Caux 2004: narrowing the gaps.For many of our readers, the overriding (programming) overriding - Redefining in a child class a method or function member defined in a parent class. Not to be confused with "overloading". news image of the summer of 2004 will be the agonies of Darfur, Sudan, where tens of thousands died in ethnic attacks and hundreds of thousands were driven from their homes. The harrowing pictures of starving starve v. starved, starv·ing, starves v.intr. 1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. Informal To be hungry. 3. To suffer from deprivation. children may seem a million miles away from the peace and beauty of the Swiss mountains. But Mountain House in the village of Caux, high above Lake Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , holds a key to the resolution of such tragedies. For the last 58 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Initiatives of Change conferences there have urged people to tackle war and poverty at their roots--in the hatred and selfishness which so easily grip the human heart. Since 1946, when the first official delegations to leave Germany after World War II met their former enemies at Mountain House and laid the foundations for reconciliation and reconstruction, Caux has brought people together across the gulfs of race, religion, nationality nationality, in political theory, the quality of belonging to a nation, in the sense of a group united by various strong ties. Among the usual ties are membership in the same general community, common customs, culture, tradition, history, and language. and class. While other forums focus on presentations and action plans, Caux's emphasis is on the heart-to-heart encounter--and on the shared assumption that change begins not with someone else, but with oneself. At the core of the Caux experience lies the search in silence for new beginnings, and the challenge of eternal values of honesty, purity, love and unselfishness Unselfishness See also Dedication. Arden, Enoch returned castaway; keeps identity secret from wife to preserve her “new life” happiness. [Br. Lit.: Enoch Arden] Bartholomea Capitanio and Vincentia Gerosa, Sts. . Each year, people return home with the determination to make changes in their lives--and with new, and sometimes far-reaching, approaches to the problems around them. Among those who attended this year were Palestinians and Israelis, North and South Sudanese, people from the conflict-ridden Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). area of Central Africa, representatives from Indigenous communities around the world, Muslims and Christians from Nigeria, police and young people from the inner cities of Europe. This year's theme was 'Narrowing the gap between ideals and interests' and the challenges of global economic justice were high on the agenda. This issue of For A Change offers a glimpse of the myriad encounters, presentations, workshops, performances and personalities that made up the summer. MARY LEAN www.forachange.co.uk |
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