grows, affecting insects that eat it. The European Commission recently imposed restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides for two years.

The study examined the invasive Argentine ant, which is widely established in New Zealand, and the native Southern ant. The two species have similar habitat and food preferences.

"The Argentine ant is already known as an extremely aggressive invader, all around the world," says Professor Lester. "Here you have the Ghengis Khan of the ant world becoming even more aggressive after exposure to these pesticides.

"The success of such invasive species is often linked to their highly aggressive behaviour and to their ability to displace native communities and manipulate food sources."

Mr Barbieri says the level of increased aggression displayed by the Argentine ants as they faced off over food supplywith their native competitors was significant.

"The native ant was clearly less able to hold its own when it was contaminated by sub-lethal amounts of the pesticide."

"In habitats where the local species has previously been exposed to neonicotinodis, invading Argentine ants are likely to have significantly higher chances of monopolising food sources and higher survival rates."

Overall, say the researchers, their results provide evidence that sub-lethal exposure to these pesticides can have a major effect on the dynamics of ant communities.

The Victoria University research was today published in the international journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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Father who intentionally crashed into restaurant, killing daughter and daughter-in-law, was mentally ill: Pastor Police say the father went in with his family, then left and drove into them.

A former police officer charged with intentionally plowing his car through a North Carolina restaurant and killing his daughter and daughter-in-law had been suffering from deep mental illness, his pastor said Monday.

Roger Self and 16 members of his family had gone to the Surf and Turf Lodge in the Charlotte suburb of Bessemer City after attending church on Sunday and were enjoying a meal when he suddenly got up, went to his car and drove it at full speed through the front window and into a table where his family was seated, police said.

Killed in the incident were Self's daughter,Kate Self, a sheriff's deputy, and his daughter-in-law, Amanda Self, an emergency room nurse, said Austin Rammell, pastor of the Dare to Venture Church in Dallas, North Carolina, where 62-year-old Roger Self was a longtime member.

Self's wife, Diane Self, and son, Josh Self, a police officer, were critically injured in the incident, which occurred around noon on Sunday.

"That was actually set up by Kate to just have a good time with her dad," Rammell said of the family gathering during a news conference Monday. "She wanted to have all the family there to have a good time with her dad."

He said Kate Self, 26, was seated at the table next to her fiance, Alex Burns, a police officer in Gastonia, North Carolina, when her father's car came through


the restaurant window and wiped out their table, Rammell said.

"What happened yesterday was not a testimony of Roger Self, but a testimony of mental illness that absolutely overtook him a little over two months ago," said Rammell, who described Self to ABC News as his "best friend."

Roger Self has been charged with two counts of murder, the Gaston County Sheriff's Office said. He is being held in Gaston County Jail without bond and is expected to appear in court on Monday.

"He deeply loved his family. He deeply loved the daughter he killed. He deeply loved the daughter-in-law he killed," Rammell said.

He said Roger Self was a retired Gaston County police officer who founded his own private investigation business, Southeastern Loss Management.

Rammell said Self was also a former youthpastor at his church and had helped countless people across Gaston County overcome problems.

"Roger has been an icon in this community for decades," Rammell said. "There is a list a mile long of the people this man has sacrificed to make their lives better. He has walked with people through some of the darkest times imaginable and never once stopped to ask for credit or applause."

He said a little over two months ago, Self told him he was suffering from severe mental health problems and had concluded that he was no longer capable of running his business.

"He was suffering from severe depression and severe anxiety," Rammell said. "And by severe, I mean severe. This wasn't your normal, what you and I would go through when something bad happened


wake up every morning and you feel everybody in your family died, but you don't know why you feel that way."

He said Self's relatives told him that the Sunday restaurant outing had been going well.

"They were laughing and they had ordered their drinks and they had some appetizers and Roger got up," Rammell said. "Some of them thought he was just going to leave and come back. He'd get really anxious around people. And so they began noticing his car out in the parking lot had circled, and the next thing you know he came through the window."

According to Caleb Martin, who was busing tables at the Surf and Turf Lodge, the driver plowed through the front of the restaurant at full speed.

"I walked over to my stationand I heard a loud boom," Martin told ABC station WSOC-TV in Charlotte. "It went straight through. There's a doorway. There is a wall and he drove in another room."

Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger said Kate Self had been a member of his agency for four years. She started out as a detention officer and worked her way up to deputy and corporal.

"Tragic, tragic loss of life,” Cloninger said. "I'm asking people just to keep the family in your prayers, and the sheriff's office, because we're suffering right now."

Rammell said he was set to officiate Kate Self's wedding to Alex Burns in September.

"The family and the rest of this church firmly believe that Kate Self and Amanda Self are basking in the glory of heaven," Rammell. "We're all


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Sacramento Republic announced today that they are continuing their affiliation with the San Jose Earthquakes, an agreement that was first put in place prior to the start of the 2014 season. Indomitable City Soccer caught up with Head Coach and Technical Director Paul Buckle to get his thoughts on the agreement.

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On Heroes and Their Deeds: Conjecture Wrought from Pacing Back and Forth with Gnawed Down Fingernails

Throughout the days of humanity, the comings and goings from epoch to epoch, heroes abound and embellish the chronicles of writing as well as memory. In literature, we have heroic archetypes in the persons of Odysseus and Hercules for their feats of wit and physical prowess in the face of gods, monsters, and great peril in general. History (in this case Philippine History) distinguishes many heroes such as Dr Jose Rizal— the intellectual that fought with pen and paper— and Andres Bonifacio— the Father of a Revolution. For the Natural Sciences, we have pioneering individuals such as Marie Curie and her inquiries in radioactivity as well as Neil Armstrong, the first man


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Irv Smith, Jr. posted some poor numbers during athletic testing and is slightly undersized for the NFL tight end position. Teams will want to work on bulking up on that frame, but he may be more limited in the NFL than he was in college.

Smith may be asked to be more of a blocker early in his career, but he will need to show better effort or end up in the doghouse. There is potential as a receiver, but he may not be that TE1 that teams are wanting with bad limitations both as a blocker and a receiver.

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The Broncos have an abundance of potential No. 2 and 3 tight ends, so they need to find a guy who can be aNo clarity yet on functioning of the new business arm of DoS

In early March, the small set of NewSpace entities in the country sat up in disbelief to see a state-run company taking birth in that name although it did not fit the standard definition of their league.

On March 6, the Department of Space (DoS) quietly registered its second commercial entity, NewSpace India Ltd. (NSIL), in Bengaluru.

At the time, the small, new age ventures and startups foraying into the space industry were still coming to terms with the news of February 19 that the Union Cabinet had cleared a new business arm for DoS.

Surprise, because DoS already has a commercial venture, Antrix Corporation Limited, which was set up in September 1992 to market the products and services of


Man arrested for throwing woman against the wall in The Woodlands

Published 5:47 pm, Saturday, September 17, 2016

A 30-year-old man was arrested for assault on Sept. 4, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies responded to a disturbance call at Shallow Pond Place in The Woodlands where a man and woman had been arguing.

During the argument, MCSO said the man grabbed the woman and threw her against the wall several times.

South County

A 29-year-old Houston man was arrested for fleeing after a deputy responded to a welfare concern involving an injured man in the 500 block of Sawdust Road Sept. 5. The pursuit lasted several miles and ended in the 24400 block of Interstate 45 North.

A 28-year-old Robstown man and 35-year-old Spring woman were arrested on Sept. 6 for publicintoxication after two deputies responded to a disturbance in the 25500 block of Interstate 45 North.

Woodlands

A 22-year old Houston woman was arrested for public intoxication on Sept. 4 after a deputy was dispatched to a welfare check in the area of Branch Crossing and Knights Crossing. The woman was on the side of the road, was slurring her speech, and had trouble standing.

A 40-year-old man, who appeared to be on narcotics, was arrested for public intoxication on Sept. 7 during a welfare check at Woodlands Parkway and Grogans Mill.

A 20-year-old Houston man was arrested for DWI on Sept. 7. A deputy witnessed a traffic violation and made contact with the driver in the area of Harpers Landing and South Trade Center Parkway. The deputy could smell a strong


odor of alcohol emitting from the vehicle.

A 26-year-old Katy man was arrested for resisting on Sept. 7 after a deputy was dispatched to a disturbance in the 3000 block of Tanglebrush Drive. A man and woman had been arguing and the man refused to cooperate when deputies attempted to detain him.

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Survivors and doctors fight back against FGM

A new strategy is tackling the brutal tradition through a multidisciplinary approach. Kyle G. Brown reports

F.A. Cole was hoping to feel ‘whole’ again when she was flown to Los Angeles for clitoral reconstructive surgery last September. She never knew such a procedure was possible – not since she was taken at the age of 11 to ‘the local cutter’ in Sierra Leone, where she was stripped, blindfolded and had her hands tied behind her back. To muffle her screams, she was gagged.

Her stepmother had arranged the ritual, calling female genital mutilation (FGM) ‘a rite of passage to womanhood’.

She is one of few women worldwide to have undergone a surgery that reconstructs part of the clitoris, as well as nerves that can restoreher not to worry. But the itching got worse, and the youthful 44-year-old started taking sleeping pills.

Then by chance, Cole – an activist who campaigns against FGM – met veteran French surgeon and urologist Dr Pierre Foldès at an FGM conference in Washington last fall.

‘When he found out I was using soap, Dr Foldès almost had a heart attack!’ Cole says. ‘He said, “‘Soap? Who told you to use soap?”’

They discovered that the sutures (medical stitches) used after surgery caused an allergic reaction, something that Cole says would have been spotted if she had been given proper post-op care.

A holistic approach

F.A. Cole at Women Safe Institute, January 2018. Photo: Kyle G. Brown

Cole, a software trainer for patent engineers, was the first woman to be sponsored for clitoral reconstruction


avuncular surgeon devised the ground-breaking reconstructive surgery in 1978 – he carried out his first operations in West Africa – Foldès has conducted more than 6,000 such operations, with the number of patients rising every year.

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‘Our work has sky-rocketed,’ he says. ‘And because we provide free services – even the surgery is reimbursed – we need more funding to keep up.’ This is not least to cope with growing international demand.

Foldès and Frédérique Martz, who co-founded Women Safe Institute, were received by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée in December – not the kind of invitation typically extended to anti-FGM activists and health professionals.

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the Queen’s faith and how The Crown gets it right.

You note that Elizabeth publicly asked her people to pray for her when she turned 21 and again when she was anticipating her coronation. This seems particularly striking, considering what a private person she was.

Elizabeth’s request for prayer from her subjects and from others has been a way to ground and demonstrate her faith and the fact that it is personal. She’s not just going through the motions, she does want their engagement and their support, and prayer is an incredible way to do that.

I think she’s keenly aware of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who had a very active, dynamic Christian faith and was very transparent about Bible reading, evangelism, and prayer. During the male monarchs, in between Victoriaone less item on her schedule that day. But she is not only the patron of the Scripture Union and the Bible Society—as she is for several hundred other charities and nonprofits—but she has taken a very keen and personal interest in their work and the way they try to help children and young adults have faith. So for her to attend that service in a very small neighborhood church—she seemed to enjoy celebrating something that has continued to grow and thrive and sustain the Christian faith in a postmodern, post-Christian society.

“Defender of the Faith” is an official title of the Queen of England. How does Elizabeth II steward this responsibility, especially as the church continues to decline in Britain?

That role is definitely a challenge, in part because


of the way the church has had to wrestle with changing mores and changing culture. We have seen evidence of that, particularly in attitudes toward divorce or even the institution of marriage, toward inclusivity.

The title “Defender of the Faith” comes with a bit of history of its own, going back to Henry VIII and his establishment of the Anglican Church, but what does it mean to defend the faith and guard it and steward it? I think that’s a very challenging prospect for anyone and certainly for someone in her role as ambassador of her people. I admire the way she has tried to defend the faith and to carry it forward in very difficult, very tumultuous times.

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Tell us about how one goes about writing astation in life, had a particular connection to Her Majesty The Queen and also seemed to be very much in fear of the time when she will pass.

In describing the Queen’s coronation, you note that she didn’t want to have the communion and the anointing portions of the ceremony televised.

As with so many events during her reign, she had to negotiate and compromise on how to engage and share with her subjects, the public, and the world at large. This once-in-a-lifetime event, the coronation, came at a time in the 20th century when television was just coming in to popular usage. It took some convincing, but she reluctantly agreed to televise it.

But for these moments, the communion and the anointing, it just seemed so incredibly personal and intimate


and wife, residing in Clifton, executed a joint will. Under its terms they bequeathed and devised their property to each other. It further provided that upon the death of the survivor, with the exception of a specific devise not here relevant, the residue of their property was to be divided equally among their six children.
On May 10, 1962 Alex Jakimjuk and Rose, his wife, executed a purchase money mortgage to Julius and Barbara in the amount of $15,000 on property located in Clifton. Julius died on May 27, 1965. The Passaic County Surrogate probated the joint will as Julius' will on June 8, 1965 and Barbara was duly qualified as executrix.
On July 28, 1965 Barbara made a new will revoking the prior will in which she named herson Frank Korty, nee Kortvellessy, as sole beneficiary. On October 25, 1965 Barbara assigned the mortgage on the Jakimjuk property to Frank and Tania, his wife. In August 1966 Barbara moved to Pennsylvania to live with Frank and Tania in Forest City. She died in a convalescent home in Waymart, Pennsylvania on February 9, 1967. (We were informed at oral argument *230 that the will made by Barbara on July 28, 1965 was probated in Pennsylvania on February 1, 1968.)
On July 19, 1967 Daniel and Julius Kortvellessy (stepsons of Barbara), who had been named as successor executors in the joint will executed by Barbara and Julius on August 7, 1956, filed a complaint for the re-probate of that instrument as Barbara Kortvellessy's will with the Passaic County Surrogate.


The complaint alleged that when Barbara died on February 9, 1967 she was domiciled in Clifton and resided at 15 Rosalie Avenue in that city. The surrogate admitted the will to probate and issued letters testamentary to Daniel and Julius on August 15, 1967.
On September 1, 1967 Daniel and Julius as executors (the plaintiffs herein), filed a complaint in the Passaic County Court for "discovery of assets" pursuant to N.J.S. 3A:12-11, alleging that Frank and Tania Korty had in their posession assets of the estate which the executors had demanded be turned over to them. The complaint alleged that the Jakimjuk mortgage, upon which there remained due $11,399.16, was an asset of the estate to which the six beneficiaries named in the joint will were entitled. It demandedthe entry of a judgment requiring Frank and Tania to appear before the court to make discovery of assets belonging to the estate. Upon filing of the complaint the County Court issued an order to show cause directing Frank and Tania to appear on September 19 to make discovery as to their possession and knowledge of any personal property of Julius and Barbara Kortvellessy, deceased. It also restrained Frank and Tania from disposing of estate assets and from collecting interest or principal due on the Jakimjuk mortgage. It further ordered that Alex and Rose Jakimjuk pay any monies due or to come due on the mortgage to a receiver appointed by the court.
On August 28, five days before plaintiffs' complaint was filed, Frank Korty assigned his one-half interest


in the Jakimjuk mortgage to Tania. On September 26 Tania filed a verified petition with the County Court alleging that she was *231 the sole owner of the mortgage; that Barbara had executed the second will on July 28, 1965 in which Frank Korty was named as the sole beneficiary, and that Barbara had moved to Pennsylvania in the summer of 1966 where she died on February 9, 1967. The petition alleged that when plaintiffs offered the 1956 joint will to the surrogate for probate they untruthfully stated the residence of the decedent Barbara Kortvellessy to be 15 Rosalie Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey, and further, that the joint will had been revoked by the later will. The petition requested that an order to show cause issue toin total viewers with 4.7 million.

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northwest branch of Theravada. Although Mulasarvastivada emerged only at the
beginning of the eighth century CE; nevertheless, according to Frauwallner, its seat was Mathura.
Passages linking this school with Kashmir were later interpolations. Mathura was also the
meditation retreat area for the Theravadins and Dharmaguptas. Although the Mulasarvastivada
doctrines are quite distinct, the three Vinaya communities lived harmoniously in Mathura. Thus,
because of this closeness of the three Vinaya lineages, that harmony needs to be continued today
and ordination procedural differences among them should be considered not so important.

“The Unbroken Lineage of the Sinhalese Bhikkhuni Sangha from the 3
rd to the 11
th Century”

The bhikkhuni ordination in Sri Lanka, introduced by Emperor Ashoka’s daughter, Sanghamitta,
continued unbrokenly until 1017 CE. Thus, the Sri Lankan bhikkhunis who participated in dual sangha
ordination of bhikkhunis for the Chinese nunsin Nanjing in 433 CE had an unbroken lineage. Before
then, Chinese bhikkhunis were ordained by a single sangha comprising only Dharmagupta bhikkhus.

Just as there were four Theravada Vinaya lineages at the four main monasteries in Sri Lanka,
each with a slightly different interpretation of the bhikkhu vows, there were probably also
slightly different bhikkhuni lineages as well. Although the revival of the Theravada bhikkhuni
ordination lineage in Sri Lanka entailed re-ordination of the bhikkhunis from Dharmagupta to
Theravada, in accordance with the dalhikamma strengthening procedure followed among the four Sri
Lanka Theravada bhikkhu sanghas, it would be preferable to reinstate the Mulasarvastivada bhikshuni
ordination through the single sangha procedure.

The historical accounts of the Vietnamese bhikshunis are only partial; in many periods of
history, little is known. The earliest reference is in the second century CE.


Throughout history,
however, the women who ordained in Vietnam were mostly from the upper class and already had led a
family life before becoming nuns.

“The First Bhikshuni Ordination in East Asia: Giving Birth to a New Way of Life”

The Vinaya texts for both monks and nuns were brought to China at the same time. But, bhikshu
and bhikshuni ordination began even before that, based on manuals of guidelines composed in China.
In 357 CE, the first Chinese bhikshunis were ordained by the single sangha method according to the
newly translated Mahasanghika bhikshuni Vinaya. The validity of this ordination, however, was
challenged at that time by Dao Chang.

The complete translation of the
Tripitaka into Chinese was completed in 382 CE, almost 300 years after Buddhism arrived in
China. After this, the complete Dharmagupta Vinaya texts were availablein Chinese. With the
arrival of Sri Lankan bhikshunis and with the dual sangha Dharmagupta bhikshuni ordination of 300
Chinese women in 434 CE that they and Chinese Dharmagupta bhikshus held, there were no longer any
challenges to the validity of the ordination.

During the Six Dynasties Period (317-589 CE), the Buddhist sangha in China received imperial
patronage. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 CE), the central government developed a
bureaucratic structure to register the monks and nuns and to supervise monastic affairs. Thus, the
government issued ordination certificates (Chin.
dudie) to monks and nuns upon passing a national sutra examination and then receiving full
ordination. These certificates entitled the holders to cropland and soon these ordination
certificates became an alternative form of money.

During the Five Dynasties and Song Period (907-1206 CE), the government built national
ordination platforms


under the age of forty were prohibited from receiving
ordination. The nuns had to be officially registered and that helped to protect them and their
rights.

From among all these Chinese customs, it might be helpful if there were official ordination
records kept by the Tibetans in the future.

Dual Dharmagupta bhikshuni ordination was institutionalized in the Paekche (Baekje) kingdom of
Korea (18 BCE – 660 CE) at least in 588 CE, when the first Japanese bhikshunis were ordained there
with this procedure. No historical material is available for the Silla (57 BCE – 935 CE) and Koguyo
(Goguryeo) Kingdoms (37 BCE – 668 CE). During the Koryo (Goryeo) Dynasty (918-1392 CE), Buddhism
was the state religion and it is inferred that the dual sangha ordination procedure for bhikshunis
was maintained during that time. During the Choson (Joseon)Dynasty (1392-1910 CE), Buddhism was
severely restricted due to strong Confucian influence. Bhikshus were prohibited from entering the
capital and had to pay for ordination. Only widows with no unmarried children and who had finished
the three-year mourning period were allowed to become nuns. Unmarried women were not permitted to
ordain and women in general were prohibited from visiting temples. Bhikshuni ordination continued,
but was most likely given by the single sangha method, without the preliminary shikshamana period.
The relation between the nun teachers and disciples was modeled after Confucian filial piety.

“Strategies for the Preservation of Endangered Ordination Traditions in the Sakya School”

The Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism preserves two distinct Mulasarvastivada ordination
lineages through the Kashmiri Abbot Shakyashribhadra (1140s-1225 CE). One lineage eventually spread
to the four Sakya monastic communities and the other was passed


ordination, but also for the new bhikshunis to ignore the eight gurudharmas that have
regulated their lower status. These eight, after all, were formulated for the sole purpose of
avoiding censure by the lay society. In the modern world, disallowing the re-establishment of the
Mulasarvastivada bhikshuni ordination and honoring these eight risk that very censure.

The decline of the status of bhikshunis in the Buddhist world has been primarily due to cultural
and social forces. Therefore, social consensus and acceptance of bhikshunis by the Buddhist lay
community at large will be responsible for the re-establishment of the bhikshuni ordination. This
is already visible in Sri Lanka, where doubts about the moral ethics of many of the bhikkhus is
leading to laypeople increasingly inviting bhikkhunis to their homes to perform such religious
functions as conducting the rites forcomplete sangha. This is not a matter of establishing something new. Of the various
manners of re-establishing the ordination, the single sangha method, although not perfect, seems to
be the best choice. The time to act is now; it only depends on the willingness of the Tibetan
bhikshu Vinaya masters.

Bhikkhuni ordination never arrived in Thailand. The tradition of
maeji (maechi), eight- precept practitioners, who shave their heads, wear white robes, and lead a
somewhat religious lifestyle, has been in existence for at least four centuries. The maeji receive
neither government recognition nor support. In 1782 CE, King Rama I of Thailand promulgated the
Sangha Act of the Thai Government, which defined the sangha as a male sangha. Further, in 1928 CE,
the Sangharaja Jinavornsiriratna issued an order forbidding all Thai bhikkhus from giving
ordination to women, despite


schools for ordination,
such as Thich Nhat Hahn’s Vietnamese tradition or the Taiwanese Fo Guang Shan Order, which has a
branch temple in Bangkok. If the Supreme Buddhist Council of Thailand and the two main Thai
Buddhist universities continue to avoid finding an acceptable solution to the bhikkhuni ordination
question, a further decline in traditional Thai Buddhism may be unavoidable. However, the
demarginalization of Thai Buddhist women may help to revitalize Buddhism as a whole in
Thailand.

Vietnamese refugees have been working steadily to establish temples and ordain bhikshus and
bhikshunis in many countries around the world. At present, the proportion of bhikshus to bhikshunis
in the Vietnamese community is three to two. It is important for the Tibetans, as well as for the
Thais and Burmese, to reinstate the bhikshuni ordination in their lineages, especially in thepresent in Bengal until the twelfth century CE, however no information is
available on their exact activities. After that, only a few pockets of Buddhism continued to exist
in Bengal, primarily in the Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. In 1864 CE, a
leading monk of the Arakan district of coastal Burma re-established Theravada Buddhism in the
Vajarayana Buddhist Society of these hill tracts. The practice of Theravada Buddhism has continued
there until the present.

Although there are approximately one million Buddhists in Bangladesh, about one percent of the
total population, only a very few women are practicing the eight precepts in different temples.
Although Bangladeshi society and many leading monks there are not in favor of the re-establishment
of the Theravada bhikkhuni ordination there, the Venerable Bana Bhante Sadhananda Mahathero is
willing to confer bhikkhuni ordination


time that a
similar movement takes place within the Tibetan community to replace the derogatory term for nuns,
anila, with
chöla and
gelongma.

The spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan spans two periods. From 1950 to 1982 CE, mostly
mainland Chinese lay followers of Tibetan Buddhism went to Taiwan, with only a few ordained Tibetan
and Mongolian lamas. Since 1982 CE, a steadily growing number of Tibetan monastics have been going.
Elder Gongga was a Chinese woman who transmitted and spread the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
first in mainland China up until 1958 CE and then after that in Taiwan. Able to fuse together both
Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist identities, she taught at first as a laywoman and ordained as a
bhikkhuni only in 1982 CE. Her preserved body is widely venerated as having produced many relics.
Another Chinesenun, Longlian (1909-2006 CE), from the Gelug school, has also contributed greatly
to the spread of Tibetan Buddhism among the Chinese, primarily through her translation work.

The eight gurudharmas were formulated by Buddha out of kindness for women. They were necessary
to help Queen Mahaprajapati Gautami and her retinue to overcome their arrogance of having been part
of the royal court. They were also needed to protect the nuns from harm. Bhikkhunis have
contributed greatly to Buddhism in Vietnam. In 1956 CE, Bhikkhuni Nhu Thanh founded the Vietnamese
Nun Mahayana Association. With the reunification of North and South Vietnam, the Vietnamese
Buddhist Association [Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha] was established in 1981 to standardize
and regulate Buddhist practice throughout the country, jointly for both bhikkhus and bhikkhunis. It
has ensured continuing harmony and gender equality within the sangha. If


was made in the thirteenth
century CE to begin bhikshuni ordination by a single sangha, but that was never continued. In the
fifteenth century CE, Princess Chokyi-dronme (Chos-kyi sgron-me) was recognized as the embodiment of the Buddha figure Vajra Varahi. She
became known as Samding Dorje Pagmo (
bSam-lding rDo-rje phag-mo) and began a line of female tulkus, reincarnate lamas. At
present, the twelfth of this line lives in Tibet. Another female tulku lineage, that of Shugseb
Jetsun Rinpoche (Shug-gseb rJe-btsun Rin-po-che), began in the nineteenth century CE.

Although most Tibetan novice nuns have traditionally lacked the opportunity to study Buddhist
philosophy and debate, there have been some who have done so and excelled in that area,
specifically in the seventeenth century CE at the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Less than twenty
years ago, however, HisHoliness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama instituted the study of Buddhist
philosophy and debate in the Tibetan Buddhist nunneries in exile. Some nuns have now become
teachers at the Tibetan schools and some have become Tibetan doctors. More, however, have
successfully finished their training in the philosophy sections of the traditional Geshe and Khenpo
degree programs, but have been unable to complete these degrees with the full study of the Vinaya.
As novice nuns, they have only been permitted to study the shramanerika Vinaya, and not the
bhikshuni Vinaya. This restriction, however, has helped to make them realize even more strongly the
importance of re-establishing the bhikshuni ordination for the Tibetan Mulasarvastivada
tradition.

Many years of research concerning this ordination, undertaken with the support of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, and many conferences on the topic have helped to


nunnery in Zangskar dates from the first half of the fifteenth century CE and,
following the Tibetan tradition, has only novice nuns. Similar nunneries were founded in Ladakh
starting in the eighteenth century CE. At present, Zangskar has ten nunneries, with roughly 120
novice nuns, and eight monasteries with roughly 300 monks. The nunneries own far less fields that
the monks do and financial support for the nuns has been sparse. The educational and economic
situations of the nunneries in Zangskar and Ladakh have improved with the founding of the Ladakh
Nuns Association in 1996 CE and the Zangskar Nuns Association in 2006 CE.

With the re-establishment of the bhikshuni ordination, bhikshunis will be able to take more
fully the mother’s role in providing spiritual comfort to women and children, especially those who
have been victims ofabuse.

“The Structure and Curriculum of the Bhiksuni Vinaya Institute of the Pongnyongsa Nunnery in
Korea”

During the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945 CE), the number of celibate bhikshus
drastically declined due to the influence of the Japanese Buddhist custom of married priests. At
the end of World War II, only a few celibate Korean bhikshus were left who had studied Vinaya. The
Korean War (1950-1953 CE) brought about further damage to the monastic order. Slowly, the Vinaya
was revitalized and, in 1982 CE, dual sangha ordination for bhikshunis was reinstated within the
Jogye Order. In 1999 CE, the Diamond Vinaya Institute was founded to educate bhikshunis according
to a strict schedule and extensive curriculum. In 2007 CE, for the first time, the bhikshuni Vinaya
lineage was passed from one bhikshuni to another bhikshuni.

“A Tibetan Precedent for Multi-tradition


Ordination Support for Giving Bhikshuni Ordination with
a Dual Sangha of Mulasarvastivada Bhikshus and Dharmaguptaka Bhikshunis”

After the persecution of Buddhism in Central Tibet by King Langdarma in the mid-ninth or early
tenth century CE, three Tibetan Mulasarvastivada bhikshus, led by Tsang-rabsel (
Tsang Rab-gsal), fled to Amdo, where they gave full bhikshu ordination to Gongpa-rabsel (
dGongs-pa rab-gsal) with the help of two Chinese bhikshus. As for the question of which
Vinaya lineage these Chinese bhikshus followed, the assertion made by many conservative Tibetan
scholars that they must have been Mulasarvastivada has no historical basis.

From the mid-third until the early fifth century CE, Chinese bhikshus were ordained according to
the Dharmagupta rituals, but followed the Mahasanghika version of the pratimoksha vows in daily
life. Once the appropriate texts were translated into Chinese, then from the early-fifthto the
mid-seventh century CE, the bhikshus were still ordained according to the Dharmagupta Vinaya, but
in different parts of China the bhikshus followed the Sarvastivada, Dharmagupta, Mahasanghika, or
Mahishasaka Vinayas.

In the mid-seventh century CE, Daoxuan, the first patriarch of the Vinaya School in China,
decreed that the Dharmagupta Vinaya must be followed for both ordination and daily life, and in 709
CE, the Tang Emperor Zhong-zong formalized this with an imperial edict. The Mulasarvastivada Vinaya
was translated into Chinese only at the beginning of the eighth century CE, but there is no
evidence that it was ever followed. Thus, the two Chinese bhikshus that completed the assembly of
five bhikshus required to confer bhikshu ordination in a border region were clearly Dharmagupta.
Therefore, there is a precedent in Tibetan history for conferring ordination by a sangha


the ordination procedures at many monasteries had
become lax. Therefore, in 1660 CE, Jian Yue revitalized the pure ordination rituals, including the
taking of the bodhisattva vows as part of the ordination. His ordination manuals have been followed
ever since.

In 1969 CE, Master Hua established the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association in California USA.
Since 1972, this association has conducted Dharmagupta bhikshu and bhikshuni ordinations eleven
times at Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco and the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage,
California, in accord with Jian Yue’s manuals. Theravada bhikkhu elders have overseen, participated
in, and certified these ordinations. Following ordination, the bhikshu and bhikshuni sanghas
receive training and live in harmony within a Western context.

"Experiences with Ordaining Bhikhhunis in Los Angeles from 1994 to 2004"

Starting in 1994 CE, there has been ordination of bhikshusand bhiskhunis at the International
Buddhist Meditation Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, following the Dharmagupta procedure. The
bhikshus and bhikshunis have been ordained together in one ritual. Each of the three officiating
positions for the ordination has been shared by one bhikshu and one bhikshuni, with the bhikshus
conferring the bhikshu vows and the bhikshunis conferring the bhikshuni vows. These officiating
bhikshus and bhikshunis have been from different schools and countries, all functioning together as
one ordaining body – Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and American Dharmagupta and Sri Lankan
Theravada. The other members of the ordaining sangha have been bhikshus and bhikshunis from all
three Vinaya schools and various countries. The ordaining women have all been shramanerika novice
nuns for at least three years and there has been no requirement that they have been shikshamanas.
Although the ordination ritual


has been solely Dharmagupta, each of the new bhikshus and bhikshunis
must feel that they receive ordination in their own lineage – Theravada, Mulasarvastivada, or
Dharmagupta. Twenty Western women have ordained as bhikshunis in this way in the Mulasarvastivada
tradition.

Since the break in the Theravada bhikkhuni ordination lineage in 1017 CE, Sri Lankan women have
only been able to ordain as ten-precept nuns. The bhikkhuni ordination was first revived for Sri
Lankan women in Sarnath by the Korean Dharmagupta sangha of the Chogyo [sic, Chogye, Jogye] Order in 1996 CE. The Sri Lankan bhikkhus in
attendance recognized the legitimacy of the ordination and, subsequently, these ten Sri Lankan
bhikkhunis have followed the Theravada tradition of Vinaya while holding Dharmagupta ordination. In
1998 CE, twenty more ten-precept Sri Lankan nuns received single sangha Dharmagupta bhikkhuni
ordination in BodhGaya from Taiwanese bhikshus and, subsequently, single sangha bhikkhuni
re-ordination by Theravada bhikkhus in Sarnath. Now, in 2007 CE, there are over 500 bhikkhunis in
Sri Lanka who have received ordination in Taiwan and now by dual sangha ordination comprising Sri
Lankan bhikkhus and bhikkhunis in Sri Lanka. There is no basis for the objection by some
conservative Sri Lankan bhikkhus that the Dharmagupta ordination is a Mahayana ordination. The
President of Sri Lanka, His Excellency Mahindra Rajapaksa, has recognized this ordination and now
there is official government support.

The Fo Guang Shan Order was established in Taiwan in 1967 CE. Bhikshus and bhikshunis from this
order have conferred dual sangha Dharmagupta bhikshuni ordination for nuns following Theravada and
Tibetan Buddhism at the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles in 1988, Bodh Gaya in 1998, and Taiwan


apparent from the above description, the behaviour of the air stream within the mold cavity is quite different between the filling process wherein the fiber mixture is gradually filled in the mold cavity and the heat-treatment process wherein the fiber mixture has already been filled in the mold cavity.
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The Studstrup Power Station ( Danish : Studstrupværket ) is an oil and coal- fired thermal plant at Studstrup , Denmark . It is operated by DONG Energy . It has an electrical generation capacity of 700 MW and went into service in 1968. The chimney of the power plant is 189.89 meters (623.0 ft) tall. The plant can partially co-fire biomass in the form of straw. Waste heat from the plant is directed through pipes into Aarhus and used for district heating .


This invention relates generally to autoloading handguns, and, more specifically, to a magazine disconnect safety for an autoloading handgun.
Auto-loading firearms have been manufactured for decades, both in the United States and in many foreign countries. The Model 1911 .45 caliber automatic handgun has been an extremely popular autoloading handgun. The Model 1911 pistol is an automatic firearm in which several operations are automatically effected through or by energy of the recoil of the breech bolt or which, at the time of firing, closes the breech of the barrel. These operations include opening the breech after firing a shot, ejection of empty cartridge-shell, cocking of the hammer, presentation and introduction of a loaded cartridge into the chamber of the barrel, and closing and locking of the breech. Additionally, indescribed in U.S. Pat. No. 984,519 which issued to John M. Browning on Feb. 14, 1911. The safety on the 1911 Model pistol prevents the pistol from discharging when the pistol chamber is loaded, ready to fire and the pistol is not properly positioned in the hand of the shooter. In the Browning 1911 patent, provision is provided to ensure against accidental firing when the trigger is pulled after the magazine is withdrawn. The magazine catch, that is, a thumb pressed button, locks the magazine in its magazine receptacle and also locks the trigger against operation whenever there is no magazine in the magazine receptacle. The trigger is automatically released when the magazine is entered into the magazine receptacle and is locked by the catch. This can be


showed that the bacterium belonged to a new genus, and was most closely, yet quite distantly, related to Holospora obtusa. In spite of this relationship, the new bacteria differed from Holospora by at least two biological features. Whereas all Holospora species reside exclusively in the nuclei of various species of Paramecium and show a life cycle with a morphologically distinct infectious form, for the new bacterium no infectious form and no life cycle have been observed. For the new bacterium, the name Candidatus Paraholospora nucleivisitans is suggested. The host P. sexaurelia is usually known from tropical and subtropical areas and is not a species typically found in Germany and central Europe. Possibly, it had been taken to Germany with fish or plants from tropical or subtropical waters. CandidatusRetired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington issued an open letter to West Point graduates earlier this week blasting the superintendent, commandant, and dean of the military academy for contributing to a “culture of permissiveness.”

The letter was subsequently posted on the website of American Military News.

Heffington told The Daily Caller he wrote the letter to the USMA Class of 1963 when several of its graduates contacted him asking how Spenser Rapone, a cadet espousing radically anti-American views, was allowed to graduate. (RELATED: Communist West Point Grad Was Reported In 2015 For Anti-American Posts)

“The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline,” the letter charges. “The end result is


“an entire semester of military history was deleted from the curriculum,” but that there is an ever-growing focus on race, as well as “the narrative that America is founded solely on a history of racial oppression.”

According to the letter, cadets scornfully refer to one American history course as the “I Hate America” course.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHELSEA MANNING CONTROVERSY:

The superintendent’s duplicity, the dean’s academic neglect, and a radical leftist shift in the curriculum are not the only problems plaguing the Academy, according to Heffington. The colonel also criticizes the Commandant of Cadets for failing to adequately enforce disciplinary standards.

Recalling an incident in which he reported a flagrant honor violation, Heffington states, “the Commandant of Cadets called my office phone and proceeded to berate me in the most vulgarand obscene language for over ten minutes because I had reported a cadet who lied to me and then asked if ‘we could just drop it.'”

Heffington says in his letter that he was “duty bound to report the cadet’s honor violation,” and that he never found out why the commandant lashed out at him. “It seemed that he was simply irritated that the institution was having to deal with the case, and that it was my fault it even existed,” Heffington comments.

The retired lieutenant colonel, in his impassioned letter, argues that a willful and deliberate lowering of standards and expectations, from the top down, has had a deleterious effect on the core values and mission of the Academy. He stresses that his criticisms are not borne out of


Note: Ramesh and Hinds performed the feat in the same match

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Note: KMA Paul took a wicket [Javed Ahmadi - lbw] with the first legal delivery, after starting with a wide ball.Is Planned Parenthood's 'Torture Sex' Advice Making Its Way Into the Classroom?

In the latest installment of "SexEd: Planned Parenthood's Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids," an Oregon Planned Parenthood counselor is shown telling a 15-year-old girl, who's under the legal age of consent, to watch porn, go to a sex shop, and experiment with bondage and hitting with her boyfriend.

Live Action released its fourth undercover video last week, with others soon to follow, that shows a Planned Parenthood counselor and nurse giving BDSM (bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism) or "torture sex" advice to a girl whom she believes is only 15....


stock offering, according to the Free Press, primarily as an example of new technology developments. And as the newspaper notes, the Volt is expected to go on sale in Mid-November and could, conveniently enough, hit the market the same week as GM's IPO."You feel embarrassed. You feel ashamed."

Steve says he's still feeling that way, a year after he says he was sexually assaulted by a fellow employee while working in the kitchen at Montreal's Hotel Bonaventure.

Steve is not his real name. His identity is protected under a publication ban.

That colleague, Jimmy Valente, has since pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual assault in relation to the incident. The allegations against him have not been tested in court.

But Steve says he was discouraged from filing a complaint, and the hotel defended Valente's behaviour, claiming "taps on the bum" were all part of the camaraderie of the kitchen.

Steve alleges he was assaulted on three occasions during a shift he worked as a dishwasher in January 2019. He claims Valente grabbed his


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bank and one of its employees, alleging that on May 29, 2010, he was prevented from
opening a student checking account. He claimed that the defendants intentionally

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The most recent conservative attack on the Obama campaign has been around the efficacy of its spending, i.e., “they are outspending us on ads, without any movement in the polls.” J.T. Young made this argument in the American Spectatora few days ago, and GOP guru Karl Rove made it today in the Wall Street Journal:

His cash advantage over Mr. Romney was probably gone as of July 31, in large measure because (according to public records at TV stations) Team Obama has spent at least $131 million on television the last three months.

These ads have not moved him up in the polls. The race is tied in the July 30 Gallup poll at 46%. Neither have the ads strengthened public approval of Mr. Obama’s


[Hemosorption - a method of rapid elimination of cholesterol from the plasma and its effect on the regression of experimental atherosclerosis].
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taught U.S. history for several hours per day—while the government bars them from joining U.S. society.

In a report on "All In with Chris Hayes," Soboroff compared the facility to a prison, where about 1,400 boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are kept indoors for 22 hours per day.

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Gregor's transformation into a monstrous vermin and job secluded him from his family and society. His family declined to recognize that Gregor was a part of the family when he transformed and treated him like a curse and disgrace. Because Gregor's a bug he can't communicate with anyone thus contributing to his isolation. Gregor spends most of the time in his room, isolated from his family. When Grete removed all of Gregor's furniture out of his room, he finally loses all the connection he has from the real world because it dehumanizes him.

Alienation/ Isolation

Gregor's purpose in life was to support his family financially and aid his sister, Grete, to


a conservatory. Gregor feels obligated to solely support his family. Although he dislikes his job, he knows that he must work hard to support his family. However, when Gregor was unable to work, Grete had to support and help him. Unlike Gregor, at the end, Grete exclaims that she has done her part in supporting her family. When it came to Gregor's family helping Gregor in his time of need, they failed.

Family Duty

Even when Gregor discovered that he had been transformed into a monstrous vermin, his only concern was about his family, his boss, and his work-everything but himself. Gregor, who does everything for his family and expects nothing in return, feels guilt that Grete,his sister, is serving him by bringing him food. Gregor's guilt plays a mainrole in his mentality that he feels the need to hide under the couch, so his sister wouldn't have to look at him and be repulsed. In addition, Gregor feels guilt in the matter that he's no longer the breadwinner of the family thus making his father, mother, and sister work. In the conclusion of the novella, when Grete forces Gregor to go in his room because he disturbed her violin performance, the guilt of that drives him to ultimately die in his room. The overall massive guilt in Gregor's mind consumes him to the point of death.


Megan Brennan is the head of the largest postal organization in the world. She is also the first woman to hold the position, and one of the highest paid US government officials.

She started her job as the 74th Postmaster General, one of the oldest jobs in government (it was created before the Declaration of Independence), in February 2015, after holding several top positions in the agency.

But before she reached the highest echelons of the organization, Brennan got to know the US postal system inside-out, starting with a year-long assignment as a humble letter carrier in 1986 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

By choosing a career in the postal service after college she continued a family tradition: her father worked for USPS for four decades, and two of her brothers became lettercarriers as well.

Brennan earned her MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she told the Wall Street Journal that she would like the postal service to operate like a company in the private sector. She is counting on mail advertising, which she says is still the most direct way to get to a consumer.

The USPS, which employs 600,000 people and loses billions of dollars every year, is in dire need of a new direction. Less people send old-fashioned snail mail, and the competition in the package business is fierce. The agency’s main money-making component, first-class mail, is rapidly shrinking. Congress also forced the USPS to pay $5.5 billion each year for future retirement benefits, putting immense financial pressure on the agency. The postal service does not get any


tax dollars, but is controlled by Congress.

Although she kicked off her tough first year in office battling Congress, her predecessor said of her when she was named to office that he thinks she will end up being “the greatest postmaster general ever.”remediation proposal, urging Symantec to essentially outsource its operations to another trusted certificate authority.

Mozilla's proposal comes after weeks of scrutiny from two of the three major web browsers. Google posted its first proposal, titled "Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-issued Certificates," in March. It called for reducing the validity period for new Symantec certificates to nine months, revalidating and replacing all Symantec-issued certificates, and removing the Extended Validation (EV) status of Symantec-issued certificates for at least one year.

However, after meetings in April with Google, Symantec was offered an alternative plan, under which it would work together with one or more existing CAs that could take over and replace Symantec's problematic infrastructure and validation processes, while allowing Symantec to continue its business relationships with its customers.

"Chrome's


"Symantec, of all organizations, should know this after the issues they had with their [registration authority] program and its audits."

Mozilla's revised plan, at this point, is less onerous than the one Google first proposed in March.

Symantec should seriously consider Google's proposal for simplifying and restoring trust in their public PKI.
Gervase Markhamsoftware engineer at Mozilla

While Mozilla presented its own plan for Symantec certificates, the company urged Symantec to go with Google's proposal to avoid losing trust in its certificates. "Symantec should seriously consider Google's proposal for simplifying and restoring trust in their public PKI," Markham wrote.

If Symantec does not choose Google's proposal, Mozilla's proposal would require Symantec to "immediately come up with a plan, in short order, to cut off via intermediate revocation (which we will carry in OneCRL)authority issues rests with Kathleen Wilson, program manager at Mozilla and the module owner of the CA Certificates Module.

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a pair of religion-based issues, including allegations from conservatives that freshmen Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) harbor anti-Semitic views.

The two representatives have drawn criticism for their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which is critical of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.

Sanders called the lawmakers' comments "outrageous," and slammed Democratic leaders for failing to promptly condemn the remarks.

CBN also asked Sanders about the plight of Christians in Syria given Trump's plans to withdraw U.S. forces from the country.

"Look, the president's made clear that we support Christians, that we support the Kurds," Sanders said. "He's made that clear to Turkey, he's made that clear publicly on a number of fronts, and just one of the reasons that the president has been toughon Iran is to make sure that people don't feel threatened.

"We're still going to have a presence in the region but as much as we can continue to totally and completely destroy ISIS, the president wants our troops out of Syria and he wants to be able to bring more of them back home," she added.

Trump announced in December plans to withdraw U.S. troops from war-torn Syria. The move raised concerns among lawmakers and international partners who warned that an abrupt pullout could destabilize the region and embolden the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Administration officials have since placed conditions on a full U.S. withdrawal, stating that the U.S. would not fully leave the country without the total defeat of ISIS and assurances from Turkey that it


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Hotel Zafira, Rua Bom Pastor andar 390, Sao Paulo, (Ipiranga)

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Situated within a 7-minute walk of Frei Caneca Shopping Mall in Sao Paulo, Center Bela Vista Hotel offers a terrace and a bar. Among the facilities at this property are a 24-hour front desk and a shared kitchen, along with free WiFi throughout the property. The property is located a 9-minute walk from Hospital Sirio Libanes and an 11-minute walk from Abril Theater.
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Więcej informacjiFor sale: the Botanic Inn is one of three pubs set to go on the market

Three of Belfast's best known pubs once owned by collapsed bar chain Botanic Inns are set to go on sale, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

It's understood the Botanic Inn on Malone Road, the King's Head on the Lisburn Road and Botanic Avenue's Madison's bar and hotel will go on the market at the end of this month, part of the latest disposals of the now scattered Botanic Inns empire.

And they are being sold by the Republic's bad bank, Nama, which took control of the properties.

They are currently being run by Horatio Group — a firm set up by Stephen Magorrian, the former managing director of Botanic Inns.

The Botanic Inns group went into administration


£8.1m for the period from February 2013 and May 2014, according to Companies House.

It made a small loss of £44,000 before tax.

The firm employs around 320 staff across its pubs.

And the latest pubs to go on the market come as a number of other hospitality deals have also been completed.

More than £10m worth of public house sales have happened in the last 12 months, equalling more than two dozen transactions, according to commercial property firm, Osborne King.

That includes Auntie Annie’s on the Dublin Road in Belfast, the Clarendon Bar in Londonderry and the former Clubland in Cookstown.

Meanwhile, last week Botanic Inns former head office, Maxol House on the Ormeau Road, was placed on the market for offers around £850,000.

It was once owned by Downpatrick developer, John Miskelly, whoKYODO NEWS - Jun 5, 2019 - 09:02 | Arts, All, Japan

Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami recently sat down for an interview with Kyodo News in April on the 40th anniversary of his debut novel "Hear the Wind Sing." This is Part 1 of the three-part interview, in which he speaks about his latest work "Killing Commendatore," the evolution of his writing style, and the growing presence of violence in social media.

Murakami: Exactly 40 years ago in May I received the Gunzo Award for New Writers. I believe the award ceremony was on May 8. It was held at the Dai-ichi Hotel in Shimbashi in Tokyo.

Q: You have been a professional writer for 40 years. Even Natsume Soseki's writing career only lasted for around 10 years. That's a


supernatural stories.

Q: Hmm, I see.

Murakami: My father's home is a Buddhist temple of the Jodo-shu (The Pure Land School) in Kyoto. Sure enough, when he died, a priest of the school recited a Buddhist sutra. I spoke to the priest and found out that his temple's grounds had Akinari's tomb, and I asked him if he'd show it to me. A crab was engraved on it. When I asked why, he told me that Akinari -- always the cynic -- asked as a dying wish that his tomb be engraved with something that could only walk sideways.

Q: What a fascinating story.

Murakami: The temple apparently took care of Akinari to some extent in his later years.

Q: There's an overlap between "Killing Commendatore" and Akinari's "Nise no Enishi." When theWind-Up Bird Chronicle," it was the other world through the well. In "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," it was "INKlings." And now we have "the Commendatore."

Q: I read the book eagerly awaiting the Commendatore's appearance. Since he's just around 60 centimeters, he's very cute.

Murakami: If he were too big, it would be difficult to work with him and he would appear menacing. Since he's small, he's compact, and it's easy to focus our attention on him and handle him. Everything becomes proportionally smaller. He is a presence but separate from daily life.

Q: "Kafka on the Shore" had non-humans like Kentucky Fried Chicken's mascot Colonel Sanders and Johnnie Walker. But it is the first time that a non-human appears so frequently and moves the story along.

Murakami:


(the Commendatore) is a somewhat neutral concept.

Murakami: I won't say that he is a good being but he is not a bad one. He is, I believe, a "guide" who has gone way beyond those types of values. And he is not something that is visible to everyone. He can only be seen by those who can see.

Q: The Commendatore's language is distinctive. He uses "aranai" (translated as "negative" in English versions of the book, but in Japanese is formed from "aru" -- to be and "nai" -- not.) Although he is speaking to only one person, he always calls the person "shokun (my friends)."

Murakami: Translators really had a hard time deciding how to translate those words.

Q: The protagonist, constantly referred to as "my friends," believes that theZhang Yang (left), the then-head of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) political affairs department, and Fang Fenghui (right), the then-chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army attend China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 8, 2017. (Andy Wong/AP)

China Expels Two Top Former Generals from Communist Party for Corruption

BEIJING— China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former top general who killed himself during a corruption probe and indicted another on graft charges amid Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s continuing crackdown on military malfeasance.

Official media reported that Zhang Yang killed himself at home last November, after which they denounced his death as a “despicable” act to escape punishment.

The Oct. 16 announcement renewed those accusations and said Zhang had


been kicked out of the party and posthumously stripped of his rank. It said assets related to his crimes would be seized.

Zhang formerly headed the Political Work Department under the government and party commissions that oversee the People’s Liberation Army, the world’s largest standing military.

The other general in trouble, Fang Fenghui, was also expelled and stripped of his rank, state media reported. He now faces a court martial on corruption allegations.

Fang, formerly chief of the PLA’s joint staff department, dropped out of public view last year, shortly after an August 2017 meeting with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford.

In their reports, the official Xinhua News Agency and other state media said Fang “seriously violated the party’s political discipline and politicalFrance, where the global anti-crime body is headquartered. Days later, China said Meng was under investigation for graft and possibly other crimes, although there are heavy suspicions he had fallen out of political favor with Xi.

No further details were given about the charges against Zhang, although earlier reports said investigators closed in on him using testimony given by two other former top generals, Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, who had earlier become high-profile targets of Xi’s campaign.

Xu and Guo had also been members of the Central Military Commission. Xu died of cancer in 2015 before facing a court martial, while Guo was sentenced to life in prison in 2016.

Fang was a subordinate of Guo, once China’s highest-ranked military official, who gained power through loyalty to former Party leader


Jiang Zemin. Guo enabled Jiang to control the military from behind the curtains, long after Jiang formally stepped down from the Party leadership position. Xi Jinping had been cleaning house within the military to purge any remaining influences of Jiang and his faction.

Xi has also undertaken a thoroughgoing reform of the PLA, reorganizing its structure and shrinking the size of the Central Military Commissions from nine to seven members.

Corruption has long been considered rife within the PLA, with some top generals reported to have accumulated vast fortunes in cash and gifts, including golden statues of Mao Zedong and cases of expensive liquor stacked to the ceiling in underground caches.

Along with the selling of ranks and positions, practices such as embezzlement of housing and welfare funds are believed toIt is continuing the debate on the amount people are relying on technology. This comes in the wake of a report over the weekend that mums are spending too much time on social network sites and not with their children.

Dr Martens where originally introduced to the working class of Britain in 1960. Celeste Carrigan looks back over a half-century of a piece of iconic fashion….

Dr Martens Logo : Sourced Dr Martens

The iconic cult classic piece of fashion Dr Martens turned 50 years old this year in April. The boot has forever remained the shoe of choice for subcultures and looks to be with us for another 50 years. The tough looking, hardworking work boots are an emblem of British fashion. They have been on a journey of freedom,


well as international designers showcased their latest work in spectacular shows. The main stages included shows by classical French houses Chanel, Dior, Yves St Laurent and Balmain among others and Vuitton and Hermes still to come.

The shows in themselves were flamboyant and managed to give the audience a taste of what is to come for the coming season. Although this winter, the mood is dark in the fashion world, it is set to brighten up in the Spring with a big colour comeback.

A creation by Russian designer Valentin Yudashkin as part of his Spring/Summer 2011 women's ready-to-wear fashion collection during Paris Fashion Week October 6, 2010.

Orange and peach will come into our closets as a natural shift from the nude shades we experienced last summer. Block colours asfestive season and I’m sure will prove hugely popular.”

The Prince’s Trust has helped more than 600,000 young people since 1976.

Edinburgh College of Art‘s (ECA) fashion show is usually a sell-out. It has been running for more than fifty years and is a key date in the capital’s art calendar.

It takes place at the college on 6-8th May this year. One of the key parts of the show is the work of the graduating students on performance costumes. The college held a photo shoot at the National Gallery to showcase some of these wonderful costumes. I went along for Edinburgh Napier News and was struck by both the workmanship and the attention to detail.

The costumes on show were for Pierette from The Affair at Victory Ball by Agatha Christie


projects with the Textiles department. These will be shown alongside the mini-collections of 2nd and 3rd Year students.

Edinburgh College of Art has an international reputation as one of the most successful independent art colleges in the UK. The College is known for its creativity, its co-operative atmosphere and its people – one recent graduate described the College as ‘an ideas factory’.

Amongst the dreary depths of the current economic climate, many retailers are facing millions of pounds worth of losses as consumers watch their pennies. Asos, an online fashion website, however, has managed to defy the problems surrounding the credit crunch with profits of 104 percent in the six months leading upto September.

Asos, originally known as As Seen On Screen was founded by Nick Robertson in 2000. ASOS wasthought it might be.’

Although phrases like, ‘in the style of…’ are used, Asos is very proactive about promoting fashion rather than celebrity. Asos accounts for 60 percent of its womanswear whilst the rest is stocked by high street and label brands such as Karen Millen and Lipsy mirroring the image of a department store like Selfridges.

Fashion now matches big spend with cheap buys. Now, there is an opportunity to buy more for less- a vision accepted by the fashion conscious yet cautious spender. For the young and computer literate, this is the best means to shop particularly when there are so many personal commitments such as families, a career and possible an education.

Due to the easy access to the internet, Asos has provided a new way to shop.


District

Building fire - Chatteris - Fenland

16/06/2017 - 8.00PM

At 8pm on Friday (16) crews were called to a fire on West Park Street in Chatteris.

Crews from Chatteris, March, Ramsey and Huntingdon attended the incident.

Firefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire on the ground floor of a chip shop, which was spreading quickly to other parts of the building, including the roof. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using hose reels and returned to their stations by 10.20pm.

Station Commander Pete Jones, the officer in charge of the incident, said: “The fire developed very quickly due to the build-up of grease and fat from the fryers. Once the fire got into the vents, it spread to other parts of the building and into the roof space.

“It is important for anyresults

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New Haven man gets 28 years in fatal shooting that netted perpetrators $85 Co-defendant got 25 years in April

NEW HAVEN >> Shaun Myers has been sentenced to serve 28 years in prison for felony murder in the shooting death of Qusaan McKoy three years ago on Chapel Street.

Myers joined co-defendant Tavares Barnes, who in April received a 25-year sentence for the same shooting.

Both sentences were imposed by Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Clifford. When he sentenced Barnes, 20, of Hamden on April 12, Clifford called the crime “senseless” and “stupid.” He noted the perpetrators stole just $85 from McKoy as he lay on the ground after being shot.

The two sentences came after both defendants pleaded guilty. Barnes on Jan. 29 pleaded guilty to felony murder in exchange for  On April 24, 2007, the judge issued the search warrant. On May 3, after

observing Defendant Vann leave apartment 5 and ride as a passenger in a car

driven by a woman, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop. In a search

incident to Vann’s arrest, Officer Moral found a ten-dollar bill containing a piece

of crack in the car’s ashtray. After Vann was given a Miranda warning, Vann said

that the crack cocaine found in the car belonged to him.

      Vann was taken by patrol car to apartment 5, where officers executed the

search warrant. During the search, officers found a loaded handgun and two bags

of crack cocaine, one in a bedroom dresser drawer along with a razor blade and a

lighter and the other in the


pocket of a jacket hanging in the bedroom closet. The

two bags found in the apartment contained 27.9 and 12.7 grams of crack cocaine.

      Later, during a recorded interview at the police station, Vann told Officer

Moral that he sold crack cocaine because he had no other way to earn an income

and that he traded crack cocaine for the handgun. Vann also indicated that he was

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  close together. Thankfully, the alley was not blocked by garbage or other debris or inhabited by things they would rather not meet. Janken wondered why Scooter was leading him to a place like this. He wasn't familiar with this side of town, but it didn't look like the high-rent district to him.

Scooter turned a corner, then let his bike coast to a stop by a set of cement steps leading up to the back door of a building of worn brick. As Janken coasted in and dismounted Scooter said, "Better bring the bikes in."

"No kidding."

Scooter walked his bicycle up the steps with some effort. At the top he pulled a set of keys out of his jeans pocket and tried it in the lock. It didn't want to


open. Scooter jiggled the key in the lock, muttering to himself. After a minute the key turned, and he opened the door.

Janken looked around apprehensively as he entered the dark building. The only light was what little came in from the dim alley, and it smelled musty, as if nobody had been in there for years. "What is this place?"

"You'll see. Put your bike here," Scooter said, leaning his against the wall to one side of the door. He walked into the darkness, and after a minute the lights came on.

Janken looked around. They were in a theater. One that had been sliding gently into decrepitude for many years, from the look of it. The wooden floor under his feet was worn smooth, and creaked softly even underJanken's slight weight. The walls showed signs of having been repaired many times in the past. Wiring was exposed, and the intercom and telephones were practically antiques. Janken was becoming worried. "What are we doing here?"

He followed Scooter through the backstage. The walls were marked up, and someone had left construction materials and tools around. Scooter said, "The renovation on this place just started, and I've been checking in to keep track of the progress."

"Oh, okay," Janken said.

After they had wandered around the backstage for a bit, Scooter led him out the fire exit, which opened into a small hallway. On one side was another exit. They went in the opposite direction, and emerged into the seating area. The red seat cushions were threadbare, and some were split


a large brown paper bag on the next seat and a metal stand with some electronics set up behind them. It looked like the setup that some large classes at the college used to show videos. Scooter turned backward in a seat so he could mess with the machinery. Janken watched, curious.

After a minute of fiddling a light shone onto the drop cloth. Scooter turned around and sat down, then opened the bag, took out a white styrofoam container, and handed it to Janken. Puzzled, Janken opened it. Inside was a little of everything from the salad bar they had visited the previous weekend, plus some radishes. "Wow, thanks!"

Scooter was amused. There were two things that Janken got excited about: music and salad. He handed him a papercup of iced lemonade and said, "You're welcome. I figured we'd have dinner here."

Janken nodded and stuck a straw through the cup lid. Scooter held a remote control aimed over his seat back and pressed the "play" button several times until he managed to aim right. As the DVD player started up and displayed stern copyright warnings on the drop cloth Scooter got out his own lunch: a reuben sandwich and soda. Janken began munching as he watched the distributors' and studio logos. When advertisements for other movies began Scooter, with a little sound of annoyance, held the controller up and tapped until it skipped to the main menu. When that came onscreen Janken exclaimed, "Oh!"

Pleased, Scooter said, "Why wait 'til Christmas?"

A few more clicks, and the opening


credits for The Wizard of Oz began. Janken watched raptly, not taking his eyes off the screen, munching whatever his fork chose to bring him. Scooter, seeing how enthralled Janken was from the very beginning, relaxed and began eating his own sandwich.

As Dorothy sang, Janken noticed in passing how the grey of her land reminded him of the stone of Fraggle Rock. She sang about how she wanted more, but didn't know where to find it. I know how you feel, he thought, not for the first time.

**

During a lull in the movie Janken noticed that the styrofoam box was empty. Funny, he remembered how good the food tasted, but he didn't remember actually eating it. He closed the box with the fork inside and set it onthe next seat. Scooter, who had finished some time ago, noticed. His mind had been more on Janken than on the movie. Jenken leaned back, his arms on the armrests. Scooter took a moment to nerve himself, then touched Janken's hand.

Janken glanced at Scooter's hand, then at Scooter. His inquisitive look was met with a slightly worried smile. He paused, surprised, then smiled broadly and, turning his hand palm up, clasped Scooter's hand.

**

When the movie ended they were still holding hands. After the credits finished and the player returned to the DVD menu Scooter reached up, pressing the "off" button. As he was left-handed, and only his right hand was currently free, it took a few more tries. When it was off again Janken said softly, "Thanks."

"Glad you


to the back of the theater where they had been meeting. Scooter unlocked the back door and they walked their bicycles in. Scooter was wearing a warm jacket, and did not take it off, as the empty theater was not heated. Janken's winter fur had grown in, so he barely noticed the chill.

As they walked through the backstage Scooter remarked, "Things are really happening now."

Janken saw what he meant. The renovation had been in progress for months now. For a while it had looked like it was being dismantled from the inside out. Now new surfaces were beginning to appear, giving hints as to what it would look like when finished. Currently the stage was being rebuilt. Janken could see places where trapdoors would be. He looked up.started the movie. A few minutes in Janken nearly choked on his salad. He coughed a few times, then started giggling.

"What's so funny?" Scooter asked.

Janken pointed. "If you were a ten-year-old human being you'd look like him!"

Scooter looked at the Screen, surprised. "It's just the glasses."

"Yeah, sure," Janken said, still laughing.

**

They watched the movie while eating their lunches. Scooter, who had had plenty of experience with safe, happy, feel-good Christmas movies and specials, enjoyed the subversion of the usual clichés. Janken, whose cultural background did not include Christmas, took it at face value and laughed just as much.

Afterward they sat and talked, arms around each other's shoulders. Scooter said, "Pretty soon they're going to start working on the renovation on the weekends. Deadlines."

"We'll find someplace else to hang


said, patting Janken on the back.

"Yeah."

He put his arm around Scooter's waist, and Scooter put his arm around Janken's shoulders. They walked together to the exit, dropped their takeout boxes in the trash, then took their bicycles out the back and rode off.

Isn't it weird how all my novella-length stories end up as 17-parters? Well, whatever, here is the final segment of A Wandering Heart...

*****

A Wandering Heart

Part 17: Janken's Song

by Kim McFarland

*****

It was a chilly day in late December, cool enough that people dressed warmly, but not cold enough to keep them indoors. Janken and Scooter were sitting on a park bench. The theater renovation was in full swing, with work going on seven days a week, so they had lost their usual hangout. Both were wearing winterThanks for taking him under your wing." She held out her hand.

Scooter shook it without flinching. Considering some of the creatures he dealt with regularly, she was not particularly intimidating. "No problem. He's a pleasure to work with."

Janken said, "Thanks, Scoot. I'll see you tomorrow, all right?"

"Sure. Good luck." Scooter patted Janken's shoulder.

As they walked down the hall in the back of the office Cheryl asked, "How long do you plan to stay?"

"Couple of hours, I guess. I guess I can't really celebrate the Festival of the Bells by myself, but I can't ignore it either." He took a long-handled bell out of the paper bag and showed it to her.

"You don't have to celebrate the turning of the year alone," she said gently.

Last year he had spent


Christmas with her family. He did not understand the legends associated with it—they seemed to be several which conflicted sharply—but the messages of the renewal of life, kindness toward those in need, and faith in the benevolence of the world were familiar ones. "Thanks. But this year I won't be alone. I've got someone to spend it with." He smiled.

"Good. I hope you find what you're looking for," she said as she unlocked the storeroom door.

"Thanks."

She closed the door after Janken, leaving it unlocked. He moved a box aside, slid the wooden panel covering the Fraggle hole upward, and went in.

The temperature seemed to drop with every inch he crawled. When he reached the small room he stood up and shuddered. It was cold in here. He tooka pair of warm, thick socks out of the bag and slipped them on over his feet. That felt much better, putting something between his feet and the cold stone floor so it would not drain his warmth away. He also had a pair of mittens, but he did not put these on just yet.

He went down the tunnel leading to the Fraggle colony. As expected, it was still blocked by huge boulders. No amount of wishing was going to move them. He sat down on one and took a foot-long daikon radish out of the bag. As he munched on his lunch he thought about Fraggle Rock. Right about now everyone would be clustering around fire bowls in the great hall, huddled together for warmth. The Rock


would be slowing down. Soon it would be the right moment. The Rock would stop. Then they would ring their bells and sing, and the world would continue turning. Part of Janken knew now that that was just folklore. The world would continue on its path, cycling between winter and summer, whether the Fraggles celebrated it or not. The importance, he now believed, was for the Fraggles. It tied them to the world and to each other. That was what made it vital.

Janken took out his bell and rang it. The lonely sound echoed away in the cave. Janken's eyes began to sting with tears—

…Echoes?

He rang the bell again. This cave was no more than a room; he shouldn't be hearing an echo! He put the radish downand went back into the main room. He rang the bell, then looked in the direction of the echo. What had always been a shallow, shadowed inlet was darker than it ought to be. And there was debris around it. Another rockslide? Hardly daring to hope, he stuck his head and arm through the crack and rang his bell hard. He heard the sound bounce away, down a long tunnel.

He ran back, put his mittens on, grabbed the daikon, and wriggled his way through the crack.

His first impulse was to run, but he checked himself. Running around in unfamiliar passages was a good way to injure or kill himself. Not to mention how easy it would be to get lost! He looked back and saw the light of


the room he had just come from. He searched around, found a piece of quartz with a sharp, broken-off edge, and scratched a mark on the wall at eye height pointing the way back. As long as he kept doing that, making another blaze mark before losing sight of the last one, he wouldn't get lost.

He walked down, looking around and listening carefully as he went, occasionally ringing his bell for the comforting sound it made.

**

He walked for several hours. It became progressively colder and colder as the passage meandered downward. He practically didn't need to blaze a trail, as he had followed the main trunk, which did not fork. Side passages branched off of it, but he could not accidentally wander into one of those. Still, hekept marking his trail, looking back periodically to make sure he could see at least one mark from wherever he was.

Soon, tired and hungry, he stopped to eat some more of the daikon. He had been so intent on exploring, he had forgotten all about lunch. He sat down to rest his feet and munched the savory vegetable. But soon, tired as he was, he got back up again. It was cold, and he had to keep moving to stay warm.

He looked around as he jogged in place, chewing a mouthful of radish. He could find his way back now, then try this in the spring, when it was warmer. He could bring proper equipment. He still had the pickaxe and rope and other things he had borrowed


the shrinking passage into an obstacle course. While wriggling between them he snapped the tips off of a few. He felt a sharp twinge of regret each time that happened; it felt like vandalism. He kept going, though. He had tied his bell to one of his jacket's buttonholes, so it clinked and dinged as he walked. His arms were tightly folded across his chest, his hands under his arms. It was cold.

The tunnel led into a white cavern. He blinked, his eyes momentary dazzled after the gloom of the tight passage. What he at first thought was ice was the natural color of the stone. It was beautiful—and confusing. There were all sorts of stone formations, but it was difficult to orient himself among them, and hecould easily get turned around in here. He scratched several blaze marks around the tunnel exit to be on the safe side. He regretting marring the purity of these stones, but he put them where they would not be conspicuous to anyone not looking for them. When he judged it safe, he continued through the white cavern.

More white stone, its folds and creases and columns creating seemingly endless nooks and crannies and side tunnels. Janken stopped, shivering. The icy white of the cave was getting to him. He felt his energy and warmth ebbing. If he stopped here he would get sleepy, and then he wouldn't ever wake up. He had done his best, he decided, and now it was time to go back before hypothermia set in.