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# The Mahabharata (Narayan book)

The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic is a mythological book by R. K. Narayan. It is a modernised, shortened, and translated retelling of The Mahabharata. It was first published by Heinemann, London in 1978. The book was published as a result of a long endeavour that included three Hindu mythological works, Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana and finally The Mahabharata; in 1995, these works were republished as part of a new book, The Indian Epics Retold.

## Plot

Narayan's version of the Mahabharata focuses on the central conflict of the epic, the Kurukshetra War, while abridging many of the tangential stories-within-stories found in the original text. It begins with the ancestry of the central characters of the story, starting off with the life of King Santanu, the vow of Bhishma, the birth of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, and the tragic death of Pandu. The tale then follows the tutelage of the Pandavas by Drona, the burning of the house of lacquer, and the swayamvara of Draupadi.
From there, the story continues building toward the central war of the story, as Yudhisthira loses everything in the dice game, sending him and his brothers into years of exile in the forest, where they remain until tensions upon their return escalate into the great war. Narayan focuses the rest of his version of the Mahabharata on the Kurukshetra War (with the central dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna, the Bhagavad Gita, summarized into two pages), ending off with a swift post-war chapter and a two-to-three page epilogue.

## Development

In regards to his shortening of the Indian epic, R.K. Narayan states: "I have omitted none of the episodes relevant to the destinies of the chief characters. I have kept myself to the mainstream and held my version within readable limits." On the subject of translation, Narayan notes how an English version of the epic necessitates a process selection and condensation of the poetics into prose, as the "rhythm and depth" and the "hypnotic quality" of Sanskrit would inevitably be lost in translation. Though Narayan is knowledgeable of the scholarly research into the textual history of the Mahabharata (the evolution from a charioteer ballad into Jaya, and then Bharata, and finally the Mahabharata over the course of hundreds of years), Narayan chose to accept the traditional accounts of the narrative's origins, stating in his version's introduction: "The conclusions of cold, factual research seem like 'catching the rainbow with one's finger's', to quote a line from the epic itself."
American Indologist and author Wendy Doniger notes that although Narayan translated the epic from the Sanskrit version of the text, he still maintained the Tamil-style spelling of many of the character names (Kunthi instead of Kunti, Satyavathi instead of Satyavati, etc.). That being said, many of the epic's crucial points, such as the ambiguous nature of Krishna's divinity, follow the conventions of the Sanskrit text. Doniger states that Narayan "selects the precise details to keep the mortal/immortal tension in Krishna alive throughout the book."
# The Last Guardian (disambiguation)

The Last Guardian is a 2016 action-adventure game.
The Last Guardian may refer to:
* The Last Guardian (novel), a 1989 novel
* Warcraft: The Last Guardian, a 2002 novel
* Last Guardian of Everness, a 2004 novel
* Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian, a 2012 novel
# The Last Great Wilderness (album)

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The Last Great Wilderness is a soundtrack album by the Scottish band The Pastels, containing music from the film The Last Great Wilderness.

## Overview

The music comprises mostly short and atmospheric pieces, while three of the songs ("Winter Driving," "Flora's Theme," and "Flora Again") are brief fragments of eerie vocal loops and bells. Along with a cover of Sly and the Family Stone's "Everybody Is a Star" (which had previously appeared on a Geographic label compilation in 2002), the only other track to feature a lead vocal line is "I Picked a Flower", which is credited to The Nu Forest featuring Jarvis Cocker and The Pastels.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Stephen McRobbie and Katrina Mitchell, except where noted

## Personnel

* Stephen McRobbie (or Stephen Pastel) – guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Katrina Mitchell – drums, vocals, percussion, keyboards
* Bill Wells – guitar
* Colin McIlroy – guitar
* Gerard Love – guitar
* Allison Mitchell – trumpet
* Tom Crossley – vocals
* Richard Hawley – guitar
* Jarvis Cocker – vocals
* Annabel Wright – artwork
# The McGuire Twins

Billy Leon McCrary (December 7, 1946 – July 14, 1979) and Benny Loyd McCrary (December 7, 1946 – March 26, 2001), known together as The McCrary Twins or under their stage name as The McGuire Twins, were American professional wrestlers listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "World's Heaviest Twins" (727 pounds (330 kg) and 747 pounds (339 kg), respectively).

## Biographies

The twins were born in Hendersonville, North Carolina. They contracted rubella (German measles) when they were 4 years old, which caused problems for their pituitary glands and they started gaining weight. Their parents bought a farm to increase their physical activity and they ate only 1,000 calories per day but could not stop gaining weight. They each weighed 200 pounds (91 kg) by age 10 and 600 pounds (270 kg) by age 16. They dropped out of high school and moved to Texas, where they had jobs livestock branding.
They spent three years working at the Circus Circus Las Vegas, then performed their minibike routine for a few months in Los Angeles. A wrestling promoter saw them in El Paso, Texas, and convinced them to begin a wrestling training program in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, lifting weights and running often. In December 1971, at age 25, they made their in-ring debuts in Texas, losing to Bull Ramos and Cyclone Negro.
From 1974 to 1978, they participated in several matches in Japan, organized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, defeating other notable wrestling tag teams, including Kantaro Hoshino and Seiji Sakaguchi, as well as Osamu Kido and Riki Choshu. They used the stage name McGuire, since it was easier for Japanese ring announcers to pronounce.
The twins often used a finishing move called the "Tupelo Splash", which involved one of the twins diving belly-first onto a prone opponent; they would follow this with "The Steamroller", where the twin would roll back and forward over the opponent.
Billy McCrary died on July 14, 1979, at the age of 32, following a motorcycle accident in Niagara Falls, Ontario, en route to a Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.
After Billy's death, Benny tried to continue wrestling, partnering with André the Giant, but was not successful without his brother. Benny then opened a pawn shop and worked as an auctioneer in Hendersonville. He later moved to Walkertown, North Carolina, and worked for the Christian Golfers Ministry. The cartilage in his knee wore out and he was eventually bedridden.
Benny died at age 54 on March 26, 2001, of heart failure. The brothers are buried side by side in a graveyard near Hendersonville. Their gravestone displays images of two Honda motorcycles and is inscribed "World’s Largest Twins".

## Personal lives

The twins were married to sisters Maryse and Danielle Juarry, whom they met in Montreal. Benny was an evangelical Christian and enjoyed golf, playing until he was bedridden.
# The McKell Institute

The McKell Institute is an Australian public policy institute dedicated to developing practical policy ideas and contributing to public debate.

## History

The McKell Institute was launched in April 2012. It is named after William McKell, the 27th Premier of New South Wales and 12th Governor-General of Australia.

## Research

The McKell Institute released its first report in 2012 titled Homes for All: The 40 things we can do to improve supply and affordability.
The Institute conducts an annual survey, The State of New South Wales, which charts the views of NSW residents on a range of social and economic issues.
The Institute released a major report on productivity in November 2012 - Understanding Productivity - Australia's Choice
In July 2013 the McKell Institute released a report around work/life balance titled The Case for a National Portable Long Service Leave Scheme
Most recently, the McKell Institute was commissioned by Vodafone Hutchison Australia to compile Superfast Broadband - The future is in your hands, a report on telecommunications infrastructure and the National Broadband Network

## Events

The McKell Institute hosts a range of special guest speakers from business, government and civil society who address the Institute on policy matters.
Guest speakers who addressed the Institute in 2012 include the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who delivered a speech entitled 'Great Reforms Endure' and the Chair of Infrastructure New South Wales, former NSW Premier, Nick Greiner, who discussed the recently released NSW 20 year State Infrastructure Strategy First Things First.
In 2013, special guests have included NSW Education Minister the Hon Adrian Piccoli MP, NSW Treasurer the Hon Mike Baird MP, Federal Finance Minister Senator the Hon Penny Wong and Federal Health Minister the Hon Tanya Plibersek.
Subsequently, The McKell Institute has hosted numerous international and domestic public figures, including Former US Congressman Barney Frank, Former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, former Barack Obama campaign advisor David Plouffe, Australian Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, as well as other senior Australian political leaders.
# Zophodia ebeniella

Zophodia ebeniella is a species of snout moth in the genus Zophodia. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1888. It is found in Mozambique and South Africa.
# Intervocalic consonant

In phonetics and phonology, an intervocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs between two vowels.$^{:158}$ Intervocalic consonants are often associated with lenition, a phonetic process that causes consonants to weaken and eventually disappear entirely. An example of such a change in English is intervocalic alveolar flapping, a process (especially in North American and Australian English) that, impressionistically speaking, replaces /t/ with /d/. For example, "metal" is pronounced [mɛɾl]; "batter" sounds like ['bæ.ɾɚ]. (More precisely, both /t/ and /d/ are pronounced as the alveolar tap [ɾ].) In North American English, the weakening is variable across word boundaries, such that the /t/ of "see you tomorrow" might be pronounced as either [ɾ] or [tʰ].$^{:96}$ Some languages have intervocalic-weakening processes fully active word-internally and in connected discourse. For example, in Spanish, /d/ is regularly pronounced like [ð] in the words "todo" [ˈtoðo] (meaning "all") and "la duna [laˈðuna]", meaning "the dune" (but [ˈduna] if the word is pronounced alone).
# Gmina Medyka

Gmina Medyka is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Its seat is the village of Medyka, which lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Przemyśl and 72 km (45 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
The gmina covers an area of 60.67 square kilometres (23.4 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,906 (6,459 in 2013).

## Villages

Gmina Medyka contains the villages and settlements of Hureczko, Hurko, Jaksmanice, Leszno, Medyka, Siedliska and Torki.

## Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Medyka is bordered by the city of Przemyśl and by the gminas of Przemyśl, Stubno and Żurawica. It also borders Ukraine.
# Law of Andorra

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] The law of Andorra includes customary law and legislation.

## Constitution

The Constitution of Andorra was the subject of a referendum on 14 March 1993.

## Legislation

The legislature is the Consell General (English: General Council). The gazette is called Butlletí Oficial del Principat d'Andorra (English: Official Bulletin of the Principality of Andorra). Legislation includes decrees.

### List of legislation

* Decree concerning Andorran nationality of 17 June 1939
* Decree of 23 August 1947
* Decree concerning Andorran nationality of 7 April 1970
* Decree concerning the political rights of Andorran women of 14 April 1970
* Decree on legal and political majority of 2 July 1971
* Decree concerning the eligibility of Andorran women of 5 September 1973
* Decree on the process of institutional reform of 15 January 1981
* Decree on arms of 3 July 1989
* Penal Code of 11 July 1990
* Penal Code of 21 February 2005

## Customary law

Historical or material sources of customary law include canon law, Castilian law, Catalan law, French law and Roman law. Literary sources of customary law include the books Manual Digest (1748) and the Politar Andorrà (1763).

## Courts and judiciary

Courts include the Consell Superior de la Justica, the Tribunal Constitucional, the Tribunal Superior de la Justicia, the Tribunal de Corts, the Tribunal de Batlles, and multiple Batllia.

## Legal practitioners

Andorra has advocates (French: avocat) and notaries. There is a College of Advocates (French: Collège des Avocats).

## Criminal law

The Tribunal de Cortes is the court which has jurisdiction over crime. The Penal Code of 11 July 1990 was the country's first. There is now a new Penal Code of 21 February 2005 Capital punishment was proscribed in 1990. There is a Police Corps of Andorra.

## Nationality

Legislation on this subject has included the Decree concerning Andorran nationality of 17 June 1939 and the Decree concerning Andorran nationality of 7 April 1970.

## Heritage

Law 9 of 12 July 2003 relates to Patrimoni Cultural and Bé d'interès cultural.
# Petricia vernicina

Petricia vernicina, the velvet seastar, is a sea star in the family Asteropseidae. Found in Australia, from Caloundra, in Queensland south to Tasmania and west to Houtman Abrolhos islands off Western Australia. Also at the Kermadec Islands. The depth range is between zero and 60 metres. This seastar feeds on lace coral, sea squirts and sponges.
# Nikhat Shameem

Nikhat Shameem is a Fijian academic in the field of linguistics. Her research interests include language maintenance and shift of pidgins, creoles and minority languages, language teaching and assessment, and sociolinguistic surveys. Shameem also leads initiatives to preserve and revitalise the Fiji-Hindi language.

## Biography

Shameem was born and raised in Suva, Fiji, and studied education at the University of the South Pacific. She completed a diploma in teaching English as a second language, and a PhD in applied linguistics, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She completed a master's degree in business administration at the University of Cumbria, England, graduating in 2019.
Shammem worked for UNICEF in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the Sudan, and returned to Fiji in 2018. In 2019, she was appointed interim director of the Fiji Higher Education Commission.
Shameem speaks Fiji Hindi and is active in preserving and revitalisting the language. In 2019, she published a book of poetry in Fiji Hindi, and is the only person to have written and published poetry in this language.

## Publications

* Shameem, N. (1992). Arrival, and other stories. Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre.
* Shameem, N. (2019). Let the conch speak. Nikhat Shameem.
# Nils Johansson (ice hockey, born 1938)

Nils-Rune Tommy Johansson (born 24 July 1938) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and finished in second and fourth place, respectively. Between 1960 and 1970 he capped 168 times with the Swedish national team, winning the world title in 1962 and finishing second in 1963, 1967, 1969 and 1970.
Johansson never won a Swedish title, but in 1964 he received the Goldpucken Award as the best Swedish player and was selected to the Swedish all-star team. In 1971 he was awarded the Rinkens riddare award, given to the most sportsmanlike player of the Swedish Hockey League. After retiring from competitions he worked as a coach with Färjestads BK, Hanhals IF and IF Mölndal Hockey.
# Peter Hustinx

Peter Johan Hustinx (born 1945) is a Dutch lawyer who served as European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) from January 2004 – 2014.

## Biography
### Legal career

He trained at University of Nijmegen graduating in LLM in 1970, with further work at University of Michigan Law School.
From 1971 to 1991 he worked at the Dutch Ministry of Justice in constitutional and criminal law and preparing legislation.
He was general council of the public law division Dutch Ministry of Justice from 1979 to 1991.
In 1986 he became a Deputy judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.
He chaired the appeals committee of Europol's supervisory body from 1998 to 2001 and was Chair of the commission for the control of Interpol's files from 2002 to 2009.

### Data Protection

He started working on Data Protection as Deputy secretary-general from 1972-1976 of the Royal Commission on Privacy and Personal Data (Koopmans Commission)
He was a member of the 1981 Convention on Data Protection as part of his work from 1976 to 1991 Expert committee on Data Protection of the Council of Europe, and chaired this committee from 1985 to 1988.
He was President of the Dutch Data Protection Authority from 1991 to 2003, being reappointed twice in 1997 and 2001.
The chaired the EU Article 29 Data Protection working party from 1996 to 2000.
He was European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) from January 2004 to December 2014.

## Legacy

In an IAAP article on his legacy Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was quoted “When he took office, data protection was a minor issue. Now, it’s on top of the political agenda. So on his watch, the whole issue has changed dramatically.” In the same article Hogan Lovells’ Christopher Wolf described the EDPS as the “leading EU pundit on privacy and data security”
# Laurel Ridge Elementary School

Laurel Ridge Elementary School may refer to:
* Laurel Ridge Elementary School, DeKalb County, Georgia, near Decatur (Atlanta area) - DeKalb County School District
* Laurel Ridge Elementary School, Fairfax, Virginia (Washington DC area) - Fairfax County Public Schools
# Law of Slovakia

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] The law of the Slovak Republic is civil law.

## Constitution

The Constitution was passed in 1992.

## Legislature

The legislature is the National Council.

## Legislation

Legislation includes Acts.

### Acts

* Act No 277/1994 Coll
* Act No 136/1995 Coll
* Act No 270/1995 Coll (Language law of Slovakia)

## Courts and judiciary

There is a Supreme Court of Slovakia and a Constitutional Court of Slovakia.

## Legal practitioners

There is a Slovak Bar Association (Slovakian: Slovenská advokátska komora).

## Criminal law

The Criminal Code of 2005 replaced that of 1961.

## Civil code

The Občiansky zákonník, or Slovak Civil Code, is derived from the Czechoslovak Civil Code of 1964.
# Lauren Belfer

Lauren Belfer is an American author of four novels: City of Light, A Fierce Radiance, And After the Fire and Ashton Hall, which was published in June 2022.

## Personal life

Lauren Belfer was born in Rochester, New York and grew up in Buffalo, New York, where she attended the Buffalo Seminary. The school would later serve as the basis for the girls' school depicted in her debut novel, City Of Light, about Buffalo, NY during the Pan-American Exposition.
Belfer majored in Medieval Studies at Swarthmore College (graduated 1975), has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and worked as a file clerk at an art gallery, a paralegal, an assistant photo editor at a newspaper, a fact checker at magazines, and as a researcher and associate producer at CBS News and on documentary films.
She is married to noted musicologist Michael Marissen and lives in Greenwich Village, New York City. She has one child, Tristan.

## Work

Her debut novel, City Of Light, was a New York Times bestseller as well as a number one Book Sense pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award nominee, a New York Times Notable Book, a Library Journal Best Book, a Main Selection of the Book-Of-The-Month Club, and a bestseller in Great Britain. It has been translated into seven languages and adapted into a stage play by Anthony Clarvoe.
Her second novel, A Fierce Radiance, is a historical thriller that follows the development of penicillin during World War II in New York City. It was published by HarperCollins in June 2010. This novel was named one of the best novels of 2010 by The Washington Post and it was one of the year's five best mysteries for NPR. The paperback edition was released in March 2011.
Her third novel, And After The Fire, is a powerful and passionate novel inspired by historical events about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both of their lives. It has been compared to A.S. Byatt's Possession and received a starred review from Booklist. USA Today gave And After The Fire a 4-star review, writing that the novel "swells with life’s great themes—love, death, family and faith—and the insistent, dark music of loss.” The New Yorker called And After The Fire "provocative." It was published and released by HarperCollins, on May 3, 2016 and was awarded a National Jewish Book Award in January 2017.
In May 2016, Belfer and Marissen were profiled in The New York Times. In the article, they discuss their working process, Bach, and writing a novel with musical accuracy.
In January 2017, Belfer and Marissen were interviewed by Michael Enright for the CBC radio program "Sunday Edition."
Belfer's fiction has also been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and Henfield Prize Stories. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.
Belfer was interviewed as an author/historian for the PBS documentary on Elbert Hubbard entitled Elbert Hubbard: An American Original.

## Awards

* 2016: National Jewish Book Award for And After The Fire
# Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Japanese: 芽むしり仔撃ち, Hepburn: Memushiri Kouchi); also known as "Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring") is a 1958 novel by Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe. It is Ōe's first novel, written when he was 23 years old.
It was originally published in 1958. It was reprinted by Kodansha on 2 November 1994. An English translation was released in 1995 by Marion Boyars Publishers.

## Plot

The novel deals with fifteen adolescent boys from a reformatory in World War II Japan. The boys (including the unnamed narrator and his brother) are sent to a rural village (strongly echoing the regions of Shikoku in which Ōe was raised) to live and work. Upon arrival, the boys find the village afflicted by plague, with piles of rotting animal corpses dominating the atmosphere. Soon after the boys' arrival, the villagers flee from the plague to a neighboring village, barricading the boys in and abandoning them to their fate.
The group is joined (in stages) by a Korean boy named Li, a deserter from the army, and a young girl who has been abandoned in a warehouse. The boys attempt to make the most of their situation; Li teaches them to hunt birds, resulting in a jubilant festival, and the narrator finds love with the young girl. Their situation turns after a few days, however; the girl dies of plague after being bitten by a village dog, the narrator's brother runs away into the wild forest (and presumed dead), and the villagers eventually return and are furious with the state in which they find the village. Fearful of the repercussions should it become known that they abandoned the boys to die, they stab the deserter and alternately threaten the boys with violence and ply them with food. All members of the reformatory boys eventually agree to keep silent about the actions of the villagers, with the exception of the narrator. At the close of the novel, he is chased into the forest by the villagers to an unknown fate.