Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday alleged that independent thinking and free expression in Indian universities were under threat in the present situation.
He said the recent attempts to interfere with free expression of the student community in Hyderabad Central University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were of particular concern and termed the police crackdown as "inimical to learning" and "undemocratic".
"Regrettably, independent thinking and free expression in Indian universities are now under threat. Attempts to suppress peaceful dissent are not only inimical to learning but also undemocratic," Singh said while speaking at the bicentenary celebration of Presidency University in Kolkata.
"True nationalism is found where students, citizens, are encouraged to think and speak freely where dissents are encouraged and not suppressed. It is only by constructive engagements. We can truly build a stronger, more cohesive and sustaining democracy in our country," he added.
"We must protect India from this trend and universities have a vital role in this regard," Singh further added.


I am writing on the bus as we head to the North. The ride is a bit bumpy. But on this first part of the drive we've had a few hours to stare off into the bush and the seemingly endless sky, and for me this time is an opportunity to collect my thoughts about what we've seen and witnessed so far.
Marilise Fransman is a force to be reckoned with. She has built the School incredibly over the years and it is clear she is proud of her achievements – as she should be -- but the needs are great as she is quick to point out to us.
As our group delivered our gift of Braille books and moved along on the tour of the school, I had a chance to visit with her about her efforts. The school serves learners who are blind, partially sighted, and fully sighted but who have other disabilities. She explained to me that she turns no child away. She has children who come to the school because they can attend no where else, or because they do not feel comfortable learning any where else – they may be emotionally challenged, disfigured by disease, or have been disowned by their families due to customs; customs which we cannot understand and which I surely cannot write about here. It took everything I had to keep my composure.
Our conversation continued and I learned more about Marilise's remarkable mother, and her family, and her dedication, which is unswerving, to these learners and this School.
I knew in that moment that Marilise and I had clicked and I do hope we will be friends moving forward. We walked and talked a bit more about faith, and life, and hope. We will look forward to being in partnership with Marilise Fransman and this special school in any way we can.
Thank you all for your comments, your e-mails, and your prayers for our journey. We know you travel with us.
I am keeping you all in my thoughts as you continue what is left of your journey.


I had an Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) or rather an Insulin Stress Test today. As the test is quite intense on the heart, I had an ECG yesterday which was fine.
Insulin takes your blood sugar down, Crunchy Nut Cornflakes brings it back up again.
Since my transsphenoidal surgery for acromegaly I have been kept on Hydrocortisone just in case my little pituitary gland has been damaged at all. One of the hormones that could be damaged is ACTH, which in turn causes Cortisol to be produced by the adrenal glands. Without cortisol, we die. Sobering stuff. Gulp.
Anyhow, the test today is to determine if my pituitary is behaving properly by measuring my body's production of cortisol to the 'stress' of very low blood sugar.
An injection of Insulin drives down the blood sugar within around twenty minutes.
The body normally keeps the blood sugar at around 5 mmol/L by producing Insulin or Glucagon depending on whether the level needs to go up or down. The only energy source that the brain can use is glucose as blood sugar. A sustained loss of blood sugar would result in the brain losing its energy supply which would result in a visit to the undertaker.
Anyhow, during the test they don't want the inconvenience of killing you off so the test is very tightly controlled and you are kept under a very close watch and are not left on your own.
As the blood sugar drops to say below 3.7 nmol/L , the normal hormone responses are the production of glucagon, epinephrine, growth hormone. The Glucagon production results in the body trying to recover the blood sugar (the liver gets working hard).
At a blood sugar of less than (say) 3.2 nmol/L, ACTH is produced in the pituitary gland, which in turn causes the adrenal glands to produce Cortisol. This starts a cascade of actions as a stress response – heart racing.
Bingo – this is what they are measuring for.
As my blood sugar went down I just felt as if I'd had a drink. I did mention it "on the way down" with comments like "that feels like two pints", and then it was "wow that feels like five pints". At that stage, I was feeling quite merry, lots of sweat pouring off my face, and a hunger like a student on 'pizza night'.
The nurse struggled taking blood from me at that point, and I had to make a fist in my arm to coax out a sample. My body was acting completely normally of course, it was constricting all the blood vessels in my extremities to conserve blood to my brain. It was certainly doing that.
As soon as that magic blood sugar level was reached, I was given a bowl of Crunchy Nut cornflakes, with lashings of milk and an incredibly sweet cup of coffee. I managed to wolf down three bowls of the lovely crunchy stuff, along with the sugary coffee. I normally don't take sugar in my coffee, but I really wanted my sugar.
I found the whole experience absolutely fascinating, especially as everything was explained to me. I found the actual effects on my body quite astounding, I never realised how incredibly well controlled our bodies are by these hormones and steroids that float around our bloodstream.
My blood sugar carried going down, and then recovered over the next hour or so. Later, I had some lunch while I was there and then once they were happy I was fine I was sent on my way.
I was told that I could feel very weak in the next few hours, so it was best to eat something again quite soon. I went home by bus and tram (best not to drive). What a fascinating day!
EDITED: I had the results that my cortisol production was completely normal, so I could reduce and stop my Hydrocortisone tablets as a result. Whoohoo!


Have you ever heard of Quiz, Quiz, Trade? It's a great activity to practice, review, and engage your students! Check out how I use it with my Spanish classes.
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a couple of days of Kagan workshop training. Right away I saw that the cooperative learning strategies could really lend themselves to a foreign language classroom. Students work in small groups or pairs, sharing out to the whole class in various ways. There are many different techniques and strategies Kagan teaches you how to use, and there's no way I can cover them all in a single blog post. I absolutely recommend checking out a full day training – the schedule and locations can be found on the Kagan website. Jillian Baros has a great blog post on teaching using CI and Kagan structures if you would like a more comprehensive discussion on how the two pair together!
What I want to talk about is one of my favorite Kagan strategies – Quiz, Quiz, Trade. This structure is fantastic because it gets students up and out of their seats, speaking, practicing structures with classmates, and working with students they may not usually work with. It is worthwhile to note that students will be working alone, and doing a lot of output – this strategy is good for reviewing structures that you have modeled and practiced in class. Remember, input before output!
The first few times you use a Kagan structure it will take a little time to set it up with students, but afterward, you just need to tell the students which structure, remind them of a few procedures, and you're set! These are the slides I use to support my students' understanding when I go through the Quiz, Quiz, Trade structure. I just insert the two applicable slides into my presentation for the day. I generally use the English slides and speak in Spanish, acting things out, grabbing partners to help model what we're going to do. This year I hope to start using the Spanish slides after my classes become more familiar with the structure, during the quick review of procedures before we start.
Come up questions you want to practice. I have used anywhere between 8 – 24 questions in a class size of 24. Think about how much time you're planning for and how much practice you want them to have with the questions!
Pass out one card to each student. Make sure the students all understand the card they have in hand and knows the correct answer.
*You can place the correct answer on the back of the card, do a practice activity with the questions, or do a quick small group activity to make sure all students are able to answer accurately.
Explain the structure and procedure to students. Visual support for procedures.
Begin with Kagan structure StandUp-HandUp-PairUp to pair students. Students stand up, put their hands up, and high five another person with their hand up. They are now partners! When students are searching for a partner, their hands remain in the air for easy visibility.
It is entirely likely that students may wind up with their original question. That is okay!! They're just getting more practice. I time this activity and don't let it go longer than 5 minutes. Five minutes of pure output is enough to give the students a break, move around, and get a lot of practice in, without too much time to get off task.
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Here are ALL of my card sets that I use with this strategy!


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House Bill 276 requires each public school district in Ohio to adopt anti-bullying and harassment policies. In Springboro Community City Schools, policy 5517.01 prohibits harassment, intimidation, or bullying.
The Board of Education does not tolerate harassment, intimidation or bullying of any student on school property or at a school-sponsored event, regardless of whether the event occurs on or off school property. Students who engage in such behavior are subject to disciplinary action, including suspension and/or expulsion from school. The Board's commitment to addressing such prohibited behavior involves a multi-faceted approach, which includes education and the promotion of a school atmosphere in which harassment, intimidation and bullying will not be tolerated by students, staff or administration.
For purposes of policy 5517.01, the term "harassment, intimidation or bullying" means any intentional written, verbal, electronic or physical act that a student has exhibited toward another particular student more than once and the behavior both: (1) causes mental or physical harm to the other student; and (2) is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive educational environment for the other student. "Electronic act" means an act committed through the use of a cellular telephone, pager, personal communications devices or other electronic communications device. Harassment, intimidation or bullying also includes violence within a dating relationship.
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I thought perhaps we could get the forum wisdom on running, formatting and keeping alive a wine group. So it would be a good place to collect thoughts and tips.
Our group is called Oddbods having come out of an old Oddbins group before that store went down the pan. We have no commercial connection now.
We hold monthly meetings in a back room of a pub/bar, the venue has changed several times over the 10 years it been running. We take turns to put on a tasting to a theme of our own choosing. Usually between around 12 wines and about 12-15 attending. Each wine being passed around and discussed, both privately then in the group.
When we have no leader we do a BYO theme, sometimes blind and in a guess the bottle theme. We have a Christmas party tasting and a summer BBQ.
The reason for my asking for tips is that it's difficult to keep it running with numbers and interesting ideas. So how do you get new members and keep it fresh?
I'm a paid up member of two groups, and a sometime member of a third plus have experience of others.
New members come via website, and as contacts of members.
I have only ever belonged to one tasting group and that was the similar to your limited to ten one.
Ours was in north Essex some years back and we met once a month, we did meet originally every two weeks but drop outs made it a bit pointless but once a month worked well and you didn't reach that stage were it became a chore to attend, lasted till well after I left the area.
I think the setting up is the hardest part finding like minded people is not easy within a 'restricted' area and people who travelled any distance were the first to decant hmmm.
Yes, our 10 groups meets monthly, first Thursday of the month. Because it's a U3A sub-group members are local.
On a few occassions too many people have indicated they can't attend and we had postponed by a week or cancelled that month.
Thank you, Peter some interesting points.
We charge just on the night. £20, this goes to wine and food, with the excess being for room hire and then to general funds. These funds pay the venue,buy glasses, napkins, pay some champagne for Christmas do etc. The pub wash and store the glasses for us. The tasting organiser prints tasting sheets, chooses the wines, provides cold meats and cheeses etc. They are reimbursed, from the fees.
I haven't thought of insurance, what for?
How many do you get to the U3A group and what is the format? Do you eat?
When you say speaker costs, what type of speaker do you get and how does that fit in with the evening format?eg do they bring wines and speak around them or as a separate part of the evening?
I get the feeling our group is a little more haphazard. But I'm keen to glean any tips which might help.
To protect the club against any claims made against it while running events - if someone has an accident and decide to sue for example.
As above, we set the limit on 10 members* as we meet in peoples homes around their table. So at most we have 10 people, often there are 8 or 9 because of holidays or illness.
At first we were tasting only with some palate cleaning biscuits but as time went on people started supplying nibbles. Some have printed the wine notes from TWS and where the notes mention a food match they've supplied a similar food.
Me, I now get some party-food nibbles from M&S.
Format - well the member that is hosting has chosen the wines, printed a sheet of them, sometimes also a map, and brings out the first wine, host says a bit about it, bottle goes around the table then we talk about the wine. At the end we vote on the favourite.
The speaker organiser has an annual budget. We've had MWs, experts in a particular fields, members of Association of Wine Educators, local wine shop owners/managers, representatives of winerys, people from National Wine Bodies, importers, Waitrose, Majestic … Some charge a lot others don't so it needs to be balanced out over the year.
Speaker is given a budget for wine and they source and bring the wine. When people arrive they are given a welcome glass of the first wine. We sit at tables of sixteen. When the speaker indicates a bottle is placed on each table and we pour a measure using a measuring glass. The speaker talks about the wine. We have 8 wines plus the door wine. Usually there is a second pour of the door wine so the speaker can tell us about it.
There's a winner for white and one for red and an overall winner who gets a trophy, a small battered cup found in a junk shop many years ago. We finish with battered fish and chips from a local chippy. The event is called The Battered Trophy.
At the start this wasn't well supported because people didn't like blind tastings but at the one this month we had around 75 people as members realise that they can just enjoy themselves, drink wine and chat to friends.
Thank you Peter. That's really interesting.
I think the main difference and advantage you have is size. The last email for our meeting went to 20 people, around 5 of those I haven't seen for 6 months/meetings, or even in one case two years.
Also with such a small number there are some serious wine buffs and a few just there for the social. We take turns in putting on tastings but some who are regular never have. Not only is this more work for the few, but means tastings are a bit repetitive.
To get round the problem of the folk who never volunteer to run a tasting, our group has an annual desert island wine event. Those who haven't presented a tasting are asked to choose and speak about one wine that they love above all others (hardly a chore). We usually have eight wines at a tasting so that is eight presenters. If you want to control the types of wine presented you could give each person a brief.
In terms of mixing things up we have also had the occasional blind tasting in a Call my Bluff format where three people describe a wine and we have to guess who is telling the truth.
Our group is like yours in that there is no membership fee, and the fees cover venue and glass hire. Our group is based at a university and we have to pay our hire costs up front at the start of the academic year. So we have to build up enough reserves over the year to be in a position to do that. We meet once a month from Oct to June, with an end of year BBQ (held elsewhere) where the wines are subsidised by any excess financial reserves. The meetings are early evening starting at 6:30pm. Membership is a mix of staff, retired staff, spouses and partners, friends. We get about 40-45 people per tasting and people are walking, using public transport or cycling. So a quite local crowd.
I am thinking about setting up a local tasting group. Apart from trade groups there isn't really anything in my area and I think it would be something that would be well attended in the area I live. I have ideas on how it would be run but would love to hear any tips and hints from those already doing something similiar.
Hi @Leah. There are quite a few threads on a similar theme so I wonder if you're looking for something different?
This seems to me to be the most useful non-specific one. Many others are about particular groups.
Thanks Andy, I knew there had been a thread but couldn't find it when I searched .
I have ideas on how it would be run but would love to hear any tips and hints from those already doing something similiar.
Same here! Would really love to set something up, as a way of getting to know other people locally who are into wine and tastings. Got lots of ideas, but haven't really done anything with it yet.
I'm also considering starting a wine tasting society at the university I work for - to get students to appreciate wine more, and understand what it is they're tasting - but how to do this without it turning into a great piss up, I'm not entirely sure!
Surely this is the only way to get them on board!
I could advertise it with the tag line 'This is Not a Piss Up', sung to PIL's This is not a Love Song, I guess!
Hi @leah I've written extensively earlier in this thread, so won't repeat. Happy to answer questions.
Fundamental questions. Where will it be held? How will it be funded? Will you sell tickets? Licensed premises?
Yes, licensed premises, (I also have a personal license), debating on how it will be funded currently. I like the idea of paying a membership so as to cover speaker fees if and when I get someone in. Would also like to allow non members entry to wet their toes as such for a fee on the door … I'm open to suggestions as to what works best .
use your discretiion, and "invite" interested parties who enquire yourself.
Otherwise, I think I have little else to add, apart from to (unhelpfully) say that I have seen several different models for wine groups that work well. The most important thing is to find a group of positive people.
Oh - one more thing. If people pay per tasting, no-shows can cause problems and bad-feeling. I don't think insisting on payment up front with no refunds, is necessarily the answer, but would suggest you at least have clear rules about how they are dealt with.
We've been running a local tasting group here since 1984. We have ten members who pay by standing order £15 per month. Each month one members buys £100 worst of wine (six bottles) and presents them blind for the members to taste before revealing all at the end. Three times a year we have a £300 (also six bottles) to spend on a fine wine night.
The venues are at members houses in rotation and if members cannot attend the budget remains the same. We do try to change to accommodate those who have other engagements.
I would recommend this DIY approach and shun spending good money on so-called experts (of which there are many) to come and offer often lesser quality wines. The best bit is in the organising of one's tasting and providing researched notes to accompany.


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Nick's Kids Dedicates Organization's 19th Habitat for Humanity Championship House
Brittany Marshall
Brittany Marshall Published: August 11, 2022
(Brittany Marshall|Tuscaloosa Thread)
Terry Saban bent the rules for a good cause and dedicated the 19th "Championship" house her nonprofit organization has built in partnership with Habitat for Humanity in Tuscaloosa.
Kanika Cotton and her two children were the guests of honor at a ceremony Thursday morning at their new Habitat home on Ash Street in West Tuscaloosa. Cotton said she always dreamed of becoming a homeowner and is excited to be in their new house.
"I've been waiting for this moment for a while and to be in here, it's a blessing," Cotton said. "I am grateful for Habitat for Humanity and Nick's Kids because it took us out of a two bedroom and gives my kids a place to grow and play."
In the past, Nick's Kids has funded and helped build a house in honor of each National Championship the Alabama Crimson Tide football team has won, so it was unusual to see a new house dedicated Thursday considering the Tide came up just shy of another national title in January.
Mrs. Saban said she decided to have the Foundation build another house anyway to give a family in need the house they dreamed of -- after all, Bama had beaten the eventual championship-winning Georgia Bulldogs just a few weeks before the title game in the SEC Championship.
"We knew there was a family sitting at home who knew that if we win, they were going to get a home," Saban said. "Of course, it was disappointing to all of our fans to lose the game but partially for them, they knew their dream of having a home would have to wait a little longer. Our team worked so hard that they deserved the honor of having a house made for that year for all of their hard work."
Mrs. Saban came together with other Crimson Tide coaches' wives Wednesday to finish the final landscaping for Cotton's home, one of Saban's traditions for the partnership with Habitat.
Saban said the exception to this year's rule probably will not happen again, but she assured that a home will be funded and built for every championship to come.
Habitat homes are sold at low cost to qualifying families on a 30-year mortgage with zero percent interest. Participants are required to volunteer 250 hours to building their homes and homes for other families.
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This is an Award ceremony especially for the Malayalam Film industry, which takes places annually under the Asianet, a Malayalam Television Network from South India. The state where it takes place is Kerela, Malayalam being the regional language, but artists have fans all across the country and based outside of the country too.
The ceremony started in the year 1998, and the year 1999 was the second time ceremony took place because of the outstanding response to the first one. The main cities where the show takes place are Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerela.
The ceremony had categories like The Best Feature Film, Director, Actor, Actress, Character Actor, Child Artist, Script Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Music Director, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Villian, Lyricist, and much more.
The Award for Best Film went to P.V. Gangadharan, for the movie Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal.
The Best Actor Award went to Shyama Prasad for the movie Agnisakshi.
The Best Actress Award went to Manju Warrier for the movie Kannezhuthi Pottumthottu, Pathram.
Award for the Best Supporting Actor under the male category went to Biju Menon for the movie Kannezhuthi Pottumthottu. Under the same category of female, this awards was won by Praveen for the film Vasantiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum.
The award for the Best Script Writer went to Lohithadas for the movie Veendum Chila Veetukaryangal. The Award for the best Cinematographer was received by Vipin Mohan for the movie Veendum Chila Veetukaryangal. For the most tedious job in Post production that is editing, the award went to Sreekar Prasad for the film Olympiyan Anthony Adam.
Under the category of music, the award for the Best Music Director went to Mohan Sithara for Deepasthampam Mahaschariam, and Vasantiyum Lakshmi yum Pinne Njanum. Yusuf Ali Kechery received the award for best lyrics for Deepasthambham Mahascharyam.
Under the category of Best Playback Singer male, the award went to by Jayachandran for Niram and K.S. Chitra for Megham received the award under the female category.
Lastly, P. Bhaskaran received the Award for the Lifetime Achievement award, who is a lyricist and a Director.


Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch have not only joined the cast but have actually finished shooting on David Gordon Green's top-secret indie feature "Prince Avalanche" says Variety.
A remake of the 2011 Icelandic comedy "Either Way", the story follows two men whose lives intersect while working on a road striping crew together. Green, Lisa Muskat, Craig Zobel, James Belfer and Derrick Tseng produced the film which was shot last month in Bastrop, Texas.
Green will next direct the remake of Dario Argento's horror classic "Suspiria" at Crime Scene Pictures.


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China 'war on terror' uproots Uighur families, leaked data shows
by warsan February 18, 2020 0580
Newly revealed database exposes methods the Chinese government employed to crack down on Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
For decades, a Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China's far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with free herbal medicine. In the winter, he bought coal for the poor.
But as a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly imam was swept up and locked away, along with all three of his sons living in China.
Now, a newly revealed database exposes in extraordinary detail the main reasons for the detentions of Emer, his three sons, and hundreds of others in Karakax County: their religion and their family ties.
The database obtained by The Associated Press news agency profiles the internment of 311 individuals with relatives abroad and contains information on more than 2,000 of their relatives, neighbours and friends.
Each entry includes the detainee's name, address, national identity number, detention date and location, along with a detailed dossier on their family, religious and neighbourhood background, the reason for the detention and a decision on whether or not to release them.
Issued within the past year, the documents do not indicate which government department compiled them or for whom.
Taken as a whole, the information offers the fullest and most personal view yet into how Chinese officials picked who was put into and who was let out of detention camps, as part of a significant crackdown that has locked away more than a million ethnic minorities, most of them Muslims.
The database emphasises that the Chinese government focused on religion as a reason for detention – not just political violence, as authorities claim, but everyday activities such as praying, attending a mosque, or even growing a long beard.
Religious practice targeted
It also shows the role of family: People with detained relatives are far more likely to end up in a camp themselves, uprooting and giving entire families like Emer's a criminal record in the process.
Similarly, family background and attitude is a bigger factor than detainee behaviour in whether they are released.
"It's very clear that religious practice is being targeted," said Darren Byler, a University of Colorado researcher studying the use of surveillance technology in Xinjiang.
THE LISTENING POST | Xinjiang leaks: Reporting on China's detention camps (10:45)
"They want to fragment society, to pull the families apart and make them much more vulnerable to retraining and re-education."
The Xinjiang regional government did not respond to faxes requesting comment.
Asked whether Xinjiang is singling out people of a religious bent and their families, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said: "This kind of nonsense is not worth commenting on."
Beijing has said before that the detention centres are for voluntary job training and that it does not discriminate based on religion.
Heavy-handed rule
China has struggled for decades to control Xinjiang, where the native Uighurs have long resented Beijing's heavy-handed rule. With the 9/11 attacks in the United States, officials began using the spectre of "terrorism" to justify harsher religious restrictions, saying young Uighurs were susceptible to violence "extremism".
After armed groups set off bombs at a train station in Xinjiang's capital in 2014, President Xi Jinping launched a so-called "People's War on Terror", transforming Xinjiang into a digital police state.
The leak of the database from sources in the Uighur exile community follows the release in November of a classified blueprint on how the mass detention system really works.
Uighur women use carts to transport cement for home renovations at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region in 2018 [File: Andy Wong/AP]
The blueprint obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which includes the AP, showed that the centres are in fact forced ideological and behavioural re-education camps run in secret.
Another set of documents leaked to the New York Times newspaper revealed the historical lead-up to the mass detention.
The latest set of documents came from sources in the Uighur exile community, dating most recently to March 2019.
The detainees listed come from Karakax County, a traditional settlement of about 650,000 on the edge of Xinjiang's Taklamakan Desert where more than 97 percent of residents are Uighur.
The list was corroborated through interviews with former Karakax residents, Chinese identity verification tools and other lists and documents seen by the AP.
'Witch-hunt mindset'
Detainees and their families are tracked and classified by rigid, well-defined categories. Households are designated as "trustworthy" or "not trustworthy" and their attitudes are graded as "ordinary" or "good." Families have "light" or "heavy" religious atmospheres and the database keeps count of how many relatives of each detainee are locked in prison or sent to a "training centre."
Officials used these categories to determine how suspicious a person was – even if they had not committed any crimes.
"It underscores the witch-hunt mindset of the government and how the government criminalises everything," said Adrian Zenz, an expert on the detention centres and senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC.
THE LISTENING POST | The China Cables: Disrupting Beijing's Xinjiang narrative (26:21)
Reasons listed for internment include "minor religious infection," "disturbs other persons by visiting them without reasons," "relatives abroad," "thinking is hard to grasp" and "untrustworthy person born in a certain decade." The last seems to refer to younger men; about 31 percent of people considered "untrustworthy" were in the age bracket of 25 to 29 years, according to an analysis of the data by Zenz.
When former student Abdullah Muhammad spotted Emer's name on the list of the imprisoned, he was distraught.
"He didn't deserve this," Muhammad said. "Everyone liked and respected him. He was the kind of person who couldn't stay silent against injustice."
Renowned teacher
Even in Karakax county, famed for its intellectuals and scholars, Emer stood out as one of the most renowned teachers in the region.
Muhammad studied the Quran under Emer for six years as a kid, following him from house to house in an effort to dodge the authorities.
Muhammad said Emer was so respected that the police would phone him with warnings ahead of time before raiding classes at his modest, single-story home of brick and mud.
Under heavy surveillance
Though Emer gave Party-approved sermons, he refused to preach Communist propaganda, Muhammad said, eventually running into trouble with the authorities. He was stripped of his position as an imam and barred from teaching in 1997 amid unrest roiling the region.
When Muhammad left China for Saudi Arabia and Turkey in 2009, Emer was making his living as a doctor of traditional medicine. Emer was growing old and under heavy surveillance, he had stopped attending religious gatherings.
That did not stop authorities from detaining the imam, who is in his eighties and sentencing him on various charges for up to 12 years in prison over 2017 and 2018.
The database cites four charges in various entries: "stirring up terrorism," acting as an unauthorised "wild" imam, following the strict Saudi Wahhabi sect and conducting illegal religious teachings.
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Muhammad called the charges false. Emer had stopped his preaching, practised a moderate Central Asian sect of Islam rather than Wahhabism and had never dreamed of hurting others, let alone stirring up "terrorism," Muhammad said.
"He used to always preach against violence," Muhammad said. "Anyone who knew him can testify that he wasn't a religious extremist."
None of Emer's three sons had been convicted of a crime. But the database shows that over the course of 2017, all were thrown into the detention camps for having too many children, trying to travel abroad, being "untrustworthy" or "infected with religious extremism," or going on the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
'He never bowed down to them'
It also shows that their relation to Emer and their religious background was enough to convince officials they were too dangerous to let out from the detention camps.
"His father taught him how to pray," notes one entry for his eldest, Ablikim Memtimin.
"His family's religious atmosphere is thick. We recommend he (Emer) continue training," says another entry for his youngest son, Emer Memtimin.
Even a neighbour was tainted by living near him with Emer's alleged crimes and prison sentence recorded in the neighbour's dossier.
The database indicates much of this information is collected by teams of cadres stationed at mosques, sent to visit homes and posted in communities. This information is then compiled in a dossier called the "three circles", encompassing their relatives, community, and religious background.
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It was not just the religious who were detained. The database shows that Karakax officials also explicitly targeted people for activities that included going abroad, getting a passport or installing foreign software.
Pharmacist Tohti Himit was detained in a camp for having gone multiple times to one of 26 "key" countries, mostly Muslim, according to the database. Former employee Habibullah, who is now in Turkey, recalled Himit as a secular, kind and wealthy man who kept his face free of a beard.
"He wasn't very pious, he didn't go to the mosque," said Habibullah, who declined to give his first name out of fear of retribution against family still in China. "I was shocked by how absurd the reasons for detention were."
The database says cadres found Himit had attended his grandfather's funeral at a local mosque on March 10, 2008. Later that year, the cadres found, he had gone to the same mosque again, once to worship and once to celebrate a festival. In 2014 he had gone to Anhui province, in inner China, to get a passport and go abroad.
That, the government concluded, was enough to show that Himit was "certainly dangerous." They ordered Himit to stay in the centre and "continue training."
Emer is now under house arrest due to health issues, his former student, Muhammad, has heard. It is unclear where Emer's sons are.
It was the imam's courage and stubbornness that did him in, Muhammad said. Though deprived of his mosque and his right to teach, Emer quietly defied the authorities for two decades by staying true to his faith.
"Unlike some other scholars, he never cared about money or anything else the Communist Party could give him," Muhammad said. "He never bowed down to them – and that's why they wanted to eliminate him."
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Turbulenz SDK 0.26.0
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Summary
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Turbulenz SDK 0.26.0 is an update for both the Turbulenz Engine
Installer and SDK components.

Packaged Components
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The following versions of Turbulenz products are packaged in this SDK:

* turbulenz_engine - 1.1
* turbulenz_tools - 1.0.1
* turbulenz_local - 1.1

Change List
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New Features
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* Added :ref:`multiple logins to local <multiple_logins>`.
  The login button on the top right of the local server page allows you to quickly switch between users.
  The current user is stored as a cookie.
  This cookie will be shared across the tabs on your browser.
  To login as multiple users simultaneously either:

  - Use different browsers for each user.
  - Use private browsing or "Incognito mode" windows for each user (requires logging in again each time).
  - Set up multiple users in Chrome - http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2364824
  - Set up multiple profiles in Firefox - http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

* Added the :ref:`DataShareManager <datasharemanager>` object for creating and finding :ref:`data share <datashare>` objects.
  Data shares are shared public key-value stores which allow games to share data with other users.
  For example, data shares could be used to store the game state of an asynchronous multiplayer game
  (allowing communication with users who are on-line or off-line) like Chess or Diplomacy.

* Added :ref:`NotificationsManager <notificationsmanager>` object for allowing games to send notifications to users to notify them of game specific events.
  Examples include:

  - 'Your construction is complete' (for a game where building things takes longer than a single play session).
  - 'You are under attack' (for a game where other players can attack a user that is not currently playing the game).
  - 'It's your turn' (for a turn-based game).

  Notifications can be instant or time delayed and can be received by users even if the game that sent them is no longer running.
  For a detailed list of API see the :ref:`NotificationsManager <notificationsmanager>` object.

* Added a Tic-tac-toe app which demos how the :ref:`DataShareManager <datasharemanager>` and
  :ref:`NotificationsManager <notificationsmanager>` API's can be used in-game.
  Read the instructions for :ref:`logging in multiple accounts <multiple_logins>` in order to play.

* Added Protolib a 2D/3D library for prototyping games rapidly using higher level functions.
  Features include:

  - Setting background color.
  - Modifying 3D camera position, direction, orientation, FOV, near/far planes.
  - Loading and drawing 2D Sprites, 3D Sprites, 3D Meshes.
  - Font rendering text for GUIs.
  - Debug rendering for 3D lines, spheres, cubes.
  - Lighting for the 3D scene including shadowrendering : ambient, spot, point.
  - State-based input for keyboard, mouse.
  - Play, pause, resume and stop for 3D sound with position, looping, pitch, min/max distance, rolloff.
  - Live manipulation and monitoring of variables with sliders.
  - Configurable functionality with parameters e.g. fonts, providing custom asset mapping, disabling of sound/shadows.

  *SDK 0.26.0 contains BETA version 0.2 of Protolib. See the* :ref:`Protolib <protolib_introduction>` *for more details.*

* Added two example app structures for building Protolib apps.

  - *Protolib Sample App (apps/protolibsampleapp)* - Demonstrates a wide range of API used together. The purpose is to show how to use the API for rapid prototyping.
  - *Protolib Template App (apps/protolibtemplateapp)* - A basic template structure for a blank app. This app provides a skeleton structure with init, update and destroy functions. The template can be copied and used as a basis to start building an app from scratch.

* Added :ref:`GraphicsDevice  <graphicsdevice>` :ref:`finish <graphicsdevice_finish>` and :ref:`flush <graphicsdevice_flush>`.
* Added :ref:`ShaderManager  <shadermanager>` :ref:`setAutomaticParameterResize <shadermanager_setautomaticparameterresize>`.

Changes
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* Open source repository changes have been integrated into the SDK.
  This includes various changes to the repository layout and packaging/rebuilding of tools.
  In most cases the changes to the layout of SDK and its content should not have drastically changed.
  The method for invoking certain tools might be slightly different.

* Local server is now distributed as a `turbulenz_local python package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/turbulenz_local>`_, which can be downloaded from pypi.
  In the SDK, these packages are downloaded and included in the installer.
  To update to a later local server:

  1) Start the environment
  2) Type: easy_install -U turbulenz_local>=X.X.X
     where X.X.X is the required minimum version.

  Each SDK will bundled with a compatible version of the local server.
  Check compatibility before updating to the latest server.

  To import local server directly from python, you should now use: 'turbulenz_local.*'.

* Local server is now started differently.
  The old command 'paster serve release.ini' has been replaced by 'local_server --init' followed by 'local_server --launch'.
  For SDK users, using the start_local.sh and run_devserver.bat commands, no changes are required.
  See the `turbulenz_local readme <https://github.com/turbulenz/turbulenz_local/blob/master/README.rst>`__ for more details.

* Turbulenz tools are now distributed as a `turbulenz_tools python package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/turbulenz_tools>`_, which can be downloaded from pypi.
  In the SDK, these packages are downloaded and included in the installer.
  To update to a later tools package:

  1) Start the environment
  2) Type: easy_install -U turbulenz_tools>=X.X.X
     where X.X.X is the required minimum version.

  Each SDK will bundled with a compatible version of the tools.
  Check compatibility before updating to the latest tools.

  To import tools directly from python, you should now use: 'turbulenz_tools.tools.*'.

* The viewer is now a standalone application. Models, animations, etc can be viewed directly from the application if the base asset URL and asset file are correctly selected.
  When browsing the assets, any assets that can be viewed will launch the viewer application.
  This will allow developers to easily find the viewer and try it out on their models.
  The viewer now has canvas-debug, canvas, plugin-debug, plugin modes.

* Performance improvements to the renderers, mainly about reducing CPU cost when preparing the renderables for rendering.
* Performance improvements to the 2D canvas API.

* Local server now remembers the user's hub password when deploying a game:

  1) When logging into the hub, click the 'Remember me' checkbox.
  2) Once successfully authorized, the user that is logged in, will be written at the bottom right of the deploy dialog.
  3) When next pressing the deploy button, that user will automatically be logged in and the will go straight to the deploy dialog.
  4) Logging out, will forget the user's details.

* The deploy dialog layout has been improved.
  The list of previously deployed versions is now on the left hand side.
  On selecting this list, the version name is shown below so users can see what they have previously uploaded.
  Users can now upload on top of uploaded versions (provided they are unlocked) or create a version with a new name.
  If the version clashes they will be warned and asked if they want to overwrite the previous version.

* The local server now contains a "logged in as" field on the main page.
  This allows developers to test being logged in as a particular user with a given name, emulating the services provided by Turbulenz Hub and turbulenz.com.
  This now separates the data for badges, leaderboards, userdata, notifications.
  To change users read the instructions for :ref:`logging in multiple accounts <multiple_logins>`.

* Local server now has a common.ini and a release.ini/development.ini.
  The common file contains information that is required for both release and development.
  It is possible to overwrite settings from common in release/development by declaring the setting after the import of the common.ini.

* The default renderer's ``defaultPrepareFn`` will now switch to a default "flat" or "flat_skinned" technique if "diffuse" is not set on the technique parameters for a geometries material.

* Changes have been made to the :ref:`Mapping Table <mappingtable>` object.
  Certain undocumented properties are not longer available, if you previously used properties such as mappingTablePrefix, please note they are no longer available.

Fixed
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* Various fixes for the viewer rendering.
* Addition fixes to the dae2json and obj2json importing.
* T1424 - Local does not remember the password when deploying a game from Local to Hub.

Known Issues
============

New
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* Importing tools/local server directly from Python has changed. Previously you could import them using 'turbulenz.tools.*' and 'turbulenz.devserver.*', now you must invoke them via 'turbulenz_tools.tools.*' and 'turbulenz_local.*'.
* Any manual changes to release.ini configuration files have to be manually applied to the release.ini, after first running the local server command for the first time, since the file needs to be generated.
* The default list of games in the local server flows onto the next page. You must click the arrow to scroll to the second page to see all applications.

Unchanged
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For a list of current known issues see the :ref:`known issues section
<known_issues>`.

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Apparently we'll be getting a Hobbit in space, because Dominic Monaghan has just been revealed as part of the Star Wars: Episode IX cast. Monaghan, of course, has done more than just playing one of the Fellowship in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy of films — he was also one of our favorite tv show musicians on LOST, Charlie […]
New Details Emerge on Amazon's $250 Million Lord of the Rings Series Deal
By now, we all know the headline: in November 2017, Amazon Studios spent $250 million to outbid Netflix for television series rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's world-renowned Lord of the Rings fantasy series. Produced in conjunction with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, publisher HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema, the project will explore new storylines preceding The Fellowship of […]
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Third Hobbit Film Is Officially Called The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
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When do we get a trailer for the next Hobbit film, whatever it's going to be called?
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All New 2021 Subaru Outback Review, Changes
All New 2021 Subaru Outback Review, Changes – The engineers and the Subaru product planners had a brilliant idea of taking the Legacy train, jacking it on suspension lifting and calling it a crossover. Typical features of the Subie all-wheel-drive Symmetries work well by riding high tweaks and laying down the so-called Subaru Outback in a Sweet spot with a growing class of around 200,000 adventures – looking for buyers during the first generation. 2 million units later, Outback is the best-selling Subaru model.
The seventh-generation mission 2021 Subaru Outback hasn't changed much, but the scene was in today very different from 25 years ago. There is more competition in crossover space and buyers get a lot of pickier. So the Outback needs to evolve to defend its crown.
The new Outback is now based on the new Subaru global platform, just like Forester. And as is done with that vehicle, Subaru largely avoided the model year of bloat with an overall length of fewer than two inches longer than last year. The new Outback doesn't look all different, either. The cladding has changed, the roof rails get a redesign and "Outback " logo has been moved from the front door to the bottom of the back, but the broad strokes sticking tightly with the well-established high-cart formula. If you're a fan of Outbacks before, you'll love this one as well.
2021 Subaru Outback Specs
One of the big parts of the Outback formula is its off-Road ability. The 2021 Model still offers a land clearance of 8.7 inches thanks to an elevated suspension and a generous approach, departure, and a Break-over angle. The standard ALL-wheel drive is still in full effect but now coupled with an available terrain X-mode control system that enhances off-Road traction with the application of brake pressure and precise throttle control.
During my testing on an ATV track that was pretty gnarly, I was impressed by the inland way of discovering the appeal when overcoming the challenges of climbing with tires all season on loose ground. The big high Wagon is no rock crawler, but I think the off-Road capability is far beyond what is required by the weekend warriors in general to reach a campsite or mountain bike lane.
2021 Subaru Outback Engine
Providing torque to all the rising footprint is the new standard engine: A 2.5-liter Boxer four-cylinder engine-borrowed from Forester-which made 182 horsepower and 176 pound-foot torque. That's a considerable amount of power; Not excessive, but the outback also never felt underpowered, even off-Road. The machine is decimated with continuous variable transmission and, in ideal conditions, gives the EPA an estimated 26 miles per gallon of city and 33 mpg Highway. CVT is a seamless operator, if perhaps not the most enjoyable, and does a good job of balancing the economy and the delivery of torque during the day I am testing on the road and on track.
For 2021, the six-cylinder option is nothing more, so a driver looking a little larger behind the right pedal will need to upgrade to a new, 2.4 liter, four-cylinder turbocharged option, which we first see in a larger ascent. At this Trim XT level, it makes 260 horsepower and 277 pound-foot torque-fixes by both metrics over the old 3.6 R model. The demonic and heavy-footed velocity will feel the marked increase in response and acceleration between the 2.5 baselines and the turbocharged 2.4. However, for more casual driving styles, CVT mutates Many differences in performance-enhancing off.
The 2021 lineup of the new advantages of the Onyx XT model combines a turbocharged powertrain with blacked-Out Trim and unique 18-inch wheels. Inside, Onyx gets a special weather-repellant, the interior of two gray tones. Assisting off-Road capability is a dual-mode version of the X-mode system with a dedicated Sand and Mud program, as well as a full-size spare tire, a unique feature for the Onyx model.
For drivers who spend most of their miles on the asphalt – most of us, if I'm honest – Subaru has made repairs to the inland on-Road performance. There is a revised Double-Wishbone preface suspension, which enhances grip and stability when cornering and helping with more comfort than bumps. Brake-based torque vectoring govern in understeer and helps crossover handle bends with more neutral, predictable steering. The revision to the rear suspension and the increase in the inland chassis noise reduction became much more comfortable and quiet, helping to make the longer toll roads less exhausting.
The most dramatic change to the cockpit is the large 11.6-inch vertical display available at the top Trim level. This portrait orientation means that the TomTom-powered navigation map can stretch to give a further view on the road.
Turning on this look is the new Infotainment Subaru Starlink and telematics software, which makes good use of the interface with a fairly simple design after the learning curve is quite easy. The layout is essentially divided into three stacked tiers with a large central part being where all the navigation, audio source selection, Starlink application, and other main Infotainment functions live.
All New 2021 Subaru Outback Interior
At the top is a sleek section that essentially echoed the Subaru information screen that you'll find at the top of the current Subaru Crosstrek dashboard, and can be swiped between the weather, traffic, vehicles, and other fleeting information. The bottom section is dedicated to multi-zone climate control and heater seats shut down, although Subaru also has special hardware buttons for temperature and volume control and the Tuning knob is the pelvic screen to be used while wearing gloves.
I mostly like this new setup, but I'm not in love with the digitizer touch screen – the actual touch surface that registers are tapped and swiped input. Looking closely, it appears that the digitizer sits millimeters or more on the actual screen, instead of flush, and has a plastic feel that flexes a little under my fingertips when I touch it. It's very nitpicky, I know, and I'm sure there's a reason Subaru chooses this hardware (it might work better with heavy gloves than a capacitive glass surface). Fortunately, the software seemed quite responsive for my touch input during testing.
The EyeSight Suite help driver should be familiar to Subie-files now because it's the same setup that you'll find in most of the lineup of cars from Impreza for climbing. This stereoscopic camera-based system has features such as adaptive cruise control, pedestrians and animal detection, helping fixed-line and much more.
The new for 2021 is a Front-View camera option that provides a wide-angle view of the front area of the car at a low speed, as well as a highway-centered function for an EyeSight steering aid that maintains the outback from Ping-ponging between lane paths. The latter is nice getting on a pretty wide highway, but my drive consists of a narrow B-road and Lane, I don't have much chance to give it a try.
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2021 Subaru Outback Price
Value is also an integral part of the Outback formula and it will not change too much for models 2021 years. Expect Outback to start at around $27,655 for the basic model–just $335 more than last year-and peaks at around $40,075 for the top Touring XT with a turbocharged engine and most of the bells and whistles available. The Driver interested in black-Out Onyx Edition will find it in a sweet place in the lineup at $35,905. All such prices, of course, include a destination cost of $1,010.
What I like the most about 2021 Subaru Outback is how cars take very close look at the DNA of vehicles and do not change what people already loved. At the same time, it makes the rest of the vehicle easier to live with, with intelligent technology applications. Better security technologies make it more appealing to families and, although not perfect, new Starlink Tech Dashboard is a great step towards keeping the king of this niche competitive and relevant.
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Share this Story: Wallacetown teen, 17, youngest on Canada's Paralympic hockey team
Wallacetown teen, 17, youngest on Canada's Paralympic hockey team
Louis Pin
Feb 20, 2018 • February 20, 2018 • 2 minute read
A local teen will represent Canada in sledge hockey at this winter's South Korea Paralympic Games.
It's all he's ever wanted.
James Dunn was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, the start of an emotional, four-year roller coaster for the budding Wallacetown hockey star. He had part of his left leg amputated months later, suffering through chemotherapy in 2012 and again the next year, when the disease spread to his chest.
The diagnosis the second time around was bleak, enough that Dunn was given the option to go back on chemotherapy or to ride it out. He didn't even consider the latter option.
"He was stronger than anybody," said Jeremy Dunn, James's father. "He never had a bad day. He had bad moments, but never a bad day. He kept us strong."
Dunn started playing hockey for the West Lorne Comets when he was six years old living in Wallacetown, a little crossroads community south of Dutton. His favourite book growing up was one commemorating Canada's 2002 gold medal hockey team; after high school he wants to do something "sports", his parents say.
When he found out the cancer would take part of his leg, Dunn's first question was whether he would ever be able to play hockey again.
"He's always reading it and watching it, all the time," Jeremy Dunn said. "When James was in the hospital he was devastated of course, because he couldn't play standup hockey. And there was another gentleman in hospital that had just finished his treatments."
Tyler McGregor met Dunn while he was in hospital in 2013 and suggested he give sledge hockey a try. McGregor was a sledge hockey player himself, and a good one -- good enough to be on Canada's Winter Paralympic roster in 2014 and again this year.
Dunn was still in chemotherapy when he tried sledge for the first time.
"He went from chemo treatment right to the ice," said Coralee Dunn, James's mother. "He seemed to have more energy than the rest of us. He's a strong kid."
Dunn's family has been there every step of the way, from his time playing in West Lorne to his first sledge hockey team in London, to a more competitive, elite team out of Kitchener.
It's also a community effort. James Dunn's family has received ample support from people from West Lorne, to Dutton, to Wallacetown itself.
That support will continue this Thursday, when West Elgin Secondary School hosts a school-wide appreciation event for Dunn, currently training in Toronto.
It's after his driving test. Dunn is still only 17, the youngest member of Team Canada's 2018 Paralympic hockey roster.
"It's a pretty proud moment, getting to wear that maple leaf for your country," Coralee Dunn said.
Dunn flies out Feb. 28. He and Canada are expected to do well this year, hopefully matching or exceeding their bronze-medal finish in 2014.
And later this year in August, Dunn will be five years cancer-free -- an arguably bigger accomplishment for the Wallacetown teen.
"We're enjoying the upswing," said Jeremy Dunn, smiling.
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I'll start things off with my top five. I've only been hybridizing seriously for the past three years or so and am starting to narrow my focus. That will be apparent in this year's first blooming, so the ones I'm posting from last year were still from the shotgun approach I was using several years before.
You don't have to reveal the parentage if you don't want to. The photos will be just as enjoyable without that information.
Consistently poly, this one has an interesting champagne sort of coloration and is another one with heavy substance.
Another one with heavy substance, which is interesting, because I'm not breeding for that trait. Nice green throat. I like the way it flares way out almost to the petal edge. The eye is carried out to the petal edge as well.
Love the color combination on this one. Nice bluish eye and great green throat. Modest ruffling. I don't like ruffling that's overdone.
These are maybe not my *best* seedlings, but to me, they were among the most interesting seedlings that I've had, and ones that given enough space, I would be happy to keep around for a while. They are also not all from last year; only #1, 4, and 5 had maiden bloom last year, but I included #2 and #3 because they are still fairly "new" and I like them better than other seedlings which bloomed last year.
SPACECOAST IRISH ILLUMINATION x MAGIC MANDOLIN - I love the incredible substance of the blooms on this one -- they never disappoint!
SOUTHWEST MEMORIES x CAN'T TOUCH THIS - This is a small with blooms at around 4", and the seed came from Ladylovingdove.
BUTTERFLY COVE x BASS GIBSON - This was my very first seedling that I kept and it's still among my favorites, and I'm starting to make crosses with it.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN x WAVES OF JOY - This bloomed for the first time in 2016, and I can't wait to see what it looks like this spring! And I think the seed came from Ladylovingdove.
ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL x SPACECOAST COLOR SCHEME - Another bloom with great substance and terrific color -- I nicknamed it "Schoolbus"!
TOOPHER x DR CELIA STUMP - Another seedling that showed good improvement from the first to second year of blooming.
Larry, I really love your second and fourth seedlings -- beautiful!
And Marilyn, I totally love your color changer -- so unique!
Marilyn, thanks for starting us off with such lovely seedlings. I'm really intrigued, as you are, by the appearance of a cristate bloom. I encourage you to work with it. The color changer that presents an eye is fascinating, too. You've got some interesting genetics going on there.
I'm all for heavy substance, Betty. You have some seriously lovely seedlings.
If y'all can't limit yourselves to just 5, go right ahead and post more. The more the merrier.
Marilyn, do you have any idea what the ploidy of cristate-producing seedling is?
I love all the seedlings!
Larry, your Stargate Portal x unknown-1 really has nice saturation. I've always admired Stargate Portal.
Marilyn, your 3rd one, the nice small yellow, is absolutely stunning! I love the perfect form of it. And I don't usually like yellows, but this color is a soft and creamy yellow.
Betty, I really like the color contrast on Southwest Memories x Can't Touch This. Gorgeous edge on it also!
I am not a serious hybridizer, just have over 200 seeds in the fridge that have been there for 2 years . Some that I started in 2014 that were bee pollinated I have already dug up to make room for other plants because they looked too much like the parent.
But I do have some that I started from seeds I got from profesora that will be in their second year of blooming this year and I am so looking forward to it because there were some real beauties last year. I am sure they will do better this year.
Out of 26 seeds that I received from profesora, 23 survived, but not all of them bloomed last year. All of the following pics are seedlings from the cross Emerald Toucanet x Malachite Sunbird.
Five of my best ones.
Larry, I forgot to mention that I love the colors on your first and last seedlings.
The sometimes-cristate seedling is a tet. I mostly do only tet crosses (though last year I confess I was working on a pink dip cross ).
Vickie, the small yellow starts out a very nice lemon color, and then at the end of the day has faded to more of a creamy yellow. I love lemon daylilies and so I wish this one were more sunfast wrt color, but at least the substance and surface texture holds up.
Your patterned seedlings are interesting, but for some inexplicable reason , my eye keeps returning to your very dark eyed purple one.
Boyd, lovely eye on #2, lovely twists on your pale # 4, but I think #5 is best overall.
Thanks for starting this thread, Larry. It's always interesting to see what kinds of daylily forms, faces, and colors are interested and working in.
Wow, you guys have such awesome seedlings. All are drool worthy for sure. I don't have any to show but I am enjoying this thread tremendously. Make me hopeful that some of my seedlings may turn out as nice. Will find out in a few years.
@blue23rose, all those different blooms come from the same cross?
I'm new to this and never imagined all that variety in siblings!
I can't wait to see my first ehm ehm cough cough two seedlings crossed with my hands. I have many seedlings from donated seed but they are still too young to bloom.
Love this thread, Larry it's a great idea!
Tried to make it easy for you to access the the ones in the NGA Daylily Database, but that's the hugest link I've ever seen!
O good. I forgot that links are shown in abbreviated form here.
Vickie, those are some mighty nice-looking seedlings from just one cross. I love the first three and the sixth one.
Boyd, lovely! I'm a sucker for white curls. I'd have lots like yours in my garden, but I'm severely limited on space. I mostly just have room to grow my parent plants and the resulting seedlings.
Betty, I love the "Schoolbus" name. It's almost worth registering for the name alone!
Marilyn, I encourage you to keep working with the color changer. You're welcome about the thread. It gives us another chance to chat about and show daylilies in the dead of winter here in the North.
Thanks, Sabrina. Hybridizing gives us something to look forward to.
Boyd, awesome plants! All those curls on the seedling x seedling and that color makes that one look like a winner .
Marilyn, that dark-eyed purple one is one of the smaller blooms, but you are right, it does grab attention!
Sabrina, I'm new to all of this too, but I have seen huge variations between siblings before.
Larry, I think you have gotten us out of the winter doldrums, lol! Thanks for starting this thread.
I am only into my second serious year. So far it has been learning the obvious. But ce la vie. Must of these aren't a year old yet. It is a worry about the ones with parents that are noids but I have tried many times to see if anone can name them.
This is an excellent performer. Splendid bloom size, scapes 4 way branching, many buds. Reblooming.
This is quite beautiful with an excellent shape. The scapes, branching and bud count are okay so far. I need next year to be certain.
This is an excellent performer with some pattern. It has been blooming for several months now.
Good looker and good flower shape. I am uncertain with the traits of the scapes and buds yet.
There is a problem with its short scapes. At one stage, it was a 100% poly but it is now down to 50%.
King Kahuna X 42nd Street #KF2016,15,1 is awesome, Glen! Is the bloom form consistent?


My life is a lot busier and more tiring now than it was then (because of two very adorable little people that live in my house). But strangely (delusionally?) I'm actually much more confident I can achieve this goal today.
You see, back when I started running, I enjoyed it, but I lacked discipline. I didn't have the fire in my belly that made me want to keep working, keep getting better. I loved the process of setting a goal and training for a race, but once the race was over, I would do the prescribed recovery time, but when my week (or two) of rest was over, I would have a hard time starting again, especially if the race was in the fall and was faced with the prospect of winter running, which I hated. So, my training would just totally fizzle out, sometimes for months. And then when I'd start training for a new race, I'd be starting from zero.
But somewhere over the last year or so, running has shifted for me. I've emerged from the fog of pregnancy and infants and toddlers to find this amazing place where I am not using my body to sustain life in any way and where I can actually sleep for eight hours most nights if I want to. It is glorious. And in this amazing place, I find I actually have a little time to think about what I want again. And what I want is to have something that's mine, to set little goals that turn into bigger goals, to work really hard and see what I'm capable of.
Last year, when the iconic Boston Marathon became even more iconic with Des Linden's amazing win in the worst weather conditions ever, I declared to Tim – "I'm going to qualify for that race someday." Watching that epic competition lit something inside me that's still there. To be sure, qualifying for Boston is not a "this year" goal. I'm nowhere close to being that fast. It's the kind of goal that requires building, working, keeping the faith – sometimes for years.
But I think I can do it. I really do. It will probably take me a long time (I'm thinking this is a five-year goal), but I'm looking forward to seeing where the journey takes me.
So, that brings me back to this year. 1,000 miles. Including a marathon (my second, and first in eight years). Big goals. Kind of scary goals. But I'm so excited about them.
My mini goal for January is 50 miles – which I've already surpassed, hitting 53 miles during my run today. I'm trying to start slow and conservative, since I didn't run at all during the month of December as I was recovering from minor surgery. So far, so good. I ran 16 miles this week and will continue to build very slowly to avoid injury. Staying healthy is (obviously) critical to achieving my goals this year. I'm keeping my eye on prize.
I love your enthusiasm, your confidence, your drive!
You will do it; I'm sure.
Being able to get eight hours of sleep is key for you. And taking care of your body with good food is another plus.
This is the year! Everything is aligned!


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Out This Week: Cas
April 26, 2018 April 20, 2018 by tlagay
TLA Releasing presents a collection of three films that examine the different effects the addition of a third party has on a modern gay relationship. Essentially, it's a threesome about threesomes – and we're excited for it. At 50 minutes in length, Cas, the headliner of this collection which doubles as the title for the collection in general, is somewhere between a short and a feature. Filmed in the Netherlands, it won the "Best International Feature" Award at FilmOut San Diego in 2017.
In Cas, the seemingly rock-solid relationship shared by 29-year-old Pepijn (Wieger Windhorst) and 33-year-old Sjors (Kevin Hassing) is put in jeopardy when they invite a lively 20-year-old student named Cas (Felix Meyer) to sleep on their couch until he finds a place of his own. Gradually, as Pepijn and Sjors both fall head over heels in love with Cas' laconic charms, they are forced to reconsider all of their shared future plans. Is Cas a real threat to their relationship… or might he be a blessing in disguise?
"Cas tells a story that is very close to my heart," said director Joris van den Berg. "It is meant as an open-minded film, telling a universal story that can appeal to a broad audience. At the same time, it's very important to me that the characters are homosexual, specifically because gay people (and other sexual minorities) are still strongly underrepresented in Dutch films and TV-series."
Tri-Curious, the second of the three films on offer (this one from the United States), focuses on two characters (Trevor Ketcheson and Rob Salerno) in the hour or so before their "guest" (a young man they found on an online hook-up website) is set to arrive at their apartment. The more conservative half of the couple grows increasingly nervous until he can no longer hide his unwillingness to proceed, and the two bicker and try to resolve the situation, knowing full well that it's almost too late to cancel.
"I wanted to portray a young gay male couple that is basically healthy, happy, and considerate of each other, yet find themselves in this surprising (and amusing) conflict on the road to sexual experimentation," said Tri-Curious director Matt Guerin. "In a sense, the two characters are meant to represent the conflict between conservative versus more liberal approaches to sexuality. I've always believed the best way to raise uncomfortable or potentially contentious issues is through humor and I hope the film is a playful and thoughtful example of this."
The final short in this collection, Bed Buddies, comes from TLA favorite Reid Waterer, the same director behind the four hilarious and sexy short films on offer in our beloved Global Warming collections. Bed Buddies is a comedy about three gay friends (Dylan Wayne Lawrence, Daniel Lipshutz and Enzo Nova) who wake up after sleeping together and try to make sense of the unclear line between friendship and love.
Check out a whole bunch of select images from all three films below and make sure to order your copy here. Cas is available on DVD starting this week!
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The Klingon Dictionary (TKD) is a book by Marc Okrand describing the Klingon language. First published in 1985 and then again with an addendum in 1992, it includes pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. It has sold more than three hundred thousand copies  and has been translated into five languages.

The book is a description of the grammar with a few examples for every rule. It is not suitable for active learning and practice of the language, because it does not contain any exercises. It has never been intended as a learning book. Its source was intended as a guide for scriptwriters and actors. It was only later sold for merchandising for Star Trek fans.

Summary
The dictionary is written from an in-universe perspective. After a brief introduction about the Klingon culture and also how the book has been written, the pronunciation of the Klingon letters is described. Instead of using phonetic symbols, the letters of the Latin alphabet are used, some of them written in upper case to distinguish special pronunciations. For instance, q and Q represent different voiceless uvular consonants, the voiceless uvular affricate and the voiceless uvular plosive, respectively. The largest part of the book is a description of the grammar, including briefly described rules sorted by type of words, accompanied by a few examples for each grammatical topic. The last part of the book contains a list of vocabulary with roughly 1,500 words, followed by a list of useful phrases. The addendum of 1992 contains some new grammatical details and a list of about 200 new words that appeared in or were created for later movies and in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Digital editions
Since 2008, the book is available for E-book readers.

In 2009, publisher Simon & Schuster introduced an iPhone application version of The Klingon Dictionary as part of three applications rolled into a Klingon Language Suite. The new digital format features a precise pronunciation guide, rules for proper use of affixes and suffixes, and a search menu.

Translations
The dictionary was first translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil in 1995. Its title was simply Dicionário da língua klingon.

The following translation was German in 1996 bearing the title Das offizielle Wörterbuch Klingonisch/Deutsch ("The Official Klingon-German Dictionary"). That book contains many typos and incorrect translations, which can be misleading when learning the language. A revised version, corrected by Klingon teacher Lieven Litaer, was released in 2013.

The Italian translation was published in 1998 by the Roman publisher Fanucci Editore and named Il dizionario Klingon-Italiano ("The Klingon-Italian Dictionary").

In 2008, the dictionary was translated into Czech with the title Klingonský slovník (Klingon Dictionary).

There is an online 1998–2009 Swedish translation, Klingonsk ordbok, (with Swedish examples and with additional material from later canonical works) to be found at the Klingonska Akademien website.

Trivia
 In the season 2 episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization" of The Big Bang Theory, the dictionary is being used during a game of Klingon Boggle.
 In the season 10 episode 7 of The Big Bang Theory, while Sheldon and Amy are having supper with Leonard and Penny, Sheldon speaks Klingon with Leonard to hide what they are speaking about in front of the girls.

Follow up
New vocabulary and grammar rules, published after 1992, can be found in two audio-courses and two more books by Marc Okrand, and in the scholarly journal HolQeD published by the Klingon Language Institute (1992-2004):
 Conversational Klingon (1992) - audiocourse
 Power Klingon (1993)  - audiocourse
 The Klingon Way (1996)
 Klingon for the Galactic Traveler (1997).

See also
 Klingon grammar
 Klingons
 The Klingon Way
 List of Star Trek reference books
 Alien language

References

External links
 Klingon Language Institute
 Klingon Dictionary for iPhone

Constructed languages resources
Dictionary
Star Trek reference books
Pocket Books books
1985 non-fiction books
English bilingual dictionaries

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Steven K. Ashcraft
Steven K. Ashcraft, 58, of Mineral Wells, Egypt Run Road, WV. passed away September 9, 2018 at his residence under the loving care of his family and Amedisys Hospice due to extended illness.
He was born on February 6, 1960 at St Mary's Hospital, Clarksburg, WV, a son of Duane Ashcraft and the late Barbara Elaine Smith Ashcraft.
Most importantly, Steven was a Christian with strong faith, active in church and a member of First Lutheran Church of Parkersburg.
Steven was a graduate of Fairmont West High School, attended Fairmont State College and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His main occupation was Heating and Air conditioning service. He had a variety of interest, including electronics, short wave radio, honey bees, gardening, trail hiking, camping, bird watching and visiting West Virginia State Parks.
Surviving is his wife of 21 years, Judith Ann Kosterbauder Ashcraft, father Duane Ashcraft, uncles Dr. Ken Smith, Kansas, Harry Ashcraft of Austin, Texas, niece Alicia Bell of Parkersburg,
nephew Kenneth Bell of Belpre, Ohio, and several cousins.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents Letch and Martha Smith of Wallace, West Virginia and Kenneth and Edith Smith of Pawcatuck, Connecticut, five uncles, an aunt and sister Karen Conant, Belpre, Ohio
Steve was very close to his family, especially his granddad Ashcraft and his mother and father and wife.
The family would like to thank WVU Ruby Hospital's Physicians and nursing staff for the care given to Steven.
A memorial service will be held at 12 noon on Friday at the First Lutheran Church of Parkersburg with Rev. Ian B. Reid officiating. The family will receive friends from 11 to 12 prior to the memorial service.
Those wishing to share a story, fond memory, or their condolences, please visit MOVCremation.com.
In lieu of flowers, Steven required his friends and family to donate to the First Lutheran Church of Parkersburg Outreach in the name of Steven Ashcraft.


The Proctor's Office is responsible for a number of roles throughout the University with the emphasis on safety of students and staff, and maintaining a healthy learning environment for all.
One of the Proctor's main roles is to work closely with the police and local authorities in fostering the unique town/gown relationship which exists in Dunedin as it relates to student behaviour. Since the Proctor is responsible for managing the student Code of Conduct, students who get up to mischief around the city are likely to end up before the Proctor.
The Proctor's Office is responsible for the security of all plant and buildings and allowing access to teaching buildings.
It is also responsible for managing the response to any emergencies that may arise on campus.
The Proctor's Office, Campus Watch, and the Campus Cop are located in the St David Street Lecture Theatre complex. Entrance is directly from St David Street on the north side of the building (opposite the Centre for Innovation).


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Coverville 521: The Johnny Marr Cover Story
Here's on what's on the show tonight:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available) Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) Original Artist
August & September Elbow Q: Best of 86/06 The The
Float On Ben Lee John Tucker Must Die Modest Mouse
Can't Find My Way Home Electronic Twisted Tenderness Blind Faith
How Soon Is Now? Hundred Reasons How Soon Is Now? The Songs of The Smiths By… The Smiths
Ask Reel Big Fish and Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer Duet All Night Long The Smiths
Panic The Puppini Sisters Betcha Bottom Dollar The Smiths
Girlfriend In A Coma Jerry Chapman Rumors Of My Death The Smiths
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Speedstar Like A Version The Smiths
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want The Lancaster Orchestra With Help From Absent Friends The Smiths
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ColinAsquith	on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Being a lover of great cover songs, it's great to make it into Coverville! I really like the Fire Ants version of SOS too, and looking through the comments of previous shows, I have to agree that I like the style and the feel of your show Brian! It reminds me of why I avoid listening to normal radio shows, often you forget you are listening to a real person and they can be quite bland, but your show is both interesting and engaging!
I'm a fan now, and hopefully will be in touch again as I have a few more cover versions in the vaults waiting to be recorded!
Amanda	on February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
Great!!! Abba and Serge Gainsbourg!


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Ramat Schlomo ist eine israelische Siedlung in Ostjerusalem. Der Ort wurde 1995 gegründet und wird derzeit von etwa 20.000 Juden bewohnt. Im Oktober 2014 genehmigte der israelische Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu den Bau von 660 Wohnungen, gefolgt von weiteren 500 im November desselben Jahres. Nach der Wahl des neuen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump wurde im November 2016 der Bau weiterer 1440 neuer Wohnungen in Ramat Schlomo genehmigt.

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Regardless of who the Democrats and the Republicans nominate for president and vice president next year, you can bet Hamilton County is going to be a ground zero county in a ground zero state, once again.
And nobody has a bigger stake in how that presidential election in Hamilton County turns out than the Republicans and Democrats who are running for county offices next year.
It is one thing the leaders of the two political parties in Hamilton County can agree on.
"Our candidates are going to be impacted by the strength of the presidential candidates; and we have benefited from that over the last six presidential elections,'' said Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party.
His opposite number in the Hamilton County Republican Party, Alex Triantafilou, agrees.
There was a time, not that long ago, when Hamilton County was solidly Republican; and it routinely gave GOP presidential candidates six-figure wins.
Hamilton County is no longer Republican "red" or Democratic "blue." It is a purple county – one that can go either way.
Look at the last four presidential elections – Barack Obama has won Hamilton County twice; and, in 2000 and 2004, it was won by George W. Bush.
Presidential elections bring people out to the polls; those are the only times these days when voter turnout approaches or exceeds 70 percent.
And the county candidates down the ticket can benefit from that.
Two are up for re-election – Democrat Todd Portune and Republican Greg Hartmann.
Portune is going to be challenged by Andrew Pappas, the Republican trustee from Anderson Township. He'll get plenty of help from the GOP organization, although it is probably an uphill fight.
The top-of-the-bill contest will be between Hartmann and Democrat Denise Driehaus, who can't run for re-election to the Ohio House because of term limits.
They are both formidable candidates.
Triantafilou said the party will pull out all the stops on the Hartmann-Driehaus contest.
By that, the GOP chairman is referring to the 2010 1st Congressional District campaign. Two years before, Democrat Steve Driehaus beat Chabot, who had held the seat since 1994. In 2010, Chabot came storming back and took the seat away from Driehaus; and has held it ever since.
Burke said the GOP would make a mistake if they underestimate Denise Driehaus.
There's going to be some bad blood in this one.
These are usually quiet affairs; and Democrat Wayne Coates has held the office for two terms now and is going for a third.
But he may have a high-profile Republican opponent.
Another Republican has also pulled petitions for recorder at the Hamilton County Board of Elections is retired judge Norbert Nadel, who couldn't run for re-election to the bench last year because of Ohio's judicial age limit law.
Triantafilou is hoping to avoid a costly and divisive primary.
Democrat Jim Neil, who was a 30-year-veteran of the sheriff's department, pulled an upset victory in 2012 over then-chief deputy Sean Donovan, who was the choice of Republican Sheriff Simon Leis, who was retiring.
At the same time, Democrat Lakshmi Sammarco won the coroner's office over Republican Pete Kambelos.
Both the Democratic sheriff and coroner are running for re-election.
One Republican has already announced his candidacy for sheriff - Gary Lee, the former Cincinnati police captain who was commander of District 1. Another, former assistant police chief Vince Demasi, told WVXU last week that he is interested in running. But Demasi said he would have to give up his current job as Mt. Healthy's police chief to run; and said that weighs heavily in his decision.
Again, Triantafilou is saying he hopes to avoid a primary; and said there are other potential candidates out there.
Republican incumbent Joe Deters is running for re-election. Burke said the party plans to run a candidate against him, but hasn't found that candidate yet.
Both parties have until Dec. 16 to have their candidates file petitions with the board of election for the March primary.
All of these races will get caught up in the middle of the presidential race that will be raging in Hamilton County and throughout the key swing state of Ohio. Some of them could turn on the results of that race.
Burke said he was talking to a group of College Democrats last week at the University of Cincinnati.
"I told them that I will guarantee you that, by this time next year, both party's presidential candidates will have been on this campus,'' Burke said.
Burke is convinced that strong presidential candidates, even those who didn't win the county, such as Bill Clinton and John Kerry , have helped the local Democratic party get to the point where it holds a number of countywide officers – a county commission seat, recorder, auditor, sheriff and coroner.
"Those days when a Republican candidate for president could count on coming out of Hamilton County with a 100,000 vote margin are dead and gone,'' Burke said.
What the Republicans in Hamilton County need, Triantafilou said, is a presidential candidate with broad appeal in the party.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, of course, is running for the GOP presidential nomination and his presence on the national ticket "would be a good thing. That would energize our voters.
"I can guarantee you that if Hillary Clinton is the nominee, we as Republicans will be pretty energized,'' Triantafilou said.
But, then again, many Democrats say the same thing about Hillary Clinton.
Both parties, though, share the same nightmare – the nightmare of many voters who show up at the polls, vote for president and skip the rest of the ballot. Honestly, it happens. More than you would think.
And that does neither local party any good.