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Why NCIS: Los Angeles' Finale Will Floor Fans, According To One Star
By Laura Hurley
The end of the 2016-2017 TV season is fast-approaching, which means that TV fans are starting wonder about how our favorite shows are going to wrap up. Fans of NCIS: LA have had some pretty high highs and some very low lows this year, so the big question is if Season 8 will end quietly or with a big bang. Well, according to star Daniela Ruah, it's not ending quietly. She teased this about the NCIS: LA Season 8 finale:
Oh my gosh, people will be floored. I'm not kidding. We've had edge-of-your-seat moments before, but this is a real big one -- and it's not something that's going to just be resolved. It's something that's going to stick with us for the remainder of the show, until we go off the air. It's not just a Season 8 thing, it's something that's going to be present forever.
NCIS: Los Angeles has been known to go very big for season finales, so it's almost hard to imagine just how far the show can go in Season 8 to eclipse finales that have come before. Daniela Ruah's comments to TVLine indicate that this will be one finale with repercussions that will extend beyond next season's first couple of episodes. I'm not sure if I'm stressed or excited.
Season 8 has proved that NCIS: LA does know how to draw out a story without glossing over some of the finer details. The premiere featured a plot twist that very nearly killed Daniela Ruah's Kensi, leaving her in a coma and then physical therapy for quite a while. Of course, the real reason why Kensi was out of the game for so long was that Ruah took time off for maternity leave, but NCIS: LA could have gone a much milder route than what happened to Kensi. Given that the aftermath of Kensi's season premiere injuries has resulted in some of Ruah's best dramatic performances of the series to date, I'd say that LA could very well craft a killer ongoing plot out of whatever happens in the Season 8 cliffhanger.
Fans of Kensi's romance with Deeks are undoubtedly hoping that an actual proposal -- featuring a ring, two conscious people, and nobody crying -- will occur before the end of the season, and it could very well happen. Still, Daniela Ruah's comments seem to point at a larger twist than an engagement for her character. All things considered, it may be too early to make an educated guess about this twist that will floor viewers. There are still several episodes left before the finale; anything can really happen between now and then.
Hopefully it's not too heartbreaking. Fans already had to face the reality that Miguel Ferrer's death meant the end of Assistant Director Owen Granger. Surely we can have an action-packed ending without leaving everybody in peril, right?
At least we don't have to wonder if NCIS: Los Angeles will end forever on the Season 8 cliffhanger. CBS has already renewed the series for a ninth season. Tune in to CBS on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET to catch new episodes of NCIS: LA, and don't forget to check out our midseason TV premiere guide and our summer TV premiere schedule.
Laura Hurley
Senior Content Producer
Laura turned a lifelong love of television into a valid reason to write and think about TV on a daily basis. She's not a doctor, lawyer, or detective, but watches a lot of them in primetime. Resident of One Chicago, the galaxy far, far away, and Northeast Ohio. Will not time travel, but will sneak references to The X-Files into daily conversation.
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The idea of passing through the waters to the promised land of heaven helps us to bear all kinds of suffering in our lives. It would not be true to say that the imagery makes sense of suffering, for perhaps we shall never understand with our minds why it is that we have to suffer. But it enables us to bear suffering because we know that we are bound to God in a covenant, a promise from God. Jesus said of the wine at the Last Supper, 'This is my blood of the covenant.' Everyone who's bound to Jesus in sacrament and faith is bound for life to God the Father. God binds himself by His solemn promise to care for us in this life, and lead us to a better life where there is no more pain and suffering, to a life where all wrongs are righted. In return we bind ourselves to Jesus.
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Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) will not seek a 3rd term in the Senate next year, according to a Dem source, handing Dems yet another setback as they struggle to salvage their damaged ship.
Bayh, elected statewide 5 times, will become the 5th Senate Dem not to seek another term. His decision to step aside , first reported by The Fix and confirmed to Hotline OnCall, creates an open seat in IN, a usually-red state that broke the mold in '08 by voting narrowly for Pres. Obama.
Details and updates to follow.
"After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so in Congress has waned," he said.
I think it would be a mistake to view this decision solely or even primarily as a reaction to election chances.
Rather, Bayh has seemed sick of the whole process the past year.
Where is Evan Bayh? His silence has been deafening.
I even issued an Amber Alert for Evan Bayh.
We have found Evan Bayh, and he apparently didn't want to be found.
Or how about this, "Evan Bayh didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left Evan Bayh."
Speaking of Bayh's wondered whereabouts? Seems some in IN were wondering were Sen. Bayh was actually residing these days?
I guess he thought you'd be coming for him next.
This is indeed an interesting development.
I don't have a particularly informed opinion on Bayh but it just may be that people of conscience, even those across the aisle we disagree with, can longer contort their postures enough to disguise the incongruities between their stated positions and their actions. The corrupt one-party system is simply asking too much of those who still feel obligated to their constituencies. The Tea Party is driving out the most corrupt one by one while the grim reaper takes out a few more, but there are people of good conscience who have now lost their way and burned their bridges because of too many compromises to the party and to special interests. Maybe that is Bayh's problem.
This is going to be a very ugly year for weasels.
Byah, like many other heartland Dems, backed Hillary in the primaries. NOT because he was "raycist" but, because he knew what it would take to pull us out of our economic crisis.
This resignation signals to me that Evan knows we have lost that battle. There is no point in his sticking around to take the fall. What a terrible shame for the Hoosier state.
And Byah won't be the last of the Heartland Dems to bail on the Obamacratic party. A landslide is set to follow.
I believe Even Bayh to be a true liberal, not a 20th century Progressive that seems to have taken over the Democratic Party.
Could it be that Bayh was driven out of his own party due to his disgust for them?
The Democrats are making it easier for Republicans to take back the Senate 2 years before they should have. Amazing.
As for Bayh, I get that he had a reputation of being a centrist Democrat, but like every other "Blue Dog Democrat," in the end, only the Democrat part came through. So, having one less Democrat in the Senate is not going to be a bad thing for America.
However, looking at the decision, it is truly baffling from Bayh's perspective. He was not going to be punished by the voters, and bailed despite the fact that he was going to get another 6 years.
I love it! Run liberals Run, we will vote you out anyways as soon as possible. Democrats will be slaughtered (figuratively speaking of course, lol) for many elections cycles to come! Great piece and keep up the good fight my friend!
Linked at Bread upon the Waters.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Bayh vote for the entire O package of pork, tax and regulate?
I find it amazing that so many Democrats have decided to spend more time with their families and move on to other things. Massachusetts punched and slapped them into an epiphany that the mood outside the Beltway is much different than the input the lemmings are showing them inside it.
I have been a registered democrat for 34 years, consistently and loyally voting for a "D" with the exception of Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin.
I am now going to be reregistering as an independent. There is no "Democratic Party" now, this is a party unrecognizable now. They cheer giving terrorists constitutional rights, they cheer more taxes, more burdens on small biz, they cheer socializing industries, they cheer intruding even more into people's lives.
Through the years, the dem and repub parties varied yes, but the platform they both stood on was always pro-America, pro-free market, pro-US Constitution, pro-indiv. rights. I cannot say that anymore.
I don't trust the repubs either. I 100% support the Tea Party movement, there are millions of disgusted loyal democrats like me who feel this way. Are we conservatives? probably. If by conservatives, it is meant that we want to conserve the founding principles of this country, those principles that created this the greatest country on Earth.
I have a great deal respect for Evan Byah. But I was very angry when he too voted for that Healthcare bill. THere is no longer any room in the Democratic Party for moderates.
Professor-- if you do a google search, there was a Democratic Underground blog entry about 2006 or so by Mr.Obama who wrote a post that is very revealing. He wanted to drive out all moderate/conservative democrats.
He is fully achieveing this. I will support those people who stand for America, stand for defending this country against terrorists, and not giving them American citizen's rights, pro-growth, pro-free market, pro-capitilism (not corrupt capitilism, if you fail as a biz, then fail, don't get bailed out), more defense of indiv. rights, respect the US Constitution.
I get very disgusted when people like Newt go on Hannity's show and gloat about this being like 1994. THis is nothing like 1994, people, staunch democrats like me are rooting for conservative NOT necessarily republican candidates.
The corruption has infected both parties. I am tired of the condenscension and elistism by the people in DC, as well as the MSM who obviously have just a low low opinion of hard working average Americans like me and millions upon millions like me. These people who have never worked for a living telling me what is good for me and my family?
Will I vote for a republican this midterm? yes! But I trust the tea party movement more. But the socialists are more dangerous at this point and have to be stopped this midterm election in november.
Retire05 and Paul912 are dead on correct here. The Obamacrats are driving all centrists/ Blue Dogs/ Working Class Dems from "their" party.
I do not know what they expect to have at the end of that purging.... but that won't stop them.
Paul912, I left the Republican Party 3 years ago when I saw what was happening. I didn't like leaving the party, but at the end of the day........It wasn't the party I signed-on-to.
For what ever it's worth, Paul, you are not alone.


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Garnish with chopped tomatoes and scallions, and drizzle with a bit of olive oil.
I also love sweet and spicy together, like the mango and cayenne that tops this salad. For this salad, I chopped the avocado, mango, and onion, and added the olive oil, agave, lime juice, salt, pepper, cayenne, and red pepper flakes. I mixed this well and let stand and somewhat marinate for a few minutes. Then I spooned it over a bed of leaf lettuce and dandelion greens. I planted the microgreens in a flat with an inch or so of potting soil and snipped them off about 8 days later and added a mound on top.
Creamy, sweet, sour, crunchy, smooth ... this is an absolutely perfect breakfast. And it takes all of a few minutes to put together.
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It represents the country in international 3x3 (3 against 3) women's basketball competitions.

As of late 2019, the head coach was Torsten Loibl.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

World Cup

Asia Cup

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Practice facilities
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See also
Sport in Japan
Basketball in Japan
Japan women's national under-23 3x3 team
Japan women's national basketball team
Japan men's national 3x3 team

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FRODSHAM made a losing start to life in Cheshire Alliance Division One as they suffered a 34-run reverse at Langley on Saturday.
Last season's Division Two runners-up had their hosts reeling on 31-3, but Langley recovered to post 221-6dec.
Richard Warburton (2-45) and Martin Dodd (2-49) took a brace of wickets apiece for Frodsham, who got as far as 187 in reply.
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Audio Of Nancy Pelosi's Blogger Conference Call On The House Health Care Bill. UPDATED!
[media id=10529] Here's the audio form today's conference call with Speaker Pelosi about the release of the House bill.. Sorry, I'm a bit under the w
9 years ago by John Amato
Here's the audio form today's conference call with Speaker Pelosi about the release of the House bill.. Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather so I don't have the blow by blow, but I was able to get on the call and record it for you. She didn't know if she would allow amendments to the bill, but was against the idea. There were a few questions from bloggers that followed.
(I edited out just a few minutes because there was a technical problem when the conference service tried to connect bloggers to ask their questions.)
UPDATE I: To members of the media, please credit Crooksandliars.com if you use any portion of this audio. Thank you in advance.
UPDATE II:
mcjoan has a great write up of the conference call: Pelosi: House Bill is a "Manifestation of Rejecting Business as Usual"
Because there has been conflicting information this morning on whether amendments would be allowed for the bill, I asked Speaker Pelosi if that decision had been made. As of yet, she says she's been too busy getting the bill melded to focus on that, but that she "would have to be talked into it," but isn't closed. The fly in the ointment on amendments is Rep. Bart Stupak and threat to team up with Republicans "unless Democratic leaders allow a floor vote on an amendment that would add new restrictions on the use of federal funding for health plans that cover abortion with private dollars."
This complicates the issue of the single payer amendment that Rep. Anthony Weiner was promised he would be able to offer. When Chris Bowers asked about it, Pelosi said that she would be meeting with Weiner and Rep. Kucinich today or tomorrow. Additionally, Rep. Grijalva is continuing to push for the robust public option.
"I am not rolling over. I will insist on a Medicare-plus-five amendment on the Floor so that the full Caucus can vote on it. We are hopeful that the Rules Committee will allow this amendment, which has tremendous public support, to be voted on for the record."
Leadership, including Rules Committee chair Louise Slaughter, are going to have some interesting needle-threading to do on the rule for floor action and the amendment process on this one. The schedule has not yet been determined completely. It will be available for the next 72 hours for all members to access, then will be submitted as the manager's amendment Monday morning. Floor action could begin as soon as next Thursday. She said that it's possible to have a vote before Veterans Day, Nov. 11, but as of yet that's not decided.
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Grace Hadow (1875-1940) read English at Somerville College and gained firstclass honours in 1903. She taught at Bryn Mawr and Lady Margaret Hall, and edited/wrote the Oxford Treasury of English Literature, Chaucer and his Times, and volumes of essays on Addison and Goldsmith. Alongside her scholarly work she developed a life-long commitment to adult education for the study and promotion of social welfare, particularly in rural areas. From these interests came her secretaryship of Barnett House (Oxford's new centre for social and economic studies and social work training) and her founding of the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council, the first body of its kind in Britain. Her time (1929-1940) as Principal of the Society of Home-Students saw the Society build for itself (with Mrs Hartland's benefaction) for the first time, and move firmly in the direction of the collegiate status achieved in 1952. She died in post of viral pneumonia at the age of 65.
Grace Hadow, was also known to be a strong supporter of the suffragists*. As a young woman she was an English Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, but gave up residence in Oxford in order to live with her ailing mother in Cirencester. There she was active in a local branch of the NUWSS, and it is particularly fitting that our current Principal, Helen King, was invited to unveil a blue memorial plaque on Miss Hadow's former home in Cirencester on 6th February 2018 – the very date of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act. In 1917, after the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform issued its report recommending that the vote be given to women in some form, Grace Hadow wrote, "It feels quite odd to think that possibly – even probably – before long people will neither shout with laughter nor throw things at one if one mentions women voting. I am glad to belong to a generation which has been stoned – not because I like being stoned (it is tiresome, and often messy), but since some women had to go through that to win the thing, it is a bit of luck not to have been out of it entirely…..In years to come it may interest people to realize that before the War numbers of law-abiding and peaceful women like myself, quite inconspicuous members of a political party, got to take being mobbed and insulted as part of the ordinary day's work…Now the War has brought us to a peaceful recommendation that at least some women should vote".
She was also vice chair of the National Federation of Women's Institutes and retained this post for the rest of her life.
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*Suffragists not suffragettes – important distinction as the suffragists were less militant..
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Prior to the Center's completion, the Army Reserves, Marine Reserves and National Guard were housed in different buildings near the airport in north Baton Rouge. Construction plans for the Center called for the building to meet one of the higher levels of the U.S. Green Building Code, achieving SPIRIT designation, which means the center is environmentally friendly by using less water, electricity and gas, and requiring less money to heat and cool.


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Was on the hunt for Lava Orange, Racing Yellow, Miami Blue or Guards Red - the RY was the first that came along in the right spec, so that is the way I went. Think the Lava Orange is a super colour, and in the future will be looked back on as a Porsche classic.


A 14.4-pound baby was just born in Lexington, South Carolina. Cindy Richmond and Arthur Keisler felt they were having a big baby, but they did not think their third bundle of joy would greet the world as a toddler-sized human being.
The first baby born to Arthur Keisler and Cindy Richmond weighed in at 7.6 pounds. Their second baby weighed 9.8 pounds the day it was born. The South Carolina couple thought their third child would weigh about 10 pounds. They had no idea the baby would tip the 14-pound mark and set a new birth weight record.
The Richmond-Keisler baby was the biggest ever born at the Lexington Medical Center, which has been in operation since 1971. The baby was born on June 23.
"He's a toddler at three days old," Arthur Keisler said during an interview with WLTX.
The baby boy was delivered via a caesarean section a week before his anticipated due date. Dr. Jamie Brown delivered the record-breaking baby at the Lexington Women's Care center. When Cindy Richmond and Arthur Keisler saw their third child for the first time, they both gasped audibly, MSN reports.
Even the nurses assisting in the South Carolina delivery room were reportedly astonished by the size of the newborn. The baby boy measured 24 inches long — the length of a typical 4- to 5-month-old infant. Donna Hinton, who has been an obstetrics nurse for almost three decades, said she had never before seen such a large newborn.
"When he was born, it was an 'Oh my God!' moment," the Lexington mother said.
Richmond went on to say the final two or three months of her pregnancy were fairly difficult. The mother said she experienced many sleepless nights and was extremely uncomfortable.
None of the baby clothes Richmond and Keisler had purchased for their son would fit. The baby boy immediately began wearing clothes made for a 6-month-old baby.
The average size of a newborn baby is 7.5 pounds. Until baby Colin was born, the largest baby ever delivered at the Lexington Medical Center was a 13-pound infant who joined the world in 1987. The hospital delivers approximately 3,500 babies annually.
Both the 14.4-pound baby and his mother are healthy and doing well.


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According to automotive-car experts, regularly scheduled oil/filter changes are the single most important item for prolonging auto-car engine life. Most new car auto vehicles have recommended oil/filter change intervals of 7,500 miles and some new auto vehicles have recommended oil change intervals of 11,000 to 15,000 miles under normal operating conditions, with ""normal"" operation described as the operation of the vehicle for at least 20 minutes at a medium speed, with a steady throttle and in a clean driving environment.
Short car hops to the store, stop-and-go rush hour driving, driving on dirt roads and inclement-weather operation are all considered severe operating conditions that can cause impurities to build up quickly in the automobile oil, resulting in increased wear and tear on the car internal parts. That is why most auto-car owner's manuals and auto mechanics recommend changing the car's oil and filter every three months or 3,000 miles (whichever comes first) to assure that maximum car engine lubrication occurs while a minimum of impurities are suspended in the automotive oil. To find out what the recommended car oil change frequency is for your car care, check your car owner's manual or talk with your automotive car service professional about your car proper car care.


OBJECTIVE: Maximal oxygen uptake (Vo(2max)) of 44 ml kg(-1) min(-1) is an accepted criterion (Vo(2CR)) below which health and fitness for young male adults may be compromised. New algorithms validated for Vo(2CR) screening using the 20 m multistage shuttle run test (20mMST) were developed. METHODS: Vo(2max) was assessed in 110 males using a stationary gas analyser in a treadmill test (TT) and in 40 of these subjects using a portable gas analyser in the 20mMST. Vo(2max) predicted from the 20mMST in 70 subjects was used for cross validation. Two equations predicting Vo(2max) during 20mMST (EQ(MST)) and TT (EQ(TT)) were developed. RESULTS: Significant energy cost variance (EC(V)) was detected between TT and 20mMST (p<0.001), correlated significantly with subject height, and was a significant predictor of Vo(2max) differences between TT and 20mMST. The r(2) of EQ(MST) was 0.92 (p<0.001). Predicted Vo(2max) values from EQ(MST) correlated with directly measured 20mMST Vo(2max) at r = 0.96 (p<0.001). ANOVA detected no mean difference (p>0.05) between predicted and measured values. Prevalence of low fitness based on Vo(2CR) was 0.37. McNemar chi(2) indicated significant differences in sensitivity (p<0.001) and specificity (p<0.05) between the original 20mMST equation (EQ(LEG)) and EQ(TT), regarding Vo(2CR) screening. Cohen's kappa demonstrated higher agreement with TT Vo(2max) for EQ(TT) (p<0.001) than EQ(LEG) (p<0.05). TT Vo(2max) correlated with the end result of both EQ(LEG) and EQ(TT) at r = 0.75 (p<0.001). Unlike EQ(TT) (p>0.05), mean predicted Vo(2max) from EQ(LEG) was significantly higher compared to TT Vo(2max) (p<0.001). CONCLUSION: These algorithms increase the efficacy of 20mMST to accurately evaluate aspects of health and fitness.
Criterion-related validity and test-retest reliability of the 20m square shuttle test.
The repeatability and criterion related validity of the 20 m multistage fitness test as a predictor of maximal oxygen uptake in active young men.
Relationship between measured maximal oxygen uptake and aerobic endurance performance with running repeated sprint ability in young elite soccer players.
Criteria and other methodological considerations in the evaluation of time at V.O2max.


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Mainstream, VOL LVII No 38 New Delhi September 7, 2019
The Scene in Afghanistan: Perfidious Americans and Ambitious, Crafty Taliban
Saturday 7 September 2019
by Apratim Mukarji
Every commentator on Afghanistan goes back to the year 1989, even though they are talking about today's developments. That year, with the Soviet occupation Army driven out of Afghanistan and the hapless country and its people abandoned to the unfolding depredations of tribal-enmity-driven mujahideen militias at each other's throat for the spoils of power, the Americans withdrew to the safety of their far-away home. This sordid history is now about to be repeated in the country.
Easily, the most astonishing aspect of the much-anticipated peace negotiations which are taking place between the Trump Government and a resurgent Taliban, is the legitimate, popularly elected Afghan Government being deliberately ignored despite its vehement and persistent protests. The talks, protracted and reconvened every time by the Taliban, which clearly enjoys the primary position it has gained or is allowed to have gained, are nearing fruition, fulfilling in every little detail the wishes and objectives of the frighteningly powerful terrorist militia. While America continues to behave as if it does not mind taking orders from the Taliban, the latter make no bones about their dominance over the world's most powerful nation and the most fearsome army as far as Afghanistan is concerned. With the former friends like the Russian Federation, China, and Iran openly clamouring for their positions in the anticipated peacetime benefits in the approaching Taliban takeover, the government of President Ashraf Ghani (Ahmadzai, the clan-identification, dropped since his election) stands hopelessly abandoned and forlorn.
Even as this article was being written, came the news of the latest Taliban outrage even as the talks with the US were getting into the final and decisive phase. The terrorists attacked the Kunduz city in the north (which had been a scene of see-saw battles for control over the last few years) on August 31, killing at least three civilians and 41 wounded. The Reuters news agency reported that the attack ensued several hours of gun battles in the midst of a decisive phase in the peace talks gathering momentum. Heavy fighting began in the city after Taliban fighters mounted a multi-pronged attack in the morning, forcing government forces to rush in with reinforcements to stop a takeover of Kunduz. Going by the government accounts, the Taliban were forced to a weakened position with 36 of their fighters dead by ground fighting and air operations. However, later reports spoke of fighters gaining entry into homes and continuing to fight the government forces in various pockets in the city. The Taliban spokes-man Zahihullah Mujahid claimed that government forces were under "heavy" pressure in these areas, while the government said that its priority was to protect civilians.
It is relevant to recall that the Taliban have reached today's powerful and well-entrenched position by slowly and doggedly pursuing their goal of capturing as much as possible of Afghan territory and thereafter govern them to establish their credentials as a state power, and at the same time to prove the government's and its army's inability to govern the country in the face of the Taliban challenge. They have clearly concluded that both their objectives have been achieved, and that no power on earth can any longer deny them their right to take over the governance of the country, a governance that will have the sanction of the international community unlike the last time when the Taliban rule remained unrecognised during the six-year duration. It is the Trump Administration that has played the most singular role in acceding that global sanction.
Are there differences between the current peace process in Afghanistan and similar peace processes implemented in other parts of the world? Easily, the most important difference is that this particular peace process is too complex to be resolved through peaceful means. The fact is that the calls for peace talks with the Taliban are inspired not by genuine belief and rational calculations that the talks would bring peace to Afghanistan but by desperation and disillusion-ment with military operations against the terrorist group which have yielded little strategic success since the insurgency began. The reality is that not only the Taliban have no interest in the peace talks n the current conditions but there are too many state and non-state actors with diverging interests and agendas involved in this conflict that satisfying the demands of all parties through a peace deal with the Taliban is impossible.
Research scholar Ali Ahmad Pasoon of The Fletcher School writes in Mission Impossible: Afghan Peace Talks (May 18, 2017) that in analysing the Afghan situation, one should acknowledge that the conflict is neither a purely domestic conflict nor are the Taliban and the Kabul regime the only main parties to it. Like many civil wars of the modern era, there are many regional and global actors fuelling this conflict whose participation and agreement, while realistically not possible, is a requirement for success of peace talks. To demonstrate the complexity of the conflict and establish that it cannot be resolved simply through an Afghan-led peace process, one should view the Afghan war as a three-tier domestic, regional and global conflict involving multiple actors with divergent objectives and interests.
Pasoon and other analysts rightly emphasise that the repeated calls by leaders of the Afghan government, their efforts to set up the High Peace Council and release Taliban prisoners as well as other measures of appeasement leave little room for doubt about the genuineness of their desire for peace talks and a resultant settlement with the Taliban. Rightly too, Kabul insists that peace negotiations should tke place under the framework of the current constitution. The implications of this condition are that the Taliban must engage in peace talks by recognising the legitimacy of the government and accepting the rights and obligations enshrined in the constitution.
The insurgents apparently seek to counter this straight-forward and well-delineated position with varying signals on their desire for peace and preconditions for participation in peace negotiations. While a sizeable number of former Taliban Government officials and their fighters have laid down their arms a nd cooperated with the government, the Taliban leadership has never recognised the legitimacy of the post-2001 Afghan political system with its various organs, such as, the constitution, parliament, the electoral system, and the elected government. In its public stance, all these are illegitimate. However, this stance is not unadulte-rated, since the Taliban accepted Kabul's offer of talks and opened an office in Qatar and sent a delegation to Doha in June, 2013 apparently authorised by the "supreme leader" Mullah Mohammad Omar, who was killed two years later by the Americans. However, the Taliban reaffirmed their desire for participating in peace talks under the new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour and sent a delegation to Islamabad for continuing talks with the Afghan Government. While the second round too failed to yield results, the Americans killed Mullah Mansour too in a drone strike in Pakistan. The current leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada was initially a hardliner and refused to continue with the talks but later relented, and more rounds of talks have since followed.
Throughout these rounds of negotiations, the Taliban have been steadfast with enhancing the ferocity of their attacks on government forces, the government, political leaders, civilians and the media, and including foreigners and especially international agencies. They obviously do not wish to let any of these sections to harbour any such delusion that they are immune from assaults. There are occasional fights between the Taliban and ISIS, complicating the situation. Besides the ISIS, there are several other aspirants which wish to enjoy the fruits of peace and power once the two negotiating sides reach an agreement. Where that probability will leave the current government remains undecipherable. Even the immediate holding of the presidential election appears to be uncertain.
The only certainty is Washington's burning desire to get out of its commitment as quickly as possible, and in its haste the Trump Administration is the least mindful about what fate holds for the political system and the people. The woes of the Afghans are indeed unending.
Apratim Mukarji is an analyst of South and Central Asian affairs and has authored Afghanistan: From Terror to Freedom (2003).
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Materials: Stone, Paint
This object is a reproduction of a rock painting found at Bonfire Shelter near Langtry, Texas. There is evidence of human presence at the site as far back as 12,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene era. Bonfire Shelter, and other rock shelters in the Lower Pecos area have a long history that continues to be a part of archaeological investigations today.
Bonfire Shelter. Photo by Wilmuth Skiles, via http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net
Bonfire Shelter's importance was initially discovered by a high school student named Michael Collins. Collins was visiting the area with family when he went to go explore the rocky outcrop. Having read about archaeological excavations, Collins attempted to dig in a similar way to archaeological digs. After making a square hole and digging past a layer of cave dust and rock, Collins found charred bone a foot below the surface. He soon found a jaw bone that he thought belonged to a cow and took it to Glen Evans, a paleontologist and family friend. Evans determined that the bone belonged not to a cow but to a bison and the landowners began to look into an archaeological investigation.
In 1962 the area surrounding Bonfire Shelter was chosen as the future site of the Amistad Reservoir. Mark Parsons from the Texas Archaeological Salvage Project was sent in to determine if the area could be flooded. Almost immediately Parsons found artifacts, like a Montell style dart point which dated the bison bone layer to the late Archaic Period, roughly 2,500-3,000 years ago. As the investigation continued, evidence indicated that Bonfire Shelter was the site of a bison jump. Bison jumps were areas where bison were herded off a cliff and down onto a rock pile in front of the shelter where they were then butchered. Archaeologists realized that this bison jump site was the oldest known in North America as well as the furthest south.
Cave painting of horse in the Lascaux cave. Image via WikiMedia Commons.
The rock art found in the Bonfire Shelter area is an example of the Lower Pecos rock art style. Rock paintings go back thousands of years. Until recently, the oldest cave paintings were found in Spain and France and dated at 30,000 to 32,000 years old. In 2014 a new discovery pushed the oldest known painting back to 35,400 years old and was found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. There are even older paintings of abstract unidentifiable objects, which have been dated to 40,000 years old.
Today, Bonfire Shelter and the surrounding area is a part of the Seminole Canyon State Park. The park is named after Lieutenant John L. Bullis' Black Seminole Scouts who were descendants of runaway slaves. This area sports some of the oldest known rock shelters in North America as well as some of the oldest rock wall paintings or pictographs, which can be seen on guided hiking tours today. [Briana Miano edited by Joscelynn Garcia]
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Women's role involvement in family businesses, business tensions, and business success
Sharon M. Danes, P. D. Olson
Family Social Science
J. H. Astrachan, T. M. Pieper, P. Jaskiewicz
The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management
Danes, S. M., & Olson, P. D. (2008). Women's role involvement in family businesses, business tensions, and business success. In J. H. Astrachan, T. M. Pieper, & P. Jaskiewicz (Eds.), Family Business (pp. 53-98). The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management.
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Arguably one of the world's best loved musicals, The Sound of Music comes from the home of West End musical theatre – the famous London Palladium – where the lavish and dazzling show celebrated a record-breaking 954 performances and was seen by over two million people. The show last played in Singapore in 2014 to almost 70,000 people during its five-week season.
Based on the true story of Maria, the fun-loving governess who changes the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children by re-introducing them to music; and the family's escape across the Austrian mountains as tensions rise prior to the outbreak of World War II.
The Sound of Music contains some of the most memorable songs ever performed in musical theatre including My Favourite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Edelweiss, The Lonely Goatherd, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, and of course the glorious title song The Sound of Music. It's original score is composed by Richard Rodgers collaborating with lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein. The original 1959 Broadway production won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews as Maria won five Oscars, including Best Picture.


In the Great Depression of the 1930s, magazines had to make serious cuts in their size and price in order to stay in business. At the same time, there was increased demand for inexpensive entertainment as people continued to take interest in popular culture in the form of movies and recorded music, but couldn't always afford it. Literacy rates were also at an all-time high. These factors produced a boom in light, frivolous fiction, often poorly printed on rougher, more acidic paper ("pulp") than the glossier paper ("slick") used by established quality magazines.
Unlike the slicks, pulps were relatively easy for unknown artists and authors to be published in -- and they paid accordingly less. This fact, in addition to the often lurid subject matter some pulp titles specialized in, led some illustrators and writers to use pen names or not to sign their work at all. Walter Haskell Hinton, however, was as proud to contribute to pulps as he was to slicks, and he seems to have signed most if not all of what he did for them. Unsurprisingly, his pulp covers and interior illustrations occasionally show more hasty draftsmanship than his work for sporting and outdoors magazines.
Hinton did work for several pulp magazines but seems to have steered clear of the truly violent and sexually explicit ones. Instead, he concentrated on the Western and historical subjects -- with the occasional foray into science fiction for titles that were art directed by William Hamling, who usually bought artwork from Hinton for Mammoth Western.
In the body of Hinton's work, it is difficult to say where pulp images end and serious Western art takes over. Because he liked Western subjects so well, many of his illustrations destined for cheap publications were as good as his better-paying work. They only differ in that they are highly dramatized and concentrate on the traditional climactic moments of popular Western literature: saloon shoot-'em-ups, death-defying tumbles down cliffs, hell-bent horseback rides, and the like.
Often, Hinton's comprehensive renderings preserve more liveliness than his finished works, which tend to be very tightly rendered in keeping with the more precise, slick styles that gained in popularity in the 1930s. To appreciate this shift, one can compare the Western and pulp paintings to the farm magazine covers of the 1920s, which are softer and more Impressionist in the handling.
Comprehensive renderings in gouache (left), and ink with gouache (right).
Original oil on canvas; publication unknown.
Hinton's more serious Western paintings are properly history paintings. Although these often feature elements calculated for popular taste such as pretty ladies and heroic celebrations of progress, they show considerable research and planning as well as careful execution.
In this picture probably destined for art prints or puzzles, time is compressed as a pioneer wagon train heads out away from a futuristic city complete with airships. Original watercolour.
Walter Haskell Hinton's admiration for iconic Western artist Frederic Remington shines through in this oil on canvas.
Thank you to David Saunders, Robert Weinberg and many others for information on pulps. For further research, David's Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists is very useful.


This prayer can be modified for the species, name, and gender of your animal.
And as I grieve his passage from this life to the next, I take comfort in knowing that my dog [name] will find a place at Your side, under Your table, by Your mantle, and at the foot of Your bed.
I commend his soul into Your loving arms until I can hold him next in the world beyond worlds, in the time after time.


Karine Polwart has been added to the Folk by the Oak 2019 line-up set for Hatfield House this summer. Picture: supplied by Folk by the Oak.
There will be two chances to see the award-winning Karine Polwart on stage at Hatfield's Folk by the Oak music festival this summer.
Already a member of The Lost Words - Spell Songs project, Karine Polwart will also perform a solo set in Hatfield Park.
Folk by the Oak 2019 takes place in the grounds of Hatfield House on Sunday, July 14 – the day after the annual Battle Proms classical concert.
Songwriter, musician, theatre maker and author Karine is a six-time winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including 2018 Folk Singer of the Year.
Her summer appearance on the FBTO main stage will be her first at the festival for 10 years.
For those unfamiliar with her work, in October 2018 she released her seventh album, Laws of Motion, the critically acclaimed follow-up to 2017's much-praised A Pocket of Wind Resistance.
Her much-anticipated Scottish Songbook, celebrating 50 years of Scottish pop and revealing yet another dimension to her artistry, is released in August.
FBTO festival organisers told Welwyn Hatfield Times: "Karine Polwart is an artist of such exceptional calibre that we can barely believe our luck, as we get to enjoy her in two very different guises this summer.
"Recently we have been honoured to work closely with Karine on our latest commission, The Lost Words - Spell Songs.
The Lost Words – Spell Songs also features Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever and Seckou Keita, who opened the festival last year, among other folk luminaries, and was created as a musical companion piece to The Lost Words – A Spell Book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.
The book, a 'beautiful protest' created in response to the loss of common nature words from a popular children's dictionary, has stirred such a response that there are now crowdfunding campaigns around the UK aiming to put a copy in each and every primary school.
The Lost Words – Spell Songs has been given an equally warm reception, selling out venues around the UK during a recent tour.
The gathering together of the 'Spell Singers' at Folk by the Oak will be an exclusive festival performance this summer.
The other musicians involved in the project are Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux.
There will also be a unique and exciting opportunity to hear the authors of The Lost Words talk about their book, on Folk by the Oak's second stage, the Acorn Stage.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of bestselling and prize-winning books, including The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway and Landmarks.
He will be talking with his co-collaborator Jackie Morris, an artist and illustrator with a huge international following, about the original book and how it has grown beyond all expectations and bloomed into a musical project.
Headlining Folk by the Oak this year is Frank Turner, whose set with The Sleeping Souls promises the Turner at his best.
The folk-punk troubadour will incorporate some of his most notable tracks with material from his latest album Be More Kind into his FBTO set.
Also on the Main Stage is Hertfordshire trio The Staves, who hail from nearby Watford, and festival favourite Seth Lakeman, who recently returned from touring the US with Robert Plant.
The Staves will play Hatfield music festival Folk by the Oak in the grounds of Hatfield House.
Adult tickets cost £38 if booked by March 31.


Cataracts: What Are They & What Do I Do About Them?
Most of us recognize a cataract when we see one; a cloudy or milky film on the surface of the eye. But what else do we know about cataracts? Are they painful? Do they ever go away? Can anyone get them?
The highly trained staff at Complete Family Eye Care are prepared to not only diagnose your cataracts, but to help you with what's next. We'll be happy to answer your questions and put your fears to rest.
In a lot of ways, a cataract is exactly what it looks like; a hazy fog in the lens of your eye.
Your lens is made of proteins and water. The proteins are spaced far enough apart that you can easily see through them. However, as you get older, the proteins start to restructure, getting closer together with less space in-between. The more the proteins group together, the more opaque the lens becomes, making it difficult for light to travel through.
At the end of the day, anyone can develop a cataract, and for the most part, everyone does. Almost everyone over the age of 60 has some level of cataract development. There are, however, some factors that contribute to the development of cataracts.
At first, cataracts are just monitored and sometimes treated by increasing the patient's eyeglass prescription. But eventually, they'll become so opaque that changing the power of the prescription doesn't help anymore. At this point, the patient will usually have cataract surgery.
This procedure is relatively simple and extremely effective. An ophthalmologist will use a small ultrasonic device to break up the natural, cloudy lens. Once they've removed the pieces, they'll replace your natural lens with an implant called an intraocular lens or IOL by sliding it in through a small incision in the cornea.
Patients usually report a significant improvement in clarity and color after the surgery, which only takes about 15 minutes per eye.
After your procedure, you'll be given a plastic eye shield; this keeps any sort of dirt or bacteria from getting into your eye and causing an infection. We recommend sleeping in the eye shield for the first few days, so you don't accidentally rub your eye in your sleep. It will take some time for your eyes to recover, so it's best to take it easy for a few days after surgery and avoid any straining or heavy lifting.
You might feel some itching, a little bit of pain in the eye, or a headache. All of these things are a normal part of the healing process. Just take any medications exactly as described. We'll see you for a follow up visit a few days after surgery to evaluate your eyes and make sure you're healing properly.
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