living hand-to-mouth? Most media talking heads appear to be either devotees of free-market economist Milton Friedman or careerists who know that no one ever lost a promotion by promoting the anti-government doctrine of Ronald Reagan. (Reagan, of course, got his big start in politics in the 1960s by decrying Medicare as socialist oppression.) The Cost of Reaganism The American people are now paying the price for the lack of nearly any critical coverage of the Reagan presidency, as was apparent last February in the hagiography broadcast and written about the 40th president around the centennial of his birth. The syrupy handling of Reagan and his legacy has had a powerful impact on the judgment of the American people. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans rated Reagan theAustralia seizes squirrels 'smuggled on plane from Bali' Published duration 13 December 2018

image copyright Australian government image caption One of the squirrels seized at Brisbane Airport on 4 December

A man was intercepted at an Australian airport after flying from Indonesia with two live squirrels smuggled in his luggage, authorities say.

The Australian resident may face criminal charges after the animals were detected at Brisbane Airport last week.

Both squirrels were put down after being deemed a biosecurity risk, Australian authorities said.

The nation has strict quarantine laws that famously caught out actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in 2015.

'Pests and diseases'

The squirrels allegedly travelled in checked-in luggage from Bali, which is about six hours by plane from Brisbane and a popular holiday destination for Australians. Authorities have not named a possible


motive.

"The frightening thing around that case around the two squirrels is that half of his Instagram followers thought it was a great idea to do that," Agriculture Minister David Littleproud told the Australian Associated Press.

media caption Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard expressed remorse in a video message made public by the Australian Department of Agriculture

"These animals bring pests and diseases that could actually hurt many Australians so it's important that we aren't ignorant to biosecurity."

People who violate Australia's biosecurity laws face fines or up to five years in prison, according to the Australian Border Force.

In 2016, Depp and Heard had to record an apology video after smuggling their dogs, Pistol and Boo, into Australia and becoming embroiled in a row that drew much attentionWartime

Brook and its surrounding villages had their fair share of highs and lows during the two world wars.

A stained glass memorial window in Brook Church gives the names of those people from Brook and the neighbouring parishes who served and those who died.

In both World Wars, Brook people of military age went into the services unless they were in reserved occupations. But the village remained for the most part a peaceful place. Occasionally areoplanes came very close, and one or two actually came down. It was a worrying time for all.

In 1942 Bert Morris, a fitter and turner by trade, was working at Chivertons garage in Newport. He installed new machinery in part of the garage given over to war work, producing thousands of component parts for spitfires,


landing craft, pumps for floating pontoons for bridges, etc he worked from 8.00 to 8.00 with a motor cycle journey to and from Newport.

The first incident of the Second World War to affect Brook was announced by The County Press in 1939, when one of the new RAF fighters tested its guns before it was quite over the sea, ‘more care should be exercised,’ the IOW County Press calmly suggested.

In 1942 Bert Morris, a fitter and turner by trade, was working at Chevertons garage in Newport. He installed new machinery in part of the garage given over to war work, producing thousands of component parts for Spitfires, landing craft,...

Life went on as best it could, children still went to school, armed with their gas masks. Mary Petitt movedposition at the periphery of the cell, but we still know very little about how this movement is activated," says Edgar Gomes, adding that "now, we built up on this mechanism and discovered that another type of cells, the myofibroblasts, contribute to the activation of the nuclear movement."

By using a combination of genetics and imaging experiments, the researchers observed that the cells that surround the muscle fiber, the myofibroblasts, locally deposit fibronectin, a component of the external cell's skeleton. "We observed a local accumulation of fibronectin at the vicinity of the muscle cells, in areas where the myofibroblasts were in contact with the muscle. It was exciting to see that this was accompanied by the movement of the nucleus to the periphery of the muscle cell," explains João


that makes it very difficult to deal with them. They refuse to negotiate in good faith with the committee over a wide range of issues, whether it is fair taxation or whether it's environmental safety and environmental justice." (emphasis mine)

Children in Richmond living in poverty and in the shadow of Chevron's antiquated refinery already are hospitalized for asthma at almost twice the rate of children in the rest of Contra Costa County.

In Ecuador, the eight-year trial produced overwhelming scientific evidence that Chevron deliberately dumped more than 16 billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon waterways and abandoned more than 900 toxic waste pits that have pipes to funnel oil sludge into streams and rivers used by indigenous groups for their drinking water. Thousands of died of cancer,is one of Chevron's biggest capital investments in the world.

In Angola, the impacts of oil activity in the Sea of Cabinda are so disastrous that most of the sand on the shores is polluted and black in color, and most of the beaches cannot be used.

In Salt Lake City, a rupture of a Chevron pipeline dumped over 33,000 gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek, exposing residents to oil fumes with horrific health impacts. A second rupture occurred just five months later, dumping an additional 21,000 gallons of oil.

In Canada, Chevron is undertaking a major expansion of its tar sands projects. Increasing evidence demonstrates that Chevron's development is contaminating the environment with toxins and severely impacting the health, livelihood and cultural preservation of indigenous communities living downstream.

In Kazakhstan,


Dr. Maria Odette Gore is a board certified cardiologist and clinical investigator with a strong research interest in preventive cardiology and commitment to academic medicine. At the time of this application she was a research trainee at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in the final year of cardiology training on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Research Pathway, having accepted a full-time faculty position in the Division of Cardiology at UTSW, effective September 1, 2015. During residency and fellowship, Dr. Gore's mentored research projects focused on several aspects related to cardiovascular disease prevention, resulting in the publication of >25 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals and 2 book chapters (total 14 first-author publications). During fellowship, Dr. Gore also completed a Master of Science in ClinicalScience program at UTSW, served as an ad-hoc reviewer for many journals and as an abstract grader for four American Heart Association (AHA) conferences, and was the recipient of the 2013 Women in Cardiology Trainee Award for Excellence from the AHA. Key projects that Dr. Gore led or participated in during fellowship include analyses of cardiac biomarkers in large population-based cohorts; registry-based and population-based cohort studies on the association between diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease; and a two-phase pilot study exploring the community blood donation program as portal for cardiovascular risk factor screening, with potential for intervention. The present proposal represents a logical continuation of this latest study, as well as a conduit for further essential training in community health and prevention research, health communication science, advanced clinical


research methods, and research leadership and grant writing strategies. The PI's long-term career goal is to become a recognized leader and innovator in patient-oriented research in the field of cardiovascular (CV) disease prevention. In the medium- term, her goal is to become an independent, R01-funded investigator contributing to the development of novel approaches to CV disease risk assessment, risk communication, and primary and secondary prevention. For the short-term, this proposal outlines clear training and research objectives which will be achieved through structured learning, including courses and workshops, and further hands-on research apprenticeship with an outstanding team of highly accomplished, extramurally-funded mentors and advisors. Attainment of these objectives will be a crucial stepping-stone for Dr. Gore's future success as independent investigator. ENVIRONMENT: The PI works at one the topacademic medical centers in the country, with 6 Nobel Prize winners (more than any other medical school in the world), and more than $400 million in annual research funding for over 3,500 research projects. The primary mentor for this project is Dr. James de Lemos, a recognized leader in the field with an outstanding mentorship track record. Dr. Gore and Dr. de Lemos have already developed a strong mentor-mentee relationship, with 12 peer-reviewed articles co-authored prior to this proposal. The PI's co-mentors are Dr. Jarett Berry and Dr. Wanpen Vongpatanasin, who are both extramurally-funded independent investigators working in complementary areas related to the PI's area of interest. In addition, a strong multidisciplinary team of senior research advisors has been assembled to oversee and guide the PI's research and


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With the ever increasing popularity of various adhesive bandage systems for both home use as well as professional use, the difficulties encountered in removing adhesive bandages from the body are well known. In particular, the pain and discomfort caused by removing an adhesive bandage from the body of an individual is well known to most people.
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According to Republican sources, Mack, at the urging of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has hired well-known fundraiser Jim McCray to handle his national fundraising and has brought on Michael Gula and Jonathan Graham of Gula Graham to handle his political action committee fundraising. Among its other Congressional clients, the Gula Graham Group has long been been retained by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to run his PAC fundraising. McCray, meanwhile, has worked on multiple GOP presidential campaigns.

Mack, whose father and namesake served in the Senate from 1989 to 2001, is the presumptive GOP


(CNN) The Ohio special election in the 12th Congressional District is coming down to the wire. In the last major tea leaves before the 2018 midterms, an average of recent polls puts Republican Troy Balderson just ahead of Democrat Danny O'Connor in their bid to succeed Republican Pat Tiberi.

In a number of ways, the battle between Balderson and O'Connor is a good illustration of what we'll see in the fall. Here are five reasons why:

1. The power of President Donald Trump

A look at the most recent Monmouth University poll gives you an understanding of how important feelings toward the President are in this election. Balderson received 86% of his support from voters who approved of the job Trump was doing. O'Connor, on the other hand, earned 93% ofhis vote from those who disapproved of the President.

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Expect a similar dynamic in the midterm election in a few months. On the latest CNN congressional ballot question , Republican candidates for Congress are earning 83% of the vote from those who approve of the job the President is doing. Democratic candidates take 83% of the vote from those who disapprove of the job the President is doing. The result nationally is an 8-point Democratic lead because Trump's approval rating is far below his disapproval rating.

In Ohio, Balderson is barely holding on because Trump's approval rating is about even


with his disapproval rating in this district that voted for him by 11 percentage points in 2016. The average fall congressional campaign won't be played on as favorable turf for Republicans, and they are likely going to suffer as a result.

2. The power of local factors

While Trump will be the predominant force moving voters in the midterms, he won't be the only driver. As I previously wrote , it's important to look at the entire voting history of a district beyond the presidential election. Ohio 12 has tended to vote for Republican candidates. It's been represented by Republicans in the House since the early 1980s. The average Republican in local and state elections has carried the district by a little over 20 percentage points since 2012.

The strong Republicanused to looking at the region to know if Democrats are going to take back the House.

It shouldn't be surprising that the industrial Midwest will play such a key role in November. It's in the region's historical DNA. More than 30% of the Democratic pickups in the 2006 wave election came from seats in the industrial Midwest. Had Al Gore, John Kerry or Hillary Clinton swept the swing states in this region, they would have been president.

4. Education is key

Ohio 12 has a higher percentage of people 25 and older with college degrees than any other district in the state. At 40%, the district is also significantly more educated than than the nationwide average.

The high level of education in the district is no doubt keeping O'Connor in the


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Russell the cat and Darla the fawn may sound like characters from a children's book, but they're actually real animals helping each other through tough times at the Emergency Hospital and Urgent Care in Raleigh. Russell survived a fire last year, when he was caught in rubble for days before being rescued and brought to the hospital. Darla, a newer arrival, was wandering around a local backyard, loitering on the porch, and trying to nurse on the dog of the resident who brought her to the hospital, the only one in its area that takes wildlife. The two animals hang out in the same room and even sleep in the same bed, the hospital's staff say. ABC's video of the Russell and Darla shows photos of them relaxingvigil outside her house until the sanctuary employees brought Bella down to see Tarra, who is shown petting her with her trunk and foot. Sadly, Bella was killed (likely by a coyote) in 2011. The sanctuary workers were surprised to see no evidence of the attack nearby and to find blood on Tarra's trunk, as if she had carried Bella home. Tarra "became more reserved, quieter, she was depressed," said the sanctuary's CEO.

2. Clover the rhino and Bok-Bok the goat

After Clover's mother was killed by poachers, the baby rhino ended up at a preserve in Johannesburg and wandered over to a neighboring farm, where Bok-Bok started communicating with him through the fence. The two quickly became inseparable, following each other wherever they went. An employee of the preserve


said Bok-Bok cries whenever she cannot find Clover.

3. Safi the dog and Wister the donkey

Barbara Smuts, who studies friendships between primates, observed a friendship form on her own ranch between her German Shepherd Safi and a donkey named Wister. At first, Wister tried to attack Safi, but gradually, his canine friend grew on him, and in no time he was braying outside the door every morning until Smuts let Safi out. Safi even taught Wister some tricks, such as carrying around a stick in his mouth, though “he looked like he didn’t quite know why he was walking around with a stick in his mouth," Smuts wrote in a paper about interspecies relationships. They even seemed to have their own language, she added, with Safi biting Wister's neckregions of greater India – Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Tibet, Afghanistan, Chinese Yunnan, Philippines – the issue becomes only more complex. It is no wonder that the history books beings churned out in the name of exploring the ancient Indian history haven’t had the dare to venture out and include some non-conventional topics in their narrative, which usually begins with the Sindhu-Saraswathi Civilisation and ends with Harsha’s reign, occasionally coming down south for explaining the exploits of the Rashtrakutas, Chalukyas and the Cholas in passing. The North – East sadly gets only a few sentences as a tribute to their unexplored and mysterious tradition.

Supposing that this fault can be attributed to the curse of geography, another curious lapse many history books suffer is from


existed from the Sangam Age (1st Century CE) till the end of the Chola Empire (1300s). The book is one among the many in the Penguin Series related to “The Story of Indian Business” which is edited by the prolific Gurcharan Das. As Das himself mentions in his foreword, the book “celebrates the ideal captured in the Sanskrit term artha or ‘material well-being’, which was one of the aims of the classical Indian life.”

Trade

To appreciate the importance of India as a focal point of world trade, one just needs to look at the world map covering the European and Asian continents. India is right in the middle of the paths – land and sea – connecting the West and the East and became, by default, a transhipment port,for the goods from both sides of the world. As the author mentions, ships from the west rarely sailed further east of Bay of Bengal and the Chinese ships did not bother to venture post the Kerala coast. It is in this context that Mukund has analysed the importance of the Tamil region. Tamilakam, by itself, doesn’t denote a single political formation; instead, it represents a cultural and linguistic continuum. As Silappadikaram, one of the oldest Tamil epics mentions, and translated by the author,

The Tamil region extends from the hills of Vishnu [Tirupati] in the north to the oceans at the cape in the south. In this region of cool waters were the four great cities of Madurai with its towers; Uraiyur which was famous; tumultuous Kanchi; and


east direction. Despite this, the number and importance given to the ports on the eastern coast, Korkai (at Gulf of Mannar), Saliyur (north of Korkai), Tondi (north of Rameswaram), Eyirpattinam, Pattinapakkam, along with the ones mentioned above, shows that the Tamil region was very resourceful and politically significant. Another point to be noted is the number of ports in the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar. Mukund infers that the ancient period ships were able to sail along the west coast of Sri Lanka since they were smaller, whereas even in the 17th century ships were larger and had to sail round the eastern coast of Lanka.

One fact that strikes out is the description of India as a sink of world’s gold, as described by Pliny the Elder.The value of imports compared to what was being exported from India – pepper, textile, pearls, and gemstones – was much lower and it resulted in a trade deficit for the merchants of the yavana (Roman) empire. A map tracing the path the merchants used to travel as explained by the author is given below. This explains the reason why large amount of Roman coins have been excavated in Coimbatore, Erode and Salem.

Possible paths traversed by Roman traders into the interior of Tamilakam

Later on, after the death of Nero, Emperor Vespasian had to pass a series of laws against the luxurious lifestyle of the upper classes and imports from India began to be largely confined to pepper and textiles, both comparatively low-value commodities. It is interesting to note


Tamil society in contrast to the medieval Japan and the ancient Greece, where gains via plunder was considered noble. Even the central characters of the famous Silappadikaram – Kannagi and Kovalan – are shown to be from mercantile families. The following text from Pattinapalai one of the poems from Pattupattu (literally Ten Poems) throws light on the attitude towards the Merchants.

The merchants of Puhar are as straight forward as the crosspiece of yoke. They always speak the truth and are fair-minded, and fear ignominy. They value their goods and the goods of others by the same standard; they neither take too high a price for their goods, nor do they shortchange on what they sell. They openly state their profits on various goods they handle. Such merchants havepatronage of the temple authorities and the royal family.

Not just domestic merchants, even merchants from outside used to do the same to gain the trust of local people. This negated any antagonism and ill-will and established their credentials in an alien land. Says Mukund,

Inscriptions are replete with references to itinerant merchants who made donations to temples in towns which were far from their homes. This indicates a high volume of overland trade which was being carried on by individual merchants. A significant proportion of itinerant merchants came from malaimandalam, the western hills of Kerala, participating in inter-regional overland trade of pepper and areca nut. Traders known as kudirai chetti from the west also came to sell horses which had evidently been imported from Arabia to the ports of


the west coast. There are also occasional references to merchants from other regions, like Kaivaranadu in Karnataka and even Kashmiradesam.

Mukund also gives us a glimpse of the lives of the ancient capitalists when she describes their lavish lifestyles and tall multi-storeyed houses with its latticed windows that let in breeze. She writes “even the kites flying past would have liked to rest” in those houses!

Merchants were not only good in commerce but were also regarded as brave warriors and learned men. Manimekalai, the second great Tamil epic, was written by Sattanar, a grain merchant. Mullaipattu, one of the ten poems of Pattuppaattu was written by Nampudanar, a gold merchant. Famous poet Nakkirar was from a conch-cutting family. Several poems have been written by members of professions as variedguild formation would have become sources of capital for individual members to meet short-term requirements. Finally, the group identity created greater trust in all societies. Though there were many guilds, two among them stand out prominently – Manigramam, based in Pudukkottai and Disai-ayirattu-ainnurruvar or simply Ainnuruvar (Five Hundred) based in Ayyavole or Aihole.

Manigramam seems to have become prominent by early 10th century AD. The location of Pudukkottai is strategically important because it connects the trading route from the Northern Tamilakam to the Southern Tamilakam ports. Thus it would have become an ideal spot for various merchants to come together and a form a base for overland trade. Later on records of smaller local level franchisee-like Manigramams could be found in many regions and they stopped over-seas trade.

Ainnurruvar group,


this, that India still remains a region of competing regional political fiefdoms and China still remains a region of a strong single-party rule. History repeats and how!

Role of State and Polity

From 3rd to 6th century the history of Tamilakam is not known much except for the fact that a group called Kalabhras or Kalapparargal, who are described as an evil-race in Tamil works, ruled. It was during this time that Buddhism and Jainism spread in the Tamil region. Many historians note that it was during the Kalabhra rule that Silappadikaram, Manimekali, and Patinenkilkanakku were written. R S Sharma, in his Early Medieval Indian Society, rather foolishly compares the Kalabhra reign to a revolution of landless against the landed aristocracy. One can only guffaw at the extent to whichthe Marxist historians will go ahead to affix their personal world view into a reading of general history.

Kalabhra interregnum was followed by four centuries of Pallava rule and this imparted to the Tamil society its distinct characteristics that are present till today including local institutions; temple based urban centres, and a strong relation with the south-east Asian nations through military, commercial and cultural exchanges. It is amusing to know that one of the last of the great Pallavas, Nandivarman II, whose rule lasted for 65 years, was a prince of the collateral branch of the family which had been ruling in Champa (present day southern Vietnam). He was selected by a college of senior officials of the Pallava capital when the direct Pallava line had died out.

Chola dynasty


dominated Tamilakam from about mid-tenth century, after the Pallava and Pandya dynasties had faded away. Chola region was called as the Cholamandalam, fancifully altered in the present as Coromandel. We still call the east coast of India as Coromandel Coast.

These two dynasties actively promoted the local-governance, whose existence in turn pre-date any of the mentioned powers. For centuries Tamilakam had been a region of fragmented and unstable polity and because of that the local assemblies had done the job of administering the local inhabitants. It had persisted even during the Pallava- Chola rule and continued to exist post 13th century. There was a hierarchy of administrative units beginning from ur or village, nadu or sub-region, kottam or district/region, and finally nagaram or city. While the affairs of theur, nadu and kottam were handled by local assemblies, nagaram was handled by an assembly of local merchants, since nagarams were mainly urban clusters with prime commercial importance. Mukund repeatedly invokes the scenes of various nagarams, their cosmopolitan population having not just the Tamil people, but also families of the merchants from far away land, the different languages one could hear in the market places of nagaram. Number of nagarams increased during the Chola empire.

There is a delicious portion of the book that explains how the markets in the nagarams were divided into kadai (shop), angaadi (markets), and perangadi (wholesale market). She explains:

“The shops and markets were located on streets in the market zone which were referred to as perunteru,
big or main streets.
The nagaram was always associated with


hierarchy of markets, linking the villages to market town, which was linked to higher order centres like the managaram and porttowns. It collected taxes, gave police protection, performed street cleaning and so on. In addition to its role as a marketing institution, the nagaram was actively involved in the administration of temples. In specific, they managed the accounts of deposits and donations made to the temple and their utilization. They also arranged various cultural programmes, much like a modern day temple committee.

Mukund lists some curious anecdotes from her key reference material South Indian Inscriptions. She writes:

“A fine was imposed on the management when it was demmed fit, as happened when three nagarattar (administrators of a nagaram) of the Thillaisthanam Temple in Tanjavur district were found guilty of mismanagementof temple funds.”

Towards the end of Chola period, nagaram assembly began associating themselves with various merchant guilds, which in turn collected taxes from them. Mukund contends that Nagarams survived well into the 16th century because of such association even as ur, sabha and nadu disappeared under Vijaynagar rule.

Overseas Relations

The author divides the foreign policy of Cholas and Pallavas into two – Hindu Kingdom and Buddhist Kingdoms.

The Hindu kingdoms cover from Thailand to Vietnam and Indonesian islands forming a region of greater India. The author explains one crucial feature of the imperial expansion adopted by the Monarchies of Tamilakam – “This overseas expansion did not come about as a result of military conquest. The expansion based on commercial and cultural interactions was long-lasting, while those made via naval attacks


– such as in Sri Lanka and Sailendra Empire of Sri Vijaya proved that colonization based on military initiatives was not sustainable.”

Not just the famous Angkor in Cambodia, built by Kambuja king Suryavarman II in 12th century, the many other lesser monuments, all-over SE Asia support the above opinion. For nearly 1000 years, these countries had close relation with empires of Tamilakam. But the Chinese supremacy over the region was given its due by sending embassies. Here too, the guild members of Ainnuruvar and Manigramam play a significant role. Inscriptions which show the public-works that had been completed by the two guilds, such as constructions of roads or water tanks, have been found in Thailand and Vietnam.

Buddhist Kingdoms consist of China, Sailendra Empire of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra,and Sri Lanka. These have been the most important countries as far as foreign policy of the Cholas was concerned. An interesting anecdote about a Hindu temple in China honouring the Khan of China is mentioned by Mukund:

“This 13th century inscription was discovered in Quanzhou, a famous medieval port of China, and refers to construction of a Siva temple in the port. The temple was called Tirukkanichhuram, meaning the temple of the Khan after the Khan of China, one more instance of Tamil custom of naming public places after rulers. Hindu artefacts found in the temple area indicate a sizeable Tamil population living in Quanzhou at that time.”

The Cholas had, in general, a normal relationship with Sri Vijaya. While Rajaraja administration was cordial to the Sri Vijaya, Rajendra


the entire Lanka by 1018. But this did not last long. By 1030 Vikkamabahu got back the Southern part and his successor Vijayabahu completely freed Lanka of the Cholas during Kulottunga I. There is an interesting part of the conquest which Mukund narrates:

“Tamil mercenary soldiers known as velaikkara forces revolted against Vijayabahu; who put down the rebellion with brutal effectiveness. The mercenaries gave an undertaking to serve the king loyally and the Buddhist shrine of Polonnuruwa was placed under their protection. According to Mahavamsa, the uprising was instigated by Kulottunga I who made a last-ditch attempt to restore the Chola rule in Sri Lank by exploiting the loyalty and sentiments of the very large Tamil population still living in the island.”

The economic history of Tamilakam and Sri Lankais equally fascinating. In fact, these expeditions were not just to satisfy the imperial ambition, but also to allow the merchants and the merchant guilds to perform their trade without hassle. Aromatic woods, camphor, silk, porcelain, and fine goods from South East Asia and China was the main trade items between the two kingdoms. The Ainnuruvar appear to have played a large role in controlling the business in Sri Lanka. The guild survived despite the victory of Vijayabahu. The author attributes this to the social activities done by the guild such as supporting the Buddhist temples. Yet they themselves were Hindus and continued to remain so.

The Importance of Temples

The temple had always been and continues to be a distinctive feature of Tamil society. Building supporting temples gave legitimacy


money and goods to temples. As a result the administration of temple affairs became a coveted and prestigious posts and the importance of nagaram assemblies went higher. In short, temples became “the focal point of social interaction and an outlet for the concerns of the community”. It is no wonder that maximum information about this period is obtained from the inscriptions from the temple. The stone inscriptions throw light on the existing social mores. The following anecdote by the author is interesting:

“A tenth century inscription from Tanjavur district states that a Brahmin had gifted land to his second wife, which raises many conjectures as to why a purely private, intra-household disposal of assets needed to be recorded in a public institution.”

Temples and the Economy

It is surprising to notethat the presiding deity of the temple was deemed to be a person in a legal sense and all transactions were carried out in the name of the deity. In India, even today, the temple deity is a legal entity. Temple was a major consumer of oil since it had lamps that burned day and night continuously called nonda vilakku and lamps lit during morning and dusk called – sandhya deepam. Similarly, it also consumed flowers, fruits, rice, imported aromatic substances etc. For this, temples needed sizable funds, which were mainly raised through donations. Donations were not just made through food and flowers. Land grants to temples were an important feature. Land donations had a lateral monetary intent of bringing more land under cultivation. This was a prominent


feature of the Tirupati temple.

Another feature of temple is that it acted like a bank. The nagarams, which are corporate assemblies, borrowed money from the temple, and agreed to supply the required amount of ghee or oil as interest on money. Temples thus enabled circulation of resources across a wide section of society. Mukund gives the following example to study how temples led to redistribution of resources

“The Rajarajesvaram temple built by Rajaraja I in Tanjavur becomes a special case for studying the redistributive aspects of the temple. Donations to the temple were of two categories – livestock and money. Most of the livestock was donated by the king and nobility. Military officers were the main donors of money, accounting for 79.3% of all donations. Livestock was better redistributed≈169.57 weeks ago

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Autosomal dominant leukodystrophy is an extremely rare disease. Here we report on a dominantly inherited disease in a Japanese family with slowly progressive clinical course. Their symptoms and signs started in early childhood and very slowly progressed. In most patients spastic gait was the initial symptom. Neurological manifestations were characterized by pyramidal signs, ataxia, and mental deterioration. In addition to these neurological signs, the skeletal anomalies such as scoliosis and congenital hip dislocation were also present. MR images showed no abnormality in the early stage, but T2-weighted images revealed high intensity areas in the cerebral and cerebellar white matter, and the dentate nucleus in the advanced stage. Proton MR spectroscopy showedThe House Intelligence Committee and research firm Fusion GPS have reached a confidential agreement regarding the panel's subpoena of the firm's bank records, following new revelations about the origins of the controversial dossier of unverified allegations against President Trump produced by the organization.The committee, one of several investigating Russian efforts to influence the election and allegations of collusion, subpoenaed Fusion GPS and the firm's bank on Oct. 4."The emergency legal action taken last week by Fusion GPS helped the company honor its legal obligations and protect its First Amendment rights," Fusion GPS lawyer Joshua Levy said in a statement. "Today's result required the involvement of the Court to strike the balance between Congress' right to information and our client's privileges and legal obligations."The committee issued a statement confirming


a deal."The parties have reached an agreement related to the House Intelligence Committee's subpoena for Fusion GPS's bank records that will secure the Committee's access to the records necessary for its investigation," the committee statement said.Revelations about the funding of the research into Trump's business, which the House committee was hoping to reveal via subpoena, answered one of the biggest mysteries of the 2016 presidential campaign.On Friday, representatives of The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, informed the committee that it first hired Fusion GPS during the 2016 Republican presidential primary to conduct opposition research on Trump and several GOP presidential candidates."The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, orprovided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele," the Beacon editors said in a statement.The research effort expanded in March 2016 under financing from Democrats. The Washington Post first reported Tuesday that the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign later retained Fusion GPS to conduct research."To assist in its representation of the DNC and Hillary for America, Perkins Coie engaged Fusion GPS in April of 2016, to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle," a spokesman for Perkins Coie, a law firm retained by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, wrote in a letter obtained by ABC News. "By its terms, the engagement concluded prior to the November 2016 Presidential election."ABC News reported in August that Fusion GPS was paid during the


Sunday, 23 October 2016

Sadhu Amar Bharati

26. Sadhu Amar Bharati

We’ve all felt a bit of arm ache after carrying heavy bags of shopping over long distances, but maybe few of you will complain less about muscle burn after reading about Sadhu Amar Bharati, an Indian holy man who says that he has held his right hand aloft since 1973.

This means that his hand has been held in the air for an incredible forty-three years.

After being held aloft for so long, his hand has turned into a scrap of skin and bone - and is completely useless.

Despite this, it Shiva worshippers have turned it into a symbol of discipline and devotion.

Until the start of the seventies, Sadhu Amar Bharati was just a middle-class Indian who lived a regular life likeeveryone else.

He had all the usual things: A wife, a home, a steady job.

He even had three children.

But all of this paled into insignificance when one day he woke up and decided he needed to leave it all behind to dedicate his life to Shiva, a Hindu god.

From then on, he wandered the roads of India, wearing nothing but simple clothes and carrying only a metal trident.

In 1973, after three years of wandering, Sadhu Amar Bharati decided he still had too many connections to the luxuries of modern life and decided he needed to make some sort of sacrifice.

That sacrifice was to raise his right arm - and keep it held aloft.

43 years on, Sadhu Amar Bharati is still dedicated to serving his god, and his right arm


The petition also alleged each of Judith’s 10 older children, born
between 1997 and 2009, had been permanently removed from her custody due to her
drug abuse.
       In its report prepared for the detention hearing, the Department related Judith’s
long history with substance abuse and observed that at least four of her children,
including her son Matthew, born in 2009, tested positive at birth for amphetamines,
methamphetamine and opiates. When Judith entered the hospital in May 2013 to give
birth to Casey, she gave a false name and stated she had custody of her other children.
As a result of Judith’s deception, she and Casey were not immediately screened for drugs.
By the time the Department learned of Judith’s identity three days later and toxicology
tests were performed, she and Caseyof a drug program, he had not used drugs for six years. Like Judith, he
tested negative for drugs. Brandon’s mother told social workers Brandon had not used
drugs for “well over two years.” She knew from watching Brandon during his days as a
drug user what it looked like to be under the influence of drugs and had not seen Judith or
Brandon under the influence. If she even suspected one or both were on drugs, she would
require drug testing before allowing them to live with her.
       The Department did not seek Casey’s removal at the detention hearing. It advised
the court Casey was currently residing with both parents in the home of his paternal
grandparents and was not currently at risk, provided the family continued to


a
removal order.
       3. Casey’s Detention, Issuance of Arrest and Protective Custody Warrants,
          Casey’s Placement with Paternal Grandparents
       In its report prepared for the August 19, 2013 jurisdiction hearing, the Department
advised the court Judith was about to begin parenting classes, drug counseling and
participating in random drug testing. It recommended the court sustain the petition and
place Casey with his parents in the home of his paternal grandparents and order family
maintenance services. The court continued the matter to September 9, 2013. However,
by the time of the September 9 hearing, the Department had changed its recommendation
and urged the court to remove Casey. The Department reported Judith had missed all
five of herdrug test appointments and had not enrolled in any programs. Brandon had
missed four drug tests. The matter was continued to December 9, 2013, and then again to

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January 27, 2014 for a contested jurisdiction hearing. During this time, Judith and
Brandon promised to begin drug testing and parenting programs; and Casey remained in
his parents’ custody.
       On January 27, 2014 the Department reported that Judith had missed all (13) drug
tests and Brandon had missed 12 of 13 tests. The


detention hearing the Department reported that social
workers had attempted on four separate occasions to take Casey into protective custody,
but had been unable to locate the family. Interviews with maternal and paternal relatives
revealed that Judith was in Riverside, but Judith had not left a forwarding number.
Paternal grandmother told social workers Judith had said she was afraid to speak to the
social worker because, after her last child was detained, she never saw him again.3 The
court ordered Casey detained from his parents, issued arrest warrants for Judith and
Brandon and a protective custody warrant for Casey, and continued the matter.
       On April 3, 2014 law enforcement officers located Casey and his parents at the
home of his maternal grandmother and returned him to his paternal grandparents. On
Aprilthe Department to permit Brandon to reside in the home
with Casey. Both parents signed an attorney order agreeing to voluntarily submit to drug
testing. The matter remained on calendar for the contested jurisdiction hearing.
       4. The Contested Jurisdiction Hearing
       At the April 27, 2014 contested jurisdiction hearing Judith moved to dismiss the
petition for insufficient evidence. She argued there was no evidence there was any
substantial risk of harm to Casey in her custody; she no longer used drugs and her prior
history of substance abuse was an insufficient basis to assert jurisdiction. Judith also
presented the testimony of her informal sponsor, who had observed Judith twice a week
for the last two months at group meetings for drug addicts. During that


time the sponsor
never saw Judith under the influence of drugs. It appeared to her that Judith was trying to
change her life. The sponsor admitted she did not know Judith well or her history with
the Department. Her role was to give Judith support; there was no formal rehabilitation
program she was supposed to help Judith follow. Judith’s 15-year-old son, who had been
permanently placed with his maternal grandmother, testified he regularly saw Judith,
knew the symptoms exhibited by a person under the influence of marijuana (but not
necessarily other drugs) and had not observed Judith under the influence.
       The court sustained the petition, finding Judith’s actions, including her deceptive
behavior at the hospital at Casey’s birth, failure to participate in any drug testing (having
missed 19 tests during theAbout the Author

After serving the last two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, Liz is currently living in Washington D.C. As an aspiring world traveler, she’s always on the lookout for a new opportunity to explore more of the globe. In her free time, she enjoys playing a multitude of instruments, creating mashups, reading and writing about travel, and learning new dance moves.


flaws communism had.

The idea was to make sure that everyone had jobs or were students, and had at least one thousand dollars. All the poor people were given this money too. Law, order, and living the way that could create a society were led by humans, influenced by cyberetic enchancements. The beings, known as the Iota would make sure no one was smoking or drinking or doing drugs or slcking off. Anyone who tried these things dissapeared

Eventually it was agreed that the world was perfect. Everyone did their routines in accordance to the Perfect World rules. However one man didn't like these changes. That man began a rebellion to change the world back to what it was.

A war broke out. Those who desired perfection (perfectors) and those whowanted the world back to normal (Normals). This war has been going on for a thousand years. During this time all the Iotas were shut down in a rebel assult. However, now certain Iotas are reawakening. This time, they have free will. They have a choice. But which side is right? Which side is wrong? They have no clue.

Pokemon Kingdoms (Fall 2006)

In a world before humans, ruled by Ho-oh, all Pokemon await for the day of the month known as Wish day. The guardians of Ho-oh and the leader itself join in the sacred Wish shrine before awakening Jirachi, a Pokemon of dreams that brings a new Pokemon species to earth. On this day however, the other Pokemon, who was born the same time as Ho-oh, the Unknown


year 2016 was an annus horribilis and acted as a warning about the new reality of post-truth politics. It included Brexit, the refugee crisis, the fear of Islamist terrorism with numerous and ongoing attacks, the rise of right-wing populist parties and, more generally, authoritarian developments on a global scale. Some visions for the future have already turned out to be, or will be seen to have been, illusions: the imminent enlargement of the EU, including Turkey, Ukraine and the Western Balkans; and the creation of a European plan for the distribution of refugees. In his September 2017 State of the Union speech, Jean-Claude Juncker proposed the following: ‘If we want the euro to unite rather than divide our continent, then it should be more than the currency ofif the removal of the UK from the EU (the stepping down of the second biggest economic power in the EU) brings a new ‘end of history’. Eurosceptics have made such a loud noise that it has acted as a wake up-call for the silent pro-European majority. Going to vote matters: this is the lesson learned in and beyond the UK. About three-quarters of 18- to 24-year-olds who voted cast ballots for Remain, while three in five of the over-60s opted to Leave, surveys show. However, only 36% of people between 18 and 24 years participated; and of those between 25 and 34 years old, only 58% voted; whereas 83% of those who are 65 and older voted (Henn and Sharpe 2016).

However, in reaction to the Brexit vote,


a new movement called Pulse of Europe has started to advocate for the European project. It was founded in Frankfurt at the end of 2016 and is organised through personal networks, social media and voluntary donations. The movement’s slogan could be described as, ‘Unite, Unite Europe! A Protest in Favor of the European Union’, which is the title of an article in the New Yorker about it: ‘So far, most Pulse of Europe demonstrations are located in Germany, though gatherings have taken place in towns from Montpellier to Stockholm, and organisers say queries have come in from Warsaw and Budapest’ (McGrane 2017). Within just half a year, thousands of people have gathered in 130 cities and 19 countries. Since February 2017, demonstrations have taken place every Sunday inup for Europe sounds very reasonable and perfectly timed. It appears that the clear goal of the movement, like that of many social movements, can be judged independently from its success. So far politicians have not been permitted to get involved in the demonstrations in order to allow the movement to retain its label as an independent movement.

Symbolically, Pulse of Europe fulfils the criteria for the current form of political engagement: it is organised via social media, operates like a business and stands for a particular issue—the success of the European project. In addition, it represents the new Zeitgeist in modern democracies, as is reflected by political leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel: it is not too concrete in form and is only a little ideological, instead


garden or working at their desks in homely, affordable and cosy-looking spaces. Party members are depicted feeding their fish, hanging out the washing, making the bed and brushing their teeth. The goal was to produce the most-read manifesto ever produced (The Guardian2016). With this campaign idea, the claim of ‘bringing democracy back to the people’ found a response.

The pessimistic narrative

The spread of the Internet and related new tools since the 1990s had reinvigorated great hopes for a revitalisation of Western democracies. However, the great visions of cyberspace as an ‘electronic frontier’ of free thought and political activity have undergone a reality check. The fragmentation and unpredictability of public opinion has been seen in the false prognoses of opinion polls on Brexit, the election of President Trump and onsome instances dedicated, professional groups attempt to influence political opinions on social media with large numbers of sparsely populated fake accounts that are used to share and engage with content at high volumes. (Weeden et al. 2017, 8)

A concrete example would be the ‘Lisa’ case in Germany, which dominated the headlines and affected German public discussion for two weeks in January 2016. The 13-year-old Russian–German girl had gone missing for several hours and was reported by First Russian TV to have been raped by migrants. The story turned out to be fake (she had been with a friend that night, according to the police investigation) but was extensively reported in the Russian media, including by Russia Today and Sputnik. The Kremlin accused Germany, of ‘sweeping the case under


the carpet’ (BBC2016) and Russian–Germans went out onto the streets and gathered in front of the Kanzleramt (German Chancellery) to protest. This example shows how easily the masses can be manipulated.

In the US and Europe there is an image of the ‘angry white man’, who believes in a strong leader and who propagates the idea of a national disaster in various dimensions as part of a cultural ‘clash of civilisations’. On this, the Frenchman Gustave Le Bon, who published the famous book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind at the end of the nineteenth century, still offers food for thought. Crowds, being incapable both of reflection and of reasoning, possess a collective mind (Le Bon 2016). Anti-politics, the rejection of traditional politics and its practitioners, isto other European populist parties such as the Freedom Party of Austria (Freitheitliche Partei Österreichs) and the French National Front (Front National). The AfD has been very successful at consolidating the anti-establishment vote and mobilising people who had not voted in previous elections. Exit polls from regional elections since the last federal election four years ago show that the party has drawn large parts of its support from minor parties and by rallying those who have never previously voted (Stabe and Maier-Borst 2017). The party’s success reflects the basic strategic mistake of established parties—demonising their populist competitors. The mobilisation of an anti-populist campaign, including constant attacks on populist parties and openly excluding them from public debates, has brought such parties attention and has laid the floor open to


There had indeed been much hype about the film beforehand. The trailers were looking stunning and the stills amazing. Style was at the fore of the posters and pictures and the trailers and clips we'd seen were suggesting much passion and posturing. It looked epic.

Then came the news of the Berlin Film Festival. There was a single report of booing and people leaving the cinema during the film. It seemed it might have been a misleading campaign. Then the next day the Warner Brothers release comes out and we find the film received a standing ovation at the end and applause during the film.

Who was right? The studio, or the slightly highbrow reviewer? I found out when I got to see the film early followed by an interestingQ&A with Zack Snyder himself.

Snyder introduced the film, and he really didn't have that much to say about it, apart from one clear message.

"I hope it's loud, it's much better when it's loud, it's distracting!"

I laughed, and at the same time wondered if there was some truth in that statement.

The film rolled and there was no sound. Suddenly, during the studio titles, the sound kicked in and Snyder's concerns were cleared. It was loud.

300 is based on Frank Miller's graphic novel which tells the story of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where the King of Sparta led three hundred of his soldiers against the might of the Persian armies. Vastly outnumbered they try to hold the wave upon wave of Persian attackers back and prevent from


to say the film looks superb, the visuals are amazing, not just the style but the framing of the shots, the choreography of the fights and set pieces, and the superb effect of speeding the film down and up during key moments.

Throughout the action sequences the camera will alter the speed of the film, so that one moment the enemy are tearing towards the Spartan in hordes at full speed, then it drops to slow motion as the Spartan engages an enemy and strikes his first blow. This continues through the fighting and is used to great effect. Never does it feel overused or out of place, and it's fair to say that for the audience the speed changes are spot on and perfectly used.

Combining these effects andSpartan's Oracle and the scenes of hedonism in Xerxes' camp. In both beauty and ugliness entwine, and in the Oracle scenes the slow motion style is applied in equal measure as the battle to great effect.

This is another aspect of the film, its sexiness. Of course the pumped men in next to nothing will get the pulses racing, but it's much smoother than that and far less in your face. The scene of Leonidas making love to the Queen is superbly filmed and is far more real and touching than a lot of romantic Hollywood films, and yet it retains bags of sexuality. The Oracle scene is another where the sexiness of the film comes through and it looks almost art like in its depiction. These were beautiful


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Geology

Lake Nipisso and Lake Manitou to the east define the Manitou-Nipisso geological area, which is part of the Polycyclic Belt of the Grenville Province.
The bedrock of the lake is in the Manitou Gneiss Complex, and is mostly composed of quartz–feldspar gneiss and hornblende–biotite gneiss.
A 1997 study of a mineral property about 2/3 of the way up the east shore found most of the units units present in the Nipisso-Manitou geological complex, including felsic gneisses, abundant gabbro and minor granitoid intrusives.
The property had mineralized ultramafic dikes associated with a brecciated felsic pipe.

Tributary lakes

Lakes that drain into Lake Nipisso include:

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You are here:Home›Featured›General›American Man Takes A Knife, Murders His Grandmother And Landlord, Chops Up Their Bodies And Scatters The Pieces On The Road, Then Tells Police “I Will Chop Up Anybody Who Disrespects Jesus Christ”

American Man Takes A Knife, Murders His Grandmother And Landlord, Chops Up Their Bodies And Scatters The Pieces On The Road, Then Tells Police “I Will Chop Up Anybody Who Disrespects Jesus Christ”

A New York State man murdered his grandmother and landlord by chopping up their bodies and scattering the pieces on the street. When he was arrested, he claimed that he murdered them “in the name of the Lord,” and then proceeded to say that “I will chop up anybody who disrespects Jesus Christ” according to a report:

The admissions a New York stateman made in court Tuesday are chilling.

Naythen Aubain, 29, of Utica, was barefoot, shackled and wearing a mesh spit-guard over his head as he went before an Oneida County judge. According to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, Aubain made spontaneous admissions during his arraignment about the slayings of his grandmother, Katerine Aubain, 90, and their 87-year-old landlord, Jane Wentka.

“I did do it. I did chop her up. I didn’t only chop her up, I chopped my landlord up, too,” Aubain said, according to the Observer-Dispatch. “I killed her, chopped her up in the name of the Lord. She wanted to do nasty things, and I had enough.”

“I’ll chop anyone up who disrespects Jesus Christ,” he continued, according to reporters present for the proceedings. Aubain remained uncooperative throughout the arraignment and


Syracuse reported that firefighters who responded to the crash scene found an uncooperative Aubain accosting some women in the area. Sgt. Michael Curley, of the Utica Police Department, told the news station that Aubain told the firefighters he had just killed someone.

His car registration led investigators to 1147 Tilden Ave. in Utica, where Aubain had lived for about a year with his grandmother in the second-floor apartment in the home. Wentka lived in the downstairs apartment, WSTM reported.

Detectives found a horrific scene in Wentka’s apartment.
“Police found body parts of Wentka inside her apartment, and her torso and head were found along Albany Street,” the Observer-Dispatch quoted Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara as saying.

The home where the defendant and victims lived sits on a corner lot at theintersection of Tilden Avenue and Albany Street.

Katerine Aubain was reported missing Monday morning by the Utica Police Department. By that night, however, she had been found.

The elderly grandmother’s remains were found dismembered and buried in a shallow grave in Claysville, about 10 miles from home.

Police officials told the Observer-Dispatch that initial findings indicate the women were both stabbed to death before their bodies were cut up, but that the final determination will come from the medical examiner. Their exact time of death had not yet been established.

Aubain has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his grandmother and Wentka. He was booked into the Oneida County Jail on Wednesday, according to records.

New York Department of Corrections records show that Aubain previously served five


years in prison, beginning in 2008, for second-degree robbery. While serving his sentence at the Auburn Correctional Facility, he was convicted of possessing a homemade weapon, which a guard said he found during a search.

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, Aubain pleaded guilty despite maintaining his innocence. The guard, Matthew Cornell, later admitted to authorities that he’d planted a weapon on a different inmate in the prison.

Because of Cornell’s admission, Aubain’s conviction on that charge, as well as the similar convictions of four other inmates, was vacated in January 2017. (source, source)Skateistan, a charity set up to teach skateboarding, has opened a new site in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. When full, the purpose built complex - comprising a skatepark, sports hall and education centre - will cater to 1,000 young people.

The charity was inspired by a chance encounter. In 2007, young street traders spotted an Australian researcher skating in Kabul and were entranced by the sight of a man riding a board with four wheels. By 2009, the now ex-researcher, Oliver Percovich, had opened an indoor skatepark to teach the sport. Though limited to one unlikely charity, skateboarding quickly became a hit among several hundred Afghans aged 5-18.

Today over 400 children spend an hour each week skateboarding in Kabul. Many of the boys already play cricket, volleyball


up and used as classrooms.

Shipping containers make up the education centre. Photograph: Skateistan

Marble flooring extends throughout the classrooms and skatepark. Photograph: Skateistan

The repurposing of a conflict’s legacy reflects other potentially controversial policies. Young people and women are prioritised in staff recruitment, giving skate instructors like Hanifa the chance to support her family while continuing with school.Gov. Mangudya - Commendable Stance on Artisanal Miners

The move, announced in the Monetary Policy Statement on August 5, 2015, will enhance socioeconomic rights and uplift standards of living of marginalised economic groups, largely found in underdeveloped rural areas.

While this is commendable, the government’s attempts to help artisanal miners and promote the remitting of gold to Fidelity Printers and Refiners it should not overlook, but rather mitigate the potential downsides of mining activities. These include potential violation of the right to a healthy environment for surrounding and affected communities, especially those living downstream of rivers.

The government should equally address concerns of politicisation of artisanal mining by people or syndicates linked to the ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF), which has been cited as a major concern


the former food network host’s crumbling empire. Severson spoke to Dora Charles, a black cook who helped Deen open her Lady & Sons restaurant over 20 years ago.

And now, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) wants to take that dignity away from Mr. Arthur. The day after a judge issued a temporary restraining order requiring Ohio to list Arthur’s husband as his “surviving spouse” on his death certificate, DeWine announced that he would appeal this decision and try to strip a dying man of his dignity.

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1969. She served out seven terms

there, representing New York’s 12th district —the area of Brooklyn known as Bedford-Stuyvesant. In keeping with her district, Chisholm was a vocal advocate for America’s inner cities,and for child care. A staunch feminist, Chisholm hired a staff of young women, half of whom were black, to fill major positions in her office on Capitol Hill. She was also the first black woman to run for president. There is an amazing portrait of Chisholm hanging in the US Capitol.

Sandra Day O’Connor O’Connor made history as the first female justice on the Supreme Court, where she worked to represent the views of women among her eight male colleagues. Though she was known to be fairly conservative, her landmark decision in Casey v. Planned Parenthood upheld abortion rights, protected under Roe v. Wade, for generations of women. As a woman, O’Connor struggled to find a job as a lawyer. But by the time she retired from the


is being discussed. This is my last response to her, which I am afraid she may take offense to:

” We will have to have a long conversation about this soon. The bible is a compilation of many different books put together after jesus died and takes much of its mythology from previous myths. The stock people place in the bible is due to a host of logical fallacies, errors in critical thinking and a tremendous amount of indoctrination at a young, impressionable age. Likewise, the teachings of jesus that many follow are not consistent. He is not always portrayed as a humble, loving family man. A full reading of the bible cover to cover will reveal that. Additionally, the bible was not composed in english and has beendynamic where their rapist threatens to pursue custodial rights over the child unless they drop their criminal charges.

Prewitt was speaking from personal experience. She made headlines last year when she wrote an open letter to Todd Akin —who became infamous during the 2012 election cycle for claiming that women cannot be impregnated from a “legitimate rape” —about becoming pregnant after being raped. As she pursued charges against her rapist months later,he suddenly filed for custody rights over her daughter, sending her into a long and expensive court battle.

This article in Salon breaks down the opinions of the eight Republican senators who sit on the Environment and Public Works Committee regarding man-made or mankind-influenced climate change.

It’s extremely depressing. Excerpts below:

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the ranking member on the committee,


finally gave up… and within 48 hours told me I ‘had to go”. I had been living with my sister and BIL since fresh out of high school and living for the first time in the big bad city (LA area). Ah,the Christian Love!

So many questions, righteously posed, remain from those days, bluentx. Many. Some days I amuse myself by seeing how many I can juggle at once.

I can actually juggle the book of Genesis, why I cut slack to obvious silly tales and how the New Testament makes the Old all better without changing it but add just a single verse of Revelation and all falls with an embarrassing clatter. You don’t even want me to start in about the people I believed when they testified tolonger noticeable. When I inquired where she was from, she mentioned up North (D.C. I think).

That led to a conversation about how shocked she was about living in the South vs up North. The first thing shocking she mentioned was the attitude toward race down here (Florida), which was so backward to her. We talked about race relations, and the article that Pteryxx linked to upthread about how racism is perceived by African Americans vs whites.

Which led to a discussion about religion and its role in racism, as well as the opposition found in much of the South to progress or equality. She noted that the problem also exists in the North, but it seemed more pronounced in the South. I casually mentioned that I was an atheist,


that I understood that greed is common in humans and that it is entirely possible that the PTB in Big Pharma are money grubbers who care for nothing but the bottom line.

You could see the look of near enlightenment on his face. It was awesome. He actually thought about what I said and even mentioned that it was a reasonable position to take.

That was my bright spot of the day.

He later went on to mention that he was exploring dating sites and wasn’t getting any hits, possibly because he listed his religious status as agnostic.
Yeah, so that opened up a nifty conversation about atheism (I told him) and dating and being in the South. I was able to discuss a lot of issues with him, with a consciousthe Danish military. This ancestor had an affair with the babysitter who was a Mormon, so they ran off to Utah with two of the kids.

After my grandmother passed, she was baptized as a man. When I went to the temple to correct the information they practically interrogated me…”Are you sure she’s female?” “Yes, she gave birth to my mother.”

Reza Aslan, a religious scholar with a Ph.D. in the sociology of religions from the University of California and author of the new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, went on FoxNews.com’s online show Spirited Debate to promote his book only to be prodded about why a Muslim would write a historical book about Jesus.

All potato salad is amazing, except for that potato salad which


Royal Maple (smells like syrup) and was brown unlike the other Crown liquors (standard comes in a purple bag, Crown Black comes in a black bag, and Crown Reserve comes in a red bag, made of some suade like material, rather than cloth like the others). Many male bartenders keep their bar supplies in a crown bag. I kept a pen, notepad, nametag, corkscrew, and bottle opener. All that was dumped so they could take the brown Crown bag.
The first annoyance?

The idiots dumped all my toothpicks onto the drivers seat! Years ago, I started keeping a small box of wooden toothpicks where the ashtray normally goes (was tired of eating popcorn at the movies, and having to fiddle with a straw, or pick at the kernels caught inWhy Mach bands are not seen at the edges of a step.
Mach bands are seen at the two ends of a ramp in luminance from one uniform level to another. Narrow, sharp-edged stimuli centered on the ramp attenuate both Mach bands simultaneously. Mach bands are not seen at the edges of an abrupt step change in luminance because the sharp edges actively suppress them.


the Third and Fourth Races? In the common
acceptation of the term, neither the Lemurians, nor yet their progeny, the
Lemuro-Atlanteans, had any, as they knew no dogma, nor had they to believe
on faith.
No sooner had the mental eye of man been opened to understanding, than the
Third Race felt itself one with the ever-present as the ever to be unknown
and invisible ALL, the One Universal Deity. Endowed with divine powers, and
feeling in himself his inner God, each felt he was a Man-God in his nature,
though an animal in his physical Self.
The struggle between the two began from the very day they tasted of the
fruit of the Tree of Wisdom; a struggle for life between the spiritual and
the psychic, the psychic and the physical. Those who conquered the lower
principles by obtainingmastery over the body, joined the "Sons of Light."
Those who fell victims to their lower natures, became the slaves of Matter.

From "Sons of Light and Wisdom" they ended by becoming the "Sons of

Darkness." They had fallen in the battle of mortal life with Life immortal,
and all those so fallen became the seed of the future generations of
Atlanteans.*
At the dawn of his consciousness, the man of the Third Root Race had thus no
beliefs that could be called religion. That is to say, he was equally as
ignorant of "gay religions, full of pomp and gold" as of any system of faith
or outward worship. But if the term is to be defined as the binding together
of the masses in one form of reverence paid to those we feel higher than
ourselves, of


into matter could never have been achieved; nor
would it have received its first impulse, had not the bright Spirits
sacrificed their own respective super-ethereal essences to animate the man
of clay, by endowing each of his inner principles with a portion, or rather,
a reflection of that essence.
The Dhyanis of the Seven Heavens (the seven planes of Being) are the
NOUMENOI of the actual and the future Elements, just as the Angels of the
Seven Powers of nature - the grosser effects of which are perceived by us in
what Science is pleased to call the "modes of motion" — the imponderable
forces and what not — are the still higher noumenoi of still higher
Hierarchies. [see S D I 570-5]

It was the "Golden Age" in those days of old, the age when the "gods walked
theearth, and mixed freely with the mortals." Since then, the gods departed
(i.e., became invisible), and later generations ended by worshipping their
kingdoms — the Elements.
It was the Atlanteans, the first progeny of semi-divine man after his
separation into sexes — hence the first-begotten and humanly-born mortals —
who became the first "Sacrificers" to the god of matter.
They stand in the far-away dim past, in ages more than prehistoric, as the
prototype on which the great symbol of Cain was built, † as the first
anthropomorphists who worshipped form and matter. That worship degenerated
very soon into self-worship, thence led to phallicism, or that which reigns
supreme to this day in the symbolisms of every exoteric religion of ritual,
dogma, and form. Adam and Eve became matter, or furnished the soil, Cain and
Abel — the latter the


life-bearing soil, the former "the tiller of that
ground or field."
Thus the first Atlantean races, born on the Lemurian Continent, separated
from their earliest tribes into the righteous and the unrighteous; into
those who worshipped the one unseen Spirit of Nature, the ray of which man
feels within himself — or the Pantheists, and those who offered fanatical
worship to the Spirits of the Earth, the dark Cosmic, anthropomorphic
Powers, with whom they made alliance. These were the earliest Gibborim, "the
mighty men of renown in those days" (Gen. vi.); who become with the Fifth
Race the Kabirim: Kabiri with the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, Titans with
the Greeks, and Rakshasas and Daityas with the Indian races.
Such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern
religions, especially of the worship of the later Hebrewsfor their tribal
god. At the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon
and blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena.
The Lemurians gravitated toward the North Pole, or the Heaven of their
Progenitors (the Hyperborean Continent); the Atlanteans, toward the Southern
Pole, the pit, cosmically and terrestrially — whence breathe the hot
passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic Elementals, whose abode it is.
The two poles were denominated, by the ancients, Dragons and Serpents —
hence good and bad Dragons and Serpents, and also the names given to the
"Sons of God" (Sons of Spirit and Matter): the good and bad Magicians. This
is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man.
The legend of the "Fallen Angels" in its esoteric signification, contains
the key to the manifold contradictions of human character;


animal, and, therefore, when the physiological
separation took place in the natural course of evolution — when also "all
the animal creation was untied," and males were attracted to females — that
race fell: not because they had eaten of the fruit of Knowledge and knew
good from evil, but because they knew no better. Propelled by the sexless
creative instinct, the early sub-races had evolved an intermediate race in
which, as hinted in the Stanzas, the higher Dhyan-Chohans had incarnated. †
"When we have ascertained the extent of the Universe and learnt to know all
that there is in it, we will multiply our race," answer the Sons of Will and
Yoga to their brethren of the same race, who invite them to do as they do.
This means that the great Adepts and Initiated ascetics willWith cricket on hold during the current global coronavirus pandemic, White Ferns batter Katie Perkins is keeping active while helping her community, patrolling as a police officer on Auckland's Māngere streets.

Going from cricket whites to police blue, Perkins is suiting up to patrol the beat full time in the response to Covid-19.

"To wear the fern on the cricket field was always my dream," Perkins tells 1 NEWS.

"But to be able to put this uniform on and to go out there and serve the community as a whole means a lot to me.

"With not much cricket on at the moment it was a pretty easy decision."

Aside from her work patrolling the streets, Perkins is also staying in shape, her sights locked on next year's Women's World Cup held in


district court and became the substitute plaintiff.  The FDIC moved for judgment of strict foreclosure on May 11, 1992.

3
At a hearing on the motion before Magistrate Judge Eagan, appellees consented to a judgment of strict foreclosure but requested an early law day to stop the accrual of interest and continued depreciation in the value of the property as a result of a collapsing real estate market.  The FDIC consented to an early law day for accrual and valuation purposes but requested more time before title vested in order to complete an environmental assessment of the property before deciding whether to take title.  Magistrate Judge Eagan attempted to accommodate the parties' requests by setting a law day for September 28, 1992.  He ordered that theFive days a week, Nasarette Alonzo works as a teller in a bank in San Pedro Sula. Every evening, and sometimes at weekends too, she comes to the Technological University of Honduras, where she studies international relations.

“I live with my mother. She does not work,” says Alonzo, smartly dressed in a crimson red blouse, and wearing hooped earrings. “My mother helped me pay for high school, but I’m paying for this. She has told me to continue these studies and see if I can obtain a masters.”

As thousands of Hondurans, young and old, pour out of the country in search of a better life in the US, the 28-year-old is among those – their plight largely unremarked upon – working for a better life here. When the caravans


from the US.

In repeated interviews, people in Honduras say the main factor in forcing people to head north was a lack of decent opportunities, especially for young people. Numerous people insist they would rather stay if there were jobs, less violence, and if corruption – allegedly reaching to the highest levels of government – was not rampant.

The Technological University of Honduras (UTH), a private, nonprofit institution that has 11 campuses across the country, was established in 1987 by Roger D Valladares, as a means to provide education to middle-class and working-class students.

With the state providing only the most basic education, and with the children of the wealthiest families studying either abroad or in expensive private colleges, he came up with an idea that allowed young people to work,background, spent six years studying in the US, including a stint at culinary school in Florida. He could have chosen to remain but decided to return. He says he was inspired both by the fact “Honduras is virgin territory” for entrepreneurs, and because he wanted to help.

Among his businesses is a pizza restaurant, Forno, located in San Pedro Sula, where he employs people in need of a break. Many of them had no experience in the food industry, so he taught them himself. Honduras was held back, he says, by corruption and the government’s failure to invest in its people.

“I chose to come back. There are so many opportunities to try and improve people’s lives,” he says.

In Forno, Minor Batriez is using a large wooden paddle to load


1, He had previously been a manager of the restaurant for three years.

On Sunday, he flew to South Korea to handle his father’s affairs after his recent death. When he returned to the airport on Wednesday, he was not allowed to board the plane.

“They had put a travel ban on me, and I didn’t know why. No one knew why. But I found out it was the Seoul police,” he told WTOL.

Yi came to the United States when he was 9 years old. He served eight years in the United States Army, which included two tours in Afghanistan. In South Korea, all men between the ages of 18 and 28 are required to serve two years in the military. U.S. citizens are usually granted waivers, but the SouthParents May Hesitate On Teen Vaccines

Since 2005, teen immunizations have been recommended at the 11 year-old well child check-up but rates of teens who keep up to date on their shots lag. In an ideal community, 90% of us would be up to date on shots to prevent disease spread most effectively. Back in 2007, teen recommendations were expanded to include HPV vaccine for girls. In 2011, both boys and girls were recommended to get HPV shots. Although the majority of teens get the Tdap shot (tetanus and whooping cough booster) only around 1/3 of teen girls are up-to-date on their HPV shot when most recently surveyed.

Teen Shots Recommend at age 11:

A Pediatrics Study on teen shots revealed that parents may not get their teen shots due to


[Comparative study on the effect of anticholinergic substances on basic gastric secretion as well as on gastric secretion stimulated by pentagastrin or hypoglycemia (author's transl)].
The effect of orally administered ipratropiumbromide and propanthelinbromide on the basic gastric secretion as well as on the gastric secretion stimulated by pentagastrin or hypoglycemia due to application of insulin was tested intraindividually in a double blind comparative study. Drug dosage and time after the drug effect was measured varied. In addition the anticholinergic effect of ipratropiumbromide on the basic as well as on the gastric secretion stimulated by pentagastrin was compared to that of oxacepam. The inhibitory effect of ipratropiumbromide on the basic gastric secretion as well as on the secretion stimulated by pentagastrin and hypoglycemia is more pronounced than that of propanthelinbromid.downlink (hereinafter referred to as “down transmission power”) for the base station when the reception quality is higher than the target control value, and for transmitting down control instruction for increasing the down control power when the reception quality is lower than the target control value. Then, the base station increases or decreases the down transmission power according to the down control instruction.
However, in this method, when propagation loss from the mobile station to the base station is abruptly increased associating with movement of position of the mobile station, the base station cannot receive the down control instruction from the mobile station. At the same time, even in the mobile station, it can become impossible to receive the up control instruction from the base station. At this time,


in the conventional method for only controlling transmission power of the downlink in the mobile station by down control instruction from the base station, when a condition where the propagation loss is increased, is continued, while the base station cannot receive the down control instruction from the mobile station, the base station does not increase the transmission power of the downlink. Therefore, even in the mobile station, it becomes impossible to receive the up control instruction from the base station. Thus, the up transmission power of the signal in the uplink is not increased to continue a condition where communication between the mobile station and the base station is interrupted.
On the other hand, in general, among signals received by the base station, a portion of user information, suchreception power of the up control instruction from the base station having small propagation loss to the mobile station is greater than the reception power of the up control instruction from the base station having large propagation loss to the mobile station. When a difference of the propagation losses is large, probability of reception failure of the up control instruction from the base station having large propagation loss becomes high. In such case, the transmission power in the uplink is mainly controlled by up control instruction from the base station having small propagation loss. Therefore, no significant problem will be arisen. On the other hand, when the difference of the propagation losses is small, it is important to control the up transmission power according to both base stations.


minimum power Pmin (steps S211, S212). Then, the process is repeated from the step S202.
In this method, upon timing of initiation of the soft hand-over, since the initial values of the down transmission power of the primary base station and the auxiliary base station are different, there is a difference |P1−P2| between the down transmission power P1 of the primary base station and the down transmission power P2 of the auxiliary base station. On the other hand, upon failure of reception of the down control instruction in one or more base stations, the difference |P1−P2| of these transmission powers P1 and P2 can be increased. However, in a portion of control through steps S203 to S206, namely a portion for increasing and decreasing the down transmission power bybe received in the mobile station. Accordingly, the mobile station can control the up transmission power so that the desired wave power will not become excessive for any base station.
On the other hand, during execution of the soft hand-over, even if large and small relationship of the propagation losses from the mobile station and respective base stations is switched at high speed due to fading fluctuation or the like, owing to diversity effect to maintain the reception quality substantially constant, the reception quality in the mobile station can be further improved. By controlling the up transmission power so that the desired wave power will not become excessive, channel capacity of the uplink can be increased. On the other hand, if the reception quality in the mobile station can


base station having large transmission power is significantly decreased the transmission power to reduce the difference of the transmission power between the base stations to effect balance adjustment.
However, as shown in FIG. 9B, when the start timing of the adjusting period is difference between the base stations such as T1 and T1′, since the transmission power according to the transmission power control instruction is constantly varied, if the transmission power of one of two base stations becomes greater than the other base station (P1>P2), the adjustment start timing T1 of the former base station is a moment where the transmission power is relatively small, and the adjustment start timing of later base station is a moment where the transmission power is relatively large, the difference between the transmissionpower at start timing of the adjusting period and the reference C becomes large in the later base station than the former base station (Pbal1<Pbal2) to significantly reduce the transmission power of the adjusting period. Therefore, the difference of the transmission powers of the base stations becomes large to cause difficulty in establishing balance of the power. As a result, equalization of the transmission powers between the base stations cannot be achieved to decrease channel capacity.
As set forth above, the phenomenon where the start timings of the adjusting periods are different such as T1 and T1′, is caused by the fluctuation of arrival timings of the control messages for transmission power balance adjustment to respective base stations 21 and 22 from the control station 71 due to fluctuation


can consider acquiring those skills and professions that will be of benefit in education, rural development, agriculture, economics, technology, health, radio and in many other areas of endeavour that are so urgently needed in the developing countries of the world. You can also devote time in the midst of your studies, or other activities, to travel teaching or service projects in the Third World.(Universal House of Justice, Lights of Guidance, p. 634)

Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.(‘Abdu’l-Bahá: The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 283)2012 but saw a power outage with the long ball, finishing with their lowest home run total (25) since 2007. The lack of towering drives can be largely attributed to the NCAAs infatuation with BBCOR bats, but UNCPs 6.7 runs per game average was still good enough for another 30-win season and eighth-place finish in Division IIs toughest baseball conference.

Improving on those numbers at the plate coupled with consistent quality starts from the rotation would put the Braves back in the NCAA postseason.

Comfortable with projected power from Derrick Phillips, Jordan Edgerton and Tyler Potter, ONeils main challenge early is finding a viable substitute for all-conference outfielder Josh Haley, one of six senior position players who completed their eligibility in 2012. Not only did Haley lead the Peach Belt


in average and often flashed the leather, his 34 stolen bases and expertise as a table-setter at the top of the order helped the Braves manufacture runs in a quality pitcher-driven league.

UNCP is taking a collective effort in matching Haleys 61 runs scored and prowess on the base paths. Veteran Drew Alford started 12 games as a junior during the final month of last season and is targeted as Haleys replacement in the order. Alfords nine steals ranked second on the team and his .346 average over 41 games was higher than most regulars.

There are some holes in the bucket you could say, but I think well be fine, ONeil said. Its not fair to expect one guy to replace Haleys production in center field. You dont matchprevent chip cracks during a molding process for encapsulating the chip, thereby assuring reliability and yield of fabricated package products.
In accordance with the above and other objectives, the present invention proposes a WBGA semiconductor package, comprising: a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface opposed to the upper surface, and formed with at least an opening penetrating through the upper and lower surfaces, wherein a tape attach area is defined on the upper surface of the substrate peripherally around the opening; an adhesive tape (such as a polyimide film) formed with an aperture corresponding in position to the opening of the substrate, and applied over the tape attach area in a manner as to align the aperture of the adhesive tape with the opening of the


Video: Crews rescue man who climbed into 40-foot-deep well ‘just for fun’

A Florida man was rescued early Wednesday after he got stuck inside of a 40-feet-deep well that his friend said they climbed down "just for fun." Officials with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said the man was stuck for about 40 minutes before being pulled to safety.Deputies said three men took turns climbing in and out of an empty old well on a neighbor’s property. One of the men didn't have the strength to pull himself out of the narrow well and started to panic. He was treated for a few minor abrasions, deputies said.

A Florida man was rescued early Wednesday after he got stuck inside of a 40-feet-deep well that his friend said they climbed downHawaii: Message in the Waves is a film from the BBC Natural History Unit looking at some of the environmental challenges facing the people and wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands.

Although the documentary is from a Hawaiian perspective it is really a global film. Because of their size, location and social history, the Hawaiian Islands represent a microcosm of the planet and are in a unique position to tell all of us where we are going wrong and what we can do to help put things right.

For more than just surfers, the ocean is an integral and inseparable part of Hawaiian life. To see the magnificent waves crash upon the Hawaii's beaches, it's clear why: From a Hawaiian perspective the ocean represents the ultimate beauty and bounty of life.

The