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Date extended for Photography Competition
Hyderabad, August 8, 2015: The last date for receipt of applications to participate in State level Photography Competitions on the occasion of World Photography day was extended till 5.00PM on August 12. This was informed by the Commissioner, Information Public Relations B.P. Acharya while adding that on the occasion of World Photography day which will be held on August 19 the I&PR Department is organizing State Level Photography Competition.
Explaining about the details of the State Level Photography Competitions the Commissioner informed that the Competitions will be held in 3-Categories. In the First Category (BANGARU TELANGANA) will be on Mission Kakatiya,Haritha Haram, Tourism, Culture and Heritage in Second Category (TELANGANA FESTIVALS) will be on Bonalu, Bathukamma, Godavari Pushkaralu and Third Category (PHOTO JOURNALISM) will be on best News Picture in Telangana.
Acharya said that earlier August 9 was the last date for receipt of applications now has been extended to August 12. He requested the Photographers to utilize the opportunity.
Dy CM launches new web version on stamps
Hyderabad, August 8, 2015: Deputy Chief Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali launched the new user friendly version of the web portal of Stamps and registration department www.registration.telangana.gov.nic which can be accessed both in Telugu and Urdu apart from English language on August 6.
Instead of waiting for hours at the offices, they can book their slot for registration and come at their convenience. SMS alerts on status of registration will be auto-generated and sent to parties' mobile numbers, ensuring accurate information reducing the dependency on middlemen or touts.
On a pilot basis we are introducing shift system in two sub registrar offices – from 8.00 am to 2.30 pm at Bowenpalli and from 2.30 to 9.00 pm at Marredpalli SROs, based on the feedback this will be implemented in further offices later.
Henceforth people can buy non-judicial stamps on face value, from Post offices across the state from 1st September 2015. This was possible with the signing of MOU between the State Stamps and Registration Department and India Post, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Journos from Rajasthan visit Metro project
Hyderabad, August 4, 2015: A 12 member team of senior journalists from Jaipur called on MD, Hyderabad Metro Railway (HMR), NVS Reddy today at Metro Rail Bhavan, Hyderabad. Stating that they have heard a lot about the international recognition that the Hyderabad Metro Rail project is getting, they requested the MD to explain the unique features of the project. Speaking to the media delegation, VS Reddy emphasised on the need to improve infrastructure facilities, reduce pollution levels and make Indian cities more liveable and competitive to attract investments in this globalised era.
Explaining the constant design improvement and features of Hyderabad Metro Rail, MD, HMR pointed out that the project is being used to transform Hyderabad as a people friendly green city. Special facilities that are being created for women, children, elderly and differently abled people; creation of quality public space at Metro Rail stations; rejuvenation of certain areas were explained.
Responding to the media team's request for suggestions for improvement of infrastructure facilities in Jaipur city, MD, HMR pointed out the similarities of Jaipur and Hyderabad cities with rich history and magnificent heritage structures and observed that these two cities can be made international tourist destinations and shared some ideas with them as to how Jaipur can be transformed as a rominent city.
CM Chandrashekhar Rao invited to China
August 4, 2015: All-round development in the Telangana State is attracting many within the country and abroad. The schemes and programs as well as welfare measures being implemented in the state caught the attention of many.


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Minimally invasive treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia
Using catheter techniques perfected in the arteries of the heart, interventional cardiologists are successfully treating chronic mesenteric ischemia, a condition akin to intestinal angina.
According to a study reported at the 30th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), angioplasty and stenting of clogged arteries in the abdomen successfully restored blood flow to the intestines and relieved painful symptoms in more than 90 percent of patients, without major complications.
"Chronic mesenteric ischemia is an ideal condition for treatment with nonsurgical interventions," said David E. Allie, M.D., director of cardiothoracic, vascular and endovascular surgery at the Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Lafayette, LA. "Angioplasty and stenting are simple and safe, and many times today can be done as an outpatient procedure."
Chronic mesenteric ischemia can be tricky to diagnose. Patients may suffer nausea, vomiting, or pain after eating symptoms often mistaken for gallbladder disease or gastroenteritis. Eventually they may develop a fear of eating and lose large amounts of weight. Surgical treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia results in death in as many as 15 percent of patients, in part because the procedure is complex it typically takes four to eight hours to perform but also because patients are debilitated by the time the diagnosis is finally made. In about one-third of patients, the diseased artery suddenly becomes completely blocked, gangrene develops in the bowel, and infection spreads throughout the body. More than half of such patients die, even with surgery.
To evaluate the effectiveness of stenting for chronic mesenteric ischemia, Dr. Allie and his colleagues recruited 50 patients with a total of 74 areas of narrowing, or stenosis, in the superior mesenteric or celiac arteries. In most cases, the procedure was performed by passing a catheter from the femoral artery in the groin up through the abdominal aorta and into the arteries supplying blood to the intestines. (In some cases, the catheter was introduced into the brachial artery in the arm and passed downward through the aorta.) A balloon was inflated to expand a large bare metal stent, which was left in place to prop open the artery at the site of the blockage.
Angioplasty and stenting were successful in 96 percent of patients, without major complications. More than 90 percent of patients reported relief of abdominal pain, and a similar percentage reported gaining weight. Fifteen patients (19 percent) later developed renarrowing of the stented artery. Of these, 3 were treated medically and 12 (92 percent) had repeat procedures to reopen the artery, including laser treatment in 8. At 1 year, 91 percent of patients were alive and free of symptoms. Two- and 3-year symptom-free survival rates were 88 percent and 82 percent, respectively.
Dr. Allie said that greater awareness and early diagnosis are critical. "We now have the tools for minimally invasive treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia," he said. "Patients and physicians need to know that this condition exists, is common, and is often confused with other conditions of the digestive tract."
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After she fell from a tree in the Bahamas - leaving her with a broken hind leg - her mother didn't return and the local shelter was unable to take her. So nearby residents Laura and William Young took her in and nursed her back to health.
Within weeks, Pumpkin had formed a bond with the couple's two rescue dogs, Toffee and Oreo. The three have a ball together.
The owners told Inside Edition: "Pumpkin considers the dogs her mums! She respects them when they have had enough rough play and she loves to cuddle next to them when she is tired!"
The owners added that she is very intelligent and entertaining, and loves to play with the pups.
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The Taiyuan–Xingxian railway () is a railway line in Shanxi, China.

History
Work on the line began in July 2009. In 2014, reports were published about poor quality earthworks along the line. It opened on 30 December 2014.

On 21 May 2018, passenger services were introduced on the line.

Route
The line is  long.

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Visit by SLSPO's Students
A group of students from SLSPO led by Mr. Emil was in JJCDR on 24th Jan 2013 for a study tour on the "Disability Rehabilitation". The study tour was organised by ICRC. At the JJCDR, the students were given an insight into the Disability Rehabilitation programmes and they also had...
Distribution of Wheel Chair donated by Motivation – SriLanka
"Mobility Devices for Disabled" is one of the humanitarian projects of JJCDR. The large number of disabled persons in Jaffna need of mobility devises to overcome the handicap of immobility The Jaffna Jaipur Centre for Disability Rehabilitation in association with Department of Social Services and Divisional Secretary, Maruthankerney, 20 wheelchairs...
Visit by Director , USAID Humanitarian Affairs and Stabilization and Governance Officer
Mr. Adam Schmidt, Director, USAID Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Rachel Sorey, Crisis, Stabilization and Governance Officer visited JJCDR on 20th Dec 2012. The delegation was warmly received by Board of Management and staff. The visit further renewed the linkages between USAID and JJCDR. They also visited Prosthetic and Orthotic and Mobility workshops...
Success Story of Sellan Thangavel
Sellan Thangavel 36 years old and lives in Sarasalai South, Chavakachcheri, and he has congenital deformity. He is a beneficiary of JJCDR. Thangavel was keen to 'reach out' to companies, organisations but was rejected because of his deformity. Staff of JJCDR to help him in finding a job, persuaded Board...
Visit By CARM Director
Centre for Advancement of Resource mobilization (CARM) Director Mr. T. Someswaran visited JJCDR on 6th Dec 2012. Hon. Chairperson and Hon. Treasurer briefly explained the challenges faced by the JJCDR....


We are happy to state: all our partners got a great assessment from their National Agencies to the 'SoS' Project, coordinated by our company.
The biggest pride is that the Cypriote partner, the MMC Learning Solutions got a Star Project nomination from their NA. Congratulations!
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Find A Way or Make One
When her senior drama thesis performance was canceled due to COVID-19, Talia Light Rake '20 turned Zoom into art.
Story by Liz Logan | Illustration by Avalon Nuovo
It's 3 a.m. and two college students, Charlie and Catherine, are hanging up a Zoom call. They have been lovers for months, but now they're separated by quarantine and don't know when they'll see each other again. "Goodnight, love you," Catherine says breezily.
"Ummm …" Charlie responds, and the camera moves with him as he suddenly sits up straight. In the awkward conversation that ensues, the two are forced to define the exact nature of their relationship.
This scene is the beginning of the short play "Hangups," by Sarah Groustra '22. In normal times, such a work might be performed in the Harlene Marley Theater on campus. Instead, due to COVID-19, the play was performed by professional actors — Hayley Orrantia and Marcus Scribner (of the TV shows "The Goldbergs" and "Black-ish," respectively) — recorded and streamed live as part of Playdate, a virtual theater production company founded, in the wake of crisis, by Talia Light Rake '20. Playdate's first livestreamed festival took place over three nights in July and August. It featured a number of well-known actors and raised more than $16,000 for charitable causes.
In March, Light Rake learned that she wouldn't be returning to campus to finish out her senior year and celebrate graduation with her friends. Also canceled was the culmination of her senior drama thesis in acting, a performance of "Athena" by Gracie Gardner '13 that would have gone up on March 28. The play is about two teenage girls who are fencing competitors, and Light Rake had spent months learning how to fence. After graduation, she planned to move to New York City and start work as the artistic office assistant at the Manhattan Theatre Club. But suddenly everything was up in the air.
"I was heartbroken. As a drama major, you spend four years looking forward to your senior thesis," Light Rake said. "I needed a way to deal with the change. Because I love making theater, naturally, I turned to it as a way to try to fill up the newly found empty space."
Light Rake was used to having a packed schedule, between classes, rehearsals and the like, so even before she got official word that she wouldn't be returning to campus, she was restless during her extended spring break.
From her childhood bedroom in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, she began emailing emerging playwrights she knew to ask if they were interested in using their quarantine time to generate some new plays. She reached out to people she'd met as an intern at the Kenyon Playwrights Conference and as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. When she saw that there was some interest, she started planning an ad-hoc play development conference, in which playwrights would draft short plays and give feedback to fellow playwrights.
"For my thesis, I had some back-and-forth with Gracie Gardner about changes she had to her play, so I knew it was possible to have a collaborative theater-making process from a distance," she recalled.
Soon, 50 playwrights had signed up for a five-day conference.
"I was hungry to collaborate, even if it wasn't in person."
Talia Light Rake '20, on founding Playdate, a virtual theater company, during the pandemic
"The plays that came in were so beautiful, I wanted to put them into production," Light Rake said. But she didn't have a stage. To bring these plays to life, she realized, she'd have to create a virtual stage. So she decided to do a second round of the conference and asked playwrights to pen plays that could be performed through a computer — "screen-plays," she called them. The theatrical experiences happening online at the time were monologues, readings or plays staged over Zoom — with characters speaking to each other as if they were in a video conference. Light Rake envisioned a new form that would add cinematic elements to the mix — allowing viewers to, say, see a character's screen as they scroll through Netflix and Twitter, or watch a live cam of another character. The screenplays would bring together the best of both worlds.
"I was watching a reading, and I heard a stage direction being read aloud," she said. "At that moment, I thought, 'There must be a better way.' I wanted to see a play that was really taking advantage of Zoom as a medium and turning the screen itself into a stage."
This time, 70 playwrights took part.
The conference started with the writing prompt, "Find a way or make one," a translation of "aut viam inveniam aut faciam," the motto of Light Rake's sorority, Theta Delta Phi. "I was missing my fellow Thetas," she said, "and I found the motto especially resonant because I was determined to make this art happen." A team of trusted readers from her network — including Kenyon peers Samara Handelsman '21, Claire McPartland '20 and Sean Seu '19 — helped Light Rake select six plays to put into production.
Light Rake's father, Jeff Rake, is the showrunner of the TV show "Manifest," so she was familiar with the Hollywood scene. First, she called actor-writer-director Mark Feuerstein — best known as the star of the show "Royal Pains" — who is a close family friend. "We had talked about doing something together," Light Rake said, "and I had a feeling he might fall in love with some of the plays." She was right. Feuerstein signed on as a festival producer, director of "Hangups," and an actor in "You Me and the Space Between," a play about two middle-aged people who met through an app and are going on a first date on Zoom. Together, Feuerstein and Light Rake used their networks to cast major acting and directing talents, including Michaela Watkins ("Casual"), Ed Weeks ("The Mindy Project") and Caroline Aaron ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel").
The project "ripped me out of my doldrums," Feuerstein said. "'Hangups' is a perfect comedy in eight minutes. When I read it, I thought the writer must be on staff at Netflix or Hulu. Turns out it was Sarah, who was a junior at Kenyon."
Actors Liza Lapira (right) and Parveen Kaur (left) video chat in in Playdate Theatre's "Are You Still?" written by Lauren D'Errico and directed by Britt Berke and Miles Shebar '20.
The playwrights used the limitations of virtual theater in interesting and sometimes hilarious ways. Half of the plays were Zoom or FaceTime calls between two people, including "Hangups." Groustra, the author of that play, said, "So many of the conventions we're used to being able to use in traditional theater don't exist onscreen. The hardest thing for me to give up was that characters lose the ability to touch each other and interact with each other physically. That's why I decided to use the familiar phone call format. I thought it wouldn't force the audience to suspend their disbelief too much." The way Charlie and Catherine both gaze directly into their respective cameras creates a certain intimacy with the audience; viewers see exactly what the characters see.
Other playwrights took a more idiosyncratic approach. In "Waze," the protagonist, Casey (played by Jay Jay Warren), is interviewing for a job at the tech giant Waze, while his grandmother (played by Caroline Aaron) is outside his bedroom door, berating him for betraying the legacy of his family, which is famous for making paper maps. The viewer is watching Casey's computer screen, and his grandmother appears via a hidden camera, which he has set up to ensure she won't interrupt.
The visual effects and editing came courtesy of a team of virtual designers led by technical director Miles Shebar '20 (he also designed the website where the recorded plays were livestreamed). The designers included Jacob Gusentine '20, Elizabeth Iduma '20 and Ashley Martens Montgomery '18. For "Are You Still?" a play about a woman who's struggling to pull herself away from the internet, Shebar re-created Netflix and Twitter for the screen. Various websites speak to the main character through voiceovers. A baking website, for example, calls "Are you still there?" in a dulcet Southern accent, voiced by Melinda Page Hamilton ("Messiah").
The festival also had an eye on current events. In "Hangups," the two college students in quarantine acknowledge that they don't know when they'll see each other in-person again. "AUT VIAM INVENIAM AUT FACIAM" tells the story of Charlie (Meg DeLacy, "The Fosters"), a college student who is quarantined at home and struggling to focus on her schoolwork while grappling with her student debt.
From the beginning, Light Rake envisioned the festival as a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief, via the YWCA Greater Los Angeles. As production went on, protests against racial inequity moved Light Rake and her team to add Color of Change, a nonprofit dedicated to racial justice, as a beneficiary. "We were stepping back and making art during this time, which not everyone has the privilege to do," Light Rake said. "So we wanted to be thoughtful about that. Having a charitable element was a way of honoring the moment and holding both truths."
The films were livestreamed in three shows and drew audiences of roughly 150 people each night. Audiences had to buy tickets and tune in live. "I really wanted to pay homage to the act of going to the theater, so it was important to make it a communal experience," Light Rake said. Ultimately, the festival raised $16,000 to be split between the two organizations.
Samara Handelsman '21, who served as director of artistic operations for Playdate, is excited about where Playdate could go in the future. "With virtual theater, there's a new level of accessibility that I think is important," she said, "because theater can be very elitist."
Wendy MacLeod '81 P'15,'17, Kenyon's James Michael Playwright-in-Residence and a professor of drama, has been a mentor to Light Rake and said, "I knew she would become an artistic director. I just didn't know that it would happen within a few months of graduating. It's exciting to see her company producing plays for the virtual space, as opposed to trying to jerry-rig plays that are meant to be seen onstage."
Light Rake plans to keep Playdate going. "My goal is to turn Playdate into a proper nonprofit theater festival that will bring up new voices," she said. "I'm excited about how virtual theater can bring together the worlds of theater and film for cross-contamination. I'm in uncharted territory, but I'm glad to have found my place within it."
Liz Logan is an arts and design writer who is social-distancing in Chicago with her husband, two-year-old daughter and two cats.
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76ers' reserve center Norvel Pelle brought teammates to their feet with breakout fourth quarter
by Erin McCarthy, Updated: October 16, 2019
Norvel Pelle, left, of the Sixers blocks a shot by Christian Wood of the Pistons during the 4th quarter of their NBA preseason game at the Wells Fargo Center on Oct.15, 2019.
Kyle O'Quinn had an important message for teammate Norvel Pelle.
Entering the Sixers' 106-86 preseason win over the Detroit Pistons in the fourth quarter Tuesday night, the 6-foot-10, 216-pound reserve center delivered 13 points (6-for-7 shooting), four rebounds, and five blocks in 12 minutes. He blocked a dunk to bring his teammates on the bench to their feet.
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After the game, O'Quinn, a league veteran who's ahead of Pelle on the depth chart, didn't want to talk to Pelle about technique, or to dissect plays, or to discuss in detail anything that happened on the court.
Instead, he wanted to encourage Pelle to take a moment - he probably didn't have time for more than one -and appreciate the night.
"I mean we've all been in that situation where you're trying to get on the floor and impress, even your family at home," O'Quinn said Wednesday after practice at the Sixers' facility in Camden, "and I told him after the game: 'That was a very impressive night. Cherish it.' "
"I don't think I've been that excited for a guy since college," O'Quinn added. "It was heartwarming. He had a great night, and he should be proud of himself."
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The Sixers bench cheers after Norvel Pelle blocked a Pistons shot during the 4th quarter of their NBA preseason game at the Wells Fargo Center on Oct.15, 2019.
Pelle signed a two-way contract with the Sixers in July after emerging as a standout defender for the Delaware Blue Coats, the Sixers' G League affiliate. A two-way deal lets players split their seasons, spending as many as 45 days with an NBA team and the remainder in the G League.
Now, Pelle's turning to his next goal: earning a full-time roster spot.
A performance like Tuesday's could help him get there eventually, and give him confidence that the locker room roots for his success. Pelle told reporters after Tuesday's game that he loved the energy from the bench, but the strong show of support didn't surprise him.
"It's a family base, a brotherhood," he said. "If one person does good, everybody's happy. We just build off that energy."
How did he learn to block dunks like that, and inspire such a reaction?
"Honestly I can't even tell you," Pelle said. "It's second nature. I've been doing it for a long time."
Norvel Pelle's rejection had the 76ers bench going crazy 🤭 pic.twitter.com/ShqZhJV0qF
— Bleacher Report NBA (@BR_NBA) October 16, 2019
The 26-year-old has taken a winding, unconventional, and occasionally shaky path to the NBA. Pelle spent his early childhood in the Caribbean, first Antigua and then St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he told the Los Angeles Times in 2014. When he was seven, his parents moved to the mainland to find better work, his father as a welder and his mother as the manager of a garden center at a Home Depot, he told the paper.
In high school near Long Beach, Calif., Pelle excelled on the court but struggled academically. He didn't play college basketball due to eligibility issues. He played for the Blue Coats in 2014 and 2015, then in Europe and the Middle East before returning to the Sixers organization in 2018.
Last season, he broke out, averaging 11.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 3.0 blocks for the Blue Coats. This season, he's gotten playing time in all four of the Sixers' preseason games, averaging 6.0 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 2.3 blocks.
Pelle has another opportunity to impress Friday when the Sixers (4-0) play the Wizards in their final preseason matchup.
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There are five members in the panel. Four Male and One Female.
All are very polite and good observers.
M1: Why enters into banking sector after graduation in Engineering?
M1: Explain the difference between NABARD and SIDBI.
M2: What is EXIM Bank?
M2: After resuming the post of PM, How many countries did Mr Modi visits? Name them?
M3: Who is the Chief Minister of Maharashtra? What about J & K?
M4: Name some Indian companies in Fortune 500 list.
PS: Answer if you knows the answer completely as one member in the panel keep on asking while others are observing very closely. Don't fumble.
Sir, I completed my btech in 2010 (CSE). But in 2013 again wrote one subject to increase my aggregate.. Now, my degree indicates that i'm a 2013 passout. Would this become a problem for IT specialist officer scale-1..? plz reply sir..
Raman Sir, Is NOC required for a person working in co-operative bank/private bank?
marksheets of semesters so they took an undertaking from me.
This is common interview..it doesn't mean that u r alloted to pnb or andhra bank..if u r selected they vil provide u the bank as per ur preferences choosen at the time of filling application..all the best.
yes the same happened to me and last year my candidature was cancelled. reason was i did not provide my obc cert. in the format the want and signed an undertaking to provide at the time of joining but they cheated.
In the call letter they mentioned original affidavit for name deviation so can we change that now?
Please let me know, CV leke Jana chahiy apna???
Anyone have idea that they will ask for character certificate or not at the interview time?
Yeah, JNTUH has provided such facility to open a subject even after completion of B.Tech. I wanted to increase my aggregate of 0.5%.. And yes it got increased. But now the problem is for IT officer they mentioned "4 year degree" , according to my certificate it is 7 year degree.. Please suggest me something.
Hi Raman sir, I would like to join your mock interview series..May i know how to participate.
NOC is must if you are working in PSU.
but in 10th markscard its only sony.
any measures to be taken?
Thanks Arvind,wen is ur interview date?
Sir ,plz upload IBPS clerk interview questions with answers along banking awareness.
Hey..how was ur interview?? What all questions they asked??


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Corrective Lenses
March 27, 2014 ~ jbwatson
In case you have not heard, World Vision has announced that it is reversing its decision on hiring homosexuals in same-sex marriages. Apparently the decision was made at a World Vision board meeting held within a few hours of my last post (a few hours before I posted, I might add–I am not suggesting any correlation between the two events!) This decision marks a quick turnaround by the parachurch ministry since the announcement that it would allow such hirings came just two days earlier.
WORLD Magazine news editor Jamie Dean broke the story of the reversal on Wednesday afternoon, saying that Columbia Theological Seminary president Stephen Hayner, who is a World Vision board member, responded to an e-mail inquiry from WORLD with this statement: "The Board of World Vision is just concluding a meeting and will be releasing a statement shortly reversing the decision that was made. It was never the intention of the Board to undermine our firm commitment to the authority of the Scripture."
Approximately an hour and a half later Dean posted an update on the story, including the World Vision statement. The statement, issued over the names of World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns and World Vision U.S. board chairman Jim Beré, begins this way:
Today, the World Vision U.S. board publicly reversed its recent decision to change our national employment conduct policy. The board acknowledged they made a mistake and chose to revert to our longstanding conduct policy requiring sexual abstinence for all single employees and faithfulness within the Biblical covenant of marriage between a man and a woman.
It is encouraging to see that the board acted so quickly to reverse this decision and to acknowledge that a mistake was made. At the same time, it still troubles me that a board of such intelligent individuals would have made the decision in first place, somehow believing that the decision was not undermining Scripture.
The statement continues, "We are brokenhearted over the pain and confusion we have caused many of our friends, who saw this decision as a reversal of our strong commitment to Biblical authority. We ask that you understand that this was never the board's intent." Therein lies the problem. I repeat, how could this board of intelligent and accomplished individuals honestly believe that its decision was not a "reversal of a strong commitment to Biblical authority"? When a decision is made to allow accept something that the Bible clearly and unequivocally states is wrong there is no explanation for it other than a reversal.
"We are asking for your continued support. We commit to you that we will continue to listen to the wise counsel of Christian brothers and sisters, and we will reach out to key partners in the weeks ahead," the statement says. This, too, is encouraging, but begs yet another question; specifically, why was this "wise counsel" not sought before the decision was made? If somehow (and, in my opinion, inexplicably) the World Vision board truly was not sure how the announcement of the policy change would go over among the evangelical community why would they not have sought this insight and counsel before announcing their decision? The furor and backlash that poured forth in the few days between the announcement of the decision and its reversal could have been avoided completely. Yes, it is good to learn from one's mistakes, but it is also good to avoid mistakes when common sense or, at the very least, a minimum amount of thoughtful reasoning would have prevented it in the first place. Stearns acknowledged as much according to a report from Religion News Service, stating, "We hadn't vetted this issue with people who could've given us really valuable input at the beginning. In retrospect, I can see why this was so controversial for many of our supporters and partners around the country. If I could have a do over, it would've been that I would've done more consultation with Christian leaders."
No doubt the possibility that contributions to World Vision would see a sudden drop was at least part of the reason why this decision was so quickly reversed. The Assemblies of God had already encouraged its members to consider dropping their support of World Vision and no doubt many other individuals and churches had or would have soon made similar recommendations. Ryan Reed tweeted on Wednesday, "My wife works for WV. In today's staff meeting Stearns announced that so far 2,000 kids dropped." If true, that figure would have equated a drop in World Vision donations of $840,000 since the monthly child sponsorships are $35. That was within two days of the announcement; no doubt the decrease would have ended up being considerably greater.
Richard Stearns did acknowledge in talking to reporters that the initial decision reflected poor judgement; "We believe we made a mistake. We're asking them to forgive and understand our poor judgement in the original decision." Still, Stearns also stated, "What we found was we created more division instead of more unity, and that was not the intent of the board or myself." If that is an attempt to explain their poor judgment it really does not help since, I say again, it confounds understanding to imagine the World Vision board honestly believing that their decision would increase unity. In light of these events I believe that the World Vision U.S. board needs to seriously evaluate Stearns and itself in order to figure out how such an egregious lapse of responsibility could have happened in the first place; there may well need to be some changes made in order to prevent it happening again.
Russell Moore tweeted soon after the announcement, "World Vision has done the right thing. Now, let's all work for a holistic gospel presence, addressing both temporal and eternal needs." I think he speaks for many when he states that World Vision did the right thing. Jim Daly of Focus on the Family also released a statement. It says, in part, "I believe the Board of World Vision had the best of intentions when they cited a desire for 'unity' in making their original decision. But however well-intentioned, nothing is more important than adherence and faithfulness to the clear teachings of Christ. No matter how hard culture tugs, we cannot relinquish God's truth." Frankly, Daly gives the WV board more credit than I do; they may have had the best intentions in pursuing unity in some sense but it certainly was not, in my mind, a unity around biblical truth–and that should be preeminent.
Daly goes on to say that World Vision ought not suffer from this blunder. "I pray that Christians will now respond likewise with a spirit of grace and humility. World Vision does not deserve to be harmed by this incident. The security and fate of too many children are at stake to hold a grudge and punish them by withholding support." He's right about the children who are served by World Vision. They had no say in the decision of the World Vision board and they will be the ones who suffer if the World Vision contributions take a hit–and they should not be victims of poor decision making by the board. At the same time, there are many ways to help disadvantaged children around the world and sponsorship through World Vision is but one such way. My belief is that it would only be prudent for Christians who desire to help children in poverty to evaluate their options are to take the position and history of the organization into consideration when deciding where and how to give–and that consideration needs to include this decision and reversal by World Vision.
Of course the outcry that resulted after Monday's announcement will now reverberate from the other side of the spectrum as World Vision will receive condemnation from those on the political and evangelical left who believe that support for the ministry should now be questioned because they have reversed their decision to embrace those in homosexual marriages. Read through the comments on the story of the reversal on the NPR web site and you will find plenty of comments like this one: "'World Vision has a yearly operating budget of about $1 billion.' According to Charity Navigator, $174 million comes from government grants. We should put a stop to that nonsense. … Why should any government be supporting organizations that discriminate?" It's a no-win situation for World Vision–but one of their own making.
Bottom line, I am thrilled that World Vision has acted swiftly to reverse their decision. They recognized that their vision was blurred and they applied the corrective lenses of Scripture. I am still troubled by the poor judgment that the initial decision reflects and I would personally think carefully and give prayerful consideration to supporting World Vision financially. But I would absolutely continue to find ways to support children in need around the world if that was what I felt the Lord leading me to do.
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This Monday marked the opening of the University's new Student Resource Center. Located at 167 High St.–formerly the home of the Shapiro Creative Writing Center–the center is part of the University's Office of Student Affairs, though it will likely be collaborating with the Office of Equity and Inclusion.
In a campus-wide email, University President Michael Roth '78 announced that Demetrius J. Colvin would be the new director of the SRC, and gave credit to student, faculty, and staff for providing their input throughout the Center's conception.
The new resource center's goals were initially guided by a proposal developed last year by the Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee. The 26-page document provides an in-depth summary of the plans for the future of the center.
The proposal continues by discussing plans to create an advisory board for the center, to be composed of two tenured faculty members, two alumnae representatives, two staff members (one from the Office of Student Affairs and one from the Office for Equity and Inclusion), and five students (ideally one to represent each of the four identity group sub-centers and one WSA representative).
WSA Vice-President Sanam Godbole '19 will also be sitting on the Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee (EISC). She will help identify active and systemic inequities on campus and attempting to eliminate the roots of these issues.
Former WSA president Rebecca Hutman '17 expressed a similar sentiment to Godbole. She mentioned her hopes that the Center would help facilitate conversations about equity and inclusion in spaces where conversations about it tend to be missing.
Currently, the Center is designated to serve as a resource for all student needs. That being said, Vice President for Student Affairs Michael Whaley expects that there will be cross pollination between the center and the Equity and Inclusion team.
Although the Resource Center has just become a reality, Whaley said the idea for it originated during the fall semester of 2015.
"The Resource Center was an outgrowth of a long history of student protest and activism on Wesleyan's campus–most recently the #IsThisWhy protests in the Fall of 2015 and a group of students who created a proposal for a Gender Resource Center," Hutman wrote.
The #IsThisWhy protests eventually led to the creation of an Equity Task Force during the spring semester of 2016. The task force's aim was to explore sources of inequity on campus.
Already involved with the WSA, Hutman also entered the fold in the fall semester of 2016 as a member of the Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee.
"We spent the year trying to listen to many of the voices who had pushed for the Center, understand the many visions people had for the Center, and draw up a proposal for a Center that could a) best recognize the needs and desires of those who had called for it and b) be a sustainable structure going forward," she wrote.
Hutman worked on the steering committee alongside Evelysse Vargas '17, Ainsley Eakins '18, and others. Vargas told The Argus that a majority of the work completed by the Task Force was commissioned during the 2015-2016 school year.
The Steering Committee's main job was to create a space flexible enough to support marginalized communities despite the possibility of evolving threats to these communities.
According to Dean Whaley, the center will have to spring directly into action given the recent news concerning President Obama's immigration policy, DACA.
Hutman also shared her vision for the Center's response to the DACA repeal and how she hopes this will inform social justice efforts moving forward.
She also shared her hopes that the Center would continue to engage with advice from students on how it can grow in the future.
"I hope that the Center will make clear what resources exist, allow students to recognize what additional support (legal and financial) could be useful, and serve as a platform to realize, organize, and deliver those services," she wrote.
Godbole shared Hutman's sentiment on the Center's role at the University in the context of both national politics and campus activism.
The new Resource Center is currently open, and will be hosting an open house on Friday, Sept. 22 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Camille DeBeus can be reached at cdebeus@wesleyan.edu.


Ross County's disappointing run continued with an anticipated 2-1 loss against Rangers at Ibrox stadium. Craig Curran had silenced Ibrox with his 10th minute goal from a header, but Rangers were able to make a successful comeback through goals from Alfredo Morelos and Danny Wilson in the second half. Rangers had opportunities to score many more goals in the game. Kilmarnock produced a five-star performance to beat Partick Thistle 5-1 at home. Kris Boyd's early goal was cancelled out by Chris Erskine in the 16th minute, but Kilmarnock's lead was re-established through Eamonn Brophy. In the second half, goals from Niall Keown (own goal), Brophy, and Boyd (penalty) provided an impressive win for the home team. Here we have our SBAT match preview with all the best predictions, betting tips and match stats.
Ross County have been extremely poor in recent weeks and Kilmarnock may just be in the best possible shape to take advantage of the situation. Both teams have managed to wins apiece in the last four meetings, while Kilmarnock were able to get a victory in their recent visit to the Global Energy Stadium in March. Kilmarnock's away record is also excellent with seven games without a loss. I would back a win for Kilmarnock. Ross County may be poor at scoring goals, but they have been rather decent with only less than 2.5 goals conceded in the last five league matches. It could have been so different with Rangers creating several opportunities in the recent game. Kilmarnock are expected to score goals, and I see value in backing over 1.5 goals from Kilmarnock.
The honeymoon period for Owen Coyle at the Ross County is over with the team going on a very poor run of form over the last few weeks. Immediately after his appointment, Ross County were able to get two wins in three matches. Since then, the team has picked up just one win in the last seven. Other teams have been able to capitalise on this run, as the likes of Dundee and Hamilton have been able to move up the table by leapfrogging Ross County, who have now been pushed to 11th place. The club have been affected by a poor scoring form, and they have scored more than 2.5 goals only once this season. Craig Curran and Michael Gardyne are the leading scorer with three goals each.
There are no injuries or suspensions for Ross County coming into this match.
Kilmarnock produced the first home win of Steve Clarke's regime in style after a 5-1 thrashing of Partick Thistle. After having been patient for this victory, Kilmarnock will be looking to build on two home games in the next two league matches. The team has managed three wins in the last five, and it has propelled them into the eighth place of the SPL 2017-18 table. After having been amongst the lowest scorers in the division so far this season, Kilmarnock's scoring record now looks decent with 19 goals in 17. Kris Boyd is the top scorer with five goals in 14.
Greg Kiltie (knee), Iain Wilson (knee), and Steven Smith (back) are the injury troubles for Clarke.


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NYT: A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party's Blanket Support for Israel
contact@ifamericansknew.org October 8, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Andrew Gillum, chuck schumer, Dima Khalidi, Duncan Hunter, Gene Green, Ilhan Omar, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, Leslie Cockburn, Palestine Legal, political candidates, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Jewish Coalition, Ron DeSantis, Ron Halber, Scott Wallace, StandWithUs
New York Times reports that a cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats this fall — has dared to breach what has been an almost inviolable orthodoxy in both political parties, strong support for Israel, raising the specter of a crack in the Democratic Party that Republicans could use to attract Jewish supporters.


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The Tod Sa Gun Game (เกมทศกัณฐ์ in Thai, named for the 10-faced of Ravan, giant in the Ramayana story) is a Thai game show produced by Workpoint Entertainment. It was the 2003 runner-up, and the 2005 winner, of the "best game or quiz show on Asian television" award.

In the original format, a contestant was shown 10 faces.  They have to name them all in order  to win 10 million baht. It was the first game show to have a ten million baht jackpot, the highest at the time.

The show has won a number of awards from many institutions in Thailand and Asia, including runner-up and highly commended of best game or quiz programme in the Asian Television Awards of 2003 and 2005, respectively.

In the one-on-one game, a player tries to score as many points as possible  by telling the name of the given face within one minute. The game continues as far as player gives correct answers, then the other contestant starts. The minimum prize is one million baht when one month later the prize will be add another million until maximum prize of 10 million. Later, the jackpot was fixed at 10 million.

Named show

Tod Sa Gun Game era

เกมทศกัณฐ์ (1 April 2003 - 31 March 2005)
ทศกัณฐ์ ยกทัพ (31 October 2005 - 29 December 2006)
ทศกัณฐ์ จำแลง (1 January - 15 June 2007)

Special tournament

 ทศกัณฐ์ ศึกทศกัณฐ์หน้าทอง (1 April - 28 October 2005)
ทศกัณฐ์ ช่วยครูใต้ (18 June 2007 - 15 February 2008)

Yok Siam era

ทศกัณฐ์ ยกสยาม (18 February - March 2008)/ยกสยาม (April 2008 - 25 February 2010)
ยกสยาม 100 ข้อ (1 March - 2 June 2010)
ยกสยาม 10 ข้อ (3 June 2010 - 28 February 2011)

Sponsors

Chang Beer (1 April 2003 - September 2003)
Sunsilk (October 2003 - 2004)
Orange Mobile (2004 - 2006)
TrueMove (2006 - February 2011)

Suk Tod Sa Gun Hnaa Thong (ศึกทศกัณฐ์หน้าทอง, The Golden Face Show Down)
In 2005, the show invited several former long-running champions of the original format to compete one-on-one. The trophy was a large golden mask in the shape of a face, hence the title. And the maximum prize is one million.

Tod Sa Gun Yok Tub Game (เกมทศกัณฐ์ยกทัพ, The Tag Team)
A three-person team selects a representative to compete one-on-one with the opponent. A player will be eliminated if they give a wrong answer.  They are replaced by a member of their own team.  This continues until the three members of a team are out. The maximum prize is 30 million baht.

A team that wins 10 consecutive games plays for the jackpot worth 30 million baht maximum ($1,000,000), that making the show is the highest game show prize in Asia. However, the most that was actually won in the jackpot round was 100,000 baht. The jackpot round had the contestant(s) being shown a 1/5 of a picture, with less money given for each extra piece shown.

Tod Sa Gun Jumlang Game (เกมทศกัณฐ์จำแลง, The Disguise)
The show returned to single contestant format in this version, in which a keyword (sometimes cryptic) was shown alongside two faces, and the contestant had to guess which face related to the keyword. Originally, the game ended on a wrong answer, resulting in a few instances where a contestant won without playing a single face, so it was changed to so that the game ended when one contestant gave a wrong answer and the other gave a correct answer on their respective turns. The jackpot round was similar to the Tag Team format, with a keyword being given along with each piece.

Tod Sa Gun Chuay Kruu Taai (ทศกัณฐ์ช่วยครูใต้, Help Southern Teachers)
Between May 2007 and February 2008, celebrities answered questions about various people and things to earn money for charity, to help teachers in the South of Thailand.

Tod Sa Gun Yok Siam (ทศกัณฐ์ยกสยาม, All of Siam)
The current format began in late February 2008, where teams representing each province of Thailand answer questions about various aspects of the culture of Thailand in a knockout competition. The eventual winner will receive 10 million baht. A name change in April saw the Tod Sa Gun being dropped from the show's title because the questions generally no longer involve displaying a picture of someone's face.

Tod Sa Gun Kids Game (เกมทศกัณฐ์เด็ก, Kids Edition)
Children play on their own rather than against each other. They have to match the correct face with a given name. The player will receive a scholarship worth up to one million baht. The game will go on until a wrong answer is given.

A later format change, perhaps due to the controversy (see below), saw teams of three different ages, and then single players, playing for charity in a similar format to the Southern Teachers version, before the kids' edition was discontinued altogether in June 2008, which, combined with the renaming of Yok Siam (above), meant an end to the Tod Sa Gun name after just over 5 years.

Controversy
While the show is popular, it has faced accusations that the programme is rigged. Internet webboard posters, such as in Pantip.com, have alleged that the game is set up to make more appealing players win (like in the 1950s American quiz show scandals.) The allegation first started after a woman had scored almost 50 consecutive wins. In 2006, the accusation started again after a young boy had 200 wins in the kids edition. It was noted that Phanya Nirunkul, the show's host and Workpoint's owner, gave a lot of support to the child. For example, Phanya gave the boy a green suit of his own (at the time, the host wore a green suit). There was a pocketbook written about the boy's success in the game published by Phanya's company, even before he had reached his 200 wins. After the boy was done with the quiz show, he became a co-host of a variety show under Workpoint. All in all, it look like a big setup to promote an unknown boy to fame and reap a long-term rating from his popularity. A young girl has also had 200 consecutive wins in the kids edition, and the allegation has started flying around internet webboards once again.

Fan Pan Tae, another Workpoint's quiz show by Phanya, is also criticized about inaccuracy. A more serious allegation includes the show gives unfair advantages to famous competitors over unknown ones.

2003 Thai television series debuts
Television series by Workpoint Entertainment
Thai game shows
2010 Thai television series endings
2000s Thai television series
2010s Thai television series
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The Dakota Valley Symphony was formed in 1986 as the Dakota Valley Civic Orchestral Association, a volunteer nonprofit community arts organization based in Dakota County. The organization was created to provide an opportunity for musicians to perform and to provide quality musical experiences primarily for residents of the south suburban twin cities' area, including Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Hastings, Lakeville, Prior Lake, and Shakopee.
Now organized as the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus (DVS&C), it is comprised of a 60- member orchestra and a 50-member mixed chorus, as well as a 90-member Summer Pops Orchestra and Chorus. Our orchestra is directed by founder and music director Stephen J. Ramsey, and the chorus by Tucker Moore. Concerts during the regular season are performed exclusively at the Ames Center (formerly the Burnsville Performing Arts Center) where DVS&C is one of three resident companies. The repertoire of a typical season includes classical orchestral music, concerti, oratorio, music theater, Hollywood and Broadway themes, and premiere works.


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For Veterans Day: A Wartime Ride
Siegfried Sassoon, by George Charles Beresford (1915)
For this Veterans Day, the houndbloggers return to an old favorite, the English poet Siegfried Sassoon. Among foxhunters, he's as well known for his delightful and nostalgic prose work Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man as he is among schoolchildren and British historians as one of England's brilliant War Poets, whose style helped change the trajectory of modern poetry. Sassoon was a passionate foxhunter, especially during his youth and in the years immediately after World War I, though he often felt that the hunting side of his personality tended to distract from the greater work of his life, poetry.
Siegfried Sassoon's grave at the churchyard in Mells. Photo by Graham Allard.
When the Great War broke out in 1914, Sassoon joined up and took his hunter and point-to-point winner Cockbird with him to war. Sassoon wrote a great deal about Cockbird, and his picture can be found in many Sassoon biographies; our favorite is quite a famous picture of Cockbird standing in the Sassoon family's yard, with Sassoon standing at his head and gazing with obvious pride at his hunting and racing partner. Alongside them is a small side table that, you can tell, has been carried out into the yard especially for the occasion of the photo, for on it is a magnificent silver racing trophy, the Colonel's Cup–now lost (like Cockbird, alas), whereabouts unknown.
Hounds hunting on Veterans Day 2012.
In honor of Veterans Day, we hope you'll page back through the blog and see our earlier posts, The Hounds of War: A Veterans Day for Hunting Soldiers and A Hunt for the Veterans. But today we give our page to Sassoon, not for the biting but deeply touching poems he penned in the trenches (some of which you can read here), but for an unusually peaceful wartime passage in Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man:
"I was happy as I trudged along the lanes in the column, with my platoon chattering behind me and everything gilt with the sun's good humour. Happier still when I borrowed the little black mare no one could ride and cantered about the open country by myself, which I did two or three afternoons a week. The black mare was well bred but had lost the use of one eye. She had a queer temper and had earned an evil reputation by kicking various officers off or bolting back to the transport lines with them after going half a mile quite quietly. She was now used as a pack-pony for carrying ammunition, but by gentle treatment I gained her confidence and she soon became a sort of active-service echo of my old favourites. Dick rode out with me as often as he could persuade the Transport Officer to let him have a horse.
Our Iroquois Sassoon, now retired, named after the poet.
"When riding alone I explored the country rather absent-mindedly, meditating on the horrors which I had yet to experience: I was unable to reconcile that skeleton certainty with the serenities of this winter landscape–clean-smelling, with larks in the sky, the rich brown gloom of distant woods, and the cloud shadows racing over the lit and dappled levels of that widespread land. And then I would pass a grey-roofed chateau, with its many windows and no face there to watch me pass. Only a bronze lion guarding the well in the middle of an overgrown lawn, and the whole place forlorn and deserted. Once, as I was crossing the main road from Abbeville to Beauvais, I watched the interminable column of a French army corps which was moving southward. For the first I saw the famous French field-guns–the '75s.'
"But even then it wasn't easy to think of dying. … Still less so when Dick was with me, and we were having an imitation hunt. I used to pretend to be hunting a pack of hounds, with him as my whipper-in. Assuming a Denis Milden manner (Denis was at Rouen with the cavalry and likely to remain there, in spite of the CO's assumptions about open warfare), I would go solemnly through a wood, cheering imaginary hounds. After an imaginary fox had been found, away we'd scuttle, looking in vain for a fence to jump, making imaginary casts after an imaginary check, and losing our fox when the horses had done galloping. An imaginary kill didn't appeal, somehow. Once, when I was emerging rapidly from a wood with loud shouts, I came round a corner and nearly knocked the Brigadier off his horse. He was out for a ride with his staff-captain; but no doubt he approved of my sporting make-believe, and I didn't dare stop for apologies, since the Brigadier was a very great man, indeed. Dick enjoyed these outings enormously and was very much impressed by my hunting noises. The black mare seemed to enjoy it also."
The guns in the wood. The Royal Artillery Hunt still hunts (within the law) on Salisbury Plain, not far from Sassoon's former home at Heytesbury.
Years after the Great War, when Sassoon was living in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and still hunting now and again with the packs around Salisbury Plain, there was a touching moment caught by Alec Waugh. Waugh, brother of the author Evelyn Waugh (of Brideshead Revisited fame, among many other wonderful books), recounted it in his book My Brother Evelyn and Other Portraits:
"I last saw Sassoon in October 1940 under ironically appropriate circumstances.
"A few weeks earlier I had been posted as staff-captain to the Petroleum Warfare Department, a branch of the Ministry of Mines, that under the dynamic inspiration of Geoffrey Lloyd made a considerable contribution to the war effort. … At that time we were chiefly concerned with the defensive uses to which oil might be put, flame-throwers, tank traps, flame on water. In mid-October we went down into the country to give a demonstration.
"It was what is called a typical, which is to say it was an exceptional, late autumn day; a day that started with mist and a chill in the air, a mist through which the sunlight began to break about eleven. By noon it was summer hot. It was the prefect day to drive down into the country with a team of cameramen to film the demonstration and it was a perfect picnic site that had been chosen for the demonstration, at the head of a valley, with the grass very green with dew and the trees red and brown and yellow and the spire of a church showing between the branches of an orchard.
"We got down early, set out our cameras, and waited. The blitz had been heavy on the previous night. It was a relief to lie out in the grass, with the sun warm upon our faces, in a countryside untouched by war. The valley was quiet and deserted: nothing dramatic in the country's history had happened here. It was strange to reflect that within an hour its slopes would be lined with red-hatted officers; a whistle would blow, the handles of the cameras would turn, and explosion would follow on explosion, the soft greensward would be scorched and ripped and scattered into a desert of smouldering fires and scarred iron.
Our horse Sassoon, also named for the poet and foxhunting man.
"The demonstration started at two o'clock. Within a quarter of an hour the beauty of the valley was destroyed and it was just as the high grade staff officers were moving to their cars, as the final informal conferences were breaking up, that a horseman, a civilian, came trotting by. This was, no doubt, a favorite ride of his. He had had no idea that this demonstration was to be held. It could scarcely be a pleasant surprise for him. I looked up, to note with a start of surprise that it was Sassoon.
"My first instinct was to run across and greet him; but a second, wiser instinct checked me. There was an inscrutable expression on that drawn, handsome face as it looked down on the charred and littered grass.
"What thoughts, I wondered, were moving behind that mask: how many different thoughts must be creating a mixed mood–memories of the last war and his revolt against it, his contempt for 'scarlet majors at the base,' his poems that had seemed then and later the battle call to a crusade; the sacrifice of his generation that had failed to prevent this second war, whose intensified horror was exemplified by these new engines of destruction, with himself a quarter of a century later, in his fifties and too old for service?
"It was kinder to leave him to that mood, those memories."
Posted in Bedtime Stories, Hunting, Uncategorized	| Tagged Alec Waugh, fox hunting, foxhunting, Great War, Siegfried Sassoon, Veteran's Day, War poet, World War I	| 4 Replies
The Sunday Sampler
Posted on June 13, 2010 by houndblogger
Harry and Toby (Mr. Box) at play, as captured by our neighbor Dave and his new camera.
WONDERFUL news at Beagle House: our next-door neighbor Dave, he who doles out dog biscuits by the fence that runs between our houses, has taken up photography! We're very pleased with this development (no pun intended), because it means he practices on the house hounds, and we get some good pictures of them as a result. The one above is one of our favorites, and here are two others we love:
Harry explains his Complex and Mostly Secret Plan for World Domination.
"I got it, I got it!" Bingo and one of his best friends, Mr. Tennis Ball.
Speaking of the House Hounds, if you enjoyed their singing act last week you might also get a kick out of this short video about Bingo, the bassist in the trio.
I probably should update that score, because he did actually catch one about a year ago, but, thank heavens, it's a rare feat.
This week we'll be on summer hound walk with the pack–including Driver and members of the BA litter for the first time this year–but today we're enjoying an afternoon at home, sorting through some of the hound news and pieces of interest that have come to our attention lately.
We read it in the Times
If you've got a beagle, basset, dachshund, petit basset griffon vendeen, or sighthound who has never gotten a taste of the chase, The New York Times reports on a few places you can take your hound to let him get in touch with his wilder side without, it seems, actually catching anything. An American Kennel Club Fun Field Trial in Carlisle, Pa., pairs couch-potato scent hounds with field trial prizewinners who show them how real hound work is done. According to the Times story, "No rabbits are killed, and the only gun is a starting pistol, fired into the air to measure a dog's 'gun shyness.' In fact, the dogs never catch rabbits–and normally don't even see them–but are judged on their ability to follow the scent as long and directly as possible." To see how the reporter's basset, a pampered hound with what the reporter calls "wakeolepsy," fares in this return to his genes, see the story. And don't forget to watch the very good video that accompanies it.
If you'd like to see some hunting bassets and beagles, we've got some beautiful runs on video. For beagles and bassets, you might like this. For beagles, here's another.
We read it in Baily's
If you haven't had the pleasure of reading Baily's yet, you should introduce yourself to this hunting bible immediately! Baily's has a website now, and it's well worth joining up to read its articles and to see the routinely fabulous photographs.
Baily's Hunting Directories
But you'll get even more fun out of reading entries in the old directories, which I am starting to collect. Here are a few wonders from the 1914-1915 edition.
In February:
"A fox chased by the East Essex Hounds plunged into the sea, and was swimming out with the tide when four members of Hunt rowed out after him and rescued him."
"An extraordinary accident befell Sir Edward Hutton whilst returning to Chertsey from a meet. As he was riding along a road his horse shied, throwing rider into a ditch. The animal also fell with his body across the ditch. Fortunately, the narrowness of the ditch prevented Sir Edward encountering full weight of horse. He was pinioned by one arm and leg, but with his free hand stroked the horse and kept it quiet until a man in charge of a motor delivery van came to his aid and released him."
In March:
"Twenty English foxhounds being exported got loose and took possession of deck of Dover steamer sailing to France. The crew took to rigging until one brave soul lassoed the hound kicking up the chief row and placed him in truck again. The other hounds then followed him quite meekly."
From the Department of We Want Details: "Young Lord Chesham, following worthily in his late father's footsteps, is making himself very popular in 'Pytchley country.'"
"Miss Isa E. Adams, Boston Spa, reports death of her otterhound, Old Carmelite, at age of 13 1/2 years. As a puppy he belonged to late King Edward, and later became property of Wharfedale Otterhounds, in which pack he remained till he was 9 1/2 years old. He was a winner on the show bench."
"That there is good money in hounds was proved at Rugby, when Mr. Fullerton's Avon Vale collection came under the hammer. All told, he received 3,726 guineas for them, the actual working pack of 24 couples going for 2,654 guineas."
"Did you mention biscuits? I'd love one!" Iroquois hound Sassoon knows what's in the pockets of Lilla's kennel coat.
And the other side of that coin: "At Fitzwilliam Puppy Show Mr. George Fitzwilliam said hounds had cost him 80,000 pounds out of his own pocket since his father's death, and owing to taxation, etc., increasing, he felt it necessary that he should be joined in the Mastership by Mr. Norman Loder."
Loder, incidentally, was a close friend of hunting man and famed poet Siegfried Sassoon (for whom both my horse Sassoon and the Iroquois's lovable woolly hound Sassoon are named) when Loder was Master of the Atherston. Hunting with Loder is a significant part of Sassoon's splendid and funny classic Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
And here's a note that should bring a smile to the faces of the members of Pennsylvania's Cheshire Hunt. Under June, this entry: "Such is fame. A new pack of hounds has been established at Unionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and it will be called 'The Cheshires'–shades of the Grosvenors, the Egertons, and the Wilbrahams!"
That's all for now. Homework assignment: read your Baily's, pat your dogs and horses, and we'll see you on summer hound walk this week!
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Posted on January 24, 2010 by houndblogger
Sure, you get the title and the buttons ... but you'll be expected to contribute time, treasure, diplomacy, and land in return.
Not long ago I heard a member of a hunt remark that those who join hunt clubs and ride to hounds regularly "make a lot of effort and spend a hell of a lot of money on the hunt."
"We buy horses, we buy trailers, we take time away from our families, we have to arrange babysitters," she said.
Fair enough. Hunt members pay dues and also spend a lot of time and a good bit of cash to enjoy their favorite hobby, much as opera buffs spend for tickets to hear their favorite arias and die-hard football fans invest in season tickets. Hunt clubs are, after all, clubs, and the support of hunt members is a crucial and appreciated part of the sport. But as you pay the feed bill for your own horse or pick up the phone hoping your babysitter is available this Saturday, spare a thought for the Master! The same is true for him or her (Masters, too, feed horses and need babysitters), but on top of that they have piles of hidden costs and work that hunt members rarely see.
Given the challenges of the modern Mastership, from acreage to animal rights activism, it wasn't all that surprising when a 2009 article in England's sporting magazine The Field revealed why good Masters are becoming a scarce–and urgently needed–commodity among hunts.
"The role has become arguably less glamorous, more nerve-wracking, and more open to criticism," The Field reported, adding that in addition to the traditional responsibilities of providing land, clearing it, and maintaining relations with landowners, today's Master also must be a public relations leader and legal expert, as well, on subjects ranging from employment law to animal welfare standards.
Joe Cowen, a Master of the Fernie since 1972, told the magazine that "there is a level of responsibility that comes with being a Master, which is sometimes forgotten."
On the front line of landowner relations
Unlike the hunt member quoted at the top of this page, Masters' expenditures of time and money don't only go directly to their own enjoyment of the sport; they must also lay out time and treasure for things that benefit the hunt first, and themselves only indirectly. A disgruntled landowner blames the hunt for an injury to his best bull because it crashed through a fence when the hunt rode by a field away? Chances are, the Master (or Masters) will pull out their personal checkbooks to make good the veterinary expenses, all in the name of keeping landowners compensated and happy–and the hunt country open.
"In one respect, all Masters of every generation are united: they have always been expected to pay for everything and please everybody," wrote Frederick Watson in his lighthearted classic Hunting Pie. "A Master must therefore be a millionaire, an Adonis, a loss to the diplomatic service, and possessed of all the virtues and aspirations of the early Christian martyrs with none of their ultimate recompense."
The writer and famed hunting authority Otho Paget evidently agreed, noting that "to find these qualities combined is well-nigh impossible, so we must give up hope of ever finding the perfect Master, and content ourselves with ordinary men. It is a thankless task, and it has always been a wonder to me that anyone can be found willing to accept the responsibilities."
Very high on the list of these responsibilities is maintaining good contact with landowners and keeping hunt country open.
Keeping country open, and, if possible, expanding it, has been a constant worry for Masters for almost as long as people have ridden behind hounds, and it's become a far more pressing concern in the last 50 years, as development and highways have closed in steadily on the countryside. For centuries, it's been understood that anyone offered the title of Master should be prepared to bring land and/or money to the table, a responsibility that is probably even more important now as hunt country grows increasingly scarce.
A hunt's country belongs, in fact, to its landowners, and a large part of a Master's work involves keeping that land open to the hunt--and undamaged by it.
When tracts of hunt country come on the market, Masters frequently will be among the buyers. If they don't purchase it themselves, chances are they'll be working hard to recruit hunt-friendly buyers, and preferably hunt members, to secure the land, and thus the hunt's future invitation to continue riding over it. A Master's status as a landowner also can improve his credibility with his neighbors in the hunt country. They are less likely to take seriously someone who arrives from town, having no previous contact with the owners or land other than by riding over it, and seeking concessions from them for the hunt's sport.
"If a man is not a landowner in the country he hunts, he ought to buy a small quantity, and thus have a personal interest in the soil," Paget wrote in The Master. "Farmers always prefer a man at the head of the hunt who through his own experience can understand and sympathize with them in their troubles. The Master who does not know wheat or seeds from weeds is not in a very good position to warn his field from damaging those crops, and there are many other useful hints he will pick up by a closer acquaintance with the land. I do not say that a man is not eligible to be an M.F.H. if he owns none of the soil in his hunt, but it would be a point in his favor."
Landowner relations are the primary concern of any Master, and most of a Master's most important duties trace back, one way or another, to maintaining the hunt country and good relationships with the people who own that country.
One of the finest descriptions of the necessary (and generally invisible) work Masters quietly do to keep their hunt's hooves on (and game readily available in) good country comes from the English author Siegfried Sassoon's famous hunting memoir, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. The book was published in 1929 and describes Sassoon's youthful hunting exploits much earlier, before World War I broke out in 1914. It's noteworthy that a Master's duties, like much else in the tradition of foxhunting, have changed very little from that time. Speaking of Denis Milden, the fictionalized name for the actual Atherstone Hunt Master and huntsman Norman Loder, Sassoon wrote after one hard hunting day:
It was after half-past six when he came in. … He threw off his wet hunting coat and slipped into a ragged tweed jacket which the silent servant Henry held out for him. As soon as he had swallowed a cup of tea he lit his pipe and sat down at his writing-table to open a pile of letters. He handed me one, with a grimy envelope addressed to 'Mr. Milden, The Dog Kennels, Ringwell.' The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets, and unless he could bring the dogs there soon there wouldn't be one left and they'd really have to start shooting the foxes, and respectfully begging to state that he was owed fifteen shillings by the Hunt for compensation. Many of Denis's letters were complaints from poultry keepers or from small farmers whose seeds or sown ground had been ridden over when the land was wet. I asked what he did with these, and he replied that he sent them on to old McCosh, the Hunt secretary. 'But when they look like being troublesome I go over and talk to them myself.'
I found afterwards that he had a great gift for pacifying such people, to whom the Hunt might have been an unmitigated nuisance if it hadn't been an accepted institution. The non-hunting farmers liked to see the Hunt, but they disliked the marks it left on their land. The whole concern depended on the popularity and efficiency of the Master, and the behavior of the people who hunted. …
Watching him open those letters was an important step in my sporting education. Until then I had not begun to realize how much there was to be done apart from the actual chivvying of the foxes. Thenceforward I became increasingly aware that a successful day's hunting was the result of elaborate and tactful preparations, and I ceased to look upon an angry farmer with a pitchfork as something to be laughed at.
The quiet diplomat and sponsor
The angry farmer shaking his pitchfork at the passing hunt is the very thing a Master works to avoid, and generally–often because farmers do not want their business gossiped around the hunt country, where their neighbors are sure to hear it–he or she must accomplish that task quietly, tactfully, and without compromising the hunt's position (e.g., without losing the privilege of crossing the farmers' land). Such dealings can be fraught with risk: if a hunt member forgets to shut a gate and a landowner's cattle get loose upon the adjacent road, it's the Master who faces the task of getting the entire hunt back in the landowner's good graces as a result of a someone else's mistake. Discretion is an absolute requirement: if personal discussions between a Master and a landowner get out into general circulation, embarrassing the landowner, the diplomatic channel between hunt and landowner can close for good.
"There are very few young men who can afford to undertake the responsibility which devolves upon a Master and entails a large personal expenditure, in addition to the guarantee provided by the average hunt committee," Henry Higginson, MFH, wrote back in 1948. Since then, the Master's job has remained expensive and become even more complicated, thanks to problems like suburban development.
The list of expenses begins with land and landowner-related costs (such as the aforementioned compensation, as well as friendly gestures, like sending over tickets to a favorite sporting event, hosting a landowner-appreciation event, donating to a farmer's favorite charity, or sponsoring a rural children's baseball team), but they do not end there.
Most hunt budgets do not cover the actual expenses required to run a hunt program, and Masters are expected to step up to the plate and cover privately any expenses outside the hunt budget, whether for veterinary care to hounds, land-clearing equipment like weedeaters and chain saws, or the costs of allowing the hunt to travel to hound shows.
For prestigious packs that hunt several days a week, those extra-budgetary costs can mount quickly, even into the tens of thousands of dollars. Which is why the Mastership has never been regarded as a job for the fainthearted or the faint-bank-accounted. Writing around 1950, M.F.H. Henry Higginson said: "In the old days, the cost of hunting used to be estimated at 1,000 pounds sterling per day for each day per week hunted. Today, particularly in the case of the so-called fashionable countries, the outlay is far in excess of that figure, owing to the increased cost of forage and labour. It is false economy trying to feed hounds on anything but the best … It is no use expecting horses to do their work on anything but the first quality oats and hay. Last but not least, if one does not employ both sufficient — and efficient– labour, one will not get good results."
Another requirement for a Master: hide like a rhino.
"Everyone who comes out feels entitled to criticize and find fault with the Master," Higginson observed. "It is … a common enough occurrence, and the only way that I know to counteract such annoyances is to cultivate a very thick skin."
You don't have to be a Master to help your hunt
If, like the houndbloggers, your finances don't quite rise to the requirements of a Mastership, thank heavens there are plenty of other ways you can help ensure your hunt's wellbeing! Join your hunt supporters' club. Host a fundraiser that benefits the hunt. Donate to the annual Christmas Fund for your hunt's staff. Volunteer to walk puppies or help socialize the young hounds at the kennel. Host a hunt breakfast or post-hunt tailgate. Sponsor the purchase of a new weedeater or chain saw to help with clearing country–and volunteer to help when your Masters clear the hunt country and conduct fence repairs in the summer. Join one of your hunt's committees and pledge to pay any expenses you incur doing work for that committee.
And, above all, be gracious and friendly to landowners!
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Atherstone, Christmas Fund, cost of running a hunt, Denis Milden, Fernie, fox hound, foxhounds, Frederick Watson, Henry Higginson, Hound Welfare Fund, hunt country, Hunting Pie, Joe Cowen, land preservation, landowner relations, Master of Fox Hounds, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, MFH, MFH's duties, MFH's expenses, MFH's responsibilities, Norman Loder, Otho Paget, Siegfried Sassoon, The Field, The Master, ways to help your hunt, World War I	| 1 Reply
Of horses and hounds
Stalker the horse and Stalker the hound
IROQUOIS has a lot of horses that are named for hounds. Joint-MFH Jerry Miller always has named all his horses for hounds, not all of them Iroquois hounds. Miller's great hunt horses Furrier and Tennessee Lead, for example, were both named for famous hounds from history. (Furrier was described as "crooked as a crab's claw" but the black and white Belvoir-born hound "ran hard at head and was as stout as oak" in his career with the Quorn and Brocklesby, according to author William Scarth Dixon; Furrier went on to become not only a famed hunting hound but also a renowned sire).
But many of Miller's current horses–such as Gangster, Farmer, Bonfire, and Grundy–are named for Iroquois hounds of the recent past. A few are named for hounds that are still with us, such as Stalker (pictured above with his equine namesake). Now retired under the auspices of the Hound Welfare Fund, Stalker is the fourth hound profiled in the "Meet the Hounds" link provided with his name above.
The Iroquois field secretary has a hunter named Harlequin after her favorite hound, the Hound Welfare Fund's retiree of the year for 2009-2010.
Members of the field also have honored hounds by naming horses after them. I understand one of our accomplished young riders has a horse named Glog, just as Iroquois has a hound named Glog. Willy, if you're out there, send us a photo of your horse!
If you've got a horse who shares a name with a hound, please e-mail beagle52@aol.com. Tell us why you chose the name you did and a little about your horse. If you've got a picture of your horse, send that as a JPEG file, too, and we'll post it.
I'll get the ball rolling. My horse, Sassoon, and the hound Iroquois Sassoon '04 both were named for the English writer and World War I soldier Siegfried Sassoon. He's best known for his poetry about the war, but he also is the author of the sporting classic Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. I got my Sassoon in 2003 from the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. The same summer, Jerry gave the name Sassoon to the only male puppy in that year's litter by the great Iroquois stallion hound Grundy and out of Bicester Sandal.
The hound Sassoon was entered at Iroquois in 2004, the same year my Sassoon hunted his first full season.
Sassoon hound
Iroquois Sassoon '04 has gone on to fame and fortune! He won the foxhound championship at the Mid-America Hound Show a couple of years ago and has turned into an exemplary hunting hound. He's easily recognizable in the hunt field, because he's large and woolly.
My Sassoon has had a more up-and-down path. In 2005, just before the start of what would have been his second full hunt season, Sassoon got a tiny puncture wound underneath his fetlock while he was turned out. The puncture went into the tendon, infecting the tendon sheath, which then required four surgical tendon flushes and a stay at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.
We weren't at all sure he'd survive, but he did. Then we were pretty certain he'd never be rideable again, but he surprised all of us by coming all the way back. It was a long recovery, but in 2008 my vets declared him hunting sound again. He had missed two full seasons when I took him out again last October for the first time since his injury.
Sassoon horse (the black one!)
He'd been off so long, I put a green ribbon in his tail to let everyone know he might be unpredictable. That morning I overheard another rider remark, "She's saying that horse is still green?" That seemed unkind, but then she didn't know the full story!
Sassoon doesn't get out hunting as much as either of us would like (this really is true, according to a "horse psychic" I met at a horse sale the other day!), but he's a great pleasure in my life, as I'm sure your horse is, too.
By the way, Siegfried Sassoon died in 1967, but his son George carried on his father's support for hunting. When the foxhunting ban was debated in England, George and his stepson put pro-hunting signs on the family's pasture fencing. The day the ban went into effect in 2005, George attended a local hunt's first post-ban meet for drag hunting. He was too frail to ride anymore, but he wore a Countryside Alliance sticker (and an old Soviet army hat!).
George Sassoon and his furry Soviet hat attended a local drag-hunt meet in February 2005 after live fox-hunting was banned in England. He thought it was both flattering and amusing that there were canine and equine Sassoons hunting across the Atlantic in Kentucky!
George, a farmer, engineer, and linguist, died in 2006 after a remarkably interesting , though sometimes turbulent, life. After his funeral, the attendees gathered in in his regular pub. One of his pals at the bar, on hearing I was from Kentucky, said, "That's where they've got that hound and horse called Sassoon!" I got a kick out of that, and I guess George did, too.
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Belvoir, Bicester, Bonfire, Brocklesby, Countryside Alliance, Farmer, Furrier, Gangster, George Sassoon, Glog, Grundy, Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Harlequin, Hound Welfare Fund, Iroquois Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, Quorn, Sandal, Siegfried Sassoon, Stalker, Tennessee Lead, Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, William Scarth Dixon	| 3 Replies
Bedtime Stories: Siegfried Sassoon
Posted on July 31, 2009 by houndblogger
"Ringwell cubbing days are among my happiest memories. Those mornings now reappear in my mind, lively and freshly painted by the sunshine of an autumn which made amends for the rainy weeks which had washed away the summer. Four days a week we were up before daylight. I had heard the snoring stable-hands roll out of bed with yawns and grumblings, and they were out and about before the reticent Henry came into my room with a candle and a jug of warm water. (How Henry managed to get up was a mystery.) Any old clothes were good enough for cubbing, and I was very soon downstairs in the stuffy little living room, where Denis had an apparatus for boiling eggs. While they were bubbling he put the cocoa-powder in the cups, two careful spoonfuls each, and not a grain more. A third spoonful was unthinkable.
"Not many minutes afterwards we were out by the range of loose-boxes under the rustling trees, with quiet stars overhead and scarcely a hint of morning. In the kennels the two packs were baying at one another from their separate yards, and as soon as Denis had gotten his horse from the gruff white-coated head-groom, a gate released the hounds–twenty-five or thirty couple of them, and all very much on their toes. Out they streamed like a flood of water, throwing their tongues and spreading away in all directions with waving sterns, as though they had never been out in the world before. Even then I used to feel the strangeness of the scene with its sharp exuberance of unkennelled energy. Will's hearty voice and the crack of his whip stood out above the clamour and commotion which surged around Denis and his horse. Then, without any apparent lull or interruption, the whirl-pool became a well-regulated torrent flowing through the gate-way into the road, along which the sound of hooves receded with a purposeful clip-clopping. Whereupon I hoisted myself onto an unknown horse–usually an excited one–and set off higgledy-piggledy along the road to catch them up. Sometimes we had as many as twelve miles to go, but more often we were at the meet in less than an hour."
From Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon (1928)
Posted in Bedtime Stories	| Tagged cub-hunting, cubbing, Denis Milden, England, foxhunting, Loder, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, Ringwell, Siegfried Sassoon	| Leave a reply