Daniel Boorstin calls places like American superhighways and the Istanbul Hilton “pseudo”, a hopeful appellation that suggests that they are insubstantial or transitory, which they are not.
It also suggests that somewhere in tourist settings there are real events accessible to intellectual elites, and perhaps there are.
I have argued that a more helpful way of approaching the same facts is in terms of a modification of Erving Goffman’s model of everyday life activities.
Specifically, I have suggested that for the study of tourist settings front and back be treated as ideal poles of a continuum, poles linked by a series of front regions decorated to appear as back regions, and back regions set up to accommodate outsiders.
I have suggested the term stage setting for these intermediary types of social space, but there is no need to be rigid about the matter of the name of this place, so long as its structural features and their influences on ideas are understood.
I have claimed that the structure of this social space is intimately linked to touristic attitudes and I want to pursue this.
The touristic way of getting in with the natives is to enter into a quest for authentic experiences, perceptions and insights.
The quest for authenticity is marked off in stage corresponds to back.
Movement from stage to stage corresponds to growing touristic understanding.
This continuum is sufficiently developed in some areas of the world that it appears as an infinite regression of stage sets.
Once in this manifold, the tourist is trapped. His road does not end abruptly in some conversion process that transforms him into Boorstin’s ”traveler ” “working at something” as he breaks the bounds of all hat is pseudo and penetrates, finally, into a real region.
Poverty is Denial of All Human Rights Peace should be understood in a human way − in abroad social, political and economic way. Pace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, enviromental defradation and absence of human rights. Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives. The creation of opportunities for the majority of people −the poor− is at the heart of the work that we have dedicated ourselves to during the past 30 years.
Grameen Bank I became involved in the poverty issue not as a policymaker or a researcher. I became involved because poverty was all around me, and I could turn away from it. In 1974, I gound it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, in the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories in the face of crushing hunger and poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me, even if it was just one human being, to get through another day with a little more ease. That brought me face to face with poor peoples struggle to find the tiniest amounts of money to support their efforts to eke out a living. I was shocked to discover a woman in the village, borrowing less than a dollar from the money-lender, on the condition that he would have the exclusive right to buy all she produces at the proce he decides. This, to me, was a way of recruiting slave labor.
I decided to make a list of the victims of this money-lending "business" in the village next door to our campus. When my list was done, it had names of 42 victims who borowed a total amount of US $27. I offered US $27 from my own pocket to get these victims out of the clutches of those money-lenders. The excitement that was created among the people by this small action got me further involved in it. If I could makes so many people so happy with such a tiny amount of money, why not do more of it?
That is what I have been trying to do ever since. The first thing I did was to try to persuade the bank located in the campus to lend money to the poor. But that did not work. The bank said that the poor were not creditworthy. After all my efforts, over several months, failed, I offered to become a guarantor for the loans to the poor. I was stunned by the results. The poor paid back their loans, on time, every time! But still I kept confronting difficulties in expanding the program through the existing banks. That was when I decided to create a separate bank for the poor, and in 1983, I finally succeeded in doing that. I named it Grameen Bank or Village bank.
Today Grameen Bank gives loans to nearly 7.0 million poor people, 97 percent of whom are women, in 73000 villages in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank gives collateral-free income generating, housing, student and micro-enterprise loans to the poor families and offers a host of attractive savings, pension funds and insurance products for its members. Since it introduced them in 1984, housing loans have been used to construct 640000 houses. The legal ownership of these houses belongs to the women themselves. We focused on women because we found giving loans to women always brought more benefits to the family.
The repayment rate is 99 percent. Grameen Bank routinely makes profit. Financially, it is self-reliant and has not taken donor money since 1995. According to Grameen Banks internal survey, 58 percent of our borrowers have crossed the poverty line. Grameen Bank was born as a tiny homegrown project run with the help of several of my students, all local girls and boys. Three of these students are still with me in Grameen Bank, after all these years, as its topmost executives. They are here today to receive this honor you give us. This idea, which began in Jobra, a small village in Bangladesh, has spread around the world and there are now Grameen type programs in almost every country.
Once attractive markets have been identified, it is important to consider the timing of entry. We say that entry is early when an international business enters a foreign market before other foreign firms and late when it enters after other international businesses have already established themselves. The advantages frequently associated with entering a marker early are commonly known as first-mover advantages. One first-mover advantage is the ability to preempt rivals and capture demand by establishing a strong brand name. A second advantage is the ability to build sales volume in that country and ride down the experience curve ahead of rivals, giving the early entrant a cost advantage over later entrants. This cost advantage may enable the early entrant to cut prices below that of later entrants, thereby driving them out of the market. A third advantage is the ability of early entrants to create switching costs that tie customers into their products or services. Such switching costs make it difficult for later entrants to win business.
Based on your profile, the trust and God's divine guidance that I have this great oppoutunity linking up to you, though we have not meet before but I believe that one have to risk in confiding his secret to succeed sometimes in life. My name is Miss Mary Clement, a 21 years old undergraduate. I am only daughter of chief/Mrs Johnson Clement a major cocoa exporter cum politician.
I am native of Lorma in western part of liberia,America. I was born out of tragic fate.my mother died from cancer when I was only 4 years old, my father nurtured me with great care and love before he met his own untimely death on the way coming back from business trip from overseas, on his arrival to the airport his driver went to drove him back home on the way they have a fatal car accident which killied his driver at spot while my father spent 3 painful days at hospital before dying. my uncle all my father's companies and properties because of our traditionl believe that i'm a woman.
I was left with nothing and dropped out of school because of finacial difficulties and my uncle's wicked attitude. My father told me a deep secret on his sick bed which I want to share with you in a full confidentiality.He deposited a huge sum of $7 million Dollers ($7,OOO,OOO USD) in one of reputable private security company in Ivory Coast because of polictical instability in our country Liberia without the knowledge of my uncle.presently I'm in ivory coast since the civil war broke out in liberia as a refugee in one of missionary home while my uncle flew to the london with his children.although I have contacted the security company they comfirmed the logdement.
Dearest all I want you to do for me is to step forward as my foreign partner to the security company so that the money will be retrieve,I have all the neccesary information to back you up. i will sincerely give you 10% out of the money,5% for any expenses incurred during the transaction and the rest will be used for any investement preferred by you in your country. I am pleading to you with the name of Almighty God to help me out of this problem.coincidentally Ivory coast is now having it's own political unrest too,
I am kindly waiting for your soonest response. MAY GOD BLESS YOU. All my love,
On a recent plane flight between New York and Tokyo, I was reading an interesting article in TIME magazine. The story was about the Japanese baseball star, Ichiro Suzuki. In his first season as a Major League player, he has been voted a member of this year's All-Star team. His great success and popularity among American baseball fans signals a new era in Japanese-American baseball. Japanese players like Ichiro and others, such as Sasaki Kazuhiro, Nomo Hideo, and Irabu Hideki, are making names for themselves in American baseball. Although many people assume that they are attracted to Major League baseball by the high salaries, it is the opportunity to challenge themselves against the best players in the world that is the strongest motivation for these players. And there are other reasons, too. Many professional baseball players in Japan are frustrated with the rigid systems of baseball in this country. The former Yokohama BayStars pitching star, Sasaki Kazuhiro commented, "Japanese teams see me not as a man, but as a machine, or a racehorse to be run until its legs give out. In Japan, we are used by the teams and then disposed of. In America, much greater attention is given to the welfare of the players."
You have be really hard-bitten not to be taken with the Dalai Lama's charm. He came across in our meeting as so pleasant and friendly − complete with a robust sense of humor − that I was disarmed. I met the Dalai Lama on October 6 in Dharamsala. He lives in ahouse opposite a temple and a public area where he gives surmons. After being frisked by security, I was ushered into a waiting chamber that held various awards and honorary degrees he has received. When the inteview was done, the Dalai Lama clasped my hand for the keepsake photograph. As I was leaving, he put around my neck a white scarf in the traditional Tibetan manner of bidding a person farewell. When I bowed slightly in acknowledgement, hebowed so deeply in response that the situation became slightly awkward. It is hard not to be beguiled by the Dalai Lama. Question:What are the sources of terrorism, and what is its solution? The Delai Lama:Initially terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism. Just after September 11, some reporter asked me why terrorism happens. I told him that my view is that such acts are not possible unless you have very strong hatred and very strong willpower and determination. That tremendous hatred comes from many reasons. The causes of this hatred may be going back centuries. Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people may also see the achievements of Western contries − in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements − as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western contries get rich by using resoures such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying raw meterials remain poor.
Little Pluto, formerly the solar system's smallest planet, has been stripped of its status by the Internatiuonal Astronomical Union, reducing the number of planets to eight. The new guidelines − introduced in Prague on Thursday after a week of debate by the 2,500 astrometers at the organization's conference − define what is a planet and what is not. Pluto didn't make the cut. Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930. Under the new guidelines, it's now considered a "dwarf planet," leaving eight planet −Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto, which is smaller than Earth's moon, doesn't fit the new criteria for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit." Pluto doesm't qualify because its orbit is inclined relative to the rest of the solar system and crosses over the orbit of Neptune. NASA said Thursday that Pluto's designation as a dwarf planet would not affect its $700-million US NEW Horizons spacecraft mission, launched earlier this year. The spacecraft will reach Pluto after a 9 1/2-year journey. THe IAU also introduced a third class, "small solar-system bodies," for objects smaller than dwarf planets, such as asteroids and comets, that orbit the sun. Astronomers have been working without a solid definition of a planet since the dats of Corpernicus. The new definition fill that void. Just a week ago, the IAU's leader suggested a different definition for a planet that would have included Pluto, its moon Charon, the asteroid Ceres and a recently discovered object, 2003 UB313, which is slightly larger than Pluto and was nicknamed Xena.
It is said that in Britain it is possible to experience all four seasons within a single day. Although this may be a slight exaggeration,there is no doubt that the weather is so unpredictable that a warm and sunny summer morning can easily turn to a cold,rainy storm within a few short hours. Because of this,there is no custom of designating a certain period of the year when winter clothes are put away and summer clothes extracted. All clothes are kept available at all times of the year in order to be prepared for all eventualities,and shops probably sell nearly as many sweaters and overcoats in summer as they do in winter.
But Britain’s unpredictable climate also gives its citizens a lot of experience in the vagaries of the weather,and this has turned everybody into amateur weather forecasters. People claim to be able to “smell” the rain coming,and predictions of a thunderstorm are rarely wrong. In most cases people use their instincts for these forecasts. If the wind is blowing in the right direction,it is, in fact,possible to smell the approach of rain. A breezeless,humid day with a tang of ozone in the air will also provide accurate predicttions of thunderstorms. And there are other indications,too. A red sunset predicts fine weather the following day,but a red sunrise points to bad weather. Rain can also be predicted by thin clouds that resemble the patterns on a herring’s back,by cows lying down,and by pine cones opening their bristles. In fact,there are many items that can be used to predict rain.
British children complete their compulsory education at the age of 16,and are then free to either leave school to seek work,or continue their education for an additional two years in their secondary school in a system known as the sixth form. The sixth form prepares children for going onto higher education at colleges and universities. A university education in Great Britain is not seen as a requirement for unspecialized occupations,so the percentage of school leavers who move on to higher education at this level is a meager 36%. For this reason,the number of children who attend sixth form is drastically reduced,and this gives the teachers the opportunity to concentrate on each individual student and provide high levels of education. Additionally,sixth form students may choose the subjects they wish to study to intensify their knowledge,with some selecting as few as two subjects,although the average is three.
This,of course,means that students must decide whether to follow a apecialized career or a non−specialized career very early in life. To enable them to make this decision,all fifth year students at secondary school are provided with a vocational education course as part of their curriculum. During this course,the students are given a wide range of information on available careers in the from of pamphlets and lectures by experts to help them determine their own futures.
Private education is also available in Great Britain,but strangely,these schools are known as public schools. There are a great many public school in Great Britain,and the top three are known throughout the world for their high levels of education;Eton,Harrow and Rugby. These schools are extremely expensive,and the competition for entry is harsh. In many cases,children are registered for entry before they are even born,although entry is not guaranteed until they have passed certain examinations and interviews. Parents who fear that their children are in danger of failing the examinations send them to preparatory schools. The sole purpose of preparatory schools is to provide children with sufficient knowledge to enable them to pass the entry examinations to public schools. This places a great deal of pressure on the children,but a public school record is also something that can be carried with pride throughout life.
Public schools may be seen as elitist in Britain,but they certainly provide an excellent education. The last few nights. There are no doors between the bedrooms,but they all open out into the same corridor.We went through a small door into the corridor into which the bedrooms opened. We shall walk out into the garden. A moment later we were out on the dark road.
One day, a monument appeared in the air. It was floating alone. But a water column appeared under it, and tumbled down and became into flood water occasionally. Then El Selenita watched a news on television. Then Casar said, “That monument is Atlas. We developed it for inhabitants in arid region.” El Selenita said, “What is it written?” And Casar said, “It's written that Thirsters may drink without fee, in our language.” And El Selenita jumped off from a precipice, and shouted, “El Renacuajo!” And El Renacuajo came flying and opened the hatch, and slowed down under him. And El Selenita landed into the cockpit. At the same time, the hatch closed abruptly and did hit El Selenita's head. And El Selenita shouted, “La Rana!” And El Renacuajo transformed into El Huevo, and combined with El Busto and Galvani. And La Rana got been completed. El Selenita shouted, “A beam rifle!” And La Rana ejected a box from the mouth. And the box transformed into a rifle. And La Rana shot Atlas with the rifle. But Atlas avoided the beam. Casar said, It's too far, therefore it's easy to expect the track of the beam. Then El Loto came flying. And Endimion said, “Get on me!” And La Rana stepped El Loto. And El Loto started to fly. And La Rana tried to shoot Atlas. Then Endimion said, “Wait! Perhaps our compatriot gets into Atlas.” And El Loto launched a missile against Atlas. And Atlas got been broken partially. And the cockpit got been exposed. Then a water goblin existed in there. Endimion said, “He isn't our compatriot!” And La Rana shot Atlas with the rifle.
Mathusala and Batrache came to Switzerland. They came to front of many mountains. Mathusala looked up. Then a crow was flying in the sky. Mathusala called out the crow, “Buna saira, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buon giorno!” And the crow came landing and answered, “Buon giorno!” Then Mathusala hesitated in an instant, because she was apt to mistake Italian prepositions. But she asked to the crow, “Dove e Bernhard?” And the crow answered, “Sara in la terza montagna.” And Mathusala said to the crow, “Grazie!” , and went to the third mountain. And they came to aparting of the ways. Then a horse existed on there. Mathusala called out the horse, “Buon giorno, Buna saira, Bonjour, Guten Tag!” And the horse answered, “Hatschi! Guten Tag. Hust!” And Mathusala asked, “Wohin wohnt Bernhard?” And the horse said, “Hust! Geh Hatschi! Geh Sie Hust! Nach rechts Hatschi!” Mathusala said, “Gehe Sie nacht rechts?” And the horse said, “Ja!” And Mathusala did put her hand on the horse's forehead, and said, “Sie haben Fieber. Geh Sie nach einem Krankenhaus.” And they went to the right way. And they came to an entrance to village. Then a muscular woman existed on there. And Mathusala called out to her, “Guten Tag, Buon giorno, Buna saira, Bonjour!” And she has a beard who turned to her, and answered, “Bonjour!” , in baritone. Mathusala asked her, “Ouest Bernhard?” And she said, “Il habite tout pres. Allons.” And they started. She said to Mathusala, “Tu as un accent espagnol. Pourquoi as-tu prise francais?” And Mathusala said, “Les premieres ?uvres completes des litteratures classiques sont publiees en France.” And they came to the front of Bernhard's house.
Then a chick-faced man existed at there. His name was Rav Hina. Vio a Mathusala, y dijo a ella:≪Haces un disparate como antes. Tal vez has pensado que si te invertiste, puedes ver unas constelaciones en tendencia familia. El Maricon.≫ Rav Hina no se parece a hombre, y se parece a hombre-polluelo. Cogio y dio masajes unos senos de Mathusala, y dijo:≪!Aunque ha pasado el mucho tiempo, no eres vaonil! !Tienes senos mas grande que el pasado!≫ Y Mathusala cogio y froto cabeza de Rav Hina, y dijo:≪!El Pollito! !Aunque ha pasado el mucho tiempo, eres amarillo, y no tienes una cresta!≫ Y los dos se abrazaron y soltaron una carcajada. Mathusala y Rav Hina eran unos esudiantes de Rabbi Una en Tiberiades. Se graduo en Tiberiades, e ingreso en Sura. Y cuando se graduo en una escuela. Rav Hina vio Batrache, y dijo:≪?Es usted un hijo de Rabban Gamagael?≫ Y Batrache dijo:≪No. Soy una rana de agua termales. Mi nombre zoologico es Rana thermarum. Mi nombre es Batrache.≫ Rabban Gamagael es un profesor en Sura. Se parece a sapo. Mathusala dijo:≪A la edad de trece anos, pregunte que ?13 y 30 se dicen eso en ingles? y lei el Libro de Ezequiel en mi cama, porque Thirteen(θ?rt?n : 13) y Thirty(θ?rt? : 30) parecen mutuamente.≫ Y Rav Hina dijo:≪Eso es ofensa intelectual. El agente negro de policia te arrestara.≫ Mathusala dijo:≪El tamano del cielo de la Luna 6’644 veces mas grande que el Libro de Enos, de aspecto.≫ Y Rav Hina dijo:≪!Si! Y los cielos de arriba son 459 veces mas grande que el Libro de Eno.≫
In the Far East, such as China, Japan and Korea, many people traditionally recognize the advantages of use of acupuncture and other types of Oriental medicine. In these countries, wide use of acupuncture has indirectly contributed to maintaining or lowering total national medical expenses, which has made it possible to have health insurance for every individual in Japan and China as well as free medical care for the elderly(over 65 years old) in Japan and the people's Republic of China.
Without this total savings of medical expenses for the nation, by the use of acupuncture, moxibustion, shiatsu, and other forms of Oriental medicine, a national insurance policy for every individual may not have been possible in Japan. Despite of such facts, many Japanese have not recognized the implications of the economic merit of acupuncture to the nation's well being. In the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse Tung and other leaders solved national health problems most economically by encouraging the best of Western medicine and of Oriental medicine, particularly acupuncture. Regardless of whether a particular government may or may not be ideal, politicians who are seriously concerned about national health can greatly benefit from knowing something about the merits and background of acupuncture. Any thoughts that Tani might not be psychologically ready for the consolation match were swept away when she pulled off a textbook at 2:33 to best Bogdanova by ippon.
At least 385 privately run nursing homes across Japan are violating the law by not registering with their prefectural government, according to a Kyodo News survey released Sunday. Under the elderly welfare law revised last April, registration is required for fee-based nursing homes regardless of size or services. Previously, the law applied only to those that accommodated at least ten people and served meals. The survey found that 385 facilities in 21 prefectures, out of 776 in 37 prefectures that authorities knew about, remain unregistered even though the revision brought them under the scope of the law. The tally only covers facilities that prefectural governments are aware of. There is no way of knowing how many actually exist. A facility in Urayasu, Chiba prefecture, where a resident was allegedly locked in a cage and others were subjected to abuse was entirely unknown to prefectural authorities until a former staff member notified the city in January that its residents were being abused. The Chiba prefectural government initially said the facility, Blue Cross Yukaikan, was an apartment complex accommodating not only seniors but also younger people It later corrected its view in line with a government guideline that facilities in which the majority of residents are seniors can be regarded as fee-based nursing homes. My own preoccupation with Monteverdi began with a graduate seminar taught by Charles Hamm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,in which we attempted to understand Monteverdi's mensuration signs and their proportional relationships-a topic still unresolved in the Monteverdi literature and the subject of Chapter 20 of the present volume.Witnessing how little research had been devoted to Monteverdi's sacred music,I subsequently resolved to write my dissertation in this area,eventually resulting in a thesis on the Vespers of 1610 and a published collection of essays on the Mass and Vespers.
It is believed that there are many other such facilities, which won't be inspected by relevant authorities unless problems come to light. Officials say it is impossible to know about the operations of such facilities unless they register voluntarily. Officials of the prefectural governments with unregistered nursing homes cite the difficulty in getting those facilities to sigh up. Under the current law, nursing home operators can be fined up to 300,000 yen for failing to register with their prefecture. However, some operators are willing to risk the fine in order to avoid coming under administrative control, which could be costly if it leads to forced remodeling or service improvements, the officials said. Kunio Takami, president of the Alzheimer's Association Japan, said the recent reports of alleged abuse at the Urayasu facility points to the social contradictions in this country. "Generally speaking, the best defense against those problem business operators is for families (with elderly members) not to use such facilities. However, the truth is that many families have no choice but to rely on unregistered nursing facilities, which may be inexpensive but offer poor-quality service. Fall has created a formidable niche for herself on the Tokyo scene, as a trendspotter who can write. Quite how she fits in being everywhere and knowing everyone before the mainstream catches on, is one of life's mysteries. Especially when you consider she has a family (husband met here) and two small children (Eden 5, Raffy 3). "It became natural for people to ring me up when passing through Tokyo to ask where they should go and what to see. "Then I realized that other people were charging for such information. When I met Spreckley, I told him, and we began thinking about how to pool our resources." Spreckley, too, had been at the receiving end of appeals for guidance -- from TV companies and other personal and business contacts. It was natural to want to help, but meeting Fall helped him to refocus.
The Study of Sounds The sounds produced by human vocal organs can be studied in many different ways. The study of sounds is calld phonetics. Phonetics is mainly concerned with describing the speech sounds that occur in the languages of the world. Specifically, we want to know what people are doing when they are talking and when they are listening to speech.
Some phoneticians are interested in studying the physical and acoustic aspects of speech sounds, while others are interested in studying the patterns and functions of sounds that occur in a language. In the latter type of study, it is important to realize that speech sounds can be perceived and represented as a sequence of discrete units, even though they are physically continuous. Native speakers of any language can intuitively extract the linguistically significant units. For example, when native speakers of English are asked how many sounds there are in the word pit they will most probably ansewer three. The concept oe decreteness is a basic assumption in the study of speech sounds.
These discrete units of sounds are not arbitrarily combined; the sequence of such units is under certain restrictions. For example, there is no English word which begins with ten consonants. Furthermore, the consonants which can appear in the iinitial clusters of English are restricted. Thus for a three-consonant cluster beginning with /s/, the second consonant can only be one of /p,t,k/. Such restrictions are found in many languages, and one of the purposes of the study of speech sounds is to examine the kind of restrictions peculiar to an individual language.
Therefore, there are several levels in the study of speech sounds: on the one concrete level we try to describe what speech sounds exist, and on the other abstract level we try to examine what regularities govern the realizations of sounds in a langiage. Instead of opposing magic and science, it would be better to compare them as two parallel modes of acquiring knowledge. Their theoretical and practical results differ in value(as science is certainly more successful than magic point of view, although magic foreshadows science in that it sometimes also works). But both science and magic require the same sort of mental operations, which differ not so much in kind as in the different types of phenomena to which they are applied. These relations are a consequence of objective conditions in which magic and scientific knowledge appeared. The history of the latter is short enough for us to know a good deal about it. But the fact that modern science dates back only a few centuries raises a problem which ethnologists have not sufficiently pondered. The Neolithic Paradox would be a suitable name for it. It was in neolithic times that humanity mastered the great arts of civilizations, which are pottery, weaving, agriculture, and the domestication of animals. No one today would think of attributing these enormous advances to the fortuitous accumulation of a perception of certain natural phenomena.
Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine,published together with his Missa in illo tempore,has been a familiar item in music histories and the subject of intense interest among early music performers and enthusiasts for many years. And well it should be,given the grand dimensions,vocal and instrumental virtuosity,musical colour,and extraordinary variety characterizing the collection of fourteen compositions subsumed under the title Vespro della Beata Vergine in the composer's Bassus Generalis part-book.The importance of this publication to Monteverdi himself is underscored by its dedication to Pope Paul V.Interest in the Vespers has led to several modern editions and innumerable performances and recordings, some of very high quality,employing historical instruments and up-to-date knowledge of early seventeenth-century performance practices.By now,the Vespers of 1610 are truly in the public domain,familiar to large numbers of musicians and music-lovers. However there are some ups and downs you should be aware of before you make the decision. First of all, the biggest reason that I'm still in college after six years is the delays caused by this internship. It's a great deal financially and the school is amazing and your responsibilities are very small and you'll have a ridiculous amount of time to explore Tokyo and do whatever you want. You can also join any clubs you want to at the school for the three months you're there, but some of them are harder to get into than others. The downside is, this internship is not very well organized. This may have changed now, but they guy who went right before us was a good friend of mine, and he was delayed almost two months in going because of problems in sending the visa. Me and Nick, (I went with a good friend of mine, which is really IDEAL for this) seeing these problems tried hard to avoid this delay. However, the director is terrible at responding to emails, and we ended up being delayed an ENTIRE SEMESTER of school (which was sorta cool because we really just dicked around and played video games, but our parents were ultra pissed). The amazing incompetence of the people sending your visas and giving you all the information (which they likely won't half the time) is the biggest deterrent in this otherwise awesome internship. My advice is to not underestimate anything, and send a ridiculous amount of emails if you think for a second that you're not in the know about something. (not like we didn't get compensation for the delay, however. We got to stay almost 6 months instead of the normal 3).
Nowadays,the word “gentleman” generates a ,mental image of a man who is soft-spoken and respectful of other people,especially woman,regardless of his background,but the breed is dying off. The most common stereotype abroad for the British gentleman is probably the City businessman who wears a dark suit and bowler hat,and always carries a rolled-up umbrella, but people dressed like this in London have all but disappeared.
So,where have all the gentleman gone?
It is a sad sign of the times that the pace of modern-day life has made people more self-centred and less obliged to show open respect for the people around them. In past days,people like this were known as “cads,” which has the opposite meaning of the word “gentlemen.” A perfect example of a present-day cad is the Mr Bean character made famous throughout the world by the British actor,Rowan Atkinson. A cad is a self-centred man who has badly developed social skills and who spends most of his time pursuing selfish objectives,oblivious of the opinions of the people around him. He is rude,boastful,and generally disliked,but people who fit this description are on the increase.
Having said that,the phrase “act like a gentleman ”is drummed into male children in Britain from birth,and once one has learnt a certain set of manners,it is not easy to discard them. Children are taught several acts that are deemed to denote the manners of a gentleman. These acts include waiting until someone has finished speaking before speaking yourself,apologizing whether you are in the right or wrong,and, of course,the famous “ladies first”rule,(unless the lady is walking upstairs;then the man goes first.) This early training teaches male children lessons that they neverforget,and they become force of habit for even people who would seem to lack manners otherwise.
But allowing ladies to enter a door first does not make a gentleman. A true gentleman is surrounded by a natural aura that is easily noticeable by other people at a single glance,although in most cases they will not be able to define how they have come to this decision. He is generally neatly dressed,has a soft,friendly look on his face,and speaks in a soft voice. When you see one,you will know. But you won’t know why you know.
It`s due overtime, but here it is. The last, sure to be epic post of this amazing blog of ours. The date is now the eight of October,and we came back home on the eleventh of August,so it`s been a while.Since our arrival back home we haven`t really had the motivation to write another post, `cause of the plain fact that we`re not in Japan anymore. But I thought that a finishing "what-are-they-up-to-now?"-post was not only necessary,but mandatory. What I`m going to write now is a bit of a mystery, since I can`t really tell anything new about Japan. The journey back went swimmingly though, except for the god damned airport- staff ripping apart my 250? rucksack looking for a lighter within. A small hint for you travellers out there; don`t put lighters or gasoline in your backpack, it will only cause you problems (trust me, I know). Other than that,no problems (if you don`t count me fuming the first couple of hours on the plane; poor Jonas). By the time we were greeted by our family, we were both really tired,and happy to be on our way to our own beds.To sum up the journey; we both loved Japan and we had a wonderful time there (even though the humidity was ridiculous). All the people we met there were nice and fun,and they really made our time there even better.I (and I`m sure also Jonas) highly recomemnd to make this kind of a journey;sure,it costs a lot more than to go to south-east asia (where a bunch of friends are right now), but I mean, just read our blog.It has truly been an experience worth the price,without a doubt.The first couple of days, or maybe even weeks,back home felt good, and it was nice to be in yor "real life" again. But now I`m starting to miss Japan, and thinking about how nice it would be to just walk around in a small countrytown, hiking in some mountains, or to simply walk through the many streets and backalleys of Kyoto and Tokyo again.I`m definately going back there sometime, although not for a couple of years, since I´m now a student and don`t have the money or time to make such a trip. Jonas though, has said that he`s going back there next year again, so we`ll see if that works out (hope it does, so I can order some Fanta Melon and Suntory Pop from him).
Patients can learn from their sickness For Siegel, it is important to view sickness as an opportunity to learn. He has studied patients who survive a serious illness, observing how they live longer than their doctors expect. He says these are usually people who notice their feeling sand are able to accept them. A serious illness may, for example, make a patient feel angry about having wasted years doing a job that now seems meaningless. Some patients might never face these feelings. By not icing their feelings and expressing their, emotions, he says, patients are able to make wise choices with regard to their treatment. Patients need to be encouraged to accept and enjoy being themselves more than they could before they became sick. They can start to repair relationships with people they are close to. They can become more aware of something deep within themselves. This new approach to life that has come from their sickness then begins to bring benefits to their bodies, and they are often able, to an important extent, to heal themselves.
Doctors can learn from remarkable recoveries Patients are sometimes cured and survive against all the predictions of their doctors. But the medical profession tends to ignore remark able cases which do not fit into the conventional way of solving medical problems. Conventional medical training does not teach doctors the importance of learning from cases of patients being cured for reasons that are not directly caused by medical treatment. Nor do medical schools teach doctors the value of other patients finding inspiration from such cases. Paul nodded,“My brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was shocked with surprise. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you nothing? Boy, I wish...” He hesitated. Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the led said gave an unpleasant shock to Paul. “I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added, “Would you like to take a ride in my automobile?” “Oh yes, I'd love that.” After a short ride, the boy turned and eith his eyes shining, said, “Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?
I went to see Lafourcade to bring him up to speed and assure him we were still on net with the handovers and withdrawals of his forces. he was feeling the squeeze of getting all his people and equipment out in time, and still hearing some noises that his government might ask him to stay a bit longer. I told him that staying was out of the question―if he did, the RPF would break through the zone and confront him. I told him I would be back next week to personally introduce my replacement, and we parted amicably. Laforcade provided transport and escorts for me to go and meet Augustin Buzimungu, who had asked to see me. The former RGF chief of staff was now living in a comfortable bungalow on a hill overlooking Lake Kivu, and seemed totaly at home. He was surround by a few senior Zairean officer, a couple of French officers and and, to my surprise, the same huge RGF lieutenant-colonel who had come into Bagosora's office on the afternoon of April7 (his G-2, or intelligence officer, a man said to have been deeply involved in the genocide). Bizimungu met me at the top of the long staircase up to the house. Both he and the lieutenant-colonel were in impeccable RGF uniforms down to thier shiny boots, and Bizimungu looked relaxed, even ebullient, as we sat down to talk. Soon he had launched into his usual tirade against the RGF, accusing them of genocide and of targeting RGF officers and their families for execution. He did not ask me how things were inside Rwanda but gave me an earful about his desire to go back and sort out the RGF once and for all. Before he had worked himself up to a complete lather―and perhaps before he could reveal anything more of their future oparational plans―the lieutenant- colonel stepped in and effectively ended the meeting. We stood up to make our farewells. With a wry smile, Bizimungu told me that things were fine for him and he didn't need to meet anyone from UNAMIR anymore. Neither og us offered to shake hands. When I got back to UNAMIR headquarters, after a brief stop in Entebbe and a visit with President Museveni (who gazed at me kindly and said, "Well, General, you have certainly aged during this last year"),I saw that a copy of a later sent by the Secretaly-General to the president of the Secretaly Counsil was on my desk. My eye went to the crucial sentence: "...his government has decided to reassign [Dallaire]to national duties... [Guy tousignant]will assume his duties on 15 august 1994." There it was, now official.
During the 19th century, there were several gold rushes in various parts of the world. Gold would be discovered, often by accident, then as news of the discovery got out, thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of people would rush to the area to search for gold. This is the origin of the name, “gold rush.” They would travel to remote parts of the world and live in terrible conditions in the hopes of becoming rich. However, these gold rushes would generally last just a few years before the gold which was easy to get ran out. The first and most famous was the California gold rush. It started in 1849, when it became known that gold had been discovered near San Francisco. More than 250,000 people from all over the world came to California, hoping to get rich. A few did, of course, but most either turned to other jobs or went on to other gold fields. Of those who stayed, many made fortunes in other areas. Selling goods and food to miners was profitable. Even more profitable was agriculture, and many of the former miners turned to raising crops or cattle. In this way, the gold rush changed the history of California and the whole Western United States. Quick: think about what would make you really, really happy. More money? Wrong. 2.5 smiling, well-adjusted kids? Wrong again. Now think about what would make you most unhappy: losing your sight or a bad back? No, the bad back. The fact is, we are terrible at predicting the source of joy. (Sex is the big exception, but you get the point.) And whatever choices we do make, we likely later decide it was all for the best. These are insights from happiness economics, perhaps the hottest field in what used to be called the dismal science. Happiness is everywhere?on the best-seller lists, in the minds of policymakers, and front and center for economists?yet it remains elusive. The golden rule of economics has always been that well-being is a simple function of income. That's why nations and people alike strive for higher incomes?money gives us choice and a measure of freedom. But a growing body of studies show that wealth alone isn't necessarily what makes us happy. After a certain income cap, we simply don't get any happier. And it isn't what we have, but whether we have more than our neighbor, that really matters. So the news last week that in 2006 top hedge-fund managers took home $240 million, minimum, probably didn't make them any happier, it just made the rest of us less so. Now policymakers are racing to figure out what makes people happy, and just how they should deliver it. Countries as diverse as Bhutan, Australia, China, Thailand and the U.K. are coming up with "happiness indexes," to be used alongside GDP as a guide to society's progress. In Britain, a labor economist specializing in happiness?David (Danny) Blanchflower?was recently appointed to the Bank of England advisory board, and the "politics of happiness" will likely figure prominently in next year's elections.
When you open a British or American telephone directry and look at a list of names, you will find that there is a huge variety of names, that many are names of places or occupations, and that many more are not English, but French, Scottish, Russian, Chinese and of other foreign origin. Many names in English, as in other languages, have some kind of meaning and have been handed down from generation to generation. People in general usually take their name-giving very seriously. It is of great interest to study how people's names are derived, that is, their etymological development, and the study of names will tell us something about how English-speaking people lived and thought. Names often represent the history of a family, and are sometimes influenced by historical events. People in Anglo-Saxon England had certain principles in naming their chileren. Most names consisted of two elements like Alf-red and Ed-mond, etc., and these elements were repeated and varied among family members. After the Norman Conquest, biblical names became popular, like Jhon, Mary, Peter, and so on. Such names are by far the commonest even now.Potter, S. explained in detail in his famous book Our Language how people's names are derived, and divided British surnames into four major categories; patronymic, occupational, descriptive, and local. Patronymic names are fathers' names with the suffix -son: Williamson is son of William, and Dickinson is son of Richard. Mac- is a Gaelic prefix corresponding to -son. McDonald is MacDonald (son of Donald) and Macgregor is Mac-Greggs (son of Greggs). Occupational names are quite familiar to us: Butcher, Carpenter, Shepherd, Taylor, and so on. Descriptive names are associsted with man's physical characteristics, for example, Little, Black, Strong, Short, and so on, and may be taken literally. Finally, local names are closely related to place names, and literally represent certain local characteristic. Examples are Moorehouse, Castleton, Whitacre. Thus the study of people's names tells us something of how their ancestors lived in the past and how they looked on human life. Jack and Maureen decided not to have any more child. But then, in April 1995, Jack was called to Oklahoma City to assist in the rescue efforts after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. He had never seen so many children perish at one time. "He didn't talk a lot about the devastation in Oklahoma," Maureen said, "but that's how he was - he wasn't a man of many words." But Jack did start talking about having another baby. The Oklahoma bombing had put autism in a different light. The way he saw it, Maureen said, was that "if it happens it happens." Life is what it is. Autism isn't the worst thing in the world.
Ryan Cole weighed 1 pound 15 ounces when he was born on May 3, 2005, after just 28 weeks in the womb. He spent his first 70 days in a neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, kept alive by an array of specialized ventilators, intravenous feeding pumps, and advanced diagnostic gear, as well as round-the-clock attention from the hospital staff. Like many "preemies," or babies born earlier than 37 weeks, Ryan was a handful. Afflicted with two different brain abnormalities, he threw up constantly, and his parents had to care for him amid a tangled nest of wires that snaked out of his crib, helping him breathe and eat. One evening, a few weeks after he arrived home, Ryan stopped breathing. His parents, Eric and Andrea, came running when his respiratory monitor sounded an alarm. "We went into his room, and he was turning blue," says Eric. He immediately dialed 911, and when the ambulance reached the family's home in Kensington, Md., Andrea hopped in the back with Ryan, and Eric jumped in his car to follow them to Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. At the hospital, doctors hooked Ryan to a machine that helped him breathe and upped his dose of a drug to stimulate lung function. In coming weeks, there would be other life-threatening events, but this time, Ryan was able to return home after one night in the NICU. Preemies are a quickly expanding class of patients in the U.S., Britain, and other advanced nations. And the costs and technical challenges of caring for them are a growing source of controversy. Nearly 13% of all babies in the U.S. are preemies, a 20% increase since 1990. A 2006 report by the National Academy of Sciences found that the 550,000 preemies born each year in the U.S. run up about $26 billion in annual costs, mostly related to care in NICUs. That represents about half of all the money hospitals spend on newborns. But the number, large as it is, may understate the bill. Norman J. Waitzman, a professor of economics at the University of Utah who worked on the National Academy report, says the study considered just the first five years of the preemies' lives. Factor in the cost of treating all of the possible lifelong disabilities and the years of lost productivity for the caregivers, and the real tab may top $50 billion, Waitzman says. In the U.S., corporations handle most of the financial burden. Employers generally cover some or all of the hospital charges in their health plans, and they also must deal with lost work hours of staff who spend weeks, sometimes months, attending to their premature infants. Corporations pay out nearly 15 times as much for babies born prematurely in their first year of life as for full-term babies, at an average cost of about $41,000 per child. For the earliest of the preemies, who are born in fewer than 28 weeks and spend up to three months in the hospital, the tab is higher. Says Waitzman: "The million-dollar babies are there." Ryan was not a million-dollar baby, but he wasn't far from it. The cost for his first two months in the hospital exceeded $400,000, not including certain surgeries and procedures. Because Eric is a technology security expert at the U.S. Energy Dept. and Andrea is an intelligence analyst for a government contractor, the family had good health insurance through the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program. They could also navigate the government bureaucracy and get Ryan qualified for Medicaid, which covered the bills that Blue Cross didn't. To help pay for a nurse, they applied for another state program in Maryland. "We used to play a game: How many bills would we get?" says Eric. "We got up to 12 per day." A combination of economic factors assures there will be many more couples like the Coles.
The Archbishop moved slowly about the little church, peering at the old memorial tablets and the new glass windows.
The Ladywho practises the organ began to pull out stops and rustle hymn- books behind the screen.
'I hope she'll do all the soft lacey tunes - like treacle on porridge,' said Una.
'I like the trumpety ones best,' said Dan. 'Oh, look at Wilfrid! He's trying to shut the Altar-gates!'
'Tell him he mustn't,' said Puck, quite seriously.
He can't, anyhow,' Dan muttered, and tiptoed out of Panama Corner while the Archbishop patted and patted at the carved gates that always sprang open again beneath his hand.
'That's no use, sir,' Dan whispered. 'Old Mr Kidbrooke says Altar-gates are just the one pair of gates which no man can shut. He made 'em so himself.'
The Archbishop's blue eyes twinkled. Dan saw that he knew all about it.
'I beg your pardon,' Dan stammered - very angry with Puck.'Yes, I know! He made them so Himself.' The Archbishop smiled, and crossed to Panama Corner, where Una dragged up a certain padded arm-chair for him to sit on.
The organ played softly. 'What does that music say?'he asked.
Una dropped into the chant without thinking: '"O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise him and magnify him for ever." We call it the Noah's Ark, because it's all lists of things - beasts and birds and whales, you know.'
'Whales?' said the Archbishop quickly.
'Yes - "O ye whales, and all that move in the waters,"' Una hummed - '"Bless ye the Lord." It sounds like a wave turning over, doesn't it?'
'Holy Father,' said Puck with a demure face, 'is a little seal also "one who moves in the water"?'
'Eh? Oh yes - yess!' he laughed. 'A seal moves wonderfully in the waters. Do the seal come to my island still?'
Puck shook his head. 'All those little islands have been swept away.'
'Very possible. The tides ran fiercely down there. Do you know the land of the Sea-calf, maiden?'
'The Archbishop is thinking of a little farther down the coast. He means Seal's Eye - Selsey - down Chichester way - where he converted the South Saxons,' Puck explained. 'Yes - yess; if the South Saxons did not convert me,' said the Archbishop, smiling. 'The first time I was wrecked was on that coast. As our ship took ground and we tried to push her off, an old fat fellow of a seal, I remember, reared breast-high out of the water, and scratched his head with his flipper as if he were saying: "What does that excited person with the pole think he is doing'"I was very wet and miserable, but I could not help laughing, till the natives came down and attacked us.'
'What did you do?' Dan asked. 'One couldn't very well go back to France, so one tried to make them go back to the shore. All the South Saxons are born wreckers, like my own Northumbrian folk. I was bringing over a few things for my old church at York, and some of the natives laid hands on them, and - and I'm afraid I lost my temper.'
'it is said -' Puck's voice was wickedly meek -'that there was a great fight.'
Eh, but I must ha' been a silly lad.' Wilfrid spoke with a sudden thick burr in his voice. He coughed, and took up his silvery tones again. 'There was no fight really. My men thumped a few of them, but the tide rose half an hour before its time, with a strong wind, and we backed off. What I wanted to say, though, was, that the seas about us were full of sleek seals watching the scuffle. My good Eddi - my chaplain - insisted that they were demons. Yes - yess! That was my first acquaintance with the South Saxons and their seals.'
'But not the only time you were wrecked, was it?' said Dan.
'Alas, no! On sea and land my life seems to have been one long shipwreck.' He looked at the Jhone Coline slab as old Hobden sometimes looks into the fire. 'Ah, well!'
'But did you ever have any more adventures among the seals?" said Una, after a little.
'Oh, the seals! I beg your pardon. They are the important things. Yes - yess! I went back to the South Saxons after twelve - fifteen - years. No, I did not come by water, but overland from my own Northumbria, to see what I could do. It's little one can do with that class of native except make them stop killing each other and themselves -' 'Why did they kill themselves?' Una asked, her chin in her hand.
1. When the manager retired, we held a party in his honor. 2. Mr. Abbot could not be reached for comment today. 3. Analysts had predicted earlier that the dollar would appreciate by next week. 4. Ms, Kinney already turned in her application for the job and is waiting to hear a reply from the company. 5. Sudden weather changes have contributed to the scarcity of the citrus crop this season. 6. Paul bought a new PC because his other model was outdated. 7. The earthquake had left hundreds of people homeless. 8. Before the presentation, the engineers met to discuss a strategy for the new building plans. 9. Louise had no idea that the boss was planning to promote her. 10. Most bank ATMS can handle all transactions quickly and efficiently. 11. The human resources director is recruiting temp workers for the three-day sales event. 12. Please fill out the form in triplicate and submit it to the front office. 13. The government spent the entire budget surplus on defense and now must raise taxes. 14. Despite the fact that the employee handbook stated that an employees should use a timecard, George never punched in or out. 15. Mr. Henneman had to attend his father's funeral so, obviously, he couldn't make it in to work today. 16. We could like to congratulate Patrick Burns for winning the "Employee of the Year" award. 17. The forecast has predicted clouds with periods of rain for today, and sun with a few passing clouds for tomorrow. 18. The company decided to launch a new, portable computer that's the smallest ever made. 19. The roundup of the latest corporate earnings reports will be published in the paper tomorrow morning. 20. The real estate agent had trouble selling the building and had to lower the price. 21. The company's new engine design cuts C02 emissions by 50 percent. 22. The restaurant was forced to close its doors after a fire destroyed the kitchen. 23. Sara has the most popular software applications installed in her computer. 24. All orders are processed and shipped on Mondays and Thursdays before noon. 25. When using our services, you shall be subjected to any posted guidelines applicable to such services. 26. Mr. Myers wired the funds yesterday so the money should be in your account by noon today. 27. The next flight to Chicago has been cancelled due to mechanical difficulties with the aircraft. 28. Ms. Moore's computer spread a virus that shut down the network the whole day.
People employ terorrist violence in the name of many cases:but the tendency to label as terrorism any violent act of which we disapprove is mistaken. While the legal distinction between terrorism and warfare is clear, international law usually means little to terrorist, who convince themselves that their actions are justified by a higher law. Their unpredictability and apparent randomness make it virtually imposible for governments to protect all potential victims Lift me up on my honor Take me over this spell Get this weight off my shoulder I've carried it well Loose these shackles of pressure Shake me out of these chains Lead me not to temptationThe Old Town on its spiky ridge beneath Edinburgh Castle is the face of Scotland's brutal Middle Ages. Here, the Royal Mile, which links the castle to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, holds the memory of a violent past-easily imagined in the shadowy passageways of its labyrinthine “closes”. The eighteenth century New Town, designed by James Craig and embellished by Robert Adam, is the face of the Enlightenment, of the philosopher David Hume, the economist Adam Smith and the writer Walter Scott-the city which became known as the Athens of the North. The visitor will want to march down the centuries with Edinburgh’s past: explore The great castle, part of which have stood on its volcanic rock since the twelfth century ; tour the fifteenth century Holyrood Palace, with its poignant relics of Mary Queen of Scots and its official status as the present Queen’s Scottish residence; climb the Scots Monument, the curious Gothic monolith on Princes Street which was raised as a memorial to the novelist; wander through Holyrood Park and up Arthur’s Seat , the miniature mountain which supremely dominates this city of hills, steps and precipitous streets.
When I return from Sweden every summer, I am surprised at the wealth of Japan. This feeling grows stronger every year. Nearly all tourists from abroad get the impression that Japan is a rich country when they see the airport, the expressway and the streets of Tokyo, but I get this impression from the young people of Japan. In the first place their clothes are different. They wear jeans without holes in the knees, T-shirts which have not become shabby from too much washing, sneakers which are not worn-out. Instead, both boys and girls look neat and clean. Not (only) that, they wear accessories of great value. Their handbags and watches appear to be no less expensive than those of adults. In Japan there is certainly a market for young people. It is not limited to clothing only. It applies also to leisure activities. One might go so (far) as to say that even the universities are markets for young people. What country in the West is able to do business having only young people as customers? In these countries young people have less money than anyone. Those who have gone to university and those who are working can barely make (ends) meet. At the age of 18, they live apart from their parents, even though it may be in the same town, and stand on their own (feet) financially. To them such things as skiing in the Alps and fashionable clothes are entirely foreign. Those that have side jobs are lucky ones, for most young people are (out) of work. In Britain, France, Italy, Sweden and many other countries, I saw young people full of discontent. There are no smiles on their faces. I wonder what would happen if parents were to stop giving money to the young people of Japan. Evaluations revealed by implicit and explicit measures may have nothing in common, in which case they assess exclusive constructs and one (implicit measures) might even not be considered an attitude measure. At the opposite extreme, implicit and explicit attitude measures might assess a single construct despite their procedural differences. All differences between measures, in that case, would be attributable to extraneous influences that are irrelevant to attitudes. An intermediate possibility is that implicit and explicit measures assess constructs that are related but distinct. Specifically, implicit and explicit measures might have something in common justifying their shared interpretation as attitude assessments, and something unique justifying the implicit-explicit distinction. This possibility would spur theorists to account for common and distinct influences on implicit and explicit attitude formation and change and for reciprocal influences of implicit and explicit attitude on each other. Anyway, long catfight short, I am now on a train to Tokyo alone and they are all coming later. I just couldn't be there anymore and it really does me no good to fight with or even talk to Samia. She doesn't listen and it just hurts Rachel. And what could Rachel do? She REALLY wanted to leave early, but what do you say to someone who is like, "you absolutely CANNOT leave me alone. That's not fair." And then she has the unmitigated gall to say, "I'm not being inflexible. This is what we decided." I kind of hate her now. If I can get Rachel to do stuff with me in Tokyo, I will. Otherwise, I'll probably go off on my own. With the present troubles in the Balkans and a certain major European Power rapidly outbuilding our Navy, the Admiralty might be forgiven if it started that it had rather more urgent affairs to deal with than Master Brown's little troubles. A further enquiry before the Judge Advocate of the Fleet has now fully comfirmed the original findings that the boy was guilty. I sincerely trust that this will finally end this ridiculous and sordid little storm in a teacup. I am, Sir, etc., Perplexed
Engineering science subjects normally have their roots in mathematics and basic sciences, but carry knowledge further toward creative applications. They may involve the developmental of mathematical or numerical techniques, modeling, simulation and experiment procedures. Application to the identification and solution of practical engineering problems is stressed. Such subjects include the applied aspects of strength of materials, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electrical and electronic circuits, soil mechanics, automatic control, aerodynamics, transport phenomena and elements of materials science, geo-science, computer science, environmental studies and other subjects pertinent to the discipline. In addition, the curriculum should include engineering science content which imparts an appreciation of important elements of other engineering disciplines. I wanted to make an album of all beautiful melodies but I wanted also to have variaty in the mood some of them are very very tender and tranquil and some of them are very passionate like Massenet. Many of songs in the album I would say sad songs and of course if you see an opera there are a lot of tragedies in an opera and some of them wonder why people do listen to sad songs but if you probably ask the 10 people on the street their favorite songs, probably 9 out of 10 of those songs would be sad songs.
I think there is something about a beautiful touching song that can make you a cry and also is uplifting
The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) is an international special bank called "the central bank of the central banks" whose basic goal is to promote the cooperation such as money / exchange buying and selling between the central banks of the member nations, deposit acceptance, and international financial settlement and adjustment. While it serves as the central bank of the central banks in the world, more attention is paid to its function as a place to talk about many problems in the international finance and the macroeconomical adjustment in the meeting of the heads of central banks every month. Originally, in 1930 after World War I, it was founded to deal with the compensation probelem of Germany and its headquarter is locatioted in Basel, Switzerland. As its headquarter is in Basel,it is also called "Basel club". The annual reports and statistics on international finances given by BIS are highly valued to know the world economy and financial trend. Participants are 92 countries such as G10, European Central Bank, Australia, China, Korea, and only 49 central banks and Financial Supervisory Agencies including the central banks of G10 have a right to vote.International capital-asset ratio regulation (BIS regulation) was determined by BIS to secure the soundness of the banks in 1988. It was enforced in Japan in December of the same year by the Ministry of Finance Banking Bureau agency's notification after having passed through a dual circulation period of three years. The BIS regulation itself doesn't have a legal binding power. However, major countries take legal measures to carriy it out. The BIS regulation shows the ratio of the own capital for the amount of total assets. The more healthier the management of the bank, the higher this ratio. In addition, it can take in a loss if its own capital is substantial. The maintenance of capital-asset ratios more than 8% (domestic 4%) is obliged by BIS regulation for banks to run aninternational business. When a bank lends the money for a company, the bank must borrow the money from others. When a bank borrows money from others, its capital- asset ratio decreases. The bank must pay the amount plus interests to depositors even if the money it lent does not return. Even if banks dealt with bad loans must cover the lost amount for its own capital. As a result, because the capital-asset ratio falls, they must do "a reluctance to grant loan" and "collection" to prevent such a situation.
This is a thread of translation into Japanese. But even if you move to another thread, maybe you will be ignored especially by that Briton because he can not understand your Japanese sentences no matter how arrogantly he behaves.