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A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving. A game is won by the first player to have won at least four points in total and at least two points more than the opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis: scores from zero to three points are described as "love", "15", "30", and "40", respectively. If at least three points have been scored by each player, making the player's scores equal at 40 apiece, the score is not called out as "40–40", but rather as "deuce". If at least three points have been scored by each side and a player has one more point than his opponent, the score of the game is "advantage" for the player in the lead. During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "van in" when the serving player is ahead, and "ad out" or "van out" when the receiving player is ahead.
The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point, a system known as Hawk-Eye.
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If time and finances permit, adult beginners should take a beginner tennis clinic and hit lots of balls, period. The clinic should be augmented by private lessons. After the basics are in place, find someone to hit with who can control the ball and see if he or she can practice with you. Take more clinics and hit balls … get exposure to hitting while you work on grip technique and footwork. Set a goal to get into the next level within 6-8 weeks.
"Tennis Court" received positive reviews from music critics, with some highlighting the song's production and lyrical content. The single was a commercial success in Oceania, reaching number one in New Zealand and number 20 in Australia. It received platinum certification in Canada, double platinum certification in New Zealand and triple platinum certification in Australia. "Tennis Court" achieved modest chart success throughout Europe and North America, entering at low-tier positions on charts in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. Joel Kefali directed the song's accompanying music video, a one shot in which Lorde stares to the camera throughout. "Tennis Court" was included on the set list of Lorde's Pure Heroine Tour (2013–14).
A difficult shot in tennis is the return of an attempted lob over the backhand side of a player. When the contact point is higher than the reach of a two-handed backhand, most players will try to execute a high slice (under the ball or sideways). Fewer players attempt the backhand sky-hook or smash. Rarely, a player will go for a high topspin backhand, while themselves in the air. A successful execution of any of these alternatives requires balance and timing, with less margin of error than the lower contact point backhands, since this shot is a break in the regular pattern of play.
Head size plays a very key role in a racket's performance characteristics. A larger head size very generally means more power and a larger "sweet spot". This is an area in the string bed that is partially more forgiving on off-center hits and which produces more ball-reflective power from string deformation, known as the trampoline effect. However, large head sizes can increase twisting, which makes off-center hits more difficult to control and can reduce a player's overall power production due to the playing compensating for the extra inherent power, typically with stiffer strings to reduce the increased string deformation of large heads. A smaller head size generally offers more control for many shots, particularly the service and groundstrokes aimed near the lines, but can lead to more shanks (wild misses, from hitting the frame or missing the sweet spot). This drawback is most common for professional players using single-handed topspin backhands, as well as for recreational and aged players at net. Shanking due to small racket head size is typically exacerbated by racket weight, which slows the reaction time, as well as, to a lesser degree, the racket's balance point. In professional tennis, currently-used racket head sizes vary between 95–115 square inches (610–740 cm2), with most players adopting one from 98–108 square inches (630–700 cm2). Rackets with smaller and larger head sizes, 85 and 120–137 square inches (550 and 770–880 cm2), are still produced but are not used by professionals currently. A very small number of professionals, such as Monica Seles, used 125 square inches (810 cm2) rackets during some point in their careers. Rackets with smaller heads than 85 square inches (550 cm2) have not been in production since the 1980s and rackets with larger head sizes than 137 square inches (880 cm2) are not currently legal for the sport, even though only elderly players typically choose to use rackets beyond 115 square inches (740 cm2) and it is nearly unheard-of for a serious player who is not elderly to choose a racket over 125 square inches (810 cm2). The WEED company, founded by Tad Weed, specializes in producing very large rackets, primarily for the elderly market. Rackets that are moderately higher in power production, moderately lower in weight, moderately larger in size, and which typically possess a slightly head-heavy balance are often called "tweener rackets."[11] Rackets that have the smallest heads in current use, the highest weights in current use, and headlight or even balance are referred to as "players' rackets". Oversize rackets, typically 110 square inches (710 cm2) in size, were once pejoratively referred to as "granny sticks" but resistance to them being seen as illegitimate rackets for younger players decreased dramatically with the successful use of these rackets by a small number professionals such as Andre Agassi and Pam Shriver. Originally, even midsize frames (85 square inches (550 cm2)) were considered jumbo, and some top players, such as Martina Navratilova and Rod Laver said they should be banned for making the sport too easy. Later, these same professionals, including John McEnroe, signed a letter supporting a switch back to wood frames, or a limitation to the original standard size of approximately 65 square inches (420 cm2). Perhaps the last professional to use a standard-size racket in professional tennis was Aaron Krickstein, known for the strongly-contested match against Connors at the 1991 US Open. He used a Wilson Ultra-II standard-size graphite racket also used in the 1980s by the hard-hitting teen Andrea Jaeger. The first oversize, the fiberglass Bentley Fortissimo from Germany, was praised by racket designers but was considered too large to be taken seriously by the small number of players who were exposed to it.
The modern tennis court owes its design to Major Walter Clopton Wingfield. In 1873, Wingfield patented a court much the same as the current one for his stické tennis (sphairistike). This template was modified in 1875 to the court design that exists today, with markings similar to Wingfield's version, but with the hourglass shape of his court changed to a rectangle.[50]
I spent a year having lessons with one pro, then another. It wasn't working out. I realized I wanted not just instruction but a relationship — someone I was not only going to learn from but also talk with, or talk at, anyway, about all this stuff that might have been about tennis but was probably about a lot of other things. I was about to give up.
The Babolat Pure Drive Junior racket has a child-friendly yet professional design so that even the youngest can feel great. Thanks to the high-quality workmanship and the use of only first-class materials, a junior player will certainly have a lot of fun with this children's tennis racket. The price-performance ratio of the Pure Drive Junior racquet is excellent.
This is key to improving in any sport or anything you want to do. Play regularly. Go to your tennis lessons and then play with a partner and practice every week. Your muscles need it for conditioning and muscle memory. Practice the skills you learn and you'll see yourself improving week after week. A club is a great place to do this. While you're at it, don't forget to have fun!
The most common causes for that are actually the coaches themselves because they only correct technique rather than involve players in various drills that would take their attention off their body and make them focus on tasks like reading the incoming ball, improving timing and rhythm, improving the feel for the strokes, hitting targets on the court, working on tactics like making opponents run, looking to wrong foot the opponent, and so on.
Learning tennis to the extreme levels requires mental fortitude and athletic ability that only a few in this world can manage. But this should not deter you from learning this beautiful no matter what age group you belong to. You can become a pretty awesome tennis player that is satisfied with their game without spending countless hours on court or turning it into a full-time profession. It is just a matter of consistency, the right technique, and some willpower.
Although Kolkmann admits that concrete courts cost substantially more initially than asphalt, an asphalt surface often requires more frequent and costly upkeep over its lifespan to repair cracking and settling. "Through our own recordkeeping, we estimate that an asphalt court will be unavailable for play, due to repairs being made, for about 100 days over a 20-year period," he says. "During this same time, a post-tensioned slab would be down for about 20 days. In our climate in the upper Midwest, repairs can only be done in the summer, when everyone wants to play. For a private court, the downtime may not be as crucial. But for a club, it can be a substantial unknown cost in lost revenue."
Hard courts are made of uniform rigid material, often covered with an acrylic surface layer[7] to offer greater consistency of bounce than other outdoor surfaces.[8] Hard courts can vary in speed, though they are faster than clay but not as fast as grass courts. The quantity of sand added to the paint can greatly affect the rate at which the ball slows down.[9]
The stiffest graphite racket that has been sold is the Prince More Game MP, which is rated at 80 RA on the industry-standard Babolat measuring equipment. The Prince More series used two pieces (a top side and bottom side of the racket, or a left side and a right side) and no grommet strip. Prince had briefly used a design without a grommet strip in an early version of its "original" graphite oversize. The most famous user of a More series racket was Martina Navratilova, who returned to play doubles in her 40s, using a Prince More Control DB (a midplus) for her initial wins in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon and the Australian Open with Leander Paes. She had used the stiffer More Game MP prior. Navratilova later switched to a design by Warren Bosworth (the founder of Bosworth Tennis) which had a customized asymmetric grip and an unusual geometric head shape. Stiffer rackets typically offer more power and control at the expense of increased ball shock, which can lead to injury or tennis elbow aggravation. Typically, power and control are at odds. However, in the case of stiff rackets, less energy is dissipated by the racket deforming, transmitting it back to the ball. Control is improved because there is less deformation. However, a player's overall power level may decrease due to the need to moderate ball striking effort to reduce discomfort and even injury. Although known as a hard hitter in her younger years, in her 40s she was known more as a precision player who used finesse (and especially tactics) more than power. In fact, the last doubles partner she won a major with in mixed, Bob Bryan, remarked on how slow her serve was, despite how effective she was on the court. Navratilova also used string that was much softer than what anyone else on tour used (thick uncoated natural gut), to help compensate for the stiffness of her racket. The vastly higher injury rate in tennis (when compared with the wood era) is, in part, due to the increase in stiffness, both of the racket and of the strings.
From 'No advantage'. Scoring method created by Jimmy Van Alen. The first player or doubles team to win four points wins the game, regardless of whether the player or team is ahead by two points. When the game score reaches three points each, the receiver chooses which side of the court (advantage court or deuce court) the service is to be delivered on the seventh and game-deciding point. Utilized by World Team Tennis professional competition, ATP tours, WTA tours, ITF Pro Doubles and ITF Junior Doubles.[57][58]
Good Vibrations: Beginners need not apply with this oddly-shaped modern tennis racket. The 98 square-inch head has the same iconic – which is to say strange – shape that Yonex has been pushing for years, yet this one feels much more normal for intermediate and advanced players. The sweet spot is larger than usual, but still smaller than many choices. It's a bit weighty at 11.5oz but Yonex seems to have used the extra weight to good effect with their Dual Shut System which uses the grommets near the handle to dampen bad vibrations for cleaner hits. It actually seems to come alive the harder you swing so it works well for playing an aggressive defense. While it shines against power hitters, trying to get the top spin to make a really heavy ball just won't work. [Purchase: $199]
The head-light balance point is rarer in professional tennis than it once was, as the sport has converted to larger-headed rackets, stiffer rackets, stiffer strings, more western grips and accompanying stroke production, and more topspin. The head-light balance point is most optimal for the serve and volley style with a continental grip. Serve and volley is no longer a viable option for nearly all professionals as the mode of playing for most points in a match. Head-heavy rackets became popular, mainly with recreational players, primarily with the introduction of the Wilson ProFile widebody racket. The head-light balance makes volleys and serves easier to produce, while groundstrokes are less stable. The head-heavy balance makes groundstrokes more stable, which typically increases the player's comfort for swinging harder to add power, but makes serves and volleys more cumbersome. A head-heavy balance also puts more stress on the elbow and shoulder.[12]
On 21 May 1881, the oldest nationwide tennis organization in the world[20] was formed, the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (now the United States Tennis Association) in order to standardize the rules and organize competitions.[21] The U.S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the US Open, was first held in 1881 at the Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island.[22] The U.S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887 in Philadelphia.[23]


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Interesting Origins of Rock N Roll Band Names
Anyone who grew up in the Rock 'n Roll era has been exposed to some interesting band names. We may never have given many of them much thought, and many, actually have no real significant meaning. Others, however, were inspired by unknown stories. Here are a few.
They were named using the first initials of the band members. It could have turned out so much differently should they had different names.
Bay City Rollers
No, the band was not from Bay City but was named randomly by sticking a pin in a map that included Michigan.
The name was inspired on Buddy Holly's Crickets, but the spelling was altered for a little play on words.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Rather than a Winston Churchill Speech, the name of this band was taken from the name of a Johnny Cash Album.
After recording "The Letter" the band was looking for suggestions on a name and the thought occurred to have them send in 50 cents and some box tops to enter a contest. Contest over.
Some will remember their original name as the Chicago Transit Authority. It was pretty simple in that their record label wanted to shorten their name.
It may be hard to imagine but the band's name was taken from a band members grandmother's affection for a Bing Crosby song of the same name.
Hootie and the Blowfish
No, lead singer Darius Rucker was not Hootie nor his band the Blowfish. These were actually nicknames of a couple of his college friends, one who looked like an owl (Hootie) and one who look like a blowfish.
This is not complicated as the legendary band was named after the title of a Muddy Water's tune.
Nearly called Tricycle to emphasize the three members of the band, they settled on Three Dog Night, an Australian description on how cold nights were described. A Three Dog Night was the coldest.
The band was named after a British unemployment form, the UB40 that would help applicants get unemployment benefits from the British government.
There are usually little quirks or stories behind the names of most famous bands. Searching out your favorites can be fun and enlightening!

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Perpetual Awards and Trophies
The purpose of this document is to provide deed of gift information on the various trophies presented annually to members of Monmouth Boat Club. Retired trophies are included for historical purposes.
For a list of current trophy holders, click here
Conceived by the Board of Trustees in 1994, this award is presented to a member who has demonstrated extraordinary service to Monmouth Boat Club. The criteria is as follows:
Extraordinary Service Contribution: The DSA should require ample evidence of the candidate's extraordinary service to the Club.
Enduring Value: The DSA should reflect the candidate's contribution to creating or preserving some enduring value of the Club. Value can and should include the Club's tangible assets, historic presence international reputation, for example.
Persistent Effort: The DSA should require and be the result of candidate's persistent and/or continuous effort, perhaps spanning several Club administrations.
General Recognition: Although it is possible for a Club member to contribute significantly for a number of years in a way in which could be worthy of a DSA without general recognition by Club membership as a whole, the clear choice is for a candidate whose contribution the general membership would recognize.
To date, four members have won this prestigious award:
1994 – Chris Frost
1998 – Mary Huntsman
2004 – Tom Vought
2013 – Pat Corr
RACING TROPHIES
Albacore Champion – Best 24 races on the Navesink
Flying Scot Champion – Best 24 races on the Navesink
Lightning Champion – Best 24 races on the Navesink
Sanderling Champion – Best 24 races on the Navesink
WoodPussy Champion – Best 24 races on the Navesink
Atwater Trophy – Presented by Mrs. Benjamin L. Atwater in the memory of her husband, commodore of MBC in 1940 and 1941. Awarded to the winner of a three-race series in Lightings. The races are to be the first of the regular summer series races on the race days closest to Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.
Neil Clifton Plaque – Donated by Neil G. Clifton, former commodore, for the winner of the fall series in WoodPussys. Neil was one of the principal organizers of the WoodPussy fleet.
Cox Trophy – Donated in 1949 by Mrs. Herbert (Squirrelly) Cox in memory of her husband. Herb was instrumental in organizing Lightning Fleet 70 in 1946-47, served as fleet captain, and was an extremely colorful and capable skipper. To be awarded annually to the Lightning Fleet 70 summer champion. The fleet will determine the method of scoring.
Borden L. Hance Jr. Plaque – Donated by Borden L. (Brub) Hance, former commodore of MBC, for the winner of the spring series in WoodPussys.
Howard L. Hathaway Memorial Bowl – Donated by friends of the late Howard L. Hathaway, Jr., an officer of MBC, and a WoodPussy sailor. Perpetual trophy for the winner of the summer series in WoodPussys.
Bob Howson WoodPussy Bridge Race Trophy – Donated by the MBC WoodPussy Fleet to a WoodPussy sailor for performance and participation in the MBC bridge race series.
Irv Lewis Memorial Trophy – Awarded to the winner of the Memorial Day regatta in Lightnings.
Miltenberger Trophy – Donated by the late Eugene F. Miltenberger to promote interest in sailboat racing. Awarded to the winner of one race, sailed in a class boat determined each year by the race committee. Eligible skippers are senior MBC members and their senior dependents who have not won an MBC summer series first place trophy, or National Sweepstakes Regatta, or this trophy. The race committee schedules the race each year.
The Monmouth Boat Club Championship Trophy – Conceived and donated by the Huntsman family in 1997, this trophy is awarded to the skipper who earns the most points during the racing year from Floats Out of one year through Floats Out of the next year in following areas: participation, performance, versatility and service.
The Monmouth Boat Club Women's Championship Trophy – Donated by Eileen Ewing in 2012 to encourage and promote MBC women sailors. The regatta shall be sailed in an available class boat decided upon by the skipper participants. In the event that a consensus regarding boat class cannot be reached by the participants, the first rear commodore will cast the tie-breaking vote. Three races shall be scheduled but one race shall constitute a regatta. Eligible skippers and crews shall be MBC women members 18 years of age and over. Number of crew shall be guided by class rules, safety considerations and will also take into account that any eligible woman who wants to sail should be accommodated.
Monmouth Museum Trophy – Donated in 1973 by the Monmouth Museum as a perpetual trophy to be presented to the winner of the class in the fall series that has the most boats start.
Lars Olsen Plaque – Donated by Lars Olsen, local builder of many championship boats, for the winner of the spring series in Lightnings.
Dr. Walter A. Rullman Trophy – Donated by Mrs. W. A. Rullman in memory of her husband who was instrumental in starting the junior program at MBC. Each year, this trophy will be inscribed with the names of the Mallory, Adams, Sears, and O'Day representatives from MBC.
Annual Rowing Fleet Award – The Rowing Fleet Award goes to the MBC rower with best overall finishes for the season in the MBC rowing fleet races.
JUNIOR AWARDS & TROPHIES
Altruder Cup – Presented to the junior winner of the Friday race series.
Good Sportsmanship Trophy – Awarded to the junior who best exemplifies good sportsmanship during the current year. The winner is selected by the commodore, first rear commodore, and the chairman of the junior program. Donated in 1936 by Mr. Sydney Wain of the "Red Bank Standard."
Methot Trophy – Donated in 1965 by the juniors of MBC to honor June Methot. June gave many hours of her time to advanced junior training and seminars. Awarded each year to the junior most improved in sailboat racing that year, as determined by the commodore, first rear commodore, and chairman of the junior program. For the purpose of this trophy, members or dependents under 21 years of age on September 1 of the season are eligible for this award.
Mergenthaler Plate – Presented to the adult(s) who provide the most support to the junior program.
CRUISING FLEET AWARDS
Michael O'Keefe Service – Donated by the Cruising Fleet.
John English Spirit Award – Donated by the Cruising Fleet.
E. Van der Leur Seamanship – Donated by the Cruising Fleet to honor fleet members in three categories.
Spinnaker Award – Donated by the Cruising Fleet in 2005 in honor of Joe Focarile, this award is presented to an MBC member who demonstrates loyalty and dedication to the ideals of the Monmouth Boat Club through the following criteria:
Dedicated to the principle of tolerance for all;
Enthusiasm for every activity;
Dynamic leadership in fleet activities;
Creativity and full of ideas for benefit of all;
Ability to get things started;
Friendship and interest in others;
Hard working for the benefit of others.
Dr. Edwin Field Navigator Trophy – Donated by Brub Hance in 2007, this antique wood and brass sextant once owned by our founder has been made into a permanent trophy to be presented to the Cruising Fleet member who makes the longest voyage (out and back) between Floats In and Floats Out each year.
RETIRED AWARDS AND TROPHIES
Leah Russell Novice Trophy – Donated by Mrs. E. Dixon Russell in 1953, to encourage racing among the ladies. Awarded each year to the winner of a three-race series in a class boat, and on dates determined by the race committee. Eligible contestants are senior ladies who have not won an MBC summer series first place trophy. Previous winners may compete. Reassigned from 1995 through 2010 as the MBC Women's Championship.
Bull Trophy – Awarded too the MBC Sears Cup representative. Donated by Mr. G. N. Bull to encourage junior sailing. Mr. Bull was district commodore of the Lightning class, and officer of Fleet 70, and of MBC.
Marianne Memorial – Donated by Willem Verkooyen in memory of his daughter. Wim as a first VP in the Flying Dutchman class. Awarded to the winner each year of the annual Tulip Bowl Regatta of the Flying Dutchman class.
Gravy Bowl – Donated by Lars Olsen in honor of Mrs. Raymond B. (Gravy) Lippincott, Jr., for the winner of the annual Gravy Bowl regatta in Jet 14s on the first Sunday of October. Mr. Lippincott was a founder of Fleet 14 of the Jet 14s.
Ray Smith Cup – Donated by Ray Smith, a former proprietor of the Union House. A perpetual trophy for the winner of the Jet 14 spring series.
Willis Clayton (Comet) Trophy – Originally awarded to the winner of one race in Comets. Reassigned to be awarded annually to the Jet 14 MBC summer series winner.
Indian Summer Trophy – Donated by Manny Wilner, a regional VP of the Flying Dutchman class, for the winner of the fall series races of October only. This trophy is intended to encourage October sailing and will be administered by Fleet 7


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DONNA'S THE DOMINOS QUEEN
February 24, 2008 | 5:48am
IT took a New York fashionista to steal the scene from a bevy of Hollywood screen sirens Thursday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Playing in a charity dominos tournament sponsored by De Grisogono jewelers, Donna Karan seemed to be consistently beating the likes of Charlize Theron, Kate Hudson, Salma Hayek, Demi Moore and daughter Rumer Willis. "Every few minutes there was hooting and hollering from her table," FoxNews.com columnist Roger Friedman said. "Karan kept drawing huge amounts of won dominoes, like poker chips, to her breast and declaring, 'I won!' – with a huge laugh that ended in her trademark smile." While the evening belonged to the ladies, who were dolled up in formal gowns and diamonds on loan from De Grisogono, Theron's boyfriend, actor Stuart Townsend, made it to one of the final tables as Matthew Perry circled the room in a relatively shabby raincoat and Ashton Kutcher and James Van Der Beek cheered from the sidelines. The event benefitted the Art of Elyisum, a charity that fulfills the wishes of ill children. The night before, a soiree at the Chateau Marmont hosted by French billionaire Nicolas Berggruen got the pre-Oscar partying off to a rollicking start. New York socialite Jamie Tisch showed up on the arm of Nicky Hilton's ex-husband, Todd Meister. "They were all over each other, said an onlooker, noting that Tisch's own ex, billionaire Steve Tisch, showed up with a new girlfriend named Asia.


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In this part, you'll continue work on the third building and add windows and window arches for the first, second and third floors, as well as drain pipes.
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IA INVESTIGATION: Interpol and Julian Assange's red notice
By Tess Lawrence | 8 March 2011, 12:51pm | comments |
Why did Julian Assange receive an Interpol Red Notice, but Gaddafi only an Orange? Tess Lawrence investigates the murky world of Interpol exclusively for IA, asking some troubling questions and uncovering some startling facts.
Why was Julian Assange – who has not yet been charged – given the most severe Red Notice by Interpol, when brutal dictator Muammar Gaddafi only received an Orange Notice?
Do senior Interpol officials have a vendetta against Wikileaks and Julian Assange?
Is the organisation and its Travel Document system fatally compromised?
What's with the Interpol Colour Chart for the world's most wanted?
Gaddafi Orange Notice page 1: click on image to see the full document in PDF
Recidivist mass murderer Muammar Gaddafi – he of the all-girl vestal virgin Clit Squad – cops a mere clockwork Orange Notice whilst our Julian Assange of WikiLeaks – exposer of state-sanctioned killers and war crimes and who is fighting extradition to Sweden for uncharged sexual allegations – is king hit with the big ticket Red Notice. Go figure.
There's something shonky going on in the shady world of Interpolitics. Let's move in for a closer shufti.
Have you checked out the profiles of alleged crims who normally make the Red Notice billboard? We're talking big-time kahuna felons here. Terrorists, mass murderers, people traffickers, drug barons and their ilk. Got the picture?
Try as I did, I just couldn't find anyone else in the entire of Red Notice history as far down the criminal dude chain as our Julian. And, apparently, never before has Sweden requested a Red Notice based on similar circumstances and allegations. What's more, Interpol sources say that the Red Notice posting of Julian Assange is the first and only case of its kind. Is that true Interpol?
Interpol is such a funny little secretive and paradoxical clubbette—always going on about how worthy and important it is to data sharing, preserving international security, the ongoing tumultuous fight against terrorism and corruption and the eradication of international crime by enabling all of their 188 members with the power to fight organised crime—including that well known bastion of human rights, justice and democratic egalitarianism, Libya.
Ipso facto Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Philippines, Morocco, Sudan, Australia, Britain, the United States, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan and all of the rest of us who are guilty of hypocrisy and political expediency and who wallpaper our economies with banknotes sullied with the sweat and blood of the disenfranchised, the bullied, the defeated and the enslaved.
We dance naked before our fully clothed despotic masters and do their bidding on the pretext they do ours. Ahhh...political fellatio—a higher art form when conducted between consenting countries rather than desperate homo sapiens.
Only a matter of weeks ago, the West and its subordinates were extolling the virtues of the important geopolitical positions and posturings of the likes of dictatorial psychopaths Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gadaffi—Libya's self-proclaimed 'King of Africa'.
The facts that these two share the same incompetent hair colourist as Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and appear to have been dipped in formaldehyde should have given us a few clues. They've had so much cosmetic surgery they probably haven't any tear ducts left. That's why they can't cry, for pity's sake, and why they didn't need all those tear gas canisters we authorised and branded with our logo.
What do we care about their peoples; our brothers and sisters; our kith and kin? Other tribes they may be—but of our own species? Well, sort of. Just. But hey, they were really losers weren't they? Big time. They deserved the Governments they didn't vote for. Like us.
Julian Assange Interpol Red Notice
Former Interpol President Jackie Selebi convicted of corruption
Just like Interpol deserved its former President...who was done for corruption, fraud and racketeering and such things. True dinks, I kid you not. Yes, the President of Interpol!
While we're at it, I'm puzzled as to how an international agency such as Interpol could be so incompetent that it couldn't even find a photo of Julian Assange to go with his Red Notice posting (see above). C'mon, fair suck of the fellatio sav, haven't they heard of Google or in-your-Facebook?
Interpol remains publicly contemptuous of – and unaccountable – to the world it purports to serve.
For a start, they're supposed to be the top guns, the crème de la crème, of information gathering sleuths, data merging, analyses and people tracking. Well, I'd like to see a group like Transparency International investigate Interpol. You know that Interpol is not supposed to do any political favours?
But I'm not convinced. Call me churlish...perhaps I've been inhaling too much tear gas. Or not enough!
Take the way Interpol crisis managed their corrupt President, Jackie Selebi.
Former Interpol President and corrupt South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi
In 2002, the then National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, was elected as Interpol's Vice President—and a couple of years later, in 2004 he was voted President.
I'm assuming that Interpol would practice normal HR due diligence and conduct background checks not only on its thousands of employees worldwide but also on its elected officers.
After all, doing these checks is their forte. Surely no-one would be exempt from these basic policing protocols and security checks?
Of course, on the surface of it, Mr Selebi's credentials were impeccable, no question. As were his connections...well, most of them. After all, he was a former head of the ANC Youth League, an MP, South Africa's representative to the United Nations and Chair of an Anti-Landmine Conference, Chair of Justice, Crime Prevention and Security and all of that. Goodness, the man even won a Human Rights Award! (What a co-incidence, Julian Assange has won several of those too...)
On September 10, 2007, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority issued a warrant for Selebi's arrest. Did Interpol post a Red Notice on their President? Course not. How come he didn't resign as President of Interpol until months later, on January 13, 2008?
And why is my feverish mind and feint heart suddenly darting over the Kenyan border and thinking of the tragic murders of human rights activists—lawyer Oscar Kamau Kingara and his assistant John Paul Oulu? Both men were gunned down in their car whilst stuck in a traffic jam near the University of Nairobi on their way to a human rights meeting. These courageous whistleblowers had refused to cower before corrupt police and political thugs—and the report they helped produce in 2008 was to result in that courage being met with even greater cowardice by their killers on March 5, 2009 and indifference by the rest of the world.
Like their brutal executions, the report The Cry of Blood - Report on Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances – and there were thousands of killings attributed to the Kenyan police – was largely ignored by Western and mainstream media. Still is. But Julian Assange and WikiLeaks grasped the significance of the Report and published it and were damned, earning Amnesty International's New Media Award for 2009.
So, a kangaroo hop and a carjacking skip from Kenya back to South Africa. Both Interpol members. We shan't bother joining any dots.
Jackie Selebi facing charges in court
On July 2, 2010, after being subjected to a scathing dressing down by the Judge in South Africa's High Court, Selebi was found guilty of corruption. He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and has since been given leave to appeal.
From the evidence submitted to the Court, it was obvious that Selebi abused his privileged position – like alerting people that they were under police surveillance—not a good look for a President of Interpol – and made preposterous assertions that he was unaware of the criminal activities of his longstanding decidedly criminal civilian associates. This from a man who was his country's Police Commissioner and the head of Interpol. Our Interpol. The World's Interpol.
And let us not forget that while holding dual office, Selebi was the dude who first suggested legalising prostitution—but only for the duration of the 2010 World Soccer Cup, mind you.
Nice one Jackie. Your heart was in the right place—right behind your trouser zip. You can see why he was elected head of Interpol.
Now let's be fair about this. Just because a President of Interpol turns out to be corrupt does not mean we should condemn the whole organisation. After all, excreta (it's the lapsed Catholic in me) happens, to misquote Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
Interpol's Nazi past
And nor can you blame today's Interpolsters for what happened years ago either. There is the Hitler connection of course. Yep. SS Excreta happened there. The organization that was the forerunner of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Commission, had a succession of four Nazi Presidents because of Germany's annexing of Austria in 1938, though we must remember that for two of the gang of four SS Generals who headed the ICPC the Fates intervened. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a lawyer and war criminal who replaced Richard Heydrich after he was assassinated by Patriots, was actually executed after the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes.
Not sure if this is all on the Interpol website; maybe it is, but then again, if the Assange Red Notice is anything to go by, Interpol is capable of a bit of revisionist history.
The Singaporean connection
My sources confirm that the Lyon-based organisation is not a happy place to work in these days.
Here are just a few reasons why so, according to informants:
* There continues to be great disquiet within Interpol about the Assange Red Notice.
Current President of Interpol and Singapore's former Commissioner of Police, Khoo Boon Hui (click in picture for full text of speech in PDF)
* The Assange Red Notice was distributed to all 188 Interpol member countries on November 20, 2010—a mere 10 days after a remarkably short speech was delivered to the 79th Interpol General Assembly in Doha, Qatar by the current President of Interpol and Singapore's former Commissioner of Police, Khoo Boon Hui. (Interpol's bio on Khoo yet to be updated). Mr Khoo is also an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and has a number of other international gongs, including from Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia.
* In December last year, Fairfax Media (and others) published sections of a WikiLeaks US State Department cable relating to former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim under the explosive headline in The Sunday Age: 'Sodomy charges were a set-up'.
In an exclusive, journalists Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie wrote:
A leaked US State Department cable reveals that Singaporean intelligence officials told their Australian counterparts that Mr Anwar engaged in the conduct of which he is accused, a claim he has steadfastly denied.
The journalists also wrote that "Australia's Office of National Assessments (ONA) also states the conduct was the result of apparent entrapment by Mr Anwar's enemies" and that the "...document says the Singaporeans told ONA they made this assessment on the basis of 'technical intelligence', which is likely to relate to intercepted communications".
According to Dorling and McKenzie, the cable that "deals with Mr Anwar's sodomy case" is dated November 2008 (a month after Mr Khoo formerly replaced the disgraced Jackie Selebi as President of Interpol) and "released to The Sunday Age by WikiLeaks".
At the time, Mr Khoo was also Singapore's Police Commissioner.
Many of the players in this complicated and ongoing saga, including Interpol, would have scores to settle with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Join your own dots.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani, Qatar's Minister of State for Internal Affairs
* But wait, there's more. At last year's General Assembly, in what Interpol Secretary General Ron Noble described as an "investment" but what Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani, Qatar's Minister of State for Internal Affairs pointedly described as a "donation" on behalf of the Emir and his Heir Apparent (who said there was no succession planning in the Middle East!) it was announced that Singapore would be the happy recipient of US$2 million towards the fund set up to establish the Interpol Global Complex, housed in Singapore. That's a bit of a coup for Singapore AND Singaporean born Interpol President Hui. (In truth, Qatar seems to have shouldered the financial and practical responsibilities for a number of Interpol-related initiatives.)
* Incidentally, Australia's Federal Police Chief, Tony Negus also attended the General Assembly and gave a short speech, quite rightly complaining that he was given only 10 minutes of airtime.
Interpol and Assange's red notice
* It should be noted that in the mere 11 paragraphs of Mr Hui's closing speech, a precious singular paragraph was devoted to extolling the virtue of the Red Notices. Interpol insiders say President Hui's reference was a primer for the Assange Red Notice bombshell and that in preparation Sweden withheld permission for the Assange Red Notice to be immediately posted online and ordered it to be held over.
* Inexplicably it was not posted on Interpol's website until December 1, 2010. Sort of defeats the whole purpose of the urgency of a Red Notice, dunnit? Unless it wasn't really urgent...
* I was told:
...there were several reasons for this. Firstly, there was an internal dispute about the posting of the Red Notice for Assange. Secondly, Sweden kept revising their requests; and, thirdly, our bosses wanted to do a bit of showing off. Julian Assange was a star chamber pin-up for us and the Red Notice program and the Pres wanted to highlight that at the Assembly.
* The paperwork for the Assange Red Notice failed to comply with Interpol's own regulations.
* Sweden revised its requests on several more occasions.
* The documents were incorrectly filed.
* The Assange Red Notice was designed to compromise and damage the personal reputation of Julian Assange and cause him to be held in disrepute.
* That there was a serious internal dispute between Interpol staff and Interpol Executives over the posting of the Assange Red Notice.
* That the Assange Red Notice may, in fact, be defamatory because it breaches Interpol's guidelines.
* Further, that the tenuous and spurious requests made by Sweden to Interpol could be used as supportive evidence that Sweden and Interpol (and others) deliberately colluded to inhibit Assange's chances of a fair trial and diminish his international public standing.
* That Interpol has email correspondence, text and communication notes/recordings that confirm such discussion and collusion between Sweden, Australia, the United States and Interpol Executives and these materials attest to political interference by these countries and their representatives, in contravention and violation of Interpol's own regulations.
* That the current Secretary-General of Interpol, Ronald K. Noble is "too close" to US intelligence and remains partisan to preserving and protecting the legacy of the George W. Bush administration and that, despite his formidable qualifications, he has been in the position too long—he is now in his 11th year as Secretary General and his third term. Some of the other 188 member nations understandably want a stint in the high chair.
* Interpol's own rules and regulations allow for Julian Assange and his representatives to access and have copies of his Interpol files. These rules are available in a document entitled Operating Rules of the Commission for the Control of Interpol's Files.
Informants within Interpol are fearful of being exposed but say they will be prepared to speak with an investigatory body such as Transparency International. They do not trust any of Interpol's internal mechanisms or dispute resolution procedures.
Interpol's Travel Document system is compromised
Moreover, they are concerned that the Travel Document program – designed to fast track travel for Interpol operatives and preclude the need for Visas – can be easily abused by rogue member states and despotic regimes and their familial groupings and coterie, especially when trying to flee their countries and safeguard loot.
They cite the irony of the Orange Notice postings of Muammar Gadaffi and members of his family and close associates.
Said one operative on condition of anonymity:
Typically, these close family members and associates are nearly always in charge of security and intelligence. They are the last people in the world who should have unbridled access to international travel. But that places us in a diplomatic cleft. We need to revisit the eligibility criteria of the Travel Documents—and we need to subject card holders to more stringent security and character checks.
Interpol Notices' definitions
The Australian Government's shabby treatment of Julian Assange
Despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard's assertions that she will not be discussing the Julian Assange matter with US President Barack Obama, the word is that the Prime Minister will instead be discussing the matter with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
It may be a long plane journey from the Opal Office in Australia to Washington's Oval Office, but hopefully it gave our PM time to contemplate her unimpressive political performance thus far.
Gillard has to undertake some serious reparation work to restore her credibility both at home—and equally with supporters of The First Amendment and America's many supporters of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Not everyone is baying for Assange's blood. And let us not forget poor Bradley Manning.
Gillard's preposterous and legally prejudicial inept remarks last year, condemning Assange's activities as "illegal" will forever staple her to the marginalia of Australia's political history. It immediately signalled to all Australia's sons and daughters that at the first sign of any 'trouble' we are to be immediately abandoned by our Prime Minister and also by her obsequious and flaccid Attorney General, Robert McClelland.
Still, we should be getting used to it by now from our Governments. Think Hicks. Think Habib.
Think Van Nguyen. Think pensioners. Think indigenous. Think disabled. Think refugees and asylum seekers. Think little kids who watch their family members drown. Think elderly. Think homeless. Think unemployed. Think mentally distressed. Think defence personnel. Think parliamentary super packages. You'd think that the results of the last Federal election would have taught them that we, the people, have had the proverbial gutful. But they've already reverted to type.
It is time we learned from the children of the revolution.
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Mysterious Richard: Inculcating Racist Lingo and Protest.
By: Dr. Malem Ningthouja, Campaign for Peace & Democracy (Manipur)
There is articulation of 'anti-racial' lingo towards mobilising a desperate flank subsequently encapsulating the Northeast vis-à-vis daily experience of social profiling and discrimination in other parts of India. The lingo is raised amidst the clout of protest, with epicentre in Manipur and Meghalaya, ignited by the 'mysterious' death of two students; Mr. Richard Loitam (19) from Manipur, a student of B. Arch (1st year) at Acharya's NAV School of Architecture on 17 April allegedly murdered by hostel mates in his hostel in Bangalore, and Miss Dana Silva M Sangma (21) from Meghalaya who committed suicide on 24 April 2012 due to the reported humiliation by exam invigilators at Amity University in Gurgaon.
From Our Archives: Protest against the murder of Loitam Richard at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 29
In an interaction on 10 May 2012, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh expressed his concern over the protest but denied racial profiling and institutionalised discrimination on Northeast people in other parts of India. According to him the Northeast has been more advantageous than others in terms of grants and economic packages to develop. Large scale migration of students and workers from the Northeast to the Indian metropolitan cities is interpreted as positive sign of integration. He assured to consult the MHA to look into the cases of Richard and Dana.
The same day the MHA informed us about official expectations of speedy reports on the issues. Since the matter is a state subject, the MHA can only make recommendation to the concerned state governments to expedite speedy investigation so that there would be impartial justice. The ministry could not promise a time bound justice but sought for our suggestions to deal with interrelated issues that might be considered in policy framing. The MHA on 18 May sent an advisory to all the states and UTs to adopt a policy against "racial profiling and discrimination faced by Indian citizens of Northeastern states''.
In the meanwhile the delay in justice and perplexing media statements had disappointed the protest flank. The two deaths that have occurred in different cities on different dates are being interwoven in framing racial charges against the concerned authorities for misreporting on the causes of the deaths, official apathy towards the victims and attempts to cover up crimes, lack of immediate response and fair investigation into the case by the police, and lack of political will by the government to deliver justice. In Manipur, a controversial post mortem report had added fuel in making the protest culminated into militancy. Student organisations ransacked INC and BJP offices and imposed a ban on Karnataka based manufactured goods and institutional agents.
Reading against the grains of the protest has revealed pent up fury against several frequent instances of social profiling, assaults, and denial of justice affecting the security of the people hailing from Northeast in the neighbourhoods, streets, service sector, etc in the Indian metropolitan cities. Ipso facto the protest is racially conceived and politically coloured. Its significance however, despite the valour it adds to anti-India political campaign by the insurgents, is the potential pressure in forming public opinion to demand fast track procedure towards impartial and speedy justice. The pressure tactics is based on the perception that effective functioning of justice in India is rested on the ability to exert alarming social and political pressures for justice, i.e., State, police, judiciary and powerful lobby worked in tandem. Although justice is yet to be delivered, or even if justice would be denied in the end, the protest for months keeps the quest for justice temporarily alive, thereby, making it a point of reference in future course of struggle for justice.
In the light of racially coloured discontents the official explanation and position of the PM and MHA on 10 May needs to be reviewed:
Firstly, the official denial of racism cannot cover up multi-racial composition and inter-racial status quo in India. The denial is merely an excuse from taking an official position to positively address the racial question that exists in the myriads of social compartmentalisation in India, e.g., in social relation racial attitude promotes racism reciprocally. The denial cannot refute the institutional lacklustre that was raised in my previous article 'Is India Serious about the Northeast?' in Governance Now, December 16-31, Vol. 02 Issue 22, 2011, pp 26-27.
Secondly, economic grants and projects in the Northeast (sic for defending the boundary of India) are misappropriated without restraint by the agents of the ruling party, i.e., unholy nexus among political barons, bureaucrats, contractors, and project dealers who invested money in electoral politics. Such cosmetic packages using the cloak of development cannot be a substitute for economic growth and justice at the grassroots. It is a structural crisis that has to be addressed by a democratic government. The people need not be confused by evasive jargons and false promises to divert away attention from misrule and deprivation.
Thirdly, the presence of migrant students, labours (employees), and job seekers from Northeast in other parts of India are not to be holistically perceived as the sign of integrity but seen as the syndrome of insecurity, displacement, and economic hardships in their home states. The temporary rented rooms, quarters, hostels, and hotchpotch flats in the midst of dominant others cannot be the substitutes for home that provided social and psychological security. Migrant workers (employees) are more vulnerable when exposed to the struggle for opportunity particularly in the contract job and unorganised sectors. Will the policing alone be able to provide with economic and social security to these immigrants so that they become emotionally integrated?
In summing up, the crafting of 'mysterious' death for the murder, thereby screwing up the criminal case and create another episode of 'No One Killed Jessica' will be at the cost of justice and generate humiliation. The protest had raised the banners of Richard and Dana to highlight the larger issue of racism and the quest for justice as well. The racism exhibited in this stage, although not as barbaric as institutionalised communal catastrophe unleashed for narrow sectarian political ends, is a social reality that needs to be recognised. On the other hand mere official assurance for justice as a safety valve tactics to defuse the immediate spark will not do away with raisons d'être for racial discontent in the long run. For the immediate purpose we expect those who are in the power to be reasonable and capable enough in effectively dealing with the burning issue. 'Mysterious' Richard and Dana had carried forth a racial lingo demanding for justice. There should be justice!
* The article is sent to KanglaOnline by Dr. Malem Ningthouja
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Apangthouna May 26, 2012 At 4:42 pm 0thIST
How about those outsiders killed in Manipur? Has there been justice and punishment? It is sad about Richard's case, but why act as if we Manipuris have never killed other people?
It is so shameful to think of our students becoming so political and involved in demanding rights while we ourselves have done many murder of the same to outsiders and raise no voice.
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Solomon Burke , amerikai soul énekes, és prédikátor. Az 1960-as években átformálta a R&B hangzását.

Pályafutása

Már gyerekként prédikációkat tartott. Kilenc éves korában kórusvezető volt és tinédzserként egy gospel rádióműsort vezetett. Az ötvenes években gospel kislemezei és R&B kislemeze jelent meg. Ezután kitanulta a temetkezési szakmát.

1961-ben az Atlantic Recordsnál is megjelentek kislemezei. Ezzel beindult az énekes karrierje. A soul, a country a rhythm and blues egyszerre szólalt meg nála, és popdalok is. A hatvanas években ontotta a slágereket.

Miközben mélyen vallásos volt, vígan habzsolta az életet, nem próbált ellenállni a szép lányoknak soha. Ötször meg is nősült. A családi botrányaiból is sikerdalok születtek.

Lemezek
Rock''n'Soul (1964)
The Best pf Solomon Burke (1965)
King Solomon (1968)
Proud Mary (1969)
Electronic Magnetism (1972)
I Have a Dream (1974)
Lord We Need a Miracle (1979)
Sidewallk, Fences&Walls (1979)
King of Rock'nSoul (1981)
A Change is Gonna Come (1986)
You Can Run but You Can't Hide (1987)
Into My Life You Come (1990)
Soul of The Blues (1993)
Live at House of Blues (1994)
The Very Best of Sikinib Burke (1998)
Soulman (2002)
Don't give Up on Me (2002)
Make Do With What You got (2005)
Nashville (2006)
Nothiung's Impossible (2010)
Hold On Tight (2010)
The Last Great Concert (2012)

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 2001: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 2010: Grammy-díj; jelölések: 1983, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008

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Források
 https://recorder.blog.hu/2010/10/13/solomon_burke
 http://www.literatura.hu/rock/rithmandblues/solomon_burke.htm
 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon-Burke
 https://www.atlanticrecords.com/artists/solomon-burke
 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/10/solomon-burke-obituary
 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/arts/music/11burke.html
 https://jeremylr.medium.com/remembering-soul-legend-solomon-burkes-hit-singles-and-essential-deep-cuts-bfd90946158b
 https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/solomon-burke-1940%E2%80%932010

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Son is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, in the municipality of Son en Breugel. The nearest major city is Eindhoven.

History
The village was first mentioned in 1107 as Sunna, and might mean creek. Son developed in the Middle Ages along the Dommel River, and has a triangular market square.

The church tower dates from around 1500. The matching church burnt down in 1958 and demolished in 1962. In 1960, the St Petrus church was built as a replacement, but at some distance from the tower. Son was home to 391 people in 1840.

During World War II, it was the site of a bridge, the capture of which was crucial to the success of Operation Market Garden in September 1944. The bridge itself was featured in the 1977 war film A Bridge Too Far.

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From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery.
Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event, hosted by Saif's mother, veteran actress and Begum of Pataudi, Sharmila Tagore. The celebrations marked the culmination of a five-day wedding gala for Saif, 42, and Kareena, 32.
"Bless the couple and join in our happiness," Sharmila, who looked regal and resplendent in a gold sari, told reporters here outside the well-decked government bungalow at Aurangzeb Road here.
Among other attendees at the event were ministers Farooq Abdullah, Rajiv Shukla, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kamal Nath, Congress' Renuka Chowdhary and Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, and politician-writer Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda.
Celebrities from the world of cricket included Bishen Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev and Ajay Jadeja, while Ritu Kumar, Meera and Muzaffar Ali and Manish Malhotra represented the fashion fraternity.
Malhotra, who took care of Kareena's entire trousseau, only hinted that the new bride, daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, wore a gold gharara with shades of pink for the event. Saif, son of the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, is said to have worn a black sherwani by designer Raghavendra Rathore.
Lyricist Prasoon Joshi and sarod player Amjad Ali Khan also came for the extravaganza, and wished the couple "all the best".
With a guest list so eclectic and VIP such as this, the security was upto the mark. At least a force of 300 security personnel were appointed for the event since 6 p.m. Thursday, an official told IANS.
The bungalow was decorated in cream and gold, with mogra flowers and traditional brass hanging diyas. A major attraction at the entrance was an intricately embroidered carpet, said to be an over a century old possession of the Pataudi family.
According to the buzz, the interiors for the function were inspired by the Mughal period, and the set up had several royal artefacts.
This was the last in the wedding revelry of one of the most awaited unions of tinsel town. The celebrations began with a pre-wedding bash at Kareena's Mumbai residence Sunday, followed by a registered wedding at Saif's Bandra residence Tuesday afternoon.
The couple exchanged vows at a Mumbai hotel in the presence of Bollywood's glitterati, including Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri, Karan Johar, Tusshar Kapoor, Priety Zinta, Anil Kapoor with daughter Sonam.


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The Pitfalls of U.S. Energy Indepedence
Seamus Crowley, Maroon-News Staff
The Annual Energy Outlook of 2017, produced by the U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), stated that the U.S. is poised to become a net exporter in the global energy trade. Within the decade it is projected that the U.S. will export more energy, primarily in the form of oil and natural gas, than it is purchasing from other nations. If the U.S. does reach this threshold of more energy exports it would be historically monumental and representative of national energy independence in the eyes of many. Energy independence has often been touted within this country as something that should be strived toward and as something that would be beneficial for the well being of the nation. Arguments in favor of energy independence often cite the benefits of increased intranational revenue and strengthened national security as reasons for increasing energy exports. While I do believe that these benefits are worthy pursuits of our nation, I think that the negative implications of the circumstances under which the U.S. is set up to reach energy independence have the potential to negate any benefits.
The rise of U.S. energy production toward the threshold of independence has been made possible, in part, by the rise in extraction of shale oil and natural gas through the advancement of fracking techniques in recent years. This scenario would have been unthinkable decades ago, particularly during the fuel crisis of the 1970s, but now it is within sight. However, a significant issue with the factors surrounding energy independence arises out of this scenario. By pursuing energy independence through the increased use of greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels, the U.S. is creating more problems than solutions.
While national security may be improved through the reduction of energy dependence on relations with foreign and potentially hostile nations, the growing impact of climate change have the potential to provide an even greater risk to national security. By exacerbating the trend of fossil fuel availability on the global market of past decades, the U.S. is continuing to foster contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The resulting impacts of this can create a variety of physical vulnerabilities for nations and enhance the degradation of national security. For instance, an increase in droughts and the resulting decline in availability of cropland in some areas of the world have led to collective violence and instability, which exposes the U.S. to more national security threats. Thus, energy independence through the means of fossil fuel production does not eliminate national security vulnerability, rather it just displaces the problem globally.
Furthermore, while more revenue may be created through the fossil fuel approach toward
energy independence, the impacts that these extractive operations have can still create a significant, burdensome cost. The costs of climate change on society are extensive, and include enhanced natural disasters, rising sea level and strengthened heat waves. These costs will continue to rise while the use of greenhouse gas-emitting fuels are supported and produced by the U.S. While there may be some short term economic benefits to surpassing the energy independence threshold, the lasting, associated costs will certainly prove to be detrimental.
Energy independence has the potential to benefit the U.S., but it is unwise to pursue this via increased fossil fuel production. A more practical and sound approach would be to pursue more renewable energy development that would be utilized domestically, which would decrease foreign energy demand and bring the U.S. closer to energy independence without having to increase exports. Furthermore, an astonishing amount of energy is lost from the fuel source by the time it is processed to become usable electricity. In fact, tens of quadrillions of British thermal units are lost due to conversion each year. This makes for an extremely inefficient system, however, these losses provide an opportunity for technological advances in the conversion process. A decrease in conversion losses would increase the supply available within the U.S. and decrease the demand for imported energy, while still not increasing exports, which would bring the U.S. closer to energy independence.
Energy independence is important to the U.S., but it should not be pursued in a manner that continues to negatively impact the climate system when sensible, domestic projects can serve as a means to the same end.
Contact Seamus Crowley at [email protected]
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Malaria, dengue cases fall in Aurangabad division
Dengue cases in Delhi
680 new dengue cases in Delhi
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Zika virus infection in India
Outbreak of Vector borne disease in India
| Last Updated:07/11/2019
India's first three cases of the Zika virus were reported between February 2016 and January 2017 in Ahmedabad, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak on Friday. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare-Government of India (MoHFW) reported three laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika virus disease in Bapunagar area, Ahmedabad District, Gujarat, State, India. On May 15, 2017, the three cases are confirmed in two pregnant women and one in an elderly man. The laboratory surveillance detected a laboratory-confirmed case of Zika virus disease through RT-PCR test at B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The etiology of this case has been further confirmed through a positive RT-PCR test and sequencing at the national reference laboratory, National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune on 4 January 2017. Two additional cases, have then been identified through the Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) and the Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance.
Case 1: During the Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) surveillance between 10 to 16 February 2016, a total of 93 blood samples were collected at BJ Medical College (BJMC), Ahmedabad, Gujarat State. One sample from a 64-year-old male presenting with febrile illness of 8 days' duration (negative for dengue infection) was found to be positive for Zika virus at BJMC, Ahmedabad. This is the first Zika positive case reported through AFI surveillance at BJMC, Ahmedabad, Gujarat State.
Case 2: A 34-year-old female, delivered a clinically well baby at BJMC in Ahmedabad on 9 November 2016. During her hospital stay, she developed a low grade fever after delivery. No history of fever during pregnancy and no history of travel for the past three months was reported. A sample from the patient was referred to the Viral Research & Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) at the BJMC for dengue testing and thereafter found to be positive for Zika virus. She was discharged after one week (on 16 November 2016). The sample was re-confirmed as Zika virus positive by RT-PCR and sequencing at NIV, Pune.
Case 3: During the Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance between 6 and 12 January 2017, a total of 111 blood samples were collected at BJMC. One sample from a 22-year-old pregnant female in her 37th week of pregnancy has been tested positive for Zika virus disease.
Gujarat health commissioner J P Gupta said on Saturday, "We confirm that Zika virus has random presence in Ahmedabad. We cannot say if the virus was brought from outside or was indigenous." Following this, we have launched a massive anti-mosquito drive in 2017 to reduce the population of vectors and control spread of malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika — all of which are spread through mosquitoes.
More information on ZIKA virus:
http://iictenvis.nic.in/Database/Zikavirus_1448.aspx
http://www.icmr.nic.in/zika/zika.htm
Prevention of ZIKA virus:
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/prevention/
Frequently asked questions on ZIKA virus:
http://iictenvis.nic.in/Database/FAQs_1449.aspx
http://www.who.int/csr/don/26-may-2017-zika-ind/en/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/who-confirms-indias-1st-zika-virus-cases-in-ahmedabad/articleshow/58876030.cms
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Fears: claustrophobic; going up against the powerful Sisters, the women who are the mysterious founders of the Fidean civilization.
Goals: make William become her traveling partner, forever; impress Fideans with her powers; continue to build the wealth that now makes all that she wants possible.
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Pending Sales Order Summary report displays the list of all those Sales Orders which were received during the Audit Year but were not completed either partially or completely.
1. Go to Gateway of Tally > Audit & Compliance > Audit & Analysis > Pending Documents > Sales Order .
● Particulars : Displays the Party Names who raised the pending Sales Orders during the Audit Year.
● Orders : Displays the total number of Pending Sales Orders for each Party.
● Value : Displays the total Value of the Orders pending for each Party.
The auditor can press Enter on the required party name to view the Pending Sales Orders details for the selected party.
Click Ctrl+F9 : Master Config or press Ctrl+F9 to identify the parties as MSME , identify Related Parties and apply Sampling methods for Auditing.
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Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery is an underground passageway and exhibition space in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.

The passageway links Tokyo Station with the Marunouchi Building, Shin-Marunouchi Building and Nijūbashimae Station.

In addition, the space is also used as a gallery to exhibit paintings and photography.

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Art museums and galleries in Tokyo
Tunnels in Japan