in a change in elephant tourism in Thailand. Other elephant parks are beginning to follow suit and change their practices after seeing the success of the Elephant Nature Park as a tourism venture.
When we went, it was booked out a week in advance and we were just lucky to get in thanks to a last minute cancellation.
Our girls loved being around all the animals - not just the elephants but also the many dogs and cats around the park.
It was a great experience for them to be so close to the animals, but to also learn about the reality of animal tourism.
We spent the day getting close to the elephants but at the same time learning to respect them and be safe around them. The steel hook that many mahout use to control the elephants when tourists ride them or have photos taken with them are not used at the Elephant Nature Park. Instead the elephants are treated with respect and love and there is no need to stab or prod them into submission.
I would highly recommend a visit to the Elephant Nature Park if you ever head to Chiang Mai in Thailand. A great place for the elephants and such a rich experience for the tourists. There is also an option to go and stay there for a week as a volunteer to help take care of the animals. Our girls have their eye on this possibility when they're older and it is certainly something we could encourage.
Have you ever had any experience of animal tourism?
We'd love to hear of any similar places in other parts of the world.


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York-Carlisle East Coast train yesterday afternoon, in First Class.
Free tea, coffee and biscuits?
Yes but...
The two ladies pushing the tea trolley stopped just in front of me, where a black couple were sitting with three packets of biscuits on their table, presumably from earlier in the journey.
"You can't take those off the train," barked one of the trolley ladies. "I'll take them now."
And leaving all of us in the immediate vicinity speechless with horror, she scooped up the biscuits and trundled the trolley away.
That's the most appalling service I've ever seen.
The gentleman had paid for a First Class ticket. He'd paid, in essence, for those biscuits.
And once given to him, they were his to eat exactly when he liked - on or off the train. She had absolutely no right to take them away.
He did go and try to talk to her but she wouldn't listen to him.
I won't be travelling East Coast again if I can possibly help it. I'll stick to Virgin, or go by plane, in future.
UPDATE: East Coast say the team member has been "re-briefed on customer service and how to treat customers". Personally I'm not hugely impressed. I'll still avoid East Coast if I can.


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Many of the pests that plague gardeners are caterpillars and other leaf-eating insects. Only caterpillars can be controlled with the well-known biological pesticide Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), but a newer biological pesticide, spinosad, can control caterpillars as well as leaf miners, thrips, Colorado potato beetle larvae, and even fire ants and fleas.
The spinosad parent bacterium, Saccharopolyspora spinosa, was discovered in 1982 in an old Caribbean rum still. It was soon found that these bacteria produce a substance that works as a neurotoxin in many (but not all) insects. Susceptible insect species that are exposed to spinosad become excited to the point of exhaustion, stop eating immediately and die within two days.
Similar to Bt, spinosad breaks down in sunlight, so late-day applications will better expose insects to the toxins. Spinosad has a longer period of residual effectiveness compared with Bt, often providing good protection from pests for five to seven days. Generally, spinosad is most effective against insect larvae, so it's important to look carefully for eggs and feeding insects before you spray.
The Organic Materials Review Institute currently lists 21 approved spinosad products, including the following for use in the garden: Entrust Naturalyte Insect Control, Green Light Lawn and Garden Spray with Spinosad, Monterey Garden Insect Spray, and others. Several more have been approved for control of fire ants.
Uses for spinosad go beyond the garden — it's even being used to prevent fleas in dogs. Given monthly in the form of a pill, a product called Comfortis makes dogs uninhabitable to fleas for 30 days. Spinosad is also the active ingredient in a product called Natroba, recently approved by the FDA to control head lice, which affect 6 to 12 million American children every year. Spinosad provides a reliable alternative to lice-control products containing permethrin (a synthetic pesticide used as the active ingredient in several treatments), and is especially helpful in cases involving permethrin-resistant lice.
A note of caution: Although spinosad is not as broad-spectrum nor as long-lasting as many synthetic insecticides, it can kill bees and other beneficial insects along with pests. So use it sparingly — only when you think you have to.
(To help distinguish good bugs from pests, we recommend the book Garden Insects of North America. — MOTHER)


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Old Modern Handicrafts ND061 Wooden Game Set with Brass Goblet
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A unique three in one game that includes dice, domino and cards. This set is made out of wood and a brass dice shaker, which serves as a mobile form of effortless entertainment for the whole family. Perfect as a gift or to be used as your own. Includes one set of cards, 5 dice, full domino set and two brass goblets. In such a fast-paced world, classic beauty seems gone too soon but the memories live on. At Old Modern Handicrafts, we work hard to bring those memories back to life. Old Modern Handicrafts uses the old way of building ship models while integrating modern technology. The traditional plank on frame or plank on bulk head method is done by hand and followed by our high-tech tools such as laser machines to create beautiful, accurate details that are scaled down in precise proportions from the original model. The old and modern technology work seamlessly together to create a product that will become the center of attention for any home or office.Specifications. Material: Wood. Card Size: 3.5" x 2.25". Dice Size: 0.625" x 0.625". Dice Shaker Size: 1.5" x 1.5" x 1.75". Dimensions: 2.5" H x 5.25" W x 8" L
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"Be still and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world." Psalm 46:10 NLT
I am open, Lord, speak to me. You are good and can be trusted. All your ways are best and a full life is found when they're followed. There is no joy, peace or love apart from you, this I know. You are with me in every moment and nothing is out of your control.