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Bureaucratic Mirroring

I was interviewed by someone this week who was desperate to find a conspiracy theory. There isn’t one. But she was frustrated. After the interview I described to her the theory of ‘Bureaucratic Mirroring’.

This is the institutional pathology that, even though rationally, people know it’s madness, they can’t escape the subconscious belief that their adversary has the same organisation and structures as they do.

Allegedly a feature of the Cold War, spoofed by Dr Strangelove, the Americans have also been accused of it post 9/11, gearing up for Al Qaeda as though Osama bin Laden had a situation room and Central Command in a bunker under Tora Bora. Bureaucratic Mirroring means you can’t imagine your enemy as other than yourself.

And this came up in conversation over lunch today. We all carry a world-view, a cultural frame of reference and our own personal form of ‘Bureaucratic Mirroring’, assuming others are as we are.

Cosmopolitanism says it ain’t so, we’re all different. Which means letting go of our prejudices and assumptions – as much of any of us can – is vital to escaping our own bunker.

Bayesian Ethics

As I’ve written before, one of my past wrestles is with Utilitarianism: that the moral act is the one with the best consequences regardless of what rules it breaks. I’m now firmly Aristotelian – aka a ‘virtue ethicist’ – we are what we repeatedly do.

But Anthony Appiah the Princeton Philosopher has some challenging things to say about virtue ethics in a Philosophy Bites podcast – including some experiments. And I’m inclined to listen. I like a bit of scientific method.

I like Appiah’s ‘Cosmopolitanism’ too which has helped me articulate my ‘live and let live’ theory of internationalism at work. Humans value culture. Different cultures value different things. And Cosmopolitanism says, short of harm, we should let them. Which I think is about right.

Appiah challenges virtue with ‘experimental ethics’ – seeing what people actually do, rather than what we theorise, and looking inside people’s heads in brain scanners. He finds, for example, nearly everyone gets more generous to strangers if they find a suitably planted $10 note on the floor.

His conclusion is that the idea of a ‘moral’ person in the Aristotelian sense is not borne out by the experimental reality. For him, we make moral choices based on context, stimulus and ‘in the moment’ not based on ‘character’. I don’t entirely agree, but it’s interesting stuff.

Learning to use the head to override the instinctive ‘yuk’ response or being over-influenced by the situation is one of the things he advocates. But only sparingly. Here’s where rules, norms and culture – plus a moral education – might help. But he’s not for becoming too calculating.

He disagrees with Utilitarianism for example. First, because it doesn’t capture the experimental reality of how we respond to moral situations. Second, because were to implement calculating ‘consequentialism’ wide-scale it would dramatically impoverish human existence. Largely because promoting purely rational calculation would tend to demote difference and different views.

Cultural Cosmopolitanism makes life interesting and liveable. And if you’re going to accept difference in culture you have to accept it in worldview and ethics too. That people care about different things is what makes people interesting – and maddening.

I personally think virtue and ‘outlying’ single instances of behaviour are not incompatible. I don’t doubt that you can get very good and very bad moral choices and behaviours out of me if you significantly change my conditions and stimuli.

I also think that the prospects of me making better or worse choices are determined, yes, by the context and circumstances – but crucially, combined with who I am. And who I am is the product of a life lived, previous choices made, data, concepts and theories within and Bayesian probability mashing all that together in a nano-second every time I act.

I think there is ‘virtue’ and I have a ‘character’. It’s just that the complexity of the probabilistic calculations – all done subconsciously by that marvel of existence, a human brain – mean Utilitarianism is too crude and individual ethical experiments are too simple to anything like capture them. I return to my own dictum – if the human brain were simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

So I like Appiah’s ethical experiments – they deserve a well signposted place in my Bayesian brain’s data set – and I’ve shared then with others too to influence them. But virtue, character and Aristotle’s ‘I am what I repeatedly do’ still work best for me. Thanks to Appiah though, I’m also a Cosmopolitan. So I’m delighted to weigh a well-wrought difference of opinion in the Bayesian ethical balance. It all goes in the mix.

If every person is valuable and every person is different, then trying to understand one another is both important and hard. Important because everyone’s point of view matters, hard because though we’re all wired the same, everyone’s inputs – in terms of experiences – are different. And not just our specific experiences, but also the collective norms or culture we absorb.

So I was surprised to read in the New Scientist that people like me are the oddballs internationally, not the norm. The acronym WEIRD, stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic, and being WEIRD certainly makes you odd by world standards.

Whilst I’m persuaded that the Ancient Greeks still have plenty to tell us on how to live our lives, you have to admit they are a bit off beam on facts and evidence sometimes. Aristotle is unmatched on ethics and a painstaking collector of evidence on nature to match Darwin. But some of his conclusions which blend observation and assumption on, for example, physiognomy don’t pass muster in this era of evidence based psychology. For example:

“He that hath but a little beard, is for the most part proud, pining, peevish and unsociable… Great and thick ears are a certain sign of a foolish person, or a bad memory and worse understanding. But small and thin ears show a person to be of a good wit, grave, sweet, thrifty, modest, resolute, of a good memory, and one willing to serve his friend.”

Having examined my ears thoroughly I’m going to forgive myself for developing some theories which experiment and evidence may subsequently prove wrong.

What interested me the most in the studies on WEIRDness was the finding that an ‘egocentric’, highly individualistic, analytic and reductionist worldview is unusual. Talking to a friend today, we concluded it probably started with the Greeks, via Ptolemy and the Enlightenment.

Much of the world is on the contrary holistic, collectivist and allocentric – i.e. orientates by reference to objects in the world instead of describing the world by reference to our place in it.

Much of this I’m sure is due to the removal of nature from our industrialised lives. But as I said to someone at work today, with India and China rising to global leadership, more of what makes the world turn in future won’t have WEIRDness driving it. Or will it?

last week, in the middle of an all-day management board full of metrics, deficits, claw backs and targets I popped out to talk to 59 fiercely bright teenagers from 59 different countries on a Global Citizenship programme.

As the bright faces from many places surged into the room, I was coming to terms with the fact that the projector was bust and my well crafted presentation on geopolitics and culture was in tatters. Ho hum. So I went for Plan B which was speak from the heart. I opened with the founding articles of UNESCO’s constitution from 1945:

“Since wars begin in the minds of men it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. Ignorance of each others ways and lives has been a common cause throughout the history of mankind of suspicion and mistrust [which] have all to often broken into war… And that the wide diffusion of culture and the education of humanity… are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all nations must fulfil in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern.”

As said to them, I am a firm believer in ‘founding moments’. It takes great people, but also special circumstances to commit to a different and better way.

I fielded questions about my organisation’s work in education and culture in India, Burma, Aghanistan, Kyrgistan, China and Iran. I talked about what other countries want from the UK and are prepared to work with us on, which varies widely according to the regime, religious beliefs and customs of different countries.

The last question though was a tricky one. “What values do you espouse when you work in other countries and how do you guard against cultural imperialism?” A year ago I’d have struggled with that.

I used to be torn between recognising that if you carry too much ideological baggage or confront cultural differences you get ignored or thrown out, but by the same token you have to stand for something otherwise you feel compromised and weak. I felt that Human Rights were probably where you draw the line, but beyond that I wasn’t sure.

Then I heard Antony Appiah on a Philosophy Bites podcast talking about Cosmopolitanism and it gave me the missing piece in my jigsaw. To paraphrase Wikipedia:

Appiah says Cosmopolitanism is “universality plus difference”, accepting that all of us are fundamentally the same, but we are also all different. He says universality takes precedence over difference and therefore that different cultures are respected “not because cultures matter in themselves, but because people matter, and culture matters to people.” Therefore cultural differences are to be respected in so far as they are not harmful to people and do not conflict with our universal concern for every human’s life and well-being.

When I heard that podcast, some key things slotted into place for me.

So as I said to the 59 young future Global Citizens, I now believe our people should travel light when it comes to values and be interested and curious about difference – even difference we don’t find attractive or acceptable. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be stitched into the lining of our jackets, not printed on our tee shirts.

If one of our people finds themselves in a situation where they feel their human rights, or those of another, are being compromised they should feel able to leave. They should be confident the organisation would support them in that. But we are here to engage with difference not shy away from it, we should feel able to say what we each believe and how things are where we come from, but we are not there to singlehandedly confront and change the beliefs of others to be more like ours.

My daughter and I regularly read “We are all born free”, Amnesty International’s super children’s version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She chooses it these days not me.

The 30 Articles, simply put, unarguable, complete and evocatively illustrated. A six year old can largely understand them. And a 42 year old can feel pride in humanity’s occasional capacity to transcend its divisions and write and commit itself to something of lasting value.

I think Cosmopolitanism, with the protection of Human Rights as a floor, is the right answer to a world of cultural difference.

The Fridge Door

I read a top neuroscientist’s suggestion last night that our capacity to understand how the human brain works may ultimately be limited by the capacity of our nervous system. This reminds me of a thought I had when studying philosophy of mind at Oxford: if our brain was simple enough to understand we’d probably be too simple to understand it.

One thing I do believe is that the brain is probabilistic and Bayesian. So I was interested to read what Dorothy Rowe, an Australian psychologist had to say about it in a recent article in the New Scientist:

Over the last 20 years or so, neuroscientists have shown that our brain functions in such a way that we cannot see “reality” directly. All we can ever know are the guesses or interpretations our mind creates about what is going on. To create these guesses, we can only draw on basic human neuroanatomy and on our past experience. Since no two people ever have exactly the same neuroanatomy or experience, no two people ever interpret anything in exactly the same way.

I’m increasingly sure this is right and is part of our everyday experience. But as the world becomes more cosmopolitan, we are more and more likely to encounter people with very similar neuroanatomy, but incredibly different experiences. I’ve read before that humans are very poor judges both of probability and coincidence. When we bump into someone we work with on holiday or a friend we’ve not seen in years in an airport we assume fate, a guiding hand or incredible coincidence.

On holidays this year I bumped into a person from work at a village festival in France, the former Chairman of my organisation on a cliff in Devon and crossed within 6 feet of UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, each of us barefoot in shorts on a beach in Cornwall. Incredible. But in fact not. Our brains are tuned for the humdrum of a hamlet, village, smallholding or savanna plain not the incredibly interconnected world of 21st century media, Facebook friends, social networks and ubiquitous travel.

Even if we are from the same physical place, we live on tremendously varied diets of interests, TV and work. The massing moments of the 19th and 20th century: factory gates, church, football, movies and network TV, which gave many people common experiences and outlooks, are no more. What chance then you’ll spontaneously see things the same way as the next man or women at work – almost none.

As Dorothy Rowe writes: This is frightening. It means that each of us lives alone, in our own world of meaning. Moreover, if everything we know is a guess, an approximation, events can, and often will, invalidate our ideas.

I have seen a number of very experienced senior people apply for fewer jobs than there are of them this week. I have spoken at length to several of them. Although trying to hide it, each was frightened, alone and in their own world of meaning. They knew to some degree that future events can and probably will invalidate their ideas of themselves, but each of them was to some extent caught in a solipsistic, self-referencing nightmare of wanting to be in control of their destiny and feeling utterly powerless in the face of their perceptions of the views others held of them – the deciders, their peers, their loved ones, the court of organisational opinion.

As new age writer Don Miguel Ruiz writes: “All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that”. Or as the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus said “it is not things in themselves that trouble us, but our opinions of things”.

So: we cannot see reality directly, we are poor judges of probability and coincidence and we are always guessing at what is happening based on snatched perceptions and an experience set which is always different – and sometimes very different – from those we find ourselves working with. As a result we are perpetually making self-limiting assumptions and taking things personally. Thus we are often alone, fearful and perturbed.

Stoicism is one answer. Endure, expect little and shrug off life’s indignities. Being a hermit is another. But if I seek the fulfilment of a public life of Aristotelian virtue – lit by bright flashes of ‘doing the right thing’ with the courage of Achilles – neither of those is enough.

Given the wrapper of how people ‘interpret’ things is all important, this week I’ve tried several times to remember the advice of a friend I spoke to a couple of weeks ago. He has an autistic, teenage stepson. Tricky. He sometimes tries to correct his behaviour and gets a lively reaction. His wife though has a way which works. Instead of saying “you left the fridge door open” she simply says “the fridge door is open”. Nine times out of ten it gets closed without any drama.

Simply saying how things are or how I see them has worked better for me in a very emotionally charged week than assuming, cajoling, second-guessing or taking things too personally.

Simply saying “the fridge door is open” gets it closed more often than not.


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The State of the Union

If you aren’t seated you probably should go ahead and sit down.

Okay, are you sitting down?

Tonight, the President is going to obey the constitution(!). He will give his state of the union speech to Congress, and through the FCC, all of America. Or at least those Americans who care or are too lazy to change the channel. Alex Pareene, writing on Gawker, has a great editorial on presidential speeches. I’ve copied and pasted it here in its entirety but please feel free to click this sentence to return to the original source.

The State of the Union Is Dumb Hacks Writing Garbage Speeches

“Six years into the Obama presidency, I thought we’d finally run out of hotshot administration bros the political press could glowingly profile in exchange for future access to meaningless scooplets. I was wrong.

Yesterday, The New York Times introduced us to Cody “Hemingway” Keenan. The president has given him the nickname “Hemingway,” not because he is an overrated drunk— though he may indeed be that—but because he writes and has a beard. Unlike Hemingway, who wrote novels and stories that people still revere decades after his death, Keenan writes speeches that the president delivers and that everyone promptly forgets, because modern political speeches are disposable garbage. Judging by this profile, though, no one seems to have explained that distinction to Keenan, his friends, or Times reporter Michael Schmidt.

Keenan is presented as a classic hardboiled writers’ writer type. He drinks Scotch, like a man might do! He stares at a blank page, because writing is a difficult, solitary business. The words just won’t come! But also sometimes he stays up until 5 a.m. hashing out speeches with his other writer friend, because the only thing more writerly than writing is writing with another writer. They drink Scotch. They write, writingly. They are The Single-malt Scotch Bastards of the White House.

On Tuesday, Mr. Obama will deliver his next-to-last State of the Union address from a text written, rewritten, revised and sweated over by Mr. Keenan. In all the policy pronouncements about tax increases on the rich and tax cuts for the middle class, Mr. Obama’s remarks are certain to address the struggles of ordinary Americans in some of the gritty, Everyman prose that has become Mr. Keenan’s trademark.

Ah, who can forget all those examples of President Obama delivering the “gritty, Everyman prose that has become Mr. Keenan’s trademark.” The president sounds like a regular Hank Chinaski these days, haven’t you noticed?

“He reminds me of some of the folks I grew up with in the old days in Chicago journalism — those hard-bitten, big-hearted, passionate writers who brought the stories of people to life,” said David Axelrod, a longtime adviser to Mr. Obama and a former newspaper reporter.

Axelrod, in the spirit of political communication, is using words to advance not a set of facts but an impression. I have no reason to doubt the size of Keenan’s heart, or the force of his passion, but the Times helpfully provides a capsule biography on how “hard bitten” he is:

In fact, Mr. Keenan, born in Chicago, went to high school in the wealthy town of Ridgefield, Conn., in Fairfield County, where he threw more interceptions than touchdowns, voraciously read spy novels and was president of the student body. He graduated from Northwestern University, and rolled into Washington at the age of 21 with just a fraternity brother’s couch to crash on and a cocky attitude.

Right, yes, he is exactly what he appears to be: Another of the legion of frat boys who go to DC after college to begin careers in politics. If he in any way reminds you of an old-timey hardscrabble Chicago newspaperman, you have been in politics far too long, or you are blind and illiterate.

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents. Aaron Sorkin should be shot into space for perpetuating this bullshit fantasy that still enamors hacks like Cody Keenan. Writing a 6,000-word presidential speech is a process that bears only a mechanical resemblance to writing 6,000 words meant to be read and appreciated by normal humans. Some political speechwriters may also happen to be good writers, but they would have to achieve success in a field other than political speechwriting to prove it. (Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, for example, is funny on Twitter and a good political columnist.Neither of those things were evident in his work as a speechwriter.)

I am not arguing that any untrained schmo off the street could write a State of the Union address. Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master. It is not, however, a literary endeavor. It is marketing, and not even particularly imaginative marketing. Advertising people who call themselves “creatives” do more actual creative work than political speechwriters. Do the people who write statements of risk for pharmaceutical ads walk around swishing single malt in tumblers and comparing themselves to The Lost Generation? (Well, they probably do, but they are wrong.)

Political speechwriting is an exercise in the proper arrangement of cliches and platitudes, with a bit of “messaging” of policy ideas to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Speeches like the one the president will deliver tonight are designed to deliver pleasant inanities (The State of the Union is Strong) and sell certain carefully audience-tested proposals as vaguely (or misleadingly) as possible. The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Here, for example, is some of Keenan’s hard-bitten, muscular prose, from a previous State of the Union address:

“Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades,” Mr. Obama said in the opening lines of last year’s State of the Union address, written by Mr. Keenan.

The president went on: “A farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history. A rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford. A man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone-tired but dreaming big dreams for his son.”

That is boilerplate State of the Union rhetoric. Do you know what it doesn’t sound like? Good prose by a good author. Peggy Noonan could down two bottles of white wine and crank this kind of shit out in ten minutes before passing out. Paul Harvey would’ve been embarrassed to read this on the radio. It’s a storyboarding session for a TV commercial. If you actually imagine those images, the first thing that comes to mind is a soothing voice rapidly reading pharmaceutical contraindications.

Because Barack Obama is himself actually a decent writer, and because he is a good orator who has delivered some memorable speeches, his speechwriters have been showered with attention since before he was even elected president. Jon Favreau got a similar Times profile during the 2008 campaign, one of the first of a flood that would be written about him until he left the White House for the more lucrative fields of consulting, speaking, and screenwriting.

It’s not even limited to the Obama bros. John McCain had his own ersatz Hemingway in longtime aide Mark Salter—who at least ghostwrote McCain’s books, something that more closely resembles literary writing than preparing campaign speeches or Senate addresses. Salter was the recipient of numerous profiles during the 2008 campaign. (“Salter, 53, comes by his love of grit and combat honestly.”)

It probably all dates back to the cult of Kennedy, and JFK’s partnership with Ted Sorensen. But political rhetoric has inarguably declined in literary quality since the 1960s about as much as it had already declined, by then, since the 18th and 19th centuries. No one currently involved in speechwriting is ever going to craft a Lincoln’s Second Inaugural or a Washington’s Farewell Address, because speeches of that nature are not considered effective political communication in the 21st century. Modern speechwriters are certainly not doing anything comparable to writing deathless fiction about the realities of the American experience, because it would be weird if a politician delivered stark observations on the human condition instead of trying to make himself appear more acceptable than his political opponents to people who pay attention to presidential speeches once a year.

Tonight’s State of the Union might be an effective speech, but it definitely won’t be a good one.”  ~ Alex Pareene

Weekly Round-Up 10/6-10/10

What social demographic might make a state more charitable? Church attendance.

If you enjoy dystopia fiction, then you might enjoy an article about a hiker finding a 100 year old abandoned town.

ISIS moves to the Turkish border. “Air strikes are not enough” says the Turkish president.

Biden said something he probably shouldn’t have said–again. Is that news worthy? Who knows.

This is a fascinating piece on an all-Afrikaaner village in South Africa. As a student of the Boers; I especially enjoyed this.

I admire Lecrae to no end. Read this interview with him and see why.

Embedded in the Lecrae article was a link to a profile of mewithoutyou. One of my all time favorite bands so I had to read it and share it.

The Columbus Metropolitan Library is an awesome library–I miss it. Nice to see it getting a feature in the Atlantic.

Mrs. Wine and I have started requesting that people purchase “experiences” for our children instead of possessions. Nice to see science backing us up!

What if I told you that NASA is looking into putting people into some sort of thermal stasis for deep space transport?

It looks like Vice is doing another series on ISIS. I’m sure it is worth the time it takes to watch it.

Our president continually seems to be compared to former president Reagan, but I think Nixon is a much more accurate comparison.

This is probably one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Read it and consider: is parenting the new religion in America?

I’m really enjoying discovering new bands through my Pandora channel. This music video is probably one of my favorites of recent years. It does a great job of visually conveying the message of the song.

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Monday, October 2nd, 2017

Web Components: The Long Game – Infrequently Noted

One of the things we’d hoped to enable via Web Components was a return to ctrl-r web development. At some level of complexity and scale we all need tools to help cope with code size, application structure, and more. But the tender, loving maintainance of babel and webpack and NPM configurations that represents a huge part of “front end development” today seems…punitive. None of this should be necessary when developing one (or a few) components and composing things shouldn’t be this hard. The sophistication of the tools needs to get back to being proportional with the complexity of the problem at hand.

I completely agree with Alex here. But that’s also why I was surprised and disheartened when I linked to Monica’s excellent introduction to web components that a package manager seemed to be a minimum requirement.


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Saturday, February 24th, 2018

The Future Will Have to Wait — Blog of the Long Now

As installation begins, it feels like a good time to revisit this twelve year old essay by Michael Chabon on The Clock Of The Long Now. It’s a remarkable piece of writing about our relationship to the very idea of The Future, and how that relationship has changed in just one lifetime.

Ten thousand years from now: can you imagine that day? Okay, but do you? Do you believe “the Future” is going to happen? If the Clock works the way that it’s supposed to do—if it lasts—do you believe there will be a human being around to witness, let alone mourn its passing, to appreciate its accomplishment, its faithfulness, its immense antiquity? What about five thousand years from now, or even five hundred? Can you extend the horizon of your expectations for our world, for our complex of civilizations and cultures, beyond the lifetime of your own children, of the next two or three generations? Can you even imagine the survival of the world beyond the present presidential administration?

Friday, September 29th, 2017

Trees of deep time are a portal to the past – and the future | Aeon Essays

From the library of Alexandria to the imagined canals of mars to the spots on the sun, this is a beautifully written examination of the chronology contained within the bristlecone pine.

The oldest of the living bristlecones were just saplings when the pyramids were raised. The most ancient, called Methuselah, is estimated to be more than 4,800 years old; with luck, it will soon enter its sixth millennium as a living, reproducing organism. Because we conceive of time in terms of experience, a life spanning millennia can seem alien or even eternal to the human mind. It is hard to grasp what it would be like to see hundreds of generations flow out from under you in the stream of time, hard to imagine how rich and varied the mind might become if seasoned by five thousand years of experience and culture.

There is only the briefest passing mention of the sad story of Don Currey.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

Friday, March 17th, 2017

The Ray Cat Solution

A website dedicated to one of the most, um, interesting solutions to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage problem:

  1. Engineer cats that change colour in response to radiation.
  2. Create the culture/legend/history that if your cat changes colour, you should move some place else.

There are T-shirts!

Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

PDF: Designing For Deep Time: How Art History Is Used To Mark Nuclear Waste

Kelli Anderson’s thesis on the Human Interference Task Force project set up to mark nuclear waste sites for future generations (a project I’ve referenced in some of my talks).

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

Deep Time : A History of the Earth

This infographic offers a visual way to explore the various stages of the Earth’s history using a 12 hour clock analogy.


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Westgate Shopping Mall (Nairobi) still under the siege of terrorists !

“A series of loud explosions and heavy gunfire was heard at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall today as black smoke billowed from the complex, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. The mall has been under siege by Al Qaeda-linked Somali gunmen since Saturday, Sept 21, 2013. As the stand-off entered its third day, sustained bursts of rapid gunfire broke out at dawn, and soldiers posted around the complex ducked for cover. This was followed by three big explosions and more sporadic weapons fire, AFP correspondents at the scene said. The Kenyan army said it had secured most of the upmarket, part Israeli-owned complex, while a security source said a final assault was underway against the Al Qaeda-linked Somali Al-Shabab rebels, believed to be pinned down in a part of the mall are using hostages as human shields.

In an address to the nation on Sunday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed ‘the attackers will not get away with their despicable and beastly acts. We will punish the masterminds swiftly, and indeed very painfully,’ revealing that his family member – a nephew and his fiancee – were among the dead.” ( Source: Hindustan Times, Dt Sept 23, 2013)

Photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, Staff photographer of New York Times- ‘Witness to a Massacre in a Nairobi Mall’

This appears to be same modes operation adopted – as it happened at the Taj Hotel during Mumbai 26/11 attack in the year 2008. Sad to note, the terrorists gain knowledge from high-tech televised terror attacks that are being broadcast by the media across the world. But, I can understand that .. the Media is just doing their job well. That’s about it. The only option or a seemingly viable solution is to escalate the efficiency levels of the Intelligence bureau in the vulnerable cities/ countries, so that pro-active steps are taken by the respective governments, to stop such human massacre. Though, I agree, it is easier said than actually done !

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I am a Management consultant, an avid reader, play Lawn tennis in my leisure time and love Music. Presently, I am settled in India along with my wife and my son.

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Foreign Secretary Gokhale Calls on Beijing

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday. Image Credit: @EOIBeijing via Twitter

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Friday made the first stand-alone visit by a top Indian diplomat to Beijing since the Doklam standoff.

Gokhale met vice-foreign minister Kong Xuanyou. He also called on foreign minister Wang Yi, and China’s senior most diplomat Yang Jiechi.

Gokhale, a 1981 batch officer, is a fluent Mandarin speaker, and was India’s ambassador to China until October. In his capacity as ambassador, he was part of the efforts to de-escalate the 72-day Doklam standoff along with national security advisor Ajit Doval.

The Indian Express reported that Gokhale’s brief ‘was to lay the ground for normalising India-China ties, which have been strained recently, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s likely visit to Qingdao in China in June this year for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit.’

Gokhale’s parleys may have had one immediate effect. On Friday, China ceased to block the placement of Pakistan on the so-called ‘grey listing’ of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Paris-based international body set up to crack down on money laundering, including terrorist financing. The ‘grey listing’ could have some negative impact on Pakistan. As an apparent quid pro quo, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Raveesh Kumar, welcomed China’s election as vice president of the FATF. ‘We remain hopeful that China would uphold & support the objectives & standards of FATF in a balanced, objective, impartial & holistic way,’ he tweeted.

Despite the apparent success on the FATF, several manifestations of the India-China rivalry remain evident. Most recently, the two countries have clashed over the Maldives. India has refused to participate in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and stridently opposes its flagship project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). In 2016, China blocked India’s bid to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and continues to block the UN ban on Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar. Managing India-China competition will remain an ongoing challenge.

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Questions and answers most commonly asked by students.

Q. What sets the Academy apart from other institutions?
A.  A unique feature of our courses is that we combine knowledge of the subject matter with practical tasks (set tasks, found at the end of each lesson).  So you get to do practical components in each lesson. The benefits of this approach are immense: - your skills and knowledge are developed to a much higher level not normally found at other distance learning institutions.

Q. How do the practical exercises (set tasks) work?
A. The practical component of each lesson can be in the form of : Field Research, Networking and Analysis, Conducting Surveys, Growing, Collecting, Photographing and Processes.

Q. If I do a shorter course first, can I get credits towards a certificate or diploma later?
A. Yes. We will assess previous studies to give you appropriate credits.

Q. Can I pay by instalments?
A. Yes, you can view all available payment options here.

Q. Do I get a discount if two of us enrol together?
A. You may claim a 5% discount on fees if you both enrol in courses at the same time.

Q. Do I get a discount if I enrol in a second course?
A. Yes, you may claim a 5% fee discount when you enrol in a second course. (Note: This does not apply however to the second stage or part of the same certificate or diploma.)

Q. What happens if I have to stop studying for a while? (eg. become sick, go on holidays, have a baby)
A. It's OK to take a break and start up your study at a later point in time. Just let us know.

Q. Do I need any text books?
A.  You do not have to buy text books for our courses since each module has been written  by highly qualified tutors and writers, and our  courses are updated on a regular basis, adding new information, methods and knowledge.  You are supplied with all "essential" references. Extra books are always useful though, especially for special projects. Tutors will advise you what to buy if you decide you would like to have extra reading material , but it is not essential. Check out our eBookstore if you're looking for a starting point.

Q. Is there an age limit?
A. There is no maximum age limit. We do however; have a minimum age limit of 18 years. Below that age parental consent would be required.

Q. Are there any hidden costs?
A. There are no hidden extras - the tuition fee covers all course material, unlimited tutor support, assignment marking/feedback and any text books where specified and exams. The only extras are for the public examinations fees for the ICB Bookkeeping course and the RHS (Royal Horticulture Society) exams.

Q. Are your courses up-to date?
A. Our courses are continually updated. The course content is rapidly updated and improved without the red tape and bureaucracy experienced at other educational institutions.

Q. Do you have a Refund policy?
A. We have a refund policy that is fair and equitable. For further details please click here.

Q. What Recognition do you have?
A.The Academy for Distance Learning is recognised by ASIQUAL (our validating body) as well as the International Accreditation and Recognition Council (IARC).  We also have various forms of industry recognition including the ICB (Institute of Certified Bookkeepers) and the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) and many more. Our graduates come from many parts of the world and have used our qualifications for successful employment and progression onto higher education. To view our full list  of recognition and memberships please click here

Q. Will I have any opportunity to engage with other students?
A. We have a Student Community group based on facebook! If you don't have a facebook account already, you could make one just for talking with fellow students on the group.

Q. Why should I enrol with the Academy for Distance Learning?
A. Here at the Academy our students are our priority - we treat every student as a unique individual. This philosophy allows us to nurture those who are “slow and steady” learners rather than letting them fall through the cracks, while catering for those who are in a hurry to complete.

Q. When can I enrol/start?
A. You may enrol and start at any time of the year – it’s all self- paced.

Q. Can I study from anywhere in the world?
A. Our courses are available to any one, anywhere in the world from the comfort of your own home. The course content is relevant to any country, culture or economy.

Q. How long do I have to complete the course?
A. You complete the course at any time that is convenient to you. You’re under no pressure to finish by a certain deadline.

Q. Completing the course- how long will it take?
A. Completion of  modules varies from student to student.  Many factors come into play  such as work commitments and family life- there are always distractions.  Some students work quicker than others.  For a 100 hour module many students will take up to 3- 6 months,  others take less time and some are even longer. It's all up to you.  There is no pressure to complete or deadline to finish. Naturally, longer courses will take more time.

Q. What learning formats are there?
A.  Your enrollment comes with the Online Classroom study option by default. For a small additional cost you also have the options of USB or Correspondence.
USB: Your your course is sent to you on a USB stick, so that you can carry it in your pocket. Ideal for those with unreliable internet connections. This option is an additional £5/module

Correspondence:  The course is sent to you in bound paper form.

Q. Assessment - how does it work?
A. For each 100 hour module you are assessed by assignments (at the end of each lesson) and a final one and a half hour exam (or you may elect to complete a project instead of sitting the exam) - the choice is yours – you sit for the exam in your own location, or you can visit us in Canterbury, England to sit the exam if want to.  Exam fees are included in the tuition fee you paid. You can read more about the examination process here. At the end of each lesson there is an assignment. You submit it to the academy who then submits it to the tutor for marking, comments and feed back. Our policy is to have a grade for you within 5 to 7 days.

Q. If my assignment is not up to standard is there an opportunity to resubmit my work?
A. Yes - If you’re not happy with your work submitted you may re-submit the assignment again.

Q. How many assignments do I need to complete for each module?
A. At the end of each lesson there is an assignment - so if a course has say, 10 lessons there would be 10 assignments. The number of lessons per module varies from module to module. See the course content from our website for further details.

Q. When do I have to hand in my first assignment?
A. There is no deadline for handing in the first assignment. Submit when you are ready. There are some students who hand in assignments within the first couple of weeks of enrolment – while there are others who submit their work 6 months later. It’s all at your own convenience to suit you. Everyone has different work and home commitments and we cater for these needs.

Q. I am having difficulty attending workshops/industry meetings, what can be done?
A. If your course requires attendance at workshops, conferences or industry meetings; alternative arrangements can be made in your country; however there may be an additional expense. We can appoint an appropriately qualified person anywhere to work through curriculum documentation supplied by us, to satisfy the requirements set down in a course.

Q. What qualification will I receive?
A. For individual modules you would receive a Certificate (providing you complete all assignments and the exam). If you just want to complete the assignments only, then a Letter of Achievement would be awarded. For more details on qualifications awarded please click here

Q. Is there a next level to progress to?
A. Yes – you can progress from one module to a combination of many modules and to higher qualifications i.e. Advanced Certificates, Diplomas and Higher Advanced Diplomas. Read more about course levels here.

Q. Can I customize my diploma/higher qualification?
A. Not all educational institutions certificates /diplomas meet everyone’s needs. The opportunity to design your own diploma at the Academy (subject to our approval) is an added bonus, not found at other colleges. It’s a very popular option and widely used by many students. You quite simply choose the appropriate number of related modules needed to complete the qualification and submit them to us for approval as a custom diploma.

Q.  What do I get when I complete the course? Will I receive a transcript?
A. At the completion of a 100 hour Certificate course and providing all assignments and exam have been completed, you will receive a Certificate and Transcript.  The Transcript will list your GPA.  Each 100 hour module is worth 3 credit hours.

Q. Do I have to sit for an exam?
A. Exams are optional but need to be undertaken in order to receive the Certificate or higher qualification.  Exams are one and a half hours long. You appoint an adjudicator (subject to our approval) to supervise the exam. You sit for the exam in your own location. Its that simple.

Q. I don’t cope well with exams – what can I do?
A. If you feel you don't  cope well with exams you may elect to undertake a Project (set by the tutor) instead of sitting the exam.  Many students prefer this option as they find researching the material for the project sharpens their research skills.

Q. If I don’t sit for the Exam do I still get a qualification?
A. If you don't sit for the exam but complete the project alternative, you will still receive your endorsed qualification. If you don't sit for an exam or complete a final project, providing you have completed all the assignments you will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement.

Q. Do I have to sit for the exam at the Academy?
A. No – whilst you are more than welcome to come to our location in Canterbury, U.K. and sit the exam in our classroom; the more popular option is to sit for the exam in your own location. You appoint an adjudicator to supervise the exam. Click here for more information on that process.

Q. Are there any exam fees?
A. There are no exam fees.  However, for some public examinations such as the ICB (Bookkeeping) and RHS courses exam fees do apply.  See course content for details.

Q. Our tutors - who are they?
A.  We only employ tutors who have are currently active in their industry with at least 5 years of real-world experience.  Not only are they highly qualified but also experienced, knowledgeable and professional- experts in their chosen fields from all parts of the world.

Q. Can I contact my tutor at any time?
A. Yes- you have unlimited access to tutors. We strongly encourage students to develop dialogue with their tutor. This is why we encourage students to submit their first assignment fairly quickly at the beginning of the course.
Every Academy student is assigned a tutor who supports you throughout your course and beyond. Your tutor is there to guide and facilitate your learning and provides as much or as little individual contact as you would like. When you submit your coursework the tutor will give you feedback that helps you develop your ideas and provides motivation. For those who do like to have interaction with other students, the ADL discussion forum connects you to students from all over the world.

Q. How do I contact my tutor?
A. You have direct contact with your tutor by email through the Online Classroom. Alternatively, you can write, fax, email or phone the academy. Leave a message if your tutor isn't available and they will phone, write or fax back; whatever suits you.

Q. If I don’t agree with / like my tutor can I request a change?
A. Yes – we try to accommodate and meet student’s needs and a change of tutor may be arranged.

Q. If I don’t understand a question or a lesson may I contact the tutor?
A. You may contact a tutor as often as you like. There is no additional charge or restriction on this service.  Contact can be made via the Student Zone, email or by phone.

Q. Practical work - How is this done?
A. To find out more about this part of the course please visit the section on How Our Courses Work here.

Disclaimer: Every attempt is made to ensure all information from the academy is accurate and that the student has attained the competencies taught in a course, at the point of their assessment. Beyond this point, the graduate is responsible to maintain their acquired competencies, and apply acquired knowledge and skills in a way which is appropriate to the unique characteristics of each application. This will release the academy from any liability, action and claims of whatsoever nature in connection with, or arising from any such information, instruction or advice, given by any student or ex-student, whether directions given during the course are followed or not.


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Take advantage of the many opportunities, both on- and off-campus, to meet with faculty, staff and students, and discover for yourself the wonderful atmosphere of learning and life that is Guelph.

Campus Tours: Campus tours run six days/week, excluding certain days throughout the year. Please check the tour schedule and book your tour!

Winter 2018

National Receptions: Out-of-province applicants and admitted students in selected cities across Canada are invited to attend an informal reception to learn more about living and learning at the University of Guelph. Registration is now live!

March Break Tours, March 12-16, 2018: Let our University of Guelph Student Ambassadors guide you on a 2-hour campus tour including residences, lecture halls, dining halls, athletic facilities, the library, and more! Meet with a University of Guelph Liaison Officer to have all your questions answered before or after your tour. Tours during the March Break will leave from Peter Clark Hall (basement of the University Centre). Additional parking is available in lot P13 at a flat rate of $5.00. Look for the campus tour signs and our Ambassadors in bright yellow shirts will guide you!

Spring 2018

Campus Day - Sunday, March 25, 2018: This full day open house is open to you and your family. You are invited to go on a campus tour, check out our residences, attend academic information sessions and chat one on one with current students, staff and faculty who are in the programs to which you've applied. To register, visit the event webpage

Interaction - April 25 & 26, 2018: A Conference for University-bound Grade 10 and 11 Students. Explore the University of Guelph community and learn more about our academic disciplines and student services. From The Life Aquatic - The Hagen Aqualab, Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes: An Experiment, War and Conflict: The Good and the Bad, or 3D Printing - More Than a Prototyping Tool, your choices are varied. Registration is required and includes a fee per student (includes lunch). Registration is now live!

Spring Academic Open Houses - May 14-17, 2018: Our Spring Academic Open Houses are full day, program-specific events for students who have received an offer of admission to the University of Guelph. Each day is specific to a degree program or grouping of programs and consists of program information sessions, sample lectures, career and co-operative education sessions, and tours of residences, the library, the Athletics Centre and more! Registration and schedules for each day will be provided in Spring 2018.

Fall 2018

Ontario Universities' Fair: The Ontario Universities' Fair is held in Toronto every Fall. Join the University of Guelph and Ontario's 20 other universities at this 3 day event at Toronto's Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The OUF gives you an opportunity to speak with representatives about programs, campus life, finances, and anything else that will help you in your decision of choosing a university. Detailed information will be available closer to September 2018 by visiting

Register for an OUF Passport

An easy and fast way to share your contact information with the universities that you're interested in. Save time and register in advance, so you can start looking at university booths as soon as you get to the fair!

  • Register online, with your name and email address.
  • Confirm your email address.
  • You will be sent a personalized OUF Passport with a barcode.
  • Bring your Passport to the OUF with you, on your smart phone or as a paper printout.
  • If you would like further information from a university at OUF, just scan your Passport at their booth. The university will then be able to contact you directly.

Visit to learn more and to register for your Passport in advance.

Fall Preview Day: Visit our campus, meet with faculty, staff and students and learn more about what Guelph has to offer. This full day program offers walking tours of campus, academic and student life displays, and information sessions on residence, co-operative education, admission and finance. To register, please check in October 2018.

Science and Engineering Sunday: Visit our campus, meet with students, staff and faculty from different areas of science and engineering at Guelph. The day includes a resource fair, many open labs and facilities, campus walking tours, and self-guided residence tours. Registration and event details will be available in October 2018.

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As a parent, you are typically the first one to be worried with many such questions; since, you are the one to notice any kind of unusual behavior, in your youngster! Studies have often confirmed you to be right about noticing, some kinds of developmental issues in your child, but to be more precise in your observation, it is always advisable to immediately consult your pediatrician to identify specific nature and/or degree of severity.

Autism spectrum disorder is an umbrella term, often used for range of disorders from mild to severe forms. ASD can be detected by the age of 3, however, as a parent, your keen observation can help your child to be assessed for ASD as early as 1 year or 18 months.

Autism or AutismSpectrum Disorders are observed to be common issues in pediatric groups than some other better-known diseases, like diabetes, spinal bifida, down syndrome etc. A recent statistical analysis has suggested that 3.4 of every 1000 kids, within the age group of 3-10 years have autism spectrum disorder; and if they have been treated early, they can be better helped through the conventional therapeutics. However, the survey has also supported with the initial dismissal of the early symptoms of autism and/or autism spectrum disorders.

In general, kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder are demonstrated to be:

  • Exhibiting repetitive behaviors and interests in the weird ways.
  • Deficit in the active social interactions.
  • Exhibiting some sorts of meltdowns over incidents that are part of daily life.
  • Responding very unusually to sensory experiences.
  • Lacking in verbal and nonverbal communications.

However, kids with autism spectrum disorder, never follow typical developmental pattern; in general, lack of communication and lowered social quotients are found to be noticeable in most of them. However, many other kids would start off in a great manner, but often at the age of 2.5 to 4 years, their unusual social reaction becomes very distinguished. As referred through other reported cases, the change is always sudden, with kids’ usual dismissal, loss of language, impaired social skills and unusual isolation from the community.

Some of the possible pointers of Autism Spectrum Disorders can be noted as:

  • No observation of any babbling, pointing and/or making meaningful gestures by 1 year of age.
  • Weak composition, language skill and social interaction skills.
  • Impaired hearing can be quite common.
  • Not interested in playing with toys.
  • Is attached with one particular toy and/or object.
  • Poor interactive gesture and eye contact.

Moreover, kids with high functioning autism or Asperger’s Syndrome are found to be slow learner and cannot interpret, what others are thinking or feeling about them; leaving them socially alone, due to their inability to decode other’s action.

Conventionally, treatments that are being offered to improve these weak points in children with ASD are only supportive; including medications to improve sleep, reduce inflammation, etc. They may often be given multivitamin supplements and gluten free diet to improve their digestive pattern. However, these treatments are found to be very supportive not altering the pathophysiology of the disease.

Scientists have investigated that Autism Spectrum disorder is a neurodegenerative condition, typically exhibited due to functional disturbances in the damaged neurons. This damage can either be genetic and/or environmentally forced at the time of birth. The science of regenerative medicine has found to have definitive solution for the said neuronal damage through stem cells therapy.

Through effective clinical outcome, it can be rightly proposed that stem cells therapy can be a tangible option for treating Autism.


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If I Die Tomorrow

If I die tomorrow
That’d be just fine
I never seem to catch a break
I’m just wasting time
I’m just a waste of time
And space
And opportunity
You wouldn’t miss me
“Reject”, “Loser”
“Pillhead”, “Home wrecker”
Yeah, if I die tomorrow, that’d be just fine
I’ll never have to break your heart again
-just one more time, maybe-
“How could you?” For the final time
Never become another regret
I’ll never lose another love
Nor gain a hand to hold
I’ll never fail another class
Never graduate
Nor see my children go to college
What children will there be?
If I die tomorrow
I’ll never find out
That I wasn’t just wasting time

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Sports Talk, Straight Talk

WTHWWT – Week 7 (Nathan)

I’m baaaack!!! After a fun filled weekend of sneaking in and out of a dorm, spending 3 months pay on my girlfriend, and scaring her five different times with the same clown mask (she is deathly afraid of clowns),  it’s back to reality and back to writing about those teams that disappointed me once again. The only reason these teams were picked was because Ray and I are trying to mix things up a little bit and to add some excitement for your viewing pleasure.

San Diego Padres vs. Buffalo Bills

Once again, the “Padres” disappointed me. I expected them to go into Buffalo and give them some sort of challenge. Buffalo coming off a bye week was well rested, and once again Trent Edwards was healthy. LaDanian Tomlinson needs to pick up his game or this team is going no where. San Diego should have given Buffalo a little more of a challenge, despite the fact they were probably looking forward to their long flight over the pond to play next week against New Orleans Saints, which leads me to my next disappointment

New Orleans Saints vs Carolina Panthers

Reggie Bush injured plus a dominant performance by Carolina’s Defense adds up to a blowout in Carolina. Like San Diego, the Saints were probably looking forward to the meancing trip across the pond to England for next week’s matchup. Reggie Bush (knee injury) will not travel with the team to England, meanwhile he will be visiting Dr. James Andrews for another look at his injured knee. I do not know about everyone else, but I have never heard a positive story come out of Dr. Andrews’ office. Could Reggie Bush’s season be over? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Baltimore Ravens vs Miami Dolphins

One simple phrase can sum up this game: Baltimore is here to play and they are not going away anytime this season. Joe Flacco is their starting quarterback for the rest of the season, and he has rightfully earned that starting spot. He has led his team to a great season, and Sunday was no different. Miami’s shaky defense floundered in a game where they had a chance, but could not withstand the Baltimore offense (Yes, that was a truthful statement). It’s good to see Baltimore back in action.

New York Jets vs Oakland Raiders

Congrats to the Raiders. They actually won a game. Yes, they needed extra time to win, but its still a 1 in the win column, which is a lot better than a 0 (Cincinnati and Detroit). Brett Favre threw an amazing block that started a Jets rally late in the fourth quarter but it wasn’t enough. Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 57 yard FG to clinch the game for the home-standing Raiders. Win number 1 for new Raiders coach Tom Cable. Hopefully, there is more to come.

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FEBRUARY 2018: The Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Summary. The White House is proposing an $8.8 billion cut representing a massive 18.3% reduction.  Contact your Congresspersons right now and tell them to oppose this proposal.

Wabash Crossing II

601 E Condit St
Decatur, Illinois

About Wabash Crossing II

Wabash Crossing II is a 175 unit affordable housing community in Decatur, Illinois. The community is located in the 13th Congressional District of Illinois.

Wabash Crossing II is owned and managed by the Decatur Housing Authority.

Decatur Housing Authority Public Housing Waiting List Status:

Public Housing

Since this property is owned and managed by a Public Housing Authority, all of the rents at this property are based on tenant incomes. Tenants will make a monthly contribution toward rent equal to 30% of their adjusted income. A housing authority may establish a minimum rent of up to $50.

Decatur HUD Rental Assistance Income Limits

AMI Band 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 Person 6 Person 7 Person 8 Person

Wabash Crossing II receives rental subsidies through HUD's Project Based Section 8 program for some or all of its apartments. Some units may be designated as market rate housing.

You can make up to 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) and be eligible for a Project Based Section 8 Program unit. Market rate units would have no subsidies or income restrictions.

Figuring out income and rent limits for affordable housing can be complex when more than one Federal program is involved. To know for sure if you qualify, you must contact the property directly. The amounts provided here should only be used as a basic guide.

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Passing of Carolyn M. Andrews

Carolyn M. Andrews, 54, native of Norlina, NC passed away on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Smithfield NC.

She resided in Raleigh, NC and began her employment as a teacher’s assistant with the Wake County Public School System at Fred A. Smith Elementary School, Garner NC. Mrs. Andrews provided selfless dedication to children and special education programs until her retirement.

The family will receive family and friends on Friday, April 18, 2008 form 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Home at 149 Holland Bland Rd, Warrenton, NC. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 19, 2008 at Burchette Chapel United Church of Christ in Manson NC with Rev. Charlie Leith officiating.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in memoriam to either the NC A. Philip Randolph Institute or the NC Alliance for Retired Americans.


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Hello WordPress, Goodbye Xanga

Hi everyone… this is my first new post on my wordpress blog. I’ve just switched from my old blog over at xanga and I’m starting to blog with wordpress, and I love it.

The reason I blog is I am fascinated by too many things that God put in my heart and my mind. Some of those are like intellectual puzzles. Others are things that break my heart. In any case, if I don’t get them out by writing them out, I would be consumed by enormous amounts of unprocessed thoughts. Worse is I am so bad at speaking and expressing myself verbally, so I have to have to have to write my thoughts out. I hope that in this process, my thoughts would somehow inspire you to develop my unfinished ideas and be of help to you or help you inspire others. As long as I can put some new ideas in people’s minds and they can make you a better person or help you in your walk of faith, it’ll put a smile on my face!

So stay tuned!

3 thoughts on “Hello WordPress, Goodbye Xanga

  1. Hello Tim, welcome on board!
    So happy to see you on the WP bandwagon =)

    It initially took me some time to get used to the posting mechanism, but now I like it so much because of the draft function. I also have many thoughts like you that I want to write about, and these days whenever I have an idea, I would just quickly jot it down in WP and save it as a draft, and wait until I have more free time to expand it. It’s a great way to capture thoughts =)

    Happy blogging!

  2. For me, Xanga is a bit “old”, but I dont have an urge to change the interface. By the way, nice to see your new blog ^^

  3. @Anson: thanks for the tip! I especially like the ability to add “local drafts” in the WordPress app on my iPod Touch so I could jot down ideas any time.

    @Tracy: thanks!

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AKB camera 1.0

1.00 GB
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Publisher Description

I think everyone is like you yourself in AKB?
Who do you resemble in AKB AKB just taken with this camera
I gotta tell easily? Which part contour, eyes, nose, mouth, atmosphere, and more comprehensive evaluation
I gotta know Where do resemble closely resemble?!
There is no doubt that you raised blind date, meeting women, drinking, such as year-end party!
Easy to use!
Please be captured by the camera my face ①.
Please save the images taken with the camera ②
Please save the cropped image size you like ③
You who turned out to be similar or ④ in AKB!
If you press the button to see more information ⑤, check the details on who you are similar in AKB
Cha can!
"Gallery" image was taken are stored in ⑥ (SD card).
Let me spread by e-mail or Twitter.

It is the only camera app joke.

Contact our Science of our Mariko / MUSIC STATION / Terrace House / School Suka / マジ Obi that he! / LOL / this brother Shindo / Department AKB / HaKaTa Weekly! TV / PON monkey Dollar / ネ mackerel / Dainippon Akan police! / / AKBINGO Tuesday song!

AKB camera is a free software application from the Other subcategory, part of the Games & Entertainment category. The app is currently available in English and it was last updated on 2012-10-25. The program can be installed on Android 2.2 and up.

AKB camera (version 1.0) has a file size of 1.00 GB and is available for download from our website. Just click the green Download button above to start. Until now the program was downloaded 3 times. We already checked that the download link to be safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus.

Program Details

Publisher fullandro
Released Date 2012-10-25
Languages English

Category Games & Entertainment
Subcategory Other

System requirements

Operating systems android

Download information

File size 1.00 GB
Total downloads 3

License model Free
Price N/A

Version History

Here you can find the changelog of AKB camera since it was posted on our website on 2013-08-22. The latest version is 1.0 and it was updated on soft112.com on 2018-03-15. See below the changes in each version:

version 1.0

posted on 2012-10-25

version 1.0

posted on 2012-10-25

Several fixes and updates

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Release Date: 2012-10-25
Publisher: fullandro
Operating System: android
Type: Free


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TOP 3 New Korean Dramas July 2015

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July brings us sweet romance and comedy with some of the most anticipated K-dramas, viewers should add to their watch list.

Oh My Ghost’ is a spiritual possession romantic comedy with a touching story, while  ‘The Time We Were Not In Love’ is about friendship and discovering love. On the other hand ‘Scholar Who Walks the Night’ grabs you with its mix of romance, vampires in imperial dynasty setting. Here are the best new K-dramas.

[NOTICE: After the dramas are completed I will rate the ones I have watched on scala 1/10]

Oh My Ghost (8.0/10)

Korean drama Oh My Ghost poster

A spiritual possession romantic comedy about a lustful virgin ghost Soon-ae who possesses a timid girl Bong-sun. To make up for the lack of romance in her short life, Soon-ae is determined to seduce as many men as she can. Bong-sun’s boss is arrogant star chef Kang Sun-woo, whom she secretly has a crush on, and he starts noticing her when she suddenty becomes bold and confident.

Cast: Park Bo Young, Jo Jung Suk, Kim Seul Gi, Im Joo Hwan

The Time We Were Not In Love (completed)

The Time I Loved You

Something that’s right in front of your eyes is sometimes the hardest for you to see. Oh Ha Na (Ha Ji Won) and Choi Won (Lee Jin Wook) have been lifelong friends. At her 30th birthday, Ha Na makes a bet with Won that she can get married first before they turn 35. Will Ha-na and Won be able to find their true loves or have they been blind to what’s been there all along?

Cast: Ha Ji Won, Lee Jin Wook, Yoon Kyun Sang, L

Scholar Who Walks the Night (completed)

Scholar Who Walks the Night poster

Set in a fictional imperial dynasty, the story centers around the young daughter of a nobleman who cross-dresses as a boy, and a handsome and mysterious vampire scholar. There is also an evil vampire, master puppeteer in the political arena, who will stop at nothing to prevent the Crown Prince from ascending the throne.

Cast: Lee Jun Ki, Lee Yoo Bi, Changmin, Kim So Eun, Lee Soo Hyuk

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…and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I missed my rain.   Throughout the early morning, Basil Valdez’ Tuwing Umuulan kept playing in my head.  In fact, I was singing it aloud at one point, prompting my dad to ask if I had a toothache or any other problem causing me to moan.  Haha, funny dad. :-s  I was still singing the song softly while I was walking in the rain.  I was sleepy, but in a kick-ass happy mood…that was briefly interrupted by that elevator incident (see previous post).

It has stopped raining now, but it’s still cloudy outside.  I love the city in this weather, but at the same time, it makes me itch to hop on a plane and head over to the Visayas or to any other place in the countryside.  Anyway, just a month to go and I’ll be seeing the shores of Capiz once more.


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