opportunities for female students, relevant vocational training, and improvement in the quality of classes and textbooks have been national goals, with an emphasis on free and compulsory education for everybody from ages six to fourteen. However, there has been a recent growth of privately run schools, many associated with religious organizations, which tend to do a better job but commonly charge fees.

Higher Education. There were 166 universities in 1996, including thirteen central universities which are the oldest, best known, and best funded. The rest are run by state governments or religious foundations. Funding, hiring professors, and setting educational standards in all universities are centralized through the University Grants Commission, which was established in 1956. About a hundred colleges throughout the country have an autonomous status, but others arebranches of major universities within their states. In 1996 there were 6.4 million university students enrolled throughout the country, of whom 5.7 million were undergraduates and 2.2 million were women. There are 418 institutions that grant degrees in engineering and technology and 1,029 that award diplomas.

Adult education programs combat illiteracy, lack of knowledge about family planning, and inadequate understanding of new farming techniques. Such programs tend to be more accessible in urban areas. A major hurdle has been the language of university instruction. The central universities generally teach in English and produce graduates with internationally acceptable credentials, but most of the smaller universities teach in the local (state) language so that their students' skills are not easily transferable even to other parts of the country. The opportunities for


graduate study overseas are much reduced for this category of students, and even the acquisition of up-to-date textbooks can be a problem.

Etiquette

Indians are usually very hospitable even when poor and go to considerable lengths to make a visitor feel comfortable. Women normally adopt a deferential attitude toward men, especially to their husbands and fathers-in-law. All the people tend to show deference to religious figures and government officials.

A woman decorates the streets with vibrantly colored rice powder paintings during a festival in Madurai, India.

Religion

Religious Beliefs. In the 1991 census, 82 percent of the population was enumerated as Hindu. However, 12 percent of Indians are Muslim, a fact that makes this one of the largest Islamic nations in the world. The next largest religious category is Christians, who make upherbal treatments. The oldest of the four systems is still widely followed under the name of Ayurveda , meaning "science of long life". It is highly developed, with its own hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical factories, and medical textbooks. It depends primarily on non invasive herbal treatments. The diagnosis and treatment emphasize a holistic approach. Sidda is a distinct tradition that developed in south India and follows principles of physiology close to those of Ayurveda. Diagnosis depends on a careful reading of the pulse. Treatment is mostly herbal and psychological. A third medical tradition is called Unani. This system came to India with Muslim travelers and was developed under the patronage of the Mughals. It emphasizes holistic diagnosis and treatment, but the theory of human physiology is distinct. All three


of these systems attribute disease to an imbalance between underlying constituents. The fourth and most widely favored system is biomedicine, or scientific medicine. It has been used in the cities for three centuries and is practiced in the best hospitals and training colleges. India has about 140 medical colleges.

Public health is a major concern of every state government because of the continuing incidence of epidemic diseases, high rates of infant mortality, and the need for family planning (usually sterilization) to control the growth of the population.

Secular Celebrations

Public holidays in most states include 1 January (Gregorian New Year), 26 January (Republic Day, when the constitution was adopted), 1 May (International Labor Day), 30 June, and 15 August (Independence Day), 2 October (Gandhi's birthday), 25 December (Christmas), and 31 December(New Year's Eve). Parsi New Year and Telugu New Year, both locally celebrated, fall at different times.

The Arts and Humanities

Support for the Arts. Historically, the arts flourished under the support of two main categories of patron: the larger Hindu temples and the princely rulers of states both small and large. Over the last two centuries, the patronage of British residents and art collectors has become important. In independent India, a national art institute, the Lalit Kala Akademi, promotes the visual arts through lectures, prizes, exhibitions, and publications.

The government supports the Sahitya Akademi, which was set up in 1954 to promote excellence in literature; the National School of Drama (1959); and the Sangeet Natak Akademi (1953), which promotes dance.

Literature. India has some of the earliest literature in the world,


there emerged the second great Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana , which probably took on its final form four centuries later. Both epics incorporated material from extant folklore.

By roughly the third century B.C.E. , the Tripitaka or Three Baskets , the Buddhist canon in the Pali language (closely related to Sanskrit), was fixed. It was soon to become the most influential body of literature in the eastern half of Asia and has remained so to the present day, especially in Chinese and Japanese translations.

In that era the image of the social structure of India was codified by two books. During the late fourth century Kautilya, who is said to have been the prime minister Chanakya, wrote the Arthasastra , a Treatise on the Good , which was rediscovered in1909. Shortly thereafter came the compilation of Manu's Laws (Manusmrti). This treatise on religious law and social obligation described in detail a society, possibly a utopian one, in which there were four caste blocks, the varna , each of which had its own occupation, status, and religious duties. This book continued to exercise an immeasurable influence on Indian society for the next two thousand years and the varna model is still a popular image of Hindu caste society.

Around 150 C.E. , there began in south India the Tamil Sangam, an academy of poets and philosophers that lasted for decades. While its history is shrouded, it set the stage for an outpouring of medieval poetry in Tamil, a Dravidian language. Some of this work was devotional, but much was


secular in its appeal, including the first known work of Indian women writers. The most famous example of this poetry was the Purananuru , an anthology of four hundred poems praising Tamil rulers. Equally important, the Kural was a collection of moral maxims compiled by Tiruvalluvar in perhaps the third and fourth centuries. It has been likened to a Tamil Koran. At about the same time, there was a flowering of Sanskrit drama in the northerly parts of India. In the fourth or fifth century lived the greatest Sanskrit poet, Kalidasa. The best known plays that have survived from this era are Shakuntala and The Little Clay Cart , the former written by Kalidasa and the latter a comedy also perhaps written by him.

During the Middle Ages, scienceand philosophy flourished in Sanskrit texts. Perhaps the best known, if the least scientific, work was the Kama Sutra or a treatise on love by Vatsyayana, who wrote it in a legal style of Sanskrit in about the third century. The Middle Ages witnessed an outpouring of religious and philosophical literature not just in Sanskrit, which was still the prime liturgical and scholarly language, but also in a number of regional languages. Logic, metaphysics, devotional poetry, and commentary developed over the centuries.

In the period 850–1330 there appeared an important new philosophical literature in Karnataka, beginning with the Kavirajamarga. This was Jain

A farmer leans under the burden of a harvest as it is carried to the top of a building in Zanskar Valley, Ladakh.

literature written in the medieval Kannada


language. At the end of the twelfth century Lilavati was written by Nemichandra, the first novel in that language. It was followed by other allegorical novels, as well as Kesiraja's grammar of medieval Kannada.

Around 1020, another Dravidian literature, in Telugu, made its debut with the grammarian Nannaya Bhatta and the poet Nannichoda. At about that time the Malayalam language became differentiated from Tamil. A century later the oldest known manuscript was written in Bengali. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Mukundaraj became the first man to write poetry in Marathi.

Early in the fifteenth century two poets brought Bengali literature into prominence: Chandidas and Vidyapati, with the latter writing in Sanskrit as well as Bengali. Contemporary with them were two Telugu poets, Srinatha and Potana, as well as thebest-loved Hindi poet, Kabir (1440–1518). Kabir wrote in a medieval regional language closely related to Sanskrit. Although Kabir was a low-caste Hindu, he drew inspiration from Sufism and criticized the caste system, ritualism, and idolatry. He was followed in 1540 by the first important Muslim poet of India, Mohamed of Jais who wrote the allegorical poem Padmavat in Hindi. Contemporary with Kabir was one of the greatest of woman poets, the Rajput Mirabai, who wrote in both Hindi and Gujarati. A century before her, Manichand had written an important historical novel in Gujarati.

In 1574 the Hindi version of the Ramayana ,by Tulsidas, appeared it was to be a forerunner of numerous versions of the Ramayana in regional languages.

At that time there was a strong Persian cultural influence in


some parts of the country. One ruler of the Muslim province of Golconda (later Hyderabad) was Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, a poet who wrote in both Persian and Urdu, which was a new form of Hindi containing many Persian words and written in an Arabic script.

In 1604, the Adi Granth , the canonical text of the Sikh religion, was established in Punjabi. Thirty years later there appeared, also in northwestern India, a book in Urdu prose, the Sab Ras of Vajhi. In more southern parts of the subcontinent the middle of the seventeenth century also saw the writing of the Kannada poem Rajasekhara , by Sadakshara Deva, the works of the Gujarati storyteller Premanand (1636–1734), and the influential Marathi poems of Tukaram (1607–1649).

With the arrival of the printingpress in south India, Tamil literature underwent a renaissance. Arunachala Kavirayar wrote The Tragedy of Rama in

India has the largest film industry in the world.

1728, and the Italian Jesuit Beschi wrote the Tamil poem Tembavani in 1724 under the pen name Viramamunivar (it was not published until 1853). Also of interest was the eighteenth century "Indian Pepys" Anandaranga Pillai, a Tamil living in the French colony of Pondicheåry. His lengthy diary has been published in Tamil, French, and English. Another outstanding Tamil poet and bard was Tyagaraja.

In the eighteenth century, there was a further flowering of Urdu poetry by Vali, Hatim, Sauda, Inch'a, and Nazir. By the time of Nazir, the British hegemony in India was well established, and along with it went the spread of regional printing


presses, the opening of the first modern universities, and the increasing influence of European literary forms, especially in the English language. This influence is evident even in writers who published in their native languages. Bengal in particular experienced a great literary and intellectual renaissance in both English and Bengali, including the novels of Bankim Chandra Chatterji and India's first Nobel Prize Winner, the poet and dramatist Rabindranath Tagore. A parallel literary renaissance occurred in Hindi at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the first novels by Premchand. Tamil also began to produce novels with an English influence.

The twentieth century saw a continuation of this modernization, fueled by the ease of publication and the increasing size of the reading public. An unexpected development during that century was theemergence of numerous world-class and prizewinning novelists writing in English, and often not residing in India. Pre-eminent today are the London-based Salman Rushdie, from Bombay, and the Delhi-based Arundati Roy, from Kerala.

Graphic Arts. India has a multiplicity of visual arts extending back over four thousand years. Early painting has not survived, but urban architecture and some small sculptures have. Most of the thousands of stamp seals that have been found are masterpieces of glyphic art, showing the large animals of northwestern India in miniature relief.

The main visual arts arose in the context of religious worship. Sanskrit handbooks still survive stipulating the rules for the production of Hindu religious statues, temples, and paintings. Distinctive regional styles of temple architecture are a feature of the landscape and a clear marker


of the presence of Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity, and Hinduism in each part of the country. Within the Hindu temples there is a great variety of images of the deities, some skilfully carved in stone, some cast in bronze or silver, and some modeled in terra-cotta or wood.

Painting was an ancient accomplishment, although the climate has not been conducive to preservation. One can still see second and third-century wall paintings and monumental Buddhist sculptures in caves in Ajanta (Madhya Pradesh).

Despite Islamic prohibitions on the representation of the human face, painting and drawing flourished under the Moghul emperors. Realistic portraits, historical scenes, and botanical and zoological subjects were evoked with a sensitive line and a subtle pallet of colors during that period.

Painting in oils dates back two centuries, tothe time when the first European portrait painters began to work in India. Today there are many professional graphic artists, some inspired by old Indian traditions and some by modern abstract expressionism. Art schools, public exhibitions, and coffee-table books are the means of reaching their public today, while religious patronage has practically evaporated.

Performance Arts. India has the largest film industry in the world. In 1996, 683 feature films were certified by the Board of Censors. Although television came to even rural India more than twenty years ago, the cinema remains the major popular visual art form. In 1996, India had 12,623 cinemas, with an attendance of ninety to one hundred million weekly. Radios are widespread, primarily as a source of light music, but not as a major source


of information.

The State of the Physical and Social Sciences

India has long had government-sponsored national research organizations for the sciences, including the Archaeological Survey of India (1861), the Botanical Survey of India (1890), the Census of India (1867), the Ethnological Survey of India (1901, later the Anthropological Survey of India, 1946), the Geological Survey of India (1851), the Indian Forestry Service (1865), the Indian Medical Service (1786), the Indian Council of Medical Research (1912), the Indian Meteorological Department (1875), the Linguistic Survey of India, and the Zoological Survey of India. The antecedent of all these institutions was the Survey of India (1832), which did the first scientific mapmaking of the subcontinent. There has been an annual Indian Science Congress, a national conference, which began as the Indian Association forthe Cultivation of Science in 1876.

With independence, an overarching bureaucratic organization came into being, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, as well as an Atomic Energy Commission and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. To avoid centralization of these organizations in and around Delhi and Bombay, regional institutes of technology were set up in a number of large cities. The government also supports four national academies: the Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi, the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore, the National Academy of Science in Allahabad, and the Indian Science Congress Association in Calcutta. Other centrally supported research councils include the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the Indian Council of Historical Research, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,


conducted research on screening for refugee claimants in 2006. During her MSc, she published her work on community-based insurance schemes. She is still practising family medicine in a primary care organization and a community organization.

RP is a physician and holds a PhD in medical care organization from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He was Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine from 1981 to 1992 and Vice Dean of Public Health from 1993 to 1995 for the Faculty of Medicine at University of Montreal. From 1997 to 2001 he was Director of the Health Interdisciplinary Research Group and Deputy Director of the CHUM Research Center. His research interests have more recently focused on the problems of primary care as well as knowledge transfer and disseminationof research results to managers and decision makers. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and has directed more than thirty master's and doctorate students. He was named professor emeritus at University of Montreal in September 2003. The Quebec Population Health Research Network in 2006 awarded him the prize for "distinguished scholar". He is currently consulting physician to the Public Health Department of Montreal and the National Public Health Institute of Quebec.

AP completed in 2010 a bi-disciplinary bachelor's degree in demography-geography at University of Montreal. He works as a research assistant at the Public Heath Department of Montreal since 2006. He collaborates mainly on research concerning the organization of health services.

SP is a family physician who graduated from University of Montreal in 1978. She completed a MSc


in public health at University of Montreal in 2000. She works as consulting physician to the Public Health Department of Montreal since 2005 where she conducts research on organization of primary health care, utilization of services, chronic diseases and preventive medicine. She has published numerous papers on these subjects. She has been practising in public health since 1986. She practised family medicine in a wide range of settings from 1979 to 2001.

MF has been a statistician at the Public health department of Montreal since 1998. He completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1990 at University of Montreal; he completed a MSc degree in measurement and evaluation at University of Montreal in 1994.

JFL is a specialist in Public health and preventive medicine and has a PhD in healthservices research. His research pertains to organisational models of primary care and in the measurement of access to care and performance in health systems. He is currently Chief executive of the Bureau of Health Information, New South Wales, Australia and conjoint professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity of the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has previously held positions in public health in Quebec province, leading assessment of primary care reforms and reporting on the performance of the provincial system.

All members of the PHHSRG (population health and health services research group).


to get on the board with 11:15 remaining in the second when Brent Sonne of Peoria take a low angle shot from the corner on the goal line. The pass deflected off Ads defender Scott Ford’s skate and past goaltender Magnus Hellberg. The second period concluded with the teams tied at one.

Austin Watson scored the game-winner, his 17th goal of the season, on the power play at 11:36 in the third period. Watson tipped a shot into the back of the net after defender Mattias Ekholm took a slapper from the top of the right circle.

With 5:49 seconds remaining in the final period Daniel Bang was tripped on a breakaway receiving a penalty shot against McKenna, but the Rivermen netminder stoned Bang to keep the Ads lead atYou are here:

Harrison Ford to auction Han Solo jacket in aid of epileptic daughter

Harrison Ford will auction off his iconic Han Solo costume to help an American medical center treating his daughter and in finding a cure for epilepsy.

The Star Wars hero has become synonymous with the brown jacket he has donned for the movie franchise, including a leather version he wore for the latest installment – Star Wars: The Force Awakens, reported Vanity Fair.

Now Ford, 73, said the jacket is up for grabs at an upcoming auction, with proceeds going to the New York University’s Langone centre.

“I was wearing it throughout the film,” he said, confirming about the auction. However, he admitted that he would have a difficult task getting it back after one of the doctors


transformed from an empty structure to foodie heaven in downtown. Meanwhile, the Empire Building became the host for the fancy Elyton Hotel.

Similarly, two businessmen are looking to breathe new life into the historic Long-Lewis Hardware building. I can’t wait to see!

Fitz-Thors Engineering

Matt and Arnar on the roof of Hardware Park. What a view! Photo by Nathan Watson for Bham Now.

Matt Fitzgerald and Arnar Thors met at the University of Alabama and quickly became fast friends.

After a couple of years in the engineering industry, Matt and Arnar decided to try something new. In 2007, they started their own firm, Fitz-Thors Engineering. The firm specializes in custom parts for manufacturing and robotics for clients such as Mercedes-Benz, General Electric, Lockheed-Martin, and more.

With a growing company of 30 employees, Matt andArnar began looking for a larger space for their company. In February, they closed on a perfect site – the historic Long-Lewis Hardware building.

Hardware Park

The Long-Lewis Hardware building, then and now.

The Long-Lewis Hardware building, then and now.

Long-Lewis Hardware operated out of the downtown building since 1929. In order to honor the long-lasting hardware company, Matt and Arnar settled on the name Hardware Park.

Hardware Park is just two blocks away from I-65 and a short drive from downtown. The property includes 5 buildings on two city blocks, as well as a nearby parking lot. With 140,000 square feet, the property was more than Fitz-Thors needed. Then, they had the bright idea to share the space.

The concept for Hardware Park. The park will eventually have a rooftop terrace with food


elements in political terms that existed within the old Second International. Their position on the war alone made them the vanguard of, not just the Russian proletariat, but the international proletariat as well. We should also remember that, as we show in our pamphlet 1917, Bolshevism wasn’t just a movement which sprang from the head of one man, it was a political representation of the revolutionary working class and which was forged as a revolutionary party in the struggles of 1917 by responding to the actual class movement. As a result of that experience revolutionaries from many countries looked to them to lead the world revolution. However this was a task which was actually beyond Bolshevism (or anyone else for that matter). The Russian proletariat was a minorityin a backward capitalist country. As all the Bolshevik leaders repeatedly stated in 1917-18 “without a German Revolution we are doomed”. Or as Rosa Luxemburg put it, the question of socialism could only be posed in Russia. It would have to be answered further West. As that answer never came the question became one of survival rather than revolutionary transformation. As we have said many times in the past there was nothing in Marxist theory which prepared an isolated proletarian bastion to deal with this question.

Bolshevik “errors” and the rise of the party dictatorship

Bolshevism was an instrument of the revolution forged in the class struggle but in one sense alone the councilists are right, it was also the agent of the counter-revolution when the class movement was defeated.


that the Bolsheviks went around trying to get more workers to run their own system. In this period real grassroots soviet power expanded. Lenin’s own exhortations in the factories were all along the lines of what he said at the Third Congress of Soviets in January 1918,

... socialism cannot be implemented by a minority, by the Party. It can be implemented only by tens of millions when they have learned to do it for themselves. (1)

However, harsh reality was soon to undermine this early aspiration. In the first place, during the course of the revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Party had welded itself into a disciplined whole to lead the assault on bourgeois power. It was the largest and most all-Russian organisation in Russia by October 1917. However,of supplanting soviet rule. This was not a conscious process but followed a recurrent pattern in every area of life in the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (RSFSR). In the early days Sovnarkom always made sure that the Soviet Executive (VTsIK) got the chance to discuss and reject Sovnarkom plans but in practice this happened less and less often as the revolution was faced with international invasion. The Soviets met less and less often, and the Congress of Soviets which began as quarterly affairs had ceased to be such by 1920. In some ways, even if the form of soviet rule had been more firmly adhered to it would have made little difference. The need to send the most class conscious workers to fight in the Red Army


in the period 1918-20 tore the heart out of properly functioning soviets. The Party was quite rapidly transformed into the real governmental organisation in Russia. Again this was not planned in advance nor was it an immediate reality. The victory of October had led to

an outburst of unfettered discussion and controversy unprecedented in the annals of the Bolshevik Party, and perhaps rare in those of any other. (2)

However, the process of concentration of power within the party had already begun. And with it came the domination of the Party over the organs of the state.

The same men, sharing the same traditions and the same purpose, directed the afairs of party and state; the same incessant crisis and the same uninterrupted pressure of events weighed equally between 1917 and1921 on party and Soviet institutions. The outstanding developments of these years in the machinery of the state - the concentration of central authority in the hands of Sovnarkom at the expense of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets and of VTsIK, and the concentration of authority at the centre at the expense of the local soviets and Congresses of Soviets and their organs - had actually preceded the corresponding developments in the party organisation. For some time the lines of development in party and state ran parallel. Then, by an inevitable process they began to converge and finally, to coincide. This process had been virtually completed by the time of Lenin’s death. (3)

This is the schematic overview and takes in the whole period 19 17-24. However, the pattern


is the same in every area. Even on the issue of the factory committees, whose “suppression” the councilists make so much of, the truth is rather more complicated. It was clear to all that the factory committees were at best patchy in their performance. Workers on the railways who took to housing themselves in rolling stock rather than using it for running the railways for society is perhaps one of the more extreme examples, but the factory committees were also dominated by Bolshevik workers who demanded greater coordination and centralisation. It was they, supported by the Left Communists, who were the main opposition group inside the Party in 1918, who insisted on the setting up of the Supreme Economic Council or VESENKha. Even a left liberal critic ofthe Revolution could write that:

The Council of People’s Commissars took a step in the direction of the Leftist plan, apparently at the behest of the factory-committee leadership, with the creation of the Supreme Economic Council (and the authorisation for similar local councils) in December 1917. The council was initially dominated by Leftists - the first chairman was Ossinsky, and the governing bureau included Bukharin, Lomov and Vladimir Smirnov. Despite the dubious success of the central and local councils in the ensuing months, they represented enough doctrinal momentum to evoke from Lenin a final expression of his 1917 anarchism. He declared to the congress of local economic councils held in May 1918: “The apparatus of the old state is doomed to die; but the apparatus of the type of


our Supreme Economic Council is destined to grow, develop, and become strong, fulfilling al the most important functions of an organised society”. (4)

This, though, was at the end of what the Bolshevik economist L. Kritsman called later “The Heroic Period of the Revolution”. It was a period which ended when the civil war broke out after the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918. From now on the constant drain on the already shattered Russian working class was to further undermine the soviet principle.

Party and class

Again we have to repeat, though, that the degeneration of the revolution was not the result of any preconceived idea about the Party. At the Eighth Party Congress in March 1919 there was no babbling about the Party beingthe same as the class or that the vanguard could make the revolution on its own. On the contrary the relationship of Party and class was seen quite clearly

The Communist party sets as its goal the achievement of decisive influence and complete leadership in all organisations of the workers; in trades unions, in cooperatives, agricultural communes etc. The Communist Party especially tries to carry out its programme and its complete domination in the state organisations of the present time, the Soviets. The Party attempts to guide the activities of the Soviets but not to replace them. (5)

This last line sums it up. The class-wide organs represent the whole class whilst the Party represents only the vanguard. The most advanced workers alone cannot make the revolution since the revolution


Russian Empire were working class. As many of these were all either already in the Party or fighting in the Red Army the scope for new recruits was limited. Despite this, as the Party took on more and more of the functions of operating the system more and more were recruited. Party membership rose from tens of thousands in mid-1917 to 3 millions by 1921 but “bureaucratism” continued to be denounced at Soviet and Party Congresses. And all the way throughout the civil war the soviets were dying as the most class conscious workers were fighting at the front. In 1919 Arthur Ransome still found life in the grassroots functioning of provincial Soviets but returning in 1920 he found that this had all but vanished. (7)

The increasing bureaucratismfrom all sides, Lenin still held out the prospect that it could be reformed as late as 1922. By 1923, partially because he had dimly seen the danger posed by Stalin, he was stating that it did not “enjoy a vestige of authority”, and had joined those, like Trotsky and Preobrazhensky, who were calling for its overthrow.

The Russian Communist Left

Equally disastrous was the decline of the way in which the party and state institutions functioned internally. To some, even amongst the communist left, the term “democratic centralism” has today been discredited. This is only because it has become distorted through the experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (as it later became). Originally, democratic centralism meant a dual process where policy was decided by the party


from the bottom up and then it became incumbent on all members to carry it out. The members still had the right to criticise the policy internally but it remained the policy until a subsequent decision of the whole party rejected it. The long-drawn out debates over the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk show that the principle was still alive and well in 1918. At the Ninth Party Congress in March 1920 an opposition around Sapronov developed taking the title “Democratic Centralists” (or Dekists for short) calling for an end to the growing adoption of one-man management in all spheres of life. Sapronov stated that the supposed basis of the party and soviet organs was democratic centralism but this had been replaced by “vertical centralism”. (8)

He pointedthe party” as the “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Even here there is a gradual process of shifting the meaning of the phrase. When Lenin first defended the idea of the “dictatorship of the party” in 1919 he also said that the party’s ideas can only be carried out in reality by the new body, the soviets but by December 1920 (the very month in which the civil war against the Whites and Allied imperialism was won) he was stating,

... the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be exercised through an organisation embracing the whole of that class, because in all capitalist countries (and not only over here in one of the most backward) the proletariat is still so divided, so degraded and so corrupted... that an organisation taking in


class. In this consists its role of leadership, in this is expressed the dictatorship of the party. (12)

And by 1928, of course, the General Secretary would express the dictatorship of the proletariat. The idea that communism was about the withering away of the state had itself long since withered away. The Communist Left had issued a siren call to warn of the process but in the dangerous situation of 1918-21 they had been ignored. With no world revolution to reverse the situation, a purely Russian solution could not be socialist (and Lenin had never pretended that socialism had even been minimally established in Russia).

However criticism is easy. Less easy is the task of drawing the lessons from this experience. We reject the idea that it was because ofthe ITC) as a commodity-industry analyst, grade GS-11.  After three months he was promoted to GS-12, and the agency considered his performance satisfactory through September 1981.  Thereafter, the ITC believed that the quality of his work was declining.  For the appraisal period October 1, 1981--June 30, 1982, his performance was rated "minimally acceptable."    In November 1982, he received an interim rating of "unacceptable" and he was given 90 days to improve.  Petitioner's supervisor continued to be dissatisfied with his work, but an upper-level supervisor gave him another opportunity to improve by helping him obtain a reassignment to another division in the ITC's Office of Industries.  DePauw agreed to accept a downgrading to grade GS-11.1

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Some ten months after the reassignment, petitioner's


DePauw's superiors filled him in, in detail, as to exactly what was demanded of him.  His immediate supervisor after reassignment (Ms. Hagelin) gave him (in her interim appraisal of February 1984) very specific criticisms and a list of what was expected from him.  She told him that she would be available, at any time during his improvement period, to discuss problems with him and urged him to work closely with her.  During that improvement period, both his first and second level supervisors worked with him.  With the help of his supervisors' criticism and with the further opportunity to consult with them, petitioner should have known his obligations.  The performance standards thus met the statutory criteria.4

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Another assault on the decision below is that therework record subsequent to his transfer to the General Manufacturers Division established that he had displayed a consistently unacceptable level of performance in two of the four critical elements of his position.  The documentation offered in support of those performance standards shows that his work was replete with errors and numerous deficiencies.

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The last of petitioner's complaints is that the arbitrator did not adequately discuss DePauw's actual performance in the light of the elements of the performance standards he was held to have failed to meet.  Although the arbitrator's decision might have been fuller on this precise point, we are satisfied from his entire decision that he canvassed the full record, was aware of the requirements of the performance standards, and understood and accepted the agency's strong


further proceedings. As to the special conditions of probation, we strike those conditions and instruct the trial court to correct the order of probation on remand.
This is the fourth, and on certain conditions the fifth time, Mr. Olvey has received the same special conditions of probation over a three-year period. On February 23, 1988, Mr. Olvey pleaded guilty to burglary of a dwelling and dealing in stolen property. He was placed on three years' probation with an order that is similar to the order on appeal. Thereafter, he violated several of the conditions of his probation. Probation was revoked and he was placed on community control. Again, many of the conditions of community control imposed were the same as the conditions in this appealed order. He violated severaltime the death penalty was sought when the case was a black on white crime. However, if the case was reversed, a white criminal, black victim, the death penalty was sought only 19% of the time. This is a hugely dismaying fact of the death penalty. Not to mention the actual existence of the death penalty itself. But that is a conversation for another day.

Posted by: Jason on November 21, 2004 3:11 AM

Jason wrote: “The Baldus study, the result of an examination of over 2,000 murder cases. The findings were that nearly 70% of the time the death penalty was sought when the case was a black on white crime. However, if the case was reversed, a white criminal, black victim, the death penalty was sought only 19%


(despite holding the record, having once hanged over 50 Dakotas simultaneously) in 1911 after a lengthy botched hanging disgusted everyone.”

I think it was the United States Army, not the State of Minnesota, that hanged those Dakotas. (I believe the history of the Indian wars might provide some instructive precedents for how we handle “unlawful combatants” in the Global War on Terrorism. Band of Indians who might or might not be authorized by a sovereign Indian tribe seem a lot more analogous to al-Qaeda than do the Nazi sabateurs of World War II or Mr. Milligan in the Civil War.)

Posted by: Seamus on November 22, 2004 3:24 PM

Jason wrote:
“All things being equal, there should be no reason for any discrepancy in the percentage of cases in which the death(pictured above) has been claimed for a new piece of artwork created by artist Sheila Gilday to go on display in an interior wall at the Helm studios.

“What an amazing response from Levon’s fans,” O’Brien said. “Thank you and “Keep It Goin!'”

All proceeds go to cover the Midnight Ramble operating expenses, and the studio mortgage. Other donation gifts include T-shirts, and an exclusive digital download of a never-before-heard 2009 performance of “Drown in My Own Tears” by Helm.

Helm launched the Rambles in 2004, after his initial round of chemo treatments, hoping to offset medical expenses. The events quickly become guest-packed house parties, with notable appearances by luminaries like Emmylou Harris, Donald Fagen and Mavis Staples, among many, many others, even as Helm himself saw a third-act career renaissance


at our recent thoughts on Levon Helm. Click through the titles for complete reviews …

GIMME FIVE: CELEBRATING LEVON HELM, CO-FOUNDER AND VOICE OF THE BAND: The loamy voiced, rail-jumping rhythmic center point of the Band, Helm re-emerged in the last decade after an initial diagnosis to reclaim his mantle as yearning storyteller and timeless soul singer. Three straight Grammy awards followed, starting in 2008. Unfortunately, Helm’s third-act triumphs in the studio were matched pace for pace by his illness. Helm, 71, is now said to be in the final stages of his cancer battle. The Arkansas native leaves behind, however, a series of lasting musical statements. Those Grammys helped to underscore Helm’s importance, within the Band and within the broader landscape of American roots music – but itis here, within the songs, that it becomes manifest. Even after all of that, Helm’s signature style remained. His playing was an involving mixture of rhythm and emotion – someone once said he was the only drummer who can make you cry – while his singing remained a wonder of ribald bewilderment, old-time religion and shotgun shack-rattling joy.

LEVON HELM – RAMBLE AT THE RYMAN (2011): We’re reminded again here that Levon Helm was the loamy voiced, rail-jumping rhythmic center point of the Band, its yearning storyteller and gritty soul. Their records were drawn from continuity, bringing in dizzyingly diverse, age-old influences and performed in a chorus as if by brothers. That has always made a treasure hunt out of selecting any individual triumph on their old records. Not


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What percentage of the tunnel project is complete?

Our design-build contract with Seattle Tunnel Partners includes a number of elements. In addition to boring the tunnel and building the highway within it, STP is responsible for building highway ramps and other connections at the north and south ends of the tunnel. They are also constructing buildings at each tunnel portal to house lighting, ventilation and other systems needed to operate the tunnel. Approximately 70 percent of this work has been completed.

Because this figure is specific to our contract with STP, it does not include a number of major elements. Some of these elements, including the projects that replaced the southern mile of the viaduct, are already complete. Others, such as2001 Nisqually earthquake?

Crews successfully completed a project to demolish and replace the southern mile of the viaduct in fall 2012. The remaining mile-long waterfront section of viaduct remains open today due to a number of important safety measures we have taken since the 2001 Nisqually earthquake.

Immediately after the quake, we repaired damaged portions of the viaduct to make it safe and functional. Additionally, vehicles weighing more than 105,500 pounds are prohibited and trucks and buses must travel in the right-hand lane only to limit the number of heavy vehicles on the viaduct in one location at one time. In 2008, we strengthened four viaduct foundations between Columbia Street and Yesler Way that had settled as much as 5 ½ inches since the earthquake.

As discussion about how to replace


this fall.

Here are some shots of the site (taken by our time-lapse cameras), which is located to the west of the Alaskan Way Viaduct between South Jackson and South Main streets. The blue machine in the image on the right is installing one of the wells.

Other significant work is also ongoing, including:

Crane assembly

Two new red cranes are now assembled near the site of the access pit. These cranes will be used to assemble the 2,000-ton modular lift tower that will lift pieces of Bertha from the pit.

Preparing machine parts

In the coming weeks, new and replacement parts for the tunneling machine will continue to arrive from the manufacturing facility in Japan. Many of these pieces are being stored at a warehouse in Seattle until it’s time to install themin the machine. Below is a shot of the outer seal ring being manufactured in Japan earlier this year.

Highway construction in the tunnel

Crews have begun building the structures that will support the roadway inside the tunnel. STP plans to build approximately 450 feet of the structures before tunneling resumes.

In late August, crews building the future north portal of the SR 99 tunnel will close SR 99/Aurora Avenue North near South Lake Union for four days. During this closure, crews will demolish and replace the section of SR 99 that crosses above Broad Street.

To minimize the need for additional closures, separate crews will complete the following work elsewhere along the SR 99 corridor during this time:

Know before you go and have a backup plan
Those who must drive are encouraged


around during the closure.

**UPDATE** As of 3 p.m. Sunday, northbound SR 99 is open from South Atlantic Street to the Western Avenue off-ramp. Northbound SR 99 remains closed from the south end of the Battery Street Tunnel to Valley Street.

Construction at the future north and south portals of the SR 99 tunnel will turn northbound SR 99 through Seattle into a no-go zone this weekend. All lanes of northbound SR 99 will be closed through downtown Seattle from 10 p.m. Friday, June 20 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 23.

Closure details

At 10 p.m. Friday, crews working for Seattle Tunnel Partners will close all lanes of northbound SR 99 between South Spokane Street and the south end of the Battery Street Tunnel. During the closure crews will complete work to99 between South King and South Atlantic streets and the southbound SR 99 off-ramp to South Atlantic Street will close earlier, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 6.

Crews will complete a similar shift of the northbound lanes during the June 20-23 weekend. The shifts will make room for STP to continue construction of lanes and ramps that will connect to the SR 99 tunnel. A fuller description of this work is available here.

Traffic will stay in the new configuration until the tunnel opens to traffic. Drivers should expect initial congestion and delays after each traffic shift as travelers adjust to the new routings. Drivers can help keep traffic moving by keeping an eye on the road and other drivers.

Traffic signals at three intersections on Alaskan Way – South Main


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February 2015: Test machine to ensure it is ready to tunnel beneath downtown.

Late March 2015: Resume tunneling.

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So far, the DNC has awarded the first of 12 sanctioned debates to MSNBC, NBC News and Telemundo (in June) and the second to CNN in July.

Prominent conservatives surveyed at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference are hoping the Democratic National Committee agrees to the "persuasive proposal" Fox News has submitted.

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'Jimmy was dead, when as far as I was concerned, he was still in bed'

On 9 August, 2003, the opening day of the Championship season, Watford's Danny Webber woke to the news that his close friend and team-mate Jimmy Davis had been killed in a car crash . Davis, an England Under-21 winger, had just signed on loan from Manchester United. Approaching the 10th anniversary, Webber recalls the tragedy and pays tribute to his friend.

Bubbly. That's the first word that comes to mind whenever I think of Jimmy. He was the best kind of person: someone


who was always great fun to be around. He was a good footballer, too; a hard worker with a lot of flair, and on the field we had an understanding.

We'd played together at Manchester United for years and probably from 13 or 14, we just understood each other.

We played well together and when Jimmy joined Watford on loan I'd just completed a permanent move there from United, so there was a real buzz around the place that the pair of us would be unstoppable in the Championship.

The night before the first game of the season, we ate together at Jimmy's hotel. He'd picked up an injury – a minor one, but enough to keep him out of the game the next day.

We were finished by 9pm and hetransfer from United.

I'll always remember the horrible feeling I got in my stomach as I pulled into the car park.

As soon as I pulled in, I saw the manager Ray Lewington's car, Terry's car and two police cars, and I immediately thought: "Oh my God, what have I done?" The feeling in my stomach wouldn't go away. They told me Jimmy's car had been in an accident overnight.

They explained that the only way they could identify it as Jimmy's car was because they had found the number plate up a nearby embankment.

They knew I'd seen him in the hotel and asked if there was any way someone else could have been driving his car. But Jim was always really precious about his car. Young lads in football often


I phoned my family to let them know I was OK and that the game wasn't going ahead. Then the other Watford players started turning up. We were playing Coventry, the first game of the season. I had to put on some sunglasses because my eyes were blood red. When Ray and Terry were telling the players, it broke the dressing room. Maybe 80% of the players were in tears. It was really hard for everyone to process.

No word of a lie, it must have taken Jimmy an hour to bed into that squad at Watford.

Everyone loved him because of the kind of lad he was. The initiation for every new arrival at the club was to sing a song, and Jim had sung Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio.feel like you're invincible, you really do. Jimmy's death was borne of the desire to go to see his family, who mattered more to him than anything else in the world, but the manner of what happened was difficult to take in. It still is. In the space of seeing him 12 hours earlier, he was gone. It makes you realise how fragile life is and that you can't take anybody for granted.


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Cheeki Rafiki deaths: Father relives yacht search Published duration 12 June 2017

image copyright Handout image caption Yachting crew members James Male, Andrew Bridge, Steve Warren and Paul Goslin all died

The father of one of four men who died when a yacht capsized in the Atlantic has described to a court the moment he learnt his son was lost at sea.

James Male and crewmates Andrew Bridge, Steve Warren and Paul Goslin died when the Cheeki Rafiki capsized in May 2014.

Graham Male described the discovery of the yacht and life raft as "harrowing".

Yacht manager Douglas Innes, who is accused of failing to get the vessel checked, denies four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Mr Innes, 42, of Whitworth Crescent, Southampton, and his company, Stormforce Coaching, both deny failing to operatethe yacht in a safe manner.

Winchester Crown Court heard James Male had been an unpaid intern for Stormforce Coaching and had flown to Antigua to crew the yacht before sailing it back to Southampton.

image copyright US Navy/Reuters image caption The overturned hull of the Cheeki Rafiki after it was discovered by a US Navy warship east of Cape Cod

His father said Mr Innes telephoned to say the boat was in difficulty but appeared "perfectly calm" and said "there was no panic on board".

When the yacht was found, Mr Male was sent a photograph of the upturned vessel with the life raft intact.

He said: "It was surreal, just seeing that life raft, I just couldn't believe it. I remember saying, I have seen enough. It was harrowing...

"I knew as


soon as I saw that life raft in there."

Mr Male said he had concerns over Stormforce Coaching's equipment in the UK because his son used a "multi-tool" for work.

He said he had paid for his son's flight to Antigua.

Skipper Mr Bridge, 22, from Farnham, Surrey, Mr Male, 22, from Romsey, Hampshire, Mr Warren, 52, from Bridgwater, Somerset, and Mr Goslin, 56, from West Camel, Somerset, died after the yacht lost its keel 700 miles off Nova Scotia, Canada.

The court previously heard several bolts had failed.

The trial continues.

image copyright PA image caption Douglas Innes denies four counts of manslaughter by gross negligenceThe two girls have been missing since December 1999. They were 16 at the time and stayed the night at Freeman's home to celebrate her birthday. The next day, Danny and Kathy Freeman were found inside the burned out home. Investigators determined they were shot to death before the home was set on fire. The two girls were nowhere to be found.


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Organisers however vowed to press ahead with the Trans Pride March, planned for Sunday afternoon, despite the ban.

The Istanbul governor's office said in a statement the march could not take place because the venue for the event -- the central Taksim Square -- was not suitable and because the office had not received a proper application for permission to hold the march.

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City officials also urged citizens to ignore callsactivists.

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Queens Park Crescents came from behind to beat Totternhoe Reserves 2-1 to retain the Centenary Cup and complete a 2016-17 season league and cup double at Cranfield United .

In front of a 200-strong crowd the Crescents were the quickest out of the blocks and with just six minutes play a dazzling run from inside his own half by Ayaz Hussain saw him shoot just wide of the post.

However within three minutes they were trailing, Crescents goalkeeper Piotr Karpuk making a right hash of a ball pumped high into his six yard box that allow the Totts’ Jack Lauder to head home on the back post.

It was now end to end stuff with the best chance of an equaliser coming just five minutes from the break when, followinga sweeping move involving a quartet of players, Shahinur Rahman fluffed his lines with an open goal begging.

The game changing moment was to arrive 24 minutes into the second period when earlier hero Launder was forced to use his hands on the goalline to keep out a goalbound equaliser. Following his red card dismissal by referee Jack Giles up stepped the Crescents’ Daniel Rasol to tuck away the penalty.

Crescents with the one man advantage were now gaining the upper hand and duly took the lead via Shazed Satter 15 minutes from time.

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Rilie Ray Morgan has formed a committee and is preparing to submit an initiative to the Secretary of State's Office, with the expectation that it would make the 2016 general election ballot.

Despite the failure this year of House Bill 1430, which would have legalized and regulated medical cannabis, Morgan says he is optimistic that a majority of North Dakotans will support legalization.

"This is a good opportunity to let the people's voices of North Dakota be heard. The Republican-led House and Senate are obviously awfully conservative" and do not reflect popular sentiment, said Morgan, a 64-year-old financial planner.

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Riske, who is on the North Dakota Committee for Medical Marijuana with Morgan, said he regrets refusing to get marijuana for a friend who was suffering from a severe illness.

"I was afraid to," said Riske, whose friend was undergoing chemotherapy and died quickly. "I didn't want my name out there doing something like that. And now I feel like I was a chicken."

Now Riske is advocating for legalization, based on his philosophy that "prohibition is really harming the country, and we found that out with the prohibition of alcohol."

Morgan says he is still working on the details of the initiative, which may look similar to the bill that failed in a 26-67 vote in the House in February.

Testimony on the bill included parents talking about how theyWith the Sureness of Sleepwalking (2005)

One of the most overlooked hardcore releases of last year was definitely the debut full-length from Lawrence, KS's the Esoteric, With the Sureness of Sleepwalking. Coming from a city notable for producing math metal pioneers Coalesce, which this band boasts ex-members of, and the fact that this album was produced by Ed Rose, signals should be set off about the nature of the music. Still, don't mistake these guys for another in the ever-growing wave of imitators.

As previously hinted, much of this band's sound can be traced through scene notables Botch and Coalesce, but even that is pigeon-holing their sound. While many in this style attempt to get as many different riffs, start and stops etc. as possible into each song, the Esoteric


take another path. Using subtle electronics and other ambient effects, they attempt to create a dynamic, akin to mid-era Cave In with much success, never losing themselves in a song. Oftentimes these are used in conjunction with each other as in the two instrumental interludes, "Unavoidable Conclusion" and "To Keep Truth to Oneself." Also of note is the strong vocals of Steve Cruz, who forgoes growling for a visceral, yet still intelligible scream.

Standouts on the album include the opener, "Disappearing," which comes out with jackhammer drumming and raging guitars, and "Until the Grave Gives Up the Ghost," one of the final tracks and one of the more "mathy" on the album.

While these days the mere mention of Botch or Coalesce as an influence causes hesitation, the Esoteric avoidfor a predetermined amount of time before re-trying the transmission. In such a manner, the integrity of the transmitted data is preserved.
The CSMA/CD technique is employed by a LAN protocol known as Ethernet, which was developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. Ethernet uses a bus/ring topology and originally served as the basis for IEEE 802.3, a standard which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Ethernet technology is by far the most predominant networking protocol in use today, accounting for some 80% of all installed network connections by year-end 1996. All popular operating systems and applications are Ethernet-compatible, as are upper-layer protocol stacks such as TCP/IP (UNIX, Windows, Windows 95), IPX (Novell NetWare), NetBEUI (for LAN manager and Windows NT networks) and


The Baltimore riots, which began after the funeral of Freddie Gray, the young man who died of spinal cord injuries following his arrest, has highlighted the reality of the long-lived police brutality towards members within the African-American community. On April 12, Baltimore officers arrested Gray under suspicion of criminal activity, caused by his immediate reaction of running in the opposite direction of the officers when he became aware of their presence. According to authorities, the Baltimore officers purposely failed to properly fasten Gray’s buckle when they put him in the back of the van used to transport him after his arrest. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts confirmed having knowledge that employees of the department failed multiple times to provide Gray with medical attention in a timely manner. Police,for the Tulsa sheriff. The incident occurred during a sting operation in which Harris took off running, only for multiple officers to catch up to him, tackle him to the ground and then deliver the fatal gunshot to his back. Investigations found that the Tulsa County Sheriff’s office tried hiding the fact that Bates was not given any police officer training, and when sheriff office employees raised questions about Bates’ violations, they were told to keep their mouths closed.

On April 4, in Charleston, North Carolina, officer Michael Slager shot Walter Scott five times in the back while he was slowly running away. Video recordings showed that after Slager fired his fatal shots, the very unconcerned officer approached the dying victim, who laid unresponsive and face down in the


damage their character, as if their history validates the brutality they received.

It is about time that law enforcement be held accountable for their use of unnecessary and excessive force against people of color. The Baltimore riots have highlighted the reality of the long-lived police brutality towards members of the African-American community, and it is unfortunate that it took so long for people to finally take notice of the facts. It is not right that African-American people have to fear for their lives due to the extent of the racial profiling that saturates the minds of these enforcers of the law. These recently-proven wrongs committed by Baltimore police and other law enforcement officers around the U.S. have thoroughly damaged the idea that they are here to serve and protect.an NHL game with that many shots in which only one goal was scored was back on January 12, 2010, when the Rangers and Devils combined for 96 shots before Patrik Elias finally won the game for New Jersey in the eighth round of the shootout.

"What you saw tonight was two goaltenders at the top of their game," coach Alain Vigneault marveled.

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DETROIT– The Detroit Red Wings will host a canned food drive to assist in the fight against hunger with Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan. The canned food drive will take place during the team’s home game on Saturday, Jan. 18, when the Wings take on the Los Angeles Kings at 7:00 p.m. (FOX


and that the player in question probably won't return this weekend but it's sure going to garner headlines, per TSN and RedWingsFeed:

The Detroit Red Wings placed forward Pavel Datsyuk on injured reserve prior to Thursday's game against the New York Rangers.

Datsyuk will miss a fifth straight game on Thursday for what the team termed a lower-body injury. The three-time Selke Trophy recipient also sat out seven consecutive contests earlier this season after sustaining a concussion on Nov. 23.

Recently named captain of Russia's men's ice hockey team at the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics, Datsyuk leads Detroit with 15 goals this season and ranks second on the team with 32 points.

The Red Wings recalled center Cory Emmerton from Grand Rapids of the AHL in a corresponding move.

Grand Rapids Griffins players,12th annual Great Skate, a 24-hour skating marathon with Griffins players that runs from 10 p.m. on Saturday until 10 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to the Great Skate Winterfest is free, although donations are encouraged and fees apply to skating ($2 per person) and carriage rides ($5 per person).

Jurco has been great in his second AHL campaign, earning a brief call-up to the Wings earlier this season. He's a sensational puck handler who can make a ton of plays in the offensive end of the rink. Jurco needed time to adjust to the QMJHL level before he elevated his game, and after a bumpy first pro AHL season he looks to be turning the corner again.

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Feb 5, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Memphis Grizzlies guard Mario Chalmers (6) reacts against the New York Knicks during the second half at Madison Square Garden. The Grizzlies defeated the Knicks 91-85. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Washington Wizards: John Wall and Bradley Beal Need Each Other To Succeed

Washington Wizards: John Wall and Bradley Beal Need Each Other To Succeed by Ben Mehic

Washington Wizards starting point guard, John Wall, might miss the beginning of the season. Mario Chalmers could prove to be a valuable signing.

When John Wall missed the beginning of the 2012-13 NBA season, the Washington Wizards immediately sunk to the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

The Wizards hoped that Bradley Beal, a rookie at the time, and A.J. Price would do enough to keep the teamscared teams away.

Lawson has played for the Nuggets, Houston Rockets and Indiana Pacers in about a year.

Mario Chalmers is someone who doesn’t have issues in the locker room or away front the court, but he is coming off a serious achilles injury.

As an NBA champion and steady contributor for the dominant LeBron James led Miami Heat teams, Chalmers had cemented a spot in the league prior to getting hurt with the Memphis Grizzlies this past season.

Averaging over 17 points per-36 minutes last season, Chalmers was having the best individual stretch of his career before getting sidelined.

Teams that could have used a backup point guard, like the Washington Wizards, would have certainly been all over Chalmers if he didn’t get hurt. Instead, the severity of his injury has created


Tuesday, February 28, 2017

BRENDAN DETZNER: CEO OF BAD GRAMMAR THEATER 5+ YEARS STRONG

Brendan is one of the most productive writers in Chicago today. He started Bad Grammar Theater when he lived in this weird space pod in the 1700 block of South Halsted. The Pilsen neighborhood of abandoned factories. You go under the 16th Street viaduct and you are in University Village. When I went to UIC in the early 80s, it was still shady storefronts and the Maxwell Street markets. So for a time, after Brendan removed to [REDACTED BY JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR], the readings were held at Powell's bookstore on Roosevelt and Halsted, which back in the day was home to seedy lawyers, doctors who performed electrolysis, and more hideous [REDACTED BY JAMES COMEY, FBIDIRECTOR] Then the store went and started closing at 6PM. Not to be deterred, Brendan found a place that was close to the Blue Line and the Orange Line, even the Red Line.

The Forte Framing Gallery just off North and Western. Run by Jude Mire and his wife, the painter Jill Cooper, Jude and Jill have now gone on to Nova Scotia, leaving their business running smoothly by their daughter Jessica. And so it is that once a month, people come to read and drink and eat, then say goodby for the next thirty or so days. So check out Brendan's newest novel, THE WHITE RABBIT SOCIETY. (By that, I mean buy a copy.)


body portion to the lower surface of the body portion. The continuous surface extends from a first opening of the passage at the upper surface of the body portion inward towards the axis of the passage, and then further extends away from the axis of the passage towards a second opening of the passage at the lower surface of the body portion. In such a manner, the passage surface is of a venturi configuration.
In yet further embodiments of the device, the body portion includes at least two passage surfaces with each passage surface defining a passage about an axis from the upper surface of the body portion to the lower surface of the body portion. With at least two passages, each passage may have an axis which isparallel to an axis of another passage or have an axis which is at an angle relative to an axis of another passage. Further, the channels of one passage may be at an angle that is counter to an angle of the channels of another passage, e.g., clockwise and counterclockwise.
In yet a further embodiment of the device, the body portion defines a first opening of the passage at the upper surface of the body portion and a second opening of the passage at the lower surface of the body portion. The first and second openings are of a different size.
Another device for use in an intake path of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes a body portion having an upper surface and a lower


surface. The body portion further includes at least one passage surface defining a passage about an axis from the upper surface to the lower surface. The passage surface defining the passage is a continuous surface from the upper surface of the body portion to the lower surface of the body portion. The continuous surface extends from a first opening of the passage at the upper surface of the body portion inward towards the axis of the passage, and then further extends away from the axis of the passage towards a second opening of the passage at the lower surface of the body portion.
In one embodiment of the device, the continuous surface is closest to the axis of the passage at a position substantially equidistant between the lower surfaceand the upper surface of the body portion.
In yet another embodiment of the device, the passage surface defines a plurality of channels about the axis of the passage with each channel extending from a channel opening in the upper surface to a channel opening in the lower surface. At least a portion of each channel is at an angle relative to the axis of the passage.


A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker who went on a rampage on a Bavarian train with an ax and a knife appears to have acted alone, goaded on by online Islamic extremist propaganda, Germany's top security official said Wednesday.

Five people were wounded in the attack, including four members of a Hong Kong family, and two of the wounded remain in critical condition.

"It is not yet clear if they will all survive," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack and although German authorities say they have found no direct link to the extremists, an IS flag was found among the attacker's possessions and he refers to himself as a "soldier of the Islamic State" in a video posted by thegroup. The suspect's name has not been released by authorities.

De Maiziere said it was not yet clear when the video was made, but confirmed that investigators had determined it was authentic, even if it probably was not produced by IS. It shows the young man waving a knife as he talks into the camera.

"It appears to be a classic farewell video of a suicide attacker," de Maiziere said.

Still, he said it was difficult to say whether to consider the train attack an act of terrorism or an attack by a disturbed individual.

"It might be an incident on the thin line between killing spree and terror," de Maiziere said.

In the video, the suspect urges others to commit attacks.

"If you can't come to Iraq and Syria, the least you can


do is kill these infidels in the countries that you live in," he says.

In the video, the suspect speaks in Pashto, one of Afghanistan's main languages. He has an eastern accent similar to that of Pakistanis who speak Pashto, leading to speculation that he may have lied about his homeland when he came to Germany last year as an unaccompanied minor asylum-seeker to increase his chances of being allowed to stay.

De Maiziere said authorities were looking into the possibility that he might have been from Pakistan, but other evidence suggest his being from Afghanistan, including comments he made about a friend in Afghanistan having recently been killed -- something authorities think may have prompted him to plan his attack.

German authorities also have statements about family from Afghanistan onMUST CITE EITHER
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Council Bluffs police are releasing details of a weekend incident during which an elderly woman and her dog were attacked by a pit bull — and the attacking animal was killed by a passer-by.

Seventy-seven-year-old Ann Lyon says she was walking her dog Sunday afternoon when the pit bull lunged on her pet. Lyon says a man who was driving by saw what happened and came to her aid.

Lyon says, "This gentleman took him by the collar and tried to subdue him and it wouldn’t quit. He was hitting it with his fists and it still wouldn’t quit." Police say the man pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed the attacking dog to make it let go. The pit bull later died.


Lyon says she was doing her best to protect her own dog from the vicious animal by covering it with her body. She says she didn’t see the attack coming.

"That dog came out of no where," Lyon says. "He knocked us both down before I knew what was happening." There is a pit bull ban in Council Bluffs but officers say the dog had all of its paperwork and was "legal" as it had been grandfathered in. No charges were filed against anyone involved.

Lyon is recovering from her injuries. She says her only regret is that she didn’t get to thank the man who possibly saved her life.Elizabeth Albanese, a correspondent for a little trade paper called The Bond Buyer, won ten Katies in the past three years while she was Press Club president. Last year she won in the large newspaper category for “best investigative reporting,” beating out all of the big papers. The Bond Buyer is aimed for the municipal bond business and has a circulation of about 3,600.

Albanese (she lives in Trophy Club – weird, no?) has had a history of theft and forgery convictions and some mental illness troubles, according to The Dallas Morning News. But the biggest problem is that no one seemed to think it a problem that the president of the organization giving out these awards to journalists and PR professionals in six states had any conflict in


BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state media reported that the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State struck Syrian army positions in eastern Syria early on Thursday, but the U.S. military denied knowledge of it.

Islamic State lost most of its territory in Syria last year, but retained some remote desert areas and has attacked the army and allied forces in recent weeks. The coalition also recently restarted its own campaign against the jihadist group in Syria.

“Some of our military sites between Albu Kamal and Humeima were exposed at dawn today to aggression launched by U.S. coalition jets,” state news agency SANA reported, citing a military source.

The strikes caused only material damage and came within 24 hours of an Islamic State attack on Syrian army positions in the same region, SANA reported.

AShi’ite militias including Hezbollah, operated mostly on the west side of the Euphrates river.

A rival campaign by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, mostly took territory on the east side of the river.

A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported on Thursday that Islamic State militants had been fighting pro-Syrian government forces to the west of the Euphrates, and the SDF to its east, on Wednesday night.

It reported that Thursday’s strikes had killed some members of a foreign militia supporting the Syrian government.

Communication between Russia and the United States averted most clashes between them. However, the coalition has struck pro-Syrian government forces that it said were attempting to attack coalition positions.

The U.S. military operating outside the


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Imagine Fulbright: The adventures of Paige Whitney ’17 in South Korea

Paige in Gamcheon Cultural Village, BusanPaige Whitney ’17, who graduated with a major in English and minors in Theatre and Japanese, recently began her position as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Seocheon, South Korea. She teaches high school-aged students at a boarding school, fulfilling the Fulbright Fellowship mission of educational exchange and cultural ambassadorship. As a Carthage student, the Albany, Illinois native visited both Italy and China through J-Term study tours, which inspired a love of travel and learning about other cultures. She was also a service fellow for the English Department, a member of the Women’s Ensemble, and acted in two Carthage productions.

Paige enjoys time with her host family in Bonghwa villagePaige loves her teachingher classes are energetic and always keep her laughing. She even has inside jokes and special greetings for many of her students. Having enjoyed Korean pop music since middle school, Paige finds that she can bond with her students over a common musical taste.

As she settles into her ETA role in Korea, she has big things planned for the future, including more formal Korean language study, and several more years of teaching overseas. Eventually, she plans to attend graduate school and become a professor. Paige’s success is no surprise to her professors. “At Carthage, Paige clearly had a gift for language and a boundless curiosity that helped her win the Fulbright fellowship,” says English professor Alyson Kiesel. “Now, her Fulbright years will help her develop those existing gifts


Faculty member's award-winning films set for screenings in Oregon and New York

Pearl Gluck's films "The Turn Out" and "Summer," already award winners at various festivals, will screen in Portland, Oregon, and New York City, respectively, in the next week.Image: Amy Pauszek

Faculty member's award-winning films set for screenings in Oregon and New York

October 25, 2018

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Two award-winning films directed and produced by a Penn State faculty member, Pearl Gluck, will screen at festivals in Oregon and New York City in the next week.

“The Turn Out,” a feature film about child endangerment and human trafficking, especially as they relate to the opioid crisis in the United States, will screen at 2 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Comcast NBCUniversal Portland Film Festival in Oregon.

Among its many accolades, “TheTurn Out” won as Best Debut Feature at Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival and earned the Critic’s Choice Award at the Iowa International Film Festival.

Although a fictional work, “The Turn Out” relied on the stories and support of survivors of human trafficking. In addition, Gluck, an assistant professor of film-video in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, works with local activists when she travels to festivals.

“One of the main characters in the film is Crowbar, a long-distance trucker who discovers a teenager is being trafficked as his local truck stop in southern Appalachia,” said Gluck. “He then faces a decision — should he get involved in helping her?”

The second film, a short titled “Summer” that focuses on two Hasidic teenagers who struggle to remain committed to their


faith, will screen Oct. 27 and 28 at the 30th annual NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival in New York City.

Gluck directed both films, working with professional actors while regularly engaging Penn State students in the production process.

“It’s a ‘pro-am’ approach,” Gluck said. “Students, working with industry professionals, are involved in getting the films completed, edited and distributed. My hope is that the hands-on experience as well as the networking will help them build their own careers.”

Gluck will attend the screenings and lead question-and-answer sessions after the films. She said she is committed to providing opportunities for students. Her next film, a short titled “Castles in the Sky," was shot with students on set in New York City this summer.acoustic and glass electric violins for corporate events, weddings, dinners, concerts, proposals and much more. He plays well over a thousand tunes from memory and also has a large repertoire of sheet music. He'll even put on an unforgettable choreographed show with 2 breakdancers.
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