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In a sting operation done by a leading news production house, Salgaonkar was caught on camera revealing that the pitch will be made according to their ('bookies') demands. It was the same pitch which Salgaonkar had worked on with assistance from BCCI-certified curator Ramesh Mhamunkar, who is employed by the Mumbai Cricket Association to look after the Wankhede Stadium. "At BCCI, we reiterate that we have zero tolerance towards any corrupt activity", he added. BCCI's acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary has chose to suspend the curator following his exploits, "Pandurang Salgaonkar has been suspended from the Maharashtra Cricket Association's curator's post with immediate effect", BCCI acting Secretary Amitabh Chaudhary told PTI.
The ICC held a pitch inspection in Pune following the scandal but declared the pitch fit for the match and gave a go-ahead to the second ODI.
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MCA president Abhay Apte mentioned that the board has sacked Salgaonkar with immediate effect. The MCA has also suspended Salgaoncar from all other positions in the association.
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What has left senior BCCI officials baffled is that Salgaoncar allowed a self-confessed bookie to accompany him to the main match pitch.
The reporters were allowed to walk on the middle of the pitch. "A strict action has been taken against the pitch curator and the employment relationship between Pandurang Salgaonkar and MCA stands terminated".
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India beat New Zealand by 6 wickets to level the series 1-1.
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Salgaonkar also showed the men around the Pune surface the day before the ODI, breaching the ICC rules governing access to the pitch.
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Ghani invites India to exploit Afghanistan's mining sector
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Besides considering a suitable time frame for the conduct of the University's next Convocation, the Governor and Dr. Nazir Ahmad discussed issues relating to the propagation of high density hybrid apple species, extension activities in Ladakh region, enlargement of areas under Mushbudhi and Kamad species of indigenous rice, propagation and organized marketing of red rice (lal chawal) etc.
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There's something intriguing and important about the controversy surrounding James Frey's book, A Million Little Pieces. I'm not sure why that is, exactly, but I'm sure that it is important. Well, it's important to me. By trying to tell you why it's important to me, maybe I'll gain a better understanding of it. That's one function of writing or preaching.
Frey's book is a story of drug addiction. There's no argument about his addiction. The argument is about his habituation to lying, which is a common ingredient to addictions.
Like the Queen of England, Oprah Winfrey laid her sword of approval on the book, effectively launching James Frey into the dubious realm of fame and fortune. Three and a half million copies of the book were sold and Frey became an overnight celebrity. He wasn't in Oprah's class of stardom, of course. Frey is one of those shooting stars that flash across the illusive heaven, visible in the mind's eye of every author.
The controversy is about telling the truth in a memoir. He submitted the book as fiction, but apparently he was advised to try it as non-fiction – the other column in the New York Times book review section. We expect non-fiction books to be factually true. We long to know the truth, believing, as the Bible says, "The truth will set you free."
Joseph Campbell defined a myth as a Truth story; it's not meant to be true, in the factual sense. Most Biblical stories are in this category: Truth stories, not intended to be literally true.
Oprah confessed she was captivated by Frey's story, holding it up as an example of redemption or salvation, nudging it into the realm of religion. On the Larry King show, she publicly defended him against accusations of lying. Then she found out that he lied about some significant aspects of his memoir: he didn't spend three months in prison, for example. The Queen went into a rage, softly screaming 'off with his head.' "How dare you lie to me! I made you, now I'll ruin you!" He sat there looking like Adam with the half-eaten apple.
I'm reminded of my all-time favorite short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by Dostoevsky. The narrator has a dream in which he's transported to a wonderful utopian land inhabited by people who never lost their innocence. He teaches them how to lie. He writes "They learnt to lie and they grew to appreciate the beauty of a lie. Oh, perhaps, it all began innocently, with a jest, with a desire to show off, with amorous play, and perhaps indeed only with a germ, but this germ made its way into their hearts and they liked it."
"When they became wicked, they began talking of brotherhood and humanity…when they became guilty of crimes, they invented justice, and drew up codes of law, and to ensure the carrying out of their laws they erected a guillotine. Every one of them became so jealous of his own personality that he strove with might and main to belittle and humble it in others; therein he saw the whole purpose of his life…Religions were founded…"
The controversy about Frey's book is about the lies we've been told about Iraq, the spying scandal and the president's arrogant indifference to the rule of law; it's about Enron; it's about the undermining of public trust. It's about Oprah's media power. It's deep. It's intriguing.
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Afterres 2050: feed the French in 2050
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Abstract : In 2050, agriculture will have to feed 70 million inhabitants in France, to provide part of energy and materials, while preserving soil fertility, water quality, biodiversity and contributing to reduce the greenhouse gases. Given these challenges, the current dominant agricultural systems seem to reach their limits and pose environmental, social and economic problems. To search alternatives and to evaluate how new modes of development and use of the natural resources are able fulfill these objectives, a citizen approach, called Afterres2050, has been engaged by Solagro NGO, with the support of the Charles Léopold Mayer foundation. Afterres2050 consists in building a global physical model connecting the future needs and the available resources, expressed as the surface of territory. The results are evaluated with multiple indicators. By an iterative approach, it identifies scenario that seems to satisfy the most of the objectives. They were presented and discussed at meetings open to non-expert publics in order to identify limits of the scenario and improvements. Afterres2050 is one of the most comprehensive scenario, it integrates the largest number of factors and of indicators of the functioning of the agricultural and forest systems to the national scale. It arouses an increasing interest of the political authorities, but also of the citizen and consumer organizations, and representatives of economic sectors. With 50% organic farming and 50% of integrated agriculture, i.e. with a moderate use of the chemical intrans, it is possible to feed France in 2050, while answering partly some of the environmental issues. But this is only possible with really different plates and landscapes. The diet will have to contain more cereals, fruit and vegetables, and much less meat, sugar and milk, in agreement with the dietetic recommendations. The grounds will have to never be uncovered and the plots will have to be arranged to carry up to 6 productions (cereals, green manures, fruits, wood, animals) in agreement with the agro-ecological principles. Number of livestock will be strongly reduced, to limit greenhouse gases, the imports of food, fodder crops and nevertheless to maintain the spaces dedicated to grasslands.These changes would result in releasing 5 to 8 million hectares of land, likely to satisfy with other needs, like the production of biomass for energy, green chemistry or building materials. Nevertheless, whatever the scenario, it appears that agriculture and the forest can contribute to reduce the emissions of greenhouse effect gas only by a factor of 2, whereas the global objectives are to divide them by 4. The continuation of the Afterres2050 approach involves a territorial variation, at the request of regional governance bodies, by the search for new indicators, in particular related on the improvement of health by better food and the evaluation of the adaptive capacities of the systems considered, and finally in the evaluation of the social and economic implications of the transitions necessary to move towards the realization of this scenario.These evolutions are conducted with the support of agro-ecological research and the involvement of the multiple actors concerned, according to various original methods.
Keywords : food security land management modeling scenario analysis
Mots-clés : agriculture
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Marc Deconchat, Christian Couturier, Philippe Pointereau, Jean Philippe Choisis, Elen Devauchelle, et al.. Afterres 2050: feed the French in 2050. Résilience 2014, May 2014, Montpellier, France. 11 p. ⟨hal-02797371⟩


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U.S. MS-13 Gangs Deportation El Salvador
Updated | A MS-13 gang member who was arrested and charged with stabbing a woman with a screwdriver last week had been deported from Texas to El Salvador last year after he was arrested for domestic violence, authorities said Monday.
Angel Ramos, 36, is accused of stabbing the woman in his moving car several times with a flathead screwdriver in northeast Colorado on November 4, Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Fielman told Newsweek. The woman jumped out of the moving car, which ran over one of her legs. "He jumped out of the car and tried to wrestle her into the trunk," Fielman said. "She was able to fight him off, and he fled."
Law enforcement agents searched Ramos's house, where they said they found assorted phony documents and his real passport, which they used to determine his true identity.
"It was determined Ramos is a confirmed MS-13 gang member and is currently wanted for homicide in the country of El Salvador," the sheriff's office in Fort Morgan, where Ramos allegedly attacked the woman, said on its Facebook page. Ramos was an undocumented immigrant in Texas and had been deported to El Salvador several years ago, Fielman says.
Ramos was arrested in Texas on assault and domestic violence charges in 2015, transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and deported in 2016, ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said. He said the agency does not know when or where he illegally re-entered the U.S.
Officers and agents from the Fort Morgan Sheriff's Office, ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service conducted interviews and surveillance until they learned Ramos was in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Ramos was arrested without incident at a Fort Collins construction site where he was working at about 1 p.m. on November 10, Fielman said. He was charged with crimes including attempted murder and kidnapping. Court records don't yet list an attorney for Ramos, according to a judicial assistant at the Morgan County Combined Courts.
"We've noticed a lot of people that have been fugitives that are hiding out here because they think they are not going to stick out," Morgan County Sheriff Jim Crone told the local Fox news station. "Nobody is going to know them, which is just the opposite—that just brings more people to our attention."
The MS-13 gang is not new to Colorado. Twenty members of the gang were indicted there in 2009 on a series of drug and gun charges, with police seizing 10 pounds of methamphetamines and five pounds of cocaine, according to CNN.
The gang has been a focus of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In September, the Department of Justice announced charges against 3,800 gang members across Central America and the U.S.
MS-13 is the only gang ever designated by the U.S. government as a "transnational criminal organization," with 10,000 members in the U.S. and 40,000 members in Central America, according to papers federal prosecutors have filed in court.
This article was updated with details from an ICE spokesman about Ramos's sdeportation.
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Central government has announced _____% disinvestment of Air India's ground handling subsidiary- Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) to partially pay off the accumulated Rs 500 billion debt of Air India?
1) 75 %
4) 100 %
5) None of these
Answer – 4) 100 %
On November 28, 2018, the Central government announced 100% disinvestment of Air India's ground handling subsidiary- Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) to partially pay off the accumulated Rs 500 billion debt of Air India. The decision was taken by an inter-ministerial panel, Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Where did NITI Aayog organize the 2nd Phase of Urban Management Programme on 'Water Recycling and Reuse' in collaboration with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) & Temasek Foundation (TF) International, on 26thNovember 2018?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Kolkata
4) Bengaluru
Answer – 1) New Delhi
On November 26, 2018, NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) & Temasek Foundation (TF) Internationalorganized the 2nd Phase of Urban Management Programme on 'Water Recycling and Reuse' at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. This event was in accordance to an MOU signed by the NITI Aayog and TF International to develop recycled water as part of sustainable and diverse water portfolio. The event focused on capacity building programme on management of water, particularly its recycling & reuse, and its importance for future urban planning and policy. 8 States/UTs were selected for the capacity building workshops through a Challenge Method. They were –Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Puducherry and West Bengal.
West Bengal Assembly passed "West Bengal Green University (Amendment) Bill 2018" to rename the West Bengal Green University as _____, on 26th November 2018?
1) Rani Rashmoni Green University
2) Prithvi Raj Chauhan Green University
3) Hemchandra Vikramaditya Green University
4) Rani PushpaChandra Green University
Answer – 1) Rani Rashmoni Green University
On 26th November 2018, State assembly of West Bengal passed "West Bengal Green University (Amendment) Bill 2018" to rename the West Bengal Green University as Rani Rashmoni Green University in the commemoration of Rani Rashmoni's 225th Birth anniversary. West Bengal Green University Act was passed in year 2017 for setup of University in Hooghly. Rani Rashmoni had played a very important role in the field of education in West Bengal.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR – IMTECH) has partnered with German company Merck to establish a "High End Skill Development Centre" at CSIR- IMTECH in which city?
1) Chandigarh
2) Pune
3) Dehradun
4) Visakhapatnam
Answer – 1) Chandigarh
27th November 2018, India's Premier National Research Laboratory, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR – IMTECH) announced a new partnership with a leading German Science and technology company, Merck to establish a "High End Skill Development Centre" at CSIR- IMTECH in Chandigarh. The first of its kind, this High End Skill Development Centre in Chandigarh will augment India's Initiative for Skilling India in the area of Life Sciences. The Centre will train Indian students and researchers in Life Science Technologies. The Centre will be equipped with next generation technologies like Gene editing and Single-Molecule Biomarker detection.
Where did Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launch 'Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti' to provide a boost to Intellectual Property Right (IPR) culture in indigenous defence industry, on 27th November 2018?
1) Hyderabad
3) Chennai
4) Cuttack
On November 27, 2018, Defence Minister, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, launched 'Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti' in New Delhi. Its objective is to provide a boost to the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) culture in indigenous defence industry. The event showcased the successful outcomes of adopting and utilizing the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) applications which enhanced inventions and innovations among Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs). Department of Defence Production and Directorate General Quality Assurance (DGQA) had a significant role in spreading awareness about the benefits of creating the Intellectual Property culture in the defence sector. Thus, the Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) was further entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating and implementing the programme to fulfill its objective.
External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 9th India-Lao PDR (People's Democratic Republic) Joint Commission Meeting along with H.E. Mr. Saleumxay Kommasith, Foreign Minister of Lao PDR, in ______, on 23rd November 2018?
1) New Delhi, India
2) Vientiane, Lao PDR
3) Sekong, Lao PDR
4) Mumbai, India
Answer – 2) Vientiane, Lao PDR
External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 9th India-Lao PDR Joint Commission Meeting along with H.E. Mr. Saleumxay Kommasith, Foreign Minister of Lao PDR, in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on 23rd November 2018. They held constructive discussions covering cooperation in agriculture, trade and investment, defence, education, culture, information technology, energy and mining.
India agreed to grant a total line of credit proposal offer of ______ dollar to Lao PDR (People's Democratic Republic), on 23rd November 2018?
1) USD 500 million
Answer – 2) USD 250 million
On November 23, 2018, External Affairs Minister of India, Smt. Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 9th Joint Commission Meeting on Bilateral Cooperation (JCM), between the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the Republic of India, held in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The Lao delegation was led by His Excellency Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR. They held constructive discussions covering cooperation in agriculture, trade and investment, defence, education, culture, information technology, energy and mining. In the meeting, India agreed to grant a total line of credit proposal offer of USD 250 million to Lao PDR.
India's Foreign Service Institute signed a MoU with Institute of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR for cooperation in which field, on 23rd November 2018?
1) Marine Defence
2) Information and Technology
3) Diplomatic training
4) Biotechnology
Answer – 3) Diplomatic training
On November 23, 2018, External Affairs Minister of India, Smt. Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 9th Joint Commission Meeting on Bilateral Cooperation (JCM), between the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the Republic of India, held in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The Lao delegation was led by His Excellency Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR. They held constructive discussions covering cooperation in agriculture, trade and investment, defence, education, culture, information technology, energy and mining. In the meeting, MoU between the Institute of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR and the Foreign Service Institute of India were signed for cooperation in the field of Diplomatic training.
Which edition of Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 26th to 28th November 2018?
1) Second
2) Third
3) Fourth
4) First
Answer – 4) First
On November 28, 2018, the 1st 3-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference concluded at Kenyatta International Convention Center, KICC, in Nairobi, Kenya. It started from November 26, 2018. It aims to work through the framework of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). The theme of this conference was 'The Blue Economy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.' It was primarily hosted by the Government of Kenya with Canada and Japan as co-hosts and supported by UNDP through a multi donor basket fund. The Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was built on the momentum of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris and the UN Ocean Conference 2017 'Call to Action'. From India Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari participated in the conference.
Where was Saudi-India Business meeting held to discuss trade and regional cooperation between the two countries on 28th November 2018?
1) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2) Hyderabad, India
3) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Answer – 3) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
On November 28, 2018, Saudi-India Business meeting was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the Council of Saudi Chambers during the visit of the Indian Infrastructure & Housing delegation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Indian side was led by Manoj K Bharti, Additional Secretary, ED Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. The meeting was aimed for business, trade and regional cooperation between the 2 countries. India is one of the 8 countries on the preferred list of Saudi Arabia.
Which entity launched a Survey on India's Startup Sector (SISS) to create a profile of the startup sector in India consisting of dimensions relating to turnover, profitability and workforce, on 27th November 2018?
1) NITI Aayog
2) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
3) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
4) Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
Answer – 3) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
On November 27, 2018, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched a Survey on India's Startup Sector (SISS) to create a profile of the startup sector in India consisting of dimensions relating to turnover, profitability and workforce. Its objective is to understand the problems faced by the startup sector. The details of the start-up entities were made available by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India in March 2018.
'SBI Ecowrap' report released by the State Bank of India, states that the GDP growth in September quarter (which is the 2nd quarter) is expected to decelerate to 7.5 % – ____% over the previous three-month period?
1) 7.7 %
Answer – 2) 7.6 %
On November 26, 2018, according to the 'SBI Ecowrap' report released by the State Bank of India, the GDP growth in the September quarter (which is the 2nd quarter) is expected to decelerate to 7.5-7.6 per cent over the previous three-month period. This could be concluded from the result of the SBI Composite Leading Indicator (CLI), a basket of 21 leading indicators for September quarter of the current fiscal. The reasons for this declining trend is due to slowdown in rural demand. In the previous quarter of April-June quarter of 2018-19, the GDP was 8.2 per cent at constant prices (2011-12). Furthermore, the second quarter GVA growth was slowing down due to decline in demand as observed in October 2018.
Government of India conferred the National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) with which status, on 27th November 2018?
1) Maharatna: Category – I
2) Miniratna: Category – I
3) Navratna: Category – II
4) Maharatna: Category – II
Answer – 2) Miniratna: Category – I
On 27th November 2018 the Government of India conferred the National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) with the status of Miniratna: Category –I. This status will empower the company to take speedy decisions. With the status of Miniratna the company will have greater autonomy as the board's power would get enhanced. One of the premier construction companies, NPCC has also been awarded with the ISO 9001:2015 Certification. The National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC), is a schedule 'B' Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the administrative control of Ministry of Water Resources and was incorporated in 1957. The Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) which have made profits in the last three years continuously and have positive net worth are eligible to be considered for grant of Miniratna status.
Who was appointed the chairperson of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for a period of three years, on 26th November 2018?
1) Sanjeev Lade
2) Nageshwara Rao Guntur
3) Nitesh Parekh
4) Anbarasan Kamath
Answer – 2) Nageshwara Rao Guntur
On 26th November 2018, renowned scientist Nageshwara Rao Guntur has been appointed as chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) by the Ministry of Personnel and Training for the period of three years. Presently Shri Guntur is the chairman, Project Design Safety Committee, Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) and former distinguished scientist of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
Name the person who was appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi, on 27th November 2018?
1) Devyani Ghosh
2) Ranbir Singh
3) Ashiq Shah
4) Ranjith Patel
Answer – 2) Ranbir Singh
On 27th November 2018, 1991-Batch IAS Officer, Ranbir Singh who had earlier served as the commissioner of East Delhi Municipal Corporation was appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi. Ranbir Singh will succeed Vijay Kumar Dev who had been appointed as the chief secretary of the Delhi Government. The Post of Chief Secretary of Delhi was vacant after the transfer of Anshu Prakash.
Elysium Capital Advisory, a real estate-focused investment bank, has appointed _____ as a strategic advisor and mentor?
1) Manisha Das
2) Sachin Khandelwal
3) Shruthi Gandhi
4) Suraj PS
Answer – 2) Sachin Khandelwal
Elysium Capital Advisory, a real estate-focused investment bank, has appointed Sachin Khandelwal as a strategic advisor and mentor. Khandelwal will guide Elysium to strengthen existing business lines and help taking informed strategic decisions to pursue new growth areas. Before this, Khandelwal's most recent engagement was as a key member on the board of Magma Fincorp and he was MD and CEO for their housing finance company. Also he had worked as MD and CEO of ICICI Home Finance Company.
Name the Smart toilet developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and European space agency along with Sanitation Specialists, to detect diseases like Cancer and Diabetes by screening the Urine and directly sharing the data on users' smartphone?
1) TestMe
2) FitLoo
3) CheckLoo
4) TestRun
Answer – 2) FitLoo
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and European space agency along with Sanitation Specialists have developed Smart toilet named "FitLoo" which can detect diseases like Cancer and Diabetes by screening the Urine and directly shares the data on users' smartphone. The Smart Toilet 'FitLoo' is based on the automated sample testing technology used by astronauts at International Space Station (ISS). The toilet will screen Human Urine for the presence of extra proteins and glucose with the help of sensors located inside the bowl.
____ is India's first advanced personal robot for kids that has been developed by graduates of Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IIT-B) who are Co-founders of a start-up called Emotix?
1) Alibaba –II
2) Miko 2
3) Chand 2
4) Valmiki – I
Answer – 2) Miko 2
On 27th November 2018, Graduates of Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IIT-B) who are Co-founders of a start-up called Emotix have launched India's first advanced personal robot Miko 2 for Kids. IIT Bombay graduates Sneh Rajkumar Vaswani along with his batchmates Prashant Iyengar and Chintan Raikar have founded the Tech start-up Emotix. Miko 2 is India's first advanced robot that can see, hear, sense, express, talk, recognize faces, remember names, Identify moods and initiate a conversation. It learn from its own environment to develop a bond with the child.
Which Indian table tennis player won bronze medal in the U-21 Men's singles category in the 2018 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Challenge, Belgosstrakh Belarus Open, held in Minsk, Belarus, on 16th November 2018?
1) Vijay Amarnath
2) Manav Thakkar
3) Pranav Kaushik
4) Rana Singh
Answer – 2) Manav Thakkar
On November 16 2018, India's Manav Thakkar settled for a bronze medal in the U-21 Men's singles category in the 2018 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Challenge, Belgosstrakh Belarus Open held in Minsk, Belarus. Manav Thakkar lost to Russia's Denis Ivonin in the semifinals by 2-3 to miss out on the gold. Zhao Zihao of China won the gold medal in the U-21 singles category by defeating Denis Ivonin of Russia.
Where was the 14th edition of Hockey Men's World Cup inaugurated on 27th November 2018?
1) Guwahati, Assam
2) Bhubaneswar, Odisha
3) Kolkata, West Bengal
4) Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Answer – 2) Bhubaneswar, Odisha
On 27th November, 2018 the 14th edition of Hockey Men's World Cup kicked off with a grand opening ceremony at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik declared the Hockey World Cup open. The event is being held from 28th November to 16th December 2018. The three-hour opening ceremony show witnessed the performance of many renowned musicians and the troupe including global musical icon AR Rahman and Bollywood stars Shahrukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. The event concluded with the official song of the Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2018 -'Jai Hind Hind, Jai India' which is sung and composed by Rahman and written by veteran writer Gulzar. A total of 16 teams are playing and are drawn into four groups, each containing four teams. Turtle 'Olly' is the official mascot for the Odisha Men's Hockey World Cup. It represents the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles that travel thousands of miles in the ocean and arrive in millions every year on Odisha's beaches for their annual nesting.
Name the creator of American animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, who passed away due to Motor Neuron Disease, on 26th November 2018?
1) Stephen Hillenburg
2) Stephen Maxwell
3) Raphael Reed
4) Lee Castellano
Answer – 1) Stephen Hillenburg
On 26th November 2018, 57 year old, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg passed away due to Motor Neuron Disease also known as ALS, a disease he had been diagnosed with in 2017. SpongeBob, an American animated series, which was aired for nearly two decades since its premiere in 1999 is Nickelodeon's biggest hit. Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff was starred in SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
Who is the author of the book "Fables of Fractured Times" released by former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, on 26th November 2018?
1) Akhilesh Sircar
2) Manish Tewari
3) Rampraksah Karath
4) Surjith Singh
Answer – 2) Manish Tewari
On 26th November 2018, Former Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh launched a book authored by his former Cabinet colleague Manish Tewari "Fables of Fractured Times". Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was also present during the launch of Manish Tewari's Book. The Book is a compilation of articles written by Manish Tewari on a wide array of issues, trends and events of National and International Arena between 2017 and 2018.
The first copy of the book "Making of New India: Transformation under Modi Government" was received by _____ from Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley, in New Delhi, on 27th November 2018?
1) Vice President Venkiah Naidu
2) President Ram Nath Kovind
3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
4) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
Answer – 2) President Ram Nath Kovind
On 27th November, 2018 The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, received the first copy of the book "Making of New India: Transformation under Modi Government", from Arun Jaitley, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The book is edited by the nationalist think tank Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (SPMRF) and members of the Niti Aayog: Dr Bibek Debroy, Dr Anirban Ganguly and Shri Kishore Desai. The book contains 51 essays on themes ranging from economy to diplomacy, education to public health. The book endeavours to elaborate on how the government has set out to realise the vision of a New India. Recently Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had also unveiled a curated coffee table book titled 'The Illustrated History of Indian Hockey: A Saga of Triumph, Pain and Dreams' on 22nd November 2018.
When did world's largest uniformed youth organization, National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrate the 70th NCC day all over India?
1) November 27
Answer – 3) November 25
On 25th November 2018, World's largest Uniformed Youth Organization, National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrated 70th NCC day all over India with Cadets participating in Marches, Cultural activities and Social Development Programme. In 2018, NCC Cadets have contributed immensely in various relief operations during Kerala Floods. NCC Cadets also paid a pivotal role in spreading awareness about government initiatives like Swatch Bharat Abhiyan, Digital literacy, Yoga, Blood donation etc.
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Who is the Prime Minister of Lao PDR (People's Democratic Republic)?
Thongloun Sisoulith
President of Hockey India is _____?
Mohd. Mushtaque Ahmad
What is the capital and currency of Belarus?
Capital – Minsk; Currency – Belarusian Ruble
Name the Managing Partner and headquarters of Elysium Capital?
Managing Partner – Leo D. Corradini; Headquarters – Mumbai
Who is the Chairman of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation)?
Dr G Satheesh Reddy
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The Table Rocks in Central Point inspire hiking, environmental conservation, and, for David Nienow, film.
He enrolled in Rogue Valley Community Television' studio certification program around that time to learn about producing and filming. Through this program he has produced and hosted 49 programs, of which he currently produces and hosts four at RVTV. "Those series are 'Gems of the Rogue Valley,, 'Rogue Artisans and Crafters,' 'The So NOT So Late Night Glamour Dave Show,' and 'The Small Interview with Glamour Dave.'" All are available on the Ashland Home Network and on Charter cable channel 182, and also stream on rvtv.sou.edu.
Matching this new experience in film and his long-held interest in the Table Rocks, Nienow hopes to begin shooting a documentary about the landmarks as soon as he receives enough funding, which he says is the biggest challenge thus far. Paying those who will work with him on the film and purchasing the required permits to film on location, he estimates the costs to be around $20,000.
Nienow plans to shoot his first short film within the next year. He pulls constant inspiration from documentarian Ken Burns and iconic filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. Although he hasn't started production for the film about the Table Rocks yet, he already has plans on what he wants to do with the film.
"Once the film is completed, the plans include donating copies of the documentary to all the schools in Southern Oregon for their libraries. The film will be submitted to all the major documentary film festivals. The goal will be to get the film into all the festivals that are part of the Oscar's nomination process. In my wildest dream, the film would earn an Oscar nomination," he says.
With a passion for film and a love for the Rogue Valley this deep, it seems as though nothing can stop Nienow's dream to shoot this documentary. The Table Rocks are beautiful conservations of nature. More than anything Nienow hopes to capture that in his film.


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Where Are James Brady, Timothy McCarthy & Thomas Delahanty Now?
By	Jessica McBride
Former White House Press Secretary Jim Brady (L) shakes hands with US Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey after speaking about new legislation curbing gun violence during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 30, 2011. (Getty)
What happened to presidential press secretary James Brady, who was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. in the presidential assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan? And what happened to the two law enforcement officers who were also shot, Thomas Delahanty and Timothy McCarthy?
Brady died in August 2014 at the age of 73. He lived more than 20 years after the 1981 assassination attempt that also injured President Reagan. Delahanty and McCarthy are still alive; Delahanty retired and McCarthy is now a suburban Chicago police chief. Ronald Reagan died in 2004 at the age of 93. The assassination attempt was captured on video.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman has now ordered attempted assassin Hinckley released. Starting in August 2016, Hinckley, 61, will live with his mother in Virginia. Friedman ruled that Hinckley's "major depression and psychotic disorder" were now "in full and sustained remission and have been for more than twenty years," said Fox News.
Hinckley was trying to impress Hollywood actress Jodie Foster, who has continued to star and direct in major motion pictures in the decades following the assassination attempt.
1. The Medical Examiner Ruled Brady's Death a Homicide
This photo taken by presidential photographer Mike Evens on March 30, 1981 shows police and Secret Service agents reacting during the assassination attempt on then US president Ronald Reagan, after a conference outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.. Police officer Thomas Delahanty (foreground) and Press Secretary James Brady (behind) lay wounded on the ground. (Getty)
When Brady died in 2014, the Virginia medical examiner's officer ruled that the cause of death was "homicide" as a result of the gunshot wound he suffered at Hinckley's hands during the Reagan assassination attempt, according to The Washington Post.
The Post said that Brady died in a retirement community in Alexandria, Virginia. CNN said that Brady died after a "series of health issues."
A family spokesman told NBC News that the homicide ruling was not a surprise because the shooting left Brady suffering severe health consequences for the rest of his life. NBC said the homicide ruling could mean Hinckley was open to charges in Brady's death but that did not occur; Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the assassination attempt.
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2. Brady Was Paralyzed & Confined to a Wheelchair From Hinckley's Bullet
Former White House Press Secretary James Brady faces the cameras while visiting the press briefing room that bears his name in the West Wing of the White House March 30, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Getty)
During the assassination attempt, Brady was shot in the head. As a result of that wound, he was paralyzed and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair, CNN said.
According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, "Jim suffered a serious head wound that left him partially paralyzed for life." The White House briefing room for the media now bears Brady's name, says NBC.
A 1981 New York Times article described Brady's injuries in explicit detail, including how he was initially comatose, documenting the miraculous nature of his recovery, which highlighted the progress made in the field of neuroscience. After his life was saved, he faced arduous years of seizures, paralysis, and rehabilitation, said The Times.
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3. Brady & His Wife, Sarah, Fought Against Gun Violence For Decades
This 30 March 30, 1981 file photo shows John Hinckley Jr. (L) escorted by police in Washington, DC, following his arrest. (Getty)
After the assassination attempt that wounded Brady, the Reagan press secretary and his wife, Sarah, started a decades-long effort to combat gun violence, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Sarah Brady was chairperson of the Brady campaign, and together the Bradys lobbied "in support of commonsense gun laws," says the organization. One of their successes: The 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Protect Act, signed into law by then President Bill Clinton, which required "that every sale of a gun by a licensed dealer be referred to law enforcement for a background check," said the Brady campaign. NBC called the Brady bill "groundbreaking."
Sarah Brady died in 2015, also age 73.
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4. Television Commentators Had Declared Brady Dead After the Assassination Attempt
The Reagan assassination attempt. (Getty)
Brady's wounds were so severe that television commentators had initially declared him dead as news of the assassination attempt broke, said the Los Angeles Times.
BBC said that Brady was the most seriously injured during the assassination attack. Reagan's lung was punctured. Hinckley had fired at the president and his entourage outside a Washington D.C. hotel.
Brady, who had only been Reagan's press secretary for three months, was shot in the chest by a "ricocheting bullet" and also was shot in the left side of the forehead, said the LA Times, noting that the bullet passed "through the right side of his brain." President Obama called Brady a "legend" and praised his warmth and professionalism after Brady died, BBC said.
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5. Three Other People, Including Reagan, Were Wounded During the Assassination Attempt
This photo taken on April, 03, 1981 shows President Reagan with Mrs Nancy Reagan inside George Washington University Hospital four days after the assassination attempt on him, in Washington, D.C.. Reagan was hit by one of six shots fired by John Hinckley, who also seriously injured press secretary James Brady (just behind the car). Reagan was hit in the chest and was hospitalized for 12 days. (MIKE EVENS/AFP/Getty Images)
President Reagan was shot by a bullet that "bounced off his presidential limo," said Fox News. Also injured in the attack were two law enforcement officers: Washington D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy. Delahanty was shot in the neck and had to retire, said the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
Timothy McCarthy's official Orland Park police photo. (Orland Park Police Department)
McCarthy became a police chief in a Chicago-area suburb, Orland Park, after the attack; he also ran for secretary of state in Illinois but didn't win. Voice of America said in 2011 that McCarthy stayed in the Secret Service through the presidency of George H.W. Bush and then became the Orland Park, Illinois police chief. McCarthy is still Orland Park chief, according to the department's website. Delahanty joined a suit with Brady and McCarthy against a psychiatric professional who had treated Hinckley, but it was dismissed.
Published Jul 27, 2016 at 11:28am
Assassination, Crime, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Jodie Foster, Ronald Reagan
What happened to James Brady, Timothy McCarthy and Thomas Delahanty now? Brady died in 2014, but McCarthy and Delahanty are still alive.


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Hamilton Region
Council, city staff divided on housing, 'over-studentification' in west end
By The Hamilton Spectator
Tue., Aug. 11, 2015timer2 min. read
updateArticle was updated Mar. 01, 2020
Council is poised to spend thousands of dollars a day to oppose the opinion of its own planners in a legal battle over so-called "over-studentification" in the west end.
Ainslie Wood residents came out en masse in April to protest a plan to create 15 "habitable rooms" for at least seven students in a former single family home on Winston Avenue.
The committee of adjustment sided with those residents - despite support for the application from city planners - and nixed the zoning variances needed to green-light the changes. That set up an Ontario Municipal Board hearing scheduled for November.
On Tuesday, Coun. Aidan Johnson successfully convinced colleagues to pay an outside consultant to support the Winston decision at the hearing, despite estimated costs of up to $5,000 a day. Council still has to ratify the decision Friday.
"This is a classic case of over-studentification," said Johnson, who grew up in the west end and has spoken about his family moving in part because of loud student parties.
The legal manoeuvring is the only way councillors can have their say on the project because city planning staff are on record supporting the application. Council didn't get a chance to vote on the proposal in the first place because minor variance requests are handled by the quasi-judicial committee of adjustment.
City planners deemed the requested variances "minor in nature" and "desirable and appropriate" for the use of the lands. It's important to remember 15 "habitable rooms" doesn't equate to 15 bedrooms, said planning head Jason Thorne - that definition also includes living, dining rooms and the kitchen, for example. If the application had specified 15 bedrooms with the same limited parking, the city staff opinion would have been different, he said.
Co-owner and student Annalyia Irevan, who wasn't at planning committee meeting Tuesday, said in April she bought the house with her father so she could live there with friends while studying at McMaster.
She acknowledged wanting to increase the number of rentals to cover costs, but said there would be a maximum of seven bedrooms and students living in the house - not 15 as feared by some neighbours.
It's "not uncommon" for politicians to disagree with planning staff opinions on particular projects, Thorne said. But in that case, if a decision is appealed, council must decide if it's willing to pay for outside expert help - an even steeper cost when lawyers are involved.
Johnson, however, suggested council will set a "precedent" of opposition to "mega-student houses" by going out of its way to support the committee of adjustment decision.
The rookie councillor pointed to reams of correspondence from worried neighbourhood residents about an existing oversaturation of converted single-family homes for students at McMaster University.
One Winston resident, Debbie Strub, listed growing area problems with absentee landlords, late-night speeding, urinating in public and parking on front lawns. "I don't understand why the city is allowing the neighbourhoods around McMaster to become one big dorm," she wrote.
Johnson, a lawyer, said he also feels council has a "strong planning case," noting city staff - while supporting the minor variances - said the number of habitable rooms is "approaching the level that would be considered an overbuilding of the lot."


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1872: Yoarashi Okinu, geisha
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On this date in 1872, geisha Yoarashi ("Night Storm") Okinu was beheaded at Tokyo's Kozukappara execution grounds after killing her lover to run away with a kabuki actor.
A notorious dokufu, so-called "poison-women" that captivated that country in the late 19th century, Night Storm (English Wikipedia entry | Japanese) was of humble origins but became a sought-after geisha in Edo.
Her celebrity affairs are treated here (reliability: unknown), but the reason she's in this here blog is poisoning off the second-last of them with arsenic in order to get free to run off with kabuki actor Arashi Rikaku.
Rikaku himself was up to his eyeballs in this same plot, and was arrested — our source says, during a kabuki performance! — and initially condemned to death. Since Okinu was pregnant, however, her execution was put off pending childbirth; eventually, Rikaku's sentence was moderated from capital punishment altogether.
Okinu's head was cut off, and displayed in public for several days. Her lover served three years in prison, then rebuilt his kabuki career as Ichikawa Gonjuro.
* The date was the "20th day of the 2nd month of the fifth year of Meiji", using Japan's system of dating years from the start of the current emperor's reign. Helpful in nailing down the date: Tokyo's first daily newspaper published its first issue on the very next day.
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1771: Green Tea Hag, the beginning of Dutch Learning
7 comments March 4th, 2010 dogboy
The typical turning-point execution features an illustrious protagonist upon the scaffold: a royal dethroned, a politician overthrown, a revolutionary laid low.
On this day in 1771, an obscure woman executed for everyday crimes launched a new era in Japan.
The Kyoto resident, nicknamed "Aochababa" — roughly translated as the Green Tea Hag — sparked a scientific revolution that would span decades, push Japan into its own Age of Reason called Dutch Learning, and keep an island nation astride goings-on from thousands of miles away in spite of isolationist practices.
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which ruled Japan from the early 1600s through the mid-1800s, was widely regarded as anti-Western for closing down trade with several European nations.
Concerned with what it saw as colonial aspirations in the Americas, the Shogunate clamped down on Catholic missionaries from Spain and Portugal. Starting in the 1630s, the island nation officially enacted the Seclusion Laws, which effectively allowed trade only with China, Korea, and the Netherlands; contact with the last was only legitimated through the Dutch trading outpost in Dejima, an isolated island with strictly controlled access.* Because of these limitations, Japan became a repository of non-Christian Dutch paraphernalia.**
The execution of Aochababa itself is practically forgotten: she was hanged in Kyoto's Kozukappara (the present day Arakawa ward) in Meiwa 8, the second year of a 15-year drought gripping Japan. Her crime is unknown, and her execution would have been as un-noteworthy as dozens of others that year had her body not been secured for science.
However, under the reign of (though little due to) Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu, Dutch influence was increasing dramatically in Japan.
As a result, Aochababa's corpse was brought to a medical facility, where Sugita Genpaku, Maeno Ryotaku, Nakagawa Jun'an, Toyo Yamawaki, and others performed and viewed an autopsy. Their medical training was Chinese; their medical texts were a mixture of Chinese and Dutch; as Genpaku reports in his later book Rangaku Kotohajime:†
Ryotaku opened the book and explained according to what he had learned in Nagasaki the various organs such as the lung called "long" in Dutch, the heart called "hart," the stomach called "maag" and the spleen called "milt." They looked so different from the pictures in the Chinese anatomical books that many of us felt rather dubious of their truths before we should actually observe the real organs.
Comparing the things we saw with the pictures in the Dutch book Ryotaku and I had with us, we were amazed at their perfect agreement. There was no such divisions either as the six lobes and two auricles of the lungs or the three left lobes and two right lobes of the liver mentioned in old medical books. Also, the positions and the forms of the intestines and the stomach were very different from the traditional descriptions.
After the dissection was over, we were tempted to examine the forms of the bones too, and picked up some of the sun bleached bones scattered around the ground. We found that they were nothing like those described in the old books, but were exactly as represented in the Dutch book. We were completely amazed.
In short, their medical results matched those of the Dutch and flew in the face of a millennium of Chinese anatomical teachings.
Genpaku was intrigued. As he tells it (40-some years after the fact), Ryotaku, Jun'an, and he immediately laid down a plan to translate the Dutch text into Japanese.
The process was a slog. Lacking a dictionary or translator for anatomical studies, the team — bolstered by the Shogun physician Katsuragawa Hoshu — was forced to reverse-engineer the Dutch language using a short phrase book, occasional contacts with the Dutch themselves, and a host of educated guesses based on the anatomical features they were attempting to describe. In addition to the problems of simple translations — turning a language with definite and indefinite articles into one with no such concept — many anatomical features had never been named in Japanese before; Genpaku and his collaborators invented dozens of words just to get by. A brief history is given here.
Finally, in 1774, Kaitai Shinsho — The New Book of Anatomy — based mostly on the Dutch book Ontleedkundige Tafelen (itself a translation from German), was published, the first translation of a Western text into Japanese. The book was four volumes (three of text, one of illustrations) and scribed in a Chinese-based writing style known as Kanbun.‡
An image (more can be seen here) from the 1774 Japanese anatomy treatise.
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The translation was the first in a long line of texts that the Japanese would eventually use to quietly capture the technology of the West.§
Genpaku was at the forefront of Dutch Learning, and his second masterwork, Rangaku Kotohajime ("Beginnings of Dutch Learning"), published in 1815, provides a thorough description of the events which led to these advances in science and medicine in Japan.
It would be 80 years before the United States Navy forced its way into Japanese harbors and used gunship diplomacy to end Japan's seclusion. During that time, the Japanese reproduced everything from telescopes to automata to steam engines using borrowed texts and dissection of imported goods. Dutch Learning kept Japan abreast scientific advancements even while it maintained its isolation.
The enduring legacy of Dutch Learning was the late-19th century Meiji Restoration, wherein a Japan now officially opened swiftly modernized efficiently enough to trounce Russia in the Russo-Japanese War at the end of the century.
A fairly complete description of the evolution of Japan under Dutch Learning is given in Wakabayashi's Modern Japanese Thought and De Bray et al's Sources of Japanese Tradition (Vol 2).
Today, many of the Dutch words imported to describe new objects, anatomical and otherwise, remain in the Japanese language as a testament to Dutch Learning. Sugita Genpaku is also the namesake of a modern-day attempt to translate texts to Japanese. And Toyo Yamawaki, through his help with dissections of the era, prompted an interesting ritual of memorializing cadaver donors in medical schools. For physical specimens, a museum with sections devoted to Dutch Learning can also be visited at Nakatsu.
* The Dutch were allowed to stay because they weren't Catholic. The Shogun also enacted laws forbidding missionaries and Christian prosteletyzing, as well as officially outlawing the practice of Christianity; however, an underground group of Christians remained in the country.
** Initially, all foreign texts were outlawed. However, beginning with Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, Dutch texts were allowed into the country, generating a new wave of books that were, for several decades, largely illegible to their owners. To go with the anti-Christian theme, however, the Japanese authorities continued to blot out all Christian references.
† Translation by Ryozo Matsumoto, available here.
‡ Kanbun is a mapping of Chinese ideograms and writing style into Japanese-comprehensible language using classic symbolic meanings (a standardized shape to represent a tree) and sound equivalents (using the same standard shape to represent the the sound of the word "tree" rather than its meaning), as well as sentence structure and purpose markings. Using this style, direct Chinese-to-Japense translation is possible, but the onus is on the author to properly annotate the text.
§ Strangely, there is as yet no Dutch-Japanese dictionary in print.
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$1.8 million for a FISH: Japan's 'Tuna King' spares no expense to get 2nd-priciest tuna (VIDEO)
Via RT Business
A Japanese businessman known as the Tuna King really goes to great lengths when it comes to giving sushi lovers the "best" bluefin tuna. This year he paid 193.2mn yen ($1.8mn) for one, the second-highest price on record.
It is the second year in a row that Kiyoshi Kimura, who heads a popular sushi restaurant chain, was the most successful bidder at the traditional New Year's auction at Tokyo's main fish market, Toyosu. On Sunday, he bought a 276kg (608-pound) bluefin tuna, caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan, to please his customers.
"This is the best," the tycoon said as cited by media after the auction. "Yes, this is expensive, isn't it? I want our customers to eat very tasty ones this year too."
The entrepreneur added that despite the high price, he was happy to win as it is the first New Year's auction in the new era, Reiwa, which started in May of last year when Crown Prince Naruhito became the emperor.
A fish weighing just 2kg more was sold for a record $3.1 million at last year's auction in Tokyo – the most expensive tuna ever sold. The record belongs to Kimura, who is also famous for buying very expensive fish at past auctions.
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Rangers Claim Jack Reinheimer; Outright Eddie Butler, Ronald Herrera
By Steve Adams and George Miller | November 22, 2018 at 12:30pm CDT
Nov. 22: Butler has rejected his outright assignment and will instead enter free agency, according to Gerry Fraley of SportsDay. Acquired as part of the return for Cole Hamels, Butler's departure leaves the Rangers with just two players from the Hamels trade still under team control.
Nov. 20: The Rangers announced Tuesday that they've claimed infielder Jack Reinheimer off waivers from the Cubs and also outrighted Eddie Butler and Ronald Herrera to Triple-A Nashville after the pair of righties cleared waivers.
Reinheimer, 26, has just 40 big league plate appearances under his belt, most of which came with the Mets in 2018. He's batted just .143/.250/.143 in the Majors but can play all over the infield. He's spent parts of three seasons in Triple-A, hitting .278/.343/.371 in 1376 PAs — rather timid production given the hitter-friendly nature of the Pacific Coast League. Reinheimer does have a minor league option remaining, so he can give Texas some infield depth next season.
Butler, 28 in March, was knocked around for a 5.62 ERA in 49 2/3 innings between the Cubs and Rangers in 2018. Texas acquired him as a secondary piece in the trade that sent Cole Hamels to Chicago, but the one-time premium prospect didn't fare well in his limited time in the big leagues with the Rangers. Butler, the 46th overall pick by the Rockies in 2012, has a career 5.80 ERA in 263 2/3 innings.
Herrera, 23, was traded from the Yankees to the Rangers one year ago to the day in a move intended to create some roster flexibility in New York with the Nov. 20 deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 Draft looming. He didn't pitch in 2018, though, after experiencing shoulder troubles in Spring Training and ultimately requiring surgery to repair the flexor tendon in his right arm.
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preauto
Crickets….cold stove move i guess.
stubby66
Would like to see Butler and Moore to latch on with Pittsburgh or Cincinnati and work with those pitching coaches
Sheep8
I can see Butler making money in Japan or the $1MM cap in Korea if he wanted
texasfan
Great trade Daniels.
JKB
How does Daniels still have his job? I
oz10
Butler was just a roster filler this year. Just mlb depth for this past year.
Sure makes you wonder?


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Nissan start production of its LEAF-based Sylphy Zero Emission electric car in Huadu plant, China through Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Co. (Dongfeng Nissan) joint venture.
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