one side and great
astonishment on the other, until they came to the modest inn where
Robert had left his bundle. The child in his new friend, the old
soldier, who justified the name, made a frugal repast, and continue
{651} their journey. On the way Robert related the history of the
twelve years he had passed on his cherished mountain with his beloved
mother, which simple recital gained him the lasting friendship of his
companion, whom Robert looked upon as a friend provided for him by
that kind Providence who watches over orphans. He bore the fatigue of
the journey well, and was in perfect health when they reached that
magnificent chaos called Paris. The old soldier is, then, the second
friend that God has given our little hero. And how strange it was that
these two were isolatedday,  but several if
necessary." Nicholas V. then wrote an order suspending the execution,
and gave it to Beato, who full of joy, asked permission to retire
without finishing his repast. He obtained it, and in haste quitted the
Vatican. After passing the bridge of St. Angelo, he was strongly
tempted to stop at the prison of Tor di Nona; but he considered his
duty to his convent, where doubtless his absence from dinner had
occasioned surprise. When he entered the cloister of Santa Maria sopra
Minerva, the brothers had left the refectory, so the prior exacted of
the dilatory monk a penance, which consisted of eating his dinner in a
kneeling posture. The Beato, without saying a word to excuse himself,
knelt down and simply made a sign he would rather not eat. The prior
then ordered him


journal and letters exhibit the curious
change through which he passed in turning from the fair Utopian dreams
of Lamennais to the work-day experiences of an unsuccessful author.

  [Footnote 198: See article in THE CATHOLIC WORLD of June, 1866,
  entitled: Two Pictures of Life in France before 1848.]

To do this fully we must retrace our steps to Le Val, the asylum
thrown open to him by Hippolyte de la Morvonnais when he left
Ploermel. Guerin's record of that peaceful sojourn in Brittany is as
distinct from our popular ideas of French life as Eugenie's sketches
of Rayssac and Le Cayla. The brother and sister have successfully
proved that all Frenchmen are not deceitful and unbelieving, nor all
Frenchwomen vain and perfidious. Surely no young man in any country
ever met with influences more sound andwhen the waves that had poured it forth gave place to
another. I believe it is from the deep, grave tone of the advancing
wave as it unfurls itself, and from the shrill, pebbly sound of the
retreating wave, gritting against the shells and sand, that the
marvellous voice of the sea is created. But why dissect such music? I
could say nothing worth hearing on the subject, for I am no adept at
analysis, so we'll go back to sentiment.

The shadows thickened around us, but we never thought of going away,
for as the earth grew still, and the night unveiled its mysteries,
grander grew the harmony of the sea. Like those statues set on
promontories by the ancients, we stood immovable, fascinated and spell
bound by the beauty of the ocean and the night, giving no


remains, but a capital one; and that is
the difficulty of using the fragments of time that are left to me
after using the larger portions for studies that are to raise me above
my present condition. How to make the cares of self-subsistence agree
with these exacting labors seems to me an insoluble problem in Paris.
But time is so fertile in good advice, and sometimes unties knots so
easily that would have defied a sword, that I await its solution in
patience. You wish me to compose, to unveil the gifts which you think
I possess. My friend, why interrupt the course of a wise resolution
and mar a work that is so slow of formation and so costly? Let the
waters flow in their natural hidden course, following their tranquil
destinies in a narrow, nameless bed.started
for Syracuse, so as to arrive there before the great heat of the day,
and also in time for mass. A long marshy plain occupied the whole of
the first stage; after which the road wound through limestone rocks
and rich cultivation, till they reached the picturesque village of
Lentini. The lake of Lentini is the largest in Sicily, famous for its
wild fowl, but also for its malaria. There is a beautiful view of the
little town, with its wooded cliffs and deep ravines, from the
Capuchin convent above. The scenery increases in beauty as you
approach Syracuse, the road descending into deep glens full of ilex,
myrtle, oleander, and a variety of aromatic shrubs, and rising again
over rocky hills scented with thyme and every kind of wild flower.
From hence comes the delicious Hybla honey, which


Pass of Duleek would allow, and their defeated but not
dispirited foemen marching wearily in the summer night toward Dublin.
James accompanied by Sarsfield's horse was already far in the van, and
in due time he reached the castle. We can scarcely fancy a more false
or uncomfortable position than that in which James now stood, when,
calling together his council, the lord mayor, and other notables, he
addressed them for the last time. An ill-disposed historian might have
invented this speech for him if no memory of the one really delivered
had survived. "My dear and loyal Irish subjects, I believe I ought not
to have risked the disastrous battle of yesterday against the advice
of my judicious officers. After the fighting was determined on, I
unhappily did much to discourage the undisciplined fellows who so well
exhibited theirsome were perhaps
more worthy of the name of hero than Redmond O'Hanlon or Rob Roy. They
were contemporaries of his, and were directing their chief energies to
bring his master's rule in Ireland to an end. So it was against nature
that he could see in them anything but "thieves, robbers, tories, and
bogg-trotters."

The most distinguished of the heads of these free companies was
Anthony O'Carroll, named _Fadh_ from his great height. After the first
siege of Limerick he fixed his head-quarters at Nenagh, and
_discomforted_ the English and their allies from that period to the
beginning of the second siege. Though he or any of his followers if
taken prisoners would be hung according to the laws of war, without
mercy, he observed a different demeanor to his captives. Those who had
money ransomed themselves; others were kept


to confide; he is brought to invoke
through it all the graces of which he stands in need. All this is done
every time that he makes the sign of the cross, pronouncing the
blessed words, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost."

While many of your learned expounders of scripture are comparing text
with text on these subjects, trying to remove, but scarcely removing
the doubts which they know to exist among their hearers, which they
feel, perhaps, rising up in their own breasts, or what is worse while
they are proposing theories in a Christian pulpit which make nought
the cross of Christ and the mystery of redemption as ever taught in
the Christian family, the poor Catholic, on whom they look with
contempt, is making his starting point whatand when an absolute government, the jealous
guardian of a religion of which it is the head, suffers no emanations
of the truth to reach the soul. Sophie de Soymonoff was born a
prisoner in an empire of seventy millions of souls. She was six
hundred leagues from St. Peter's, and a thousand years from the true
faith. But, however vigilant despotism may be, however thick its
dungeon walls, God remains ever near, and he draws therefrom, when he
wills, the instruments which his Providence uses to preserve for man
the share which he assigns him in all his works. At an age when Madame
de Swetchine could not yet sound either the poverty of the Greek
schism or the abyss of unbelief, a man of God came to her. He was not
a priest, but an ambassador of


in God.

It was after the failure of L' Avenir that I first saw her. I
approached the borders of her soul as a seaweed broken by the waves,
and I remember yet, after twenty-five years, how she placed her light
and strength at the service of a young man unknown to her. Her
counsels sustained me both against despondeney and exaltation. One day
when she thought she noticed in my words a doubt or lassitude, she
said to me with a singular accent, the simple words: "Take care." She
was wonderful in discovering the point to which one inclined, and
where it was necessary to bear assistance. The measure of her thought
was so perfect, the freedom of her judgment so remarkable, that I was
long in comprehending to whom and to what she was devoted. Where in
othershad they reached it, than impulsively they went to the window
to gaze in mute amazement at the scene. A sudden wind was uprooting
trees, unroofing houses, and carrying off all things before it. An old
barn long doomed to be pulled down, which was but awaiting hands to
perform the work, suddenly reeled like a drunken man, and in a few
moments more fell to the ground with a great crash. The servant girls
screamed in the hall, "the men went in for shelter, they must be
crushed to death!" The door was opened that the serving-men might rush
to the rescue, but the wind swept like a tornado through the hall,
tiles were rattling from the house-top, bricks tumbling from the
chimneys. To leave the house was impossible, none could stand against
such a blast. A large


Hester--"

"But seriously, father, he says the character of the ancestry often
reappears in the posterity, even after the lapse of many generations;
and as he may have had, a tiger, a hyena, or even a boa-constrictor in
his genealogical tree, I do not feel well inclined to trust myself to
his keeping."

"Is that the new philosophy?" said Adelaide; "the vicious propensities
of so many of the race are then accounted for, they are but beasts of
prey in tailor's clothes."

"And yourselves, ladies?" said Mr. Godfrey.

"Oh!" said Adelaide, hastily, "please do not put us into the same
category, Hester and I are well content with the old story. We are
daughters of men and women, created in the good old style; reigning
over the brutes by special privilege, and claiming no sort of kindred
with them whatever."

"And Mr. Spence,then than now; indeed, the original
word would be better translated religion or religiousness. The term,
prophet, is also worthy of being remarked; a prophet means one who is
at once teacher of the most exalted class and an ascetic who has
perfectly trampled this world under his feet. Finally, the
philosophers looked to him as their {773} master, though he professed
to teach no philosophy but Christianity, and quoted the Hebrew
scriptures instead of Plato and Aristotle when men came to him with
difficulties about the soul, the logos, and the creator.

In the present article, therefore, we shall be concerned with his
Caesarean life; and as it is impossible to compress within moderate
limits all that might be said of the literary productions of this
exceedingly rich period of his labors, we shall confine ourselves
chiefly to the consideration


my most honored son Gregory, that you make Christianity
your last end" ([Greek text]--alluding to the _summum bonum_ of the
stoics), "and that you {782} use Greek philosophy and all its
attendant sciences as handmaids to the Holy Scriptures, and as the
means ([Greek text],) toward Christianity." This was written, of
course, long after Gregory had become a Christian, and, indeed, about
the very time that the Contra Celsum would be in progress. Not a
little, therefore, in the work which would seem to beg the question,
as against an enemy, becomes an eloquent development, as toward those
who already believed. And this remark will be found not unimportant in
explaining more passages than one.

The attack of Celsus is that of a clever, well-informed, travelled
man. It is to be feared that we cannot call him a well-meaning one.
Theextra-ordinary impudence of one or two of the leading sophisms and
a general tone of rancor and rabidness, very different from the
politeness of Numenius and Porphyry, seem to force the conclusion that
we are dealing with a man who ought to have known better but whose
heart had been hardened by the world and the flesh. He goes over a
large variety of topics, is not at all remarkable for order (as his
opponent complains), and repeats himself more than once. Several
German writers have published accurate accounts of his philosophic
tenets, as far as they can be ascertained. For the present, in order
to arrive at some definite knowledge of the sort of people who opposed
Christianity from the time of S. Clement to the Decian persecution, we
shall present Celsus in a few of the chief


course, practical men and
good citizens do not regard them. If the gods do interfere in the
concerns of the earth {783} (a doctrine which Celsus, in his character
of scoffer, is inclined to waive rather than to admit), why all this
indispensable dogmatism about a Son of God? Let it be enough that we
do admit that there is a God, who in some way is supreme; as sensible
people you can demand nothing more. We call him Zeus; you call him the
Most High, Sabaoth, Adonai, or what else you please, just as the
Egyptians call him Ammon, and the Scythians, Pappaeus. Doubtless you
talk of miracles; so do all these new-fangled sects, but they mean in
reality Egyptian magic. You appeal, moreover, to your intellectual
teaching; we know about that also: no sect is good forsome strange
remark, suggestive of more than human wisdom. Then the startled mother
would fix her eyes upon his face so earnestly, as if in hope that God
at last would shed light upon the shadowed mind of her bereaved one,
to meet ever and always the glance of childish adoration, but with it,
alas! the vacant smile that spoke forgetfulness already of the
transitory ray of reason that a moment rested there.

Often have I stopped, as I passed that way, to listen to some quaint
old ballad full of the melancholy music of her voice, and make my
friendly inquiries for herself and child, sure to find him in his
usual resting-place. My welcome was a warm one always, and my grey
hairs--for they were grey even then, sir--often mingled with the
yellow curls of the boy as


Augustine
  to Walter, 1205--Monk of Canterbury.

_Thirteenth Century._

  Richard of Devizes, Chron. of Reign of Richard I--Monk.

  Jocelyn de Brakelond, Chron., 1173 to 1202
 --Monk of St. Edmondsbury.

  Roger of Wendover, Hist. to 1235--Monk of St. Albans.

  Matthew Paris, Historia Major. Conq. to
  1259--Monk of St. Albans.

_Fourteenth Century._

  William Rishanger, Continuation of M. Paris
  to 1322, Wars of the Barons--Monk of St. Albans.

  John of Brompton,  [Footnote 223]
  Chron. to 1199, from Saxons--Monk of Jerevaux.

  [Footnote 223: Authorship doubtful.]

  Thomas Wickes, Chron., of Salisbury to 1304
 --Canon of Osney.

  Walter Hemingford, Hist. Conquest to 1273
 --Monk of Gisbro'.

  Robert of Avesbury, Hist. Reign of Edward
  III to 1356--Register of Canterbury.

  Nicholas Trivet,Mary's trial must be wrote over again; that it was
uncertain whether the new narrative could be brought within the same
compass with the old; that this change would require the cancelling a
great many sheets; and that there were scattered passages through the
volumes _founded on your own theory_." [Footnote 225]

    [Footnote 225: Disraeli's Literary Miscellanies.]

We quote these letters to show how history was written in bygone times
by men who until the days of Maitland and Froude have been regarded as
authorities. The blind led the blind, and the History of Scotland--
whole sheets of which ought to have been rewritten, and scattered
passages founded upon theory erased--was given to the world, because
the printer refused to disturb the press, and the author was
disinclined to demolish such a fair creation. But the


perdas illa die.

  "Querens me sedisti lassus,
  Redemisti crucem passus,
  Tantus labor non sit cassus."

  "Think of me, good Lord, I pray,
  Who troddest for me the bitter way,
  Nor forsake me in that day.

  "Weary sat'st thou seeking me,
  Diedst redeeming in the tree,
  Not in vain such toil can be."

The mediaeval period was one rich in art and active in intellectual
work. The great difference between that age and this is, that in
mediaeval times intellectual life was concentrated, and now it is
spread abroad; we get more books and readers, but less great books and
thinkers. Perhaps there has never been a time of such vigorous
intellectual effort in England, unless we except the Elizabethan age,
than that of the scholastic controversiesmost
violently. In an instant a servant appeared with harsh words on the
end of her tongue, but the severe face and long moustache of Cyprien
induced her to withhold from speaking them. Scarcely was the door
opened, when a voice, almost of thunder, {827} inquired for Robert.
Hearing it, the cure opened the parlor door, and advancing toward the
soldier, with an affable air, invited him in, saying, "I will be very
glad to talk with you. You were, I suppose, uneasy about your little
friend, whom I have detained a long time, I know, but it is not time
lost; we have become acquainted and are now old friends, and you have
a share of the affection I have avowed for this interesting child. You
have a noble heart, and the Lord will bless you, my friend,


have placed him in contact with
vice and wickedness. I rejoice that a kind Providence permitted this
child to awaken an interest in you, and that he found you so
affectionate a guide. You must continue your friendship, and I hope to
gain his, by the care I will take of him."

"Oh! my dear father," said Robert, kissing respectfully the hand of
his new protector, "you are too good to me, but I will try to repay
your kindness by a full and entire submission to your least wishes."

"Well spoken, little one!" exclaimed the soldier, "this is the first
duty of a conscript."

"I will try to find the mean s of aiding him to fill a high position
some day," said the cure. "I have acquaintances and friends who will
give me of their wealth, for," saidbenediction. "I will see you
soon," he said to him, and this promise consoled him, for he felt sure
he would always be a generous defender, a tender and devoted. friend.
The child flattered himself for some time that he had gained the
confidence and friendship of Gustave, but he had soon to renounce that
belief, for, in spite of his profound dissimulation, the latter could
not always keep up appearances, and Robert suddenly discovered the
truth. This made Gustave hate him bitterly, and nothing could diminish
it; but Robert spoke of it to no one but the priest. Encouraged by his
silence, which Gustave mistook for the silence of fear, he was always
making war with him when they were alone. Before his mother, or any
other person, he did not dare to do so, but changes of


he left, to return to
his studies, he thought he would give him an agreeable surprise. The
weather was lovely, and all nature seemed to rejoice. The cure and his
charge started in a _diligence_ for Versailles, the {833} wonderful
and magnificent palace once used as a royal residence. Robert had
never seen this place, once such a gay city, but whose gilded glory
has all departed. No more _fetes_, no more balls, in Louis XIV.'s
beautiful city. The grand palace is still there, but where are the
kings and courtiers? Oh! where?

The gardens charmed Robert, and he bounded about like a young fawn in
his native wood, to the great delight of the cure, who rejoiced in his
liveliness and happiness, and allowed this little bird that he had
freed to follow his capricious fancies, wherever they ledmade perfect their young beauty by
showing them "fresh-hatched perhaps, and--_daubed with birthday
dew_."

We are strong of head--we recovered from even this--we became of the
very select few who can say they have read this thing through. There
was a crocodile hero; he had a golden girdle and crown; he wore
polished stones; crowns, orbs and sceptres starred his breast (why
shouldn't they if they could); "special burnishment adorned his mail;"
his punier brethren trembled, whereupon he immediately ate them till
"the luscious fat distilled upon his chin," and "exuded from his
nostrils and his eyes." He then fell into an anaconda nap, and grew
very much smaller in his sleep, till at the approach of a very queer
winged vessel (probably a vessel of wrath), "the prudent crocodile
rose on his feet and shed appropriate tears (obviously it is


bottom, but
does not pause to make sure that others must, as well as may, enter
into the spirit that underlies her utterances, and so buries her
meaning sometimes beyond Champollion's own powers of deciphering. But
her next book must determine how much is to be ascribed to talent, and
how much to practice and good models; and show us whether genius or
gilt edges separate her from the [Greek text].

--------

ORIGINAL.

THE TEST.

  She stands with head demurely bent,
    A village maiden, young and comely,
  And he beside her, talking low
    And earnestly, is Lord of Bromleigh.

  "Now raise thine eyes, and look at me,
    And place thy little hand in mine,
  And tell me thou my bride will be,
  and to genuflect before the altar is very proper and right,
if we believe in the presence of Jesus Christ in the sacred elements."

"But we Protestants don't believe it."

"You must not be too sure of that; I know many who do. You know the
Scripture is very strong in its favor: 'This is my body--this is my
blood;' and I, as a good Protestant, who take my belief from the
Bible, may have the right to believe it, may I not?"

"H'm, h'm, but our church don't teach any thing of the kind."

"Not as a church, I grant you, but she has no right to trammel private
judgment; and if I choose to believe it, and act upon my belief, what
is to hinder me."

"It seems to me that as a minister of the church


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Cruises announced by Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival promoters Tuesday drew comments from both sides on the event's Facebook page -- and prompted at least one person to launch a Facebook hate page with a picture of a sinking ship and a profane title.

Cruises aboard what's being called the SS Coachella (really the Celebrity Silhouette) will sail from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., to the Bahamas Dec. 16 to 19 and to Jamaica on Dec. 19 to 23. The new floating fest will feature a lineup of more than 20 bands including Pulp, Sleigh Bells and Girl Talk.

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The Republic of South Sudan became the world’s newest nation and Africa’s 55th country on July 9, 2011. Renewed conflicts in December 2013 and July 2016 have undermined the development gains achieved since independence and worsened the humanitarian situation.

South Sudan remains in a serious humanitarian crisis due to the cumulative effects of years of conflict which has destroyed people’s livelihoods and forced 4.2 million people to flee their homes – nearly two million inside and nearly 2.2 million outside the country. Extreme levels of acute food insecurity persist across the country and number of people who require humanitarian assistance in 2019 remains at seven million (more than half of the population) and women and children continue to be the most affected.

South Sudan is one of the most oil-dependentdrums, while fist-pumping employees clad in Aloha shirts handed out plastic leis to swooning customers. To marshal traffic, police were on hand. So were Jim and Lisa Lucas, who ducked work to publicly profess their love to Trader Joe's in its parking lot. Elated, too, were Joe and Jennifer Boyte. The couple had been making pilgrimages to the nearest Trader Joe's, in Santa Fe, New Mexico—an 840-mile round-trip drive for items like Two Buck Chuck and dark-chocolate-and-sea-salt-covered butterscotch caramels.

Once our store opened, a trek to TJ's quickly became a right-of-passage in Boulder. "Have you been yet?" demanded my foodie friends, incessantly. Suddenly, Trader Joe's was bigger than legal weed. Resistance was futile. But I was wary. Our cookie-cutter supermarket, King Soopers, owned by the Kroger conglomerate, already carried


volcanoes." So, like the crude oil you find underground? Warner said later, "Poor Kerrie. She's got her job cut out for her in Boulder."

Indeed, Kerrie tells me she's been with Trader Joe's for eight years at locations in Vancouver in Washington State, Portland, Oregon, and Rochester, Minnesota. "We're getting more questions from customers in Boulder than at any other store I've worked at. People are more conscious, and they're also skeptical because we're the new kids on the block. But we knew this was going to happen here."

I give Kerrie huge props for engaging us with patience and a smile. She wasn't defensive but appeared genuinely concerned that her company wasn't living up to its pledge. Scripted? Perhaps. Nonetheless, when I gave her a long list of Traderis also a sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction where she writes (and hosts audio podcasts of) the Kinsey Confidential column and coordinates educational programming. She has a PhD in Health Behavior from IU, a Master's degree in Public Health Education (also from IU) and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, she is certified as a Sexuality Educator from the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Debby writes regular sex columns for Men's Health magazine, Time Out Chicago magazine, Velocity, Cheeky Chicago, Psychology Today and she has also written for Glamour magazine.


While the NFL has experienced unparalleled success of late, it faces one issue that could bring the good times to a grinding halt: Player safety.

The neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – the result of repeated traumatic brain injury on the field – has been discovered in an alarming number of deceased NFL players. Additionally, pharmaceutical addiction plagues the league as players battling injuries often rely on painkillers to get through games.

Incredibly, there is a natural, non-toxic medicine valued for its neuro-protective potential, healing properties and ability to reduce pain. Unfortunately, the league is not interested.

Many former players have called on the NFL to embrace cannabis as an alternative to dangerous and addictive painkillers. Some believe that it is the key to solving the league’s concussion problem. Todate these pleas have fallen on deaf ears as the league continues to ban cannabis in all forms.

While the NFL chooses to embrace prohibition to its determent, a number of former players have found that marijuana greatly improved their lives – both during and after their professional careers. HIGH TIMES editor-in-chief Dan Skye spoke to several retired players for our Pot and the NFL feature in the November 2016 issue of HT. We’ll share a new player testimonial on the benefits of cannabis here each Sunday.

We’re kicking off our series of player testimonials with one of the first NFL stars to publicly support cannabis as an important aspect of wellness, Ricky Williams.

–Mike Gianakos, managing editor

Ricky Williams (running back) played from 1999 to 2011 for the New Orleans Saints,


delegation of 15 MEPs will take part in the UN climate conference in Paris, France, from Monday to Friday. The European Parliament says that the 2015 Protocol must be legally binding and ambitious from the outset, with five-year commitment periods. In a resolution voted in October, MEPs also proposed that a share of revenues from the EU carbon market allowances should be earmarked for climate finance, and that aviation and shipping sectors should initiate measures to curb their emissions.

03/12/2015

The work of Parliament’s Special Committee on Tax Rulings will be continued under a new mandate for six months, starting on 2 December. This was decided unanimously at Wednesday’s Conference of Presidents and endorsed by Parliament as a whole, by 561 votes to 69 with 5 abstentions. The committee's workBBC Wales journalist Jamie Owen as moderator, the series of events aims at providing a meeting point between the public and Welsh MEPs.

12/11/2015

European elections should be fought with formally endorsed, EU-wide lead candidates (“Spitzenkandidaten”) for the Commission presidency, Parliament said on Wednesday in a formal proposal for a change to EU electoral law. It says these candidates should stand for election to the EP themselves, and be formally nominated at least 12 weeks before the elections.

29/10/2015

Raif Badawi is the laureate of this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, following an October 29 decision by EP President Martin Schulz and the political group leaders. Badawi is a blogger from Saudi Arabia currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for insulting Islam on his website promoting social, political and religious


evening in Strasbourg.

21/10/2015

Following this morning's announcements of the verdicts of Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on the Dutch tax deal with Starbucks and the Luxembourgish tax agreement with Fiat Finance and Trade, key MEPs on taxation issues gave the following statements.

16/10/2015

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, the Democratic Opposition in Venezuela and the Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov are the three finalists for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. They were chosen in a vote during a meeting of the foreign affairs and development committees and the human rights subcommittee at the European Parliament. The laureate will be decided by Parliament's president and political group leaders on 29 October and the award ceremony will be held in Strasbourg on 16 December.

16/10/2015

The competition for next year's European Charlemagne Youth Prizewas launched on Thursday, 15 October. Now in its ninth year, the prize is awarded to young people who have developed projects to foster understanding between people from different European countries. The deadline for submissions is 25 January 2016.

15/10/2015

Three inspiring Brits have been selected as winners of this year's EU Citizens' Prize, alongside 44 laureates from across the European Union. The prize, which has been run by the European Parliament since 2008, recognises the efforts of EU citizens who promote understanding and co-operation across international borders, integration between EU citizens and the EU values of democracy and human rights.

13/10/2015

A draft EU law that would enable any member state to restrict or prohibit the sale and use of EU-approved GMO food or feed on its territory was opposed by


temporary emergency rules for relocating an initial 40,000 over two years from Italy and Greece only were approved by Parliament on 9 September.

09/09/2015

The nominations for Parliament´s 2015 Sakharov Prize have been announced on Thursday 10 September. The prize is awarded every year to honour exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression.The nominations will be formally presented on Monday 28 September during a joint meeting of the foreign affairs and development committees and the human rights subcommittee. The winner will be announced in October.

09/09/2015

Parliament backed temporary emergency rules to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states over two years in a vote on Wednesday. In the migration debate on Wednesday, most MEPs welcomed the Commission's new proposals outlinedto run for the 2015 LUX Film Prize.

22/07/2015

MEPs will assess how best to spend EU funding for migration measures. The delegation will meet Italian Under-Secretary of State in charge of immigration issues Domenico Manzione, among others, and will also visit migrant reception centres in Pozzallo and Mineo in Sicily.

22/04/2015

EurVoice, the outreach scheme of the European Youth Parliament UK, have won the UK national heat of the European Parliament/CYP competition.
This youth project will go forward as the UK's entry in the competition held across all 28 Member States of the European Union.

17/03/2015

All new car models sold in the EU are to be equipped with eCall technology from 31 March 2018 under draft EU rules endorsed by Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee MEPs on Tuesday.This technology uses the 112


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Breheny said the "lighthearted" tone of the Twitter spoof was a sign that most people were confident in the Bronx zoo workers' skills.

"We appreciated that element, but at the same time we needed to stay focused on recovering the animal, because it was a serious issue," he said.

Outside the zoo, some Bronx residents said they were relieved the snake had been found.

Patricia Villa, 35, who walks by the zoo every day, said she and a friend prayed that they would not come across the snake as they passed the zoo one recent night while walking home from a nearby church.

Margaret Tanco, 51, said she worried about the safeguards the zoo has in place to keep animals inside.

"It's very dangerous," she said. "If a snake couldDialectical Immaterialism

Have Chumbawamba sold out or bought in? By Douglas Wolk DECEMBER 8, 1997: November 1997: Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon, sitting in the office of the English band's New York label, laughs nervously when the subject of a couple of politically radical solo records he made in the '80s comes up: "They're a bit cringeworthy, aren't they?" But does he think differently now from the way he did then? He pauses for a moment. "I'm more realistic." The gold record of the band's album Tubthumper is visible behind him, hung on the wall next to a gold record of Hall and Oates's Big Bam Boom. 1985: the extensive liner notes to Chumbawamba's self-released first single, "Revolution," read, in part: "Packaged and marketed, we become the product. . . .


but absent, passes the point of subjectivity. They haven't just mellowed with time, or eased away from ill-considered youthful dogma. They've abandoned principles that they themselves had explicitly articulated, principles on which they'd built their reputation. That reputation developed in earnest with their earliest records: competent, abrasive art punk, along the lines of what the Ex were doing around the same time, with lyrics that mostly concerned the counter-revolutionary treachery of the music business. Within a few years, Chumbawamba had established themselves as pranksters, music-biz gadflies, and stylistic chameleons. Their first album was an attack on "Live Aid" titled Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records; two years later, they stuck a tongue out at diehard punks by recording an album of a cappella folk songs. They also appearedon countless compilation albums, doing songs like "Rich Pop Stars Make Good Socialists." With 1990's Slap!, they started incorporating dance beats into their songs and making their records more accessible. "From that point on," Nobacon says, "we acknowledged that we actually loved pop culture, and hated it as well, but before that I think we'd been in denial about being popular. And since that time, we've thought we want to be part of pop culture, and to be part of pop culture you've got to be popular." Chumbawamba's records did become more popular, at least in Europe and Britain (almost nothing they did before this year was released in the US). Their lyrics remained slyly political, and they continued to jab mercilessly at the mainstream music biz, but


a string of dance-pop singles like "Enough Is Enough" and "Timebomb" became minor hits. In the wake of legal problems over Jesus H. Christ, a 1992 album built mostly out of un-cleared samples (later rewritten and released as Shhh), they abandoned agitprop and signed up with the British indie One Little Indian. When relations with OLI broke down last year, though, Chumbawamba perceived their semi-popularity had taken them only so far. They were on shaky financial ground and wondering how they'd be able to continue. They recorded Tubthumper on their own, shopped it around, and found themselves wooed and won by their old enemy, EMI. Subsequently they made a deal with an American major label as well. "We realize that some people are going to be unhappy withSpoiler It's in the second population valley from the left

Spoiler I'm talking about HaloGAF

Well, it''s been about a year since Halo 4 released.Halo 4 was 343's first full go at their own Halo title since Bungie left the Microsoft umbrella to go work on Destiny.The reception of Halo 4 was thus. A graph of Halo 4's peak population, every day, for the last year:(all graphs in this post provided by www.halocharts.com , by the way )Hmm.Let's go over the major events in Halo 4's run. Here's the big overview:In the run up to Halo 4's release, Microsoft seemed interested in getting as many people to play the game as possible. So they took the early perk unlocks from the LE and told people that everyone that played within


Bullseye Map Pack, which was 2 maps. One was a remake of The Pit from Halo 3! Yay! The population didn't get boosted at all. It also introduced armor that could be bought with Real Money Only and they dug in even more on perks, after backlash from the community over them. Then promised those perks would become available to everyone else, which still hasn't happened.The Game of the Year Edition, which released at a reduced price point and includes all of the game's DLC, came out somewhere in the chart. See if you can find it.* Halo 4 lasted a whole two entire months in the Top 3 of the Xbox Live activity chart. Halo 3 didn't fall out of the Top 3 until Halo Reach released- 3 years after it's release. Halo Reach didn't fall out of the Top 3 until 343's title update for the game after they took over the game, 12 months after release.* Roughly a year after release, Halo 3 had a 1.1 million peak population day. Reach had a 900,000 peak population day after the same amount of time. Halo 4 clocks in at 20,000 peak for it's annual checkup.* 343 attempted to require the Majestic DLC for Team Slayer. The DLC requirement took the playlist from the top 2 in population to almost the bottom. They removed the DLC requirement afterwards and removed the DLC requirements from their weekly playlists after the first weekly playlist struggled to maintain over 150 players in it. Keep in mind the


celebrated and largely respected across the country.

The vast majority of people in India are Hindu, thus Diwali, the festival of lights, is one of the most memorable of the year. The date is different each year but in 2019 it will take place on November 7th in most of the country.

TravelSupermarket uses cookies to make our site better for you. By closing this cookie window or by navigating to another page on our site, you accept our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie policy, which also includes info on how to manage them. He was anticipating the attention he was receiving from the medical staff.  He felt especially confident and relaxed when he was in the presents [sic] of Mrs. Henry.  She reminded him of his grandmother.  Whom plaintiff loves very dearly....  Defendant Henry had treated plaintiff in a very professional and friendly manner.  Plaintiff in return, always conducted himself in a manner he thought acceptable to Mrs. Henry.  There was no physical attraction involved.  Other than the similarities and resemblance between Mrs. Henry and his grandmother, and the ease in which she went about her duties, plaintiff imagined or assumed nothing beyond that.

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Turney continued that on the particular day he went through the same procedure as he did previously and waited until


Mrs. Henry called him into the treatment room.  He alleged that after entering the room Mrs. Henry promptly attended to him and after completing her work

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she left the room.  During this period Mrs. Henry did not once voice her displeasure with him.  She didn't scream, talk loud or otherwise indicate she was fearful of plaintiff.  In point of fact, Mrs. Henry was calm throughout the encounter.  There is simply nothing in the record to indicate a struggle insured [sic] between Mrs. Henry and himself....  Nevertheless, defendant Pershing entered the room and started insinuating and accusing plaintiff of sexually molesting Mrs. Henry.  Which plaintiff inflatedly denied.  However, plaintiff was escorted from the hospital to the Yard Office.  Where he wasagain intimidated and accused of trying to sexually assault Mrs. Henry.

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Turney continued in his affidavit that subsequently Mrs. Henry

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initiated disciplinary action against plaintiff by filing an incident report alleging that plaintiff had enetered [sic] the treatment room, closed the door, walked over to her and push [sic] against her right side and shoulder with his hands and knee.  She further stated on an attached page that plaintiff placed his hands on her shoulder and his knee against her side.  This was done while she was sitting in a chair at her desk.  She then instructed plaintiff to open the door.  That she don't play that way.  Whereupon, plaintiff supposedly backed up and opened the door as she requested.

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The affidavit then contains statements minimizing


he received.

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Henry initiated the disciplinary action by submitting the following incident report in writing to the adjustment committee:

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I told the above inmate to come into the hospital treatment room for dressing change on his toe.  He came into the treatment room and closed the door and walked over to me and pushed against my right side and shoulder with his hands and knee.  (continued on separate sheet) His hands on my shoulder and his knee against my side, as I sat in a chair at the desk.  I instructed him to open the door, that I don't play that way.  He backed up and opened the door.  I got up and walked out the door, and instructed him to come out and sitin a chair in the hallway by the treatment room.  No one else was in the area at the time, and we could not be seen by anyone.

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Defendant Pershing made the following report to the adjustment committee in his capacity as investigating supervisor:  "Turney states he is not guilty.  The statements she made are false.  The door was open and he never even got close to her."

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A hearing before the adjustment committee was held on August 3, 1984.  Mrs. Henry testified at the hearing that she had no opinion whether Turney had a sexual intent in touching her.  She further testified that Turney did not hurt her, but that she felt insulted.  The adjustment committee found Turney guilty and sentenced him


to 180 days segregation and loss of two years of good time credit.  The committee stated the following "Reason for Findings and any Punishment":  "Based on the fact that resident came in the room and closed the door then placed his hands and knee on Ms. Henry.  The Committee feels the sentence is necessary to control resident's behavior."    Warden Scroggy, acting as superintendent of review, reviewed the action of the adjustment committee and concurred in its result.

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It is undisputed that Turney's complaint amounts to a claim that the record made before the adjustment committee and reviewed by the warden was so factually deficient that the finding that Turney committed a sexual assault violated the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.  Inimmunity, so would Henry and Pershing.  The issue before us, then, is whether the defendants are entitled to summary judgment on immunity grounds under the circumstances of this case.

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In Superintendent v. Hill a prison guard happened upon an inmate named Stephens who was bleeding from the mouth and suffering from a swollen eye.  Dirt was strewn in the area, and three other inmates were jogging away together.  There were no other inmates in the area.  The guard concluded on the basis of these observations that Stephens had been beaten by the other three.  Also, a prison medic told the guard that Stephens had been beaten.  The three inmates were charged with assaulting Stephens.  At the disciplinary hearing the guard testified to


The report charged the defendants with assault upon another inmate.  The victim of the assault gave a written statement that the three had not caused his injuries.  Nevertheless, the inmates were found guilty by the disciplinary board and this finding was sustained by the Supreme Court.  In Hill the statement of the victim was properly rejected by the board as motivated by fear of reprisal.  In this case, however, it was the victim of the assault, Nurse Henry, who filed the incident report to begin with.  Further, based on the way that Henry handled herself during the actual encounter, there is absolutely no indication that she feared this inmate in the slightest.  Accordingly, even were I to agree that Nurse Henry's testimonypaperwork can also contribute to more hours of work.

Union Membership

Compared with workers in all occupations, probation officers and correctional treatment specialists had a higher percentage of workers who belonged to a union in 2014.

Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists

12%

Total, all occupations

7%

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists

4%

Note: All Occupations includes all occupations in the U.S. Economy.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program

Employment of probation officers and correctional treatment specialists is projected to grow 4 percent from 2014 to 2024, slower than the average for all occupations.

Employment growth depends primarily on the amount of state and local government funding for corrections, especially the amount allocated to probation and parole systems.

However, because community corrections is viewed as an economically viable


and the case was eventually
11   dismissed on October 10, 2008.
12        In March 2011, MERS executed an assignment transferring all
13   beneficial interests under the DOT to Bank of America.   That
14   assignment was recorded on March 9, 2011.   In January 2012, Bank
15   of America executed an assignment transferring all beneficial
16   interests under the DOT to U.S. Bank.    U.S. Bank's assignment was
17   recorded on January 13, 2012.
18   B.   The instant bankruptcy case and U.S. Bank's motion for relief
          from stay4
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20        Rozier, pro se, filed herin May 2006 with respect
24   to the Property, which appears to be the basis for Rozier's
     overall complaints. As we explain more thoroughly below, and
25   despite Rozier's beliefs to the contrary, the 2006 note had no
     bearing as to U.S. Bank's motion for relief from stay and has no
26   bearing in this appeal. Rozier's complaints regarding the Loan,
     the 2006 note, and her claims for quiet title and other related
27   claims, are matters for the state court. Indeed, Rozier confirmed
     at oral argument that she is currently pursuing her claims against
28   U.S. Bank in state court.


property - to prosecute a motion
22   for relief from stay.   By establishing its interest in the DOT,
23   U.S. Bank did not have to show that it held the original note or
24
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            The DOT, the security instrument at issue, contains a
25   choice of law provision, which states that it shall be governed by
     federal law "and the law of the jurisdiction in which the Property
26   is located." Here, that would be California. As the Panel held
     in Veal, the forum state's choice of law rules determine which
27   state'senergy in TCM that circulates between the organs along meridians. EA is one of the mostly used therapies to balance Yin and Yang by improving the flow of Qi along the meridians through stimulation of acupoints. EA is a modification of conventional acupuncture that stimulates acupoints with electrical current instead of manual manipulations and appears to have more consistently reproducible results in both clinical and research settings. EA has been clinically used to prevent and treat gastrointestinal diseases for years and can accomplish satisfying results. ST36 is a specific acupoint located on the foot Yang Ming stomach meridian and the "lower He-sea point", which means the Qi of this meridian connects with this point, to this channel. This acupoint is known to strengthen the Qi, not only the


study focusing on the effects of EA at ST36 points.

Sen Hu and Ming-Hua Du contributed equally to this study.

No conflict of interests was declared.

This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grant 2012CB518101). The scientific investigations were supported by the Stronach Medical Group, the German Academy of Acupuncture (DAA), and the Science Department of the City of Graz. The study is also supported by the Austrian Federal Ministries of Science and Research and of Health and the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet. Professor Litscher and Professor Wang are Visiting Professors at the Department of Acupuncture of the People\'s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing.

![Intestinal histology at 60 min after reperfusion. Electroacupuncture at ST36 protects against intestinal injury after I/R equally as VNS and PNU282987; whereas electroacupuncture atPresident Trump's three primary challengers are blasting the Republican Party for taking a "wrong turn" by embracing a "serial self-promoter who has abandoned the bedrock principles of the GOP."

In a joint op-ed published by the Washington Post Friday, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh express their "shared conviction that the United States needs a strong center-right party guided by basic values that are rooted in the best of the American spirit."

The trio lambasted the Trump era for ushering in "a preference for alienating our allies while embracing terrorists and dictators, attacking the free press and pitting everyday Americans against one another" while abandoning "personal responsibility, fiscal sanity and rule of law." Then, they turned their criticism toward


This is Anaya Ellick's winning entry in the 2016 Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship. Courtesy Greenbrier Christian Academy/ABC News

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (KABC) -- A 7-year-old girl born without hands has such good handwriting, she beat out 50 other youngsters from around the country to win a national penmanship competition.First-grader Anaya Ellick uses her forearms to write, opting to forgo prostheses."There is truly very little that this girl cannot do," principal Tracy Cox of Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake told ABC News.Cox said it was her idea to have Anaya enter the competition, which is open to students in kindergarten to eighth grade."She is a hard worker," Cox said. "She is determined. She is independent. She is a vivacious and a no-excuses type of young lady."Anaya'spenmanship was submitted in the category that encourages the participation of students with cognitive delays, or intellectual, physical or developmental disabilities. This category is judged by a team of occupational therapists, and the winner is awarded the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Penmanship."We looked at her writing and were just stunned to see how well her handwriting was, considering she writes without hands," competition director Kathleen Wright told ABC News. "Her writing sample was comparable to someone who had hands."Greenbrier founder and superintendent Ron H. White told ABC News that Anaya's peers treat her no differently than other students, and she keeps up with them."I don't think Anaya thinks of it as an obstacle," he said.Anaya's father says she is talking about taking karate and gymnastics.


and with relatively little adverse publicity, proponents of pseudoscience have succeeding in opening a new front in their ongoing war on reason and rationality by securing £16 million in capital investment from the DCSF to support the creation of a publicly-funded Steiner Academy in rural Herefordshire, which opened (as a state funded school) only last year, against the wishes of local residents and Herefordshire Council.

The Academy No one Wanted

The circumstances in which the Hereford Steiner Academy came to be afforded state investment and revenue funding, look, to say the least, more than a little dubious.

Unlike other academies, which have been set up to replace failing state schools in, primarily, inner city areas, the precursor of the Herefordshire Steiner Academy was a fee-paying Steiner school, which was set upin 1983 in the distinctly rural Herefordshire village of Much Dewchurch, which has a population of around 250 residents and, since last year, an academy which provides 330 school places.

Objections to the academy project raised by both local residents and Herefordshire Council, which is badly strapped for cash and facing the prospect of making a raft of unpopular decisions on school closures in order to rationalise school in the county, appear to have been dismissed in a rather high handed fashion. According to Dr Eddie Oram, a retired former Director of Education in the County who was enlisted by local residents to help with the campaign against the academy project, he was informed by a ’emissary’ from the DCSF’s Academies Unit that:

“though the council’s view would be listened


active proponents of so-called ‘alternative education’. Phillip and Glenys Woods, co-authors of the report along with Martin Ashley, are also the authors of a book entitled ‘Alternative Education for the 21st Century‘, the publisher’s promotional blurb for which states:

This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures – from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel. Aimed at educational practitioners, leaders, and policy-makers in all types of educational settings, as well as academics and researchers, the book is a resource to help educators think creatively about education at a time when the need to find new ways to nurture spiritualnetwork’s homepage throws up a couple of interesting names and connections. Christopher Clouder, one of main contacts for this research group, is also the CEO of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship and the Director of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education in addition to moonlighting as the founder and international director of the Alliance for Childhood, which seems to have a considerable number of links to the Steiner movement, while Graham Kennish is, amongst other things, the science advisor to the University’s Steiner Education course and a member of the Anthroposophical Society’s ‘science’ group. So far as the prospect of obtaining any kind of valid, unbiased, research out of this network goes, the chance of that looks to very much on a par with the chance of


also being posted on ao3!

"Star…I love you…"

At that, Tom's three eyes shot open as he bolted awake. His bedsheets and pajamas were drenched in a cold sweat, and his chest heaved as if he had been on a marathon. It's just a nightmare, he reassured himself although the heavy feeling still remained like a ghost. Over the past month, this nightmare was one he had had over and over—about Marco somehow stealing Starship from him. But that was impossible. Still somewhat disturbed, Tom sought relief from this favorite picture of Star and himself resting on his nightstand. It was taken on their first real date after his botched Demoncism, overlooking a Soulfall—the Underworld version of a waterfall but more terrifying. They had finally gotten cornshakes, and both hadwide smiles on their faces in spite of the shrieking dead behind them.

Where had the joy and excitement all gone? It was hard to believe the smiling couple in the picture was on the verge of breaking up yet again. Ever since the Soulrise at Lava Lake Beach, their literal whirlwind romance had deteriorated to nothing, and it was partly Star's fault. Her insistence of getting bogged down in pointless royal crap led to the great downfall of their relationship. Why should she care about being a better princess? They were teenagers, for hell's sake! But no, Star just had to attend every meeting, every ball, every formal. Tom didn't even do half as much for his own kingdom, and everything was fine. The result of Star's renewed


focus on being the best princess ever was that Tom never saw her anymore. Dates were few and far between, and they were often pushed back due to prior commitments. Where was the spontaneity—that spark that made Tom fall for her twice? It was like Starship had forgotten how to "Star" anymore.

The other problem was Marco. During Song Day several months ago, the entire kingdom learned that the Earth boy was "the prince of her deepest desires," and Tom had all but given up on getting her back. That is until the Silver Bell Ball. His concerns melted away instantly…then the boy came back one day. For some odd reason, Star let him live with her and made Marco her squire—which seemed odd for a princess to do.However, neither bothered Tom much for a while, but he noticed strange things about how his girlfriend acted around her new squire. The way they giggled together, those little glances they shared, how they were always around each other…All such odd, little things.

Between the princess duties and Marco, the issues led up to the great fight, and Star hadn't spoken to Tom in the month since. They did not break up, per se, but their relationship had flat-lined. The night where it happened was still a whirl in Tom's memory….

What could be better than a romantic, candlelit dinner underneath a sky of fireworks? Tom even caught a glimpse of the old Star in the way her eyes twinkled as she watched the display crackle and sizzle in the


personal squire, so of course, he's around more. That's it! You know that you're my best friend."

She was playing that card again. The card she always played whenever Tom questioned how close she was to Marco. He had seen things between them: those longer-than-normal gazes, the deeper-than-they-should-be hugs. Sometimes, he couldn't tell who her boyfriend was—himself or Marco. She had to decide, and Tom was going to make her.

"Star, you have to make a choice," he said as he got up and walked away….

…The smell of burning sheets drew Tom out of his rambling thoughts. He'd better watch out, or he will have to buy another set of sheets again this week. Luckily, he remembered the helpful breathing exercises Brian, his former life coach, taught him to preventa blowup. In and out. In and out sloooowly. Let it go, Tom urged himself. The "breakup" was all in the past, and today was a new day. He was going to make things right again, and Star had plenty of time to miss him by now.

I'm going to take her out for cornshakes, he decided as he approached his mirror. As he was about to call Star, he noticed 57 new messages on his Marco Monitoring App. Huh, that was new. The app was linked to a curse Tom had secretly cast on Marco after the Blood Moon Ball, which monitored every time he talked about Star. Since the boy could never shut up about her, Tom changed it to alert him only if he said her


name romantically. The app had been glitching lately, picking up on the seemingly normal conversations.

"Mirror, play messages," Tom ordered as he went to his bathroom to freshen up. He just wanted to get them off his mirror. None of the messages revealed anything major—they were either Marco mentioning Star's name or talking to her about something trivial. Nothing to worry about, but man they sure do talk a lot, Tom remarked as he began to brush his teeth. He was going all out today for Star, and maybe their relationship could—

"Star…I love you."

Toothpaste and water sprayed everywhere as Tom gagged. This isn't happening. This isn't happening, he began to panic. "Play that message again!" he commanded. Maybe he just misheard something or missed a keyword in there.

"Star…I loveyou," Marco murmured tenderly through the mirror.

There had to be another explanation, just had to be. Ah, Marco was just having an intense dream about her. That could be the answer, although it wasn't any better the more Tom thought about it. Sure, it was gross, but at least Star and Marco were not a thing.

"Master Tom," a demon servant suddenly appeared.

"Um, knock next time," Tom grumbled, "What?"

"Uh," the servant hesitated, "We have some footage from the Marco Monitoring curse you should see."

Tom walked to the mirror as the demon revealed the footage, and conveniently shuffled out of arm's length of him.

"May I have this dance?" Marco bowed as Star reached for his hand. As he led her into a graceful waltz, the Blood Moon shed its light


Blood Moon Ball for Star, meaning he had to cut a lot from the sacred ceremony. He canceled the blood sacrifices, toned down the sacred atmosphere, and got rid of the drunken debauchery. In hindsight, he should have left out the unicorn's blood too, but it paid off otherwise. Nothing too bad had happened, aside for Star insisting on "doing her own thing." The stage was set for the perfect night of love.

Somewhere deep inside, Tom felt uneasy though—as if he was going to lose in the end—and he didn't know why. He couldn't though—the plan was foolproof. He had Star at the right moment, and there was no one else who could compete for her affection.

Maybe he should have read the chapter from that old tome aboutthe power of the Blood Moon. Tom had the read the introduction, and the section about the rituals involved in order to figure out how to make them "Star-friendly". Beyond that, he skipped the rest of the book, which contained chapters on the significance of the Blood Moon and what it did. All he needed to know was that the moon had the power to make people soulmates. And that's what I and Starship are going to be.

Even the moment of the dance was perfectly choreographed in Tom's mind. With the right music in the background, he would lead his beloved in a simple but romantic waltz as the Blood Moon chose to bind them forever and ever. Look Star, he even planned what he would tell Star


at that moment, Even the moon says we destined to be together. While Tom daydreamed about his victory, the priest droned on about how two lucky souls would be bound together for eternity and blah blah. The demon prince didn't need to hear that crap again. Afterward, of course, the stupid organist just had to play the wrong music…

After giving the organist a piece of his mind, Tom had to race to find Star in time. Oh come on, he snarled. Where the hell did you run off to? It didn't help that the attendees were bunched together dancing in hopes the Blood Moon would choose them. In their dreams, Tom rolled his eyes. This was his moon!

Suddenly, the light in the Temple went red, and the demonsgasped. Tom was too late; the moon had chosen another couple to be soulmates. The prince sighed, feeling his heart drop in his chest. All was not lost though, he concluded optimistically, he and Star could still share a beautiful dance. She loved a good dance—that might get something going.

However, when he turned towards the center of the dancefloor, Tom felt his heart stop cold. No! This can't be happening! He had to be seeing things. This couldn't be real! But it was. There, under the light of the soul-binding Blood Moon, Star was dancing with another. Not only had Tom missed the dance, but the moon had confirmed his worst fear—Star's heart belonged to someone else forever. I'm going to kill him, the demon bristled as he


ran towards the center.

Get away from her! He shoved the masked stranger violently to the ground. There was enough moonlight left if he could just grab Star… Then, the portal closed—the moon's choice had been made. NO! Tom inwardly wailed, He took her away from me! And he knew exactly who the guy was too. Marco! The guy who was in Star's life now and had chopped off Tom's hand earlier that day. He had a feeling that there was more going on between Star and Marco than she had led on. I'm going to make him pay! His mind growled as he summoned fire from every crack in the ground….

I will make him pay!

Of course, it would be Marco who would steal Star's heart again. He gotto see her whenever he wanted, they went on adventures Tom never took part in, and Star invited Marco to her family's Stump Day party. And I'm supposed to be her boyfriend, Tom slumped on his bed defeated. Did she ever love me? His eyes wandered to the picture on the nightstand. There was no way she could have faked such a grand smile, or joy during the Soulrise. Why did it change? When did it change? Tom closed his eyes and recalled the happiness of their earlier dates for clues. His eyes flew open when it hit him. He knew what caused the change: Marco came back. That was it! How could he be so blind? She made him her personal squire, for corn's sake, that should


this was breaking so many bro-ship rules.

When Star sat them down to talk, Marco was afraid that she would be angry about the dance, and she should have been. Instead, she said the very thing he had only ever been able to dream of for so long. The words that soothed the heartache plaguing him since Lava Lake Beach when he realized he had been so dense for a long time. Star Butterfly loved him. Marco felt his cheeks glow from blushing. This was the happiest moment he ever experienced since coming to Mewni. He felt like he could fly and shout about his newfound love to all the dimensions.

One of the laser puppies woke up and licked his face. "Isn't this wonderful, Sajak?" Marco cradled the yellowball of fur in his arms, "Star loves me."

The puppy whined in agreement—or, rather, to alert Marco that it was time to be let out. Right, I probably should take the puppies out. As the boy changed, he remembered that his relationship was not completely settled yet. Star had to break things off with Tom—the real test.

Despite the demon's efforts at changing, he had been relapsing into his angry, old ways lately. The most recent outburst was during Star's birthday party when Tom tried to pin the event's shortcoming on Marco and not the fact that he actually forgot his own girlfriend's birthday. A good friend would have supported the squire on his quest. Best bros didn't act like that. Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on him,


the bed and began to wrestle with the puppies. Marco groaned, he had just gotten them to settle down. "Okay, guys, break it up. Let's go outside."

Marco took the puppies to the castle's rose garden for today's outing. He would have normally taken them on a walk around the castle grounds or out into the town, but the puppies and Glossaryck were too much to manage without Star. She was at an important meeting with the Magic High Commission for the next few hours, and, maybe when she got out, Marco would take her out somewhere special. Maybe not too special though. Not yet.

Even after her planned breakup with Tom, Marco didn't know how to start the next phase of their relationship. He had failed his previous onewith Jackie, who he pined over since grade school. In the end, Marco realized that he only loved the idea of her, and it hurt her in the end. What if it was the same with Star?

Marco shook his head. This was different because being with Star felt right. They balanced, supported, and brought out the best in each other in ways that nobody else could. It's like our souls are bonded—

"Hey!" Marco yelled. "Barco Diaz, don't you dare pee on that bush!"

The puppy lowered his leg and shuffled away. Phew, that was Eclipsa's favorite bush in the garden, and he didn't want the puppies to ruin it. Marco glanced up at the tower on the south end of the garden. He didn't know why, but the dark


queen gave him a weird feeling….

"Grr!"

Marco noticed the puppies were growling in the direction of the wall. "What's gotten into you puppies today?" He scolded as he rounded them up. "Quiet, Marco Jr., you'll wake Eclipsa!"

"GLOBGOR!" Glossaryck howled in fright, running in circles. The puppies followed him, barking.

"Not you too Glossaryck!" Marco groaned. If only Star were here. He was about the chase them down when he heard a rustle in the bush in front of him. Was someone there? Marco was about to call for the castle knights when he felt a board slap him across the face, and darkness wash over him.

The painful throbbing of his head woke Marco up, and he gently rolled on his back, feeling leaf litter crunch underneath him. What happened? Helooked up and saw Tom hovering behind him. "It was me!"

The prince was clad in interesting battle armor, made of obsidian chainmail and wine-colored plates. Gold trim completed the look, bordering a neatly embroidered Lucitor family crest adorned with fine jewels on the breastplate. That's so cool, Marco couldn't help but admire the craftsmanship. He had to get Tom to make him armor like that. The boy was about to ask how much the outfit cost when deep instinct warn him the prince was not here on friendly business.

"You have ten seconds," the demon warned. "Get your head start while you still can, Diaz."

What? "Tom? What's going on?" Marco asked nervously.

"Tick-tock, Diaz, get moving," Tom's voice carried a hint of a growl. He hadn't looked this angry since


a second if he didn't put major distance in between them.

"HERE I COME, MARCO DIAZ!" He heard Tom bellow behind him.

Yep, I'm dead, Marco realized he was no match for the Demon Prince of the Underworld. Tom had serious magical powers that could set an entire dimension on fire. All Marco had was his dimensional scissors and his wits. Part of him considered fleeing to another dimension, but he knew Tom would hunt his hide down no matter where he went. The best way to survive was to stay and fight. Or hide—the boy decided to roll into a hollow spot underneath some tree roots to catch his breath and strategize. Maybe I can ambush him, he gripped the scissors close to his chest. An anatomy book inof fire incinerated the tree covering Marco, bringing him face to face with the literal Prince of Hell. Tom had transformed into something out of one's darkest nightmares: an aura of flames surrounded him, and his eyes had shifted from white to blood red. I'm outta here! Seeing the what he was up against, made Marco turn heel and flee for his life.

"Ugh, stop playing hard to get," he heard Tom huff in frustration. Pillars of fire blocked Marco's escape and he knew it was time to face his nightmare. Pivoting on his heels, the boy dropped into a fighting stance and prepared himself to put his plan to action.

"I'm ready, Tom!" the Earth boy challenged bravely. But the forest was quiet, eerily so. Not even the animals


nearby made a sound. Maybe Tom had let up on him.

"Marco~" a familiar voice sang to him. The sound made Marco ease out of his stance and heart race in joy. It was Star here to rescue him!

Overcome with relief, he ran to her, "Oh, Star you'd never believe what happened." The second he was about to embrace her, Star evaded. Star? He stared at her, puzzled, wanting to seek the safety and comfort of her arms, and pretend this nightmare wasn't happening.

"You know, I've been thinking things over," she began. "And I talked things over with Tom. I'm going to stay with him."

"What?!" Marco sputtered in utter disbelief. "You told me you loved me…"

"Why would I say that?" Star smirked darkly, "You're not a prince. In fact,it. The demon recoiled with a hiss but continued to stalk forward.

"Better than what you did," Tom sneered coldly. "You stole my girlfriend from me behind my back. Big mistake!"

The demon rushed at Marco to grab him, but the boy used the makeshift whip to catch the branch above him and swing into the air. He managed to kick Tom square in the face as he leapt over him. However, the prince managed to tackle Marco to the ground and hold him by the throat. His body convulsed due to the lack of oxygen and he screamed, half out of fear and half out of rage. "You…won't…beat…me!"

With the last of his strength, Marco managed to turn his head and sink his teeth into Tom's arm. Screaming in pain,


the demon launched the boy into a nearby shallow lake, and he skidded along the lake floor. Luckily, the adrenaline rush masked the pain resulting from crashing into the water. "I'm still here, Tom!" Marco bragged with confidence. "I've fought in Hekapoo's dimension for sixteen years and trained with Kelly and Star. And, most importantly, I'm a red belt!"

Tom swooped down to meet him, but Marco took his scissors and aimed it at the base of his right horn. Satisfaction crawled on the boy's face when the attack connected, digging deep into the demon's flesh. Victory did not last long, for Tom used his magic to knock Marco over and hold him underwater to drown him. Thinking fast, he played dead to throw Tom off—having an opossum asa mascot paid off sometimes.

When Tom let go, Marco shakily rose to his feet, noting that he felt noticeably weaker. His body was taking too much punishment, and he had no idea how much longer he could last. "How are you not dead yet?" Tom marveled.

"W-Why Tom?" Marco looked him dead in the eyes, "We were friends. What happened to the Mackie Hand movies or to Love Sentence? Were all of those moments really for nothing?"

For a second, Marco could swear that he saw Tom soften a bit. See, he remembers! Yet when he held out a hand, but his old friend refused to take it. The light had gone out in his eyes, "You took Starship away from me," Tom's voice was a mix of pure, unadulterated


of energy. In fact, he was so full of energy that he was hovering above the water.

"How is this possible?!" Tom screeched as he landed in the water. "Your cheeks…"

The water revealed Marco had two red crescent moons emblazoned on his cheeks, glowing like the Blood Moon. With magic, the playing ground was now level. "So, you want to kill me, right?" Marco chuckled darkly as he entered his combat stance again. He felt the raw power flow in his veins, making him shiver. "Let's make it even with some Karate magic."

Pressing his hands together, Marco summoned a blue fireball and hurled it at Tom. The demon flew backward, landing on the nearest bank with a thud, but, before he could recover, the squire connected a blue kickhoping to see something that reminded him of his old friend. But there was nothing—no warmth, friendship, or even empathy. Just raw hatred.

"You know," Marco started again, "For a long time, I thought you were just a misunderstood guy with anger issues. One who honestly wanted to change, but no. I don't see the Tom I became good friends with—all I see is a literal evil demon."

Flames erupted around Tom, and he hurled them at Marco. They burned a large ring around both boys, leaving nothing but heaps of ash in its wake. Tom then jumped into the air and blasted a torrent of fire directly at his rival, but he evaded. Leaping into the air, the boy landed an aerial kick to the demon's face, sending him


heck are—? Sharp spikes pierced his flesh and bones, leaving him shrieking in pain. The demon studied the coffin he had created, forcing all his magic to hold it together. He then dragged it into the ravaged ground.

"No!" Marco screamed, using his right foot to kick the coffin open.

He fell to the ground, landing poorly and cracking his ankle. Hissing in pain, he watched Tom stand over him, stunned, "H-How did you…?"

The effort had sapped the rest of Marco's strength away, and he slumped to the ground—even the magic ebbed away. He resigned himself to fate when he saw Tom stalk towards him…but something knocked the demon back several feet.

What was that? Suddenly, an awesome, golden light bathed the charred, dead forest. Marco rolled on his back andsaw Star in her golden Butterfly form. So beautiful, he weakly crawled towards her but flopped over from the pain and exhaustion. Before his head even hit the ground, he felt her six arms support him.

I'm sorry…Star," Marco muttered softly. He knew she was missing her meeting, and the laser puppies and Glossaryck were probably destroying the Rose Garden.

"What happened to you?" Her eyes were wide with shock as she held him.

He must have been a sight to behold with his body was covered in blood, bruises, and burns. His hoodie—luckily, not his favorite one—was torn to shreds and his white shirt underneath was stained with smoke. On top of that, the cheekmarks were still there. My beautiful, shining Star, Marco sighed. He could almost die happy here


being held by her. "Tom…tried to kill me." He murmured weakly. "He…knew."

He groaned again as Star set him down gently, her face hard to read, "I'll be right back, Marco." Weakly, he watched her expression transform from soft concern to cold fury as she faced Tom.

"S-Starship…?" Tom faltered as he tried to scurry away quickly, his face almost white as Star moved towards him. He tried to make a break for it, but Star used her magic to hold him down. Marco had never seen Tom look so scared in his life, then he realized the prince had never seen Star in her warrior goddess form. Marco smirked—he really did have a leg up on the fella.

Star hovered over Tom, the stars in her eyes glistening with purewrath, like when she faced Toffee when she first donned on her golden form. All six of her hands clutched into fists, as her cheekmarks turned red, "What did you do to my Marco?"

Her voice had morphed from sweet Star to the one she used on Toffee. It sounded like the voice of a thousand hurricanes, full of ire and without mercy. The possessiveness of it struck the squire too. He was her Marco.

"Answer me, Thomas!" she demanded.

Tom found his voice, trying to mask his fear, "B-But Marco tried to fight me!" Star let out a bitter laugh, and silently casting the All-Seeing Eye Spell. She showed a projection of Tom casting a spell on Marco ages ago back in Echo Creek. The demon gulped, looking away from


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"He's something special."

Three words on Sebastian Vettel which have been heard before but carry more resonance when coming from the mouth of Mario Andretti; a man with more reference points than almost any other ex-grand prix driver.

Andretti won his world championship in 1978, but his Formula One career spanned three decades and saw him race alongside the likes of Sir Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Niki Lauda, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost - all of them multiple world champions. When I'm talking to Andretti in Austin, Vettel is 10 days away from making it nine consecutive victories at the end of his fourth title-winning season. The topic of conversation is the strength of the current grid, but once Vettel's name is mentioned the admirationmake-up and everything around him is really working. It's like when Michael [Schumacher] was at the top."

For Andretti, though, Schumacher remains ahead of Vettel. He always saw Schumacher as "a God", but his return to Formula One in 2010 cemented a connection for Andretti that has nothing to do with results and records.

"I always saw myself and my love for the sport in Michael Schumacher. Why do I have such a great respect for him? It's for coming back, even though it wasn't the comeback that he hoped or anyone had hoped to see. But his love for driving superseded any other reasoning. Before he re-entered, Michael Schumacher was not human. Anybody would have said that nobody would ever equal him, but he became human because he took


Saturday, March 23, 2013

Laddu Holi of Barsana

Laddu Holi of Barsana was celebrated on 20th March. During the famous Laddu Holi, Laddu(s) are thrown on devotees. Laddu Holi is celebrated at Ladli temple of Barsana. Ladli temple is also known as Sriji Mandir which is dedicated to Lord Krishna and His beloved consort Radha.

Devotees and visitors gather in huge number to watch this spectacular event. Laddu(s) are captured by devotees as those are considered the holy Prasad of God. Laddu(s) are thrown from the roof top of the temple and collected by devotees waiting eagerly at the ground floor.

Devotees playing Holi during Laddu Holi in Barsana - 2013

Laddu Holi is played with dry colors using only Gulal and Abeer. The whole temple premises are covered with clouds of drycolors and fragrance of Kesar. The Holi with wet colors is played on the next day. With Laddu Holi the whole atmosphere is warmed up for the Lathmar Holi which is scheduled on the next day of Laddu Holi.

On Laddu Holi day, the invitation to play Holi is sent to Nandgaon, the town of Lord Krishna. The invitation is sent by the people of Barsana, the town of Goddess Radha. The invitation to visit Barsana to play Holi with the female cowherds is accepted by the people of Nandgaon.

To confirm the acceptance of the invitation one Panda (पण्डा) or messenger visits from Nandgaon to Ladli Ji Mandir. It is believed that Laddu(s) were offered to welcome the messenger. The messenger was so overwhelmed by the hospitality that he


Souris, an attorney, was a partner in the

Detroit, Michigan, law firm of Bodman, Longley & Dahling.    On

April 16, 1981, petitioner Theodore Souris, P.C., was

incorporated under the laws of Michigan.    It was wholly owned by

Mr. Souris.   Also on that day, Mr. Souris assigned his

partnership interest to petitioner corporation (the corporation

or the P.C.), and the law firm consented to its admission as a

partner in substitution for Mr. Souris.    An appendix to the

partnership agreement sets forth special provisions regarding

professional corporations as partners.    Among other things, the

appendix provides that no one other than the individual attorney

"shall at any time be a stockholder, director, officer or lawyer

employee of the professional corporation", that "the professional

corporation shall be entitled, without deduction,1981, the corporation adopted the Theodore

Souris, P.C. Pension Plan and Trust.   The plan was a defined

benefit plan.   As stipulated by the parties, it was "duly

qualified under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue

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     Until August 31, 1987, the P.C. had a fiscal year ending

August 31.   However, beginning with the short year ending

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     The plan was terminated on March 31, 1988, and


A Turkish court has acquitted businessman Osman Kavala and eight other defendants over their alleged role in Gezi Park protests of 2013 in Istanbul.

Applause erupted in the court on Tuesday as Kavala was ordered to be released after more than two years in jail.

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The court decision came at the maximum-security Silivri prison outside Istanbul months after the European Court of Human Rights in December called for Kavala's immediate release saying there was a lack of reasonable suspicion that he had committed an offence.

In 2013, hundreds of thousands had marched in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey against plans to build a replica Ottoman barracks on Istanbul's Gezi Park, which later transformed into anti-government protests. It was a major challenge for then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is now Turkey'spresident.

Eight young protesters and a police officer were killed, and 5,000 were injured, in the unrest.

Kavala and two other defendants had been facing life sentences without parole, while the other defendants were accused of aiding them in attempting to overthrow the government by organising the protests. They had denied the allegations.

At one point in the hearing, police scuffled in the court with defence lawyers who attempted to prevent them forcibly removing a lawyer who had repeatedly requested permission to speak.

The case of seven further defendants, who are abroad and were being tried in absentia, was separated but arrest warrants for them were lifted. They were also expected to be acquitted.

Judiciary criticised

Critics of Erdogan's government have questioned the independence of Turkish courts, especially since a crackdown following a failed


coup in 2016. Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) say the judiciary makes independent decisions.

In his defence, Kavala had stressed the European Court of Human Rights decision demanding his immediate release and had described as a "conspiratorial fiction" the idea that the protests were an attempt to overthrow the government.

A court previously acquitted people prosecuted over the 2013 protests, with a judge ruling in 2015 they were exercising the right of freedom of assembly.

But in 2017, Kavala was arrested and the following year police arrested the other 15 defendants including civil society figures, writers and actors.

The prosecution was a part of the crackdown that Turkey says is necessary on security grounds. It has involved widespread purges of the armed forces, ministries and state organisations.

Since thechoir to India using the funds from the project.

If ever the looting that went on in the Free State and the rest of the country during state capture needed a face, Dhlamini and his fellow small-scale farmers are the faces of the victims who suffered directly from state capture.

They were lied to, made empty promises to and then had their names used to get millions of rands worth of funds released to the Free State government, only to watch helplessly as Zwane and his department diverted the funds away from them, with less than 1% ending up in the doomed project. The farmers also had to watch as the NPA botched the case in court, with those who siphoned off funds walking away scot-free.

New National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)


Remember in Tim Burton's Batman when he asked Vicki Vale how much she weighed before zipping upward in that alley to escape the Joker's goons? If Batman had a T-PLS pneumatic "tactical line-throwing system" with a 7mm Kevlar line and titanium grappling hook, he could've brought Vicki, some of her friends, Robin AND a bag of Scooby snacks (did anyone else see that crossover cartoon?) along for the ride.

It is bulkier than most of Batman's gear at 19 pounds, but it'll shoot 120 feet (12 stories) straight up with up to 350 psi from its compressed air source. It's also super silent for stealth infiltrations. It's more Christian Bale's SWAT/ninja Batman than Michael Keaton's thinner, jaded Dark Knight—I could see it in the Tumbler's trunk. Side question: HowJOIN THE CRYPTOMATS

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Probing alleged irregularities in the sale of 21 state-owned sugar mills in 2010-2011 when Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted searches at the residences of her close aide and former secretary Net Ram and Vinaypriya Dubey, the then managing director of UP State Sugar Corporation Ltd, in Lucknow.

CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said the searches were a part of countrywide raids by more than 500 personnel at over 100 locations in 19 states and union territories in which the CBI registered around 30 separate cases related to alleged corruption, criminal misconduct and arms smuggling.

Fourteen locations in Delhi and UP were raided in connection with alleged irregularities in the salethat included the house of Mohammad Wajid Ali and Javed in Saharanpur, house of Saurav Mukand, a businessman from Saharanpur, and office and residence of a Delhi-based chartered accountant, SK Gupta,” Gaur said. Ali and Javed were identified as the sons of former member of the UP legislative council Iqbal Singh. The CBI also conducted raids at Krrish Buildtech Private Ltd in Jasola, Delhi and recovered 14 incriminating documents related to land deals, probing irregularities in a land allocation case in which it had registered an FIR in January this year against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and TC Gupta, a 1987 batch Indian Administrative Service officer who chief administrator of Haryana Urban Development Authority.

The agency also raided 11 places in Delhi in connection with alleged


The present invention relates to electrically heated windows, and more particularly to electrically heated windshields for aircraft.
Windshields for commercial aircraft are generally laminated structures formed of several layers of tempered glass and polymeric binding materials. Typically, a laminated aircraft windshield includes an outer glass face ply that is electrically heatable to prevent the accumulation of ice thereon. The outer glass face ply is laminated to a thicker, inner glass ply referred to as a main structural ply or pressure pane. Sometimes an additional structural ply, known as a fail-safe pane, is provided. The glass plies are typically bonded together with a clear polymeric sheet known as an interlayer. In addition to binding the glass plies together, the interlayer provides a flexible membrane to contain internal cabin pressure inquality of the windshield and also occasionally results in disruption and failure of portions of the electroconductive heating element.
Secondly, a phenomenon known in the industry as "cold chipping" is occasionally observed along the margins of the windshield where shear stresses are most pronounced. Cold chipping occurs when the interlayer thermally contracts due to cold temperatures and pulls chips of glass inwardly away from the edges of the outer glass face ply. Occasionally, these chips are deep enough to penetrate that portion of the glass that is subject to locked-in tension stresses caused by tempering, resulting in complete fracturing of the face ply.
Thirdly, a condition also due to the thermal contraction and stiffening of the interlayer is known as interlayer or vinyl cracking. This occurs when the resulting high