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Turkiye vows more retaliation after 2 killed in cross-border Kurdish strikes
Turkiye vows more retaliation after 2 killed in cross-border Kurdish strikes /node/2203456/middle-east
A man inspects a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakah province in Syria on Nov. 20, 2022. (AP)
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Turkish warplanes had already carried out strikes in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party and the YPG
ISTANBUL: Turkiye said a Kurdish militia killed two people in mortar attacks from northern Syria on Monday, in an escalation of cross-border retaliation following Turkish air operations at the weekend and a deadly bomb attack in Istanbul a week ago.
Turkiye's armed forces said it was responding, and a senior security official told Reuters that Turkish jets had again started hitting targets in northern Syria.
In the latest in a quick series of tit-for-tat attacks, several mortar shells hit a border district in Turkiye's Gaziantep province, leaving a child and a teacher among the dead and at least six wounded, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
A pregnant woman initially reported as killed was badly wounded and is under treatment in hospital, Soylu said later.
Local Governor Davut Gul said five rockets had hit a school, two houses and a truck near the Karkamis border area. Broadcaster CNN Turk said the attack was launched from Syria's Kobani area, controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
Turkish warplanes had already carried out strikes in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party and the YPG, which Ankara says is a wing of the PKK.
Turkiye said its weekend operation was in retaliation for the bomb attack in Istanbul last week that killed six people, and which authorities blamed on Kurdish militants.
The PKK and YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces have denied involvement in the Nov. 13 bombing on a busy pedestrian avenue.
Washington has allied with the SDF in the fight against Daesh in Syria, causing a deep and lasting rift with NATO ally Turkiye.
A spokesman for the SDF had said the weekend Turkish strikes destroyed grain silos, a power station and a hospital, killing 11 civilians, an SDF fighter and two guards. It also said it would retaliate.
During the weekend violence, eight Turkish security personnel were wounded in YPG rocket attacks from Syria's Tal Rifat on a police post near a border gate in Kilis province, Ankara said.
On Monday, Turkiye struck a Syrian army outpost west of Kobani where a YPG army barrack is located, an SDF source said. The outpost is one of several where the Syrian army was brought in to prevent the Turks from attacking the SDF.
Turkiye has backed rebels fighting to topple Syria's President Bashar Assad, and cut diplomatic relations with Damascus early in the 11-year conflict.
Turkiye's armed forces have conducted several large-scale military operations in recent years in northern Iraq and northern Syria against the YPG, PKK and Daesh.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkiye's operations would not be limited to an air campaign and could involve ground forces.
"Our Defense Ministry and our general staff decide together how much of the land forces should take part. We make our consultations, and then we take our steps accordingly," he was quoted by Turkish media.
The PKK launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkiye, the US and the EU.
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Yemenis elated as 5 Taiz policewomen handed key security roles /node/2243191/middle-east
Updated 02 February 2023
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The five were given roles at sites and police stations in the Taiz Security Department as part of a security overhaul
The appointments were intended to empower women in security roles as part of a push to end the disorder and lawlessness that has plagued Taiz
AL-MUKALLA: Five Yemeni policewomen were appointed to key security posts for the first time in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz, sparking excitement among gender equality advocates and the media.
The five were given roles at sites and police stations in the Taiz Security Department as part of a security overhaul that saw the appointment of 12 new security heads, said local officials.
The appointments were intended to empower women in security roles as part of a push to end the disorder and lawlessness that has plagued Taiz for years.
Second Lt. Amera Al-Bukaili, who was recently elevated to the role of deputy director of training for Taiz security, told Arab News that women's fight for empowerment and senior positions had finally borne fruit.
"I am so delighted today. The appointments have restored a portion of our rights, which is something that should have occurred a long time ago," she said.
A holder of a master's degree in social science, Al-Bukaili has almost two decades' experience in the security field. She was made second lieutenant in 2019, while her male counterparts with similar levels of experience and education were promoted to higher ranks, she added.
"When women hold positions of authority, they will have the capacity to influence and innovate. This is an opportunity to get more rights."
The appointments have been welcomed by both men and women who have long advocated for the promotion of women to positions of power in the country.
Sara Qassem, a human rights activist from Taiz, characterized the appointments as "special milestones" toward granting women greater rights, urging other Yemeni provinces to follow suit by appointing women to crucial posts.
"We applaud this action, which is in response to efforts to empower women in politics, human rights, security and other areas," Qassem told Arab News, adding that the move would improve security in Taiz at a time when the city is teetering on the brink of chaos and facing a renewed Houthi siege.
Journalist Zakaria Al-Sharabi agreed, saying that deploying policewomen to key security positions will enable operations in areas that are inaccessible to men due to social barriers. The appointees will also help in combating sexual harassment and other crimes against women, she added.
"Without a doubt, the participation of women in the police force is critical, since many police duties and services, particularly those involving women, children, harassment offenses and juvenile protection need the presence of women," Zakaria said.
Human rights and gender equality campaigners in Yemen say that women's rights have been trampled upon and abandoned throughout the country's civil war, particularly in Houthi-controlled regions, where the militia restricts women's freedom of movement and other rights.
The Houthis have prohibited women from traveling between Yemeni cities without a male companion or mahram, according to observers in Sanaa.
Women also report that some service departments no longer assist unaccompanied women.
Angela Abu-Asba, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Sanaa, said that a technician at an auto repair shop in Sanaa refused to fix her vehicle because she was unaccompanied by a male guardian.
"He said that women are not permitted to enter without a mahram. Bring your mahram and come. I told him, oppressively and bitterly, that my father was in Ibb and my brother was at work," Abu-Asba said on Facebook.
She later deleted the social media post over fears of Houthi reprisal, with the militia frequently targeting critics from the public sector and elsewhere.
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Egypt officials: Hospital fire in Cairo kills 3, injures 32 /node/2243126/middle-east
The fire took place at the Noor Mohammadi hospital in eastern Cairo's Matariya neighborhood
Firefighters were able to put out the blaze
CAIRO: A fire broke out Wednesday at a hospital in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing at least three people and injuring at least 32 others, health authorities said.
The Health Ministry said the fire took place at the Noor Mohammadi hospital in eastern Cairo's Matariya neighborhood. The facility is run by a charity.
The ministry said in a statement that flames broke out at the hospital's radiology department without elaborating on what caused it. Provincial authorities said firefighters were able to put out the blaze.
Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said the injured patients suffered from burns, fractures and smoke inhalation. They were transferred to other hospitals in Cairo.
He said the causality tally was a preliminary one, suggesting it could increase.
Safety standards and fire regulations are poorly enforced in Egypt and have been linked to many deaths. A 2020 fire at an intensive care unit at a private hospital in Cairo killed seven coronavirus patients.
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Militants kill eight soldiers in northwest Syria: monitor /node/2243111/middle-east
Militants kill eight soldiers in northwest Syria: monitor
"HTS fired shells and rockets at a Syrian military post, killing eight soldiers," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
The Idlib region is home to about three million people, around half of them displaced
BEIRUT: Eight Syrian soldiers were killed in the country's northwest on Wednesday in an attack carried out by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham militant group, a war monitor reported.
"HTS fired shells and rockets at a Syrian military post, killing eight soldiers near Kafr Ruma in Idlib province," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
HTS is headed by ex-members of Syria's former Al-Qaeda franchise.
Syrian state media did not immediately report the attack.
About half of the northwestern province of Idlib and areas bordering the neighboring provinces of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia are dominated by HTS and other rebel factions.
The Idlib region is home to about three million people, around half of them displaced.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that since the end of 2022, the militants "have intensified operations against regime forces in Idlib... in the context of a rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus."
He said exchanges of fire and clashes between regime forces and militant factions had killed 63 people since the start of the year, 45 of them pro-regime forces. One of the 18 militants was a French national.
Ankara became a sworn enemy of Damascus when it began backing rebel efforts to topple Assad at the start of the civil war.
But in late December the defense ministers of Turkiye and Syria held landmark negotiations in Moscow — the first such meeting since 2011.
The mooted reconciliation has alarmed Syrian opposition leaders and supporters who reside mostly in parts of the war-torn country under Ankara's indirect control.
President Bashar Assad said in January that a Moscow-brokered rapprochement with Turkiye should aim for "the end of occupation" by Ankara of parts of Syria.
Turkiye has military bases in northern Syria and backs some local groups fighting the regime and against Syrian Kurdish forces which it considers "terrorist" groups.
Ankara has never publicly backed hard-line group HTS but is believed to coordinate with its forces.
HTS, which is sanctioned by the UN as a terrorist organization, formally broke ties with Al-Qaeda in 2016 and incorporated a number of smaller Syrian rebel factions in a major re-branding effort.
Widely seen as the strongest and best organized of Syria's rebel groups, it has presented itself as the mainstay of Syria's opposition.
With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus has clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when Assad's government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests.
The war has killed nearly half a million people since it broke out over a decade ago, displacing almost half of Syria's pre-war population.
Despite periodic clashes, a cease-fire reached in 2020 by Moscow and Turkiye has largely held in the northwest.
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Israel steps up demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem /node/2243106/middle-east
Israel steps up demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
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Properties were razed in the city's Sur Baher, Wadi Al-Hummus and Silwan neighborhoods on Wednesday
Residents of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar are staging a sit-in amid fears they will be displaced after a final deadline to leave the village expired
RAMALLAH: Israeli authorities have stepped up their demolitions of Palestinian homes in parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, following a policy formulated by extreme right-wing ministers in the country's new government, local leaders say.
On Wednesday, Israeli bulldozers knocked down buildings in the Sur Baher, Wadi Al-Hummus and Silwan neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Rights activists urged people to publicly denounce the demolitions by posting messages on social media sites such as Twitter using the hashtag #Stop_Demolishing_Jerusalem.
They also called on the Palestinian Authority, the international community and global institutions to intervene immediately to force Israel to halt the demolitions and displacements that threaten the Palestinian community in Jerusalem.
Since the beginning of this January, occupation forces have razed 30 homes in a number of the historic city's neighborhoods. Last year, 211 Palestinian homes were demolished in Jerusalem.
In the village of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, a sit-in protest by villagers and activists from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission continued for a second day on Wednesday.
Residents of the village and surrounding Bedouin communities fear Israeli authorities will demolish their homes, after a final six-month deadline for them to leave expired on Wednesday.
Eid Khamis Jahalin, a Bedouin leader from Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, told Arab News that people are scared that Israeli bulldozers will destroy the village and displace its 250 residents.
"The electoral program of both Itamar Bin-Gvir (the new Israeli national security minister) and Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (the minister of finance) is based on the demolition of Al-Khan Al-Hamar and the displacement of its inhabitants," he said.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, from the Palestine Liberation Organization, called on the international community to intervene immediately to halt the demolitions carried out by Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which he described as a continuation of a policy of displacement and "apartheid." He said the Palestinian leadership would meet on Friday to discuss ways to respond.
Elsewhere, Israeli army forces continued to besiege Jericho, in the eastern West Bank, for a fifth day on Wednesday as they searched for two young men responsible for an attempted gun attack on a settlers' restaurant at the entrance to the city five days ago.
Critics accused Israeli authorities of imposing a collective punishment policy in the city by obstructing the free movement of residents, searching their cars and checking their identities, resulting in long queues and people being stuck in their vehicles for hours.
Journalist Adel Abu Nima from Jericho told Arab News that the Israeli army on Saturday set up military checkpoints at all main entrances to Jericho city and its camps, Aqbat Jabr and Ein Al-Sultan, and blocked secondary entrances with mounds of earth, causing great disruption to the lives of city residents and visitors.
"Some citizens and workers wait at the Israeli military checkpoints for four hours, and some are prevented from leaving Jericho," Abu Nima said.
Jericho is the only place from which 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank can travel to other countries, so the checkpoints have affected people traveling abroad and those who are returning.
"As a journalist covering the events in West Bank, including Jenin and Nablus, I have not seen such Israeli military measures against entire cities as is happening now against Jericho," Abu Nima said.
Meanwhile, an Israeli human rights organization has accused Israeli authorities of tolerating settler violence against Palestinians for more than 17 years.
Yesh Din said in a report published on Feb. 1 that only 3 percent of cases of ideological crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank during that time resulted in convictions and 93 percent of cases were closed with no indictment filed.
Data contained in the report showed that between 2005 and 2022, Israeli police failed to investigate 81.5 percent of alleged crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians and their property.
The researchers said: "The state of Israel is evading its duty to protect Palestinians from Israelis who seek to harm them in the West Bank, as international law requires.
"Yesh Din's long-term monitoring of the results of police investigations into incidents of ideological crime committed by Israelis demonstrates the enduring systemic failures of the Israeli authorities to enforce the law on Israeli civilians who harm Palestinians and their property in occupied territory.
"The fact that this systemic failure has persisted for at least two decades indicates that this is a deliberate policy of the state of Israel, which normalizes ideological settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, supports it and then reaps the rewards resulting from it."
In another development, the Israeli Cabinet is due to discuss a decision to stop recognizing degrees awarded by Palestinian universities.
Avi Dichter, the Israeli agriculture minister, who previously was chief of the Israeli spy agency Shin Bet, said: "During the studies of Palestinian students from Israel in Palestinian universities, they are exposed to anti-Israel materials and messages, with which they return to the country and pass on to their students."
Sheeran Haskel, a member of the Likud Party, claimed that more than 20 percent of teachers in Arab schools in Israel had graduated from Palestinian universities "after they absorbed the implications of portraying Israel as an enemy."
Thousand of Palestinians who live in Israel study at universities in the West Bank.
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IAEA chides Iran for undeclared change to Fordow uranium enrichment setup /node/2243061/middle-east
IAEA found the change during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel enrichment Plant
Fordow is so sensitive that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers banned enrichment there
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog criticized Iran on Wednesday for making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to weapons grade, at its Fordow plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency found the change during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel enrichment Plant (FFEP), a site dug into a mountain where inspectors are stepping up checks after Iran said it would dramatically expand enrichment.
Fordow is so sensitive that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers banned enrichment there. Since the United States pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions against Iran, the Islamic Republic has breached many of the deal's restrictions on its nuclear activities.
In a confidential report to member states seen by Reuters, the IAEA did not say how the interconnection between the two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges had been changed except that "they were interconnected in a way that was substantially different from the mode of operation declared by Iran (to the IAEA)."
In a public statement summarising that confidential report, the IAEA said its chief Rafael Grossi "is concerned that Iran implemented a substantial change in the design information of FFEP in relation to the production of high-enriched uranium without informing the Agency in advance."
"This is inconsistent with Iran's obligations under its Safeguards Agreement and undermines the Agency's ability to adjust the safeguards approach for FFEP and implement effective safeguards measures at this facility."
The IAEA has had regular access to Fordow to carry out verification activities like inspections and it is in talks with Iran on stepping up those activities, the report said.
"The Agency and Iran have continued their discussions. The Agency has increased the frequency and intensity of its verification activities at FFEP. However, some other safeguards measures are still required and are being discussed with Iran," the report added.
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7th Pay Commission: Seventh Pay Commission recommendations will benefit more than 8 lakh West Bengal state government employees as the CM Mamata Banerjee has ordered to give the salary hike and clear all the pending dues. The state government employees will get more salary as the dearness allowance (DA) is increased by 125% of their basic salary.
7th Pay Commission: West Bengal's Mamata Bengal government has announced the salary hike (DA) and clearance of all pending dues for the state government employees. According to the reports, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has approved the implementation of the 7th pay commission and the government employees will get the revised from this month. After the decision, more than 8 lakh government employees of the state will be benefitted.
The state government employees will get more salary as the dearness allowance (DA) is increased by 125% of their basic salary. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself on Thursday. Earlier, in June 2018, the TMC chief had announced a hike of 18 per cent in dearness allowance for the employees of the state government.
The news agency ANI reported that the post the increment, the gap of DA between Central government employees with state employees stands at 23 per cent.


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Longtime voice of the Memphis Tigers, Jack Eaton, dies
Jack Eaton, longtime sports director and sports anchor for WMC-TV Channel 5 and play-by-play announcer for University of Memphis basketball and football for many years, died Wednesday. He was 86.
Longtime voice of the Memphis Tigers, Jack Eaton, dies Jack Eaton, longtime sports director and sports anchor for WMC-TV Channel 5 and play-by-play announcer for University of Memphis basketball and football for many years, died Wednesday. He was 86. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/college/university-of-memphis/2016/02/03/longtime-voice-of-the-memphis-tigers-jack-eaton-dies/90434668/
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Jack Eaton at WMC Channel 5, October 2015.
Mr. Eaton, born in Warren, Pa., was known for his unabashed partisanship for the Tigers, his unabashed hatred of Louisville, and his exclamations of "Great Scott" and "Great Caesar's Ghost" during the Tiger broadcasts.
He was also recognized for his short, sports-themed poems, many of which he read on the air. His love for poetry led to the publication of 100 of his poems in 2008 in a book titled: "Great Scott, I Rhyme a Lot."
Mr. Eaton began his broadcasting career in 1954 in Columbus, Ga., and moved to Memphis in 1956. He served as sports director and anchor at Channel 5 until his retirement in 1991. He called Memphis Tigers basketball from 1959-87 and added football from 1964-86.
Mr. Eaton also handled play-by-play of local high school football games and Memphis Chicks pro baseball games in the late 1950s. In 1959, he handled the first Memphis television broadcast of professional wrestling, which would became a Saturday morning staple at the station.
In February 2011, Mr. Eaton was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame along with, among others, former University of Tennessee football coach Bill Battle.
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Books | Interview
'A Biographer Is an Artist under Oath,' says Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha's new book portrays seven westerners who joined India's freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today's rebels and the meaning of patriotism
Nandini Nair Nandini Nair | 28 Jan, 2022
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom Ramachandra Guha
Allen Lane
496 pages | ₹ 799
Ramachandra Guha (Photo: Getty Images)
THE TERM 'public intellectual' is used rather too casually in today's public sphere. But few people deserve it as richly as Ramachandra Guha, author of close to a dozen books, on subjects as diverse as cricket to the environment to the national movement. The term that perhaps fits him best is 'maven,' from the Hebrew 'mebhin', which literally means 'one who understands'. Guha's understanding of the world is born from a rare combination of passion, rigour and research. In his most recent book Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom (Allen Lane; 496 pages; Rs 799), Guha emerges as the Indiana Jones of Lost Archives. He unearths details about well-known figures from Indian history like Madeleine Slade, better known as Gandhi's adopted daughter Mira Behn, and tells us the less known stories of Philip Spratt and RR Keithahn. The seven Rebels in this book—four men, three women, five from Great Britain, two American—were fighters for India's freedom. And "by doing what they did in India, for India, they were calling their British compatriots to their better selves." And the Americans in this story "saw themselves as acting in the anti-imperialist tradition of their homeland".
Speaking from Bengaluru, Guha, who is as animated onscreen as he is lively on page, describes conjuring to life his seven Rebels namely; Annie Besant, BG Horniman, Mira Behn, Samuel Stokes, Philip Spratt, RR Keithahn and Sarala Behn.
Excerpts from an interview:
Your book is dedicated to [Belgian-born Indian welfare economist] Jean Drèze. Is he today's rebel against the 'raj'?
Well, he's one of them. There are others too. Someone whom I could have made the joint dedicatee was Gail Omvedt, the American-born sociologist who died recently and had done important work on the feminist movement, on the origins of the Dalit struggle, and so on. People like Jean and Gail Omvedt were foreigners who've not just become Indians but have struggled for dignity and justice against oppression, often at great personal risk.
What is your definition of a rebel? An "avowed law-breaker"?
We're talking about people who go against the grain and the seven individuals in my book, belong to the ruling race. All were white, four were British, one was Irish and two were American, so they were born to privilege and authority and a sense of superiority. That's what most Americans and British people at that time adhere to, and they're going against it. They are going against the privileges of race, religion, nation and social class, and these are seven different lives, united by obviously a passionate idealism, and the fact that they worked in India.
You could extend it to other rebels against privilege. In my view, Gandhi as the Savarna Hindu battling for an end to untouchability, or Ambedkar as a male fighting for gender equality is also going against his inherited privilege. In Gandhi's case caste, and in Ambedkar patriarchy, so I've been attracted to people like this, and this was obviously a constellation of seven who all had something in common. The joy and the excitement was to flesh out these divergent lives, all united by a common cause.
The common cause or the common attraction is essentially Gandhi? They all have some connection with him.
I realised that only while I was writing the book. To me, the common cause was they were all arrested or deported. And as I say, right in the epilogue to the book, this is a kind of a long-delayed sequel to my biography of Verrier Elwin [Savaging the Civilized]. And Elwin's abiding regret was that he never went to prison in India. And he would have. When he comes to India in 1927, he throws himself into the national movement. He's very close to Gandhi. He spends time in Sabarmati Ashram. Mahadev Desai, Gandhi's secretary is a particularly close friend, of his. Elwin is sent to the Northwest Frontier Province to write about the operation of the Khudai Khidmatgar. There he writes a track called Christ and Satyagraha, saying Gandhi is the new Christ. And then in 1930-31, he goes to England to be with his mother and while he is there, the British make him sign an undertaking that he could return to India only on condition he doesn't indulge in political writing. By this time, he regards India as his home. So he signs that undertaking. Originally, I thought, let me look at people who did what Elwin could not do. And then these seven people came to mind, and I did research on them and found materials on them.
I didn't start with the idea that they all had interactions with Gandhi. In most cases, reverential interactions, in some cases combative and adversarial interactions. For me it was these were seven white people who became Indians, not just politically but emotionally, culturally, and in some cases romantically, by having Indian partners.
And only while writing the book I realised that Gandhi was something that linked all of them.
In a chapter on Annie Besant, you have mentioned the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti and his differences with Besant. He has famously talked about how patriotism is poison and nationalism is glorified tribalism. Do you think their divergent views on patriotism proved to be a sticking point?
There are two varieties of nationalism; patriotism and jingoism. Jingoism is xenophobia, my country is right, the other country is wrong. Jingoism is you've defined your nationalism on the basis of religion or language. Patriotism is you will love your country, but you are not blind to its faults and defects, you love your country, but you're willing to learn from the cultures and thought processes and institutional structures of other countries. And to me Indian nationalism, of the Gandhi, Tagore or Ambedkar variety, was patriotism and not jingoism.
In the concluding pages of India After Gandhi (2007), I say no one can be a world citizen. Krishnamurti may have thought he is a world citizen, but you have to be at that level of privilege. All of us are born in a particular context and we can't escape our national surroundings, and no one can be a world citizen. But you can be a citizen who demands accountability from your state and holds your political leaders to the highest ideals of that state or nation. And in that sense, I'm a patriot, not a jingoist, and I think these seven people were attracted by the fact that the Indian freedom struggle, at least then, was not that narrow minded inward looking xenophobic kind of struggle, but while fighting for freedom from colonial oppression, was willing to embrace the best of the rest of the world. That's the spirit in which all of these people were acting.
Each of these rebels shone a spotlight on some of the darker aspects of Indian society, which still endure and hence their legacy is important," says Ramachandra Guha, author
One of the characters in your book, Sarala Behn does think of herself as a global citizen. Is that a misconceived notion?
Essentially, there is no world community, there are national communities, which are internally divided in different ways and states police their boundaries rigorously and you have to work within the boundaries. If you're fighting for something specific, like justice for women, justice for low caste, if you want to promote certain forms of livelihood that are sustainable, you have to work where you are.
Your characters are embedded in the local. They immerse themselves in the lives where they are at.
Absolutely. And that gives them their credibility. [Satyananda] Stokes was recognised as a Himachali because of the work he did there over several decades. Sarala Devi settled in Kumaon, started a school for the girls of Kumaon and became a revered figure in Uttarakhand. Keithahn lived in Tamil Nadu and learned Tamil. There are still people alive in Bangalore who remember Spratt. Horniman is synonymous with the life of Bombay, and the fact that there's a circle named after him shows how deep was his identification with that city. They were grounded individuals, and that's what gives them their credibility.
Talking about BG Horniman [British journalist and editor of The Bombay Chronicle] it's interesting how newspapers played an important part as a voice of dissent. Can we talk about the importance of the media at that time?
Horniman was a full-time journalist, but others were part-time journalists. Annie Besant was running a newspaper New India, which was a vehicle of the Home Rule League. Spratt wrote for newspapers, then worked as editor of MysIndia, which was published from Bangalore. He saw the press as a vehicle for debate, argument, information and wrote a great deal. Mira Behn also used Gandhi's publications, Harijan and Young India to promote her views. Later on, she wrote a lot for the Hindustan Times in the 1950s, which was edited by Gandhi's son Devdas Gandhi.
So yes, newspapers and periodicals were used as a vehicle for radical or dissident ideas to promote debate, argument. It was a way in which they participated in the public life of British India and then independent India. Popular communication, in newspapers and magazines, was for these Rebels a very important part of their life.
It's interesting how English is the language of dissent. You even mention how Annie Besant didn't know an Indian language, but becomes president of the Indian National Congress. That wouldn't be possible today!
No, it won't be possible today.
But during the freedom struggle, English was a language through which people communicated across different linguistic spaces. So, Gandhi wrote in Gujarati, for his Gujarati audience, but when he wanted all of India to read, he would write in English. Ambedkar had a Marathi newspaper but when he made larger political or constitutional arguments, where he wanted Tamil intellectuals and Bengali intellectuals to respond, he wrote in English. So, this is a time where English is very much an Indian language used to communicate across provincial boundaries. Even Tagore, the greatest Bengali writer of his time, when he wrote nonfiction, he liked to write it in English. All his creative work was in Bangla. But when he wanted to write political essays, then he often chose English.
In that sense these people fitted in, given how important English was to the public discourse of that time. It wasn't seen as elite and rarefied as it is now. It was seen as a medium through which the emerging nationalist intelligentsia of different parts of India could communicate with one another.
You've mentioned how for you the joy in this book was in the research. You talk about Mira Behn and her unrequited infatuation with the revolutionary Prithvi Singh. What was it like reading her letters to him?
Very moving and very sad. I would sit in Teen Murti Library and there would be these handwritten letters and I would take notes. She expressed her anguish and devastation at much greater length. What I've given you are just bare excerpts to tell you how awful and desperate she felt. The agony and the pathos of those letters that Mira wrote, it was deeply moving and saddening to read them because they're completely new to me. I've been a biographer of Gandhi. I've written on the national movement. I saw Mira Behn in a one-dimensional kind of way—as Gandhi's follower, admirer, devoted slave. And then all this comes out. Of course, there's a third dimension, which I was much happier to discover, which is her pioneering environmental work in the Himalayas, in the 1950s, which is also relatively new to me.
Can we talk about Sarala Behn and her environmental work?
She was already in her 70s, when the Chipko movement started. The Chipko Movement was pioneered by a man who's not really got his just deserts for multiple reasons—Chandi Prasad Bhatt. He is the founder of not just the Chipko movement but of modern Indian environmentalism. Once the movement started, Sarala blessed it and was inspired by it. She, Mira, and Keithahn in Tamil Nadu, could justifiably be counted as pioneering environmentalists. Environmentalism is a theme that kind of runs through much of the book.
You've spent decades researching and writing this book. What has been the fun part for you?
Normally the research is more enjoyable than the writing, or at least historical research, essentially, is exciting because you're finding new material. But when you're finding it, it is just transcribing. I generally take notes. I don't take photocopies and I don't take pictures on my camera. I just write, as I find I assimilate much better.
Obviously, writing can be arduous and complicated, but with this particular book I really enjoyed writing because of the sheer interestingness of these lives, and their diversity.
What is the importance of your Rebels today?
Each of them in different ways, shone a spotlight on some of the darker aspects of Indian society, which still endure and hence their legacy is important. They are individually and collectively a challenge to xenophobia and jingoism. And this xenophobia and jingoism is prevalent not only in India but in many other parts of the world. Look at Xi Jinping and his promotion of the idea that China is the centre of the world. Look at the Brexiteers in Britain, who shut out the rest of Europe, look at the white supremacist under Trump.
This bridging of cultures, this ability to appreciate and understand and contribute to another culture, and for that culture to welcome what you're giving them, that's something which, I hope people take away, but eventually it's a story of seven remarkable people. It's a biographical work. It's not a work of political polemic or moral philosophy. Readers can read whatever lessons they want to read in these lives. It's a story of seven extraordinary people,
at a very tumultuous junction in modern Indian history and what they did and how they grappled with it.
You write about Horniman in Bombay and how you see him feeding birds and composing an editorial in his head. Did you see your characters inhabiting certain neighbourhoods?
Yes. But I am one of those who doesn't fictionalise a biography and nor do I personalise it. I don't put myself in it. Nor do I believe in going beyond the sources. A biographer is an artist under oath. Unlike a novelist, he can't make up. But clearly while writing it, I was thinking of some of these cities, which I know well.
In the epilogue you mention the importance of editors to your work. Having written books for over two decades, what is your relationship with them?
My first editor to whom I owe an enormous amount was Rukun Advani. It's interesting that this may be the first book of mine in which he's not thanked because I'm now old enough to write a book without him. He was one of the world's great editors, not just India's. I make this judgement with some gravitas, because I worked with many editors in India and there has been no finer editor ever produced in English language publishing in India than Rukun Advani.
With Sonny Mehta, another great editor, I had long conversations about the craft of biography. How do you blend biography and history? How do you bring in Gandhi as the global figure? The mark of a great editor is also one who has no hubris and arrogance. He said, 'I will read your book, but I will also assign it to a very good editor in my company who knows nothing about India.' He gave it to Dan Frank, (my Gandhi book) and Dan cut out 80,000 words! So Dan shaped and reshaped the book through his editing by pencil.
The standards of editing have precipitously fallen in India and globally. I read books published and I cringe at the errors and the infelicities in the first page itself. One of the real scandals of English language publishing in India—and this is true of every major English language press in India today—is that they publish serious works of history, biography and non-fiction without an index. It is a disgrace.
You mentioned earlier how you never put yourself in the story, can we talk a little more about that?
There is an old tradition of biographical writing, where your quest becomes very important. Historians stay away from it. I would put it in my footnotes. If you read my footnotes, and if you read my epilogue or acknowledgments, you may get some sense of the diversity of sources on which my book was based. In the acknowledgements to this book, I say, that unlike my previous books, this is based a lot on private papers held in private hands, not private papers held in archives. But mostly I haven't described how I found material on Keithahn for example, or Spratt. It was very interesting and thrilling.
One day I might write a personal memoir of a biographer's journey. But that is the place for this kind of stuff. In the narrative you must be respectful of the time you're writing about and the subject you're writing about and give them pride of place.
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PCORI is accepting applications and nominations for new advisory panel members under the 2021-22 cycle.
All applications and nominations are due Thursday, March 31, 2022, by 5:00pm ET.
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According to our authorizing legislation, advisory panels must include representatives of practicing and research clinicians, patients, and experts in scientific and health services research, health services delivery, and evidence-based medicine who have experience in the relevant topic, and, as appropriate, experts in integrative health and primary prevention strategies.
Appropriate experts from industry are represented as well.
Learn about our panelists, including their affiliations, short biographies, and how they help us review and prioritize critical research questions for possible funding:
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When Jaitley expressed condolence after Sushma's demise
As tributes poured in for former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who died at AIIMS on Saturday after prolonged illness, his tweet condoling Sushma Swaraj's death on August 7 has assumed new significance.
A long standing cabinet colleague and a fellow member of the BJP Parliamentary board, Sushma Swaraj's sudden death left Jaitley stunned. Just two days before he was admitted at AIIMS, Jaitley had tweeted: "Saddened, pained & broken on demise of Sushmaji."
The two leaders who have been active and made their marks in the pre-Modi era made a smooth transition after Narendra Modi won a landslide victory in 2014.
Unlike many, they comfortably fitted in Modi's working style and were soon considered to be the two best ministers in the Prime Minister's cabinet. In that way, Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj shared a personal bond as well.
So the sudden news of Sushma Swaraj's demise, made an ailing Jaitley tweet his second last tweet of his life where he said: "She was one of the most outstanding politicians in the present era. She distinguished in all positions. She held senior positions with the party, NDA government and while in opposition. She leaves behind a void which is difficult to fill."
Ironically, Jaitley himself has left a void in the BJP that will be equally tough to fill, considering the finesse with which he could reach out to the Opposition.
He was ill for a long time. In May, Jaitley was admitted in AIIMS and had undergone a renal transplant on May 14, 2014. In September 2014, he underwent bariatric surgery. IANS


MatriKiran, Gurgaon, is an English medium, co-educational, day school offering an Indian based curriculum for Grades Pre Nursery to 12. The 8 acre campus is spread over two locations - the 2 acre Primary Wing on Sohna Road and the 6.25 acre Middle and Senior Wings on NH-8.
The Primary Wing (Pre-Nursery through Grade 5) known as MatriKiran - Sohna Road commenced its first academic session on 4th April 2011. MatriKiran High School campus located in Vatika India Next will be operational from April 2016.
Managed by the Auro Education Society, MatriKiran is the educational arm of the Vatika Group and is expected to grow into a chain of schools in and around the NCR.
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Australia: More companies producing CSR reports
Source: Business Respect, 29 July 2004
More Australian companies are producing sustainability or CSR reports, according to a new study by the Department of the Environment and Heritage and others. Of 509 companies surveyed, 116 has a publicly available report.
The survey, 'The State of Sustainability Reporting in Australia', found that the manufacturing sector had produced the most reports, at just over 35 percent. Only a minority had their reports externally verified.
The majority of companies said that concern for their reputation was driving them to create such reports.
The trend was criticised by the Australian Shareholders Association, which said that companies must avoid taking on responsibilities that were the proper business of governments.
Business in Australia and New Zealand supports mandatory sustainability…
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Hello fellow teachers and young adults! This blog post is to remind us why we are teaching and some reasons why you would want to be a teacher. If you are on the job hunt and not sure which career path to take, you may want to consider a teaching job. Teaching can be the most rewarding and demanding job there is. Some of these reasons are meant to be funny, but hold some truth as well.
Consistent Schedule – The school day starts and ends at very specific times. No sudden surprises that you have to work the opening or closing shift!
Summer – What other career can provide a 2½ month break and then a chance to restart with a new group.
Winter Break – Guaranteed Christmas and New Years with family and friends. No begging the boss for time off or praying you get to line up your vacation with your significant other's. Guaranteed time off!
Minimum Days – What other job has specific days or weeks where you only work 4 hours, but get paid for a full day!
Sub finder – Many districts allow you to call in sick to a computer system. No need to practice your sick voice before calling in.
Holidays and Weekends – Having this time off is a gift that teachers take for granted too often.
Pay scale – A teacher can improve their salary for each year of experience that they work. Also additional education builds your salary as well.
Set the pace – A teacher has a chance to have a quiet day with the kids doing independent work, or they can shift gears to having great group conversations and running around the classroom.
Change the topic when you get bored – Don't like the topic, change it! There is no reason why you can't skip around to make sense and make sure the students are engaged.
Have a Daily Adventure – No one knows what the day shall bring. Bring it On!
Demonstrate Respect – Students must know what it is and feel that they have yours. They will then be respectful in return.
Helping Students Handle Failure – It's hard for students to understand that failure is part of life and that they must learn from it and not give up.
Have a movie day – Really tired from the night before? Stick in Stand and Deliver. The students are still seeing something of academic value and you get to sit and enjoy the quiet.
Fieldtrips – Although there is a great deal of stress that comes with moving students around a distant land, there is something to be said for getting out of the classroom every once in a while.
Assemblies – They can be annoying or just enough relief to make it through the day.
Helpers – A good classroom teacher barely has to lift a finger. Students always want to help in any way possible.
Tenure – Great job security unparalleled by most other professions.
Return Visits -As a teacher, I was always thrilled when the kids came back to see me. I felt that I really made a difference.
Freedom of Self Expression – Although there are many things a teacher is responsible for, understanding individual styles allows for the wiggle room necessary to bring your own personality out in your lessons.
Stealing – Don't worry! Teachers lovingly steal each other's lessons every day. It is our way of sharing and the culture that is built into the teaching profession.
Personal Chef – Most school cafeterias come with amazing cafeteria managers who make meals especially for their teacher clientele.
Valuing the Individual – A teacher is given the opportunity to prove why each and every child is special and has something to contribute.
Students – Coach and Motivator – A teacher is not responsible for teaching students to just remember, they must let the students know that they are wonderful beings and can compete with anyone. Building self-esteem is part of teaching the child.
Counseling – A teacher is also a friend, an open ear, and a shoulder to cry on. A child cannot learn when their mind is distracted with fear or sadness.
Be Happy to go to Work – You get to choose what you want to do and you are allowed to start fresh every day.
To Teach Future Leaders – Some people are born leaders; others need opportunities to learn to lead.
Police Officers – About to get a driving ticket? Make sure you let them know you're a teacher. Automatic free pass.
Conversations with teachers – Anyone you ever meet who is or was a teacher will be able to have conversations with you for hours. It is the ultimate ice breaker.
Conversations with non-teachers – It is hard for others to understand sometimes, but everyone is willing to relate your career to their own personal experience.
Automatic empathy from others – "I'd never be able to do that" – You'll hear it often, be proud you can do it!
Freebies – Parents bringing you coffee, students bringing lotions, it's all a blessing to be thanked.
You Only Get 1 Year – part A – In 10 months it is your job to bond with a student and prepare them for their future. It's a challenge and a gift.
You Only Get 1 Year – Part B – If you completely mess up – you get another chance in September with a brand new group of students.
Picture above is Shana Sterkin, Long Island teacher of the month.
However, the BEST is when I am able to see the kids have an 'aha' moment!
My favorite is sharing, spending time, and learning with the students. Every year is different and every year there is something new that we can learn and take to use with our next class.


Very excited that the novel I started a year and a half ago is coming out soon. And by soon I mean March, 2019. I thought it would be a lot sooner but the time I dedicated to writing was less than it needed to be. Anyway it is now safe for you to start getting excited.


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DOUBLE DOG WEEKEND
My weekend started Friday night with the observation that a lot of people in my neighborhood seem to have two identical dogs. I had seen the guy with the two slightly deformed-looking Jack Russells plenty of times. He walks them down my block, and they prance in that cute Jack Russell way, stopping to pee and poop periodically and sticking their extended anteater-like snouts into the butt of every other dog that passes by. (The snouts would be the "slightly deformed" part.) But it wasn't until I was looking for other examples that double dogs began to spring up just about everywhere I turned. There was the goth chick with the twin pugs, the creepy tight-shorts-wearing fat guy with the two spitting image black poodles, the midwestern-looking couple with a pair of possibly cloned golden retrievers.
Double dogs were everywhere, and I would not rest until I found out why. Was it out of a belief that dogs would get along better with their own breed, or did people just love their first dog so much that when they decided to get a second, they figured they'd play it safe and find another one just like it? Or perhaps there was some creepy eugenics philosophy at work that said "my favorite breed is the perfect race and someday all dogs will be akitas, dammit!" I had to know…
On Saturday afternoon, Drew and I went to a birthday party for his five-year-old goddaughter, Chloe. This was originally planned as a no-boys-allowed party, until about the fifteenth time we talked to her about it, which went something like this:
Me: Can we please come to your party? We'd really like to.
Chloe: No!
Drew: If you don't let us come, we're not getting you any presents!
Chloe's Obnoxious but Lovable Mom: They're practically girls anyway.
Chloe: Okay… one of you can come!
Drew: Which one?
Chloe: (shrugs)You pick.
Thankfully, we were spared making our Sophie's Choice when, the sixteenth time we asked her, she agreed to let both of us come. That was lucky for us, because otherwise we would've missed meeting the therapist from "The Swan", whose kid is in Chloe's class. She was a very nice woman, and she graciously put up with my relentless questioning and gentle criticism of her show. But in some ways, maybe "The Swan" is right, and we no longer have to live in a world where we're forced to accept what nature has given us. Whatever we feel our problems may be, there's a TV show out there that's willing to pay a team of plastic surgeons to fix them. It's nothing we haven't been doing with our pets for years, picking and choosing the traits we like best before committing to taking one in. (Swan Therapist was also interesting to talk to at piñata time, as we shared insights about the extremely disturbing level of aggressiveness displayed by the tots. For me, the spectacle had a creepy Fight Club meets Kindergarten Cop vibe to it. Children, you love that Powerpuff Girl. Why would you take such pleasure in destroying her?)
I was getting closer to unlocking the mystery of double dogs, but I had more exploring to do. Chloe's family has a dog of its own. It's the small, hairy, toothy, yappy type. I don't know much about breeds, but I would venture that this kind of dog is in the species closest in origin to the rodent family. Okay, I admit I'm not a big fan of this dog, but it turns out that the housekeeper's daughter is wild about Paulie. So wild that she just bought an identical dog for herself. I asked her what she liked so much about the dog, and she said it was "soooooo sweet" and "cuuuuuute" and the "coooooolest". No matter what she said about the pooch, she tended to over-vowel. "I just think he's the best dog ehhhhhhhhh-ver!"
Score one for eugenics.
It just so happened that later that same day, we had another birthday party to attend, this one for a guy 30 years Chloe's senior. It was a surprise party, and I had only met the guy once before, so I vowed to stay near the back for the arrival. I didn't want to have to follow "Surprise!" with "Hi, I'm Jerry. You probably don't remember me." Since I didn't really know him, I didn't have to chip in for the gift, which was a professionally-made portrait of — get this — someone else's dog. This man, I was informed, was so obsessed with his friend's Boston terrier, whom he pampered and spoiled and probably spoke to in a language only the two of them could understand, that a group of his best pals thought he'd appreciate if they blew $300 on a Warhol-spoofing painting (you know the one) of said animal.
There's no way, I told myself. Just no way.
Well, I was wrong.
When he got a look at his gift, his jaw dropped so far you could've driven a train into his mouth. In my life, I have witnessed few moments of happiness so pure. And that same expression returned when he got a look at his custom-made cake, which also bore the likeness of his favorite four-legged friend. At last, he had his double dogs. One of which was suitable for eating.
"You don't understand," he declared in his speech. Well, at least he understood that we didn't understand. "I looooooove this dog!" I wondered why he didn't just get his own Boston terrier, but then I reminded myself that when the housekeeper's daughter bought her own rat-dog, I thought it was a little creepy.
"I am obsessssssed with this dog!" the birthday boy exclaimed, over and over. He had a grin on his face that hadn't fade a bit by the time Drew and I, horrified, fled the party an hour later.
I finally realized that maybe double dog syndrome was the opposite of taking your dog too seriously. People who took dogs too seriously would never try to duplicate them for fear of disappointment. Maybe people with double dogs had a very blasé attitude toward their pets:
"Yeah, we liked him, so we got another one. Whatever."
"The breeder's a friend of mine, so she cuts us a deal."
"You mean he's a Yorkie, too? I honestly never noticed."
Conclusion: there's nothing wrong with double dogs.
But people with no dogs creep me the fuck out.


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Over the Hills and Far Away, är en låt skriven av Jimmy Page och Robert Plant, framförd av Led Zeppelin på albumet Houses of the Holy släppt 1973. Låten skrevs 1970 i Bron-Yr-Auri Wales och hade arbetsnamnet "Many, Many Times".

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Pewter; Britannia metal
After opening a successful shop in New York City (run by Timothy Boardman), Sherman and Thomas Danforth Boardman of Hartford set up another business in Philadelphia in 1844. It was initally called Boardman & Hall, and was run by Sherman's son Henry S. Boardman and Franklin D. Hall. The business was later known as Hall, Boardman & Company and finally Hall & Boardman. However, it appears that Henry worked alone for one year in 1845. For more on Boardman & Hall's marks, see Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), vol.2, p.97 and 104; John Carl Thomas, Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers (1976), p.122-123; Ebert, Collecting American Pewter (1973), p.125; Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.217; C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks (1949), p.242; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter (1957), p.38. See also Laughlin, Pewter in America, vol.1, p.128-130; Thomas, Connecticut Pewter, p.121-143; and J.B. Kerfoot, American Pewter, p.138-141.
Franklin D. Hall was listed in the Philadelphia Directories as a pewterer in 1840. He worked for the Boardmans. After opening a successful shop in New York City (run by Timothy Boardman), Sherman and Thomas Danforth Boardman of Hartford set up another business in Philadelphia in 1844. It was initally called Boardman & Hall, and was run by Sherman's son Henry S. Boardman and Franklin D. Hall. The business was later known as Hall, Boardman & Company and finally Hall & Boardman. However, it appears that Henry worked alone for one year in 1845. For more on Boardman & Hall's marks, see Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), vol.2, p.97 and 104; John Carl Thomas, Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers (1976), p.122-123; Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.217; C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks (1949), p.242; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter (1957), p.38. See also Laughlin, Pewter in America, vol.1, p.128-130; Ebert, Collecting American Pewter (1973), p.133; Thomas, Connecticut Pewter, p.121-143; and J.B. Kerfoot, American Pewter, p.138-141.
Henry S. Boardman was the son of Sherman Boardman, nephew of Timothy and Thomas Danforth Boardman. After opening a successful shop in New York City (run by Timothy Boardman), Sherman and Thomas Danforth Boardman of Hartford set up another business in Philadelphia in 1844. It was initally called Boardman & Hall, and was run by Sherman's son Henry S. Boardman and Franklin D. Hall. The business was later known as Hall, Boardman & Company and finally Hall & Boardman. However, it appears that Henry worked alone for one year in 1845. For more on Boardman & Hall's marks, see Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), vol.2, p.97 and 104; John Carl Thomas, Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers (1976), p.122-123; Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.217; C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks (1949), p.242; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter (1957), p.38. See also Laughlin, Pewter in America, vol.1, p.128-130; Thomas, Connecticut Pewter, p.121-143; and J.B. Kerfoot, American Pewter, p.138-141.
1. Mark; Underside of base; "BOARDMAN / & HALL" stamped in a conforming rectangle.
2. Mark; Underside of base, below maker's mark; "PHILAD..\A" stamped in rectangle.
3. Mark; Underside of base, above maker's mark; "X" stamped incuse in Roman capitals.
9.646 (H) , 9.055 (W) , 4.724 (Diam)
24.5 (H) , 23 (W) , 12 (Diam)
Diameter is of base.
[Book] Montgomery, Charles F. 1973 A History of American Pewter.
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I have a strong feeling.
I have a strong feeling I am going to be up all night tonight. This is not good for me/my body. I will be posting periodically throughout the night as this will probably be the only way to keep myself awake while writing about Plato and his damned Republic. I wish I had taken this class as a freshman like the rest of the class. Then it would be done and I would've been writing this when I still was writing crap like this. Well, I'll probably be posting again in an hour or so. Peas out.
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I was being a little optimistic in an earlier news item. It looks like Cowboy Junkies' 'Renmin Park' will be the last of Diverse's releases for 2010. 2011 is going to start with a bang though. We had a very quiet first 6 months this year, so quiet in fact that we didn't release anything. We won't be depriving you of vinyl in this way again.
We already have 3 releases scheduled for the first two months. Fionn Regan's 'The Shadow Of An Empire' will hit the shelves shortly after new year and the second instalment of Cowboy Junkies Nomad Series, titled 'Demons' will follow on it's heels. The third release is very exciting for us and we'll be revealing details in the next week or so. It's worth waiting for, DIV028LP is going to be a stunner.


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Q: mysql error: mysql_handledberror: Success I am implementing a virtual LTE EPC setup which requires a mysql database for one of its modules (HSS). After creating that, I had to run that module but receive the error as shown in the screenshot 1.
P.S. I'm new to this stuff

A: you must modify the password of your sql script, please in your terminal:
vim src/mysql.cpp

Line 6 and modify the default password:
passwd = "mysql";

to your sql password.
you must re run your code to make sure that the changes apply

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The Big Instrument is the main instrument used in the CC Jarrold group. Several different experiments can be performed on this instrument including photoelectron spectroscopy, reactivity of anions, and resonant two-photon detachment. All of these experiments begin by generating met al suboxide ions in the source region. The most common experiment performed on this instrument is photoelectron spectroscopy, so the apparatus is described with respect to this experiment. Note that the schematic of the apparatus includes a VMI region that the group hopes to install when funding becomes available.
Schematic of the ion source.
A distribution of pure or binary metal oxide anions are generated using a pulsed molecular beam valve/ablation laser ion source, a simplified diagram of this source is shown to the right. Helium carrier gas is introduced using a pulsed (30 Hz) valve (beam valve 1) and approximately 8 mJ/pulse of the second harmonic (532 nm) of a Nd:YAG, is focused onto a rotating rod (not shown) or pressed metal powder source. The pellet source is made by pressing the metal powder at high (2-3 tons) pressure into a solid pellet. By using this method, we are easily able to make samples with mixtures of more than one metal (i.e. Mo-V, Mo-Nb, Mo-Al).
The ions are then skimmed and the anions are accelerated to 1 keV (green in figure) into a time-of-flight spectrometer (blue in figure). The ions pass through a 3-mm mass-defining slit into the detector region (red in figure) and collide with a dual microchannel plate detector assembly. Anions are photodetached 15 cm upstream of the ion detector using the second (532 nm, 2.33 eV), third (355 nm, 3.49 eV), or fourth (266 nm, 4.66 eV) harmonic output of a second Nd:YAG laser, timed to intersect a particular ion packet. There are many ways that photodetached electrons can be extracted and detected and they all have different advantages and disadvantages. The method used on this instrument is called time-of-flight. In this method, a small fraction of the photodetached electrons travel the length of a 1 m field-free drift tube situated perpendicular to both the ion and laser beam axes. Data collection is slower for this method compared to others such as a magnetic bottle, since only a very small fraction of the electrons are detected (opposed to 100% for a magnetic bottle). However, time-of-flight methods produce higher resolution data and angular information is not lost, so anisotropy parameters can be measured.
The drift times of the photoelectrons are recorded relative to the detachment laser pulse using a digitizing oscilloscope. The drift times are averaged over 1,000,000 laser shots and converted to electron kinetic energy.
The energies are calibrated using well-known PE spectra, such as O−, OH− and WO2−. Besides photoelectron spectroscopy, we also perform ion beam hole-burning experiments, reactivity studies, and resonant two-photon detachment (R2PD). The instrument is operated slightly different for these experiments.
Hole-burning
In many of the species that we study, multiple bands are observed in the photoelectron spectrum and DFT calculations predict more than one energetically competitive isomer. In order to determine if the observed bands are from one isomer or more than one isomer populating our molecular beam we perform ion hole-burning experiments. This experiment is run almost exactly like the photoelectron spectroscopy experiment, but the anions are intersected by a third laser that is 40 cm upstream of the photodetachment region. The hole-burning laser is a Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) whose output can be varied from 410-709 nm. The wavelength of the hole-burning laser is chosen such that only the lowest energy transitions can be accessed. The PE spectrum of the metal oxide is then collected, using the same methods as described above, but alternating between the hole-burning laser on and off and with both spectra collected over the same number of laser shots. If the lowest energy transition corresponds to one of two or more isomers, the bands in the PE spectrum will change disproportionally to each other. A simplified energy diagram with the hole burning laser "off" and "on" is shown below for MoVO3−. The relative intensity between bands A and B is different on the hole-burned spectrum, indicating that there are multiple isomers in the beam.
Left side: simplified energy diagram with hole-burning laser "off" and "on" for MoVO3−. Right side: 3.49 eV PE spectrum (black trace) and 3.49 eV PE spectrum with hole-burning laser (orange trace) of MoVO3−.
Reactivity Studies
In reactivity studies, a second beam valve introduces a reactant gas (i.e. H2O, CO2, CO, CH4) into the clustering channel. The ions then travel through the instrument and for reactivity studies, their time-of-flight is recorded by a digitizing oscilloscope. The time-of-flight is converted into mass to obtain the anion mass spectrum. The amount of reactant gas is varied and mass spectra are collected for each reactant gas concentration and then analyzed.
In resonant two-photon detachment studies, the anions are intersected by the focused output (0.4 – 2 mJ/pulse) of the Nd:YAG pumped OPO, upstream of the detachment region (i.e. the same laser interaction region as ion hole-burning). The first photon promotes an electron into an excited state of the anion and the second photon detaches it. The detached electrons are deflected to a microchannel plate detector. The signal is amplified and electrons are given equal weight by processing with a constant fraction discriminator and measured using a gated integrator (Stanford Research Systems, SR250). Simultaneously, the ion signal is measured by a second gated integrator, and the OPO output power measured and converted to a DC voltage by a power meter (ThorLabs). The laser is tuned over the desired wavelength region by 0.2 or 0.1 nm steps and the ion signal, electron signal and power are recorded at each 0.1 nm step and averaged over 300 laser shots and the three signals are recorded by a computer using a home-written LabVIEW code.
Projects associated with this instrument include:
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of metal suboxides
Reactivity of metal suboxide anions
Resonant two-photon detachment metal suboxides


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Six Defendants Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Bribe Government Officials in India to Mine Titanium Minerals
U.S. Department of Justice April 02, 2014
Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202) 514-1888
WASHINGTON—A federal indictment returned under seal in June 2013 and unsealed today charges six foreign nationals, including a Ukrainian businessman and a government official in India, with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes of state and central government officials in India to allow the mining of titanium minerals. Five of the six defendants are also charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), among other offenses.
Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O'Neil of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon for the Northern District of Illinois, and Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Holley of the FBI's Chicago Field Office made the announcement.
"Fighting global corruption is part of the fabric of the Department of Justice," said Acting Assistant Attorney General O'Neil. "The charges against six foreign nationals announced today send the unmistakable message that we will root out and attack foreign bribery and bring to justice those who improperly influence foreign officials, wherever we find them."
"Criminal conspiracies that extend beyond our borders are not beyond our reach," said U.S. Attorney Fardon. "We will use all of the tools and resources available to us to ensure the integrity of global business transactions that involve U.S. commerce."
"This case is another example of the FBI's willingness to aggressively investigate corrupt conduct around the globe," said Special Agent in Charge Holley. "With the assistance of our law enforcement partners, both foreign and domestic, we will continue to pursue those who allegedly bribe foreign officials in return for lucrative business contracts."
Beginning in 2006, the defendants allegedly conspired to pay at least $18.5 million in bribes to secure licenses to mine minerals in the eastern coastal Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The mining project was expected to generate more than $500 million annually from the sale of titanium products, including sales to unnamed Company A, headquartered in Chicago.
One defendant, Dmitry Firtash, aka "Dmytro Firtash" and "DF," 48, a Ukrainian national, was arrested March 12, 2014, in Vienna, Austria. Firtash was released from custody on March 21, 2014, after posting 125 million euros (approximately $174 million) bail, and he pledged to remain in Austria until the end of extradition proceedings.
Five other defendants remain at large: Andras Knopp, 75, a Hungarian businessman; Suren Gevorgyan, 40, of Ukraine; Gajendra Lal, 50, an Indian national and permanent resident of the United States who formerly resided in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Periyasamy Sunderalingam, aka "Sunder," 60, of Sri Lanka; and K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, aka "KVP" and "Dr. KVP," 65, a member of Parliament in India who was an official of the state government of Andhra Pradesh and a close advisor to the now-deceased chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
The five-count indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Chicago on June 20, 2013. All six defendants were charged with one count each of racketeering conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy and two counts of interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Five defendants, excluding Rao, were charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA.
As alleged in court documents, Firtash controls Group DF, an international conglomerate of companies that was directly and indirectly owned by Group DF Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. Group DF companies include: Ostchem Holding AG, an Austrian company in the business of mining and processing minerals, including titanium; Global Energy Mining and Minerals Limited, a Hungarian company; and Bothli Trade AG, a Swiss company, for which Global Energy Mining and Minerals was the majority shareholder. In April 2006, Bothli Trade and the state government of Andhra Pradesh agreed to set up a joint venture to mine various minerals, including ilmenite, a mineral that may be processed into various titanium-based products such as titanium sponge, a porous form of the mineral that occurs in the processing of titanium ore.
In February 2007, Company A entered into an agreement with Ostchem Holding, through Bothli Trade, to work toward a further agreement that would allow Bothli Trade the ability to supply five million to 12 million pounds of titanium sponge from the Indian project to Company A on an annual basis. The mining project required licenses and approval of both the Andhra Pradesh state government and the central government of India before the licenses could be issued.
As alleged in the indictment, the defendants used U.S. financial institutions to engage in the international transmission of millions of dollars for the purpose of bribing Indian public officials to obtain approval of the necessary licenses for the project. They allegedly financed the project and transferred and concealed bribe payments through Group DF and used threats and intimidation to advance the interests of the enterprise's illegal activities.
According to the indictment, Firtash was the leader of the enterprise and caused the participation of certain Group DF companies in the project. Firtash allegedly met with Indian government officials, including Chief Minister Reddy, to discuss the project and its progress and authorized payment of at least $18.5 million in bribes to both state and central government officials in India to secure the approval of licenses for the project. Firtash also allegedly directed his subordinates to create documents to make it falsely appear that money transferred for the purpose of paying these bribes was transferred for legitimate commercial purposes, and he appointed various subordinates to oversee efforts to obtain the licenses through bribery.
As alleged in the indictment, Knopp supervised the enterprise and, together with Firtash, met with Indian government officials. Knopp also met with Company A representatives to discuss supplying titanium products from the project. Gevorgyan allegedly traveled to Seattle and met with Company A representatives. Gevorgyan also engaged in other activities, including allegedly signing false documents, monitoring bribe payments, and coordinating transfers of money to be used for bribes. Lal, also known as "Gaj," allegedly engaged in similar activities, reported to Firtash and Knopp on the status of obtaining licenses, and recommended whether, and in what manner, to pay certain bribes to government officials.
The indictment further alleges that Sunderalingam met with Rao to determine the total amount of bribes and advised others on the results of the meeting, and he identified various foreign bank accounts held in the names of nominees outside India that could be used to funnel bribes to Rao. Rao allegedly solicited bribes for himself and others in return for approving licenses for the project, and he warned other defendants concerning the threat of a possible law enforcement investigation of the project.
The indictment lists 57 transfers of funds between various entities, some controlled by Group DF, in various amounts totaling more than $10.59 million beginning April 28, 2006 through July 13, 2010.
The indictment seeks forfeiture from Firtash of his interests in Group DF Limited and its assets, including 14 companies registered in Austria and 18 companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, as well as 127 other companies registered in Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Seychelles, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and one unknown jurisdiction and all funds in 41 bank accounts in several of those same countries. Furthermore, the indictment seeks forfeiture from all six defendants of more than $10.59 million.
This case is being investigated by the FBI's Chicago Field Office. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amarjeet Bhachu and Michael Donovan of the Northern District of Illinois and Trial Attorney Ryan Rohlfsen of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section.
The Justice Department has worked closely with and has received significant assistance from its law enforcement counterparts in Austria, as well as the Hungarian National Police, and greatly appreciates their assistance in this matter. Significant assistance was also provided by the Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs.
An indictment contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Many people want to know what it's like to write a book with someone else. They want to know specifically how it works. Well, let me tell you, with the creation of Scrivener, it works pretty well. In the old days, about the only way you could do it was to send one master file back and forth with your co-author. But with the advent of Scrivener, a special writing software that I resisted like measles when I was first introduced to it but now couldn't live without) everything is backed up to Dropbox. I'm not going to say there are never glitches--and Glen and I have experienced several hair-raising ones--but overall the process has been infinitely more satisfying using Scrivener. The entire book is at your fingertips laid out right there in front of you. You can flip through scenes, back and forth, without having to scroll through the entire manuscript. But by far one of the most ingenious devices when you're co-authoring is the little flags beside each scene. Glen and I each have a working color (for scenes we are writing but not finished), finished colors (for scenes we've finished and the other person needs to review), and yellow flags for scenes in which we've left comments or corrections for the other to review. When the scene is finished, it gets a green flag. It's genius!! It makes it so easy to keep track of where you are and what needs to be done.
As for writing itself, that proceeds about as you would imagine it does. We have our chapters all set up with scenes nested beneath each. As they fill up and are finished, we can collapse them to keep them out of our way as we concentrate on the ones ahead. There is a separate section for research and another for characters which is handy. In general, we each have our own characters though we do "borrow" each other's characters when we need them for scenes.
That's the way it usually goes. But in Salome's Charger, there are several scenes where our two main characters share a scene. One person could have written the whole thing and the other person could have edited their character's "voice", but instead, we decided to play with the process a little. I mean, writing's supposed to be fun, right? So we wrote the scene in tandem, batting it back and forth like a ping-pong ball. We were both pretty happy with the way it came out. I thought the dialog was more natural because it was so organic. And it was authentic because one person wasn't writing it all while the other person tweaked it. See what you think. It's here.
The offices of Sloane & Associates Archaeological Research Foundation had been buzzing and little wonder. The media was calling the discovery of Salome's charger "the find of the century." Even the standoffish Professor Simms hadn't been able to control her professional, detached facade when they'd gone out to lunch earlier in the week to discuss her preliminary findings. She'd used words like "extraordinary" and "fabulous" and "exquisite" to describe the ornate detailing, precious, and semi-precious stones around the edge. But she had cautioned him that the find was stirring up less desirable elements within the historical community.
This was putting an unwelcome damper on the otherwise unbridled elation Raymond Sloane felt over the discovery. It was a wave of euphoria he'd been riding since he'd gotten the phone call from his chief archaeologist. Even now he could feel the excitement tingling through his body. But a nagging sense of unease was what had compelled him to come in early. He'd tried unsuccessfully all night to dismiss it, but it persisted until he'd finally given up. He went into his study and fired up his laptop. What he'd found was disturbing to say the least.
Unable to enjoy his morning, he left for work so early he missed all the rush hour traffic. The offices were deserted. Only Ed, the security guard on the first floor, was around to even acknowledge his existence. He made his way up to the third floor on the silent elevator, brooding all the way.
"There's this . . . curse," Simms had said, almost embarrassed, not quite meeting his eyes.
At the time, he'd been amused. The thing that had drawn him into archeology in the first place was the fact that an artifact was rarely just an artifact. The past fascinated him: who had lived, what they had done, what they had believed, how they had lived. The mundane, articles of their existence drew him inexorably into their world. Sometimes he lived more in the past than in the present.
"And Herod didn't take kindly to that," Raymond had guessed, amused.
"Actually, Herod liked John," Simms had said, surprising him. She'd shrugged. "At least, according to the Bible." She had gotten a faraway look in her eyes. "And I have seen one portion of a Dead Sea Scroll, a piece called Fragment 47RW, that seems to corroborate that, indicating that Herod was on the verge of dumping Herodias because of John's disapproval.
"You don't believe that, do you?" Raymond had scoffed. Surely a head that had been severed from a body didn't have the power of speech. Surely it wasn't even cognizant any longer. Unconsciously, Raymond had run one finger between the collar of his shirt and his neck thinking absently that it suddenly felt tighter.
She had noticed his attempts to loosen his shirt collar and laughed. "Physiologically it's not possible," she had assured him. "No, whatever happened, it was not John who cursed the charger. But a group of converted Jews believed that his righteous blood caused the curse. Anyone who touched it or came into contact with it would be either blessed or cursed. If they were Christians, they would be blessed. If they were not believers, they would be cursed." She paused.
"Oh, it was by far not the only evidence," Simms had interrupted. "That's just the tip of the iceberg. The charger reportedly predicted Herod's eventual exile to Lugdunum in Gaul and death—some say murder. It predicted the fall of Jerusalem. Over time, people began to fear it. Whatever it predicted seemingly happened. After her death, Alyx's followers used it to elect a new seer to continue to use the charger until a squabble broke out between them. Some felt the charger should be used only to predict major world events, and others thought it was acceptable to make more commercial use of it telling people's fortunes which the first group considered little better than sacrilege.
"Not at all. These were devout Christians descended from a man named Demias. The charger was in his possession originally and was buried with him until Alyx stole it, having murdered several of their ancestors while hunting its whereabouts. These folks were mortified by what the charger was being used for and made a pact among themselves to reclaim it no matter how long it took. It did take them awhile, which is a testament to their devotion to duty. When they finally recovered it, they moved the bones of their ancestor Demias and buried both the bones and the charger in a secret place. They even sealed it to prevent accidental discovery.
"So…" Raymond had struggled to understand why his new find had the historical community all up in arms.


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Author 궁에꽃
Translator Doradora
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Genre(s) Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Type Korean translated novel
A high ranking Duke's daughter Roxana and her fiancé, the crown prince.
Everything came crashing down when a Baron's daughter Claire came between the two.
Honor, reputation, even her fiancé, the Crown Prince…..
In the depths of despair, the infamous Grand Duke Erwin reached out to Roxana.
"I can help you."
It was a dubious proposition, but Roxana accepted it in the end……
The fragile and lovely Claire and the wicked Princess Roxana.
But who was the real villain?
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10. Chapter 10 August 8, 2021
11. Chapter 11 August 11, 2021
24. Chapter 24 November 5, 2022
25. Chapter 25 September 3, 2021
27. Chapter 27 September 10, 2021
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37. Chapter 37 October 11, 2021
40. Kneel 40 October 24, 2021
44. Chapter 44 November 10, 2021
48. Chapter 48 December 1, 2021
50. Chapter 50 December 14, 2021
54. Chapter 54 January 7, 2022
55. Chapter 55 January 13, 2022
59. Chapter 59 February 8, 2022
60. Chapter 60 February 12, 2022
66. Chapter 66 March 4, 2022
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76. Chapter 76 May 3, 2022
77. Chapter 77 June 26, 2022
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When it comes to mainstreaming low-carbon lifestyles, why do we need to move from 'nudge' to 'think'? How do we make sure we're focusing on the behaviours and audiences that really matter? When does one sustainable behaviour lead to another? What role do positive social norms, authentic storytelling and timing play?
These are some of the questions brought together in a report drawing on key findings from Cardiff University's Low Carbon Lifestyles & Behavioural Spillover (CASPI) programme. This programme funded by the European Research Council has spanned 5 years and 7 countries.
We present these findings in the context of wider social science research on low-carbon lifestyles, and offer a set of recommendations for how to move beyond small-scale and piecemeal approaches to behaviour change.
This report is designed for the wide range of individuals and organisations involved in influencing sustainable behaviours including national policymakers, local authorities, professional campaigners, and those leading community-level initiatives.
Listen to two of the report's authors and a discussant share key insights and recommendations from the report in the webinar below. The webinar was chaired by Adam Corner (Climate Outreach) and presented by Lorraine Whitmarsh (Cardiff University), and they were joined by discussant Lucy Corfield (Welsh Government).
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