a fiduciary like some traditional auction houses, he said. "What it's saying is, 'Hey, if you think you're with Christie's or Sotheby's, you're not.'"

The Southern District of Florida blog was started by David Oscar Markus, who is a criminal trial and appellate lawyer in Miami, Florida. He frequently practices in federal courts around the country, including his hometown, the Southern District of Florida and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a former law clerk to then-Chief Judge of the District, Edward B. Davis.Nine children dead, nine missing as landslide buries school in China

NINE Chinese children have been confirmed dead and nine classmates are missing after a landslide engulfed their school as they made up classes lost due to deadly earthquakes last month, state media said.

A villager was also missing after the landslide buried the school and three farmhouses at Zhenhe village in the mountainous southwestern province of Yunnan, Xinhua news agency reported.

The slide also blocked a nearby river, creating a lake and forcing the evacuation of more than 800 residents living downstream, the agency said.

Almost 2,000 people had been mobilised to unblock the waterway and help in the rescue, it said, estimating the volume of earth at 160,000 cubic metres.

One person was seriously injured by the mudslide, Xinhua reported.

The students


at the Youfang Primary School would not normally have been in school this week as China is on a week-long national holiday.

But officials said the children were making up for lost time caused by disruptions stemming from two September 7 earthquakes that struck Yiliang county where Zhenhe is located, killing 81 people and leaving hundreds injured.

Web users immediately raised questions about the decision to bring the children back to school.

The safety of school pupils is a sensitive issue after thousands of students died when an 8.0-magnitude tremor in 2008 rocked Sichuan province in southwestern China and parts of neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu.

"Are the officials all on vacation? Why was there no alert? Why were there students in school during the holidays?" a user of leading portal Sina.com's popularmicro-blogging service asked after the landslide.

Many schools collapsed in the 2008 quake, which killed more than 80,000 people in total.

This led to accusations that corner-cutting in construction projects and possibly corruption led to shoddy buildings, especially as many buildings near such schools held firm.

Images broadcast on state television showed rescue personnel picking through landslide debris. It said the landslide occurred after sustained rains in the area.

Many buildings in Yiliang County are located precariously at the foot of steep mountainsides.

The landslide struck at 8.00am local time as students were arriving for classes, reports said.

"More than 30 students were supposed to attend classes today and there were 18 pupils at school before the class started this morning," a local official who gave only his surname, Yang, said by phone.

"The school


is just one single-storey teaching building."

Yiliang county was one of the areas worst-hit by the two 5.6-magnitude earthquakes last month.

"Youfang is one of the schools that has resumed classes. I have no more details," an official at the Yiliang Education Bureau who gave only his surname Zhang said.

An earlier statement by the bureau had encouraged all classes to resume by October 5.

A family of three managed to escape before the landslide hit, Xinhua said, but gave no other details on them.

Local government officials moved residents to safer ground after the disaster and dispatched rescue teams to the area, it added.

Last month's quakes left 820 people injured and 201,000 displaced.

In the wake of that disaster, domestic media said authorities should emphasise safety and sustainability in future developments.

Despite decades ofGOAL

As the competition heads into the following stage, the fight for sharpshooting matchless quality, including a portion of the best strikers on the planet, is warming up.

#1 Harry Kane | 5 goals, 2 games

Having overwhelmed the scoring diagrams in the Premier League as of late, Harry Kane has at last made an interpretation of that to global level and England are receiving the rewards. The Tottenham striker was given the chief's armband by Gareth Southgate in front of the World Cup and he is reimbursing that confidence in plenitude, leaving a mark on the world en route.

Chances to win Golden Boot: 6/4

#2 Romelu Lukaku | 4 goals, 2 games

Romelu Lukaku touched base in Russia as Belgium's unequaled driving goalscorer and the Manchester United striker has additionally established that


inheritance at this World Cup as the Red Devils endeavor to satisfy desires. The 25-year-old has effectively broken records at the competition and looks prepared to outperform the national record of five World Cup objectives set by his comrade Marc Wilmots.

Chances to win Golden Boot: 4/1

#3 Cristiano Ronaldo | 4 goals, 3 games

While he is without a doubt one of the best goalscorers ever to effortlessness the planet, Cristiano Ronaldo's record at the World Cup was wretched - until Russia 2018. Portugal's record-holder for the two objectives and appearances had scored only three objectives altogether crosswise over three competition before taking to the field in his nation's opener against Spain. The rest is history: an exceptional cap trap against La Roja was trailed by the objective that sawto the alignment of the NS5 partial sequences, no differences between the Italian USUV strains isolated from Veneto, Friuli and Emilia Romagna regions were observed. The Italian North Eastern strain sequences were identical to those of the strain detected in the brain of a human patient and shared a high similarity with the isolates from Vienna and Budapest. Conversely, there were few differences between the Italian strains which circulated in the North Eastern regions and the USUV strain detected in a pool of C. pipiens caught in Tuscany. A high degree of similarity at both nucleotide and amino acid level was also found when the full genome sequence of the Italian North Eastern isolate was compared with that of the strains circulating in Europe. The North Eastern Italian


A Quick History of BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) was introduced in Brazil by Mitsuo Maeda, a Jiu Jitsu student from Japan who immigrated in 1914. When Mitsuo got to Brazil, he was helped by the Gracie family who were also immigrants from Scotland. Mitsuo taught them the art, and in 1925 the Gracie family opened their own Jiu Jitsu academy. The academy started out with judo techniques that Mitsuo had taught them, and they had no rules.

During fights, they notice weaker opponents could make the stronger ones submit if they used the right techniques and that is how BJJ incorporated submission into their art. This meant the two parties contend and engage in a ground fight until one submits.

To empower the smaller and weaker opponent,The Brexit vote has precipitated the deepest political crisis in Britain in a generation. The nation is divided and the climate is lurching dangerously towards the far right. At this critical moment for the future of the country, the Blairites have opportunistically mounted an anti-Corbyn coup. They have been incubating this coup from day one despite Corbyn's overwhelming mandate.

They talk of Corbyn as an aberration. It is, in fact, the other way round. It is the Blairites, who represent a deviation in the history of the Labour party away from its values and eponymous constituency. The biggest threat to the Conservatives would be an alternative, viable anti-austerity manifesto.

Fortunately, the Blairites are outnumbered, in the wider party, by the massive influx of new members joining since the general election.


This new membership alone is greater than the entire membership of the Conservative party. Contrary to the media narrative, Corbyn's victory has galvanised whole swathes of the electorate, particularly amongst young voters.

Miliband: Corbyn's position is untenable

Blair may have won three elections, but in so doing he nearly destroyed his own party. In Scotland, millions felt they had been abandoned by New Labour's policies including the Iraq war and the embrace of neoliberalism. The same pattern has been repeated in the North of England with traditional working class voters in Labour heartlands defecting to UKIP. The UKIP vote went up from under a million in 2010 to nearly 4 million in 2015.

Labour did not just lose the election. It lost the previous five years by acquiescing to a bogussettlement, which shaped the future of Britain for decades, forcing the Tories to accommodate. When the neoliberals started out, they were in the political wilderness. They gradually transformed politics with the backing of powerful allies. For the worse admittedly. But Thatcher never asked the media or the political establishment for permission.

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county, small ISPs would have to buy it from one of the winning bidders. Pai's plan allows licenses "to be partitioned and disaggregated on the secondary market."

The FCC proposal also increases CBRS spectrum license terms from three years to ten years. Increasing the size of license areas and the length of license terms would make licenses less affordable for small entities, then-FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said last year after Pai first floated his proposal.

Plan “heavily biased toward large companies”

The FCC will offer 15 percent bidding credits to small businesses and rural providers to help them afford licenses. But county-sized licenses will still be out of reach for many ISPs, according to the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), which represents more than 3,000 small ISPs that offer serviceStreet New Orleans, LA 70130, Karen Cody-Hopkins, Ronald S. Goldser, Zimmerman, Reed, P.L.L.P. 901 North Third Street, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55401, David A. Vesel, Law Offices of David A.  Vessel, P.A. 8212 Creedmoor Road, Suite 101 Raleigh, NC 27613, Counsel For Appellants
Stuart E. Schiffer, Esquire Acting Assistant Attorney General, Michael Levy, Esquire United States Attorney Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Mark B. Stern, Esquire Charles W. Scarborough, Esquire (Argued) Attorneys, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Room 9611 U.S. Department of Justice 601 D Street, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001, Margaret Jane Porter, Esquire Chief Counsel Patricia J. Kaeding, Esquire Associate Chief Counsel Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857, Counsel For Appellee
Before: BECKER, Chief Judge, NYGAARD and REAVLEY,** Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
REAVLEY, Circuit Judge.

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exception issue, Appellants bear the burden of demonstrating that their claims fall within the scope of the FTCA's waiver of government immunity.15  Under the FTCA, the federal government only waives its immunity for injuries "caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government . . . under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred."16 As the quoted language makes clear, the FTCA does not itself create a substantive cause of action against the United States; rather, it provides a mechanism for bringing a state law tort action against the federal government in federal court. Thus, "the extent of theout of the boat to assess the damage. He determined that the boat's "outdrive" was imbedded in mud. Richey got back in the boat, started the motor, and attempted to free it from the mud by rocking it back and forth. He stated that in less than five minutes "all the warning buzzers were going off" on the motor. He could not recall whether the motor "shut itself down or if [he] shut it down."
In his complaint, Richey alleged that "mud and other debris blocked the water pick-up of the lower unit of the motor" as a *1315 result of the collision. He submitted after he restarted the motor, "[t]he water pump disintegrated and no longer provided coolant to the motor, thus damaging the motor irreparably." In his


and debris" under the surface of the water. The collision was an occurrence under Erie's policy because it was an accident, *1316 meaning that it was an unforeseen event that caused damage to the propeller and its assembly. When Richey stopped the boat's motor, got out of the boat, and restarted the motor, the ensuing damage to the motor was not part of the same occurrence that damaged the propeller and its assembly. It was foreseeable that irreparable damage to the motor would result when, after restarting the motor, Richey continued to use it until the water pump was destroyed and he heard the motor's "warning buzzers." Thus, the damage was foreseeable because of Richey's own actions, not the accident, and was not covered under the policy. Furthermore,Packers Blog The Journal Sentinel's team of Packers beat writers provide the latest news, notes and analysis SHARE

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Green Bay — The Green Bay Packers announced a roster move Wednesday afternoon, releasing offensive lineman Vince Kowalski.

Kowalski, who played at Villanova, first signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in June of 2015. He spent the majority of the off-season in Green Bay and was released during the cut down to a 75-man roster last year.

Kowalski, who played both guard and tackle, re-signed with the Packers on March 11 and remained with the team through the initial portion of the off-season program.


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Shortly before the start of the twentieth century, George Gould presented a vision to the inaugural meeting of the Association of Medical Librarians in Philadelphia on May 2, 1898: "I look forward to such an organisation of the literary records of medicine that a puzzled worker in any part of the civilized world shall in an hour be able to gain a knowledge pertaining to a subject of the experience of every other man in the world" \[[@CR1]\].

Now, 120 years on, 114 years since Karl Pearson published a pooled analysis of the results of a series of studies to investigate the effects of a typhoid vaccine \[[@CR2]\], 42 years since Gene Glass coined the term "meta-analysis" \[[@CR3]\], 25 years since the Cochrane Collaboration (now, simply, Cochrane) was established, and 6 years sincenotably perhaps, James Lind's treatise on scurvy in the eighteenth century included not only his own experiments on ways to prevent this disease but also his "critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject" \[[@CR16]\].

Systematic reviews today provide a valuable resource as a catalogue of the studies addressing the specific question for the review, but even without the reviews themselves, much has been done to bring those studies together. When The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993, approximately 20,000 reports of randomised trials could be easily found in the bibliographic database, MEDLINE. Through improved indexing and initiatives such as the MEDLINE retagging projects of the US and UK Cochrane Centres \[[@CR17]\], this has now increased to more than 460,000 PubMed records tagged with the


Re: favourite classic series

In honour of the fact that I inadvertantly threadjacked Wolrams Fall guy thread, oops. And the fact that I love old classics: what is your favourite old series, from any era, show your age; let's hear about some of those goofy loveable oldies, that now exist either as re-runs or on DVD.

I'm going to put up a starter, feel free to indulge your most obscure reminiscences.

Blakes Seven.

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The series was created by Terry Nation, who had previously worked on Doctor Who and created the Doctor's most famous adversaries, the Daleks. It was made in the United Kingdom and was produced and broadcast by the BBC. Blake's 7 resembled other BBC science fiction shows (such as Doctor Who), but was characterised by a darker tone andoften defied the traditional sharply-defined ethical stances associated with this type of drama, with considerable blurring of the distinction between the "good" and the "bad" guys (and gals).

Loosely based on the Robin Hood legend, the show followed the exploits of a group of outlaw revolutionaries, led by a patriot-hero named Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), who fought the fascist interstellar Terran Federation in the second century of the third calendar. Blake's 7 was watched by 10 million viewers at its peak, an enormous number for a space opera.

The show is noted for its strong focus on character; Blake and his band of outlaws were all highly individual, distinctive, and flawed, as often at each others' throats and in pursuit of their own private agendas as they were facing down


respect to his liability as such."
Although the partnership did not own the Schults' home, the evidence most favorable to the nonmovant shows that, at the time in question, the partners and the partnership, with Schult's permission, co-occupied or exercised control over the basement, the garage, and the route between the two, including the stairway.[3] The partnership authorized the work on the bar in the basement and approved of Pahs' retrieval of the sawhorse. Although the partnership did not work on the stairway, the jury could conclude from this evidence that the partners were acting in the ordinary course of the partnership business at the time and that the work on the bar, for which the sawhorse was needed, fell within the partnership's carpentry business. We conclude that Farmgenuine issue of material fact. Despite the inference Allstate advances, the jury could conclude that the stairway collapsed due to a defect in it and that it would have done so regardless of the reason Pahs was at the residence. In other words, the injury to Pahs did not arise out of the business pursuits or because of a business activity but had only an insignificant connection with the business. The trier of fact need not conclude, as a matter of law, that the property was used for the partnership's trade, profession or occupation. The trier of fact must determine the extent of the connection and whether it fulfills the "arising out of the past or present business pursuits" and the "because of a business activity" language of


relevant portion of the PERSONS INSURED provision is provided above.
[3]  Further, the mailing address of the partnership was that of the Schults' house, where the incident occurred. The policy provides that the location of "all premises owned by, rented to or controlled by the named insured", that is, the partnership, was "Same," the Schults' address. The interest of "named insured in insured premises" was "Owner." The part "occupied by named insured" was "As Required." The policy states that "Nature of business" and "Division 1. Premises-Operations" include "Carpentry."
my initial visit. From the Wasatch Mountains behind the city's skyline to Temple Square downtown, SLC is a mixed bag to most outsiders like myself. The first thought that crossed my mind before heading into town was "Mormons. Mormons everywhere." But coming from Pittsburgh, an old-school Catholic town, what was the Mormon faith all about? Paint me ignorant, but I didn't expect too much as I rolled through to watch some live music. Here's what I found during my weekend trip.

1 Expectation: Salt Lake City isn't a sports town. I know, I know, they have pro sports teams, but I can't imagine SLC being on the same level as, say, Pittsburgh or Chicago.

Reality: While SLC might not be a blue-blood sports town like Philadelphia or Boston, the Beehive


State features a rabid fan base, especially when it comes to the Utah Jazz of the NBA. After moving from New Orleans in 1979, the Jazz' golden years were the 1990s when Hall of Famers Karl Malone and John Stockton led the franchise to back-to-back NBA Finals appearances. Even though the Jazz fell to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls both years, SLC became a basketball city. The Jazz were battling the Los Angeles Clippers during my stay and I saw as many Gordon Hayward jerseys as I did Ute gear. While the University of Utah is the city's football (helps that the school is in town), Brigham Young University (in Provo) makes allegiances a little bit of a mixed bag, but groups are fiercely loyal. For the puckheads, Westcurious to see what SLC had to offer.

Reality: Pardon my stupidity, but everywhere (it seems) out here in the Western part of the nation is naturally beautiful. It's like an alien planet with all the red rock pushed up against clear, blue skies. The Wasatch Mountains provide an alluring backdrop to the SLC skyline. Oh, yeah—there's also a big lake (the Great Salt Lake) there, which has some views.

8 Expectation: Is SLC a foodie city akin to Asheville or Minneapolis? No way.

Reality: Wrong. SLC was named one of the Top 5 Best New Food Cities in 2014 by Wine Enthusiast. With places like Feldman's Deli, Hires Big H and Spitz, there's something for everyone's palate. For a real SLC food experience, the Red Iguana is the place.

9 Expectation:


to discover Real Salt Lake.By Stephen Dark

Let's Get Soaking Wet

Cool your jets at these watering holes.

By David Miller

Take a Hike ...

And bring the pooch

By David Miller

Beehive State of Mind

Looking for a new hobby? Beekeeping is all the buzz.

By Dylan Woolf Harris

Summer Foodie Staycation

Take a trip around the world with these 8 plates.

By Alex Springer

Thrilling in the Name of ...

My Emotional Roller coaster with literal roller coasters.

By Alex Springer

Summer TV 2017

Everything you need to see in June, July and August.

By Bill Frost

Do-It-Yourself Utah Brewery Tour

Think there's no good beer in Utah?? Think again.

By Kayla LeFevre

Suds of the Season

New local IPA is here to quench your summer thirst.

By Mike Riedel

Sips for Summa-time

Step away from the Lime-A-Rita.

By Darby Doyle

Baby You're a Firework

Here's where to spend your July fourth holiday.

By Scott Renshaw

MusicalRichard J. RoddewigMAI, JD, CRE, FRICS

Richard Roddewig is one of the founders of Clarion Associates and is a nationally recognized real estate analyst and land use attorney with more than 25 years of professional experience. He is a licensed Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Georgia and Michigan and a licensed attorney and real estate broker in Illinois. His experience includes assignments in more than 35 states, and preparation of expert testimony in many types of court cases.

Mr. Roddewig holds the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and the CRE designation from the Counselors of Real Estate. He has served as past Chair of the American Bar Association Land Use, Planning and Zoning Committee, as well as past Chair of the Midwest Chapter of


have chosen hyena for the hyena. Then when you remind them that St. Paul sent greetings in one of his Epistles to "Phoebe," there is nothing to conclude but that the first girl named Phoebe was really named after a bird.

Geology is another means to help children develop a sense of wonder over God's way with the universe  and it is as close by as the stones in the back yard, a hammer and chisel, and a book from the library. The slates in garden paths, or on the roofs of buildings, are dried flakes of what was once mud, baked for thousands of years in the hot sun. The colored streaks inside stones all have names and stories, and the stones themselves are the shape theyKirsty Gilmour wins Scottish Open Grand Prix title

ELSPETH BURNSIDE

There were a few scares along the way, but Kirsty Gilmour finally got the job done and claimed the Scottish Open Grand Prix women’s singles title in front of her home fans yesterday at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow.

Facing the talented 20-year-old Dane, Mia Blichfeldt, the No 1 seed had to produce her best form of the championships to win 23-21, 21-12 in a highly entertaining 50-minute final. The victory jig said it all.

Twice a runner-up in this event and a silver medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Emirates, Gilmour was ecstatic to finally be the bride in her favourite arena.

“Just to get it done feels so good, and a huge relief,” said the Glasgow-based 24-year-old. “It was


the first time that I had played Mia and she took a bit of figuring out. It was a bit sticky at times, but all credit to her.”

The first game was tight. Gilmour trailed 14-16 and then let slip three game points – two were lost on dubious line calls – before getting her nose in front. First game in the bag, the crowd presumed she was then on easy street. But Blichfeldt produced a great start to the second game, winning the first four points without reply.

However, with Scotland coach Tat Meng Wong guiding his charge from the sidelines, Gilmour, the world No 21, started to dominate. She drew level at 5-5 and, slowly but surely, started to take control.

“It was a bit of a scare atthe end of the first game, but I started to find some solid play in the second,” said the first home winner since Susan Egelstaff took gold at the Kelvin Hall in 2009.

“It means a huge deal to me and I really felt the wave of expectation. But I am now so happy. I know it means so much to everyone.”

Gilmour, who reached the quarter-finals at the Total BWF World Championships at the Emirates in August, has enjoyed a great 2017. Last year she made her Olympic debut – but was then hampered by a knee injury that required surgery. It’s been a great comeback, and yesterday’s win was the icing on the cake. Now she is looking ahead to the Commonwealth Games next year – and then


The US Senate has voted to debate ending US support for the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen, amid growing resistance to the conflict.

After a behind-closed-doors update from Mike Pompeo and James Mattis, in which disappointment was the common theme, the Senate passed a resolution 63-37 to begin officially debating the matter on the floor.

A number of senators sought the vote, over US support for the war against Houthi rebels in Yemen as part of a pushback against Donald Trump's stance. At least 10,000 civilians have died in the conflict, which began in 2015.

The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October has sparked outrage around the world and piled pressure onto Riyadh's royal family. But Mr Trump has dismissed a reported CIA assessmentsevere acute malnutrition. UNICEF Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere visited Yemen from 29 October through 1 November 2018. As of 30 October 2018, over 11 million children â€“ 80 per cent of all children in the country â€“ require humanitarian assistance, due to the impact of the ongoing conflict. Worsening years of underdevelopment, attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure and lack of salary payments for most civil servants have pushed basic services for children to the brink. Children face food shortages, disease, displacement and an acute lack of access to basic social services. One out of three children in Yemen is at risk of acute malnutrition. Â© UNICEF/UN0253574/Abdulhaleem Unicef/Abdulhaleem

Addressing the possibility of a full Senate vote on ending US support for the war


rare moment of publicly disagreeing with the president, said there has to be “some kind of response” from the US on the matter.

Khashoggi worked for The Washington Post and was a green card holder for several years. He was a fierce advocate for amplifying regular Arab voices and wrote often about freedom of speech.

"What obviously happened, as basically certified by the CIA, is completely abhorrent to everything the United States holds dear and stands for in the world," Mr McConnell said.

"We're discussing what the appropriate response would be,” he noted.

The resolution to end American involvement in the Yemeni conflict was brought by Senators Bernie Sanders and Republican Mike Lee earlier in the year but initially fell short by just six votes.

Our support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign inMR. GREGORY: Fourteen months after President Obama swept Democrats to
victory in Congress, could this string of key retirements turn the tide
for the party in 2010? A live debate this morning between the two sides
on the midterm elections and the Obama agenda. Democratic National
Committee Chairman Governor, Tim Kaine of Virginia vs. Republican
National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

Then, he is governor of the state with the world's eighth largest economy
and a massive $20 billion budget deficit. As Arnold Schwarzenegger
enters his final year as the governor of California, what can he do to
turn his state around? And how does the future of California impact the
rest of the United States? Our exclusive interview with California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Plus, Obama's priorities for the upcoming year. How will the shifting
landscape for 2010 affect health care and


insensitive remarks Reid made
during the 2008 primary campaign about then candidate Obama were reported
in a just-published book by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Here with us live to talk politics, the chairmen of both political
parties, DNC chair Governor Tim Kaine and RNC chair Michael Steele.

MR. GREGORY: Let me start with those remarks by Harry Reid as being
reported in this new book, "Game Change," about the 2008 race: "[Senator
Reid] was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country
was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such
as Obama--a `light-skinned' African-American `with no Negro dialect,
unless he wanted to have one,' as he said privately. Reid was convinced,
in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for
the Democratic nomination." Senator Reid quicklywho ran as a segregationist for president, had
he been elected president, that the country wouldn't had--have had some
of the problems over all those years. Then state Senator Obama said at
that point that Lott ought to be ousted as majority leader. Do you see a
difference between then and now?

MR. STEELE: Oh, yeah, there's a big double standard here. And the thing
about it that's, that's interesting is that when Democrats get caught
saying racist things, you know, an apology is enough. If, if that had
been Mitch McConnell saying that about an African-American candidate for
president of the United States, trust me, this chairman and the, and the
DNC would be screaming for its head, very much as they were with Trent
Lott. And, and, and the reality of it is racism and racist conversations
have


not what the American public
wants.

MR. GREGORY: All right, hold on, let me--I want to interject some
specific issues and have some, some narrow or targeted responses on
particular issues.

You'll hear from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a few minutes,
Governor Kaine. One of the things he says, and, by the way, he was an
early supporter of the notion of healthcare reform; the White House was
relying on him. He says that the burden that healthcare reform that's
coming down the pike will, will take the burden it places on states is
onerous, that it's akin to beating up on a state like California, which
has a $20 billion shortfall, because of the mandate to expand the
Medicaid rules, roles, including some other demands on the states.
You're a governor. Do you understand what he's saying?

GOV. KAINE: David, Iplans, period.

MR. GREGORY: Governor Schwarzenegger, thank you very much.

GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Thank you.

MR. GREGORY: Appreciate it.

And coming next, a look at the 2010 political landscape. Plus, the
president's priorities for the coming year and his plans to keep the
nation safe after the attempted Christmas Day terror plot. Insights from
our roundtable, NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd join us here in Los
Angeles after this brief station break.

MR. DAVID GREGORY: And we're back with our special edition of MEET THE
PRESS from California. And joining us now, our chief foreign affairs
correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, and our political director and chief
White House correspondent, Chuck Todd.

Thanks both of you for coming out here. And you heard Governor
Schwarzenegger, he is on the front line of what a lot of states are going
through, which is a 2010 that


they, they want to embrace it on one hand, but
then you have the establishment in Washington nervous about them at the
same time because, you know, you do wonder, are they eating their own,
right? And we look at this Florida Senate primary as going to be sort of
front and center of the tea party movement vs. the establishment, got
the popular governor, Charlie Crist, a moderate, Marco Rubio, the
favorite of the conservatives.

MR. GREGORY: The politics will dominate a lot of this year, but also,
Andrea, what the president's gone through this week with the aftermath,
the fallout from this Christmas Day terror plot. David Broder wrote in
his column on Friday this about the president: "The Christmas plot
appears to have shaken Obama like nothing else that happened in his first
year. When he allowedDongo Kundu Bypass Highway

Dongo Kundu Bypass Highway, also Mombasa Southern Bypass Highway  ,  is a road under construction in Kenya. When completed, it will connect Mombasa Mainland West to Mombasa Mainland South, without entering Mombasa Island.

Location
Dongo Kundu Bypass starts in the neighborhood called Miritini, on the Nairobi–Mombasa Highway, approximately , northwest of the central business district of Mombasa. From there it loops around the western edge of Mombasa International Airport and ends at a neighborhood called Mwache at the water's edge, west of the airport. From Mwache, several bridges carry the highway across the  Port Reitz Bay to Dongo Kundu on the south-side of the bay. From Dongo Kundu the highway continues in a southeasterly direction until it ends at Ng’ombeni, on the Malindi–Bagamoyo Highway.


in which both CO and CH3-corrinoid are varied, and rapid methylation reactions of the ACDS β subunit, measured by stopped-flow methods, provide a kinetic model for acetyl-CoA synthesis that includes a description of the inhibitory effects of CO explained by competition of CO and CH3 for the same form of the enzyme. Electron paramagnetic resonance titrations revealed that the formation of a paramagnetic Ni(+)-CO species does not match the kinetics of CO interaction as a substrate but instead correlates well with an inhibited state of the enzyme, which requires revision of previous models that postulate that this species is an intermediate. Characterization of the β subunit F195A variant showed markedly increased substrate reactivity with CO, which provides biochemical functional evidence of steric shielding of the CO substrate interactionsite by the phenyl group side chain. The phenyl group also likely enhances the nucleophilicity of the Ni center to facilitate CH3 group transfer. A model was developed for how the catalytic properties of the A cluster are optimized by linking conformational changes to a repositionable aromatic shield able to modulate the nucleophilicity of Ni, sterically select the most productive order of substrate addition, and overcome intrinsic inhibition by CO.


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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2010  The Nuclear Posture Review recognizes that nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to more states – not a nuclear exchange between nations – pose the greatest threat to U.S. and global security, President Barack Obama noted in a statement issued today.

Obama called the review, released today, a major step toward fulfilling his pledge to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy while sustaining a safe, secure and effective deterrent as long as nuclear weapons exist.

While acknowledging the threat of nuclear weapons getting into the wrong hands, the review recognizes that the national security of the United States and its allies and partners “can beincreasingly defended by America’s unsurpassed conventional military capabilities and strong missile defenses,” the president said.

He noted concrete steps the United States has taken to reduce the role of nuclear weapons, while preserving its military superiority, deterring aggression and safeguarding U.S. security:

-- Moving the prevention of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism to the top of its nuclear agenda for the first time, and aligning its policies and funding for programs to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and encourage international cooperation toward that goal.

-- Promoting international responsibility in meeting nonproliferation treaty obligations, and promising not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are parties to the treaty and comply with their nonproliferation obligations.

-- Pledging not to conduct nuclear tests, develop new nuclear warheads


comprehensive agenda he laid out in Prague last year to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to pursue world peace and security without them.

He said he looks forward to advancing this agenda in Prague on April 8, when he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the new strategic arms reduction treaty that commits both countries to substantial nuclear arms reductions.New Metric Media has announced it has acquired worldwide media rights for Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s debut novel, The Devil You Know (HarperCollins Canada/Patrick Crean Editions).

The novel, set in the early 1990s, follows rookie reporter Evie Jones, who deals with memories of violence from her past against the backdrop of the serial rapes perpetrated by Paul Bernardo.

The Devil You Know will be developed into a one-hour continuing drama series, with de Mariaffi serving as consultant. The deal was arranged by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency.


in the UK is 38.5C (101.3F) at Faversham on August 10 2003.

Mr Lang added: ‘Whilst many places will remain dry, the thunderstorms could lead to torrential downpours in places with as much as 30mm (1.2in) of rainfall in an hour and 60mm (2.4in) in three hours.

‘Large hail and strong, gusty winds are also likely and combined could lead to difficult driving conditions as a result of spray and sudden flooding.

‘There will also be some showers up the western side of the UK this evening and this heralds a more changeable and windy weekend.’

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bush..." "Than a dozen blushing debutantes whose fathers see that they wind up with the highest bidder." "The next day saw the start of one of those cross-country bicycle races the Europeans love." "I made another date with Mimi and we covered it together from the press car, right through the heart of the city of Paris." "It was a beautiful day for a race, but I didn't spend much time admiring the scenery or the racers." "My charming companion was telling me the story of her life." "It made Cleopatra sound like Mother Machree." "As we rounded the turn into the Bois de Boulogne," "Mimi was telling me about an adventure she had once with a foreign millionaire." "On a bicycle." "It seems she'd had adventures ontoo. Yet after he was elected, he took his programs to Congress. Obamacare was a law passed by Congress. Dodd-Frank was a law passed by Congress. The stimulus was a law passed by Congress.

No doubt, over time, in the face of studied and pathological resistance by Congress, Obama embraced the executive order more and more. Republicans opposed that. They should remind themselves of that opposition, as they stand-by, pathetically, and watch Vladimir Trump become our diktat-maker in chief.

George Washington was right: Party over country will kill this Republic. Unless we can get Congress to wakeup.


Jose Mourinho is demanding the public backing of Manchester United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward before Saturday's Old Trafford clash with Newcastle, sources have told ESPN FC.

The move amounts to a back-me-or-sack-me plea, amid reports that Mourinho will be dismissed as manager after the game, regardless of the result.

Sources have told ESPN FC that Mourinho has been pushing for a show of support from Woodward and the Glazer family, United's owners, in recent weeks, with further efforts made this week to prompt them into a public statement of their backing.

Mourinho goes into the Premier League fixture with United searching for a first home win in all competitions since the opening weekend of the season -- a run that has put the 55-year-old's job on the line.

Senior sources continueto insist privately that Mourinho remains safe for now and the Florida-based Glazer family do not want to terminate Mourinho's contract, which is due to run until June 2020, despite the recent run of form that has seen United slump to a midtable position in the Premier League and suffer Carabao Cup elimination at the hands of Championship outfit Derby County.

But despite Woodward praising Mourinho's credentials during a recent conference call to the club's investors, the former Real Madrid and Chelsea manager has grown increasingly frustrated by what he perceives to be a lack of credible, public backing from his bosses.

Mourinho was angered by a lack of investment in his squad during the summer, when the club failed to sign a top-class centre-half, and he has also been


irked by the absence of support following public spats with star players Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial.

The Glazer-led hierarchy at United has a long-held policy of not speaking publicly about club matters, however, and neither the Americans nor Woodward have been prepared to alter that stance, opting instead to operate a "business as usual" approach.

Sources at United have told ESPN FC that they believe Mourinho to be increasingly unhappy and ill-tempered at the club.

There is a determination among the Glazers to see Mourinho emerge from his current difficulties on the pitch, however, especially with no credible replacement available.

But with his future now a matter of daily discussion and headlines suggesting his time as manager is running out, Mourinho wants Woodward to dismiss all reports of his job beinga great book to read aloud." Northern Ireland Homes & Lifestyle "With wonderful rhyming text, each and every word rolls off the tongue almost seamlessly and together with wacky illustrations of every shape of dog; small, large, fat and thin, you and your child can't fail to be caught up in this rollicking read." -- Lovereading4kids "A cheeky, rhyming picture book for curious dog lovers." Booktrust, Best Book Guide

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Since graduating from Kingston College of Art in 2004 Mei Matsuoka has been much in demand as an illustrator. Her illustrations for a short story won first prize in a UNESCO sponsored competition, which she travelled to Japan to collect in 2005. Mei was on the final longlist of candidates nominated as Best New Illustrators, and is one of


the UK's most exciting newcomers to children's books. Peter Bently was born in Tidworth and attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied for a BA Hons in Modern Languages. He has two children, Theo (8) and Tara (5), and now lives in Devon. He has also written several other picture books, including A Lark in the Ark (Egmont) and Shark in the Dark (Macmillan).

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Refund policy: we do not offer refunds so please choose carefully. Book pricesCoronavirus: Ivory Coast tests woman for China virus Published duration 26 January Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic

image copyright EPA image caption An unnamed Ivorian woman who travelled from China is being tested for the coronavirus

Health officials are dealing with a suspected case of coronavirus in Ivory Coast, the country's health ministry has announced.

An unnamed student, who returned to the West African country from Beijing on Saturday, is undergoing further tests after showing flu-like symptoms.

If confirmed, it will be the first case of the deadly virus in Africa.

The virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has spread to over 2,000 people and killed 56.

The 34-year-old woman is currently in isolation, officials said.

The traveller has lived in China for the past five years, according to the statement released


by Ivory Coast's health ministry, and had shown flu-like symptoms before boarding the plane to Abidjan.

"Her general state is satisfactory," the ministry said. "There are, at this stage, suspicions of a case of pneumonia tied to the coronavirus."

The woman's test results are expected on Sunday evening.

Currently known as 2019-nCoV, the virus is understood to be a new strain of coronavirus not previously identified in humans.

Since the outbreak began in Wuhan, several African countries have introduced extra screening on flights arriving from China.Comic Review: Breath of Bones: A Tale Of The Golem HC

Being a World War II historian and a fan of the golem legend, Breath of Bones was a perfect combination of good storytelling and fantastic line art that held my interest the whole way through. The tale is told from the point of view of Noah, an Allied soldier who is going to take care of the upcoming attack with a repeat of something that happened to him as a young boy. And, so, we get pulled back to his childhood and a recounting of how his village survived with faith and strength.

When Noah was just a child, his father went to war along with the other able-bodied men of their village. Noah was left to live with


his grandparents and wait, everyday, for his father to return. Sadly, the stark reality of war is that he will never see his father again. The monsters of Nazi Germany has stolen away this young boy’s childhood and made him grow up way too fast. But pretty soon the war is not some far-away threat, but one that is knocking on their village’s front door.

An Allied soldier by the name of Simon Richards crashes his plane near the village. Noah and his grandfather, along with the rest of the villagers, hide him away and put out the fires of the crash, but pretty soon the event draws the attention of the Germans who send two soldiers to check it out. The villagers almost get away with the secretOne arrested, two reported and a recommendation for personal use of drugs, the budget of the State Police who oversaw last Sunday Fiorentina-Bologna.Over 300 visiting supporters (of the 500 total) reached the Tuscan capital aboard a local train. During the trip between railway statione and stadium on three shuttle buses, the ultras went out of them to find rival fans and used smoke bombs and a large firecracker that damaged a phone booth.The security forces that have held the mobs were are to identify one of the leaders. This is a 27 year old from Bologna, with many police reports in the past.For him 5 years of stadium ban .Other two ban: In the middle of the group of 300, for a 39 year old originally from Abruzzo


Beirut, Lebanon - Protesters took to the streets of Lebanon in their cars on Tuesday, demonstrating against worsening economic and social conditions in the country.

In the capital Beirut, large convoys of cars drove from Martyrs' Square, the birthplace of the country’s uprising against the civil war-era ruling class in October, to the vicinity of a large theatre complex where MPs met on Tuesday to approve dozens of laws, including legalising the cultivation of cannabis for medical and industrial use.

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UNESCO Palace, the theatre, was chosen by speaker Nabih Berri instead of the Parliament building to allow social distancing regulations to be followed amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen 677 reported cases and 21 deaths.

The country has been in partial lockdown since March 15 with an overnight curfew, duringwhich its airport and land borders were closed.

But the lockdown has shown cracks with people taking to the streets over the past week to demand the government's help in a number of regions as the strain of the country’s worst-ever economic and financial crisis grows.

Protests that occurred almost every day before the COVID-19 lockdown have returned.

On Tuesday, cars draped in Lebanese flags blaring loud revolutionary songs drove around the main centres of the six-month uprising, including Tripoli in the north, Antelias near Beirut, the Chouf region, the Bekaa, and southern Nabatieh and Tyre.

Anti-government demonstrators wave Lebanese flags as they protest in their cars [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]

"Its a loud shout-out to the country to say that we have not been erased," Ghassan Salhab, a prominent Lebanese film director who participated


in the protest, told Al Jazeera.

He added that the protesters chose to take to the streets in their cars in an effort to maintain social distancing rules while making themselves heard at the same time.

"We've seen the level of hunger growing in the country in areas like Tripoli and we felt the need to do something in solidarity."

Due to an acute shortage of US dollars, Lebanon’s currency has depreciated by more than 50 percent since last summer. Inflation is set to reach 27 percent, according to finance ministry statistics released late last month.

Tens of thousands have lost their jobs or had their wages slashed, while half the country’s population is projected to fall under the poverty line this year.

Banks have also put in place strict controls since November,Jaber, an MP and the law's architect, said Lebanon could export cannabis produce to Canada, where the plant is entirely legal.

Cannabis has been cultivated in Lebanon for at least a century in the impoverished Bekaa Valley.

Under the new law, those who have participated in the illegal sector would be barred from entering the new legal market. Experts warn that the move risks creating a two-tier system where those who have traditionally grown cannabis would be marginalised.

The parliament also endorsed a number of bills, including one to create a national anti-corruption commission.

Lebanon regularly ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world.

The new body is tasked with preventing and investigating corruption, with powers to refer cases for prosecution, as well as to offer protection and incentives to whistle-blowers.

The law,


after being released from an undisclosed hospital Tuesday night, Jan. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File) ORG XMIT: NY155 (Timothy D. Easley / Associated Press)

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Muhammad Ali is home after being hospitalized with a severe urinary tract infection.

The three-time world heavyweight champion was released from an undisclosed hospital Tuesday night, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Wednesday. Ali is back home and looking forward to celebrating his 73rd birthday on Jan. 17 with his family and friends, Gunnell said.

"He's in great spirits and enjoying being back home," Gunnell said. "He's back in his daily routine."

Ali has had Parkinson's disease for years.

Ali was hospitalized Dec. 20 with what was initially believed to be a mild case of pneumonia. Doctors later determined Ali had a severeurinary tract infection and not pneumonia, Gunnell said.

The Ali family appreciates the outpouring of support and well wishes, and also thanked his team of doctors and nurses, he said.

Ali and his wife, Lonnie, have homes in Paradise Valley, Arizona; Berrien Springs, Michigan; and in Louisville. Gunnell would not say which home Ali had returned to.

Ali's public appearances have diminished in recent years as he wages his fight against Parkinson's disease, but he appeared in public in September at a ceremony in his hometown of Louisville for the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards. Ali did not speak to the crowd but posed for photos with award winners, including former NFL star Jim Brown.

Brown leaned over and whispered to the seated Ali during the photo session. Later, Brown said he told


Ali: "You're the greatest of all time."

Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and devoted himself to social causes. He has traveled the world on humanitarian missions. Ali received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2005.

The Muhammad Ali Center, in Louisville, is dedicated to Ali's humanitarian causes and showcases his boxing career, reliving his epic fights with Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.Tucson auto dealer honored for donation

The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona presented Click with a plaque of appreciation.

Jim Click and Holmes Tuttle automotive teams raised $162,000 dollars for the United Way in the last campaign year.

"The great patners that we have in the community that helps us to be able to do the great work that we're able to do in Tucson and Southern Arizona. It's very important for us to recognize that," said Tony Penn from the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona.

"I know the money that I give to the United Way is going to be well spent. I know that not a lot it's going to be wasted in overhead. So, I just think its a very very efficient way for people


and a bottom end seal is formed by transversely sealing across the tube with heated seal bars. A pumpable product is introduced through a central, vertical fill tube to the formed tubular film. The pouch is then completed by sealing the upper end of the tubular segment, and severing the pouch from the tubular film above it. The process can be a two-stage process wherein the creation of a transverse heat seal occurs at one stage of the process, and downstream of the first stage, a separate pair of cooling/clamping means contact the newly-formed transverse heat seal to cool and thus strengthen the seal. In some VFFS processes, an upper transverse seal of a first pouch and the lower transverse seal of a following pouch are made. Thehappened. Scruff Face ended up on the floor.” He added that Scruff Face reportedly had a black eye the next day.

Kyle should have perhaps left it at that. But during his book tour stop on the Opie and Anthony show, he identified “Scruff Face” as none other than Jesse Ventura. He repeated the claim again in another interview with Fox News.

The news transformed Ventura into one of the most hated men in America and persona non grata in the military and veteran communities. TV-show deals for Ventura, who had developed a career as a television host with a penchant for exploring conspiracy theories, reportedly dried up as a result.

But then a curious thing happened: Ventura immediately came forth, not issuing the standard press release with a banal denial


of individual servicemen is a whole other ballgame.

But, this was Chris Kyle, a war hero (!), and thus all blindly believed him.

Ventura asked for a retraction and an apology. He received none. So he proceeded with a defamation lawsuit.

Legal experts claimed Ventura had no shot. A widow crying on the stand? Too sympathetic. A decorated war hero who was tragically killed (in an unrelated accident after Ventura filed suit)? Too sympathetic. Ventura was facing an almost insurmountable uphill battle in an already tricky area of the law.

Once the trial actually began, however, the truth began to emerge. For instance, Kyle, who sat for a lengthy video deposition prior to his death, was inconsistent in his story, described by one local reporter with the following headline: “In video deposition,author trips up on fight details in Ventura libel suit.” The Minneapolis Star-Tribune describes the testimony:

Afternoon testimony may have shifted some sympathy to Ventura’s side. In the deposition, videotaped a year before his death, Chris Kyle said he could not remember who told him that Ventura had hit his head when he fell to the sidewalk, could not recall how he learned that Ventura had a black eye, and conceded that tables did not go “flying” during the 2006 confrontation in a bar near San Diego, which he described in his book “American Sniper.”

After a thorough trial, in which the jury listened to multiple witnesses from both sides, the jury found in favor of Ventura, finding Kyle had indeed defamed the former wrestler. The court awarded Ventura more


After reading the description for Salvation Day, I thought I had a good idea of what I was in for: a futuristic sci-fi horror, with an outbreak scenario, maybe even possibly some crossover into zombie territory. I think I was picturing something like Dead Space in my mind. Well, what the book actually turned out to be was something quite different, though the story still ended up being a thrilling and cinematic experience.

Around a decade ago, the space exploration vessel House of Wisdom became abandoned after a deadly infectious virus was released on board, killing everyone on the ship. The sole survivor was a boy, Jaswinder Bhattacharya, the son of a very prominent family in the political and scientific community. Subsequently adopted by his aunt, Jas spent thenext ten years pretending he could not remember what happened on the House of Wisdom and has tried to keep a low profile ever since. Meanwhile, the spaceship, which has become massive tomb, is left drifting in space guarded by drone missiles that would destroy anything that dared approach.

Now older, Jas is about to embark on his first journey back into space since the incident, along with a small group of his friends and fellow students. But unbeknownst to him, he is the key to a plan hatched up by a cult who want to use his genetic signature to bypass the security measures guarding House of Wisdom, which they mean to transform into a new home for their people. Zahra is one of the members of this


Some Irish boys are still living with their mammies by the age of 33. Their failure to launch can be caused by a crippling shyness, or from the uncertainty about which path to take in life, but the result is usually the same -- after your friends have forged their own trails, some boys are still left tooling around the old haunts, waiting for their lives to begin.

Bestselling Irish author Derek Landy, 37, knows all about it.

Sometimes called the Irish J.K Rowling, by the time Landy turned 30 there was a big question mark still hanging over him. His brothers and sisters had grown up and moved on to successful city careers while he was still pursuing his dream to become a screenwriter.

Screenwriting meant flying to London yearafter year to have discouraging meetings with disinterested producers. It meant staying in horrible, damp hotels waiting for a phone call that would never come.

His screenplay for an Irish zombie movie didn’t set the world on fire, and producers objected to his slasher thriller in which everybody dies. Things looked bleak.

But just as he reached his lowest ebb the tide suddenly turned.

The idea for Harry Potter, the boy wizard that made J.K. Rowling so rich that she is now said to possess more wealth than Queen Elizabeth II, reportedly just fell into the author’s head one day as she was taking a train journey across England.

For Landy the process was exactly the same. One day in 2005 he was over in London for a series of desultory film


the starters, Modi can beat his 46” chest for China has responded to his optimism and his personal charisma by freeing most of the Indians arrested on charges of diamond smuggling in China… but if that is all then I must say that Modi has got a bad deal, and has exchanged elephants for peanuts. China starts connecting its Yadongwith Doklam plateau by road which is a disputed area.

Bhutan raised an objection which China ignored. India, citing her Friendly treaty with Bhutan, comes forward and sends her army to the region to stall the construction work in Doklam. Doklam is strategically and topographically very important to India and is well known to the three involved parties. The Sikkim side of the plateau is the only region where Indiayouth of Maldives are joining terrorist groups like the Islamic States, being trained on the soil of Pakistan in Pakistani Madrassas. Wahabism is being aggravated in the country, the Maldives is encouraging students to undertake studies in Saudi and Pakistan. Such radicalization in the immediate neighbourhood of India and that too when India has banned organisation like SIMI and IM and its members are searching for another thriving Petridis for its culture is not a good news!

The case is not only for the Maldives but also applies for Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Myanmar’s democracy is still in a bad shape and trade with India is very little. But India has got its interest in the region as India needs Myanmar to secure the southern Indian Ocean. The Rakhine


state is a crucial link for India’s Hydrocarbon and trade ambitions. Four North Eastern States of India Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram share not only boundaries with Myanmar but also ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic ties as well. North Myanmar is under de-facto control of China that borders Indian State.

China is increasing its influence there and is supporting the rebel and insurgent groups in the area. China is the largest trade partner of Myanmar, has made huge investments in the country and has earned credibility with various good deeds. Myanmar, in its initial days of democracy, is subjected to diplomatic external pressure from all around the world, east and west. India in its look east policy may capitalise this hour of Myanmar needs and cater to their requirements,Between the frontier and the network: notes for a metapsychology of freedom.
The author examines the paradigm of the frontier and encounters the establishment of the paradigm of the network, a tendency that currently runs through diverse fields of thought. The network is not proposed as a globalising structure that would neutralise what is different, but as integration based on preservation of what is plural and its transformations. The author moves between these two paradigms in psychoanalytic metapsychology and clinical practice. The concept of frontier is intrinsic to the entire theory: repression, which separates the unconscious from the preconscious, the barrier against stimuli, the delimitation of spaces and agencies. But psychoanalysis is also a precursor of the paradigm of the network, with its concepts of unconscious, free association and


orgone/etheric energy that he termed POR (positive orgone) and negative orgone which he termed DOR (deadly orgone). The POR accumulated within the box, with which he was able to successfully heal patients of various ailments including forms of cancer, simply by the patient sitting inside the box for a length of time. The alternating layers seemed to attract the POR and allow it inside the box whilst keeping any negative DOR from entering.

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Reich began to make a name for himself and attracted the attention of the FDA (federal drug agency) in America where he was conducting his work. Anyone who is ‘awake’ understands that the FDA is and was directed at the highest levels by the same powers that control and own the pharmaceutical companies…naturallythe newest suppliers in our database, any look familiar?

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A delegation of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, arrived Monday for talks with Iranian officials on repairing ties, local media reported.

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Tasnim news agency said the team was led by Hamas political bureau member Mohammed Nasr and included Ossama Hamdan, who is in charge of international relations.

The visit is aimed at clearing the way for a mission by Hamas chief Khaled Mashal, Amir Mousavi, the head of Tehran's Center of Strategic Research, said on the website of Hamas-linked Palestinian daily Al-Ressalah.

The Syrian conflict has strained ties between Hamas and Iran, with the Palestinian faction breaking ties with Damascus while Tehran has remained a strong ally of the regime.

Meshaal, in an interview with AFP in August, acknowledged differences over Syria but said their commonenmity against Israel was a uniting factor.

Iran is reported to provide equipment for Palestinian fighters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a smaller militant group in Gaza, to fire missiles at the Jewish state.

The US reportedly told a panel of eight experts advising a UN Security Council Committee on Iran there was overwhelming evidence Tehran was continuing its transfers of weapons to its proxies an allies.

Earlier this year, the Israeli Navy seized an Iranian shipment of rockets, mortars and other arms that was en route to Gaza via Sudan.

Islamic Jihad chief Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, during a visit to Tehran in October, praised Iran for its role during the Gaza conflict.

The 50-day war between Israel and militants in Gaza that ended on August 26 killed about 2,200 Palestinians, and 73


South Africa’s War on Whites

Some alternative media outlets – but few mainstream commentators – expressed shock and indignation recently concerning the new South African administration’s announced plan to begin wholesale appropriation of land owned by white South Africans. This is unsurprising to anyone with a cursory knowledge of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa or in the postcolonial African world more generally, but evidently there were some who still labored under the delusion that treatment of whites in minority-white countries is anything close to equitable.

South Africa, which careened rapidly towards shithole status under the last few decades of ANC rule, used to be a functional, prosperous first-world country. the ANC has mirrored its cousins across Africa’s post-colonial landscape in being defined by wholesale corruption, inefficiency, and graft. Asthe recent news of Cape Town’s imminent water crisis has shown, the majority government cannot keep up even the most basic and essential components of a modern state.

The most horrendous of South Africa’s failures is the black government’s blatant anti-white hatred, as it refuses to help the British and Boer population of the country who became easy targets after their loss of political power. Attacks on whites are a routine part of life in South Africa, and those who can afford it live in gated communities defended by armed mercenaries to protect themselves from theft, rape, and murder. Those living on rural farms have not fared so well and are often assaulted by armed gangs equipped with military-grade tech, such as signal jammers which block phone and radio


years at the time of the violation." Section 940.32(2m)(e).
¶ 3 Eichorn was convicted of stalking seventeen-year-old Vivian L. According to Vivian L.'s testimony, the stalking happened around 6:25 p.m. in December of 2007 when she was waiting for a bus after having attended a late class at her high school. She told the trial court that Eichorn drove up to the bus stop and, when he was four to five feet away, rolled down his passenger-side window and asked her if he could give her a ride:
He asked me did I want a ride and I pretended like I didn't hear him. I put my MP3 player in my ear and then I was acting like I didn't hear him, and then he kept telling me to getin the car, and once I didn't get in the car, he said F me and he waved his hand and rode off.
According to Vivian L., Eichorn told her five times that he wanted to take her home and asked her whether she wanted a ride "[a]bout three" times. Finally, she yelled at him, "No. Leave me alone." When he testified at the trial, Eichorn said that Vivian L. was "was all by herself" when he approached her at the bus stop.
¶ 4 The bus came shortly after Eichorn drove off, and Vivian L. rode four or five minutes to her stop, from which she was going to walk the two blocks to her aunt's house. She testified that after she got off the bus she saw Eichorn's


interview she continued to be pretty shaken up and pretty scared." The officer added: "When I spoke with her, she was visibly shaken up. She had bouts of some tears. She was scatterbrained. She had a hard time concentrating. She appeared very scared." Vivian L. testified that she dropped the after-school class immediately because of what Eichorn had done.
¶ 6 As noted, Eichorn testified. He told the trial court that he was sixty-six and had never seen Vivian L. before the day she said he stalked her. Although he denied the second encounter with Vivian L., he admitted trying to pick her up at the bus stop:

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Scandals. Recalls. Threats of bans. The diesel engine is a public enemy for many environmental activists and politicians. And yet, when the world's biggest automakers unveil new models at this year's auto show in Frankfurt, among the new electric vehicles and digitally enhanced prototypes there will also be diesel cars.

Judging by the slew of electric and hybrid vehicles being rolled out at the Frankfurt Auto Show, it might seem carmakers are tapping a large and eager market. But in fact almost no one buys such


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A hospital-based multidisciplinary team is demonstrating services for medically fragile infants which facilitate transition from the hospital to the community and home. The team provides education and counseling for communities and families to overcome barriers to services. With individualized case management, the team facilitates family access to the community services they need in infant health, infant development and family functioning. The team plans the infant's discharge from the hospital and collaborates on the initial Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) with the family and local community providers. The initial IFSP details potential outcomes in the areas of infant health, infant development and family functioning for the first year the infant is home. Systematic home visits with the team's nurse or developmentalHistory of the use of ergotamine and dihydroergotamine in migraine from 1906 and onward.
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Author George R. R. Martin is re-releasing his 1980 children's book The Ice Dragon which is set in his A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Finally, a family-friendly way to convince your mom that it's okay to watch Game of Thrones

The Ice Dragon cover by Luis Royo

The book will feature 30 all-new illustrations from acclaimed artist Luis Royo. Yvonne Gilbert provided the illustrations for the original 1980 edition.The Westeros-set children's book follows a story that Old Nan would tell to the Stark children. The story goes a little something like this:"Adara liked the winter best of all, for when the world grew cold the ice dragon came. The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flewoverhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara’s home. And only a winter


child - and the ice dragon who loved her - could save her world from utter destruction."Gaze upon Royo's beautiful wraparound cover (via Tor.com ), which will only be available for the first edition of the re-release:

And here are some additional pages of artwork from the upcoming re-release of The Ice Dragon:

Martin and Royo's The Ice Dragon hits shelves on October 21.

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Indian, Hindu, Bharati

Orientation

Identification. India constitutes the largest part of the subcontinental land mass of South Asia, an area it shares with six other countries, including Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It has highly variable landforms, that range from torrid plains, tropical islands, and a parched desert to the highest mountain range in the world.

Location and Geography. India, on the southern subcontinent of Asia, is bounded on the northwest by Pakistan; on the north by China and Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan; on the northeast by Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar); and on the southwest and southeast by the Indian Ocean, with the island republics of Sri Lanka and the Maldives to the south. Excluding small parts of the country that are currently occupied by Chinese or Pakistani military forces, the


area of the Republic of India is 1,222,237 square miles (3,165,596 square kilometers).

Demography. The 1991 census enumerated 846,302,688 residents, including 407,072,230 women, and 217 million people defined as urban dwellers. However, with a population growth rate estimated at 17 per one thousand in 1998, by May 2000 the national figure reached one billion. Life expectancy in the 1991 census was sixty years, and in 1997 it was estimated that almost 5 percent of the population was age 65 or older. The population is still primarily rural, with 73 percent of the population in 1997 living outside the cities and towns. In 1991, the largest urban centers were Bombay or Mumbai (12,596,243), Calcutta or Kolkata (11,021,915), Delhi (8,419,084), Madras or Chennai (5,421,985), Hyderabad (4,253,759), and Bangalore (4,130,288).

Linguistic Affiliations. Thereare four major language families, each with numerous languages. Indo-Aryan, a branch of Indo-European, covers the northern half of the country, and the Dravidian family covers the southern third. In the middle regions a number of tribal languages of the Munda or Austroasiatic family are spoken. In the northeastern hills, numerous Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken.

Symbolism. The national flag, which was adopted in 1947, is a tricolor of deep saffron, white, and green, in horizontal bands (with green at the bottom). In the center of the white band is a blue wheel, the chakra , which also appears on the lion column-capital of the Emperor Asoka at Sarnath. This carving, which is over 2,200 years old, is also a national emblem that is preserved in the Sarnath Museum. The


sandstone carving features four lions back to back, separated by wheels ( chakra , the wheel of law), standing over a bell-shaped lotus. The whole carving once was surmounted by the wheel of law. The national anthem is a song composed by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911 entitled Jana-gana mana. The nearly useless Saka-era calendar also may be considered a national symbol, adopted in 1957 and still often used officially alongside the Gregorian calendar.

History and Ethnic Relations

Emergence of the Nation. India has a history going back thousands of years and a prehistory going back hundreds of thousands of years. There was a long phase of Paleolithic hunting and gathering cultures parallel in time and characteristics with the Paleolithic peoples of Europe and East Asia. This was followed, eight thousandto ten thousand years ago, by the development of settled agricultural communities in some areas.

In 2700 B.C.E. , the first genuinely urban civilization in the Indus Valley and western India

India

emerged. After its disappearance around 1500 B.C.E. , there was a bewildering variety of princely states and kingdoms, small and large, throughout the subcontinent, creating a long history of war and conquest that was punctuated by foreign invasions and the birth of some of the world's largest religions: Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and Sikhism.

Despite the extent of the Empire of Asoka (272–232 B.C.E. ) and the Mughal Empire (1526–1707), it was left to the last foreign invaders, the British, to establish a unified empire that covered most of the subcontinent during its final century.

India was ruled by the British government


after 1858 through a viceroy and a council, although several hundred "princely states" continued to maintain a measure of independence. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, slowly moved from a position of advisor and critic for the British administration toward demanding the transference of power to native Indian politicians. In 1930, the Indian National Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, adopted a policy of civil disobedience with a view to achieving full national independence. It was to be a long struggle, but independence was achieved in 1947, with the condition that predominantly Muslim areas in the north would form a separate country of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was to be Pakastani's first prime minister, while Nehru became the prime minister of the Republic of India.The departure of the colonial authorities, including the British armed forces, was peaceful, but the splitting off of Pakistan caused a massive population movement and bloodshed on both sides as a result of "communal passions." A quarter century later, the eastern wing of Pakistan split from that country to become the independent country of Bangladesh.

National Identity. National identity is not a major political issue; regional identity and the mother tongue seem to be more important. There are still millions of illiterate people who seem hardly aware that they are Indians but can be vociferous in their support of chauvinistic regional politicians. Thus, India has been plagued with secessionist struggles since independence, the most prominent of which have been a Dravidistan movement in the south, an armed struggle among


Kashmiri Muslims for a union of their state with Pakistan, a Khalistan movement among Panjabi Sikhs, and a guerilla movement seeking independence for all the Naga tribes in the northeast.

Ethnic Relations. India is home to several thousand ethnic groups, tribes, castes, and religions. The castes and subcastes in each region relate to each other through a permanent hierarchical structure, with each caste having its own name, traditional occupation, rank, and distinctive subculture. Tribes usually do not have a caste hierarchy but often have their own internal hierarchical organization. The pastoral and foraging tribes are relatively egalitarian in their internal organization.

India is no stranger to ethnic conflict, especially religious wars. Nevertheless, in most parts of the

Indian shop workers in the main bazaar in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

country there has long beenlocal market towns, roughly one every 20 miles; (3) medieval fortified towns, such as Gwalior; (4) ancient and medieval seaports, such as Bharuch (Broach); (5) military cantonments first set up by the British, such as Pune; (6) modern administrative centers such as New Delhi; (7) new industrial centers, such as Jamshedpur; and (8) great modern metropoles such as Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata).

Architecture developed distinct regional styles that remain apparent. These styles reflect the relative influence of the medieval Tamil kingdoms, Persian and Turkic invaders in the north, Portuguese and British Christianity, and all the distinctive features of the religious monuments of Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, and medieval Hinduism.

The landscape is dotted with over half a million villages, and each region has distinctive forms of domestic architecture and village


layout. Holy places of the various religions are commonly within villages and towns, but the numerous pilgrimage sites are not necessarily located there.

Food and Economy

Food in Daily Life. About half the people eat rice as their staple, while the remainder subsist on wheat, barley, maize, and millet. There are thus major geographic differences in diet. Just as fundamental is the division between those who eat meat and those who are vegetarian. Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and Christians all eat meat, with the important proviso that the first three groups do not consume pork. Lower-caste Hindus eat any meat except beef, whereas members of the higher castes and all Jains are normally vegetarian, with most even avoiding eggs.

Food Customs at Ceremonial Occasions. Every caste, tribe, town, village, and religion hasa panoply of traditional ceremonies that are observed with enthusiasm and wide participation. Most of these ceremonies have a religious basis, and the majority are linked with the deities of Hinduism.

Basic Economy. With a large proportion of the population being located in rural areas (73 percent), farming is the largest source of employment; for hundreds of millions of people, this means subsistence farming on tiny plots of land, whether owned or rented. In most parts of the country, some farmers produce cash crops for sale in urban markets, and in some areas, plantation crops such as tea, coffee, cardamom, and rubber are of great economic importance because they bring in foreign money.

In 1996, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was $380, and the GDP growth rate was


almost 6 percent from 1990 to 1996. In that period, the average annual inflation was 9 percent. In 1994, national debt was 27 percent of GDP. Over the past half century the economy has been expanding slowly but at a steady rate on the basis of a wide range of industries, including mining operations.

Major cities such as Bombay are considered residential creations of British administrators.

The United States has been the principal export market in recent years, receiving 17 percent of exports in 1995 and 1996. Clothing, tea, and computer software are three major categories of exports to the United States.

Land Tenure and Property. In an economy based on agriculture, the ownership of land is the key to survival and power. In most parts of the country, the majorityfor 2500 years.

In modern times, an expanding investment scene, combined with continuing inflation, has formed the background to an extensive import and export trade. The major industries continue to be tourism, clothing, tea, coffee, cotton, and the production of raw materials; in the last few years, there has been a surge in the importance of the computer software industry. Russia, the United States, Germany, and Great Britain are among the major importers of Indian products.

Major Industries. The modern infrastructure was created by the British administration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The country still relies on a vast network of railroad track, some of it electrified. Railroads are a government monopoly. Roadways, many of them unsurfaced, total about 1.25 million miles. The first air service, for postal


delivery, grew into Air India which, along with Indian Airlines, the internal system, was nationalized in 1953. In the 1980s a number of private airlines developed within the country, while international connections are provided by a multitude of foreign companies as well as Air India.

International Trade. The major trading partners are Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Political animosities have long ensured that trade with neighboring South Asian countries remains minimal, although there is now considerable transborder trade with Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan.

Division of Labor. The division of work is based on gender. Age also separates out the very old and the very young as people unable to perform the heaviest tasks. Those jobs are done by millions of adult men and womenwho have nothing to offer but their muscles. Beyond these fundamental divisions, India is unique in having the caste system as the ancient and most basic principle of organization of the society. Each of many hundreds of castes traditionally had one occupation that was its specialty and usually its local monopoly. Only farming and the renouncer's life were open to all.

Social Stratification

Classes and Castes. The caste system is more elaborate than that in any of the other Hindu or Buddhist countries. Society is so fragmented into castes that there can be twenty or thirty distinct castes within a village.

This society has a hierarchy of endogamous, birth-ascribed groups, each of which traditionally is

A family at the Taj Mahal, one of the most famous buildings in the world.

characterized by one


pollution.

A curious feature of the caste system is that despite its origins in the Hindu theory of fate and reincarnation, caste organization is found among Indian Muslims, Jews, and Christians in modern times. In the Buddhist lands of Korea, Japan, and Tibet, there are rudimentary caste systems, their existence signaled especially by the presence of untouchable social categories.

The major cities in modern times—Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai), Calcutta (Kolkata), New Delhi, and Bangalore—were essentially residential creations of the British administrators. Architecturally, professionally, and in other ways, they are therefore the most Westernized cities in India today. In these cities and their suburbs, there is now a developed class system overlying and in many respects displacing the more traditional caste system. As a consequence, there are many modern cases ofintercaste marriage in all the cities, although this practice remains almost unthinkable to the great majority of Indians.

Symbols of Stratification. There are many symbols of class differentiation because each caste tends to have its own persisting subculture. People's location in this stratification system thus can be gauged accurately according to the way they dress, their personal names, the way they speak a local dialect, the deities they worship, who they are willing to eat with publicly, the location of their housing, and especially their occupations. The combination of all these subcultural features can be a sure sign of where individuals and their families are situated in the caste hierarchy.

Political Life

Government. The national system of government is a liberal democratic federal republic, making India the largest democracy in the


world. The country is divided for administrative purposes into twenty–eight linguistically–based states, plus a further seven small "Union Territories" administered directly by the central government in New Delhi, the national capital.

Leadership and Political Officials. The central parliament in New Delhi consists of the House of the People ( Lok Sabha ) and the Council of States ( Rajya Sabha ).

The states all have legislative assemblies ( Vidhan sabha ) and legislative councils ( Vidhan parishad ). Members of parliament and the state legislatures are selected in democratic elections. An exception to this procedure is that the Lok Sabha has two seats reserved for Anglo-Indian members, and of the 4,072 seats in all the state legislative assemblies, 557 have been reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes and afurther 527 for candidates from the Scheduled Tribes. These provisions have ensured that the main minority populations have legislative representation and an interest in pursuing the electoral process. The Lok Sabha recently had sitting members from twenty one different parties. State legislatures also host a multiplicity of political parties.

The head of state is the president, and there is also a vice-president, neither elected by general franchise but instead by an electoral college. The president is aided by a council of ministers, and appoints the prime minister of each government. This prime minister is the leader of the dominant party or of a coalition of prominent parties and has been elected as a member of parliament. The president has the power to dissolve a government and order new elections


or to dismiss a problematic state government and declare "president's rule."

Social Problems and Control. Indians have lived under the rule of law since ancient times. Hindu law was codified over two thousand years ago in the books called Dharmasastras. There is now one legal hierarchy throughout the land, with the Supreme Court at its head. Legal procedure is based on the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which was drafted in the mid-nineteenth century, and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1973. The constitution promulgated in 1950 went further than any other South Asian country has gone in curtailing the influence of traditional legal systems that in practice applied only to the followers of a particular religion, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Parsi.

The huge legal profession helps pushcases slowly through the complex apparatus of magistrates' and higher-level courts, sometimes creating the impression that litigation is a national sport. While fines and imprisonment are the most common punishments, the Supreme Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty.

Military Activity. Five wars with Pakistan and one with China since independence have provided training for several generations of soldiers. India thus has a strong program of national defense, with four national services: the army, navy, air force, and coast guard (since 1978). In 1996, these branches

An Indian shopkeeper with his wares. Small shops still make up a big part of the Indian economy.

had 1,145,000 personnel. In 1998, the nation exploded a nuclear bomb as a test.

Social Welfare and Change Programs

Traditionally the family was responsible for the care


of cooperative societies and charitable endowments, the government does not attempt to control organizations.

Gender Roles and Statuses

Division of Labor by Gender. Gender provides the basis for a fundamental division of the work force, with perhaps only the lowest day-labor jobs and the most modern professions being regularly staffed by people of both genders.

The Relative Status of Women and Men. "Patriarchal" is the word most commonly used to describe the traditional Indian family and the gender relationships within it. This is true in all family systems except the defunct matrilineal system of the Nayar castes in Kerala. Within all branches of Hinduism, priests can only be male, though they may be boys. In Islam, the leaders of a prayer group are males. In Zoroastrianism and Roman Catholicism, only mencan function as priests.

It is said that a woman must first obey her father, then her husband, and then her son; this seems to be the normal pattern as she goes through life. The opinion of the male head of household is especially important in the arrangement of marriages, because in most religious communities these are effectively marriages between two families. At such times, romantic preferences get little consideration. Since it is the male head who typically controls the family's finances, it is he who pays or receives a dowry at the time of a child's marriage. Although older women may be very influential behind the scenes, they wield little legal authority in property and marriage matters.

Marriage, Family, and Kinship

Marriage. Although the different regions and religions have considerable


variety in marital arrangements, the arranged marriage is a traditional feature of virtually every community; today, except among the urban middle classes, it still is widely practiced. Marriages that are not arranged by the couple's parents, often termed "love marriages," are looked down on as impulsive acts of passion. The more usual style of marriage unites a couple who have barely met beforehand. It is through the institution of arranged marriage and its correlate, caste endogamy, that parents exercise control not only over their adult children but also over the social structure and the caste system.

Generally, the country has two main types of marriage: a north Indian one in which the man must not marry a closely related cousin and a south Indian one in which a cross-cousin,whether the mother's brother's daughter or the father's sister's daughter, is the ideal spouse. Many south Indian castes also permit uncle-niece marriage. Maharashtra state has intermediate forms.

Domestic Unit. The residential unit is normally the household, but this unit varies widely in its structure, from housing a large extended family of three or four generations to a household made up of a lone widow. In large buildings with many rooms, it is common to find a number of discrete households, especially in cities; each of these households may be distinguished by its use of a common cooking hearth and perhaps by depending on a common source of funds. In crowded urban conditions, each room may constitute a separate household, as may each small grass hut in a roadside encampment.

Inheritance.


The written will is largely unknown except in modern urban areas. The tradition has always been that sons inherit property and status from their fathers and that daughters can hope to receive a dowry at the time of their marriage. However, there is much local and caste variation in precisely who inherits. In some groups, the oldest son inherits everything and then makes an accommodation for his younger brother and provides his sisters' dowries. In other groups, the brothers may inherit equal shares, except that the youngest brother inherits the house. Other patterns occur, but in general, although modern law states that daughters should inherit equally with their brothers, this almost never happens except in Islamic families.

Kin Groups. The largest kin-based group is the caste, of which thereare several thousand. A caste is an endogamous unit with its own traditional occupation and rank. It is made up of a number of clans, which are also kin-based but are exogamous and often intermarrying units. The clan in turn is made up of smaller and more localized groups called lineages, which are also exogamous. A caste may include hundreds of lineages of varying size and status, depending on how many generations of depth they claim. Major lineages commonly are composed of minor lineages, but the smallest are so localized that they are made up of a number of neighboring and closely related extended or nuclear families. Thus, a caste is endogamous, but all the kin-based units below it are exogamous and follow rigid rules about which clans


or lineages are allowed to inter-marry.

Socialization

Infant Care. Infant care is almost completely the responsibility of mothers, older siblings, and grandmothers. When the mother works in the fields or a factory, a grandmother commonly is the chief provider of daytime care for an infant. After about the age of two, older sisters spend much of their time in this activity.

Child Rearing and Education. In 1995, the government spent over 2 percent of its resources on education. Although the government's goal of eradicating illiteracy among people age fifteen to thirty five by the year 2000 has not been achieved, there has been a steady decrease in illiterary since the late nineteenth century. Among people above age six in 1991, 52 percent were literate, a 9 percent increase from 1981. Keralastate has the highest rates of literacy. However, nationally there remains a great sexual disparity: While 64 percent of men were literate in 1991, only 39 percent of women were. The central government is more interested in military power than in literacy, and millions of rural parents, especially Muslims, feel that the schooling of girls is a waste of time and money. Only the establishment of sixteen as the minimum legal age for marriage has made it possible for many girls to get their parents' reluctant permission to attend school.

While in earlier times missionary-run schools were important, especially in rural areas, in the last century local and state schools have educated the vast majority of students. Over the last half century universal school attendance for eight years, equal