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Somehow, I thought he'd be bigger.
As Speedo arrives I make a mistake: I don't get up from my seat. I've been sat here, waiting, for something like forty minutes; I figure, why should I get up? The man's kept me. Then again, it's polite to do so, to meet a man's gaze at a level, not an angle. Immediately I feel awful. Speedo steps into the bar to do whatever Speedo does when he's in bars not ordering a drink and I shuffle in my seat. He could just blow me out, I think. He could. He doesn't.
He, real name John Reis, settles beside me, thinner and more diminutive than I'd imagined from so many records, so many videos: Pitchfork, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and now The Night Marchers. He sparks up a cigar; seems odd given his external good health. What do I call you? "Speedo, John, Slasher… whatever is fine." He inhales, deeply. Is this a treat? "A daily treat." Smoke billows about the pair of us. He sips his drink. I get questioning.
Video: Rocket From The Crypt, 'On A Rope'
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What's it been like playing these new Night Marchers songs to UK audiences?
It's been fantastic – it's awesome to be back over here. We've a lot of friends, and we've been reacquainting ourselves with people who we only get a chance to see every four, five or six years. Or whatever it is. Mostly, it feels so great to be alive again, to be playing.
You've rarely been without a band, it seems.
Yeah, and there will probably be others, still. I like to play with other people and do other things, but I'm very excited about the music of The Night Marchers – I really believe in it, and in our sound and chemistry. I believe in our ability to recreate these moods and sounds and feelings that we want to express.
Chemistry? Is there a natural cohesion, considering two of your three bandmates were also in Hot Snakes with you?
I guess what I mean by chemistry is… in the past I've been in different bands, often simultaneously, because I felt that this band can do this kind of material, and this one might be better suited to this sort of approach. With The Night Marchers I feel we can do anything we want to do. There's no need to subdivide things, because of the chemistry between the people involved. There's no need to aim specifically for a Night Marchers 'sound', because we can do whatever we want to, unlike some of the other bands I have been in. Some have been all about this specific kind of image.
About appealing to a certain audience, or demographic?
It's not about appealing to a demographic, it's about a comfort zone. It's not about people, the reaction, playing for an audience; it's more about having a level of comfort, and this band has a much broader comfort zone.
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The result of this comfort zone, as broad as it is, is See You In Magic, The Night Marchers' debut album; it's out now via Vagrant (review). It's a record that can't help but feel informed by Reis' past, yet retains a breezy freshness that's characterised some of his previous output – that no-frills rawness that translates live as a whole lot of sweaty fun. When DiS catches The Night Marchers at London's 100 Club, this is exactly what we experience – this is a band that connects with its audience in a fantastic way, barriers down, palms open and upward. Join us, they offer. Join us, dance and be merry. Celebrate rock 'n' roll. Oh, and do buy our album, yeah?
How'd it feel to get See You In Magic in your hands, even after releasing so many records?
The new record? I was really psyched. We didn't spend a whole lot of time recording it, and it's the first thing I've ever recorded in this new studio I've erected, called The City Of Refuge, in San Diego. I shipped all of the walls – they're made out of lava – from Hawaii. These are the outer walls.
Is lava any good as a building material? It doesn't spring straight to mind, for sure.
It's a good building material as long as you have a mason who knows how to work it, although it's not known for being sound proof. It's nothing to do with acoustics, but purely aesthetics. It looks cool, really cool. On the inside, I spent two years finding all of the same tiles they had on the floor at Chess, on the ceiling I've got tiles that were used at Stax. I bought all this old, dead-stock material, and most of it you can't use anymore what with asbestos and whatnot, but I went out and got all the same wood panelling that they used at Sun Studios. I basically recreated all of my favourite studios and put them into one.
Sounds like a bit of a dream finally made a reality.
I'd always wanted to do it, and I could finally afford it. It was quite expensive – I sold everything. I sold all my guitars, I sold all my… well, everything.
I noticed a fair number of attendees at the 100 Club in Hot Snakes shirts…
And God bless them.
It must be great knowing you can come here and play, even before releasing the album, assured of an audience?
I think, y'know, that came from fifteen years of playing our asses off. Those people who come, they're not just people at a show, they're like our family. Whether we know them or not, these are people that we are connected to, people who like us, are like: "You know what? This makes us feel not alone in the world." This makes us feel like part of something larger, and something important. I'm not saying that our music is important; I'm saying that the communion is, having that place where you can meet with likeminded people and rejoice, and celebrate something that has nothing to do with religion, or sports, or birthdays or holidays. It's about holding this thing that you love high over your head, for all to see. And going, "Fuck yeah". And that's the music of rock 'n' roll.
Video: The Night Marchers, 'You've Got Nerve' (live)
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So few bands making waves nowadays are open to embracing the elemental fabric of rock history, concerned more with the details littering the periphery of their output. Rock 'n' roll is in Reis' blood, it's been in every band he's ever played in. Call Drive Like Jehu post-hardcore, sure, and Rocket paid their dues to the ska crowd, but both beat to the pulse of primal rock 'n' roll. It's what comprises the backbone of See You In Magic, that swagger of the best of 1960s guitar rock. Few of Reis' bands have ever kept pace with fleeting fashions; by playing on traditional tricks rather than datable designs they've resonated with a certain timelessness, and influenced many in the process; slight diversions, not major distractions.
Video: The Night Marchers, 'I Wanna Deadbeat You' (live)
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I've always thought your music isn't as 'tailored' as certain peers, bands at the crest of hype waves.
Well, I think our music is tailored – it's tailored to all my favourite things about the guitar. In my opinion there's some of the drama of the Hot Snakes in The Night Marchers, but we don't want to use it every fucking song. We use it sparingly, and in the context of these other things we like, bands like The Wipers and The Saints. They're two of my favourite bands. With The Night Marchers, we really wanted to evoke the vibrating guitar rhythm of Bo Diddley – we really wanted to bring through what we liked about Bo Diddly. When most people think of Bo Diddley, they think of the Bo Diddley beat, which they should do as it's his trademark. But what I really gravitate towards is his guitar playing, his sense of rhythm and braggadocio. And how bad-ass he is. So I wanted to bring that, but also have it collide with this conventional rock 'n' roll sound, from bands like The Flaming Groovies and The Nervous Eaters, bands that were informed by late '60s and early '70s rock 'n' roll, bands that were disciples of The Velvets and The Stooges, but took it somewhere else. Also, the music of the '60s that I like so much, even popular music of the '60s like The Zombies, The Byrds.
You almost don't sell what's unique about the band, but what's uniform, instantaneous, universal.
People always make a big deal about differences, but things aren't that fucking different, y'know? There are far more similarities from band to band than there are differences – the beauty, the thing that makes you feel alive, that one part that makes you need this, is a subtlety. It's something in there that you have found, that you have unearthed. And it speaks to you. You look at a car race, you know, or a marathon, any race – the winner can win by a chin. It's in the subtleties. I think rock 'n' roll, music in general… there are things that are bad, completely bad. They're cancerous, stay away from them.
'Pop' – which there's a lot of in a traditional sense in The Night Marchers – has something of a poor reputation.
I really like pop music, but for me that means bands like The Nerves, or The Beat – not the English Beat. You ever heard The Nerves? You need to check them out – they were a band from Los Angeles in the late '70s, a three-piece, and after they disbanded all the members went on to do more famous things (find them on MySpace - Ed). One of the guys formed The Plimsouls, another went on to join Blondie and actually wrote 'Hanging On The Telephone'. That was a Nerves song, that Blondie had covered. Do check out The Nerves.
So what does punk mean to you, as you're so into your particular pop?
Here's the thing – you can't listen to a punk rock band now. Punk rock doesn't exist. There are bands like us that are into punk, and that are informed by it, but it was a phenomenon that came and happened, and what you have now is the aftershocks, bands that feel the same feelings, but punk was about a place and a time. I'm not saying that punk is dead, but it was a phenomenon that happened. You can say it was complete bullshit, and that people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Mozart before him were punk, y'know, by definition, because they had this maverick, creative spirit. But I'm talking more about a Webster's definition at this point – it was something that came and went, so when you listen to something new… you can't recreate that. You can't even recreate those recordings. You can't make a record like that. I reissued a band called Crime, one of my favourite bands ever, but you can't make records like that nowadays. You can try. You can't make a record that sounds like The Sonics, but people try, they try all the time. They might even come close. But you can't recreate that. It was something that existed. It becomes a genuine article, and that's why old music to me is so appealing. You can appreciate it in a historical context, whatever, but if it moves me, and I like it, and I feel it's never been bettered… this is something that not only has historical value, but it's something that you can't make anymore. You cannot do it.
If you can't do it, what keeps you making the music you do?
Because you try to do it! But you can't! It's not even about ripping things off, it's about trying to give people the same feeling I got when I heard a certain song. It's the feeling of it; it's not about bridging an A-minor to a D, I want people to feel.
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Successfully, given turnouts to shows past by both Rocket and Hot Snakes, the two of Reis' bands to firmly make an impression on the UK's gig-goers. Both amassed legions of admirers, and to this day are regarded as hugely inspiring acts of our generation. Both are missed greatly – farewell shows the stuff of legend – so it's no surprise that The Night Marchers are likely to come under scrutiny, and quickly. See You In Magic makes good on the on-paper potential, delivering instantaneous hits one by one, memorable of lyric and licks. It's typical fare of a kind, granted, but if it ain't broke…
What's inspiring you? What's your muse?
All the time, every day, I'm playing the guitar. It's who I am, and it's what I do. My muse is my electric guitar, and it always will be. It's my first love. I just love to play my guitar. That dictates my life, more than screaming and sweating in front of people.
This is a long-term relationship of yours?
I always liked the guitar from worshipping rock bands like KISS and Alice Cooper, when I was in elementary school – these guys were deities on stage.
And what made you pick it up? What was the spark, when was the moment you went: "This is for me, this is what I'm gonna do"?
The thing that made me want to play music, actually want to be in a band… I saw Black Flag in '84. People were already saying they were shit then, but this was my first show, and I was 14 or 15, however old I was. This was my experience. I was really into it, but there was a local band from San Diego called the Battalion of Saints (MySpace), and they were a very violent, metallic hardcore band. By violent I don't mean that they were advocating violence, I mean their sound was very confrontational. It sounded like broken glass, it was really bad-ass. This band was from San Diego, and they'd play with all these other bands; bands from England, like Discharge and Broken Bones, would come over and always say they wanted to play with Battalion of Saints, because they were doing something different at the time. They were the best band happening, they were better than everybody. They had a completely original sound, and that's what made me want to play, because these guys were from my city, and they were totally better than everybody.
Is San Diego an influence, as your immediate environment?
San Diego, because of its proximity to Mexico, must have some influence on what we're doing. I've lived there my whole life, and I'm 39 years old.
And now you've left your mark, with the studio. Do you hope someone will take it on when you're done with it?
Yeah. Someone will use it as a garage!
I'm sure they won't.
Yeah, maybe.
Finally, given it's all you've known, so it seems – can you imagine yourself growing tired of rock 'n' roll?
I can see me getting tired of rock 'n' roll, maybe. Maybe. Not of music, though. It depends on where my head goes from here, because I don't only listen to rock 'n' roll music. I listen to very little of it, but the shit I do listen to is the best, and makes me feel amazing. The first two Saints records, you know – everyone needs to have those records. Punk rock will never get better than that. But who knows – maybe a Korean blues record is right around the corner?
Video: Hot Snakes, 'Braintrust'
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Smoke clears, time up. The Night Marchers' See You In Magic is out now via Vagrant. Find the band on MySpace here. See them live stateside before they return to the UK in the autumn:
17 Solana Beach, California Belly Up
20 Los Angeles Download Festival @ Gibson Amphitheatre
13 Morrison Monolith Festival
18 Austin Emo's


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Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance regulation has proved to be one of the biggest operational challenges banks, accountants, lawyers and similar financial service providers worldwide have had to overcome.
World-Check, the industry standard KYC compliance solution, provides an overview of KYC compliance and its origins, and outlines the compliance mandate as applicable to banks, accounting firms, lawyers and other regulated financial service providers – not just in the UK, Europe and the USA, but all around the world. Relied upon by more than 3,000 institutions worldwide, this KYC database solution provides effective legal and reputational risk reduction.
Why "Know Your Customer?"
The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre revealed that there were sinister forces at work around the world, and that terrorists activities were being funded with laundered money, the proceeds of illicit activities such as narcotics and human trafficking, fraud and organised crime. Overnight, the combating of terrorist financing became a priority on the international agenda.
For the financial services provider of the 21st century, "knowing your customers" was no longer a suggested course of action. Based on the requirements of legislative landmarks such as the USA PATRIOT Act 2002, modern Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance mandates were created to simultaneously combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist activities.
What is Know Your Customer (KYC)?
Know Your Customer, or KYC, refers to the regulatory compliance mandate imposed on financial service providers to implement a Customer Identification Programme and perform due diligence checks before doing business with a person or entity.
KYC fulfils a risk mitigation function, and one its key requirements is checking that a prospective customer is not listed on any government lists for wanted money launders, known fraudsters or terrorists.
If preliminary KYC checks reveal that the person is a Politically Exposed Person (PEP), for example, Advanced Due Diligence must be done in order to ensure that the person's source of wealth is transparent, and that he or she does not pose a reputational or financial risk in terms of their finances, public positions or associations. Beyond customer identification checks, the ongoing monitoring of transfers and financial transactions against a range of risk variables forms an integral part of the KYC compliance mandate.
But to understand the importance of KYC compliance for financial service providers better, its origins need to be examined.
Origins of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance
The arrival of the new millennium was marred by a spate of terrorist attacks and corporate scandals that unmasked the darker features of globalisation. These events highlighted the role of money laundering in cross-border crime and terrorism, and underlined the need to clamp down on the exploitation of financial systems worldwide.
Know Your Customer (KYC) legislation was principally not absent prior to 9/11. Regulated financial service providers for a long time have been required to conduct due diligence and customer identification checks in order to mitigate their own operation risks, and to ensure a consistent and acceptable level of service.
In essence, the USA PATRIOT Act was not so much a radical departure from prior legislation as it was a firmer and more extensive articulation of existing laws. The Act would lead to the more rigorous regulation of a greater range of financial services providers, and expanded the authority of American law enforcement agencies in the fighting of terrorism, both in the USA and abroad.
In October 2001, President George W. Bush signed off the USA PATRIOT Act, effectively providing federal regulators with a new range of tools and powers for fighting terror financing and money laundering. During July 2002, the US Treasury proceeded to introduce Section 326 of the PATRIOT Act, a clause that removed some key burdens for regulators and added significant enforcement muscle to the Act.
What 9/11 changed, in essence, was the extent to which existing legislation was being implemented. Using the provisions of the earlier anti-terrorism USA Act as a foundation, it included the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, which allowed for federal jurisdiction over foreign money launders and money laundered through foreign banks. Significantly, it is this anti-terror law that would make the creation of an Anti Money Laundering (AML) programme compulsory for all financial institutions and service providers.
Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act dealt specifically with the identification of new customers ("CIP regulation"), and made extensive provisions in terms of KYC and the methods employed to verify client identities.
In accordance with this piece of updated KYC legislation, federal regulators would hold financial institutions accountable for the effectiveness of their initial customer identification and ongoing KYC screening. Institutions are required to keep detailed records of the steps that were taken to verify prospective clients' identities.
Although current KYC legislation does not yet demand the exclusion of specific types of foreign-issued identification, it recommends the usage of machine-verifiable identity documents. The ability to notify financial institutions if concerns regarding specific types of identification were to arise, combined with a risk-based approach to KYC, proved to provide a robust mechanism for addressing security concerns.
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A farmer said to me recently that for every day the rain continues to prevent him from harvesting his crops he is losing hundreds of Euro. It must be incredibly frustrating watching your ripened fields get increasingly worse and not being able to do a thing about it.
Let's spare a thought for farmers at this time and pray that they will get the weather they need very soon. (Of course, now that the children have gone back to school the sun is sure to come out!)
"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
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There will come a time soon enough where the Cubs are not picking at the top of the draft, this year is not that time as the Cubs pick number two overall. Picking that high obviously means you suffered through the previous year, but it also means that you should get an impact player and that's exactly what the Cubs are out to get. This is an exciting time, not just because of the high pick, but because the Cubs are going to add forty some odd young men to their organization, but let's focus on what they might do with their first pick.
Over the last few weeks we have read quotes, and stories about what the Cubs might do with the number two pick, ultimately only the Cubs really know, but much like last year I think it has a lot to do with what the Astros do with the number one pick. Now last year the Cubs were picking sixth, but I thought that whole draft changed when the Astros went with Carlos Correa at number one as that was a player that many people thought might be on the Cubs radar at six, he went one. After the draft the Cubs were steadfast in their response, "Almora was the guy no matter what, we would have taken him number one." I like hearing that, the draft should be more about evaluating talent than reacting to what other teams are doing, sure you want to take the best available that high in the draft, but your best available might not be another teams best available. The general consensus is that the Cubs have narrowed their choice down to four guys, let's take a look at who the Cubs are looking at as well as my predictions.
The Cubs want him, that's my honest opinion, I think if the Cubs had the number one pick in the draft they would take Appel. Funny thing is, the Cubs had a shot at Appel in last years draft, but Appel slipped, he was once thought of as the number one overall pick last year until his bonus demands scared a number of teams off. Appel eventually went eighth to the Pirates but could not come to terms on a contract so returned to Stanford for his senior season, and here we are again with Appel atop the draft rankings. It's easy to see why the Cubs like him, he has a plus fastball, and three above average pitches that he can throw for strikes, and projects as a top of the rotation guy. I don't like saying can't miss with a pitcher because of arm injuries that are just one pitch away, but he's as can't miss as they come.
Via Jonathan Mayo:
Scouting Grades* (present/future): Fastball: 7/8 | Slider: 5/6 | Changeup: 5/6 | Control: 5/6 | Overall: 5/7
*Players are graded on a 2-8 scale for both present and future tools. 2-3 is well below average, 4 is below average, 5 is average, 6 is above average and 7-8 is plus.
Prediction – Houston doesn't pass on him twice and takes him at number one overall.
Cubs Chances – Fair, there is no clear-cut number one, and I think if the Astros don't grab Appel then the Cubs will.
You know, the Cubs need power arms, well here's a power arm, and then some. Gray has a plus plus fastball which has been clocked at triple digits, not just at the start of games, but late in games. He might not be as polished as Appel, but he has two plus pitches and has a chance to keep developing that change-up into a plus pitch as well. Now the positive adderall test, this has put a seed of doubt into some people's minds, I wouldn't say that I am one of them. I don't think the Cubs are either, if the Cubs want an arm at number two and their best available (Apple, in my opinion) is off the board then they go with Gray.
Via Jonathan Mayo:
Scouting Grades* (present/future): Fastball: 7/8 | Slider: 5/6 | Changeup: 4/5 | Control: 4/5 | Overall: 5/6
*Players are graded on a 2-8 scale for both present and future tools. 2-3 is well below average, 4 is below average, 5 is average, 6 is above average and 7-8 is plus.
Prediction – Gray is still on the board at two and the Cubs take him.
Cubs Chances – Great, I think he will be on the board still, and it comes down to if the Cubs think Gray is the best available.
Yes I know that I have a Cubs logo with Bryant as well, here's why. This front office is very particular with their high first round picks, they prefer bats, specifically college bats. Kris Bryant has rocketed up the draft charts because of his tremendous Junior season at the University of San Diego. Third base is a challenge for the Cubs, not just at the MLB level but at the minor league level as well. Josh Vitters is the cream of the crop in the organization with whispers about Javier Baez being moved there. If the Cubs want to grab a power bat at the hot corner this would be their chance. The only thing that would pull the Cubs away from Bryant would be his swing and miss potential, but some say his power makes up for that.
Via Jonathan Mayo:
Scouting Grades* (present/future): Hit: 4/5 | Power: 5/7 | Run: 4/4 | Arm: 6/6 | Field: 4/5 | Overall: 4/6
*Players are graded on a 2-8 scale for both present and future tools. 2-3 is well below average, 4 is below average, 5 is average, 6 is above average and 7-8 is plus.
Prediction – Assuming the Astros don't take Bryant at number one, which they could, then I think Bryant lands with Colorado. A word of caution however, if the Astros take Appel the Cubs front office might choose to follow what they have in the past and favor hitting over pitching. All depends on who they Cubs feel is the best available, I don't think they take Bryant just because he's a third baseman.
Cubs Chances – Excellent, odds are Bryant will be there, the Cubs would just have to pull the trigger.
This is where things get interesting in my opinion, here's why. Moran profiles as the "Cubs Way" guy, meaning he is a better overall hitter than Bryant, but odds are he won't reach the power potential that Bryant will. However, Moran will have professional at bats, do the Cubs trust their scouting and philosophy to take the guy that fits the mold the most? I'm leaning towards no on that one just because I feel that if they are going to take the best available in their eyes, and they will, that will not be Moran. Another wrinkle is that Moran is a left-handed hitting third baseman, I already talked about the need at third base, but the need for a solid left-handed hitting third baseman is almost enough to make a team jump, just don't think the Cubs will.
Via Jonathan Mayo:
Scouting Grades* (present/future): Hit: 5/6 | Power: 4/5 | Run: 3/3 | Arm: 5/5 | Field: 4/5 | Overall: 4/6
*Players are graded on a 2-8 scale for both present and future tools. 2-3 is well below average, 4 is below average, 5 is average, 6 is above average and 7-8 is plus.
Prediction – The Cubs won't take Moran, and he will go to the Indians at five after Appel, Bryant, and Gray are off the board and the Twins go with Kohl Stewart or Braden Shipley at number four.
Cubs Chances – Great, I don't think there is any chance the Astros take Moran, if they go bat with the number one pick they will take Bryant, meaning Moran will be there, but so will Gray and Appel, that's too much to pass up on to take Moran.
In conclusion, there are four viable options for the Cubs to think about, but it all comes down to who the Astros go with. If the Astros take Appel I think the Cubs will go with Gray. If the Astros take Gray I think the Cubs will go with Appel. If the Astros surprise for the second year in a row and take Bryant then the Cubs take Appel. Bottom line, I don't think the Cubs pass on one of the college arms that are guaranteed to be there. Now, if the Cubs feel strongly about their scouting and talent evaluation they could pass on Gray and Appel at number two and take the bat given the chance to take a number of quality arms in the second, third, and fourth rounds because they will be there.
The draft begins on June 6th and runs through June 8th, live coverage begins on MLB Network at 5:00 PM CST with an hour-long preview show with the first round scheduled to start at 6:00 PM CST. The first 73 picks will be aired on MLB Network and streamed on MLB.com, that's the first round, and the supplemental round. Rounds three through ten will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 7th beginning at 11:30 AM CST, and rounds eleven through forty will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 8th beginning at noon CST.
Because of the new collective bargaining agreement teams have to pay attention to how much they can spend over the first ten rounds in the draft. If you want a full rundown on how the bonus pool works I suggest you take a gander at Carrie Muskat's article about the draft, she does a fine job of breaking it down. Bottom line, the Cubs have the second most money to spend on their top ten rounds, that's nice.
I hope you enjoyed reading about the Cubs options with the number two pick, and don't forget to join me for the first round tomorrow as I will be live blogging the first round just like last year. Can't wait!


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There was a time when American politics seemed simple, when young lefties battled the old guard right, each claiming the moral upper hand. But that tidy two-party system fell apart some time in the naughts, forcing people to take sides they might not like.
With Other Desert Cities, the Arts Club opens its 50th season with a portrait of the breakdown of the old rhetorical lines, digging beneath the surface to reveal the complex, messy heart of one American family.
Before the show Wednesday night, Arts Club artistic director Bill Millerd pointed out that Pulitzer Prize nominated scribe Jon Robin Baitz was in the audience for the Vancouver premiere. Baitz, who will be appearing for a talk moderated by the show's director and Arts Club literary manager Rachel Ditor as part of Culture Days on September 28, stood for a quick bow before the lights went down.
The play begins as the Wyeth family returns to their luxurious rancher in the California desert from a morning game of tennis. On the surface the Wyeths appear to be a portrait of the perfect California conservatives. Lyman, a dashing former screen star turned right wing politician, Polly, his screenwriter turned Nancy Reagan-devotee wife, and their beautiful children.
But that vision is decades gone when we join the Wyeth clan in the parents' secluded Palm Springs home for a family Christmas. It's 2004, the country is mired in a war that divides the nation and eldest daughter Brooke, a literary savant, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. When she presents the family with her new book, the holiday becomes a tiny war zone, churning up secrets that lie beneath the pleasant California veneer.
Pop culture, politics and the perennial tension between America's east and west coasts provide the ammo for Baitz' crackling dialogue. With the Wyeth family, he gives a very specific picture of prosperity. They are educated, rich and powerful. They use their wildly different politics both as weapons and as shields.
Back then the arguments between left and right felt philosophical. It's easy to forget the economic high the world was riding on less than ten years ago, despite the wars and unrest and encroaching shadow of terrorism. The world may have been going to hell, but at least people at home had jobs. The noble idea of an artist refusing money from her parents on the grounds that it may damage her work seems impossibly far away these days.
Early in the first act, it seemed that the speed of the Wyeth family's repartee might prove too much for the performers as a few jokes anchored to very specific American cultural references failed to land. But by the intermission, when the story began to break through the family's erudite surface, the excesses were recast as the play's greatest asset. The script had built a tower only to knock it down.
The uncontested centre of the drama is the tumultuous relationship between Brooke and Polly, played with ferocity by Anna Galvin and Gabrielle Rose respectively. They embody the perfect mother-daughter dynamic with their carefully placed barbs and echoing growls. But both are also capable of shifting from steely to vulnerable when the script requires, which it does often. Next to them, Gwynyth Walsh appears a bit reserved as Silda, Polly's wilder older sister, a role that won Judith Light a Tony last year for the Broadway production.
Amir Ofek's set picks up the sandy tones of the desert that characters stare into when lost in thought. It's a tidy realistic living room resting on top of what appears to be a concrete mausoleum, just right for a play about family secrets.
With its strong cast and powerful structure, Other Desert Cities is an apt beginning for the Arts Club's golden jubilee.


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It's a Wonderful Life
|It's a Wonderful Life
|Directed by
|Frank Capra
|Produced by
|Frank Capra
|Written by
| Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Frank Capra
| James Stewart
Donna Reed
Lionel Barrymore
|Music by
|Dimitri Tiomkin
| Joseph F. Biroc
Joseph Walker
Victor Milner (uncredited)
|Editing by
|William Hornbeck
|Distributed by
|Liberty Films
It's a Wonderful Life is a classic 1946 film, directed by Frank Capra and stars James Stewart & Donna Reed. The film shows the life of George Bailey, a man who almost commits suicide, but is rescued by a quirky angel named Clarence. Clarence shows George what things would be like, if he had never been born, causing George to understand his wonderful life.
Based on a short story by Philip van Doren Stern, the film is about a crisis in George's life when a stunning business problem piles onto his general discontent. After Uncle Billy misplaces a huge deposit from the building and loan, George launches into "a tirade against the world, against life itself, against God."[1] He realizes he's "worth more dead than alive" and wanders down to the bridge to commit suicide, so his family can get his life insurance. He then sees a nightmarish vision of what the town would be like if he had never lived: the town mired in sin and squalor, no building and loan, his wife an old maid librarian, Uncle Billy in an insane asylum, his brother Harry drowned as in a childhood sledding accident. It is only when he prays to get his old life back that the vision ends; when the townspeople discover his distress, they rally around him, flooding his house with more than enough cash to cover the lost deposit.


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A further step in international collaboration for space education
In 2005, the International Space Education Board (ISEB) was established, spiriting in a new era of global collaboration in space education. The founding members of ISEB - representing the education offices of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – were joined in 2007 by a fifth member, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).
During its annual meeting at the 59th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), held in Glasgow in 2008, the Board agreed to amend its charter to allow for organisations other than space agencies that are involved in space-related educational pursuits to join the ISEB as Associate Members.
One of the main objectives that served as a catalyst for the creation of the ISEB is the opportunity to share best practices and unite efforts to foster interest in space, science and technology among the student community worldwide. Since ISEB's inception, a number of multinational initiatives have been developed, including:
- GENSO, a network of ground stations for student satellites, which is currently being led by ESA, dramatically expanding the coverage in communication between operators and student satellites;
- Student programming at international space conferences, COSPAR and IAC in particular, offering students the opportunity to meet with high level representatives from space agencies and space industry and network with their peers from around the world who together represent the next space generation;
- Special opportunities for ISEB-partner students to attend the NASA Academy internship programme, a prestigious 10 week internship at selected NASA Centres;
- Delta Researcher Schools, a NASA/ESA programme in select Dutch primary schools, providing educators and students opportunities to participate in unique space learning opportunities, such as professional development at NASA Centres and discussions with astronauts and cosmonauts on-board the International Space Station.


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New Brunswick
For the article on the city in New Jersey see New Brunswick (New Jersey).
New Brunswick (French: Nouveau Brunswick) [1] is one of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, and the only constitutionally bilingual province in the country. The provincial capital is Fredericton. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2008 to be 751,527; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (32%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
The province's name comes from the English and French translation for the city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of the United Kingdom.
New Brunswick is a relatively sparsely populated province, with considerable forests forming the main body. The core of the province is virtually uninhabited, with the population very focused in the Western part of the province as well as the Eastern and Southern coastlines.
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New Brunswick is part of historic Acadia, an early 17th century French land claim in North America. Governed by the British in the 19th century, Acadia was forcibly depopulated by the British and its inhabitants dispersed.
As such, there is a noticeable divide within New Brunswick. If one splits the province diagonally from Moncton in the Southeast to Grand Falls in the Northwest, the Acadian (Northeast) and anglophone (Southwest) divide is almost exact. This divide does not result in significant ill will, however the divide definitely exists within older generations of the province.
New Brunswick is heavily forested. Logging is a major industry within the province, and softwood forests dominate the interior of the province. Outside of those forests are a number of areas of maple forests, resulting in the production of maple products such as maple syrup in the province.
The rural areas of New Brunswick offer a range of small rivers, lakes, and swampland which make canoeing a common weekend activity in much of the province. Hiking paths are also common, though more prevalent within parklands.
In coastal areas, the scenery of New Brunswick comes to the fore, ranging from the warm sandy beaches of the East coast in Kouchibouguak National Park to the rugged southern coastline. New Brunswick is also home to large tidal forces, and as such has claim to the highest tides in the world.
Much of New Brunswick's climate is moderated by the extreme proximity of the ocean, resulting in mild summers, and winters which are mild relative to the temperatures seen in Ontario and the prairie provinces. The recorded temperature has ranged from -47.2°C (-53°F) in 1955, at Sisson Dam in the northwest, to 39.4°C (102.9°F) in 1935, at Nepisiguit Falls in the northeast. That said, winter temperatures are most commonly in the range of -5°C to -15°C, and summer temperatures from 15°C to 25°C.
Snowfall is common during the winter months, however snow does not typically accumulate in large amounts until late December.
Tourism is a good source of revenue for much of the province, and during busy periods of the summer, it is advisable to book ahead to ensure rooms are available. Due to the relatively limited range of options within the province when following the trans-Canadian highway, a very busy weekend could result in being informed the closest available rooms are hours of travel away. That said, outside of peak times, accommodations are quite plentiful.
New Brunswick sees a large amount of through-traffic, as it is often seen as little more than a gateway to the rest of the Maritimes; Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton are all reached via New Brunswick. That said, parts of New Brunswick such as the Southern coast and the South-Eastern coast offer lovely scenery, as well as some excellent beaches.
There are a few major junior hockey teams in New Brunswick. These are the Saint John Sea Dogs, who play in the city of Saint John, the Moncton Wildcats who play in the city of Moncton and the Acadie-Bathurst Titans who play in the city of Bathurst and have been ranked as the number one junior team in Canada for the 2005-2006 hockey season.
New Brunswick is the only province in Canada that is officially bilingual (English and French). Francophones speak a dialect known as Acadian French. Acadian is not related to Quebec French, since Acadia's history is separated from Quebec's. Acadian French speakers are instantly recognizable by their charming and strongly trilled r.
Near Moncton and in other urban areas, a distinct English-French creole language known as chiaque is spoken. It's frowned upon as "bad French" by Francophones and "bad English" by Anglophones, but it's popular among young people. Some effort is being made to rehabilitate chiaque, with a nascent literature and support organizations.
The English / French split within the province is approximately a Northeast / Southwest split. Despite the split, English is spoken throughout the province. French speakers may struggle to find fluent French speakers in the Southwest of the province.
See also: French phrasebook
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New Brunswick has road links with Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Maine.
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By car[edit]
Travel by car is the easiest way to see New Brunswick. Recent refurbishments and expansions of the transcanada highway have left four lane highways in place across much of the southern stretch of the province. Drivers accustomed to any major metropolitan traffic will find most intercity roads to be very lightly used, even in summer months.
The roads of New Brunswick are patrolled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and speed traps are sometimes in place. Speed limits have no official tolerance in them, however typically travel under 10km/h above the speed limit will not attract attention. That said, RCMP officers are not always known for their sense of humour where speeding (or anything else) is concerned, and tickets may be issued for any speed above the posted limits. If you are pulled over by the RCMP, typical North American rules for police interaction apply; keep your hands on the steering wheel while being approached by the police, and be respectful at all times.
As with much of Canada, winter roads are more dangerous, and travellers are advised to treat the roads with caution. Winter tires are recommended for long distance travel, however snow chains are only necessary on very rural roads and private roads. When travelling during the winter, drivers should carry an emergency kit with a source of heat, blankets, and an amount of food to ensure that being caught in a storm is only an inconvenience, rather than a life-threatening issue.
In some winter storm conditions, roads such as the transcanada link between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia can be closed due to whiteout conditions.
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Maritime Bus Service [7] serves the entire province, and is relatively standard for a bus service. Stops on some lines are frequent, and often include very small villages - wherever you are headed, there is likely to be a bus servicing the area. That said, this does mean that buses seem to stop frequently. For more structure trips around the central and east coast region, there is also Out Here Travel [8] a backpacker focused hybrid bus transport / tour company that tours throughout the province.
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Via Rail [9] provides a somewhat limited service along the Eastern coast of New Brunswick, entering the province at Aulac, and then passing through Moncton, up to Bathurst, and then from Campbellton across the border into Quebec, eventually terminating in Montreal. This service passes through the province once per day in each direction, and as such, travellers should not miss their train unless willing to extend their holiday.
Options for the trains vary, as two different types of rolling stock are in use. Standard class involves sitting for the entire journey, while a range of berths, single rooms, double bedrooms, and sitting rooms are available, depending on the cars in use. Standard class is feasible, but an exhausting option!
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View some of the sights in the bay of Fundy:
Visit New Brunswick's national parks:
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The province of New Brunswick offers a wide variety of restaurants ranging from seafood to oriental to fast food to acadian. One of the provinces main dishes are fiddleheads, which are found in the Saint John River Valley area of the province. Poutine rapée is another dish served along the acadian coast area of New Brunswick.
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The drinking age is 19.
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Many travellers pass through New Brunswick to reach other parts of the maritimes. When passing through New Brunswick, it is advisable to use the number 2 highway, which passes along the border with Maine before turning East and passing through Fredericton and Moncton. That said, more adventurous travellers can find more to see by following highway 11 up the East coast of the province, and then cutting across the province via the remote road connecting Miramichi to Plaster Rock. It should be noted by the adventurous that this road is used largely by logging trucks, and there is only one gas station, which is approximately halfway along the road.


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The Happy Foundation for Animal Welfare has been set up to honour the life of a very dear member of our family. Happy quietly slipped into our lives back in 1994 and in his own cute little way taught us important lessons on unconditional love and compassion for all animals.
He gave us so much love, joy and true to his name, constantly reminded us to always be Happy. I cannot think of a better way to honour his memory than to create this Foundation to help animals most in need. Because if it wasn't for him, I would have never understood the beautiful animal kingdom we share our planet with.
The principal function of the Foundation is to accept donations and legacies and to apply such monies exclusively to the benefit of animals. In addition, the Foundation does not receive funding from any level of government, which means we are not vulnerable to political pressure in the work we undertake and fund.
To be considered for funding, our application form needs to be filled out in detail along with financial data of the previous two years. Applications are welcome year round from all over India.
The Foundation is mostly interested in funding those organizations that do not have a web presence to highlight their cause that would otherwise be unheard.
The Foundation will try and visit all the organizations that have applied for funding to conduct a due diligence.One of our main policies is not to donate cash, but to donate items that would make an animal's life more comfortable and easier and to empower the humans looking after the animals.These can range for example from an AC unit to construction costs for a new kennel to salaries for humane employees that genuinely love animals. These are examples and the Foundation is open to funding any item that will make an animal's life easier.
Cash is not given to ensure that the money is used for the right items. Even after items have been donated, we would visit the organization to make sure the items are being used for the comfort of the animals.
Our own Accounts are always open for inspection and all our expenses can be checked with receipts.
The foundation does not fund government agencies or indirect costs.
(Registration No. 3,249 /Book No. Vol 4/ Vol No. 3,572 on page 65-71 on May 24, 2010)
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Xinxiang, China (CNN) -- Duan Keke greets visitors with a crisp salute and a few pieces of candy.
The 80-year-old man stands at the gates of Henan Provincial Military Hospital in China where he has lived in retirement for years, dressed in an olive green army uniform and soldier's cap, carrying a long wooden stick that he taps against the pavement as he walks.
"Thank you," he cheerfully repeats to hospital guests -- in Korean.
Duan is a Chinese veteran who fought and bled for North Korea in the Korean War.
Sixty years ago, U.S. and Chinese-led armies battled each other to a bloody standstill in a conflict between North and South Korea that left millions dead. In 1953, both sides signed a truce that has left the Korean Peninsula dangerously divided to this day. Last March, during an orchestrated campaign of international saber-rattling, the communist regime in North Korea declared that armistice agreement invalid.
In 1951, Duan was only 18 years old when he volunteered to join the Chinese People's Liberation Army. That same year, Duan was deployed to help defend Korean communists from Western-backed troops on the Korean Peninsula, shortly after China emerged from its own deadly civil war.
"The people of Korea were suffering," Duan says.
"We were watching the Korean people and we had all gone through war. You look at China, the revolution, the struggle against the Japanese, many people had died," Duan continues, recalling preceding years of turmoil in China.
"Seeing the people of Korea farming the land and being killed by enemy planes ... what were they to do if they could not farm? The planes would just come and bomb them to death. We had to help protect the people of Korea."
Today, Duan leads visitors down a dark corridor, past framed black-and-white photos of Chinese army heroes, to a tidy room in the hospital he calls home.
Aside from a nephew, Duan saiys he had no living relatives.
His neighbors are also elderly veterans dressed in military fatigues. They chat outside the hospital ward, seated on park benches.
The uniforms are a source of pride for the retired military residents, but also apparently a hospital safety measure in case one of them wanders too far outside the grounds and into the city.
"They're worried that the veterans that came from the countryside will get lost, so when they come here they make them wear uniforms to keep them safe," Duan says.
Much of what Duan recalls from the Korean War years seems to revolve around digging trenches, which he says provided essential protection from American warplanes.
"Digging trenches is not easy ... It's not soil, it's rock," he says, adding that they used their bayonets to break up the rocks.
Though Chinese military units were accompanied by Korean translators, Duan says Chinese and Koreans soldiers were not allowed to fraternize.
However, another Chinese Korean War veteran says he did have face-to-face encounters with U.S. soldiers.
Former infantry soldier You Jie Xiang says his mission was to guard American prisoners of war held far back from the front lines.
"Handling the captives was very dangerous," You says. "They might kick you so I had to tell them to stay on their knees."
More: North Korea photos and maps
Duan says he remained in Korea until 1953, when he was severely wounded in battle.
During his two year deployment, one of Duan's missions was to charge up a mountain carrying explosives towards well entrenched Western-backed troops.
"They're shooting guns at you," he says, holding his walking stick up to his shoulder like a rifle and making shooting noises. "We had to bring up the explosives and bomb them, using explosives and flaming oil."
Duan was wounded at least twice. He rolls back a sleeve to show scars from severe burns resulting from what he said was an airstrike.
And in the privacy of the medical ward, he insists on dropping his pants and lifting his shirt to show deep scars in his abdomen left by bullets that struck him during a battle on a mountain. Duan says he was shipped home after this injury, which left him maimed and unable to reproduce.
The sight of the elderly war veterans in their baggy uniforms contrasts sharply with the vision of modern China that has grown up around them.
The years of starvation and conflict seem like distant history, in a country that is now the world's second largest economy, as well as home to billionaires, gleaming sky-scrapers, luxury shopping malls and brand new airports.
The veterans at the Henan Provincial Military Hospital say China's newest generation know little of the hardships they suffered in Korea.
"Young people? Of course they don't know," says You, the former infantry soldier who once escorted imprisoned American GIs. "These wars took place decades ago. All the young people have no idea."
Asked whether Koreans understood the sacrifice Chinese troops had made, the veteran shakes his head "no."
"What do the Koreans know?" You asks himself out loud. "They know what the Korean (government) tells the Korean people."
This modern-day ambivalence towards North Korea is echoed by some Chinese intellectuals.
Recently, Deng Yuwen openly challenged the Chinese government's alliance with North Korea in writing. Partly as a result, he lost his job as deputy editor of the Study Times, a journal published by the Communist Party.
"The current laissez-faire attitude the U.S. and China have towards North Korea is comparable to that of (former British Prime Minister Neville) Chamberlain towards Germany before World War II," Deng said, in a recent interview with CNN.
If Pyongyang continues threatening its Asian neighbors, Deng argued, Beijing should take steps to reign in the regime, like freezing North Korean accounts in Chinese banks.
"The unpredictability of North Korea's policies prove its nature is dangerous," Deng said.
Veterans who risked their lives for North Korea more than half a century ago have little to say about the current government in Pyongyang.
But they do not seem to hold a grudge against their former American enemies.
When asked by an American reporter whether he had any message for the U.S., Duan responds by saying, "the Americans are peaceful people."
Next to him, several of his fellow veterans nod in agreement.
"I think the Americans did not want to go to war (in Korea). War is death."
Asked whether he feared war might once again break out on the Korean Peninsula, Duan expresses confidence that the Chinese government would prevent hostilities from erupting.
"The central government will handle it. It is guided by the ideas of Mao Zedong," he says, referring to the founder of Communist China.
"Big countries don't want war and we're against war and this is what we've been taught."


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Example 1 is a checklist for Genealogical Research 1950-2000.
Example 2 is a checklist of Personal Genealogy Sources.
Example 3 is a Federal Census Chronology for following a person in several censuses from 1790 to 1860.
All reprinted with permission from The Librarian's Guide to Genealogical Services and Research by James Swan. Copyright 2004 by James Swan. All rights reserved.


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In a previous question I asked about The Elements, RegDwight posted a comment containing a link to this article by Geoffrey K. Pullum:
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice.
There is also a lengthier critique here.
The article seemed convincing and I am avoiding The Elements as a result. However, I'm certainly not a grammar expert and am curious to see if others agree or disagree with Pullum's article.
If you post an answer, I ask that you actually read the article first and give specifics as to why you agree or disagree. Simple "yes" or "no" answers can be indicated by up or down voting other responses.


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
A wise and saintly rich man, sensing his approaching death, called his son to his side and gave him these instructions:
'My son, I shall be leaving you very shortly. On the day when I die, and they have washed my body and come to wrap it in the shroud, I want you to put one of my socks on my foot. This is my final request of you.'
Soon after this, the old man did indeed die, leaving behind his goods and property, his children and his dependents. Family, friends, acquaintances and neighbors attended his funeral. The body had been washed and was almost completely wrapped in the shroud, when the son remembered his father's wish. Finding one of his old socks, he handed it to the washer of the dead, saying, 'In accordance with my father's last request, please put this sock on his foot.'
'That is quite impossible:' Said the man. 'Such a thing is utterly impermissible in Islam. I cannot act against the Shariah.' Despite this valid objection, the son insisted, 'That was my father's final request; it must certainly be carried out.'
The washer of the dead was unmoved. 'If you won't take my word for it,' he said, 'go and ask the Mufti. He will confirm what I tell you, that it is not permissible. 'Holding up the funeral, they consulted the Mufti, and also preachers and scholars, all of whom declared that this was not permissible in Islam. Just then, an aged friend of the deceased interrupted the debate with these words to the son: 'My boy, your late father entrusted me with a letter which I was to hand over to you after his departure. Here, this letter belongs to you.' So saying, he gave him an envelope. Taken by surprise, the boy opened the envelope and read out the contents of his father's letter.
'My son, consider all this wealth and property I have left to you. Now you see, at the last moment they won't even let you give me an old sock to wear. When you yourself come one day to be in my condition they will also refuse to let you keep anything but your shroud. Eight yards of shroud are all you will be able to carry over from this fleeting world into the Hereafter. So pull yourself together and be prepared. Spend the fortune I have left you not for the satisfaction of vain desires, but in ways pleasing to Allah, that you may achieve honor in both worlds.'
The parable of those who spend their property in the way of Allah is as the parable of a grain growing seven ears (with) a hundred grains in every ear; and Allah multiplies for whom He pleases; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing. – (Surah Baqarah: 261)
O Allah! Grant us the love of giving. O Allah we are misers, so help us to be generous. O Allah, You are to be called upon, and we are calling upon You. O Allah, answer our call!
Ya Haqq!


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Amanzi Waterpark
Palembang, Indonesia
- Attractions / Palembang
- -2.9281684, 104.6823809
- Open in Google Maps
This Amusement Park was officially opened in August 2011 and has become an icon of Palembang city since then. This park centers around the concept of African wild adventure and is always crowded by visitors. The Amanzi Waterpark is located on Jalan Alang-Alang Lebar Talang Kelapa, at the Kompleks Perumahan Citra Grand City, Palembang, South Sumatera Province.
Amanzi Park has been buid on an area 3,5 hectare where seven water attractions are situated each with its own characteristic. They seven rides are :
1. River Nile stream pool : a 500 m long pool with streaming water modeled on the river Nile in Africa.
2. Kilimanjaro Tower : a tower full of streaming water which will give you access to four other water attractions.
3. The Cyclone : a spiral water slide formed like a cyclone with a total height of 15 meter.. Best to wear a bouy or tire if you want to head down the Cyclone.
4. The Velocity : a straight water slide of 60m long and 11 m height with 4 different levels.
5. The Raft : a 120 m long slide from a height of 12 m, visitors can use a buoy or tire.
6. The Falls : A 90 m long slide which can be used without any buoys.
7. Zimba & Cora (Match and Family Pool) : gathering place with friends and family completed with Stone Henge, Family Slide and Water Volley. There's also Zimbas ZoneL the children pool with gazebos surround.
Besides these main attractions there are several other pools with Water Slides.
The Waterpark makes use of a unqiue payment system called Smart Card. It comes in the form of a bracelet. At the counter you can buy this bracelet and can deposit money on it. This Smart Card can be used for entrance access, renting locker, buoy, cabana, etc. You can take it home or when you are done get the remaining balance back. If you take it with you, be aware that the money on it will expire after one month.
Available here too are free wifi, a first aid room, mosque, ATM, the Amanzi Cafe and shops. It is good to know that safety is a top priority here: there is always staff or lifeguard close by ready to help.
Opening hours
Amanzi Waterpark is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.
Ticket fees
The ticket price is IDR 50,000 (Monday to Friday), IDR 75,000 (Saturday) and IDR 100,000 (Sunday and Holiday). It's different for those who is above 60. The ticket is IDR 30,000 (Monday to Friday), IDR 50,000 (Saturday) and IDR 65,000 (Sunday and Holiday), of course after showing your personal ID card.
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Transport options Amanzi Waterpark
There are many public transportation available to get at the Amanzi Waterpark. Recently a new route has been opened called the Transmusi Route. It goes from the Airport to the Alang-Alang Lebar Station to Amanzi Waterpark.


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Leaders from the main religious communities across Stoke-on-Trent are today (23 Jan) making a united stand against an anti-Muslim march which they believe is inciting racism, intolerance and xenophobia in the area.
The so-called English Defence League is due to march in Stoke on Saturday 23 January 2010, and the police and local authorities say they are worried about disturbances, with vigorous opposition protests planned.
Meanwhile, Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh leaders will light a candle and sign a pledge of unity outside Stoke Minster (the church of St Peter ad Vincula) opposite Stoke Town Hall.
The Anglican Bishop of Stafford, Gordon Mursell, is one of those taking part in the united witness against racism He explained: "If Stoke-on-Trent is to have a good future, it is absolutely vital that all its citizens, irrespective of creed and background, work together for the common good."
Bishop Mursell added: "We believe that real diversity actually helps create a vibrant and attractive city. The English Defence League and the British National Party think the opposite. That is why we oppose them."
The Catholic Auxiliary Bishop for North Staffordshire, David McGough, added: "We must all oppose any extremism that would play on people's fears and anxieties to divide our city and set one section of our community against another."
Gurmeet Singh Kallar, a member of Stoke's Gurdwara, said: "As Sikhs, we believe that all people are important to God and we are against the persecution of any group or minority."
And Peter Barber, Chair of the Chester and Stoke-on-Trent Methodist Circuit said: "As faith leaders we have a special duty to show that different communities can live together is harmony and mutual respect. We oppose those who would try to divide us by hate and fear."
Humanists in the area also plan to join the action against racism and division in Stoke.
The faith leaders are coming together using some famous words attributed to the anti-Nazi pastor, Martin Niemoller: "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out."
Niemoller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor, founder of the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church) in 1934, and a president of the World Council of Churches from 1961 to 1968


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It's Apple keynote day, so the news has been coming in fast and furious. As to the latest version of iOS on iPhones and iPads, what new features should you be excited about? Here are the big ones:
-Notifications: Finally, notifications are getting an overhaul, with new texts, emails, calendar events and push notifications getting stuck in the new "Notification Center" that can be accessed by swiping down from the top of the screen. You'll also be able to see all the pertinent info on the home screen without unlocking your phone, which is nice.
-Newsstand: Newsstand will basically be like iBooks, but for newspapers and magazines. It'll let you download issues, subscribe and read anything you've got on board.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
-Twitter integration: Twitter is now baked into iOS, allowing you to tweet photos directly from the camera app, links from Safari or locations from Maps.
-Updated Safari: The iOS browser has two major new features. The first is Reader, which lets you pull the raw text from online articles and save them for later reading, much like the popular Instapaper app. The other feature is tabbed browsing, which is a long time coming.
-Updated camera: The camera can now be accessed from the home screen without needing to enter a password or swipe to unlock your phone. You'll also be able to use the volume button as a shutter, which frees you from having to tap the screen to take a photo. Basic photo editing, such as rotating and cropping, is also on the way.
-PC-free operation: A computer will no longer be required to set up or use an iPhone or iPad, with over-the-air syncing and wireless updating cutting the cord that previously forced you to plug in a device to set it up or update it.
Other new features include a new Reminders app, a revamped Mail app, a new version of Game Center, and iMessage, which is essentially BlackBerry's BBM, but for iOS devices. Phew! It's a lot of new stuff, but unfortunately you'll need to wait until this Fall to get it for yourself.
Via Gizmodo


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House Bill 368 passed on April 7, now watch out for Senate Bill 0893. This bill is disguised as promoting critical thinking and scrutinizing scientific evidence, but in actuality is a classic creationist "Teach the Controversy" bill. Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of this.
The bill, or at least I believe it to be the current version:
A committee meeting that makes abundantly clear the intent of this bill:http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB...
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Cody Gaisser
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~I wrote this letter to a member of the Tennessee legislature after he supported the bill in question. It dovetails nicely with your post. L9~
Don't you see what a slippery slope you're on? If you manage to actually implement your goals, then others may come along with a third view of creation based upon the suras of the Quran. Would you like that? What if the courts mandated that now we must teach Quran Science, including ideas about a disk-shaped earth, formed in 6 stages, along with 7 separate heavens and angels flying all through them and man being ceated from a clot of blood? Imagine all those devout Muslims in Tennessee demanding equal time? Maybe they'd all just have to share the time in 5th. period science class or, worse, teach the controversy! You'd blow a head gasket then! Quit while you're ahead. Keep stealth religion out of science class. Science for science class!
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This morning I woke up at 4:15 a.m., coughing. Rather than putting my husband through the Hell that is your partner coughing incessantly next to you, I got out of bed, threw a zinc lozenge in my mouth and spent some quality time with my laptop.
I started thinking about the independent fashion and lifestyle community. How much support and kindness there is out there. I reflected back to a time when life was more competitive amongst women around me. When I was younger and I felt that any woman who had something interesting to offer was immediately a threat subject to character dissection until proven worthy of friendship. A dubious task at best. You can imagine how few made the cut.
It appalls me that this had been my reality. We all collect baggage on our path from toddler to young adult and into maturity. Some we inherit as it's passed down from generation to generation. We're also equipped with the ability to shed some of this baggage, which I happen to think is one of the most significant things about developing self-awareness and choosing our evolutionary path.
Who do you want to be? How are you getting there? Have you put an army of support together to help on your journey?
I wish I could tell all women, young and old, this truth: That there is room for all of us in the world to shine. That unity makes us stronger, that we can learn from each other. Whether it be as simple and as superficial as taking note of how someone with beautiful hair styles and cares for it to watching and supporting a friend who's decided to overcome her fear of advanced math and conquer it. My life-long friend from high school recently decided to this, I can't tell you how proud I am of her.
When you see another woman in your life succeed, use it to energize your spirit and inspire you to keep trying. When you see a woman comfortable with her beauty take note of what makes her beautiful; it's likely to be that her capacity for love and compassion, humor and perseverance is what makes her truly shine
Don't limit your judgment of beauty to a dress size or flawless skin. Life is so much richer than that.
I find myself grateful to have taken a new step in my life with this blog and that I found support from complete strangers. The encouragement I have received says so much about who each one of you are, what you carry in your heart and that you fundamentally believe that there is room for each one of us to shine.
There is no hero. There is no idol. We are more beautiful and interesting collectively; together we make up the different colors, shapes and patterns of a unique weave, the different harmonies of one song. So go ahead, dip your toes in the water of confidence. Embrace the trial and errors, pick yourself up and give it another go. Ask for a hand if you need it, the universe wants you to succeed.
This is your time to shine.
Deets: Green watercolor dress/H&M, green cashmere pullover/Bloomingdale's, owl necklace/Urban Outfitters, ivory knitted tights/Hue, aqua legwarmers/unknown, grey faux cowboy boots/ModCloth, infinity scarf/hand-knitted by Stacy.


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Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Current Residence: Oakland, CA
Dental Specialty: General Dentistry
"I can't thank the school enough for its dedication to the humanistic model of education. It taught me the value of serving others with the talents that I was given."
Although Dr. Daniel Nam had a passion for music — receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance from the University of California, Los Angeles — he wanted a career that could provide stable employment. So following in the footsteps of his father, he decided to pursue dentistry. A 2002 graduate of Pacific Dugoni, Daniel has fond memories of his time at the dental school and an appreciation for the school's humanistic model of teaching. However, the most important thing that he took away from his experience at the school was the importance of getting involved and giving back to the community.
"Pacific Dugoni gave me a fantastic education and I am happy to give back to the school that has given me the skills to succeed," said Daniel.
Programs such as the Student Community Outreach for Public Education (SCOPE) provided Daniel with many volunteer opportunities during his dental school years to help the less fortunate. However, it was a dental mission trip to Fiji that ignited his commitment to increasing access to dental services among the poor and underserved populations.
Since that Fiji trip, he has made community service a top priority in his life and gives tirelessly to many different organizations. He has worked with the Berkeley Suitcase Clinic, California Dental Association (CDA) Cares, the Flying Doctors and the Remote Area Medical (RAM) free clinics. Working regularly with the Suitcase Clinic — a student-run organization affiliated with UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Free Clinic — he has expanded their scope of services in the nine years he has been with the organization. His efforts have allowed patients of the Suitcase Clinic to receive free comprehensive care.
"There are a lot of people who are hurting right now," says Daniel. "Yet they will come and stand (and sometimes camp overnight) in long lines to have access to dental care. We need to work together as a profession, as a group of human beings, to stop the suffering. I want to be part of the solution, not just talk about it."
Daniel has also participated in several RAM free clinics around the nation, working 12-hour days providing free dental services to needy patients. He recently joined the newly formed board of directors of RAM California, which will be working to bring the RAM free clinic program independently and permanently to California. As if that wasn't enough, he was just selected to join the American Dental Association (ADA) Diversity in Leadership Institute, where he will be working with faculty from the Kellogg School of Management and distinguished leaders at the ADA.
"In these trying times where access to care is a major issue, I want to create a model here in Berkeley that others can emulate and improve upon to deliver quality care to our fellow citizens who need assistance with their dental health," says Daniel.
In addition to his work with organized dentistry and philanthropic organizations, he continues to give back to the Dugoni School. He recently participated as a faculty advisor for students on a mission trip in Jamaica.
"I can't thank the school enough for its dedication to the humanistic model of education," said Daniel. "It taught me the value of serving others with the talents that I was given."