Northeastern hasn't always clicked this year. Three starters have missed significant time. The offense can stagnate. They've often struggled against CAA cellar-dwellers.
But when they click, they put on one of the best shows in mid-major Division I basketball. Their versatile pieces click into a smooth, balanced offense. Their perimeter defense hounds opposing guards and steers them into the waiting jaws of Anthony Green. They steamroll less talented teams.
The Huskies clicked Thursday night, besting James Madison, 76–60, and reasserting themselves after a tough loss to Charleston last Saturday. Save for an eight-minute mid-game JMU run, the Huskies overpowered, overmatched and outhustled the Dukes.
Northeastern has dealt with faltering health over the past week-and-a-half. Multiple players have dealt with illnesses, with head coach Bill Coen half-jokingly referring to his available players as "semi-healthy" after the game.
Eight Huskies saw the floor Thursday night. All of them converted a field goal. Six hit multiple shots and logged at least seven points. Vasa Pusica led the way with 19 points (7–13 FG), four rebounds and seven assists, while Anthony Green powered his way to 17 points (7–8 FG), and 11 rebounds.
Northeastern's lead rose to 18 by the midpoint of the first half, largely due to a relentless stream of inside shots. Dwight Wilson, JMU's 260-pound center, left the game with two fouls after two minutes. He wouldn't return until the second half, and the Huskies, particularly Green and Pusica, took advantage in the meantime.
JMU cut the margin to seven by halftime and to one by the first timeout of the second half. Coen switched tactics.
The Husky offense was a sight to behold for much of the second half. Green and Murphy — the tallest and slowest players on the floor — displayed adept ballhandling and passing. The Huskies made five of 10 three-pointers after halftime, keyed by frequent off-ball movement and Anthony Green's pindown screens. They overcame what Coen described as JMU's "really good size and length on the perimeter" by forcing switches, attacking the basket on the catch and not allowing the defense to set up.
The Huskies played without Shawn Occeus, who missed his sixth consecutive game with a leg injury, and Jeremy Miller, who injured his ankle against UNCW last Thursday. Coen didn't give a timetable for Occeus' return but said that he conditioned again today and that the workout went well.
The win gave second-place Northeastern (11–4) a 1.5 game lead over Charleston, which fell to William & Mary, 86–84, behind a combined 57 points from Nathan Knight and Matt Milon. Northeastern remains two games behind first-place Hofstra, which toppled Towson in double overtime, 91–82. CAA Player of the Year Justin Wright-Foreman led the way with 28 points and, along with Eli Pemberton, played all 50 minutes.
If Northeastern wins two of their three remaining games, they will lock up the second seed. They will go for the first of those wins Saturday at 12:30 PM ET, when they face Towson. Matt MacCormack and Justin Littman will have the call beginning at 12:15.
BOSTON, Ma. — With the hottest team in the nation coming to Matthews Arena, Northeastern (13-9, 7-3 CAA) was able to take care of business, snapping Hofstra's (19-4, 9-1 CAA) 16 game winning streak by a final of 75-61. The Huskies, shorthanded without Shawn Occeus, were able to contain the Pride's offense and get revenge on a loss from last month. Back in January, Justin Wright-Foreman knocked down a game-winning three just in front of half court as the buzzer sounded.
This game was back and forth early, with 10 lead changes in the first twelve minutes. A tightly officiated half resulted in both leading scorers Vasa Pusica (16.0 ppg) and Wright-Foreman (26.0 ppg) picking up two fouls early on. Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich opted to keep Wright-Foreman on the bench with the foul trouble, while Pusica continued to see time on the court. Pusica's role was pivotal, and he helped the Huskies build an eight point lead going into the half. Pusica scored 16 of his 24 points in the first half.
"He's an experienced player…if you let a player like that sit and marinate on the bench sometimes they don't get it going again so you want to make sure they stay in touch with the game", remarked head coach Bill Coen after the game.
The Pride shot just 32% from the field in the first half, and struggled to get anything going in the second. Hofstra did not make a three for the first 18 minutes of the second half, and frustration mounted as Northeastern extended the lead to double digits. Technical fouls by guard Eli Pemberton and Mihalich helped Northeastern get additional points at the free throw line, and the Huskies lead swelled to as much as 21 points.
Northeastern did an admirable job defensively, and much of the effort was led by Donnell Gresham. Gresham drew the primary matchup with Wright-Foreman, and contained him throughout the night. Northeastern limited second chance points and transition opportunities, and Hofstra finished with zero fast break points.
Gresham also had a big game on the offensive end, scoring 18 points and knocking down 4 three pointers. Bolden Brace scored 11 points and added 10 rebounds, and Jordan Roland, who was held scoreless through the first 33 minutes, finished with 10 points.
For Hofstra, Wright-Foreman was unable to find a rhythm, finishing the game with 15 points (5-14 FG). Second leading scorer Eli Pemberton also struggled, and finished the game with just 9 points. Senior guard Desure Buie did his best to keep Hofstra in the game, but his 22 points were not enough with the struggles of his teammates.
Northeastern has now won 6 of their last 7, and they gain a game on Hofstra in the CAA standings. The Huskies trail the Pride in the CAA standings by two games. Next week, Northeastern will play two more at Matthews Arena, hosting William & Mary on Thursday and Elon on Saturday.
Northeastern men's basketball is having a thoroughly weird season.
After dropping the season opener to beatable Boston University, they dismissed Harvard behind Jordan Roland's hyper-efficient 35 points. It was Roland's second game as a Husky.
They blew Alabama off the floor, 68-52, in the first game of the Charleston Classic, then lost their next three games by a combined 49 points.
On Wednesday night, the Huskies (3-4) dismantled Bucknell 96-78, besting their season scoring average by 27 points and their previous season best by 15. Sophomore forward Jason Strong–who didn't even record a point last season –, contributed 15 points (7-9 FG) and five rebounds in his second consecutive start.
But Northeastern wasn't done surprising. A slew of injuries to key contributors has given Head Coach Bill Coen's rotation an extreme makeover — and shed some doubt on the Huskies' status as the clear-cut favorite in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). Now it's up to other players — both proven and unproven — to carry the load until some key cogs return.
Before Wednesday's game, star redshirt-senior point guard Vasa Pusica was ruled out for four to six weeks after a slight left wrist fracture suffered in a first-half fall against Alabama, per Steve Hewitt of the Boston Herald. He played the next two games but clearly wasn't himself, posting just 10 points (3-16 FG) and eight turnovers in 50 minutes.
Back in Boston, X-rays revealed the fracture, a serious blow to the CAA Championship favorites who returned most of last year's expectations-exceeding, major-injury-free squad. Pusica started all 33 games, averaging 17.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists while logging a 50/43/80 slash line and earning CAA Player of the Year runner-up honors.
In the meantime, expect redshirt junior guards Donnell Gresham Jr. and Jordan Roland, junior swingman Bolden Brace and sophomore forward Tomas Murphy to pick up the slack. Coen also cited the injuries as an opportunity for younger, less-experienced players to play against elite competition.
The injuries, combined with Northeastern's difficult non-conference schedule — including seven games against last year's NCAA Tournament teams — could result in a losing record heading into CAA play. Given that the Pusica-Occeus one-two punch won't play together until mid-December or later, the team's roster consistency from last year to this year will certainly prove useful. They won't have to build chemistry from scratch.
Last month, Northeastern was easily named the odds-on CAA Championship favorite. Three injuries and a whole lot of weird later, the season is more in doubt than anyone expected.
After falling to Boston University on Tuesday, the Huskies faced another difficult cross-town rival on Friday. Northeastern was ready for the challenge, and took down the Crimson 81-71. The Huskies struggled early, falling behind 21-11 after with 7:06 to go in the first half. From there, the Northeastern offense caught fire. The Huskies went on a 14-0 in the span of two minutes, knocking down three after three. This run started a stretch where Northeastern shot 10/11 from behind the arc. They ended up shooting 56 percent from downtown in the game.
The Huskies were led by the stellar play of guard Jordan Roland. In only his second game with the program, the junior transfer from George Washington went off for 35 points, and made seven three pointers. Roland, who came off the bench for the Huskies in this one, provided the team with a huge spark. While Roland may have surprised some observers, his stellar play came as no surprise to Coach Bill Coen.
Northeastern needed the offense, as Justin Bassey held Vasa Pusica in check throughout the game. After scoring 31 in the opener, Pusica was held to just 10 points on 2-10 shooting. Contrasted with the first game, tonight was a total team effort from the Huskies. Donnell Gresham had 13 points and hit a big three to put the Huskies up eight with 1:16 to go. Bolden Brace, Anthony Green, and Tomas Murphy each contributed six points as well.
"That's what the team game is all about…I thought Vasa did a good job of letting the game come to him and directly our club and giving others confidence", Coen remarked after the game.
Next up for the Huskies is a trip down to Charleston for the Charleston Classic. They will square off against Alabama in the first round, in the first of three games in the event. That game will tip on Thursday, November 15th at 2 PM.


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Norway, India At Odds Over Multibillion Telecom Deal
A man speaks on a mobile phone in front of shop displaying an advertisement for Uninor in Mumbai, India, February 6, 2012. Norway's Telenor plans to fight an order by India's Supreme Court to cancel 22 telecoms licences held by its Indian joint ventu
Norway has raised concern with the Indian government about its multibillion-dollar investment in the country's telecommunication sector, after India?s Supreme Court canceled licenses of mobile phone operators, including a Norwegian firm, citing irregularities in the licensing process.
On Tuesday, Norway?s Information Technology Minister Rigmor Aasrud met her Indian counterpart, Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi to stress the need to protect Oslo-based Telenor?s nearly $3 billion investment in India?s telecom sector.
?We have mentioned the Telenor case. We had fruitful discussion,? Aarud said.
Telenor was one of the overseas companies which made a deal with a domestic company to enter India?s fast growing mobile phone sector in 2009, after India liberalized rules for foreign investors.
But these investors are worried after a Supreme Court judgment last week scrapped 122 telecom permits issued by the government in 2008 because they were supposedly ?under-priced and rigged.?
Telecom licenses lie at the heart of India?s biggest corruption scandal. They were awarded in a process that apparently favored some domestic companies. Some of the original buyers later sold them at hefty profits to foreign investors such as Telenor, Gulf-based Etisalat and Russia?s Sistema.
Government auditors estimate that the country lost $40 billion because of the flawed auction process.
Companies like Telenor have protested, saying they have been ?unfairly harmed?, and asking why would foreigners invest in India if they could not trust the rules and conditions.
In New Delhi, Rishi Sahai at consulting firm Cogense Advisors said the recent judgment has raised new uncertainty about India as an investment destination. Foreign investors eyeing the country will worry that investments made following all rules and regulations could be at risk for no fault of theirs, he said.
?The issue is that these are sovereign licenses and if a court can come and change decisions three years down the line, then what happens to investments already made? And people are going to be especially more concerned in sectors such as aviation and insurance, which are opening up, as to whether courts in this country can come and overrule sovereign licenses. So there is a level of skepticism and the government needs to take some steps to protect foreign investments for these companies,? Sahai said.
The Supreme Court has ordered that new telecom licenses to replace those scrapped should be sold in an open auction and not on a first-come-first-serve basis as before.
Some analysts feel that, in the long term, the Supreme Court judgment will ensure that the investment climate will improve by guaranteeing the government follows a more transparent path.
N. Bhanumurthy, a senior economist with the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi, calls it a "one-off case."
?It is one way of cleaning the overall governance system," he said. "It needs to be taken in a very positive way.?
Telenor, which claims 36 million customers in India, has said it may bid for new licenses, but could also consider exiting as an option.
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Andy Vernon has set his sights on a spring half-marathon rather than the indoor season as he considers making his marathon debut next year.
The Rio 10,000m Olympian is targeting either the Vitality Reading Half Marathon or United Airlines NYC Half 2017 on March 19 as the next step on his journey towards 26.2 miles.
An autumn marathon in 2018 is currently the plan, with a view to targeting the event at the 2019 IAAF World Championships. But first Vernon, who has a half-marathon PB of 62:46, is hoping to turn some heads with a target of around 61:00 when he takes to the roads in six weeks' time.
"I hope I can run 61:00, dip under it maybe," says the 31-year-old. "That's what I'm hoping for anyway. I definitely want to break 61:30, that's for sure.
Having battled back from injury to make last summer's Rio Olympics, Vernon was disappointed with his 25th-place finish, but given what he had been through just making it to the Games was an accomplishment in itself.
"Last year was actually quite a difficult year for me," says Vernon, who suffered from Achilles tendinopathy and then a patellar tendinopathy. "I wasn't running that much at all. I found out when I got to the 10km Olympic trial in May that you can do all the cross training you want but if you haven't got the running in your legs, you do fall apart.
His result in Rio has made him even more motivated for the next Olympic cycle.
"One of the reasons that I really want to go to 2020 now is because I just don't think I did the Olympic Games justice," says the Nic Bideau-coached athlete.
"When people ask me how I did and I say 25th, I wouldn't say I'm embarrassed by it … I just expected so much more and I wanted so much more.
"I didn't run very well but since the Olympics I've been on the up," adds Vernon, who won the Great Birmingham Run half-marathon in October before placing second in the 10-mile Great South Run later that month. Although he would like to compete on the track at the London 2017 IAAF World Championships and Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, Fareham-born Vernon has his eye on a return to the Simplyhealth Great South Run in Portsmouth this October as he seeks an elusive first victory at his local Great Run event.


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Bible > Commentaries > Exodus 7:19
◄ Exodus 7:19 ►
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(19) The waters of Egypt consist of the main stream of the Nile; its branches; canals derived from it; natural lakes, pools, or ponds, either left by the inundation or anticipative of it, being derived by percolation from the main stream; and artificial reservoirs of a larger or smaller size in gardens, courts, and houses. There is no other stream but the Nile in the whole country; and there are no natural springs, fountains, or brooks. Water may, however, at all times, and in all parts of the Nile Valley, be obtained by digging wells; but, as the soil is impregnated with nitre, the well water is highly unpalatable. It is generally allowed that the author of Exodus shows in the present verse, coupled with Exodus 7:24, a very exact knowledge of the Egyptian water system.
Vessels of wood, and vessels of stone.—It was usual to store the Nile water in tanks or cisterns within the houses, in order that it might deposit its sediment. These tanks or cisterns, which existed in all the houses of the better class, were either of wood or stone.
Exodus 7:19. Upon their streams, &c., — both in vessels of wood and vessels of stone — "To what purpose this minuteness?" says the last-mentioned author. "May not the meaning be that the water of the Nile should not only look red and nauseous, like blood, in the river, but in their vessels too, and that no method of purifying it should take place, but, whether drunk out of vessels of wood or out of vessels of stone, by means of which they were wont to purge the Nile water, it should be the same, and should appear like blood." — Harmer, vol. 2. p. 292.
7:14-25 Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood. It was a dreadful plague. The sight of such vast rolling streams of blood could not but strike horror. Nothing is more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kindly, that what is so needful and serviceable to the comfort of human life, should be cheap and almost every where to be had; but now the Egyptians must either drink blood, or die for thirst. Egypt was a pleasant land, but the dead fish and blood now rendered it very unpleasant. It was a righteous plague, and justly sent upon the Egyptians; for Nile, the river of Egypt, was their idol. That creature which we idolize, God justly takes from us, or makes bitter to us. They had stained the river with the blood of the Hebrews' children, and now God made that river all blood. Never any thirsted after blood, but sooner or later they had enough of it. It was a significant plague; Egypt had great dependence upon their river, Zec 14:18; so that in smiting the river, they were warned of the destruction of all the produce of their country. The love of Christ to his disciples changes all their common mercies into spiritual blessings; the anger of God towards his enemies, renders their most valued advantages a curse and a misery to them. Aaron is to summon the plague by smiting the river with his rod. It was done in the sight of Pharaoh and his attendants, for God's true miracles were not performed as Satan's lying wonders; truth seeks no corners. See the almighty power of God. Every creature is that to us which he makes it to be water or blood. See what changes we may meet with in the things of this world; what is always vain, may soon become vexatious. See what mischievous work sin makes. If the things that have been our comforts prove our crosses, we must thank ourselves. It is sin that turns our waters into blood. The plague continued seven days; and in all that time Pharaoh's proud heart would not let him desire Moses to pray for the removal of it. Thus the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath. No wonder that God's anger is not turned away, but that his hand is stretched out still.
The "streams" mean the natural branches of the Nile in Lower Egypt. The word "rivers" should rather be "canals"; they were of great extent, running parallel to the Nile, and communicating with it by sluices, which were opened at the rise, and closed at the subsidence of the inundation. The word rendered "ponds" refers either to natural fountains, or more probably to cisterns or tanks found in every town and village. The "pools", literally "gathering of waters," were the reservoirs, always large and some of enormous extent, containing sufficient water to irrigate the country in the dry season.
In vessels of wood - The Nile water is kept in vessels and is purified for use by filtering, and by certain ingredients such as the paste of almonds.
17-21. Aaron lifted up the rod and smote the waters, &c.—Whether the water was changed into real blood, or only the appearance of it (and Omnipotence could effect the one as easily as the other), this was a severe calamity. How great must have been the disappointment and disgust throughout the land when the river became of a blood red color, of which they had a national abhorrence; their favorite beverage became a nauseous draught, and the fish, which formed so large an article of food, were destroyed. [See on [17]Nu 11:5.] The immense scale on which the plague was inflicted is seen by its extending to "the streams," or branches of the Nile—to the "rivers," the canals, the "ponds" and "pools," that which is left after an overflow, the reservoirs, and the many domestic vessels in which the Nile water was kept to filter. And accordingly the sufferings of the people from thirst must have been severe. Nothing could more humble the pride of Egypt than this dishonor brought on their national god.
Not that he was to go to every pool to use this ceremony there, but he stretched his hand and rod over some of them in the name of all the rest, which he might signify either by his words, or by the various motions of his rod several ways.
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Pharaoh still being obstinate, and refusing to let the people go:
say unto Aaron, take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt; upon all of them in general, what were in the river Nile, or derived from it, as follows:
upon their streams; the seven streams of the river Nile; see Gill on Isaiah 11:15.
upon their rivers; the canals that were cut out of the river Nile, for the watering of their fields and gardens, for they had no other river:
and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of waters; which were dug near the river, or to which pipes were laid to convey the water thither:
that they may become blood; and so not fit to drink:
and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt,
both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone; in which water were kept in private houses, fetched from the river for the use of families; all which were to be turned into blood everywhere, in all parts of the land, and in all places mentioned, immediately upon Aaron's taking his rod, and smiting the waters with it in that part of the river that was before him.
19–20a. Before describing how the Nile was smitten, the compiler introduces P's account of the command given to Moses. According to this, not the water of the Nile only, but all the water in Egypt, is to become blood.
19. Say unto Aaron] as regularly in P (p. 55).
thy rod] as v. 9.
their rivers] The Nile, and its arms, running through the Delta.
their streams] lit. their Niles, i.e. their Nile-canals,—such as were constructed for irrigation purposes, to convey the water of the Nile to the fields.
all their ponds of water] Heb. every gathering (Genesis 1:10, Leviticus 11:36) of their water. Probably reservoirs (tanks, cisterns, &c.) are in particular thought of: cf. the fem. in Isaiah 22:11 ('reservoir').
20b. and he lifted up] At first sight, in view of v. 19a, the subject seems to be Aaron: Aaron, however, in v. 19, is to stretch out his hand over all the water in Egypt; here the Nile only is smitten, in exact accordance with v. 17. At least therefore in its original context, when the narrative of E was complete, the 'he' will have been Moses, who carries the rod in vv. 15b, 17.
Verse 19. - Say unto Aaron. There is an omission here (and generally throughout the account of the plagues) of the performance by Moses of God's behest. The Samaritan Pentateuch in each case supplies the omission. It has been argued (Kennicott) that the Hebrew narrative has been contracted; but most critics agree that the incomplete form is the early one, and that, in the Samar. version, the original narrative has been expanded. The waters of Egypt... streams... rivers... ponds... pools of water. The waters of Lower Egypt, where this miracle was wrought, consisted of
(1) the various branches of the Nile, natural and artificial, which were seven when Herodotus wrote (Herod. 2:17), whence the Nile was called "septemfluus," or "septemgeminus;"
(2) the canals derived from each branch to fertilise the lands along its banks;
(3) ponds, marshes, and pools, the results of the overflowing of the Nile, or of its percolation through its banks on either side; and
(4) artificial reservoirs, wherein water was stored for use after the inundation was over. The four terms of the text seem applicable to this four-fold division, and "show an accurate knowledge of Egypt" (Cook), and of its water system. The "streams" are the Nile branches; the" rivers correspond to the canals; the "ponds" are the natural accumulations of waters in permanent lakes or in temporary pools and marshes; while the "pools," or "gatherings of waters" (margin), are the reservoirs made by art. Aaron was to stretch out his rod over the Nile, but with the intent to smite all the Egyptian waters, and all the waters would at once be smitten, the streams and the canals and the natural lakes and the reservoirs. The miracle would even extend to private dwell-trigs, and the change would take place throughout all the land of Egypt, not only in respect of the open waters spread over the country, but even in respect of that stored, as was usual, in houses, and contained either in vessels of wood or in vessels of stone. With respect to these, it is to be observed that the Nile water was much improved by keeping, since the sediment subsided; and that tanks, sometimes of wood, sometimes of stone, were usual adjuncts of all the better class of houses. Exodus 7:19
When Pharaoh hardened his heart against the first sign, notwithstanding the fact that it displayed the supremacy of the messengers of Jehovah over the might of the Egyptian conjurers and their gods, and refused to let the people of Israel go; Moses and Aaron were empowered by God to force the release of Israel from the obdurate king by a series of penal miracles. These מפתים were not purely supernatural wonders, or altogether unknown to the Egyptians, but were land-plagues with which Egypt was occasionally visited, and were raised into miraculous deeds of the Almighty God, by the fact that they burst upon the land one after another at an unusual time of the year, in unwonted force, and in close succession. These plagues were selected by God as miraculous signs, because He intended to prove thereby to the king and his servants, that He, Jehovah, was the Lord in the land, and ruled over the powers of nature with unrestricted freedom and omnipotence. For this reason God not only caused them to burst suddenly upon the land according to His word, and then as suddenly to disappear according to His omnipotent will, but caused them to be produced by Moses and Aaron and disappear again at their word and prayer, that Pharaoh might learn that these men were appointed by Him as His messengers, and were endowed by Him with divine power for the accomplishment of His will.
Exodus 7:14-21
The Water of the Nile Turned into Blood. - In the morning, when Pharaoh went to the Nile, Moses took his staff at the command of God; went up to him on the bank of the river, with the demand of Jehovah that he would let His people Israel go; and because hitherto (עד־כּה) he had not obeyed, announced this first plague, which Aaron immediately brought to pass. Both time and place are of significance here. Pharaoh went out in the morning to the Nile (Exodus 7:15; Exodus 8:20), not merely to take a refreshing walk, or to bathe in the river, or to see how high the water had risen, but without doubt to present his daily worship to the Nile, which was honoured by the Egyptians as their supreme deity (vid., Exodus 2:5). At this very moment the will of God with regard to Israel was declared to him; and for his refusal to comply with the will of the Lord as thus revealed to him, the smiting of the Nile with the staff made known to him the fact, that the God of the Hebrews was the true God, and possessed the power to turn the fertilizing water of this object of their highest worship into blood. The changing of the water into blood is to be interpreted in the same sense as in Joel 3:4, where the moon is said to be turned into blood; that is to say, not as a chemical change into real blood, but as a change in the colour, which caused it to assume the appearance of blood (2 Kings 3:22). According to the statements of many travellers, the Nile water changes its colour when the water is lowest, assumes first of all a greenish hue and is almost undrinkable, and then, while it is rising, becomes as red as ochre, when it is more wholesome again. The causes of this change have not been sufficiently investigated. The reddening of the water is attributed by many to the red earth, which the river brings down from Sennaar (cf. Hengstenberg, Egypt and the Books of Moses, pp. 104ff. transl.; Laborde, comment. p. 28); but Ehrenberg came to the conclusion, after microscopical examinations, that it was caused by cryptogamic plants and infusoria. This natural phenomenon was here intensified into a miracle, not only by the fact that the change took place immediately in all the branches of the river at Moses' word and through the smiting of the Nile, but even more by a chemical change in the water, which caused the fishes to die, the stream to stink, and, what seems to indicate putrefaction, the water to become undrinkable; whereas, according to the accounts of travellers, which certainly do not quite agree with one another, and are not entirely trustworthy, the Nile water becomes more drinkable as soon as the natural reddening beings. The change in the water extended to "the streams," or different arms of the Nile; "the rivers," or Nile canals; "the ponds," or large standing lakes formed by the Nile; and all "the pools of water," lit., every collection of their waters, i.e., all the other standing lakes and ponds, left by the overflowings of the Nile, with the water of which those who lived at a distance from the river had to content themselves. "So that there was blood in all the land of Egypt, both in the wood and in the stone;" i.e., in the vessels of wood and stone, in which the water taken from the Nile and its branches was kept for daily use. The reference is not merely to the earthen vessels used for filtering and cleansing the water, but to every vessel into which water had been put. The "stone" vessels were the stone reservoirs built up at the corners of the streets and in other places, where fresh water was kept for the poor (cf. Oedmann's verm. Samml. p. 133). The meaning of this supplementary clause is not that even the water which was in these vessels previous to the smiting of the river was turned into blood, in which Kurtz perceives "the most miraculous part of the whole miracle;" for in that case the "wood and stone" would have been mentioned immediately after the "gatherings of the waters;" but simply that there was no more water to put into these vessels that was not changed into blood. The death of the fishes was a sign, that the smiting had taken away from the river its life-sustaining power, and that its red hue was intended to depict before the eyes of the Egyptians all the terrors of death; but we are not to suppose that there was any reference to the innocent blood which the Egyptians had poured into the river through the drowning of the Hebrew boys, or to their own guilty blood which was afterwards to be shed.
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One of my great interests is people. I love observing, photographing and enjoying people. I love the diversity. I love the uniqueness of each person. I believe each human was made in the image of God. I love noticing things about people. Usually, I bring it to their attention, to their great embarrassment.
As I was shooting the Los Angeles skyline, I kept getting distracted by the people who were with us. Couples, teens, tourists, families…this brings me great joy. Much more than the skyline did.
I enjoy capturing the people of Los Angeles in all their glory.
Haha! I can picture you telling people how beautiful they are! I love that about you. I love the cool tones in these.


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By Alix Harrow
Tordotcom
'A Spindle Splintered'
If you've been following along, you'll have likely caught on to my addiction to fairy tales, myths, timeless stories of all varieties. So it'll be no surprise to hear I've fallen head over heels for this gorgeous, deliciously subversive retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Zinnia's life revolves around three things: she is sick, there's no cure, and death is her only future. She works hard to keep her distance from living, and her efforts result in an obsession with folklore — Sleeping Beauty in particular. As she gets closer to the foregone conclusion of her short life, she is given a chance to change her story and that of others just like her. Her unlikely adventure changes her views of fate, hope and happily ever after.
I'm officially an Alix Harrow fangirl, at this point. I just can't get enough of her wry humor and knife-sharp turns of phrase. There are so many sentences in these short 128 pages that wrecked me with helpless awe, it's a wonder I made it through the book at all. I can't wait for the sequel to break me all over again. ♦
— Review by Julie Goodrich
By Cassandra Khaw
Tor Nightfire
'Nothing But Blackened Teeth'
Halloween starts earlier every year, but I just can't get in the mood until I read something that chills me far more than the autumn weather. Luckily, this gorgeously spooky novella found me at just the right time to tingle my spine.
A destination wedding in Japan has a few extra layers as a group of friends meets in a notorious mansion. The creepy story of a woman buried alive in the foundation is actually a feature for the bride-to-be, as she has a yen for magic, mystery and ghosts. The group gets a bit more than they bargained for, however, as they taunt both the ghosts and each other to horrifying ends.
Khaw's brilliant, sharp writing makes what could be a flat copy of "Hill House" into something so much stranger and starkly beautiful. This is a modern story for a clever audience that still feels timeless and real. It's unsettling but also funny and deeply creepy. It is highly recommended for anyone bored with the usual horror offerings. ♦


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Opinion: Human Embryo and Gene Manipulation
by Ruth Hubbard
'Science for the People' Vol. 15, No. 3, May-June 1983, p. 24-27
Ruth Hubbard is a professor of biology at Harvard University. She teaches and writes about interactions of science and society, particularly as they affect women. She is a member of the National Women's Health Network and has collaborated with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective on the forthcoming revision of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
The more sophisticated a technology and the more training and skill it requires, the more likely it is to be controlled by elites, to increase inequalities, and to reinforce hierarchies. Those who are able to use it of necessity know more about it, and hence, have more power over its use than the people on whom it is used. When thinking about medical technologies, we must also take into account that in this country most scientists and physicians are part of the social and economic elite. The great majority is male and white, and only a small minority comes from families whose income is below the median. 1 Therefore scientists and physicians are an elite not only in knowledge, but also in terms of the other variables that shape the pyramid of power in this society. Their clients in general are poorer than they are and have less access to the kinds of social resources that give people a measure of control over their lives. The benefits and risks of sophisticated medical technologies therefore cannot be assessed as though their use involved transactions among equals.
Problems of professional dominance and control are inherent in the use of any new and complicated technology, but they become particularly oppressive in some of the new reproductive technologies. For example, clients for in vitro fertilization are people who have been unable to conceive a child that is biologically their own, but are desperate to have one. In the case of embryo and genetic manipulations, the clients are prospective or actual parents who have reason to fear for the health of their child. Both groups are highly vulnerable. When they are offered technologies that are new and hence untried, the professional who advises them is the only expert—there are no "second opinions." Professionals therefore function as both advocate and judge in decisions about appropriate therapy.
Test Tube Babies
Usually clients for this procedure are women who have already travelled a hard road filled with ups and downs of renewed hopes and frustrations as they have undergone prolonged, sometimes invasive, medical examinations, changes in sexual practices, hormone treatments, and often surgery. For many of them the defect that in vitro fertilization is intended to correct—blocked or otherwise damaged Fallopian tubes—is due to chronic pelvic inflammation, ironically the result of previous use of an IUD to avoid pregnancy. Some women who previously used IUDs on the advice of physicians who did not warn them about the possibility of these ill effects, now feel that since medical technology has brought them their tragedy, it owes them repair. Encouraged by physicians who are excited by the scientific and therapeutic potential of the new techniques, they seem to ignore the fact that they are putting renewed trust into the same profession that failed them before. Yet there is no reason why assurances of safety should be more reliable this time. Quite the contrary. Because so little is known about the intricacies of fertilization and embryonic development, "experts" are on even less firm ground when they try to assess the effects of intervening in these processes than when they try to foresee the consequences (and hence the safety) of using an IUD.
Physicians' assurances that in vitro fertilization and reimplantation do not endanger the prospective child rest on their faith that if anything goes wrong during fertilization or early development, the fetus will abort spontaneously. But obviously this is not true when embryos are produced in the usual way, since some babies are born with genetic or developmental disabilities, although some abnormal embryos do indeed abort. There is no way to predict whether the situation will be similar or worse for embryos that result from in vitro fertilization, although it is not likely to be better.
Leslie and John Brown, the parents of the first "test-tube baby," were required to consent in advance to an abortion if Dr. Steptoe, the British physician who together with Robert Edwards developed the procedure, found that the baby was going to be born abnormal.2 Steptoe and Edwards subsequently withdrew this requirement because it frightened too many of their clients. But it is also frightening that they thought it legitimate to exert that kind of control over their patients. Even now, when the technology has been in use for a few years, women have little say over the ways in which they are screened or in which the procedure takes place. Who is "permitted" to become a candidate for in vitro fertilization; what prior tests she must undergo; when, where, and how often she may try to become pregnant, are all under the control of the clinic or physician who performs the fertilization. Under present regulations in this country, it is even prescribed that the woman must be married and that her husband must be the sperm donor—facts that clearly are of no medical or scientific importance and ought not be the concern of the physician who does the procedure.
The methods developed for in vitro fertilization begin to lay the technical ground work for a range of possible manipulations of human eggs, sperm and early embryos, such as cloning, cell fusion and other means of genetic modification. All such procedures need not be dangerous in the best of possible worlds. However, in this real world, the power to initiate research and social programs and to determine their direction is vested in elites whose activities cannot be monitored adequately by the people who are most likely to suffer from them. Therefore experimentation that threatens to change reproduction in ways that will increase the power of "experts" over the day-to-day, and hitherto relatively private, practices of ordinary people, raises dangers even when it offers specific benefits to special groups with special needs.
Fetal and Genetic Therapy
Professional dominance is also involved in manipulations of embryos later in pregnancy. This can be seen in some publicized instances of what has come to be called "fetal therapy." At present, "gene therapy" is not yet practiced, but human embryos have begun to be "treated" in other ways. Fetuses have had shunts implanted in the skull to relieve the excessive pressure of hydrocephalus ("water on the brain"). Others have had the effects of malformation of their urinary tracts relieved or repaired. These and similar instances of fetal surgery have been reported in the scientific literature and accounts have found their way into the news media. The procedures have had mixed results: some of the babies have died before birth or shortly thereafter, a few have clearly benefitted, and several have been born with multiple, and sometimes progressive, severe disabilities.3
From a biological point of view, it is not surprising that severe developmental problems often have multiple effects, since a great many processes occur simultaneously in a developing embryo. One particular disability, or group of disabilities, may be diagnosed during pregnancy and physicians may urge intervention—be it with drugs or surgery. In this situation, parents have little choice but to follow the doctors' advice. When a physician detects a problem and suggests that it can be repaired, expectant parents of wanted children are enormously vulnerable. They are upset that something is amiss. They want their child and it may be too late to abort, or they may not want to. All the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques are new, so that second opinions are hard to come by and of questionable value.
Worst of all, in the present legal and medical climate, some prospective parents' right to refuse intervention could come into question. Parents already have lost considerable rights to refuse therapy for their newborns and small children. If "fetal rights" gain legal standing, prospective parents could lose the right to refuse fetal therapy even before the practices have been widely accepted by the medical profession. Women are at a critical point at which a pregnant woman could be legally defined as an incubation chamber without her own right to bodily integrity. Surgery and other medical interventions could be mandated by joint decisions of physicians and judges.4 For example, Margery Shaw, an attorney, has stated that
once a pregnant woman has abandoned her right to abort and has decided to carry her fetus to term, she incurs a conditional prospective liability for negligent acts toward her fetus if it should be born alive. These acts could be considered negligent fetal abuse… Courts and legislatures… should… take all reasonable steps to insure that fetuses destined to be born alive are not handicapped mentally and physically by the negligent acts or omissions of others.5 (my emphasis).
Failure to intervene medically could be deemed such an "omission."
Interestingly enough, some of the physicians most closely involved with fetal therapy have recently counselled that "Most defects are best treated after birth."6 Reviewing the record to date, they urge extreme caution; but unfortunately this is not likely to be the end of fetal interventions. In an interview in a magazine for physicians, called Patient Care, Dr. Frigoletto, Chief of Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Boston Brigham and Women's Hospital and one of the signers of the cautionary note, discusses enthusiastically innovations in the use of ultrasound for
"the monitoring of fetal well-being… It's almost like going to nursery school to watch behavior of 3-year-olds. Eventually, we may be able to distinguish normative behavior for the fetus… That will help us to identify abnormal fetal development, perhaps early enough to correct the environment or treat the fetus in utero."7
Let us remember that "the environment" happens to be a woman's body. But that is not the only thing wrong with this prospect of fetus-watching. Considering the range of human variabilities, we can expect fetal development to vary. I find it chilling to anticipate the projection of standards for "normal" fetal development and the institution of "therapies" to bring deviations into line.
Some Social and Economic Ramifications
Another point to stress is that while fetuses with multiple defects, as well as younger and younger premature infants, are being rescued from death, this country continues to have one of the highest rates of infant deaths and illnesses among western, industrialized nations.8
The reasons for this are not medical, but stem from the extent of poverty and malnutrition. This country's deplorable health statistics are due to the fact that an unnecessarily large proportion of babies are born prematurely or, though born at term, are too small and incompletely developed to survive or be healthy—many of them to poor, teen-aged mothers.9 Numerous social and economic measures could be instrumental in decreasing prematurity and infant death rates. It is a serious misuse of resources to push high-technology baby-saving while the health status of women and babies declines as a result of economic and social malpractices, including medical neglect.
A few words about gene therapy. It is new even on the drawing boards and does not yet exist in practice, but it could involve the development of techniques to introduce genetic material obtained by means of the new recombinant DNA technology into eggs or sperms, or into embryos, babies or, even, adults. Chemical measures are also being developed that could be used to change the genetic material of individuals in, hopefully, predictable ways.
As might be expected, gene therapy too will involve special risks in addition to the fact that it is entirely new and hence untried. For one thing, it increases an already excessive preoccupation with inherited disabilities at a time when environmental hazards to health are on the increase, and could be reduced through more adequate social policies. Also social applications of genetic selection have a dismal history in this country. Earlier in this century, discriminatory immigration and compulsory sterilization laws were enacted and enforced as part of a misconceived effort to improve the "genetic stock" of the American people.10 (See, for example, Barry Mehler's "The New Eugenics" in this issue.) It is enormously important that the social consequences of trying to make decisions about what are "good" and "bad" genes be thoroughly examined and widely debated. Professionals, who have no more than the required technical expertise, must not be allowed to acquire the power to make and implement decisions about who is fit to be born.
Commercial Conflicts of Interest
The final issue I want to touch on concerns the social implications of. the commercialization of genetic technologies, even before there are products to sell. At present, just about everyone working on the science or applications of gene manipulations has a relationship with the new genetics industry—as owner, board member, scientific staff or consultant of a company. In the last few years, many new firms have sprung up with names like Gentech, Genex, Biogen, and so forth, that are owned as well as staffed by scientists. In addition, several multinational drug and chemical corporations have become involved in genetic engineering, such as Eli Lilly, Schering-Plough, Hoffmann-La Roche, Monsanto, and Dupont. Some of these firms have formed partnerships with the small, new companies; others have entered the field on their own. Major chemical firms are also making arrangements directly with universities whereby academic laboratories or departments work in close collaboration with them.11
The fact that genetic technology has become a major event on Wall Street has enormous, and I think detrimental, implications for people who may one day soon find that they, their embryos, or their children are candidates for "gene therapy." Because of direct links with the industry, the very people who are engaged in the research and practice of the new technology will be among those who reap the profits. And since recent articles on the financial pages speak of a "Biotechnology Retrenchment,"12 the temptation to make overly optimistic claims increases.
Some scientists and entrepreneurs, as well as other observers, readily admit that scientific and medical claims already have been made with an eye on the stock market.13
But such exaggerated claims and promises hold great danger for ordinary people, who must rely on their physicians for expert advice. Most people are not ready to regard statement by scientists and physicians as skeptically as they would the assurances of representatives of the automobile industry with respect to safety.
Already the impartiality of scientific evidence offered by one of the erstwhile academic leaders and a Nobel Laureate, Walter Gilbert, has been challenged by the U.S. Solicitor General before the Supreme Court because Gilbert was one of the founders of Biogen.14 Patients cannot really be expected to look into the commercial affiliations of their physicians or to request to see their portfolios! This situation goes beyond previous ones in which physicians have been accused of conflicts of interest because of their links to the medical-industrial complex. In this case, so much prestige and money are involved that millionaires will quite literally be made (or unmade) overnight. Gene manipulation has been called the new gold rush. The trouble is that this time our bodies are the frontier.
At present, Biogen and Genentech are in a race to market human interferon, which they hope will be active against viral infections and possibly cancer, and are beginning tests on patients.15
There is always reason to worry about the fact that drug companies themselves are the ones to test and report favorably on their new products. In this case, the future of a new industry depends on the favorable outcome of clinical trials. There are enormous economic incentives for professionals with sizeable commercial interests to release overly optimistic reports about the benefits of these therapies. There have already been promises of cures for sickle cell anemia and cancer, as well as of genetically "improved" human beings, before any drugs or therapies are available. When they come into use, it will be a case of "Buyers Beware!" But unfortunately sick people, pregnant women, or parents of a child with a serious health problem are much more vulnerable and less able to look out for themselves than are buyers of new cars or of "scientifically improved" brands of toothpaste.
Educators, members of the press, and the public need to become more aware and sophisticated about these new technologies and about their social as well as their medical hazards. As scientists "for the people" one of our major tasks is to make people aware that they have a range of options when they confront the new biotechnologies, including the option to refuse. We must also fight so that pregnant women not lose this option to a wave of "fetal rights." But no matter what we do, in this society intricate technologies will of necessity disempower people without special expertise. Only major social changes will change that.
Vicente Navarro, Medicine Under Capitalism, New York: Prodist, 1976, p. 144.
Leslie and John Brown with Sue Freeman, Our Miracle Called Louise, London: Magnum Books, 1979, p. 118.
See, for example, Jason C. Birnholz and Frederic D. Frigoletto, "Antenatal Treatment of Hydrocephalus." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 303, 1981, pp. 1021-1023; Michael R. Harrison, Mitchell S. Golbus and Roy A. Filly, "Management of the Fetus With a Correctable Congenital Defect." Journal of the American Medical Association, vol 246, 1981, pp. 774-777; Albert Rosenfeld, "The patient in the womb." Science 82, Jan./Feb. 1982, pp. 18-24; Robin Marantz Henig, "Saving Babies Before Birth." The New York Times Magazine, February 28, 1982.
I discuss this situation more fully in a recent article entitled "Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy: Legal and Policy Implications," published, with footnotes by Janet Gallagher regarding some of the legal ramifications in the Women's Rights Law Reporter, vol. 7, no. 3, Spring 1982, pp. 201-218. A case that involves a legally mandated Caesarian section is described in Watson A. Bowes and Brad Selegstad, "Fetal versus Maternal Rights: Medical and Legal Perspectives." Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 58, 1981, pp. 209-214.
Margery W. Shaw, "The Potential Plaintiff: Preconception and Prenatal Torts." In Genetics and the Law II, edited by Aubrey Milunsky and George Annas, New York: Plenum Press, 1980, pp. 225-232: pp. 228-229. I wonder whether the current cuts in eligibility of pregnant women to receive food stamps and nutritional supplements under the W.I.C. program count as "omissions of others."
Michael R. Harrison, Roy A. Filly, Mitchell S. Golbus et al., "Fetal Treatment 1982." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 307, 1982, pp. 1651-1652.
"Today's view in maternal and fetal medicine." Patient Care, January 15, 1983, pp. 105-121: p. 105.
1983 World Almanac, pp. 497-582. Currently, U.S. infant mortality rates (14.0 per 1000 live births) are nearly twice those in Sweden (7.7) and higher than those of all but a few western nations.
Nancy Milio, Promoting Health Through Public Policy, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co., 1981, pp. 21-22; Melvin H. Rudov and Nancy Santangelo, Health Status of Minorities and Low-Income Groups, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Publication No. (HRA) 79-627, 1979. A recent article in The Boston Globe (Feb. 14, 1983) that ran under the headline "Survey cites rise in infant mortality in depressed areas" cites the chief of maternal and infant health for the Michigan Department of Public Health as saying "that the 1980-81 period in Michigan saw 'one of the greatest increases in infant mortality since World War II'… the group showing the biggest increase in deaths is babies under 28 days of age. Two-thirds of these deaths are related to low birth weight."
This history is described in Mark. H. Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought, New Brunswick, N.H.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1963; and in Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1972. The compulsory sterilization law in California was not repealed until 1980 and sterilization laws for purposes of genetic "betterment" are still on the books in some twenty states.
For example, see Kathy Yih, "Biotechnology Becomes Big Business." Science for the People, vol. 12, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1980, pp. 5-8; a table summarizing the "biobusiness," run under the heading, "Where the biobucks are," in the Business Section of The Boston Globe, Nov. 16, 1982; Barbara J. Culliton, "The Academic-Industrial Complex." Science, vol. 216, 1982, pp. 960-962; Barbara J. Culliton, "The Hoechst Department at Mass General." op. cit., pp. 1200-1203; "Monsanto-school announce pact" in The Boston Globe, June 4, 1982. The international picture is described in a series of articles run under the heading, "The biology business," in the British science weekly, Nature, vol. 283, 1980, pp. 122-131.
"Biotechnology Retrenchment," front page story in the business section of The New York Times, Feb. 19, 1983, reprinted Feb. 22 as a lead article in the business and financial section of the International Herald Tribune.
Arnold S. Reiman, "The New Medical-Industrial Complex." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 303, 1980,963 -970; Barbara J. Culliton, "Biomedical Research Enters the Market Place." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 304, 1981, pp. 1195-1201; Nicholas Wade, "Recombinant DNA: Warming Up for Big Payoff." Science, vol. 206, 1979, pp. 663-665; Nicholas Wade, "Cloning Gold Rush Turns Basic Biology into Big Business." Science, vol. 208, 1980, pp. 688-692.
Wade, "Cloning Goid Rush… ", p. 689; Culliton, "Biomedical Research Enters the Marketplace," p. 1199. Gilbert has since resigned his tenured professorship at Harvard to become chief executive officer of Biogen.
David Dickson, "Deaths Halt Interferon Trials in France." Science, vol. 218, 1982, p. 772; "Biotechnology Retrenchment," New York Times.


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Mayor John Cooper and Metro Nashville Government Recognize National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
On October 11, Mayor John Cooper signed a proclamation recognizing the importance of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and all efforts to improve information security.
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Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and ensure that everyone has access to the appropriate resources they need to be safer and more secure online.
Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.
This year's overarching message — Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. — has been designed to encourage personal accountability and proactive behavior in digital privacy, but also promote security best practices, consumer device privacy, e-commerce security, as well as various cybersecurity focused careers.
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Ahead of Diwali, on Monday morning Delhi's PM2.5 level was over 20 times the safe limit prescribed by WHO, according to data from the Delhi Pollution Control Board. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday was recorded at 342, which falls in the "very poor" category. PM2.5 are fine particles that can penetrate the lungs and cause respiratory diseases.
Fire breaks out at a garbage dump in Delhi's Jangpura area, which later spread to the nearby shanties. Police and fire tenders are at the spot.
Fire breaks out at a garbage dump in Delhi's Jangpura area, which later spread to the nearby shanties. Police and fire tenders are at the spot.
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New Delhi: Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday, November 4, while hitting out at Maharashtra Environment and Forests minister over the killing of the "maneater" tigress Avni said it was a 'straight case of crime'.
"It is nothing but a straight case of crime. Despite requests from his own forest department and people, Sudhir Mugantiwar gave orders for the killing. This is the third tiger being killed on his directions," Gandhi said in a statement.
Avni was a five-year-old tigress identified as "T1" who had caused a widespread fear in Maharashtra's Vidarbha forests. She was shot dead early on Saturday near Borati village in Yavatmal district.
Maneka further stated that Mugantiwar earlier had directed for killing a dozen of leopards and 300 wild boars.
"I am shocked that such a person is continuing to hold a ministerial position. Every time he has used the Hyderabad shooter, Shafat Ali Khan and this time his son has also appeared on the scene illegally to kill the tigress. His son was not authorized to kill. This is patently illegal," she added.
Maneka also said that she will be taking up the matter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis seeking strong action.
"We cannot allow this kind of insensitive and merciless attitude towards animals to prevail. I am going to take up this issue legally, criminally as well as politically," she added.
Avni died after three months of a massive hunt undertaken with the help of trap cameras, drones, trained sniffer dogs along with a team of forest department officials and spotters.
As per the Supreme Court directives, forest department officials were required to first tranquillize and trap her, but in Saturday's operation, she allegedly attacked the stalking team which shot her.
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Latest Update – As of September 12, Puerto Rico has once again reopened its borders for tourism.
Puerto Rico has officially reopened its borders to international travelers on July 15, 2020. However, on July 16, the government announced that it is postponing its reopening plans due to the surge of Covid-19 cases. Now that there's a significant drop in Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country, the authorities have decided to proceed with their tourism reopening plans.
All passenger flights have been diverted to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan. The Puerto Rico National Guard will assist in the enhanced health screenings for all passengers on arrival, and only travelers with a negative COVID-19 test will be allowed to enter.
Facemasks are mandatory for all passengers arriving at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. Thermographic cameras have been installed to monitor the temperatures of all arriving passengers. Below are the requirements that all passengers must
Passengers must fill out the travel declaration form that the Puerto Rico Health Department will provide. They must also present a negative molecular COVID-19 test, which was taken within 72 hours prior to arrival and go on a mandatory self-quarantine for 14 days, or the length of the visit, whichever is shorter.
Visitors must cover the medical expenses and any other expenses that will be incurred for the quarantine and for possible extended stay in the country.
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Puerto Rico allows visitors from all countries to enter EXCEPT for those coming from the following countries:
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What's Opening in Puerto Rico?
Measures are gradually lifting in Puerto Rico. Sunbathing and other activities at the beach are allowed. However, group gatherings are only limited to those who belong in the same household. Visitors to public beaches and nature parks must adhere to social distancing guidelines and masks must be worn when not in the water. Competitive games such as volleyball and other water sports activities are not allowed on the beaches
Museums will operate at 50% capacity, swimming pools will be open at 25% capacity, and shopping malls, retail stores and restaurants will cater to customers at 50% capacity. Bars, cafes and discos remain closed, although theaters, casinos and gyms can open at 25% capacity.
An island-wide curfew of 10 PM to 5 AM remains in effect, although the lockdown will be lifted on Sundays.
El Yunque National Forest, one of Puerto Rico's most popular attractions, is partially open but with limited capacity. Advance reservations are required for the main recreation areas.
Visitors and residents must wear a facemask while in public and will be subjected to a fine if they refuse. Social distancing will be enforced and capacities on public places all over the island were adjusted.
Staying At Hotels
Most hotels have remained open and distancing measures have been in place:
Face coverings are mandatory in public areas.
Hotel pool facilities and fitness centers are open except for the sauna.
All guests are advised to follow the locally enforced measures including social distancing.
Restaurants within hotels and resorts are open but will only welcome guests at 75% capacity.
Certifications were given on hotels that have been thoroughly sanitized in accordance with the standards set by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC). Upon check-in, guests will be given a Health and Safety guide that details the specialized measures implemented by the property.
See the detailed restrictions and live report for Puerto Rico here.
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Brace yourself! Time for some constructive fun as you hammer out all the correct answers in this quiz!
Carpentry or woodworking is one of the oldest known skills. That is, perhaps, because wood has always been a readily available material. Humans have used wood to make shelters, furniture, transportation and a wide range of other items. Carpentry even predates the use of Stone Age tools but has benefited greatly from the technological advances which came along in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
As carpentry developed, so too did the set of terms use by persons practicing the trade. Some of these terms are common to other skill areas, but many of them are specific to carpentry and there are a few which it would take an experienced carpenter to figure out. "Awl in awl," there are some of each of them in the quiz, so if you know jack (stud) about carpentry, you should do pretty well!
If you are an apprentice or journeyman, you are sure to know the vast majority of these terms - perhaps you go about using them every day! Show you are in the top bracket when it comes to carpentry - take the quiz!
Which of these terms is used for a wall which is perfectly vertical?
Butt joint
Air-dried
A line, a piece of timber or a wall which is completely vertical (not slanted in any way) is said to be plumb. Common tools used to check for plumb include the spirit level and the plumb bob. The verb "plumb" can be used to mean to make an object perfectly vertical or to find the vertical height or depth of something.
What is the name carpenters use for the tool which helps them to check, mark and set right angles?
A right angle (90 degrees) is also called a square corner and hence, square is the word for the tool which carpenters use to check right angles. It is a common hand tool which comes in the form of a simple "try square" or can be designed with other features, in which case it is known as a "combination square."
Do you know what name is given to a piece of wood which is set between two walls to give them added support?
Live load
Crossbeams are used on a wide variety of structures including cathedral ceilings. They strengthen the structure, making it capable of bearing a greater load and withstand rocking forces such as earthquakes. Crossbeams may be styled to add a decorative element to the structure they are supporting.
Can you spot the word which refers to trim placed at the base of a window or underneath the spindles of a staircase?
Finger joint
Generally speaking, the term apron is used in construction to refer to a component which is adjoining or adjacent to a primary feature. That includes the trim which is placed at the base of a window (inside and out). It can be used to cover unsightly joints and adds a finished look to the structure.
What name do carpenters give to a device made of a weight attached to string and used to check whether a wall is vertical?
While any heavy weight or tool on a string can act as a plumb bob, the weight which is typically used is pointed, as this helps to ensure greater accuracy. The plumb bob is a traditional device which still comes in handy, especially when a carpenter needs to plumb a very tall wall.
What term is used to describe a shorter-than-normal stud or rafter?
Cross bracing
Load-bearing walls
Cat's paw
Cripple studs and cripple rafters are used as framing elements. Cripple studs, for example, are placed vertically below or above an opening, such as a door or window. Because they make room for the opening in the wall, they are shorter-than-regular studs which go from floor to ceiling.
Do you know which of these terms refers to cutting wood at an angle?
On center
Miter cuts are typically made at an angle of 45 degrees at the end of a piece of timber. Therefore, when two pieces of timber with miter cuts are placed end-to-end, they form a miter joint which measures 90 degrees.
Which term refers to the piece of framing wood placed above a door or window for support?
Rake wall
Headers are weight-bearing, horizontal pieces of timber which are placed at the top of an opening whenever that opening is wider than the distance between two studs. The header supports the weight above the opening, and further support can be given by placing cripples (short studs) from the header up to the top plate
Any permanent and immovable weight which the structure has to bear is referred to by which term?
Dead load
Fire block
Most often the largest dead load a structure has to bear is the weight of the structure itself. Its roof, walls, staircases and elevated floors are all dead weight. The terms permanent load and static load can be used in place of the more macabre "dead" load.
What do carpenters call the small, sharp, pointed tool which they use to make indentations and scribe lines?
There are several different types of awls, but the one most often used by carpenters is the brad awl. It is used to create pilot or starting holes for nails and screws. Another type of awl is the scratch awl, which can be used to etch a line in a piece of wood for the teeth of a saw to follow.
What do carpenters call it when they cut away a section at the bottom of a piece of timber?
Valley rafter
Undercutting a door can help to make room for it to pass freely over newly installed flooring. The undercut can also refer to making an angle cut at the back or side of a piece of wood so that it fits snuggly against another piece of wood.
What is the term used when slender projections are cut into the ends of pieces of timber so that they can interlock?
Two pieces of timber can be securely joined by cutting finger-like projections in the end of each. The "fingers" interlock when the pieces of wood are placed together, creating a finger joint (also called box joint or comb joint). Finger joints can be used to join pieces of wood together lengthwise or to form a corner.
What term do carpenters use to describe a surface which is perfectly horizontal?
The word level means completely horizontal, just as plumb means completely vertical. Carpenters can use the same tool, a spirit level, to verify both level and plumb conditions as they build. Many spirit levels also have the ability to check whether a surface slopes at 45 degrees.
What is the carpentry term for a strip of timber used as a decorative element, often where a wall meets the floor or ceiling?
Molding (also called wall trim) is often made of softwood with a decorative profile to add a finished look once the molding is installed. An engineered hardwood material known as MDF (medium-density fibreboard) is sometimes used but there are some health and safety concerns with this.
Can you name the type of decorative molding which is described as larger than pearling?
Beading by itself can form an attractive yet simple trim. It is often combined with other designs, however, to create more intricate molding styles with such names as bead and leaf; bead and spindle; bead and dart; and bead and reel.
What is the term used when a carpenter joins two pieces of wood without any special shaping technique?
On its own, a butt joint held together by only glue is weak and liable to fail under minimal stress. To improve the strength of this simple joint, carpenters often use some type of fastener, such as nails, screws, biscuits and dowels.
What is the feline name given to the forked tool which carpenters use as a nail puller?
The cat's paw is a kind of pry bar which sometimes goes by the name claw bar. It is used to dig in around embedded nails and pull them out, sometime with the assistance of a claw hammer.
The pieces of timber which run perpendicular to studs and are used as support for a ceiling or floor go by what name?
Joists can be found in floor and ceiling framing. They run parallel to each other and are set to sit atop a beam which is placed across the studs. In some cases, there are other beams running under (or carrying) the joists which help to provide added support.
What do carpenters call the tool used to create slots to fit small discs which connect pieces of wood together?
The biscuit joiner is a power tool with a small circular blade. It used to cut slots in pieces of timber which are to be joined. A small oval disc called a biscuit is loaded with glue and placed in the slots, joining the two pieces of timber together.
What name refers to material used to cover the underside of an eave so as to give it a finished appearance?
Soffits are used in conjunction with vertical fascia boards when constructing the eaves of a roof. Apart from finishing an eave, soffits can be used inside a building to fill in the empty space between the ceiling and the top of a cupboard or cabinet.
Which word do carpenters use to describe a situation where one surface juts out instead of being flush with another?
The term "flush" means two surfaces are completely level with each other. In cases where they are not, then the lower surface is said to be "shy" while the upper one is "proud."
What term do carpenters use to describe a measurement taken from the middle of one element to the middle of another element?
On center measurements are typically taken between the centers of neighboring studs. As long as all the studs are identical, then the on center measurement is the same as the distance between the edges of the studs
Which term do carpenters use when referring to two diagonal supports which are placed so that they form an X?
Cross bracing acts as a form of reinforcement and can be found on various parts of a building, including between rafters and floor joists. The technique is also used to strengthen furniture such as tables and chairs. Other forms of bracing include K-bracing and V-bracing.
What term are carpenters likely to use when referring to the high point where two sloped sections of a roof meet?
There is a board (aptly called the ridge board) which runs horizontally along the ridge of the roof. The roof's sloping rafters meet the ridge board on either side, and it helps to provide support for all other elements of the roof.
Which term means a connection which is formed when sloping projections are interlocked?
The dovetail joint is quite similar to the finger joint, but with sloping sides on the pins instead of having them straight. The dovetail joint is said to be much stronger than the finger joint and it can be made even stronger with the application of glue.
Material used to prevent the spread of flames, smoke and gases inside concealed spaces goes by what name?
Fire blocking material can slow down or stop fire which occurs within the walls of a building. It works by sealing off sections of the space inside the wall and by preventing drafts of air from fueling and moving the fire. Common fire blocking materials include drywall, mineral wool, cement board and spray foam.
What is the name of these common features which help to hold up the weight of a structure?
Some load-bearing walls also act as partitioning walls, but there are many partitioning walls which do not contribute to bearing the structure's weight – they simply divide up the space inside. Care must be taken when remodeling a structure, since knocking out a load-bearing wall can compromise its integrity.
Do you know which term refers to the platform between two flights of stairs which allow the stairs to change direction?
The full term for the platform between two flights of stairs is the "intermediate landing." Although it is typically used when stairs need to change direction, it is not always necessary. A spiral staircase allows the climber to ascend the stairs while constantly changing direction.
What term do carpenters use for the slight curve or bend in a piece of timber?
It is expected that timber used in framing a house will not lie completely flat. To make the timber appear flat when it is used as flooring, carpenters lay it with the crown (curve) up. The weight of the furniture and occupants of the house will then cause it to flatten out.
Timber which is set vertically at the edge of a roof to help form its eaves goes by what name?
The fascia board runs right along the edge of the roof and is connected to the ends of the rafters. The underside of the roof is then fitted with the soffit boards, and the finished look of the eaves is created.
What term is used when a partition is made of different length studs, giving it a sloped appearance?
A rake (or raked) wall may be sloped in one or both directions. Also, the slopes do not have to be the same length, neither do they have to cover the entire length of the wall. It all depends on the design of the structure.
Which term do carpenters use for the framework of timber which supports a roof?
Traditionally, trusses are constructed from scratch, but it is now commonplace for carpenters to use pre-fabricated trusses. The pre-fabricated trusses can save time, labor and material but care must be taken that they may not completely match the requirements of a specific structure.
Do you know the term which refers to the supporting timber located where two sloped sides of a roof meet?
Valley rafters are typically found on hip roofs where the building is made up of different sections and has what are called internal corners. The valley rafter offers support to shorter rafters known as cripples.
When carpenters speak of reducing the moisture content of timber, what term do they use?
Wood which is to be air-dried is stacked in a cool, dry location with some amount of protection from heavy rain. To allow for circulation of air around the pieces of lumber, they are stacked with spacers (sometimes called stickers) between them. It can take several years to air-dry timber to its optimal moisture content.
Which of these terms refers to dynamic or temporary weight which the structure has to bear?
A live load is any weight which is not fixed to or forms a part of the structure. This includes the weight of people moving through the structure. Movable furniture is also considered to be live load whether or not it actually moves after being placed in a particular spot.
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"""
setup.py for installing F2PY

Usage:
   pip install .

Copyright 2001-2005 Pearu Peterson all rights reserved,
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Permission to use, modify, and distribute this software is given under the
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from numpy.distutils.core import setup
from numpy.distutils.misc_util import Configuration

from __version__ import version

def configuration(parent_package='', top_path=None):
    config = Configuration('f2py', parent_package, top_path)
    config.add_subpackage('tests')
    config.add_data_dir('tests/src')
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        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
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        'License :: OSI Approved :: NumPy License',
        'Natural Language :: English',
        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
        'Programming Language :: C',
        'Programming Language :: Fortran',
        'Programming Language :: Python',
        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
        'Topic :: Software Development :: Code Generators',
    ]
    setup(version=version,
          description="F2PY - Fortran to Python Interface Generator",
          author="Pearu Peterson",
          author_email="pearu@cens.ioc.ee",
          maintainer="Pearu Peterson",
          maintainer_email="pearu@cens.ioc.ee",
          license="BSD",
          platforms="Unix, Windows (mingw|cygwin), Mac OSX",
          long_description="""\
The Fortran to Python Interface Generator, or F2PY for short, is a
command line tool (f2py) for generating Python C/API modules for
wrapping Fortran 77/90/95 subroutines, accessing common blocks from
Python, and calling Python functions from Fortran (call-backs).
Interfacing subroutines/data from Fortran 90/95 modules is supported.""",
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Q: Remove Item From Backbone Collection I have the following code. Everything works perfectly, but I'm trying to figure out how to remove an item from the collection (note: I'm new to Backbone). I've checked out several other posts but I just can seem to figure it out:
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    events: {
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A: You can use backbone's remove method to remove a model from a collection:

Remove a model (or an array of models) from the collection. Fires a "remove" event, which you can use silent to suppress. If you're a callback listening to the "remove" event, the index at which the model is being removed from the collection is available as options.index.

If you want to do this though, you'll have to have a way to grab the model to be removed from the click event. There are basically two ways to do this:

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*Add the model's id to the element that triggers the event (say as a data-id attribute), so that the event handler can grab that id when it is called and use it to get the model (and in this case remove it from the collection).

*Create a sub-view for each model rendered, which obviates the need for an id attribute.

There is a great post by Derick Bailey on the pros and cons of each approach that I'd recommend having a look at (I've basically paraphrased him here).
Hope that helps.

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