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THIS YEAR, so far in online projects, things are moving in an interesting direction. A giant overarching theme has been coming into shape. People want to talk together share about really big things related to: love, loss, risk, and chance. I get that. It's kind of a major attractor for me, this idea of leaping into uncertainty. So we talk together about family. Relationships. Life…. Quality. After testing things for a while, it seems clearer and easier, in some ways, that we can develop really great conversation spaces online. More on the way, for those who are connecting, about the next.
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A Punjabi story #2
April 29, 2017 Karin Malhotra 2 Comments
The poster announcing Kanishka.
TODAY, I'm writing to share a bit of good news about a book of Kismuth's. I mentioned about it earlier, in this post, but I'd like to expand a bit now.
I wanted to tell you more about the writing and sharing of Kanishka, the pre-quel to The Elopement.
SERIAL. Kanishka's first chapter, 'Orange Juice', appeared this month in print in the magazine Preet Lari. That was the magazine that hosted me when I was researching the book, as they have a cool co-living program in a village outside of Amritsar. Preet Lari, I understand, will publish all of Kanishka as a serial, monthly. I understand that this usually 100% Punjabi-language magazine has never published anything in English, yet, but has been dancing around with the idea. For a while. They are generations old.
I know from firsthand conversations with my dear friend and editor PS that this was a huge, huge step. And it's Kanishka. Mesmerizing, to me, because I am floored to think that people in that region of the world who, for thirty years, have also been wondering what happened, will be able to connect with my story, I hope. In some way. From another angle. I wonder if this will circle back, in some way, again, there is only some of most that we can touch, and tap, right? And we can discover something new, together. All this. Connexion. Writing for it. Intrigued by the way the publishing world has changed, such that we can communicate n:n, across time, space and distance.
ABOUT KANISHKA. Hard to write, but important. Why? It's… deftly coaxed out of me by NPR's Frank Stasio in a radio interview, which is achived at this page.
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THE FIRST FEW TIMES I WAS THINKING, 'I want to write,' I guess I was still a kid. I had this notion that you could do it, you could do anything, if you just wanted to enough. Not knowing that there would be a whole lot of people trying to tell you, no, no no, that's not what you do with your life. When you write, it's your hobby. When you work, you know, you make money. That's how it is. Writing is a dream for some people who are idle and rich. Focus. On the tasks at hand. Which are practical, which have everything to do with making it happen, for the things that make sense, because they have to, otherwise… well. Otherwise there would have been no point in existing the way I have chosen to exist… I imagine I hear these things—and I'll come back to that—I'd imagine, and in this imagining, I'd verbalize it.
I'd state it, like was a fact.
To anyone who'd listen, I'd say, 'You can hear these things in people's heads,' you insist, covering up for yourself on the why question, the why you're not writing for real, the stuff you want, and you are working at a newspaper because it feels… like the right thing to do, instead. You intellectualize and come up with reasons not to put words together the way you want, the way that some of the most intriguing people, in foreign lands and closeby, will say really inspire them.
Then you will know, but only then that it doesn't matter about practicals. Until then you are insisting. Saying you have to write for the papers, the magazines, put the freelance-y bits together so… you can… get more work like that. 'You really, really can hear everyone telling you how it should go. They are there in the everywhere… ' Except the day you stop and see. That they are not at all in the everywhere. On that particular eve or morn, you see, at once and forever from that point forward, that they are ringing about, all right, but only in your head.
Accepting the new directions. They are making their own case to exist. —KM
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THE FALL OF 2015. Sweden. A small boat harbor. A little bit of time and space. Me, my writing stuff. A couple of black pens and an empty grid notebook. The big idea was to go and discover about 'uncertainty'. I mean, it was pretty open-ended. Sure it was. That was the point of it. I didn't know this at the time, but I was going to run into a bunch of people who might, just might, change my outlook on how things are. How things go. What things mean, don't mean, and what they might look like if you just shift the angle, change the lens. Another universe, for me.
Cool and Novemberish, the autumn. Such a discrete opposite to the same time of year in Cambodia, my home-away-from-home-away-from-home. A long story, this drifting into new territories.
You could say it's inspired by Situationism, but I think it's more about my situation. Getting lost on purpose starts with some degree of, let's just be direct… necessity. Nobody who is comfortable where she is would really opt to get out there and get lost… would she?
To sort of figure out what the heck was going on with my life, I did something I very infrequently do. I wrote poetry. Poetry! Of all things. Yet it fit. The more the little boat rocked, oh yes, just a little gale, but also quiet sometimes, but then super cold and even -7 one day, that's CELSIUS, I got faster and shorter with my notes. I didn't write the novel. Not quite. I am in the middle of it now, though.
It's two years later, for sure, and I've been to a bunch of other places in the meantime. But the story from there, the interviews and the conversations that shaped the new thinking (which inspired the title, a title I can't share yet because you know how it is when you talk too much about something and then you sort of lose interest in your own idea? Well, yeah, that). I need to share the gleanings, the learnings. The Denmark and Sweden of my six weeks in Scandinavia. If you scroll down on this page, under 'links to essays,' you'll find 'Six weeks in Scandinavia.' Oh! One of the people I met was playing an incredible song and I drew it, and now it's on their CD. That's what the pic is about. Chance. Uncertainty. Serendipity. The road.
If you're curious about the new book that's coming out, check it out.
It's starting. The new writing.
I love this part.
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April 8, 2017 Karin Malhotra 1 Comment
AN UNLIKELY CONNECTION, but a powerful one. I have a lot to share about the conversations that began in virtual space and grew, and bloomed, into a remarkable collaboration. Here's a hint.
A Punjabi-language magazine. A place for people to come and learn and write and make space to discover, and co-discover.
(Was I reading into it? I wasn't sure. This is what my impression was, taking away from the internet gleanings on Wikipedia about Gurbaksh Singh, who edited Preetlarhi magazine.)
Took the risk in late 2013, from a hotel in Gangtok.
Could I ask about the writing residency there, I wrote into a form on their website. Could I know more about it, perhaps, since I've, um, I've got this story I want to write, and that would mean having to come to Amritsar?
I was typing on a digital tablet, which like me, was on the brink. Fumbling our way around India, with no plan or agenda or expectations. Or money. Could we make it to Punjab? If we got invited, we would find a way. And we did. A lot of bus transfers, via Kathmandu and this dusty border town at Nepal-India. Chandigarh. Et cetera. But that was just the road journey, to Preetnagar.
What happened next? So much. But the story continued, as we kept in touch ambiently through the next four years. Here we are in April 2017. And this month, Preetlarhi published in English the first chapter of Kanishka. All kinds of things to say about this, but for the moment, it's just, 'Wow.'
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FOUND in The Atlantic, this bit about self narrative.
Ahead of our eCourse SELF, I thought it would be fun to share a few finds like this.
But just as there are consequences to telling, there are consequences to not telling. If someone is afraid of how people might react to a story, and they keep it to themselves, they'll likely miss out on the enrichment that comes with a back-and-forth conversation. A listener "may give you other things to think about, or may acknowledge that this thing you thought was really bad is actually not a big deal, so you get this richer and more elaborated memory," [Developmental psychology professor] Monisha Pasupathi says. If you don't tell, "your memory for that event may be less flexible and give you less chance for growth." This is basically the premise of talk therapy. Read the full story here >
DISCOVER SELF, the online course here at Kismuth that we've been hosting since 2014, here.
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April 6, 2017 Karin Malhotracojournal, community, connection, conversation, kismuth, shape of space, sharingstories, villagereport, writing
WELCOME TO THE COJOURNAL.
This is about who applies, and what we make together as a result of consciously setting aside time and space to commit to writing, writing better, and sharing what we write. (It's an unusual space and a conversational one, but it's not for everyone.)
Inward reflection, together
COJOURNALING gives our participating guests a chance to (re)discover the things you know. (You don't have to sound 'smart' or like you are supposed to win something for your job—a raise, a grant, or some accolades for a good line. Instead, it's about you. Your world, your reflections, your story.) The heart of what makes you you. It's not coaching. It's not a writing course. It's not a trick. The cojournal has really worked for people. So we're back, with it. Here in mid-2017. Bringing it here, but in a very low-key way, for those of you who happen to be on this page and are open to it, I invite you to apply. Limited seats. Are you ready?
How to find out more
THIS IS A PAGE with details about what is happening now. See what you think, and maybe see you on the other side. —KM
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THIS IS FUNNY.
Two years ago I was going on a journey. I wasn't sure whom I'd meet, or what would happen when I got there. There were a handful of scattered appointments, nothing set up truly, to be honest, but I had a feeling about good things to come. Showing up. That was the important step. I had to go on two airplanes to get there, then I got there. I wrote a lot. I thought a lot. And I slept more than I had in years.
What happened after six weeks in a faraway place, far from anyone I knew or anyone I would ever see again, was remarkable. Truly. It wasn't like I knew this was going to happen. But a number of super conversations really did take place. Talking about chemistry, bicycle lanes, composition, uncertainty, intrigue and an odd concept about going inward to do the big work of reflection that I sort of sketched on a piece of graph paper tentatively and said 'I call this, I think, N – 1.' Great nods of recognition in something that had never been spoken between us. People who were new.
And in those moments I had insights, insights that were going to lead to bigger ones. Things you put together, without overthinking in our logical Western overly designed rational way, thinking in a different style. In my sleep.
Dreaming.
Going inward.
Finding the bliss of solitude, and discovering what it felt like all over again to just be quiet. Alone. All alone. Sometimes for days in a row. I mean, kind of. I still had to go out and get groceries and have the odd smalltalk with people also hermit-ting like me. I did these things. It worked out. I knew somehow that what I needed to do was visit the 'N – 1' space. Yes.
'What are you doing in Sweden?'
'Um.'
'Are you visiting someone?'
I thought briefly of the young lad who owned the boat I was renting. Technically you had to be a firm friend with someone if you were going to do that. There were rules and regulations. The people gave me knowing looks, and nods, and smiles. But I wasn't visiting him. That seemed ridiculous. I was visiting someone, though, all right. The more I thought about it, the less strange it seemed.
'Yes. I'm visiting me.'
A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS for Kismuth Books & Publishers, then. Helping others also make room for this kind of space. Space to go inward. Space to reflect. There are two programs on offer, and they are outlined here and here.
I wonder if you are curious? Check them out, if yes.
If you're wondering about the COJOURNAL project, there are limited seats by invitation for that. Do let me know if you know about this, and might be interested in finding out more. Best way is through the form at this page, be sure to ask for Kismuth.
Wondering what happened after the boat? Here is a link to the essay about it, 'Six Weeks in Scandinavia.'
Oh, also. I forgot to tell you what was funny. YESTERDAY, of all days, someone tells me he doesn't think I'm the kind of person who gets together with girls for 'girltalk.' I mean, he seemed perplexed when I said I had a friend in San Francisco I stayed with a whole week drinking wine and talking late into the night with, having, you know, 'girltalk.' 'You don't seem like you'd have girltalk, he said. You seem like you might start a conversation something like, "I was thinking about the space between zero and one…"' I laughed. Then I actually did start thinking about it. Then I was like, wait, wait, wait. This is it. This is IT. This is N – 1. More to say, but I'll expand in the smaller, closed writing circles. —KM
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January 20, 2017 Karin Malhotraconnection, conversation, creativity, journey, kismuth, life, philosophy, relationships, reminisces, risk, sharing, writing
THINGS ARE MOVING in a new direction. Isn't that always how it is, though?
If this were a letter, it would be to the people who had been reading the Kismuth e-letters, which I remember sending probably too often from the year I started Kismuth, 2012. I have stopped sending them, more or less. I guess because sometimes things find their natural ending, don't they? Cycles. Time. Shifts, the story.
But I do remember writing a lot, and in the letter style. It would open in this kind of slow, easy way: I wonder how this note finds you, and how you are feeling where you are. Perhaps I'd go into a bit of a soliloquy, talk about something philosophical and maybe (probably) abstract. Esoteric. Admittedly it was a thing that would happen, an illogical compulsion towards illogic. Then I got into quantum physics. Then I learned about uncertainty, and its principles. I got intrigued, studied, and wrote completely other things for whole other segments of people. So I stopped with the e-letters to people in Kismuth, those whom I would meet while traveling in Viet Nam or India, who would ask me what I was doing, to whom I'd respond in my earnest and idealistic way that I was writing a book. A book about The Road, about the choice to go On It, and take a chance on things and buck the status quo, for better or worse. Sometimes it was better, sometimes it was far worse, but most of the time, and I think this is the thing that I must not forget, there was really good learning. And that learning is where the other things happened. Things that some people call 'growth.'
I would go on about so many topics in my letters, much of those letters were long and long-winded. I don't know. Somehow they led to new things, as things often do. I learned how to write in a way that was my own way. I stopped it with the old styles, the ones that had become bad habits. I won't blame anything for that, they just were. Part of it was being afraid to say too much, at once. Fear. Fear of being seen as who I really am. When, I guess, if I am truly honest with myself (and you) about this, the thing is, if you don't put who you really are into a thing, into a work, it's just not going to be that interesting. To anyone. So you have to do it. For better or worse. Again, that refrain. This time, where will it take me?
The journeys are always good teachers. The reflection that happens at the endpoints even more so. But over the years I find myself returning to the same themes. Those of imagination. Those of love. Those of destiny, and the question, 'What about if?' But in a much more resigned way now than in that anxious kind of style that attaches itself to the young and dogmatic and idealistic and did I say dogmatic? Yes. Yes, I did. That is the key word, there.
So much more to say. I'm afraid if I put more here, for now, you will become bored. I am going to stop, then. This would have been the eletter from Kismuth, but as this is a new place, a bloggy kind of place, and as this might invite new people, as it has somehow magically done in the past (blogging, I mean), I will see what happens. The new territory is as dogged, strange, dark at the corners as the real road was, in 2013. The new territory is a walk into the Art, the search for Beauty. It was always at the heart of it, though. This quest to find the better, the meaningful, the elegant and eloquent in that which is around us, right here, where we are.
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AFTER THE STORY ENDS you think you have a way to talk about what happened. The good stuff, the road, the sharing, the journey. You try to do this in a way that's cohesive and consistent. You put things into 750-word columns for someone somewhere on the other side of the world, whom you hope will enjoy it. You want to know if someone is reading, and engaging, and every so often you will get a tiny note that says something like, 'I clip your essay every month,' and it makes you think, Keep going.
I've always written, but not always for myself and a handful of others like those who find Kismuth and me and what I'm sharing, and who read the stories I publish through this site. All of this started in 2012. With the launch of The Elopement, a true story of leaping from America to Ireland, with a soon-to-be partner, perhaps for life. Now, with The Village Report, read the rest of that story. How a couple together broke free of yet other mores, abandoning a way of life for the 'practice of the unknown, uncertain, and different.' With a kid.
THE VILLAGE REPORT: BREAKFAST IN CAMBODIA is the new name for the book I'd promised to share with you when I set out on this long, long trip. I remember talking to RF at the Y when this whole thing got formulated, in a tepid way. She said, 'Shree* said y'all are going traveling around the world.'
At the time, Shree was just four, so he didn't know that you don't just blurt out stuff like that. Makes it seem like you have some kind of cheek, bucking the status quo and tapping some unknown quantity of hidden funds from somewhere. It doesn't seem fair. Taking a trip around the world for a year, or more. Coming back, perhaps. Storing stuff in friends' attics, basements, extra houses. Even your parents' place, even if that's a little awkward, given that you are leaving because you're not sure what they think about your philosophy and your ideals about Life and Purpose and Meaning and most especially Parenting, and you agree to disagree (but not really) and you Go Away. You make a big deal about it. You are stubborn and boxy. You kick up a yard sale, leave stuff on the yard on Gregson Street in Durham, NC, with a note saying, 'Take stuff. Leave some money in the mailbox,' and you are mesmerized that people actually do leave money in the mailbox, and then you take the last of it, which is way more than you wanted it to be, and you pack it up in the old room that is the new room in the house that your parents have. You'll come back and get it. You will. You solemnly swear.
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THREE YEARS LATER you call your mother for the first time since you left. You have come to some realizations, you say. You don't want this to be hard. You know it's hard as hell. You still do it. You email. You say, 'I'm ready to talk to you, if you're on for it.' You wonder how it got this way, how you got to be way far away from the land and people you used to know, and yet, and yet, you are still connected. In the ambient, internet-y way, you only have to do one thing. Email. She says cool. You call. You have had some thoughts. You aren't sure where all the thoughts are going to land. You erase many of them, mid-conversation. You write, you delete. It's like the creative process, all over again. Just like every fork in the road: that time at the border in Nepal, where you were freaked, or the one when you had to face the people you didn't want to face on account of fear and diffidence and pride and stubbornness and, mostly, yeah, fear. You do this. You go. You go on the road for a year, maybe more, with no plan, no agenda, and no source of income. Fling of the die? Throwing yourself into the 'net' that is supposed to appear? Trusting the process. Diving into uncertainty. Calling 2013 the 'Year of Enchantment,' like dressing it up makes going vulnerable somehow okay (it does, actually, help in some way), and 2014 the one of caring and the next one the year of the mountain and then, finally, it takes this one to get to the point where you realize it's time to call home, the 2016 year comes, and it's, (Jung's Great Unconscious, plugging into your personal one, that's what did it, yeah? had to be): it's, yeah. 'The Year of the Relationship.'
FLASH BACK TO 2013. IT IS APRIL IN DURHAM. The flowers are going to bloom. I'd said to Shree*, when the flowers come out, then we go. We will. I promise we will. I have no idea where, or how, but we're going to go.
Does he know how lucky he is? Someone from The Road would ask, way later. By that point I'd gotten into a groove. I'd grown cooler, more collected. This practicing uncertainty thing wasn't so bad. Not yet. Not really. I'm a picture of repose when this young person asks it. 'No,' I say. 'He's just a kid.'But before. Before the whole moving over to Asia, before the airplane changes at Narita for the longest last leg of my life and trains and buses and too many suitcases, I'd had to face the others. The people. The old villagers. In Durham, NC, where I'd thought I'd had a bit of a home (but now am sure I didn't). And answer the hard questions, the ones behind R's, when she'd asked it. 'Are you really going traveling with your kid? For a year? But how will you… how will you live? Are you going? Is that true?' People were asking. They wanted to know. It was getting a little uncomfortable. It was getting hard.
Back then: Ohhhh, man. How do I explain this in a way that makes it okay?
Now: YES. I am. We are. It's absolutely, definitely true. And I trust that it will work, because it has worked. And that is experience. What was that thing Einstein said, about personal experience being more important than knowledge? And what about the other stuff, Jung's stuff, about finding your 'tribe' in the people you meet and feel a kinship to that's outside of geographic, dogmatic bounds, but an 'usness,' a sense of that, which is of a variety uniquely its own?
In this frame of mind, from this opposite side of the world and having emerged from a long period of wondering what it was all about and now having written The Village Report to share the conclusions, some of which those reading along in the Kismuth newsletters will have seen me meandering towards and then veering away from and wondering about, later, or assigning less and less importance to the 'figuring out' of which, I'm relaxed. I'm also older. Sure. That helps. And so is Shree. That means it's not so weird anymore. Expat kids are everywhere, here. Life moves. It happens. People find us. We work for them, from time to time. We invent new ways to keep ourselves alive, fed, happy, safe, together, sound, warm, cherishing, engaged, and most of all inspired, when we interact wholeheartedly with The Village. I can tell you more about it another time. Or you can read it in the book. Or we can meet for a cup of tea one day, if I'm in your neighborhood, and talk about it. Maybe a book tour will happen, in living rooms around the world. I'd never, ever send The Village Report to a traditional publishing house—that would ruin it. I don't need someone to put it on a poster, to 'market' it for me, in order to know it's good. I'm only sharing it through the Kismuth page. This one. And that's it. Because if just three of you get it, then you're the three that it's for.
HUMANITY. The idea is that we are human, we are connected and connecting, are engaged and engaging. We see each other when we notice our differences as much as our similarities… we are human. We are all just part of it. The big thing. The village. And this book? It's written by not just one of us, but all of us. And that's it, you know? The village? The village is the sharing.
This book is for AKK.
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The below letter was first published online for Kismuth's VIP e-community, on October 24, 2013.
This one's for G.
Dear [DELETED]—
SOMETHING HAPPENED THIS WEEK that changed my whole idea about what it is that "writing" is for, anyways. But let me start at the beginning.
So, I was wrong.
It's hard to admit.
But yup. I was so totally misinformed when I set out on this quest to "see how other people in Asia raise their children, because, man, it takes a village, doesn't it?, and we're so wrapped up in ourselves and our own lives in America."
Turns out, Asia is wrapped in itself, too. Gadgets, status, timecrunch.
So that changed everything. About what it means to be a person with a kid and have "the village" helping out… We did our best. We cried and tried. Writing about the hard moments, that's what I wanted to try to do in the series. Yet I haven't been able to come at it in a really meaningful way. It's such a personal journey, and all that hard stuff that happened, well, could I really put it into words and share that, out loud? Really, could I?
Then something happened.
Someone else showed me her courage, when she shared with me something that happened to her. Not about anything I could have in a million years have imagined coming, but it is her story, a true one, and something that made me sit up very straight. You can read it, too. [Editor's note: The Kismuth.wordpress.com has since been made private.] Today's e-letter is dedicated to G. My new understanding of the purpose of Kismuth became clear when you hit "publish."
Kismuth started to become something just last week, when you showed me how it helped you talk about your own very real, very haunting story. Coming back to the village, I now see that the work isn't about the manual labor of holding a baby or the copywriting that comes with making blogs. It's about the emotional labor. The love that goes into the bonding with your child, or the courage that it takes to say what hurt or changed you with others you don't even know yet, out loud. The village isn't about stuff or time. It's about people. Sharing. Our real stories. All of us. It's about finding the space and time to open our hearts to one another. Thank you, G.
Air India Disaster Memorial, Ath na Ciste, West Cork Ireland
ON JUNE 23, this.
For —.
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Proponents of a North Oak Cliff Public Improvement District, which would raise about $160,000 a year for neighborhood improvements through property tax, have about two weeks to complete a petition that allows the plan to move forward.
The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and some commercial property and business owners have been collecting signatures in favor of creating a public improvement district in the neighborhood surrounding the Bishop Arts District. It would levy a 12-cent tax per $100 of valuation on commercial and multifamily properties for seven years.
For the proposal to gain City Council consideration, at least 60 percent of affected property owners must sign the petition. That percentage can be calculated three ways: by valuation, by number of parcels or by land mass.
By valuation of properties in the area, which includes Bishop Arts, part of Jefferson and part of the Oak Cliff Gateway at Beckley and Zang, about 42 percent have signed, says chamber president Bob Stimson.
"That's pretty dang incredible," he says.
He says "a significant number of property owners" don't live in Oak Cliff, and many live outside Dallas, so tracking them down has been a challenge.
By number of parcels or land mass, about 30 percent have signed, Stimson says. The group set a deadline of March 21 to collect all of the signatures, but the actual deadline to file with the city is March 31.
If approved, the North Oak Cliff PID would tax only commercial and multifamily property owners in the PID area for seven years. Those claiming a homestead exemption and nonprofits would not pay the 12 percent tax.
It is estimated that it would raise about $160,000 a year, which would be used for public safety, marketing and public improvements.


is an investment group with strategic focus on energy, mining and other growth-oriented sectors.
LSI's management has over 50 years of collective experience as a group and completed over 100 investments and financings worldwide.
In addition to financing, LSI seeks to add value for its portfolio companies by working closely with management of its investee companies.


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Fort LeBoeuf Student Receives C.L.A.S.S. Act Emerging Leader Award
Wednesday, November 30th 2022, 5:15 PM EST
Thursday, December 1st 2022, 12:54 PM EST
Another local high school student was honored with the Northwest Pennsylvania C.L.A.S.S. Act Emerging Leader Award.
Madison Shields an 11th grader of Fort LeBoeuf High School was surprised with the award on Wednesday.
Her parents, school principal, the district superintendent were all there as part of the surprise.
Madison is a volleyball player, a member of the National Honor Society and many other student organizations.
"I really like helping out my community and I think it's really fun to be a part a lot of different clubs and and be involved in a lot of different things," said Madison.
"For the sponsors to get involved in something like this and recognize one of our students because there's so many of them and just these opportunities are so great for our kids," said Rick Emerick, superintendent.
The winner of the C.L.A.S.S. Act awards, which are presented by the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit, receive a $1,000 scholarship and have the chance to win a $5,000 scholarship at the end of the year.
Lilly Broadcasting along with Velocity Net, Orthopedic Associates of Meadville, and Tendto Credit Union are sponsoring this unprecedented scholarship program in the region.

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`toRLior` is a colleciton of python classes that can be used to cerate a SOCKS5 based connection to TOR and its client ControlPort.
It's built with python 2.7 and requires only `SocksiPy` installations besides a `TOR` client.

## Prerequisites

- Download [SocksiPy] (http://socksipy.sourceforge.net)
- tor config file `torrc` default location /usr/local/etc/tor
- set the tor config to allow SocksPort on port 9999
- set the tor config to allow ControlPort on port 9991
- set the tor config to allow HashedControlPassword
- set the ControlPort password to toRLior (via CLI tor --hash-password toRLior)
- set the ControlPort hash in your `torrc` file to 16:4C46EEA1DBCFB4C96047FE8342A4C19120C5A493962943EC0F486FFC69

## Usage

#### The `connect` class
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`torconnect.tor_connect()` :: | **connects to the TOR client proxy SOCKS5 port**
`torconnect.tor_extern_ip()` :: | **prints out the IP address of the exit point**
`torconnect.tor_get()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends a GET request**
`torconnect.tor_post()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends a POST request**
`torconnect.send_close()` :: | **close the current session**

#### The `multi_thread` class
---
`torthread.tor_thread_connect()` :: | **connects to the TOR client proxy SOCKS5 port**
`torthread.threaded_get_run()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends multi threaded GET requests**
`torthread.threaded_get_changeIP()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends multi threaded GET requests AND change circuit per request**
`torthread.threaded_post_run()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends multi threaded POST requests**
`torthread.threaded_post_changeIP_run()` :: | **connect to the remote destination and sends multi threaded POST requests AND change circuit per request**
`torthread.send_thread_close()` :: | **close the current session**

#### The `controller` class
---
`torcontrol.control_connect((`127.0.0.1`, 9991))` :: | **connects to the TOR client ControlPort**
`torcontrol.new_circuit()` :: | **sends a new circuit request to the TOR client ControlPort**
`torcontrol.clear_dns_cache()` :: |  **send a clear DNS cache request to the TOR client ControlPort**
`torcontrol.halt()` :: | **sends a disconnect request to the TOR client ControlPort**

#### The `test` class
---
`test.test_circuit_change()` :: | **test the connection to TOR and change circuits**

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Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe. The Municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1998, as a lower tier municipality within the County of Hastings two tier governing system.As of 2004, the total land area was approximately 230,000 acres (930 km²), 30% of which was Crown land. Lakes, rivers and streams account for approximately 4,650 acres (18 km²). There are approximately 600km of roads throughout the Municipality. The total 2004 property assessment for the Municipality of Tweed was $309,000,000. Its composition was 84% residential, 7% farm, 6% commercial and industrial, and 3% other categories.Stoco Lake, a part of the Moira River system which borders the town of Tweed, is home to a popular and uncommon sport-fish, the muskellunge or Muskie (Esox masquinongy). The Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed.The Canadian Pacific Railway's Havelock Subdivision passed through Tweed to Glen Tay and Smith Falls from the 1880s until the line was abandoned from Glen Tay to Tweed in 1973 then Tweed to Havelock in 1987. A more westerly portion of the line still runs through Peterborough. A Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway (later the Bay of Quinte Railway) had a spur from Tamworth, Ontario to Tweed; the Tweed-Yarker and Tweed-Bannockburn segments were abandoned by 1941 and the former Napanee-Smiths Falls mainline abandoned in the late 1970s.
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"Ricardo A. M. R. Reis" is a Portugal/Portuguese economist at Columbia University in New York City. He became a full professor at the age of 29, one of the youngest ever in the history of the University. He is the editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics and sits on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature. He is an academic advisor and visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Reis earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree from the London School of Economics in 1999, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Harvard University in 2004. In 2009, Reis was ranked the second most cited young economist in the world. In a 2013 ranking of young economists by Glenn Ellison, Reis was considered the top economist with a PhD between 1996 and 2004, ahead of Esther Duflo and Enrico Moretti.
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The secret to Greenspan's success remains a secret. When the next leader of the Fed takes his seat behind the chairman's desk and opens the top drawer in search of Alan Greenspan's magic formula, he will be sorely disappointed.
He was very much a good leader at Harvard and was pushing Harvard in a positive direction. He had very ambitious plans for Harvard, and they were for the most part plans with which I agreed.
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Manžel nebo choť je označení ženatého muže ve vztahu k jeho manželce, manželka či choť je označení vdané ženy ve vztahu k jejímu manželovi; často se v týchž významech používají i výrazy muž či žena. Vztah manželství je obvykle vyjádřen přivlastňovacím tvarem (např. choť velkovévody, Josefova manželka, její manžel, moje žena), nevyplývá-li z kontextu ("manžel přijde za chvíli", "byl jsem se ženou na dovolené").

Výrazy

Původ slov manžel, manželka
České výrazy vznikly přesmyčkami z původního staročeského malžen, malženka. Původní praslovanský duálový tvar malžena znamenal "muž a žena", později se však jeho význam zúžil pouze na manželku, jak je zachovaný v polském "malżonka", a pro manžela byl dotvořen přechýlený mužský tvar. Tradičně je slovo vykládáno jako polokalk z němčiny (tedy poloviční překlad starohornoněmecké složeniny malwip), existují též další výklady původu první části slova.

Slovníkové výklady a charakteristiky slova choť
Choť je obourodý knižní výraz pro manžela i manželku.

Slovník spisovného jazyka českého uvádí slovo jako knižní, s příklady užití "rodiče jejího chotě" a "choť prezidenta republiky", slovo "choť" používá též k výkladu slov manžel, manželka, kněžna, královna, císařovna, císařová, vévodkyně, velkovévoda, chotí nazývá slovník též Orfeovu ženu. Internetová jazyková příručka ÚJČ slovo pouze vysvětluje synonymy manžel a manželka, aniž by zmiňovala stylovou příznačnost. Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost charakterizuje výraz v obou rodech jako knižní a vykládá jej slovy manžel a manželka, bez příkladů použití.

Podle Michala Novotného, autora série knih o zákulisí zajímavých českých slov, se v současné češtině používá jen v oficiálních zprávách o vysoce postavených státnících, nebo v žertu. Podobné vymezení užití se objevuje i v samonákladové elektronické publikaci Miroslava Kazdy.

Podle Jiřího Rejzka pochází slovo choť se staročeského slova chot (manžel, manželka, ženich, nevěsta) a souvisí se staroruským a staroslověnským slovem choť, které znamenalo touha, žádost nebo také milenec nebo milenka, a je příbuzné s českými slovy "chtít" (praslovansky "chotět") či "chuť". Machek a Holub s Lyerem v dřívějších výkladech spekulovali o souvislosti s německým Gatte (manžel).

Odkazy

Reference

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Jon E. Hawkinson
Jon E. Hawkinson, PhD
Associate Program Director, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development (ITDD)
hawkinso@umn.edu
717 Delaware Bldg, Rm 519E
Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development (ITDD)
717 Delaware Street SE
Room 519E
Research Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Fellowship, University of California (Neurotoxicology)
PhD, University of California (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
BS, University of California (Nutritional Sciences)
Graduate Program, University of California (Physiology and Anatomy)
I have over 15 years of experience leading in vitro pharmacology groups in drug discovery research. I led assay development, high throughput screening, structure-activity relationship, molecular pharmacology, and phenotypic screening teams at two neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical companies, CoCensys and Elan Pharmaceuticals. At Elan, my HTS team identified eight Hit series entering medicinal chemistry lead optimization, including three series leading to Development Candidates for Alzheimer's disease and pain. I have extensive knowledge of several therapeutic areas, particularly pain, neurodegeneration, neuropsychiatric disorders, and autoimmune disease. In the field of pain, I led a multidisciplinary discovery team that identified the bradykinin B1 receptor antagonist Development Candidate ELN441958. In addition, I co-invented the anti-nerve growth factor (NGF) therapeutic monoclonal antibody Development Candidate MEDI-585, which entered Phase 1 clinical trials sponsored by AstraZeneca. I also made seminal contributions to the discovery of the g-secretase development candidate ELN475516 for Alzheimer's Disease, as well as four GABAA receptor modulator development candidates for anxiety, insomnia, and epilepsy. At Elan, I led drug discovery collaborations with Cambridge Antibody Technology and Ingenium Pharmaceuticals. As a drug discovery consultant, I have advised disease-focused non-profits, research institutes, and biopharmaceutical companies on HTS, pharmacology and research strategy.
High Thoughput screening
Fragment-Based Screening
Hit to Lead
E. Amin, E Kurbanov, T.-L. Chiu, J. Solberg, S. Francis, K. Maize, Kimberly, J. Fernandez, R. Johnson, J. Hawkinson, M. Walters, B. Finzel. Probing the S2? Subsite of the Anthrax Toxin Lethal Factor Using Novel N-Alkylated Hydroxamates and Highly Predictive 3D-QSAR Models. J. Med. Chem. 58:8723-33, 2015.
S.S. Syeda, E.J. Carlson, M.R. Miller, R. Francis, D.E. Clapham, P.V. Lishko, J.E. Hawkinson, D. Hook, and G.I. Georg. The Fungal Sexual Pheromone Sirenin Activates the Human CatSper Channel Complex. ACS Chem. Biol. 2015 Dec. 16 (Epub ahead of print).
J. Shetty, R. Sinville, I.A. Shumilin, W Minor, J. Zhang, J.E. Hawkinson, G.I. Georg, C.J. Flickinger, J.C. Herr. Recombinant Production of Enzymatically Active Male Contraceptive Drug Target hTSSK2: Localization of the TSKS Domain Phosphorylated by TSSK2. Protein Expr. Purif. 121:88-96, 2016.
Y. Zhang, D. Tian, H. Matsuyama, T. Hamazaki, T. Shiratsuchi, N. Terada, D.J. Hook, M.A. Walters, G.I. Georg, and J.E. Hawkinson. Human Adenine Nucleotide Translocase (ANT) Modulators Identified by High Throughput Screening of Transgenic Yeast. J. Biomol. Screen. 2016 Jan. 8 (Epub ahead of print).
J.E. Hawkinson, A.J. Ross, S. Parthasarathy, D.J. Scott, E.A. Laramee, L.J. Posecion, W.R. Rekshan, K.E. Sheau, N.D. Njaka, P. J. Bayley, and R.C. deCharms. Quantification of the Adverse Events Associated with Functional MRI and with Real-Time MRI-Based Training. Int J. Behav. Med. 19(3):372, 2012."
J.E. Hawkinson, B.G. Szoke, A.W. Garofalo, D.S. Hom, H. Zhang, M. Dreyer, J.Y. Fukuda, L. Chen, B. Samant, S. Simmonds, K.P. Zeitz, A. Wadsworth, A. Liao, R.A. Chavez, W. Zmolek, L. Ruslim, M.P. Bova, R. Holcomb, E.R. Butelman, M.-C. Ko, and A.B. Malmberg. Pharmacological, Pharmacokinetic, and Primate Analgesic Efficacy Profile of the Novel Bradykinin B1 Receptor Antagonist ELN441958. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 322:619-630, 2007.
J.E. Hawkinson, M. Acosta-Burruel, and S.A. Espitia. Opioid activity profiles indicate similarities between the nociceptin/orphanin FQ and opioid receptors. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 389:107-114, 2000.
J.E. Hawkinson, M. Acosta-Burruel, K.C. Yang, D.J. Hogenkamp, J.-S. Chen, N.C. Lan, J.A. Drewe, E.R. Whittemore, R.M. Woodward, R.B. Carter, and R.B. Upasani. Substituted 3-phenylethynyl derivatives of 3-hydroxy-5-pregnan-20-one: Remarkably potent neuroactive steroid modulators of g-aminobutyric acidA receptors. J. Pharm. Exp. Ther. 287: 198 – 207, 1998.
J.E. Hawkinson and S.A. Espitia. Effects of thiocyanate and AMPA receptor ligands on (S)-5-fluorowillardiine, (S)-AMPA and (R,S)-AMPA binding. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 329: 213 – 221, 1997.
J.E. Hawkinson, M. Acosta-Burruel, N.D. Ta, and P.L. Wood. Novel phosphoserine phosphatase inhibitors. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 337: 315 – 324, 1997.
J.E. Hawkinson, K.R. Huber, P.S. Sahota, H.H. Hsu, E. Weber, and M.J. Whitehouse. The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor glycine site antagonist ACEA 1021 does not produce pathological changes in rat brain. Brain Res. 744: 227 – 234, 1997.
J.E. Hawkinson, M. Acosta-Burruel, and P.L. Wood. The metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist L-2-amino-3-phoshonopropionic acid inhibits phosphoserine phosphatase. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 307: 219 – 225, 1996.
J.E. Hawkinson, M. Acosta-Burruel, C.L. Kimbrough, D.B. Goodnough, and P.L. Wood. Steroid inhibition of [3H]SR 95531 binding to the GABAA recognition site. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 304: 141 – 146, 1996.
J.E. Hawkinson, J.A. Drewe, C.L. Kimbrough, J.-S. Chen, D.J. Hogenkamp, N.C. Lan, K.W. Gee, K.-Z. Shen, E.R. Whittemore, and R.M. Woodward. 3-Hydroxy-3-trifluoromethyl-5-pregnan-20-one (Co 2-1970): A partial agonist at the neuroactive steroid site of the g-aminobutyric acidA receptor. Molec. Pharmacol. 49: 897 – 906, 1996.
J.E. Hawkinson, C.L. Kimbrough, L.D. McCauley, M.B. Bolger, N.C. Lan, and K.W. Gee. The neuroactive steroid 3-hydroxy-5-pregnan-20-one is a two-component modulator of ligand binding to the GABAA receptor. Eur. J. Pharmacol. Molec. Pharmacol. Sect. 17: 157 – 163, 1994.
J.E. Hawkinson, C.L. Kimbrough, D. Belelli, J.J. Lambert, R.H. Purdy, and N.C. Lan. Correlation of neuroactive steroid modulation of [35S]t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate and [3H]flunitrazepam binding and ? -aminobutyric acidA receptor function. Molec. Pharmacol. 46: 977 – 985, 1994.
J.E. Hawkinson and J.E. Casida. Binding kinetics of ?-aminobutyric acidA receptor noncompetitive antagonists: Trioxabicyclooctane, dithiane, and cyclodiene insecticide-induced slow transition to blocked chloride channel conformation. Molec. Pharmacol. 42: 1069 – 1076, 1993.
J.E. Hawkinson, M.P. Goeldner, C.J. Palmer, and J.E. Casida. Photoaffinity ligands for the [3H]TBOB binding site of the GABAA receptor. J. Receptor Res. 11: 391-405, 1991.
J.E. Hawkinson, L.R. Shull, and R.M. Joy. Effects of lindane on calcium fluxes in synaptosomes. Neurotoxicology 10: 29 – 40, 1989.


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Велики Комлуш () је село и седиште истоимене општине Велики Комлуш, која припада округу Тимиш у Румунији.

Положај насеља
Село Велики Комлуш се налази у источном, румунском Банату, на неколико километара удаљености од Србије (преко границе се налази српско село Наково). Од Темишвара село је удаљено око 70 -{km}-, а од Кикинде свега 14 километара. Сеоски атар је у равничарском делу Баната.

У 19. веку Комлош је био раскрсница друмова према Темишвару, Кикинди, Мокрину.

Прошлост
По "Румунској енциклопедији" место се први пут помиње 1453. године, као посед Јанка Хуњадија. Након 1690. године основаће га изнова Срби сточари. Ту је 1717. године пописано 20 кућа. Колонизација Румуна из Олтеније почело је 1743. године. Место је као спахилук купио 1781. године Цинцарин, Христифор Нако. Нови власник је колонизовао Словаке и Немце. Међу знаменитим људима из места налази се Мелетије Драгић.

Аустријски царски ревизор Ерлер је 1774. године констатовао да се место Комлош налази у Модошком округу, Чанадског дистрикта. Ту се налази поштанска станица (од 1774. за Бечкерек) а становништво је било измешано, српско и влашко. Када је 1797. године пописан православни клир ту су била три свештеника. Пароси, поп Јован Шербан (рукоп. 1782), поп Георгије Грујић (1786) и Николаје Поповић (1788) знају само српски језик.

Током аустријско-турског рата Комлош се нашао у стецишту збивања. Године 1789. у Комлошу је током зиме била стационирана Регимента кирасира (оклопних коњаника) Надвојводе Франца.

Маријенфелдски спахилук племића Наке
Ту се у 19. веку налазио Маријенфелдски спахилук. Спахија је био земљовласник племић Јован Нако "от Комлоша" са супругом Анастазијом, Тршћанком од породице Вучетић. Једина наследница им је била кћерка Милева. Барон Јован се (1843) најчешће потписивао са предикатом "от Великог Сент Миклоша" - у Комлошу.

Из списка пренумераната једне српске књиге 1843. године, назире се културни ангажман породице Нако. Сво троје чланова те племићке породице је у "пренумерантском пункту" при чему господар Јован и његова супруга Анастазија купују по 30 егземлара, понаособ; са кћерком укупно 61 примерак. Остали претплатници су службеници спахилука: Исидор Риђички от Скрибешћа виши жупаниски судија и контролор спахилука, Јован Шискај правобранитељ тог и других спахилука, Прокопије Ђаковић тог спахилука средоточни рентмајстор, Христифор Шифман земљомер спахилука, Матеј Матић средоточни кастнер, Теокар Лазарини заклети адвокат и фишкаладјукт спахилука, Константин Комненовић ишпан спахилука и други учени мештани комлошки.

Господар Јован је 1860. године помогао са прилогом од 10 ф. да се подигне споменик српском новинару и књижевнику Теодору Павловићу. На спахилуку су живели познати Срби чиновници, попут Христифора Шифмана (земљомера) и Исидора Риђичког "от Скрибешће" (инспектора). Барон Јован Нако је у свом дворцу у Комлошу подигао велику позоришну салу где је обезбеђивао бројне позоришне представе. Нако је држао годинама свој театар у којем је позоришне представе и опере пратио из своје личне раскошне ложе. Добављали су његови сарадници глумце са свих страна, као и костиме и кулисе. Поред његовог састава музичара, дилетаната (глумаца) али и професионалних извођача, изводиле су свој програм за барона и његове пријатеље, бројна путујућа позоришна друштва.

Племенита спахиница Анастазија (родом Тршћанка, из богате породице Вучетић) је скретала на себе пажњу јавности својим племенитим делима. Она је тако 1857. године у Комлошу о свом трошку и старањем отворила "Девојачку школу", за коју је обезбедила лепу зграду. Поред школског здања ту се налазио и велики врт, а бригу о свему водио је један кућепазитељ који је у здању имао и стан. Две наставнице је довела из Беча, да девојке уче женским пословима и да их васпитају, за шта их је сама плаћала. Октобра 1857. православни свештеник је освештао нову школу, у коју се до тада уписало 114 девојчица. Школу је две године касније, крајем 1859. године похађало 170 сиромашних ученица разних нација и вере. О православном празнику "Материце" спахиница је уприличила свечаност на коју је позивала све ученице у дворску "театарску салу", у којој се налазило божићно дрвце. На великим столовима са обе стране било је поређано (1858) 1151 божићни поклон намењен деци. Поклоњени су одећа, обућа, књиге, иконе, мараме и други корисни и лични предмети.

Духовни и друштвени живот Комлоша

У Комлошу су 1858. године била два храма; римокатолички и православни. Спахиница Анастазија Нако је оба даровала у неколико прилика. За православну богомољу је тако приложила 1835. године један сребрни путир позлаћен, са дискосом, звездицом и кашичицом за причест. А 1844. године дала је три свилене одежде са златним порубом, да би 1857. године опет поклонила три исте одежде, седам стихара са чипкама и још ситнијих ствари.

Православни храм Св. Николе саградила је племићка породица из места Нако, током 1794-1796. године. Иконостас те цркве у Великом Комлошу је осликао 1818. године Арса Теодоровић. Поједине целивајуће иконе радили су Никола Алексић, Павле Симић и Георгије Петровић. Сликар Зајко је неке иконе на певницама пресликао 1890. године.

Банатски Комлош је средином 19. века (1828-1858) имао три пута годишње вашар. Било је то уприличено: 5. марта, 15. јуна и 1. септембра. Купац Павел Поповић јавља се 1809. године као пренумерант једне српске књиге.

Помињу се 1843. године образовани мештани Комлоша: Гаврило Окановић ишпан фабрике, Александар Миочевић дијурниста, Павел Пеић веинрихтер (општински кнез?).

Најзнаменитији становник комлошког спахилука био је Христифор Шифман. Са временом је напредовао од земљомера (геометра) до управитеља комлошког властелинства. А то ће бити до своје смрти у 70. години крајем 1885. године. Шифман се истицао у јавности својом пожртвованошћу и племенитим настојањима. Он је 1864. године постао члан Матице српске у Пешти када је уплатио 10 ф. чланарине. Исте године је чланом славне Матице постао и Матија Матић "рентмајстор" из Комлоша, на спахилуку. Шифман је још за живота 1876. године, основао своју Закладу (при Матици српској) за школовање по два студента Србина. Од камате на оснивачки улог од 10.000 ф. испаћиване су стипендије, а живи оснивач Шифман је могао са задовољством да прати реализацију. Прво стипендија од 300 ф. годишње за слушаоца "лепих вештина", а друга од 200-250 ф. за учитељске приправнике. Први стипендист Шифманов био је студент Уметничке академије у Бечу Урош Предић. Шифман је био по оцу Немац а по мајци Србин, али се са Србима сасвим поистоветио. За крсну славу је држао Светог Саву, коју је редовно прослављао у лепом маниру. Шифманова супруга Марија (рођена Бибић из Меленаца) је такође следила свог мужа и 1877. године основала је и сама Закладу (Задужбину), и то за "меленачке девојке удаваче". Основатељица је замислила да сваке године по две сиромашне девојке из Меленаца коју се буду удале приме по 300 ф. "мираза" из тог Фонда. Статут задужбине састављен је 1891. године, са изменама поврђен 1894. године, а њом је руководила Матица српска у Новом Саду.

За споменик српском песнику Лукијану Мушицком скупило се у Комлошу почетком 1855. године прилог од 23 ф. 30 крајцара. За Фонд новосадског "Школског листа" 1859. године допринели су са 17 ф. Комлошани: Христифор Шифман провизор, Матеј Матић рентмајстор, Јован Теодоровић кастнар и Стефан Михајловић актуар.

За саборског посланика је 1861. године у Комлошу изабран Јован Видач.

Године 1843. у Комлошу је формиран претплатнички пункт за популарно Чокеово дело "Златотворно село". На листи су угледни мештани и службеници са спахилука. Били су то оба православна пароха, поп Георгије Шербановић и поп Мелентије Драгић, затим Светозар Риђички "от Скрибешће" жупанијски бележник, те чиновници спахилука: Прокопије Ђаковић "рентмајстор", Христифор Шифман земљомер, Матија Матић "каснар", и други из околине. Вујићево "Путешествије" узели су 1845. године из Комлоша: Стефан Миловац "Фабрикс-кастнер" и Гаврил Окановић "Фабрикс-Ишпан". Вуков речник српско-немачко-латински набавио је 1852. године Јован Теодоровић из Бан. Комлоша. Матић и Шифман су претплатници  "Србског дневника" из Новог Сад (1860-1861). А Радићево пољопривредно стручно дело узела је 1867. године Марија Шифман из Бан. Комлоша.

Број Срба је стално опадао, а уместо српске црквене општине ту је парохијска филијала. Почетком 20. века у Великом Комлошу је живело 35 православних Срба.

Становништво
По последњем попису из 2002. године село Велики Комлуш имало је 3.351 становника, од чега Румуни чине 70%, а Роми 25%. Последњих деценија број становништва опада.

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Етничка слика насеља хабзбуршког дела Румуније 1880-2002. (мађарски језик)

Општина Велики Комлуш
Насељена места у Румунији
Википројект географија/Насеља у Румунији


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Actor James Garner Has Died at 86
James Garner, who starred in Maverick and The Rockford Files, has died at 86.
Adam Chandler
James Garner, who starred in Maverick and The Rockford Files, has died at 86. From the Reuters report:
Garner, who built a six-decade career playing ruggedly charming, good-natured anti-heroes and received the highest honor of the Screen Actors Guild in 2004, was found dead from natural causes on Saturday night at his Los Angeles home, according to police.
Garner was such an institutional that there's already an intergenerational battle being waged over Garner's legacy as an actor:
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— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) July 20, 2014
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It was the perfect marriage of storytellers, star and genre: a show where Rockford's cases didn't matter remotely as much as the chance to see Garner banter with Joe Santos as Rockford's cop friend Dennis Becker, or to watch him try to outmaneuver his con man friend Angel (Stuart Margolin), or just enjoy the company of his father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford (Noah Beery Jr.).
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Hans Baier ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Hans Baier (Beamter), deutscher Amtsschösser
 Hans Baier (Komponist), deutscher Komponist
 Hans Baier (Künstler) (1912–1993), österreichischer Künstler
 Hans Baier (Entomologe) (* 1968), österreichischer Entomologe
 Hans Karl Baier (1918–1976), deutscher Maler

Siehe auch:
 Hans Bayer
 Hans Beier
 Hans Beyer (Begriffsklärung)
 Johann Baier
 Johann Bayer
 Johann Beyer
 Johannes Baier
 Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794–1885), deutscher Generalleutnant und Geodät


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Duffy v. CBS Corp.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
JUNE DIANE DUFFY, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES F. PIPER
CBS CORPORATION, F/K/A VIACOM, INC., F/K/A WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP.
Argued: December 1, 2017
Circuit Court for Baltimore City Case No. 24-X-14-000186
Barbera, C.J.Greene, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, Raker, Irma S. (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.
In this case we must decide whether the statute of repose, presently codified as Section 5-108 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Maryland Code (1973, 2013 Repl. Vol.) ("CJP § 5-108" or "statute of repose"), bars the causes of action brought by James F. Piper ("Mr. Piper"), now deceased. After Mr. Piper's death, and while the case was pending in the intermediate appellate court, the Register of Wills appointed Petitioner, June Diane Duffy ("Ms. Duffy" or "the Estate"), Personal Representative of Mr. Piper's Estate, [1] and she was substituted in place of the decedent as a party to the litigation.[2]Ms. Duffy pursues, on behalf of the Estate, Mr. Piper's causes of action for personal injury and wrongful death resulting from his undisputed and unknowing exposure to asbestos that last occurred days before the statute of repose was first enacted in 1970 as Article 57, § 20 in the Maryland Code (1957, 1968 Repl. Vol., 1970 Cum. Supp.). The General Assembly enacted the statute of repose to provide a temporal limitation to the discovery rule's[3]applicability to causes of action for injuries "arising" from improvements to real property. Mr. Piper's causes of action stem from his exposure to asbestos, which led to the development of mesothelioma, a latent disease.[4] Due to the latent effects of asbestos exposure and, thus, the causes of action at issue, the penultimate question in the case before us is when do injuries from asbestos exposure "arise" for purposes of the statute of repose. The answer to that question resolves whether the statute of repose when it was first enacted, as 1970 Maryland Laws, Chapter 666 ("Ch. 666"), and originally codified as Art. 57, § 20, bars Petitioner's claim for injuries that arose prior to the enactment of the statute. To guide us, we rely on the tenets of statutory construction to determine what the drafters meant by the term "arise" within the meaning of the statute of repose.
Factual and Procedural Background
The undisputed facts are as follows. Respondent, CBS Corporation, is a Delaware corporation. It was formerly known as Viacom, Inc., a successor by merger to the CBS Corp. and also formerly known as Westinghouse Electric Corporation ("Westinghouse"). At the time of Mr. Piper's injuries, CBS Corp. was known as Westinghouse. In March 1970, Westinghouse contracted with Potomac Electric Power Company ("Pepco") to manufacture, supply, and deliver the components needed to build a Steam Turbine Generator ("Unit 1") at Pepco's Morgantown Generating Station ("Morgantown"). Westinghouse built the major components of the turbine offsite and constructed the turbine onsite at Morgantown. Included in the turbine specifications were insulating materials that contained asbestos. Walter E. Campbell Company ("WECCO") entered into a subcontract with Westinghouse to supply and install the insulating materials that Westinghouse specified for construction of the turbine generator. Westinghouse provided WECCO with the "Process Specification" for the "Application of Asbestos Compound by Spraying." These detailed instructions set forth the placement and method for applying insulation to the inside surfaces of the steam turbine enclosures.
Mr. Piper worked as a steamfitter at Morgantown. During the construction of the Unit 1 turbine, Mr. Piper worked on the steam piping that connected the Unit 1 turbine to another turbine. In his complaint, Mr. Piper alleged that at that time he was unknowingly exposed to asbestos as a result of WECCO's installation of the insulating material that contained asbestos. According to WECCO's payroll records, the insulation was installed between May 3, 1970 and June 28, 1970, which made June 28, 1970 the last possible day of Mr. Piper's undisputed exposure to the asbestos containing insulation.
Mr. Piper was diagnosed with mesothelioma on or about December 26, 2013. On March 26, 2014, he filed suit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against thirty-three defendants, including Westinghouse.[5] His four-count complaint against the various defendants alleged strict liability, breach of warranty, negligence, and "aiding and abetting and conspiracy, " which stemmed from his work as a plumber and steamfitter from 1948 to 1990. Specifically, Mr. Piper alleged that in connection with his employment, he used, worked with, or was exposed to asbestos products that were manufactured, supplied, and/or installed by the defendants. His complaint further alleged that some of the defendants failed to warn users that asbestos products contained "harmful, deleterious, carcinogenic and inherently dangerous asbestos dust and fibers which unreasonably endangered the life and health of persons using, working with or working around the asbestos products, " and failed to protect users against these dangers.
At the close of discovery on January 9, 2015, Westinghouse filed a motion for summary judgment, which Mr. Piper opposed. On March 3, 2015, the Circuit Court held a hearing on the open motions. Westinghouse argued that Mr. Piper's causes of action against the corporation were barred by CJP § 5-108. Specifically, counsel for Westinghouse emphasized that the facts in the instant case were no different than the facts of Burns v. Betchel Corp., 212 Md.App. 237, 66 A.3d 1187 (2013), where the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of a similarly situated defendant who successfully asserted that the statute of repose barred the plaintiff's claims in that case.[6] Westinghouse also argued that construing CJP § 5-108 as an applicable bar to Mr. Piper's claims would not infringe on any rights he possessed in 1970. Westinghouse contended that Mr. Piper could not have successfully brought a claim against the corporation at the time of his exposure because the exposure, at that time, had not manifested into a cognizable injury.
In contrast, Mr. Piper maintained that his injury arose at the time of his asbestos exposure around June 28, 1970. He asserted that John Crane, Inc. v. Scribner, 369 Md. 369, 800 A.2d 700 (2002), was applicable precedent, and that the reasoning in that case confirmed that his cause of action "arose" on the date of his exposure to asbestos. Specifically, counsel for Mr. Piper argued that the Scribner analysis was directly applicable to the facts of this case because in Scribner, the Court of Appeals determined that in an asbestos-exposure related claim, a cause of action "arises" upon exposure to asbestos. Additionally, Mr. Piper's counsel contended that if the exposure predated the enactment of the statutory cap under § 11-108 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Maryland Code (1973, 2015 Repl. Vol.) ("CJP § 11-108"), then the statute could not retroactively apply to an injury or cause of action that "arose" prior to the statute's enactment. According to Mr. Piper, the same was true here, such that the statute of repose could not apply retroactively when his injury, and, thus, his causes of action "arose" prior to enactment of the statute. Additionally, Mr. Piper relied on Section 2 of Ch. 666, which states that the statute does not apply to "actions arising on or before June 30, 1970, " to advance his argument that the statute of repose does not bar his claims.
Westinghouse, in response, contended that this Court's ruling in Scribner was a narrow holding that applied only to the statutory cap on noneconomic damages. Alternatively, counsel for Mr. Piper asserted that subsection (d)(2)(ii) of § 5-108 excluded Westinghouse on the basis that Westinghouse was a manufacturer[7] for purposes of the statute. Westinghouse responded that it was not a manufacturer of an asbestos-containing product for purposes of subsection (d)(2)(ii) of § 5-108, and, therefore, the exception did not apply.
At the close of the hearing, the Circuit Court granted Westinghouse's motion for summary judgment and entered an Order on May 14, 2015. Mr. Piper noted a timely appeal to the Court of Special Appeals. Pending the appeal, Mr. Piper passed away on June 2, 2016, and Ms. Duffy was appointed Personal Representative of Mr. Piper's Estate on June 17, 2016.
On May 31, 2017, in a reported opinion, the Court of Special Appeals affirmed the Circuit Court's ruling. Duffy v. CBS Corp., 232 Md.App. 602, 161 A.3d 1, cert. granted, 456 Md. 53, 170 A.3d 290 (2017). The intermediate appellate court first considered the plain meaning of the language of CJP § 5-108(a). Id. at 613, 161 A.3d at 7. By characterizing Mr. Piper's injury as the mesothelioma diagnosis, the Court of Special Appeals concluded that Mr. Piper's cause of action did not "arise" or "accrue" until 2013. The intermediate appellate court reasoned that the diagnosis of mesothelioma was outside of the twenty-year limitations period set forth in the statute of repose beginning with the operation of the turbine. Id. at 615, 161 A.3d at 8. That court, therefore, concluded that the plain language of CJP § 5-108 barred Mr. Piper's claims. Id. at 614, 161 A.3d at 8.
Next, the Court of Special Appeals considered Mr. Piper's argument that the uncodified Section 2 of Ch. 666 demonstrated that the statute did not apply to "actions arising on or before June 30, 1970." Id. at 616, 161 A.3d at 9. The purpose of CJP § 5-108, according to the intermediate appellate court, was to "set a time limit after which the discovery rule could not operate[.]" Id. at 620, 161 A.3d at 11 (quoting Hillard & Bartko Joint Venture v. Fedco Sys., Inc., 309 Md. 147, 160, 522 A.2d 961, 968 (1987)). With that purpose in mind, the intermediate appellate court concluded that the word "accruing, " as used in the "purpose paragraph"[8] of Ch. 666, and the word "arising, " as used in Section 2 of Ch. 666, must be construed to have the same meaning. Id. The Court of Special Appeals concluded that interpreting the words "arise" and "accrue" as indistinguishable terms would avoid any ambiguity or conflict between the statute's purpose and Section 2 of the statute. Id. The Court of Special Appeals, however, did not reach the issues of whether Section 2 of Ch. 666 carried the force of law due to the General Assembly not having codified that section, whether Scribner's reasoning was applicable to the statute of repose, or whether the manufacturer exception contained in CJP § 5-108(d)(2)(ii) applied to Westinghouse. Id. at 623-24, 161 A.3d at 13.
Ms. Duffy petitioned this court for certiorari, which we granted. Duffy v. CBS Corp., 456 Md. 53, 170 A.3d 290 (2017). Ms. Duffy posed three questions for our review.[9] Because we answer the first question in the affirmative and hold that the statute of repose does not apply to this case, we do not address the remaining questions.
This appeal concerns the Circuit Court's grant of summary judgment. When we review a grant of summary judgment we first determine whether there is a genuine dispute of material fact. Koste v. Town of Oxford, 431 Md. 14, 24-25, 63 A.3d 582, 589 (2013). If there is no genuine dispute of material fact, then we review the grant of summary judgment de novo to determine if the hearing judge's legal conclusions were correct. Id. at 25, 63 A.3d at 589. Westinghouse and Ms. Duffy agree that the last possible day Mr. Piper could have been exposed to asbestos was June 28, 1970. The parties' contentions rest solely on the legal question of the applicability of CJP § 5-108 to Mr. Piper's causes of action. Accordingly, we review the trial court's decision for legal correctness. See id.
Our determination of whether "the Court of Special Appeals err[ed] in holding that the term 'arising' [as] used in Section 2 of the original statute of repose actually means 'accruing' in contravention of this Court's holding in John Crane, Inc. v. Scribner" requires resolution of two issues. First, in Part I, we determine whether the statute of repose applies as a bar to recovery for the injuries that Mr. Piper suffered. Specifically, we determine whether the statute is ambiguous as it relates to when an injury and a cause of action "arise" within the meaning of the statute of repose. Second, in Part II, to settle any confusion created by the intermediate appellate court's interpretation of the statute, we take this opportunity to clarify when an asbestos related cause of action "arises" and "accrues". Specifically, we consider the applicability of the discovery rule in relation to the manifestation of a latent disease.
If a statute's language is clear and unambiguous, the Court ordinarily looks no further than the statute itself. See Watts v. State, _ Md. _, _ A.3d _ (2018); see also Koste, 431 Md. at 25-26, 63 A.3d at 589. If the language of the statute is clear and remains consistent with the overall purpose of the statute, then we need not conduct any further analysis. See Rose v. Fox Pool Corp., 335 Md. 351, 359, 643 A.2d. 906, 910 (1994) (considering the legislative history of § 5-108 to hold that the statute was applicable to a cause of action concerning an injury that arose from a latent defect in the construction of a swimming pool).
A Brief History of CJP § 5-108
We had occasion to discuss CJP § 5-108's legislative history in Rose, a case concerning § 5-108's applicability to a suit for injuries that resulted from a latent defect in the construction of an in-ground swimming pool. 335 Md. at 370-71, 643 A.2d at 915 (1994). After several attempts in the 1967, 1968, and 1969 legislative sessions, the General Assembly enacted Art. 57, § 20 in 1970 to provide repose to certain classes of defendants against causes of action brought by plaintiffs who had sustained injuries involving improvements to real property. Id. at 365, 643 A.2d at 912-13. Art. 57, § 20 provided:
No action to recover damages for injury to property real or personal, or for bodily injury or wrongful death, arising out of the defective and unsafe condition of an improvement to real property, nor any action for contribution or indemnity for damages incurred as a result of said injury or death, shall be brought more than twenty years after the said improvement was substantially completed. This limitation shall not apply to any action brought against the person who, at the time the injury was sustained, was in actual possession and control as owner, tenant, or otherwise of the said improvement. For purposes of this section, "substantially completed" shall mean when the entire improvement is first available for its intended use.
Four years later, however, the General Assembly amended Article 57, § 20, as part of the larger Code revision. The language was changed in CJP § 5-108(a) from "[n]o action . . . shall be brought" in Art. 57, § 20, to "[e]xcept as provided by this section, no cause of action for damages accrues . . . ." The revision also added subsection (c), which is now subsection (e) in the presently codified version. See Rose, 335 Md. at 366, 643 A.2d at 913. This addition provided a description of when a cause of action for wrongful death accrued under the statute.[10] The 1974 revised statute became CJP § 5-108:
(a)Injury resulting from improvement to realty. - Except as provided by this section, no cause of action for damages accrues and a person may not seek contribution or indemnity for damages incurred when wrongful death, personal injury, or injury to real or personal property resulting from the defective and unsafe condition of an improvement to real property occurs more than 20 years after the date the entire improvement first becomes available for its intended use.
(b)Exception. - This section does not apply if the defendant was in actual possession and control of the property as owner, tenant, or otherwise when the injury occurred.
(c)When action accrues. - A cause of action for an injury described in this section accrues when the injury or damage occurs.
In 1979, the General Assembly added what is currently subsection (b), and amended the section a year later. Id. at 366, 643 A.2d at 913.[11] The General Assembly subsequently amended the statute in 1991 in response to the multitude of asbestos-related cases being brought throughout the state, which we discuss in more detail later in this opinion. Id. at 368-70, 643 A.2d at 914-15.[12]
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