By Express News Service

HYDERABAD: Headphones thrown at governor ESL Narasimhan by an angry Congress Legislative Party (CLP) member accidentally hit Telangana State Legislative Council chairman K Swamy Goud injuring his right eye on Monday.

The incident happened when an enraged Komatireddy Venkat Reddy threw his headphones directly at governor Narasimhan while he was explaining various measures taken up by the government for the welfare of people, during his customary address to the joint sitting of the TS Legislative Assembly and Council here. The Congress alleged that the governor's speech was laced with lies.

They also raised slogans, displayed placards and rushed to the well of the Assembly, asking the government about farmers' suicides and non-fulfilment of ruling TRS electoral promises such as the distribution of three-acre land to each Dalitfamily and filling all vacant posts in the government.

Congress Party member Komatireddy Venkat Reddy said his act was not intended to hurt the council chairman Swamy Goud, "who is a very good man."

"As there was no mention of farmers' suicides in the Governor's speech, we wanted to express our dissent in the House. But, we were not allowed even to proceed to the well of the House. Marshals were pressed to manhandle us in the House. Hence, as a last resort, I hurled the headphones towards the Governor," he claimed.

After the incident, the House was adjourned and Swamy Goud was rushed to the Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in the city for immediate treatment. Doctors, who are providing treatment to Swamy Goud, said he needs to be kept under


incident.

He recalled that the then TRS members like present irrigation minister T Harish Rao had even tried to physically assault the same Governor Narasimhan, when he was addressing the State Legislature in the erstwhile united State.

Earlier in the day, Governor Narasimhan, while addressing both the Houses of the State Legislature, said he was confident that the deliberations during the budget session will be constructive and useful in evolving policies to achieve the goal of ‘Bangaru Telangana".for a crew that could be looking on to a scene – maybe across the channel?

The rear of the box shows each of the figures in isolation and the colours in most of the major paint brands as well as the shade itself (nice) and this serves as a pretty good painting guide for these early war uniforms that were more strictly regulated than the latter war standards.

The box that says that this crew are a 1940 French theatre of operations would call for short black Panzerjacke, tall jackboots and the Black Panzer Beret (Schutzmütze) of the early war uniform.

The black Panzer wrap Panzerjacke was originally introduced by the army on November 12TH 1934, for wear by armoured vehicle personnel and was worn through-out the war with minor


modifications in 1936 and 1942. Allegedly the chief of the motorized troops, Oberst Heinz Guderian came up with the coloration and design of the form fitting uniform which he based on a popular ski outfit of the time and black was chosen as the colour as it helped conceal the grease and grime commonly encountered by motorized personnel.

The uniform consisted of a specially designed wrap tunic, pants and the distinctive black Panzer beret/crash helmet which was originally the only officially sanctioned piece of headgear to be worn with that uniform. The black Panzer beret Schutzmütze consisted of a separate, removable beret fitted to an underlying, formed, protective crash helmet. On its introduction the insignia for the beret was a white oak-leaf wreath and a national tri-colour cockade excludingthem off a bit. The detail on his soft shirt is pulled to the side as he leans over and his fingers might need a little thinning up. Time permitting however I made him up pretty well in ten minutes.

Here he is made up

Figure B

This panzer crewman is standing there in “sugar bowl” style with his hands on his hips. He is wearing exactly the same as the former figure, with black pants over his long leather jackboots, cotton black/grey shirt and on top that panzer beret. His front foot is up resting on something – maybe a higher deck of the tank and maybe just a box – it’s your choice diorama makers.

The sprue

No real gaps and a soft flow of his shirt and pants as it


People in Okinawa more or less feel Japan has continued to betray them, according to local officials.

“There is no safe place around here,” said Kiyoshi Nakamura, head of the Ginowan district of the Okinawa city of Ginowan, looking up at a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor airplane flying over a residential area.

The United States deployed Osprey aircraft to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, in densely populated Ginowan, in 2012. Local people no longer look up when the aircraft fly overhead because the flights have become part of everyday life.

Nakamura, 57, was born and raised near the Futenma base, which was built in 1945. He rarely paid attention to the base until the crash of a large U.S. military helicopter into a building at Okinawa International University nearhis home on Aug. 13, 2004.

The crash prompted Nakamura to begin paying keen attention to the base.

Triggered by the gang rape of a local schoolgirl by two U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman in 1995, anger erupted among residents and calls for an Okinawa without military bases grew stronger. In 1996, the Japanese and U.S. governments agreed on the return of the Futenma base site to Japan.

However, the return has been contingent upon completion of an airstrip to replace Futenma farther north on Okinawa Island, near Marine Corps Camp Schwab in the Henoko district of the city of Nago.

Nineteen years after the accord, the return of Futenma has yet to happen as strong opposition slows efforts to build the Nago replacement base.

“We won’t be free from dangers without


the return (of the Futenma site),” Nakamura said.

Preparations have been underway to relocate the Futenma base operations to the less-populated Henoko coastal area, though locals are fighting the move.

“We will never allow the relocation,” stressed Yoshitami Oshiro, a 74-year-old member of the Nago Municipal Assembly.

Oshiro, who has been involved in various peace movements since his youth, said people in Okinawa have been repeatedly betrayed by the central government.

After the end of the fierce Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II, the U.S. forces forcibly expropriated land in the prefecture, expelling those who resisted eviction at bayonet point. Locals called the method “bayonets and bulldozers.”

While Okinawa was separated from Japan under the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty, on May 15, 1972, Okinawa reverted back to JapaneseAnna Campbell fell in action in Syria, reportedly defending Kurdish civilians evacuating from the Turkish bombardment of their city, Afrin, on March 15 2018.

A Turkish missile struck the position Anna and her comrades were holding.

The Kurdish city of Afrin was subsequently occupied by Turkish forces and their jihadist allies who put up posters instructing the female inhabitants how to dress according to Islamic sharia law.

Shocking, as Afrin had remained one of the only cities in Syria completely free from Isis or jihadist terror until Turkey’s illegal invasion and occupation by Turkish and jihadist forces.

Afrin is now controlled by Turkey and only the Turkish state knows exactly where the body of Anna Campbell is located.

Her family want the British government to use its good relationship with the AKP government


in Turkey to find, recover and repatriate the remains of their daughter, sister, niece, aunt, so she maybe finally laid to rest in her own country.

Campbell went to join the struggle dubbed “the women’s revolution” in the north of Syria alongside the Kurds as they continued to fight successfully against the remnants of Isis in the area.

She joined the armed resistance on the front lines in Deir Ezzor after working for many months in the civil society of the social revolution that has seen Kurdish and Arabic women liberated in the Middle East.

Grassroots social ecology projects and equal representation for localities and all ethnicities, identities and religious beliefs rolled out across the territory controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to the delight of Arabs and Kurdsalike across the north of Syria.

For Anna – or as she was now called by her Kurdish comrades, Helin Qerecox – this was the most exciting revolution that was happening anywhere in the world and encompassed her core beliefs.

“It was almost as if she was searching for the perfect way of expressing all the values she held closest — humanitarian, ecological, feminist and for equal political representation,” says her father Dirk Campbell.

“Those were the issues she came to dedicate her life to, and she came to the conclusion that Rojava was where she had to go,” he told The Guardian very soon after her death.

It is now nearly four months since the Campbell family were informed by the YPJ of Anna’s death at some unidentified location in Afrin,


northern Syria.

They were at first told that she was part of a convoy that was hit by a Turkish air strike. Then they were told that she was in a small unit of six fighters protecting civilians somewhere between Shirawa and Afrin.

Later on the story emerged that there was a YPG fighter who had been wounded in the strike that killed Anna and made his way to a hospital beyond the conflict zone. He reported that he was one of two YPG men who were posted with Anna and another YPJ woman. The location was not divulged and no-one seems to have asked for it.

The witness disappeared before he could be further questioned.

The YPG/YPJ command could not track him down, nor could they identify the commander in chargeof Anna’s unit. The situation seemed highly confused and chaotic.

Perhaps understandable, as war ravaged the area and information was very difficult to come by.

It was becoming clear that the Turkish occupying forces in Afrin were not returning the bodies of the dead as required under the Geneva Convention.

They were not even collecting them and interring them. They were simply leaving them to rot where they fell, savaged by dogs and wild animals and causing a health risk.

It was also clear that soldiers serving with the Turkish army were desecrating the bodies of the dead, mutilating them and dragging them through the streets, women fighters being particularly subjected to sexual atrocities. The Turkish army was permitting if not actually encouraging these war crimes.

On Monday May 21 members of Anna’s


family met Alistair Burt, minister of state for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

They took the opportunity to ask questions about Turkey’s illegal invasion of a sovereign country and its flagrant war crimes and flouting of the Geneva Conventions.

Mr Burt said that he could not comment as there was “no independent evidence” and that all the information received from the British government on the conflict was supplied by the Turkish authorities.

Dirk Campbell asked who these Turkish authorities were, and was told “the director general for counter terrorism.”

The Turks regard all Kurds as terrorist sympathisers if not actual terrorists, including the internationals who join the protection units in Rojava.

The Turkish pretext for the invasion of Afrin is that it is a hotbed of terrorism.

Mr Campbellexact location of her body.

The house had been hit by an air strike, killing Anna and two other fighters instantly and burying them under rubble. It was not clear how the fourth fighter had escaped since they were all supposedly sheltering in the basement and only Anna had emerged during a lull in the bombardment when she was spotted by a drone and the house targeted and blown up.

Ten days later Dirk received a copy of a letter forwarded by Anna’s aunt, Tory Bridges, who had recently returned from Rojava as part of a women’s delegation.

The letter had been sent, not to her but to another member of the delegation, who had copied it to her. The letter stated that the house was in Mahmoudiyeh, on the north-west


Rojava because she was a revolutionary. She believed that protecting the women’s revolution is the only possible free life choice. She understood the real meaning of joining the Kurdish freedom movement. She became one with the soul of the YPJ.

With her sacrifice, she wrote her name into the history of internationalist women’s struggle for freedom.

“Heval Helîn joined with an immense amount to give and she lived according to this, love for freedom, for life and for humanity.

“This showed us we can really unite against the fascist dominant male system and that the paradigm of our movement is a powerful weapon for the liberation of women all over the world. Her sacrifice is the basis for a new higher level in our international struggle because she demonstrated the universalityre Vedvik last summer before he suffered injuries in an assault that kept him off the field for the rest of the season.With Vedvik again kicking well and Justin Tucker still on hand in Baltimore White Lamar Jackson Jersey , chatter is picking up about a possible trade again this year. A report on Saturday indicated the Jets are interested in Vedvik — that interest may be amplified by Chandler Catanzaro‘s retirement — but that they believe the bears will trade for him.Sunday brings word of other suitors. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that four teams have called the Ravens about dealing for the kicker and that two of them are from the NFC North.It would be surprising if the Bears weren’t one of the teams as Elliott


the EU.

The announcement was met with lots of discussions. Criticism has been raised in regards to freedom of speech and information, unclear compliance requirements and grey areas left with the regulation.

Geeks’ Life and the GDPR

Seeing that the regulation still leaves question marks when it comes to its application (especially for media platforms that cover cultural events), GLL has taken the following stance so far (which may be updated when further details are released):

Starting on 25 May 2018 the GLL crew only covers events the team gets invited to or gets press accredication for.

The GLL crew continues making photoshoots with the autorisation of the model and any people featured on the pictures.This past Saturday afternoon I was channel surfing and stopped at LTV (Lighthouse Television – the local TBN affiliate). I don’t recall the name of the show, but it was one of those shows where there is a host who interviews a different guest for each episode of the show for them to discuss their Christian experiences.

The guest that day was a guy called Godwin Bategeka who works with a ministry called Above the Waters. He was narrating an ordeal he had experienced while undergoing an operation a while back. I will paraphrase what he said from what I can recall.

Basically he had been seriously ill for a while, and he had not been responding to treatment he had been undergoing. At some point an operation was required


to save him. On the day of his operation, he was told by his doctors that they would be administering Ketamine to him. They made sure to inform him of what the side effects of Ketamine would be. According to Bategeka’s account, the doctors informed him that Ketamine was hallucinogenic, and warned him he might have hallucinations while he was undergoing the medical procedure.

After being taken into the theatre, Bategeka said he felt himself leaving his body, and rising above the operating table. Then, he felt himself passing through the ceiling in a sensation he described to be like ‘breaking through ice’. As Bategeka narrated his ordeal, the host of the show kept interjecting with amen, praise him and other common Christian declarations of faith in the appropriateplaces as might be expected on a Christian TV show when someone is offering a testimony. Once he had ‘broken through’ the ice, he said he found himself in a place flooded with bright light. In this place he said he saw Jesus who embraced him and welcomed him into heaven. Bategeka, however, felt that his ‘time’ really hadn’t come, so pleaded with Jesus to send him back to earth. Jesus apparently honoured this request, and sent him back. When he came to, he was informed by his doctors that during his operation he had been moving about and could be heard mumbling.

Once Bategeka was done telling the story, he and the host both marvelled at the power and love of ‘God’. Bategeka then said he felt fortunate


and Jun Lozada, that advocates electoral reform and the review of the automated elections system. She got her Political Science degree from Boston. She's been in banking, sales, and marketing. She was even a Montessori teacher! Since 2005, she's spoken at just about every major opposition rally. She's been going around the country pushing her advocacies for electoral reform and poverty relief. I think she deserves a chance to run for whatever public office she wants. And for those who think that inexperience in politics or public office makes for a poor candidate, remember, before she became a symbol of truth and justice, Cory Aquino was just a housewife.

I'd like to comment about Grace Poe. I've read all of the comments about her in this blog. A lotgroup that advocates electoral reform and the review of the automated elections system. She was team captain of her high school debate team. She won a number of oratorical competitions in high school and college. She got her undergrad degree in Boston -- Political Science with a concentration in Political Theory. She's been in banking, sales, and marketing. She was even a Montessori teacher! Since 2005 she's spoken at just about every major opposition rally. She's been going around the country pushing her advocacies for electoral reform and poverty relief. I think she deserves a chance to run for whatever public office she wants. And for those who think that inexperience in politics or public office makes for a poor candidate, remember, before she became a symbol of


for the time they have in the government I will risk for someone new, for someone capable.

I also watched the announcement of Erap to run again in 2010 but for the mentioned name Grace Poe to be one of his line up...didn't she just said the other week ata iyon sa news na "she haven't decided anything yet, whether she will run for senatorial position or she will run for Erap" so there's no clear phrase from that line yet. And if ever she will run for the position, not because she is the son of the late Fernando Poe Jr. but i heard from radio dzbb, that is the station where they had this conversation about her and her profile there was mentioned. As a voter Iteam. Seattle had allowed teams to psych them out of running the ball with extra men in the box. That stopped on Sunday. A Seahawks team that had completely changed their profile on first down plays to be roughly equal pass and run went back to pounding the rock on first down. Twenty-two of the Seahawks thirty-two first downs plays were runs. Tampa knew it was coming, and was among the best run defenses in the NFL. It did not matter. Seahawks rushers averaged a whopping 5.3 yards per carry on first down. Both Lynch and Robert Turbin, who had his best game of the season, averaged over 5.5 yards per carry on first down.

This allowed Wilson’s throws on first down to be that much more effective. He


was 7-10 passing with a 9.2 yards per attempt average and a 92.5 passer rating on first down. He would have been even higher if he had not thrown that interception in the end zone late in the game, which came on a first down throw.

Seattle was gaining large chunks of yards throughout the afternoon. The Bucs had only allowed 12 explosive runs (12+ yard gains) all season before Sunday. The Seahawks collected a season-high seven in one game. They added seven explosive passes (16+ yards) for a total of 14 explosive plays, also a season-high. The only game where the team had more explosive passes was when the Jaguars came to town and they had nine.

A telling number was the four explosive catches Doug Baldwin and Jermaineyield seven-sacks with a zero sack effort versus Tampa. Wilson still got hit, and hit hard, but the sack shutout should not be overlooked. It was the first game since Week 8 of last season that the Seahawks had not surrendered a sack. Only three teams in the NFL this season have allowed zero sacks and averaged at least 5.6 yards per carry.

FACT: Only three teams in the NFL this season have allowed zero sacks and averaged at least 5.6 yards per carry in a game. Seattle is one of them.

That helped Seattle to more sustained drives than at any other point in the season. The Seahawks registered six drives of over 50 yards. They had not had a game of more than four such drives before Sunday.


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| the terms of any oneout, and we had to stay put. About 15 minutes later, a sheepdog came from out of nowehere and climbed up onto our car. It started barking at the flock, and before we knew it they began moving away.

on drive one day, and its idea of a shortcut was up a hill where we ultimately became surrounded by a thousand sheep. There was no way out, and we had to stay put. About 15 minutes later, a sheepdog came from out of nowehere and climbed up onto our car. It started barking at the flock, and before we knew it they began moving away. Somehow my wife manages to get pooped on by a bird in every city and country she visits.

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CHAMPIONS D-Mark Power return to the basketball league against Heaters today in a game of contrasting fortunes. Power, spurred by experienced players including last season’s MVP Ben Komakech and Isaac Afidra, are eyeing a third straight win against a team struggling to do so. The champions are favourites to carry the day against a side that has lost it’s first two games. The two clubs have enjoyed a close relationship in the last three years but this will count for nothing with each side chasing victory. During that period, Heaters, who were in the second division, served as a feeder side for Power. This ended with Heaters’ promotion to the top flight. Heaters will again look to Charles Babumba, Moses Okwera and Derrick Mbusi for inspiration in whatList of works by Antonin Mercié

This is a list of some of the works of the French sculptor and painter Antonin Mercié.

Biography
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière.  In 1868, he won the Prix de Rome with the composition  "Thésée vainqueur du Minotaure".

In 1872, and whilst working in Rome, courtesy of the Prix de Rome, he submitted the work entitled  "David vainqueur du Goliath" to the Paris Salon and this won him the Salon's "medaiile de première classe".  By 1874 Mercié's fame was growing and in that year he submitted the work "Gloria Victis" (Gloire aux Vaincus) to the Salon and this enjoyed great success.


ago, Spaid noticed the presence of trees as a motif in his work and decided to pursue a project focusing solely on varieties of trees photographed in color.

During his sabbatical last year, Spaid traveled around the country — from Nantucket, to Wyoming, to Colorado and back to Knox County photographing trees. At Mesa Verde, he will add to this portfolio and give a public presentation to parkgoers on a topic he will pitch to the park’s staff. Eventually, Spaid hopes to exhibit this project in its entirety either in a gallery or in a book, with the presentation divided into chapters such as “Fire,” which will document the burnt remains of trees after wildfires at Mesa Verde. Another chapter may focus specifically on the complex and abstract patterningof bark.

In his upcoming residency, Spaid plans to change his subject matter slightly, by photographing the sites of wildfires where trees have been burnt as part of a natural cycle of destruction and regeneration. Spaid hopes to capture these scenes mostly at night, or by using the fading light at dusk.

As Spaid read more about trees, he became more fascinated by his subjects. One article he came across presented the theory that the simple presence of a tree outside a patient’s window in a hospital improves their chances of recovery. Another phenomenon he came across was the act of “forest bathing” — a term coined in Japan to refer to the act of walking through forests and the resulting physical effects, like lowered blood pressure and anxiety. He


This is supported by RFID Journal's own data. We saw a 25 percent increase in newsletter subscribers from the retail sector from June 2014 to June 2015, and a 37 percent increase from June 2015 to June 2016.

The RFID Lab study also found that many retailers are launching a proof of concept. A PoC typically involves one or two stores and a limited number of merchandise categories. It is designed to demonstrate RFID's effectiveness in the retailer's environment. The study revealed an impressive 42 percent growth in apparel retailers conducting PoCs.

Another positive sign for RFID adoption in apparel retail is that more PoCs are leading to larger pilots. Many of the retailers conducting PoCs last year moved to pilots this year, resulting in a 57 percent increase inhooligan people out of their jobs, and the main role is even a school teacher.

The new hooligan type is not necessarily unemployed, and many of them are in possession of high-level jobs or university students, many of them are married and some of them even have children. The two stories Green Street Hooligans and Among the Thugs, very similar because it is an innocent person who has not seen the world before, which suddenly becomes drawn into a completely different world than the one they are accustomed to, and they are afraid and they are suddenly in the middle of a large hooligan showdown and they can do nothing about it, they can’t escape, so they become and fight the fight, in Green Street Hooligans give the main


character a completely different look at life, and it gives him even a very positive look at life, it gives him the courage to stand by the things he wants. In Among the Thugs can be at the end of the story read how much of the hooligans environment has affected him when he is on his way to his train where an elderly couple in front of him where he chooses to push them and shouting “Fuck off, you old cunts” and it is not something he would have done before because he himself sitting at the train station at the beginning of the story and are quite surprised hooligans the behavior and how they suddenly can just take it all, but somehow he is also quiteHighlights of 2004

Violin Maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman (fourth from left) being felicitated on his 60 years of achievement in the field of music and dance with the Swarna Jayanthi Special Award presented by V. Shankar (extreme right), President, Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and Music Sabha, Mumbai. — Pics. by V. Ganesan

IT WAS a colourful, unique function organised by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, which whilst celebrating its Swarna Jayanti, also took the opportunity to felicitate the violin maestro Lalgudi G Jayaraman for his remarkable contribution to the cause of classical Carnatic Music. The morning session packed with musicians, rasikas and admirers of Lalgudi began with a prayer by Saketharaman who belongs to the Lalgudi School. S. P. Ramh, one of the torch-bearers of the Lalgudi bani presented a heartwarming vocal


concert.

A very engrossing lecture demonstration by Sujata Vijayaraghavan on the Vidvan's compositions suited to the art form of dance was appreciated and fervently applauded. The music of Sujata and the dances by Kritika, Sumitra Nitin and Sudharma for some of Lalgudi's dance creations were highly commedable efforts. The young support singer Janani made an endearing impact with her sensitive articulation. A panel discussion emphasising the superb vidvat and creativity of Lalgudi were brought to the fore by Prof.

T. R. Subramaniam, Prof. Karaikudi Subramaniam and Vidushi Sulochana Pattabhiraman. Group singing by several Lalgudi students, a vocal concert by Lalita Krishnan, Lalgudi's student and daughter-in-law,and a violin duet by the Lalgudi siblings, Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi, were included in the programme. The evening segment beginning with an invocation by Bombay JayasriRamnath and the welcome address by Nalli Kuppuswami Chettiar, was followed by the presentation of the Swarna Jayanti award and a purse of Rs. 1 lakh to Lalgudi on behalf of Sri Krishna Gana Sabha by V. Shankar, President Shanmukhananda Sabha, Bombay. The first copy of the Swarna Jayanti commemoration volume and an audio album of Lalgudi's live concert in tandem with his sister Srimathi Brahmanandam in 1970 under the aegis of the Krishna Gana Sabha were released. ``Panchali Sabatham," a solo dance-drama for which Lalgudi has scored the music was presented by Urmila Sathyanarayanan. The august presence of the Sankaracharyas of the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam enhanced the quality of the ambience. Felicitations to Lalgudi focussing on his multifaceted genius were offered by R. Venugopal, Chitra Visweswaran


and R. Thiagarajan. Shawls and mementos were presented to Jayaraman and Sri Yagnaraman on behalf of Shanmukhananda Sabha, Bombay. Lalgudi in his acceptance speech acknowledged the valuable support he has always received from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha. The entire proceeding was compeered by Va.Ve.Su. The event was a fitting tribute to a great vidwan.

Jayashri is like a mountain pond, quiet with hidden depths. The stone cast in the waters creates quiet ripples. She has clawed her way through life and established a space around herself. This space reflects the individuality, a sharp intelligence and an incisive intellectual reaction to time, events and achievements....

There is a great sense of calmness and peace in the demeanour of Jayashri as she performs this season in Chennai. There are no fireworks orfacial distortions that have become the hallmark of popular singers. Her eyes close as she internalises the music. The spectator can easily perceive that her music is now a sublime experience, a divine exaltation. Her cassettes too reflect this bhakthi bhava
Shravanam combines the Carnatic and Hindustani bhakthi singing to evoke a tremendous sense of the divine in the listener.
Jayashri is like a mountain pond, quiet with hidden depths. The stone cast in the waters creates quiet ripples. She has clawed her way through life and established a space around herself. This space reflects the individuality, a sharp intelligence and an incisive intellectual reaction to time, events and achievements. She is straightforward, painfully honest, and cool with glimpses of emotion that filter through like sunlight in the forest green.
Her


business card reflects this involvement with the elements -- fire, earth and water, graphically represented by a peacock in the different colours and images of the elements. Her music too is a reflection of this sublime and elemental existence. A small refrain from an advertisement for a jewellery shop swirls through the room with just a word -- Shree. The sonorous voice tugs at some feeling deep within the listener and calls out to the very essence of Shakthi and life.
First impressions are of a simple lady, no frills, no embellishments, just herself and her music. The home reflects this minimalism -- spacious, uncluttered, bright and tidy.
Jayashri takes you back to her childhood in a Mumbai suburb. Her home was filled with childish voices singing the basic notesagain and again in different pitches. Her parents were music teachers and from 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to share the space and relationship with her parents. She did not realise that there was anything like quality time with her parents. Her father was engrossed in music for its own sake. Her mother saw it as an instrument to take her beyond the boundaries of a life where music was just a pastime or talent.
By the time she was eight, her father passed away and her two brothers and she were taught to focus on each one's particular talent by her mother. Jayashri's phenomenal gift was trained, honed and polished by the ambitions of her mother who had seen the singular achievements of an


MS or MLV. She was a tough disciplinarian and nothing other than music was allowed to enter Jayashri's life.
She was woken up at 4 am and the important Brahma muhurtham was utilised to imprint the rudiments and niceties of classical music. "That is the time when the voice is fresh after a good night's sleep, the mind is clear and what is learnt leaves an indelible imprint on your personality, explains Jayashri. "No distractions were allowed. It was schooling at St. Antony's and music at home. I did not read any Amar Chitra Katha's, or know who Tin Tin was or realize that Mills and Boons were common reading material for teenagers in my circle.
Soon her mother realized that Jayashri needed a more qualified guru to broaden herknowledge and skills. Smt. T.R. Balamani in Matunga was chosen and Jayashri's life expanded to include daily trips on the 8 Ltd. bus, along with her friend, to her teacher's house where she spent 3-4 hours practising, learning and adding to her repertoire. This was the routine for seven years. "I have been lucky with my gurus, confesses Jayashri. "Balamani teacher made learning music so interesting. It was not just learning a krithi or a raaga. It was delving into the lyrics, learning about bhava and laya. I learnt music with her for the sheer pleasure of singing. There was no thought about making it a career. I also enjoyed the freedom of travelling across the city. It was also hard work. Then, the prizes began to come


learning curve continued to rise and Jayashri expanded her horizons to take in ghazals, bhajans, Urdu and French. With wider exposure to the world of college and music, her self-confidence grew. "In the five years in college, I won every prize in music. I also developed the undying spirit to win.
Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman was a friend of the family. On a visit to their home, he heard her sing and invited her to come and learn music from him in Chennai. That season in Chennai, she took part in the Music Academy competitions and won prizes. Jayashri was soon convinced that she was not going back to Mumbai until she had done her Gurukulam with Shri Lalgudi.
"Lalgudi sir's way of teaching, his insight into music and the wayhe transferred that knowledge to his students was inspiring. If he took up a raaga, say Kalyani, it was not merely the raaga and its interpretation that were discussed. He would explore the rendering of the raaga by various composers, performers and dissect our own interpretation. He would identify the best interpretation and ask us to imprint our own sense of aesthetics into the rendering and make it our own. He is a guru in the true sense of the word. His approach was open and he made us listen to all kinds of music, including diverse music by Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Rafi or Lata and other doyens of Carnatic music.
Jayashri describes her guru's holistic approach to music. "He was orthodox, very south Indian in character but


truly international in mind. His home is like a temple but his mind is free from superstition and rigid codes of behaviour. He became a father figure for her and helped her to totally focus on music. "His approach to music was never stifling. He encouraged us to put across our viewpoint. We were a great group consisting of Vittal Ramamurthy and Ramdas -- the violinists, S.P. Ramh, Shankari, Lalitha Krishnan -- his daughter-in-law, and daughter Vijayalakshmi. There was no fixed time or schedule. From morning to night, music enveloped us. Today each of us has gone our own ways but continue to interact."
Back home, her mother started to worry that the bird had flown the nest. She was 23 years old and thoughts of marriage began toenter her mother's scheme of things. Jayashri was not ready to perform yet, but soon small opportunities came her way. Her cassettes first appeared in the public. The change between Mumbai and Chennai was an opportunity for Jayashri to discover herself. The new city, new people, even a new language different from the Palghat Tamil she spoke at home made a deep impression on her. She was intrigued to create her own space, to take the different aspects of music and life and to stamp it with her own personality. Mumbai was left behind.
In '92, her brother Sabesh took a transfer and came to Chennai to give Jayashri the moorings of home and family. In '96, she met Ramnath. "His sister plays the veena and a friendship grew.


began to perform and travel with the baby in her bag. She now teaches students and her husband looks after her fortune!
Jayashri's learning curve continued to grow. She found that she could not appreciate western music. Analysing this mental block, she decided to learn to play the piano to appreciate the nuances of western music. Reading on musicology, religion and philosophy is part of her daily routine. "My legs on wheels have taken me far and wide. I enjoy giving performances in Europe where the audience is tremendously appreciative of Indian music due to Ravi Shankar. Sri Lankans have come together to promote Carnatic music in a big way. I make it a point to see the places I visit apart from my music commitments.
"It is tough beinga parent and a musician. My son is still small enough to travel with me without worries of missed schooling. Ramnath's working from home helps that way. Any ill health of the child does worry me when I am away. But once the first notes flow out of my lips, it is then me, my space and my music."
I have had some strange events connected with my performances. Once I was singing in Phoenix. Parents of a child came to me before the concert and said that their child would only eat and sleep if one of my songs was played. At the concert, he was sleeping in their arms and woke up after my repertoire was over. He started wailing and I immediately sang the song. Miraculously


he quieted down. That was truly a wonderful experience. Another child loves my rendering of "Ranganayakam" and calls me Ranganayakam Aunty.
A linguist, speaking English, Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Hindi, Jayashri seized upon an opportunity to discover the classic books of Kalki when she was hospitalised after a freak accident that left her bed-ridden for 2 months. A friend visited her and had discussions on Bharathiyar's poetry, its meaning and metaphor. He also gave her homework to study a few of the poems and then helped her analyse them. Her knowledge of Tamil was greatly improved.
Amrit hums quite well. Sabesh's daughter sings beautifully and so does Ramnath's niece. The focus and dedication of Jayashri's mother is not there in any of these mothers. "I would like to help themshe does sing on and off for films.
The space around her protects her from the invasions of the outside world into her privacy. Her music speaks to her listeners. The sapthaswaras cling to her like armour from behind which she coolly observes the world. A very private person, the emotions peep out when she talks about her son, her guru, her husband, her mother and siblings. The face resting on the stem of the tambura, as the music flows like a glowing stream of sunlight that illuminates the dark corners of human existence, make Jayashri somebody very special.


In the past, various types of gaming machines have been developed with different features to captivate and maintain player interest. In general, a gaming machine allows a player to play a game in exchange for a wager. Depending on the outcome of the game, the player may be entitled to an award which is paid to the player by the gaming machine, normally in the form of currency or game credits. Gaming machines may include flashing displays, lighted displays, or sound effects to capture a player's interest in a gaming device. There is also the desire to incorporate mobile devices for game play, however, there are numerous obstacles to the use of mobile devices for game play, including the lack of ticket printers and bill acceptors.
Historically, there hasWashington's power elite are no strangers to cloak and dagger politics, but there was consternation yesterday as the media discovered it had been outfoxed by the two most recognisable people in America, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

They managed to disappear in plain sight, dropping off the map to hold secret talks, their first private meeting since becoming rivals for the US presidency.

The entourage of camera crews, bloggers and old-fashioned print journalists that follows Mr Obama around the country, only learnt it had been hoodwinked – that the candidate was not on board the campaign plane – as the engines were warming up for takeoff. And as the Boeing 757 sped down the runway at Dulles international airport bound for Mr Obama's home base in Chicago, frantic journalists whipped


out their BlackBerrys to file alerts. The ABC News correspondent Sunlen Miller reported that Mr Obama, who had just headlined a huge rally in Virginia, had given them the slip. "I sent it as the wheels were going up," she recounted, describing the dismay of her colleagues.

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The intrigue began much earlier in the afternoon, when the California senator Dianne Feinstein, a long-time backer of Mrs Clinton, received a call from her close friend, asking to use her home for a meeting with Mr Obama.

"They just want an opportunity to meet together alone," she said, revealing that the meeting started about 9pm. "I received them. Put them in the living room, two comfortable chairs facing onehis candidacy. After winning 18 million votes, she has emerged as a much more powerful national politician. "When she began this campaign, she was still the former first lady, the senator married to President Clinton," commented Michael Berman, a Democratic strategist. "I think she is now the Clinton."

But the first thing she needs to do is secure her own future. To do that, she needs to put her heart and soul into campaigning for Mr Obama in the coming months or be damned for being disloyal. She cannot risk being blamed for another Democratic loss in November, especially as many now believe, she is biding her time for another run at the presidency in 2012 if Mr Obama loses in November or in 2016 is he is successful.

"She's


are lots of other important roles Mrs Clinton could play whether back in the Senate or in an Obama administration. She might even prefer a job for life as a liberal justice on the Supreme Court.

As the two politicians discussed their tactics for the months ahead, Washington was being treated to an evening of Where's Wally meets the Keystone Cops. Camera crews fanned out across the city to track Mr Obama down. For a man who promises to restore a modicum of honesty to Washington, he revealed himself an adept practitioner in the arts of deception.

Earlier in the day, Mrs Clinton issued a statement playing down speculation that she was seeking to be Mr Obama's running mate. Mr Obama said that he expected them to meet "in acouple of weeks".

Even as the Secret Service delivered the candidate to Ms Feinstein's house, the city was awash with rumours. Mr Obama's staff encouraged speculation that he was meeting Mrs Clinton at her elegant townhouse on Washington's Whitehaven Street.

For hours CNN long-range cameras were trained on an SUV parked outside Mrs Clinton's home. From time to time someone would appear at the front door prompting a buzz of speculation that the two rivals were about to make a joint statement.

It was only when the plane landed two hours later in Chicago that Mr Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs revealed that a meeting had already taken place between the two. By that time Mr Obama was already boarding a private jet to Chicago. After all the intrigue, he is


served as a prequel with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender taking over roles previously played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. Days of Future Past blends the new and original cast while introducing yet even more new characters. What could have descended into overcrowded camp a la Batman and Robin (which is still an enjoyable romp, what?!), Days does a surprisingly effective job of utilizing both casts to tell a grand tale ripped from the panels of the comic books.

Continuity has always been an issue in the X-Men franchise because the original was a difficult production that studio Fox didn't quite believe in. When it was a success, it was more about getting to the next film than it was maintaining a cohesive timeline. In The Wolverine, wetrigger even more anti-mutant fervor while cementing the need for the Sentinel program. The flick starts off well enough, just diving right in without much set up or explanation. Even as a fan of the movies and comics, I was a little confused though as The Sentinel program seemed to come out of nowhere. I suppose it could have all happened in the 7 year gap between Last Stand and Days but a little clarification would have been nice.

Early scenes show the young X-Men using their powers to battle the Sentinels with Iceman finally flying around on ice bridges and slides. Initial scenes with young Xavier and Magneto are very powerful with excellent performances from McAvoy and Fassbender. The 70's vibe provides some laughs with the fashion, water


beds, etc. Hugh Jackman looks swoler and striated as ever in his surprisingly lone shirtless scene but he does get in a heinie shot which I think is a first for the X-Flicks and does his usual likable loner act. Going into the flick, everything we had seen of Quicksilver looked hokey and ridiculous. His appearance seemed to be derived from Doc Brown from Back to the Future and the Carl's Jr ad of him eating a burger in super speed/slow motion was just awkward. But in the film, it all works marvelously and he's one of the most memorable characters in the flick with arguably the greatest scene in the picture as he uses his super speed and mischievous sense of humor to break Magneto out. Inthe comics, Mags is his father and there's a throwaway line alluding to it.

With the two casts jockeying for screen time, I was slightly astonished that much of the film takes place in the 70's with the First Class cast and Wolverine in a bit of a supporting role. I figured it would jump between time lines with conflicts reflecting each other a la Inception but for the most part, the present day cast is confined to what seemed like only a handful of meaty scenes which don't really utilize or showcase characters like Kitty Pryde, Iceman and Bishop or the actors who play them. That's actually a departure for this series that has always been so Wolverine centric and then gave Storm a boost at the expense


of Cyclops when Halle Berry won an Oscar. There are some great cameos throughout and the film ends on a high note that gets you pumped for future installments. If you're going to see this, forgo the post-conversion 3D as it adds nothing to the experience. NOTHING. The Arclight's glasses are incredibly heavy and uncomfortable and they're battery operated so you get power flickers too boot.

After the film, producer Lauren Schuler Donner and Quicksilver, Iceman and Bishop actors Evan Peters, Shawn Ashmore and Omar Sy participated in a Q&A that was streamed out to each Arclight location around California. Some quick bites:

- Project was brought to Donner's attention by former development exec, she read Wolverine's bio in a series bible and loved him.
- X-Men was most difficult becausethe opportunity and French man charm.
- Evan Peters was offered the role flat while Ashmore had to audition 5 times back in 2000 and was cast as a different character before taking over Bobby Drake.
- Shooting the movie was like a family reunion and Sy's first day was working with Professor X, Magneto, Storm and Wolverine which also meant Patrick, McKellan, Berry and Jackman.
- James McAvoy is a practical joker and cut the cheese in the middle of a scene
- Scheduling nightmare as Jackman was promoting Wolverine, Ashmore on The Following, Paquin on True Blood, Patrick and McKellan starring in a play together, etc.

I don't quite understand all the loathe for X-Men 3. Part of it stems from the casting off of director Brett Ratner as a talentless


Ken Starr might be the most famous lawyer in America outside of the Supreme Court. He has served as a federal judge on the DC Circuit Court and later as solicitor general. He has practiced law and taught law, been the dean of Pepperdine’s Law School and the president of Baylor University. But his most high-profile job was serving as the independent counsel who was charged with investigating President Bill Clinton in 1994. The fruits of his investigation led to Clinton’s impeachment.

I was a 22-year-old staffer at THE WEEKLY STANDARD during the impeachment fight and one of my favorite memories of that time was being dispatched to the Government Printing Office the morning the Starr Report was released. This was before pdf’s or the intertubes and the onlyproperties will strengthen Ascott’s position as the largest international serviced residence owner-operator in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam,” added Mr Koon.

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The Alabama State Parks system, which has suffered drastic funding cuts in the past five years, received a major boost on Tuesday.

Voters were overwhelmingly in favor of Amendment 2 that prevented money from the State Parks Fund to be used for other purposes. More than 78 percent of the vote, with 35 of 67 counties reporting, voted for the measure.

In the past five years, some $15 million had been transferred from the fund to the state’s general fund. The system closed five parks last year and limited services in many others.

The State Parks system relies primarily on tourists fortheir work we can find glued things and
photos combined with painting.

22.
Pop Art
• The language is that of publicity: easy to be
understood.
• The most representative artist is Warhol and
in addition to him the following artists:
– Rosenquists, with elements of daily life;
– Tom Wesselman, he incorporates other elements,
creating installations;
– Roy Lichtenstein, he represents the world as a
comic;
– Claes Oldenburg, huge sculptures of daily objects;
– Christo, he wraps up buildings and natural
elements.

24.
Andy Warhol
• He made of art a
product of social
mass consumption
• He is not famous just
because he portrayed
myths but because
his work became a
myth for people.

25.
Andy Warhol
• He used techniques of
industrial production.
• He created “The Factory”
in which actions, films
and other ways of
expression were
organised.
• Consumption things
became the target of his
work.

26.
Andy Warhol
• He understood people
from the stardom at
the same level as
objects.
• He created series


of
politicians and artists
and he treated them
in the same way.

27.
Andy Warhol
• He used serigraphy
techniques.
• He resourced to
brilliant and
fluorescent colours
even when he was
depicting dark
scenes.
• Many times repeated
series with
characters using
them as things.

28.
Minimalism
• Minimalism appeared in art in the 1950s and it
developed in the following two decades.
• It is a term to describe painting and sculpture
when there are characterised by their simplicity
in both content and form, and they lack of any
sign of personal expression.
• Minimalism aims at the spectator feeling their
work in an intense way, without distracters such
as composition, theme or other similar elements.

29.
Minimalism
• Some of the works of Malevich and Duchamp
of the 1920 are considered as minimalist.
• The most famous artists of this movement are
American:
– Dan Flavin,
– Carl Andre,
– Ellsworth Kelly and
– Donald Judd
appeared against abstract expressionism
with their canvases of particularshape,
sculptures and installations.

30.
Minimalism
• Minimalism is also linked to other
movements:
– Conceptual art because when the work is finished
is to create a theory,
– Pop Art with its fascination for the impersonal
– and Land Art which produces simple forms.
• Minimalism was successful and influential in
the 20th century.
• Representative authors are:
– Frank Stella eta
– Ellsword Kelly .

32.
Donald Judd
• He started as a painter to
begin with low relieves in the
1960s and later to other kind of
relieves.
• Later he started doing
elements to be put in the wall
or on the floor being always
geometrical elements, without
any basis.
• The first works were made of
wood but them he started
using metal and sometimes in
colours.

33.
Dan Flavin
• He made sculptures
of neon light.
• His aim was to create
atmospheres.
• He provoked changes
of visual perception.


The state quietly agreed to settle a little-known lawsuit that claimed Public Defender Yvonne Segars improperly fired a deputy for political reasons, three weeks before Gov. Jon S. Corzine announced plans to nominate Segars to be a Superior Court judge.

The state has agreed to pay $250,000 to former deputy public defender Christine Leone-Zwillinger, who was a supervisor in a unit that represented children who were abused and neglected, until Segars became public defender under Gov. James E. McGreevey in September 2002.

Within a month, Leone-Zwillinger, 57, of Cherry Hill, who had run for Camden County sheriff as a Republican in 1997, was fired by Segars, even though her position did not involve policy-making or require her to be of the same party as the governor, the 2004 federal suitclaims.

"Upon information and belief, defendant Segars made the decision to terminate plaintiff at the request of defendant McGreevey, or those acting on his behalf, on account of plaintiff's affiliation with the Republican party and to do a "political favor' for the governor in order to make room for John (Doran), Esq., who is a Democrat," the suit says.

The suit also claims Leone-Zwillinger got an "exceptional" rating — 28 of 30 points — on her last performance review and that Doran's qualifications were "vastly inferior."

In April 2007, U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson dismissed McGreevey and the Office of Public Defender from the suit, leaving Segars as the sole defendant. Court records indicate the case was settled Feb. 1 — 20 days before Corzine filed a notice of intent


to nominate Segars, 52, of Ridgewood, for the Superior Court in Bergen County.

Both Segars and Doran declined comment through a spokesman, who referred all questions to Corzine's office, which citing confidentiality reasons refused to say whether Segars disclosed the matter on her nomination questionnaire or whether she was deemed qualified by a panel of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

The chairman of that review panel, Ralph J. Lamparello, said the committee cannot discuss its confidential reviews of potential judges and prosecutors. Even members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which must approve appointments, don't learn whether a candidate is deemed qualified unless the bar association chooses to testify against a candidate a governor nominated despite being deemed unfit by the bar association.

Corzine spokesman Jim Gardner said the administration waslittle bit to be playing not with the freedom he did in France at the moment.

Arsene Wenger has discussed Nicolas Pepe

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Pat Buchanan: Who told Rice to mislead people on Benghazi?

At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl.

Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, she appeared on five TV shows to say it had all resulted from a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video.

Susan Rice, thundered Obama, "made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her.

"If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others wantif she "had nothing to do with Benghazi," why was she sent out "at the request of the White House" to explain Benghazi?

Who at the White House programmed Rice? Did she push back at all when fed this bullhockey about Benghazi? Or does she just parrot the party line when told to do so?

Why did the White House not send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CIA Director David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta or National Security Adviser Tom Donilon? Or did they decline to go?

The President says Rice "gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her."

And who might be the source of that "intelligence" about the protest in Benghazi, when there was no protest in Benghazi?

Rice was scripted to tell the nation it


was not a "preplanned" attack, when that is exactly what it was. The CIA knew it within hours because two of its former Navy SEALs died in the attack and other CIA people survived and got out the next morning.

Here we come to the heart of the matter.

Though journalists, CIA personnel and State Department people listening in real time all knew from intercepts and reports back from our people on the ground that this was a terrorist attack involving automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, the fabricated story - that it came out of a protest, a protest that never happened - was pushed relentlessly by the administration.

Jay Carney pushed it two days after the attack. Petraeus pushed it on the Hill three days after the attack. Ricewent on five TV shows five days after the attack to recite it chapter and verse. Obama held off calling it a terror attack for weeks in TV interviews and mentioned the video half a dozen times at the U.N. on Sept. 25.

Another question arises from the press conference.

When Obama said Rice "gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her," was that also the best intelligence the President of the United States had?

If it is, if five days after the attack Obama was that clueless about what actually happened in Benghazi, he ought to clean house at his intelligence agencies.

From the outside, it appears everybody was on board to describe the attack as "spontaneous" and attribute it to the video.

Yet none of this


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The Lord of the Rings was directed by Peter Jackson and features a score composed by Howard Shore. The trilogy earned a total of 17 Academy Awards®, including three for music. Beyond critical acclaim, the music from the films also enjoyed wide commercial success, collectively selling over 7 million albums. - The music for all three films was composed, orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore. His music was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with contributions from two choirs: London Voices and London Oratory School Schola. - There’s probably never been as ambitious a film score as Howard Shore’s 10-hour epic for the “Lord of the Rings” series... the music is rich and complex, drawing on a vast range of styles andEvents

Police Apologize For Drug Raid At Wrong Utah Home

CHICAGO - OCTOBER 25: Police Tape is stretched around the outside of the home of 57-year-old Darnell Hudson Donnerson, the mother of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, October 25, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Donnerson was found shot to death in her living room yesterday and her son Jason was found shot to death in a bedroom of the home. Police are searching for Donnerson's seven-year-old grandchild who is missing from the home. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)File photo of a crime scene. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has issued an apology after narcotics detectives raided the wrong home and pointed a gun at its 76-year-old female resident.

Burbank said the woman


Landon Donovan has said the United States is no longer the "kings" of CONCACAF and must win the Gold Cup to reclaim its crown from Mexico.

"At the moment the United States is not [the best country in the region] because we didn't qualify for the World Cup in Russia," the U.S.'s all-time leading scorer told Univision Deportes Network's "Linea de Cuatro" after Wednesday's Gold Cup draw.

"At the moment it could be Mexico but we'll see in a few months who is the king of CONCACAF and hopefully the United States again are the kings of CONCACAF."

The U.S. failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which caused consternation about the direction of the national team program.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – For about a million active people in the United States every year, tearing the meniscus in their knee can mean the end of participation in the activities they enjoy. For NFL football players, it can mean the end of their careers if not diagnosed and treated efficiently and effectively. Currently, diagnosing meniscal problems most often involves a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and arthroscopy done days to weeks after injury – this process is time-consuming, expensive and invasive. Now, University of Missouri researchers are working on developing a technique for “on-the-field” diagnosis of meniscal tears. National Football League Charities has awarded MU researchers a $120,000 medical grant to fund this project.

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Hillary Factor could emerge. The
�perception� will be that Hillary Clinton is DRAFTED as the unifying candidate
to mount her white horse and ride to the rescue of her party.

Jeff Jacoby wrote, �Equivocating politicians are
sometimes accused of trying to be "all
things to all people," but few have taken the practice of expedience
and shifty opportunism to Kerry's level. Massachusetts�s residents have
known this about their junior senator for a long time. Now the rest of
the country is going to find out.�

Don Feder (another Massachusetts journalist) wrote,
�I�m
a citizen of Massachusetts. (God help me.) For going on 30 years now,
I�ve watched John Kerry�s career with a mixture of fascination, revulsion
and amusement.� However, Feder claims there IS a constant in the Kerry
political career: �He�s an opportunistic, back-stabber who never met a
commie he didn�t like. Healso has chutzpah to spare.�

Expect hyperbole and innuendo to rule the spin game.

Kerry supporter and Pop star Moby, "expressed hope
of dampening Republican turnout in November by spreading anti-Bush gossip
on the Internet," the Washington Times reports.

Moby told the Daily News: "For example, you can
go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing
voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an
abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion."

As the Wall Street Journal observed, Kerry took
to the Senate floor more than a decade ago to defend Bill Clinton, who
protested against America while he dodged the Vietnam War in England,
from attacks by rival candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and insisted
that military service should be no consideration in running for office.

Despite the


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Children with life limiting conditions require intensive, complex management of the physical, psychosocial and spiritual issues that evolve for the child and their family as the focus of care moves from curative treatment to palliation. Optimal palliative care for children can be limited by the lack of health professionals with the necessary skills and experience to confidently and competently manage the care of both the child and the family. The University of Queensland's Centre for Online Health has been working closely with the Paediatric Palliative Care Service (PPCS) at the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in Brisbane, Australia, to investigate the potential of telemedicine for the delivery of specialist support in the home or local community. Research conducted in Queensland has shown how telemedicine


In many fields of the packaging industry, such as pet food, stock feed, seeds, etc., multi-wall gusseted paper bags are heavily used. Producers can choose from manual baggers, semi-automatic baggers or fully automated baggers. Baggers are understood to comprise at least some of the following subsystems: a bag magazine, a bag dispenser, a bag placer, a filling spout, an exit unit, a bag reshaper and a sealer. A bagger may or may not include a closing system.
No matter the type of bagger used, the bagging operation for the previously mentioned types of product is similar. On semi-automatic and fully automatic baggers, the bag dispenser places the bag on the filling spout, whereas manual baggers require the action of an operator to place a bag on the spout.
On automaticbaggers, the gussets or the side folds of the bag are preferably maintained closed (in their original shape when the bag is empty and flat) while the bag is on the spout. Otherwise, a system has to reshape them. Reshaping is understood to be the action of bringing the flaps of the top of the bag together and re-folding the gussets or the side folds of the bag. While the shape of the top portion of the bag is being maintained thoroughly, the bag is then removed from the spout and transferred to the closing system. For manual and semi-automatic baggers, reshaping systems on the spout would be useless since they release the bag from the spout and let it fall on a conveyor, losing control of the


social shifts that are taking place in Latin America today.
They demonstrate ideas of social inclusion, as well as innovative architectural
forms and spaces, which have been steadily transforming Colombian cities and
the nation.

The
projects are explored through photographs, slides, drawings, and film footage
to celebrate how these buildings are appropriated by the public.

About
the curators:

Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York City-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project, curates architectural exhibitions
worldwide. Trained as an architect at Cooper Union, he is the author of books: Felix
Novikov, Green House, Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985, and Harry
Seidler (Rizzoli, 2014). His Harry Seidler exhibition will
travel to Europe, North America, and Australia from 2012 to 2014. vbelogolovsky@gmail.com

Fernando Villa, AIA, is a senior associate with New York City-based Magnusson Architecture &
Planning. Trained at
the UniversidadPontificia
Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, he lectures internationally on sustainable design, andhad a son, Phillips Whitman.
In the later 1890s and in the early 1900s Thompson was employed by different provincial government departments as a writer, and also wrote for the legislature.
In 1900, due to his reputation as a labor spokesman, he was made the Toronto correspondent for the Department of Labour's Labour Gazette, published in Ottawa, holding this position until he retired in 1911.

The Canadian Socialist League (CSL) was formed in Montreal in 1898 by former members of the Socialist Labor Party.
The founders rejected the Labor party leadership of Daniel De Leon.
Support for the League appeared about the same time in the summer of 1899 in Montreal and Toronto.
In Ontario the CSL was organized by George Weston Wrigley and Thompson, both former Knights of Labor, in an effort to


Joseph Lancaster, (born Nov. 25, 1778, London, Eng.—died Oct. 24, 1838, New York, N.Y., U.S.) British-born educator who developed the system of mass education known as the Lancasterian method, a monitorial, or “mutual,” approach in which brighter or more proficient children were used to teach other children under the direction of an adult. In the early 19th century the system, as developed by Lancaster, Andrew Bell, and Jean-Baptiste Girard, was widely used to provide the rudiments of education for numbers of poor children in Europe and North America.

Joseph Lancaster, portrait by J. Hazlitt; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Lancaster’s teaching career began in 1793, when he asked his father’s permission to bring some poor children home in order to teach them toread. Crowds of children came to him; since he couldn’t afford to hire extra teachers or assistants, he had the idea of making those pupils who knew a little more teach the others, and he devised a workable system to this effect. His school, his lectures, and his pamphlet Improvements in Education as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (1803) attracted the attention of philanthropically minded people, and he felt encouraged to expand the school and to found others. But he proved to be vain, rash, and extravagant and soon fell heavily into debt. Friends of the school paid his creditors, became trustees of the school, and organized the Royal Lancasterian Institution, later known as the British and Foreign School Society (1810). Lancaster’s techniques for mass


teaching spread rapidly, and there were soon about 30,000 pupils being taught in 95 Lancasterian schools.

Meanwhile, Lancaster severed his connections with his original school and opened a new secondary-level boarding school, which soon ended in bankruptcy. In 1818 he emigrated to the United States, where his work had already sparked public education movements in Albany, N.Y., Boston, and Philadelphia, among other major U.S. cities. Nothing, however, came of Lancaster’s own projects in the United States, and so he welcomed an invitation from Simón Bolívar to move to Venezuela in 1825. He quarreled with the Latin-American leader and returned north in 1827, spending the last decade of his life in Canada and the United States making various experiments with his system.

In Lancaster’s monitorial system, from 200 to 1,000 pupilswere gathered in one room and seated in rows, usually of 10 pupils each. The adult schoolmaster taught the monitors, or prefects, each of whom relayed the lesson to his own row. Besides monitors who taught, there were monitors who took attendance, who examined and promoted pupils, and who prepared or distributed writing slates and books. Schoolroom activity proceeded with military precision, according to directions laid down by Lancaster and from which even the slightest deviations were not permitted. The defect of this system was that in order to achieve mass results and mass economies the schoolmaster was relegated to the position of a bystander, learning was reduced to drill and memorization, and the curriculum was reduced to particles of information and rote sequences. The whole process of


teaching and learning was thus routinized and formalized to a point at which opportunities for creative thinking and initiative scarcely existed. Nevertheless, the adoption and subsequent rejection of Lancaster’s innovations spurred the demand for nonsectarian education.

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The educators Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster played a major role in progress toward an elementary-school system. They realized that the root of the problem lay in the lack of teachers and in the lack of money to hire assistants. Therefore, first Bell developed, then Lancaster modified, the so-called monitorial system (also called the Lancasterian system), whereby a teacher used his pupils to...

teaching method, practiced most extensively in the 19th century, in which the older or better scholars taught the younger or weaker pupils. In the system aspromoted by the English educator Joseph Lancaster, the superior students learned their lessons from the adult teacher in charge of the school and then transmitted their knowledge to the inferior students.

...to London he published a description of his Madras system in An Experiment in Education (1797), but his ideas had little popularity in England until they were adapted by Joseph Lancaster in a school opened at Southwark in 1801 and by Robert Owen in New Lanark, Scotland. (See monitorial system.) Meanwhile, Bell was made rector of Swanage, Dorset, in 1801. In 1811 he...


With just a couple of weeks to go before the Georgia primaries, insurgent candidate Shane Hazel has picked up a key endorsement in his bid to unseat liberal Republican Rob Woodall in the Georgia 7th Congressional District.

Hazel, the former Marine Force Reconnaissance member and proven businessman, has picked up the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Caucus. The RLC, also known as “the conscience of the party” endorsed Hazel should come as little surprise. The RLC has a long history of focusing on endorsing liberty-minded candidates, rather than establishment members who have proven themselves to be unreliable when it comes to conservative issues.

The RLC earlier this year likewise endorsed MO Senate Candidate Austin Petersen.

The outpouring of support for insurgent candidates is clear as supporters take to social media todeal with Iran is the question of how Washington must deal in the short-term with urgent and emerging challenges which it cannot avoid in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Indeed, dealing with these problems before facing the rhetoric-laden debate on US participation in the 2015 Five+One deal with Iran may give Washington time to analyze options and desirable goals with regard to Iran with less pressure. Because pressure against the clerics, as Homayoun notes, would only galvanize internal support for them, whereas the opening of Iranian society would weaken the grip of the mullahs.

The incoming US Administration of Pres. Donald Trump was elected on the basis of a major transformation of domestic and international policy and attitudes, and it is probable that this transformation will, in large part, be delivered.


Given the global US strategic dominance — despite the substantial decline of the past decade — it is this change of context which the rest of the world’s states will have to consider in restructuring their own planning.

And how Washington considers these changes will in part be based on the worldview of the incoming President, moderated by the team he has entrusted to implement his views, and constrained by the existing bureaucracy.

Within this framework, evolving US strategic policy in the Northern Tier states — Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan — is likely to take significant new turns early into the term of the Trump Administration. Several, separate catalyst issues are coming to a head in each of these states, but the reality is that they are alsoinextricably intertwined with the evolving strategic framework involving Russia, Syria, the People’s Republic of China, the Central Asian states, the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea states, India, and so on.

The US, since the end of the Cold War, has dealt with each of these issues separately, or at best in the perspective of stovepiped regions, for the most part to the detriment of an overarching US global strategy. The Cold War perspective was at least global: it had forced the necessity to view regional issues within the context of the global East-West ideological competition.

Now, within the emerging global framework, an anticipated, imminent collapse of security and stability in Afghanistan now seems likely to become of major preoccupation. It will require a military and political response early in the


US Administration, specifically designed to make successful outcomes in the Northern Tier difficult to achieve. This is quite apart from the ideological impediments caused by the Trump election’s own campaign rhetoric which seemingly eliminated the option of seizing opportunities to transform the situation in Iran.

The Obama Administration — in its final days after the elections of November 8, 2016, repudiated the Obama strategic policy — undertook a number of actions which were designed specifically to hinder the Trump Administration from reversing the Obama policies in the Eastern Northern tier: South Asia.

Sources indicate that the surreptitious — and largely unreported — action by the outgoing US Administration of Pres. Obama on New Year’s Eve, 2016, to impose sanctions against seven Pakistani State and private entities allegedly linked to thewith Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Trump Administration may be better placed than its predecessor Government to take a clean-sheet approach, identifying the entire history of US-Pakistani relations and why problems occurred when Washington urged Pakistani leaders to undertake actions which Pakistan deemed were not in the longer-term interests of both Pakistan and the US. Pres. Trump’s view that all states have the right to act in their own interests first may make a more balanced dialog possible with Pakistan going forward.

With regard to the Afghanistan end of the equation — where the tenuous writ of the Kabul Central Government is now being challenged — the US must almost immediately consider its position. With that, the coalition allies of the US must also review their commitment to “saving” the


for US force withdrawal. Afghan officials have been pushing for this message to be changed. Related: Saudis Raise March Crude Prices For All Customers

- US intelligence has had one overriding weakness in the conduct of the war against the Taliban and jihadists in Afghanistan as far as key Afghan officials are concerned. It is that the US intelligence community (IC) allied itself with the same people who were the major players in the Afghan civil war in the 1990s and who did not represent a majority of the country. The only major Pashtun group with which the US intelligence community allied itself was the extended family of former Pres. Hamid Karzai. And the civil war was the reason the Taliban came into existence. The Taliban was a reactionLecture Notes October 24.docx

Oct 24 2011 HistoryPopular democracy Conservative nationalists Tories The Colonial Advocate popular democracy republicans genteel orange lodge welland canal byward market community bee Montgomerys tavern shiner wars provisional government The Rebellions of 18371Introduction leading interpretations of the rebellionsDiscontent expressed through the assembly and increasing discontent expressed through the reform parties that emergedLeading historical interpretation conservative nationalists argued that the rebellions were admirations Rebellions were not part of the normal political revolution of the Canadas nor were they caused by democratic sentiment These rebellions were brought about by lunatics who managed to exploit the foolishness and ignorant people Leader of Upper Canadian rebellion has been portrayed as a hot tempered person and jealous of people better than himself and would do anything for attention and power


Other rebels portrayed as mentally unstable and power hungry This is the conservative nationalist interpretation Another interpretation sees rebellion as class conflict between rural farming class and urban business class particularly over the role government should play in society Reformers felt that rural agrarian society had to be reserved and promoted by government Governing elite had an urban merchant mindset So the future progress of colony lay in promoting industries So rebellions stemmed from the two groups who disagreed Argument I intend to say is rebellions of 183738 can best be understood as two things At political level rebellion as an ideological struggle struggle between reformers who favoured democratic institutions and conservative the Tories who favoured status quo Class was also a factor reformed and conservative reformers haddifferent economic interests Level of average person rebellion as a result of deteriorating economic reasons violent nature of society they were living in 2Upper Canada the road to rebellionaWilliam Lyon Mackenzie and the Reform Party 18241837iReformers representing famers and Tories presenting urban disagreed over how power should be divided Reformers favoured democratization and felt government should be responsible to the wishes of the people because only then would wishes of the people would be fulfilled only if assembly


as many (by appointment, of course) as you could. My plan had always been to start with the top, big-name publishers and work down from there.

One such trip got me through the doors and into the venerable house of Harper & Row. I was contracted to do black and white spot drawings, with a few full-page illustrations, and a color cover for a new series written by Barbara Ware Holmes.

"Can you draw little girls?" I was asked.

"But of course!" I answered.

This was a scary one, though.

John Himmelman's Stories' Stories

Book #3

This is one of the full page illustrations. I liked her face in this one. Mr. Sutphen looks a little like Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street, I think. It was fun filling the old timey drugstore with variousto illustrate, but most of the pictures would have this young heroine in it. You can see a little "found ya!" next to the sketch I thought came closest to her.

So here's Charlotte at lunch with her friend, Annie. Charlotte was a bit of a teller of tall tales, which only Annie seemed to appreciate.

The line drawings were made with my favorite 4x0 Rapidograph pen filled with black waterproof India ink. I used this sized nib for most of my books for many years.

Next...

Oh, and this happened! Why, the audacity! Years later, they got a different artist to redo the cover. The illustrations I did for the inside of the book were kept.

Why the double audacity! They then replaced the cover that replaced my cover with yet a


BANGKOK — Thailand’s military government says it wants to have control over how movies portray the ordeal and heroic rescue of young soccer players that drew worldwide interest and the attention of foreign filmmakers.

Culture Minister Vira Rojpochanarat says he will propose at next week’s Cabinet meeting that a special committee be established to oversee the production of films, documentaries and videos related to the 12 boys and their coach who were trapped in a cave for almost three weeks before being rescued.

The government’s Thailand Film Office already regulates the production of films shot in Thailand by foreign companies, but Vira said the committee, with members from several ministries, would oversee content, licensing issues and the protection of privacy of the rescued team and their families.If the concept of ageing evokes a sense of dread, it shouldn't — especially if you're a woman.

So says Mary Pipher, a 71-year-old US clinical psychologist renowned for her insights into girls and women.

She says contrary to "noxious and punishing" stereotypes of ageing women as miserable, a woman in her 70s is likely to be the happiest she's ever been.

"The fact of the matter is we have very good research from the University of California, San Diego, that shows that the happiest demographic in both the UK and the United States is older women," Dr Pipher tells RN's Life Matters.

"In fact, people as they age in the United States get happier right up until the last three months before they die."

Mary Pipher says stereotypes about older women miss


UN to adopt historic ban on nuclear weapons

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UN to adopt historic ban on nuclear weapons

The United Nations is set to make history on Friday, when it is due to adopt a treaty banning nuclear weapons, breaking a 20-year-plus deadlock in nuclear disarmament. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was negotiated by more than 130 UN members, with input from international civil society and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement . The Treaty explicitly bans the use, development, testing, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession, stockpiling and transfer of nuclear weapons, and also bans any signatory from assisting or encouraging others to undertake these activities. The Treaty also bans threatening to usenuclear weapons, which is highly significant, as it can be interpreted as challenging the nuclear weapon states’ doctrines of nuclear deterrence, which are based on an implicit threat to use nuclear weapons.

The nuclear weapons ban treaty further stigmatises nuclear weapons, putting them in the same category as other indiscriminate, inhumane weapons that are banned under international law, such as chemical and biological weapons, anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions. New Zealand has contributed strongly to the process of banning nuclear weapons. It was among the leaders of the humanitarian initiative which helped build political will to pursue a new disarmament treaty, then co-sponsored the 2016 UN resolution that kick-started negotiations, and finally, has served as a Vice President of the UN conference to negotiate the nuclear weapon prohibition treaty.

Banning


nuclear weapons is a vital next step towards a comprehensive Nuclear Weapons Convention that would provide for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, like the enforceable treaties that exist to eliminate other weapons of mass destruction. This is essential to ensure international peace and security, and indeed, human survival.

While public attention to nuclear threats has waned, such threats are actually expanding, leading some experts like former US Secretary of Defence William Perry to argue that the risk of nuclear war is higher now than it was during the Cold War. A recent UK Guardian report noted that the rise of cyberattacks has drastically increased the risk of nuclear war. There are still 15,000 nuclear weapons, with almost 2000 Russian and US weapons on hair-trigger alert, ready for launchCleveland Browns rookie minicamp, May 13, 2016

Browns quarterback Cody Kessler (5) throws a pass in a drill during mini camp. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns rookie quarterback Cody Kessler had two Carrs in high school that helped him get where he needed to be.

One was Derek, the Pro Bowl quarterback of the Raiders, and one was David, the former No. 1 overall pick of the Texans and current NFL Network analyst.

When Kessler, the Browns' third-round pick out of USC, was a sophomore in high school, the Carrs moved back from Houston to their hometown of Bakersfield, Ca., and connected with the young quarterback through mutual friend and quarterback guru Steve Calhoun.

Before long, David began tutoring not only his younger brother Derek, then a senior at Bakersfield Christian,


but Kessler, who played for Bakersfield's Centennial High.

"My buddy (Calhoun) who had trained Cody forever said 'come over and check out this kid, I think he's going to be pretty good,''' David Carr told cleveland.com. "He said, 'he's a basketball player but I think he's going to be a pretty good quarterback.'''

David took Calhoun up on his offer and headed over to the training facility in Bakersfield, a town about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

"There were all these industrial buildings and there was this one building where there was grass in the back and it was not even level,'' Carr recalled. "It was bumpy and it was really sketchy. The first time I went back there, I was like, 'you guys actually practice back here?' I remember215) brought his receivers to the training facility to work with Calhoun, and David and Derek would work there with them during the offseasons of Carr's 11-year NFL career.

"He always had a good release, really good mechanics, really sound, but playing all of these different sports, you don't have a lot of time to focus on the quarterback position,'' said Carr. "But he started working with me and his quarterback coach at Southern Cal (Clay Helton) and we really tightened up his footwork and he can pick things up quick. He's a great athlete.''

Kessler also excelled in basketball at Bakersfield, averaging 30 points and 11 rebounds a game.

"I thought he might try to play basketball but then he had a great (football) season and ended up going to


said at rookie camp Friday.

Hue Jackson has a high expectation for Cody Kessler but too soon to say if he'll start

As fate would have it, Kessler and Carr faced each other in the 2013 Las Vegas Bowl in the final game of Carr's career. The Trojans blew out Fresno State 45-20, and Kessler threw for 344 yards and a bowl-record four TDs. But Carr, who was held to just 217 yards and two touchdowns, received the consolation prize of becoming just the fourth player in NCAA history to throw for 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns.

"It was really cool,'' said Kessler. "He ended his career playing against each other which was cool for me. I told him 'good luck with everything' and his response was 'hopefully you'll be therein a couple of years and we'll get to play each other,' -- so we'll see.''

David remembers "a lot of trash talk that game but we were pulling for both guys. That was a fun game, a good deal.''

After Derek left college, his father, Rodger, continued to follow Kessler at USC.

"That whole family has just been great to me,'' said Kessler. "Rodger has always been supportive of me and was cheering for me these last couple of years after Derek left, so I've been fortunate enough to know the Carrs really well and have their support.''

David Carr tutored Cody Kessler and his brother Derek Carr when the latter two were in high school. (Courtesy Kessler family)

In Derek's rookie season in Oakland, during which he threw for 21 touchdowns


group of guys together and get them going toward a common goal.'

"He had so much coaching changeover and so much drama when he was at SC, and he was always the first guy to stand up there in front of the media and answer questions and put it all on his shoulders.''

The reason Kessler didn't rank as highly as Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, in addition to the all the chaos at USC during his tenure, was concern over his arm strength, David said.

"It's not off the charts,'' he said. "It's not something that's going to blow you away when he's out there in shorts and a t-shirt, but you get this guy in a system, and he will succeed. He definitely belongs in the conversation with thoseSign up to FREE email alerts from MyLondon - London Underground News Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Long before the amazing transport system we now enjoy in the city was developed, travelling around London was so much more difficult.

Long distance travel had to be done by horse or by horse-drawn carriages and these were only a privilege of the rich.

Poorer people had to walk. In the first half of the 19th Century as many as 200,000 people walked each day to the City of London by foot.

Even when the big train stations came in, the closest you could get into London from the North West was Paddington.

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there the streets were chaos as people jostled to get into the centre of town. This was also true of the other great North London stations Euston and King's Cross.

Numerous attempts to build a railway linking these stations to the City were blocked by the government due to the carnage it would have created cutting a new rail line through an already built up city.

Instead an underground railway was proposed - the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

Like with most pioneering projects there was little interest to start with but the political and business wranglings of those early Underground pioneers eventually pulled it off.

The "cut-and-cover" technique was used to build the parts that needed to go underground.

This involved digging a deep trench, laying the track andthen building a 'roof'. over the whole thing.

The 6km Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon opened to the public for the first time on Saturday, January 10, 1863.

By then the momentum was building and an extension down to Blackfriars, as well as westwards towards the growing suburbs of Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith, was opened soon afterwards.

Branches also reached into Kensington.

The success of the Metropolitan Railway spoke for itself and soon rival rail companies were scrambling for a piece of this new type of underground action.

Competition stiffened but still the vision of the earlier pioneers paid off.

By 1880, the line had grown another arm, this time extending from Baker Street to the far-off town of Harrow.

At this time the new transport links allowed huge parts of London to grow