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Xiaomi launches the Redmi 5A in India for just ₹4,999 ($77)
Xiaomi has launched the successor to the wildly popular Redmi 4A.
Xiaomi has been teasing the launch of a "Desh ka Smartphone" (smartphone of the country) in recent weeks, and now we have more details on the device. The phone is a successor to the Redmi 4A, which is the third best-selling device in the country this year. Dubbed the Redmi 5A, the phone has incremental upgrades and a new design, but what sets its apart from the Redmi 4A is the launch pricing of ₹4,999. That comes out to just $77, making the Redmi 5A Xiaomi's most affordable handset to date.
The Redmi 5A shares a lot of the same internal hardware as its predecessor, including a 5.0-inch 720p screen, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a 13MP f/2.2 rear camera along with a 5MP f/2.0 front shooter. There's now a dedicated microSD slot in addition to two SIM card slots, and the 3000mAh battery is designed to provide two days' worth of usage from a single charge.
Like the Redmi 4A, the Redmi 5A is powered by the quad-core Snapdragon 425 chipset. On the software side of things, the Redmi 5A runs MIUI 9 out of the box.
Xiaomi VP and managing director for India Manu Kumar Jain stated that the goal with the Redmi 5A is to make smartphones accessible to everyone:
We strongly believe that the best of technology should be made accessible to as many people as possible, because technology can improve lives. With Redmi 5A we take another step in offering a great all-round experience for users looking for their first smartphone. We believe Redmi 5A is the smartphone for everyone.
Xiaomi is a community driven by fans, and to celebrate their contribution towards making Xiaomi the No.1 brand in India, we've taken this huge step to give back INR 500 crore back to community and offer Redmi 5A at INR 4,999 for the first five million units. This is, as far as we know, something no other brand has ever done before in India. We would like other technology brands to join us in making high-quality products while making them extremely accessible and contribute towards a digital India.
The caveat here is that the ₹4,999 pricing is limited to the fist five million units. After that, the phone will be sold at ₹5,999, the same price as the base variant of the Redmi 4A. Xiaomi is also rolling out a model with 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage, which will be available for ₹6,999. The phone will be going up for sale starting December 7 at Flipkart, Mi.com, Mi Home stores, and Xiaomi's partner stores throughout the country.
Going by the sales figures of the Redmi 4A, Xiaomi should have no issues hitting the five million mark in a few quarters. What are your thoughts on the Xiaomi Redmi 5A?
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Frankfort Town Hall is located at 140 South Litchfield Street, Frankfort NY 13340; phone: 315-894-8737.
The town of Frankfort was established in 1796. The rolling hills of this southern Herkimer County town proved conducive to agriculture, notably dairy farming. Frankfort grew and prospered during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries because of its location along the route of the old Erie Canal and the later New York State Barge Canal. At the end of the First World War, the town of Frankfort received funds from an excess profits tax collected by the state during the war. Town officials held a referendum to determine how voters wished this money to be spent. By an overwhelming majority, the voters approved a proposition to construct a town hall dedicated as a memorial to Frankfort men who served in the army and navy during World War I. The new building would provide government offices, a public auditorium and a meeting room for the local American Legion post. In late 1921 the town board solicited proposals for a building site. Four private parcels were offered for sale as well as a portion of abandoned Erie Canal right-of-way declared surplus by the state. In May, 1922 the town board voted to acquire the canal land between Litchfield Street and Moyer Creek.


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Taygetomorpha is a genus of satyrid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.

Species
Listed alphabetically:
Taygetomorpha celia (Cramer, [1779])
Taygetomorpha puritana (Weeks, 1902)

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Euptychiina
Nymphalidae of South America
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1st Printing $290 $290 $0.00 Very Good
Ballin' Jack
Little Princess #109
Item Number BG208-BZ
David Singer
DATE Dec 26, 1969
VENUE Winterland (San Francisco, CA)
SIZE 13 13/16" x 21 7/8"
Sly & the Family Stone was the main attraction at this Winterland concert, allowing Bill Graham to add lesser known groups to take advantage of the band's drawing power. Southwind, an Oklahoma-based country rock band, and Ball and Jack, a short-lived, Jazz-Rock sextet that garnered a small following through the early 70's, played the headliner's following.
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Various groups with a variety of agendas have all kinds of ideas about autism. Looking at their claims can be one step towards active skepticism.
Eran Segev is a father of 3 boys, an IT consultant, and the President of Australian Skeptics Inc (Sydney Skeptics).
The Australian Skeptics (Sydney) publish a quarterly magazine named the Skeptic with many subscribers across Australia and the world, including of course in Canberra. Since 1981, the Skeptic has reported on and reviewed issues ranging from aliens to cryptozoology, and it even had an article on electroencephaloneuromentimpography.


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FIGURE 1.5. Increased amygdala function during acquisition of conditioned fear responses in women with early childhood abuse and PTSD. Lighter areas represent bilateral amygdala activation. There was greater amygdala activation with acquisition of fear responses (pairing of conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus) in women with PTSD compared to controls; z > 3.09, p < 0.001. Source: Bremner et al., 2005.
Fewer brain-imaging studies have been performed in children with PTSD. Several studies have shown alterations in electroencephalogram (EEG) measures of brain activity in children with a variety of traumas who were not selected for diagnosis compared to healthy children. About half of the children in these studies had a psychiatric diagnosis. Abnormalities were located in the anterior frontal cortex and temporal lobe and were localized to the left hemisphere (Ito et al., 1993; Schiffer, Teicher, & Papanicolaou, 1995). Two studies have found reductions in brain volume in children with trauma and PTSD symptoms (Carrion et al., 2001; De Bellis et al., 1999b). One group did not find reductions in hippocampal volume either at baseline or over a longitudinal period (De Bellis, Hall, Boring, Frustaci, & Moritz, 2001; De Bellis et al., 1999b) while another group found an 8.5% reduction in hippocampal volume that was not significant after controlling for smaller brain volumes in the PTSD group (Carrion et al., 2001). One study used single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (proton MRS) to measure relative concentration of N-acetylaspartate and creatinine (a marker of neuronal viability) in the anterior cingulate of 11 children with maltreatment-related PTSD and 11 controls. The authors found a reduction in the ratio of N-acetylaspartate to creatinine in PTSD patients relative to controls (De Bellis, Keshavan,
Spencer, & Hall, 2000). Studies have also found smaller size of the corpus callosum in children with abuse and PTSD relative to controls (De Bellis et al., 1999b), as well as larger volume of the superior temporal gyrus (De Bellis et al., 2002). In a study of abused children in whom diagnosis was not specified, there was an increase in T2 relaxation time in the cerebellar vermis, suggesting dysfunction in this brain region (Anderson, Teicher, Polcari, & Renshaw, 2002).
In summary, adults with early-abuse-related mental disorders show evidence of decreased medial prefrontal and hippocampal function and structure, as well as increased amygdala function. Although changes in medial prefrontal and corpus callosum structure were found in children with PTSD, changes in hippocampal volume were not. This is explainable by findings in animals showing that early stress does not manifest as changes in hippocampal structure until adulthood (Brunson, Eghbal-Ahmadi, Bender, Chen, & Baram, 2001; Brunson et al., 2005).
These findings have implications for understanding alterations in memories of abuse in patients with abuse-related PTSD (Bremner, 1999; Bremner, 2001; Bremner, Krystal, Charney, & Southwick, 1996a). This hippocampus plays a role in the integration of the individual elements of memory in the context of space and time (Zola-Morgan & Squire, 1990). Dysfunction of the hippocampus in patients with abuse-related PTSD may lead to an inability to effectively retrieve memories of early abuse.
Dissociation is defined as a breakdown in memory, consciousness, and the sense of self. Dissociation at the time of trauma is often seen in trauma victims, and three studies have now found a correlation between smaller hippocampal volume and dissociative symptom severity (Bremner et al., 2003b; Stein, Koverola, Hanna, Torchia, & McClarty, 1997; Vermetten et al., 2006). We have hypothesized that dissociation at the time of trauma represents a behavioral correlate of stress-induced hippocampal damage (Bremner et al., 1996a). If so, hippocampally mediated dissociative amnesia may represent a mechanism of altered recall of early abuse.
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So Finally, Ebola can now be stopped from spreading, and in under 5 minutes!
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A few days ago, Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man and the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died at a Texas hospital. As fear ramps up around the Ebola virus and fever screenings are put in place at selected airports across the country, the public's fear seems to be growing out of proportion to their real risk.
But somebody shared this satirical meme on imgur the other day and astonishingly it has come nearly true.
A Texas-based company has developed an Ebola killing robot that can clean a hospital room in five minutes and destroy the virus by fusing its DNA.
The germ-killing robot, called Little Moe developed by Xenex, uses ultraviolet light to sterilise a room. A spokeswoman for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said the germ-zapping robot works by flashing surfaces with ultraviolet light which in turn damages viral DNA.
The robot uses pulses of high-intensity, high-energy ultraviolet (UV-C) light to disinfect a room. The robot's Xenon-containing light bulb kills 99.9 percent of dangerous viruses and bacteria in less than 5 minutes. The light can also split open bacterial cell walls to kill dangerous pathogens commonly found in hospitals. Xenex's founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Mark Stibich said these robots can rid a hospital room of germs in under 5 minutes and destroy Ebola on any surface in 2 minutes.
The machine is currently doing battle against viruses and bacteria in 250 hospitals across the country, including the hospital in Dallas where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., was treated and eventually died.
UV light is all around us. And you'd be right. The sun's rays are made up of three different kind of ultraviolet light. The first two, UV-A and UV-B, shine onto the planet and are responsible for making people tan as well as giving other sunburns and even skin cancers.
But the ozone layer surrounding Earth blocks UV-C. Because this light doesn't exist in the natural world below the ozone layer, organisms have not evolved genetic mechanisms to deal with it. That's where Xenex comes in. The robot pulses UV-C light for five minutes in a given location, such as a patient's hospital room. When the light encounters bacteria or viruses, it damages their DNA, essentially disabling the pathogen and killing it.
Actually, UV light has been used for decades to disinfect air and water. But older versions of this technology relied on mercury-based light bulbs, which are toxic. Xenex uses xenon gas to create the light, which is turns out is 25,000 times more intense than the UV light that the sun produces and also kills a wider range of germs.
Xenex is currently in discussions with the US Department of Defense and several relief organizations about deploying the robots to Africa. The company is also talking with several major airlines about disinfecting cabins.
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Psoriasis in babies
By Dana Dubinsky
Medically reviewed by Nancy Showen, M.D., pediatrician
What is psoriasis?
What causes psoriasis?
How common is psoriasis?
Does psoriasis hurt?
How can I tell whether it's psoriasis or eczema?
Is it contagious?
How can I treat this skin condition?
Will my child always have psoriasis?
Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition that shows up in several forms. The two that appear most in children are:
Plaque psoriasis. This is the most common type. If your baby has a raised, red lesion covered with a flaky, silvery-white scale, he may have it. Plaque can show up anywhere, although it most often appears on the elbows, knees, scalp, and lower back.
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Guttate psoriasis. This type of psoriasis is more common in children than in adults. It isn't as scaly or thick as plaque. Instead it appears as small, dot-like lesions, usually on the trunk and limbs.
There are mild cases of psoriasis, with only a few lesions; moderate cases, in which 3 to 10 percent of the body is covered; and severe cases, in which more than 10 percent – and sometimes the whole body – is covered.
Psoriasis isn't very common in babies. More likely possibilities at this age include a bad case of seborrheic dermatitisor cradle cap (if it's on your baby's scalp) or a bad diaper rash, if it's in his genital area.
Ringworm can also produce red skin with a flaky scale. Eczema, which can be difficult to distinguish from psoriasis, is another possibility. Check with your baby's doctor for a diagnosis.
Most skin cells grow and shed every 28 to 30 days. If your baby has psoriasis, the skin cells in the affected area are maturing every three to four days instead. Those raised, scaly lesions are actually a buildup of skin. The redness is from extra blood being pumped to the area.
Nobody knows why the body decides to generate skin cells so rapidly, but the change is thought to be triggered by the immune system. There's a genetic factor, too – about a third of those with psoriasis have at least one family member with the condition. A child can develop psoriasis without a family history, though.
Childhood bouts of guttate psoriasis are sometimes triggered by an illness, like a cold or tonsillitis. Skin injuries – from scratching or rubbing, for example – and stress may make matters worse. (You may want to put little mittens or socks on your baby's hands if you see that he's scratching, especially during sleep.)
More than 4.5 million adults in the United States have psoriasis, and about 20 percent of them have moderate to severe cases. It occurs equally in men and women, and a bit more often in Caucasians than African Americans. Psoriasis is rare in Native Americans and uncommon among Asians.
You can get psoriasis at any age, but it shows up most often between the ages of 15 and 35. One in ten psoriasis patients develops the condition during childhood, and 75 percent of patients show symptoms before the age of 40. The earlier psoriasis shows up, the more likely it is to recur and to be widespread.
It's uncomfortable and sometimes even painful. It can be itchy, and if it's bad enough, it can cause the skin to crack and bleed.
Psoriasis generally looks worse than eczema – it's more red and scaly, while eczema is generally pink and less scaly, although rougher in texture. Your baby's doctor can help you sort it out by examining your baby's skin and perhaps taking a small skin sample for examination under a microscope.
No. Psoriasis is a reaction of the immune system and not caused by a virus or bacteria, so it's not contagious. It doesn't even spread on your child's skin.
Start with a visit to your baby's doctor to discuss the best course of treatment. Because psoriasis is uncommon in babies and can look similar to other rashes, she'll want to confirm that the rash you're seeing is actually psoriasis. If it's especially severe or persistent, she may refer you to a dermatologist.
There are many different options for treating psoriasis, depending on the type of psoriasis, the location of the rash, and how severe it is. If it's fairly mild, the doctor can prescribe a topical medication that's safe and effective. And simple remedies – like adding oil to bathwater or using a good moisturizer on the skin – can also help.
If your baby's psoriasis is more severe, it may need to be treated with light therapy or even oral medication. If itching is a problem, the doctor may also prescribe antihistamines, and if it looks like there's a bacterial infection (from scratching the rash, for example), she'll prescribe oral antibiotics.
Psoriasis tends to be chronic and cyclical, flaring up and settling down, and even going into remission from time to time and then reappearing. In other words, the condition is unpredictable – there's no way to know when an outbreak will hit, how long it will last, or whether the condition might be gone for good. With help from a dermatologist, though, you can help your child through it.
AAD. Undated. What is psoriasis? American Academy of Dermatology. http://www.skincarephysicians.com/psoriasisnet/whatis.html
National Psoriasis Foundation. Undated. http://www.psoriasis.org/about/youth/parents/medicalfacts.php
NIH. Undated. Questions and answers about psoriasis. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health. http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/psoriasis/psoriasis.htm
Dana Dubinsky
Dana Dubinsky is a health and science editor.
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Dating is tough here, despite being the nation with Europe's highest proportion of singles. than half a million foreign citizens of working age in Sweden according to national "I have no trouble getting a first date," she adds.
Dating a foreigner might mean a lot of travel. And how are you going to pay for it? You simply cannot rely on anyone else for your sole income, in spite of their promises —you never know what might happen. I met Mike through work. When we finally met, it was supposed to be work-related we were starting Copyrise but that changed on the cab ride home from the airport the night we met.
Whether you meet online or you meet in person —every scenario of dating a foreigner has something in common. Love them as an equal and have an open mind for new ways of doing or experiencing things. Different cultures have a different way of viewing things. Even couples who come from similar cultures will find that they too have some obvious differences.
To remedy any friction, make an effort to get to know each other on a deeper level how dating should be! Talk about your childhood, interests, dreams, experiences, and views about the world. I cannot count the number of childhood stories Mike and I have exchanged with each other. Each story is a piece; the more we share our experiences with each other, the clearer the picture becomes. Another obstacle to dating a foreigner is the language barrier.
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So Essen has come and gone and most of us have updated our wishlist with an almost fanatical fever. There are always those games that will have a short print run and be talked about in hushed tones after the conventions, but will never have a wide distribution. I am going to start off with a few games from this years Essen and go from there.
I will have to wait to get a chance to play it but given how limited the English release was I don't see it happening. This should get licensed by several companies given its reception so I can only hope it will be a matter of time before more copies making the rounds.
A good fit for AEG's Big In Japan line, I would like the art to stay this time around.
Another Japon Brand/Grounding game, another sensible pickup for AEG. I hope the theme would survive but I could see this being adapted as a European merchant for their tempest line.
Honestly this could be almost any Fragor game, since Snow Tails was picked up there is a shot for this as well.
Not much in the way for text so might be more of an import and go title. Only a matter of time before another company picks this up I would imagine.


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Als Ferienstraße  oder Touristikstraße bzw. -route wird in Deutschland laut dem ADAC (1995) eine auf Dauer angelegte Reiseroute mit einem speziellen Thema bezeichnet, die den Zweck verfolgt, das Gebiet der Streckenführung touristisch besser zu vermarkten. Andere Bezeichnungen sind beispielsweise auch Themen-, Fremdenverkehrs- oder Touristenstraße. Eine Sonderform einer solchen Straße ist die Panoramastraße. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Straße, die zahlreiche Ausblicke (Panoramen) auf landschaftliche Schönheiten ermöglicht.

In Österreich werden Ferienstraßen auch Erlebnisstraßen genannt.

Merkmale
Typisch für Ferienstraßen ist laut einer Definition des "Deutschen Fremdenverkehrsverbandes" von 1981:
 Eine landschaftlich oder kulturell sinnvolle leitthematische Benennung
 Eine dauerhafte Ausweisung und Vermarktung
 Eine eindeutige Streckenführung ohne die Benutzung von Autobahnen
 Ein Verzeichnis besichtigenswerter Objekte entlang der Strecke
 Die Einrichtung einer zentralen Informationsstelle
 Ein möglichst mehrsprachiges Informationsmaterial (Karten, Prospekte)
 Eine vollständige Beschilderung
 Die Verwendung von Logos und Slogans
 Eine eindeutig verantwortliche Trägerschaft mit satzungsmäßig festgelegten Zielen und Aufgaben
 Eine Bemühung um staatliche Anerkennung in Form von Mittelzuweisungen bzw. Unterstützung.

Zur Kennzeichnung von Ferienstraßen findet in Deutschland insbesondere das in Braun mit weißer Schrift gehaltene amtliche Richtzeichen 386-51 Verwendung (Größe: 200 mm × 750 mm oder 200 mm × 1000 mm), auf dem das Logo der jeweiligen Straße oder eine Raute ohne Logo abgebildet ist. Schilder, die auf Ferienstraßen hinweisen, dürfen nicht zusammen mit anderen Verkehrsschildern aufgestellt werden.

Ferienstraßen fallen zumeist nicht mit den stark befahrenden Hauptrouten der Region zusammen. Teils wurden sie bereits als vorwiegend touristische Straßen gebaut, teils entstanden sie durch entsprechende Kennzeichnung bestehender Straßen. Insgesamt gibt es in Deutschland etwa 150 Ferienstraßen, in Österreich über 60 Erlebnisstraßen. Etwa die Hälfte der deutschen Ferienstraßen verläuft linienförmig, etwa ein Viertel ringförmig und ebenfalls ein Viertel netzartig. Die längste Ferienstraße, die ausschließlich innerhalb Deutschlands verläuft, ist die 1.738 km lange Deutsche Ferienroute Alpen–Ostsee. Zwei Drittel aller deutschen Ferienstraßen sind kürzer als 200 km.

Das Bereisen touristischer Straßen erweist sich als ein Mix aus Bauwerksbesichtigung, Museumsbesuch und Landschafts- bzw. Stadtbesichtigung, möglicherweise verbunden mit einem Eventbesuch. Eine Rolle spielen vor allem bei denjenigen Routen, die Lebensmitteln gewidmet sind, auch die Verkostung und der Erwerb regionsspezifischer Produkte wie Bier, Wein oder Käse.

Geschichte
Die älteste deutsche Ferienstraße ist die 1927 gegründete Deutsche Alpenstraße. Etwa zeitgleich entstand der Blue Ridge Parkway in den Appalachen. Bereits diese beiden Straßen zeigen, wie Landschaftserlebnisse für Autofahrer auf Touristikstraßen inszeniert wurden und welche Konflikte sich durch die divergierende Nutzungsinteressen an der "Landschaft" ergaben. Dabei handelt es sich nicht um eine tatsächlich naturbelassene Ur-Landschaft, sondern um eine von Menschen gestaltete, deren Wahrnehmung durch kulturell bestimmte Konstrukte (wie Reiseführer, Aussichtspunkte und eine möglichst "szenische" Linienführung von Straßen und Wegen) beeinflusst wird.

Bis 1950 entstanden in Deutschland vier weitere Touristische Routen, und zwar die Deutsche Weinstraße (1935), die Schwarzwaldhochstraße (1939), die Grüne Küstenstraße (1946) (die heute nicht mehr touristisch vermarktet wird) sowie die Romantische Straße (1950). Während zweier Gründungswellen entstanden etwa 90 % aller Touristischen Routen: Die erste Gründungswelle fand in den 1970er Jahren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland statt, die zweiten Gründungswelle in den 1990er Jahren, v. a. in Ostdeutschland.

Anfangs waren Touristische Routen hauptsächlich auf Autotouristen ausgerichtet. Erst mit den 1990er Jahren fand ein Bedeutungswandel statt, indem sich Touristische Routen zunehmend alternativen Reiseverkehrsmitteln öffneten. Ursächlich hierfür war u. a. die gestiegene Umweltsensibilisierung. Allerdings ist immer noch der Pkw das beliebteste Verkehrsmittel, vor allem für Kurzurlaube und Wochenendausflüge. Noch heute sind viele Touristische Routen mit dem Auto befahrbar und nur teilweise mit alternativen Reiseverkehrsmitteln erlebbar.

Die Lehm- und Backsteinstraße westlich der Mecklenburgischen Großseenlandschaft erhielt 1999 als bislang einziges deutsches Projekt den "To Do!-Preis" des "Ammerland-Studienkreises für Tourismus", der einen explizit sozialverantwortlichen Tourismus in aller Welt fördert. Denn die Straße sei ein "partizipativ organisiertes Projekt mit eindeutig kommunal- und regionalpolitischer Ausrichtung".

Marketing und Regionalpolitik
Initiatoren von Ferienstraßen sind vielfach Regionen, die bestrebt sind, sich besser touristisch zu vermarkten. Typische Themen sind Landschaften, (ehemaliges) regionaltypisches Gewerbe oder kulturelles Erbe. Die Zielgruppe einer Themenstraße sind kulturell interessierte Touristen.

Ferienstraßen werden in Deutschland definiert als Leistungsbündel überörtlicher Marketingziele von Städte- und Gebietsgemeinschaften, die im Rahmen einer öffentlich-privaten Partnerschaft (PPP) zusammenwirken. Die rechtliche Organisationsform dieses Zusammenwirkens ist zumeist der eingetragene Verein. Ziele der Kooperation sind die Sicherung von Marktanteilen, Gewinnung bzw. Bindung bestimmter Zielgruppen, bessere infrastrukturelle Auslastung in touristischen Nebenzeiten bzw. eine Verlängerung der touristischen Saison sowie der Ausbau eines nationalen und internationalen Images. Es geht darum, in Form eines Cross marketing (potenziellen) Touristen die (auch kulturellen) Produkte der Region(en) nahezubringen.

Von zentraler Bedeutung für die Schaffung neuer Ferienstraßen und deren Betrieb ist die Finanzierung mit Mitteln der Europäischen Union, insbesondere im Rahmen des Programms LEADER.

Erfolgreich im Sinne der Initiatoren einer Ferienstraße können diese nach Auffassung der "Deutschen Zentrale für Tourismus" (DZT) nur dann sein, wenn die folgenden Basis-Faktoren gegeben sind:
 Professionelles Marketing durch eine zentrale Stelle
 Eindeutige Orientierung am Gästenutzen, vor allem an der Nachfrage und nicht an Bürostunden orientierte Öffnungszeiten
 Geschlossene Serviceketten mit einer Infrastruktur, die Gelegenheiten schafft, Geld auszugeben
 Professionelle Information und Kommunikation durch Beschilderung, Karten, Broschüren
 Unbedingter Kooperationswille aller Beteiligten
 Ständige Weiterentwicklung und Qualitätsverbesserung durch Innenmarketingprojekte.

Kritik
In Deutschland gibt es zwar über 100 Ferienstraßen, jedoch haben es nur wenige davon geschafft, ins Bewusstsein der breiten Öffentlichkeit zu gelangen – dem eigentlichen Ziel, weshalb diese Ferienstraßen zum Teil mit hohem Aufwand angelegt worden sind. Deshalb hat die "DFMS Deutsche Ferienstraßen MarketingService GmbH & Co. KG" – eine Initiative in Kooperation mit dem ADAC und der Hymer AG zur Vermarktung Deutscher Ferienstraßen – es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein breites Publikum im In- und Ausland besser als bisher über das Angebot Deutscher Ferienstraßen zu informieren.

Es gibt auch Ferienstraßen, die in vielen Karten noch eingetragen sind, aber nicht mehr vermarktet werden. Ein Beispiel hierfür ist die "Oldtimer-Route" im Osnabrücker Land. Einige der für die Errichtung dieser Route maßgeblichen Stationen existieren entweder nicht mehr oder sind an einen Standort abseits der Route verlegt worden. Der DZT zufolge gilt der Grundsatz, dass nur systematisch und kontinuierlich vermarktete Straßen einen Nutzen für ihre Tourismusregion bringen. Tatsächlich verdienen es in Deutschland demnach nur rund ein Dutzend Straßen, mit dem Gedanken an eine ordentliche Vermarktung in Verbindung gebracht zu werden.

Siehe auch
Liste der Ferien- und Themenstraßen

Literatur
 Baedeker Allianz: Reiseführer Deutschland. Ein As im Ärmel. Verlag Mair-Dumont. November 2009, ISBN 978-3-8297-1186-9, S. 127–146.

Weblinks

 Ferienstraßen in Deutschland
 FERIENSTRASSEN.INFO - Das Portal zum Ferienstraßennetz und der GRAND TOUR

 ADAC > Ferienstraßen - Atemberaubendes Fahrerlebnis
 Weinstraßen in Europa
 Was ist eine Kulturstraße?

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Library of First Lines
I'm tripping over novels again.
I confess: I took one, but didn't leave one, at Little Free Libraries everywhere, kind of a lot.
Add to that the many $5 all-you-can-stuff paper grocery bags full of books with eye-catching covers & persuasive blurbs, hauled home from Friends of the Beaverton Library book & media sales. (Do NOT let me go to the one happening this weekend. Don't picture me this Sunday, arriving home with another 50 pounds of books. No, I said: don't.)
Funny, despite mounting stacks of novels—around the bed, atop table surfaces and the floor, edging out in a tall pile from the couch as if an extension of the couch itself—the books I actually finish reading are usually checked out from the county library. Borrowed; to be given back. There's something about a due date that makes me jealously finish four Ruth Ware novels in a row, none of which I own. Meanwhile, Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles, whose cover I can't stop looking at and touching, because it's designed to look like a wooden floor, hasn't inspired a sense of urgency to read it since the day I brought it home.
To be honest I think I judged some of these books by their covers. But even if I love the covers, I cannot read every novel, and I certainly can't house every novel. I simply cannot. I know this, at least up here [taps head]. It is like with pets. There is a limit.
So I'm starting over fresh, airing out my bookshelves & vacuuming the dust, letting these books out to find their readers. In the future I'll take novels in one at a time. And back out it goes. I think that'll have to be my policy. And I hear e-readers are good. I'll probably always hold a romantic notion that I'll someday devote an entire room of my home to being a library. But it's equally romantic to imagine not spending two hours on light rail going to the nearest Ikea, then being up till 2am screwing together yet another particle board bookshelf. I could have been curled up on the couch, actually reading, instead.
But before I release these lovely books back into the wild, I thought it might make me feel better—as if this collection had served some purpose after all—if I paid homage to each book, if I memorialized its once-presence on my floor, packed shelves, or beside the tub, as a remembered piece of that library I once collected that turned out to be one library too many ("for the space," as they say).
I'm always curious to see what other authors end up with as first lines. So—that's it: this will be my library of first lines, and a goodbye-for-now to each of these novels, until I check it out from the library—to actually read—someday.
Keep in mind (in case any of these should embarrass me to have had in my house): this is not a list of recommended novels; it can't be, since I failed in my mission to read them. Many I don't remember choosing, or when. Many are probably amazing stories. I bet they are! But that is exactly how I talked myself into keeping so many in the first place…
I'll update* this post as I go through each heavy pile—the books are mostly hardbacks! In fact, I'll note if they're paperback, in case I for some reason want that data later (meh, doubtful).
Enjoy your newfound freedom, novels!
Maybe instead of a whole room, I'll settle for one day hosting my own Little Free Library.
*Library of First Lines last updated: 10/27/2019
NF's Library of First Lines
in no particular order
Care of Wooden Floors, a novel by Will Wiles (2012):
"People are afraid of flying."
In The Unlikely Event, a novel by Judy Blume (2015):
"Even now she can't decide."
The Plover, a novel by Brian Doyle (2014):
"West and then west for weeks and weeks or months and months sweet Jesus knows how long."
The Devil Wears Prada, a novel (paperback) by Lauren Weisberger (2003):
"The light hadn't even officially turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap I was attempting to navigate around the city streets."
The Weird Sisters, a novel (paperback) by Eleanor Brown (2011):
"We came home because we were failures."
With Intent to Kill, a mystery by Dell Shannon (1972):
"Mendoza woke abruptly."
V is for Vengeance, a mystery by Sue Grafton (2011):
"Phillip Lanahan drove to Vegas in his 1985 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet, a snappy little red car his parents had given him two months before, when he graduated from Princeton."
Freedom, a novel by Jonathan Franzen (2010):
"The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally—he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now—but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times."
Note on Freedom: This long-ass novel I did read. More on that later.
Carnivore Diet, a novel by Julia Slavin (2005):
"My years were the cartoon's best, and I'm not bragging."
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, a novel (autographed) by Robin Sloan (2012):
"Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder."
Note on Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: this novel's cover has displeased me ever since it ended up in the stack by my bed, this because it has some yellow material on it that glows in the dark. But I never remembered to move it in the morning.
An Object of Beauty, a novel by Steve Martin (2010):
"I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else."
Note on An Object of Beauty: this is another novel I hate to part with due to the cover and interior design of the book. I love looking at it, and it cleverly feels like an oil canvas, for painting. I made it to page 63, judging by the clean slip of toilet paper being used as a bookmark, at which point I must have started also reading a library book with a deadline that took precedence—I think that book may have been Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow.
The Magician's Wife, a novel by Brian Moore (1997):
"The colonel left the house at five o'clock."
The Paris Wife, a novel (paperback) by Paula McLain (2011):
"Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris."
Note on The Paris Wife: I've been curious to read The Paris Wife ever since discovering it mentioned (I thought, cattily?) in a John Grisham novel, which I bought to read in similar fashion to this blogger (drawn in by a mention of Portland State), albeit in my case I was at the PDX airport, desperate for reading material which—despite having volumes & volumes of at home—I'd neglected to bring on the trip. Alas, The Paris Wife too must go. If I let one novel stay, I'd have to let them all stay.
Still Life With Bread Crumbs, a novel by Anna Quindlen (2014):
"A few minutes after two in the morning Rebecca Winter woke up to the sound of a gunshot and sat up in bed."
The Witness, a novel by Nora Roberts (2012):
"Elizabeth Fitch's short-lived teenage rebellion began with L'Oréal Pure Black, a pair of scissors and a fake ID."
The Paris Wife, a novel by Paula McLain (2011):
"Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for…" hey wait a minute.
Note: So I had two copies of The Paris Wife, a hardback and a paperback. No wonder my bookshelves are overflowing. Good thing I'm doing this project!
State of Wonder, a novel by Ann Patchett (2011):
"The news of Anders Eckman's death came by way of Aerogram, a piece of bright blue airmail paper that served as both the stationery and, when folded over and sealed along the edges, the envelope."
We Are Not Ourselves, a novel by Matthew Thomas (2014)
"His father was watching the line in the water."
Big Hair and Flying Cows, a novel by Dolores J. Wilson (2004)
"'Bertie,' my father yelled from the doorway between his office and the hot garage."
The Disorder of Longing, a novel by Natasha Bauman (2008)
"It was officially spring, yet the sun had been stingy, staying hidden away for weeks."
The Body Artist, a novel by Don DeLillo (2001)
"Time seems to pass."
Note: I might actually keep & read this one. Like, if I allow myself to keep one novel from my outgoing piles, to start reading now, The Body Artist is a contender. That's in part because I've read DeLillo before, his novel White Noise. And I feel partly guilty, partly concerned, that I remember almost nothing from that novel, except something about freeway noise (working as a metaphor, but literal too). Granted, it was my first term of grad school & I had kind of a lot going on that term, not to mention I'd overloaded myself with heavy duty reading for a bunch of other classes such that there was no "taking one's time" with any reading. I also remember struggling to write my first (or one of the first) 10-page grad school papers (or was it the first final term paper?) on that novel, for the lit class I was reading it in called Illness & Culture. Wow, the more I think about it, maybe all of that was kind of DeLillo's whole point. He's right about one thing: time sure does seem to pass.
10/25/2019 Update: Welp I read this. Was a super quick read. It was in many ways the opposite of the novel I'd read just previously, Freedom. In length, style of prose, outcome. At one point I thought, "an unknown novelist would never get away with this."
Murder On the Potomac, a 1994 mystery by Margaret Truman (or is it by Margaret Truman?)
"When Mackensie Smith closed his criminal-law practice to teach law at George Washington University, he vowed to find time to smell the proverbial roses."
The Language of Flowers, a novel by Vanessa Diffenbaug (2011)
"For eight years I dreamed of fire."
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, a novel by Gaétan Soucy (1998)
"We had to take the universe in hand, my brother and I, for one morning just before dawn papa gave up the ghost without a by-your-leave."
The Fig Eater, a novel (paperback) by Jody Shields (2000)
"He stands up next to the girl's body."
The Alternative Hero, a novel by Tim Thornton (2009)
"You know how it is sometimes."
War and Peace, a novel by Leo Tolstoy (1992 Barnes & Noble classics edition, originally published in 1869 & prior to that, serially)
"For thirteen years, off and on, there has been war in Europe; but now, in 1805, there is an uneasy peace." But The Project Gutenberg EBook version goes: "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
Do With Me What You Will, a novel by Joyce Carol Oates (1973)
"Premeditated crime: the longer the meditation, the dreaming, the more triumphant the execution!"
Note: I made it to page 121 of this novel, judging by the Marika Sculpt Your Attitude activewear tag bookmark. Oh to be as prolific as Ms. Oates, right?
The Rat, a novel by Günter Grass (1986)
"Chapter one, in which a wish comes true, there is no room for rats in Noah's ark, nothing is left of man but garbage, a ship changes its name frequently, the saurians die out, an old friend turns up, a postcard brings an invitation to Poland, the upright posture is practiced, and knitting needles click, vigorously. At Christmas I wished for a rat, in the hope, no doubt, of stimulus words for a poem about the education of the human race."
Her Native Colors, a novel by Elisabeth Hyde (1986)
"Phoebe Martin chose a bad time to tell her ex-husband Rusty that she was taking their son Andrew back East for two weeks."
Hardcore Twenty-Four, a novel by Janet Evanovich (2017)
"Simon Diggery and Ethel, his pet boa constrictor, were about fifty feet from Simon's rust bucket double-wide."
What Was Lost, a novel (paperback) by Catherine O'Flynn (2007)
"Crime was out there."
The Third Angel, a novel by Alice Hoffman (2008)
"Madeline Heller knew she was reckless."
Emily's Ghost, a novel by Denise Giardina (2009)
"Emily Brontë got on with her life as before, except she caught cold more easily."
— To be continued —
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Guyana's Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai. Photo credit: DPI.
Guyana Government To Place Major Focus On Management And Accountability Of Amerindian Village Funds
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POMEROON, Guyana (Thursday, November 12, 2020) — The government says it is focusing on restoring proper management and accountability of resources, at the level of the Amerindian Village Council, something which, it claims, was lacking under the previous APNU+AFC Administration.
Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, said the intention is to ensure that village funds are used, optimally, for village development, in keeping with the government's thrust to bring the Amerindian and hinterland peoples into the mainstream of national development.
The Minister was speaking, during an outreach, along the Pomeroon River, in Region Two, where she engaged village leaders of Akawini, Wakapau, Karawab, St. Monica, and Kabakaburi.
She was accompanied by Parliamentary Secretary, Sarah Browne; Permanent Secretary, Sharon Hicks, and Region Two's Regional Chairman, Vilma De Silva.
Minister Sukhai explained that when the current administration took office, it found an alarming number of cases of misappropriation of village funds, by village councils, due to a lack of accountability, as well as mismanagement of village assets.
"I have only been in office for about three months now, and, on my desk, there are a lot of complaints from villagers about the performance of the village council and, specifically, about the performance of many Toshaos," she noted.
"These issues are not new, but the amount is of concern. We now expect village councils will get back on track with the management and accountability of the village resources."
The Minister, however, observed that this can only be achieved, if the Village Council works in collaboration with the Ministry.
Funds will be set aside in the 2021 National Budget, to facilitate more monitoring and provide technical support to village leaders in that regard, Minister Sukhai added.
She elaborated that the Amerindian Act of 2006 can also be used as a tool to guide the councils, on how to keep within their parameters of authority.
"The village council is a body corporate that is responsible for the management of the village and is answerable to the people of the village…Your villagers elected you as their leaders, you are answerable to them," Minister Sukhai reminded.
She also called on the villagers to support the councils and play a more active role in the implementation and management of community projects.
In brief remarks, Parliamentary Secretary Browne reiterated the government's commitment to the development of the nation's first people: "Our government is one, who listens to the people. We will continue to address the issues of all of the people in the hinterland."
Local residents also had the opportunity to raise issues and concerns, the most common being in the health and education sectors, as well as water and electricity. Minister Sukhai committed to engaging the relevant Ministries and the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), on their behalf.


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Toller Cranston ever the rascal, rogue and original: DiManno
Toller Cranston, found dead Saturday, was arguably the most innovative and sports-transforming figure skater Canada has ever produced.
By Rosie DiMannoColumnist
Sat., Jan. 24, 2015timer7 min. read
KINGSTON, ONT.—He was an original and a revolutionary, a sensualist and an artist on every canvas where his wild imagination ran free before the wind.
From sheet of ice to oil painting to the written word, six-time Canadian men's champion and an Olympic bronze medallist had upwards of 70,000 works of his art hanging on walls around the world. Then there were the seven books authored or co-authored. (Sample title: When Hell Freezes Over, Should I Bring My Skates?)
Toller Cranston, arguably the most innovative and sports-transforming figure skater Canada has ever produced, was found dead Saturday morning at his sprawling 15-bedroom home in San Miguele de Allende, high in the mountains of Central Mexico.
On Friday he'd complained of chest pains but sought no medical attention. On Saturday, household staff found him lifeless.
An old 65, from all the years of abuse he inflicted on his body as a dissolute drug user before relinquishing a middle-age life of depression-induced bohemia. But, frankly, an eternally young 65 too, ever the rascal and rogue and shock artist still cutting a flamboyant swath through the often stuffy environments of both the skating and fine art worlds.
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Photo gallery from Toller Cranston's career
Some thought his skating too foppish and his paintings too fanciful. But Cranston always cut his own edges, heedless of critics and coaches.
Two years ago, when the world championships were held in London, Ont., he showed up to meet the governor general wearing a humongous red velvet sombrero. That didn't hold a feather to some of the costumes he devised for himself over a competitive skating and ice-show career that extended for three decades before Cranston finally hung up his skates at age 50, professing to have grown increasingly bored with the jump-obsessed sport he'd converted aesthetically.
"He made artistic skating acceptable for men," said former pairs champion and current TV commentator Debbi Wilkes, recalling the young man with whom she trained in a now long-gone Toronto club rink, where even in his teens Cranston emerged as an eccentric on blades. "He was a crazy person but absolutely mesmerizing, an artistic genius even then."
She remembers standing along the boards one day with Cranston and he had tears in his eyes. "Nobody understands," he told her. "I have these ideas, things I want to do. But everyone laughs …"
His was the era of John Curry and Robin Cousins, at least at the tail-end of his judged performances in the mid-'70s. Ahead of them, though, came Cranston, experimentally outrageous, loosening the stays on a buttoned-up sport then dominated by Iron Curtain countries, classical style and men in monkey suits.
Cranston skated in romantic blousons with balloon sleeves and tie-dyed patterns.
He invented new spins, placing his hands on parts of the body which had never before been touched on a sheet of ice. He used his entire body to express the music, which was as important to him as the skating elements of jumps and spins and footwork.
"Theatre on ice," he often called it.
Sometimes he actually lay down on the ice. More typically, what identified his skating — the signature avant garde movements — were the angular bent-leg positions, running toe steps and high kicks.
He skated with abandon and emotion, over-the-top, baroque yet modern. Really, it's almost impossible to thumbnail classify the Toller genre.
An effete man, which is not a reference to his sexuality. Cranston wrote in his biography that he'd had affairs with men (including three-time Czech world champion and Olympic gold medallist Ondrej Nepela, for years Cranston's competitive nemesis) and women.
A man with unabashed extravagance of character, certainly.
Brian Orser, in Kingston with his protégé — and new Canadian title holder — Nam Nguyen, heard the sad news midafternoon as it surfaced on social media. (A minute of silence was held at the K-Rock Centre in remembrance for Cranston before the evening competitions.)
"Ironic it's on the day of the men's free program at Canadians, where he was so important to these championships, someone who changed the sports for everybody," said Orser, himself a former world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
"I watched him as a kid, tried to be like him in my living room. Then I had the great honour of touring with him for, gosh, probably about 10 years on and off. I listened to a lot of Toller stories while we were on tour buses."
Tollerisms, Orser calls them, the oft-repeated Cranston anecdotes shared with fellow-skaters.
"He'd sit and have his two hands on his cup of coffee and he'd always have food all down the front of his sweater, and he'd hold court. He'd tell stories about skaters from the past and tours and John Curry stories."
They didn't like each other, Curry and Cranston.
"He was one of a kind," Orser continued. "Nobody will ever be like him. Such a great contribution to figure skating but, for me personally, just his sense of humour and his outlook on life and free spirit and somewhat of a rebel. Always spoke his mind, wasn't always so accurate but he spoke his mind."
One of four children born in Hamilton, unhappy within his family — eventually estranged from all of them — Cranston first put on skates at age 6, though his mother, also an artist, was not so keen on figure skating as a pursuit for her son. The grown-up Cranston would later describe his youthful self as "less a rebel than an outcast."
Self-supporting by 16, art student in Montreal, endlessly enigmatic and impossible to pigeonhole as this or that or the other. But he rocked the skating world once his talents were harnessed at the Toronto Cricket Skating & Curling Club under the tutelage of the formidable Ellen Burka.
Nobody had ever seen a skater like this, a genuine expressionist on ice. He should have been a world champion many times over but those were the days of compulsory figures — ditched in 1990 — which always forced him to play catch-up.
Still, at the Calgary Worlds in 1972, he vaulted from ninth to first in the free skate, fifth overall, and insisted to reporters he'd entirely "forgotten how to skate" in the final flight warm-up.
Never on a higher podium than bronze at either worlds or the two Olympics in which he competed — 1972 and 1976 — Cranston nevertheless repeatedly won the "small medal" — the free skate portion. What's often underestimated is that he was also a terrific athlete once Burka pounded him into shape and he could toss off the triples in combination.
He would continue to skate professionally until 1992 but it required a lot of therapy to come to terms with the emotional ravages of his childhood and the sheer otherness of just being Toller. He told an interviewer with the Waterloo Region Record about quitting drugs at age 43.
"All of a sudden, it caught up with me. I had a nasty bout with drugs … it froze me. I was unable to cope so I turned into a pillar of salt."
That was pure Toller hyperbole, always coming out with phrases that would stop you in your tracks.
He spoke about pouring out his angst to a psychiatrist. "She had to go running home with an ice pack on her head. I drained her."
At 50, the skating he stopped cold turkey too, and for a long time he couldn't bear to be around figure skaters anymore because he could no longer do that thing they did.
More and more Cranston turned to art. He was an artist before he was a figure skater, and for many years after he was a figure skater, getting up at dawn to paint, mostly at his home in Mexico — it functioned as a salon for artists and intellectuals — working for upwards of 10 hours a day.
He was prolific as a painter. "My paintings are exactly like my skating. Very me, good or bad. Very decorative, good or bad. And very unusual, good or bad."
He was game to try anything at least one, like the time he played a priest in a "stupid little television movie" who marries a couple at centre ice.
He was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.
"It sort of puts a period on the end of the sentence of a career that was exciting, erratic and disappointing in many ways," he said of the honour. "But somehow I got a stamp of approval at the end of, like, 30 years."
An Order of Canada, too, along the way and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. When that tribute was announced, Cranston observed drily: "The only real concern is whether I have time to get a facelift for the unveiling ceremony. People want you to be the way you were."
Skater, painter, scoundrel, iconoclast, bon vivant: the many ways he was Toller Cranston.
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How can man be justified by faith and not by faith?
The Order of Nations
Do Genesis 10 and 11 contradict each other about the origin of nations and people groups?
by Gary Vaterlaus on March 16, 2009
The charge has been made that there is a contradiction in Genesis 10–11 . The accusation is that if people had already spread around the world (as recorded in Genesis 10 ), fulfilling God's command, why was mankind judged with the confusion of languages as recorded in Genesis 11 ? This is actually an easy "contradiction" to clear up.
Genesis 10 , often called "the Table of Nations," traces the origins of nations and people groups as they dispersed around the world after the Flood. It is a historical narrative of the descendants of Noah's three sons. This chapter concludes with this statement:
These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the Flood" ( Genesis 10:32 ).
After the descendants of each of the sons of Noah are mentioned, the text says that they were dispersed "according to their families, according to their languages" (Genesis 10:5, 20, 31 ). So, if Noah and his sons all spoke the same language, where did all of these other languages come from? Genesis 11 gives us the answer.
These groups of people did not willingly and obediently separate to fill the earth. Rather, we learn in Genesis 11:1–9 why these families separated from each other and how it came to be that there were so many languages in the world.
There is no contradiction here; Moses merely put the effect before the cause. Genesis 10 gives an overview, and then Genesis 11 fills in the details. You often find the same technique in other history books. One chapter might contain an overview of World War I—along with a list of major events. But the very next chapter might detail what the world was like in the years before the war and what events led up to it.
There may also be another reason why the order of these two events is switched. Keith Krell explains:
The actual outworking of the genealogies of Genesis 10 occurs after the events at the Tower of Babel (cf. 11:1 with 10:5, 20, 31). This interspersal of narrative (11:1–9) separates the two genealogies of Shem (10:21–31; 11:10–26), paving the way for the particular linkage between the Terah (Abraham) clan and the Shemite lineage (11:27). The story of the tower also looks ahead by anticipating the role that Abram (12:1–3) will play in restoring the blessing to the dispersed nations. By placing the Tower of Babel incident just prior to the stories of Abram and his descendants, the biblical writer is suggesting, in the first place, that post-flood humanity is as wicked as pre-flood humanity. Rather than sending something as devastating as a flood to annihilate mankind, however, God now places His hope in a covenant with Abraham as a powerful solution to humanity's sinfulness. This problem ( Genesis 11 ) and solution ( Genesis 12 ) are brought into immediate juxtaposition, and the forcefulness of this structural move would have been lost had Genesis 10 intervened between the two.
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Not really dangerous, but for the people of Yushu, a traumatic experience. Yushu is only 50 km from this epicenter.
Yushu was devastatated on April 13 by a 6.9 Magnitude earthquake. More than 3000 people lost their life.
Aftershock 10 km northwest of Diamond Harbour. Very close to the city !
Far enough away from Alo to call this seaquake harmless.
Alo (also known unofficially as Tu`a or the Kingdom of Futuna) is one of three official chiefdoms of the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Dangerous shallow earthquake near a lot of villages. Click here for a detailed report.
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Roman Michajlovič Dmitrijev (, 7. března 1949 Bestjach, SSSR – 11. února 2010 Moskva, Rusko) byl sovětský zápasník, volnostylař.

Dvakrát startoval na olympijských hrách, v roce 1972 v Mnichově vybojoval zlatou, v roce 1976 v Montrealu stříbrnou medaili. Jednu zlatou, jednu stříbrnou a dvě bronzové medaile vybojoval na mistrovství světa. Jedenkrát vybojoval zlato a jedenkrát bronz na mistrovství Evropy. Šestkrát vybojoval titul Sovětského šampióna.

Po ukončení aktivní sportovní kariéry působil jako trenér sovětské reprezentace, později pak juniorské ruské reprezentace. Byl také činný na různých postech ruské federace zápasu. V roce 2008 byl zvolen do dumy republiky Sacha.

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