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Clendenin, David,to approve a provision of the lease agreement for the land from Anderson County. Once the final engineering study for connection to the power grid is complete later this year, the project will go through a competitive bidding process for construction and is expected to be in service in early 2021.

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Duke Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns nuclear, coal, natural gas, renewables and hydroelectric generation. That diverse fuel mix provides approximately 20,200 megawatts of owned electric capacity to about 2.6 million customers in a 24,000-square-mile service area of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte,


N.C., is one of the largest energy holding companies in the U.S. It employs 30,000 people and has an electric generating capacity of 51,000 megawatts through its regulated utilities, and 3,000 megawatts through its nonregulated Duke Energy Renewables unit.

Duke Energy is transforming its customers’ experience, modernizing the energy grid, generating cleaner energy and expanding natural gas infrastructure to create a smarter energy future for the people and communities it serves. The Electric Utilities and Infrastructure unit’s regulated utilities serve approximately 7.7 million retail electric customers in six states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The Gas Utilities and Infrastructure unit distributes natural gas to more than 1.6 million customers in five states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The Duke Energywill examine whether Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, the main federal employment-discrimination law, covers
instances of alleged sex discrimination between workers of the same
sex. The case involves alleged physical and verbal harassment of an
oil-rig worker by his male colleagues.

Besides school districts' interest in Title VII developments, the
dispute's outcome could have an impact on the growing number of cases
involving student sexual harassment of other students. That is because
the Department of Education takes the position that the body of law
developed under Title VII sets the framework for student-harassment
lawsuits filed under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,
which bars discrimination based on sex in schools receiving federal
funds.

Gwendolyn H. Gregory, the deputy general counsel of the National
School Boards Association in Alexandria, Va., noted that the Education
Department's office for civil


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Sixth Avenue Church of God is part of the Church of God Pentecostal Christian denomination that is headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee. The Church of God has over six million members in
over 170 countries. It is therefore one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the world. With over one million members in the United States, it is one of the largest denominations
in the nation.

The Church of God originated in 1886, which makes it the oldest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. It formed out of a meeting of a small group of Christians at the Barney Creek
Meeting House. This is near the Tennessee/North Carolina border.C.R. StrugglesWith Arias Goals

As President Oscar Arias nears the middle of his term, his administration is far from completing many of its stated goals.

A study published this month by the Planning Ministry shows mixed progress on promises Arias made in his National Development Plan, presented 14 months ago.

The study, based on data from December, measures progress on nearly 500 goals in education, poverty, the economy, foreign affairs and government reform.

The report is a call to attention, Minister Roberto Gallardo said. The government must move more quickly in the next two years to achieve many of its goals.

Arias promised that in four years, 95% of elementary schools would teach English. But coverage currently at 80% increased only slightly during the first 19 months of his administration.

Arias has not yet


made good on his campaign promise to increase the Education Ministry s budget from 6% to 8% of gross domestic product (GDP) a move that would require lawmakers’ approval. Education Minister Leonardo Garnier said the government must first pass fiscal reform to beef up state coffers.

Bridges also remain in poor shape. The government pledged to repair more than 6,700 meters of bridges by 2010, but just 570 meters, or a mere 9% of the goal, had been repaired by December, when the data was collected. Just 10 bridges have been constructed, although the government promised to build 49 in four years.

Since Arias took office, fatal traffic accidents increased by 19%, controlling for population growth, despite his promise to reduce that figure by about 15%.

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With few exceptions, the retailers discontinued their purchases from Erewhon in 1976, many of them in March and June. Defendants James and Celia Letz, owners of Organic Food Center, last purchased from Erewhon on February 27, 1975, however. They placed only one order with Erewhon in 1974 and three orders in 1975.
Erewhon has lost five percent of its market since the inception of the boycott. If Erewhon's products do not appear in the stores of retailers participating in the boycott, the plaintiff might incur "a substantial loss


of her youth, which she spent as a refugee in her own country. Owen has written nine other books since her first, The Home Book of Indonesian Cookery, in 1976. Perhaps the most famous is 1993’s The Rice Book, an expansive and elaborate devotion to the wonders of rice across the world, compressing centuries of the grain's history into 400 pages. Upon release, the book was nominated for a James Beard Award and won the Andre Simon Memorial Fund Award; seven years ago, the book graced the Observer Food Monthly’s list of the best cookbooks ever written. The citation was a conferral of legitimacy to a generation who grew up not knowing who Owen was.

She carried this fascination with her throughout her life, and it has amounted toa body of work subtly structured around the losses of her youth, which she spent as a refugee in her own country.

Owen is now 82, and she lives in Wimbledon in south-west London. She envisions herself as a writer in permanent exile, fulfilling different aims for different constituencies. For the United Kingdom, she has assumed the role of a missionary, stimulating its interest in the foods of Indonesia’s sprawling, diffuse circuit board of islands, each with its own culinary language. Meanwhile, for Indonesia, she has worked hard to reassure her fellow islanders of its food’s splendor.

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Cooking became a way of gazing at the past Owen had to leave behind. Referred to as the Grande Dame of Indonesian cookery, she maintains a sterling reputation to those who


recognize her name, but not enough do. Owen, whose heart is battered by a quadruple bypass surgery she underwent a decade ago, found herself under remarkable and unforeseen duress over the course of our correspondence. But she soldiered on, treating our exchange as a welcome and necessary ordeal. “It will be nice if somebody would write about me, too,” she told me when I first reached out to her earlier this month, as if concerned no one else would.

Owen arrived in London during a cold January in 1964. It was the first time she left her country, and though she would miss her parents and sisters terribly, she justified this by saying she would find in London a new life that Indonesia couldn’t give her.

She was born thefirst of six daughters in a middle-class household in Padang Panjang, a tiny hill town in West Sumatra. Both of her parents were teachers. As a child, she found it impossible to leave her grandmother’s side. Indonesia was an overwhelmingly rural country in the 1930s, still under Dutch control, and each family possessed its own small chunk of land where they raised vegetables and chickens, with houses cocooned by papaya and breadfruit trees. Owen would roam across the rice fields and coffee gardens adjacent to the family's house, accompanying her grandmother to markets nearby to fetch dried fish, salt, tea, and sugar.

Though the family was relatively wealthy in this pre-conflict period, their kitchen, like that of most others on the island, was barren. It lived in a building


separate from the living quarters to reduce the risk of fire, and it had no gas, electricity, or running water. Owen’s father, her grandmother’s child, was the family’s cook. So Owen assumed the role of a de-facto sous chef beside him. He cooked with round-bottomed earthenware pots over mounds of bricks on woodfire or charcoal. At mealtime, Owen usually sat cross-legged on low-platform mats, eating with her fingers off plates lined with large banana leaves.

The opening pages of Sri Owen's 'The Rice Book' (1993). Illustration by Soun Vannithone. Photo by Sri Owen

Owen’s childhood was soon ruptured by trauma. As Japanese soldiers made landfall in the country during World War II, the family was forced to abandon their comfortable existence for one of genteel poverty, continually migrating eastwards. Theturmoil ended in 1949, when they settled in the Central Javanese town of Magelang. After Owen finished junior high, she traveled 25 miles south for high school in Yogyakarta; she enrolled in the English department at Universitas Gajah Mada, where she would complete both her undergraduate and graduate studies, in 1955.

She developed a case of Anglophilia in this period, accelerated by her study of Jane Austen. Owen found these stories of expressive, passionate women buried beneath strict social codes to resemble her own life in Indonesia. She often daydreamed about being whisked off to the United Kingdom on scholarship, believing she could find a home there, too.

In 1962, she met her husband-to-be, Roger Owen, a newly-minted Oxford graduate who found himself in Indonesia to spend the next three


years as a lecturer in the university's History department. As she tells it, he was clearly smitten, though he couldn’t muster up the confidence to ask Owen out until a year after meeting her. In spite of an aggressively un-romantic first date film—a documentary about the London Blitz—they were engaged three months later.

Owen, her husband Roger, her parents, and her sisters on the day of her wedding in August 1962. Photo by Sri Owen

The pair had an elegant wedding that stretched over three days in August 1962, with a gamelan orchestra and hundreds of guests, ending at her parents’ home in Magelang. (Her grandmother was no longer alive; any anxiety Owen still had about abiding by her grandmother's wishes had dissipated.) A few days after, she took anoath of allegiance to Elizabeth II in the British Consulate in Jakarta, receiving her British passport. It came just in time: Her husband’s contract in Indonesia was about to end, and he was being sent back to London.

During her first years in London, Owen found herself battling the garden variety despair that tends to befall those who find themselves far from their family. She wrestled the uneasy feeling that she was more of a tourist than an immigrant in London—so she began to reconstitute her sense of what food meant to her in Indonesia. Owen was keen to cook for herself, seeking the company of her grandmother’s recipes: telur dadar padang, the breakfast omelette with grated coconut that could look as fluffy as a cake, or pangek ikan,


braised trout with young fern shoots.

She describes her first decade in London as "sedate," enlivened chiefly by the birth of two sons in 1966 and 1972. Owen worked for the BBC, first as a secretary in the Swahili Department and then in the Indonesian Service. It was at this point when she found out how little people in England knew about Indonesia, let alone Indonesian food: On the first day of her new job, her boss greeted her with the gleefully incorrect assumption that Indonesia was part of the British commonwealth.

Owen and her husband at a party the day after their wedding. Photo by Sri Owen

Though Owen took such gaffes in stride, she was silently horrified at the level of ignorance she had to work against. She came,eventually, to see this cultural illiteracy as an opportunity. One of her husband’s friends from university was a literary agent who’d come over for dinner often, and he told Owen that he reckoned she had a book inside her. He persuaded Owen to write a book about Indonesian food, promising to find her a publisher. She drafted a proposal for esteemed publishing house Faber & Faber, leaning on the growing interest in Indonesia as a tourist’s destination and insisting that the market needed an Indonesian cookbook; it was uncharted literary terrain. Faber accepted.

From the start, Owen treated food writing as a way to reach into the past that escaped her and summon it to the present. The Home Book of Indonesian Cookery is a recipe book with the


architecture of a memoir. In it, Owen conveys how Indonesia’s foods bear the stamps and scars of its aggressors—the Chinese, the Indian, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Arab—and places herself within this history. The book was released in 1976 to moderate success, its audience tiny but lively. It brought her to the attention of Alan Davidson, the diplomat-turned-food writer who had just finished a tour of Southeast Asia. He was completing some creatively fruitful golden years in food writing, working on books about fisheries in Laos, and he introduced her to luminaries like Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Jill Norman, Claudia Roden, many of whom she would come to count as friends.

Roger and Sri Owen at their wedding in 1962. Photo by Sri Owen

Owen still credits Davidson,who died in 2003, with giving her the confidence to pursue writing about cooking with stealth and rigor. When Faber decided not to reprint her first book, arguing its copies didn’t sell quickly enough to justify a full-blown reissue, Davidson offered to publish it instead under his new publishing venture, Prospect Books, in 1980 under the name Indonesian Food and Cookery. It was the house’s first title.

Owen retired from the BBC in 1983, after which she committed her time to becoming a full-time food writer. This came with the occasional dalliance: In the summer of 1984, she and her husband began London’s first Indonesian food store and delicatessen, Mustika Rasa, or “the crown of taste,” in the ground floor of their flat. The undertaking was an experiment no


one had attempted before or after them, and business was sluggish. The store closed after three years.

Afterward, her husband retired too, and Owen resolved more intently to bring Indonesian cookery to the British masses through writing. She published ten books over the course of four decades. Her second cookbook was 1988’s Indonesian and Thai Cookery. Owen's publisher urged her to swap the order of the two countries in the title to account for Thai food’s more established stature in the United Kingdom at that point, much to Owen’s consternation; she became resolute in her refusal to compromise, and her publisher complied. When the book was released in the United States nine years later, it was called Thai and Indonesian Cookery without her consent.

The cover of Sri Owen's 'IndonesianFood and Cookery' (1976). Photo by Sri Owen

In spite of her prolific nature, Owen expresses faint displeasure at the way her own legacy has shaken out. She owes everything to the countries that gave her a home, and they owe her more than they may realize: “I would indeed like to see myself as Western ambassador for Indonesian food, though I would have loved it if my own people or the government in Indonesia considered acknowledging me as such an ambassador.” In Indonesia, she finds herself hardly known or talked about. Even after she received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to Indonesian food at the inaugural Ubud Food Festival in Bali in 2015, little seemed to change.

When it comes to the United Kingdom, Owen was hopeful


that the mention of The Rice Book in the Observer would lead to a late resurgence in popularity of her work. But after a brief spike in the paperback price of the book, the rights reverted to Owen, and the book fell out of print again. It is her wish that the book be released in the coming years in hardcover or Kindle, but neither has happened.

One morning earlier this month, while rummaging through her kitchen and deciding what to make for breakfast, Owen found a small papaya. It was ripening nicely. She decided to make a dish modeled after the rice porridge her grandmother would make in Padang Panjang. Owen’s variation would be a bowl of Swiss Alpen, rather than rice, with papaya and bananas, topped withcooking ingredients from Southeast Asia were imported to the region.

In her last book, 2008's Sri Owen's Indonesian Food, Owen proclaimed London to be the greatest city of the world for public eating, and she still holds this position. To her mind, it is a city that has reinvented itself and its food ten times over again, exhibiting an extraordinary talent for survival. The London she sees now is filled with Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Tibetan, and Burmese restaurants. The Chinese and Indian restaurants that were already there when she arrived in the city have improved vastly in quality.

From Sri Owen's 'The Rice Book' (1993). Illustration by Soun Vannithone. Photo by Sri Owen

But she has no favorite Indonesian restaurants in the city. When I ask her what they are,


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It's genius. It gets slung across my body and travels around the washing line with me. The pegs are constantly in the most convenient place and it hangs happily off the corner of my rotary drier till I get the washing in.

I hate pegging


weekend, acts include Electric River, a young rock band based in Ashford, the popular pop/rock trio from Thanet; Shibby and Sizen who have just completed their debut album which was recorded in Swansea with legendary producer Jo Gibb. Other bands include Carbon 13, Fatalist, Film Club and Chaos DaysCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) wants to deliver the last of his annual State of the State speeches in a Columbus suburb near where he lives.
The Columbus Dispatch reports the term-limited Republican has requested approval from lawmakers to give the speech March 6 at Otterbein University in Westerville, not far from his home in Genoa Township.
The speech assessing Ohio’s status is traditionally delivered to the Legislature, with Supreme Court justices and other state officeholders and officials in attendance.
Kasich took the address out of Columbus for the first time in state history with his 2012 speech in Steubenville in eastern Ohio. Since then, he has always given the address away from the Statehouse, visiting Sandusky, Lima, Medina, Wilmington and Marietta.
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Atlanta Hawks coach Larry Drew and his staff have begun exploring other job opportunities in anticipation of the possibility they won't be retained, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

Hawks general manager Danny Ferry is expected to make a final decision by the middle of this week, sources said. One source close to the coaching staff believes there is a "slim chance" the coaches will be brought back because Ferry has often talked about changing the franchise's culture.

The contracts of Drew and his staff expire July 1.

Drew has a 128-102 record in three seasons as head coach of the Hawks and has guided the team to the playoffs in each season. The Hawks went 44-38 this season and secured the Eastern Conference's No. 6 playoff seed after Ferry overhauled theroster by trading star guard Joe Johnson and the remaining $90 million on his contract to the Brooklyn Nets.

Drew's regular-season winning percentage of .557 is better than the Hawks' previous two coaches; the New York Knicks' Mike Woodson was .419 in six seasons in Atlanta and the Portland Trail Blazers' Terry Stotts was .380 across nearly two seasons.

The Hawks' season ended Friday when they lost their first-round series to the Indiana Pacers in six games. Forward Josh Smith will be one of several Atlanta free agents this summer. Starting center Al Horford and reserve guards Lou Williams and John Jenkins are the only players with guaranteed contracts next season.

The Hawks are expected to be a major player in free agency this summer with around $40 million in salary-cap


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Trigger warnings: Recording of racial epithets in a voicemail targeting me and other Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islanders and queer folks. This is one of my darker posts.

After high school, I entered college at UC San Diego as a pretty righteous Asian, a Bay Area Asian. I thought I “overcame” racism and discrimination by proving the racists wrong. I immediately ran for office and became the freshman senator for my college. I thought I was done; but in reality my journey


225 years of Service: Slaves and Migrants

The Coast Guard rescues several migrants who had jumped off the M/V Wing Fung Lung By The Maritime Executive 06-21-2015 04:08:50

By Scott Price

The U.S. Coast Guard began its mission of migrant interdiction on the high seas in 1794, when the Congress of the United States declared that no American citizen may carry slaves from the U.S. to another nation or between foreign nations. The Coast Guard, through its predecessor the Revenue Cutter Service, was charged with enforcing this law.

During the next few years, the Revenue Marine, which was later renamed the Revenue Cutter Service, exercised this authority within U.S. coastal waters. In 1799, the Revenue Cutter Governor Jay seized one vessel attempting to transport slaves to Cuba.

Years later, in January 1808, theapproximately 2,979 Cubans made the voyage to Florida, most assisted by private boats from the U.S.

During this time, the Coast Guard rescued persons in danger and prevented unauthorized vessels from making the hazardous journey. Because of the dangerous nature of the migration, the U.S. government negotiated and organized a series of freedom flights of chartered commercial aircraft with the Cuban government to transport those who wished to leave Cuba safely and efficiently. The flights lasted until 1971 and transported 260,561 men, women and children to the U.S. These operations reduced the risk for both the migrants and those charged with enforcing immigration laws.

The Mariel Boatlift, the U.S.’s first major mass migration by sea, began April 22, 1980, when the Cuban government opened the port of Mariel and permitted


refugees to depart Cuba. Thousands of private craft participated in what was the largest mass migration event by sea to that time. More than 124,000 Cubans made it safely to the U.S. The Coast Guard saw extensive service during the event, carrying out more than 1,300 search and rescue missions.

In 1994, the Coast Guard responded to two mass migrations at the same time; first from Haiti, then from Cuba. More than 63,000 migrants were rescued and prevented from illegally entering the U.S. in operations Able Manner and Able Vigil. At its height, operation Able Manner involved 17 Coast Guard cutters, patrolling the coast of Haiti while Operation Able Vigil involved 38 Coast Guard cutters patrolling the Straits of Florida.

One-hundred and sixty-two Haitians on a 42-foot sail freighter wereintercepted after being at sea for 10 days by Coast Guard cutters Confidence and Metompkin. The Haitians were transferred to the cutter Confidence just south of the Great Bahamas Bank near Cape Lobos Light.

In 1999 and 2000, Coast Guard cutters on counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific have encountered increasing numbers of migrants being smuggled from Ecuador to points in Central America and Mexico. While this may not have a direct connection to the U.S., the Coast Guard acts for humanitarian reasons. Most of these vessels do not have the proper conditions to transport these migrants and lack the safety equipment in the event of an emergency. The Coast Guard works with the flag state of the vessels and other countries to escort the vessels to the closest


On the 1200 block of West Hollywood’s North Laurel Avenue lies the home of 62-year-old Democratic donor Ed Buck, a multimillionaire who made his fortune in the insurance industry before turning to philanthropy and funding leftist causes. One of those causes was the impeachment of Republican former Arizona Governor Evan Meacham in 1988.

Buck founded the Mecham Recall Committee in Arizona to try to remove the governor from office, an effort that was eventually successful. When Meacham found out that Buck — a one-time male model — was gay, the governor had his aides give out bumper stickers that read, “Queer Ed Buck’s Recall.” This action was pilloried in the press when Meacham was quoted as saying the recall supporters were “a band of homosexuals and a few dissidentDemocrats.” The comic strip Doonesbury, in particular, savaged Meacham.

More recently, Buck donated large amounts to several Democratic causes in California, from $7,600 for Democratic State Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León, who’s running for the position of Lieutenant Governor, to thousands of dollars for other state senators, West Hollywood City Council members and board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Buck also ran a semi-successful campaign to rid West Hollywood of fur retailers. Photographs have been found of a smiling Buck posing with California Governor Jerry Brown and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

However, as of July 27, a significant problem emerged for Buck in the form of 26-year-old prostitute Gemmel Moore, who was found dead of a methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s bathroom. Buck was home


somebody else by giving them access to his home,” said the attorney.

Nixon said her son had called her a year ago to discuss the situation with Buck and to say he was scared. He admitted he had contracted HIV and wanted to fly home to Texas. He did that, but shortly thereafter was asked to return to Los Angeles by Buck, who sent Moore a plane ticket. “My second-oldest son took him to the airport, texted me and said he made [his flight]. Five, six hours later, I get a phone call. They tell me my son is dead.”

A friend of Moore’s named John Bice said he tried to help young Moore when he returned briefly to Texas. Bice said he tried to convince the man to givea bore comprised of a series of fluidly connected sections each of which converges and diverges to continuously alter and diffuse the contained stream.
In one aspect, the pour tube has a bore comprised of a series of fluidly connected sections where each section has a sharply converging portion and a slowly diverging portion. The combination of the converging and diverging elements can reduce flow asymmetry, reduce alumina deposition in the bore, and inhibit surging and asymmetry in the flow exiting the bore. In one embodiment, the converging portion is upstream of the diverging portion.
The converging portion comprises a step inclined at a sharp angle from the center axis. The diverging portion comprises a length and an inside surface that, in the direction of flow, diverges from the center


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The method of the invention has a pour tube with a bore comprised of a series of fluidly connected sections, and includes converging the stream of molten metal at the inlet of each section and diverging the stream without separation along the length of the section.
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Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence, notes, manuscripts of his writings, speeches, memoranda, clippings and scrapbooks, mainly relating to the
Marshall Plan for water development, conservation, Hetch-Hetchy, roads, Yosemite National Park and other parks. Family correspondence
and personal papers also included.

Languages Represented:
English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.

Hetch-Hetchy Water Supply of SanFrancisco. Report of . . . City Engineer to the Mayor, the Board of Public Works and the
Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Mar. 1916.

U.S. Congress.

Public Resolution no. 27.

U.S. Congress, 72nd Congress, 2d Session.

Report B25. Feb. 28, 1933. Utilization of the Water Resources of the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Kern Rivers, California.

U.S. Congress.

Yosemite and General Grant National Parks. (An act to set apart certain land in the state of California as forest reservations)
Approved Oct. 1, 1890.

U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

Some lakes of Glacier National Park. 1912.

U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

Office of the Secretary.
(1) General information regarding Crater Lake National Park, Season of 1913.
(2) General information regarding Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, Season of 1913.
(3) General information regarding Yosemite National Park, Season of 1915.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

Letter


to Mayor and Supervisors of City and County of San Francisco, California. Feb. 25, 1910.

Biography

Robert Bradford Marshall, geographer and father of the Marshall Plan for irrigation and water conservation of the Central
Valley in California, was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1867. He entered the U.S. Geological Survey as a geographer in
1889, became Geographer of the Pacific Division in 1907 and was appointed Chief Geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey in
1910. This position he held until 1915 when he was appointed Superintendent of Parks. He resumed the position of Chief Geographer
in 1917. In 1919 he resigned his government post to devote himself fully to developing and publicizing his Marshall Plan of
irrigation and water control of the Central Valley of California. Due in part to his extensive and intensiveschedule of speeches,
he developed a severe throat irritation requiring the removal of his larynx in 1927. He thereby lost power of speech and was
able to converse only with the aid of an artificial larynx. In 1928 he was appointed State Landscape Engineer in the California
Division of Public Works where his duties related to highway beautification and safety. At this time he also did considerable
research for the California State Planning Board concerning California and her natural resources. He retired at the age of
70 in 1937 and died in 1949 after several years of ill health, shortly before the completion of one of his dreams, the Shasta
Dam.

He married Myra Crow of California in 1896, and had two daughters, Evelyn Bradford Marshall (Mrs. Philip Maddox) and Virginia
Mann Marshall.

Scope and Content

This collection,


given to the Bancroft Library in 1953 by Virginia Mann Marshall, consists of 23 boxes, 4 scrapbooks, 1 portfolio,
1 volume and maps.

Marshall's letters and writings show him as an enthusiastic supporter of state and national parks, intensely interested in
all phases of conservation, acutely aware of natural beauty, a crusader for public good, and an ardent geographer. He was
a man with vision and foresight -his Marshall Plan of 1919-1920 came to be the basis of the Central Valley Project of the
1930's. He constantly fought for his plan and for flood control of the Mississippi River.

Letters to Marshall, from such conservationists as William Edward Colby, John Muir, John Frederic Badh, John Nesbet Le Conte
and James Grafton Rogers, form an important part of the collection. Much of the correspondence from HiramMartin Chittenden,
Frank Bond, H. C. Benson and the U.S. Department of the Interior relates to the early history of Yosemite as a National Park.
Letters from Charles Averil Barlow and Ed Fletcher, though chiefly concerned with private financial business, also reflect
the early workings of California water projects. Letters from the California Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty show
Marshall's interest in the beauty of highways and his battle against unsightly highway signs. Photocopies of letters from
Rudolph Spreckels, letters from Annette (Abbott) Adams, Carter and Barrett, and Paul A. McCarthy deal with Marshall's suit
against Spreckels. Many letters relate to national and state parks, the Marshall Plan, conservation, maps, and some pertain
to routine business matters such as insurance, retirement, property in Virginia, etc. Letters to and from his family demonstrate
an unusually devoted


and harmonious domestic life.

Part I contains general correspondence from Marshall, mostly typed copies, arranged chronologically, from 1898-1948; letters
to Marshall, arranged alphabetically, A-Z; Marshall's writings, including notes, drafts and manuscripts; memoranda from and
to Marshall; and assorted material related to his work.

Part II consists mainly of letters from Marshall to his fiancee, Myra Crow, and to his wife, a few letters to his children
and sister-in-law; letters from Mrs. Marshall to her husband, 1898-1948; letters from daughters Evelyn and Virginia to parents;
from Evelyn (Crow) Simmons, to Mrs. Marshall; letters of condolence, tributes to R. B. Marshall, and miscellaneous personal
papers.

Material removed from the collection consists in: maps -approximately 300, quadrangles and miscellaneous with no annotations
and no specific relationship to papers, dispersed, with source noted on each; maps, approximately 175, manuscripts and printed
withto counties, A-Z.

volume volume:

Report to the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior of Commission appointed pursuant to act of Congress approved April 28, 1904, to investigate conditions and situations in Yosemite National Park, by Hiram Martin Chittenden, Frank Bond, and R. B. Marshall.
Concerning boundaries and the possibility of making a good road to the park.

Part II:

Letters from Marshall to Myra Crow, fiancée, 1896, and to wife, 1897-1927, arranged chronologically, and a few letters to Evelyn Bradford Marshall, daughter, and Evelyn (Crow) Simmons, sister-in-law.

Box II:

Letters to Marshall from wife, 1898-1907, arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Almon Harris Thompson included with Mrs. Marshall's of July 29, Aug. 8, 1899. Letter of Sept. 18, 1906 refers
to Mary Austin. Letter from Daisy Polk included with Mrs. Marshall's of July 23, 1907,


responses to circular requesting suggestions for state parks.

11 letters, 1924. Concerning Marshall's role in the 1924 campaign for the Water and Power Act. References to Rudolph Spreckels. Written by Franklin
Hichborn, b. 1869.

Canadian Camp

4 letters, 1911. Written by G. Lenox Curtis.

Carter and Barrett (Firm)

5 letters, 1936-1937. Concern suit of Marshall vs. Spreckels.

Chamberlain, Allen, 1867-

4 letters, 1912-1916

Chapin, William Wallace, 1874-1957

3 letters, 1927-1930

Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1915

31 letters, 1904-1912. Mainly relate to Yosemite National Park boundaries and legislation. Include copies of letters to James Carson Needham, Frank
Bond and others, concerning Yosemite; also copy of letter from Frank Bond to Chittenden.

Church, Denver Samuel, 1866-1952

2 letters, 1915-1930

Colby, William Edward, 1875-

24 letters, 1904-1931. Include copies of letters to Franklin Knight Lane, W. F. McClure, Hiram Martin Chittenden; mimeographed letter to Governor
Rolph. Some letters written asSecretary of the Sierra Club concerning Hetch-Hetchy, Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks.
References to John Muir.
See also
California. Department of Natural Resources. Division of Parks
McFarland, John Horace

Colorado Geographic Board

2 letters, 1915. One letter signed by James Grafton Rogers.

Colorado Mountain Club
see Rogers, James Grafton

Curtis, G. Lenox
see Canadian Camp

Daniels, Mark, 1881-

1 letter, Aug. 11, 1935. Written as editor of California Arts and Architecture.

14 letters, 1928-1930. Include letters and copies of letters to Charles B. Wing, California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks; B.
B. Meek, California Department of Public Works; and to Charles Henry Purcell. Several written as Secretary of Save-the-Redwoods
League and California State Parks Council.

Evans, Aaron Loyd, 1877-

5 letters, 1949. Also letter from Earl Warren to Evans.
Also seven letters, 1949-1952, to Myra (Crow) Marshall in Part II, Box VI.

Farquhar, Francis Peloubet,


1887-

1 letter, Aug. 11, 1932

Fletcher, Edward, 1872-1955

18 letters, 1927-1933. References to southern California water development plans. Include letter and copy of letter to William Schuyler Post, copies
of letter to Metropolitan Water District and their answer.

Gillett, Frederick Huntington, 1851-1935

2 letters, 1916

Glavis, Edward S.
see U.S. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Gregory, Henry E.

1 letter, June 27, 1913

Hadsell, Dan

1 letter, Aug. 1, 1924

Hichborn, Franklin
see California State Water and Power League

Hoover, Herbert Clark, Pres. U.S., 1874-

2 letters, 1930-1933. Written in his behalf by secretaries.

Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937

1 letter, June 12, 1912

Hyatt, Edward
see California. Department of Public Works. Division of Water Resources.

Johnson, Hiram Warren, 1866-1945

1 letter, Apr. 17, 1933

Johnson, Willard D.

6 letters, 1890-1914

Jones, Herbert C.
see Progressive Voters' League of California

Keagle, Cora L.

20 letters, 1947-1949. Mainly concerning the writing and publication of Water in theValley. Include copy of letter from George W. Cronyn to Mrs.
Keagle and letters to Mrs. Marshall.
(See Box XIII of Part I for manuscript of Water in the Valley.)

Kelly, Earl Lee
see California. Department of Public Works

Lehmer, O. W.

5 letters, 1911-1913. Relate to transportation in Yosemite.

Long, Mrs. Oscar Fitzalan
see Mitten, Amy (Requa) Long

Mitten, Amy (Requa) Long

17 letters, 1930-1948. Written as Amy (Requa) Long.
Also letter of condolence to Mrs. Marshall in Part II, Box VI.

16 letters, 1911-1915. Mainly written as President of the American Civic Association. Include autobiographical sketch and references to John Muir.
Include letter from William Edward Colby to McFarland.

McLaughlin, Frank Y.
see U.S. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Martin T. H.

11 letters, 1912-1915. Mainly written as secretary of the Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, concerning Rainier National Park.


Ross, Frederick R.

Rogers, James Grafton, 1883-

6 letters, 1912-1931. Some written as President, Colorado Mountain Club.
See also Colorado Geographic Board.

Rolph, James, Jr., 1869-1934

2 letters, 1931-1933. Written in his behalf by his secretary.

Roper, Denney Warren, 1869-1949

2 letters, 1913

Ross, Frederick R.

9 letters, 1913-1915. Written as member of Rocky Mountain National Park Joint Committee, concerning Rocky Mountain National Park.

19 letters, 1904-1934. Include letters by Ethan Allan Hitchcock, Franklin Knight Lane and Ebert Keiser Burlew. Include copies of letters, some of
which refer to Yosemite boundary.
See also
Mather, Stephen Tyng
Post, William Schuylerorgans.”

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Documentaries on Woolly Mammoth Autopsy and Cloning Possibilities

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the trial

court abused its discretion when it excluded the testimony of his proposed expert

witness and when it precluded him from impeaching the victim's mother.

Because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in either respect and there

was no violation of his rights to present a defense, to confront witnesses, or to

due process, we affirm.

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neighbor, touched her "private place." CM. was three years old at the time.

C.M.'s mother shared the information with a neighbor who was a mandatory

reporter, and the neighbor reported it to authorities.

       A few weeks later, a child forensic interview specialist with a local Child

Advocacy Center (CAC) interviewed CM. CM. Finally, Dr. Rybicki testified that he had never done a CAC interview and

had never worked for a Child Advocacy Center. Thus, he testified that he had

never been involved in peer-reviewing a CAC interview, because if he had not

been employed by them, and had never been a CAC, then "[he] couldn't then be

a peer."

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qualified to critique the CAC interview. Although reasonable minds could differ, a

trial court has broad discretion to admit or exclude expert testimony, and this was

within the range of acceptable choices.

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based on his education and training as well as


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The Circuit Judge ruled that the warrant was presumed to be valid and the burden was on the defendant "to show the facsimile *257 signature was not placed thereon by the authorized official." Judge Davis was the only witness testifying and was called by the State, although the Circuit Judge, after the hearing, ruled that


indorsed with the amount of bail and the return day on the back of the warrant." (Emphasis supplied).
The record here contains a photostat copy of the affidavit and warrant, showing that on March 18th, 1963, John T. McMullen signed the affidavit under oath before said Justice of the Peace to the effect that on March 8th, 1963 the defendant had, with intent to defraud, uttered and delivered to Lerner Shops a check in the amount of $84.12 drawn on the Bank of Clearwater, securing therefor money, property or other things of value, without having sufficient funds with said bank to pay the check. The signature of the Justice of the Peace appears both upon the affidavit and also the warrant, with his official jurat on both instruments. Thea surrendering by the sovereign of its right to prosecute or of its right to prosecute at its discretion, and they are considered as equivalent to acts of amnesty. Such statutes are founded on the liberal theory that prosecutions should not be allowed to ferment endlessly in the files of the government to explode only after witnesses and proofs necessary to the protection of accused have by sheer lapse of time passed beyond availability. They serve, not only to bar prosecutions on aged and untrustworthy evidence, but also to cut off prosecution for crimes a reasonable time after completion, when no further danger to society is contemplated from the criminal activity."
The order of the Circuit Court granting the motion to quash the information is reversed and the cause


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from a neurological examination done on that occasion recited that Mr. Croucher's "memory was sketchy and he seemed at times confused."
Mr. Croucher executed the will in question on July 7, 1980. Slightly over a month later, on August 12, he was admitted to the hospital once again. The evidence indicates that Mr. Croucher had suffered a stroke affecting his speech and memory. The hospital admission report stated that Mr. Croucher was suffering from "severe arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease," and had been undergoing decreasing mental status for one month. Mr. Croucher died on August 17.
The record also contains evidence that Mr. Croucher had testamentary capacity on the date the will was executed. The attesting witnesses stated at trial that Mr. Croucher was lucid and knew what he was doing. Severalwill was executed?
The answer to both questions is "yes." The evidence shows that in March of 1980, Mr. Croucher at times was confused and his memory was sketchy. He had one completely occluded and one partially occluded carotid artery. One of Mrs. Croucher's own witnesses, a doctor, admitted that this condition could have caused Mr. Croucher to be less than lucid at times. Mrs. Croucher's own witnesses testified that they had seen Mr. Croucher in late July, and that he had evidently suffered a stroke, could not talk, and was no longer able to care for himself. Mrs. Croucher admitted writing a letter, dated August 4, to James Croucher, which said, "Thank goodness that I got him to the VA while he was still lucid." A reasonable inference


March and August, kept him from having testamentary capacity on July 7. Mr. Croucher had a failing memory resulting from his arteriosclerosis in March, before the will was executed. That same disease incapacitated Mr. Croucher in August, after the will was made. That sequence of events alone is some evidence that Mr. Croucher suffered from the condition on July 7. Moreover, the August hospital report indicated that Mr. Croucher had suffered from decreasing mental status for one month.
*58 We hold that there was some evidence of lack of testamentary capacity. In the face of this record, we cannot say that Mrs. Croucher established as a matter of law that her husband had testamentary capacity at the time that he executed his will.
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New Jersey law and Attorney General guidelines clearly prevent police from releasing details of her case.

That left Diedtrich able tohe couldn't confirm whether that's what happened in this case, however.

"Because it involves a juvenile, so we are prohibited from releasing any further information," he explained.

The first suspect went to police shortly after Daily Voice on Wednesday morning published the video, which shows her stealing a sign while out for a run.

"She contacted us after seeing the video and admitted taking a sign from the neighbor's house," Diedtrich said. "The neighbors hadn't reported the theft. They also didn't want to press charges."

Anthony Sgroi, who lives across the street, submitted raw footage of that incident, along with another in which the 15-year-old snatches one of his signs at night.

"You do not have to believe in what I believe in or support who I support," said Sgroi, who is a


The last Pandit of Haal

“Waliyu, waliyu (come, come).” Little Aadesh welcomes this writer at his house on the edges of the forlorn village Haal, about 30 km south of Srinagar.

It is a typical home with a wooden door in this village of 3,000 people and their burnt-out, collapsing brick-and-timber structures, once inhabited by 150 Kashmiri pandit families.

Omkar Nath Bhat and his family are the only Kashmiri Pandits who live in Haal village of Pulwama district. Others were driven away by militancy. Abandoned houses are all that is left of them in the village. Photo by: Waseem Andrabi/HT

Adeesh’s family is the last.

The three-year-old is the grandson of Omkar Nath Bhat, 72, the only Kashmiri pandit to have decided to stay back in this once-vibrant village of friendly people andviews of snow-clad mountains and forests.

The other pandits, Kashmiri Hindus, of Haal left in the winter of 1989, the year militancy exploded across the valley.

More than 350,00 Pandits streamed out of Kashmir that year. Most of the 10,000 who stayed behind joined the exodus after a series of killings since. There are no more than 2,000 pandits today, less than 1 per cent of their population before 1990.

Haal is representative of the peace that prevails now in rural Kashmir, something Chief Minister Omar Abdullah often refers to when imploring pandits to return.

Wearing a pheran, a loose cloak worn by Kashmiris, Omkar emerges from his two-storey house, with his grandchildren peering over a kitchen garden from the windows.

As I produce an identification card, Omkar shows no sign of anxiety


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The 22 countries shown on the map accounts for 80% of the TB cases in the worldStop TB Partnership

Distribution of Tuberculosis :

Distribution of Tuberculosis TB is present worldwide The largest numbers of cases occur in the regions of south-east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, reaching 700 cases per 100,000 individuals in some areas. The highest mortality is in the Africa region, owing to the synergy with HIV. Strains that are resistant to a single drug have been documented in every country surveyed.

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Yea, I was all over that one too. It's frustrating to have an argument with someone who has no logic backing up his side, other than "my impulse rocks and mags suck."
It's like headbutting a brick wall.

The best part was when he posted a link on the automag forum entitled "I hate you mag owners" and posted a link to his "arguement"

Also, someone from Ft. Lauderdale mentioned Team Nemisis, a local amateur team. I play at the same field as nemesis (I've probably seen that guy that posted at the field, but don't know it, lol) and they do use some mags. They recently won the Spyder Cup as the Kapp Factory Team walking away with 5 New Mazda


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to battery chargers for charging rechargeable batteries.
2. Description of the Related Art
Japanese Laid-open Patent Publication No. 2000-23387 describes a battery charger that suppresses the temperature increase of a power source circuit in the battery charger. This known battery charger includes a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the power source circuit and a switch electrically connecting and disconnecting the battery with the power source circuit. When the temperature of the power source circuit detected by the temperature sensor exceeds a predetermined value, the switch is turned OFF. As a result, the supply of charging current to the battery from the power source circuit is halted, thereby suppressing the temperature increase of the power source circuit.Mustafa Barghouti: US-Palestinian ties strong

Shlomi Eldar

October 21, 2014

For many years, US secretaries of state have been involved up to their necks in attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and expeditions to the Middle East were routine. All their attempts were met with great disappointment. Ever since the collapse of the latest peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in April 2014, when the Washington-Jerusalem relationship is at its lowest point, new winds are blowing in the Palestinian Authority (PA).

In the past and generally behind closed doors, the Palestinians tended to fault the United States for being an unfair broker with a historic tendency to favor its ally, Israel. But in recent months, the United States has been going to great lengths to strengthen the PA in general through


in the Near East. The express directive is that the donated money is designated both to the welfare institutions in Gaza, as well as to the West Bank residents who need aid due to the PA’s fragile circumstances.

"Commitment" is the term that is commonly brandished in US declarations regarding its ally Israel; but it turns out that lately the State Department feels the need to publicly express its commitment to the Palestinians as well. The State Departments's statement ended by saying, "The United States remains committed to continuing to address the needs of the Palestinian people." By the way, the State Department declared a similar commitment in its Sept. 22 announcement of transferring $71 million of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Despite the US commitment, opinions of high-levelPalestinians are divided in regard to the United States. Some argue that an open rift between the Obama administration and Abbas is unavoidable in light of the diplomatic process in the United Nations, which will gather momentum in the coming months. But other officials are convinced that although the United States will cast a veto in the UN Security Council against recognition of a Palestinian state, the warm relationship will not be affected. In their opinion, the administration is well aware of Abbas’ distress on the heels of the negotiation failure with Israel and Israel's policy.

Mustafa Barghouti serves as general secretary of the Palestine National Initiative (PNI) and is president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC). In an interview with Al-Monitor, Barghouti acknowledges that following


on Denial,of Rehearing Dec. 14, 1988.

Lee R. Kerr, Kelleher Law Firm, Billings, Mont., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Chris D. Tweeten, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Helena, Mont., for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana.
Before TANG and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and TAKASUGI, District Judge.*
CANBY, Circuit Judge:

1
This class action was brought under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 on behalf of approximately 400 former employees of Great Western Sugar Company ("Great Western").  The defendants, sued both in their individual and official capacities, are the Governor of Montana, two former commissioners of the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, and the administrator and two employees of the Montana Division of Workers' Compensation.  The complaint alleged that the defendants, acting under the color of state law, failed properlythat is transmitted between 2nd Lts and Senior NCOs. I believe that this is what makes for the most effective work relationships when accomplishing the Air Force mission.

I recently had the opportunity to attend a professional development event hosted in partnership with Air Force District of Washington and the Air Force Association. At this event, I had the honor of listening to US Air Force leaders discuss topics of leadership and share advice to Airmen, NCOs and Senior NCOs. Among those who spoke were Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James A. Cody and Command CMSgt Jack Johnson Jr., NATO. The event also featured two panels; a Squadron Commander panel and a Senior NCO panel. Each speaker provided a unique perspective on leadership and advice to Airmen.


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     Romano worked for Citizens in its Harvey, Louisiana, office as

Accounts Payable Manager from December 1993 until his termination

on October 10, 1997.               In August 1997 Romano made two formal

complaints         to Citizens argues that the evidence established that Romano

would have left the employ of Citizens on December 31, 1998.           Thus,

Citizens contends that the award of front pay by the district court

for an 18 month period extending beyond the end of 1998 by

approximately four months was an abuse of discretion. The evidence

relied upon by Citizens is a memorandum written by Romano that

indicated a desire to retire at the end of 1998 if Citizens would

then treat him as if he was 55 years old with ten years of service

for purposes of its retirement plan.         Because on December 31, 1998

Romano would have been only 49 years old, whether Citizens would

have   credited


extorting money from companies and that she was fomenting factionalism.

Ms Mugabe claimed Ms Mujuru was incompetent and that Mr Mugabe was doing the bulk of her work.

The ruling Zanu (PF) has been riven by factionalism over Mr Mugabe’s succession, although in the past party leaders have papered over the cracks.

Ms Mujuru and powerful Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa — who in the past controlled the secret police and military — were seen as the leading contenders to replace Mr Mugabe.

Now with Ms Mujuru apparently out of the succession race, eyes have turned back to 68-year-old Mr Mnangagwa, who was named to the party’s central committee.

Mr Mugabe will this week announce his two deputies and members of the administrative politburo.Statement From Sydney City
Roosters

The Sydney Roosters have been in discussion with the NRL for over nine months to modify the existing salary cap rules. We are particularly disappointed that a confidential letter sent to the NRL was leaked to the media and the issue placed in the public domain.

We wish to be clear on several points of our strong stance, which we believe will ensure the Roosters retain it's successful model as an NRL club.
The Sydney Roosters this year are proud to have boasted 6 Kangaroos, 8 State of Origin players, 2 New Zealand representatives and 1 Great Britain representative along with former representative player, skipper Brad Fittler.
The majority of these representative players such as Anthony Minichiello, Michael Crocker, Chris Flannery, Shannon Hegarty and Andrew Lomu have progressed


and Chris Walker, who was released by the South Sydney Club, have joined the club as regular first graders.
Due to the development of many of our young players into senior players, the salary cap restrictions have forced us to release Todd Payten and Andrew Lomu. Andrew in particular had been with the club since 1995. As well, Captain Brad Fittler accepted a pay cut to assist the Club with the salary cap.
The Sydney Roosters will not be intimidated by incorrect statements about our great club.
If it is wrong to strive for success in a professional sporting competition and build a great Rugby League Club , this is a crime we plead guilty to.
The Sydney Roosters are the only club to have played every year since 1908. We haveDTC buses to get free Wifi Facility soon

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced that free Wi-Fi facility would soon be provided to commuters in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses.

Kejriwal made the announcement in the presence of Transport Minister Gopal Rai, DTC managing director CR Garg and thousands of DTC employees while attending an awards ceremony at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

“Delhi government will provide free Wi-Fi facility in DTC buses as soon as possible. In this connection, we are in touch with some big companies,” Kejriwal said.

Several leading internet and telecom sector companies, including Google, Facebook and Ericsson, recently held discussions with the Kejriwal led-Delhi government, regarding its ambitious city-wide free Wi-Fi project.

The national convener of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party also hiked the allowance of DTC bus


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Friday, January 9, 2015

Wace's Roman de Rou - An Epic History of the Anglo-Norman People

By Mark Patton

In an earlier blog-post, I introduced Wace's "Anglo-Norman Aeneid," the Roman de Brut, in which he wrote about the early history of Britain making King Arthur a descendent of the Trojan Brutus. Henry II was apparently so pleased with this poem that he commissioned Wace to write a second poem dealing with the more recent history of the Anglo-Norman people, beginning with the life of Rollo (846-932 AD) and continuing down to the Battle of Tinchebray (1106).

The "Rou" of the title is a Frenchified form of Rollo, a Viking leader who invaded Normandy, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 876 AD and "reigned for fifty winters." Under the terms of the Treatyof St-Clair-sur-Epte (911 AD), Rollo embraced Christianity and married Gisela, the daughter of the King of France (Rollo and Gisela are the 33 times great-grandparents of our present Queen).

The Marriage of Rollo and Gisela, from a 14th Century French manuscript. The contrast in dress between Gisela's father, Charles the Simple, on the left, and Rollo, on the right, makes an important propaganda point about the subservient status of the Norman Dukes.

Wace was a Jerseyman who served as a Canon, first at the Abbey of St Etienne in Caen and later at the Cathedral of Bayeux. He seems to have had a greater concern for historical veracity than some of his contemporaries, and this may, ultimately, have brought him into conflict with the king. The Roman de Rou was


never completed, Wace himself tells us, because Henry transferred his patronage to his rival "Maistre Beneeit" (probably Benoit de Sainte-More). It survives in just one complete copy (made in the 18th Century and now in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France) and three partial copies (two in the Bibliotheque Nationale and one in the British Library).

Part of the British Library's copy
of the Roman de Rou (Royal C xi).

Sadly, none of these copies is richly illustrated in the manner of the British Library's (Egerton 3028) manuscript of the Roman de Brut, but the text is easily accessible in Glyn Burgess's English translation (available both in paperback and as an e-book).

As well as drawing on earlier chronicles such as William of Poitiers's Gesta Guillelmi and William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum,dream that Rollo had during the course of his military campaigns:

"One night, when Rou was thinking of many things, he saw a vision which terrified him. He had the impression of sitting on a mountain, so high that there was none as high in the whole of France. On the top, on its own channel, was a spring from which water flowed, which was fine and clear, pure and healthful. Rou was completely discoloured and blackened with leprosy. He was bathing in the water, and was cured at once. The mountain Rou dreamed of was teeming with so many birds, small and large, that they completely covered it. All the birds went and bathed in the spring ... Wherever they went, they obeyed Rou, and their left wings


were completely red. When Rou got up the next morning ... he related his dream. There was a Christian among the prisoners, and he explained the dream. The spring on the mountain was holy baptism, the leprosy was sin, the birds are your companions, who will be baptised ..."

I suspect that this scene may have been provided some of the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, and certainly it provided the inspiration for a scene in my novel, Omphalos, in which Wace himself features as a character.

"The Parliament of Birds,"
by Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton (1668-1754)
inspired by Chaucer's poem.

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Mark Patton's novels, Undreamed Shores, An Accidental King and Omphalos, are published by Crooked Cat Publications, and can be purchased from Amazon UK or Amazon USA.

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Thanks for this! IBOKO HARAM, a jihadist group that has taken over tracts of territory in north-eastern Nigeria, has made a bloody start to 2015. An attack on the town of Baga earlier this month may have claimed as many as 2,000 victims (the army, which often underestimates casualties, belatedly claimed the real figure was 150). This weekend the group kidnapped around 80 people during a raid into neighbouring Cameroon; 20 people have since reportedly been freed. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language, began its insurgency in 2009. It has since claimed over 15,000 lives, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), an initiative run by the University of Sussex to collect data on political violence in developing states. The Nigerian


Antonio de La Gandara (1861–1917) produced several portraits of Montesquiou.

One author provides the following verbal portrait of Montesquiou: "Tall, black-haired, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand—the poseur absolute. Montesquiou's homosexual tendencies were patently obvious, but he may in fact have lived a chaste life. He had no affairs with women, although in 1876 he reportedly once slept with the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, after which he vomited for twenty-four hours. (She remained a great friend.)"

Montesquiou had social relationships and collaborations with many celebrities of the fin de siècle period, including Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896), Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863–1938), Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), Marthe Bibesco (1886–1973),river
Cleaved itself in knowing
Knifed the sensual living from ‘being’
Embraced the rock submerged within
Unlocked the deepest desire
And flowed with the consciousness
Of the space within the thought
Lake
Water
earth
Fire
and its own shadows of deepest desire
Flowing in the emptiness; within

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ॐनमःशिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya

Submitted to Poetry Potluck WK 45, that I am hosting at Jingle Poetry with the theme of Nature and Life... please check out some great and talented artists, who have posted there... Click Here

Jul 22, 2011

On one of my recent business trip to Europe, I have had an opportunity spend few days in Poland, visiting one of the largest office furniture manufacturer "Nowy Styl" in Europe and their Factory. City of Krosno, where Nowy Styl has its largest manufacturing setup, seemed nestled in the lap of nature.. specially their wood working factory.


This factory is in the middle of nowhere, in a beautiful valley surround by forest all around - just near the border of Slovakia and Ukraine. Below are my impressions from the journey... Hope you will enjoy it.

Arriving at Krakow, in 18 Deg Temp in rain and fog from 40 Deg Temp
in Hot and humid Chennai in the summers, was most welcome...

The drive from Krakow to Krosno was beautiful...

The small villages nestled in the green meadows was refreshing change...
From the red soil of South India

Its almost 3 hours drive from Krakow to reach Krosno, where Nowy Styl
Factory is...

The drive to Baltic Wood's Factory ...

... where most of the Wooden components of Nowy Styl Furniture is made...

... is beautiful.

This 14 century church in the middle of nowhere on theway...
was a beautiful surprise..

Well like almost any where in the world... women folk hang around
To gossip....

And of course, like any where in the world, you will find Mc Donald's
This one is in one of the villages around Krosno

A beautiful surprise was this Bengol Hotel, where I stayed.
which served Bengali Food from India and Vegetarian too....
How thoughtful of Nowy Styl

So from Sunrise in the hotel room....

To sunset out on the patio... it was all about Nature
Lovely Poland.

And as they say in Poland, they can make Vodka out of any thing, I did buy a souvenir of Bison grass Vodka known as Żubrówka in Poland, where they seal a blade of Bison Grass in the Bottle (which you can see) to give this Vodka a special color and taste...

It was


[This Birmingham company is taking on the major handset manufacturers and hopes to position Britain as one of Europe's mobile leaders.]

by Lucas van Grinsven -- "Britain may have been a frontrunner in mobile communications since the second world war but it is now one of the few European countries not to boast a cellular phone manufacturer. That is about to change.

"A group of industry executives, who learned their trade at US and European phone companies, this week announced their intention to take on their former employers Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola.

"Their Birmingham-based company, called Sendo, plans to be producing tens of millions of mobile phones within a few years.

"Its first phone is due soon, a high-end model that will compete with the most expensive handsets, to demonstrate that themanufacturers are putting in their handsets, Sendo should be able to compensate.

"Clever design is just one of the innovations of the company that quickly developed into a deadly serious venture.

"Formed last year with backing from an unnamed Asian investor who took a minority stake, Sendo plans to take on the industry's biggest manufacturers on five key fronts: cost, size, weight, performance and component count.

"Sendo intends to make its mobile phones the cheapest, smallest, lightest and most energy-efficient in their class.

"It will have to rely on close collaboration with its suppliers to reach its goals. Speed is vital, and Sendo's Birmingham offices - where the management sits among engineers and marketeers in one large room - are designed to allow it to react as quickly as possible.

"One employee says:


Starting today, Austin-area subscribers to Time Warner's digital cable can choose from among 10 music-related video channels and 45 radio-style music channels ranging in format from contemporary Christian to rap. You'll have to make a special request to get the rap channel, though. The good folks at Time Warner wouldn't want Carman fans to accidentally hear Ol' Dirty Bastard now would they?

Twenty years and a day after MTV signed on, outlets for music television have grown exponentially even as ownership becomes more concentrated. Of the channels devoted in some way to music-related programming, from BET on Jazz to our own Austin Music Network, only a handful spend the majority of their day broadcasting wall-to-wall music videos in the manner pioneered by MTV in 1981.

In recent years, MTV andits gray-templed first cousin VH1 have drastically cut back on airing music videos in favor of more traditional program blocks. MTV's long-running afternoon request show has morphed into Total Request Live, a postmodern American Bandstand that trades Dick Clark for Carson Daly and screaming girls giving shout-outs to their fave raves for actual music videos. Then there's VH1's Behind the Music, a series that has cast (or recast) the careers of everyone from AC/DC to the Osmonds in the same rigid rise/fall/comeback mold borrowed from Greek drama.

On MTV's copycat-spawning The Real World, music assumes a subtler role, underlying every scene with soundtrack-of-a-generation pathos. The Real World is often cited as ground zero for "reality" TV, but it was PBS' An American Family, in fact, that introduced viewers to


that even matter anymore?

Silly Symphonies

The history of music accompanied by moving images began long before 1981. It was actually Al Jolson's wildly popular 1927 musical melodramathat forced theaters across the nation to install sound, though tests for such were conducted as far back as the early 1900s.

In addition to the full-fledged movie musicals that followed in the wake of The Jazz Singer, film studios released hundreds of musical shorts promoting artists such as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong. Walt Disney's series of "Silly Symphonies" shorts culminated with 1940's Fantasia, a sprawling, full-length feature that illustrated eight classical music compositions with some of the most ambitious animation sequences in history.

The most obvious precursor to music video is the "soundie." Soundies were short music clips produced between 1940-46 for coin-operatedprojection machines called "Panorams," viewed for 10 cents a pop.

Panorams were found in bars, nightclubs, and restaurants, and featured a wide variety of artists including Spike Jones, Louis Jordan, and (smiles, everyone, smiles) Ricardo Montalban, who performed "He's the Latin From Staten Island" in 1941. More than 1,800 soundies were produced in their time, but wartime restrictions on the manufacture of Panorams ultimately killed off the medium.

In 1960, an updated take on the Panoram called the Scopitone was developed and popularized in France via campy, sexy clips by French pop stars like Johnny Hallyday. Unlike the Panoram, the Scopitone showed clips in color and allowed the customer to choose from 36 clips instead of just one.

Scopitones came to America in 1964, but despite a clip of Debbie Reynolds


doing "If I Had a Hammer" Vegas-style, the American distributor of Scopitone machines was out of business by 1969. Efforts to introduce video jukeboxes showing MTV-style fare at arcades and amusement parks in the mid-Eighties were met with similar indifference.

Snader Telescriptions were the first music clips developed specifically for television. Produced by Louis Snader in the early Fifties, local TV stations used the clips to fill odd gaps of airtime. Most of the 754 clips were recorded live, with no playback or lip-synching, and several featured captivating performances from stars like Nat King Cole (view examples online at www.tvparty.com/vaultvid.html).

The Big Beat

As rock & roll arrived, the ability of strong visuals to sell a song became apparent when Bill Haley & the Comets' year-old minor hit, "Rock Around theClock," shot to No. 1 after being featured at the beginning of the 1955 film. Hollywood followed suit with a series of similar films, includingand(both 1956), the latter of which was little more than musical performances connected by a thin plot and introductions by pioneer disc jockey Alan Freed.

Freed also had the first network rock & roll TV show, The Big Beat, in the summer of 1957, but it was Dick Clark's American Bandstand (which debuted less than a month later) that successfully demonstrated how youth culture could be marketed without controversy.

Airing each weekday afternoon from the WFIL-TV studios in Philadelphia, Bandstand functioned as a nationwide record hop for teens tuning in to hear the latest songs, learn the latest dances, and see the latest fashions. Clark was


the authoritative moderator, and only clean-cut, well-dressed, mostly (but not exclusively) white dancers appeared onscreen. This undoubtedly helped pacify parents and prospective advertisers.

Although the show's popularity began waning in the mid-Sixties, American Bandstand stayed on the air until 1989. Vestiges of Bandstand could be seen in the Sixties on Shindig, in the Seventies on Soul Train, in the Eighties on Dance Party USA, and in the Nineties and today on MTV's Total Request Live.

The Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night was influential in codifying the visual style of music videos. Director Richard Lester combined elements of French New Wave cinema (e.g., quick cuts, restless camera work) with the upbeat, buy-now energy of TV commercials. The impish, unrestrained personalities of the Beatles themselves defined the classic onscreen pop-grouppersona that persists even today in videos like Blink-182's "What's My Age Again?" and the Dixie Chicks' "Ready to Run."

The Beatles' television equivalents were, of course, the Monkees. The Prefab Four fused Lester's visuals with Marx Brothers-style antics and the best songwriters and studio musicians money could buy. Though their songs and show have stood the test of time, at their height, the Monkees were widely derided for their manufactured image and for not playing their own instruments. As the Sixties progressed, rock fans demanded more authenticity in their music.

Perhaps as a belated response to this, NBC's The Midnight Special and the syndicated Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (both 1973-81) featured live, non-lip-synched performances by everyone from K.C. & the Sunshine Band to the New York Dolls. Meanwhile, PBS