introduce federal legislation to legalize the production of hemp within the United States. Along with this, McConnell also hopes ...

E-cigarettes take another front seat driver in state taxation. Several states have been passing legislation to boost their revenue with yet another tobacco product, e-cigarette liquid. Now, another ...

Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, recently announced a plan to introduce federal legislation to legalize the production of hemp within the United States. Along with this, McConnell also hopes ...

E-cigarettes take another front seat driver in state taxation. Several states have been passing legislation to boost their revenue with yet another tobacco product, e-cigarette liquid. Now, another ...

Medical marijuana use is currently one of the most controversial topics in politics. To date, 29 states and the District of Columbia have legalizedto rebuild its strength after years of under investment and greater demands on its operational capabilities.

The armed forces called for approximinately €10 billion in extra spending during 2017-2020 period.

Sweden has reintroduced conscription and restored troops to the strategically key Baltic island of Gotland as it looks to bolster its defenses.

Swedish lawmakers are set to vote on 25 May on a Host Nation Agreement with NATO that would represent a step toward further cooperation with the alliance for a nation that has resisted alignment with multilateral military bodies for over 200 years, write Olof Kronvall and Colin Cleary.


Noah Anderson hit a walk-off single down the left-base line in the bottom of the seventh inning for the second time in as many days, and the George Mason High School JV baseball team rallied from a six-run deficit to beat visiting Wilson High School 10-9 last Thursday night.

The Mustangs (3-1) got on the board first behind the bats of freshman Logan Nesson and sophomore Gabe Terry. Nesson led off the bottom of the first with a double to left field and then advanced to third base on a passed ball. Terry then went to plate with two outs and drilled a ball into left-centerfield for a stand-up RBI double for the 1-0 lead.

After giving up four runs to the Tigers, Mason plated two runs in the fifthscore to 9-6.

Terry got on base via walk to load the bases once again for Mason, and Davis Hagigh hit a towering fly ball to right that caught the wind and fell for an RBI base hit. Casteel came up again in the bottom half of the inning and picked up an RBI walk to cut the lead to one before Terry bolted for home plate on a wild-pitch to even the score at 9 heading into the final frame.

With the score even in the last inning, Mason turned to Schlitt on the mound to keep the Tigers off base. Two groundouts and a strike out on a paralyzing breaking ball retired the side in quick fashion to hold momentum for the Mustangs.

Thomas and Nesson started off the


Gordon Ramsay sues over hacked emails that revealed hair transplant

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is reported to be suing a former editor of the disgraced News of the World in a case involving hacked emails.

Ramsay is seeking damages for breach of privacy from publicist Phil Hall, who was the News of the World's editor in the late 1990s.

Ramsay claims that his former business partner and father-in-law, Christopher Hutcheson, passed on private information gleaned from hacked emails to Hall, who then sold it to the Daily Mail newspaper.

According to reports, information contained in confidential emails was passed to The Daily Mail who reported about the celebrity chef's £30,000 hair transplant and accused him of being a hypocrite for going on a shark-fishing trip shortly before he appeared in a TVprogram expressing his outrage at the killing of the creatures.

Ramsay has previously claimed that members of his wife's family had installed keylogging spyware onto his computer to steal passwords and secretly access his emails.

Gordon Ramsay's dispute with his father-in-law, however, came to an end in early 2011 when Hutcheson was said to have received £2 million from the chef, buying him out of the Ramsay business empire.

Phil Hall's legal team claims that the former newspaper editor, who is now chief executive at London PR firm PHA Media, knew nothing about any email hacking.

As Hall claims that there is no evidence that he knew any of the information had been illicitly obtained, he is hoping the courts will strike out Ramsay's claim against him.

A decision will be made later


SECOND BRÂHMANA.

11:6:2:11. Now, Ganaka of Videha once met some Brâhmanas who were travelling about 1, to wit, Svetaketu Âruneya, Somasushma Sâtyayagñi, and Yâgñavalkya. He said to them, 'How do ye each of you perform the Agnihotra?'

11:6:2:22. Svetaketu Âruneya replied, 'O great king, I make offering, in one another, to two heats, never-failing and overflowing with glory.'--'How is that?' asked the king.--'Well, Âditya (the sun) is heat: to him I make offering in Agni in the evening; and Agni, indeed, is heat: to him I make offering in the morning in Âditya 2.'--'What becomes of him who offers in this way?' asked the

king.--'He verily becomes never-failing in prosperity and glory, and attains to 'the fellowship of those two deities, and to an abode in their world.'

11:6:2:33. Then Somasushma Sâtyayagñihe were to vanquish us, people would say of us that a Râganya had vanquished Brâhmanas: do not think of this!' They approved of his words. But Yâgñavalkya, mounting his car, drove after (the king). He overtook him, and he (the king) said, 'Is it to know the Agnihotra, Yâgñavalkya?'--'The Agnihotra, O king!' he replied.

11:6:2:66. ‘Well, those two libations, when offered, rise upwards: they enter the air, and make the air their offering-fire, the wind their fuel, the sun-motes their pure libation: they satiate the air, and rise upwards therefrom.

11:6:2:77. ‘They enter the sky, and make the sky their offering-fire, the sun their fuel, and the moon their pure libation: they satiate the sky, and return from there.

11:6:2:88. ‘They enter this (earth), and make this (earth) their offering-fire,


the fire their fuel, and the herbs their pure libation: they satiate this (earth), and rise upwards therefrom.

11:6:2:99. ‘They enter man, and make his mouth their offering-fire, his tongue their fuel, and food their pure libation: they satiate man; and, verily, for him who, knowing this, eats food the Agnihotra comes to be offered. They rise upwards from there.

11:6:2:1010. 'They enter woman, and make her lap their offering-fire, her womb the fuel,--for that (womb) is called the bearer, because by it Pragâpati bore creatures,--and the seed their pure libation: they satiate woman; and, verily, for him who, knowing this, approaches his mate, the Agnihotra comes to

be offered. The son who is born therefrom is the renascent world: this is the Agnihotra, Yâgñavalkya, there is nothing higher than this.'a publisher of these comments and responses.

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눉The owner tried to charge us 50 Euros as a standard cleaning fee at the end of our stay which was not documented on the website or on the terms and conditions. The owner did relent after being challenged eventually but it ended the stay with a bitter twist. Shame. Not one single English speaking TV channel.

눇The view from the back is lovely shame it can't be seen from the bedroom due to the location of the windows. The children loved the pool and swings. The cottage was spacious and well eqipped.

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expertise in building his business. And former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, like Klobuchar, has sometimes been a voice of reason on debate stages.

But Klobuchar is the candidate we know best and trust the most.

Most Minnesotans recognize that she has been there on the issues that matter to them — not just when it’s politically expedient, but day after day, year after year.

In the Senate, she has worked to combat climate change and been part of a bipartisan group that attempted to overcome polarization on comprehensive immigration reform. She has carried bills on gun safety when others shied away. Even as a member of the minority, Klobuchar in 2016 had more bills enacted than any other senator. Being able to work with the other side, to findPosts Tagged ‘Marseille Tourist Office’

Marseille has been working hard to get itself on the tourist ‘must-see’ list and the Tourist Office now offers many organised visits to different parts of this vibrant city. Apart from the obvious sites, visitors can opt for food-tasting tours, street art walks, lunch on a cruise ship, or behind the scenes at the Marseille opera which includes a fascinating visit to the atelier where costumes are made.

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Art in the South of France; the inside story

The South of France. Enchanted by the deep blue of


the Mediterranean, the olive trees, poppies, irises and that dazzling light, artists found their creativity flourished under the hot sun. My new book takes you on a journey visiting museums and galleries as well as artists’ studios and their favourite painting spots. From Van Gogh in Arles, to Signac in Saint-Tropez; from Cézanne in Aix, over to Nice for Renoir and Matisse, the story unfolds of artists who knew each other and painted together in the warm south. Prepare too to meet colourful local artists who captured their beloved Provence for us to enjoy.

Aix-en-Provence The Inside Story

My first book tells the story of this fascinating town and introduces .some of the characters who have lived here. With a focus on people rather than buildings, history is unravelled throughRanch, a would-be public park. Pfendler, a Vietnam combat pilot and aircraft-leasing entrepreneur who died in 2007, is remembered as an ardent conservationist in some circles, as the grinch who stole Lafferty in others.

Anyhow, after some tumult, and after the issue had long faded from the front page, he met and married Kimberly in 2004. A graduate of UCLA film school, Kimberly worked in the film industry. Through friends she met Pfendler Vineyards winemaker Greg Bjornstad, whose experience at Flowers Vineyard established him as a Pinot Noir guru. Bordeaux-man Peter had planted some iffy grapes up here in the crosshairs of the cool Petaluma Gap winds, later experimenting with Pinot Noir; Bjornstad has T-budded vines to old, so-called California clones like Calera and Swan, which are said to


ripen more slowly than more recent imports.

Up here at 2,000 feet, says Bjornstad in the little Helgren Vineyard, the vines get plenty of sun for photosynthesis, without the heat. Down below, overlooking a vineyard named for Kimberly's parents, he hands out samples of the new 2011 Pinot Noir. It's deep and brooding, with notes of mint, anise, and licorice. Kimberly's father, a hale Minnesotan who is no stranger to construction, attractively rehabbed this 1960s ranch house, hand-salvaging stones from around the property. Louis XV–style furniture dots the spacious front room, but there is no public tasting here. Pfendler wines are on offer at Healdsburg's new Vin Couture Lounge.

The 2010 Pinot Noir ($45) is deep in color, deeper in aromas of black licorice and cherry, and coats the palateSATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007

LEGION OF SUPER HEROES: SEASON 2

Kids' WB! has provided The Continuum with a first look at a promtional image for the second season of Legion of Super Heroes.

The image shows one of the two Superman characters for the second season. This Superman is from the 41st Century and is a clone bred for fighting moreso than heroism.

Look for an interesting dynamic between the new Superman and Brainiac-5.

Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced Superman last season, is returning to voice both versions of Superman for Season 2. Keri Wahlgren, who provided the voices of Saturn Girl and Triplicate Girl, told The Continuum she is also returning.

The image also shows a first look at Chameleon Boy and new designs for characters.

"I love the new look," Andy Milder, who provides


the voice of Lightning Lad, told The Continuum. "This whole new season has a really cool feel. Itıs even better than last year."

Fans will get their first look at the second season of Legion this Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Panelists include cast members Lowenthal, Phil Morris and Alex Polinsky, producer James Tucker, director Brandon Vietti and story editor/writer Michael Jelenic. Some footage from Season 2 will be shown.

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Devil's Due Publishing has provided The Continuum its solicitations for October.Speakers

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Travis is the head of Yahoo Esports Media and leads the team in “League of Legends” video coverage. Prior to joining the Yahoo Esports team, Travis worked at CBSinteractive, creating esports content for onGamers and GameSpot. Travis's first step into esports began in 2011, when he launched podcast “State of the League.”


lawmakers on legislation to address mass killings.

In Louisville, Ky., dozens of people upset with McConnell’s inaction on gun control and other legislation held a protest late into the night outside his house. They banged pots and drums — at times even scraping a shovel across a sidewalk.

It was one of several demonstrations calling for stricter gun laws that erupted in cities across the country this week.

Some of the protests, including one Monday in front of NRA headquarters in Northern Virginia, were organized by gun-control organizations hoping to capitalize on public anger. Others seemed more spontaneous, including the Philadelphia Union soccer player who grabbed a microphone during a match Sunday.

“Congress, do something now! End gun violence,” Alejandro Bedoya yelled after scoring a goal.

Democrats running for president have been mostIn 2005, Bensonhurst resident Shulem Deen found himself banished from the town of New Square, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish township in Rockland County, New York. His crimes–reading non-Judaic books, listening to the radio, and generally flirting with technology–all seem like innocuous aspets of a secular life in the 21st century. But to the communal court of New Square, a council of Rabbinical scholars who served as the town’s governing body, any foray into the outside world constituted sin, and therefore made Deen a heretic.

In truth, Deen was doing more than just tinkering with the dial on his radio. He had been blogging under the guise of the Hasidic Rebel–a website he set up in 2003 that chronicled his gradual questioning of faith and spiritual erosion–something he had kept deeply


chaos and anxiety, an atmosphere that would later sever their ties, and leave Deen alone in a world he had never before navigated.

Deen’s journey into that secular world is the subject of his new memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return. It’s a searing account of loss and self-discovery that encompasses his transformation from a 19-year-old Hasid who could barely read English to a popular blogger and self-taught computer programmer, motivated by his hunger for personal knowledge.

Although 2005 marked Deen’s personal year of exodus, and a touchstone for his new life, previous years hint at the crumbling of his old world’s foundation. He would later see a secular existence–one rife with scientific inquiry, rational thinking and an affinity for technology, emerge out of the rubble of his formerRick Santorum loves to wrap himself in the flag, and was one of the first to protest the end of the Republican war for oil and conquest in Iraq. He also went ballistic in blaming Obama for Defense cuts recommended by the Joint Chiefs, claiming that Democrats do not support our troops. One of the best measures of who supports our troops, and who doesn’t, is the way in which they treat veterans, who deserve the best we can give them. Santorum’s record is completely Republican.

…The Armed Forces Retirement Home, which is run by the Department of Defense, bills itself as "premier home for military retirees and veterans." The facility sprawls across 272 acres high on a hill in northern Washington, DC, near the Petworth neighborhood. The nearly


600 veterans who now live there enjoy panoramic views of the city—the Washington monument and US Capitol to the south, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to the east. At its peak, more than 2,000 veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War lived at the Home.

But with the rise of the smaller all-volunteer military, the Home began to run into serious financial problems. It was clear that one of its primary sources of revenue—a 50-cent deduction from the paychecks of active-duty servicemembers—wasn’t enough to keep the Home operating fully. In the 1990s, the Home scrambled to find ways to avoid insolvency, trimming its staff by 24 percent and reducing its vet population by 800. Still, the money problems began to show,391 at LIPPE 382377).
In 1988, Keene and 20 other former ACF members formed the Center for Claims Resolution (the "CCR"). (Id at LIPPE 382378; DX 548). The CCR was similar in concept to the ACF, but costs were allocated for each case according to each member's market share in the industry or trade in question. (DX 391 at LIPPE 382394). Keene resolved large numbers of claims in the CCR through 1990, including more than 20,000 claims in 1989. (DX 485 at PETERS 10019). In 1990, however, Keene left the CCR because it believed that too many non-meritorious claims were being settled. (DX 433; Mileaf Dep. at 233; Bailey Decl. 114).
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During the 1970s, Keene made efforts to clarify and maximize its insurance coverage. Two insurers were defending and


three divisions and one subsidiary that did lighting business, but unlike Lightolier, these were not significant presences in the lighting industry. (Heller Dep. at 209-10; Cafiero Dep. at 48; McCord Dep. at 23; Bailey Dep. at 732-33).
In 1981, Lightolier was confronted with a hostile tender offer. (DX 105 at DG *369 9856). Eventually, Bairnco entered the picture as a "white knight" and acquired Lightolier. A key consideration for Heller was Bailey's stated intention to spin off businesses into independent companies, for this was consistent with Heller's continued desire to operate Lightolier as an independent company. (Heller Dep. at 87, 364-65; Bailey Dep. at 731, 850-51).
In August 1981, Bairnco created BZ Acquisition and BZ Holdings. Between August and November 1981, BZ Holdings acquired approximately 80% of Lightolier's outstanding stock.On January 18, 1982, Lightolier merged with BZ Holdings, with Lightolier as the surviving entity, making Lightolier a wholly-owned subsidiary of BZ Acquisition and a second-tier subsidiary of Bairnco. (DXs 99, 103).
After Bairnco acquired Lightolier, Heller remained committed to the concept of running Lightolier as an independent, public company. (Heller Dep. at 373; Bailey Decl. ¶38). In 1983, a consulting group advised Bairnco that the lighting industry was undergoing major consolidation and that smaller and medium-sized companies would have difficulty competing. In early 1984, Bairnco decided to consolidate Lightolier with Wide-Lite, another Bairnco lighting subsidiary, and Keene's lighting business ("Keene Lighting"). The businesses were consolidated within BZ Acquisition, under the aegis of Lightolier's management. KCS Lighting, a subsidiary of BZ Acquisition, was created to buy Keene Lighting from


the consideration constituted "fair value." (DX 230 at KP 1023-24).
The sale of Keene Lighting was approved and became effective July 1, 1984, and Keene transferred Keene Lighting to KCS Lighting. (DX 225). Bairnco consolidated the lighting businesses in August 1984. Bairnco's Form 10-K and its 1984 Annual Report both disclosed Keene's sale of Keene Lighting. (DX 246 at LIPPE 84220, 84222, DX 247 at KP 8282, 8286, 8289).
The Genlyte Group ("Genlyte") was incorporated on January 24, 1985 and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bairnco. On February 6, 1985, BZ Acquisition was merged into Genlyte, with Genlyte as the surviving entity and thus becoming the owner of Bairnco's lighting businesses.
On August 1, 1988, Genlyte was spun off to Bairnco's stockholders. (DX 368; Heller Dep. at 453-54; Fichthorn Decl. ¶Blog

Celebrating the differences North Indian Cuisine Vs. South Indian Cuisine

India may not be as big as Australia but it is still a very large country and quite a melting pot of various regions, sub cultures and diverse cuisines. When it comes to food, there is a huge north-south divide with north Indian food being very different, very distinct from its southern counterpart. Most patrons love both north Indian and south Indian dishes but also get confused between the two. So we bring you some key information on various differences between the two.

Here we go.

• Wheat and Rice

Down south, rice is the staple grain. Up north, wheat is. Southern Indian cuisine has innumerable rice based delicacies like dosa, idli, appam, uttapam, puttu (all made from fermented batter with rice


the optimality lens. A pilot study was performed in which a 10-question interview was administered to 9 midwifery students before graduation. Two research questions were addressed: "Is the OI-US an effective teaching tool?" and "How can the program improve this strategy?" Narrative analysis was used to interpret students' understandings of the tool, how it affected their clinical learning, and its potential to use in future practices. Four themes were identified: 1) students felt the OI-US gave them a foundation to assess their management and the confidence to plan future management, 2) students used the OI-US as a teaching tool to help women prevent nonoptimal events from occurring, 3) students thought the OI-US would be feasible to use in their future practices, and 4) lack of accessibility to alinks

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re-positioned, SmackDown continued to use a variation of the graphics package that had been in use since its first HD broadcast in January 2008, until the show moved to Thursday nights on January 15, 2015, when an all-new graphics package (now optimized for the 16:9 format) and intro video were introduced along with a revised SmackDown logo. On March 26, 2015, WWE added a small LED board to the left side of the ring on SmackDown, similar to Raw. On the September 14, 2015 season premiere of Raw, the middle rope was colored gold. Throughout the month of October 2015, the WWE broadcast table, entrance ramp, and ring skirts were co-branded with Susan G. Komen for the cure of breast cancer. Also, the middle ring rope was pinkAs a junior-level sysadmin at his university, Alcari had gotten used to frantic, middle-of-the-night support calls. Whether it was a mail proxy server freezing up, a replication process getting out of sync, or some application deadlocking, Alcari's solution was almost always the same: reboot the problem server. On a recent 4:00AM emergency call, however, the situation was a bit more dire.

"Ummm," the student working the graveyard shift at the helpdesk started, "I think the network is down. I'm getting calls from everyone, everywhere. Can you, like, check into this. Now?"

Alcari fired up his laptop and noticed that his connection to the university was not responding. He couldn't even ping the school's home page. Worst case scenario, he figured, the network equipment had taken a dive, and he'd have


to replace a router or two. It certainly wasn't the best way to spend a Monday morning.

However, as he drove towards the university's utility building, he realized that he may have underestimated the source of the problem. His first clue was the small motorcade of police cruisers that whizzed by him. The second was when he almost got run off the road by a giant firetruck. But it all really sunk in when he noticed that they were all headed towards the same place he was: the smoldering remains of the utility building.

Alcari parked his car and navigated under a few lines of red and yellow police tape towards the center of the circus. By the time he made his way through, most of the excitement had diedthey walked into The Server Room That Was, everyone's hopes immediately faded. The sight of molten cables, dripping plastic, and shards of concrete lodged into warped server racks was eclipsed only by the putrid smell of burnt electronics. It was kind of like that power supply we've all sniffed after burning out, but infinitely worse.

Sitting in the center of the former data center was the remains of The Beast: the university's core server that housed email, web, and several other critical functions. The small, metal plate reading "Core Server - Do Not Touch" was about all that was left intact. Everyone was completely bummed out.

"Wait a minute, guys," one of the techs lit up, "I know for a fact we set up a Secondary Server just in case...


to the company unless a satisfactory explanation was accepted by the company. On the morning of the 19th, the plaintiff conferred with the personnel director of the defendant, presenting a doctor's certificate that she had been under his care for severe migraine headaches. She stated she had called a cab on both the 17th and 18th to go to the doctor's office and could possibly have called a cab from the doctor's office to take her home. She admitted she did not notify the company. The personnel director was of the opinion the plaintiff did not make an honest effort to contact the company and to fulfil her contractual obligations and refused to accept the explanation of her failure to notify the company of her absence. The refusalexceptions not here material, are required to be filed within fifteen working days after the occurrence of the grievance. The management representative then reviews the grievance with the representatives of the shop committee. The third step involves a request for review to the industrial-relations department and a consideration at a meeting of the company and the shop-committee representatives. The fourth step provides for arbitration.
On November 19th, the plaintiff called the union president who was then chairman of its executive board and told him of her discharge; he said he would investigate the matter. On the following day he advised the plaintiff he had talked to the company and the company would not reinstate her, but if she wanted to pursue the matter she could follow normal grievance procedures.


immigration of Muslims to the U.S. After an outcry over that proposal, including from some of his supporters, he said the moratorium would only apply to countries whose nationals have been involved in terrorism against the U.S. or its allies.

Since the most controversial part of the Bush administration's registration effort was abandoned in December 2003, the Obama team's move to dismantle the regulations is largely symbolic. Nevertheless, more than 200 civil rights, religious and other organizations urged the administration to delete the rules out of concern that they would serve as a framework for Trump to renew or expand the registration effort.

The Homeland Security notice released Thursday and scheduled for formal publication on Friday called the NSEERS program "obsolete and inefficient."

"Although DHS retained the regulations that provide the& Border Control Department (C&BC)
 Domestic Taxes Department (DTD)
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 Corporate Support Services Department (CSS)
 Legal Services & Board Coordination Department (LS&BC)

In addition to the seven major departments, the Authority has the following four other departments to harmonize operations and efficiency. (a) Transformation and Leadership Office (b) Kenya School of Revenue Administration (c) Internal Audit Department (d) Marketing & Communication Department.

To increase tax compliance percentages and encourage more people to file their taxes, the Kenya Revenue Authority has an elaborate online portal that allows citizens to log in and either file tax returns, check their penalties or apply for a certificate of tax compliance. This is in line with the Kenyan


everywhere. The situation is really tough for basic goods."

Student-led demonstrations have been roiling Venezuela for more than a month. At least 28 people have been killed and dozens wounded in confrontations between security forces and those who have taken to the streets.

The list of grievances — rising crime, inflation — is long, but the main one for many is the scarcity of basic foodstuffs.

As with everything in Venezuela, the reasons given for the food shortages depend on political affiliation. The government says it's the result of unscrupulous businessmen waging an economic war and hoarding by regular people afraid of shortages.

Those in the opposition blame a system that imposes price controls, the lack of money to buy imports and problems in the supply chain after the expropriation of farmsand factories by the socialist government.

Whatever the reasons, the shortages have meant that Nello spends a lot of time in long lines. It's usually the women who have to go to the shops and her house is no exception.

"When we find out there is something we need in one of the supermarkets, we have to jump and get up very early to get down there," she says.

The family lives on a hillside with only makeshift stairs to get to their home. It's a long way to the market, and once there, the lines often take hours, with hundreds of people standing in them. She says she feels they have become like ants, always carrying supplies home.

An informal barter system has developed as well, Nello says. If she has


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Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden, to create a wonderfully readable and authoritative version. The artist Witold Gordon created thirty-two two-color woodcut illustrations for the original edition, published again here for the first time in over fifty years.

Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally,same dollars. The manufacturer is deceived just as was the German shopkeeper or the Austrian paper manufacturers who thought they were making profits.

How likely is it that Wall Street, full of so many bright individuals, is being fooled by money illusion? It's not inconceivable. Even Scott Sumner volunteers that he doesn't believe the BEA's numbers due to soaring stock prices and strong earnings, thus falling prey to that very same affliction that serves as his blog's namesake. Money illusion can happen to the best of us.

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The so-called corporate "roll up" lies at the conjunction of finance and monetary economics. For those monetary economists who aren't familiar with the term, a roll-up is a company that tries to consolidate an entire industry by serially acquiring competitors,


much nailed down the idea of liquidity, or what he preferred to call marketability, the fact that "different goods cannot be exchanged for each other with equal facility." Menger gives the example of a black smith who, when going to market with his newly made armour, has difficulties locating someone willing to trade food and fuel. Rather than seeking to directly trade, it is in the smith's interest to take an indirect route by accumulating some good that though useless to him, has greater marketability than the armour he has produced. In this way, the smith gives up his less saleable commodity for others of greater marketability since "possession of these more saleable goods clearly multiplies his chances of finding persons on the market who will offer tobank run that began after the credit crisis. There exist many different brands of euros, some issued by Germany, some by Greece. As a condition of membership in the Eurosystem, all nations are required to accept each other's euros at par. With the spectre of euro breakup growing in 2010 and 2011, Greek euros came to be viewed as inferior to German euros. Since it was possible to convert the bad into the good at par, everyone leaped at the opportunity. The quantity of bad Greek euros rapidly contracted while the quantity of good German euros grew, a process that would have eventually resulted in the complete extinction of Greek euros if Mario Draghi hadn't stepped in to short-circuit the run.

My favorite modern example of Masherg's law is


of the loonie and Susan B. Anthony are almost identical.

I don't buy the argument that insufficient differentiation caused one coin to succeed and the other to fail. In 2000 the U.S. took another shot at debuting a dollar coin with the introduction of the so called "golden dollar" (due to yellowish tint provided by manganese brass), otherwise known as the Sacagawea dollar thanks to the appearance of this Native American interpreter and guide on its obverse. Despite having the same golden sheen as the loonie, the Sacagawea dollar does not circulate in the U.S. Rather, huge amounts of these coins are held along with their predecessor Susan B. Anthony in the vaults of the Federal Reserve as Fed officials wait in vain for demand to pick up. (SeeSaint Joseph's beats VCU 65-61 for A-10 title

NEW YORK (AP) -- Langston Galloway's legs should have been aching after playing three games in three days and every minute against VCU's press.

The only thing the Saint Joseph's senior could feel was how close he was to winning an Atlantic 10 tournament championship. Galloway stepped back to hit yet another huge 3-pointer, giving the Hawks the lead for good in their 65-61 win over the 23rd-ranked Rams in Sunday's final.

Fourth-seeded Saint Joseph's (24-9) arrived in Brooklyn on the NCAA tournament bubble. The Hawks all but clinched an at-large berth with a victory over fellow bubble team Dayton in Friday's quarterfinals on Galloway's go-ahead 3 with 17.9 seconds left. Then they made that moot by capturing the conference's automatic bid for


the first time since 1997.

Galloway scored 19 points Sunday and broke a 54-54 tie with a 3 with more than two minutes left.

He and Halil Kanacevic played all 40 minutes against the second-seeded Rams' frenetic defense.

Kanacevic won MVP honors after setting a tournament record with 43 rebounds in three games.

''We could go play another 40 if I got to feel this way again,'' Kanacevic said after cutting down the nets.

All five St. Joe's starters played at least 37 minutes - including the entire second half. Coach Phil Martelli made a note to himself before the game to get his subs some time in the first, but when they struggled in brief action, he knew riding his regulars gave Saint Joseph's its best chance to win a championship.

It helpsthat the media timeouts in the tournament seem to last forever, offering players some extra rest - Martelli quipped Saturday that ''I got engaged in less time.''

Ronald Roberts, the Hawks' third senior starter, had 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting and 11 rebounds.

The Rams (26-8) have reached the A-10 tourney finals in both years in the league, losing each time. Rob Brandenberg led VCU with 18 points, but Galloway got just enough separation on him to make the go-ahead 3. Galloway used his forearm to create some space on the shot against Dayton; this time, he simply faked a drive and stepped back.

''I didn't get close to pushing off so nobody would disagree with that,'' he said with a grin.

Briante Weber missed a 3 on the other end, and


said.

Kanacevic, a forward from nearby Staten Island, had 11 points, 14 rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Earlier in his career, he kept racking up technical fouls, but he's channeled that fire into a leadership role.

For all of the Hawks' success in 19 seasons under Martelli, he had won only one A-10 tourney title before Sunday, and that came 17 years ago. But he knew this would be a special group last summer, when the team gathered before a four-game tour of Italy.

Martelli pulled a ''Pope-blessed'' ring from his pocket, a souvenir of that trip and his good luck charm on the sideline. It was obvious when he observed his players off the court in Rome, the coach said, that they had ''championship character.''And the winner is Ben Altimirano Sports Complex at 3.9 million gallons for the month of August at a cost of $15,769.00 for 4 baseball fields and 2 soccer fields. In an agreement between the Town of Silver City, owner of the complex, and Silver Consolidated School District the School District maintains and controls the Complex and the Town/Taxpayer pays the water bill. Above, a ball field watered during a down pour.

As the Town takes up the issue of water conservation as recommended by the Mayor's Climate Committee and not exactly knowing what to do the Town began by analyzing the biggest water users. See below for their top 10 as printed out from their data base after my amended list of the top ten.

By way of comparison


average households use per month.

4. Swimming Pools, The Towns outdoor swimming pool used a modest 9,000 gallons in August, down from a high of 30,000 in June and 11,000 in July.

The WNMU indoor pool, #10 in the un-amended top 10, used a total of 2.4 million gallons for May - July for an average of 800,000 gallons per month. For August, when it was shut down do to a leak the usage went down to 310,000 gallons, dropping it from the top 10 at least for now.

5. LDS Mormon Church on Swan St moves into the top 10 with an August use of 747,000 gallons. See: Amended Top 10 list below for May-July usage.

6. Scott Park, 3 baseball fields: Although included in the Parks Total these Ball parksGetting an accurate count of how many people call this region home will affect congressional seats and the distribution of federal funds

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One of the sample banners that the group of students was going to make in Marin City, Calif. on Oct. 16, 2019. Bayside MLK students, part of the Performing Stars club, are working with Dominican University students to make banner artworks for “Marin City Counts.Ó The finished artworks will be placed around the city to draw attention to the importance of participating in the 2020 U.S. Census. (Douglas Zimmerman/Special to Marin Independent Journal)

Just as retailers are staffing up to handle a glut of shoppers this holiday season, so too is the U.S. Census Bureau.

Over the next several months, the agency will hire 5,000 people to work


It took the jury about three hours to find Clay Conaway guilty of fourth-degree rape Sept. 27.

The Millsboro woman, 21, who filed first-degree rape against Conaway after she went over to his Georgetown home June 20, 2018, and said he raped her and injured her, quietly cried in the courtroom with her mother and stepfather. They left with no comment.

Fourth-degree rape has no minimum sentence but a maximum sentence of 15 years. The jury found Conaway, 23, guilty of the lesser charge after Sussex County Superior Court Judge Richard F. Stokes gave them the option to also find Conaway guilty of second-degree rape or fourth-degree rape. Fourth-degree rape means the jury found that Conaway digitally penetrated the woman without her consent. The woman testified that she said nowhen Conaway began fingering her - digital penetration.

Conaway’s family and friends openly sobbed as the jury decision was read, one relative left the courtroom yelling, “Liar.”

Sussex County Superior Court Judge Richard F. Stokes immediately revoked Conaway’s bond and remanded him to the Department of Corrections. Conaway was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs. A prison notification service said he was committed to Sussex Correctional Institution.

Conaway had been out on $310,000 secured bond after his arrest following an August 2018 grand jury indictment. His defense attorney Joe Hurley said he did not know why Conaway’s bond was immediately revoked.

State prosecutors Casey Ewart and Rebecca Anderson declined to comment as they left the courthouse. Following the verdict, Attorney General Kathleen Jennings released a statement praising the prosecution team and


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The mural isn't the only tribute to Kuechly's career in Carolina, though. Moore and Hooker partnered with Charlotte photographers and videographers Uncle Jut and Matt Spivey to produce a video documenting the creation of the mural and thanking Kuechly for his dedication to the Panthers. On Sunday, the group offered an open invitation for Panther fans to come and be a part of the video thanking the linebacker.

"We set up a bunch of cameras and mics the other day and we had Panther fans come out in all their Luke gear and everybody just said thank you to Luke, told their favorite moment, shouted 'Luuuuke' for the camera," Moore explained. "Here's 30 people out


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had arisen between himself and the governor, withdrew to Jamaica. Morillo,
soon afterwards, laid siege to Carthagena, which, unfortunately, in
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Never mind the personal peculiarities of Clinton; for the first woman with a real shot at the White House to nestle, even for a moment, on any man’s chest, particularly the one who, just eight years ago, dismissed her in debate as being “likeable enough,” well, as social media reflected in its frenzied reaction, the moment spoke volumes.

Reddit may have tried to wreck it with obligatory attempts at sexualization, but it was a lovely visual amid two weeks of scorched-earth anger, conflict and seemingly unbreachable division. Mere hours before, Donald Trump called on Russia to cyberattack the Democratic Party.

Obviously the context was political. Obama was there to pass the baton, and he needs Clinton to win for


Sanders supporters and ask the American people, in very direct language, to rally for Clinton the way they rallied for him.

But The Hug, that was something else. A physical exclamation point to the convention’s theme of unity, yes. But the embrace was so obviously an act of mutual admiration, fueled by encouragement on his part, gratitude on hers, that for just a few minutes, politics did not go on as usual. It paused and considered the complexities of professional friendship.

And frankly, only Barack Obama could have pulled it off. If Bill Clinton was, famously, our first “black” president, Obama is, in many ways, our first “female” president.

He is tall and physically graceful and has never been shy about using those attributes to full advantage; during early debates, he20 March 2012  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed Indonesia’s regular contribution of troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions as a remarkable expression of international solidarity on peace and security, noting that the country’s president is himself a former blue helmet.

“For decades, Indonesia has written a proud history of service,” Mr. Ban said at a joint press conference with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the city of Bogor, noting that some 2,000 Indonesian troops are currently serving in six of the most difficult UN missions – Lebanon, Haiti, Darfur (Sudan), Liberia, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He said he had asked Mr. Yudhoyono to also consider contributing air assets, such as helicopters, to the peacekeeping missions, which are in great need of them.

“Mr. President, you are


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A man, aged 42 years, presented as an emergency with a history of stabbing upper abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhoea of two weeks' duration. Apart from abnormal transaminase and alkaline phosphatase values, the routine clinical and laboratory examinations did not reveal any abnormality. As the abdominal pain increased in severity, particularly in association with eating, and projectile vomiting supervened, aortography was carried out and showed severe stenosis of the coeliac axis, involving about 1 cm of the artery. At operation a thick fibrous band, which originated from the median arcuate diaphragm, was seen to constrict the point of origin of the artery and to compress the vessel against the aorta. The band was divided, whereupon the coeliac artery immediately showed


abortion does not need to be restricted in order to achieve reductions in abortions.

States that have adopted restrictive abortion laws are also seeing falling abortion rates, and it appears the falling incidence of abortion is occurring in spite of the tide of anti-abortion laws adopted since 2011.

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In fact, it’s only in two states where abortions went up significantly since 2010 — Louisiana and Michigan, where women arriving from out of state were identified as the primary cause.

Louisiana is Republican and, despite being honored by Americans United for Life as the top state for taking action to reduce abortion access, it saw a 12 percent increase in the procedures.

A Michigan-basedOfficers arrested a woman after a drive-by shooting in Belltown early Saturday morning.

Officers were out amongst the late night crowds in Belltown when they heard shots near 1st Ave. and Blanchard St. A woman immediately called 911 to report a bullet had passed through her apartment window. Other people reported seeing a white Camaro quickly leaving the area.

Officers began searching the area and saw the Camaro exiting I-5 at Dearborn St. Officers caught up to the car which crashed in the 900 block of Dearborn St. The driver fled the scene leaving two passengers behind.

After connecting evidence located at both scenes, officers arrested the 20-year-old female passenger for the drive-by-shooting. Officers interviewed and released the 22-year-old male in the back of the car.

Officers searched the original shooting scene


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her snap.

The new mom's photos have polarized the Internet, with some commenters on her Facebook video writing that it's "gross," while others are saying it's a "natural" tradition with benefits.

Whitworth certainly isn't the first to eat her placenta, although it's more common for new moms who decide to make it a meal to consume it in pill form or blended in a smoothie. The practice has celeb fans, too, including A-listers like Kim Kardashian, January Jones, Alicia Silverstone, and Transparent actress Gaby Hoffman.

Why does the placenta have such a healthy rep? The placenta develops during pregnancy to deliver nutrients to the fetus through the umbilical cord, and proponents believe the nutrient- and hormone-rich organ can help boost a new mother's milk supply, increase energy, and even ward offline breaker in the drawn final last year, with nine penetrative plays. In the replay he came in third, one behind Brian Fenton and Kevin McManamon.

All evidence suggests that he simply has the wisdom to know when to attempt to break the line, and when and where to switch the play with a short pass.

It’s worth noting that Real Madrid’s president, Florentín Peréz made the same accusations about Claude Makélélé's passing laterally and backwards before shipping him out, and watching the Galacticos plummet radically after he left, while the Chelsea side he joined sky-rocketed.

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Even more noteworthy than Fenton, Kilkenny has won three All-Irelands in a row. He missed the 2014 season through injury.

He’s the game controller extraordinaire who brings all of the other parts together, brilliantly. An added


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It didn't end well. She had taken him for a sizeable sum by the end of the night and then she asked for money to go back to his hotel room. The reality of the situation must have hit him hard and he became very aggressive. He ended up being arrested and spent the night in a police cell.

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After 30 years of running a high street fashion business specialising in menswear, John Francomb was done with mass production. But he still loved textiles. Fortunately for those in the market for durable, sustainable and stylish workwear-inspired pieces (he produces jeans and aprons), he decided to try something different: he downscaled and set up his sewing machine in Aldebrugh, Suffolk. Now he describes himself as a micro-clothing brand (think micro-brewery but for fashion), characterised by the beauty of the fabric woven on old-school shuttle looms, and the precision of Francomb’s construction. I suggest wearing the jeans with a belt from another authentic British craft producer, John Hagger, from his Devon studio, tannerbates.co.uk. Products like these represent true luxury in menswear. Jeans £225, and apron from


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The LaLiga draw has only just been made, but there is already a confirmed postponement in the calendar due to Real Madrid's participation in the Club World Cup.

Los Blancos were due to play Leganes in round 16, but the fixture will clash with the Club World Cup, which will have its semi-final on December 13 and final on December 16.

Should Real Madrid qualify for the knockout rounds of the Champions League, the game will be rearranged for a free week around the time of the last-16, which will have its first games played in the weeks of February 14-21 and the return legs will fall in March 7-14.


of an 18-year old girl at 2:30 a.m. and knocking a girl down four stairs while trying to get to his girlfriend.

Although an arrest was never made the accusation has substance and it clearly reeks of domestic violence.

The talented yet troubled wide receiver is expected to go as early as the mid-late first round or even slip late into round two. But regardless of his athletic skills and potential fit for the Ravens offense, Ozzie has thrown down the gauntlet.

If the Ravens call Green-Beckham’s name during the 2015 NFL Draft, they’ll have some explaining to do.housekeeping, laundry, money management, cooking, nutrition, safety, social skills, communication, accessing medical care, using community resources, and participating in community activities.

Some of you who do not have disabilities may take doing these things for granted. Without the support we provide, many of our customers would sit alone in their homes, if they have homes, or be out in the community and encountering problems they are not equipt to manage alone. Many lack the communication skills to express their needs or understand the advice they are given. Many are targets for people who would take their money, dignity, and freedom.

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Oliver Hack [Board Chair]For the past 15 years, Oliver has been working in the nonprofit and public sectors. He spent eight years with the Richmond District Neighborhood Center, as a Program Coordinator and as the Deputy Director. Oliver joined the City and County of SF as the Chief Operating Officer of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. He also served as Director of Sponsored Projects and Philanthropic Services for Community Initiatives.

Andrea Aguliar [Secretary]Since 2012, Andrea has worked at Community Initiatives where she an initial point of contact in coordinating services to the clients. She monitors project performance, identifies and addresses risks, ensures that the appropriate services are being delivered effectively and timely, and partners to cohesively solve issues. Andrea is a San Francisco native, a devoted Giantsfan, and art enthusiast. She has a passion for the arts, music, and most importantly the individuals who bring ideas and solutions alive to benefit communities.

Richard Faw [Treasurer]Richard has nearly two decades of experience in the consulting and investment advisory business. Before founding Setarcos Investment Advisors in 2011, he worked for a major multinational consulting firm serving as the lead advisor to institutional investors with assets totaling more than $3 billion. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of the South.

Lisa Ahrons [Board Member]Lisa worked in community media for 12 years supporting non-profits and educational institutions in Cupertino and Marin Counties. She served on the Alliance for Community Media - Western Region Board of Directors for five years, two of those years as


Vice President. In this capacity, she organized regional conferences, spoke on local and national panels in support of community media, and conducted training workshops. Currently, Lisa works at Wells Fargo, producing training materials for wholesale applications and supports various community efforts.

Blair Czarecki [Board Member]Blair has served as the IHDC Program Director since Summer 2013 and as Site Coordinator at the San Francisco YMCA since 2014. Blair holds a Masters degree in Dietetics with a concentration in Community Health, and is presently working towards a dual Masters in International Public Health.

Nicole Jones [Board Member]Nicole leads Loyalty Marketing for Gap where she focuses on customer acquisition and retention, fostering customer engagement and driving sales growth. With nearly 20 years of experience in retail marketing, she has also held roles atRalph Lauren and Mothers Work. She is passionate about leading and developing high performing teams and helping others tap into their creativity. In her day to day, she enjoys all that the Bay Area offers with her husband and dog, especially spending time exploring her neighborhood and seeing live music.

Alice Timmins [Board Member]Alice most recently served in the non-profit sector in London for three years, working for the UK’s leading arts charity. She has experience coordinating arts workshops for disadvantaged communities, aiming to help individuals explore their creativity and learn new skills. She has a bachelor’s degree in Art History and English Literature.


Sonia: How she carried the Good, Bad and Ugly

Sonia does not play petty politics

Sonia Gandhi was elected president of the Congress party for a record fourth time on Friday. Sheela Bhatt takes a look at the road the Italian-born leader has taken to political acceptability.

In the twelve years that Sonia Gandhi has led the Congress party she has traveled a long, fascinating road to change her personality, change her party and change the way Indians think about her.

When she was first elected Congress president in 1998, she was merely the Italian-born bahu (daughter-in-law) of the Nehru dynasty. Today, when she has been elected Congress president for a record fourth time, Indians fear her less and she is less fearful of India.

Congress politicians like Sonia Gandhi because she hasbrought them success. Her image today is entirely built on the edifice of the party's victories in the 2004 and 2009 general elections.

There is also tremendous admiration and respect for her in her party because she does not play petty politics. There are no instances where she has sacked chief ministers as her mother-in-law then prime minister Indira Gandhi did so frequently.

On all issues of concern to the Congress, she has listened to the party's varied voices. A senior journalist who has extensively covered her ascension to power points out, "She doesn't play petty politics with party leaders."

Non-Congress politicians find her amazingly successful in providing leadership to her party, if not to the country. She has become the classic case, perhaps worthy of study at management schools, on


"how to govern an ungovernable party like the Congress."

But her launch pad in Indian politics was less than perfect. A controversial coup arranged by her courtiers pushed out then Congress president Sitaram Kesri and made way for her first election as Congress president on March 14, 1998.

Even adversaries seem to have changed their views about her

How Sonia Gandhi took over the party after Sitaram Kesri was asked to step down by the all-powerful Congress Working Committee was described by Harish Khare, then political editor of The Hindu newspaper, in a 2008 article.

Dr Khare, who is currently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor, wrote: 'In December 1997, Ms Gandhi unilaterally announced her decision to campaign for the Congress in the 1998 polls. In essence, she offered herself as thenew vote-catcher for the party. She distinctly failed to set the Ganges on fire. The carefully nurtured mystique was shattered but her coterie still managed to pile up the blame on the old, antiquated party president and insisted that it was about time she formally wore the crown. The build-up to the March 14, 1998 denouement was unsavoury and unbecoming of India's oldest political party. Family became the sole currency of political legitimacy.'

'Arguably, the very nature of her takeover came to define Ms Gandhi's leadership style,' Dr Khare added. 'First, because Kesri was accused of not being able to keep the party together, she arrived at the AICC (All India Congrss Committee) with a very heavy sense of noblesse oblige. Carry everyone -- good, bad and ugly --


along. Over the years, Ms Gandhi has admirably fulfilled the role of a party unifier, though she allowed Sharad Pawar and P A Sangma to part company... She remains an indisputable symbol of unity and consolidation in the party.'

After many ifs, buts and howevers, her competitors, critics and Opposition leaders have been forced to admit that she has outgrown the image of being born in a foreign land. The debate over her Italian roots no longer generate controversy or political excitement.

Even a bitter adversary like Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj has amended her thinking and made up with Sonia Gandhi. After the 2004 general election, Swaraj had threatened that if Sonia became prime minister, she would shave her head and live like a sanyasi till Sonia wasthrown out of power.

Most Indians don't seem wary of her foreign origins anymore and have abandoned the conspiracy theories that dogged Sonia through the first six years of her party presidency.

The extra-constitutional power

Sushma Swaraj and many others have lost their case against Sonia Gandhi in more than one sense. Sonia let go of the prime minister's post after the May 2004 general election, but she didn't lose power.

She IS in power.

She is the most powerful leader in India. Most Indians know this. Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged her leadership over him.

In spite of wielding real power outside the power structure of government, she has managed a power-sharing arrangement with Prime Minister Singh without any ego tussles in public in the last six years.

The way Sonia Gandhi


has managed the power equation with Dr Singh is her valuable success. She has disagreed with him on many issues, but the disagreements have not become a media spectacle.

Barring last year's Sharam-el-Sheikh controversy (when the prime minister's line on Pakistan conflicted with the Congress party's position), rarely have the two leaders shown a public dissonance.

The fact is that Sonia Gandhi takes most of the political decisions that affect the nation today, but she does not get the blame for it.

It is not healthy for Indian democracy, but she has operated this process smoothly. She has crafted her way within the Congress party and in the public domain in such a shrewd manner that she gets the kudos for decisions that have gone right while Dr Singh's government orher party get the brickbats when decisions go wrong.

To wield such enormous authority outside the government set-up is a risky job. BJP leader L K Advani and other critics have rightly criticised the extra-constitutional power without accountability, but Sonia has managed this adroitly.

She has done everything so secretly, so circumspectly, and has kept such a low profile that things emerge in the media only when she or her party want it.

After 1998, she has taken baby steps to reach this stage. Her core team knows how she has rehearsed, scripted and acted each and every public appearance. She has been extraordinarily guarded in her public manner.

That is a key factor in the making of Sonia Gandhi.

Her symbolism to integrate herself with the Indian flow is there to see.


She wears only khadi or handloom saris, copying her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi. In Kashmir and Punjab, she wears the salwar-kameez. She covers her head in Uttar Pradesh.

Her success in adopting Indian culture has won her many apolitical hearts. We know how Sharad Pawar took years to learn Hindi. Dravida Munnetra Kazagham leader and Union Minister Muthuvel Azhagiri is yet to learn Hindi, but this Italian-born woman has learnt two foreign languages after leaving her home near Turin in the late 1960s.

She has never faulted once while talking about India, Indian-ness or its ancient existence. She does not touch upon issues related to Indian culture. She has not tried to evaluate issues related to Indian religion. She has never tried to discuss anything that can provoke one group orcaste against another.

Her measured, limited and highly insulated movement in public places has been helpful to create the aura about her.

It is an arrangement where she has a one way conversation with the media, her party members and leaders, and India. She speaks in the right measure, at a time of her choosing, as most world leaders do.

The Special Protection Group cover provided to her and her family is a godsend. She has used this facility -- where due to the extensive security no one sees her off-guard or meets her without notice -- to great advantage.

So when she was learning the lessons of leading her 125-year-old party she had time to rehearse, almost like a college student preparing for an important examination.

A Congress leader recalls, "In the


early years even while getting down from her car to reach the dais she would recheck each and every line of her speech. She was so tense about it, she wanted to ensure that she did not say any word that would hurt the Indian psyche."

Image: The usually sober Sonia, in rare good cheerPhotographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters

Is Sonia a visionary?

Sonia Gandhi has minimised the chances of political gaffes by planning hard. She learnt on the job. Now she is said to be so well-informed abut Congress party affairs that she even knows which leader is having an extra-marital affair and which leader is making money and how.

She has deployed the deep insight she acquired into Indian politics when she was then prime minister Indira Gandhi's silent elder daughter-in-law.

Her insulationfrom scrutiny has also helped her correct and fix things to emerge as a national leader.

Her transition from Rajiv Gandhi's good-looking Italian wife to the handloom sari-clad lady with a tight grip over her party is due to her accurate judgment about her family's worth in Indian politics.

She seems to have understood that the Nehru-Gandhi family is neither tied down in the limited bracket of being a Hindu nor Brahmin. It is casteless, neutral to religion, and secular.

Her transformation from a reluctant leader to the leader who wants to lead and preserve power is done through the neutral image that the Nehru-Gandhi family has enjoyed for five generations.

She reflects what her family stands for. She doesn't have to do anything more. She was accepted first as a bahu


within the Congress fold; the acceptance about her leadership followed.

Some of her supporters believe that her European origin has, in fact, helped her tremendously. Had she been an Indian bahu, they say, then her caste and religion would have come in the way of getting wider and quicker acceptance.

Can she claim to be a visionary? That is highly debatable. One has not heard her enough, speaking from unprepared texts. Surely for her party her seeking the support of regional parties before the 2004 general election was a smart move.

Also, in many crises she receives advice from many quarters, but finally she applies her own instinct to the situation. Since she is over-cautious and all her public utterances are quite sanitised she does not end up in a messfrequently as most Indian leaders do.

Her party leaders say she is a believer in the status quo. If fresh thinking on any important issue involves too much risk she is unlikely to gamble on it.

Her vision so far has been reflected in legislation like the National Rural Employment Act and the waiver of farmers' loans.

Surely, she has to be credited for bringing the aam aadmi (the common people) centre-stage. Even if she is doing it because the Congress has no option but to go back to its original constituencies of the poor, the tribals, the Dalits and Muslims her attempt is credible.

When will they make way for Rahul?

Winning power for her party cannot be an enduring memory. When one leads the Indian National Congress one is leading India.


Her party mangers should tell us where her legacy lies beyond the party.

Many of Sonia's critics believe that whatever she is today it is because she had the wisdom to turn down the prime minister's job in May 2004. She had then claimed she had listened to her 'inner voice.'

In the last six years, her 'inner voice' has placed her above most of the current lot of politicians. Her critics then found her denial hypocritical but Sonia's credibility was not tarnished over the issue.

As Sonia deserves compliments, her stature also raises some questions.

Despite her success, her leadership and her party remain vulnerable. She has failed to revive the party in many states, including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Her personal success is not enough for the Congress party's stablefuture.

The most important questions to ponder are:

Will this be Sonia Gandhi's last tenure as party president? Will she retire in a few years to water her plants somewhere in the hills as her daughter Priyanka Vadhra once mentioned in a television interview?

Has she already reached her political peak?

When will Rahul Gandhi join the government?

Will the transfer of power within the Congress party be smooth?

Does she have any ambition other than to see her son rise?

A senior party leader, speaking off the record, reveals, "She is keen on Rahul joining the government. She also wants him to marry and settle down. These days she frequently expresses this wish."

"Rahul," the senior leader adds, "is hyper-active. He is reading a lot and meeting people from all walks of life. Recently he


her style of conducting party affairs are different from the way Rahul would probably conduct business.

Powerful, but vulnerable

Two years ago, Harish Khare, who has been an astute observer of Congress politics, noted about Sonia Gandhi, 'She un-protestingly allowed herself to be reduced to an electoral talisman. The original argument had to be sustained: Only a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family could fetch vote for the party across the many diversities of caste, creed and class.'

'Till this day, she remains locked in that trap,' Dr Khare added. 'Third followed from the second: She could never make demands on the party men in terms of ideas and ideology; only individual loyalty was preferred in exchange for a putative Midas touch. This "win-votes-for-us" burden has also prevented her from locating herideological anchor in visionary ideas. The Congress, in turn, remains a happy stranger to innovative ideas and policy literacy.'

Sonia Gandhi has many serious challenges to confront where her ideas and ideology will count. It is felt in New Delhi that people in power get away with anything. Despite the allegations of corruption -- estimated at Rs 22,000 crore (Rs 220 billion) -- against Telecommunications Minister Andimuthu Raja both Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have overlooked it in the name of coalition politics.

The Congress president has also failed to provide any creative direction on the government's Kashmir policy, its Maoist policy, its agriculture policy, even on educational issues.

Her son and her advisors could cancel the government's permission granted to the Vedanta project in Orissa, but they appear


clueless about what the alternative model of development can be.

Equally important is her inability to muzzle her party leaders' scramble for power. The way Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh and Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram have been sniping against each other in recent months, it could even affect Rahul Gandhi.

In the years she has led the Congress, the party's infrastructure, inner-party democracy or quality of leadership has not changed much. Though she takes credit for the Women's Reservation Bill, Congresswomen didn't get enough representation in last month's exercise to fill up party posts at the state and district levels.

Finally, tribute is due to the liberal strain in traditional Indians, which is woven in their upbringing, that has made Sonia Gandhi such a phenomenon.

It is difficult to imagine such aBreaking the Law by Reading Ghassan Tueni

Back in the mid-1990s, when studying at the American University of Beirut (AUB), we would rush to newsstands every Monday morning to buy the popular mass circulation daily Annahar, in order to read Ghassan Tueni's editorial. Syrian students always looked left and right before buying the newspaper, so as not to be spotted by the 100+ Syrian informers in Beirut, during the heyday of Syrian hegemony over Lebanon. As far as the security services were concerned, Annahar was a crime, and so was Ghassan Tueni. As students, we would read his inflammatory articles, and were enchanted by his sharp criticism of Lebanese and Syrian affairs, and his never-ending defense of democracy and freedom. He said things that we never dared to voice


in the 1990s, mirroring our hidden thoughts and aspirations, long before the Arab Spring ripped through the Arab World, and long before the Syrian Revolt. He died this weekend in Beirut at the age of 86, and Arab journalism will never be the same without him.

Syrian officialdom, no doubt, hated Ghassan Tueni because he was never a yes-man for Syria. Far from it, he stood up for the freedom of his country from Day One, while many of his colleagues and friends were sucked into the patron-client system operated by Syria in Beirut, rewarded for their loyalty with cabinet posts, fiefdoms, and seats in the Lebanese Parliament. In looking back, seven years after the Syrians were forced out of Lebanon, it is safe to say that among Syria'smany mistakes was that it did not deal with real Lebanese leaders like Ghassan Tueni who spoke their mind freely, but rather, preferred working with stooges who legitimized the police state operated in 1991-2005. They never had the courage to stand up to Syria and point out its mistakes, as a real ally or friend would, whereas Tueni always said the truth and nothing but the truth, regardless of the consequences.

I wrote to him several times in 2004-2005, when he expressed interest in publishing my book on Syria's former President Shukri al-Quwatli, a man whom he admired greatly. Tueni believed that Quwatli had been deliberately wronged by the Baathists for far too long and sought to restore justice to the former President of Syria. The original contact was


made through Patriarch Ignatius IV, the Patriarch of Antioch, who was friends with Tueni since their student days at AUB. Ghassan Tueni hated honorific titles, telling us not to refer to him as "Your Excellency" although he had served as cabinet minister and ambassador to the United Nations between 1977 and 1982. Earlier during college, now-AUB Trustee Abdulsalam Haykal (then president of the Syrian Students Club at AUB) had emailed Tueni, to confirm a piece of news that appeared in a Syrian media outlet about Tueni ancestors hailing from modern day Syria. Tueni wrote back affirming the fact, with a detail that his family found home in the Hawran province in Syria and originally came from Yemen. He added that he was proud of his Syrian heritage, agreeingto appear in the club's webpage on the list of distinguished AUB graduates from Syria.
Ghassan Tueni loved Syria -- but not this Syria. He was a fan of the democratic Syria that existed prior to the Baath takeover in 1963. His early career with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), his admiration of its founder Antune Saadah, and his heavy involvement with Syrian affairs in the 1950s and 1960s made him a staunch Syrian-democracy advocate and a firm opponent of military rule in all its forms. For obvious reasons, he clashed with all of Syria's military rulers, starting with Husni al-Zaim in1949 onto Hafez al-Assad in the 1970s and 1980s. He once proudly told me how his father, the late Gibran Tueni, had traveled to Damascus on April


17, 1946to take part in Syria's first Independence Day celebrations from the French Mandate, romanticizing about the bygone era of Syrian democrats like Hashem al-Atasi and Fares al-Khury.

The likes of Ghassan Tueni are indeed rare -- if not non-existent -- in today's world. He was a combination of chivalry, honor, and charisma, with a pen that was unmatched by most of his peers not only in Lebanon but throughout the Arab World. He lived for Lebanon, and took nothing in return except pride at being a staunch Lebanese nationalist, allied neither to the Americans, the Iranians, the Syrians, or the Saudis. Like the Cedars of Lebanon, he was always, proud, tough, and immutable. In remembering Tueni, Haykal said:

To my generation, Ghassan Tueni was the Herodotus of our time;a seer; a man without peer, influencing those who read him near and far, and resigning from the pettiness the characterized politics, diplomacy, and journalism in our recent history until the Arab Spring. He believed in the Arab youth when no one did, and argued for their capacity to challenge and change the status quo when others saw them as gullible followers. Ghassan Tueni was indeed the new Arab citizen that he cried out for; one that seeks the truth through knowledge, courage, and faith.


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Carrie Fisher Autographs Princess Leia | Star Wars

Authentic Carrie Fisher Autographs as Princess Leia in Star Wars

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Other roles

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The Last Jedi

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JOSH Battle has barely put a foot wrong at St Kilda in his first 12 months, performing well enough to make a debut last season.

Off the field, the forward has also been building strong rapports, with girlfriend of five months Mia a healthy distraction from the all-encompassing nature of football.

When you begin a relationship, it helps if you a make a good impression on your partner's parents, and Mia's stepfather just happens to be former Carlton and Brisbane Lions' goal machine Brendan Fevola.

While Battle and 'Fev' get along famously, one occasion saw that solid bond put to the test in more ways than one.

"I went over there one night and Fev asked me what my strengths were," Battle told AFL.com.au.

"He said he was a better contested mark thanme, so we decided to test that out at the park and have a few contests.

"The first few we went pretty easy but then we really started going at it.

"I got off to a pretty good start but ended up getting done in the end.

"We both know now he's the big dog."

Battle, who was taken with pick No.39 in the 2016 NAB AFL Draft, is lucky enough to have two greats of the goalsquare to bounce off as he looks to establish himself in the Saints' best 22, with recently-retired club legend Nick Riewoldt also a confidante.

While he vies with fellow marking targets Paddy McCartin, Josh Bruce and Tim Membrey for a forward spot, Battle often seeks advice from his mentor Riewoldt.

Remarkably, the apprentice had his first ever


beer with his master at the club's 'Mad Monday' celebrations in August.

"'Rooey' has been great for my development, and he was good enough recently to catch up for a chat," Battle said.

"We discussed the season ahead, and he gave me some pointers on how to get the best out of myself.

"The high half-forward role is the position I'm eyeing off this year with Rooey gone but there are a lot of good players vying for that spot.

Brendan Fevola and Mia at the basketball in 2015. Picture: Getty Images

"He was a phenomenal player, one of the game's greats, so it was great playing with him, and hopefully I can use that to my advantage."

Getting a taste of senior footy in his debut year has been a massive driving forceEJ Whitten Legends game in 2016. Picture: AFL Photos

Whether it's the youngter's steady development as player, or the ability to complete his year 12 studies while juggling a professional football career, McGlynn has high hopes for the former Dandenong Stingrays.

"He really applied himself in both his schooling and footy, and handled himself really well in both areas," McGlynn told AFL.com.au.

"His strength is his running capability, and he'll play as that hybrid forward that gets up and down the ground for us.

"He's also a strong target deep forward, so he's definitely got a few attributes that suit our forward line."

With his time at Haileybury College a fond memory, Battle is now firmly committed to becoming a regular at the Saints in 2018.

"It's good to be back at the club