greatest threat, Superman.

To prove his superior powers, the Wizard cast a spell to rid the world of Superman. The spell misfired and made Clark merely repress his superhero identity. Freed of his need to repress his more aggressive and assertive persona, Kent acted out his nature but without his costume and his flight abilities. Kent continued to battle evil as an open crusading reporter for some time even directly engaging in hand to hand battles against criminals which of course he would routinely win due to his superhuman strength and bullet proof skin density. Also freed of his self-restrictions, Kent once again expressed his affections for Lois. Without his clumsy acts and disappearing devices, he eventually won the heart of Lois Lane as Kent. The two married, butLois discovered Clark's secret while on their honeymoon trying to cut Clark's hair which broke the scissors Lane used. Torn between her love of Kent and the world's need for its most noted hero, Lane-Kent tracked down the Wizard and made him reverse the spell. Lois then tried to forsake their marriage but Kent wouldn't let her. Kent decided to confirm their marriage in both Earth and Kryptonian ceremonies. Later, George Taylor retired as editor-in-chief of the Daily Star and Clark replaced him in that role and promoted Lane as Lead Investigative Reporter though he would usually still follow her in many of her dangerous investigations as Superman.

Later Life

By the 1960s it was clear that Kent was not immortal and began showing his age. It was during this


time that his cousin Kara had arrived on Earth-Two after her decades long journey (unlike her Earth-One counterpart, Kara's rocket was damaged). Kal-L had mostly retired from heroic activity, focusing on his personal life of editor of the Daily Star, leaving the costumed heroic actions to the younger generation including his cousin Kara who had adopted the heroic name of Power Girl. Though Kal-L still occasionally engaged in his Superman identity, even formally joining the reformed Justice Society as an active member, though only part-time preferring to remain in "semi-retirement". It was during this time that Kal-L eventually met his Earth-One counterpart, Kal-El. Though Kal-L and the Earth-One Superman were initially shown to be basically an even match to each other in their first meet up, it wasclearly shown in all subsequent meetings that the Earth-One Superman was clearly far more powerful than the aging Kal-L. Despite his age and weakened powers, Kal-L was still one of the most powerful beings ever and continued to fight against evil whenever possible.

Erasure during The Crisis on Infinite Earths

Despite mostly being retired from heroic actions, Kal-L was one of the first heroes recruited by Harbringer and the Monitor to fight back the assault on all populated universes of the Multiverse. Kal-L was pivotal among many of the battles to defeat the Anti-Monitor who was eliminating positive matter realities in order to increase the Anti-Monitor's power levels to allow him to recreate the resulting universe in his own dark image. Kal-L and many heroes from different universes of the


DC multiverse engaged in several battles against the Anti-Monitor but was not able to directly stop him directly despite massive losses of heroes as well as many of the populated universes. Kal-L and the others directly assaulted the Anti-Monitor at the "Dawn of Time" which caused the various universes to collaspe into one singular universe that was able to withstand the Anti-Monitor's assault. Unfortunately, the singular universe erased the history of the universe that Kal-L came from and most of the people he knew outside of the heroic community, including his wife Lois Lane-Kent. Near insane with grief at the loss of his wife and entire history and all the people he knew, Kal-L was restrained by the far more powerful Earth-One Superman until he was able torecollect himself

Kal-L was able to gather himself together despite his intense sense of loss and along with the equally alone Superboy-Prime directly attacked and killed the Anti-Monitor. The resulting energy release resulting from the Anti-Monitor's physical death threatened to overcome and kill Kal-L and Superboy-Prime. Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three appeared offering to transport them out of the resulting shock wave but still grieving Kal-L decided to end his life rather than transport into the pocket dimension Alex showed Kal-L until Lois Kent emerged from that locale.

Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three had saved Lois Kent from the universe reset by taking her from the dying Multiverse before the battle at the "Dawn at Time" thus saving her from the reset. Luthor then took himself, Kal-L, Lois Kent and


Superboy-Prime into the pocket dimension saving them from the destruction of the Anti-Monitor's exploding energies and an universe that mostly no longer remembered them.

Infinite Crisis

Kal-L continued to watch the new Earth from the pocket "Paradise" dimension. He began to be disturbed by what he saw as the growing darkness that was apparently affecting the Earth, especially in the indecisiveness of his resulting counterpart. That darkness began to affect the Paradise dimension and as a result, Lois began to get deathly ill despite the pocket dimension being insulated from the outside reality.

Deciding that the resulting Earth had been corrupted, Kal-L had decided along with Alexander Luthor Jr. and Superboy Prime to reformat the existing universe based on them as the primary template rather than the current incarnations of theheroes. Kal-L hoped that would reverse the effect on his dying wife Lois Lane Kent even though that would kill the current wife of the current Superman though he thought of it as merely "folding the current incarnations into his template" though he did know that those who would be "folded" would cease to live.

Deciding that his greed was permissible to do against the corruption he saw in the current universe, Kal-L punched his way out of the pocket dimension and the quartet established their base of operation in a cave in Antarctica. Kal-L revealed himself to Power Girl as well as to the current incarnation of his best friend Batman in hopes to get them to agree to his plan to recreate the universe to his expectations.


and came to Earth-Two to investigate. Kal-L lashed out at him, blaming Kal-El for "corrupting" Earth-Two thus killing Lois. Wonder Woman arrived on Earth-Two and restrained Kal-L. She and Kal-EL made him realize that reconstructing the universe would not bring about the changes that Kal-L had hoped as the recreated Earth-Two clearly showed.

Seeing that he was wrong and that the ambitions of recreating the universe would not bring about an improvement, Kal-L decided to correct his mistake. Alexander Luthor, Jr. and Superboy-Prime decided to continue to recreate the universe in order to achieve their goals despite the pleas from the current heroes and Kal-L to stop.

Seeing that Superboy-Prime and Alexander Luthor, Jr. were committed to reshaping the universe, Kal-L directly attacked them in hopes of preventing more deaths.Superboy-Prime had decided to directly assault the individual people he considered unworthy in the current universe most notably the current Superboy, Conner. The battle between the two Superboys ended with Prime killing the vastly underpowered Conner as Prime's power levels were shown to be literally infinite with his physical strength levels able to push planets out of orbit unaided, which was beyond Conner and Kal-L levels.

Nevertheless the two Supermen realized that Superboy-Prime was completely out of control and was openly killing people and not merely intent on just recreating the universe. Alongside many powerful heroes, Kal-L and Kal-El decided to attack Superboy-Prime headon to stop his murderous rampage. Deciding to push Superboy Prime through a red sun to depower his strength levels to a far more manageable level


in hopes of snapping him out of his depression.

Seeing that Kal-L had turned away from their original plan to reshape the universe to fit their demands, Superboy Prime attacked Kal-L directly venting his full rage and frustration at his one time ally. Despite the effects of the red sun, Superboy-Prime was still vastly overpowered to Kal-L's own power levels. The attack was so vicious that Superboy-Prime smashed Kal-L's internal organs and skeletal structure, killing him.

But the time that Superboy-Prime dedicated to attacking Kal-L allowed Kal-El to recover and to drain down Superboy-Prime even further lower levels, thus knocking him out, whereby their combined attacks were able to stop Superboy-Prime. Kal-L died in Power Girl's arms after realizing his mistake and stating that he would never leave her eventhough she would not be able to see him. Kal-L was buried on the new Earth that he died protecting from Superboy-Prime, alongside Conner and his wife.

Post Flashpoint

Origin

Kal-L was always one of the last members of his race, something he hoped he wouldn't share with his compatriots. When Steppenwolf erected Boom Towers across the world in order to invade it with his Parademons he established one in Metropolis.

In one of their battles, Terry Sloan used opal kryptonite on Superman causing him to become insane. Terry used this in order to distract Superman from his plans. As Superman attacked Wonder Woman, Terry continued and succeeded with his plans of destroying several places under Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation, despite Batman's intervention. The opal kryptonite self destructed as programmed by Terry.

During their


final day, Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman attacked this tower in an effort to destroy them all in a chain reaction. Superman provided the distraction but was completely overwhelmed and unfocused by the horde of demons attacking his dead city. Before he could save Diana, his physiology was exploited and he appeared to have died from an enormous burst of solar energy.

The Hunger Dogs

Superman somehow survived however and was captured by Darkseid's forces and was brainwashed at some point during the five years after the war. At some point Kal-L took the alias Brutaal and began working with the Hunger Dogs under Steppenwolf.

As Brutaal, Kal fought the new Wonders and defeated them alongside the other Hunger Dogs. He would then spare the heroes for an unknown reason andwould go to Steppenwolf's aid during the World Army's invasion of Dherain. The new Wonders would eventually return after being healed by Doctor Fate and would help evacuate the remaining World Army Soldiers. Kal would soon aid Steppenwolf in his fight with Green Lantern and ended up defeating him. Kal would then kill Steppenwolf and declare himself the master of Earth. Kal would then remove his costume and reveal that he is Superman and that he was loyal to Darkseid.

Superman continued his assault on the World Army's Arkham base, but soon came in to conflict with Doctor Fate who came to stop him. After a very brief battle Superman got the upper hand and managed to crack Fate's Helmet. Just as he was about to kill Fate, the


Flash arrives and takes the beaten Fate back to the World Army's base. After defeating Fate, Superman continued to attack the base and managed to cause most of it to cave-in. Just as he prepares to enter the destroyed base, Flash steps in and tries to distract Superman, by forcing him to chase him. Superman eventually catches him and spares him saying that he could be useful to Darkseid. Superman eventually returns to Arkham with an unconscious Flash and tells Mister Terrific and Terry Sloan that Darkseid has need of them and then tells Bedlam to release the horde of Parademons to attack Earth.

Superman, after releasing the Parademon horde, takes Flash, Mister Terrific, and Sloan to Washington, D.C., where he takes the Washington Monument and throws it intothe White House. Superman then declares that everyone should be thankful, for Darkseid has decided to make their Earth into the New Apokolips and he needs Sloan and Mr. Terrific's help to do it.

Superman later left Sloan and Terrific with Bedlam and continued with exterminating the remains of the World Army. Superman ended up in Moscow, where the remaining members of the World Army were be transported to safety by Sandman. The World Army's Wonder The Atom tried to hold off Superman, but was quickly defeated after Superman used his heat vision to remove Atom's right arm and used it to knock him. Even though he defeated Atom, Superman was unable to finish off the remaining World Army forces, who escaped through Sandman's portal.

After leaving Moscow, Superman met


up with The Beguiler and discovered the Space Ark, which was the last hope for humanity to survive, while the remaining people on Earth are left to die. Beguiler offers to destroy the ship, but is stopped by Superman who decides to make an example. Superman then proceeds to break the ship open in the vacuum of space, killing all of the passengers inside. After killing all of the passengers, Bedlam contacts Superman and tells him that he discovered Sloan was hiding a Kryptonian. Superman would then return to the location where they were holding Sloan and attempts to interrogate him, but he was stopped by Bedlam who revealed that the Kryptonian's name is Val-Zod and he was held at the World Army's Arkham base. After seeing someto his other dimensional counterparts and his aging.

Kal-L's sensory powers include telescopic vision, heat vision, microscopic vision, X-Ray vision as well as being able to hear sounds far too slight to pick up by most life forms.

Abilities

Independent Flight: Kal-L was not originally shown as being able to launch himself and fly in outer space unaided.

Muscular Control: This ability would would allow Kal-L to engage in super breath and hold his breath for extreme periods of time. Several 1940s Superman stories extended this to giving the Superman of this era the ability to contort the muscles of his face to give him the ability to appear as completely different people which made Kent and Superman appear as totally different people. This power is not specifically attributed to Kal-L and


Scott). This open weakness to magic would manifest in later events such when Kal-L was poisoned by the Stream of Ruthlessness and almost beat his cousin Power Girl to death.

Kryptonite: Since the destruction of Krypton, its remains (rendered radioactive by the explosion) have been spreading throughout the universe as kryptonite, a crystalline substance whose specific radiation is lethal to Kryptonians native to this reality. In Kal-L's original Earth Two dimention there was only one type of Kryptonite, Green, and its effect is directly poisonous to Earth-Two Kryptonians. The long term effects of other races being in close or direct contact with Earth-Two dimension Kryptonite was unknown.

Kryptonians: Unlike his dimensional counterparts Kal-L was not affected in battling the few Kryptonians native to his reality such as his cousin PowerMedia

See Also

Notes

Trivia

Kal-L's S shield is six sided and has tails rather than round endings as drawn from the early 1940s version, though many artists (most notably starting with George Perez in Justice League of America Vol 1 #195-197) usually extended the upper top curve of the S downwards to touch the side of the shield along with the white hair at temple to distinguish Kal-L from the Earth-One Superman

The famous slogan of "truth, justice and the American Way" was changed from the original radio show slogan which stated Superman fought for "truth, honesty and justice" to combat the anti-communism sentiment of the 1950s United States popular culture.


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a formal proposal in this regard from the State Government. He assured that this would receive high priority whenever the Central Government considers setting up of new central universities.

Orissa MPs also pursued it and we had sent detail proposal on it to the planning commission and HRD ministry and the PM. The similarity between the above goals and the goals of the tribal university in MP (given below) suggests that the HRD minister Mr. Arjun Singh might have stolen the idea of a central tribal university to his home state. We wrote to the Swaminadhan committee that recommended the setting up of a tribal university and also to MHRD regarding the timeline, but no response was given. If the idea was indeed stolen, then it is a pityas such opportunistic behavior by the HRD ministry would discourage states from suggesting ideas.

Even though Orissa has been given a central university (other than the world class university), Orissa should continue pursuing its goal for a separate tribal central university for two reasons:

The tribal university that Orissa wants in its KBK+ region was supposed to have multiple campuses like the one in Amar Kantak.

It should have a significant percentage of seats reserved for tribals.

A LANDMARK INITIATIVE OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FOR FACILITATING HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR TRIBALS

THE TRIBAL UNIVERSITY WILL BE DEVELOPED INTO WORLD-CLASS INSTITUION: ARJUN SINGH

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A new chapter was added today in the field of higher education and research facilities for the tribal population in the country when Union Minister of Human Resource Development ShriArjun


Singh laid the foundation stone of a new CentralUniversity namely IndiraGandhiNationalTribalUniversity at Amarkantak in Anupur district, Madhya Pradesh. The objects of the University shall include, inter-alia, promoting studies and research in tribal art, culture, tradition, language, custom, medicinal systems, forest based economic activities, including special studies in the flora and fauna, and advancements in technologies relating to natural resources of the tribal areas. It shall make special provisions for the promotion of educational, economic interests and welfare of the members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes.

Speaking on this occasion, ShriArjun Singh said that this is an historical occasion and a moment of pride for the entire nation.He said that this University will go a long way in providing new direction to the youth in tribal areas in meeting thechallenges of the future through education and learning. This University will have live contact and coordination with other Central universities, tribal research institutions and other higher learning and research organisations and will make use of the available knowledge from every part of the country and the world to meet its solemn objectives. He said that it is necessary to have scientific temperament, aptitude for research and respect for human values and a true faith in science and knowledge.

Shri Singh pointed out that the University will be developed into world-class institution of learning.The jurisdiction of this University will extend to the whole country. The Minister said that University will be fully funded by the Central Government through the University Grants Commission like other Central Universities. The Minister said that


it is necessary to have special attachment towards the local community and special focus on the development of the local tribal areas with full dedication and commitment so as to fully meet the objectives of this University.

Referring to the inadequate participation of tribal community in higher education, the Minister said that it is a matter of serious concern as the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) is only 6.61 compared to the national GER of11.6. The GER of girls from the tribal population is even lower which is 4.69. He said that low access to higher education for the tribal youth puts them at disadvantage in higher studies. The Minister said that there is high concentration of tribal population in North Eastern states and in the area comprising parts ofMadhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat. While North Eastern States have at least one CentralUniversity in each State, there is no CentralUniversity especially catering to the population in the other tribal concentrated areas.

The Minister said that the University has been named after late Smt. Indira Gandhi in recognition of her deep contribution and commitment for the welfare of tribals.He said that present University will meet this requirement and will have the right to open regional centre and campus in desired areas. The Minister said that the Regional Campuses to be opened will be named after the great personalities of the concerned area like Veer Narain Singh, Goondadhur, BirsaMunda etc. so as to pay nation’s tribute to them.

He said that universities are generally established


in big metros or urban areas and there are advantages of locating the universities in such areas. But the true flavour of the tribal University will come only if it is located in the midst of tribal areas. The very purpose of the establishment of this University is to make it a prime mover for development in the tribal areas hitherto neglected. He said that the seat of the University has been chosen to be a Central point in the tribal areas stretching between Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.He said that Amarkantak is a great pilgrim centre as well as source of the two important rivers of the country namely Narmada and Sone.

ShriArjun Singh thanked the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, for ensuring adequate land and properfacilities of electricity and water for this prestigious project.

The Minister hoped that the University will soon select all its managing authorities. He pointed out that the Act of this University has a special provision to ensure adequate representation of Scheduled Tribes in various bodies of the University. The Minister said that though in 11th Five Year Plan, the Central Government is opening several institutions in the field of higher education like IITs, NITs and Management Institutions, but this tribal University will have a pivotal role among them in higher education. The Minister called upon everybody to contribute for the development of this great institution of learning.

The messages of Her Excellency Smt. PratibhaDevisinghPatil, President of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, and Smt. Sonia Gandhi, UPA Chairperson were also


read out on this occasion. Dr. S.N. Subbarao, noted Gandhian and founder of National Service Scheme presided over the programme. Shri Vijay Shah, Minister for Forest and Scheduled Tribe Welfare, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Smt. JamunaDevi, Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Shri Suresh Pachauri, former Union Minister, ShriCharanDasMahant, former Minister in Government of Madhya Pradesh, , ShriDalpat Singh Parastay, Member of Parliament (Shadol Constituency), Shri R.P. Agrawal, Secretary, Dept. of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India were among those present on this occasion.

The Union Government proposes to open new Fashion and Textile Technology Institutes during the Eleventh Plan period. New Centres of National Institute of Fashion Technology are being set up subject to the conditions that the State Government iswilling to provide land and financial support and fulfillment of feasibility conditions. Decisions about the new centres are taken by NIFT Board, a Statutory body under Ministry of Textiles, as and when the proposals from State governments are received. This information was given by the Minister of State for Textiles, Shri E.V.K.S. Elangovan, in the Lok Sabha today, in a written reply to a question by Shri N.N. Krishnadas and Shri Tathagata Satpathy.

The Minister further informed that proposals have been received from Government of Bihar and Government of Kerala for setting up NIFT Centre in their states. No formal proposal has been received from Government of Orissa.
He further stated that proposal for setting up of NIFT Centre in Bihar has been approved by NIFT Board and the matter


has been taken up with State Government for allotment of land and funding support. Proposal for setting up of NIFT Centre in Kannur, Kerala will be placed for consideration of the Board in its next meeting.

Subject to the Plan being finalized, it is proposed to establish 30 new Central Universities during the XIth Plan and the first two years of the XIIth Plan period, and to provide assistance for establishing one college in each district with low Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education.

Action for establishment, in the first phase, of one Central University, in each of the 16 States which do not have a Central University, so far, namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujrat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kasmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerela, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan,Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, has already been initiated.

The targeted GER, as against the present level of approximately 10%, is at least 15% by the end of the XIth Plan and 21% by the end of the XIIth Plan.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shri M.A.A.Fatmi in a reply to a question raised by Smt. N.P.Durga in Rajya Sabha today.

In a Writ Petition (C) No. 10836 of 2005, the Government has submitted before the High Court of Orissa that the Government is taking follow up action for implementation of the announcement made by the Prime Minister on 28.8.2006 regarding setting up of a National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) at Bhubaneswar under the Department of Atomic Energy and that it is


proposed to start the academic session from August, 2007. Taking cognizance of this, the Orissa High Court has disposed of the Writ Petition with a direction to the Government to ensure that the NISER is established at Bhubaneswar pursuant to the decision of the Government of India.

The Department of Atomic Energy has informed that 300 acres of land has been allotted by the government of Orissa for setting up of NISER. NISER has been registered under the Societies Registration Act and infrastructural facilities are being put in place. In addition, for admission to NISER, an NISER Entrance Screening Test (NEST) followed by interview has been conducted and admission will commence on 10th September, 2007.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shri M.A.A.Fatmi ina written reply to a question raised by Ms. Pramila Bohidar and Shri B.J. Panda in Rajya Sabha today.

A proposal for setting up of 16 Central Universities – one each in such States as have no Central University – is in the process of being finalized. Orissa being one of such States, its request for establishment of a Central University in the tribal dominated KBK region shall receive due consideration. Further, a Bill for setting up a Central Tribal University is in the process of being introduced in the current session of the Parliament. The proposed University shall have power to establish its Regional Centres in the areas inhabited by tribal population, which could include KBK region of Orissa.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Human


Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

It is proposed to establish 30 Central Universities during the XIth Plan and the first two years of the XIIth Plan period, subject to the Plan being finalized.

While a common entrance test would be desirable, in keeping with the NCMP commitment of the autonomy, any such decision would be taken by the concerned Universities after they come into existence.

An estimated 20% of the budgeted expenditure on higher education is met currently by the Central Government.

Action for establishment, in the first phase, of one Central University in each of the 16 States which do not have a Central University so far has already been initiated. The financial requirement of these Universities is estimated at Rs.4,800 croreduring the 11th Plan period at an average of Rs.300 crore per University. This was stated by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

It is proposed to establish during the XIth Plan, one Central University in each State with no such University and provide assistance for establishing one college in each district with low Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education.

As at present, 23 Central Universities in 14 States/Union Territories have been functioning under the purview of Ministry of Human Resource Development. Action for establishment of a Central University in each of the remaining 16 States, namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil


Nadu and Uttarakhand, has already been initiated.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

Thousands of tribals in Orissa’s poverty ridden Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput (KBK) districts may soon have access to better higher education with a central university being planned there.

The human resource development (HRD) ministry Monday said it was weighing a state government proposal to set up such a university in the region.

‘Orissa being one of such states (without a central university), its request for establishment of a central university in the tribal-dominated KBK region shall receive due consideration,’ Minister of State for HRD D. Purandeswari said.

‘Further, a bill for setting up a central tribal university is in the process oftake our faxes and meet the PM and the national press with all our faxes and do a dharana until the two immediate injustices of moving an IIT in Orissa after it was announced and stealing the idea of a tribal university proposed for the KBK area are corrected. Following are some pointers and points which may help in writing your letter. I am making it short so that its easier for you to draft the letter.

The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for establishment of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh with Central Government funding. It also approved introduction of the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Bill, 2007 in the Parliament.

This would ensure establishment of a teaching and affiliating University for facilitating and promoting


avenues of higher education and research facilities for the tribal population of the country.

The objects of the University include inter-alia, promoting studies and research in tribal art, culture, tradition, language, custom, medicinal systems, forest based economic activities, including special studies in the flora and fauna, and advancements in technologies relating to natural resources of the tribal areas.

Apart from affiliating the colleges, the University has the power to establish such number of its own regional centers in tribal areas as the University may deem fit.

There will be at least one school in every regional Centre, to serve as a model school for the schools of the region, where from the tribal students would be expected to join the local colleges, the off-campuses or the University.

The initial financial requirement ofwas a heavy concentration of the scheduled tribe and scheduled caste population in this region, which has a literacy rate below 50%. Shri Patnaik stated that setting up a Central University in the KBK region would go a long way in encouraging higher education among tribal population. He added that the university could also set up specialized centres for tribal development related studies, as tribal development was one of the biggest challenges facing the country today. Shri. Arjun Singh appreciated the rationale of having a Central University in the KBK region and sought a formal proposal in this regard from the State Government. He assured that this would receive high priority whenever the Central Government considers setting up of new central universities.

Orissa MPs also pursued it and we


The nation’s leading federal scientists gave new meaning to “Black Friday” last week when they released the starkest warning yet, that without immediate action, global warming will fundamentally transform the United States—a warning so precise in its calculus that a gimmicky attempt to bury the news during a holiday was little more than a distraction.

As families and friends across the country enjoyed the Thanksgiving break, the Trump administration released the fourth National Climate Assessment, choosing to do so on the busiest shopping day of the year in a transparent attempt to hide it from media scrutiny.

The effort was a flop: Scientists, journalists, and leaders in government and the private sector across the country and around the world moved quickly to broadcast the climate assessment, and its dire findingshigher, and is rising more rapidly than anything modern civilization has experienced, with widespread and growing impacts. . . . Climate change is transforming where and how we live and presents growing challenges to human health and quality of life, the economy, and the natural systems that support us.”

The massive 1,656-page report, assembled by scientists from 13 federal agencies and released by the United States Global Change Research Program, is a congressionally mandated peer-reviewed assessment of the available data on how anthropogenic greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are impacting the climate system. The assessment is the product of eight rounds of review, including a public review and comment period and an expert peer-review process. It was written by more than 300 authors. About


half of the authors come from outside the federal government, including from state and tribal government, academia, and the private sector.

The assessment’s release is required by law. In 1990, under President George H. W. Bush, Congress passed the Global Change Research Act, which requires agencies across the government to study the impacts of global warming and release a report every four years. The first report was released in 2000; the fourth has been released in two volumes. The first was released in November 2017 and focused on the physical climate. Volume II of the assessment released on Friday focuses on the risks and vulnerabilities associated with global warming and the adaptation and mitigation strategies required to deal with them.

The assessment paints a grim picture: Global warming will leadthe NCA, or the most recent United Nations IPCC report on global warming, have a long life. They are pored over by scientists and decision-makers and form the basis for short-term and long-term policymaking, making the attempt to bury it shortsighted at best.

The NCA was paired with another government report, the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report, which revealed that the United States has made progress in drawing down greenhouse gas emissions in the past two decades, thanks mainly to the transition away from coal. But many of those improvements are now threatened as the Trump administration continues its efforts to force a realignment of the nation’s energy strategy toward coal, oil, and gas.

Brenda Ekwurzel, the director of climate science at the Union of Concerned Scientists and


As misinformation and fake news have spread across borders, journalists in every country have scrambled to find a solution.

Few places feel this more than Ukraine, whose media has largely reacted to Russian information warfare with its own tribalist, emotion-driven coverage of the separatist-nationalist conflict that has raged in the Donbass region since 2014. As a result, the stories of the 3.5 million civilians caught in the crossfires of this war have largely been lost or distorted beyond truth.

Alisa Sopova, a journalist from Donetsk, has been working to address these problems for the past four years. When conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, Sopova began working as a freelance reporter and producer for international media. Currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,generation of violent men.

Domestic violence may have its roots in evolution, according to a controversial new study. The research suggests that men who are abusive towards their partners have more children in societies that don't have birth control (stock image)

Scientists at the University of Toulouse, France, interviewed women of the Tsimane people – an indigenous culture of lowland Bolivia with no access to contraception.

Shockingly, 85 per cent of the 105 women they spoke to for the study had experienced domestic abuse during their lifetime.

Researchers found that on average women were more likely to give birth in a year in which their partner was violent with them.

Experts said sexual violence against a partner could increases a couple's likelihood to have children, meaning abusive men are more likely to pass


On September 14, 1862, Robert E. Lee's opportunistic first invasion of the North was turned back at the gaps of South Mountain near Boonsboro, Maryland. The fighting was desperate and for the numbers engaged rather bloody. It has become just a footnote in history, but it was here that the Confederacy reached it's high tide.

South Mountain by Rick Reeve

South Mountain by Rick Reeve depicting the wounding of General Garland

Saturday, May 29, 2010

On this Memorial Day weekend, I invite everyone to take a few moments to reflect on what it means to be free. On both our soil and foreign, our men and women have laid down their lives so that we may be able to enjoy the freedoms that today enjoy. I feel this way because just lastmonth, I was on a class field trip and towards the end, we went on a tour of Civil War monuments within Arlington National Cemetery. AS we concluded, we headed over to the area where the dead of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried. While there, my class acted quite disrespectful to the point where my fiance and I decided against joining my classmates who were at the grave of a former Shepherd University student. While we were waiting for them to return, we noticed a marine walking among the headstones kneeling at one here and another there. It was a sight that broke my heart. He would kneel, spend a few moments, rise up and give one final salute to a fallen comrade. My fiance and


of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Remains of the National Colors of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry .courtesy of the Ohio Historical Societies, "Fight for the Colors!" collection.

This is a letter that I ran across while doing some research up at the office, figured it'd be nice to share it. It was written by John M. Clugston of Company G, 23rd Ohio Infantry. His regiment was the first to come into contact with Confederates of Garland's Brigade and was instrumental in breaking Garland's line with three successive bayonet charges (a rarity in Civil War combat). In this entry, Clugston tells of the battle for Fox's Gap, the wound received by Lt. Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, and information about Confederate losses as well as his own regiments.We advanced to the second field and lay in battle lines at the foot of the hill. The enemy was only ten rods from us but we were concealed by the hill. All was ready, the word given to charge. We moved on our hands and knees to the top and then went-in . . . . The enemy fled. Our regiment charged on the 23" N.C. (North Carolina), the 12th on the 12th Georgia. Daniel Whissler, John . . ., Mark Slonaker, and William Kneppe fell as we drove the enemy through the cornfield. John Pinney was killed and Col. Hayes wounded in the arm. We completely routed the enemy. Gen. Reno was killed. The rebels one brigadier, one col. of the 3rd S.C. (South Carolina) Battalion,


Col. James. The rebels loss was about four hundred killed. Our loss one hundred and seventy killed from our reg. thirty three killed and one hundred five wounded. . .

Thursday, May 20, 2010

 These are the words use by Confederate General Daniel H. Hill to memorialize the fallen Samuel Garland, who lead his North Carolinian's during the early hours of the fight at Fox's Gap.

Samuel Garland was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on December 16, 1830 to Maurice Garland and Caroline M. Garland. Samuel enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute in October of 1846 and graduated third in a class of twenty-four in 1849. He studied law at the University of Virginia and upon graduating, he returned to Lynchburg and began practicing law which would be his profession untilthe outbreak of the Civil War. He married Elizabeth Campbell Meem in 1856. When news of John Brown's attempted slave uprising in Harper's Ferry reached Lynchburg, Samuel, now in his late twenties, organized a local militia company called the "Lynchburg Home Guard". He was elected the captain of the company and with Virginia's secession from the Union his militia company was mustered in as Company G, 11th Virginia Infantry and Garland was commissioned colonel of the newly formed regiment. It was not long after receiving his new commission , Garland's wife of nearly five years passed away in June 1861 and to add tragedy to heartache, his only son, also named Samuel, died in August of the same year.

Not long after the death of his wife, Colonel Garland


and the 11th Virginia,was brigaded with the 5th North Carolina, 1st Virginia, and 17th Virginia under Brigadier General James Longstreet and took part in the battles of Blackford's Ford on July 18, 1861 and First Bull Run (Manassas) on July 21, 1861. During this battle, Garland's regiment was positioned to capture a Union battery that was bombarding the brigade for nearly 9 hours. Just as the order to advance was given to Garland and the rest of the brigade, the Union army had been routed. Longstreet put the 1st, 11th, and 17th Virginia infantry regiments in pursuit of the Federal's while the 5th North Carolina remained behind. After the pursuit, Garland and the 11th were ordered to police the battlefield and take an account of the brigades casualties.

Aftera period of relative inactivity, the 11th Virginia and Colonel Garland participated in the Battle of Dranesville, Virginia on December 20, 1861. The regiment held the right of the Confederate line when it was ordered to retreat before the overwhelming numbers that had been brought to bear by Federal forces, it held the line while other regiments retreated. Garland received the praises of Cavalry General James Ewell Brown Stuart for his coolness under fire despite his regiment not being in position to see significant fighting. The regiments loss for this battle was 6 killed and 15 wounded.

The 11th Virginia was moved to the Virginia Peninsula and placed in the brigade of Ambrose P. Hill where it participated in the Battles of Williamsburg. Garland showed his fearless nature in


battle at Williamsburg when he lead a charge against a position that had been captured by Federal troops. He was wounded during the course of the battle, but refused to leave the field showing, according to A.P Hill, " his men how to win the victory". Garland was promoted to Brigadier General for his actions at Williamsburg.

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Garland's brigade consisted of the 2nd Florida, 2nd Mississippi, 5th North Carolina, 24th Virginia, 38th Virginia, and a battery of Alabama artillery. His first battle in command of a brigade would come less than a month following the battle at Williamsburg as General Joseph Johnston attempted to stall the Federal advance on Richmond at Seven Pines. Garland was given the honor of commanding the lead brigade for the assaultagainst the Federals. Garland's division commander, Daniel Harvey Hill, had become impatient when the division of General Benjamin Huger did not begin the attack on schedule so he ordered his brigades under Garland and Robert Rodes, and George Anderson into battle. Garland and Rodes' brigades would move north on either side of the Williamsburg Road leading into Seven Pines with Anderson's brigade moving in support. As Garland lead his brigade forward, it stumbled into the prepared positions of the 106th Pennsylvania. Garland deployed his brigade and pushed the raw 106th back into the main lines of the Federals under General Silas Casey. Garland's men hammered the Federal position and eventually pushed the Federal's back to Seven Pines where Garland and supports held the Federal's in check. Garland would


lose 740 men during the battle at Seven Pines. Later on that same summer, Garland would lead his brigade in the Seven Days' helping to push the Federal threat away from Richmond. At Glendale, his brigade charged at a critical moment into the flank of the Federal's forcing them to retreat and at Malvern Hill, his brigade suffered alongside others as the Confederates made futile attacks to dislodge the Federals. Garland again showed a tenacity and determination in combat that was becoming his trademark within the Army of Northern Virginia.

General Garland and his now all-North Carolina brigade, the 5th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and 23rd regiments, were not present at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) but with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia suffering heavily inthe campaign, Garland's brigade was called upon to reinforce Lee as he moved north in preparation for the invasion of Maryland. Garland's brigade crossed the Potomac on September 4, 1862 at Noland's Ferry as part of D.H. Hill's lead division. Garland's brigade would advance toward Frederick practically unopposed and within days, the entire Army of Northern Virginia was encamped outside the city. The Confederates were at Frederick until September 10, when Lee issued orders for them to move westward towards Hagerstown. D.H. Hill's division would be the armies rear-guard as it moved and divided with Stonewall Jackson, with practically a corps of infantry, moved to capture Federal garrisons at Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry, and General Lee moved to Hagerstown with James Longstreet's "Corps" to await the development of


Jackson's movement. ( The Corps concept would not be approved for the Confederate Army until October 1862). General D. H. Hill's Division, Garland's brigade included, was set as the rear-guard as the Army of Northern Virginia moved out.

Garland's brigade moved out of Frederick towards Boonsboro, Maryland and encamped roughly two miles outside of town along Beaver Creek. From here they would take up positions keeping an eye on the mountain passes in South Mountain and any Federal troops that may escape from Harpers Ferry. On September 13, three men from a Federal regiment discovered orders from General Lee detailing his plan of campaign and it gave the Federal commander, George McClellan the much need opportunity to punish Lee's army. McClellan pushed forward his army with a quickness thatshocked Lee and he ordered General Hill with his division to hold the gaps at South Mountain and buy the army time to regroup. Hill moved his division from Boonsboro to Turner's Gap, the main gap within the mountain because the National Pike crossed the mountain at this point. General Hill received word from J.E.B. Stuart that his cavalry was being forced back. Hill subsequently sent the brigades of Garland and Brigadier General Alfred Colquitt to help defend Turner's Gap.

On the morning of September 14, Hill moved up the National Pike to check the condition of his defences at Turner's Gap. Upon reaching the mountain top, he saw more that just a cavalry brigade, as stated by Stuart, but the campfires of the entire 9th Corps of the


Union Army. Dismayed at the faulty intelligence, Hill reconnoitered along the old Wood Road, located at the crest of the mountain in the rear of his defensive position at Turner's. Moving down this road, Hill heard the sound of what possibly could have been a federal wagon train moving over Fox's Gap and into his rear area. Hill quickly returned to Turner's Gap where he found Garland's brigade and finally arrived after its march from Beaver Creek.

With scarcely 1,000 men within his ranks, Garland was ordered to hold Fox's Gap against the Kanawha Division under the command of General Jacob Cox of the IX Federal Army Corps. Upon arriving in the gap, Garland positioned his brigade along the Wood Road and astride the Old Sharpsburg Road. He positionedthe 5th North Carolina as his right flank with the 12th North Carolina in support. The 23rd North Carolina was positioned behind a stonewall bordering the road and in position to the left of the 5th. Garland's two remaining regiments took up positions to the left of the 23rd, with the 20th North Carolina being to the immediate left of the 23rd and the 13th North Carolina to the left of the 20th. The regiments of the brigade were not in contact with each other due to the nature of the ground, with an example being the 13th regiment was over 200 yards from the left flank of the 20th. To support Garland, Hill had dispatched the 4-gun battery of Captain James Bondurant, which took up position just


in front of the 12th North Carolina. On hand was also the 5th Virginia Cavalry under Colonel Thomas Rosser, and the 2 piece section of Stuart's Horse Artillery under Major John Pelham. Interestingly enough, this was what General Hill heard during his early morning reconnaissance towards Fox's Gap, Stuart had not told anyone he had dispatched this command to Fox's! The 5th VA and Pelham's battery took positions on Garland's extreme right covering a small farm lane.

The Battle for Fox's Gap began around 9 in the morning when skirmishers from the 5th North Carolina ran into skirmishers from the 23rd Ohio, under the command of future President Rutherford B. Hayes. The 13th and 20th North Carolina were attacked by the remainder of General Eliakim Scammon's brigade (consisted ofthe 23rd, 12th, and 30th Ohio Regiments). When Federal artillery entered the fight and began bombarding the North Carolinians, the 13th began to waver. General Garland moved to the regiment in an attempt to steady his men against the overpowering assault. The commanding officer of the 13th, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ruffin, Jr., pleaded with Garland that the front was no place for him to be. Garland replied that it was just as dangerous for the colonel as it was for him. Not long after that, Ruffin had a minie ball smash into his hip, and he told Garland that there were no field officers available to command his regiment. Garland turned to an orderly, and just seconds later, a bullet plunged into General Garland's chest. Garland fell from


his horse mortally wounded. His staff officers, out of sight of his men, moved the General to the porch of the Mountain House (today the South Mountain Inn), where he would die from his wound. Just over an hour into the fight, General Garland's brigade had been severely handled losing about 100 men in an hour of fierce combat and with the General falling, command fell upon Colonel Duncan McRae of the 5th North Carolina.

Garland's body was loaded into a wagon train for transport back to Lynchburg for burial. His body would end up being captured near Williamsport, Maryland by Federal Cavalry that had escaped from Harpers Ferry. Eventually the General's body was returned to his family and he was buried in Lynchburg, Virginia on September 19, 1862.The Music of Luke Cage

In the ever growing landscape of television, Netflix is one of the few channels/streaming services that is consistently putting out quality content, and their partnership with Marvel has produced some of the best and most entertaining shows in the last few years.

Daredevil was certainly a well-known character before he made his debut on the popular streaming service, and his series laid the foundation for Marvel’s street level heroes on Netflix. The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen later led to the gritty crime drama Jessica Jones, and that series featured a recurring character that is now the stare of his own Netflix series, Luke Cage.

Luke Cage is a bit of a mystery for a novice comic book movie and show fan. His powers aren’t abundant, and


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WASHINGTON — The parents of two Americans killed in attacks in Benghazi, Libya, say in a lawsuit that Hillary Clinton is responsible for the deaths of their children. A Clinton campaign spokesman rejected the accusations.

The wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton, filed Monday in federal court in Washington, attempts to tie Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state to the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks.

The plaintiffs are Pat Smith of San Diego and Charles Woods of Portland, Oregon. Their sons, State Department employee Sean Smith and security contractor Tyrone Woods, respectively, were among those killed.

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Chairman, Reliance Group of Companies, Anil Ambani with wife Tina Ambani during the listing ceremony of Reliance Home Finance at the National Stock Exchange, in Mumbai on Friday.Photo by Santosh HirlekarMUMBAI: Reliance Communications (RCom) added its four of its senior management to its Board on Monday,a day after it decided to call off its merger with Aircel.

Punit Garg, president, telecom Business has been elevated to the Board as executive director of the company, said telco in a statement.

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Gurdeep Singh, Co-CEO of the Company and CEO of the mobility business, has been elevated as executive director of Reliance Telecom Limited.

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Mokujin (木人,Mokujin? ; literally meaning "Wooden person") is a character in the Tekken series of fighting games. He was first introduced in Tekken 3, then reappeared in Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, as well as a few spin off titles.

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Mokujin is a wooden training dummy, constructed from white oak over 2000 years ago for martial artists to practice their abilities upon. A relic from the past, Mokujin was displayed in a museum until, one day, the God of Fighting awoke, bringing an intense evil into the world. This awakening also awoke Mokujin, causing him develop a mind of his own and start moving, and he left the museum in order to aid the martial artists of today in their battle of good over evil by enteringthe third King of Iron Fist Tournament. When Ogre was vanquished and the evil was defeated, Mokujin returned to sleep and was returned to the museum.

Mokujin's rest was short-lived however, as the emergence of a new evil once again awoke Mokujin from his slumber. Mokujin entered the fifth tournament to aid in the fight against Jinpachi Mishima and, once again, returned to his resting place at the museum upon the defeat of Jinpachi. The cycle was repeated a third time when global conflict, initiated by Jin Kazama, caused the awakening of another evil being known as Azazel. When Azazel was defeated, Mokujin returned to his as-yet-uninterrupted slumber.

According to Wang, Mokujin's legend states that: "When the world teeters on the brink of chaos, it shall appear" while Kuma refers


to him as the "messenger of the gods". From his dialogue with Azazel during the Scenario Campaign, Mokujin serves the "great will" and acts as its agent whenever he is activated.

Personality

As a non-living entity, Mokujin shows little in the way of personality. When he is shown in social situations, Mokujin seems to be a very jovial and kind-hearted being, likely due to his desire to restore peace to the land animating him with a good soul.

During the Scenario Campaign, Mokujin displays a lack of self-awareness or common sense, wondering why people would be surprised at seeing a sentient dummy, much less communicate with one telepathically. Although Mokujin often enjoys seeing the growth and power of humans, he is aghast at their decisions to eat up nature's resources forand started to act on its own. Some people say it was motivated by the desire to help martial artists, but only God and Mokujin know for sure.

Tekken 3 Mokujin Ending

Tekken 3 ending.

Ending Description: Mokujin has received an uppercut from an angry female Mokujin and lands on his stomach. The female Mokujin throws a bucket on his back, shaking her fist. Mokujin is then shown filling two buckets up with water from a stream and, as he is hauling them back, he sees two smaller Mokujin near a Tekken 3 arcade machine. One of them is playing the game, while the other watches. Mokujin then starts playing as the two smaller Mokujin watch him play. He uses a male Mokujin, and he fights a female Mokujin, with Lei


Wulong's arcade theme playing in the background. The male Mokujin (the one that Mokujin is using) wins the fight. Mokujin claps his hands before the female version of Mokujin, seen at the beginning of this video, appears behind him. Mokujin turns around, notices her, and receives another uppercut.

Ending Description: Mokujin has defeated Jinpachi. With the defeat of the force that awakened him, Mokujin falls to ground, lifeless. A column of light then shoots from the sky onto Mokujin, and a small leaf sprouts on his nose.

Mokujin is a training dummy made from a 2,000-year-old oak tree. Sensing evil's presence, Mokujin once again sets out to save the world.

Ending Description: A woman is narrating what seems to be a fairytale-like rendition of Mokujin's journey to defeating Azazel. It seemslight-hearted at first, as it shows Mokujin "crossing mountains, oceans and deserts" all while driving a car. Finally, he meets Azazel (referred to as the "Dark Lord" in this ending) and defeats him. In the end, the light-hearted tone of the ending is twisted: Mokujin is seen sitting on a throne with other Mokujin saluting him, a parody of Jin Kazama's Tekken 5 ending.

Other Appearances

Mokujin appeared in Tekken Tag Tournament as a playable character. A playable metallic clone of Mokujin called Tetsujin was also in the game.

Tekken Tag Tournament Mokujin Ending

TTT ending.

Ending Description: Mokujin is practicing moves that are near identical to Northern Style Wushu with many other Mokujin as students. The master Mokujin and the Mokujin students perform all of their moves in unison. This ending animation


ends with Master Mokujin and the Mokujin students posing. This ending takes place in Forest Law's second Tekken Tag Tournament stage, which is called "Law-B".

Mokujin, or rather many Mokujin wooden dummies, make an appearance in the Blood Vengeance film. They are summoned together by Heihachi Mishima to create a gigantic monster. It is eventually toppled by the combined efforts of Alisa Bosconovitch and Devil Jin.

Ending Description: After winning the King of Iron Fist Tournament, Mokujin is invited to the Namco Bandai office to take a tour of their "Future Research Laboratory". When he arrives at the office, he sees a female Mokujin working in the reception, and they fall in love at first sight. They're spending their time together, enjoying various activities at Namco's offices, when the femaleMokujin goes to hand Mokujin a letter that says "I Love You!". When she looks up, Mokujin has disappeared - the female Mokujin then sees him dancing to entertain some human female visitors. Outraged, the female Mokujin sees red and strikes Mokujin with a powerful uppercut, sending him through the roof of the building. The scene ends with the female Mokujin bowing to the visitors. The ending clearly references Mokujin's Tekken 3 ending, where he is also seen being uppercutted by a female Mokujin.

Mokujin appears as a special boss during one of the daily events of the game by getting damage points to get 25 gems.

Gameplay

Mokujin has no fighting style of his own. Instead, he chooses the fighting style of another playable Tekken character that is competing in


for all games, though in Tekken 3, it sounds more like the "clicks" of wooden chimes.

Mokujin only makes the sounds of wood knocking in his interludes, which is his form of communication.

When mimicking characters from the Mishima bloodline, instead of their lightning effect on impact, he will show green leaves near his hands on impact.

This was discontinued starting in Tekken 6, as Mokujin will also mimic the effects of the character he's mimicking, meaning that Mokujin will also have lightning near his hands upon impact.

It's unknown why Mokujin didn't appear as a playable character in Tekken 4, but presumably it's because the boss of the game (which is Heihachi Mishima) is not a demon, and it is the evil powers demons possess that bring Mokujin to life.

Since Mokujindidn't appear in Tekken 4, he was replaced by Combot, who also uses mimicry, due to a bug stuck in his systems.

This makes Mokujin the second character in the series to be replaced by their successor in one game who then replaces their successor in the next game, the first being Marshall Law.

While Mokujin seems to communicate through wood clicking noises in Tekken 5, he is able to communicate through telepathy during the Scenario Campaign.

Whenever Mokujin is mimicking Yoshimitsu, he will adapt a second shorter sword, due to Yoshimitsu now being able to wield both swords at separate times. Despite this fact, Mokujin does not adapt a scabbard and will instead put his sword behind his back.

Both of Mokujin's item moves, Butterflies and Exhaust Pipes, are activated during


rage mode.

Whenever Mokujin is mimicking Alisa, he will adapt a pair of chainsaws from his forearms, due to Alisa being able to use chainsaws while performing certain moves.

Humorously, Mokujin dislikes chainsaws as it can easily cut wood, considering that he is a wooden training dummy awakened by an evil force.

In the multi-company crossover game Cross Edge, Mokujin appears as a training dummy named "Woodman" (literal meaning of the name).

In Street Fighter X Tekken, Pac-Man pilots a robot that looks similar to Mokujin, the difference being that it is much larger, has its face on its stomach, and has the maze from the first Pac-Man game on his back.

A fighting dummy resembling Mokujin is seen in Lollipop Chainsaw's prologue cutscene.

In Pokkén Tournament (a Pokémon fighting game also developed bySingh lauds Hoyte’s role in Guyana’s transformation

–at memorial lecture

The late former President Hugh Desmond Hoyte was on Wednesday remembered as a transformational leader whose substantial contributions included not only facilitating free and fair elections in 1992 but ensuring the peaceful transfer of power after the PNC’s defeat in the election.

The occasion was the fourth H D Hoyte Commemorative Lecture where Major General (rtd) Joe Singh delivered the feature address titled ‘Vision or Pragmatism: The Transformational Role of Hugh Desmond Hoyte, SC’. Singh, who was appointed Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in 1989 by Hoyte, continued to serve in that capacity until his retirement in 2000. He later served as the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) from June 2000, for the March 2001


elections.

Desmond Hoyte

Addressing the gathering at the National Library, which included President Bharrat Jagdeo and several politicians, Singh identified six areas in which Hoyte had a transformational impact on the country.

These were: Undertaking the Georgetown to Lethem Overland Safari in 1973, Instituting the Guyana Prize for Literature in 1987, Launching the Economic Recovery Programme in 1989, Committing to the Iwokrama Rainforest Project in 1989, Facilitating Free and Fair Elections in 1992 and Ensuring the Peaceful Transfer of Power in 1992.

Speaking about Hoyte’s role in the transfer of power, Singh said that after 28 years of PNC rule there was fear that the transition to a PPP/C government would lead to racial disturbances, violence and even a coup. “Such fears did not materialize because Hugh Desmond Hoyte led the wayof all the Guyanese people.”

Hugh Desmond Hoyte served as President from 1985 to 1992.

He subsequently served as Leader of the Opposition until his death on December 22, 2002, when he succumbed to a heart attack. During the Burnham administration, Hoyte also served as Minister of Home Affairs 1969-1970, Finance Minister 1970-1972, Minister of Works & Communications 1972-1974, Minister of Economic Development 1974-1980, Vice President responsible for Economic Planning, Finance and Regional Development 1980-1985, First Vice President and Prime Minister 1984-1985. The former President was married to Joyce Hoyte who passed away last month.


Iglesias on the day of the accident. Defs. Br. at 22. Although Thornberg testified that Iglesias had no difficulty driving the car, defendants stress that Thornberg did not observe Iglesias driving with a stick-shift until after Iglesias had driven from the Rivases' home to the Mazza Gallery and then from the Mazza Gallery to the point where the accident occurred. Id. at 22-23. Defendants contend that Iglesias could have learned to drive with a stick-shift that very day before he saw Thornberg. Id. at 23. In addition, Iglesias denied at trial that he had ever driven the Rivases' car in the past and Thornberg did not testify that he had previously seen Iglesias drive the Rivases' son's car. Id.
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In the blue half-light of the Antarctic autumn, a thin film spreads across the continent’s coastal waters. It’s an embryonic form of sea ice: a mush of microscopic crystals that floats on the dense, salty water of the Southern Ocean.

As winter takes root, this proto-sea ice grows thicker and stronger until it encircles Antarctica in a vast frozen ring. The ice spans nearly 7 million square miles at its peak, an area roughly twice the size of the United States.up until recently curing the disease was not possible in most cases, but recent pharmaceutical advancements had now made it possible to cure most cases in eight weeks.

Despite the breakthrough, he said the drugs remained expensive, and at €75,000 per patient, would have been "one and a half times the entire medicines budget".

"Although it was available it wasn't accessible," Fearne said, adding that this had prompted the government to enter into negotiations with suppliers of the drug for more reasonable prices.

Under the agreement, he said, the government would buy the drug at a more reasonable, but commercially sensitive price, and would only pay the manufacturer in cases were patients were completely cured.

The strategy will be focusing on four main principles: prevention, screening and diagnosis, treatment and monitoring.

Fearne stressed


She was actually in New York doing god’s work, as it were, defending a Russian company against hokey money-laundering charges related to the abominable Magnitsky Act and its contemptible promoter, Bill Browder.

The latter had pulled off an epic multi-billion swindle during the wild west days of post-Soviet Russia and was essentially chased from the country in 2005 by Putin for hundreds of millions in tax evasion. Thereafter he turned the murky prison death of his accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, who was also charged with massive tax evasion, into a revenge crusade against Putin.

That resulted in a huge lobbying campaign subsidized by Browder’s illicit billions and spearheaded by the Senate’s most bloodthirsty trio of warmongers – Senators McCain, Graham and Cardin – to enact the 2012 Magnitsky Act.

The latter, ofin the propaganda business; and despite the Cold War’s end 27 years ago, still carries out relentless "agit prop" in Russia and among the reincarnated states of the old Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact via Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.

For example, here is a Voice of America tweet from this morning falsely charging Russia with the occupation of the former Soviet state of Georgia.

In fact, Russia came to the aid of the Russian-speaking population of the breakaway province of South Ossetia in 2008; the latter felt imperiled by the grandiose pretensions of the corrupt Saakashvili government in Tbilisi, which had unilaterally launched an indiscriminate military assault on the major cities of the province.

Moreover, even an EU commission investigation came to that conclusion way back


in 2009 shortly after the events that the inhabitants of South Ossetia feared would lead to a genocidal invasion by Georgia’s military.

An investigation into last year’s Russia-Georgia war delivered a damning indictment of President Mikheil Saakashvili today, accusing Tbilisi of launching an indiscriminate artillery barrage on the city of Tskhinvali that started the war.

In more than 1,000 pages of analysis, documentation and witness statements, the most exhaustive inquiry into the five-day conflict dismissed Georgian claims that the artillery attack was in response to a Russian invasion……

The EU-commissioned report, by a fact-finding mission of more than 20 political, military, human rights and international law experts led by the Swiss diplomat, Heidi Tagliavini, was unveiled in Brussels today after nine months of work.

Flatly dismissing Saakashvili’s version, the report said: "Thereanti-Magnitsky Act agenda, and to do so used the good offices of what appears to be the Russian Justin Bieber!

Specifically, the offer came to Don Trump Jr. via a London-based PR flack named Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who knew the Trumps through the Miss Universe pageant that was held in Moscow in 2013. Goldstone didn’t know his head from a hole in the ground when it comes to international affairs or Russian politics, but he did represent the Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov, whose father was also a Trump- style real estate developer and had been involved in the 2013 pageant.

Said the London PR flack in an email to Don Jr:

"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting….The Crown prosecutor of Russia


That is when his office gave Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher and three other US representatives a confidential letter detailing American investor Bill Browder’s "illegal scheme of buying up Gazprom shares without permission of the Government of Russia" between 1999 and 2006, one month after Rohrabacher returned from Moscow.

As it happened, Veselnitskaya had apparently brought a memo to the Trump Tower meeting that contained many of the same talking points as one written by Chaika’s office two months earlier.

There you have it.

At the heart of the Russian collusion hoax and the wellspring of the current Russophobia is nothing more than a half-baked effort by Russians to tell their side of the Magnitsky story, and to expose the real villain in the piece – a monumentally greedy hedge fund operatorwho had stolen the Russian people blind and then conveniently gave up his American citizenship so that he would neither do time in a Russian jail or pay taxes in America.

Spoiler Alert for next part: When both economic policy and politics have gone full retard in the Imperial City is there anything which could possibly go wrong – that might pollute the punch bowl on Wall Street?

Stay tuned!

David Stockman was a two-term Congressman from Michigan. He was also the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street. He’s the author of three books, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America


Parents deported to Central America by U.S. immigration officials returned to the southern border Saturday to demand asylum and reunification with the children they were forced to leave behind, NBC News reported.

The 29 parents, who were sent back to their home countries last year after crossing illegally into the U.S. with their children, traveled over the past month with immigration lawyers, religious leaders and other supporters in the hope of rejoining their kids.

A father at the border in Mexicali, Mexico, told MSNBC's Mariana Atencio that he waited for seven hours Saturday for information from U.S. immigration officials.

"Time doesn't matter," said the Guatemalan man, who provided only his first name, Neri. "Our love for our child has no price."

The families have 27 children in U.S. custody, and the youngestof U.S. foreign policy and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to take away from Knarr's work is that U.S. relations with South American countries were very different from those with Central American and Caribbean countries. For Uruguay in particular, Knarr argues that "the United States did not need to coerce Uruguay economically, politically, or militarily to achieve its goals; Uruguay was a friendly and stable nation that the United States could use as an economic and political gateway into the Southern Cone" (p. 5).

Knarr characterizes Uruguayan policy toward the United States as proactive, while U.S. policy toward Uruguay was reactive (p. 149). That proactive Uruguayan policy stemmed from both geopolitical and domestic circumstances. The British had negotiated for the creation of Uruguay as a buffer state in


the River Plate region in 1828, and as a result, Uruguay was repeatedly enmeshed in conflicts with Brazil and Argentina, as well as being in a neocolonial economic relationship with Britain. Beginning in the 1890s, Uruguayan officials began to seek a closer relationship with the United States, frequently requesting and receiving the presence of U.S. naval vessels at times when Uruguayan independence was in jeopardy. Uruguayan officials also encouraged greater economic exchange with the United States to counter British dominance. In domestic politics, José Batlle y Ordoñez and his supporters held power. They advocated the liberal reform of Uruguay via an expanded franchise, structural changes in government, innovations in agriculture and technology, improved labor conditions, and similar progressive, modern policies. In this respect, the United States served asa model for Uruguayan politicians, who drew on U.S. examples to justify their policy recommendations; they also sent Uruguayans to the United States to study and observe, and they hired U.S. experts to develop educational institutions and other programs in Uruguay.

The United States and Uruguay exchanged consuls shortly after Uruguayan independence and later posted diplomats, but interactions between the two countries were minimal in the nineteenth century. This was largely due to the challenges of travel between the two countries; ocean travel between Uruguay and Europe was much easier and considerably cheaper. The rise of Batlle's party and direct steamship connections between the United States and Uruguay roughly coincided, facilitating exchange from the 1890s. The key event that put Uruguay on the mental map of more people in


the United States was the visit of secretary of state Elihu Root in 1906. Part of a larger South American tour designed to improve relations marred by the Roosevelt Corollary, Root’s four days in Montevideo were a major symbolic success. The secretary was greeted enthusiastically by large, pro-American crowds, and he took back to the United States the image of Uruguay as a stable, friendly, and civilized country. More American travelers followed Root, as did businessmen. In the years before World War I, U.S. companies gained several important footholds, winning contracts for railroad construction, banking, and oil extraction. Ford opened three factories in Uruguay, and all four major U.S. meat companies, including Swift and Armor, operated packinghouses there. With the economic disruptions of World War I, U.S. companieswere able to achieve prominence in the Uruguayan economy, displacing the British.

The Uruguayan government was a strong supporter of Woodrow Wilson's policies during the war. Uruguay was officially neutral at the beginning, with its leaders thinking not only of economic and political ties to Britain and the United States, but also of economic ties to Germany and, more importantly, of the approximately 400,000 German Brazilians living along the northern border. Just as Wilson strained the definition of neutrality and favored the Allies, Uruguayan president Feliciano Viera altered the rules to allow U.S. ships into Uruguayan ports. In October 1917, the Uruguayan government broke diplomatic relations with Germany following the loss of the Rosario to German U-boats and the news—via British-decoded German communiqués—that some in the German government did


seek to mobilize the Germans in Brazil. The Uruguayan government seized eight German merchant ships that had been in Montevideo harbor since the start of the war, eventually leasing the ships to the U.S. Emergency Fleet Corporation—and, in so doing, embarking on a legal dispute that would not be resolved until 1926. In acknowledgment of support for the United States during the war and the existence of outstanding legal disputes, secretary of state Robert Lansing agreed to advocate for seats at the Paris Peace Conference for countries that had broken relations with Germany but had not declared war, including Uruguay. Lansing was successful, and the Uruguayan delegation actively supported Wilson's League of Nations plans at the conference.

Relations between the United States and Uruguay deteriorated in the 1920s asprogressive politicians lost ground in both countries. As more people gained a voice in Uruguayan politics and U.S. economic penetration of the country intensified, anti-American sentiment became more prominent, and some key liberals who had traditionally embraced the United States turned away. Following the Bolshevik Revolution and the advent of a very pro-business Republican Party, U.S. officials were more apt to see liberal Uruguayan policies as communist. In an effort to improve relations, Uruguayan footballers toured the United States in 1927, and president-elect Herbert Hoover stopped in Montevideo as part of a South American tour in late 1928, but the success of these efforts was limited. Knarr ends his account in October 1929, when, in the same week, Batlle, the anchor of Uruguayan liberalism, died and the stock