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The vendetta against Tommy Thomas
Posted by Dennis Ignatius in good governance, justice, Malaysia, Politics
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Anwar Ibrahim, Azalina Othman, corruption, Royal Commission of Enquiry, Tommy Thomas, UMNO, Zahid Hamidi
Minister of Law Azalina Othman recently announced that the cabinet had agreed to set up a royal commission of enquiry (RCI) to examine allegations against former attorney-general Tommy Thomas arising from the publication of his memoirs in 2021. In announcing the cabinet's decision, she said that the RCI would be tasked with "finding the truth and submitting recommendations to the government to reform the country's legal institutions and not to find fault with any particular party".[1]
Investigating Thomas has, of course, been a priority for UMNO president Zahid Hamidi. It may be recalled that under pressure from Zahid, former prime minister Ismail Sabri formed a special task force to investigate Thomas after an earlier police investigation failed to turn up any substantive wrongdoing.
After releasing the report of the task force, Ismail boasted that he had given UMNO plenty of "bullets" to attack Thomas and Pakatan Harapan[2]. It was clear that the whole exercise had nothing to do with justice or real concern about some of the issues Thomas raised; it had everything to do with gaining political mileage and exacting revenge against Thomas for daring to prosecute senior UMNO leaders (including Zahid himself) for corruption and malfeasance.
That the ones who are clamouring the loudest for action against Thomas are the same ones who were charged during his tenure as attorney-general should itself tell us what this is really about.
It is no secret that Zahid and other UMNO leaders have been fighting an intense battle to free themselves from the serious criminal charges they face. Discrediting Thomas is part of their grand scheme to justify the withdrawal of all outstanding charges against them. It will no doubt also prove useful in securing a pardon for former prime minister Najib Tun Razak.
Azalina can insist all she wants that the RCI is "not to find fault with any particular party"[3] but the objective of the exercise is clear enough, as Zahid himself made clear recently.
In remarks to the UMNO general assembly, he congratulated Azalina for winning cabinet endorsement for the RCI and encouraged her to "go all out" in probing Thomas. Continuing, he told Azalina that "if you fail (in this), then you fail Umno as a whole. If you succeed, then Umno has something good in store for you".[4]
Zahid's remarks were not just in shockingly poor taste, it was a blatant attempt to bribe the law minister into doing his bidding. It shows Zahid's utter contempt for the justice system and is a reminder of just how unfit he is to hold high office.
When Azalina announced the setting up of the RCI she pompously justified its formation by declaring that, "The government views seriously the allegations involving the violation of professional responsibilities by an individual in a top position. This is because transparency and accountability are the basis of people's trust in the administration of justice and government institutions."[5]
What a laugh! When was the last time any government of ours really cared about transparency or accountability or allegations involving misdeeds by senior figures? Indeed, successive governments have lied to the public, covered up their wrongdoings and abused their power with impunity for decades. In fact, if not for Thomas, even the 1MDB scandal might have been covered up.
In any case, doesn't the government have nothing better to do with its time and resources? Is this the best initiative that this government can come up with after almost two months in office?
What the people who voted for Pakatan Harapan want is a government that will work to make things better for them, not one that continues to play the same old political games, that persecutes good men for doing their job while ignoring all the scandals and abuses of power that are dragging our nation down.
Surely, Malaysians expect better from Anwar, a man who fought so long and so hard and suffered great privation in his fight for a better Malaysia. Of course, we want to see Anwar succeed but if he continues to shamelessly pander to Zahid in this manner, he shouldn't be surprised if Malaysians soon sour on his leadership.
Given the way Zahid has abused his power and is attempting to subvert the investigation of Thomas to further his own personal agenda, the Prime Minister should immediately step in and put an end to this madness.
[Dennis Ignatius | Kuala Lumpur | 14th January 2023]
[1] RCI to be set up to scrutinise Tommy Thomas' book, says Azalina | The Star | 11 Jan 2023
[2] PM: Use reports on Thomas' book, Pulau Batu Puteh as 'political ammo' |Malaysiakini |18 October 2022
[4] RCI should go 'all out' in probe into Thomas' claims, says Zahid | Free Malaysia Today (FMT) | 13 Jan 2023
[5] Cabinet agrees to RCI on claims in ex-AG Thomas' memoir | Malaysia Now | 11 Jan 2023


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On Saturday, February 11th, we will screen the 2022 film, GOLDEN DELICIOUS.
by wildfire | Jan 24, 2023 | Events
Everyone wants something from high school senior, Jake. His dad is pushing him to try out for the basketball team, and his girlfriend wants to take their relationship to the next level. When Aleks, a handsome, basketball-loving, out gay kid, moves in across the street, Jake's world turns upside down. With a sensitive hand, director, Jason Karman, explores the innocence and trepidations of falling in love for the first time and gives us a love story with a broad focus on family, legacy and authenticity.
Set in the modern digital age, Jake and his friends are finding themselves through social media, forging real connections and figuring out who to take to the prom. In a time when gay coming of age films are finally part of the conversation, GOLDEN DELICIOUS feels like something extra special.
Admission is a suggested donation of $10.00. The ACE Theatre Complex doors will open at 6:15 PM with a movie start time of 7:00 PM. Questions? Contact Rex at 336.918.0902 or rex@outatthemovies.org. We hope to see you OUT at the Movies!

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Too much belief is a sign of our times, belief in markets, merit, credentials, competition. We think we're free but we're trapped in a dark age captured by limiting ideologies, in perpetual struggle against each other, without the skills to free ourselves. One way out is to know the insidious nature of the beliefs that hold us captive. To know that merit for instance is a lie. Worth also to know that it's a lie that holds us in a system that is damaging to many lives. If you're on the top you're smug, if you're on the bottom you're in a desperate angry place. Is too much belief part of a consuming feedback loop: belief makes us passive to understand its corrupting nature and to act to free ourselves?
There is no fair way to create a meritocracy. This is because the notion of "merit" is itself loaded with unfair premises. People will always have differing life histories, capacities, and opportunities, and so any assumption that those who "rise to the top" of a competition have superior deservingness will be false. That doesn't mean that everyone is equally qualified to be a surgeon or a structural engineer or a social worker, or that there should be no evaluations to make sure the people who have certain jobs can do them. Instead, it means that we can never conclude that people got those qualifications did so because they "earned" it more than others, and we should be skeptical of any idea of a "fair competition."
Admit Everyone, Nathan J Robinson, Current Affairs, March 2018
Melancholia, Lars von Trier
Mourning is remembering the sad event to forget it. Melancholia is the refusal to forget. Depression is a reaction to profound dislocation and loss, you from the world. The depressive is melancholic; she refuses to forget.
We think depressives are generally too negative and wrong. But research shows that though negative their assessments are surprisingly accurate.
They're right for instance about climate change. They may be the canary, the bell weather we must heed about a dying world, extinction, the anthropocene, the loss that we feel for a dying world.
There's a substantial literature on "depressive realism"—the suspicion that depressed people are actually right. In one 1979 study by Lauren B. Alloy and Lyn Y. Abramson, it was found that when compared to their nondepressed peers, depressed subjects' "judgements of contingency were surprisingly accurate.'"
The depressive is, first of all, one who refuses to forget. In Freud's account, while mourning is the slow release of emotional ties to something that's vanished, melancholia is a refusal to let go. It's not just that climate change is depressing; the determination to stop it has to begin from a depressive conviction: to not just forget that so much has been lost and more is going every day—to keep close to memory. Or as Paffard puts it, "You need to hold what's at stake in your head enough to remember why it's important to take action."
Tropical Depressions, Sam Kriss and Ellie Mae O'Hagan, The Baffler
These are myths, which means they're not true: depression is chemical, and antidepressants restore a natural balance in your brain.
So if depression isn't chemical … it's at least partly, if not nearly wholely, social.
"There's no evidence that there's a chemical imbalance" in depressed or anxious people's brains, Professor Joanna Moncrieff – one of the leading experts on this question – explained to me bluntly in her office at the University College of London. The term doesn't really make any sense, she said: we don't know what a "chemically balanced" brain would look like. People are told that drugs like antidepressants restore a natural balance to your brain, she said, but it's not true – they create an artificial state. The whole idea of mental distress being caused simply by a chemical imbalance is "a myth," she has come to believe, sold to us by the drug companies.
Johann Hari, Lost Connections, p 30
proprium
Proprium means property, and essential characteristic, so, the means you have that is appropriately yours. The means you have that exceeds the essential is inappropriate and alien, accrued by exploitation and accident.
When you have more houses than you or loved ones can live in, more cars than you can drive; more income in a year than can be spent on what you or your family can actually use, even uselessly use; then we are not speaking of property anymore, not the proprium, but of the inappropriate and alien—that which one gathers to oneself through the accident of social arrangements, exploiting them willfully or accidentally, and not through the private and the personal.
— Against Everything: On Dishonest Times, Mark Greif
From Oxford English Dictionary –
1. Logic Logic. = "property".2. Chiefly Theology. An essential attribute of something, a distinctive characteristic; essential nature, selfhood.
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in Thomas Wilson (d. 1581), humanist and administrator. From classical Latin proprium one's own property, special feature or property, peculiarity, in post-classical Latin also essential attribute or characteristic, property in logic, use as noun of neuter singular of proprius proper.
where artists lived
The streets were full of musicians
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Jacques Hyzagi, music, Robert Crumb
R. Crumb: music died in 1935, poisoned, stolen, resold, repackaged, neutered and killed by the music business.
In the '20s in Philly, in every house, people played and sang live music. In the country as a whole there were bands, dance halls, ballrooms, auditoriums and clubs. Radio, the depression, movies and finally TVs killed it. Itunes, streaming are more nails.
"I don't miss that culture. The America that I missed died in about 1935. That's why I have all this old stuff, all these old 78 records from that era. It was the golden age of recorded music, before the music business poisoned the people's music, the same way that 'agribusiness' poisoned the very soil of the earth. In the old days, music was produced by common people, the music they produced to entertain themselves. The record industry took it and resold it, repackaged and killed it, spewed it out in a bland, artificial, ersatz version of itself. This goes along with the rise of the mass media, the spread of radio. My mother, born in the 1920s, remembered walking in the street in the summertime in Philadelphia, and in every other house, people were playing some kind of live music. Her parents played music and sang together. In her generation, her brothers didn't want to play an instrument anymore. It was the swing era and all they wanted to do was to listen to Benny Goodman on the radio. The takeover of radio happened much later. In places like Africa, you can still find great recorded music from the '50s. I have many 78s from Africa at that time that sound like some great rural music from America in the '20s. In the U.S at that time there were thousands and thousands of bands, dance halls, ballrooms in hotels, restaurants had dance floors, school auditoriums, clubs in small towns. A small town of 10,000 would have a least a hundred bands. In the mid 30's radio spread very fast in America and the depression killed a lot of the venues where live music was performed. You could go to the movies for 10 cents. Then in the 50's TV finished it all off. Mass media makes you stay home, passive. In the 20's there was live music everywhere in the States. I talked to old musicians who played in dance bands. This old musician bandleader Jack Coackley in San Francisco told me that in 1928 when you went downtown in the evening on the trolley car to play at a ballroom, the streets were full of musicians going to work, carrying instruments in cases. Same thing happened in France with the death of musette, the popular dance music of the working classes. There hasn't been a decent popular music in America for a long time."
Robert Crumb Hates You, Jacques Hyzagi, Observer


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edy to ever cross WCU's stage.
Under the direction of Donald Leoffler, "Lovers" reach"
process of having an extramarital affair.
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of life and very easy going, Ms.
in Jeanette's line "we're living in a new guiltless society."
shades   of  brown   and  green.
the play can get in at 7:15 p.m.
two- week workshops due to begin later on during the session.
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on August 1, according to an informed source.
information of Chancellor Carlton's  previous administration.
announced by Dr. Jack K.
until his retirement this spring.
and director of educational research and field services.
to have amon its faculty a number of outstanding educators.
use the results of the data obtained as a means of comparing Carlton's past administrative behavior to the current WCU situation.
report is given to the investigating committee.
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Transcription QardLjMiaM VOKi: OF THE STIDE!NTS VOL. XXXIX NO. 6 THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1973 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY CULLOWHEE, NORTH CAROLINA Rogers May Have Uncovered Find photo by Bill Mclntyre Mark Calloway, as Barney Cashman, tries to convince Jeanette Fisher, played by Kay Bentley, that life really is something special during the Dinner Theatre production of Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers.' A Review Simon Comedy Termed Tragic by W" Creveling Wilkes This week's Dinner Theater production of Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" is pure ethnis of tragic com- edy to ever cross WCU's stage. Under the direction of Donald Leoffler, "Lovers" reach" ed extensive heights in revealing that some of WCU's people of the theatre lack that gifted quality of imagination and creative abiltiy. Delving into the story of forty-seven year old Barney Cashman's search for life, the only attempt that Barney as played by Mark Calloway, can make of finding happiness and filfillment is through the process of having an extramarital affair. Needless to say, he flubs it, just as Calloway does his characterization in the first two acts. The high-lite of the evening for Barney Cashman was Calloway's brave attempt to turn him into a dashing man about town in the third act. The three acts centered upon Cashman's three attempts at having an affair. It is interesting to watch a middle aged owner of a fish restaurant searching for life before he loses it. Joan King, as Elain Navazio, tries to grasp the character of a loose, gawdy woman of the town, but, as usual, Ms. King is found revealing her finesse of overplaying and under-act» ing. Act one flattened its own face. Anna Stone's portrayal of a young lady whom Cashman picks up in the park brings realistic acting and some of Simon's wonderful comedy to Act Two. Full of life and very easy going, Ms. Stone borders upon careful nervousness and flippancy in her characterization of Bobbi Michele. Suble commentations on modern American ways is Simon's key to the second act, and, for once, the comedy begins to climb toward the height it was meant for. Act three finally finds Cash- man a changed fellow, only this time his affairing mate is a friend of the family, and spends her short-lived affair feeling guilty and ashamed of what she is doing. Jeanette Fisher, played by Kay Bent- ley, reveals a glimpse of what acting is all about. Jeanette spends the entire third act crying, talking about her husband that she has no physical attraction for. It is in the last part of the play that the true essence of what Simon is saying comes through. Social comments run amuck, touching upon drugs, marriage, the coming coldness, and is best summed up in Jeanette's line "we're living in a new guiltless society." The set for this production, as designed by Richard Beam, was very well utilized and blended in quietly with soft shades of brown and green. "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" was, by far, not one of the better productions to cross our stage, but it did attain its mark in revealing the horrid road that has turned real life into the all-time tragedy of tradedies. The Dinner Theatre is located in the Grandroom of the University Center and will run through this Friday night. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and the show is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $3.75 for general public and $2.50 for students. Persons interested in viewing only the play can get in at 7:15 p.m. at a lower cost, Reservations can be made by calling 293- 7491. Statistics Show Enrollment Increase Of 1 % A partial list of second session enrollment statistics have been released by Dr. J. A. Rice, Director of Summer School, and they indicate an approximate increase of 1% over last year's totals. A complete breakdown and analysis of statistics will not be available until the completion of registration for two two- week workshops due to begin later on during the session. A collation of available figures show that as of July 23 there were 2,014 students enrolled this year, and 1,994 for the corresponding date a year ago. (This is approximate increase of 1%.) However this was a decrease of 27% of out- of-state students which indicates that in-state student enrollment is picking up the slack. Currently enrolled are 611 graduate students, 1,293 under= CONTINUED page 4. .. . Harold Rogers, WCU student body president, along with two colleagues, recently visited the Macon Junior College area in preparation of the Student Government Associations report for the investigating committee which is to convene here on August 1, according to an informed source. Chancellor Jack K. Carlton was president of Macon Junior College before coming to WCU last July. The purpose of Roger's two- day trip to Macon was to conduct extensive interviews with faculty, staff and students there and to obtain background information of Chancellor Carlton's previous administration. Rogers was unavailable for immediate comment on the subject. When questioned about the results of the visit, the informant, however, stated "It would be unethical to comment on these facts until they are presented to the committee." The informed source stated that some ten to fifteen individuals were interviewed and extensive research was conducted on enrollment figures and rate of faculty turnover at Dr. Ainsley To Deliver Commencement Dr. Raymond M. Ainsley, former head of the department of administration and school personnel at Western Carolina University, will deliver the commencement address at WCU's summer graduation program August 17, it has been announced by Dr. Jack K. Carlton, WCU chancellor. Dr. Ainsley, who joined the WCU faculty in 1955, served the university as associate professor of education and director of the campus laboratory school until 1957 and as director of the educational administration program from 1957 until 1967. Then professor of education, he became head of the department of administration and school personnel, a position he held until his retirement this spring. Dr. Ainsley came to Western from Mississippi Southern University where he was associate professor of education and director of educational research and field services. Prior to that he served as principal in the Leaksville City .Schools and as teacher and principal in the Forsyth County Schools. Dr. Carlton said Western Carolina University is honored to have amon its faculty a number of outstanding educators. He said the University expects over the years to draw upon faculty members who have brought particular distinction to the University for its commenc- ment speakers. the Georgia college during Carlton's term there. The source indicated that Rogers will possibly attempt to use the results of the data obtained as a means of comparing Carlton's past administrative behavior to the current WCU situation. The source anonymously continued to say that ' 'The faculty interviews showed substantial similarities between the chancellor's past history as an administrator at Macon and his present behavior here." According to the informant, the information gained from the interviews is "so highly sensitive in nature "that it will not be released until the SGA report is given to the investigating committee. Fire Destroys Honky Chateau, Arson Suspected A Monday morning fire completely gutted the Honky Chateau, a Waynesville night club, causing $40,000 damage to the tin and frame building and destroying $8,000 worth of mu» sical instruments belonging to "Laughing Waters," a rock group which had played at the club on Friday and Saturday nights. Although their investigations are incomplete, the police and fire officials strongly suspect arson. The Waynesville and Hazel- wood fire departments received the alarm at 5:15 a.m. and had the blaze under control within the hour. The Honky Chateau had been the scene of a number of altercations in recent weeks, and noise from the club had caused several Waynesville residents to complain. Emergency Seminar To Be Held Here , The Southeastern Emergency Care Seminar—an event that has attracted rescue squad and other emergency care workers from throughout the Southeast for the past three summers- will be held at WCU beginning August 3. Nearly 300 persons are expected to attend the three-day seminar, according to Dr. Glenn Bridges, WCU's new director of continuing education. The program will begin the evening of Aug. 3 with demonstrations of forceable entry and extrication of victims from automobiles. On Saturday there will be presentations on . emergency management of labor and delivery and injuries of the eye, as well as CONTINUED page 4. . . .


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"System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.5.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)"
System.Data.SqlServerCe.Entity.dll and System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll from the Private folder is of version 3.5.1.50. But unfortunately, the System.Data.SqlServerCe.Entity.dll from the Private folder (i.e. with version 3.5.1.50) is referring to System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll from the Desktop folder (i.e. with version 3.5.1.0). Due to this, an application that has only the dlls from Private folder fails as it doesn't find the 3.5.1.0 version of System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll.
Add assembly binding redirection entry in app.config file.
The first blog (Steve Lasker's) mentioned above was based on SP1. As of SP2 it appears that more than just the 4 native dlls are required at runtime for EF to function properly. I was only able to get this to work after including ALL of the SP2 native dlls (7 total), not just the 4 mentioned in Steve's very helpful post.


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. . . the program struts its high-tech stuff in a Reports section . . .A great tool for the organizationally challenged, Ink Link's also a good buy for those with multiple projects in the works.
Two years ago I decided to get my manuscript submissions organized...I found salvation with Ink Link for Windows...The beauty of Ink Link is its interface. (A good interface is one that has you up and running without having to bury your head in the manual)...All (the) reports give me valuable analysis and prod me into keeping works in circulation until they are accepted...The program also offers a moneyback guarantee but I don't think you'll need it.
I've been using Ink Link since it first came out a few years back...Ink Link's developer put together a nifty system of keeping track of just about everything a writer does...Ink Link 3.1 is easy to use...a snap to install and set up. Adding manuscript information was a cinch. I can view my work by title, subject, type or date. Extensive notes and comments can be added...there is also a handy reminder feature...Ink Link allows you to (highlight) the name of a place you submitted to, click the "Letter" button and up pops a follow-up note with the contact name and address automatically placed in the letter. All you need to do is print it and pop it in the mail!
I'm no computer whiz; I'm impatient and easily frustrated when it comes to onscreen navigation. I like programs that install easily and give me overviews, clear function keys and intelligible help. My vote, in these departments, goes to Ink Link. The layout makes sense and features inclusive lists where I can easily find the manuscript I'm working on or the market I'm searching for and, with a double-click of my mouse, reach the screen I'm looking for.
The reports function works nicely, and the result can be exported to your preferred word processing program for printing. It reminds you when a response is expected from a publisher. Also, a handy automatic inquiry letter lifts the information off of your manuscript record, making a basic inquiry asking for the status on a manuscript just a click away.
Ink Link...is easy to use even for relative beginners and is sophisticated, attractive, well laid out and contains a valuable financial records segment. It was developed by a writer, which accounts for its simplicity of installation and use...Ink Link's User's Guide is well organized and easy to understand.
Beasts have a reputation of being able to work hard Ink Link easily lives up to that image...simple but effective...comes with a manual that is both useful and cute. It is well written in a jaunty fashion that makes it light and easy to follow... Installation was a breeze and wherever I looked there were instructions guiding me...even on the floppy disk label...Ink Link is the most capable (of the similar programs reviewed) in being able to organize a writer's submissions.
Another category is marketing software. I have tried several of these. The best I've seen so far is Ink Link . . .
. . . Ink Link is a surprisingly powerful software program designed to help writers get organized . . . the application is a great tool for 'putting all the pieces together' . . . Izen used many actual freelance writers as beta testers and it shows. The software is intuitive and very easy to use. It comes with a user's guide, but I doubt you will need to use it much, except for learning shortcuts.


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George Meredith
Beginnings as Poet and Novelist
Mature Works
Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London
(1828–1909). Noted for their wit and brilliant dialogue, the novels and poems of the English writer George Meredith rank among the most masterful of the Victorian Age. Meredith's novels are also distinguished by psychological studies of character and a highly subjective view of life that, far ahead of his time, regarded women as truly the equals of men. His best-known works are The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) and The Egoist (1879).
George Meredith, the son and grandson of tailors, was born above the family tailor shop in Portsmouth, England, on February 12, 1828. The name Meredith is Welsh in origin, and family tradition held that its bearers were descendants of Welsh kings and chieftains. In keeping with this tradition, the young Meredith was proud and patrician in his bearing. A small inheritance from his mother, who died when he was five, enabled Meredith to attend a superior local seminary and thus early to assume the role of a young gentleman. Yet the sensitive boy must gradually have become conscious of the contrast between this role and his actual social status. And the reality was to become even harsher with the bankruptcy of the tailoring shop when he was about 11 and his father's subsequent marriage to the young woman who had been their housekeeper.
In 1840 a second legacy, this time from an aunt, enabled him to go first to a boarding school and then, in 1842, to the Moravian School at Neuwied on the Rhine River, which was to leave its stamp upon the remainder of his life. The picturesque Rhineland, with its cliffs, its ruined castles, and its legends, stimulated the fancy of the already romantic youth. Tolerant religious instruction was combined with humanism: the boys were taught to think for themselves, to respect truth, to admire courage, to love nature, and to live in peace and amity with their fellows. The monotony of study was broken by daily sports, storytelling, and playacting and on vacations by weeklong expeditions or boating trips down the Rhine. All of these influences except the religious remained with Meredith throughout life. After "a spasm of religion which lasted about six weeks," he later said, he never "swallowed the Christian fable" and thereafter called himself a freethinker.
Meredith's return to England in 1844, at the age of 16, ended his formal education. Like all of the other great Victorian novelists, he was to be largely self-educated. After several false starts, he was apprenticed at 18 to a solicitor in London, England, named Richard Charnock and was ostensibly launched upon a career in law. There is no evidence, however, that he ever pursued it. Probably, like the writer and politician Benjamin Disraeli, the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, and others before him, he found it intolerably dull and abandoned it at the start.
He was steeped in the Arabian Nights and German legends and literature; he had already written verse, and he soon found that Charnock's interests were more literary than legal and that he had gathered around him a coterie of young friends whose interests were also literary. Perhaps all of these were influences. At any rate, among the Charnock circle was Edward "Ned" Peacock, son of Thomas Love Peacock, the eccentric author, and through Edward he met Edward's sister, Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widow with a small daughter. She was brilliant, witty, handsome, and about eight years older than he. In the course of editing and writing for a manuscript literary magazine conducted by the Charnock circle, he fell in love with her. Shortly after he reached his majority and came into the remainder of his little inheritance, they were married.
On their return, the Merediths took lodgings at Weybridge, Surrey, near Peacock's house at Lower Halliford, Middlesex, and George busied himself writing poems and articles and making translations. Unfortunately, they brought in little money. Somehow, nevertheless, he managed to pay the publication costs of a little collection of verse, entitled Poems, in 1851. Though the writer and critic William Michael Rossetti praised it, Charles Kingsley, the novelist, found "very high promise" in it, and the poet Alfred Tennyson said kindly that he wished he might have written the beautiful "Love in the Valley," praise added nothing to the family coffers.
Beset by creditors, the Merediths had to take refuge in Peacock's house, where their only child, Arthur, was born in 1853. Understandably, Peacock soon preferred to rent a cottage for them across the village green from him. As poetry did not pay, Meredith now in desperation turned his hand to prose, writing a fantasy entitled The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment, published in 1855. Original in conception but imitative of Arabian Nights in manner, it baffled most readers, who did not know whether to regard it as allegory or fairy tale. But the most perceptive of the critics, the novelist George Eliot, praised it as "a work of genius, and of poetical genius."
Poverty, disappointment, and the growing antagonism between two highly strung, critical natures placed an unbearable strain upon the marriage of the Merediths. Little more is known of this period in their lives, except that Mrs. Meredith was in Wales, in the company of an artist friend of the couple, Henry Wallis, during the summer of 1857. In April 1858 she gave birth to a son, whose father was registered as "George Meredith, author," but whose paternity Meredith always denied. Subsequently, Mrs. Meredith and Wallis went off to Capri, Italy, together. She died in 1861, leaving Meredith with his eight-year-old son, Arthur.
Work was Meredith's only solace, and he was feverishly working on a novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (published in 1859), with which he hoped to win fame and fortune. It was characteristic of his best work in many respects: in form it is a romantic comedy (but with a tragic ending, as is frequent in Meredith); it deals with the relationship between a baronet and his son; the son falls in love with a lower class girl and is subjected to an ordeal—a recurring motif in Meredith—by his father; the novel is rich in allusion, image, and metaphor; the dialogue is sparkling, witty, and elliptical as in life; there are frequent intrusions by the author; three of the chapters are written in highly lyric prose; and the psychology of motive and rationalization is explored in depth. Father and son suffer from excessive pride and self-delusion (regarded by Meredith as forms of egoism), which it is the purpose of comedy, as he later said in his "Essay on Comedy," to purge and replace with sanity. Though not without faults, the novel nevertheless remains Meredith's most moving and most widely read novel. But delicate readers found it prurient and had it banned by the influential lending libraries, scattering Meredith's hopes of affluence. He was forced to accept employment as a reader of manuscripts for a publisher and as a writer of editorials and news items for a provincial newspaper. His own writing had to be done in what spare time remained. Feverel was followed by Evan Harrington (1860), an amusing comedy in which Meredith used the family tailoring establishment and his own relatives for subject matter. The hero is the son of a tailor who has been brought up abroad as a "gentleman" and has fallen in love with the daughter of a baronet. His ordeal comes when he returns home to find his father dead and himself heir to the tailor shop and a considerable debt. Taking up poetry again, Meredith next published a volume of poems, Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads, in 1862. If Evan Harrington had exorcised the tailor demon that haunted him, Modern Love doubtless served a similar purpose for his own disastrous marriage. Semiautobiographical, it is concerned with the tragedy of marital infidelity and its nemesis, though his own wound was now sufficiently healed for him to write compassionately. The poem deserves a place among his permanent contributions to English poetry.
After a walking tour on the Continent, he once more turned to prose. The theme of his next novel, Emilia in England (later renamed Sandra Belloni), was the contrast between a simple but passionate girl and some sentimental English social climbers—an excellent theme for Meredithian comedy. Its publication in 1864 was made the occasion of the first general consideration of all his works up to this point in an article in the Westminster Review by the Irish journalist and writer Justin M'Carthy. A second event of importance in 1864 was his remarriage. Arthur had been placed in boarding school, and Meredith's own loneliness was intensified. Luckily, he met an attractive, well-bred young woman of Anglo-French descent, Marie Vulliamy, fell in love with her, and, after undergoing his own ordeal in persuading her father of his respectability, married her in September 1864. Thus ended a period in his life: he was no longer unknown and no longer lonely.
A son was born to the couple in 1865 and a daughter in 1871. With a family to support and popularity still elusive, Meredith had to keep hard at work for the next 15 years, with only occasional walking expeditions on the Continent. In 1866, however, he was sent out by The Morning Post to report the Italian campaign in the Austro-Prussian War, which lasted only seven weeks but enabled him to spend three months in his beloved Italy. After his return he was able to purchase a comfortable cottage near the bottom of Box Hill, Surrey, England, where he was to live quietly until his death. It stands today much as when he lived in it.
During the next 20 years, from 1865 to 1885, Meredith continued the drudgery of reading manuscripts but substituted weekly readings to an elderly rich widow for the newspaper work. It was, however, a period marked by the birth of the children, the publication of seven novels and a volume of poems, and, in the 1880s, by growing public recognition. The next two novels, Rhoda Fleming (1865) and a sequel to Emilia, entitled Vittoria, added nothing to his reputation. With The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871), however, Meredith returned to what was his forte—romantic comedy. Once more he wrote a close study of a father-son relationship, only this time the father is an impostor who out-Micawbers Dickens' Mr. Micawber in his belief that something will "turn up" to make his fortune. The son's ordeal is that he must perceive and reject the world of fantasy in which his father lives and achieve maturity through painful experience. After an interval of about four years came Beauchamp's Career. Its hero is a self-deluded idealist who is converted to radicalism and whose ordeal is both political and personal. It is one of Meredith's better novels and confirmed what was clear by now, that one of his greatest strengths was the creation of spirited, flesh-and-blood women who think for themselves.
The next two novels of consequence, The Egoist (1879) and Diana of the Crossways (1885), marked the beginning of Meredith's acceptance by a wider reading public and a more favorable reception by critics. Both are comedies, full of Meredithian wit and brilliant dialogue and notable for women characters who prove their right to be accepted as individuals, equal with men, rather than puppets. In The Egoist the enemy is egoism, and the egoist is tested by a succession of ordeals before joining the ranks of humanity. While that novel is concerned with the dangers of wrong choice before marriage, Diana is the first of a series of studies of mismating in marriage. Diana herself is a memorable character of spirit and brains, although Meredith is less successful in persuading readers that she could naively be guilty of a grave breach of confidence. In both novels, however, the men that Meredith approves of and hands the heroines over to are rather flat and uninteresting.
A new period now began in Meredith's life. Fame, if not popularity, and financial independence had come at last. Yet his enjoyment of them was to be tempered by the death of his wife in 1885 and of Arthur in 1890, by the beginning of deafness, and by the onset of ataxia that was first to limit his ability to walk and finally to render him immobile. Honours and testimonials came in plenty: an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland; election to the prestigious office of President of the Society of Authors; and in 1905 the Order of Merit, strictly limited to 24 members, was conferred upon him by order of the King. Meredith had become a public institution, his home at Box Hill almost a literary shrine.
After 1885 his work was done except for three novels and five volumes of poems that were increasingly more philosophic than poetic. One of Our Conquerors (1891) is probably the most difficult of his novels because of the indirect and cryptic style, metaphor, and long passages of interior monologue. Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894), unlike its predecessor, was praised for the brilliancy and clarity of its style. The final novel, The Amazing Marriage (1895), repeats the theme of Lord Ormont—that a wife is free to leave a husband who does not recognize her as an equal.
In person Meredith was slightly built but athletic, remarkably handsome, and aristocratic in manner. Because of his concern with upper class life in his novels, he has sometimes been accused of being ashamed of his lowly birth and of being at heart a snob. The charge hardly bears inspection: he chose the fashionable world as a subject because it was fittest for his brand of comic treatment. His own tastes and manner of living were almost spartanly simple, his greatest pleasures being long walks and communion with nature. His friends, for the most part, were not aristocrats; they were chiefly writers and artists, along with a few professional men. It is true that in the years of his fame he was taken up by various fashionable ladies—usually young ones whom he had fascinated—and that journalists began to beat a path to his door. If he was not the oracle with all the answers, he was willing to play the role. A brilliant talker, he delighted in expressing radical and startling ideas to journalists—that the Boers should have been given their freedom; that Britain should join the United States; that marriage should be for a 10-year trial period, renewable by mutual consent; that there was no future life; and that Britain should arm itself against impending German aggression. On his 80th birthday he was presented with another testimonial, with 250 signatures of the great ones of the world, and both King Edward VII and President Theodore Roosevelt sent congratulations.
On his 80th birthday the newspapers of the world saluted Meredith as "the Dean of English Writers," the "last Great Victorian," the "Grand Old Man of Letters," and the "Sage of Box Hill." Shortly after his death on May 18, 1909, in the town of Box Hill, The Times Literary Supplement said that his mind was "so rich, so full, that one wonders where there is another mind so rich, outside Shakespeare, in English literature." As not infrequently happens, however, his great reputation went into eclipse, and other writers—Henry James, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, and D.H. Lawrence—replaced him. Ardent Meredithians remained, but the pendulum of popular taste has not swung back. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and The Egoist will continue to have a share in college and university curricula, The Adventures of Harry Richmond and Beauchamp's Career may have limited appeal, and for the rest, Meredith will be left to scholars and the intellectual elite.
The influence of Meredith on the novel has been indirect rather than direct. Although his highly personal style was incapable of imitation, his extensive use of interior monologue anticipated the stream-of-consciousness technique of James Joyce and others. Moreover, with George Eliot he was creating the psychological novel and thus was an important link between his 18th-century precursors and 19th- and 20th-century followers. Among later novelists influenced by him the critic Jack Lindsay cites George Robert Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Robert Louis Stevenson; and the writer and critic J.B. Priestley points to Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster.


@FloRolf Yep the 4KMasterRace is quite nice.
what game do you like da best?
Ah I dunno...to this day in my opinion as a can't be beat game is Burnout Paradise...now even better that it has now been Remastered back in '18, still one hell of a fun game to play.
Finally upgrading from my iPhone 8 Plus to a X...I know...just an X...but Bell is offering them up at $0...so why not?
It's not a sleeper...just a bone stock HP Pavilion 8550C Celeron 500, 256Mb SDRAM, PCI GeForce 6200 256Mb card, WIn98SE for my retro PC game collection as it'll run anything old that Win10 won't run.
My main PC, specs in the profile where they should be. Latest update of Firefox.
Finally opened them tonight...yeah 2 months later lol man these things sound great, tons of ADJUSTABLE bass to add in via the iPhone app. I have to get used to the control buttons on the right ear cup for track up and down and volume but it's nice to have those handy without having to go to the phone. Also the noice cancelling is a nice touch. Somewhat high end headphones for a reasonable price. And yeah I know Sony well, I own a pair of MDR-1R headphones.
Thanks so much for the follow up with Janice, that woman went thru hell for LMG! Also she's cute and sounds like a sweetheart, a true gem.
Yep, older Xeons...and in my case...a complete rig ready to go with even older Harpertown LGA 771 Xeons. Right now running XP Mode under 7 Pro on it and honestly the speed of real cores instead of hyperthreading is making itself known. She's quite quick for being a decade old.
Thanks for the assist! Yep you can get 8 core 16 thread chips all day but those are rather pricey but for finding a used Dell Precision with dual Xeon 5420s gives me an honest 8 core 8 thread machine that I intend on doing some VMs with also and the fun factor...I had a friend over last night and told him about the dual processor machine, he was actually impressed when I let him use it for a bit. That said I've blown off the pre-installed Win10 and gone to 7 Pro. For what I paid I couldn't build it as cheap as I got it ready to fly. Oh and side benefit, it HAD a Dell branded Win7 Pro DVD in it's optical drive. score for $250 for the machine. And my final thoughts on this machine, why the hell not? Seriously...it's something to simply fool around with. Sure my i7 7700K rig walks all over the dual Xeons...but sometimes ya gotta have something you can just play with.
Quoting myself, update, didn't get the dual Xeon 5405 rig...nope got a dual Xeon 5420 rig...16Gb DDR2 ECC with a 2TB HD and a Quadro FX 4600...nicely loaded. Why build when it comes ready to go? Runs activated WIn10 Pro as well, lucked out big time. Now to find another 16Gb of DDR2 ECC.


THIS IS THE START OF THE WINTER ROAD. IT WAS -22C, THEN IT GOT REALLY COLD.
NOW YOU SEE WHY SOUTHERN CAMP TRAILER JUST DON'T LIKE THE NORTHERN ROADS, THAT IS WHY THEY ARE MOUNTED ON TOP OF SEMI TRAILERS.
THE ROCK JUMPED OUT IN FRONT OF THE TRAILER AND THAT IS THE STORY AND THEY ARE STICKING TO IT. LIKE TO HEAR THE ROCK'S SIDE OF THE STORY.
ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE FAMOUS JUMPING ROCKS BENT THE RIM ON THE TIRE OF THE GRADER. THE NEAREST REPLACEMENT RIM OR TIRE SHOP IS ONLY 10 HOURS AWAY ONE WAY. THE JOYS OF WORKING IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH.
SOME OF THE TRUCKS HAULING ON THE WINTER ROAD STOPPED AT COLT-60'S CAMP FOR COFFEE AND A MEAL. NEXT YEAR COLT-60 IS GETTING HIGH CLASS WAITRESSES AND FRESH DONUTS TO MAKE THESE TRUCKERS FEEL LIKE DOWN SOUTH AND NOT 300 KM IN THE MIDDLE OF A FROZEN GREAT WHITE NORTH.
BUILDING THIS ROAD IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH HAS THE SAME PROBLEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WATER OR ICE CROSSING THE ROAD, IT HAPPENED IN NUMEROUS SPOTS AND IF NOT CONTROLLED THE WINTER ROAD WILL CLOSE EARLY. SO COLT-60 MADE SURE THE ROAD WAS IN GOOD SHAPE AND USEABLE UNTIL MARCH 29 2004. WHICH WAS A VERY GOOD SEASON AND ALL THE FREIGHT WAS HAULED IN.


Of course angling is also a rich person's sport, if you talk about standing in a Scottish river fly fishing. And I don't see hunting as a rich or even country person's sport anyway, I worked for a guy who had never lived outside Hampstead and was in a hunt, which had all sorts of people as members.
It would be very hard to frame a law against angling for sport that didn't also exclude angling for food (I don't think anyone eats fox).


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public class ApplicationStatus
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Speichert den Status der Bewerbung.
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availableStati

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availStatiArr

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interviewDate

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plannedDate

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sentDate

private java.lang.String
status

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ApplicationStatus()

Stellt standartmäßig den Status auf PLANNED und das Datum auf das aktuelle Datum.

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ApplicationStatus(java.lang.String _status)

Stellt den Status auf den angegebenen Status ein.

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ApplicationStatus(java.lang.String _status,
                 java.util.Date _date)

Erstellt den ApplicationStatus mit den angegebenen Werten.

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(package private) void
changeStatus(java.lang.String _status,
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Ändert den Status auf die angegebenen Werte.

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Gibt das Datum zurück, das dem aktuell eingestellten Status entspricht.

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getStatus()

Gibt den aktuellen Status zurück.

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setDate(java.util.Date _date)

Stellt das Datum entsprechend zum vorher eingestellten Status ein.

(package private) boolean
setStatus(java.lang.String _status)

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availableStati

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sentDate

private java.util.Date sentDate

interviewDate

private java.util.Date interviewDate

denyDate

private java.util.Date denyDate

acceptedDate

private java.util.Date acceptedDate

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ApplicationStatus

ApplicationStatus()

Stellt standartmäßig den Status auf PLANNED und das Datum auf das aktuelle Datum.

ApplicationStatus

protected ApplicationStatus(java.lang.String _status)

Stellt den Status auf den angegebenen Status ein.

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ApplicationStatus

protected ApplicationStatus(java.lang.String _status,
                            java.util.Date _date)

Erstellt den ApplicationStatus mit den angegebenen Werten.

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_status -

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boolean setStatus(java.lang.String _status)

changeStatus

void changeStatus(java.lang.String _status,
                  java.util.Date _date)

Ändert den Status auf die angegebenen Werte.

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_status - Status, auf den geändert werden soll.

_date - Datum, auf das geändert werden soll.

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void setDate(java.util.Date _date)

Stellt das Datum entsprechend zum vorher eingestellten Status ein.

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_date - Datum, auf das gestellt wird.

getDate

java.util.Date getDate()

Gibt das Datum zurück, das dem aktuell eingestellten Status entspricht.
 INT_HELD hat kein Datum, bzw. das gleiche wie INT_PLANNED.

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Datum, passend zum Status

getStatus

java.lang.String getStatus()

Gibt den aktuellen Status zurück.

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Aktueller Status.

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If you saw someone on the street passed out or lighting a joint in the corner, you may start to wonder 'why don't they seek help for the addiction?' The addition is a serious issue that has engulfed most individuals these days. Out of peer pressure or emotional trauma, young individuals take to alcohol and drugs to circumvent their problems. When this reaches out of limits, they develop the habit of continually feeding their system with intoxicating substances.
According to recent statistics, around 23 million in the United States are suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. Out of these many addicts, only 10% of them seek to receive help for their condition. This means that about 20 million individuals are deprived of the necessary measures to help them recover from alcohol addiction.
Addiction has detrimental effects on the lives of individuals influenced by it. Addiction is progressive and compulsive. Addicts who fall into the cycle of addiction are suffering from a variety of health risks that could even be fatal in most cases. A study says that each day more than 100 people die from alcohol and drug issue.
With its potential pitfalls and fatal health risks, people should consider seeking help for recovery at San Diego detox, but why don't they? According to a survey done by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 96% of people addicted to substance abuse don't feel the need to receive help. The remaining 4% of people wanted to receive the treatment, but they did not make an active effort or were deprived of the treatment.
So Why Don't People With Addiction Get The Treatment?
Denial to accept the drug as a source of the problem
Denial to accept that substances like drugs and alcohol do a lot of damage to life and is a primary cause not to seek help from addiction. Abusers are living under a false facade that alcohol and drugs can help them overcome their problems. They try to reconcile themselves with the fallacious benefits of alcohol and drug abuse without realizing that these substances are the core reason for their problems, to begin with.
Feeling humiliated
Most individuals sometimes are aware of the pitfalls involved with consuming alcohol and drugs but still go back to abusing them. Individuals find it difficult to admit that they need a form of recovery to stay away from substance abuse. Societal conditions and the stigma surrounding addiction can cause addicts to feel shameful and humiliated in many cases.
Fear of receiving rehab
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Seminar on 'Paradigm Shift in Footwear Industry with Changing Fashion Trends' and Annual Fashion Feast 'Tarz-e-libaas 2018' held at FDDI Rohtak
Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI), Rohtak organized a seminar on 'Paradigm Shift in Footwear Industry with Changing Fashion Trends' and it's Annual Fashion Feast 'Tarz-e-libaas 2018' on 25th May 2018.
Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, IAS, Managing Director, FDDI presenting a bouquet to Mr. Vipul Goel, Hon'ble Industries & Commerce Minister, Government of Haryana
On this occasion, Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, IAS, Managing Director, FDDI, Mr. Adarsh Kumar, AFHQ CS, Executive Director, FDDI, Mr. Vikas Singh, IRS, Executive Director, FDDI and Mr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary, IRSS, Executive Director, FDDI were present.
Lighting of the inaugural lamp by the dignitaries
Mr. Vipul Goel, Hon'ble Industries & Commerce Minister, Government of Haryana, graced the occasion as the 'Chief Guest' with his esteemed presence. The hon'able minister in his speech congratulated the FDDI fraternity on awarding the prestigious status of INI to the institute and appreciated the efforts made by FDDI in providing skill development programs to raise the footwear industry.
Mr. Vipul Goel, Hon'ble Industries & Commerce Minister, Government of Haryana briefing the media
The hon'able minister also assured FDDI for any kind of support that Haryana Government can give in betterment of the operations of the Institute. From the big dais, he announced to establish a new of Footwear Park spreaded over an area of 700 acres in Kharkhoda town near to Rohtak city and invited industrialist to invest in that dream project.
Mr. Vipul Goel, Hon'ble Industries & Commerce Minister, Government of Haryana delivering his speech
Mr. H.K. Agarwal, Chairman & Managing Director, Campus Active Wear Pvt. Ltd., Delhi was invited as the 'Distinguished Guest' whereas Mr. R.K. Gupta, Managing Director, Action Shoes, Delhi, Mr. Shammi Bansal, Managing Director, Liberty Shoes Ltd., Karnal & Mr. Asif Merchant, Managing Director, Catwalk Worldwide Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai were invited as the 'Guest of Honor'. Mr. Subhash Chander Gupta, Managing Director, Lancer Group, Delhi; Mr. Satish Gupta, Managing Director, Lancer Kids Footwear, Bahadurgarh; Mr. Saurabh Gupta, Director, Footwear (Klick) India Pvt. Ltd., Delhi; Mr. Vipan Mehta, Director, M.B. Rubber Pvt. Ltd., U.P.; Mr. Subhash Jagga, Managing Director, Today Footwear, Bahadurgarh and Mr. Rajesh Sharma, Director, Ena Footwear Pvt. Ltd., Bahadurgarh graced the occasion as the 'Guest of Honor'.
Dignitaries sharing the dais during the seminar
The event witnessed the presence of the entire business community from footwear and fashion industries, especially from Bahadurgarh Footwear Park Association, Delhi Udyog Nagar sector, Bahadurgarh Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) and Confederation of Indian Footwear Industries (CIFI).
The topics of the seminar upon which the experts from footwear industry and fashion designers shared their expertise included Recent Trends of Fashion Industry, Recent Advances in Footwear Industry, Role of Fashion in Footwear Industry and Indian Fashion Industry – A key Player in World fashion Industry.
They shared their views regarding the global business forecasts, latest developments, technology innovation, shifts in consumer behaviour besides the various challenges been faced by the industries.
This exhaustive session not only provided an opportunity to the students to interact with the present dignitaries and renowned industrialists but, made the faculties also to brace themselves to the upcoming challenges.
The Hon'ble Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, Mr. Suresh Prabhu in his valuable video message thanked the present dignitaries on the successful culmination of the event and congratulated the students and the organizers for their role in staging this grand event.
Delivering the 'Keynote Address', Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, IAS, Managing Director, FDDI said, "FDDI is contributing towards nation building by imparting education, providing skill development and supporting the needs of the industry".
Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, IAS, Managing Director, FDDI delivering the 'Keynote Address'
He further said that "In line with Institute's mandate of holistic development & in its continuous efforts to maintain at par with International standards, Post-INI, FDDI shall also be entering into academic alliances with top management and Fashion Design institutes of the world to cater the need of whole of the footwear, leather, fashion industry relating to human resource development, design, fashion forecasting, consultancy, students and faculty exchange as well as design and development of joint programs/projects/research and publicationsand other technical services".
The fashion show 'Tarz-e-libas" envisaged a thorough assimilation of new ideas, thoughts, shapes, colours, textures and silhouettes. Overall, 99 students presented their fashion creations in 10 themes through 38 models on the ramp. The platform provided an opportunity to students to showcase their creations and made their imaginations in real forms.
A view of the fashion show 'Tarz-e-libaas 2018'
The eye catching collections were appreciated by one and all present during the show and also received accolade from the entire media.
During the event, FDDI felicitated the Guest of Honors, Sponsors & Star achievers Alumni. Campus Active Wear chose to be the presenter sponsor while M.B. Rubber became the title sponsor of the grand event. The event was powered by Lancer, Action, Liberty and Today footwear and co-sponsored by ICICI Bank and Ena Footwear.
Mr. Vikas Singh, IRS, Executive Director, FDDI while giving the 'Vote of Thanks'
Mr. Vikas Singh, IRS, Executive Director, FDDI while giving the 'Vote of Thanks' said "I am very grateful to all the Hon'ble Guests of Honour of this evening, Sponsors' who have generously contributed and extended their support, Hon'ble Governing Council Members, who are a constant source of inspiration for us and who have taken all the pain to be with us during the journey of FDDI in attaining the INI status."


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"eliminate any activity in your process that does not add value to your end user".
Before we continue let's take a moment to further understand this notion of Lean and Waste. Waste is everywhere. In almost every business waste is often well camouflaged – it lurks, often in full view but somehow hidden from sight – it's often the elephant in the room that almost everyone is blind to. Waste hides in places like admin. systems, hiring standards, PSLs, compliance, governance, security protocols, operating models- anywhere where things are required via 'Compliance' to be consistent - regulated. Finance Systems are often riddled with waste issues – often these Finance Departments (and HR Administrative Departments) unknowingly collude in inefficiencies that 'allow' a company to constantly lose income and haemorrhage talent, revenue, resources and people in the form of Lean Waste (this is why senior management support is needed in any Lean growth initiative). Compliance, HR and Governance teams create (and enforce) wasteful behaviours the moment at which they depart from a culture of collaborating and innovating within the enterprise. Waste starts when these teams fall into what Peter Hawkins calls the Parcifaltrap - they stop serving beyond themselves, (namely the enterprise) and begin to serve themselves to the point of institutionalised narcissism. The moment these departments become self serving, and begin to enforce their 'will' via command and control methods, huge wasteful expense and productivity waste are sure to follow – along with a decline in morale and motivation.
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Fast-casual Mexican chains outpace fast-food rivals
Mark Brandau | Dec 03, 2009
CHICAGO As American consumers' love of Mexican food endures, many of the nation's top limited-service chains are enjoying sales and unit growth, with fast-casual brands supplying the majority of the action.
Chicago-based research firm Technomic Inc. found in its "Top 50 Limited-Service Mexican Chains Restaurant Report" that nine of the 10 fastest-growing limited-service Mexican restaurants brands in 2008 were fast-casual concepts.
Within Technomic's list of the 50 largest limited-service Mexican chains, fast-casual brands grew sales by 11.8 percent to $3.7 billion and increased unit totals by 6.6 percent to 3,348 total restaurants in 2008. By comparison, quick-service Mexican chains in the study had a more modest 1.8-percent growth in sales to $7.4 billion last year, while the total number of those restaurants shrank by 0.4 percent to 7,307 units.
"Consumer demand for this crossover subsegment is driving its growth," said Darren Tristano, executive vice president for Technomic. "Consumers are trading down from more costly casual-dining restaurants, finding they can get less expensive, fresh, high-quality food choices within a comfortable setting at these limited-service establishments."
Technomic found that U.S. systemwide sales for all limited-service Mexican restaurants rose 3.6 percent to more than $12 billion, while unit counts grew by only 0.6 percent, compared with a 3-percent increase the year earlier.
Of all Mexican food brands, Yum! Brands Inc. subsidiary Taco Bell remains far and away the segment leader, with sales of $6.2 billion. Denver-based fast-casual brand Chipotle was second in systemwide sales, with $1.3 billion in 2008, while Lake Forest, Calif.-based Del Taco was No. 3 on the list, with sales of $560 million.
While Chipotle paced the fast-casual subsegment of Technomic's study, posting systemwide sales growth of 20.7 percent, several competitors also had strong results in 2008, including Qdoba Mexican Grill, whose sales grew 17.8 percent to $447 million, and Moe's Southwest Grill, whose sales increased 15.9 percent to $350 million.
Technomic also identified Chronic Tacos, a 28-unit chain based in San Clemente, Calif., as the study's fastest-growing chain, both in terms of sales and units. The quick-service chain increased its sales 75 percent in 2008, while doubling its unit count.
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It's not just as straightforward as pulling out a laptop in the living room, though. Working from home has a number of difficulties and challenges. In many ways, it's a battle for mastery of yourself. I'd like to talk about a few of the issues I've faced, and how I handle them.
As a student I almost always work from home one of two days a week, and during some courses (like the one I'm on right now) I spend the majority of my working hours by the kitchen table. Matt Gemmel offers several useful suggestions on how to stay disciplined, eliminate distractions and preserve self-respect when you're using your home as an office.


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Malaysians Fascinated To Find Tun Mahathir's Signature In Netflix's 'The Crown'
Did you spot it?
By: Iylia Adreena
Best Easter egg for Malaysians.
If there's one highly anticipated and much talked about series on Netflix this year, it's probably the fourth season of 'The Crown'.
The latest season of the show, depicts the British royal family, features Princess Diana and Prince Charles' controversial marriage as well as other key events that took place during that period.
The fourth season of the series has been the highlight for netizens ever since it aired in November 2020 and it seems that we Malaysians have more to talk about apart from the Diana-Charles-Camilla drama.
From Malaysia to UK
A scene from The Crown, season 4 episode 8 where the Head of Commonwealth in 1985 signed a unanimous declaration to sanction the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Itu tangan Margaret Thatcher, about to sign the declaration.
Signature Tun M pun ada! 💪🏼 pic.twitter.com/kp0tb29t0j
— Endie (@The_Endie) December 20, 2020
A screen grab showing the former UK premier Margaret Thatcher holding an official document with signatures on it went viral on Twitter recently.
Several netizens have pointed out that our former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed's signature can be found on the declaration to sanction the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
His signature was spotted among those of other Commonwealth country leaders at that time in 1985.
You can catch this scene on the eighth episode of season four.
Interestingly, that's not all that netizens have spotted – they've managed to track down the original photo, which was recreated during a scene where all the Commonwealth leaders were gathered for a photo op.
In the original photo, Tun M was standing behind Thatcher, but in the series, his stand-in (that looks nothing like him, just a random guy in Baju Melayu) was placed in the third row, further away from his original position.
So, did you manage to catch these amazing details while binge-watching 'The Crown'?
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Najib And Rosmah To Be Featured In Netflix Investigative Series
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Increase the likelihood of success of technological start-ups within businesses and non-profit organizations.
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Identify and manage the incorporation of cross-cutting technologies such as biotechnology, information and communication technologies, automation and robotics into productive and service-related companies.
The curriculum is organized into three quarters from April to January of the following year wherein courses, workshops and seminars are offered. Subsequently, the graduation workshop takes place during the fourth quarter.


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Q: How do I create a factor with three levels in a dataframe in R? I created a factor for nineghteen different distances and I need to determine three levels, one for direct impact (DirImp), another for my respective indirect impact distances, (Dist="1km_","2km_","3km_","4km_","5km_","6km_","7km_","8km_","9km_","10km_","10km","20km","30km","40km","50km","60km","70km"), and other to my control area (Contrl), which start at distance 0 (DirImp) and increase kilometer per kilometer until reaching 10 km, at from this point, it increases every ten km until it reaches 70 km, and the last distance is control.
So, to clarify, in my DataFrame I have a column (Dist) that contains these distances and other columns with other information, I used this code to transform it into a factor:
column Dist estructure:

levels(MY.DTAFRAME$Dist)
[1] "DirImp"   "10km"  "10km_" "1km_"  "20km"  "2km_"  "30km"
[8] "3km_"  "40km"  "4km_"  "50km"  "5km_"  "60km"  "6km_"
[15] "70km"  "7km_"  "8km_"  "9km_", "control"

How I would like it to be:
level 1 = Direct impact ("DirImp")
level 2 = Distances ("1km_","2km_","3km_","4km_","5km_","6km_","7km_","8km_","9km_","10km_","10km","20km","30km","40km","50km","60km","70km")
level 3 = Contrl Area  ("Contrl")

Column Dist = ("DirImp", "1km_","2km_","3km_","4km_","5km_","6km_","7km_","8km_","9km_","10km_","10km","20km","30km","40km","50km","60km","70km", "control")

  MY.DATAFRAME$DistFact <- factor(MY.DATAFRAME$Dist, level ordered = TRUE)

  levels(MY.DTAFRAME$DistFact)
  [1] "DirImp"   "10km"  "10km_" "1km_"  "20km"  "2km_"  "30km"
  [8] "3km_"  "40km"  "4km_"  "50km"  "5km_"  "60km"  "6km_"
  [15] "70km"  "7km_"  "8km_"  "9km_", "control"

A: Is something like the following that the question is asking for?
forcats::fct_collapse(y,
                      DirImp = grep("DirImp", y, ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE),
                      Distances = grep("km", y, ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE),
                      Control = grep("control", y, ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE)
                      )
# [1] Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances
# [7] Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances
#[13] Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances
#[19] Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances Distances
#[25] Distances Distances Distances Distances Control   Distances
#Levels: DirImp Distances Control

Or, maybe more readable,
grep_tmp <- function(pattern, x){
  grep(pattern, x, ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE)
}

forcats::fct_collapse(y,
                      DirImp = grep_tmp("DirImp", y),
                      Distances = grep_tmp("^\\d+km", y),
                      Control = grep_tmp("control", y)
                      )

Data
With the levels posted in the question, here is sample data.
set.seed(1234)
x <- scan(text = '"DirImp"   "10km"  "10km_" "1km_"  "20km"  "2km_"  "30km"
"3km_"  "40km"  "4km_"  "50km"  "5km_"  "60km"  "6km_"
"70km"  "7km_"  "8km_"  "9km_" "control"', what = character())

y <- factor(sample(x, 30, TRUE), levels = x)

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Welcome to the official website of the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D C.
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I am pleased to join you…in commemorating the 71st Anniversary of Pakistan's Independence. Founded in 1947, under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan is a nation with a diverse cultural heritage and rich history. Once again, I appreciate the opportunity to join you in celebrating the 71st Anniversary of Pakistan's Independence and wish you all a memorable event.
My sincerest congratulations on your 71st Anniversary of Independence. Such momentous occasions are a time to pay reverence to the memories of your national past, and to keep building up the friendships of the present. My fellow Kansans and I take the United States' anniversary of independence to study our past, to plan for our future, and to build up friendships between people of goodwill everywhere. I wish you a safe and joyous time of reflection, celebration, and friendship…on August 14th.
I write to send my congratulations to the people of Pakistan as you celebrate Independence Day. The United States and Pakistan have a long history of cooperation. As Chairman and a longtime member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have had the opportunity to travel throughout Pakistan, and have been touched by the warmth of the people and their friendship. There is no greater bridge between our countries than the Pakistani Diaspora. This community has long kept me and others informed about U.S.-Pakistan relations, nurturing greater cooperation between the two countries.
It is my honor to greet the people of Pakistan and the Pakistani-American community on Pakistan's Independence Day. The U.S.-Pakistan relationship is of great importance to the longevity and prosperity of our two nations. As a member of the Department of Homeland Security Committee, I greatly appreciate the invaluable friendship our countries share. Pakistan's central role in the security and stability of South Asia is crucial to American interests in that region. The United States enjoys a multifaceted relationship with the people of Pakistan, encompassing a wide scope of fields. The Pakistani-American community is a shared bond between our two countries. Pakistani-Americans are esteemed members of our communities and shining examples of the American Dream.
I send my greetings to the people of Pakistan and the Pakistani-American community on the occasion of Pakistan's Independence Day. I appreciate the significance of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship as well as the importance of the friendship between our two countries, our history of cooperation, and Pakistan's role as an ally during the Cold War. I am committed to strengthening our bilateral relations and advancing our shared interests. Pakistan's policies are pivotal to the stability of South Asia and to American interests in that region. The U.S. has a broad-based relationship with the people of Pakistan in areas ranging from education and health to energy and trade to democracy.
As Governor of the State of Illinois, I am delighted to welcome everyone to celebrate the Independence Day of Pakistan. Today's celebration is a wonderful opportunity for Pakistani Americans…to rejoice in their rich heritage. Earning freedom is always a cause for celebration.
As Mayor and on behalf of the City of Chicago, it is my pleasure to congratulate the Pakistani community of Chicago on the celebration of the 71st Pakistan Independence Day. I encourage all Chicagoans to join the global Pakistani community in honoring Pakistan's Independence Day. To memorialize our strong cultural bond, Chicago and Lahore became Sister Cities in 2007, a friendship and partnership we deeply cherish.
I offer my congratulations on the 71st anniversary of Pakistani independence. It is important to celebrate this special occasion and I offer my best wishes for the continued success and prosperity of Pakistan and its people. As an ally of Pakistan, I believe the United States must continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Pakistan and Pakistani-Americans. The United States and Pakistan have a long history of working together on mutual interests, and I look to maintaining our close relations.


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Latin orations, theses, letters, and exercises in verse
MS. Lat. misc. e. 38
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Latin orations, theses, letters, and exercises in verse, some of them in Greek, and a few in English; collected by H. H., a member of Queen's college, Oxford, and dated between 1665 and 1682.
Most of the pieces are Oxford disputations and exercises, academical or collegiate: at p. 164 rev. are poems on the new Sheldonian, 1674; and at p. 160 rev. a copy of Allibond's Rustica Academiæ Oxoniensis nuper reformatæ descriptio, 1648. The names of some Queen's men occur, and two acrostics (pp. 168, 175 rev.): and there are lists of the pieces.
Written about A.D. 1680-1690
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 19562
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Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, no. 33412
Sold by -- Dow, bookseller of Exeter, to J. E. Bailey, in 1882 or 1883, see p. iv.
Presented by J. Grafton Milne, esq., on Oct. 5, 1904.
Physical Facet
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Indexed Names and Subjects
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