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— Death toll in Nepal has crossed the 5000 mark. Injured count over 10,000. The final figure, as expected, is to be in many thousands – of dead – of injured.
— India has reported 72 deaths, China has 25.
— Most affected districts in Nepal – Kathmandu, Pokhara, Lalitpur (Patan), Lamjung, Gorkha, Sindhupalchok, Bhaktapur, Rasuwa, Dhading, Langtang, Gorkha, Nuwakot, Kavre, Makwanpur, Chitwan, Parsa, Bara, Saptari, Dhanusha.
— Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur have lost many temples and heritage sites. Kathmandu's Darbar Square and Gorkha's Gorkha Durbar have been hit badly.
— Millions were displaced and left homeless. Their rehabilitation is a priority but public frustration is growing. Relief is not reaching to them as expected.
— Rescue and relief efforts are proving difficult to carry out, especially in remote towns and villages. Many of them are still out of reach. Teams are facing problems of logistics with cracked roads and dysfunctional power and communication lines.
— Nepal's small and chaotic airport is proving to be a problem. It is inundated with people, and with relief material and is facing logistical problems in managing them. People are rushing to go out of Nepal while support from the world community has created a sort of mismanagement at the airport.
— Nepal, due to its goodwill, is getting overwhelming response from the world community. India, Nepal's neighbour, the only country with direct road access to the country, is playing the role of big brother with its 'Operation Maitri', helping Nepal in every respect. It is helping in rescue, relief and reconnaissance efforts in Kathmandu, in Everest base camp area and in other quake affected regions. It is expected to play a big role in rehabilitation and reconstruction work. It is airlifting people and trying to open up more roads to the country to carry more people to this side of India-Nepal border and heavy equipments needed to that side of the border. Indian Army has established a camp in Pokhara, Nepal's second largest district, to coordinate the operations. The international community, including China, Pakistan, US, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, etc., and different aid agencies including the UN are there with helping hands.
— Stormy weather with warnings of heavy to very heavy rains are affecting rescue and relief work. Whenever rains happen, efforts to reach and help people across the affected region come to a virtual standstill.
— Electricity was restored in some parts of Kathmandu with help of India.
— Though there was no major earthquake today, Nepal continue to experience aftershocks.
— People continue to stay in the open – in Kathmandu and across Nepal. Kathmandu looks like a refugee camps with many tents, open hospitals and relief centres.
— According to the UN estimates, some 8 million are affected and many of Nepal's cities look like ghost towns. It is revised and up from an earlier UN estimate of 6.6 million quake-affected people. According to the revised estimates, 39 of 75 Nepal districts are earthquake affected. 11 of these are severely damaged.
— Around 20 bodies are recovered from Mount Everest base camps. Some reports say 18. The final figure is yet not available. Scores are still missing. Some reports say them to be around 200, some 400. Dozens are saved from the way up and the area surrounding Everest base camps. The way up from Tibet side, in China, the northern side, is closed. The southern side, from Nepal, the popular one, is devastated. Everest climbing season this spring is virtually over with it.
— Nepal's deputy PM said the rescue efforts were over and it was the time for rehabilitation work even if the reconnaissance work was not yet complete.
— Also, petty politics, though to a smaller extent, is at play. Nepal has rejected Taiwanese offer of help. There are reports of China expressing displeasure on India, choppers flying near China's border. Also, there are reports of skirmishes between Indian R&R teams and Nepal's defence forces.
— Different estimates say different things and will continue to say so. The impact of this earthquake on Nepal's economy is severe. Nepal and global agencies are already assessing the damage. If we believe the US Geological Survey estimates, the damage could be to the extent of around $US 10 billion. IHS Global, a US based firm, estimates Nepal needs $US 5 billion for rehabilitation and reconstruction works.
— Remittances form around 30% of the GDP while tourism's share is 8%. This 38% also helps Nepal to work on its unemployment problem, that is as huge as 50% according to some estimates. In the aftermath of Nepal quake, the sectors are going to be hit badly, affecting thus Nepal's economy badly.
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The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) has unveiled a new online graduate core preparatory course for qualified non-traditional Ph.D. program candidates. It debuted in the summer of 2018 and will be offered in the summer of 2019, with dates to be announced. Check here for further information.
The program is targeted to students with undergraduate degrees from related science disciplines such as chemistry, physical chemistry, general engineering and more; or, students returning from industrial practice in chemical engineering to pursue advanced degrees.
The department has designed an eight-week, three credit online summer course that will help prepare these students for success in the core graduate courses by reviewing and reinforcing the following topics:
- Mass and energy balances
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The course is free to students who have accepted admission into the department's Ph.D. program. Other students wishing to apply at a later date or to prepare for a Ph.D. program at another institution are charged the standard summer tuition. The current summer term tuition is $1,680 with a $300 student fee. If a student is subsequently admitted and joins the Iowa State chemical engineering Ph.D. program this tuition can be reimbursed.
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- List the different account categories and the type of accounts associated with each category.
- Apply the accounting equation and double-entry accounting when analysing financial transactions.
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General Journal
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Distinguish between the various source journals.
- Define general journals and their purpose.
- Identify the key components of a general journal entry.
- State what the chart of accounts is and what account categories are included in the Chart of Accounts.
- Identify which account categories have a default debit balance and which have a default credit balance.
- Prepare journal entries applying debit and credit rules.
- Prepare journal entries for accounts receivable, accounts payable, wages and owners' equity accounts.
General Ledger & the Trial Balance
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Outline the steps required to post from source journals to the General Ledger.
- Post source journals to the general ledger.
- Calculate the closing balances of general ledger accounts.
- Prepare general ledger accounts.
- Explain the purpose of a trial balance.
- Prepare a trial balance.
- Explain errors that can occur in the trial balance.
- Explain how reconciling accounts can verify the accuracy of a trial balance.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain what depreciation is and why it is used.
- State what assets can be depreciated.
- Distinguish between the Straight-line method and Diminishing Balance method of depreciation.
- Calculate depreciation and prepare journal entries using the Straight-line method.
- Calculate depreciation and prepare journal entries using the Diminishing Balance method.
- Calculate the gain/loss on the sale of a depreciable asset.
- Demonstrate how depreciation is recorded in the financial statements.
Adjusting Entries
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Distinguish between the cash basis and accrual basis of accounting.
- Discuss the purpose of adjusting entries.
- Identify the key adjustments and accounts involved in adjusting entries.
- Interpret and prepare the balance day adjustments for a range of adjusting entries.
Financial Statements
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the purpose of the Profit and Loss Statement, and both calculate the totals of the accounts and categorise the accounts that are included in this statement.
- State the common expense categories included in the Balance Sheet, and both calculate the totals of the accounts and categorise the accounts that are included in this statement.
- Define what inventory is and distinguish between the two common inventory systems.
- Prepare the journal entries that are required using both inventory systems.
- Apply purchase and sales returns, and discounts allowances when preparing the financial statements.
- Prepare journal entries for the opening and closing inventory.
- Calculate the year-end stock adjustment.
- Prepare the Profit & Loss Statement and Balance Sheet for a company.
Understanding GST
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify an overview of GST in Australia.
- Recognise the major principles of GST.
- Identify when GST registration is required.
- Recognise the obligations a business has once they are registered for GST.
- Identify the components of a valid sales invoice.
- Identify what the term attribution means and how this affects the GST returned to the ATO.
- Compare and contrast the cash basis and accrual basis for reporting GST.
- Calculate the GST on a product or service.
- Complete a basic BAS return.
Fundamentals of Income Tax
Learning Outcomes
Once you have completed this course, you should be able to:
- Explain the difference between a company and a sole trader.
- Explain what a TFN is.
- Explain what is meant by a "self-assessment" tax system.
- Identify what assessable income consists of, and why the residence of the taxpayer and the source of the income is important.
- Provide an overview of the four income types; ordinary, statutory, exempt and NANE income.
- Explain the various types of income, including exempt income, excluded income and assessable income.
- Outline what factors influence whether an amount of income is ordinary income or not.
- Highlight the key income tax differences between residents and non-residents.
- State the source of income for a range of common types of income.
- Briefly explain why when income is derived is important in respect of calculating income tax.
- Outline the difference between general deductions and specific deductions and provide examples of each.
- Identify the specific rules for deduction in repairs, borrowing expenses, bad debts, tax-related expenses and entertainment.
- Calculate taxable income.
- Reconcile accounting profit to tax profit.
- Explain the difference between the accounting profit and tax profit.
- Prepare a basic tax return for an individual.
- Prepare a basic tax return for a company.
Accounting with Xero
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this section you will be able to:
- Explain cloud computing and the benefits of using Xero.
- Identify how to get started with Xero.
- Recognise the difference between the Demo Company and other companies you may set up in Xero
- Recognise and navigate your Xero Dashboard.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how bank feeds work.
- Explain the purpose of bank reconciliation and how this works in Xero.
- Understand how overpayments and prepayments are treated in Xero.
- Apply the various bank reconciliation options including create, transfer, match & discuss.
- Understand how to create and apply bank rules to a range of transactions.
- List the different invoice types available in Xero and describe each of their definitions.
- Identify the customisable details that present on an invoice.
- Identify the two customer statement types.
- Summarise how to create invoices, quotes, repeating invoices and credit notes.
- Summarise how to customise templates and apply branding themes.
- Differentiate between tracked and untracked inventory.
- Describe the process of adding new inventory items.
- Explain the processes for managing bills, repeating bills and credit notes with Xero.
- Convert source documents to bills, repeating bills and credit notes.
- Apply payments and partial payments to bills.
- Describe to how perform batch payments and send remittance advice.
- Summarise how to modify payments to bills made in error.
Accounting with MYOB Essentials
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this section you will understand how to:
- Describe what MYOB Essentials is.
- Identify the functions you can perform in the software.
- Explain cloud computing.
- Recognise the system requirements for this software.
- Recognise the important elements of the Dashboard.
- Identify the Banking area of the Dashboard.
- Outline how to set up and manage bank feeds.
- Outline how to manually import bank statements.
- Identify the bank transactions page and perform the different functions on this page.
- Describe how to match bank transactions.
- State how to allocate bank transactions and create allocation rules.
- Explain bank reconciliations in Essentials.
- List why contacts are created.
- Identify how to create and manage contacts.
- Explain how to find a contact via filtering or sorting.
- Explain how to use contacts in transactions.
- Prepare quotes.
- Locate the Invoice page and where to view them.
- Prepare invoices.
- Locate the customer invoices report.
- Prepare customer payments.
- Prepare customer returns.
- Process customer returns.
- Locate the sales history page.
- Prepare customer statements.
- Explain what items are and where they can be accessed.
- Produce new items and modify current items.
Budgeting, Forecasting and Cashflow Management
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify what a budget and a forecast is and the difference between them.
- Recognise the importance and advantages of budgeting.
- Know how to prepare a budget.
- Understand how to compare with actual results and analyse variances.
- Identify what a cashflow budget is.
- Explain what the cash conversion cycle is and how to manage it.
Financial Statement Analysis
Learning Outcomes
When you have completed this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the purpose of financial statement analysis.
- Recognise what horizontal analysis is.
- Analyse financial statements using the horizontal analysis approach.
- Identify what ratio analysis is.
- Identify the four main categories of ratios.
- Compare the benefits and limitations of ratio analysis.
- Define and calculate profitability ratios.
- Define and calculate activity ratios.
- Define and calculate liquidity ratios.
- Define and calculate financial ratios.
- Analyse financial statements using ratio analysis.
Accounting using Microsoft Excel
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Access and save excel templates.
- Demonstrate how to open an Excel file and save this using a specific name.
- Identify and apply formulas and functions to calculate data.
- Demonstrate how to add content, such as pictures and charts, to spreadsheets.
- Apply filters to spreadsheet data.
- Demonstrate how to sort and manipulate spreadsheet data.
- Apply a range of formatting styles to spreadsheet data.
Developed by Industry Professionals
David Parasol – Senior Accounting & Bookkeeping Tutor
David Parasol is the managing director of CT Solutions Australia Pty Ltd. Before establishing CT Solutions Australia, David spent over 12 years in Public Practice, starting his accounting career in 1994 with a small firm where he became an Associate in 1999. When working with The Career Academy, he is one of our Senior Tutors & an Accounting Software Experts. David has extensive experience in taxation, accounting and business services and is a Director and Shareholder of The Career Academy PTY Ltd. He is also a highly accredited and experienced CA mentor and accounting software trainer. He has been a tutor for Open Colleges Australia and is a Chartered Accountant and member of CAANZ.
Ridge Selvaraj – Head of Department
Ridge works as a tutor at The Career Academy, with a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He intends to use his Degree and experience as a previous bookkeeper to help and assist students achieve a career in accounting. Previously, working as a tutor for his university. Ridge brings a depth of knowledge and skills that are available to students. Ridge is passionate about education, art and helping people reach their goals.
Ridge loves The Career Academy's vision to make education easy, accessible and at the same time to provide quality education to students.
Eddie Callahan – Accounting & Bookkeeping Tutor
Eddie is an aspiring accountant who recently finished his Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Commercial Law at University. Throughout university and more recently he has worked in several fields including the trades, factories and retail banking. Tutoring for The Career Academy allows Eddie to not only upskill his own knowledge but to also give back in a rewarding role and help others gain a better knowledge of the commercial world. He was the Head boy of his High school, nominated by his peers to help lead and guide them. He is a keen surfer and rugby player with a passion for fitness. Currently living in Melbourne, Eddie enjoys the big city life along with the amazing food and its diverse multicultural atmosphere. Given Eddie's sociable nature, a perk of working for The Career Academy in a tutor role is that it allows Eddie to interact with students every day who are passionate and willing to learn.
Jimmy Nguyen – Accounting & Bookkeeping Tutor
Jimmy has worked in a variety of different fields including research, teaching, engineering and has even worked overseas in Shanghai. In order to challenge himself, Jimmy completed his Graduate Diploma in Accounting and has worked for a global accounting firm where he has advised client's on their financials as well as perform other bookkeeping duties. Jimmy uses his significant accounting and bookkeeping knowledge to help accounting and bookkeeping students succeed.
Boris Nandi – Accounting & Bookkeeping Tutor
Boris works as a tutor here at The Career Academy. He currently holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and a Bachelor of Business (Finance) from the University of South Australia and is working towards achieving a Master of Marketing at Monash University therefore making him very well versed in all aspects of Business. In addition to this, Boris also runs a business called Resume Hub (https://resumehub.net) where he helps students attain employment thus validating his passion for helping students reach their potential.


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For Independence Day, a Look at Thomas Jefferson's Egregious HypocrisyPosted in Articles, Biography, History, Media Archive, Slavery, United States, Virginia on 2016-07-02 18:35Z by Steven
For Independence Day, a Look at Thomas Jefferson's Egregious Hypocrisy
The Scientific American
"While many of his contemporaries, including George Washington, freed their slaves during and after the revolution—inspired, perhaps, by the words of the Declaration–Jefferson did not," historian Paul Finkelman writes. "Jefferson also "dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial equality." Presidential portrait of Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
To celebrate the 4th of July, when Americans commemorate their country's birth, I'd like to offer a few comments on Thomas Jefferson.
No one is more closely associated with Independence Day than Jefferson. He was the principle author of the Declaration of Independence, which the American Congress formally adopted July 4, 1776. Jefferson, judged by his rhetoric, was a true man of the Enlightenment, who embraced reason, science and democracy and rejected superstition, tradition and tyranny.
I once admired Jefferson, seeing him as an essentially good, no, great man with one tragic flaw: The writer of the inspiring words "all men are created equal" owned slaves. Now, I see Jefferson as an egregious hypocrite, who willfully betrayed the ideals he espoused…
…*DNA testing and other evidence have convinced most historians that Jefferson fathered six children with a slave, Sally Hemings. Hemings is believed to have been the daughter of Jefferson's father-in-law, John Wayles, and one of his slaves. That means Hemings was the half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha, who died in 1782.
*Some writers, grotesquely, have romanticized the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings. As our Monticello guide pointed out, a relationship between a master and slave cannot be consensual, let alone romantic. The relationship might have begun as early as 1787, when Jefferson took Hemings to Paris for two years. He was 43, she 14. She gave birth to the first of their six children in 1795. Jefferson never freed Hemings. After his death in 1826, Jefferson's daughter Martha allowed Hemings to leave Monticello and live out her days in nearby Charlottesville.
*The Monticello website notes that "in the few scattered references to Sally Hemings in Thomas Jefferson's records and correspondence, there is nothing to distinguish her from other members of her family." Perhaps Jefferson viewed Sally Hemings merely as valuable livestock, or "capital." He wrote this about female slaves in 1820: "I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm… What she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere consumption."…
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FREEPORT — The Freeport School District board recently appointed Anna Alvarado as its new superintendent.
Alvarado will begin her new role July 1 with a three-year contract. She will succeed current Superintendent Michael Schiffman.
Alvarado has been in education for 35 years. She currently serves as the chief officer for teaching and learning at Chicago Public Schools, a role she has been in for one year. She previously served as the deputy chief of teaching and learning at Chicago Public Schools from 2017 to 2018, as chief of schools there from 2012 to 2017 and as deputy chief of schools there for a half-year in 2012.
Since 2016, Alvarado has also been an adjunct professor at National Louis University, an elementary school principal at Chicago Public Schools for six years, as an assistant principal in the Archdiocese of Chicago for six years and as a teacher for 17 years.
Alvarado holds a Doctor of Education degree from National Louis University, a Master of Arts degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Spirit. She is a certified superintendent in Illinois.
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East European dejà vu
Since the collapse of communism, Ukraine has been a white spot on the map of Europe and a non-entity to policy makers in Brussels. Whereas Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have safely found their place in so-called "Central Europe", the Ukraine's place in the history and the geography of Europe continues to go unrecognized. The reasons are to be found in cynical political and economical reasoning more than anything else, argues Taras Wozniak and calls for a show of unity of Eastern European countries and their common interests.
The following text is an edited version of a speech held at the conference "Where is Central
Europe?" in Zurich, organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at 22 April 2004.
The subject matter of today's conference "Where is Central Europe?" in Zurich, in the very heart of Europe, touches upon the problems of definition and self-identification of Central Europe. Somebody might have lost it again, as it has been repeatedly searched for. Probably, on the eve of the greatest expansion of the European Union (for me personally Europe means the European Union – and my sincere apologies to the small, proud and independent Swiss Confederation) when ten more states are to join the EU, this subject is more than pertinent.
It is relevant for "old" EU members, who sanction such an expansion, and who now find themselves in new circumstances, experience difficulties to foresee all possible complications of the expansion. They find themselves face-to-face with partners they know very little about. The failure to adopt a new European Constitution or the Iraq War saga have demonstrated that the EU has varied visions about its future.
The issues of new, re-considered geopolitical constellations in our part of the world is equally important for new EU members stretching from Germany, Austria and Italy to the new EU frontiers, which, in fact, are the good old USSR borders. The Baltic exceptions just confirm the rule.
In my view it looks somewhat symbolic that due to certain circumstances at today's discussion, in this European orchestra, Ukrainian representatives are not be present. After all, what are Ukrainians supposed to make of this EU expansion celebration or with the problem of Central Europe?
In this all-European process, Ukraine has received the part of a "not-to-be-mentioned" player. For the thirteen years of its independence, the country has hardly done anything but standing at the sidelines. It is not talked about and Brussels makes no essential decisions in regard to its issues. The Ukraine is not seen as an EU member-state or even associated member. The truth is that the EU is not interested in Ukraine as a partner either. If it had been, then its attitude would have been different. Brussels views Ukraine rather like an amusing incident, however, less outrageous than Belarus. Although the Ukrainian government publicly declares its intention to integrate with the EU, everything ends with these declarations.
For almost a year the Ji magazine web-site www.ji-magazine.lviv.ua has presented a map of a future Europe published in Lviv's Postup newspaper, an essential periodical for Ukrainian Europe-centrists. It is the map which mirrors the view from Brussels as we see it. On this map, the area between the European Union and Russia is covered by water – Ukraine does not exist. On the surface, this could be an ideal situation for everybody. However, Ukraine does exist – and this is a problem. Up until now the EU has been able to cope with it by simply ignoring it. For the EU, Ukraine is a non-entity. And not just because its existing political system is one way and not the other. To a degree, the current form of Ukraine's political regime is a result of being completely ignored by Brussels, and not just a proof of the inability of the Ukrainian people or due to intrigues from Moscow.
When discussing Central Europe, we should be definite at least about two terms "Europe" and "the Centre".
With regard to the term "Europe", everybody will agree that it is associated with something positive, worthwhile, civilised and at the same time (!) successful. Everybody would love to be related to this type of Europe, particularly new members of the European community.
However, we should remember that historically, Europe had different definitions:
Geographers had their own ways of delineating Europe – they thought in terms of mountain chains and seas. They identified some territories, which they boldly called "Europe" reaching to the Caucasus and the Urals. These European boundaries are still valid at preparatory schools of the post-Soviet space.
Politicians also have had and still have their specific ways of defining European borders. Their criteria are less solid and stable as the ones placed by geographers. They are driven by political feasibility, often undermined with open cynicism.
General de Gaulle bravely delineated Europe with the Urals, cutting a single body of the USSR, actually of Russia, in half. It is difficult to understand, though, what Russia has to do with its Siberian tail which makes up 75 per cent of its territory and only 25 per cent of its population.
Instead, the young European Union, under US pressure, has courageously offered Turkey to become a EU member – considering only 5 per cent of its European territory down to the Bosphorusstrait . Thus, EU geo-politicians have moved the EU frontiers to the Tigris and the Euphrates – all the way down to the cradle of the civilisation. In December 2004 it will be necessary to take the responsibility for such brevity and decide whether or not to sign an action plan for Turkey to join the EU… or to continue to fool gullible Turks. But it becomes increasingly dangerous. Right now, there are more Turks in Berlin, then in 1683 at Vienna, when Central Europe was saved by John III Sobieski (not without the support of Zaporizhia Cossacks led by Semen Pali).
The US State Department has taken a very interesting position in this matter. After a short period, when it has even assigned Ukraine to "Europe", now it simply does not classify what kind of territory the area between Przemysl and Vladivostok is. This area, however paradoxically, is not even shown in many American atlases (and this is not a joke). American politicians are simply disoriented. Perhaps, for them this whole area is what Russian nationalists call Eurasia, and what, on contrary, their Russian opponents ironically call Azopa. Nevertheless, in this concept Ukraine is missing, as it doesn't have its Asian "tail". Unfortunately, without joining Russia, Ukraine would fail to become a truly Eurasian country.
At the same time one can't help but noticing that these are the matters of past times – sins of old politicians. Instead, the term "Europe" is viciously expropriated for the benefit of the European Union – as if it is the European Union who considers itself as Europe. One can agree or disagree with this. However, this is the situation for now and for the foreseeable future. Everything outside it won't be Europe. And Ukrainians and others have to accept it.
We should also remind ourselves of the humanitarians who after the European catastrophe of 1945 began to look for the grounds to create a new Europe. They sought for the spiritual foundations of Europe – referring to Christianity. However, it was in Europe itself where Christianity started to decline and for some strange reasons began to grow in Latin America. More accurate scholars drew the borders of Europe within the Latin world or the world of the Roman Church, cutting off post-Orthodox communist countries – and Russia in the first place. Instead, successors to the Greek writing and Greek Church traditions did not fit into this concept of Europe. Heirs to the "Greek" or "Byzantine" tradition were just thrown out of Europe. Truly, for those Latin purists a place for Greece in this new EU project looked rather vague. Samuel Huntington tried to put an end to this matter and with a decisive hand of an American neophyte cut the Gordian knot and separated the Orthodox and Islamic world from the Latin world. He didn't even notice that he cut Ukraine and Belarusia in half. Moreover, he threw (rightfully so!) Greece, a cradle of the European civilisation, out of the civilised European entity completely. Now, what is spiritual Europe without Greece? -our European colleagues should ask themselves.
Some of the more considerate researchers called upon a "democratic tradition"; however, it was hard to talk about it after two decades of nationalism and fascism in the very centre of Europe. Particularly, for Europeans.
Hence, a precise definition of a spiritual foundation for "Europe" has not been found, despite of all the efforts and "broken lances". Perhaps, this subject remains open just to let numerous departments at European universities to continue their studies and work. Eventually, a quest for self-identity never ends. It's an on-going daily process.
We do understand that all these intellectual pursuits are only attempts to sanctify certain political and economic realities. The European Union has been built to a great extent on economic and political interests, rather than on Christianity.
The expanded European Union, to be more specific, the expanded Europe, true Europe, now ends at the current Polish-Ukrainian border. From now on I will use the term "Europe" meaning the European Union. I think it would be simpler, shorter and fairer. Hopefully, in a few years Europe will expand also to the Romanian-Ukrainian border. I regret that there is no Albanian-Ukrainian border.
Apparently, Ukraine will not take part in this process. It will remain outside the "European project". At the same time, it is reluctant (at this point) to partake in the Russian "Eurasian" project of the creation of a new modernized "liberal (and not very much so) empire". Ukraine remains in-between, at the bottom of the sea, as our map shows. A proposal by the Apennine grocers about a status as a "new EU/European neighbour" causes in Ukraine either irritation or Homeric laughter – at last Poland and Hungary have found their "new neighbour! "
What does Central Europe mean?
What is the situation for the countries that are entering this newly defined and structured Europe? They delve into new geopolitical conditions.
When the continent was divided in half by the Berlin wall, Milan Kundera wrote his key article under the title Tragedy of Central Europe. Ukrainian dissidents of those days diligently re-printed it in the Ukrainian samizdat and immigration press -so did Ji magazine. But they were looking in vain for any reference to Ukraine. For Milan Kundera, Ukraine was outside his vision of Central Europe – it was rather a part of Soviet Russia, which enslaved his Central European Cechy. At that time, naive Ukrainian dissidents didn't even notice this omission. He started his article with a fight for Europeanism, with the 1956 Hungarian uprising and a famous phrase of the Hungarian Radio News Agency Director, "We are ready to die for Hungary and Europe". However, he didn't suspect, that still in the early 1950s the last fights of a ten-year long partisan warfare against Soviets "for Ukraine and Europe" were still taking place in Western Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainians were dying, not theoretically, but really dying for Ukraine, and for Europe, as they, naïvely so, saw it. Perhaps, he didn't even suspect that for a decade of fighting 150,000 Ukrainian partisans were taken to Stalin's concentration camps. Equally, in the 1940s and 1950s hundreds of thousands of Czech partisans fought against the Soviet occupation.
Perhaps, my politically incorrect statement might shock some of you. But I dare to use it considering the fact that almost every second person in my generation is a child of parents who spent at least ten years in Stalin's concentration camps not for being intellectuals, but on the contrary, armed fighters. For us it is not a simple political or intellectual speculation but the history of our families. I know the answer to my political incorrectness – Kundera articulated it precisely. It referred, however, to Russia (but for him Ukraine and the USSR/Russia, I suspect, meant one and the same thing, that is why we, including myself, have to bear the responsibility for the defeat of the USSR). "I wish I knew nothing about their world, that it has ever existed." Naturally, he is not interested in the Ukraine's tragedy. It is quite reasonable then, that the place for Ukraine is right at the bottom of a sea, but not in Zurich's conference rooms, where these problems of Central Europe are currently discussed.
For Kundera, Central Europe means exactly the countries that are entering the EU, i.e. the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary. He naively considers a space "locked within Germany and Russia" as Central Europe. However, the term Central Europe (Mitteleuropa) itself historically refers (and I hope it will refer to the same in the future) to Germany and probably to its neighbouring German-speaking periphery (in perspective probably to Switzerland). With certain political reasons in mind, the term Central Europe in a modern EU political discourse has been replaced with all kinds of euphemisms, like "old Europe", "Kerneuropa", "European core". It becomes obvious that France and Belgium would join this "European core". Apparently now, we witness how the true Central Europe is being shaped up. The reasons for using the name for this informal club within the EU are not so much their geographic location or spiritual unity, but the actual level of their economic and social development and hence their political and economic interests. Countries of the "European core", of true Central Europe have long been found not only lying eastward, but also lying southward. I would say that Great Britain itself is taking a very specific transatlantic position and is probably the only one that, in essence, can be called a West European (read transatlantic) country. In its turn, a special group of counties will be formed within the Mediterranean – here its own Southern Europe with its specific needs and goals will be created.
Instead, countries between Germany and "non-Europe in the East" (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia), sadly enough, find themselves truly in Eastern Europe. What a biter "dejà vu"! And the reason lies not so much in this disgusting East European brand Milan Kundera was so desperate to get rid of. The group of these countries, whether they like it or not, lie to the East of Europe, to the East from the "European core", and have their specific interests, their level of economic and social development and would inevitably form a rather unified group. Taking into account all these realities, it is quite right that their old partners from the EU see them as Eastern Europe.
Further to the East, as we have previously agreed with the map I have suggested, the sea begins. It seems to me that in order to quench any resentment of our new East Europeans, when talking about the countries within this area, we should mention the name of the empire, still nostalgically recalled in this whole region – we should mention good old Österreich that did not have any inferiority complex for belonging to the Eastern empire. For this reason I guess new Europeans should not feel inferior because of this name and stop playing a centre to something that does not exist – as Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals simply does not exist. It is only a game for old-fashioned geographers, but not a political or economic reality. And new East Europeans and new East non-Europeans should comprehend their real place on the new continent that is shaping up right before our eyes. Once, Constantinople was the centre of civilisation in Europe. However, from a political and economic point of view this means nothing nowadays.
Within the last ten years due to the help of old EU member states, new EU members have succeeded in modernising their societies and economics. Changes are enormous. They have to be grateful to the old EU for this. Nonetheless, they shouldn't forget that it was the collapse of the USSR which lost the cold war to the US and gave a push to this process.
Surely, new EU member states are required, and are authorised by the "European core". Europe needs new production capacities, news markets, more labour. Old Europe is getting older so rapidly. And obviously security issues are not down the list. The "European core" is nicely encompassed and protected from all sides (What a pity that modern buffer zones do not pose any obstacle for modern terrorism.) In essence, the countries of New Eastern Europe play an invaluable part. They form a zone of security and consistent growth monitored by Brussels. Taking into account their resources, they don't play into hands of EU competitors. They isolate the "European core" from Russia's neo-imperial projects and explosive improvisations at the Balkans. Subsequently, they isolate the "European core" from a new global confrontation with the Islamic world. Right now, the EU has left all mishaps of this confrontation to Americans, Israelis and Russians.
With a view to security issues, for the past few years the EU has been putting much effort into the development and fortification of its new European borders, turning the EU into a "fortress of Europe". In essence, the old Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is being implemented with these EU efforts. New EU borders in the East almost replicate the intentions of those old far-seeing geopoliticians. Understandably, there is a lot of talk about "transparent" and "civilised" old/new borders. A number of discussions are taking place about computerised border operations, electronic border surveillance, as well as discussions regarding German (European) customs officers employed at the Ukrainian-Polish borders as civilisers (considering the corruption at the border). Expansion of "a space of freedom", "a space of free travel" is declared. The question still remains, whom this space of freedom and free travel is being expanded for? At least, not for Ukrainians. For the past few years, Ukraine (or rather the 48 million Ukrainians), as a plagued territory, has been encircled with visa walls. Although the border with Russia has not been closed, it seems as if Ukraine is gently pushed back to the Russian imperial framework. In this sense, Ukraine does not look like a "new European neighbour", happy that Europe is getting closer to us, but more like a cornered rat. A non-European rat. However, at various official receptions we would certainly welcome the EU expansion that offers us a great opportunity, that would render us closer to Europe, that would humanise and civilise our borders, that would…, et cetera, et cetera.
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Stony Brook University is situated on a
1,100 acre site
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on the north shore of Long Island in southeastern New York.
We are approximately 60 miles east of New York City.
By Car
From New York City, take the Long Island Expressway (LIE, I-495) eastbound from the Queens Midtown Tunnel in Manhattan or the Throgs Neck Bridge or Whitestone Bridge in Queens to exit 62, and follow Nicolls Road (Route 97) north for 9 miles. The main entrance to the University is on the left. If you are coming from New England, you can avoid driving through New York City by taking a ferry (see below).
By Train
Take the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line from Penn Station in Manhattan to Stony Brook. Trains to and from Penn Station generally require a timed transfer at either Jamaica, Hicksville, or Huntington. The LIRR station is at the north end of the campus. The Math Tower is a 5-minute walk from the train station. Three Village Inn is 1.5 miles from the train station, but you can call them for a shuttle. Holiday Inn also provides a shuttle, but you need to call ahead. Alternatively, you can take the Suffolk Transit's S71 bus (8 runs a day, Mon-Sat). If you are staying at Danford's Inn, the closest LIRR stop is Port Jefferson, 1.2 miles away (mostly downhill). If you are staying at Radisson Hotel MacArthur Airport, the closest train stops are Medford (limited train service), 1.4 miles away, and Ronkonkoma, 5 miles away. You can ask the hotel to pick you up from Ronkonkoma, but schedule 2 days in advance. Both stops are on the Ronkonkoma line.
Walking directions from LIRR's Stony Brook station to the Math Tower:
From the campus (south) side of the tracks, take the paved path that leads
directly away from the station (it is located across the small road from the overpass).
You will pass athletic fields and then the sports complex on your left,
ending at a small pay parking lot.
The red Physics Building will be directly across the road from you.
The Math Tower is attached to the right side of the Physics Building.
By Ferry
Car ferries cross Long Island Sound from Bridgeport, Connecticut to Port Jefferson, Long Island. Take Route 25A west to Nicolls Road, and turn left on Nicolls. The University entrances are the first three intersections you come to. For a more scenic and time-consuming drive, you can instead take a ferry from New London, CT, to Orient Point, Long Island and then Route 25A west to Nicolls Road and proceed as above.
By Plane
The closest airport to Stony Brook is Long Island's Islip-MacArthur Airport (ISP), located 16 miles south off the campus. It is served by Southwest and some regional carriers. At the airport, you can rent a car or take a taxi. If you are staying at Radisson Hotel MacArthur Airport, you can ask the hotel to pick you up, but schedule 2 days in advance.
Driving directions to Stony Brook University from Islip-MacArthur Airport: Exit the airport and turn left onto Veterans Memorial Highway (Route 454 West). Merge onto Sunrise Highway (Route 27) and take the second exit onto Nicolls Road. Drive north for 12 miles. The main entrance to the University is on the left.
Of the major New York City Area Airports, JFK and LaGuardia (LGA) are closer than Newark (EWR). In addition to airport shuttles, from JFK you can also take the AirTrain to Jamaica station and then LIRR (see above) to Stony Brook.
Shuttle Service:
- Spartan Limousine Service (631-928-5454)
- Lindy's (631-265-2500)
- Winston Limousine Service (631-924-1200; outside NY toll-free 1-888-444-4425)
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A mute is a device that is placed in the bell of a brass instrument to alter its sound. However, when a straight mute is used with a brass instrument, the frequencies of its first impedance peaks are slightly modified, and a mistuned, extra impedance peak appears. This peak affects the instrument's playability, making some lower notes difficult or impossible to produce when playing at low dynamic levels. To understand and suppress this effect, an active mute with embedded microphone and speaker has been developed. A control loop with gain and phase shifting is used to control the damping and frequency of the extra impedance peak. The stability of the controlled system is studied and then the effect of the control on the input impedance and radiated sound of the trombone is investigated. It is shown that the playability problem results from a decrease in the input impedance magnitude at the playing frequency, caused by a trough located on the low frequency side of the extra impedance peak. When the extra impedance peak is suppressed, the playability of the note is restored. Meanwhile, when the extra impedance peak is moved in frequency, the playability problem position is shifted as well.
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This Fourth of July was a special one for me — of which will be posted about separately at some point — because I saw most of my people for the first time in 20 years. When did we get old enough to have known people all our lives and not have seen them for 20 years? I reconnected with my people because of Facebook. A Facebook Event was created so we could coordinate my visit and get together. If it weren't for Facebook I am not sure how we would have been able to get back in touch with each other. How did the people of yesteryear do it? How do you write letters and hope they get there? Ahhh!!! So thankful for the technology that allows us to have Facebook.
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Teacher Education: the Role of Open and Distance Learning
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In recent years the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has convened an annual meeting with partner agencies working in the field of teacher education. Its purpose is to share updates on our activities and to explore ways of expanding and improving teacher education, notably through the use of new approaches and technologies. The 2010 meeting was convened in Vancouver on July 26th by COL's Education Specialist for Teacher Education, Dr. Abdurrahman Umar. It brought together representatives of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Central Institute of Educational Technology (India), the Joint Board of Teacher Education (Jamaica), the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, the National Commission for Colleges of Education (Nigeria), the University of Papua New Guinea, the UK Open University (TESSA programme), UNESCO, UNICEF and COL. During their discussions members of the group noted a widespread lack of awareness within Ministries of Education about alternative approaches to teacher education. In particular, the major role that open, distance and technology-mediated learning has played and continues to play in both pre-service and in-service education is not fully appreciated. To apprise Ministries of Education and the wider higher education community more fully about the potential of these alternative methods, the partners agreed that the Commonwealth of Learning should commission a short critical review of the role of open and distance learning in teacher education worldwide. They believe that this information will be helpful in governmental and institutional policy making. COL commissioned one of its honorary fellows, Dr. Hilary Perraton, who is recognised internationally as an authority in the field, to conduct the review. I welcome his very thorough report and am grateful to UNESCO for giving me the opportunity to present it as part of the programme of 2010 World Teachers' Day on October 5th.- Sir John Daniel, President & C.E.O., Commonwealth of Learning
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- For other uses, see Crime.
A crime is an act that breaks the law, which—if caught committing one by a guard—will incur a bounty scaled to the severity of the crime. The Nerevarine has the option to go to jail, pay a fine or resist arrest, although a guard with a high enough disposition can lower or even remove a bounty.
The game does not indicate if the Nerevarine is committing a crime, or indicate stolen items in the Nerevarine's inventory.
Attempting to, or successfully picking a lock to a character's property incurs a bounty of 15 . Trespassing a civilian's house is a bounty of 50 but doing so to property of authority (e.g. guard barracks) causes a 100 bounty.
If the Nerevarine is caught stealing an item that belongs to a character (although what items are property is down to common sense, as a result of the game not specifying what is property) a bounty according to the value of the stolen item(s) is incurred.
An unprovoked attack on a peaceful character will usually give a bounty of 40 , although attacking guards causes a bounty of 60 , and higher authority (Royalty, Captains) 80 .
Being caught killing a peaceful character incurs a bounty of 1,000 , no matter who the victim is.


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A cut in fuel duty rises could be on the cards after Chancellor George Osborne promises to "find a way to help" struggling families.
Delivering a speech at the Conservative Party's spring conference in Cardiff the chancellor said: "When it costs £1.30 for a litre of petrol; £80 to fill up a family car; I know people feel squeezed. And I say this to people watching: I hear you."
He went on to hint at a potential cut: "We've got another of the Labour Party's pre-prepared rises in petrol tax also coming this April - one penny above inflation. I won't take risks with economic stability, or wreck public finances.
"But I promise you I am doing everything I can to find a way to help."
The coalition government has come under increasing pressure to ditch a further 1p rise in April.
Petrol prices are hitting record highs with some motorists having to pay £1.40 a litre, while the average price for one litre of unleaded petrol is £1.31, according to PetrolPrices.com.
Rising costs at the pump are blamed in part on the political unrest in oil–rich regions pushing up the price of oil as well as the VAT rise, adding nearly 3p to the cost of a litre of petrol.
Making "things worse"
A survey from professional advice website unbiased.co.uk reveals that, fuel duty is the tax Brits would most like to see abolished.
And speaking in response to news that unleaded petrol has hit the £1.30 mark, shadow Treasury minister, Kelly McCarthy said that the coalition government was making "things worse":
"George Osborne should take immediate action to help hard-pressed families facing record prices at the petrol pumps by reversing the VAT rise on petrol - using the extra £800 million from the bank levy this year."
"And in the Budget George Osborne should look again at the annual fuel duty rise due in April."


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In the second week of March the Press in Pakistan reported incidents of assault and arson by mobs incensed at the news of the alleged burning of a copy of the Holy Quran. The houses of Ahmadia Community at Nankana Sahib and adjoining villages, 60-70 miles to the West of Lahore, were the target.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan taking cognizance of the press reports and appeals from some members of the Ahmadia community constituted a mission to visit the scene of the occurrence. The mission visited Nankana Sahib and Chak No. 563 GB on April 16, 1989 to ascertain facts and to see the damage done.
The mission comprised Mrs. Alys Faiz, Dr. Mubashar Hassan, Begum Mehnhaz Rafi, Ms. Shahtaj Qizalbash, Mr. Mahmood Zaman, Syed Imtiaz Shah, Advocate, and Mr. Azhar Jafri. The mission visited the sites, taped evidence and interviewed local authorities.
At Nankana Sahib the first stop was the house of Dr. Abdul Rehman where the leaders of the town's Jamat-e-Ahmedia, Malik Saleem Latif, Advocate, President of the Jamat in Nankana Sahib, and Mirza Altaf-ur-Rehman Advocate gave a detailed account of the happenings on April 12, 1989.
Malik Altaf Advocate stated that at about 4.40 p.m. on April 11 there was an announcement from a nearby Mosque's loudspeaker that the qadianis had burnt Quran Sharif in Chak 563 GB. It was a challenge to the faith of every Muslim who will have to show that he was capable of defending his faith. It was also announced that a strike would be observed and a procession taken out the next day.
Malik Altaf said that as they had some indication that trouble was brewing, grave apprehensions arose in their mind. So they immediately tried to contact the Station House Officer of the Police (SHO) and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Aslam Khan Lodhi (DSP), as well as the resident magistrates and the Asstt: Commissioner (A.C.), Ch. Ghulam Sarwar. It was the time of dusk prayers. They were told that the SHO and DSP were out of station. One resident magistrate was on leave and the other resident magistrate and the A.C. had gone for a walk. They made a second contact with the A.C. by waiting three hours outside his house. At that time the A.C. was back home but passed on a message that he would give an audience to them the next morning i.e. on April 12.
Malik Altaf continued that on April 12 the members of the community contacted the A.C. telephonically who assured them that they should not feel apprehensive as the government had made adequate arrangements to ensure their security. The A.C. also said that the situation was not grave. Later they contacted the DSP who extended similar assurances. He also told them that the local police had adequately been reinforced from the District Headquarters, Sheikhupura. On being so assured the community felt satisfied.
Following Malik Altaf, Mirza Altaf-ur-Rehman and others described in detail the destruction and narrated sequences of arson by violent mobs which went on rampage unhindered and unchecked using abusive language and raising slogans against Ahmadis.
The members of the Ahmadi community bitterly complained that no effort whatsoever was made by the police accompanying the mob to offer police protection to the Ahmadis. Malik Saleem Latif stated that the violent procession that had formed at Ghalla Mandi, first damaged the place of worship of the Ahmadis and desecrated Quranic inscriptions considered holy by them. His own house, adjacent to the place of worship, was also attacked. He said that the rampage continued for about seven hours during which 25-27 houses and shops and clinics of Ahmadis were set on fire or grossly damaged. The mob also burnt several copies of the Holy Quran in the prayer centre and in the houses of Ahmadis. They burnt expensive libraries at the residence of Mirza Altaf-ur-Rehman and Malik Saleem Lateef.
Dr. Abdul Rehman's clinic and his house were badly damaged. Some of the portions of the house were demolished. His tenant, Mohammad Ayub Qamar, had a similar experience when most of the belongings of his house were reduced to ashes. The mission also visited Chatthhi Gali in old Nankana Sahib, which was the worst affected area. There the houses belonging to Abdul Rehman, Ghulam Mohammad and Mohammad Afzal had been set on fire. The roofs of these houses had caved in. In the street the mission saw the remains of burnt down refrigerators, television sets and other electronic gadgets. Similarly clothes, utensils and toys of children were heaped out in the street and set on fire. Abdul Rehman told members of the mission that he had lost about 400 grams of gold which he had kept at his home as dowry for a daughter who was to be married shortly. He said that the assailants had brought blackish inflammable materiel with which they used to set on fire the belongings and houses of Ahmadis. He also showed the mission a copy of a burnt Quran and Jainamaz.
In the house of Ghulam Mohammad also dowry for his daughter was reduced to ashes. The mission members then visited the residence of Mubashar Ahmad, a small katcha house. In its courtyard lay the ashes of burnt articles. He had preserved the copy of a burnt Quran and Tafsir Kabir, a book considered holy by him. The adjacent electronic workshop, owned by him had been looted. Several T.V. sets, including those in the shop for repair, transistor sets and electrical fittings had been removed by the mob. The shelves of the shop were stripped empty and removed.
The mission also saw the newly built house of M. Dawood Ahmad in the Satellite Town. The mob had caused extensive damage to the house. The assailants had taken particular interest in demolishing his expensive bathroom. A burqa-clad woman of the house told the mission in tears that seven copies of the Quran were burnt by the mob. She showed some remains to the members of the mission.
Adjacent to the main bus stand was the house of Mirza Altaf-ur-Rehman advocate. The violent mobs had, in addition to doing other damage, razed to the ground 320 foot-long boundary wall of the house. He told the mission that the mob had spent four hours in destroying his house, all of it in presence of police. He had seen DSP handing over to the mob pillows of his bed room for burning.
The mission's next stop was at "Kucha Ahmadian", Qazzafi Street, where the damaged prayer centre is situated. The rooms had been demolished and electronic equipment damaged. A library with several copies of the Quran had also been burnt down.
From Nankana Sahib the mission proceeded to village 563 GB, 6-7 miles away. A magistrate along with a posse of police was stationed in the village to guard the houses of Ahmadis. Most of the houses in the village bore inscriptions in bold letters stating that they were Ahl-e-Sunnat, that is to say not Ahmadis. The mission first went to Ahmadia prayer centre whose outer walls had been demolished and the library burnt down. The magistrate on duty, Mr. Tariq, and SHO Mansoor Khan told the mission that their information was limited to what the villagers had told them. The magistrate said that a man called Nasir had been burning pages of Holy Quran. On hearing the report the people became violent and the two sects clashed with each other. After the incident the D.C., SSP and A.D.C. of Distt: Sheikhupura visited the site and took into possession some burnt copies of Quran, the SHO added. It was this alleged incident which was stated to be the cause of what followed.
The village was inhabited by 25 Ahmadi families which is about one sixth of the total population. The people appeared tense. Three houses were damaged, including the one where one room was set on fire. In the place of worship, however, the damage was greater. Several copies of the Quran were stated to have been burnt and the ashes thrown in the village well to avoid a controversy that the Ahl-e-Sunnat-wul-Jamaat had acted in a similar way.
The mission was able to interview the only "eye-witness" to the alleged burning by the Ahmadis, named Ghulam Rasool. He said that he saw an Imam of the Ahmadi place of worship, Nasir, burning a heap of papers in which pages of the Holy Quran were also found.
The mission visited the house of Mohammad Hanif, the doors of which had been broken. He looked terrified and burst into tears on meeting the mission members, who happened to be the first group to meet him after the nightmarish experience.
Mohammad Hanif related that he and other Ahmadis of the village had made several requests to Ghulam Rasool not to incite the tense situation to avoid sectarian disturbances, but to no avail. He insisted on communicating the alleged incident to the movement of Khatam-e-Nabuwwat in Nankana Sahib. In the evening there were announcements against Ahmadis from the Ahl-e-Sunnat mosques. Immediately afterwards, a mob gathered there and after damaging the Ahmadi place of worship, attacked the Ahmadi houses. He also heard gunshots. He had thrown his children to the adjacent non-Ahmadi house but the inmates sent the children back out of the fear of the mob.
Nearby was the house of Hanif's brother, Mohammad Boota. Its outer walls laid demolished and the doors broken. Most of the Ahmadis had since vacated the village and the rest had confined themselves to their houses.
Another house the mission visited in the village (Chak No. 563 GB) was that of Dr. Mohammad Nawaz. His clinic stood demolished and the contents damaged. Some women of the house, profusely in tears, asked the women members of the mission to ensure their safety. Expensive articles had been looted.
About a kilometer away from the village was an orchard belonging to Dr. Nawaz. The assailants had cut down over 50 of its trees of Guava, Kino and Bamboo that the mission was able to see for itself.
A tubewell in a village nearby belonging to M/s Siddiq and Silan was damaged , its walls demolished and the pump and the motor uprooted.
Back in Nankana Sahib, the mission members called on the Assistant Commissioner, Chaudhry Ghulam Sarwar, the officer in charge of law and order in the Tehsil Nankana Sahib. The officer was frank and forthcoming. He admitted that the district administration did not expect the events of that had occurred. It had thought that it had sufficient force to deter any trouble mongers. Reinforcement had been called from Sheikhupura. The administration had been in touch with the Tehrik-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat. The Tehrik had given categorical assurance to maintain peace and calm.
The administration had several meetings with the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat leadership. To assuage the Tehrik, the government had added to the FIR the charge of Tauheen-i-Risalat against Ahmadis, though no such offense had taken place. As a further precaution the Nankana Sahib administration had been assured that in case the younger elements took out a procession, the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat leaders would also form a part of it in order to prevent untoward incidents.
The A.C. said, "Despite our satisfaction we had taken all the precautionary steps. We had established police pickets, and were also in possession of necessary anti-riot equipment."
But on the ill-fated day (April 12) the administration found itself paralyzed by the violent mob. The administration had the services of two magistrates, while the mob had dispersed into many groups all around the town. The A.C. said that at some places the police was ordered to use tear gas and lathi charge the rioting mob.
"Now after the event, I feel" said the A.C., "as if the attacks were all pre-planned. They (the leadership) failed to fulfill their commitment not to take part in the anti-Ahmadi riots."
Earlier the mission had taken note of a large poster pasted in prominent places. The poster issued by "Aalmi Majlis Tahaf-fuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat" announced the convening of a "Tajdar Khatam-e-Nabuwwat Conference", on March 29, 1989 at Jamia Masjid Ghousia. According to the poster, the conference was to be held under the patronage of Mr. Ghulam Sarwar, the Assistant Commissioner. The names of the Deputy Superintendent of Police and of two magistrates were also mentioned. The poster gave the clear impression that the civil administration was patronizing the local anti-Ahmadi organizations. When confronted the A.C. denied his involvement.
A list of Ahmadi households affected by the disturbance, together with an estimate given to us of the loss suffered in each case, is enclosed as an annexure to this report.
Following a day-long visit to various localities and houses subject to arson, looting and demolition and after listening to the members of the Ahmadiyya Community and the Assistant Commissioner, the Mission has come to the following conclusions.
Photographs from the HRCP report were scanned some time after the text of the report was put into html. All photographs were taken by the photographer of the HRCP investigation team. You can view them in Persecution in Pictures Section.


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Raising Cornish Cross Chickens For Meat
Kevin, at Living Traditions Homestead, has produced a series of YouTube videos giving a comprehensive lesson for the newcomer in raising chickens. From the arrival of the chicks to their processing, Kevin gives a week by week look at how he cares for the birds.
Kevin uses the basic concept espoused by Joel Salatin, using "chicken tractors" that are moved each day, to house the chickens. The "chicken tractors" are used to protect the birds from predators. Hawks, eagles, owls, raccoons and foxes are just a few of the potential predators. "Chicken tractors" are a compromise between free-ranging your chickens or housing them in a coop. These chickens are not egg layers, but are raised as meat birds.
Day Old Chicks! Setting Up the Brooder!
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Is a Hot Tub Ozonator Necessary for Your Hot Tub?
A hot tub Ozonator creates ozone in the water by splitting oxygen atoms into free oxygen atoms. These free oxygen atoms collide and combine with other oxygen atoms and create powerful oxidizers. These are said to reduce the need for chemical treatment of the water.
Is an Ozonator More Efficient?
In reality, an Ozonator is only effective when it is switched on and consuming electricity. The Ozonator should be on for at least 25% of the time or six hours a day. Once the Ozonator is not operating, the reduced level of sanitizers is faced with a normal level of contaminants.
Is it Worth it?
The reductions in the use of hot tub chemicals as a result of using an Ozonator are very impressive. If the reduction of the amount of these chemicals in your hot tub makes a significant difference to your enjoyment it is definitely worth it. Also, if you figure that the average price of an Ozonator is only about $100 versus about $75 for a chemical kit for your hot tub, you will see that an Ozonator will pay for itself rather quickly.
Is it Necessary?
This is a different question and might be answered by someone looking at the cost. An Ozonator running 6 hours a day costs more than using either bromine or chlorine. If cost is an issue and the chlorine or bromine are not issues then no, it is not necessary–just desirable.


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Akron�s run of exceptionally dry weather ended Thursday afternoon with a string of downpours that stranded motorists and flooded area basements.
Akron police and firefighters responded to numerous reports of tree limbs down, power outages, flooded basements and cars stalled in water.
Officers reported that the rush of water in storm sewers was so powerful that it blew the utility covers off a section of North Howard Street.
Firefighters were dispatched throughout the city to help?homeowners whose basements flooded during the downpour.
Firetrucks also were sent to a low section of North Street to help rescue motorists who were trapped in flooded cars. There were no reports of injuries.
A portion of a basement wall in the 800 block of Valdes Avenue in Akron collapsed after the storms.
It appears Akron bore the brunt of the storms. Traffic was snarled during rush hour as flash flooding narrowed the roadway to just a few lanes on state Route 8 and other thoroughfares.
Police departments from Barberton and Fairlawn to Cuyahoga Falls and Kent reported few, if any, storm-related calls.
The exception was Tallmadge, where Mayor Dave Kline said city crews had been dispatched to check several neighborhoods where residents were reporting flooded yards and basements.
�It�s pretty much calls over the city,� Kline said. The crews �are out making sure the inlets are not plugged.�
A portion of Tallmadge Circle flooded for a time, slowing traffic and backing up cars on the eight spokes leading into the circle.
Kline said the rain that hit the city �was like a flash flood.�
�I haven�t seen a rain gauge, but I�d bet we got more than 1 inch of rain in a half-hour period,� he said.
The National Weather Service recorded just over a half-inch of rain at Akron-Canton Airport around 5 p.m. Thursday.
The strong storms that rolled through central and southwest Ohio knocked out power for at least 50,000 customers Thursday.
The storm temporarily shut down operations at the annual State Fair in Columbus as visitors were asked to take shelter.
Fair spokeswoman Alicia Shoults said rides were operating again Thursday evening and all other scheduled events and concerts were held.
Showers and thunderstorms are in the local forecast again tonight.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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"We Are Tomodachi"
Check out the latest "We Are Tomodachi" publication provided by the Office of the Prime Minister of Japan:
The theme of the 2019 Winter issue is "A Society with Health and Longevity." In this issue, we showcase the initiatives and achievements taking place in Japan, which is facing the challenges of a super-aging society. We present a diverse line-up of articles including the breakthrough discovery of Nobel Laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo, which has opened a doorway to new medical treatments for cancer; the advances in medicine achieved by a medical cluster created in Kobe; innovative solutions for hearing problems, which are inextricably tied with aging; and innovative approaches to health checkups and normalizing dementia in society. Other stories include product manufacturing technology for nature-friendly plastic; a cleaning project in Bangladesh carried out by a Japanese agency and the Dhaka people.
– A Major Discovery to Help in the Fight Against Cancer
– A Biomedical Cluster Taking Medicine to a New Stage
– Unconventional Speakers Deliver More Than Words
– Monitoring Health in Everyday Life
– Restaurant of Mistaken Orders Brings Smiles
– New Biodegradable Material Reduces Plastic Waste
– A Milestone Project in Dhaka
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Saturday, May 06, 2006
The Red Sox put up five doubles last night against the Orioles, including three from Mike Lowell. Remember when we saw Mike Lowell as just a salary dump?
Solid start from Schilling for win #5, scattering 8 hits and 0 walks over 7 innings. Timlin got his 7th Hold with a scoreless 8th inning, and Papelbon got save #12 with a perfect 9th.
The Man of the Game is without question Mike Lowell who did it all. He went 3 for 4 with 3 doubles. He scored twice, stole a base, and made an AMAZING play that baffled Jerry Remy and everyone at Fenway. To quote Remy "Boy is he playing some baseball."
Bedard vs. Wakefield in game 2 tonight
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Rising Wedges by Thomas Bulkowski
As your stock rises and sector rotation becomes more pronounced, it's wise to be alert to a chart formation called a rising wedge. Rising wedges can get you out at the top before your stock tumbles. Here's a refreshe
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