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Though this is a long story, it is very relevant to my January 6, 2004 log about Vahram Parseghyan, who is the former Deputy Minister of Culture and President of the Republic of Armenian's All Armenian Youth Foundation and is now Preident Kocharian's controller.
According to this story, the All Armenian Youth Foundation has received at least $350,000 in grants and is questioning if that money was in fact used for its intended purpose. If you read my log from January 6, 2004, it should tell you that there is a really good chance that this money was most probably misappropriated, as this ArmeniaNow story implies.
Anyway, I've BOLDED the parts of this story that talks about Vahram Parseghyan and the All Armenian Youth Foundation so you can easily find it.
Kind of a depressing story, so I would suggest that you pop a few Prozacs before starting to read it.
Money for Nothing: Investigation shows misuse of government money via NGO schemes
By Marianna Grigoryan
ArmeniaNow Reporter
An investigation by an agency looking into possible fraud, says it has found that thousands of government dollars designated for youth projects have in fact gone to government officials who pocket the money or give it to relatives.
Nor Hayastan (New Armenia), itself a Non Governmental Agency, claims that from 2001-2003, about 470 million drams ($940,000) should have gone to support of various civic youth organizations who applied for funding via grants. A close look at spending, however, found that only 1.5 percent ($14,100) ) went to NGOs which were not affiliated with officials.
The investigation also found that in at least two cases, money went to non-existent NGOs.
From 2001 to 2003 the government designated more than 20 million drams ($40,000) to Galik Women's Union NGO and 18 million ($36,000) to Yeritasard Shinarar (Young Constructor) NGO.
In fact there is no information about these NGOs neither at the Ministry of Justice, where all NGOs must be registered, nor at other information agencies.
According to Eleonora Manandyan, the head of Nor Hayastan, their research found that government money is not spent on social improvement, but instead NGOs are created as a means by which officials deceitfully receive money.
Manandyan says that the initiative for the investigation grew from a perceived apathy among youth during the recent oppositional parties' protests. If money is being spent to instill civic awareness, then where is the result?
"We decided to find out where the money goes, which the government in the form of a grant through a special decision had to allot to the youth, their issues and organizations that deal with those issues," says Manandyan.
After two and a half months of trying to get information from the Ministry of Culture and Youth Issues, it took a threat of legal action to finally get answers.
"At the Ministry they were thinking that our eagerness would get weaker after constant delays and we would refuse our intention, but that couldn't happen," says Manandyan. "We were thinking that the situation wouldn't be encouraging, but the results were so terrible that for several days we simply couldn't believe it."
After receiving the information and doing the investigation the organizers have formed a special list, a Top 25 where they included those organizations that received the biggest grants from the government and the founders of which are tightly connected with the "authorities".
"It is terrifying that this terrible state system spreads on the youth," says Manandyan. "The youth today is being purposely spoilt, used, and tomorrow none of the younger ones can go against or oppose authorities, since they will say wasn't it you who did this? And they will keep silent as they do now."
Deputies, ministers, deputy ministers, heads of departments and employees at ministries, representatives of the state and the government, businessmen, members of the central electoral committee and other individuals are on the list of the Top 25, among founders of NGOs and friends and relatives of the founders.
"Only an insignificant part of the organizations is 'non-governmental', the rest of the NGOs mainly belong to employees at ministries, while many of them even have two NGOs through which they make money," says Manandyan. "All of those traces lead to the President, Assistant to the President and the Prime Minister."
According to Manandyan the information that they received was unpredictable and the uncontrollable waste of the money was surprising. For instance, according to her, 62 million drams ($124,000) was spent on traveling, for which there is no accounting of the reasons for the trips.
"During the study from the very beginning it became obvious that there was no sign of any strategy or any standards of project financing, as well as results' evaluation. The financed projects are mainly made up, false and the financial means exaggerated," says Manandyan. "The Project Purpose section repeats in case of several organizations, for instance 'to assist the improvement of the moral and mental state of the village youth' and huge amounts are shown for financing the purpose.
"If the 'village youth' had those amounts probably their 'moral and mental state' would improve without any interference."
ArmeniaNow applied to the government's Department on Credit and Humanitarian Aid Projects to ask by what standards and logics grants are issued to youth organizations.
"We cannot answer that question," said the head of the department, Simon Ter-Simonyan.
Manandyan says their research proved that there isn't any logic. The only link was and remains the family/friend ties and the tighter they are the bigger the grant is. For instance according to the information provided by the Ministry of Culture the All-Armenian Youth Center Foundation which is included in the Top 25 through two organizations has received during those years more than 99 million ($198,000) and 76 million drams ($152,000) grants. According to Manandyan, four million drams ($8,000) were to establish the center and the rest of the money to maintain the center.
According to Manandyan maintaining the center in this case is mainly limited to holding one or two conferences or seminars during a year.
Among the executive directors there are V. [Vahram] Barseghyan who until last year was the Deputy Minister of Culture [now President Kocharian's controller], A. Poghosyan, a member of CEC (Central Electoral Committee) and others, while among trustees is the Prime Minister and other high ranking officials.
In order to get clarifications ArmeniaNow applied to the All-Armenian Youth Center Foundation, but during two weeks the management said it was too busy to give answers, and later left Armenia for 10 days.
"We carry out seminars, give an opportunity to the youngsters to use the rich library," said the president of Youth Legal and Social Assistance Center (YLSAC) Lilit Hakobyan. "We help the socially needy youngsters and we are colleagues of the Council of Europe."
Hakobyan (the previous president Lilit Asatryan is currently the Deputy Minister of Culture and the wife of MP Vazgen Khachikyan) told ArmeniaNow that she cannot give any report for the 10 million drams ($20,000) given by the government during 2001-2003, since she's been the president of the NGO beginning this year.
"In response to our questions to the Prime Minister, representative of the government Simonyan lectured us not to count the state money 'since we're not counting yours'," says Manandyan. "In reality, all we had to deal with was terrible and I don't know whether we'll be able to change anything or not. In any case we will try despite the great obstacles."
Manandyan says they have published reports of their investigation based on which the prosecution is obliged to start criminal cases.
"If we see that the prosecution also remains silent, we, ourselves, are planning to apply to the court," she says.
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Discount birthday: Walmart, Kmart, Target hit 50
Hadley Malcolm and Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
Walmart, Target and Kmart were all born in 1962
Each made a distinctive contribution to retailing
All the chains started far from the East Coast
Discounting wasn't invented in 1962, but it might as well have been.
That was when Walmart, Target and Kmart were born, each with their distinctive style of low-price retailing. As the three celebrate their 50th anniversaries this year, they can take credit for much of the way bargain-obsessed America now shops.
Retailers of every stripe have followed their lead, making shopping the equivalent of "Blue Light Specials" all the time.
There were plenty of stand-alone or regional "five-and-ten" or "dime stores" back then, including Woolworth's, Ben Franklin and W.T. Grant. Kmart, Walmart and Target built on the concept and brought self-service, low-price shopping to the masses.
"For the first time ... there were long aisles of merchandise, merchandise was well assorted, and the customers helped themselves," says Walter Loeb, a retail consultant and former analyst who spent 20 years as an executive for May Co. and Macy's. "People looked for bargains, and that feeling of bargains never left retail."
It only expanded, with bricks-and-mortar wholesale stores, including Costco and Sam's Club, followed by online discounters such as Amazon.
In 1967, discount stores accounted for 42% of all retail sales. In 2010, that number rose to 87%, Loeb says, citing data from Consumer Reports.
"Discounting today is a way of life," Loeb says.
Oddly enough, companies founded by Sam Walton, George Dayton and Sebastian Kresge all gave the concept of a high-volume store with lower-price merchandise a try in the same year. Odder still, it was S.S. Kresge's Kmart -- the now-beleaguered of the trio -- that set the standards for discount retailing that the others built upon.
Kmart expanded the fastest of the three, growing to hundreds of stores by the mid-'70s, vs. a few dozen Targets and Walmarts. Kmart's rapid growth and hugely popular Blue Light Specials made it an early leader.
"Kmart brought the carnival aspect of shopping -- the idea of deal and excitement around price," says Ken Nisch, chairman of retail branding and design firm JGA.
Nisch recalls his delight as a child when the arrival of Kmart into the Toledo, Ohio, suburbs meant the end of long trips downtown with his mother and brother to visit the rundown Tiedtke's department store.
With Kmart's big parking lot, wide aisles, shopping carts and bright fluorescent lights, "it was sort of like Oz had opened up," he says. Kmart, he says, had "all the things the middle class wanted," such as brand names including Jockey and Levi's.
Looking back, retail experts say it was no accident that each of the three chains started far away from the East and West Coasts.
The chains' leaders were responding to the post-World War II growth in Middle America.
"The most important thing was that American suburban living was exploding," Loeb says. "Because of that, the need for stores in the neighborhoods was immediate."
Walmart founder Sam Walton went even further out to rural areas, opening his first store in Rogers, Ark., where the nearest city was Tulsa, two hours away, says Alan Dranow, senior director for heritage and marketing at Walmart.
"He saw the opportunity to serve the underserved," Dranow says. "If you look at how the company grew, it really grew in the heartland."
Walton understood the reach and power of the agrarian economy, and felt farmers needed an affordable place to shop, says Allen Questrom, who has been CEO of Federated Department Stores, Neiman Marcus, Barney's and J.C. Penney. While department store executives including himself "kind of looked down our noses at discount stores," Questrom says he admired their foresight.
Each of the chains made a lasting contribution to retail that continues to be expanded upon today.
Target. "Fifty, fun and friendly" are the buzzwords in Target's anniversary literature. But it's fashion that comes most to mind, even when people look at its history.
The discounter, often affectionately known as "Targét," was started as an offshoot of Dayton's department stores, which contributed to its fashion-forward mindset, Loeb says.
"It was more fashion-oriented than the other stores," he says.
"Both Kmart and Walmart came out of the five-and-dime-store mentality. And while they both had visions that transcended it, they did not have the background of fashion merchandising."
Starting with its housewares and home decor design partnership with Michael Graves in 1999 (which ended this year), Target pioneered the concept of exclusive, designer lines at affordable prices, more recently with a line of immediately sold-out successes from Jason Wu and Missoni.
"Bringing great design and affordable prices into the mass retailing space was a huge innovation," says Shawn Gensch, senior vice president of marketing at Target.
Even fashionable discounters need to compete on the basics, though. Barbara Collette, who has worked for Target for 40 years, says, "The biggest thing I remember is, we built this company on toilet paper and laundry soap."
When Target would have "dollar sales," Collette, who gives her age at "over 60," says, "we would just sell trailerloads of it."
Walmart. The fact that farmers needed to pay less prompted Walton to work to "deliver products to them cheaper," says Questrom. In doing so, Walmart became the leader in supply chain efficiency that retailers up the price ladder try to emulate.
"Everyone tries to copy Target from the front door in, and everyone tries to copy Walmart from the back door in," Nisch says.
Finding ways to cut costs and pass the savings on is a value Walmart continues to execute on, Dranow says, from truck drivers using more direct routes so they use less gas, to installing solar panels and skylights in stores to save on electricity.
Walton, Questrom says, is "more responsible than anyone for keeping inflation to sustainable levels, at least up until now."
Walmart's strategy of "everyday low prices" -- a slogan the chain adopted in the 1980s -- was its biggest contribution to retail, Dranow says.
"If Walmart hadn't been driving down the prices, our competitors would not have been doing the same," he says.
"Sam did this from the beginning. He lowered his prices not just so he could make more money. He really saw that by saving people money, they're going to live better."
Kmart. When it seems as if everyone in Hollywood has their own clothing line, it's easy to forget one of the first major celebrity fashion launches. Former Charlie's Angel Jaclyn Smith started her clothes and housewares line at Kmart 27 years ago, and it's still among the most popular brands, says Kmart's interim Chief Marketing Officer Andrew Stein. Selena Gomez and Sofia Vergara also have Kmart lines now.
Nisch recalls shopping while eating popcorn you could smell throughout the store. Karen Davidson, who started with the S.S. Kresge company that became Kmart in 1971, fondly remembers the excitement when the blue light on a rolling cart would move near different products in the store. A loud-speaker announcement would declare that product's price cut, and, "Customers would run over there to take advantage," recalls Davidson, 58. Then they'd wait to see where it rolled next.
After companywide stops and starts through the years, Blue Light Specials are now only done on a store-by-store basis, and there's no more actual light, Stein says.
It's been hard to maintain the excitement at Kmart, which was under bankruptcy protection and had a disappointing merger with Sears in the past decade. And it has been shrinking as its two biggest competitors grow.
Stein says Kmart's "biggest challenge is what every retailer faces. It's very competitive." He says Kmart has moved quickly to respond to shoppers' desires, including adding free layaway and membership rewards card deals.
Even Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has had its challenges. It's had decades-long struggles with labor unions that want to organize workers. It also got off to a messy start.
Sam Walton planned to give away watermelons to the first customers at the 1964 opening of his second store in Harrison, Ark., on an August day when temperatures hit 110 degrees, Dranow says.
He was also offering donkey rides to the kids. The two promotions didn't mix well.
"The watermelons started to pop, so you had all this watermelon juice and guts running into the parking lot," Dranow says. "The donkeys were walking around, and donkeys do what donkeys do, and it started to mix together. Customers were traipsing thorough it and then going into store."
David Glass, the head of a discount drug chain, was at the store opening to see Walton's vision in action. He wasn't too impressed that day.
"David Glass thought Sam was a nice enough fella, but he didn't really think much of this new store," Dranow says.
Glass apparently reconsidered his position. He joined the company in 1974 and became its CEO in 1988.
Walmart now has more than 10,000 stores around the world. But where does discount retail go from here?
Today, the discount stores that revolutionized how America shops have paved the way for aggressive and constant price competition between physical stores and online retailers.
"You say to yourself, 'My God where is it going to go?'" Loeb says. "Pretty soon, they're going to give it away."


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Seahawks' Rice out for year after suffering second concussion
Published: Nov 30, 2011 at 07:07 AM
RENTON, Wash. -- Sidney Rice's season is being cut short.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll announced Wednesday that Rice would be placed on injured reserve after suffering two concussions within weeks of each other.
Carroll had already ruled Rice out for Thursday night's game against Philadelphia after Rice was injured in last week's game against Washington.
"We have to give him time, so he's going to have to sit for a number of weeks before he could play anyway, so we just want to make sure we take care of him, don't bring him back too soon and get him right," Carroll said. "He's been banged up all season, and this is just one more situation we have to deal with."
Rice has endured a season of injuries that started with a labrum injury in his shoulder during the preseason that caused him to miss the first two games. Rice suffered his first concussion less than three weeks ago against Baltimore and then was re-injured against the Redskins.
Rice was shut out last week against Washington for the first time since Dec. 21, 2008, against Atlanta. Rice was injured making a diving attempt at a pass across the middle. He got up visibly woozy and was helped to the sideline.
Carroll said that it was going to take a couple of weeks for Rice to be cleared from the concussion and that the more prudent move was sitting him down with just four games remaining. He added that Rice's head injuries are not career-threatening and will also allow more time for Rice to begin rehab work on his shoulder, which as of now does not require surgery.
"It's the right thing for us to do. He knows that. He just doesn't want to hear it. I told him yesterday, you know, sometimes somebody has got to step in and tell you what you would never decide," Carroll said. "We have to do that for him because as a competitor, there's no way he would step out right now."
Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press
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Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai is an Indian popular television show that has first aired on 12 January 2009 on star plus and now streams on Hotstar.
It is an Indian drama family serialwhich is running on Star plus for 11 years now. Still it has not lost the popularity and believe it will may remain in people's hearts for so long.
The main Casting of the show:
Hina Khan as Akshara Singhania was been with the show for 8 years (2009-2016) who was in a female lead and played the role of Natik's wife while Karan Mehra as Naitik Singhania was in a male lead role of the show for 8 years as well (2009-2016). Shivangi Joshi who is still in the show since 2016 as Naira Goenka who is playing a role of daughter of Akshara and Naitik while Mohsin Khan as Kartik Goenka who is now in male lead.
Whole Plot of "Ye Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai":
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata is a story of two married couples, Akshara and Naitik, which is being continued by her daughter naira and son in law Kartik.
It is a love story of these two couples and families collaborating between their families and maintaining the balance between the family members and values of the relationship between the two. The serial is full of drama with many exciting twists and leaps of years.
It is the fourth longest-running television show in India.
The story of "Yeh RishtaKyaKehlata Hai" starts with Akshara and Naitik belongs to two Marwari families from Udaipur. The two families fix the arranged marriage of Akshara and Naitik, and slowly the love between the two started, and they got happily married.
Akshara got to know that her elder brother Shauray and her best friend Varsha were in love, and later on, they also get married with the blessing of the families. As time passes, Akshara's bond with the family was getting more robust, and soon she gave birth to her first child Naksh.
Twist came with the accident of Naitik and goes into a coma for four years. With many efforts of Akshara and her family, he recovers and then tried to build a strong relationship with his son.
Again, a twist came with Gayatri's death (Naitik's mother) and her pregnant daughter Rashmi gave birth to a baby girl and named her Gayatri. Rajshekar (father of Naitik) remarriage to a divorced Devyani who has two children, Naman and Muskan.
With drama and issues in their children's marriage, Akshara and Naitik gave birth to Naira's baby girl.
With the death of Dadaji, there comes a leap of some year, and a story of capetown began. Naitik and Akshara were living in cape town because Kaveri (Bhabhi maa of all and daddajis wife) blames Akshara for daddajis death, so they left Udaipur a few years ago with their children.
When things get all right, Akshara and Naitik came back to Udaipur along with their family.
After some time, Naksh marriage gets scheduled, but latter it breaks down due to some reasons and again with the big twist Naira let her family due to misunderstanding and blaming her mother she went alone to Rishikesh with so many years also passes with the new entry ofnew faces Naira and Kartik entered.
The story of the two began in Rishikesh. Both of them were living separately in Rishikesh due to misunderstandings with their family.
Now Akshara finds her daughter in Rishikesh and brings her back to Udaipur; on the other side, Kartik and Naira's love story began in Udaipur as Kartik started working with her family.
And soon, their marriage got fixed, with the big upcoming twist of Akshara's death. Kartik was held responsible for Akshara's death, but soon they realized it was not his fault, and he got bailed, and Kartik and Naira's story began with their grand marriage.
After their marriage, Naksh and Kirti (Katik's sister) tie their knots together after Kirti's divorce. Swarna (stepmother of Kartik) misunderstood Naira for his son's death Shubham and Naira left the house.
Naira goes with some injuries in brain and brain clot surgery and gets re-marries to Kartik.
Later, both Kirti and Naira shared their pregnancy, but due to one incident, Naira lost her daughter, and Kartik hid this news from her and gave Kirti's son to Naira and later when Kirti regains consciousness, she got to know that Krish is her son, not Naira's. With the big drama, this issue got solved.
Again, Naira was pregnant, but Naira didn't share her pregnancy with Kartik and left the house due to a misunderstanding. Kartik went into shock for so many years as all family members and himself believing that Naira is dead.
After years of leap Naira with her son, Kairav was living in Goa, but soon Kartik and Kairav contacted each other unaware of theirrelation.
Kartik came to Goa to meet Kairav, and Naira got to know about him, and she hides from him, but again, the big dramatic twist came with Kartik and Vedika's marriage.
On the other side, Kairav was undergoing heart disease, and Kartik got to know about Kairav that he is his child and Naira is alive.
Soon Vedika realizes her mistake and divorces Kartik and left the house, and again Kartik Naira gets united.
Later Gayu got pregnant with Samarth's child on the other side; Naira and Manish (Kartik's father) went together for some work and meet with an accident due to Chori.
Manish lost his memory became a child due to an accident, and Naira got blamed by Kartik for the same later, Chori came to their house and started living there.
Eventually, Chori is Kartik and Naira's first daughter, who was shown dead earlier. Kartik soon realizes his mistake and forgive Naira. Naira is pregnant again. Later both the sisters share their pregnancy, and the rituals both took place with so many ups and downs and soon, Gayu gave birth to a son, and soon Naira also gave birth to a baby girl. Manish regains his memory.
Now the Naamkaran ceremony of the baby girl happened. The name of Naira and Kartik's daughter is AKSHARA. Naira got a vision of her mother Akshara on which she named her daughter Akshara, and from here, the new story of children began.
Kartik Naira named Chori as Krishna. Kartik and Naira adopted the Chori, but Kairav is not ready to share his parents with outsiders. And the drama is running with the same issues and twists. Furthermore story, Keep watching the upcoming episodes only on Star plus and Disney+Hotstar.
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The object of all activities of the Theosophical Society is to promote the spirit and practice of brotherly love, mutual understanding, and kindness, and to revive and make active in modern life the spiritual truths underlying all religions, and thereby to elevate the lives and characters of men and women to the point where universal brotherhood would be the natural expression of their thought and feeling, and unbrotherliness would be unthinkable.
One step in the right direction is to study the common spiritual basis of all religions and thus to remove the religious bigotry and prejudice which cause so much misunderstanding and friction.
We are interested in the religious thought of ancient, not modern, India. The Theosophical Mahatmans are of the same order and class as the Vyasas and Rishis, Sages and Seers, who produced the Vedas, Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, and other great Indian religious and spiritually philosophical literature. Being sensible as well as spiritual and intellectual men, they work with the tide of evolution, the crest of which is now in the West.
Theosophy and the Theosophical Movement is the name and form under which the Ancient Wisdom is now known. Theosophy is the Atma-Vidya. and the Brahma-Vidya, the Self knowledge and Divine knowledge of modern times, cast in language comprehensible to the modern mind (semi-scientific), answering modern needs and problems and shorn of Oriental obscurities. Theosophy is the Sruti or revealed word for the new race and the new age.
Brahmanism is a mystical, transcendental, religious philosophy. It is founded upon the oldest publicly known religious books — the Vedas, the dates of whose origin are lost in the mists of time. The Orientalists, great and learned European and American scholars, with the Western point of view, date them at from a few hundred to a thousand years b. c. Hindu scholars, who probably know their own religious traditions best, date the Vedas at nearer ten thousand years b. c., while occultists trace their origin to the Atlantean or the earliest Aryan times.
The authorship of the Vedas is credited to Vyasa; but there were many Vyasas, twenty-eight or more, each of whom composed one or more of the Vedic hymns or other religious literature — each in his respective era.
It is interesting to note how the Vyasas succeed each other. When a great Teacher comes in a declining cycle, as did Christ, there is little possibility of carrying on the successorship. The conditions do not favor or perhaps even allow it. But in a rising cycle, as now in the West, when the aspirations and the intelligence, the moral and spiritual elevation are sufficiently sustained, there are disciples trained and fitted to carry on and maintain the Work, and to continue the teaching in its purity. There have been many such eras.
As in Greece, Egypt, Persia, China, Ancient America, and Central Asia, so in India for countless centuries, there were Vyasas, Rishis, Sages, Initiates all, to expound and elaborate and even to improve the teachings.
The Vedas are four in number, the Rig-Veda, the oldest, on which the others are founded, the Yajur-Veda, the Sama-Veda, and the Atharva-Veda.
They were composed and taught and repeated orally for centuries or millenniums before being written down and compiled in their present form by Veda-Vyasa on the shore of the sacred lake Manasa-Sarovara (variously spelled), in what is now western Tibet. This district and much of western-central Asia was once called India.
The Rig-Veda (Sanskrit rich, praise), or Veda of Praise, is composed of 1028 hymns and songs of praise to the gods.
The Yajur-Veda (Skt. yaj, sacrifice), or Veda of Sacrifice, is composed of selections from the Rig-Veda, variously selected and arranged for sacrificial rites and ceremonies. Sacrifices were and are offered to the gods for all sorts of purposes: as an act of devotion and worship, to obtain benefits and favors, for propitiatory purposes, and even for curses. For the simple daily worship, flowers or fruits are offered, for greater favors some special treasure or money or jewels. At some Siva temples, and to Kali or Durga, Siva's consorts, there are blood sacrifices of goats, sheep, chickens, or bullocks.
The Sama-Veda, or Veda of song, is composed of some 1549 mantras, ritualistic, ceremonial, and magical selections. These are in both prose and verse and are used for meditation — "inaudible muttering."
The Atharva-Veda, named after one of the teachers, is sometimes called the Brahma-Veda, because it describes the nature of Brahman and how man attains thereto. It is of much later date and more philosophical than the other three Vedas.
The songs and stories of the Vedas are often so childlike in their simplicity and beauty that they are mistaken by European Orientalists for fairy-stories of creation. Being unable to conceive of the inner worlds and their inhabitants, the Orientalists laboriously explain them as just "the primitive mind of man glorifying the phenomena of nature." But hundreds of generations of Hindu Rishis, Seers and Sages, have considered them as our learned mathematicians do Einsteinian equations, and spent their lives in expounding and amplifying them.
Apparently the Vedas are nothing but mythological stories, but actually they contain an account of the conscious operations of the creative Gods and their hierarchies of helpers — the architects and builders of the cosmos and all the "construction crew" of intelligences, from elementals up.
All the universe is conceived of as spiritual and conscious and every operation and law of nature, inner and outer, visible and invisible, is described as the activity of gods and other more or less advanced beings, who acted as any intelligent beings might act under similar circumstances.
The gods of the early Vedic hymns are not the familiar gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva. The trinity of gods in the Vedas are Agni, Vayu, and Surya — crudely translated as Fire, Wind or Air, and Sun. But the word Fire is used as the outward expression of an inner essence which is warmth and life, light and intelligence. The word Fire is used as by the Fire-Philosophers and even by the Christians when they say "For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire," (Deut., iv, 24). Vayu is used as the Greek Pneuma, Breath, Spirit. The Vyasas conceived of the Sun, not as materialistic Science does, as a mere physical or electrical body in the sky, but as the outer robes or vehicle of the Solar Deities whose vital energies animated and electrified the solar system into a living organism and whose Intelligences guided the orderly processes which established and maintain the harmony within the System The Ancients conceived the sun and other heavenly bodies as we do a man, i. e., not as a physical body alone, but as a congeries of energies guided by intelligence — the mind or intelligence being the most important part.
Let thine eye go to the sun (Surya), thy breath to the wind (Vayu), to the earth or to the sky go with thy several parts, into the waters or into the plants, as best beseems. But this man's unborn part convey, assuming thy most auspicious forms, to the abode of the righteous.
Note the exquisitely beautiful reference to that part of the man that never was born. How many of us have ever asked ourselves what part of us was born and will die, and what part of us has neither beginning nor end and therefore never was born — in the meaning of this text? And how much of ourselves is qualified to go to heaven? Elsewhere in the philosophy it is stated that all of the man that belongs to the earth goes each part to its appropriate place and transmigrates or reimbodies itself there All that is of the nature of goodness, truth, and beauty goes to heaven, for, "Never to an evil place goeth one who doeth good." — The Bhagavad-Gita, ch vi.
"Go forth, follow the ancient paths on which our Fathers went . . . . the two kings shalt thou behold, Varuna and Yama, (1) where they revel in bliss. There join Yama and the Fathers, where every wish is granted in the highest heaven, free from blemishes enter thy home there, with a new and shining body clothing thyself."
As I collate and understand certain Vedic texts At death, Pushan, the Vedic psychopomp or shepherd of the souls of the dead, who knows the way, takes "that part of the man that never was born" to the first heaven where he enjoys the fruits of his good works on earth to the full measure of his deserts; then to the second heaven where he enjoys a greater degree of felicity; then to the third, and to all the heavens, each in turn, in each of which he enjoys a greater and ever greater degree of supernal felicity; and finally to the portals of the sun, where he enters and abides with the gods — the solar divinities Finally, Pushan conducts him back to the earth by the same route, and a new child is born.
Out of, and founded upon, these Vedic Hymns has grown the most elaborate and most voluminous religious and philosophical literature in the world. During thousands of years hundreds of generations of Rishis have spent their lives in commenting upon, expounding and interpreting or adding to the Vedic stories. There are the Brahmanas, the Sastras, the Puranas, and the Upanishads, not to mention other classes of literature. The dates of these works are unknown. The Hindu mind is timeless, attaches no importance to time, dates nothing. So, the Orientalists class this literature in the order of its quality — from the simple to the more complex and profound or perfect — as they see it. That is why it is ordinarily given in the order above mentioned.
The Brahmanas are a complex development of the Vedas. Two facts of historic human interest stand out in the course of this literary cycle: Two schools arose under opposite leaders, one called the Black School and the other the White School. The origin of the divergence was that a pupil turned against his Teacher and founded a School of his own and the resulting spirit of inharmony within it gave the body which he led the quality and name of "the Black School."
Great numbers of Sakhas or schools of interpretation of the Vedas arose — many hundreds in the interpretation of the Sama-Veda alone. Some accounts say there were between one and two thousand of these Sama-Vedic Sakhas with their clash of argument and opinion. Compare this with modern Christianity which can only boast of three or four hundred different sects.
Above the babel arose the voices of some of their greatest Rishis challenging the people to loyalty and faithfulness. "If a man gives up his own customs and performs others whether out of ignorance or covetousness, he will fall and be destroyed," they said. In a broader sense the Buddha said: "Respect the religion of other men; be true to your own."
The Sastras are constituted mainly of works on Law, though the word Sastra simply means book. It is applied to the body of books on Law — all kinds of law, divine and human, sacred and profane, ritualistic and domestic. In the Sastras group are also included a few books of other character.
The Puranas and the Upanishads constitute a distinct advance on all other Brahmanical literature, being profoundly philosophical and religious and occultly scientific. The Puranas are supposed to have been eighteen in number, although none, with the possible exception of the Vishnu-Purana, exists today in any approach to a perfect form.
The Upanishads are variously given as having been 108 or 150 in number. They are essays of lofty religious, philosophical, and metaphysical character which form the basis of the most enlightened faith of India. They explain the essential nature and spirit of the universe, and, like the Puranas, treat of the character and nature of the gods; of their bringing the manifested universe into being by the process of ideation and emanation; of the cyclic course of evolution of the universe and everything therein contained. The idea is that every manifested thing, visible and invisible, from elemental and atom to solar system, from men even to the gods themselves, all evolve, not by chance nor by blind mathematical or mechanistic law, but by inherent energy guided by intelligence; and the manner and details of this evolution are poetically, allegorically, or philosophically described.
The Rishis of this later and more advanced date distinctly pointed out that there are two Paths as trodden by men of different grades of evolutionary development, both of which should be known and understood: they are the Higher Path and the Lower Path, or the Slower Path. The latter is the path trodden by the great majority of men; by the good citizen who discharges his duties in the world and is bound by earthly attachments, as well as the man who is bound by devotion to the creeds and forms of religion, such as the ceremonies and sacrifices prescribed by the Vedas, or the dead letter of any religion. The followers of religion take a long winding course of evolution. The Higher Path is the Chela Path, trodden by the strongest and noblest of men. It is a path of self-determined and rapid evolution, motivated by impersonal and all-pervading love and thoughtfulness for the welfare of others. It is the path of the inner light which leads to Self-knowledge, Atma-Vidya, and to Divine Wisdom, Brahma-Vidya.
The efflorescence of Brahmanical literature is called the Vedanta — which means the end or perfection of the Vedas, the highest form of Hindu thought.
There are three schools of the Vedanta: the Dwaita, or dualistic school; Adwaita, or the non-dualistic school; and the Visishta-adwaita, or modified non-dualistic school, which is somewhat between the other two. The Avatara, Sri Sankaracharya was the greatest expounder of the Adwaita school.
In the later Brahmanical literature the principal Vedic gods, Agni, Vayu, and Surya, are replaced by the more familiar trinity of gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva. The word Brahma comes from the Sanskrit root brih, to expand. Brahma is the masculine supreme creative god of the universe. Vishnu, from the root vish, to pervade, is the all pervading and preserving principle of the cosmos. Siva is the god who destroys but to regenerate on a higher plane.
Philosophically speaking, Brahmanism, like the Esoteric Philosophy from which it sprang, is neither Monotheism nor Polytheism, Idealism nor Dualism, but contains and includes them all. In this philosophy Deity is both immanent and transcendent — Immanent because it pervades, animates and sustains the vast whole of the manifested universe; Transcendent because superior to and not dependent upon manifestation.
There is one fundamental divine principle and many manifestations; one Life, many lives; one Fire, many flames; one Thinker, many thoughts. The whole manifested universe is the thought and manifested thoughts of the hosts of Gods, an emanation of their essence, animated and sustained by the circulation of their life and vitality, and inspired and guided onward and upward by their wisdom.
In Brahmanism the creation, evolution, and dissolution of such universes follow each other in orderly, progressive succession, as day follows night. This progressive manifestation and dissolution of universes is poetically called "the days and nights of Brahma."


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Parkinson's disease, depression, and quality-of-life
Bindu Menon1, Rani Nayar2, Suresh Kumar2, Sandhya Cherkil3, Anil Venkatachalam2, K Surendran4, KS Deepak5
1 Department of Psychiatry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
2 Department of Neurology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
3 Department of Clinical Psychology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
4 Department of Physical Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
5 Department of Biostatistics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
Dr. Bindu Menon
Department of Psychiatry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin - 682 041, Kerala
Background: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) but is often under diagnosed and under treated leading to worsening of symptoms and deterioration of the quality-of-life of the people suffering from this disease. Aims: The current study aims to determine the correlation between depression and health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) domains in patients with PD. Materials and Methods: A sample of 65 consecutive patients attending the specialty Parkinson's clinic was assessed by a psychiatrist as part of the treatment protocol. Diagnosis of depression was done using the International Classification of Diseases-10 by a psychiatrist and depression was scored using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). QOL-BREF Malayalam version was used to assess quality-of-life in the patients. Statistical Analysis: One-way ANOVA was used to find the difference in the quality-of-life experienced by different age categories, duration of the disease, psychiatric co-morbidity. Independent sample t-test was used to find the difference in the quality-of-life experienced by genders, co morbid conditions and to find the difference in the scores on GDS and domains of WHO QOL BREF. Association of H and Y staging and duration of Parkinsonism with GDS Scores were computed using Pearson's Chi-square test. Results and Conclusions: There was a significant association of female gender and depression with the physical and psychological domains of QOL while the duration and staging of PD did not have any association with QOL Domains. Depression thus emerges as one of the main predictors of poor quality-of-life in PD.
Menon B
Nayar R
Kumar S
Cherkil S
Venkatachalam A
Surendran K
Deepak K S


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Tyketto frontman Danny Vaughn recalls experience singing backing vocals on Yes' "Union" album
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Tyketto lead vocalist Danny Vaughn was recently interviewed by Radio Exile keyboardist Charlie Calv for Totally Driven Entertainment and spoke about the time that he was called into duty to sing background vocals on Yes' album Union in 1990.
In terms of how he wound up singing on a Yes record, Vaughn stated: "I was in Los Angeles, just finishing up recording the first Tyketto album when I got a call from our A&R rep' at Geffen, Mary Gormley. She said that her good friend, Jonathan Elias, was working on the newest Yes album in L.A. and they were in need of some outside backing vocalists and would I be into getting involved with that? I jumped at the chance!"
With respect to the difficult task that producer Jonathan Elias had to make the entire thing work and make it cohesive, Calv asked Vaughn how it was working with Elias and if he could sense any of the frustration from the producer. Vaughn replied: "Absolutely. Rather than recount to you all the madness, rumors and egos you may have heard, I suggest anyone interested, look up the Wikipedia page on the Union album. It tells the story better than I could. Suffice to say that "Union" is possibly the most mis-named album title in history!! I'm told that the band all hated one another and would almost never record in the same studio, or even the same country together! Money was hemorrhaging everywhere. Jonathan was left in the wake of Spinal Tap level absurdities (band members walking up to him and handing him a couple of words of lyric on a scrap of paper saying, "Work this into the song", Jonathan would reply, "Which one?" and would be told, "doesn't matter, any of them") trying to just get the damned thing finished. I had heard that Steve Howe spent days at the studio (at the cost of thousands of dollars a day) in France re-arranging the furniture in order to get the "best possible vibe for recording", without ever playing a note. It was chaos. Having said that, Jonathan is a joy to work with and taught me a tremendous amount about studio vocals and etiquette."
In regard to whether any of the Yes guys were involved with his vocal session and whether they were around in the studio when he was doing his vocals, Vaughn stated: "I never met any of them. The vocalists were myself, Tommy Funderburk and Ian Lloyd. These guys were the top session vocalists in L.A. and were on almost every album to come out of that city at that time. Our job was to write and record "Yes-like" harmonies on several songs, which was loads of fun. When we were all done, Jon Anderson would come in, listen to what we had written and decide what he liked and wanted to keep. Then he would sing over our parts and, of course, put his voice up front, as it should be."
You can read the rest of the interview with Danny Vaughn by Charlie Calv at Totally Driven Entertainment.


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The 75 th Anniversary - The Swinging Sixties.
1950. The service of unveiling of the Second World War Memorial Tablet was performed by Brother William Ballantyne, our oldest P.M. The officiating clergyman was Brother Reverend James Oliver, P.M. 275, P.G. Junior Chaplain. Brother Charles Thain, Piper, played the Lament, and Brother Robert Muir, Trumpeter, sounded The Last Post. The tablet, which is a replica of those erected on the East Wall after the First World War, now hangs on the South Wall of the Temple.
2nd August. The Lodge celebrated it's 75th Anniversary at a Special meeting and Celebration Dinner in the Town Hall, presided over by Brother George Adamson, R.W.M. There were 18 Past Masters of 573 present.The Grand Lodge of Scotland deputation was headed by Brother James Grieve, Past Depute Grand Master, and included Brother R. M. Battison, Grand Director of Ceremonies, and Brother Alexander Walker, P.M. 573, Grand Steward. The deputation from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lanarkshire (Middle Ward) was headed by Brother Archibald Moffat, P.M. 88 and 1228, Past Provincial Grand Senior Warden. Amongst the notable Brethren of 573 were Provost Brother Alexander Crichton, Chief Constable Brother John A. R. Murray and ex-Bailie Brother George Barr, J.P., M.B.E. Brother George Adamson, R.W.M., welcomed all the visitors to this auspicious occasion, thanking them for joining with us in our celebrations, and charging them all to convey our fraternal greetings to their respective Mother Lodges. The business of the evening being obvious, the Lodge was called from labour to refreshment, and a sumptuous dinner, served by Dalziel Co-op., was enjoyed by the 320 Brethren present. In the "after-dinner" programme the usual Loyal and Masonic toasts were excellently proposed, responded to enthusiastically, and replied to in a very satisfactory manner. The musical entertainment throughout the evening was sustained by the following Brethren of 573:— Robert Little, tenor, John Smith, baritone, Robert Wilson, violinist, and James H. R. Murray, accompanist.
Other interesting information from the minutes of our celebration show that a Special Fund for deserving Brethren raised £198 15s Od, which was disbursed among 33 members, while the accounts show an income of £138 12s Od and an expenditure of £241. In the minute book are appended a news cutting and picture from "The Motherwell Times", and a letter from Grand Secretary conveying congratulations and thanks for the Coin and Brochure, presented to Grand Lodge as mementoes of the occasion.
1951. To enhance the lecture on The Emblems of Mortality, the R.W.M., Brother John Campbell, presented a miniature coffin to the Lodge, which is still in use today. The Halls were again a burden of finance, as this year the Firemaster directed that a new fire escape to comply with up-to-date regulations must be erected. The owner Lodges each contributed £150 to this expense.
June. Grand Lodge formed Benevolent Regions, and directed that every Daughter Lodge must include Almoner in the list of elected offices. This move was to further increase and promote the diffuse of benevolence in cash, kind and concern, and to make the Lodges and Brethren more aware of the needs of the less fortunate of our Brothers.
The opening of the Royal Scottish Masonic Home, "Aultwharrie," at Dunblane, by the Princess Royal, was the highlight of the Masonic year, and 573 was represented by Brother Alexander Forbes, P.M.
6th February 1952. King George VI, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, passed away on this date, and, in common with all the Craft and Nation, the Lodge was conducted in mourning.
On the 50th anniversary of the Consecration of our present Temple, it was most appropriate that the ceremonial of the Mark Degree was carried through by a team of Past Masters of the Lodge, headed by our longest serving Master, Brother William Ballantyne, who had been installed as R.W.M. in 1906, only four years after the building was erected.
28th September. The reintroduction of an annual Divine Service was mooted and resulted in the first Post-War Joint Divine Service of the three local Lodges taking place in St. Andrew's Parish Church on Sunday. Brother Reverend J. McKechnie, M.M. St. Mary, Fyvie, 1287, minister of Hamilton Old Parish Church, preached the sermon, and the lessons were read by R.W.M. Brother William Barr. Brother McKechnie was later obligated as an Honorary Member of the Lodge for his services. A parade of some 250 Brethren, representing 19 Lodges, headed by Dalziel Highland Pipe Band and including Provost Alexander Crichton, made an impressive, and inspiring sight.
30th October. After careful consideration as to the aims and purposes, an Instruction Class was inaugurated.
6th November. Brother John Beresford, Jun., presented to the Lodge a beautiful coloured Fellowcraft tracing board which he had completed and made copyright. This tracing board is still in use today.
Sashes with " 573 " £ 2 - 11 - 8 "
Collarettes £ 0 - 5 - 11 "
Gauntlets per pair £ 4 - 3 - 2 "
8th January 1953. It seems worthy of note that at this meeting , 16 petitions for membership were submitted, of which 14 later passed the Enquiry Committee.
1954. The Grand Lodge of Scotland instituted a Distinguished Service Diploma, and invited Daughter Lodges to propose suitable recipients for this award. The Lodge unanimously agreed on two applications, Brother Alexander Walker, P.M., Secretary, and Brother Stewart Wilson.
28th January. Distinguished Service Diplomas were duly presented. Brother Alexander Walker was initiated on 11th January, 1906, 48 years earlier, and has served the Lodge as an Office-Bearer for 45 years, the last 32 years as Secretary. He was R.W.M. in 1918. Brother Stewart J. Wilson has been the Lodge Organist for 29 years.
18th November. The Secretary read a letter from Brother Robert T. Sime (present D.M. at Provincial Grand Lodge), giving an account of his visit to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and forwarding a Gavel, Book and Keystone made from the stones of King Solomon's Temple.
11th September 1955. It would seem worthy of note that at this meeting, a request was made to the existing Halls Committee that a lift be installed in the Halls (even then, it would appear as if the Brethren needed a little assistance to reach the Temple on the top flat).
9th August 1956. Brother William Russell presented to the Lodge two swords with Masonic engravings on the handles, with the request that they be kept as a lasting memorial to his father, Brother J. Russell.
1st November. After 35 years of service as Secretary, Brother Alexander Walker, P.M., retired saying he felt that he now deserved a well-earned rest. His retiral, however, was not to be of long duration, as on 29th August, 1957, he was called to the Grand Lodge above. So the Lodge lost one of its most faithful members. "Well done, good and faithful servant."
20th December. The Lodge was stunned by the death of Brother Stewart Wilson, Organist. It was agreed to purchase a rose tree, the same to be planted in the Garden of Remembrance at Daldowie Crematorium. Men of such calibre as Brother Alexander Walker and Brother Stewart Wilson are difficult to replace, and their service to their Mother Lodge beyond value.
9th July 1957. At the quarterly communication of Grand Lodge, the following resolution was passed: "That the Daughter Lodges appoint qualified auditors to do the annual audit of Lodge books."
In the autumn a sub-committee reviewed the Lodge bye-laws. The recommended changes were subsequently adopted on 16th January, 1958, and approved by P.G.L. and G.L.
January 1958. Brother John Alexander, P.M., P.P.G.S.W., was commissioned by P.G.M. Brother Captain John Christie-Stewart as Substitute Provincial Grand Master, this being the first time this honour had been bestowed on a member of our Lodge. In February, Brother Alexander was further honoured by being elected to Grand Committee.
2nd October. Brother John Campbell, P.M., presented an altar to the Masonic Halls Committee for use in the Concert Hall. The altar, dedicated to the memory of Brother Alexander Walker, P.M., Secretary, was consecrated by Brother Reverend Andrew Higgins, MA., Lodge No. 1011, and thereafter accepted on behalf of the Committee by their chairman, Brother John Gibson, P.M. 406.
Father of the R.W.M., ex-Bailie Brother George Barr, Senior, died in October, Brother John Alexander, P.M., paid fitting tribute to his services to town and craft, and a minute's silence was observed.
The second phase of the Royal Scottish Masonic Homes was completed and Randolph Hill was now open for Brethren, Widows and Dependents.
January 1959. Brother Robert Scott, who had held the post of Tyler for 20 years, was awarded the Distinguished Service Diploma, and this was presented to him at his home by Brother George Barr, I.P.M., accompanied by the R.W.M. and Wardens. The very sudden death of Brother John Alexander, P.M., S.P.G.M., shocked the Lodge and Province. Brother Tom Monteith, R.W.M. spoke of his fine work for the Craft nationwide, and the Brethren observed one minute's silence.
15th September 1960. Brother Dr. Alexander Buchan, Grand Secretary, visited the Lodge, and gave a most interesting and instructive talk on "Freemasons at Home and Abroad." He was obligated as an Honorary Member by the R.W.M.
20th October. Lodge Murdostoun Castle No. 1096, Cleland, visited the Lodge for the first time, under their R.W.M., Brother Archibald McMurdo. This began an inter-visitation which has continued since.
January 1961. The Distinguished Service Diploma was awarded to Brother Alexander A. R. Murray, P.M., who had served the Lodge both as Treasurer, and Secretary. The diploma was presented to him in his home by the Master, Wardens and Office-bearers. Unfortunately, Brother Murray passed away on the following Sunday. During the summer recess, the Lodge bowlers did us proud, winning the McKerrow Cup and finishing as runners-up in the Robert King Stewart Trophy.
16th January 1964. Brother Francis Anderson, who had been a Past Master for fifty years. was presented with the Distinguished Service Diploma, and a combined walking stick and umbrella in recognition of his valued services to the craft. The presentation was made by Brother Alexander Sneddon, P.M., who had occupied the chair only eight years after Brother Anderson.
The Almoners Whist, which had been an annual fund-raising event, had to be discontinued owing to lack of support. This highlighted two problems, the urgent need to find alternative fund-raising methods, and the changing social pattern.
1st October. A notice of motion was accepted to amend the Halls Committee Bye-law 27, thus permitting the sale of spirits within the Halls. After a very lengthy discussion, it was carried by 49 votes to 12.
1st November. The wives and Brethren held a very successful sale of work, which raised the sum of £147.
Introduced this year also was the Christmas Draw, which boosted the Benevolent Fund by £281—both worthwhile and very successful Ventures.
20th May 1965. Brother David Scott, P.M., was presented with the Distinguished Service Certificate for his services to Freemasonry, and to the Lodge in particular.
4th November. Two notices of motion were submitted, the subjects of very full and serious discussion.
1. "The Lodge to give the Halls Committee authority to form a Social Club."
2. "The Lodge to apply for a special licence allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages at the forthcoming Installation."
Both were carried, 65-13, and 60-10 respectively.
This step saw the end of an era, the end of a very proud tradition, previously mentioned in the early history of our Lodge, causing grief and despair to a number of older Brethren. It can also be said, however, that it saw the start of a new and more enlightened approach to the social side of the Lodge activities, more in keeping with the times.
26th October 1966. The Lodge donated £10 to the Aberfan Disaster Fund, and the sum of £125 was loaned to a Sister Lodge which required some assistance.
This year also saw the first visit to our Sister Lodge, Scone and Perth No. 3.
2nd February 1967. A new local Lodge, Mauldslie Castle No. 1630, was consecrated and their Office-Bearers installed. One of our Brethren, Brother Angus Hughes, a former Office-Bearer of "573", was installed as Substitute Master.
Our Lodge gave a promissory note to Grand Lodge of £200, this to be our donation to the third Masonic Home (Ardnablane).
20th May. The previously mentioned Masonic Social Club did not have the blessing of our Provincial Grand Master, Brother K. Byers, so the Lodge decided to apply for a Licence to be operated by Lodge members themselves, under the direct control of R.W.M., Wardens, Secretary and Treasurer.
On the same day, we had our first visit from Lodge Scone and Perth No. 3, who performed the Master Mason ceremony. Their Master, Brother John Bruce, received Honorary Membership for his services to 573.
17th June. The third Masonic Home (Ardnablane) was the scene of the very impressive ceremony of laying the foundation stone. This was carried out by the Most Worshipful Grand Master Mason, Major Sir Ronald Orr Ewing, and his Office-bearers. In a blaze of colour, amid glorious sunshine,our Lodge representatives enjoyed a most pleasant and memorable treat.
1st February 1968. The Lodge received a very generous anonymous donation of £100, which, added to our promissory note, made our total donation to Ardnablane £300.
1969. Our congratulations went out to Brother Robert T. Sime on his appointment as Substitute Provincial Grand Master, bringing honour to himself and the Lodge.
This year saw the formation of the Past Masters' Council of Motherwell, to whose Dinner, the Masters of the three Lodges were invited.
24th January. The Lodge Burns Supper was revived. This took the form of a Supper, and Dance, the principal speaker on that occasion being Mr Wilson Humphries, a local teacher, and well-known former footballer.
27th February. A meeting of Past Masters, and Office-bearers was called, and a sub-committee formed to advise on the format of the Lodge Centenary Celebrations and to suggest fund-raising methods for new regalia, etc.
29th March. On this Saturday, the Lodge visited Lodge Macduff No. 940. East Wemyss and worked a Third Degree.
Theatre outings to the Metropole, and Pavilion in Glasgow were popular ventures this year.
24th September. Brother John B. Law, P.M., presented a Director of Ceremonies Baton to the Lodge.
3rd April 1970. Our Annual Ball was held this year in the new Civic Centre Ballroom.
13th May. The Lodge held the first joint Games Night and invited our two local Sister Lodges. In spite of our recent misfortunes on these occasions, we can at least record victory that evening.
At the installation of Provincial Grand Lodge, Lanarkshire Middle Ward, one of our P.M.s, Brother William Barr, attained the high position of Provincial Grand Senior Warden.
17th April. With changing conditions, it was once again necessary to revise the Lodge bye-laws, and those revisions were subsequently approved by Provincial Grand Lodge, and Grand Lodge.
7th January 1971. The Lodge agreed to change the Annual Installation from the fourth Thursday of November, to the fourth Friday.
21st January. In order to supply the Halls Committee with a weekly income, it was agreed that a Development Fund be started.
18th March. Two regalia cases for use of Wardens when on visitations were presented by Brother W. Graham Marshall, J.D.
2nd September. A letter from Provincial Grand Lodge advised the installation of Brother William Barr, P.M., as Provincial Secretary, and Brother Robert T. Sime as Depute Provincial Grand Master.
A golf section of the Lodge was advised on the same night by Brother Charles Scott, W.S.W., and for the princely sum of 25p, any Brother would be welcomed into membership.
The sum of £800 having matured as 3 per cent. Savings Bonds, was re-invested with Leeds Permanent Building Society at 4.25 per cent.
18th November. A member, who wished to remain anonymous, presented to the Lodge two Pillars, two Mallets and two Striking Plates, for use of Wardens.
22nd December. A matter of special interest was the Installation Brother Angus Hughes—a member of Lodge 573— into the chair of Lodge Mauldslie Castle No. 1630 by Brother George G. Smith, assisted by Brother Thomas Monteith , both Past Masters of this Lodge.
6th April 1972. The interests of the older Brethren were not forgotten, and from the minute, "That a dinner be held each October for members of the Lodge who have retired." The finances of the Halls Committee being still far from healthy, it was agreed to donate a further £150.
22nd April. The Office-Bearers, being cognisant of the Importance of the year 1975, instructed the Secretary to enquire regarding prices for new Regalia. At this meeting, Brother George G. Smith, P.M., Brother William Campbell, P.M., Brother John Darroch, P.M., Brother W. Graham Marshall, S.D., Brother David Struthers, P.M., and Brother Alexander McAnally, P.M., were deputed to write the Centenary Brochure.
Introduced this year was the Lodge Dinner, held in the Concert Hall, and voted a great success, to be continued as an annual event.
18th January 1973. Inflation was beginning to rear its ugly head, and as one Lodge in the Province was unable to meet a rates demand, it was agreed that we, in common with other Lodges in the Province, donate £5 to assist them.
24th May. The quotations for the new Regalia now being on hand, that of D. Goudielock of £523.20 was accepted, and the date for Re-dedication of the Temple fixed for 23rd August, 1975, and Centenary Ball on 12th September, 1975.
7th June. In order to assist in raising funds for the Centenary Year, the wives and sweethearts of the Brethren of No. 573 held their first meeting. The results of their labours will be seen later.
28th February 1974. Receipt of the new regalia was acknowledged, and Brother George G. Smith offered to provide a pool of five cases for Office-bearers to use when taking aprons, etc., on Visitations.


Everything that you do in the company of your friends will be enjoyable. This is exactly why you should try and spend more time with them. It will bring in much positivity to your life, and you will be capable of strengthening the bond that you have with your friends as well. Out of the various things that you could do in spending quality time with your friends, one of the best steps that you could take will be watching a film with them at your home.
There are various benefits to you in watching a film with your friends, at your home. You will not have to worry about annoying toddlers, and tall people in front of you at the cinema. You can pause the film wherever you want, and you will be capable of grabbing some snacks and enjoy the film in an ideal way. Due to the positivity that such a gathering could bring in, it would do well for you to know the best ways to do it.
Given below are some matters that you need to take care of, in watching a film at home with your friends.
There are various necessities that will be essential in providing an ideal film experience at your home. Purchasing such items will prove to be worthy investments, because they will always allow you to watch and enjoy a film with better experience than that of a theatre. You simply have to get a projector, install quality home theatre systems, and pick a great film.
When it comes to the purchase of such electronics, it will be useful for you to focus on the brands of them, as that would ensure quality. As an example, if you are getting a projector, it will be useful for you to go for the purchase of a sim 2 projector.
Snacks contribute towards making movie experiences ideal. When you are in the company of your friends, it will be very useful to bring in some good snacks. This will ensure that your stomachs are full, and that you will not have to take your eyes away from the screen, as you would have snacks ready on the table.
It is likely that your friends would have preferences of their own. When they are coming to your place to enjoy a film, it would do well for you to give place to their preferences. It could be about the lighting in the room, the temperature of the room, or even their favourite places to sit on. In any case, giving such preferences a priority will make sure that they enjoy the film perfectly.


John's musical journey began around the age of two. As a young child he would often play his mother's piano, but not the way you'd expect from a toddler. He would try to pick out tunes he'd heard and would frequently try to discover notes that sounded good together.
Throughout his school years, John was involved in choirs, jazz bands, and musical theater as both a performer and a musical director. His involvement in rock bands began during his Sophomore year in high school and has continued, in one form or another, to this day. This kind of broad range is one of his signatures: eclecticism. He often says that there is not a style that he doesn't enjoy listening to, and he strives for the same mark of diversity in his own music.
In 2001, John hit the San Diego County music scene as a singer/songwriter. He quickly gained attention in several local coffee bars, restaurants, and clubs. His ability to blend a wide spectrum of cover songs with his own original music made him a venue's first call when they were looking to book entertainment. During this time, he also joined the Positive Music Association and began performing at many of the Centers for Spiritual Living in the greater San Diego area.
Fast forward to 2008, and John has taken the Music Director position at Center for Spiritual Living, Temecula Valley where he has continued to hone the more spiritual nature of his music. He has continued to gig heavily in San Diego, Orange, Riverside, and Los Angeles Counties. He has also had the opportunity to provide a musical score for the independent film "Rehearsal" and for a children's edu-tainment cartoon pilot called "The Ironical Chronicles". Along with these recording credits, he enjoys being a respected go-to session musician for other artists at several noteworthy San Diego studios.
To date, John has released four studio albums. Future plans include the construction of a bonafide studio space, plenty more writing, recording, and performing, producing, music licensing, and publishing. You just never know where he'll pop up next!


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Sunday, September 13, 2020 Cory Martinez581
TO reach out to more Filipinos and communicate the importance of family planning during the current pandemic crisis, the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has launched its new Facebook live series entitled "Usap Tayo sa Family Planning."
Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III, POPCOM Executive Director and called "Doc Jeepy," who will host the program, said that the FB live series was launched since it is still very difficult to go to the barangays for a face to face discussion and talk about family planning in view of the continued threat of COVID-19.
"We realize the need to be more creative in tapping other channels such as social media so that we can inform more Filipinos on family planning and health to uplift their well-being," Perez said.
In support of POPCOM's thrust on family planning education, the Bayer company has partnered with the government organization through its own platform, Ask Mara PH.
Ask Mara is a social media channel that provides awareness on different contraceptive options for modern Filipino women.
"While educating Filipinos on family planning, we highlight the different contraceptive options available that would suit their needs. This includes the contraceptive pill, which has been around for 60 years to support women's health," Perez added.
Almost six decades ago, the first contraceptive pill enabled women to gain control over their own bodies at a previously unprecedented level.
For the first time, they were able to prevent pregnancy by taking a hormonal preparation. This revolutionary method of family planning became a turning-point for society and a key driver of emancipation.
The UN estimates that today 151 million women all over the world aged between 15 and 49 use the pill as their contraceptive method of choice.
"The pill was the first time that women had been able to take control of major life decisions, especially family planning," said Dr. May Pagunsan, Country Medical Director for Bayer Philippines.
From a 2018 published report on abortion worldwide entitled "Uneven Progress and Unequal Access," there were around 99 million unplanned pregnancies between 2010 and 2014, over half of which (56 percent) ended in abortion.
In another study which tracked unintended pregnancy and its outcomes from 1990 to 2014, experts estimate that around 44 percent of all pregnancies are unplanned; this rises by 20 percentage points in developing economic countries compared to developed countries (65 percent compared to 45 percent).
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), there are 214,000 unplanned pregnancies projected this year.
For 2021, the number of unplanned pregnancies will increase to 740,000 unplanned pregnancies, almost a 50% increase.
Moreover, three out of every 10 pregnancies are unplanned or unintended, based on a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) survey.
The UNFPA also reported that even if some 214 million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy, they risk getting pregnant. This is due to lack of access to family planning methods or absence of support from partners and communities.
Similarly, the National Demographic and Health Survey shows that 9% women aged 15-19 have begun childbearing and 17% of women aged 15-49 want to practice family planning but do not have access to said methods. This hinders women to reach their full potential to contribute more for themselves and their families.
"Numbers of unplanned pregnancies are still high here in the Philippines," added Dr. Pagunsan. "Bayer is seeking to change this by providing a broad range of different contraceptive products and methods, strengthening and supporting women in the life decisions they take."
Perez, meanwhile, said that one of objectives of POPCOM is to reduce the level of poverty in the country by engaging with women and men so that more Filipino families to take control of their health and capability to support children.
"If there are more family planning options that are affordable, acceptable and accessible, it will be easier for families to manage what they can and enhance their standard of living," Perez added.
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Local leaders 'very hopeful' phase two of reopening will begin Friday for Rochester, Finger Lakes
by: Kayla Green
Posted: May 26, 2020 / 05:35 PM EDT / Updated: May 27, 2020 / 10:06 AM EDT
VICTOR, N.Y. (WROC) — This Friday marks two weeks since the Finger Lakes region began Phase One, meaning the region has the potential to move on to the next phase.
Livingston County administrator, Ian Coyle, said based on the data, he doesn't see any reason we wouldn't be able to start Phase Two on Friday.
According to the New York Forward reopening plan, Phase Two would reopen professional services, retail, administrative support, and real estate. Coyle said there's been a lot of questions around who exactly falls into those categories. He's hoping for more access for small businesses.
"Curbside retail only, you can pick it up but you can't pick it out. So that's been my concern, you can go to Wal Mart and Wegmans and do whatever you want because they happen to have groceries, but a Main Street retailer you can't go to. I think that disingenuous and it's creating winners and losers in this reopening process and it's kind of anti-small business," Coyle said.
This Friday marks two weeks since we began Phase One in the Finger Lakes region. Now everyone's wondering: will we begin Phase Two on Friday? Coming up on @News_8 at 4,5,&6, leaders in both Ontario and Livingston counties tell you- they're hopeful. pic.twitter.com/5egudR1FNW
— Kayla Green (@KaylaGreen04) May 26, 2020
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"We've heard horror stories from other states that people were serving people and not wearing face covers, so that's not a good thing. We need to take the precautions so that we can keep this at bay and not have a spread somewhere," said Young.
Leaders from each county in our region have been talking daily as part of the Regional Control Room. Both Coyle and Young said the main concern has been keeping the hospitalization rate down, as there was a small spike in the past week.
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by: PhawkerPosted on: January 5, 2007 November 7, 2022
BY ED KING, ROCK SNOB My first serious exposure to the music of The Shins was through that godawful Zach Braff film, Garden State. In a film that aspired to be The Graduate but was minus the talents of Mike Nichols and Dustin Hoffman, The Shins provided the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack minus the song-smithery and understated cool of Paul Simon. I didn't want to kill the band based on their association with Braff's first step toward the pantheon of TV actors done in by good fortune and hubris (see McLean Stevenson through Rob Morrow), so I kept an ear open toward their critically acclaimed releases. The Shins didn't sound any more interesting without the grating images of Natalie Portman fumbling through the "gimme" Winona Ryder role, but too many people whose tastes I respect continue to go to bat for the band. So it was with great anticipation and a chance for redemption that I popped in the forthcoming Wincing the Night Away. You see, I am no stranger to affectation. Back in college I thought that smoking a pipe (the legal kind, mind you) could be a worthwhile affectation. When you're 19 years old and trying to figure out your place in the world, having an affectation or two around which to build an adult identity doesn't hurt. I still recall loading up my pipe, leaning back in my chair just so, and puffing away. First, only alone and in the comfort of my room, but within a few days I was showing off my new bag to friends. Once I even took my pipe outside with me and lit up as I strolled across the campus. I felt cutting edge for a week or so until the pressure of living up to the image of a pipe smoker started to weigh on me: Was I wearing the right kind of sweaters? Was it OK that I didn't wear glasses? Should I grow a beard? Has a guy who's flunking friggin' algebra for the second time earned the right to smoke a pipe?
In listening to these new Shins songs, I can't help thinking of the responsibilities that go with any affectation. Songs like the first single, "Phantom Limbs," and "Sea Legs" seem to be trying to get at the Soul of '80s synth pop. I thought this is what bands like Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout were trying to do when those sounds were contemporary, and it beats me if there was much soul to be found, but that's another matter. No, what troubles me most in listening to this heavily affected album is the band's lack of commitment to the trappings of . . . anything, let alone '80s synth pop. Where are the asymmetric hairdos and shirt collars? Where are the coke-fueled dance beats? Where's the hot, bleached-perm chick playing a Yamaha DX7 with her index finger?
The video for "Phantom Limbs", with its visual references to REM's "Losing My Religion" and that old Crash Test Dummies video, couldn't feature a more bored, uninteresting band, and I'm not just saying that based on seeing the video. This band's lack of commitment to anything but the broad outline of each song ? some of which really aren't bad, mind you ? is there in the digital grooves. The production and arrangements sound like they were put together according with the Roy Clark Big Note Songbook for Guitar . Here's how I envision the behind-the-scenes work on "Phantom Limbs": After having placed drummer Jesse Sandoval on a steady diet of saltpeter (necessary for him to sublimate his desire to play anything more interesting and exciting than what could be programmed by a person with elementary skills with a drum machine), Shins leader James Mercer says, "Now watch me and wait until I hit the opening chord of each measure. I won't play much beyond that opening strum of each new chord. Try not to step on my parts, OK? It's important that the listener can process my lyrics. Braff's gonna love this one!" Ordinarily, that's when I reach for my revolver. But these days, I reach for the pipe instead. I finally have the pants for it.
(How about a grade?-Ed.)
A grade for the album? Would that would be fair since I gave that Mercer guy a D for his lack of fire and presence? Although I think it's lacking in a lot of things I value, it's well done within its short reach. Balancing everyting, it's worth a C+. The kid shouldn't fail out of school for not having much personality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ED KING Ed King has kicked around the outer fringes of the periphery of local scene for some time. He was there when Tuxedomoon played Revival. Where the fuck were you? Ed likes all things great and some things good. Anymore, what falls short of those simple criteria gets harder to bear. He appreciates you respecting his privacy at a time like this.
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