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Boston Dailies Engage in Olympic Gamesmanship
From our One Town, Two Different Worlds desk
In the wake of the new WBUR poll that registers a knee-buckling 52% opposition to Boston's 2024 Summer Olympics bid, the major players have decided it's time to buckle down. And to pick a local daily to get the word out.
Not surprisingly, Mayor Marty Walsh has drifted toward the Boston Herald, while Boston 2024 gets a front-page boost from the Boston Globe.
Start with the latter:
Boston 2024 goes campaign-style
Bid committee uses political tactics and operatives
It was the ideal place to launch a grassroots movement: a Roxbury basketball tournament that drew a who's who of political players, from the governor and mayor to city councilors and ward committee activists.
And right inside the entrance were three young people handing out Boston 2024 wristbands and urging anyone within earshot to volunteer for the city's Olympic bid.
"Whether you're for or against, we want to hear your voice," Willie Bodrick II proclaimed as he pitched the Games to a local lawyer and nonprofit executive.
Bodrick, a 27-year-old pastor who worked on Martha Coakley's gubernatorial bid, is part of a sophisticated campaign-style operation that the local Olympic organizing group has built to persuade skeptical Bostonians to embrace efforts to land the 2024 Summer Games.
Michael Levenson's piece continues, "the organization now looks much like a well-funded candidate's operation, with digital media strategists, field teams, fund-raisers, liaisons to clergy and to ethnic media, and consultants who have worked on the biggest races in Massachusetts politics."
And they all get trotted out here, from uber-consultants Doug Rubin and Will Keyser to "voter-mobilization guru" John Walsh to the ubiquitous Rev. Jeffrey Brown.
Crosstown, the Boston Herald channels Marty Walsh in Richard Weir's piece.
Walsh hits reset button in quest for Olympic gold
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, amid nosediving public support for Boston's Olympics bid, is looking to hit the "reset button" in hopes of restoring confidence in the push to host the 2024 Summer Games and cutting his own political losses, according to City Hall insiders and observers.
Walsh called out former Gov. Deval Patrick Thursday over his controversial $7,500-a-day lobbying fee for the group behind the bid, Boston 2024, just hours before Patrick finally relented and said he would forgo pay for his work.
"Mayor Walsh has hit the reset button on the Olympic effort given that this is his city and he has the most to lose politically," said one insider close to the Walsh administration.
Yeah – especially since he told WGBH's Boston Public Radio last month that he'd consider 70% support for the Boston Olympics "satisfactory." We're a long way from that, Mistah Mayah, and headed in the wrong direction.
(Cheek by jowl with Weir's piece is a Joe Battenfeld column calling for Mitt Romney to take over the whole mess, and a Joe Fitzgerald rumination on Deval Patrick's $7500-a-day hubris.)
This could get interesting if the Globe becomes the preferred conduit for the Boston 2024 machers, and the Herald generally serves as the unofficial newsletter of the Walsh administration.
We shall see, eh?
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Five-Ring Monte: Boston Herald Is on the Money in Olympic Salary Flap
The local dailies are currently on Boston 2024, the high-rolling Olympic wannabe outfit, like Brown on Williamson – especially in the matter of who's getting paid what.
Today Boston hits the Dailies Double, with both papers front-paging the buckraking at the Olympic trough.
Boston Globe:
Olympic bid panel offers salary data
Patrick to earn $7,500 per day during travels
Former governor Deval Patrick will earn $7,500 a day for occasional travel as a global ambassador for Boston's Olympic bid, selling the city and its vision for the Games to the International Olympic Committee, according to salary data released Monday by local Olympic planners, who say they do not know how often Patrick would be on the job.
The local Olympic bid committee, Boston 2024, which is funded by private donations, is also paying $1,390,500 in annual staff salary, with six of 10 salaried employees making more than $100,000 a year. Chief executive Rich Davey topped the list at $300,000.
Mark Arsenault's piece features other hauls as well: "Boston 2024 is paying $44,000 a month to communications consultants, including $15,000 each to Northwind Strategies — overseen by former Patrick aide Doug Rubin — and Keyser Public Strategies, whose president, Will Keyser, was a key strategist in Governor Charlie Baker's winning campaign."
And: "The committee also has monthly contracts, for $10,000 each, with William Coyne Jr. and Jack Hart — well-connected lobbyists with South Boston ties."
And: "Nikko Mendoza, who was Patrick's director of operations, is vice president for engagement and external affairs, making $120,000 a year, according to Boston 2024."
That's a lotta dough-re-mi, eh?
Crosstown at the Boston Herald, it gets even worse.
Inside, the fiscally local tabloid features this handy clip 'n' save pay sheet:
Do we see a pattern emerging here? Boston 2024 operates clandestinely, local media force the issue on some issue, Boston 2024 forks over some information. Time to stock up on crowbars.
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Electronic Arts Had To Recall A Tiger Woods Golf Game Because It Contained?
April 5, 2016, 1:37pm EDT
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The First (And So Far Only) Person To Win Both An Ig Nobel and Nobel Prize Is?
Answer: A South Park Episode
In 1999, Electronic Arts issued a massive recall of the PlayStation version of their recently released game title Tiger Woods PGA Tour to the tune of 100,000 copies. While traditional reasons for recalling a game usually revolve around manufacturing defects, this recall was a bit different.
Someone working on the project at EA Sports had slipped a hidden copy of the uncensored South Park "pilot" episode onto the game disc for the PlayStation release of the title. The episode wasn't viewable during game play or in a PlayStation itself, but if you popped the PlayStation disc into your PC and opened a file named Zzdummy.dat, then you would be able to view the episode in a video player.
While including copyrighted material on the game disc, in and of itself, was rather problematic enough had it only been a copy of a pop song or some silly photos, EA would likely have just paid the copyright holder and been done with it (rather than incur the expense of recalling 100,000 units). As it stood, however, the included South Park episode, The Spirit of Christmas (a.k.a Jesus vs. Santa), was considered far too offensive to leave out in circulation and was recalled based on objectionable content.

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At this exact moment, Spenser and I are sitting at a tiny table in the Hong Kong airport. We have 2 hours until our departure, no assigned gate, my comically large backpack, and time. Lots and lots of time. We may have two hours now, but we have a good five hour layover in Kuala Lumpur after our first flight (yay), and THEN we arrive in Bali…at 2:30 am. It'll be great. Consequently, enjoy a blog post about our adventures with our friend (yes, we have friends) Paige.
Paige is from Baton Rouge and we met her at Tulane long ago. She's a super cool lady and, when I told her back in March that we were moving to China, she did her usual Paige thing and said, "I'm going to visit you. I'm not even kidding." Sure enough, Paige kept her word and arrived in China with her lovely cousin Amanda. They flew into Beijing on Christmas and traveled by themselves for a bit before meeting up with us in HK. To put it simply, we had a helluva time.
Naturally, we kicked things off in a very New Orleans "fashion" as soon as they got here. We bounced from place to place the first night and caught up on both new business and old business.
Catching up with friends, New Orleans style.
Making new friends…with the waitress!
The next day, feeling slightly wobbly, we decided to take it easy and have a late start. We rode the MTR out to Lantau Island and explore the area around the great bronze Tian Tan Buddha. What I was not expecting, however, was a glass-bottomed gondola ride that went WAY too high in the air for my taste.
Everyone else, however, loved it because they're crazy people who should be way more afraid of heights.
We had just enough time to run up to the steps of the Tian Tan Buddha, take some pictures, and run back to the gondola before we would be left behind, but we all still had a wonderful experience in a short amount of time.
Immediately after this, the cow tried to snuggle with me and it was terrifying.
We took her to the "famous" Yantian Seafood Street and ate many fine delicacies, including a gigantic crab and some gooeyduck (the…um…weird looking shellfish).
Paige picking out her meal.
Gooeyduck is from Alaska and considered to be a true delicacy in China. Naturally, we had to try it.
Spenser picking out a tasty crab.
We also took her to teppanyaki with our CTLC friends! It was SO much fun!
And, on her last day in Shenzhen, we took Paige to the world famous Toilet Restaurant. Yes, our chairs were toilets. Fake poo was everywhere. All the food was served in toilets or squatty pottys. It was very weird and the ice cream tasted like…not very good.
All in all, I'm so glad Paige kept her word and decided to visit China. We had a blast. It was great at times, exhausting at times, and weird at other times, but all these times were extremely memorable. When we come home, there will be at least one person who understands the trials and tribulations we dealt with on a daily basis and how absolutely wonderful and completely weird this new home is. Thanks for visiting friend!
Sweet! I finished this blog post with 30 minutes left before we take off for Kuala Lumpur. Cool. Now we're all up to date again. Whew. Ok, check back here often over the next few weeks as Spenser and I are going to try to blog from our various vacation spots! Weeeeee! Happy travels!


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Gerard "Gerrit" Peters (* 31. Juli 1920 in Haarlem; † 6. April 2005 ebenda) war ein niederländischer Radrennfahrer und Weltmeister.

1941 wurde Gerrit Peters Niederländischer Meister der Amateure auf der Straße. Im Jahr darauf wurde er Profi; 1946 wurde er Niederländischer Meister in der Einerverfolgung auf der Bahn (nachdem er zuvor bereits zweimal auf dem Podium stand) und schließlich Weltmeister in dieser Disziplin bei den Titelkämpfen in Zürich.

Kurz danach stürzte Peters bei einem Bahnrennen in Gent schwer und brach sich den Arm, der eingeschränkt blieb. Mit mäßigem Erfolg fuhr Gerrit Peters in den folgenden Jahren bei Straßenradrennen mit. Erfolgreicher war er bei Sechstagerennen, wo er 37-mal startete. Sechsmal konnte er bei Sechstagerennen – 1954 das von Berlin – gewinnen, gemeinsam mit Gerrit Schulte, der bei der Einerverfolgung auf der Bahn sein größter Konkurrent gewesen war. Sie wurden "die zwei Gerrits" genannt. 1956 beendete er seine Radsport-Karriere, nachdem Schulte, in dessen Schatten der ruhige Peters immer gestanden hatte, die Zusammenarbeit mit ihm zugunsten von Peter Post beendet hatte.

Einmal, 1951, nahm Peters auch an der Tour de France teil, wo er weniger durch fahrerische Erfolge Furore machte als durch einen legendären Ausspruch. Als sein Landsmann und Teamkollege Wim van Est, der zu diesem Zeitpunkt das Gelbe Trikot trug, stürzte und eine Böschung herunterfiel, schaute Peters von oben auf diesen runter und sagte: "Het is net een boterbloem." (niederl. = "Es ist bloß eine Butterblume.") Am nächsten Tag wurde das gesamte Team von Teamleiter Kees Pellenaars aus dem Rennen genommen.

Gerrit Peters, der von Fans auch schlicht "Gé" genannt wurde, war verheiratet mit der Tochter des Sprint-Olympiasiegers Jacobus van Egmond. Eine Zeit lang betrieb er ein Restaurant in Zandvoort. Auch war er Sportlicher Leiter des Radsportteams Caballero.

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The three-day trip, offered by the ECU Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, includes 25 hours of community service and a chance to learn how area leaders design the change they want to see in their communities.
ECU's alternative break experiences include a variety of locations and emphases. Past experiences range from community gardening at home in Greenville to youth work as far away as Northern Ireland. Washington was chosen as a new alternative break location because organizers wanted to focus on regional transformation and help areas close to the university, according to the CLCE.
"We are excited to expose our students to local communities within the region to learn more about how leaders and community members are creating positive social change. Although Hurricane Florence shifted our focus a little, it is another opportunity for students to learn how local communities can come together in times of natural disasters and lead eastern North Carolina on the road of recovery," said Nichelle Shuck, CLCE's associate director.


A girl from the city and a guy from the countryside. As travelers we found each other in 2011.
After years of enjoyable holidays, it is now time for the real work; a worldtrip!
Armed with camera and hikingshoes in a backpack of 9 kilo we visit all the places we have dreamed of for so long. The various cultural, culinary experiences, nature and meeting different people during our holiday made us hungry for more. Our dream to travel the world for at least one and a half year has now become reality. More nature and the freedom to decide where you are going and how long you'll stay without any time pressure. Oh yeah, we love it!
We fell in love in 2011. We've known each other much longer than that, because we were colleagues. After a successful project (you know, we had to work real close to each other) we got to know each other better and had a click. We share a lot of passions, hike till you drop and enjoying good food. Preparing that great meal only works in the company of a fine wine and some music. Our greatest passion is traveling. We can't help it, it's in our blood… it is in our DNA!
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The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission has elected officers for the coming year.
Larry Hamlin will serve as chairman, Larry Eastep as vice chairman and the Rev. Eric Hansen as secretary. Hamiin has been an engineer for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for 15 years. Eastep, a registered engineer, is retired from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Hansen is lead pastor of the iWorship Center in Springfield.
The chairmanship alternates each year between the city and county representatives on the board.


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In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
San Francisco - There is a possibility that Voyager, the U.S. spacecraft launched in 1977, which is thought to have left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space last year, could still be "inside," said Ed Stone, Voyager project chief scientist, today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Read more about In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
Hot Earth orbits closest star system
A hot Earth-sized planet circles Alpha Centauri, the sun's nearest stellar neighbor, a team of astronomers led by Xavier Dumusque of the University of Geneva reports this week in Nature. They detected the tiny gravitational tug this world exerts on its star.
Read more about Hot Earth orbits closest star system
Exoplanet forecast: Quartz with a chance of feldspar
Next time you're unhappy with the weather, be glad it's not raining rocks. That seems to happen on CoRoT-7b, a hot, Earth-like planet about 500 light-years away from us. A new modeling study suggests that the exoplanet's atmosphere is filled with the chemical components of rock, such as oxygen, sodium and silicon monoxide, and whenever these gases condense into clouds, rocky rain likely hammers down onto CoRoT-7b's sweltering surface.
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Scientists find watery super-Earth
The search for Earth-like planets has never looked better. Scientists say they have discovered a water-rich planet that is only 2.7 times larger than Earth. Although positioned just outside the habitable zone for life, the planet gives scientists their best hope yet that other Earth-like planets exist in our universe.
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Super-Earths: Mirrors of our world?
Fifty light-years from Earth, in the constellation Pegasus, burns a yellow star not unlike our sun. The star, called 51 Pegasi, was one of 142 stars under the watchful gaze of Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva in 1994. From the La Silla Observatory at the southern end of Chile's vast Atacama Desert, Mayor and Queloz were tracking how these stars move in the sky, hoping to determine whether the stars were alone — or whether any of them might be accompanied by a planet or two.
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Down to Earth With: Marc Kuchner
Marc Kuchner likes to joke that when he feels sociable at a party, he tells fellow guests that he is an astronomer. But when he wants to be left alone, he says, he tells them he is an astrophysicist. At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., Kuchner spends his time thinking about planets outside the solar system and looking for ways to better see them — and he's devoted some of his time to working on the Terrestrial Planet Finder, a proposed NASA mission to look for and image Earth-like exoplanets. For his work on improving the detection and understanding of exoplanets, SPIE, an international society that advances light-based research, awarded him the group's Early Career Achievement Award earlier this year.
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There are two main reasons that your toenail fell off: infection or injury. It's not unusual for athletes – especially runners – to lose a toenail due to a foot related injury or the consistent forces and pressure being put on their toes. If you've had a fungal nail infection, such as onychomycosis, this could also cause the nail to raise off the nailbed and eventually fall off.
It's important to take proper precautions and keep an eye on the nail as it grows, especially if you're wanting to get a pedicure.
If your toenail is falling off because you have toenail fungus, then you absolutely should not get a pedicure because the fungus is contagious and you will spread it to others. If you regularly get pedicures, this may be how you got the fungus in the first place that's causing your nail to fall off, but there are others ways to get it, and more importantly, an easy way to get rid of it.
If your toenail is falling off due to an injury, you can still get a pedicure, as long as it isn't causing you any foot pain. Keep in mind though, that this area of your toe is usually protected by a nail, so it may be more sensitive to the touch and more vulnerable to infection. Check with your nail technician to make sure the foot baths are clean and sanitized.
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Jennifer Lawrence Regrets Not Throwing A Bachelorette Party
Jennifer Lawrence and art dealer Cooke Maroney got married in October last year.
Jennifer Lawrence "regrets" not having a big Bachelorette party.
The Hunger Games star — who married art dealer Cooke Maroney in October 2019 — wishes she would have celebrated her last days as a fiance, rather than a wife, differently but she had a "blast".
Speaking on the Absolutely Not with Heather McMahan podcast, she said: "I had a major sleepover at my apartment, but I will say I regret not planning a big one. My friend was getting married close to me and I went to her Bachelorette and then we ended up — typical Leo — we called it my Bachelorette. It was the most fun weekend of my entire life. I don't know how she felt, but I had a blast."
And Jennifer recalled a funny story where she tried to play tennis with Cooke, 36, and quipped that it didn't end so well because she has a "temper problem".
She added: "Cooke and I tried to play tennis the other day but — I have a temper. I missed the ball and I turned around and chucked the racket as hard as I could after screaming so many profanities in front of so many children."
Hanging out: Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney were spotted in Lower East Side of NYC in a picture taken in Nov 2019.
Meanwhile, the 30-year-old Oscar winner recently admitted she wanted to marry Cooke as soon as they met, even though she wasn't really looking to settle down before she began dating him.
She said: "He's the greatest human being I've ever met. He really is, and he gets better … I started with the basics. 'How do I feel? Is he nice? Is he kind?' It's just - this is the one, I know that sounds really stupid but he's just, he's — you know. He's the greatest person I've ever met, so I feel very honoured to become a Maroney.
"I wasn't at a place where I was like, 'I'm ready to get married.' I just met Cooke and I wanted to marry him. We wanted to marry each other, we wanted to commit fully. He's my best friend, so I want to legally bind him to me forever. Fortunately, the paperwork exists for such a thing. It's the greatest. You find your favourite person on the planet, you're like: You can't leave."
The American Hustle actress wasn't feeling nervous about her big day.
Speaking before the nuptials, Jennifer said in June 2019: "I've been in a good place. I haven't been neurotic about it. I'm like too lazy to be neurotic. I saw a dress I liked and I was like, 'That's the dress.' I saw a venue and I was like, 'Cool, we got the venue.'" — BANG
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Q: Powershell Module - Argument Types do not match I am creating a PS module to determine the username to use in New-AdUser based on my companies naming scheme but when I pass i  the firstname and lastname parameters it comes up with an error saying argument types do not match
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Starovelichkovskaya  es una stanitsa del raión de Kalíninskaya del krai de Krasnodar de Rusia. Está situada a orillas del río Ponura, un afluente del delta del río Kirpili, 1 km al sudeste de Kalíninskaya y 51 km al noroeste de Krasnodar, la capital del krai. Tenía 13 459 habitantes en 2010

Es cabeza del municipio homónimo.

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 Este artículo contiene datos geográficos extraídos de Google Earth y el mapa de Rusia de Yandex.ru, accesible desde este enlace.
 Este artículo es una traducción de su correspondiente en la edición en ruso de Wikipedia, Старовеличковская.
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 Memorial de las Fuerzas Aéreas Soviéticas en Panoramio

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Are you flying the flag for St George today?
Tell us about your plans to honour England's patron saint.
St George's Day fever is hitting the headlines today (Thursday) as people across the country celebrate their Englishness.
Or are they? Are you celebrating England's national day here in North Devon?
The Ship & Pilot in Ilfracombe will be flying the flag tonight with a charity evening reliving two of the proudest moments in English history – the 1966 football world cup final and the 2003 rugby world cup triumph.
The events run from 5-9pm and Ilfracombe Male Voice Choir will also be on hand to lend their voices to a patriotic song or three.
Proceeds from the evening will go to Ilfracombe Youth Football.
St George, the patron saint of England, died on April 23, in the year 303.
He never visited the British Isles, but became revered by the English during the Middle Ages when according to legend, he fought on their side in the Crusades and the Hundred Years' War.
Celebration of the day is said to have waned in popularity after the union of England and Scotland in 1707.


West Nile viral activity continues to increase in New York City in mosquitoes. The first human case of West Nile viral disease was identified in a Brooklyn man. West Nile virus positive mosquito pools have been identified in all five boroughs.
Novo Nordisk Inc. is recalling six batches of the GlucaGen® HypoKit® in the U.S. due to two customer complaints from the UK and Portugal involving detached needles on the syringe with Sterile Water for Injection (SWFI).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized rules to establish consistent emergency preparedness requirements for healthcare providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid, increase patient safety during emergencies, and establish a more coordinated response to natural and man-made disasters. These new rules will require certain participating providers and suppliers to plan for disasters and coordinate with federal, state, tribal, regional, and local emergency preparedness systems to ensure that facilities are adequately prepared to meet the needs of their patients during disasters and emergency situations. The effective date will be November 16, 2016 and the implementation date will be November 16, 2017.
The FDA has recently received multiple adverse event reports associated with Baxter International Inc.'s Vascu-Guard Peripheral Vascular Patch (also referred to as the Vascu- Guard patch) during carotid endarterectomy (CEA). These reports from 2016 include intraoperative or postoperative bleeding and hematomas, some of which required additional clinical intervention, and three patient deaths potentially related to this issue that occurred shortly after CEA surgery. The device manufacturer, Baxter International, Inc., alerted the FDA to these adverse events.


Saint-Firmin (S.F) Monestime was born on December 16th, 1909 in Cap-Haïtien. S.F was a Haitian-Canadian and elected the first black mayor of Canada. Early in his life, S.F studied rural medicine and ended up writing three books on the subject. S.F Monestime was a decorated doctor, and was awarded the Haitian Legion of Merit. Soon after that, S.F moved to Quebec City to finish his medical training and was on his way to move to Timmins, Ontario before making a quick stop in a small town called Mattawa. After being convinced by a diner owner to stay in town and set up a practice there, S.F decided that it was a great idea. S.F then married his wife, and began a family. S.F practiced medicine until 1964, before being elected the first black mayor of not only Mattawa, but of any municipality in Canada. S.F Monestime stayed in his position of mayor until his unfortunate passing in 1977, and in 2014 the Haitian to Canada ambassador visited Mattawa for the 50th anniversary of S.F's elected mayor position.


The TCP Elite BR30 provides energy efficient illumination using only 10 watts of electricity. The 25,000 hour life will eliminate the hassle of repeated re-lamping. This high efficacy LED light contains no mercury, emits virtually no UV/IR light, will not fade colors, and will provide an even, diffuse light source. The color is warm white.


In 1986, Congress enacted Public Law 99-457, Part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This law, currently referred to as Part C, was established in response to the growing number of children born with developmental delays. Infants born prematurely, addicted to drugs, or with conditions such as Down Syndrome face challenging lives. Part C allows for eligible infants, ages birth to three years to receive free early intervention services to address their individual delays. Previous studies have shown that children who have participated in early intervention programs have benefited in various areas of their overall development. The purpose of this study is to examine parents' perceptions of the effects of early intervention services on adaptive functioning in toddlers who are enrolled in a center-based early intervention program. The present study utilized archival data from a random sample of children (N=75) who were enrolled in a center-based program at the Infant and Child Learning Center located in Brooklyn, New York. The majority of participants in the sample were African-American (f=93.3%) and male (f=73.3%). The children ranged in age from four to twenty-eight months prior to beginning the program, with a mean age in months of M=19.24 (SD=5.02). At postintervention, the children ranged in age from twenty-one to thirty-seven months, mean age in months M=32.12 (SD=1.99). The mean duration of enrollment in the program in months was M=11.83 (SD=2.65) and ranged from seven to eighteen months. The results of this study showed that parents did, in fact, believe that their children made improvements after attending the program.
Sam, Osslyn, "Effects of Early Intervention Services on Adaptive Functioning" (2012). PCOM Psychology Dissertations. 241.


The Backword puzzle is a grid of letters and crossword puzzle clues (across and down). When you select a letter, the box containing the letter will turn black. If you select the same letter again, the box will turn white. The game will not give you any indication of a correct answer until you complete the puzzle. The objective of the puzzle is to make the grid appear like a crossword puzzle grid, by blacking out the letters that are not used in the answers. The best way to solve Backword puzzles is start by blacking out all the letters. You can do this quickly by click and dragging across an entire row. Then, work through the clues. Starting with the clues across, the answer will always be in the top row, and most often using the first letter. The answer for the next clue will be either beside that one (with an unused letter in-between them) or in the third row. Rarely a word may bridge the gap between two answers on the row directly underneath. After that, start working with the clues down, beginning near the top and working your way across. When you have reached the right edge of the grid, look for answers going down in the center-left area.
Completing ten Hangman puzzles will earn the achievement.


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Call for Papers (Sherlock book collection; complete essays due 03/01/2011)
Posted on November 15, 2010 November 15, 2010 by l_e_s	Posted in academia, publications, sherlock, transmedia, TV
CFP: The Game is On! The Transmedia Adventures of Sherlock
When the BBC premiered its 2010 three-part series Sherlock, it re-envisioned a character who had been adapted and re-adapted in multiple reincarnations for over a century. 113 years earlier, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in his first serial incarnation. The logical detective solving unsolvable crimes became a key archetypal figure in the mystery and detective genres, crossing media and centuries.
In this collection, we emphasize Sherlock Holmes as an evolving cross media/transmedia and international figure and the myriad cultural intersections and robust and diverse fan traditions that have converged in Sherlock and its fandom. The collection will bring together essays that consider the literary and reception histories informing Sherlock, the industrial and cultural contexts of Sherlock's release, the text of Sherlock itself as adaptation and transformative work, and Sherlock's critical and popular reception.
Sherlock brings together participants in the highly active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians with long time fans of Holmes who have not acted on that fandom in community contexts. These diverse Sherlock Holmes fans come together with fans from other communities, such as science fiction, slash, and anime fandom.
Thus, the series provides the opportunity to explore the intersection of personal and community fan histories, as well as the convergence of different generations and modes of fandom. Arguably, fan studies has long sidestepped investigation of the impact of Sherlock Holmes fandom on the evolution of fan communities and fan engagement; Sherlock promises a compelling contemporary route to bridge this gap. It is our hope that this collection will contribute to both long-standing conversations about Holmes as a literary and cultural figure and to current and long-standing debates in fan studies.
In this collection, we endeavor to establish Sherlock at the intersection of various intertexts: Arthur Conan Doyle's literary works; the myriad Holmes adaptations and their fan communities; Doctor Who and Steven Moffat's influence; and transmedia reception and media fan responses. Within the context of antecedents and intertextuality, reception and fandom, suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Author, Creator, and Auteur: Moffat as showrunner and auteur, and the resulting relationship between Doctor Who and Sherlock as shows and fandoms; the continued legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle as author-construct in Sherlock fandom; negotiations of multiple auteurs in production discourse and fandom.
Characterization and Interpretation: The archetypal relationship between Holmes and Watson; the series' reinvention of canon characters, both minor and major, within the televisual context; the series' ambiguous representation of Sherlock's sexuality.
Genre and Tropes: The series' use and transformation of classical tropes of the detective genre; Sherlock in conversation with the contemporary detective genre or cop buddy genre; the role of genre in Sherlock fan reception and fan creativity/authorship.
Adaptation and Transformation: Sherlock as one of myriad Sherlock Holmes adaptations; the impact of specific aesthetics choices, such as characterization, performance, music, and fashion; the series' synthesis of Holmes canon with contemporary televisual codes and archetypes; Sherlock as transformative work.
Identity and Representation: Sherlock as the rational modern mind par excellence in a post* (post-rational, post-modern, post-colonial) world; the series' exploration of masculinity through its multiple male characters; the tension of a Victorian source in a contemporary context in relation to issues of identity and representation, such as race and gender, national and sexual identity, as well as mental and physical disability.
Space, Place, and National Identity: London as setting and character; the production of the show in Cardiff; the series' careful construction of London as a synthesis of Victorian and contemporary aesthetics; the reception of the series' abroad; discourses of nationality in Sherlock fandom and fan texts.
Contexts of Production and Circulation: The context of BBC as it is situated both in Great Britain and abroad; international below-the-radar circulation via digital means; the series' recontextualization for United States release as part of Masterpiece Mystery.
Transmedia Fandom: The roles of paratexts in Sherlock reception; Sherlock as inheritor of long traditions of cross-media fandom; Sherlock fan engagement with the series' digital-savvy aesthetic and narrative; expansions of the already transmedia Sherlock in multimedia fan texts; fannish intertextuality between Sherlock and other media texts.
Please submit complete essays of 6000-7000 words (including notes, and works cited) via e-mail in Microsoft Word or .rtf format. Include a 300-word abstract that summarizes the argument and a brief biographical statement. Use endnotes and style according to Chicago 16. If artwork, photographs, or screen shots are included, contact the editors for instructions and copyright release requirements. No simultaneous submissions.
The final deadline for essays is March 1, 2011, and we envision a contributor-open collective revision process through May 30, 2011. Please inform us in advance of your interest in the project. Please email us at transmediasherlock@gmail.com with any questions you might have about possible submission topics. We also encourage early submission to facilitate revision.
Please feel free to download the PDF version of the Call for Papers HERE.
Louisa Stein (Middlebury College)
Kristina Busse (Independent Scholar)
transmediasherlock@gmail.com
The Game is On
Exploring gender/sexuality/media through vidding (sharing student work)


As the use of medical interventions for childbirth (i.e., induction of labor and cesarean delivery) has increased during the last few decades, an increasing proportion of deliveries occur during regular daytime hours.
Hospital personnel resources and maternal and newborn outcomes can be influenced by the time of day of delivery. Data on the time of day of the birth became available with the 2003 revision of the birth certificate.
A new NCHS report examines 2013 birth certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System to describe the time of day of birth by method of delivery and place of birth for a 41-state and District of Columbia (DC) reporting area that had adopted the 2003 revised birth certificate by January 2013. This reporting area represents 90% of U.S. births.
The highest percentages of births occurred during the morning and midday hours.
Births on Saturday and Sunday were more likely to occur in the late evening and early morning hours than births Monday through Friday.
Compared with induced vaginal deliveries and noninduced vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries were the least likely to occur during the evening and early morning.
Noninduced vaginal births were more likely than cesarean and induced vaginal births to occur in the early morning.
Cesarean deliveries with no trial of labor were much more concentrated during the day than were cesarean deliveries with a trial of labor.
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Kent DuChaine
Kent DuChaine has listened to, hung out with, opened up for, traveled and played with most of the great Blues men and women his whole adult life. The list is too long to name them all, but some of the major ones are: Muddy Waters, Howlin'' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, BB, Albert and Freddie King, Willie Dixon, Bukka White, Johnny Shines, Robert JR Lockwood, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis and Son House. These were the big Country and Urban Blues influences that Kent heard and/or played with, and his early days with the Blues involved him both living and learning the Blues life. He has played in most of the major Blues festivals in the U.S.A. and Europe and was part of a Grammy nominated album recorded at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute Festival of Folk Life in Washington D.C. The theme of the festival was "The Roots of Rhythm & Blues, The Robert Johnson Era" and was recorded and released by Sony Music. It featured Robert Johnson''s old buddies, Johnny Shines, Robert JR Lockwood, Honeyboy Edwards, and Henry Townsend. Kent attended two of the early "Ann Arbor Blues Festivals" in the 70''s. It united together virtually every important Blues man and woman in the world who performed for the three days and nights in August.
His dedication and talent for the blues earned him the honor of opening two shows for Bukka White, spending time with Mississippi Fred McDowell and befriending his hometown Bluesmen, Lazy Bill Lucas and Mojo Buford in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has even hung out with Muddy Waters who he later paid his last respects to at Muddys'' funeral in Chicago. You will have to wait till you see him on stage to hear if he took up Muddy''s offer of some reefer and Champagne! The Blues were happening all around Kent at this time and he ended up playing alongside Kim Wilson in a band called "Aces, Straights & Shuffles". Willie Dixon heard the band and complimented Kent on his slide playing sounding like a young Muddy Waters. Willie arranged a recording contract for the boys to help them launch their career by putting them on stage with Howlin'' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and Margie Evans. Kent spent time in Austin, Texas in the mid 70''s, soaking up the blues at "Antone''s", who where beginning to bring in alot of the old Blues men. He met Stevie Ray Vaughn and learned that there where others who shared the same passion and respect for the real Blues. Around this time the most incredible thing happened: after searching for ten years, Kent found his beloved 1934 National Steel guitar, "Leadbessie". After some time, Kent could see that the solo Blues life was where he wanted to go. Traveling the roads alone allowed him the opportunities he was seeking. Following the Blues trails unhindered gave him the freedom to play where and when he wanted, for what ever he could get, even if it was just a meal and a drink. The solo life built his following, reputation and talent for the real Blues.
By the late 80''s he was doing 300+ shows a year all over N. America. He was blessed by the Blues in 1989 by coming across the great Johnny Shines who was living in Alabama. Kent had been based there already for seven years so he knew his way around. The two of them together where a sight to see...."The Young and the Old". Kent and Johnny traveled for three years and did over 200 shows together. He also recorded a W.C. Handy award winning album with Johnny and Snooky Pryor. The Blues rained down April 21st 1992, just four days before the two of them where to celebrate their birthdays together, Johnny passsed away. Kent understanding that this is life, carried on alone. He has spent most of the last 20 years traveling back and forth to Europe and has done close to 100 European tours of 4-6 weeks each. He has logged millions of miles and many 1000''s of shows. This is your opportunity to see what Kent DuChaine can do and hear what he knows!
kentduchaine.com
facebook.com/kentduchaine
myspace.com/kentduchaineleadbessie
youtube.com/results?search_query=kent+duchaine
"One of the best top five concerts nationwide (across ALL music genres) Sunday Times Color Supplement 2001
"a show not to miss..into the sold out venue…This is what the blues is all about..his uplifting persona & crowd pleasing demeanor (and of course his incredible musical proficiency) is the reason this man is loved all over the world." ~ 405 Music Review Internet Site, Concert At The Norwich Arts Center 2009
"Two hours of genuine entertainment…closed proceedings amid something resembling a mass hoe down..I recommend you take advantage when he brings the "DELTA" to your town." ~ Blues In Britian Magazine Review 2008
"West Midlands blues fans enjoyed a master class when American guitarist and singer Kent DuChaine played at the city's Guildhall venue." ~ Blues In Britain Magazine 2008 At The Guildhall, Lichfeild
"Kent is the first artist to be invited back a second time to this venue. It was an outstanding performance from a consummate professional." ~ Blues In Britain Jan 2009 ~ The Bronte Blues Club, Lichfield
"Not only is Kent know as a well known master of the blues…..his guitar playing is exceptional and his deep intriguing voice a great combination that really set the old style delta blues alight…..DuChaine really has lived the blues life which is clearly evident in his music." ~ The Orcadian, Orkney Blues Festival 2004
"The voice is good, the aura the 53 year old emits is wonderful and his rapport with an appreciative audience is fantastic. But what allows DuChaine to be rated as one of the worlds best is the amazing sounds he gets from his 1934 National 'steel guitar." ~ Review ~ The Customs House Arts Centre, South Shields, 2005


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Play suspended as spectators ejected..
Play suspended as spectators ejected from the cricket after complaint from Indian camp
Murray Wilton, Murray Olds
Play was temporarily suspended at the cricket as seven spectators were ejected from the SCG following complaints from the Indian team.
2GB and Wide World of Sports presenter Tim Gilbert was at the cricket as it happened and told Murray Olds and Murray Wilton the game had to be suspended for about ten minutes after possible racial abuse.
"We don't know the full details of the situation, obviously it's just happened.
"There had been murmurings over the past day or so out of the Indian camp, that there had been a couple of racial slur comments coming from the crowd.
"Basically [Mohammed] Siraj, who is one of the Indian fast-bowlers was down near the boundary and he came up and made a complaint.
"In the end seven spectators were ejected from the crowd; the police came down, Sydney cricket ground officials came around … they handled it straight away."
CricketSports


The nominees will no doubt inspire a few debates, civil or otherwise, among the gaming community.
We're nearing the end of the year, which means the annual Game Awards are just around the corner. Producer Geoff Keighley just announced the nominees, which will no doubt inspire a few debates—civil or otherwise—among the gaming community.
There are a wide range of categories, but the one most folks are interested in is that of Game of the Year. This year's nominees include: Bloodborne, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Super Mario Maker, and Fallout 4. Witcher 3 is nominated in seven categories while Metal Gear Solid V is nominated in five.
A panel of 32 judges from various international publications selected the nominees. The games on the list had to be released on or before Nov. 24 of this year. This means that games like Just Cause 3 and Rainbow Six Siege are not eligible since they arrive in December.
This year's awards show will be held at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET. It will be livestreamed on TwitchTV, YouTube, Steam, the PlayStation Network, the Wii U, Xbox Live, and Go90. Expect to see musical performances and exclusive world-premiere trailers during the show.


CPES officers are "proud professionals" highly trained to provide quality assistance to Village residents and guests. The department provides continuing education and training to assure that the officers remain at the forefront of their profession.
Medical: CPES staffs a number of certified Emergency Medical Technicians with continuing education provided on a regular basis. Most of the officers staffed by Emergency Services are CPR/AED certified. ES vehicles are equipped with Automated External Defibrillators as well as basic life saving supplies.
Duty-Related Experience: CPES Officers have a wide variety of job related experience including, but not limited to: emergency medical service, CPR, various aspects of law enforcement, security, firearms training, fire fighting and military backgrounds. All patrol officers are required to qualify in a certified law enforcement firearms training program and receive monthly continuing education in various aspects of their jobs.
The department is divided into three divisions: Patrol, Dispatch, and Access Control. All three of these divisions work together, striving to provide the best and most professional service possible to every member of our community. CPHA assessments fund the operations of this department.
The Patrol Division of Emergency Service is a division of the Castle Pines Homes Association and is structured to operate similar to a city police department. ES patrol officers travel in marked patrol cars equipped with emergency equipment. Patrol Officers are scheduled throughout a 24 hour period, seven days a week to provide a safe and secure for people to live and work in. CPES is able to respond to any call for service anywhere within the Village.
Patrolling all areas of the Village to deter, detect and eliminate mischievous and/or criminal activity.
Enforcing the Title 42 of the Colorado Revised Statutes (Uniform Traffic Code), as adopted by the Castle Pines Homes Association.
Responding to all medical emergencies that occur within the Village.
Responding to all alarms that occur within the Village, including fire, medical, panic, burglary and administrative alarms such as power failure alerts and low-temperature alerts.
Assisting homeowners with a variety of different situations including lockouts, vehicle jump-starts, animal control issues, freeing stuck or disabled vehicles, and many other situations.
While Castle Pines Emergency Services is not a post-certified police agency, CPES Patrol Officers do carry firearms, ASP batons, Oleoresin Capsicum Spray (pepper spray, or "OC"), handcuffs, and a variety of other tools necessary to help them perform their job effectively.
All Officers are thoroughly trained in the use of the above mentioned security tools and equipment, and are required to successfully pass the same training courses that a police officer must complete before they are authorized by the department to carry or use them on duty.
Many of our Patrol Officers have prior law enforcement experience, are post-certified, have military and/or security experience. Additionally, several full-time Patrol Officers are certified as instructors in the areas of Pressure Point Control Tactics (PPCT), Chemical Agents (OC Spray), Law Enforcement Firearms Training, and CPR/AED/Basic First Aid.
CPES has the ability to provide life-saving services to the community during a critical incident. All full-time CPES Patrol Officers are required to become State-Certified Emergency Medical Technicians, if they are not already certified at the time of hiring. Because CPES is located within the boundaries of the CPV community the CPES department has the ability to respond quickly to anywhere within the Village.
Dispatch is located inside of the CPHA building. The Dispatch Communications Center is equipped with the most current in radio, alarm and CCTV monitoring technology. Dispatch Officers undergo intensive, localized training specific to the unique needs of the CPV community. A call from a resident to the CPES Dispatch Center for assistance, gate clearance, general questions or for an emergency are routed through the dispatcher officer on duty.
Monitoring the alarm systems for every home in the Village at Castle Pines, and initiating the proper response from the Patrol Division when alarms are received.
Dealing directly with South Metro Fire & Rescue and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office to initiate and direct further medical and/or law enforcement response when needed.
Fielding complaints, questions, or calls for service from homeowners, guests, or persons working inside the Village.
Issuing transponders and Fitness Center access cards for Village residents.
Issuing vehicle passes for contractors & construction workers.
Monitoring the surveillance systems (CCTV) in place at all gated entry points and at all of the CPHA facilities.
Entering guest clearances and homeowner information into our access control database.
CPES Gate Officers are the most well known faces of the Emergency Services department. They are responsible for admitting all guests and homeowners to the Village (during staffed hours), providing directions and maps to guests and service personnel, and they are instrumental in aiding the patrol division by keeping a watchful eye on their surroundings and reporting any suspicious activity that they may see. A smile, a wave, and some friendly conversation are always welcome on the way into our community, so please don't hesitate to stop and say hello!


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1A Remaking America: How restrictive voting laws are affecting Texas and beyond
WAMU 88.5 | By Arfie Ghedi
(Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)
Texas is one of 18 states that passed restrictive voting measures after the 2020 election.
Last year, the state passed Senate Bill 1, a sweeping set of voting reforms that restricted voting hours, banned drive-thru voting, and set new photo ID requirements for voting by mail.
Since then, Texas has held its March primary elections, revealing the results of the overhaul of the state's election laws. About 12 percent of mail-in ballots were rejected statewide according to the office of the secretary of state.
We talk about how these changes are shaping up and what that could mean for voters nationwide.
This conversation is part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country, including KUT in Austin, Texas. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Copyright 2022 WAMU 88.5
Arfie Ghedi


The Cabinet's decision to increase the number of pilgrims availing the Haj subsidy and flying by the national carrier this year has had Air India fuming. For a carrier already reeling under Rs 2,000-crore loss and burdened with severe employee-related issues, a welfare measure like this puts undue duress on it.
Interestingly, Air India does not even get to set the amount of fare payable to the carrier transporting the pilgrims. This is set by the Saudi Arabia Airlines that also carries out the Haj duty.
"The sheer volumes of people and logistics and resources that go in the Haj duties is huge," an official attached with the national carrier said.
"Aircraft engaged in Haj duty have to first pick up pilgrims from the smaller towns which have been approved as part of the hub and spoke arrangement, and then after they drop the pilgrims to the final destination, they come back empty," he added. Similarly, in order to pick up the pilgrims, the aircraft have to go to Jeddah empty, which results in an increase in expenditure. Any commercial airliner does not view huge aircraft flying empty favourably as it implies a loss in revenue.
Last year, Air India had pitched for allowing private airlines to operate Haj flights, saying this could lead to a cut in fares and reduce the subsidy burden.
Under a bilateral agreement between India and Saudi Arabia, any Indian going for the Haj has to fly by Air India or Saudi Arabian Airlines, giving the two carriers a monopoly in carrying the pilgrims.
In a reply to a query under the Right to Information Act, Air India had said: "There is no benefit to the government of India (in giving) AI and Indian monopoly in operating Haj flights. Allowing private airlines to operate on Haj flights may result in reduction in fares and reduction in burden of subsidy to the government."
The reply, by Air India's then public information officer and general manager (finance) A J D'Souza to Mumbai-based activist Attar Azeemi's query dated June 22, 2007, stated "Air India does not have the capacity to operate Haj flights. Therefore, aircraft are leased by AI for carriage of Haj pilgrims," D'Souza said.
Over and above this, according to Air India officials, one major reason for last year's severe delays and cancellations in air travel faced by the national carrier was the diversion of aircraft towards Haj operations. Since 1993 (except 1997), due to the heavy volume of passengers going on the Haj, Air India started wet-leasing aircraft from other carriers. The Haj season comes during the peak season for air travel and aircraft for lease come at a premium. Wet-leasing involves the hiring of an aircraft along with its pilot and crew. Last year, Air India wet-leased three aircraft from low-cost carrier Spicejet to aid in Haj operations.
The standing committee on external affairs and the transport and tourism parliamentary standing committee had also recommended that the government progressively reduce and eventually eliminate the Haj subsidy altogether. The expenditure reforms commission in its tenth report has recommended that till the time the modalities of phasing out of the subsidy is decided, it should be frozen and the number of pilgrims availing it should also be frozen.
The Cabinet on Thursday kept the amount paid by the pilgrims for the round trip to Jeddah and Medina at Rs 12,000, as it has remained since 1994. In 1991, the amount paid by the pilgrims was Rs 10,000 as against Rs 14,056 per passenger paid to Air India by the government. This amount was then gradually raised to Rs 12,000 by 1994 against Rs 17,000 paid to the carrier. Last year, while 1,10,000 pilgrims availed the subsidy paying only Rs 12,000 each, the amount paid by the government to the carrier was Rs 47,454 per passenger.
According to sources, the total cost for Haj operations last year (for 1,10,000 pilgrims) was Rs 727 crore of which the subsidy requirement was Rs 595 crore.
This year, in order for the pilgrimage of 1,23,211 pilgrims, the total cost estimated by the government is Rs 847 crore, of which the subsidy requirement will be approximately Rs 700 crore.
Air India has been operating the Haj charter flights since 1954. Before that, pilgrims used to travel by ship with the ministry of shipping paying the subsidy.
The number of Haj pilgrims has risen significantly since 31,000 in 1995. In 2000, Air India carried 71,924 pilgrims to Jeddah and on Thursday the Cabinet approved an increase in the total Haj pilgrims that can avail the subsidy to 1,23,211 from 1,10,000 a year earlier.
According to sources, there are four main elements in calculating the cost of operating the Haj subsidy.
These include ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance), other operational costs like airport charges and catering among other services, unrecovered hidden cost like salaries of people working the whole year for smooth Haj operations and the service tax on Haj operations levied by the service tax department for which exemption has been denied by the finance ministry.
Where is the fairness among resource allocation to religions ? On one hand, 40 acres of land cannot be given for two months but Rs 600 crores can be given away as subsidies.If one adds back subsidies to Air India, things will look quite good. Perhaps this is a cause of sickness of Air India.It is high time various religions are governed in the same manner. If govt takes over temples and appoints priests it is fair that the same is done for mosques and churches.
Karnataka Assembly Elections: People have voted the Congress back to power. Whom would you have voted for?


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Eclipse of Reason
With so much attention focused on Monday's solar eclipse, it is easily understood why Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortion provider, entitled his landmark film of a dismemberment abortion Eclipse of Reason. Dr. Nathanson knew that legalized abortion had created a blind spot for the American people and that the lack of knowledge about the procedure had left the nation in the dark about what abortion really was.
As a founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League in 1967, Nathanson was personally responsible for 60,000 abortions. But through ultrasound technology, he ultimately became convinced that abortion is the taking of a human life. "For the first time, we could really see the human fetus, measure it, observe it, watch it, and indeed bond with it and love it," Nathanson later wrote in "The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind" (Regnery Publishing, 1996). "I began to do that."
He left the abortion industry and became a leading pro-life advocate.
Eclipse of Reason was Nathanson's most important effort to raise awareness, create clarity, and enlighten Americans. He sought to draw our society out of the darkness of abortion-on-demand and Eclipse of Reason ignited the abortion debate for years to come following its 1987 release.
Now, 30 years later, too many Americans are still experiencing an eclipse of reason in which human life is treated without dignity or value. May we recommit ourselves to the work of advocating effectively for the protection of every person regardless of age or condition. For more information about Dr. Nathanson and Eclipse of Reason, visit the following:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22nathanson.html?mcubz=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nff8I2FVnI


Minister for Trade and Export Growth David Parker welcomed the agreement on accession procedures - one of the decisions made by the 11 signatories at the first Commission meeting held in Tokyo today.
The Commission also confirmed the future chairing arrangements for the group.
"As Depositary for the Agreement, New Zealand will host the next set of CPTPP meetings later this year. This will be an opportunity to build on our collective commitment to ensure full and effective implementation of the Agreement and to promote its expansion over time.
"The date has not yet been set, but we expect it will be in the second half of this year to allow time for all signatories to complete their domestic ratification processes," David Parker said.


While technology is progressing at a rate that is constantly only increasing, it's not actually evolving all that much. Sure, we come up with gadgets that are better and better, but they're all still doing the same thing. Instead of focusing on innovation, the IT industry has only been focusing on improving the same thing.
And in few places is this as obvious as with Apple. Yes, the company was born on innovation, and if it would've sold more products, "Innovation" would have been Steve Jobs' middle name, but nowadays they're only pumping the market full of the same products improved slightly every year. And that by itself would have been fine, but stuff like what happened yesterday, when an Elitist Executive Belittled PC Users During Monday's Apple Event, shouldn't really happen.
Yesterday, an Apple presentation took place in the company's campus. It was small, intimate, and very low-key. During the presentation, the company talked about some products that will lead their future line-up, as well as about the current tabloid bird-feeder that is the FBI encryption scandal. And then things turned ugly.
As he was talking about Apple's new truncated iPad Pro, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, issued some unwarranted and awkwardly elitist comments about PC users. It all started out ok, with Schiller saying how PCs were designed for a different era, for a different type of functionality.
But then he went on, to the audience laughter, saying that there are over 600 million PCs in use today that are over 5 years old, and that it's really, really sad. And that was it. No follow-ups on how that would be a great market, just a nasty, mean-spirited comment to amuse the audience.
Even if Schiller did his research and knew the 600 million statistic was accurate, he most likely didn't know or care about their distribution. While in the United States the average life span of PC went since 2006 from 4.5 to 5.8 to 5 and then back up to 5.6 years, the numbers are even worse for other countries.
While 2015 saw the average life span of a United States PC to be 5.6, Latin America PCs had a lifespan of 9.8 years, while those in Eastern Europe lasted for 7.5 years on average. Add to this the fact that an average Chromebook is $149, while the cheapest iPad Pro is $599 and a MacBook starts at $1,299, and Schiller's joke sounds even more like the snobby comment of someone that hasn't been out in the real world in a while.


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South Asian History has been greatly distorted by the tendentious, colonial and eurocentric rendition of the development of the region. One of the most distorted areas of history has been the question of Aryans and the Indus Valley civilisation.
In this new work, Bhagwan Singh presents an important thesis on the origins of civilisation in South Asia. In the process, he also takes a hard look at the vast body of literature on the subject on this subject that has come down from colonialist scholars and their latter-day descendants.
In short, if we discount the colonial legacy of docile self-denials and falling quickly in line with alien expectations, archaeology was at no stage at variance with the Aryan character of the Harappan civilization.
On the question of the Aryan invasion, he discusses in detail all the arguments put forward by the proponents of this theory. In a chapter titled The Myth Of Aryan Invasion, he points out that "there is neither any literary account of invasion of India by Aryans nor any archaelogical evidence to support such a hypothesis".
He forcefully argues this case: "As we have seen, the Vedic people did not come from outside. The Harappan cities, the first flowering of Indian civilisation, did not fall because of their invasion".
Aryans were born with ar/al, the digging stick or hoe in their hands. It was neither their colour, nor their blood nor yet the size and sharpness of their nose which made them proud of themselves. They were proud of their being Aryans or cultivators at a time when the tribes surrounding them were at the stage of hunting and gathering.
It was the Aryans who discovered agriculture and initiated the agrarian revolution and a new mode of production. Earlier the Aryans were called Devas. The term derives from ti/di, meaning burn or shine, and refers to their control over fire.
It was the discovery of fire including the technique of producing, maintaining and controlling it that revolutionised their thinking and prompted them to undertake new ventures.
The Aryans were primarily agriculturists. They derived their name from this advancement at a time when people around them were lingering at the lower stage of gathering and hunting. Some of them formed their own kindered communities, refused to move ahead and censured them for their madness for ruining the natural sources which provided them liberally.
Later on these Aryans developed into great traders and travelled all over the known world of the time, taking their agriculture, trade, language and customs with them.
Proto-Indo-European is not a fact but an idea floated in order to displace Sanskrit from the centre of discussion. it the product of a magical realism created for projecting the white man's racial superiority back into the hoary past.
He concurs with the view that Sanskrit is a refinement of different Prakrits which were spoken at the time in India. And that out of these Prakrits, natural languages, a refined and classical language-Sanskrit emerged. "It is admitted (Harmatta 1992) that Sanskrit and Vedic languages are refinements of the Prakrit languages." Bhagwan Singh has dealt with matter at length in his Hindi book, Arya Dravid Bhashyaon Ki Moolbhoot Eikta.
Vedic Harappans is a "must read" book for South Asians in general and those who are seriously interested in History of the region in particular. Bhagwan Singh has put to rest a lot of myths about the history of South Asia and deserves praise for this heroic effort.
The occasion was a lecture on the Rgveda by Prof. Michael Witzel, at the India International Centre, on 10 July 2009. Presided over by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, it was attended by scholars of different hues and expectations. No one suspected that Witzel with his claim to be a ranking Vedic scholar knew so little that he could not answer a single query. Indeed, he appeared blank as far as the Rgvedawas concerned. He rose nervously to speak on the Veda, but actually spoke on the Aryan migration from Afghanistan to Punjab !
- You have reordered the Rgvedic strata, rating IV and VI to be the oldest and the rest belonging to intermediate and late stages. I have no objection to your sequence, but find your chronology miserably on the lower side. There is a reference to white pottery in one verse in Book IV (4.27.5). White pottery is a distinctive feature of Hakra Ware dated to 3000 BC. This goes against your dating of 1500-1250 BC for the Rgveda.
- But Professor, the aśva in Rgveda, whatever could it have been, was brought from sea bound areas, even the aśva in the horse sacrifice, mentioned in Book I, hymn 163.
- You say that the wheel and chariot were invented by Aryans when they were in Central Asia , but in the Book IV itself, Bhr.gus are given the credit for manufacturing wheels (4.16.20). Chariot and wheel was therefore not Aryan, but a Dravidian invention.
- The problem with you, Professor, is that you are not familiar with the content of Book IV even. Hymn 57 of Book IV gives a graphic depiction of advanced agriculture, with a plough almost similar to the one that was common in India up to the mid-twentieth century, drawn by a pair of bullocks and driven by a ploughman in service. And in one of the Ŗics, the poet talks of milking the earth as a cow, year after year. It testifies to advanced agricultural activities with sedentary population and belies the myth of nomadism, pastoralism, and barbarity.
I interjected, "not only Uşā Sūktas professor, the entire Rgveda.Some of it could never be surpassed, such as the Nāsdīya Sūkta, with such expression as tama āsīt tamasā gūlhmagre, darkness was entrapped within darkness.
Compare these statues with modern day gypsy women of north-western India.Notice the similarities between bangles on their hands.
These women are Indo-Aryans,they speak Indo-Aryan languages and they have Indo-Aryan gypsy culture.This bangle tradition lives on from the times of Harappan civilization to this day.
Similar bathing tanks were also discovered in Dholavira.
Compare with modern day Hindu temple ponds.
The seals and arts of Indus valley offers many Vedic symbolism such as Chakra,Sacred Pipal leaf,Swastikas etc...which are sacred for Hindus and Buddhists to this day.
Indus seals shows many Yogic postures which are practiced to this day.
This is a Shiva Linga from Kalibangan it is exactly the same as the one which Hindus use today.Many other Shiva Lingams were also found from Mohenjo-Daro.
This is a fertility goddess figurine from Harappan civilization, compare it with the figurines below.Notice the headdress and flowers,they represent the same goddess.
These figurines are from final 2500 YBP,which means this Goddess cult was active during Mauryan times and Gandharan times among Indo-Aryans.Mauryans and Gandharans were undoubtedly Indo-Aryans.This extinct cult must have been contemporary to the Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism at that times.It may be non-Vedic,but still it was practiced by Indo-Aryans.
8) Fire worship and fire altars.
These fire altars are from Kalibangan and Lothal respectively.These fire altars are exactly similar to the Vedic fire altars used fro fire sacrifices or Yajnas,which are core of the Vedic faith.It is conducted by learned Brahmins.At Kalibangan row,of 7 fire altars were found at a citadel.Sites like Rakhigarhi,Banwali also have presence of fire worship.
AMT proponents are completely ignorant about these cultural similarities between Harappan civilization and Indo-Aryan culture.
BTW I'm planning to build a new post on Synchronicity among Indo-European Civilizations Is it a good idea? What do you think?