Cameroon medical doctors say they are overwhelmed with patients as many of their colleagues seek better pay and working conditions elsewhere.
A two day old baby boy cries as his mother watches helplessly outside Santé Pour Tous, a private hospital in Cameroon's economic capital, Douala. Francine Tamenang said she has not slept since a traditional birth attendant helped her deliver the baby.
She said she wants to see the doctor because she has not got money to pay for an injection the nurse says will save the life of the baby she delivered at home. She said the doctor has not even cared to examine the baby, but is instead promising to negotiate with the pharmacist to see if the price of the drug could be reduced.
Cameroon has a population of nearly 25 million people, who have been joined by 350,000 refugees fleeing the carnage in the neighboring Central African Republic and about 100,000 Nigerians escaping Boko Haram terrorism. The country also has 300,000 people internally displaced by Boko Haram conflicts in the north and the separatist crisis in its English speaking regions.
Central African refugee Emeline Boganda said she lost her best friend at a Cameroon government health center in Betare Oya because of negligence by the hospital staff.
She said she brought her friend Mariam to the health center and no one attended to her until she died. She said she has a strong feeling that if the nurses and doctors paid just a little attention, Mariam's life could have been saved. She said she does not know what hospitals are for if not to save lives.
The vice chairman of Cameroon's National Order of Doctors, Tetani Ekwe, said the health and humanitarian needs of the displaced and refugees increase by the day, yet the doctor-patient ratio stands at one doctor per 50,000 inhabitants in rural areas instead of the one doctor per 10,000 inhabitants recommended by the World Health Organization. He said in towns like Douala and Yaounde, the doctor-patient ratio does meet the WHO standard.
He said while only 15 to 20 percent of Cameroonians go to conventional health centers, the acute shortage of medical doctors, trained nurses and laboratory technicians means not all of them can be attended to. He said with the lack of universal health coverage plans, sick people, who are quite often the very poor, cannot pay their hospital bills and resort to Cameroon traditional medicine, some of which is not scientifically proven to be effective.
More than 500 medical doctors and 5,000 nurses are trained in Cameroon every year. But in 1996, when the economy worsened, the pay of doctors was reduced by 60 percent, to about $300 per month, and many of them went abroad. Some still leave now, complaining of low pay.
In August, Cameroon reported that medical staff were fleeing hospitals in the troubled English-speaking regions after attacks left several nurses dead and many others wounded.


I was and I am still very disappointed that this place has a killer Thai name and killer Thai decor yet isn't serving up killer Thai food I see so much potential lost. I'm not saying that the place is horrible and the food is bad, I'm more just imaging and dreaming about what I could've have done with this place. Back to reality let's actually discuss Buddhas Belly.
I love the decor, the big open space plan makes it feel very inviting and relaxed. The murals on the wall are absolutely stunning and really add a touch of personality. When the sun sets and candles are lit it feels very romantic and you could almost think you were on a tropical island.
For food I ordered the Mixed Grill, I really wasn't expecting much especially for the price but I was shaken when it came to the table. Carnivores heaven, loaded with chicken, at least two steaks, onion rings, lamb rissoles, calamari, a huge salad and served with three different condiments. The chicken and steak were perfectly seasoned with a spice rub and cooked extremely well. The lamb rissoles remained moist and had a good salty flavour from the saganaki. The only disappointment was there were only two pieces of calamari, which was coated in a spicy cinnamon rub.
I also order a plate of roasted vegetables because micronutrients guys and I also thought the meat platter wouldn't be enough. Unfortunately, it was mostly eggplant and zucchini which were coated, more like drowning in way too much oil, this detracted from the flavour of the vegetables and made them not so healthy.
If you're down for eating your body weight in meat and paying a really really good price for it, then this is the place for you. Buddhas Belly also has a killer happy hour and $1 wings after 10 pm. What more could you want?


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Maxine Peake in Funny Cow.
The newly released film, Funny Cow, isn't at all funny, not that it was meant to be of course.
A more appropriate title would have been, Poor Cow, but that name was given to a movie starring Carol White which was released in the late Seventies which coincidentally is the era in which this new film is set.
Some thought that Funny Cow was the life story of our much missed comedienne Marti Caine. I don't think it is, even though the central character lives in our city and is unnamed. In my opinion it would have been a better film if it actually was a biopic of the Sheffield star.
The BBC did a drama which followed the life of Vivienne "spend, spend, spend" Nicholson some years ago and the advantage they had was that they did not have to rely too much on fiction, which of course the new film does.
The story line of Funny Cow jumps around the years making it difficult for the audience to follow the heroine's route from battered and downtrodden wife to successful, sports car-driving star. At one moment she is doing an unpaid 10-minute slot in a working mens club being mercilessly heckled, then in the next slot she is at the top of the tree. Would that it be so easy!
It is a film worth seeing. The brief appearances of Bobby Knutt and Duggie Brown gave the right feel as to how life was in the male-dominated Seventies.
It was pity none of the lead actors had local accents and that the outdoor scenes were not filmed in Sheffield.
Younger viewers will find it an uncomfortable experience.
This country HAS come a long way in the last 40 years. I noted the good-hearted teasing the scriptwriters gave to our neighbours in Rotherham, Doncaster and Mansfield.
I have always got the impression that Sheffield people think themselves a cut above those in surrounding areas.


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For crust: Using food processor or clean hands, break muffins into a coarse meal. Blend in cocoa powder evenly. Add 2/3 cup whipped topping and mix well until mixture forms a large dough ball.
Press crust mixture firmly and evenly into a greased 9-inch pie plate, forming a neat edge.
For filling: In large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar thoroughly with electric mixer. Add peanut butter and milk and beat until smooth. Fold in the remainder of the tub of whipped topping (approx. 2 1/3 cups) till well blended.
Spread filling evenly into crust; sprinkle mini chocolate chips evenly across top.
Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until firm, at least 4 hours or overnight.
Nutrition Analysis: 540 cal, 32 g fat, 50 mg chol, 35- mg sodium, 56 g carbs, 3 g fiber, 23 g sugar, 10 g protein.


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Thebes contain absolutely nothing, a fact which proves that the embalmers were able not only to remove the brain, but also to take out the membranes without injuring or breaking the bridge of the nose in any way. Skulls of mummies are found, at times, to be filled with bitumen, linen rags, or resin. The bodies which have been filled with resin or some such substance, are of a greenish colour, and the skin has the appearance of being tanned. Such mummies, when unrolled, perish rapidly and break easily. Usually, however, the resin and aromatic gum process is favourable to the preservation of the teeth and hair. Bodies from which the intestines have been removed and which have been preserved by being filled with bitumen are quite black and hard. The features are preserved intact, but the body is heavy and unfair to look upon. The bitumen penetrates the bones so completely that Bodies pre
served by it is sometimes difficult to distinguish which is bone and bit which is bitumen. The arms, legs, hands, and feet of such natron,
and aromummies break with a sound like the cracking of chemical matic subglass tubing; they burn very freely, and give out great heat. stances. Speaking generally they will last for ever. When a body has been preserved by natron, that is, a mixture of carbonate, sulphate, and muriate of soda, the skin is found to be hard, and to hang loosely from the bones in much the same way as it hangs from the skeletons of the dead monks preserved in the crypt beneath the Capuchin convent at Floriana, in Malta. The hair of such mummies usually falls off when touched.
The Egyptians also preserved their dead in honey. 'Abd Bodies cl-Lațîf relates that an Egyptian worthy of belief told him
in honey. that once when he and several others were occupied in exploring the graves and seeking for treasure near the Pyramids, they came across a sealed jar, and having opened it and found that it contained honey, they began to eat it. Some one in the party remarked that a hair in the honey turned round one of the fingers of the man who was dipping his bread in it, and as they drew it out the body of a small child appeared with all its limbs complete and in a good state of preservation; it was well dressed, and had upon it numerous ornaments. The body of Alexander the Great
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was also preserved in "white honey which had not been
melted." 1 Bodies
The bodies of the poor were preserved by two very cheap preserved
methods; one method consisted of soaking in salt and hot bitumen, and the other in salt only. In the first process every cavity was filled with bitumen, and the hair disappeared ; clearly it is to the bodies which were preserved in this way that the name "mummy" or bitumen was first applied. The salted and dried body is easily distinguishable. The skin is like paper, the features and hair have disappeared, and the
bones are very white and brittle. Oldest The oldest mummy in the world about the date of which
there is no doubt, is that of Seker-em-sa-f, ? son of Pepi I. world.
and elder brother of Pepi II., B.C. 3200, which was found at Şakkârah in 1881, and which is now at Gîzeh. The lower jaw is wanting, and one of the legs has been dislocated in transport; the features are well preserved, and on the right side of the head is the lock of hair emblematic of youth. An examination of the body shows that Seker-em-sa-f died very young. A number of bandages found in the chamber of his pyramid at Şakkârah are similar to those in use at a later date, and the mummy proves that the art of embalming had arrived at a very high pitch of perfection already in the Ancient Empire. The fragments of a body which were found by Colonel Howard Vyse in the pyramid of Mycerinus at Gîzeh, are thought by some to belong to a much later period than that of this king ; there appears to be, however, no evidence for this belief, and as they belong to a man, and not to a woman, as Vyse thought, they may quite easily be the remains of the mummy of Mycerinus. The skeletons found in sarcophagi belonging to the first six dynasties fall to dust when air is admitted to them, and they emit a slight smell of
bitumen. Character. Mummies of the XIth dynasty are usually very poorly istics of mummies
ies made; they are yellowish in colour, brittle to the touch, and of different fall to pieces very easily. The limbs are rarely bandaged periods.
separately, and the body having been wrapped carelessly in a
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number of folded cloths, is covered over lengthwise by one Character.
istics of large linen sheet. On the little finger of the left hand a mi
a mummies scarab is usually found; but besides this there is neither of different amulet nor ornament. The coffins in which mummies of this? period are found are often filled with baskets, tools, mirrors, bows and arrows, etc., etc.
Mummies of the XIIth dynasty are black, and the skin is dry; bandages are not common, and in the cases where they exist they are very loosely put on. Scarabs, amulets, and figures of gods are found with mummies of this epoch.
From the XIIIth to the XVIIth dynasties mummies are very badly made and perish rapidly.
From the XVIIIth to the XX Ist dynasties the mummies of Memphis are black, and so dry that they fall to pieces at the slightest touch ; the cavity of the breast is filled with amulets of all kinds, and the green stone scarab inscribed with the XXXth chapter of the Book of the Dead was placed over the heart. At Thebes, during this period, the mummies are yellow in colour and slightly polished, the nails of the hands and feet retain their places, and are stained with henna. The limbs bend in all directions without breaking, and the art of careful and dainty bandaging has attained its greatest perfection. The left hand wears rings and scarabs, and papyri inscribed with chapters of the Book of the Dead are found in the coffins, either by the side of the mummy, or beneath it.
After the XX Ist dynasty the custom arose of placing the mummy in a cartonnage, sewn or laced up the back, and painted in brilliant colours with scenes of the deceased adoring the gods and the like.
In the period between the XXVIth dynasty and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander, the decoration of mummies reached its highest point, and the ornamentation of the cartonnage shows the influence of the art of Greece upon that of Egypt. The head of the mummy is put into a mask, gilded or painted in bright colours, the cartonnage fits the body very closely, and the feet are protected by a sheath. A large number of figures of the gods and of amulets are found on the mummy itself, and many things which formed its private property when alive were buried with it. Towards the time of
Character. the Ptolemies, mummies become black and heavy; bandages istics of mummies a
and body are made by the bitumen into one solid mass, of different which can only be properly examined by the aid of a hatchet, periods.
Such mummies are often wrapped in coverings inscribed with scenes and texts, copied, without any knowledge of their meaning, by an artist who altered them to suit his own fancy or purpose.
About B.C. 100 mummies were very carefully bandaged ; each limb was treated separately, and retained its natural shape after bandaging, and the features of the face, somewhat blunted, are to be distinguished beneath the bandages.
About A.D. 50 the desire on the part of relatives and friends to see the face of the deceased resulted in the insertion of a piece of wood, painted with his portrait, over the face of the dead man. The mummies, from this time on to the fourth century, are of little interest, for they become mere bundles ; scenes were painted, athwart and along the bodies, in which the deceased is represented adoring ill-shaped Egyptian deities; but little by little the hieroglyphic inscrip
tions disappear, and finally those in Greek take their place. Græco. A remarkable example of a very late Græco-Roman mummy, mummies.
probably of the fourth century A.D., is British Museum No. 21,810. The body is enveloped in a number of wrappings, and the whole is covered with a thin layer of plaster painted a pinkish-red colour. Over the face is inserted a portrait of the deceased, with a golden laurel crown on his head ; on the breast, in gold, is a collar, each side of which terminates in the head of a hawk. The scenes painted in gold on the body are: 1. Anubis, Isis, and Nephthys at the bier of the deceased. 2. Thoth, Horus, uræi, etc., referring probably to the scene of the weighing of the heart. 3. The soul revisiting the body, which is attempting to rise up from a bier, beneath which are two jars; beneath this scene is a winged disk. Above these scenes in a band is inscribed, in Greek, "O Artemidorus, farewell." APTEMIAWPH, EYHYXI; and above the band is a vase ple, on each side of which is a figure of Maāts. Mummies of children of this period have the hair curled and gilded, and hold bunches of flowers in their hands, which are crossed over their breasts.
Mummy of ARTEMIDORUS.
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Four-woman band Savages makes the kind of music that brings a listener to attention. Usually dressed in all-black, the group's members have spent five years developing their post-punk sound and streamlined visual aesthetic for gigs, which include fog, severe backlit lighting, plus a no-phones policy. This highwire act of beats and lyrics, simultaneously severe and sublime, demands a spirited live performance.
Driving their primal rhythms is drummer and south London native Fay Milton, who spoke with Women in the World from Los Angeles last week before the release of the group's sophomore album, Adore Life, on Matador. She insists "it's not all deadly serious with Savages," despite the band's austere aesthetic that often dominates how they are described. That's one reason they included canned laughter on their new record: to indicate that sonic severity no indication of private character. There's much light to be experienced as well.
"I think the fans get it," Milton said, "that you don't have to be a particularly dark person to reflect the darkness in the world around you." Adore Life reflects the temporal balance between dark and light in a handful of epic love songs that explore the universal, extreme reaches of the heart with lyrics like, "If you don't love me/ You don't love anybody," repeated with such frequency that it pounds into the psyche.
Their creative mission is laid out in the lyrics of their anthems, written by French-born vocalist Jehnny Beth, and in manifestos from the band like that released with Adore Life. "It's about claiming your right to think unacceptable thoughts," it reads. "It's about boredom and the things we do to drive it away. It's about being on your own so you can be with people. It's about knowing what it means to be human and what it might mean one day." The "it" here means the music, but also about instinct and survival — the band is trying to help fans. Adore Life opens with "The Answer," which offers love as the ultimate solution (that is, of course, before Beth croons "I'll go insane," again and again).
"I've always had it in my head that you can never be alone at the Savages gig, because we're all with you," she said.
Silence Yourself, their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, was recorded almost entirely live and released in 2013 as a ferocious response to the antagonism they felt starting out with a management team that refused to see eye-to-eye on the band's vision, boasting tracks like "Shut Up" ("I'm cold/ and I'm cold/ and I'm cold/ and I'm stubborn") and "F***ers" (on which Beth demands, "Don't let the f***ers get you down/ don't let them take away this song"). Adore Life – songs for which were fleshed out over nine "fundamental" performances in New York last year – allowed the group to dive deeper into their poetics and process, and that thoughtfulness makes the second album a stunner.
Adore Life was produced by Beth's beau, Johnny Hostile, over weeks in which the band incubated together to record their parts individually, a creative change from the first record that challenged the team to still pump out a powerful, live sound. "[It's a] pre-industrial revolution way of making music in a sense," Milton said. "We're not necessarily reaching out to the hottest new producer or the guy who has produced 7,000 albums under his name. We're a family and friends together, and we work together in that way." A knack for presentation and drama is clear on stage, where Beth's moves are commanding, as is the camaraderie among the women making the music, shown in the Savages black-and-white tour diary captured by photographer Tristane Mesquita, aka TIM.
The relentless, brutal volume, crafted so carefully, is what makes their art feel revolutionary. Their relationship with the sound, their audiences, and one another strikes a beautiful balance. If the excitement stops, Milton insists that Savages would "pause, stop, or change" the creative process because "you can't give an audience a true performance if you're not believing in what you do." In a world so sinister, they've used noise and word to push back and remained mindful of others — filled with both light and dark — who may want to come along for the ride.
"And we're happy with what we have," Milton said.
See Savages on tour or buy "Adore Life" at Matador Records.


The Memorial Day ceremony honors veterans laid to rest in Windsor, and will include comments and the placement of the memorial wreath by the American Legion; remarks from Mayor Kristie Melendez and guest speaker Colorado State Representative Perry Buck.
Local Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops will place flags and crosses on veteran graves Friday, May 25. If a veteran gravesite is missing a flag, contact the American Legion at 970-518-9617.
The east entrance of the cemetery will be open for Memorial Day weekend. The barricade on Highway 257 at Walnut St. will be temporarily moved to allow access.
Gravesite decoration regulations are posted at the cemetery and on the town website at windsorgov.com. For more information on Lakeview Cemetery, contact the Town of Windsor at 970-674-2400 or visit windsorgov.com/cemetery.


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Even when the temperature cools down, fall is one of my favorite seasons…Whether it's heading to a workout, grabbing a quick cup of coffee, or date night with my boyfriend, here are some of my all-time favorite looks from Athleta's new Fall 2016 collection.
The Black Orchid Relay 2.0 Capri is my go-to aerobic tight that looks stylish in the studio and flatters my physique.
I love the mesh detail that makes sure my midsection is muffin-top free. The playful pattern is bohemian and super unique – just the way I like it! I paired it with the lightweight Stowe-away Run Jacket and Renew Racerback Tank. For some extra comfort, I rocked these ultra comfy Birkenstocks.
Comfort is key and after a workout, I want to run errands and grab coffee in cozy fall pieces that transition from morning to night. I live in a big city where temperatures fluctuate, so I love how this Criss-Cross Dress and the High Rise Chaturanga Tight combination look so pulled together while keeping me warm.
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For this specific night, I threw on the crisp Long and Lean Shirt that's perfect for work or a weekend date because it has just enough stretch! For a little extra warmth, I added the Lightweight Scarf to give my outfit some plaid flair.
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hello, I finally finished my first VR Game on Unreal and i want to package the whole thing. however I've found a persistent error.. I've been looking thorough this forum and haven't found an answer.. im putting the error message below.
P.S. I want to package the game on windows 64 bytes.
Looks like your Target.cs file has some syntax issues which prevent UAT from compiling it properly. Did you have a look at it? Was it modified by someone?
As Dune suggested below, first make a BACKUP copy of your project, then delete the Saved, Internediate and Build folders from its root. Right click on the .uproject file and select Generate Visual Studio project file. Then open the project and watch the Intermediate files being re-generated. Now try packaging again.
Tried it already, deleted the Saved and Intermediate folder only, cause I couldt find the Build one.. after I did that i tried right clicking to "Generate Visual Studio" but an error window appeared... which is the image below.. after that I just clicked accept and tried to package the game anyway.. same result and error log as before.
That error is normal because I see that you don't have any Source in your project folder. Since you still get the error, I am thinking that your .uproject file contains some stray dependencies. Can you attached a screenshot of its content? Open it with Notepad.
Looks ok to me. Here is the next thigh I would try.
Create a brand new empty project. Call it Test. Save it.
Now open this project. Select the level (map) from the browser. Right click and choose Migrate... Migrate the level and all its dependencies to the Content folder of the Test project above.
Open the Test project and try to Package that one. Does it work?
Sorry to tell you Marco but what you ask me is impossible, the map never loads in the other game, I just waited for 2 hours and nothing happened.. any other suggestions?
I believe your project is corrupted beyond repair. One last thing you can try is take the content of the Content folder and copy it to the Content folder of a brand new project. You may be able at least to recover the contained assets, but not sure whether that is going to work. Sorry! You may try to get help directly from Epic. Maybe they have a trick to fix it.
As Marco has said, the Target.cs is the issue and you can open these files from Source->xxxxx.target.cs.
You can also try deleting the intermediate folder and re-generating your project. This should highlight any issues with the .cs file and might get rid of the issues.
Hey Dune, I tried deleting the folder, then restarting unreal so I can package it... Unreal created the file as soon as I re-open it, so with the new file I tried packaging again.. here's the log.. I think it's pretty much the same as the older one.. but I really dont know, would you mind take a look a it please?
Low FPS when looking at objects from afar.
How do we make the Widget Interaction Ray visible after packaging the game also?
Oculus mode shifts collision meshes?
How does Robo Recall achieve the score overlay in the mirrored display?


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Congress: A Hall of Injustice
Feb. 13, 2007 DAVAO TODAY
The senators who voted for the anti-terrorism bill have nothing to say against the constitutional anomaly that while the measure gives the chief executive and the military vast authoritarian powers it is silent on Congress� lack of power as a �check and balance mechanism� to executive abuse.
BY BOBBY TUAZON
MANILA — Members of Congress, pro-administration or otherwise, who shelved the bill providing for a legislated wage increase of P125 for labor and approved the anti-terrorism bill (ATB) got it all wrong. They may have made the influential business groups feel relieved by thumbing down the wage increase measure and the U.S.-supported Macapagal-Arroyo administration ecstatic because now it can use the ATB to legitimize the suppression of political dissent in the guise of counter-terrorism. But the double whammy � done in barely two weeks – for sure made enemies out of millions of starving workers and multitudes of Filipinos particularly their political organizations who now face the prospects of being tagged collectively as �terrorists� in defense of their civil, political and economic rights.
Their anti-people acts are one more affirmation why Congress is a doomed institution � scarred by pro-Arroyo legislators who use their tyranny of numbers to shoot down two impeachment complaints against the President and to shortcut constitutional change for self-serving political reasons; and reeking of recycled political dynasties who use the institution to perpetuate class rule through generations.
Recently, pro-Arroyo congressmen moved to recall the recently-approved House Bill 345 providing for a P125 (about US $2.50) across-the-board daily minimum wage increase for workers, staggered over three years. (The Senate committee on labor and employment had earlier adopted the same House bill.) The movers, led by Cavite Rep. Jesus Crispin Remulla, cited �business concerns� and the measure�s �defects�, in asking that the wage bill be shelved.
It was evident, however, that they were acting on behalf of President Macapagal-Arroyo who had threatened to veto it following strong protests by the country�s business elite. In a brazen show of a pro-business stance, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) also warned about the disastrous effects of the bill on the economy such as mass lay-offs and business closures, adding that regional wage boards remain the best venue to determine wage hikes.
Crispin Beltran
Detained Anakpawis (toiling masses) Rep. Crispin Beltran, who as a leader of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May 1st Movement) had fathered the bill since the Estrada administration, said the approved wage increase was not even enough to cover a family�s basic daily expenses. Indeed, estimates by the research think tank, IBON Foundation, show that the ideal daily income for a family of six has climbed to P766 (US $15.32) even as real wages have consistently fallen over the years. The current daily national average is P283 (US $5.66), according to the DoLE itself, the equivalent of only 36 percent of the required daily minimum income � or one-half if the approved wage increase is added in full.
Wage increase has been labor�s centerpiece demand in the midst of a state policy of salary freezes that has been pursued in deference to the business opposition and in compliance with an archaic economic paradigm that says cheap labor means more investments. Several years ago, Congress enacted a law deregulating the daily minimum wage standard and creating the regional wage boards to determine wage increases. Workers were also left alone to slug it out with their employers through a collective bargaining agreement for higher wages.
Yet the CBA has been rendered inutile by more policies and labor directives that undermine union rights and the violent persecution of labor activists. Not a few unionists have died or been maimed fighting for a few pesos and their right to strike. Not a few determined workers struggling to feed their families have been tagged as "terrorists" or, as other military officials would prefer, "communist terrorists." Now the government is about to be armed with a "legal teeth" to curb unionism and the democratic rights of other sectors.
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Many people have a system that they like to use for choosing numbers to play the lottery with. Some people just choose numbers at random which sounds like the complete opposite. Is one method better than the other? Is it madness to choose random numbers?
generators are valid methods of picking numbers. You could even make patterns on the ticket as you mark off the numbers that you want to play.
Whatever method you choose, the important thing to remember is that some methods will give you a better chance of winning than others will. I have written several articles on why some methods are better than others and recommended the better ones.


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The Rumpus Interview with Dan Kennedy
By Jory John
While many readers are familiar with the melancholy persona he's adopted—and despite having written a new novel about a life falling apart—author Dan Kennedy is finally ready to admit something to the lit crowd, here and now: he loves mainstream American comedy…
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The Rumpus Interview with Natalie Dee
Cartoonist Natalie Dee's eponymous website, NatalieDee.Com, has consistently ranked among the most highly trafficked comic sites on the Internet since its debut. Her comic panels are equally hilarious and dark
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The Rumpus Interview with Lorin Stein
When Lorin Stein took the helm at the Paris Review in April 2010, he was just the third editor in the magazine's storied history. Founded by the legendary George Plimpton in 1953, the Review has been responsible for launching the careers of some of America's preeminent writers and publishing an endless array of experimental fiction and poetry, alongside long-form interviews and essays. […]
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world's newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method: a conversational comic about the state of the world,
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The Rumpus Interview With Joel Stein
At age 27, Joel Stein was hired by Time magazine as a staff writer. In many ways, Stein quickly turned the decades-old publication — revered, traditional, dry — on its head, infusing it with youthful energy and sardonic humor.
The Rumpus Interview With Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll has written more than 8,000 columns for the San Francisco Chronicle, having become the newspaper's star, leading voice and, essentially, its conscience.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeffrey Brown
Comic aficionados have been aware of Jeffrey Brown's talents since the publication of Clumsy in 2002, a raw and honest graphic novel about a promising, but ultimately doomed, long-distance relationship.
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Jory John is the co-author of All my friends are dead, I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York, All my friends are STILL dead, Pirate's Log: A Handbook For Aspiring Swashbucklers and the forthcoming K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice. He is also the editor of Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama. Jory has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His comic panel, Open Letters appears in a dozen alt weeklies. His website is www.bigstonehead.net and he's on Twitter @joryjohn.


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The tanker with gas from Yamal moored in the port near Boston
Категории: News in English
On the 28th of January the French tanker Gaselys with liquefied natural gas, including from the project "Yamal LNG", moored to the LNG terminal in Everett near Boston.
A representative of the office of the coast guard in Boston informed TASS that a couple of days the tanker was standing at the roadstead, at a distance from the shore, and then tugboats brought it to the port. The ship dropped the anchor, the coast guard officers came aboard to conduct a standard safety inspection, during which nothing alarming was revealed.
As it was confirmed earlier this year in the headquarters of the French energy company Engie, which owns the ship, and in its American subdivision, Gaselys would go to the port of Everett near Boston. The ship brought a consignment of liquefied natural gas produced also in the plant "Yamal LNG". First, the Russian liquefied natural gas delivered to the terminal Isle of Grain in the British County of Kent was unloaded into storages and later was re-pumped into the tanker. Experts note that, likely, this fuel was mixed with other similar raw materials, which were stored in the terminal Isle of Grain. From there the tanker Gaselys went to Boston two weeks ago.


I have found there are two ways of learning a language that are worth remembering. When I say 'language' I really mean a set of coded rules through which one expresses ideas, information, feelings, etc. So, it could be a spoken language, a computer language, a set of equations, or a musical or sonic language. Both ways require time along with a consistent implementation of the language. I haven't yet found a shortcut. One might be natural aptitude. Another would be interest; these aren't shortcuts exactly, but they make the learning seem less arduous.


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From Model to the Business of Beauty
The Inside Story of Ekin Ozlen's Entrepreneurial Journey
by Sam Johnson, Special to California Business Journal
Entrepreneurs are inherently visionaries in recognizing a common problem and creating a solution to address it. Oftentimes, entrepreneurs begin their careers as a multifaceted professional who — after working in other industries — can leverage their experience to introduce a newer, high-quality solution.
Looking to entrepreneurs operating within the beauty and skincare industry, the public is bombarded by products created by celebrities. After all, the influence of such figures has a broad impact on the behavior of their followers. For these products to take off amongst wider audiences, however, they often require a "seal of approval" from other key influencers.
One such influencer is former model Ekin Ozlen. After reaching a point in her life where she knew she wanted more for herself, her career, and to offer more value to her own followers, Ozlen set out to blend her personal needs and lifelong passion for beauty with high-science skincare and haircare.
The result is Keracell: a revolutionary line of products utilizing Multiple Human Cell stem cell (MHCsc) technology developed with the help of two Ph.D. biomedical scientists who are experts in molecular biology and stem cell research.
Intersecting Necessity and Entrepreneurial Passion
If Ozlen appears familiar to you at first glance, it's likely because you've seen her before from her time as the go-to cover girl for many of Target's womens' products, or possibly on the pages of catalogs and magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Maxim.
"When I was younger, I loved writing poems and stories. I realized that I was good at it," Ozlen says, "and always wanted to be a singer-songwriter. As a model, you're more of a blank canvas, but as a singer you can funnel your own individual creativity into your work. Music provided me a creative outlet that my modeling career lacked," Ozlen adds, explaining that modeling was more of a survival-driven career move.
Keracell is a revolutionary line of products utilizing Multiple Human Cell stem technology developed with biomedical Ph.D. scientists in molecular biology and stem cell research.
Ozlen's career reached a crescendo when she wanted found a space where her necessities and passions intersected.
"I wanted to be a business owner, but I also knew I had to take care of myself and my horses. I always wanted to remain independent and yet successful at the same time."
After her husband at the time, a renowned plastic surgeon, passed away, Ozlen leaned on her deep love of skin and hair care and holistic healing from watching her late husband's process in his practice for years. This is where Ozlen's entrepreneurial journey with Keracelll began.
Fighting Stigma With Success
Ozlen's drive behind her self-described necessity in branching into Keracell was due to one word: results. Being in the beauty industry for years, surrounded by the biggest and best makeup artists, hair stylists, plastic surgeons, dermatologists in New York City enabled Ozlen to provide everything she needed to begin her entrepreneurial journey with the Keracell brand.
"I was so tired of buying products and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on these new beauty and skincare items that didn't do what they claimed that often left me with reactions or blemishes, or didn't heal my damaged hair."
This led Ozlen to the inclusion of MHCsc science into Keracell's products. Though the concept of human stem cells is often widely stigmatized and misunderstood, Ozlen's brand and unique product lines do not utilize any human DNA whatsoever in the products; rather, Keracell's 4 different product lines — encompassing 40 different products — only utilizes human stem cell "extract" instead of the actual human stem "cells" themselves.
While some argue that this straddles an uncomfortable ethical boundary, Ozlen is committed to continue her drive in building the Keracell brand and educating those in order to bring its products to a larger audience of people in need of the results they have been proven to show since the brand's inception.
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Akaso is known for their action cameras, which have become increasingly popular over the past decade. The EK7000 is one of their most advanced models and its main selling point is the 4K shooting capability. It's a great asset for individuals who participate in extreme sports and want to document their adventures. The camera has been on the market for less than two years and has amassed thousands of reviews. It is also ranked as a #1 Best Seller on Amazon in the Cameras category. If you are not sure this is a good purchase for you, find out more in this Akaso EK7000 action camera review.
As we kick off this Akaso EK7000 action camera review, let's take a quick look at the technical specifications and features that the camera has to offer.
With the Akaso EK7000 action camera, you have the option of shooting in 4K at 25 fps, 1080p at 30 fps, and 1080p at 60 fps. The camera has a 2″ LCD screen for viewing videos and a super wide angle lens that makes it easy to capture videos in all kinds of weather. We love the fact that you can use this camera 100 feet underwater without worrying about damage, thanks to the included waterproof casing.
The WiFi capability is a nice bonus for individuals who love showing off their work to family and friends. You can also take advantage of this feature when editing or viewing videos on a phone or laptop. The Akaso EK7000 action camera also comes with a USB cable, a lens cloth, a protective backdoor, a bike stand, helmet mounts, and clips.
The next sections of this Akaso EK7000 action camera review takes an in-depth look at its features.
The whole point of owning a camera is taking quality shots and shooting great videos. That said, it only makes sense that our Akaso EK7000 action camera review touches on the camera's image quality and performance. The Akaso EK7000 action camera is capable of shooting professional 2.7K footage at 30 fps and 4K at 25 fps. It captures 12MP still photos at up to 30 fps. The 170-degree wide angle lens is a welcome addition that creates a great immersive effect. For a camera in its price range, the auto focus is spot on and the colors are incredible.
You can capture footage and still photos in any of the available modes including single photo, burst photo and time lapse. The sensor can capture 12MP still photos at 30 frames per second. Contrary to what you would expect from a 4K camera, the Akaso EK7000 action camera recordings don't look very good when shot in slow motion and at higher resolutions. Videos shot at standard frame rate are not too shaky and look smooth.
If there is one area where the Akaso EK7000 action camera excels, it is design and controls. All of the components are housed in a smooth silver build, which is then encased in a transparent cover. The Akaso EK7000 action camera is quite compact compared to other models and the sensor protrudes from the body, but this isn't too much of a problem. It ships with a 2.4G RF remote control that allows you to record and take still photos while on the move.
You can also use it to frame photos without using your hands. WiFi capability makes it easy to pair the camera with your iOS or Android device. However, you will have to download the Akaso app to take advantage of this feature. This camera is powered by two rechargeable 1050mAh batteries that allow for up to 90 minutes of recording time. It also ships with a waterproof casing that is IP68 certified, allowing you to use it at a maximum depth of 100 feet underwater without worrying about damage.
Note: If these aspects are important to you but this camera isn't exactly what you're looking for, we also recommend reading our review of the Victure Action Camera.
There are many things to love about the Akaso EK7000 action camera some of which are mentioned below.
Has a 170-degree wide angle lens.
Picture quality is crisp and sharp.
Spare batteries are easily available.
Waterproof casing works for a maximum of eight hours.
Great color production and exposure.
Has the ability to shoot time lapse videos.
Doesn't have any internal memory.
Low resolution still photos could be better.
If there is one thing that this Akaso EK7000 action camera review has revealed, it's that this is one of the best sport action cameras on the market. For one, you can shoot 4K footage at 25fps. You can also opt for 1080p recording at 60 frames per second if you want the smoothest video quality. We love the waterproof casing as it allows you capture still photos and videos almost 100 feet underwater. What's even better is that the inbuilt WiFi allows you to remotely control the camera via iOS or Android.
The Akaso EK7000 is a great investment – in fact, its the best action camera in its price range. It has great video quality and behaves extremely well in all weather and visibility conditions. However, if you're serious about your action videography and only want the best, we recommend also taking a look at the GoPro HERO6. It's a bit more expensive, but it makes up for the extra investment with great still image quality and functionality.
For the adrenaline junkie who loves documenting their adventures, the Akaso EK7000 action camera would make a great investment. It works great for documenting skydiving, skiing, surfing, bike rides, runs and hikes. The camera boasts superior recording and excellent performance, something that extreme sport enthusiast look for. Users can mount it on the helmet, surf board, chest or bike and utilize their phones or remote control to frame shots. This action camera comes with many useful accessories including USB cable, remote control, bike stand, helmet mounts, batteries and more for an exceptional shooting experience.


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Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss,
[New] Global coffee demand is expected to triple production by 2050, raising pressure on forests and other habitats in the tropical regions where it's grown as farmers look for new land to till.
[New] During the next decades, global population and economic growth will continue to increase groundwater demand and accompanying groundwater depletion and, when exacerbated by droughts, will probably increase land subsidence occurrence and related damages or impacts.
[New] Colombia, as a signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed by 2020 to halve natural forest loss and by 2030 to reach net-zero deforestation, meaning that any loss of forest will be offset by the replanting of native forest.
[New] As global populations grow, and people become wealthier and consume more, that need for new agricultural land is just going to increase, resulting in at least 2 million sq km of new farmland by 2050, and maybe as much as 10 million.
[New] The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of their habitat by 2050.
[New] The UN declared 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, signalling a strong political commitment to restoration for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
[New] In response to the Bonn Challenge, the Government of Ghana pledged to restore 2 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
[New] The New York Declaration on Forests includes among its ten goals the aim of restoring 350 million hectares of degraded forest land by 2030.
[New] Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which aims to unlock €20 billion per year for biodiversity through various sources, including EU funds and national and private funding.
Japan needs to boost renewable energy by reforming outdated policies on land use and the national grid if it is to meet a new goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
Annual losses in revenue and investment are projected to increase through 2040 as the oil and gas industry becomes more productive and prices increase.
The people in Northern Ireland, which will have the EU's only land border with Britain from 2021, deserved to know far sooner the terms of trade within their own country.
Government of India has recently highlighted that the period 2019-2020, will be observed as the Construction Technology Year, which will hellp elevate India's construction ecosystem to international standards.
Biden's power to permit renewable energy projects on federal land and his ability to wield existing regulatory power to clean up everything from cars to power plants - combined with market trends - could be enough to reach the Paris threshold.
Scientists around the globe are calling for countries to preserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030 and half by 2050 to abate the extinction crisis.
If current methods of food production continue, an extra 770,000 to 3.9 million square miles (199.4 million to 1 billion hectares) of land - up to three times the size of India - could be needed by 2050.
With the use of solar poles, The Trust for Public Land will avoid 30 metric tons of carbon dioxide and save $71,000 in electricity costs over the next 20 years.
Observers were anticipating international agreements to protect biodiversity on the high seas, regulate deep-sea mining, and draft a post-2020 Biodiversity Framework that would renew the expired Aichi targets.
20 million hectares of agricultural land are at high risk of abandonment in the EU in the period 2015-2030 due to several factors, such as biophysical land constraints.


On the death of their father, sparring siblings Nellie and Eli Pledge inherit the family pickling factory. Then, their life is complicated by the arrival on the scene of one Vernon Smallpiece, a con-man who pretends to want to marry Nellie, but is really only interested in her inheritance. Comic (?) mayhem ensues.
There really is not much to say about this film, except that, like "On the Buses", it is a television spin-off, this time from a Granada TV sitcom. This – unlike "On the Buses" – was not however a box-office success.


Short unissex jacket in navy blue and white asymmetrical stripes. Light and water-resistant, this is Rains' functional interpretation of the iconic coach style. A slick, minimal look, perfect for those surprising rain showers or simply for some smart layering under an overcoat.


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Marrying in South Asia (Shifting Concepts Changing Practices in a Globalising World)
Item Code: NAF808
Author: Ravinder Kaur and Rajni Palriwala
Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
Marriage has long been central to the study of kinship and family and to imaginings of culture, identity and citizenship. If the deeply gendered nature of marriage has been critiqued by feminist researchers, the conjugal contract has been the subject of debate in the legal domain and the economics of marriage and of the wedding ceremony figure in the discourse on development.
Engaging with these and other strands is marrying in South Asia, a volume which looks closely at Bangladeshi, Pakistani and south Indian Muslims, Bhutanese ethnic groups, Nepali widows, the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, south Asian gays and lesbians, middle class and urban, working –class communities and many other groups. With the globalising world as the backdrop, the essays trace the encounters with changing notions and practices of marriage.
The book examines processes that make a marriage, the implications of non-marriage or its end and the acknowledgement of multiple sexualities, as well as the contestations and conflicts, including in the law courts, that are part of the institution. The integration of the larger economic and political contexts in understandings of personal relations around marriage is significant. The diverse ethnographic accounts, demographic analyses and economic investigations provide a wider window to marriage than is usually available in a single volume.
This volume brings together scholars in sociology, anthropology, economics, demography, development studies, queer theory and gender studies, and historical research, from around the world. Marrying in South Asia is a must-read for students of the social sciences and for all of us interested in the ideas around conjugality and the institution of marriage.
Ravinder Kauris Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi.
Rajni Palriwalais Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi.
Weddings in South Asia are getting bigger and fatter, along with media and middle-class angst over a perceived rise in divorce. Is this all that is left to marriage in South Asia, one may ask-an event and its denial? Reports of what are called 'honour killings' -violent attempts to prevent self-choice or inter-caste marriage-are also frequent, in North India and Pakistan. The 'age of consent' is once again under debate in India. Are these reiterations of the institutional nature of marriage or actions taken to bulwark a normative practice threatened as never before? Or do they, conjointly, ask us to rethink the theoretical models with which we have looked at marriage? Are these the effects of modernity, capitalist development, globalisation, and individualisation, or are they themes long present? What is happening to marriage outside the media glare or is that at all a possibility in today's world? A wide array of questions is evoked when examining the complexities of changes and continuities in marriage in South Asia.
Despite new public imaginations of marriage, love/self-choice marriage has not replaced arranged marriages; nor has divorce replaced lifelong marital unions. Not all iterations of marriage 'rules', which remain important signifiers of caste identity and community culture, require defence or rest on visible violence. Marriage and its gendered domesticity are significant in individual and familial aspirations for sexual and social intimacies and in life trajectories.
Yet, economic processes and globalisation have affected spousal selection, marriage prestations, and the articulations of desire; they cannot help but affect the inner workings of conjugality. Marriage and its termination has long been a site for state intervention and the point of entry for concerted efforts at gendered social reform. As social anthropologists and sociologists, in whose disciplinary histories constructions of marriage have been critical, these issues confront us. Literary scholars, too, are relooking at their imaginaries of love, intimacy and marriage. For scholars of other disciplines such as economics and demography, marriage either did not figure in their discourses or was simply a fact, rather than a process. Yet, they too are turning their attention to marriage. Drawing from various disciplines and asking diverse questions, the essays in this book address the simultaneity of apparent flux and change with the hegemonic and gendered normativity of marriage.
THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE: SHIFTING FRAMEWORKS
In looking for recent work on marriage, at first sight it appeared as if we were in a desert. Perhaps the paucity of research could be related to Fortes' (1962) musings? He asked if there was anything new to add, empirically or theoretically, to the study of marriage other than work on procedures of spousal selection. The questions and assumptions that had driven earlier anthropological and Sociological work on kinship, marriage and family globally have also underlain studies done in the subcontinent. Along with caste, religion, and village, the latter were taken to be the principles of social organisation. The shifts from structural functional (Srinivas 1952; Karve 1953) to structural (Dumont 1957, 1966; Madan 1975) and subsequently to cultural (Fruzzetti 1982; Inden and Nicholas 2005; Das 19-76) frameworks led to new analytical insights (Uberoi 1993). Schenider's critique (1984) of the biological premises, ethnocentrism, and implicit 'orientalism' of kinship studies had concluded that there is no transcultural category called kinship. According to Stone (2001), this account froze kinship studies in the US academy. This does not, however, explain the apparent dearth of work on the subcontinent, where many studies remain oblivious of his critique. A quick scan of books published in the 1980s and 1990s, in which kinship and marriage figure, suggests a trend of extending extant frameworks to hitherto understudied groups, such as 'tribes', 'remote' communities, and non-Hindus. 1t could be, then, that the formalistic and legalistic models which permeated kinship studies, critiqued by Bourdieu (1977), is more pertinent in explaining the decline in interest. If rules are taken as a sufficient description of marriage and kinship, once the former are known, there would be little to understand other than deviance. Thus, much work in Pakistan, particularly as the Islamic character of its society was asserted, tended to focus on issues of state and religious law or the extent of the prevalence or otherwise of the formal rules of preferential kin marriage (Palriwala 1994).
On closer investigation, what comes to the fore is that the study of marriage had not disappeared, but been displaced. The study of kinship practices and marriage strategies-rather than of official rules and ideology-entails intensive fieldwork, for which funding has not been easily available, inside or outside academia. As economic growth and population control became central ideologies in development and state policy, demographic change and reproductive behaviour became privileged foci of funding. Social demographers explored the correlations between marital sexual behaviours, reproduction strategies, contraception, age at marriage, and fertility levels with family patterns, mobility, education, urbanisation and female empowerment. In frameworks that rarely distinguish between rules and practice, surveys continue to address deviance, anomy, and the 'impact' of modernity. However, some of these researches also look at marital strategies, extended family/ kinship relations, and institutional dimensions of marriage in understanding the behaviours they focus on (Fricke et at. 1986). Family being the assumed site of care and welfare in government policies across most of the subcontinent, the debate around the 'decline' of the extended family-household is another area in which marriage enters (Shah 1989; Agarwal and Panda 2007; Madan 1993).
Another steady thread of scholarship, globally, has been through the new focus on women's voices and on gender, resonating with Yanagisako and Collier's (1987) call for a unified analysis of gender and kinship. Earlier analyses of marriage have been examined through the prism of gender (Das 1975; Dube 1986). Thus, in discussing structures of work, family, and marriage, Jeffery and Jeffery (1996) narrated how young women looked at their lives. Kapadia (1993) looked at cross-cousin marriage from the point of view of the bride/wife and the pressures inimical to this practice, while Palriwala (1991) analysed residential practices focusing on female mobility rather than the permanence of the patrilineage. Many of these studies looked at the ideology, dynamics, and practices of marriage rather than simply at structure and form. What these and other studies examined more directly was how the historical entrenchment of capitalism had favoured patrilocal systems and male inheritance and thereby affected gender equations in marriage and the domestic sphere (Ram 1992). This is also reflected in social and cultural histories (Arunima 2003; Sangari and Vaid 1989; Oldenburg 2002). In looking at the gendered implications of colonial interventions in class, caste, and community relations, as well as cultural tropes entwined with law and legal practices, marriage was brought to the fore.
In what sense is the institutional character of marriage invoked, in this volume as well as in the wider academic discourse? How does it shape the subjective and structural contours of individual and collective action? Given a discourse that suggests that fluidity has become paramount with globalisation, it becomes all the more necessary to delineate this issue. Sociologically, whether it is arranged by others or chosen for love by the individuals to be wedded, marriage is a structured and patterned set of social relations and practices. It is embedded in norms and values regarding what marriage should be and is. There are explicit social prescriptions and sanctions by public bodies, the state, religion, and community. At the minimum, a marriage makes legal and public, even if not always socially accepted, an intimate relation between two individuals. It thereby imbricates the 'public' in the personal and makes public order vulnerable to the vagaries of what may be viewed as purely individual intimacies.
The latter is also so because in many cultures and certainly in much of South Asia, a marriage is articulated as more than an ongoing relationship between two individuals. It establishes a tie between two social groups such as family-households, lineages, or clans and, at times, reiterates an already existing tie between them. Whether viewed primarily as a contract or a sacrament, marriage establishes a relationship between more than just the two in the conjugal pair. In other words, marriage is an alliance in structuralist and political terms, entailing affinal relations. All this can be congruent with self-choice or love marriage, depending on what the named and valued social groups are.
Importantly, marriage is a social institution in the manner in which it gives social sanction and legal recognition to the filial tie. This is not only through a parentally arranged match and in affinal relations. Rather, marriage legitimises children of the married couple and thus carries implications for the continuity and boundaries of these groups; for inheritance and status, access to resources, labour, care and support. It is this dimension that provides impetus to the control of marriage of individuals by their natal families and their communities. Further, marriage is an institution to the extent that it remains significant in official value and in practice as the basis for family-households. Even when marriage does not result in continuous cohabitation, it has implications for responsibilities, rights, and expectations in the everyday life of the married, their kin and their children. It is not only' ... the law [that] sees marriage as a fundamental social institution whose stability is necessary for the care of the young and the aged, for the protection of women, and for the well-being of society as a whole' (Derrett 1978: 163-64; also cited in Uberoi 1995: 323). Even if that stability is difficult to achieve in practice, it is part of the espoused social values and cultural beliefs cutting across many classes, communities, and regions in South Asia. The inequalities of marriage, domesticity and society remain interwoven, and as with all institutions, particularly those that pervade society and have a hegemonic sway, marriage excludes; it marginalises those who fall outside its parameters or never enter it. In speaking of the last, Borneman highlights the spectres and embodied lives of the unmarried, the divorced, the homosexual, and the widowed (1996: 229).
These multiple aspects of the institutional character of marriage indicate the complexity we confront when we try and map directions of continuity and change. One commonality through which this complexity is addressed here is by a focus on practices, social relations, and agency, with 'official' ideologies and norms either questioned or showing signs of being recast, forming a backdrop, or being reiterated. It is important to note that officialising strategies (Bourdieu 1977) may mask diversity as well as change or the new value assigned to 'modernity' may justify them.
When we started looking at the debates regarding the nature and dimensions of change in marriage and family relations in South Asia, the need for a volume that pulled together some of the ideas on the dimensions considered became apparent. One of the first issues was if we could sensibly speak of marriage across the breadth of South Asia. What comprised it into a region? There is, of course, the facticity of its geo-politics, with the Himalayas and its passes to the north, the oceans to the south; the contemporary formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). There is a long economic history of overland and maritime trade networks traversing this area. Its one-time centrality in the global intercourse was fragmented by a common subjugation to colonialism, mostly British. With the arrival of the latter and the later decades of capitalist development, movement of goods and people from the subcontinent reached new volumes and different parts of the globe. The effects of colonial rule were such that even those countries that formally remained outside could not remain untouched, with an apparent introversion that was possibly new to them, such as Nepal and Bhutan.
Most critically, these geographic, economic, and political contours and passages also made for cultural transactions, which cut across and made the region. South Asia is home to a bewildering array of religions and communities, dispersed, intermingled, interacting, holding themselves apart, and jostling for power and domination. Silent or visible resistance to the power and norms of hegemonic combines and class differentiations adds to the diversity in practice. Social groups of varied depth claim cultural uniqueness; that they follow their own rules in marriage, family, and personal rituals and life. There have also peen emulations and common cultural and structural processes that bring them together (Trautmann 1981). In fact, with contemporary processes of globalisation and assertions of ethnic and religious identity, both these trends have intensified. Anthropologists have long looked at the region, defined as both less (excluding Male) and more (including Myanmar) than the current lines drawn. They have drawn comparisons across the region and attempted to draw out structural unities (Dumont 1966; Tambiah 1973; Cohn 1987; Mandelbaum 1988). The cultural and religious significance of marriage rules and practices, marital transactions, and family-household have held an important place in much of this discussion.
It is in such historical and scholarly contexts that we relook at marriage across South Asia. While there is no way in which we could adequately cover the geographical and cultural areas that constitute it, we try to capture some sense of that vastness. One concern was not to make the earlier mistake of allowing the practices of dominant or visible social groups to become the implicit exemplar and paradigm on which the analyses would be based. A second problematic was that in addressing our concerns, we had to ensure that we neither lose sight of the important insights and analyses of earlier frameworks and studies, nor get caught in their web. This volume then represents a shift from earlier frameworks that often erred on the side of assuming the universality of upper caste and/or elite ideologies and collapsed practices into rules. Taking into account the salience of the rules and ideologies of dominant groups in self-representation and aspirations, the essays here focus on practices and the multiple, disparate, incoherent ideologies of family and marriage that influence individual and group choices. A third benchmark arose from our reading of many past studies that tended to look at marriage and family, work and economics, politics and law in separate essays except when sumrnarising the 'impact of industrialisation, urbanisation, and modernity' (Goode 197t). Much of the last discussion explicitly abjured a cultural and political economy perspective, and worked within a Parsonian and modernisation framework. It centred on the idea that the extended family was being replaced by the nuclear family-household and arranged marriage was giving way to love and individual choice. Rather than assuming unidirectional change or unidirectional causality, the attempt in this volume is to capture the dialectics of the changing institution of marriage and the dynamics of marriage practices on the one hand and shifts in economy, polity, society, and family on the other, all affected by globalisation processes. Thus, changing opportunities for work, fracturing of communities by violence, new institutional structures that deal with the end of marriage, new modes of matchmaking with the availability of new technologies and new imaginings of conjugal and intimate relationships, mostly heterosexual but also involving same-sex partners, are drawn in.
Finally, tracing women's voices, gender, and contours of intimacy, rather than the mere fact of marital or other intimacy are important dimensions of the framework of this volume. As indicated earlier, gender has been central to most of the work done in the area of marriage, kinship and family in the last two decades. Issues of marital prestations and dowry, marital violence and the condition of widows for women's rights and value in society, as well as the mutual construction of kinship-marriage-family and gender ideologies have been examines. Yet, though the negativities of contemporary marriage for women have been a focus in earlier work, there has been little work on conjugality itself, on the dimensions of emotion, sexuality, support, and care which the fact of marriage is taken to frame. Agency in marriage then often appears only as male violence or parental suppression or self-choice. How and why do men and women desire or not desire marriage; what is it that not being married denies them; why do marriages persist in the face of conflict and how do individuals and groups deal with the end of marriage, whether by divorce or death? While this volume cannot address all these issues, the concern is to look simultaneously at the internal and external processes that make the institution of marriage and it implications for those in and out of it.
RENEWING TRADITION AND DIVERSITY Attempts to analyse change or continuity in marriage, family, or kinship are vitiated at the start if the manifold cultures and local variants in the articulated rules and values pertaining to marriage are not kept in mind. Diversity in marriage practices has long been grist for the anthropological mill, even as (both structural functional and structuralist) theorisations were directed at understanding underlying universal structures. In the south Asian and in particular the Indian context, these diversities were ordered into more localised patterns or structures. The arguments of Karve (1953), Dumont (1966), and Yalman (1971) were divergent as were their units of analysis and mappings. Yet, their common concern was to find 'the similarity in principles and the underlying identity in the essentials of the structure' (Yalman 1971: 8). Caste endogamy and hypergamy emerged as important organising principles in much of these works, which tended to focus on Hindus, their norms, and dominant practices.' Three critical distinctions figured repeatedly in these research works. One was the preference for consanguineous marriage such as cross-cousin and uncle-niece marriage among castes in South India, or parallel and cross-cousin marriage among Muslims as against the north Indian Hindu rule that proscribed marriage between close kin of varying degrees-from the seventh to the untraceable (clan). The second was that post-marriage residential rules among many matrilineal and bilateral groups in the Ma1abar, in the Northeast and in Sri Lanka, were not in accordance with a simple patrilocality. The third was the variation in marriage prestations between dowry and bride-price, which Tambiah (1973) mapped across the subcontinent, but which otherwise tended to be peripheral in the search for the structural features of marriage.
Yet, there is a range of diversities that has not been mapped even though the diversity of articulated rules is the most easily narrated. One reason was the dominance of the upper-caste Hindu and the tribe in the sociological and anthropological imaginations of India. Thus, in this volume, Abraham discusses the Thiyyas who were matrilineal but patrilocal, different from the dominant matrilineal, matrilocal Nayars, who have been the focus of much anthropological work. Another factor was that conjugal relations and their implications for women was a dimension of analysis for only a few scholars such as Karve (1953), Gough (1959), and later Dube (1986).
As gender gained importance in social science scholarship, the north-south divide in marriage practices gained analytical significance. Along with women's work patterns, constructs of this diversity were deployed to explain regional demographic patterns in sex ratios, age at marriage and female empowerment or the lack of it (Miller 1981; Dyson and Moore 1983). Today, the divergences in the gendered implications of this gee-cultural divide are being questioned as caste ideologies, the proscription or acceptance of widow remarriage, and domestic violence are examined (Ram 1992; Agarwal and Panda 2007) and presumptions associating gender equality and female autonomy with close kin marriage queried (Philips, this volume; Abraham, this volume). It becomes important then to recognise and find ways to move beyond descriptions of levels of diversity and homogeneity.
Mapping and analysing practices and strategies of marriage, especially their divergence from dominant norms, is not easy. It is known that whatever the rule, demography and internal stratification have meant a high rate of non-consanguineous marriages among groups who preferred cousin marriage (Trautmann 1981; Palriwala 1994). The imperative of the fit between practice and rule has never been universal across social groups. To this are added intra- group shifts in the strength of the imperative. How can we decide whether the exigency of this rule has grown or diminished among communities such as the south Indian Muslim khandan discussed by Vatuk (this volume)? Religion alone, is not what gives it symbolic force. For them strategies of consanguineous marriage maintain community identity and secular prestige within the community. With their small numbers, increasing geographic dispersal and internal differentiations they hold this identity and prestige dear. In addition, they believe that close-kin marriage enables conjugal compatibility and better adjusted families. Women may also prefer consanguineous daughters-in-law in the hope of labour (Ramamurthy, this volume) or care (Vera-Sanso 1999). That close-kin marriage constrains dowry has become a factor in sustaining consanguineous marriage for some (Vatuk, this volume; Joshi et al., this Volume), but a reason to avoid it among the upwardly mobile. Kapadia (1993), For one, pointed to the weakening of the imperatives of the preferential rule by dowry, even as the ideology of kinship in Which kin marriage is embedded may remain in place.
. . The greater class differentiation and the emergence of substantial middle classes affect the ways in which traditions of marriage are or are not changing. That lived experiences of marriage vary substantially by class and not only by caste, ethnicity or religion is captured in studies conducted in the nineties. The earlier focus on elite rules makes for difficulties in tracing change. In reading Grover (this volume), one wonders how much of the acceptance of and resistance to separation, divorce and remarriage among non-elite groups is new and how much a continuity of earlier non-documented practices. How much is it a diversity which could not be acknowledged or was silenced as unnecessary in understanding global principles or structures? There has, of course, long been an argument that among the non-elite, the lower castes, tribes, and the non-Hindu, divorce and remarriage are accepted and practised and widows are not stigmatised (Kolenda 2003; Parry 2001; Ilaiah 2001). With modernisation and the spread of Hindu middle-class values of monogamy and chastity, this argument continues, these practices are endangered, while middle-class, upper-caste ideologies are renewed. Kumar's essay (this volume) on the Kolams, a tribe in east Maharashtra, does m part support this argument. Chuki's overview (this volume) of regional, class, and religious diversity and change in Bhutan, however, raises questions about the earlier autonomy of women as well as of simple readings of current directions of change or continuity. A new diversity seems to be emerging related to class and differential claims to modernity and individual fulfilment as well as claims of community, identity and the valorisation of tradition.
The various essays suggest that the articulated rules of partner selection have become muddied with the espousal of new 'modern' values of 'love' and 'choice: These values may, however, work to strengthen the institutional nature and value of marriage (Lessinger, this volume; Kaur with Dhanda, this volume). This can be of particular significance through the role of marriage in boundary maintenance, i.e. endogamy within caste, community or class. On the one hand, this process works through the assertion of distinct identity and marriage rules. On the other, community boundaries appear to become porous in long distance marriage (Kaur 2004), in the practices of the urban working class (Lessinger, this volume; Grover, this volume) or a new transnational middle class (Kaur with Dhanda, this volume). Yet, marriage is the strategy not just for ensuring a working domesticity, but a strategy for upward mobility and/or class endogamy. This gives all the more force to the demand for a homogeneity within diversity-the aspiration and desire for the legal right to marry for those who have so far been seen beyond its pale, such as the gay subjects of Tellis' research (this volume).
Diversity in practice, continuation of tradition, and homogeneity of trends appear simultaneous when we look at age at marriage, a continuing concern to social scientists and policy-makers. The actual practice varies with community and class within each country and there is a common trend of a rising age at marriage. Child marriage persists, however (Sagade 2005). Based on large datasets, as is true for much of the demographic work on marriage, Amin and Das (this volume) argue that early marriage in Bangladesh is not just a carryover from the past. It is a contemporary strategy to avoid or give a lesser dowry. Another take on the persistence of the 'tradition' of early marriage is that suggested by Andrist et al. also in this volume. They relate it to the clear gap between marriage and continuous cohabitation, a consequence of the ritually marked deferral of consummation among many social groups across the subcontinent. This custom has a contradictory impulse in contemporary times: it allows the performance of gendered scripts in accordance with traditional norms of marriage simultaneous with the fulfilment of modern goals of women's education.
List of Tables, Figures and Map xi
Editors' Acknowledgements xv
Publishers' Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction Marriage in South Asia: Continuities and Transformations 1
PART 1: Diversities in Models and Practices
1 Change and Continuity in Marital Alliance Patterns Muslims in South India, 1800-2012 28
2 Marriage in Bhutan At the Confluence of Modernity and Identity 49
3 Transgressions, Accommodations and Change Configuring Gender and Sexuality within Marriage Practices of the Kolams 70
PART 2: Behind Demographic Trends
4 Marriage Continuity and Change in Bangladesh 89
5 Negotiating Marriage Examining the Gap between Marriage and Cohabitation in India 116
PART 3: Economics of Marriage
6 Marriage, Women and Work The Estate Tamils in Sri Lankas's Tea Plantations 141
7 Marriage, Labour Circulation and Smallholder Capitalism in Andhra Pradesh 161
8 Marriage, Women's Economic Participation and Patterns of Support in Urban Karachi 182
9 Why Marry a Cousin? Insights from Bangladesh 208
PART 4: Making a Marriage
10 Love' in the Shadow of the sewing Machine A Study of Marriage in the Garment Industry of Chennai, South India 234
11 Transnational Marriages Documents, Wedding Albums, Photographers and Jaffna Tamil Marriages 253
12 Surfing for Spouses Marriage websites and the 'New' Indian Marriage? 271
PART 5: Love and Conjugality in and Beyond Marriage
13 Why did you send me like this?' Marriage, Matriliny and the 'Providig Husband' in North Kerala, India 293
14 Purani aur Nai Shaadi' Separation, Divorce and Remarriage in the Lives of the Urban Poor in New Delhi 311
15 Multiple Ironies Notes on Same-Sex Marriage for South Asians at Home and Abroad 333
PART 6: Legal Interventions and Activism
16 Dreaming a Better Court for Women Adjudication and Subjectivity in the Family Courts of Kolkata, India 351
17 When Marriage Breaks Down How do Contracts Matter? Marriage Contracts and Divorce in Contemporary North India 371
18 Widowhood, Socio-cultural Practices and Collective Action A Study Survival Strategies of Single Women in Nepal 389
Notes on Contributors 407
History of Theravada Buddhism in South-East Asia (With special reference to India and Ceylon)
By Kanai Lal Hazra
Islam in History and Politics (Perspeandalctives From South Asia)
By Asim Roy
Cultural History of Early South Asia (A Reader)
By Shonaleeka Kaul
States of Trauma (Gender and Violence in South Asia)
By Various Authors
Health and Population in South Asia
By Sumit Guha
Diverting the Flow (Gender Equity and Water in South Asia)
By Margreet Zwarteveen, Sara Ahmed and Suman Rimal Gautum
Contesting Nation (Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on The Postcolonial Present)
By Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry
Defenders of The Establishment (Ruler -Supportive Police Forces of South Asia)
By K.S. Dhillon
Nuns Yoginis Saints and Singers (Women's Renunciation in South Asia)
By Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia
By Ed. Sanjay Srivastava
Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia
By Piotr Balcerowicz
Historical Thinking in South Asia: A Handbook of Sources from Colonial Times to the Present
By Edited By: MICHAEL GOTTLOB
Nomadism in South Asia
By Edited By: Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir
Exile and Belonging: Refugees and State Policy in South Asia
By Pia Oberoi
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Cookery (141)
Emperor & Queen (484)
Hindu (842)
Jainism (226)
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Дина́н () — город и муниципалитет в Бельгии, в провинции Намюр, на реке Маас (фр. Мёз). Главный туристический центр провинции.

По состоянию на 1 января 2005 года население муниципалитета составляло 12 907 жителей. Площадь муниципалитета — 99,80 км², таким образом плотность населения составляет 129,33 жителя на квадратный километр.

История
Точное время возникновения данного поселения неизвестно. Само название имеет кельтское происхождение и предположительно переводится как «священная (божественная) долина». По данным археологических раскопок, поселение на месте нынешнего города уже существовало в древнеримские времена, однако первое упоминание города (вернее, моста в городе) в летописях относится к 824 году.

Средневековый город часто был ареной междоусобных войн: за всю свою историю его брали штурмом около двухсот раз, 17 раз город подвергался осаде. Особенно сильно пострадал город в 1466 году при взятии его войском бургундского герцога Филиппа Доброго.

В начале Первой мировой войны (1914) немцами были убиты 674 мирных жителя города, которых подозревали в сопротивлении; это массовое убийство известно во франкоязычной историографии как sac de Dinant. К концу войны были уничтожены 75 % жилых домов. Город также пострадал в ходе Второй мировой войны.

Достопримечательности
 Крепость, преимущественно построенная в 1818-21 гг.
  с богатым убранством. Она была построена в готическом стиле в XIII—XIV веках у подножия скалы на месте старой романской церкви (которая была уничтожена в 1227 году оползнем, унесшем жизни 36 человек).
 , давшее название пиву Leffe.
 Музей пива.
 Доисторические пещеры Мон-Шаф, Ла-Нолет.

Знаменитые люди Динана
В Динане родились:
 Давид Динанский, философ и богослов.
 Патинир, Иоахим, художник.
 Пир, Жорж, священник-доминиканец, лауреат Нобелевской премии мира.
 Адольф Сакс, изобретатель саксофона.
 Камилло Эверарди, певец и музыкальный педагог.

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт (на французском, нидерландском и английском)

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing a rule that would allow broadcasters to require cable operators to carry either the broadcaster's digital TV or analog signal during the transition to DTV and then negotiate a retransmission consent deal covering the carriage of the other signal, sources said Thursday.
Such a move that would give broadcasters more negotiating power during the new round of retransmission consent elections that begin in October,
Under the FCC's existing must-carry rules, broadcasters can't demand carriage of their DTV signals until after they have returned their analog channels to the government and the transition to digital is complete. At least some in the cable TV industry are arguing that the proposed change could force them to carry both the analog and digital signals of broadcasters who demand digital carriage because many cable customers are not currently equipped to receive digital signals.
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Ahead of Monday's publication of FN100 Rising Stars – our pick of the top 100 executives under the age of 40 – we take a look at some of the past years' stars
Dominic Slade has had a challenging year. After facing a showdown with Jon Moulton, the co-founder of Alchemy Partners in September last year, he became the sole head of the private equity advisory business. Three months later, aged 38, Slade was nominated to FN100 Rising Stars.