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Peor imposible, ¿Qué puede fallar? es una película escrita y dirigida por David Blanco y José Semprún, protagonizada por Elsa Pataky, Víctor Clavijo y Guillermo Toledo, estrenada en 2003. Es una coproducción entre España y Reino Unido, producida por Juan Gordon desde Morena Films.

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Miguel es un joven estudiante de física, ingenioso y mordaz, cuyo historial sentimental antes de conocer a su actual novia, Fátima, podría considerarse, siendo generosos, como catastrófico. La desconfianza de Miguel hacia su repentina buena suerte se ve confirmada cuando, poco tiempo después de salir juntos, ella obtiene una beca para marcharse un año a estudiar a Inglaterra. El día del cumpleaños de Miguel, pasados seis meses desde de su separación, ella hace una escapada de unos días para ir a verle, aprovechando las vacaciones de Semana Santa y que los padres de Miguel se han marchado también, como es habitual en esas fechas, a su añorado retiro playero de Santa Pola. Pero la noche previa a la llegada de su novia, Alex, el irresponsable hermano mayor de Miguel, lleva a la casa el esmirriado cadáver del Canijo, uno de los hombres de confianza de un peligroso matón conocido como "el Cubano". Entre desconcertado y abrumado por la tromba humana que es Alex, Miguel termina por acceder a esconder el cadáver durante unas horas, hasta que su hermano pueda regresar a llevárselo. De este modo, el día del vigésimo cumpleaños de Miguel termina por convertirse en uno de los más largos de su vida.

Reparto
 Elsa Pataky
 Víctor Clavijo
 Guillermo Toledo
 Eduardo Antuña
 Fernando Chinarro
 Mario Arias
 Paula Echevarría
 Pere Ponce

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Películas en español

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One thing that was on my mind a lot this last summer is the Mabinogion – specifically the fourth branch, "Math ap Mathonwy". For those of you wondering what these unfamiliar words mean, the Mabinogion is a cycle of interrelated Welsh stories found in two manuscripts from around about the fourteenth century; there are four chapters, or "branches", and both manuscripts also contain a wealth of other stories which are often presented as part of the whole. The stories combine elements that show they developed and were told over a long period of time before reaching their present form: the colour and pomp of mediaeval courts; magicians, monsters and folklore; (pseudo-)historical heroes and rulers that link to the recent, Roman and pre-Roman past; and possible traces of prehistoric mythology and religion.
Another story that's been on my mind recently is the tale of the King under the Hill: the story that occurs in various places around Britain, about a legendary warrior hero who is sleeping under a nearby hill with his followers, waiting for the time when they will wake again to defend us when our need is greatest. In many cases the king is named as Arthur, saviour of the British against their enemies the Saxons – defeated at last, yes, but resting 'til the day that he will return. I've been thinking about this because there's a version in a book of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folktales by Michael O'Leary, that I picked up while we were on holiday, centred on (the evocatively-named) Sleeper's Hill near Winchester. Other versions, though, are told about Alderley Edge in Cheshire (celebrated by Alan Garner in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen), Craig y Dinas in North Wales, even Snowdon itself – and I wouldn't be surprised if there are lots of other examples from around the country. The story even turns up further afield: Michael O'Leary tells how he encountered one version in Gran Canaria; Alan Garner cites examples through Europe and into Russia; and the anthropologist James C. Scott mentions a similar story from Malaysia.
Alan Garner gives an insight, however, into another possible reason for this story's frequent occurrence (at least in Britain). In his essay, "Oral History and Applied Archaeology in East Cheshire," he convincingly suggests through the analysis of landscape and place names that in the case of his home of Alderley Edge, the story represents a memory of Bronze Age ritual mythology concerning the passage of the sun across the sky: the solar figure dies, goes beneath the ground, and rises again… (Interestingly, we learned on holiday in Copenhagen at Easter that this was an important part of religion in Denmark at that time too – archaeological finds show a wealth of religious art and activity, and while the imagery is more of boats and water and birds, there's a captivating similarity in the journey above our heads and then under the earth.) But this raises an interesting question: if the sun is believed to sleep beneath Alderley Edge, why would the story also occur elsewhere? My suspicion is that it is because for much of the last few thousand years, human populations lived in quite small local areas and most people were not familiar with anywhere outside their own immediate landscape. I could be wrong: archaeologists are increasingly demonstrating that long-distance communication was widespread during the Bronze Age and before, and that cultural and economic exchange over these distances was a vital part of life. My feeling is, though, that the majority of people were not the ones who travelled; that most people would have lived in a relatively limited area their whole lives. So, while there may have been a wide tradition that the sun was represented by a heroic figure who lit our day, died, but then returned to salve the world once more, many people would have accepted local variations where they engaged with the story and its ritual activity through association with the landscape that they knew.
There are other possible explanations for the occurrence of the story: maybe people who heard it just liked it a lot, and told it with a local connection. Maybe Alderley Edge had some nationwide pre-eminence as a religious site – although, without any disrespect to Alderley or the wider ritual landscape Garner has identified around Cheshire, I suspect not; I'm kind of assuming that if it did, there'd be even more striking archaeological evidence and cultural memory associated with the place. Garner himself suggests that the widespread story may in fact have attached itself to Alderley Edge specifically because of its parallels with a unique local belief. But the idea of local variations on a common religious belief is interesting and worth bearing in mind.
Back to the Mabinogion. I said above that some elements in the tales appear to have been prehistoric myths. One of the clearest examples is in "Math ap Mathonwy", the story that's been on my mind for a long time. A number of the characters were perhaps once pre-Christian gods, recast as human characters by a Christian society; and Lleu, a hero of the latter part of the story, may in fact be a solar deity. He shows many supernatural features: the circumstances of his birth and possible death are surrounded in magic and mystery; he is indeed almost impossible to kill; and he grows and matures far faster than a human child. His name, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, "The Fair One with the Sure Hand," is sometimes said to show a link with the Irish god Lugh Lámfhada ("Shining One of the Long Arm") and the Gaulish Lug, and Lugh is associated in many ways with the sun. Miranda Green, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University, says that imagery associated with Lleu (eagles, oak trees) was closely linked with sky gods in Romano-Celtic symbolism. Added to this, Lleu's mother's name is Arianrhod; now, if you translate the component elements, "arian" means "silver" and "rhod", "orb". The sentence construction might not quite stand up – in Welsh, the noun usually comes before the adjective – but I've always quite liked the idea that this means the moon. So, is this a remnant of a creation myth, in which the moon gives birth to the sun?
But then this is what hit me the other day when I got out of my car on the way to work: despite including these universal myths, the written text of the Mabinogion is startlingly geographically specific. Lleu rules in Ardudwy and both he and Gronw meet their fate by the banks of the Afon Cynfal, a small river about 15km south of Snowdon; the giant king Brân sits on the rock at Harlech looking out to sea; Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, first meets the Lord of the Otherworld in Glyn Cuch; his son Pryderi rules at Rhuddlan Teifi and fights Gwydion near Maentwrog; the seven companions of the Entertainment of the Noble Head (go and read the story) land from Ireland at Aber Alaw, then journey south via Harlech again to Gwales in Pembrokeshire. While not all places have been positively identified, it still seems as if barely a single moment of action (apart from occasional forays into the Otherworld) takes place without being connected to a named location in real life, places that presumably would have been accepted by a mediaeval audience. There is hardly ever any of the fantastical, wild, unspecific "land far away"-type landscape that comes up so often in other old tales and legends; indeed, possibly the only time this does occur is in the third branch, "Manawydan", when a spell is cast on Dyfed banishing all people, houses and settled life – and so the indeterminate geography may in fact emphasise the wildness, mystery and loneliness of the country, in contrast with the urban settings of Hereford and Gloucester to which Manawydan and his companions retreat.
This consistent reference to real-life places might not be unique in myths and legends (there are similar features in Irish and Greek texts), but it is a striking feature of the Mabinogion. By way of contrast, the near-contemporary Norse myths frequently expand into the wide, fantastical land far way, where gods roam and grapple giants; and although at other times they allude to (quasi-)historical nations such as the lands of the Goths or the Niflungs, they are less specific about the smaller-scale locations. From what knowledge I have, the French romances that may have both influenced and been influenced by the Mabinogion are wholeheartedly about the land far away. This at times appears in the stories found compiled with the Mabinogion – "Peredur," for example, and sometimes in "Culhwch and Olwen" – but also they too share some of the enjoyment of geographical detail. This connection between magical, godlike adventure and exact locations throughout Wales seems to be characteristic of this literature as a whole.
This seems like lore – like traditional knowledge learned by rote, and dutifully declaimed when occasion demands it. We know that such a body of tradition was important to the pre- and post-Roman British, preserved in fragments such as the Welsh Triads: lists of incidents, personages and places sorted with mythological and, presumably, mnemonic symbolism into groups of three. Elements of the triads and other traditions interpose into the Mabinogion and its related stories in much the same way as the geographical details: when Brân the giant king's head is buried, this is the third goodly concealment; when it is exhumed, it is the third ill-fated disclosure. Lleu's twin brother is named as Dylan Eil Ton ("Dylan, Son of the Wave") and does not otherwise feature, but we're told his death came from a blow from his uncle Gofannon, which was called the third fatal blow. Gronw Pebyr's men, for refusing to take a strike on behalf of their lord, are recorded as one of three disloyal warbands (historical social standards notwithstanding, my children think this is somewhat unfair: to be honest, he had made his bed and had even just chosen to lie in it). All through, these asides recur: details that have to be stated, that can't be omitted if the story passes close to them. It's as if behind the stories, there's a history that has to be noted, so that the explanations and underlying take on the world are always reaffirmed. As Alan Garner notes, "A feature of oral, preliterate tradition is the importance of exactitude." And this is probably one wider intent behind the inclusion of the geographic digressions.
Whatever the case, though, there are big implications for how the stories were heard. Audiences wherever the stories were told or read were invited to witness heartstopping action in small places flung wide across Wales, places they may not otherwise have heard of or never have visited. I don't know if these were elite stories, whether they were just told in rich halls, or in huts and market places as well (they were written at a time when books were luxuries, and class prejudice is strong throughout the narration, but they were spoken before they were written down). Presumably, though, that farmer in the Valleys I mentioned earlier, or at least his or her landlord, might well in mediaeval times have known of Ardudwy and the Afon Cynfal through these stories, whether or not they ever went there in real life. There's an artistic impulse to tell the land, and for the whole of Wales – to celebrate the nation's whole geography and the events that bound it, and to share it with the whole country – and told from the ground up. It's almost like the Australian Dreamtime in this respect: the songs that Aboriginal communities preserve to sing their way from one landmark to the next, and thus connect with their whole land, its physical presence, its mythical meaning and its history. I maybe should be wary of going too far with that comparison – the Mabingion was written down in a very different society, and it doesn't necessarily have the same age or psychic role; but there's something similar in how the finished version seems to seek a connection for people between each other, their past and the land. Whatever the circumstances that gave the Mabinogion this shape, it's perhaps especially fitting that it is held in such regard as Welsh literature; it's not just a body of work from Wales, it's storytelling about Wales in a powerful and poetic sense.
Of course, so much of all this is supposition. But it's interesting to reflect on how the stories link to their mediaval (and previous) audience's inner and outer landscape. Now to hit the net to find out more!


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Jaipur Colleges
LIST OF TOP ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN JAIPUR BASED ON 2020 RANKING
Swati Mishra
Jaipur, the pink city is quite famous for higher education in various fields. There are around 88 engineering colleges in Jaipur, including both public and private. There are 86 private engineering colleges and 2 public engineering colleges in Jaipur. Malviya National Institute of Technology is ranked as the best engineering college in Jaipur with 35th rank in NIRF 2020 and 25th rank in the Week 2019.
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology is ranked as the best private engineering college in Jaipur with 145 ranks in the Outlook 2019 and 77 ranks in the Week 2019. It has been ranked at 194th position by NIRF in 2020.
The least expensive colleges among the top colleges in Jaipur are the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Poornima College of Engineering and Nims Institute Of Engineering & Technology.
The cost of engineering education in Jaipur is quite low as compared to any other city.
Read More: Top Engineering Colleges in India
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Ranking
There are several agencies that rank the institutions under various categories like the state-wise, city-wise, stream-wise, etc. These agencies collect the data of the participating institutes and do a survey based on certain parameters. Some of the agencies that rank the institutions are NIRF, Outlook, Times, India Today, Jagran Josh, etc.
This article contains a list of rankings for the years 2020, 2019 and 2018 done by NIRF, Outlook, Times and Week. The best engineering college in Jaipur, as per the data of all these agencies is the Malaviya National Institute of Technology.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: NIRF Ranking 2020
The National Institutional ranking framework is a body under the Ministry of human resource development. They rank institutes all over India, using certain parameters. The parameters used by NIRF are
Teaching, Learning & Resources
Research and Professional Practice
Graduation Outcomes
Outreach and Inclusivity
College Name
NIRF Ranking 2020
Average Annual BTech Fees
Malaviya National Institute of Technology 35 53 +18 INR 93,568
The LNM Institute of Information Technology 194 NP - INR 3,70,000
MNIT has been ranked as the best college in Jaipur by NIRF this year also.
Another name inlcuded in the list this year is of LNMIT Jaipur.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Outlook Ranking
The Outlook magazine, in partnership with Drishti Strategic Research Services, did a research of the Best 200 Engineering Colleges in India. Their rankings are listed below.
Outlook Ranking 2019
Jaipur Engineering College And Research Center 83 87 +4 INR 92,000
Poornima College Of Engineering 103 106 +3 INR 77,000
Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ) 111 NP - INR 3,05,000
Nims Institute Of Engineering & Technology 131 NP - INR 80,000
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology 145 149 +4 INR 3,70,000
According to Outlook, Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center is the highest-ranked institution in 2019, with a rank of 83.
The rank of most of the colleges in the outlook list 2019 has improved by the rank of 2018.
The institutions that did not participate were not ranked. Like Nims Institute Of Engineering & Technology and Manipal University did not participate in the 2018 Outlook ranking, but they were able to create their space in 2019 ranking.
The outlook list has the majority of private colleges. These colleges are among the top private institutions in Jaipur.
NIMS Institute Of Engineering & Technology and Poornima College of Engineering are the top private colleges that are the least expensive in the list.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Times Ranking
The Times conducted a survey to find out the Top Engineering Colleges offering full-time engineering courses. The ranking was done based on the data collected and they came with the following results mentioned below.
According to Times Engineering ranking 2019, only one institute was ranked among the top engineering colleges in Jaipur 2019 at the position of 103.
University of Engineering & Management, Jaipur is ranked 103 in 2019 ranking.
UEM is a public institute and is also quite inexpensive among the other top institutions in Jaipur.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: The Week Ranking
For 2019 best college ranking, the Week did a survey in association with Hansa Research. They did a study across 24 cities and ranked the various colleges based on different disciplines. About 1,043 academic experts, 2,460 current students, 953 aspiring students, and 30 recruiters took part in this primary survey. They calculated it based on the perpetual score and the factual score.
The Week Ranking 2019
Malviya National Institute of Technology 25 NA - INR 93,568
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology 77 NA - INR 3,70,000
Jaipur Engineering College And Research Center 102 NA - INR 92,000
Amity University 117 NA - INR 1,80,000
The Week has ranked 4 institutes from Jaipur in the top engineering colleges in India.
Malviya National Institute of Technology is ranked as the best engineering college in Jaipur with a rank of 25.
MNIT Jaipur and JECRC Jaipur and the top public colleges in the list.
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology is the best private engineering college in Jaipur according to the Week, with a rank of 77.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: ROI (Return on Investment)
The ROI is one of the major factors to be considered to get an idea of whether the money being invested in engineering education is worth it or not. The top engineering institutes can be expensive but some of them certainly provide high packages. Below we have a list of top engineering colleges of Jaipur with their average annual fees and the average salary a student can expect after their graduation.
Average Annual Fees
Average Placement Package
ROI Rank*
Malviya National Institute of Technology INR 93,568 INR 8,10,000 1
University of Engineering & Management, Jaipur INR 80,000 INR 4,20,000 2
Poornima College Of Engineering INR 77,000 INR 3,84,000 3
Jaipur Engineering College And Research Center INR 92,000 INR 3,10,000 4
Nims Institute Of Engineering & Technology INR 80,000 INR 2,50,000 5
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology INR 3,70,000 INR 10,43,000 6
Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ) INR 3,05,000 INR 4,00,000 7
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Admission Process
The admission to most of the engineering colleges in Jaipur is done through national level entrance examinations. The scores of JEE Main are required for admission into B.E/ B.Tech or B.Arch courses and the scores of GATE are required for admission into M.Tech or M.Plan courses. These exams are further followed by a national level counseling called JoSAA or state-level counseling called REAP to get admission into various public and private engineering colleges in Jaipur. Some of the colleges conduct their own exams like University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Amity University and Manipal University.
It is a national level examination for admission into B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Arch and B.Planning programs at NITs, IITs, CFTIs and other institutions across India.
(Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process)
It is an admission process conducted for undergraduate admission for various engineering colleges in the state of Rajasthan.
(Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)
It is a national level examination for admission into master courses (M.E/ M.Tech and P.HD) in IITs, NITs, CFTIs and other institutes across India.
IEMJEE
(Institute of Engineering and Management Joint Entrance exam)
It is a university level entrance exam for admission into UG, PG and Ph.D. courses at University of Engineering and Management, Jaipur.
AMITY JEE
(For admission into Amity University, Jaipur)
It is a national level entrance exam for admission into B.Tech programs offered by Amity University across India. This exam is conducted by Pearson VUE.
(Manipal Entrance Test)
This is a university-level entrance test conducted for admission into various courses in Manipal University.
Malviya National Institute of Technology
Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) is a public university in Jaipur. It is a joint venture of Government of India and Government of Rajasthan. It is funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and is approved by AICTE and MHRD.
MNIT Jaipur offers B.Tech and B.Arch for undergraduate and M.Tech and M.Plan for postgraduate.
The admission to the engineering courses is taken through JEE Mains for UG and GATE for PG.
Approved intake for UG courses has been 716 for the past 3 years and 786 for the PG courses.
The average annual fees are Rs. 93,568 for UG courses and Rs. 121,900 for PG courses.
The average salary package is around 8.1 Lakhs and the highest till now has gone up to 40 Lakhs.
Placement data of UG courses for previous 3 years
No. of students graduating
No. of students placed
Average salary package
6.25 lakhs
Placement data of PG courses for previous 3 years
6 lakhs
5.77lakhs
LNM Institute Of Information Technology (LNMIIT)
The LNM Institute of Information Technology is a joint venture of the Lakshmi & Usha Mittal Foundation and Govt. of Rajasthan. It is a deemed university approved by AICTE and accredited with Grade A by NAAC. They offer B.Tech and M.Tech courses. The admission to B.Tech and M.Tech courses is through JEE Main and GATE.
LNMIT Jaipur has been ranked as the best private engineering institutes by the Week magazine.
The average annual fees are INR 3,70,000 for B.Tech courses and INR 1,91,600 for MTech courses.
The recruiters that come for placement drive are Amazon, OYO, Uber, Adobe, Samsung, Microsoft, Pharmaeasy, etc.
No. of offers
Percentage of students placed
Highest salary package
10.11 lakhs
29.5 lakhs
University of Engineering and Management, Jaipur
University of Engineering and Management (UEM) is a public university in Jaipur and is a member of AIU (Association of Indian Universities). It is approved by UGC and AICTE. It is accredited with grade A by NAAC. The institute has been awarded the topmost University of Rajasthan to rank amongst the top 50 institutes/universities of the country by NPTEL examination initiative of the Ministry of HRD in association with the IISc and 6 IITs. It offers Undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs.
The admission to all these programs in UEM Jaipur is done through IEMJEE.
The annual fees are INR 80,000 for B.Tech and INR 50,000 for M.Tech courses.
Every year more than 76 companies participate in the recruitment drive.
The average salary package is 4.2 lakhs and the highest package till now has been 15.5 lakhs.
Some of the recruiters are TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, WIPRO, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, PWC, Telecom Network Solution (TNS), Victory Metal Finishers, Jumio India Ltd, Franciscan Solutions Pvt Ltd, Think & Learn (Byju's Classes App), etc.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Entrance Exam Wise
Engineering Colleges in Jaipur accept the students through Entrance Exams called JEE Mains, GATE, REAP Exams. There are other universities also which admit the students on the basis of merit. Listed Below are some of the Colleges accepting different Exams.
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur Through JEE Main
JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) is the national level eligibility test for admission into undergraduate engineering programs at NITs, IITs and other centrally funded technical institutes (CFTI). The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts this exam and many institutes consider the scores of JEE Mains for admission into B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Arch and B.Planning.
This exam is conducted twice a year in the month of January and April.
More than 12 lakh students appear for this exam every year.
JEE Mains is followed by JEE Advanced and then JoSAA counseling.
Candidates who are able to clear the minimum cut-off of JEE Mains can register for JoSAA counseling and can get admission into various engineering institutes if they fulfill all the requirements.
Top engineering colleges in Jaipur that accept JEE Mains scores
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology
University of Engineering & Management, Jaipur
Jaipur Engineering College And Research Center
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur Through REAP
REAP (Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process) is a state-level admission process conducted for admission into B.Tech and B.Arch courses at the engineering colleges present in the Rajasthan. It is conducted by the Centre of Electronic Governance (CEG) Rajasthan on behalf of Rajasthan Technical University.
The state-level entrance examination called RPET (Rajasthan Pre-engineering test) has been now replaced with REAP.
RPET used to be conducted to offer admissions in UG courses at government-aided and private unaided technical institutes in Rajasthan. But now it is carried through REAP.
No special exam is conducted. They consider the scores of JEE Main and the marks scored in class 12th.
It is a 3 round counseling along with one special round at an institute level.
Counseling for Rajasthan candidates and outside candidates are held separately.
Top engineering colleges in Jaipur that take admissions through REAP:
Poornima College Of Engineering
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur Through GATE
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) is a national level examination for Master of Engineering (ME), Master of Technology (M.Tech) and direct Ph.D. admission to IITs, NITs, CFTIs and other top institutes across India. The exam is jointly conducted by IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore on a rotational basis on behalf of the National Coordination Board (NCB - GATE).
The exam is conducted once in a year in the month of February.
Around 10 Lakh students appear for this exam every year.
Around 28 institutes in Jaipur and a total of 1140 colleges in India accept GATE scores.
Top engineering colleges in Jaipur that accept GATE scores:
NIMS Institute Of Engineering & Technology
Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: Placement Wise
The range of average salary packages of top engineering colleges in Jaipur is 2- 10 lakhs. The highest average placement among the public institutions is provided by the Malviya National Institute of Technology, which is 8.1 lakhs. The highest average placement among the public institutions is provided by The LNM Institute Of Information Technology, which is 10.43 lakhs.
The highest salary package till now is 40 lakhs, which is the highest salary package of the Malviya National Institute of Technology.
The LNM Institute Of Information Technology has the second highest salary package i.e, 36 lakhs.
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Top Engineering Colleges in Jaipur: FAQs
Ques. Which is the best engineering college in Jaipur?
Ans. According to the ranking and placements, Malviya National Institute of Technology is the best public college and The LNM Institute Of Information Technology is the best private college in Jaipur.
Ques. Is there any state-level examination for admission into engineering colleges in Rajasthan?
Ans. No. Before RPET was conducted to get admission into all the colleges in Rajasthan but now RPET has been discontinued. Now the admissions are done through JEE Mains followed by REAP counseling.
Ques. What is the difference between JoSAA and REAP?
Ans. These both are the counselings conducted over the scores of JEE Mains but JoSAA is a national level counseling that would get admission into engineering colleges all over India. Whereas REAP is state-level counseling and would get admission into engineering colleges in the state of Rajasthan.
Ques. What is the average salary range of top engineering colleges in Jaipur?
Ans. The average salary of top colleges ranges from 2 - 10 lakhs.
Ques. Which private engineering college among the list of top colleges is least expensive?
Ans. Poornima College of Engineering and Nims Institute Of Engineering & Technology.
Ques. Is there any college who conduct their own exams for admission?
Ans. Yes, University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Amity University and Manipal University conduct their own exams.
Ques. What are some of the engineering branches that are good in Jaipur?
Ans. The engineering branches that have been ranked by various agencies are chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biotechnology.
Ques. Which 2 college has the highest average salary package among the top colleges?
Ans. Malviya National Institute of Technology with 8.1 average salary package and LNM Institute Of Information Technology with a 10.43 average salary package.
Asians Institute of Technology( Batch 2024 )B.Tech, Electrical And Electronics EngineeringOctober 27, 2020
"B.Tech Days"
Course Curriculum Overview :
The course curriculum of this college is quite good. We have total 8 semesters which is 2 semesters every year. This college's curriculum is divided into two main courses one is B.Tech and the other is Diploma. Then B.Tech is again sub-divided into various branches like civil engineering, electrical engineering and many more.
After securing a minimum 75% in my 10+2 boards in relevant subjects I was eligible for the next two steps. The first step was the JEE Mains entrance exam and when I secured the eligible marks I went for the second step which was the counselling round. Subsequently, I was admitted to college.
Placement Experience :
The college placements are kind of good as heard from some seniors. The college brings companies but one or two are reputed and well-known but the rest are local companies. So i can say that placements and job opportunities of our college is average.
Apex University( Batch 2021 )MBA, GeneralOctober 27, 2020
"Relaxing college"
Campus Life :
The college is very big and constructed on a large scale with big playgrounds and spacious multipurpose halls. It provides the exposure to interact with world famous business runners as guest lectures. The libraries are always equipped with good books, all the teachers are well educated and are from different backgrounds. The students come from different backgrounds and cultures but the college makes us in a unity.
After completing my graduation from Apex University I applied for MBA course from this college. The application form was available online and I filled my details with attached documents. Based on my bachelor marks I was called upon the campus for the interview session. My admission was confirmed after submitting the first your fees.
The college arranges placements at the end of last year. Well-known companies and firms come to interview and the selection is purely on the basis of self merit and academic performances. 70% of the students get placed through the college campus on an average with Rs.6 lakhs per annum as an annual package.
Apex University( Batch 2019 )B.Tech, Civil EngineeringOctober 27, 2020
"Amazing exposure with best faculty."
The college was beautifully constructed with large playgrounds and spacious multipurpose hall. The labs were always equipped with latest technology and all the 3-D models available for the engineering staff. The libraries had all the related books and computers to work on. The computer lab were well equipped. Overall the college environment was friendly and it was a ragging free campus.
I applied to the college through their official website where the application form was available at Rs.1000. After filling up the details and academic documents I got registered for the admission to the college. The college called upon for the personal interview session where the counselling was done and I confirmed my admission by submitting the first year fees.
The college used to arrange placements at the end of fourth year. Some of the students were selected in various companies from the starting of the last year due to their academy performance is. Well-known companies and organisations came to interviewers. Average placement voice at Rs.6 lakhs per annum with 65% of the students getting placed.
Asians Institute of Technology( Batch 2024 )B.Tech, Civil EngineeringOctober 27, 2020
"B.Tech Journey"
The course curriculum of our college is same as other engineering colleges. But our college offers two main courses which is B.Tech and Diploma. B.Tech is then parted into electrical engineering, civil engineering etc and but under Diploma there are only two branches electrical and civil. There are also clubs.
Most engineering colleges are entrance based colleges. I was having more than 75% in 10+2 boards in PCM including other two subjects due to which I was eligible for JEE Mains entrance exam. The second step I went for was the couselling and then i got the admission.
Placements and job opportunities of our college and good but not that great because most companies are local and not reputed. Our college also offers summer internships from 2nd year which opens up options for students to discover.
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(-) Book Review
(-) Intro to Egalitarian Beliefs
Award-Winning Articles
(-) Priscilla
(-) Mary Magdalene
(-) 1 Corinthians
Feminine Language for God
Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:9-15
By John Stanley | April 29, 1998
Women in the Church is a dangerous book which should not have been published because, while it appears to be scholarly, it actually teems with historical and theological errors and also emotional subjectivity. Alan G. Padgett has provided a critical rebuttal to Women in the Church in the Winter 1997 issue of Priscilla Papers.
Priscilla's Letter
By Estella Horning | October 30, 1998
Ruth Hoppin has spent decades researching Adolf Harnack's hypothesis that Priscilla wrote the biblical Epistle to the Hebrews. A first book, Priscilla, Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, was published in the late 1960s. Since that time additional relevant material has been published, some of it related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book is an update which takes such material into account.
Alan Johnson's 1 Corinthians
By Cynthia Long Westfall | April 29, 2006
Alan Johnson's work on 1 Corinthians is particularly engaging. His reference notes and bibliography provide an entry into further study if desired, all while maintaining an appealing readable style. He deftly bridges the two horizons of the Greco-Roman culture and American culture.
Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy
By Royce Gordon Gruenler | June 29, 2006
This volume truly represents a landmark in the reclamation of a good word, "complementarity," from its misuse by the equal-but-unequal school of thought. A formidable collage of scholars with complementary gifts of the Spirit have contributed to a book which is sure to become a primary textbook and resource in the Christian circles of church and academia.
Book Review: Craig Keener's 1-2 Corinthians
By Virginia Gray | July 30, 2010
Craig Keener's 1-2 Corinthians is a wonderfully engaging and easily read commentary on Paul's letters to the Corinthians. It is tightly packed with documented information from ancient sources on the historical/social/cultural setting of Corinth in Paul's time. This information enables the reader to understand more clearly the intentions behind Paul's letters to the Corinthians, underlining how the cultural emphasis on rhetoric in Paul's time shaped his writings.
Wealth in Ancient Ephesus and the First Letter to Timothy: Fresh Insights from Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus
By Lucy Peppiatt | February 23, 2017
Gary Hoag revisits the topic of wealth in the letter of 1 Timothy, asking whether the teachings found there are consistent or inconsistent with other teachings in the NT, or whether it might be a mixture of the two. Scholars are divided on this question. Hoag's findings rest on cross-referencing the terms in 1 Timothy with a novel, Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus.
Phoebe: A Story
By Michaela Miller | July 30, 2019
Paula Gooder presents an imaginative telling of the life and ministry of Phoebe. She states that her purpose in writing this story is not simply to provide an entertaining novel, but also to inform readers of the reality behind the NT text.
Priscilla: The Life of an Early Christian
By Jonathan Tysick | November 01, 2020
Ben Witherington III's story of Priscilla provides extensive insight into the lives of the earliest Christian women.
Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam
By Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | January 30, 2021
Seventeen essays explore how the biblical Miriam, Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary of Bethany, and Mary Magdalene were portrayed in the early Christian era, also touching on Jewish and Muslim interpretations.


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Vanessa Fisk (de soltera, Vanessa Mariana) es una personaje ficticia que aparece en los cómics estadounidenses publicados por Marvel Comics. Ella es la esposa de Wilson Fisk alias Kingpin, madre de Richard Fisk y madre adoptiva de  Echo. aparece en un personaje secundario en las historias que presentan a esos villanos, generalmente aquellos protagonizados por el Hombre Araña y Daredevil.
Su primera aparición fue en The Amazing Spider-Man #70 (1969).

La personaje ha aparecido en adaptaciones a los medios de comunicación, incluida la serie de televisión de Netflix, Daredevil, en la que fue retratada por Ayelet Zurer, y la película animada de 2018, Spider-Man: Un nuevo universo, en la que le dio su voz por Lake Bell, y retrató a Sandrine Holt en la miniserie con 18 capitulos de Disney + para Daredevil: Born Again (2024).

Historial de publicaciones
Creado por el escritor Stan Lee y el artista John Romita, Sr., apareció por primera vez en The Amazing Spider-Man # 70 (marzo de 1969).

Biografía del personaje ficticio
Poco se sabe sobre la vida personal y los primeros años de Vanessa Fisk, aparte de su nombre de soltera "Mariana".Como esposa de Wilson Fisk, el "Kingpin" del hampa criminal de Nueva York, Vanessa no aprobó las actividades delictivas de su marido. En un momento dado, su hijo Richard Fisk se involucró en un complot para derrocar al sindicato criminal de su padre después de descubrir que él era el Kingpin.

Después de que Kingpin tuvo una experiencia cercana a la muerte, Vanessa le dio un ultimátum; tenía veinticuatro horas para salir del crimen o ella lo abandonaría. Kingpin estaba a punto de matar a Spider-Man cuando se cumplió el plazo, y Vanessa lo obligó a elegir entre la vida de Spider-Man o su vida en común. Él eligió a su esposa y salvó a Spider-Man como resultado.

Ambos se jubilaron en Japón. Kingpin se preparó para resolver su negocio restante con sus compañeros mafiosos al cooperar con las autoridades y abandonar el mundo del crimen para siempre. Esto enfureció a uno de los asesores más cercanos de Kingpin, Lynch, que creía que Vanessa era una responsabilidad y había convertido al otrora poderoso Kingpin en un marido arrodillado. Cuando los antiguos tenientes de Fisk en Nueva York descubrieron sus planes de venderlos a cambio de inmunidad, secuestraron a Vanessa, que estaba en la ciudad para asegurar los servicios legales de Matt Murdock y Foggy Nelson.

Fisk comenzó una guerra de pandillas contra la mafia en Nueva York para rescatar a su esposa. Los jefes de la mafia intentaron rescatar a Vanessa a cambio de la evidencia contra ellos que Fisk había tenido la intención de entregar a las autoridades, pero durante el intercambio, Kingpin usó un dispositivo sónico para detener a los criminales y la encontró atada y amordazada en un edificio. Sin embargo, Lynch disparó un explosivo a Vanessa, en un intento de privar a Fisk de lo que lo mantuvo retirado y traerlo de regreso como el Kingpin del Crimen. Sin embargo, fue enterrada viva entre los escombros y presuntamente muerta, aunque en realidad no murió. Según lo planeado, esto llevó a Kingpin de vuelta al mundo del crimen, aunque descubrió que Lynch estaba detrás de la explosión, en parte debido a un dolor de cabeza que ganó, y se vengó asesinando a su asesor traidor. Luego forzó a los líderes restantes de la mafia a confesar que contrataron al asesino Bullseye para matar a varios de los hombres de Fisk.

Semanas más tarde, el alter ego de Matt Murdock, Daredevil, encontró a Vanessa en las alcantarillas. Ser enterrado vivo había dejado a Vanessa amnésica y mentalmente inestable, y ella terminó siendo acogida por un mutante grotesco que vivía en las alcantarillas. Daredevil finalmente la utilizó como palanca para obligar a Kingpin a ordenar a su títere Randolph Cherryh, recién elegido para el cargo de alcalde, que renunciara y para confirmar a los medios que él era de hecho un títere de la mafia. Después de reunirse con ella, Kingpin envió a su ahora catatónica esposa a un sanatorio en Europa para que recuperara la cordura. Esto tomaría años, ya que el imperio del crimen organizado de Vanessa caería y se reconstruiría durante el período en que Vanessa fue institucionalizada.

En última instancia, Vanessa se recuperaría, y ella permanecería en Europa. Pero cuando su esposo fue víctima de un intento de asesinato orquestado por su hijo, Vanessa hizo arreglos para que su esposo fuera enviado del país para recuperarse de sus heridas, y para llegar a un acuerdo con sus colegas jefes de la mafia para dividir el recientemente reconstruido sindicato del crimen de Fisk, a cambio de una tregua. Luego, Vanessa dio el paso final y brutal de asesinar personalmente a su propio hijo devoto, quien admitió ante Vanessa que su motivación era librar a la familia de su padre, a quien culpaba de los problemas de su familia.

El acto de asesinar a su propio hijo amado causó un terrible saldo físico en Vanessa, causando que lentamente pierda la voluntad de vivir, lo que junto con las heridas que sufrió cuando fue enterrada viva, culminó en su cuerpo que sufría una falla terminal del órgano. Culpando a su esposo y Matt Murdock, quien recientemente había sido revelado como Daredevil, por el interminable ciclo de violencia que había consumido a su familia, Vanessa fingió la muerte de Foggy Nelson en un intento de provocar a Murdock a matar a Fisk mientras ambos estaban en prisión. Cuando eso falló, ella manipuló el superhéroe Iron Fist haciéndose pasar por Daredevil, que finalmente llevó a Matt a escapar de la prisión para encontrar al asesino de Foggy y la identidad del hombre que lo representa, culminando con que ella confrontara a Matt con una oferta para limpiar su nombre a cambio de limpiar a Kingpin, para que los dos sería libre de intentar y matarse el uno al otro de nuevo.

Aunque Daredevil rechazó este trato, Vanessa se adelantó y arregló el asesinato de Leland Drummond, el corrupto director del FBI que sacó a Matt para avanzar en su propia carrera dentro del FBI. Para desacreditar su salida de Daredevil, el asesinato se hizo parecer un suicidio y se plantó una nota de suicidio falsa y altamente condenatoria en la escena, alegando que Drummond se quitó la vida después de que se hizo evidente que su plan para enmarcar a Matt Murdock era sobre estar expuesto. Poco después, Vanessa murió y Murdock se sintió moralmente culpable de servir como el abogado del Kingpin, obteniendo los cargos caídos sobre la base de que la evidencia estaba demasiado contaminada para llevarlo a la corte. Pero Daredevil exigiría su propia forma de negociación fáustica con Kingpin, ya que forzó al jefe del crimen a renunciar a su ciudadanía estadounidense y abandonar el país para siempre a cambio de los servicios legales de su némesis, afirmando que cualquier intento de continuar su venganza sería un insulto al recuerdo de la buena mujer que Vanessa había sido una vez.

Wilson Fisk es visto más tarde en su tumba donde se descompone emocionalmente. Desde entonces, ella ha estado hablando con Wilson como una visión fantasmal que se burla de él de que nunca recuperará su antigua gloria, una indicación de que su muerte aún le afecta en gran medida.

Los árbitros traer de vuelta a Vanessa como un revenant como parte de una prueba destinada a medir el valor del Kingpin como la cabeza de La Mano. Reacio a combatir a su esposa, Fisk trata de atraer a cualquier humanidad que aún le quede, y la mata cuando aún arroja sus armas hacia él, sin darse cuenta de que en realidad estaba apuntando al asesino que se le acercaba desde atrás.

El Chacal "reanima" a Vanessa en un intento de forzar al Kingpin a aliarse con él en Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. Kingpin responde rompiendo el cuello de Vanessa mientras declara: "Esa no era mi esposa. Eso era una abominación".

Después de que el alcalde Fisk comienza a planear que Peter Parker sea asesinado, ya que él es el compañero de cuarto de Fred Myers, quien lo está chantajeando, una entidad misteriosa no muerta aparece en su gabinete. Mata a los asociados de Fisk usando habilidades sobrenaturales y lo obliga a retirarse de Parker, después de revelar que está en posesión del alma de Vanessa.

El alcalde Fisk planeó revivir a Vanessa obteniendo la Tableta de la vida y el destino y su contraparte hermana, la Tableta de la Muerte y la Entropía.Al tener en sus manos ambas tabletas, Fisk usa sus habilidades para revivir a Richard Fisk cuando Kingpin se dio cuenta de que Vanessa no estaría contenta con su resurrección. Hizo esto como un acto de redención para Vanessa e incluso para sí mismo.

Otras versiones
En el libro crossover Marvel / DC Batman & Spider-Man: New Age Dawning # 1, Vanessa está infectada con cáncer terminal por Ra's al Ghul, quien le ofrece la cura para el Kingpin a cambio de su ayuda en un plan que destruirá. York. Descontentado por Ra's, el Kingpin forma una alianza con Spider-Man y Batman y logra derrotar a Ra's, solo para que el ecoterrorista derrotado le niegue la cura para el cáncer de su esposa. Vanessa se cura cerca del final de la historia con un antídoto proporcionado por la hija de Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, quien reconoce a Vanessa como un alma gemela, ya que ambos amaban a un hombre que la sociedad consideraría como un monstruo.

En el universo alternativo de Marvel Zombies 3, se revela que ella no fue infectada ni comió cuando los zombis tomaron el control del mundo. pero su marido zombi la ha mantenido secretamente con vida, que es capaz de controlar su hambre de carne humana cuando está cerca, pero cuando Machine Man destruye la fábrica de clones de Kingpin y Yocasta, él consume a Vanessa.

Vanessa Fisk aparece como un importante personaje de fondo en Ultimate Spider-Man. Kingpin busca la Tableta del Tiempo, ya que supuestamente tiene poderes que Kingpin espera que despierten a Vanessa de un coma. pero es robado por la Gata Negra. Más tarde, después de que Kingpin prende fuego al bufete de abogados de Daredevil, Daredevil irrumpe en la casa de Fisk y amenaza con asesinar a la en estado de coma de Vanessa, pero es detenido por Spider-Man. Fisk ordena que Vanessa sea sacada del país antes de ser arrestado por el intento de asesinato de Caballero Luna.

En la serie Punisher Max, ambientada en el universo MAX de Marvel, Vanessa está casada con Kingpin, pero su matrimonio se derrumba cuando la toma de control de Wilson Fisk causa la muerte de su hijo Richard, de ocho años. Vanessa culpa a Wilson por no haber evitado la muerte de Richard, y después de que intenta sin éxito matarlo por esto, la desaloja de su hogar. Más tarde, para protegerse del Punisher, Kingpin contrata a Elektra como un guardaespaldas. Se revela que Elektra en realidad fue contratada por Vanessa, que está tramando la caída de Kingpin, y que las dos mujeres son amantes. Después de que Kingpin sea asesinado por el Punisher en el número 21, Vanessa tiene su cuerpo incinerado y arroja sus cenizas al inodoro. Parece lista para hacerse cargo del antiguo imperio de su marido, ya que su chofer la llama "Madame Kingpin". Pero en el número 22, Nick Fury la embosca y la mata.

En otros medios

Televisión

 Vanessa Fisk apareció en Spider-Man: The Animated Series, con la voz de Caroline Goodall. En los episodios "Tablet of Time" y "Ravages of Time", es uno de los pocos personajes que saben que Wilson Fisk es el Kingpin. Eventualmente, Vanessa decide divorciarse de Wilson y se va para siempre, incapaz de lidiar con ser la esposa de un criminal.
 Vanessa Mariana es una serie regular en las temporadas 1 y 3 de Daredevil, retratada por Ayelet Zurer.
 En la temporada 1, ella es la propietaria de la galería de arte Scene Contempo en Manhattan. Fisk conoce a Vanessa por primera vez mientras contempla una obra de arte y se enamora instantáneamente de ella, y luego la invita a salir. Su primera cita transcurre sin problemas, pero se interrumpe cuando Anatoly Ranskahov interviene para informar a Fisk que acepta una oferta de apoyo que James Wesley le había ofrecido. La cena deja a Vanessa algo perturbada, mientras que Fisk está indignado hasta el punto que lleva a Anatoly a un terreno baldío, lo golpea inconsciente y lo decapita con la puerta de un automóvil. Para su segunda cita, Fisk toma la precaución adicional de comprar el restaurante para evitar interrupciones y Vanessa revela que lleva un arma en su bolso, consciente de la vida que conduce Fisk. Más tarde, después de que Madame Gao amenaza a Fisk en su departamento, Wesley toma la iniciativa y trae a Vanessa para calmar a Fisk. Con la influencia de Vanessa, Fisk decide salir a bolsa y pintarse a sí mismo como un salvador de Hell's Kitchen. Esto provoca la ira de Madame Gao y Leland Owlsley, quienes intentan matar a Vanessa agregando el champán en una gala benéfica que Fisk está organizando. Fisk logra llevar a Vanessa al hospital a tiempo, y ella se recupera. Más tarde, Fisk es arrestado después de que el bufete de abogados Nelson & Murdock contrate a Carl Hoffman, un detective de policía corrupto que Fisk había chantajeado para que matara a su compañero para entregarle las pruebas del estado. Mientras lo arrestan, le propone a Vanessa, y acepta. Cuando Fisk es recapturado, Vanessa es sacada del país por uno de los hombres de Fisk.
 En la temporada 2, se revela que Fisk usó la mayoría de sus activos financieros restantes para establecer un fondo de protección para Vanessa, lo que le permite esconderse de manera segura en el extranjero mientras Fisk está a la espera del juicio. Sospechando que Fisk está detrás de la fuga de Frank Castle, Matt Murdock provoca que Fisk esté en la cárcel para atacar, amenazando con hacer una llamada al Departamento de Estado para que revocen la visa de Vanessa en Estados Unidos.
 Al comienzo de la temporada 3, Vanessa está siendo acusada como accesorio de los crímenes de Fisk. Al no querer separarse de ella, Fisk acepta ser un informante para el agente del FBI, Rahul "Ray" Nadeem a cambio de la protección continua de Vanessa. Una vez reunida, Vanessa se muda al penthouse de Fisk y se involucra con el estilo de vida criminal de Fisk y ordena que Felix Manning lleve a cabo el asesinato del Agente Nadeem. Ella y Fisk se casan, pero su día especial se interrumpe cuando Benjamin Poindexter ataca la recepción y Daredevil interviene. Después de la pelea, Daredevil obliga a Fisk a regresar a la cárcel bajo la amenaza del encarcelamiento de Vanessa debido a su papel en la muerte del Agente Nadeem. Vanessa es vista por última vez siendo llevada por la policía como Brett Mahoney se niega a que Fisk se despida de ella.
 Vanessa Fisk aparecerá en la serie de Marvel Studios para Disney+ Daredevil: Born Again, interpretada por Sandrine Holt.

Película
Vanessa Fisk aparece en Spider-Man: Un nuevo universo, con la voz de Lake Bell. Se reveló en un flashback que ella y Richard Fisk murieron en un accidente automovilístico después de ver a su marido golpear a Spider-Man. Esto motiva a Kingpin a tener un acelerador de partículas construido para cumplir con una versión de su familia que aún está viva.

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The State of New Jersey Compiled from the Most...
Mathew Carey
The State of New Jersey Compiled from the Most Authentic Information
Philadelphia / 1814
Fine Early Map of the State of New Jersey
Nice example of Mathew Carey's map of New Jersey, first published in Carey's General Atlas in 1814.
The map is exceptionally detailed for the period, being one of the earliest maps to show in detail the road system of New Jersey, along with early towns, rivers, mountains and other details.
Mathew Carey published the first atlas of American maps in 1795, compiling a number of excellent maps from indigenous sources.
Carey's map is one of the earliest obtainable separately published maps of New Jersey following the American Revolution. For example, it pre-dates Gordon's map of New Jersey, the first large format map of New Jersey, printed after the American Revolution, which was not published until 1828. The Gordon map is generally considered the most important map of New Jersey published in the 19th Century: /gallery/detail/26762
An essential map for New Jersey collectors.
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Tanya Huff, The Privilege of Peace (DAW 978-0-7564-1153-4, $26.00, 342pp, hc) June 2018. Cover by Paul Youll.
Torin Kerr – and the alien plastic – are back in this lively third novel in the Peacekeeper trilogy, itself a follow-up to the military SF Confederation novels. Torin and her Wardens Strike Team Alpha continue their work keeping the peace when things get violent, but they're having continued trouble from the group Humans First, radicals who believe humans should be running the Confederation. The group has given up trying to woo Torin to join them, and now they're trying to kill her and her boyfriend/pilot Craig. Humans First are also working on dangerous new weapons to use against the hive-minded plastic, which makes a sudden reappearance. On top of it all, Torin gets new fuel for her distrust of the "peaceful" Elder Race called the H'san. The plot, full of small battles building up to a grand confrontation, moves at a breakneck pace, while Torin's highly skilled team and their banter add welcome touches of humor to fraught situations. Enough threads are tied off to make this a reasonable conclusion to the series – but I'm hoping for more to come.
This review and more like it in the July 2018 issue of Locus.


New Leech Species Named for Author Amy Tan main content.
Using an innovative method for peering inside soft-bodied animals, researchers have described a new species of leech and named it after best-selling author Amy Tan.
Chtonobdella tanae, a terrestrial leech from Australia, is the first new species of invertebrate without chitinous or calcified tissues (like a shell or exoskeleton) to be described using computed tomography (CT) scanning. The work was recently published in the journal Zoologica Scripta, and represents a new avenue for studying soft-bodied organisms like worms and jellyfish—especially those like Chtonobdella tanae which, at about 1 centimeter long and 2 millimeters wide, is too small to dissect.
CT scanners take thousands of cross-sectional x-ray "slices" of a rotating object to produce a digital 3D view of its interior. As the x-ray beam passes through the object, different tissues or materials absorb different amounts of x-rays. Detectors on the opposite side pick up the x-rays and create a contrast image based on the density of the internal components.
As with all x-ray techniques, dense structures like bone are easily imaged, whereas soft tissues are less able to stop x-rays, making them difficult to image. The result is that while CT scanning has enabled great strides in fields like paleontology in the last decade, those who study soft-bodied organisms have continued to rely on traditional dissection techniques to examine their specimens.
With the goal of making the tissues in soft-bodied animals show more contrast in CT scans, the researchers examined a variety of chemicals that preserve biological tissues from decay. Tests revealed contrast in the CT image was best enhanced by treating the leech with a compound called AFA, and then treating it again with the chemical osmium tetroxide. This two-step process let the heavy metal osmium bind to the specimen's internal tissues, making it easier to image in a CT scanner.
The internal structure of the newly described leech Chtonobdella tanae.
The leech was given the name Chtonobdella tanae in recognition of Amy Tan, author of the best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club and other works, who was excited to hear about the honor.


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Multimedia Staff Picks
September 16, 2021 September 15, 2021 ~ ecackowski
Emily's Picks
Libby Audiobook: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
You won't be able to put this breezy, lighthearted, and hilarious fantasy down! It has lots of humor and heart, memorable characters and dialogue, and a perfect happily (or scrappily!) ever after. Plain but spunky Sophie is transformed by a curse into an old woman, and must enlist the help of the cowardly, wizard Howl. They butt heads, and bicker constantly, but there is a spark between them that Sophie can't seem to extinguish. And Howl may need her help to break a curse of his own…
CD: The First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans
Probably best remembered for its one hit, "Lovefool," this album boasts a dreamy, psychedelic sound that feels more like a product of the 70s than of 1996. It's fun and funky, and easy to listen to over and over. Standout tracks include "Your New Cuckoo," "Step On Me," and the band's very groovy cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man."
DVD: Soul
Pixar once again successfully tackles a big, heavy topic with humor and heart. Soul is about a Middle School music teacher/Jazz pianist and an unborn soul that grapple with finding purpose and living life fully. This movie is a must-watch for fans of Up or Inside Out.
CD: Complete Greatest Hits by The Cars
This is a good collection of this New Wave band's hits. It includes one of my favorites, "Moving in Stereo," which is not included on some of their other greatest hits compilations since it was not released as a single.
John's Picks
DVD: How the States Got Their Shapes
Ever wonder why Pennsylvania and Delaware share a rounded border? Or what about all those perfectly square states out west? And why the heck is Rhode Island so tiny? If these questions interest you, then this History Channel series is perfect for you! It's a super interesting show that explores why each state in the USA looks the way it does. Combining history, geography, and culture—host Brian Unger uncovers the stories behind the familiar shapes on our modern American map.
CD: Game of Thrones Season Eight: Music from the HBO Series
Revisit Westeros through the soundtrack to the final season of HBO's legendary series—Game of Thrones. Season 8 was when so many storylines we've been anticipating finally wrapped up, and these were the songs accompanying the hype. "Jenny of Oldstones," "The Last of the Starks," and "The Night King" may leave you with goosebumps.
DVD: The Railway Children
Based on Edith's Nesbit's 1906 novel of the same name, this 1970 film is a charming and episodic (in the most complimentary way) tale of the numerous childhood adventures of the Waterburys, trying to make due in Yorkshire after the father is falsely accused of spying and imprisoned.
Libby Audiobook: Middlemarch by George Eliot
This is sometimes considered the greatest novel (1871) in English. Eliot, nom de plume for Mary Ann Evans, describes life in a 19th century English town on the verge of modernity. She draws masterful life-like portraits of all its denizens, from bankers and physicians to clerics and politicians, from farmers and auctioneers to stay-at-home biddies and young women waking up to potentialities.
Mary's Picks
DVD: Once Upon a Time
All the classic fairytales in one place with a new twist. Enchanting and fun to watch for any fan of fantasy and fairytales. Makes for a great girls night; I used to watch this every Sunday in the fall and winter with my roommates and we loved it.
Audiobook: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
An interesting read that can help you plan when to make important decisions in life. Timing really is everything. Includes such topics as circadian rhythms, time of year, beginnings, endings, motivation, restorative breaks, and group behavior. Will make you look at things you've done in the past and things you'd like to do in the future in a different way.
Stephanie's Picks
DVD: The Hate U Give
"Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?"
CD: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
After topping the charts with hits off the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank brings more of a mainstream vibe without losing any authenticity.
To view our past staff picks, go to cclsmultimedia.wordpress.com. All quoted summaries are from catalog.ccls.org.
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Civic Populism: The People's Politics of Geno Baroni
by Harry C. Boyte February 22, 2016 July 8, 2020
I am honored today, October 24, 2030, to be chosen as storyteller by the Smithsonian Institution's Council of American Peoples at the opening of the Geno Baroni Center for Democracy, a satellite institution of the Smithsonian in Acosta, Pennsylvania. Geno Baroni was born here 100 years ago, on October 24, 1930, as the son of Italian immigrants. Guido, his father, worked in the Somerset coal mine here in Acosta. Josephine, his mother, survived Geno's early death at the age of 53 in 1984.
Geno Baroni battled the cancer mesothelioma. In his last years, Monsignor Baroni organized cancer patients as he had organized others for more than two decades. "People who are organized," he said, "will be able to move from powerlessness to power because power is the ability to act."
The Baroni Center has been established by the Smithsonian's Council of American Peoples to recognize his commitment to "people's politics," what can be called civic populism. Baroni's brand of politics honored the diversity of peoples and cultures on this continent and what they contribute to the work of a more democratic, inclusive, and just society. In the vein of his funeral, which drew political and civic leaders from across the political spectrum, many candidates from various parties are citing the legacy of Monsignor Baroni in their campaigns this fall. Indeed, we are witnessing a rebirth of people's politics.
We are now in the midst of a large process of building and rebuilding a democratic society through such politics. We don't know where it will lead—as the first African American federal judge William Hastie was fond of saying, "Democracy is a journey, not a destination." But we do know that people's politics has generated substantial changes in the tone and direction of politics in the past 15 years. People's politics, understood as a civic populist politics, has created a much more egalitarian and inclusive ethos in our nation's public life than once seemed imaginable.
Sometimes also called "recommunalizing the world," civic populist politics has brought images and stories, memories and markers, in a word, culture, back into public spaces of all kinds: from schools to government agencies and businesses—spaces once stripped of distinguishing characteristics that anchored them in particular locations. It has begun to reground professional identities and practices—and educational processes that shape them—in the civic fiber of places. It has created democratizing alliances, institutional transformations, and innovations in myriad settings, none more important than the wide adoption of civic environmental approaches to address climate change and mitigate its effects.
In the process, civic populist politics has been a school for democracy, teaching, and cultivating capacities for productive citizenship to millions of people. Civic populist politics is helping to reverse what the sociologist Max Weber saw as the irreversible disenchantment of the world through the spread of instrumental rationality. Weber also called the process the "polar night of icy darkness."
A mere 15 years ago, in 2015, politics seemed most certainly headed toward that polar night, full of bitter polarizations and poisonous recriminations based on monocultures of epistemic enclosure and purification. The ever-worsening polarizing politics of the early 21st century led Americans on all sides of the political spectrum to deny, suppress, and forget that those different from themselves were also human beings of immense complexity, with potential for democratic and generous action as well as mean-spirited and antidemocratic action. So, too, whole swaths of the social landscape were portrayed in monochromatic terms as good or evil—conservative Christians, liberals, Muslims, government bureaucrats, white working class, black teenagers…the list is endless. Most people despaired of ever seeing the society change, convinced that its institutions and structures had an insidious life of their own, beyond reform. In those years, political leaders and trend-setters alike scorned places like Acosta and figures like Monsignor Baroni as hopelessly out of date, relics of a past best forgotten.
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Door to door canvassing, popularized in the 1970s, inadvertently contributed to the polarization of American politics by spreading a "good vs. evil" dialogue.
Ironically, the effort to purify political positions and polarize the society was widespread among environmentalists who championed ecological diversity. In the 1970s, environmental groups pioneered in a new technology of polarization called "the canvass," in which activists went door to door to raise money and solicit support for issues. While its motivation was easy to understand—environmentalists, like other progressives, were searching for ways to meet the challenge of large scale efforts to roll back environmental protections and other policies affected by 1960s social movements—it produced unanticipated civic damage on a large scale and resulted in activist monocultures. The canvass approach became ever more widespread from the 1970s onwards, using advanced communications techniques based on a formula: find a target or enemy to demonize, develop a script that defines the issue in good-versus-evil terms and shuts down critical thought, and convey the idea that those who champion the victims will come to the rescue. This formula spread rapidly across the political spectrum, turning electoral and issue campaigns into battles of good versus evil. The Manichean dynamic also reflected the erosion of civic spaces where people of diverse views and interests had previously interacted in open-ended ways on public problems. As early as the 1920s, for instance, YMCAs began to trade in their identity as a movement of citizens served by civic-minded "secretaries" for a new identity—institutions comprised of huge buildings and scientifically trained exercise professionals who provide "programs" for paying members. More generally, schools, colleges, businesses, congregations, and government agencies lost civic roots. What were once anchoring institutions through which people developed a sense of agency in the world turned into service providers for customers and clients.
An important countertrend called "civic environmentalism," an alternative to polarizing politics, was gaining some momentum in the 1990s. In civic environmentalism, groups with different interests and views develop plans for collaborative public work. Some government policy-makers recognized a need to shift from top–down regulation to setting broad goals on air quality and other environmental questions, providing resources for communities to work out strategies themselves. As the sociologist Carmen Sirianni discovered through interviews with the Environmental Protection Agency, a large number of leaders in the agency were enthusiastic about the potential of civic environmentalism to address challenges of all kinds, from dumping of hazardous wastes in low-income communities to the challenges of climate change. Leading conservatives like William Schambra were also championing civic environmentalism. But civic environmentalism lost significant ground inside government in both the Bush and Obama years, mirroring conflicts in the society as technocratic policy-making came to dominate.
Civil society took up the baton and organized around climate issues, but this was as polarizing as ever, with huge numbers of citizens "in the middle" unmotivated to work for change. Disruption, the promotional film for the New York People's Climate March of 2014, provided a dramatic example of the problem. The film claimed the legacy of the civil rights movement March on Washington in 1963: "All the big social movements in history have had people in the streets," said one leader. But Disruption, seeking to polarize people against conservatives and fossil fuel industries, bore little resemblance to the inclusive message of the March on Washington.
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The New York People's Climate March in September of 2014 only served to further polarize people against conservative politics.
The 1963 March was based on the strategy of Bayard Rustin, March organizer, who believed that the task was precisely not to polarize but rather to "win over the middle." A third of the nation was behind the goals of the movement. A third was opposed. Most Americans, focused elsewhere, had to be convinced. Martin Luther King's brilliant "I Have a Dream" speech embodied this strategy, coupling his challenge to Americans to make real the promise of democracy with an inclusive dream and a call to discipline anger. If it had followed the approach of the March on Washington, the narrative of Disruption would have made visible business owners, Pentagon officials, Evangelical Christians, civic leaders in Middle America organizing sandbag lines to protect their towns from flooding, as well as poor people, racial minorities, and progressive climate change activists. Many outside progressive ranks joined the march in New York, but not in Disruption.1
The march's message, belying the diversity of participants, reflected not only the good-versus-evil style of polarizing politics but also was associated with a default positivism that settled in across society, detaching progressive professional cultures from civic life. A sign in the Denver airport in 2013 illustrated the point, trumpeting the message that Colorado State University, not far away, wanted to communicate to the world: "Local problems, university solutions." This message was operationalized in hundreds of millions of dollars each year spent on translational science by the National Institutes of Health, based on translating scientific discoveries into "evidence-based solutions" to be uniformly applied in vastly different contexts.
Triumphalist science produced the cult of the expert, championing the authority of scientific knowledge as the only valid form of knowledge. In this view, outside experts bring solutions to the masses who are seen as ignorant, passive, and needy. If the masses fail to listen, the remedy is to turn up the volume. Much climate science in the early 21st century illustrated this pattern. Thus, an editorial in Nature, a leading scientific journal, called for scientists to get into the fray. "Where political leadership on climate change is lacking scientists must be prepared to stick their heads above the parapet." The editorial observed that greenhouse gases were continuing to rise and "climate change contrarians [were] multiplying in numbers." Their solution: "Climate scientists must be ever more energetic in taking their message to citizens." Scientists "taking their message to citizens" assumes that the scientists have the answer—and are different than citizens.
But there were stirrings of people's politics of the kind that had been championed earlier by Geno Baroni. About the time of the Climate March, a group of public intellectuals, scientists, and community organizers with support from the National Science Foundation organized a conference on "civic science," aimed at reconceptualizing the relationship between science and society. In civic science, science is understood as a knowledge resource for action in the world, a source of empowerment, not a description of the state of the world from the outside. Scientists come to understand themselves as citizens, with useful knowledge, but not all the answers, and develop skills of collaborative work. Civic science, revitalizing the democratic practices and values of science like cooperation, open inquiry, and commitment to the commonwealth of knowledge, began to attract support from leading scientists and also from STEM teachers, tribal colleges, cooperative extension systems and many others who suffered from "expert knows best" approaches.
Civic science, like other strands of civic populism, drew on rich histories of practice and philosophy of the popular movements of the New Deal. Geno Baroni's family had been active in such movements, leaders in union organizing and other efforts to create a "Catholic New Deal" in the 1930s. Baroni absorbed their spirit and values. He was passionately concerned with bridging the racial gap between blacks and white ethnics. He understood power. He had deep respect for the democratic potentials of the multitude of American cultures.
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The 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington strove for inclusivity, embracing diversity and the political middle ground. These ideals are the basis of civic populism.
Baroni became a Catholic priest in 1956, served in white ethnic working class parishes, then transferred to an inner city African American parish in Washington. He was Catholic coordinator for the 1963 March on Washington, and led the Catholic delegation to the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. In the late sixties, Baroni argued for a third way in politics, which he called the new populism. New populism differed from universalist liberalism focused on rights and redistribution and contemptuous of white ethnics whom liberals saw as bastions of bigotry. It also differed from neo-conservatism with its Burkean, defensive perspective. This is how Baroni described his vision:
The organizer has to believe that ordinary people can build bridges across racial and ethnic lines. The organizer has to get ordinary people in touch with their roots, their heritage, their best. The organizer has to give ordinary people hope.
Baroni was a key architect of the Campaign for Human Development in the Catholic Church, for decades the most important funder of organizing work that empowers the poor. He founded the National Center of Urban Ethnic Affairs, which worked with hundreds of ethnic and community groups.
He also understood that government can be an empowering partner with communities and lay citizens—neither the enemy nor the solution. Baroni was the force behind policies like the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which required banks to make public their lending practices, a tremendous resource for grassroots organizing. An architect of Jimmy Carter's "ethnic campaign" strategy in the 1976 presidential race, Baroni was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he changed government programs into resources for citizen self-help and empowerment. Baroni lay the groundwork for the civic environmental approaches in the Clinton years.
Believing that democratic organizing could be practiced anywhere—and needs to be practiced everywhere—he took heat from community organizers who saw "big institutions" like government or higher education as targets, not as sites for democratic change. For three decades after his death, there was growth in broad-based community organizing, mainly in religious congregations. But democratic organizing in settings like professions, higher education, and government was rare.
Just when it seemed Baroni's civic populism was on the verge of extinction in mainstream politics, it resurfaced in 2015 and 2016. A group of tenured and adjunct faculty organized by the Service Employees International Union picked up the mantle of college presidents who had been calling for the revitalization of higher education's democratic narrative. Successfully waging a campaign to dismantle the "national rankings," whose variables in US News and World Report put a premium on exclusivity and detachment from communities, the movement revived the idea that colleges are "part of" places, not simply "partners with" places. A national conversation on "the changing world of work" and how colleges can be a resource for communities reinforced this movement, educating the public about the multiple roles and contributions higher education can play in society—forgotten in the "race to the top" focus on education as a ticket to individual success.
In 2016, both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates touted civic environmentalism as the way forward on climate change and other environmental challenges, building on cross-partisan, practical, collaborative climate change initiatives in many cities. In 2018, the "People's Alliance for a Cooperative Commonwealth" had its founding convention as a cross-partisan civic populist movement aimed not only at electoral changes but at democratic transformations in the social and economic life of the nation. As we all know, the People's Alliance has had enormous impact.
Geno Baroni embodied the democratic genius of America. He is an ancestor of the People's Alliance. We celebrate his legacy—and the fact that people have brought his people's politics back on a grand scale.
Boyte, HC. Democracy and the People's Climate March. Huffington Post [online] (September 10, 2014). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-boyte/democracy-and-the-peoples_b_5790444.html.
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Mandala Mandala Magazine Archive Mandala for 2006 April
By Fabrizio Pallotti
Lama Kyabje Ribur Rinpoche
The revered lama Kyabje Ribur Rinpoche passed away on January 15, 2006 at Sera Me monastery in southern India, at the age of 84.
For many years, Fabrizio Pallotti traveled all over the world with Ribur Rinpoche as his translator and attendant. He recalls the passing of his perfect teacher who inspired many Western students with his teachings, most especially due to the outpouring of unbelievable love and compassion that emanated from his whole being.
The last time I saw Rinpoche in Washington, D.C., where he had been undergoing cancer treatment, he said to me, "Look, do you want me to be here in a body like this, or do you prefer that a young body comes back?" At the time, I couldn't answer; I would choke up with tears. Now I realize that because Rinpoche had initiated so many incredible actions to develop world peace, to spread the Dharma, and to benefit sentient beings, he just wanted to take off and come back with a strong, young body to finish those actions. I have a few friends who went to visit Rinpoche a few days before he passed away, and they said that Rinpoche was totally strong, in an incredibly good mood, giving teachings, totally unconcerned for himself..
When he passed away, it was during the full moon of the Kalachakra, which is very auspicious. The monastery was nearly empty at that time, with everyone at the Kalachakra initiation. It seems as if he wanted to be alone, as if he didn't want anybody to be around taking care of him.
Two days after Rinpoche's passing, I arrived at Sera Me. I went to Rinpoche's house, and even though his breath had stopped, he was still meditating, sitting up in front of his Lama Tsongkhapa statue, his holy body leaning slightly to the right and his head slightly to the left.
After five or six days, Geshe Losang Choepel, the attendant of the late Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, was called upon because of his great knowledge of ritual and how to handle the passing away of a high lama. He determined that Rinpoche was no longer meditating, and many preparations were done to anoint the holy body in the perfect way. An ablution of saffron water was offered to the holy body; we wrapped Rinpoche in new robes and deity ornaments and left him in the same sitting position for one day while we made preparations for the cremation. Though it was quite hot, there was no decomposing, no smell, and no rigor mortis. His body was amazingly supple. Throughout this time, many lamas, geshes, and young monks visited Rinpoche, and many self-initiations were performed on a daily basis: Heruka, Vajrayogini, Yamantaka, and many other practices.
We were able to build the stupa crematorium very quickly, and since it is the main disciple who should offer the fire puja, the ritual was performed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. During the puja, the mood among the disciples was of total desperation. We all felt like our one holy father had just left us for good. After less than one hour, not even halfway through the puja, one of the highest lamas at Sera Me, Oser Rinpoche, looked inside the crematorium and said that the body wasn't there anymore. I looked inside and Rinpoche's holy body had vanished..
[One week later] Oser Rinpoche called to me and said, "Fabrizio, look at this, look, look!" I looked inside and I could see a bunch of white, pearl-like pebbles: There were thousands of them. For me, and I think for most of us there, it was as if this was all happening in a dream. For the Western world what goes on at the monasteries, what the Tibetan lamas do, is almost like science fiction. Upon finding these holy relics, a ceremony was immediately done to purify and bless them, after which we did Lama Chopa, the offering puja to the guru.
Rinpoche was among the last of his kind. He was in Tibet before the coming of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and experienced the golden age of Tibet. During the Cultural Revolution, he was able to do some of the most amazing actions for the benefit of the teachings and all sentient beings. He discovered the lost statue of Jowo Ramoche, one of three images made at the time of the Buddha and blessed by him; as well, Rinpoche reestablished the great reliquary of Ganden and the stupa of Je Rinpoche, along with countless other holy images that had disappeared from Tibet when the monasteries were looted. Incredibly holy images would cross Rinpoche's path with seemingly no effort. For instance, in Drepung Monastery a conch shell is preserved that was given to Lord Buddha by a child. It is said that the Buddha prophesized the child would be the future Je Rinpoche, a second Buddha to propagate the teachings. Monghallana, one of Lord Buddha's students, then flew to Tibet and buried the conch in the mountains where Tsongkhapa later unearthed it. On that spot he established Ganden monastery. Centuries later, this conch was stolen and was nowhere to be found for several years. Then one day when Rinpoche was in Dharamsala, an old Tibetan man knocked at Rinpoche's door and handed him the very conch that had been missing…
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If you follow self-cherishing thoughts, those thoughts become your identity. Then anger, pride, the jealous mind – all this negative emotional stuff arises. When you let go of the I and cherish others, negative emotional thoughts do not arise. That's very clear. Anger does not arise at those you cherish.