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Gene changes, studies transform prolific tilapia | Inquirer News
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Gene changes, studies transform prolific tilapia
07:23 AM January 14, 2019
IMPROVED Tilapia is sold at a roadside market in Barangay Naguilayan, Binmaley, Pangasinan. —WILLIE LOMIBAO
SANTO DOMINGO, Ilocos Sur — Years of research and genetic improvements have transformed the tilapia to become one of the richest, most widely available sources of protein in the Filipino diet.
The Philippines now has 11 varieties of tilapia for breeding, among them the genetically improved farmed tilapia, or GIFT; the genetically male tilapia, or YY tilapia; the genetically enhanced tilapia-excellent strain; and the brackish water-enhanced selected tilapia, or Improved-Best.
Filipino marine scientists have also developed the cold water-tolerant tilapia strain, as well as organic tilapia.
In Dagupan City, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center has also bred a saline-tolerant tilapia called "molobicus."
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When the genetic improvement of tilapia started in 1988, it "marked a milestone year" for the industry, said Jodecel Danting, chief of the National Freshwater Fisheries Technology and an authority on the fish species.
The fish was widely believed to be indigenous to the Philippines, but it was actually imported from Mozambique in the 1950s, Danting said during the school-on-air broadcast on tilapia culture of radio station dwRS in Vigan City.
She said the first stocks were "small" and had "dark" skin although the fish did not take much nurturing to multiply.
In the 1970s, another species, the Nile tilapia, was introduced, boosting local commercial production of the fish.
It did not take long for science intervention to improve the tilapia look, taste and adaptability to different environments.
Fourth biggest producer
The Philippines is now the fourth biggest producer of the fish in the world. In 2007, it ranked among the top tilapia growers worldwide, with a total production of 241,182,75 metric tons.
But production in 2017, estimated at 311,000 MT, was still not enough to feed all Filipinos.
"We've done it once, we can do it again," Danting said, citing BFAR efforts to boost production through fresh genetic manipulations and research.
Tilapia is now the country's third most-produced aquaculture commodity.
A government action plan for 2018-2022 aims to achieve a sufficient supply of high-quality broodfish for farming, enforcing "standardized" protocol for managing tilapia fry and fingerlings, increasing production in brackish water areas, and lowering feed cost by 70 percent. —YOLANDA SOTELO
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Do you have a flea infestation? Fleas can be some of the most obtrusive insects of all. Apart from causing hygiene problems, they may cause property damage as well. Fleas can be very difficult to eradicate by yourself. They must have caused you embarrassment in front of your guests. We know they make your home almost uninhabitable. Do you know they also have negative psychological effects on you? You will get to know about fleas pest control- facts, identification & control, as the article unfolds.
Let's first talk about some facts and figures about fleas.
They are about 2.5 mm long, and there are around 2000 species of fleas in the world.
Fleas are known as the "wingless pipes" due to their blood sucking ability. The blood flows through the body of fleas like the water flows through the pipe.
They multiply at an ever faster rate because, for three months straight, the female fleas lay many dozen eggs. This is the reason their population is not in thousands, but millions or even billions.
For survival, they require humidity.
They like to live on hairy animals such as rabbits, cats, squirrels, rats, and others.
They are wingless insects, but they can jump long distances.
The most common way of identifying adult fleas is the presence of their feces in your home. Have you ever found something like granular black pepper in your home? Yeah, it might not be the pepper, but the flea droppings, so check carefully! It shows their ongoing activity in your home.
The different stages of egg, larvae, and pupae are entirely different. At these stages, they are secretive and sluggish and live in outside places where it is difficult to locate them. Once they move to the adult stage, it gets far more difficult to control them.
So, how should you control these ever growing creatures? You may try using some recommended products or something you saw in an advertisement but it probably won't be enough. The best solution is to call a professional because they are capable of identifying the fleas hidden presence at the immature stages. Simple over the counter products may kill the mature fleas that you can locate. You may find them eradicated for some time, but the infestation may soon reappear because the eggs, larvae and pupae will soon emerge as adults. Termanator exterminators will first carefully inspect and locate the tiniest areas where fleas might be present in your home including those in the pre-adult stages. They will then prepare a flea management plan that includes physical and mechanical modifications of flea habitats that ensure their eradication for a long time. Termanator technicians are highly equipped professionals and have the best quality detectors and treatments. So contact Termanator at the first sign of fleas and make your home flea-free in no time.


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You're going to want the Galaxy S9+
Chris Davies - Jan 26, 2018, 1:52pm CST
When it comes to the Galaxy S9, it looks like Samsung has joined the "bigger is better" crowd, and that's going to leave some buyers frustrated. The Android flagship, along with its Galaxy S9+ sibling, is expected to debut in just a few weeks time, at Samsung's next Unpacked event during MWC 2018. From what we already know, though, along with the new hardware the Galaxy S9 and S9+ will also present buyers with a new, tough decision.
Unlike Apple, which has used single and dual cameras to differentiate between the two sizes of its regular and "Plus" iPhones since the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in 2014, Samsung has been less aggressive in splitting its two sizes. The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, for example, differ primarily by physical size, something forced by the screen's dimensions. If you want a smaller phone, the 5.8-inch Galaxy S8 is your pick; if you want a bigger display, the 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+ is on offer.
With the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, though, there'll be more to it than just screen real-estate and how much space the smartphone occupies in your pocket, purse, or hand. Both are expected to stick with the same size screen and, indeed, the same identical 2960 x 1440 resolution for the Super AMOLED panel. However, there'll be more pressing differences inside and on the back.
According to the latest batch of rumors, Samsung plans to follow Apple's example when it comes to the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+'s cameras. The S9 will have a single camera on the rear, just as per the current Galaxy S8. The S9+, though, will double up: it'll have two sensors, as on the Galaxy Note 8.
That means, as per the iPhone size decision, picking between the two new Galaxy smartphones will require deciding whether the bigger form-factor is worth what dual cameras allows. Making the decision even tougher – or, arguably, leaving picking the Galaxy S9+ the obvious choice – is the fact that Samsung is also believed to be giving it better internal specs.
While both will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 in the US (or the Exynos 9810 in most other places), the S9+ is expected to have 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. In contrast, the smaller S9 will only have 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. That's unlikely to go down well with power-users.
It sets up an unexpected tiering for Samsung's 2018 line-up. Suddenly, the Galaxy S9+ is a "better" device than the Galaxy S9, rather than just a decision of size. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9, expected later in the year, is almost certain to sit at the top of this trio, with more features again than the S9+.
Happily, while opting for the iPhone 8 over the iPhone 8 Plus means you miss out on the primary advantage of portrait mode photography, going for the Galaxy S9 rather than the Galaxy S9+ should still mean you get Samsung's flagship 2018 feature. The new camera is expected to be able to switch, mechanically, between two apertures: either f/2.4 or f/1.5. While the Galaxy S9+ will add a second 12-megapixel sensor, it's believed to use a fixed-aperture.
Certainly, plenty of people get away without having dual cameras on their smartphones. Indeed, as the Pixel 2 demonstrated, there's plenty you can do with software when it comes to faux-bokeh and portrait modes: it doesn't necessarily demand two sensors at work.
All the same, if your preference is for a smaller device, Samsung's decision to tier its 2018 line-up this way may well cause frustration. The general advice for any new smartphone purchase is to max out at least the memory on offer, even if you don't go for the biggest storage available: that maximizes longevity in future, as OS updates and apps get more and more demanding of hardware.
Samsung's apparent strategy puts that at odds with a core size decision, not to mention nudges buyers toward a phone that's likely to be more expensive. Both the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ may be excellent devices, but picking between them in stores is going to be a lot harder for many than might've been expected.
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The State of Grace is a 2019 IBBY Selection book!
Congratulations to Rachael Lucas, whose beautiful debut YA novel, THE STATE OF GRACE, has been chosen as a 2019 IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities!
Every two years, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) chooses outstanding books for and about children and young people with disabilities. Their selection includes forty titles from around the world, in many different languages.


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Q: Angular $q nested promise I have a function that needs to return a list of favorite locations. Something like this
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The getFavoriteLocations looks something like this
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The getDeviceId again, it's a function based on promise.
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The error that I got is TypeError: Cannot read property 'then' of undefined. Please help!

A: $q in not necessary here:
if (favorite_locations.length == 0)
{
    return obj.getDeviceId() // you have to return a promise here
        .then(function(device_id) {
            return $http.get('url?token=' + device_id) // you will access the response below
        })
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            favorite_locations = response.data;
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        });
    })
}

Now it should work.

A: You can chain promises:
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                return obj.getDeviceId().then(function (device_id) {
                    return $http.get('url?token=' + device_id).then(function (response) {
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And improve this:
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Where is the Best Vein Treatment Clinic in Clifton?
Jul 24, 2021 | Vein Treatment Clinic
The best vein treatment clinic in Clifton is near the garden state parkway
The Spider Vein and Varicose Vein Treatment Clinic is the best vein treatment clinic in Clifton. Our vein clinic is located at 1117 US-46 Suite 205, Clifton, right off NJ-3 and near the garden state parkway. It's right past the Ford dealership on Route 46-E and features plenty of parking spaces. You can schedule an appointment online or call us at +1 973-447-1383.
The following is an overview of directions to the vein treatment clinic in Clifton:
If you're in Passaic, you can reach our vein treatment clinic by traveling down Passaic Ave and NJ-3 W.
If you're in Hawthorne, please drive down NJ-20 S and US-46 W or Garden State Pkwy.
If you're in Woodland Park, please drive down Lackawanna Ave and US-46 E.
If you're in West Milford, please drive down NJ-23 S, NJ-208 S, or I-287 S.
If you're in Roxbury Township, please drive down I-80 E in Mount Arlington.
If you're in Union, please drive down Garden State Pkwy and NJ-3 W to Conklin Dr.
If you're in Wayne, please drive down NJ-23 S and US-46 E.
If you're in Newark, please drive down NJ-21 N and NJ-3 W or Garden State Pkwy.
If you're in Ramsey, please drive down NJ-17 S and Garden State Pkwy to Grove St in Clifton.
If you're in Livingston, please drive down I-280 E and Garden State Pkwy, US-46 E, and County Route 609 and US-46 E.
Other similarly exceptional vein treatment clinics are located in Paramus and Woodland Park
The Spider Vein and Varicose Vein Treatment Clinic also has state-of-the-art vein clinics in other parts of New Jersey — Paramus and Woodland Park. If you're closer to Paramus and Woodland Park, you can drive down to either of these state-of-the-art vein treatment clinics. Our Paramus vein treatment clinic is located at 140 NJ-17 #103, just off the garden state parkway. And our Woodland Park vein treatment clinic is located at 1167 McBride Ave Suite 2, close to the Garden State Plaza. Both vein treatment clinics feature plenty of parking spaces.
The vein treatment clinic in Clifton is led by Dr. Sareh Rajaee
The Spider Vein and Varicose Vein Treatment Clinic in Clifton is led by Dr. Sareh Rajaee, one of the country's leading experts in venous medicine and minimally invasive vein treatments. Dr. Rajaee is board-certified by the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine, an organization that formally recognizes the top 1% of vein doctors in the country. Furthermore, she's incredibly compassionate and friendly, and she believes that all patients should have access to minimally invasive, safe, and comfortable treatments. She explains every step of your vein treatment process in advance so you know exactly what to expect.
Dr. Sareh Rajaee also has an exceptional educational background. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Rhode Island, where she majored in Biomedical Engineering and German. She completed her medical doctorate from the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, following which she completed a Master's in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She also completed an integrated Vascular Surgery Residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, followed by advanced training in open and endovascular procedures for deep and superficial vein disease.
Dr. Rajaee is incredibly popular with her patients and receives unanimous 5-star ratings and reviews. One of her recent patients said, "I got my spider veins done by Dr. Rajaee, and I see a huge improvement. Her bedside manners are impeccable, which is very rare, and she made me really comfortable with my experience. I didn't feel a thing since we chatted, and she eased my mind. I highly recommend this place, and especially Dr. Rajaee!"
The vein treatment clinic in Clifton only provides minimally invasive spider vein and varicose vein treatments
The Spider Vein and Varicose Vein Treatment Clinic, Clifton, only provides minimally invasive spider vein and varicose vein treatments. That's because minimally invasive vein treatments are safer and more effective than their vascular surgery counterparts. Vascular surgeries are now considered mostly obsolete — they have a high risk of complications and involve hospitalization and downtime. Furthermore, minimally invasive vein treatments are also more effective than vascular surgeries.
Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation
The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin's surface and inserts a catheter into the diseased saphenous vein. The catheter releases radiofrequency waves and destroys the diseased vein, rerouting the accumulated blood into healthier leg veins.
Endovenous Laser Ablation
The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin's surface and inserts a laser fiber into the diseased saphenous vein. The laser fiber releases laser energy and destroys the diseased vein, rerouting the accumulated blood into healthier leg veins.
Mechanochemical Ablation (ClariVein)
The vein doctor makes a small incision on the skin's surface and inserts a special catheter with a rotating tip. The catheter mechanically damages the diseased vein's walls and seals it shut by releasing sclerosant medicine. This treatment is particularly effective at removing twisted veins.
VenaSeal Closure System
The vein expert injects a medical-grade adhesive into the diseased saphenous vein responsible for your vein problems. The vein glue seals the diseased vein's walls, turning it into hardened tissue eventually absorbed by the body.
The vein doctor injects a medicine called sclerosant into the spider veins. The sclerosant medicine fuses the spider veins' walls, turning them into hardened scar tissues that fade away from the skin's surface after being absorbed by the body.
Ambulatory Phlebectomy
The vein specialist makes small incisions on the skin's surface to physically extract large, bulging varicose veins. The incision marks eventually heal and fade away from the skin's surface.


With words by Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), Dear delight (1965) exemplifies the lyricism characteristic of Head's music. It is marked by frequent key changes, tender harmony and a recurring decorative figure on the piano.
'Tis love hath thee in keeping.
A long adieu to weeping.
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"You measure success in trophies, but from our perspective the positive emotion that you feel is the greatest measure of success. As you want something and achieve it, you also achieve a new prospective from which you will want. The things that satisfied you before, will not likely satisfy you for very long, because you are inherently grand seeking, you can't remain in the same place and have growth also. The way you feel is your indicator, let your emotions will be your guide. They are the most wonderful guidance systems.
We see the majority spend the most of their life seeking for set of rules against which they can measure their life experience, looking outside themselves for those who would tell them what is right or wrong. While they have within themselves a guidance system that is so sophisticated, intricate, precise, appropriate, system that can analyze in an instant everything that they are wanting to be from total perspective, from current physical conscious perspective and everything that is taking place around them in the current environment and offer them an emotion to let them know the appropriateness of whatever that is happening. The appropriate of every thought, word, every interaction, such a wonderful guidance system, not utilized, but by a few of you. It is our reason for interacting with you to acquaint you with the total you so that you may begin utilizing that broader, fuller, wiser, all knowing perspective, so that you may use God force from within for the creating.
Why you are here and how to be with what you have intended, each of you from your non-physical perspective before you emerged into this physical expression of life intended to have growth, and you intended to access this guidance system from within to assist you in your growth, and we have come forth to remind you that it exists and to teach or offer you a process. There is great love here.
Here is an exercise that will assist you in your deliberate creating. Take three separate pieces of paper, and at the top of each page write one thing that you want, now take your first paper and beneath the subject of what you are wanting, write these are the reason that I want these. Write whatever comes to you mind, whatever flows naturally, do not try to force it. And when nothing more comes, you are complete for now. Turn the paper over and begin writing at the top of the paper, these are the reasons that I believe that I will have these that I want. The first side of the paper is enhancing what you are wanting. The first side of the equation. The second side of the paper is enhancing your belief that you will have it. And as you have written why you want what you want and why you know that you will have that you want, you have set force and now expecting and therefore will receive the subject of your wanting.
All that is necessary is that you are wanting and keep expecting until you have it and it will be yours. Select only three things that you are wanting. For there will be more power of focus. Eventually when you understand the process, you will be able to simultaneously create in many directions. Before you will experience something in your physical life experience you must first give thought to it. Your thought is the invitation and without it it will not come. We are encouraging intentional deciding of what is wanted and intentionally giving thought to those things that are wanted, while you are intentionally not giving thought to those things that are not wanted. And in suggesting this we encourage that you set force some time in every day where you sit and intentionally bring together thoughts into a sort of vision of what you are wanting in your life experience, we have been referring to this time as your work shop for deliberate creating.
If we were to say go now and begin to envision yourself in the life experience that you are wanting, many of you would have a difficult time doing that, for you have not been intentionally collecting the data, in which to work upon in your workshop. By collecting data what we are encouraging is that every day as you are getting out of bed, you set forth intention that no matter what you are doing this day, no matter who interact with to today, you will let your dominant intention to be to look for things that you like, whatever it is that you see, if you are intending to look for things that you like then you will be effectively and deliberately collecting the data. Tomorrow, when you decide to take 15-20 min to go to your workshop which is the place where all deliberate creating begins. You can bring together the combinations of that data to begin envision yourself in your life as you want to be.


Hey all! So excited to share some additional recipes with you that are Whole30 friendly today!
Dairy. This means cheese, cow milk, cream, yogurt, half and half, butter. Substitute these cravings with sugar free almond and coconut milk!
Grains. No corn, wheat, rye, millet, buckwheat, rice, quinoa. Substitute these cravings with potatoes, even yams, almond flour, coconut flour and more.
Alcohol. No pops for you, you lush!
Legumes. Lima beans, etc. Replace with vegetables.
Added Sugar. No sugar whatsoever, not even juice (only to cook with in moderation).
No junk food and anything with sulfites.
Chicken Leg Roast – organic chicken legs, organic brussel sprouts, potatoes, carrots, whole garlic, olive oil, himalayan salt, combine all at 425 degrees F for an hour.
Try to get a friend, boyfriend, husband, family member to do it with you! If someone you are living commits with you it makes it twice as fun and twice a party once you complete your first round!
Remove any food non-compliant, or any temptations. Unfortunately my kids birthdays were close together and then Thanksgiving happened during my first round, but no worries, I didn't cheat. I just made sure all candy and sweets were not in my view, some I completely removed, to make sure I could not just grab it and eat it. I hid these main sugar sweets in my cabinets so that when the kids wanted them I would give them close the cabinets, out of sight out of mind.
Drink tea and coffee as your dessert. This sounds odd, but really helped me succeed in a big way! I used the sugar free coconut almond milk and it was really delicious and heavy almost like a hot chocolate.
Be prepared always with food! There are both Larabars and Rxbars that are compliant with the Whole30. I would buy these and keep in your purse, car or pocket, just in case you get hungry. Fruit and veggies are also nice to have along with a water bottle filled with ice, lime, lemon, orange, cranberries, etc. as a treat for yourself.
I weighed myself. This is supposed to be a no no, however I wanted to see immediate results which I did. I lost about 10 pounds in the first few weeks, and if you are addicted to carbs, sugar and dairy, which I was, you will probably be as successful as I was.
In closing, I have never found a diet more successful than this one. There is really no measuring, tracking points, etc. which gets old and boring fast. No frozen tasteless meals and your taste buds begin to enjoy fruits, meat, veggies again. After your first round, you can try another round, but some people opt to do the Paleo diet which I have not tried and plan on continuing through the New Year.
HAPPY EATING, and enjoy your Sunday!


Highly manufactured foods, from which as much as possible of the non-nutritious matter has been removed is often advocated, generally by those interested in its sale. Such food would be advantageous only if it were possible to remove or modify a great part of our digestive canal (we are omitting from consideration certain diseased conditions, when such foods may be useful). The eminent physiologist and bacteriologist, Elie Metchnikoff, has given it as his opinion that much of man's digestive organs is not only useless but often productive of derangement and disease. In several cases where it has been necessary, in consequence of serious disease, to remove the entire stomach or a large part of the intestines, the digestive functions have been perfectly performed. It is not that our organs are at fault, but our habits of life differ from that of our progenitors. In past times, when a simple dietary in which flesh food formed little or no part, and to-day, in those countries where one wholly or nearly all derived from vegetable sources and simply prepared is the rule, diseases of the digestive organs are rare. The Englishman going to a tropical country and partaking largely of flesh and alcohol, suffers from disease of the liver and other organs, to which the natives and the few of his own countrymen, living in accordance with natural laws are strangers.


My 2006 Copper Red Mica Shinka recently had its rear run into while parked in a residential neighborhood and deemed a total loss by the insurance company. I couldn't help but choose to retain the vehicle, despite losing out on the salvage cost from them. In the past year alone, I had put in an engine from Pettit racing (still have receipt with details and breakdown), a race clutch, upgraded fuel pump, and literally just replaced all three intake solenoids in late November. The engine has less than 15,000 miles on it. Even being nearly 10 years old, I was still regularly stopped by people wanting a closer look and was always complimented on how well maintained the car was.
There is a lot of money that could be gained from recovering and reusing/selling many items within the car even though it was totaled. The damage was done to the trunk of the car and so the true mechanics of the vehicle should still be in good shape. It has a number of other upgrades as well, including a BHR Ignition system, SOHN oil adapter (not yet installed), aFe Air filter, etc.
This would easily be a great purchase for someone needing to replace their engine, looking to replace various Shinka parts, or possibly someone able to repair/replace the body damage (maybe?). Below are pictures from both before and after the accident (sorry for the upside down ones. Hopefully you can still get the picture.
Sorry for the upside down photos. Hopefully you still get the picture.
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Lets see some pics of the engine!!
Good point! Here's one I already have from the space around the mazda logo, but I'll make a run out to the auto shop later today for a good pic of the engine bay.


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Q&A: Iranian Balochistan is a "Hunting Ground" – Nasser Boladai
By Karlos Zurutuza
Nasser Boladai is the spokesperson of the Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran (CNFI), an umbrella movement aimed at expanding support for a secular, democratic and federal Iran. IPS spoke with him in Geneva, where he was invited to speak at a recent conference on Human Rights and Global Perspectives in his native Balochistan region.
Opinion: The Exceptional Destiny of Foreign Policy
By Roberto Savio
For a long time, citizens of the United States have firmly believed that their country has an exceptional destiny, and continue to do so today even though their political system has become totally dysfunctional.
OPINION: The Paris Killings – A Fatal Trap for Europe
It is sad to see how a continent that was one cradle of civilisation is running blindly into a trap, the trap of a holy war with Islam – and that six Muslim terrorists were sufficient to bring that about.
War Knocks on Door of Youth Centre in Zwara
It could be a squat house anywhere: music is playing non-stop and there is also a radio station and an art exhibition. However, weapons are also on display among the instruments, and most here wear camouflage uniform.
Disciples of John the Baptist also flee ISIS
"Going back home? That would be suicide. The Islamists would cut our throats straight away," says Khalil Hafif Ismam. The fear of this Mandaean refugee sums up that of one of the oldest yet most decimated communities in Mesopotamia.
Touaregs Seek Secular and Democratic Multi-Ethnic State
The government of Mali and Touareg rebels representing Azawad, a territory in northern Mali which declared unilateral independence in 2012 after a Touareg rebellion drove out the Malian army, resumed peace talks in Algiers last week, intended to end decades of conflict.
Tuaregs and Arabs Not Ready to Return to Mali
By Marc-Andre Boisvert
Fatimata Wallet Haibala sits among a group of women and teenage girls under a tent, her handicapped boy on her lap. The scene could be a rural picture of a Tuareg gathering in the desert. But the mother mother of five resides in a refugee camp in Goudebo, Burkina Faso, almost 100 kilometres from their home in Mali.


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Trump's DOJ Contradicts His Claim That Democrats Are to Blame for Family Separation
Article | June 16, 2018 | MARK JOSEPH STERN | Slate.com
(June 15) Donald Trump is eager to blame someone else for his administration's brutal policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. The president has repeatedly blamed Democrats for the practice, declaring that "their law" requires a family separation policy and even tweeting that Democrats themselves are "forcing the breakup of families at the Border." Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has affirmed Trump's position, insisting that family separation is "the law, and that's what the law states." House Speaker Paul Ryan agreed, claiming that the administration was merely following a court ruling.
These allegations, of course, are absolutely false. There is simply no law or court order that requires the U.S. government to snatch children, including babies and toddlers, from their parents. Indeed, Trump's own Department of Justice—headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who vigorously defends family separation—has acknowledged in court that Trump and Sessions created the policy. These documents plainly reveal what Trump wishes to deny: He is the reason for the forced breakup of these families, and he can halt it anytime he pleases.
Sessions' DOJ acknowledged this fact while defending the government against a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU argued that the Trump administration's new policy violated immigrant families' constitutional rights. In response, the DOJ argued that the federal court had no authority to review the policy's legality, because federal law prohibits courts from reviewing the government's determination "on where to detain aliens" in ICE custody. This decision, the law explains, falls within the "discretion" of "the Attorney General" and "the Executive." And their "discretionary" conclusions, the DOJ asserted, are "not judicially reviewable."
As attorney Max Kennerly has noted, this argument directly contradicts Trump's denial of responsibility. At the heart of the administration's family separation policy is its "zero tolerance" rule, which compels the criminal prosecution and imprisonment of adult immigrants who enter the country without authorization. Previously, relatively few immigrants were prosecuted for unauthorized entry (which is only a misdemeanor); most families intercepted at the border were placed in immigrant detention centers, then released on bond. Under the new rule, when families arrive at the border, parents are locked in federal prison. Their children obviously cannot accompany them, so they are packed into "shelters" like converted Walmarts—and, soon, tent cities.
Trump officials, along with Paul Ryan, have alleged that the 1997 Flores settlement agreementcompels family separation. That, too, is patently false. The Flores settlement requires the government to release immigrant children from detention without unnecessary delay; to keep them in the "least restrictive" setting possible if it continues to detain them; and to take good care of those children who remain in custody. Absolutely nothing in Flores advises, let alone requires, the forcible division of parents and children at the border.
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The woman who dressed as a man and fought in World War One
September 19, 2016 January 13, 2019 by the-history-blogger3 Comments on The woman who dressed as a man and fought in World War One
I recently stumbled across a reference to Dorothy Lawrence while doing some research into the Great War. I was astounded by her story, and when I mentioned her name to a few friends, I was met with blank stats. Clearly, Dorothy Lawrence is one of the #AmazingWomenInHistory who needs to be remembered, not forgotten.
Dorothy Lawrence in military uniform. I DO NOT OWN THE IMAGE.
Dorothy was born in Britain in 1896. Determined to be a journalist, at a young age she had some articles published in The Times. When war broke out, she pestered many people on Fleet Street with the hope of becoming a war reporter. When her calls went unnoticed, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
Travelling to France in 1915, aged just 21, she applied to become an employee of the Voluntary Aid Detachment. When her application was rejected, she decided to enter the war zone as a freelance war correspondent.
However she was arrested by French Police in Senlis, and ordered to leave. Spending the night sleeping on a haystack in a forest, she returned to Paris where she concluded that only in disguise could she get the story that she wanted to write. "I'll see what an ordinary English girl, without credentials or money, can accomplish."
Determined, Dorothy befriended two British Army soldiers in a Parisien café, and persuaded them to smuggle her khaki uniform, piece by piece, within their washing; ten men eventually shared in this exploit, later referred to in her book as "Khaki accomplices."
Dorothy then began the process of transforming herself into a male soldier, by flattening her figure with a homemade corset, using sacking and cotton-wool to bulk out her shoulders, and with the help of two Scottish military policemen to cut her long, brown hair in a short military style. She used a disinfectant called Condy's Fluid to darken her complexion, razored the pale skin of her cheeks to give herself a shaving rash, and finally added a shoe-polish tan. Lastly, she persuaded her soldier friends to teach her how to drill and march. She got her hands on forged identity papers, and headed for the frontline, as Private Denis Smith, 1st battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment.
After being interrogated as a spy, she was declared a prisoner of war, and taken cross country to Calais and was unknowingly questioned about being a prostitute (or 'camp follower') as the term was.Targeting the British sector of the Somme, she set out by bicycle. On her way towards Albert, Somme, she met Lancashire coal-miner turned British Expeditionary Force (BEF) tunnel-digging sapper Tom Dunn, who offered to assist her. Fearing for the safety of a lone woman amongst female-companionship starved soldiers, Dunn found Lawrence an abandoned cottage in Senlis Forest to sleep in and she worked as a sapper (a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc.) with the 179 Tunnelling Company. However after ten days in horrible conditions, a few bouts of chills and fainting, and with concern that if she needed medical attention her true gender would be discovered, Dorothy presented herself to the commanding sergeant, who placed her under military arrest.
The Army was embarrassed that a woman had breached security. Fearful of more women taking on main roles during the war if Dorothy's story got out, Dorothy was made sign an affidavit swearing that she would not write about her experiences. Sent back to London, she moved to Canonbury, Islington, and only published an account of her experiences after the war, which was still heavily censored by the War Office.
With no income and no credibility as a journalist, by 1925 her increasingly erratic behaviour was brought to the attention of the authorities. After confiding to a doctor that she had been raped in her teenage years by her church guardian, and with no family to look after her, she was taken into care and later deemed insane. Committed first to the London County Mental Hospital at Hanwell in March 1925, she was later institutionalised at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in Barnet.
Dorothy Lawrence died in 1964. She was buried in a pauper's grave in New Southgate Cemetery, where today the site of her plot is no longer clear.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street, and an eminent investor
September 18, 2016 January 16, 2019 by the-history-blogger3 Comments on Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street, and an eminent investor
I recently read Charles Stack's biography of Henrietta Howland Robinson Green, the American businesswoman and financier nicknamed as the "Witch of Wall Street", who was one of the richest women in America during the Gilded Age, one of the few women on Wall Street. The book is entitled 'Hetty Green: The Genius and Madness of America's first female tycoon', and both descriptions of her in the title are hugely appropriate.
Born in 1834, Henrietta 'Hetty' Green (nee Howland Robinson) was born into a rich whaling family in Massachusetts. The only surviving child of Edward Mott Robinson and Abby Howland, Hetty honed her craft reading the financial papers to her maternal grandfather and her father. At age 13, she became the family bookkeeper and was incredibly knowledgeable in financial affairs.
When Hetty was 26, her mother died, leaving her daughter $8,000 dollars (nearly $200,000 today's money). But just a few short years later, Hetty would become embroiled in a bitter battle to inherit her mother's sister's fortune, which would ensure that all inheritance from her grandfather's company would go to her.
From her mother's death, Hetty was determined to ensure every penny of Aunt Sylvia's fortune went to her. But the invalided Aunt Sylvia, whose relied on the care of servants and health professionals, had other ideas. Sylvia was aware of her niece's greediness, and temper, and wanted to be sure that all the people who had given their lives to make hers a bit better were remembered. Hetty, knowing this, hastened to her aunt's home to discourage Aunt Sylvia from bequeathing any money to anyone escape her, Hetty. When Hetty realised Aunt Sylvia's plans to leave money with her servants, Hetty got so angry she pushed one of them down the stairs. Aunt Sylvia eventually relented and signed a will in Hetty's presence, bequeathing her entire fortune to her niece.
Hetty was horrified to learn that Sylvia had created a new will after signing the aforementioned with Hetty, leaving most of her $2 million estate (nearly $31 million) to charity. Hetty challenged the will's validity in court by producing an earlier will that would have bequeathed all of her aunt's fortune to her. The case, Robinson v. Mandell, which is notable as an early example of the forensic use of mathematics. The court ultimately decided that the earlier will produced by Hetty was a forgery, although she was awarded $600,000 after five years of legal battles.
In 1865, Edward Robinson died, leaving Hetty approximately $5 million (equivalent to $77,293,000 in 2015) which included a $4 million trust fund that drew annual earnings, something she wasn't pleased about.
Two years after her father's death, at the age of 33, Hetty married 44 year-old Edward Henry Green, a Vermont businessman who had lived in Asia for several years making his fortune. Hetty requested that Edward sign a prenuptial agreement before the wedding, renouncing all his rights to her money. The couple soon fled to London, probably to get away from the hype created by the Robinson vs. Mandell case. They spent seven years living in the Langham Hotel off Regent Street, during which time Hetty bore two children – Edward Howland Robinson "Ned" Green, and Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green (known as Sylvia).
When her children were small, Hetty took to being a mother while her husband pursued investments. However, she soon wanted to make use of her astonishing fortune, and formulated her investment strategy which she stuck to all her life. She made conservative investments, always had substantial cash reserves, and never lost her cool. She began by investing in greenbacks, the notes printed by the U.S. government immediately after the Civil War. When more timid investors were wary of notes put forth by the still-recovering government, Hetty bought in majorly. She claimed to has amassed a fortune of $1.25 million from her bond investments in one year alone.
The family returned to the US in the mid 1870s, settling in Edward's hometown of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Hetty spent a few years living her with the reputation of an eccentric. She famously quarrelled with all her in laws, servants and neighbours, and was noted for her stinginess in spite of her growing fortune.
The largest investor in the financial house John J. Cisco & Son, Hetty was horrified when the bank collapsed, in 1885 and hastened to New York. She soon learned that the bank's greatest debtor was none other than her husband, Edward Green. The firm's management had surreptitiously used her wealth as the basis for their loans to Edward. Emphasizing that their finances were separate, Green withdrew her securities and deposited them in Chemical Bank of New York. Enraged by his dealings, she and Edward would never live together again (although there is evidence that they did reconcile in later years).
Throughout her life, Hetty had a reputation for her stingyness – an ironic fact considering her enormous wealth. While most Wall Street tycoons took a coach in the mornings, Hetty opted to walk. She could have afforded numerous houses in the most affluent parts of New York, a mere stone's throw to Wall Street, but instead she spent most of her later years in a simple apartment across the river in Hoboken, New Jersey (this was possibly also to avoid having a permanent residence that would bring her to the attention of any tax officials).
One tale claims that Green spent half a night searching her carriage for a lost stamp worth two cents. Another asserts that she instructed her laundress to wash only the dirtiest parts of her dresses (the hems) to save money on soap. Perhaps most interesting, instead of enjoying the new restaurants that were springing up in Downtown New York, Hetty's lunch while she worked at a Wall Street bank (because she didn't want to pay rent for her own office) in New York consisted of oatmeal cooked in a big vat on radiator. Her stingyness, combined with her dour dress-habits and austere personality would nickname her 'The Witch of Wall Street'.
But for all her eccentricity, Hetty was a phenomenally successful businesswoman. While she often dealt in real estate, lending and mines, her main investments were to be in railroads during a golden era of railroad building across America. As soon as Ned became old enough, she stationed in him in Texas, where he learned the tricks of the trade while managing their railroad investments.
The City of New York came to Green for loans to keep the city afloat on several occasions, most particularly during the Panic of 1907. She would travel thousands of miles alone—in an era when few women would dare travel unescorted—to collect a debt of a few hundred dollars.
Edward and Hetty never lived as husband and wife after the John J. Cisco debacle, but there is evidence that they reconciled in later years. Hetty nursed Edward for a few months until his death in 1902.
Hetty was notoriously disapproving of all of Sylvia's suitors, believing them to just be after her fortune. When Sylvia was in her late 30s, Hetty finally agreed for her daughter to marry Matthew Astor Wilks, a minor heir to the Astor fortune. With $2 million of his own, it was enough to convince Hetty that he wasn't just a gold-digger. Nonetheless, she compelled him to sign a prenuptial agreement waiving his right to inherit Sylvia's fortune.
Hetty Green died aged 81 at her son's New York City home. She earned the title of 'World's Greatest Miser' in the Guinness Book of Records, but left an estimated net work of somewhere between $100 and $200 million, equivalent to around $2-4 billion in today's money.She was buried in Bellows Falls, Vermont, next to her husband. She had converted late in life to his Episcopalian faith (from her Quakerism) so that she could be interred with him.
You can buy Charles Stack's biography of Hetty Green here.
Irish History, World History
Éire's WWII neutrality?
September 17, 2016 August 13, 2018 by the-history-bloggerLeave a Comment on Éire's WWII neutrality?
When war broke out in September 1939, the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Eamon de Valera announced that Ireland was to remain neutral. The 26 counties of what is today known as Éire had gained de facto independence from Britain in the 1920s. But in 1939 it was still part of the Commonwealth and de Valera was keen to keep up the momentum for achieving a full Republic, especially as the Irish people had voted for a new constitution to be adopted just two years earlier, which gave greater autonomy to the fledgling state. More than anything, he wanted Britain and the rest of the world to recognise Ireland's right to it's own foreign policy. However, he arguably took this attempt too far in 1945 by extending his sympathies on the death of Adolf Hitler to greater levels than when the US President Roosevelt had died just three weeks earlier.
Churchill was always opposed to Irish neutrality. It irritated him so much that he and Roosevelt collaborated to try and persuade Ireland to join the war, but garnering support for the Irish war effort by Irish Americans. Churchill at many times throughout the war considered invading Ireland, as he knew that the questions of Irish unity and sovereignty meant that it would not be easy to persuade Éire to abandon it's policy. Neutrality was a policy generally supported by the general public in Ireland and despite numerous barriers it remained throughout the duration of the war.
When Roosevelt passed away in April 1945, the Dáil (Irish parliament chamber), held a special sitting in which de Valera delivered a moving tribute to Roosevelt. As Taoiseach, de Valera was also Foreign Minister, and together with his aide Joseph Walshe, he visited the German Embassy in Dublin on May 2, 1945, to sign a book of condolences for the Fuhrer. They also met with a German envoy to Ireland, Eduard Hempel, to express condolences.
The visits were met with major opposition, particularly in the United States. De Valera had arguably intended it as mark of statesmanship, reflecting the fact that Ireland was a now a nation separate from Britain. Additionally, the decision of President Douglas Hyde to send condolences to Hempel further ignited the anger, notably because there had been no presidential delegate had visited the American embassy after the death of Roosevelt. This was a move backed by the government, which further adds to the curiosity surrounding de Valera's actions.
The visit to Hempel's home has puzzled historians ever since, and it is likely that the decision was taken purely in a domestic context. Éire was a fledgling state, trying to exert itself on the world stage as a neutral nation. De Valera later argued that he offered his sympathies purely on moral grounds, stating, "During the whole of the war, Dr Hempel's conduct was irreproachable. … I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat."
This "irreproachable" conduct could not be said for the American Ambassador to Ireland, David Walsh. Eleanor Roosevelt's uncle, he led efforts to persuade Ireland to join the war, to the point that de Valera even requested that Gray be removed from his position after Roosevelt had died. Perhaps the bad relations between the two men were part of de Valera's reasoning not to visit the American embassy when Roosevelt passed away, and probably further ignited anger when he visited the German embassy when Hitler died. Either way, the visit to Hempel created a storm of controversy, and never before had Ireland received such worldwide attention – perhaps a happy by-product of the visit to Hempel on the part of de Valera, as it parachuted the neutral State to the world media and told the world that it had maintained it's own neutral foreign policy for the duration – if if it was for all the wrong reasons.
The Republic of Ireland was formally declared in 1949, but with 26 counties and not 32 as was de Valera's long-held wish. Churchill never agreed with Irish neutrality during the war, and de Valera would later accuse him of not being able to "find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone, not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression…" in his famous radio broadcast on May 16, 1945.
Despite it's success however, the neutrality policy combined with the visit to Hempel was probably the final nail in the coffin in terms of de Valera's chances of ever securing the 32-county Republic he had always dreamed of. The international storm caused by the visit to Hempel meant that the support for Irish independence which at one time was rife (de Valera had enjoyed support from Irish America for over 25 years), waned, and so did any general support for it from the United Nations when it was established in 1945. The visit was a small but yet significant glitch to de Valera's dream.
Remembering the Balham Tube disaster
September 17, 2016 August 19, 2018 by the-history-bloggerLeave a Comment on Remembering the Balham Tube disaster
Photo taken by the author in August 2018
The 14th of October marks the 76th anniversary of the one of the worst atrocities of the London blitz, in which nearly 70 people died while sheltered in a south London tube station, just two stops away from where I currently live.
The Battle of Britain and The Blitz were in full swing by 14th October, 1940. The population of Balham were well accustomed to their routine – once the air-raid siren went off, they proceeded to their shelters. Thousands upon thousands of people would seek shelter in Tube stations, sleeping on the platforms (and often on the tracks) for around 12 hours each night, while overhead the Luftwaffe's bombing campaign ravaged. Mid-October 1940 was midway through a consecutive 57 nights of bombing – but London fought on, determined not to be defeated by Hitler. Local communities were united nightly as they escaped the danger overhead.
13 metres below ground, around 500 people were sheltering at Balham on the night of October 14th, 1940. At 8.02pm a 1400 kilo semi-armour piercing bomb penetrated the ground above, causing a massive crater in the ground. A photo emerged of a number 88 bus with it's head nose-dived into the ground, which was to become symbolic of the event.
However, the explosion fractured a water mains pipe below ground. The subsequent flood of water and soil into the tunnel was to kill nearly 70 people. Water, mud, sewage and sand flooded the tunnels, causing people to drown. A rescue boat was sent from Clapham South but failed to get through. Water-tight doors that were designed to keep floods out, instead kept this one in. The lights also fused, adding to the chaos. A gas explosion also hampered rescue efforts
The official death toll records 66 deaths, although there is some discrepancy, with figures ranging from 64 to 66 people. More than 70 people were injured. It's ironic to think that people had taken had gone into the Tube for safety, and instead found themselves in unimaginable danger.
With propaganda and censorship being active, news of the event was kept to a minimum. The government feared that news of the event might discourage civilians from continuing to shelter in the underground.
The bodies were not fully recovered until Christmas, yet remarkably the damage was repaired and trains were running through the station on 8th January 1841. The station itself reopened on the 19th January.
Today, as you pass through Balham station, all that reminds you of that terrible night is a tiny blue plaque commemorating the event. It's hard to believe that if 70 people were killed today in a freak accident, that a blue plaque would be all to commemorate the site of it. However, this was not an isolated incident. The night before the Balham disaster, 16 people were killed when a bomb dropped on Bounds Green station. 56 were killed at Bank in 1941, due to a direct hit. But perhaps most shocking of all is the 1943 Bethnal Green station, in which 173 people were killed in a human crush was attempting to seek cover in the station. A previously unheard air-raid siren had struck panic into the people filing to safety. A woman and a child fell over, causing numerous people to scramble on top of them, leading to the crush.
Despite evacuations from cities, Anderson shelters, and crucially, the London Underground system, it is estimated that at least 32,000 civilians were killed in Britain during World War II.
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Q: Android how to change text input background image I have the following code for the input text
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As you see, i added the rounded container as a background image, but the input text box still has the rectangular box behind it. My ultimate goal is to create a input text box like this:

Then when user start typing in the box, the input text box should becomes:

Please let me know how i should achieve this

A: I resolve this problem by enabling Material Design as suggested by @Mohammad (https://stackoverflow.com/a/52401339/9793695), however, i also need to follow instruction in (Updating com.android.support libraries v7:26.+ to v7:28.0.0 throw Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture) to resolve all the dependencies first. Hope this help!

A: Use compileSdkVersion 28
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Add this code
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A: add    android:background="@drawable/ic_login_screen_input_container" inside EditText and remove it from  TextInputLayout OR add android:background="@null" to your EditText


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We were greatly dismayed that your issue on Pornography and Erotica [Issue 115] did not include a single article by women or men who speak for the feminist movement's protest against pornography. One would expect that a publication which prides itself on being an alternative to mainstream media would be a little bit more interested than a Time or Newsweek in giving rise to the dissenting voices of women and men who consider the multi-million (billion?) dollar pornography industry as the proliferator of sexism and violence against women (and children).
To continue to pretend that the debate about pornography is limited to a squabble between the Moral Majority and civil libertarians is to join hands with those magazines against which you define yourself in attempting to kick women out of the conversation. The pornography issue is thus publicized as a debate between hung-up right-wing men arguing for decency and sexually "liberated" left-wing men, who also consider themselves the defenders of Constitutional rights. The old illusion is maintained: pornography — by definition and in its history created by men for men — will be debated between men.
At the risk of appearing "un-hip" but with a dedication to the liberation of all people from systematic subordination, exploitation, and violence, we protest your treatment of pornography by asking you to discontinue our subscription.
Cynthia Camlin and James Rhodenhiser North Garden, Virginia
Interesting subject, pornography. The issue, though, seems to be union, and if love is the measuring rod, then at one end we know of asceticism and celibacy as practiced in certain religious experiences, and at the other, pure hard-core porn. Everything else is only a shade of gray. It is a well-known truism in advertising that the two greatest sellers are sex and death. Who needs to go to an alley bookstore to see porn? Pick up Family Circle at the local super and really look at the photographs in the ads. Do you suppose that is honest shrimp pictured in that luscious Kraft remoulade? Guess again — airbrushed embryos. And when you look at a photograph of scotch and water in the next Time, check to see how many penises and skulls and bones are hidden there. I saw a beautiful Oscar de la Renta dress once all in mauves and deep indigos and every other ruffle had been airbrushed to look like a pulsing vagina. It was in Vogue. But airbrushing is a well-kept libidinal tactical secret in advertising. So we buy the dress and we feel some transcendence for a moment. We eat the shrimp and feel sensate and secure. We drink for the same reasons, masturbate, have sex and buy all the images. But they are the wrong images because we have forgotten that union is the issue.
Name withheld Fredericksburg, Texas
Just a quickie to let you know there's another "silent" subscriber to and for whom your creation is a significant stimulation and inspiration (warm glows and smiles). I could go on but we both have our work to do. Don't forget that your work is beautiful and worthwhile and whether you're hearing it or not, know that THE SUN shines in many lives and regions. I see it widely shared here (Wolfcreek Wilderness School) and in my other home (Monteverde, Costa Rica).
I suspect many readers may have tight budgets and wish they could help more with your struggle. Don't be discouraged. Most really high and decent ventures I know of seem to exist within and through struggle. Perhaps it's no accident, eh? Carry on.
Curry Morris Blairsville, Georgia
David Searls used to contribute regularly to THE SUN before he became a high-powered advertising executive with Hodskins, Simone, and Searls in Raleigh, N.C. I asked him recently for some advice about finding more readers — perhaps through advertising — and he responded with this letter, in which he praises our new anthology (see back cover) and offers some valuable hints for anyone who wants to promote anything. It was too good simply to consign to my files and is printed here with David's permission.
— Ed.
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Dear Sy,
A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky is everything I expected, and more. It's a first-class literary anthology. I mean, the mother is a book. And it's so good. It's a chest of treasures, and it deserves notice.
Which I think it should receive, for two reasons: 1) the cream rises to the top, and the cream here is so good it's damn near intoxicating; and 2) books are much easier to review, promote, sell and read than magazines. With all due respect to THE SUN as a magazine, books are a better medium for durable literary goods. By design, books are made to keep, magazines to throw away. THE SUN's resistance to disposal testifies to the yearnings of its contents for packaging that grants a longer shelf life.
I think your lament, in the most recent fundraising mailer, that "it turns out there is not a vast audience for this," is premature. I mean, OK, so we've had rave notices, features on public radio, and all that. And OK, so behind every promise of riches seems to lurk another ego with a problem. And true, THE SUN is a sometimes difficult discovery experience, even an acquired taste. But let's face it: THE SUN is still known only to a relatively tiny population. It may never find a readership the size of the Superbowl audience, but neither should it be consigned forever to a microcosm of poets, ex-hippies and low-rent seekers of truth.
I think ultimately THE SUN's natural constituency is limited only to a population that appreciates good literature with something rare: equally high levels of spiritual and empirical content. It is that peculiar combination that makes THE SUN a discovery experience for which a large number of people ought to be eligible.
I argue here not for "thinking big," but rather against "thinking small." There are a lot of small magazines. THE SUN deserves the label by the scale of its circulation, by the modesty of its form, but not by the scope of its interests, which is universal, or by the height of its literary standards, which is high.
While I agree that "what draws people to the magazine is, finally, a mystery — some unpredictable conjunction of temperament and circumstance, marrying us for a moment, joining us in a telepathic surge disguised as words," I think the characterization of this marriage as transitory is wrong. I would wager that many members of THE SUN's voluntary audience (that is, those who were not introduced as blind dates, through gift subscriptions) enjoy marriages with the magazine that outlast the ones they carry on with other human beings. Maybe I'm wrong (certainly I'm projecting a bit), but I think we have a pretty low turnover rate here, and for a good reason.
I do think THE SUN is a vehicle for telepathic exchange, a "surge disguised as words" that makes it something of a religion disguised as literature. This, by the way, has been the direction of the magazine's drift over the years. The quality of its spirituality and literary content has steadily increased. And I think that quality is owed, in both cases, as they must be, to their grounding in experiential reality.
No doubt you feel uncomfortable with the characterization of THE SUN as a church, or derivatively, of you as its pastor (rabbi? pope? founding prophet?). But I think the analogy is a good departure point for further thought, and perhaps more importantly, for instruction in the arts of fundraising.
In my decade in a business mistakenly characterized as one of persuasion, I have made a number of discoveries, now among a body of functional axioms immodestly titled Searls' Laws. These include:
Logic and reason may sit on the mental board of directors, but emotions cast the deciding votes;
You can't blow a closed mind;
Advice is the only thing in the world that everybody wants to give and nobody wants to take;
Nothing recedes like success;
Repetition is the sincerest form of redundancy; and
There is always something else.
Among others. All of the above, and some more obscure ones I can't think of right now, are the reasons why I think you need public relations more than advertising.
First, advertising tends to cost money, and unless you have a lot of money to throw at a goal, it won't work.
Second, public relations depends on word-of-mouth, which is free and always works at some level.
Case in point. Until, here at HS&S, we had our first clients for whom the price of advertising was not an obstacle, I thought advertising was almost a crap shoot: it just didn't work most of the time. Early this year we ran a four-color full-bleed two-page spread ad in twenty expensive trade magazines, for a cost to the client of a couple hundred thousand dollars. They received orders, directly attributable to the ad, in many millions. Which is why they didn't sweat the cost of the ads, or anything else. (They also pay their bills right away, bless them.)
It is my belief, therefore, that advertising works best when it involves enormous amounts of money. In military terms, it's a superpower strategy: bombs away.
On the other hand, public relations works like a Trojan horse. At our agency, we have achieved far more, for some clients, with a few words in the right ears, or with articles planted in key publications, than the same dollar value of advertising ever could have delivered.
My immediate PR recommendation is to get A Bell Ringing into the right hands. Get it reviewed. See, A Bell Ringing is the strong selling piece you've needed for years. And it's a Trojan horse. Disguised as an anthology of good stuff from a small magazine, it succeeds as a Work of Literature that guarantees a series of discovery experiences that should leave the reader wondering, "What the fuck is this? Why have I never heard of this magazine? Where can I get this?"
How can anybody ever see a dog the same way again after reading John Rosenthal's Rufus piece? Or think about dying the same way after reading Peg Staley? God, Sy, there is life-changing stuff in here. We're not just talking entertainment, good summer reading, a nice item for the shelf. We're talking religious experience without hallucinations, blurred vision or slurred speech.
Looking back over this, which I just did, I don't want to stretch the religion simile too far. In fact, I'd like to jump to another one.
Conversation. I think that's what THE SUN really is. Most of its writing is in first or second person voices, its contents a web of words stretched, like the reality it maps, between the profoundly personal and the perversely universal.
Which is why I think anybody who lives by "self-honesty, thoughtfulness, the willingness to live with questions instead of answers," and likes to read (and perhaps to write) about it, is an eligible subscriber, or "Friend Of The Sun."
And that's also why I think asking for regular tax-deductible donations is a good idea. Tell them it's kind of an obligation. Like tithing. It works for your mainstream churches, so what the hell.
There's another one of Searls' Laws, and the only one in which I really invest much pride, that applies here:
Invention is the mother of necessity.
It's a subtle concept. But very true. Marx could have used it. The point is, there are no models for original things, and once discovered, original things often grow into necessities. Beyond food, shelter and love, there are remarkably few things that we own, and on which we depend every day, that were required by our grandparents. And that includes many good things, like books, music and magazines.
I think THE SUN is an invention with the power to mother a lot of necessity.
David Searls Carrboro, North Carolina
Last year you printed an article written by Colin Wilson about "peak experiences." [Issue 108.] I read it and liked it. I copied it and sent it to friends. I went looking for Colin Wilson.
The Philosopher's Stone brought me the most pleasure and excitement of Wilson's novels, although The Mind Parasites and Space Vampires (filmed as "Life Force") are on my reading list.
The Occult, which I am currently reading, is outstanding. Wilson says so simply what part purposeful activity plays in achieving and maintaining an enhanced state of consciousness. When I am reading his works it's true.
His first book, written at 24 and published in 1956, is The Outsider. I just found a copy in a used bookstore. Having only leafed through it, I can say that I have found an author who speaks to me and makes me aware I am glad to be alive. Thanks to THE SUN.
Ray Harold Chapel Hill, North Carolina
I have just finished my May issue of THE SUN and could wait no longer to write you a fan letter.
Ah, the esoteric, the spiritual, the divine. I have listened in on other worlds and been presented other possibilities. I love THE SUN for that. I have learned things in your magazine I probably would not have taken the time to learn elsewhere.
But you know what I finally realized? When I read your Editor's Note and your definition of subscriptions on the inside cover and your poems and your anything, I smile. I nod. I feel as though someone else is thinking it like I am. I love that you have more questions than answers.
When I got done reading about you and Norma and the stethoscope, I felt great — not because Norma sent it back, not because a friend of Norma's didn't and has to live with it. I felt great because I have come to expect from your writing what to other people may be just an incident in the day, a fleeting moment without consequence. Month after month you look at what has been going on in your life and share it with your readers to see what you and they can learn about life and themselves. When I read the Editor's Note I know that I am going to be given a view or a question I might not have stopped to find for myself.
And that, to me, is the best writing there is. Thank you for the knowledge and the laughs and the questions.
Linda Cole Santa Barbara, California


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Nagaur District is one of the 50 districts of the state of Rajasthan in western India. Panchayati Raj was introduced here. It is the fifth largest district in Rajasthan and the area of the district is . The city of Nagaur is the district headquarters.

Geography

Nagaur District is between 26°25' & 27°40' north latitude & 73°.10' & 75°.15' east longitude. The district is bounded by Bikaner District to the northwest, Churu District to the north, Sikar District to the northeast, Jaipur District to the east, Ajmer District to the southeast, Pali District to the south, and Jodhpur District to the southwest and west. The district lies in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, in the Northwestern thorn scrub forests belt surrounding the Thar Desert. The Aravalli Range extends across the southeastern portion of the district, and the saline Sambhar Lake, India's largest salt lake and Rajasthan's largest lake, lies at the southwestern corner of the district, straddling the boundary with Jaipur District. Kheduli is a historic palace where pupil of Khawaja Moiniddin Chisti Hamiduddin Nagouri lived for 10 years and located on the railway line of Jaipur-Jodhpur.

 Luni River
The only river that flows through the Nagaur district is the Luni which is of ephemeral nature. This river originates from the Aravallis, near Pushkar in Ajmer district and follows a WSW course into the Kutch. The river Luni enters into Nagaur district near Ladpura (about  southwest of Ladpura) and drains the villages of Alniawas, Jhintia etc. finally crossing the village Kekind to enter into the Jaitaran area of Pali district. Although it has a number of tributaries all but one join it from the south. None of these drain any water into the main river but for a few days during the monsoon. The wide beds of these rivers have been considerably filled by alluvial and aeolicin sediments and in places they have almost been choked by aeolian sand. The river Luni also acts as an barrier against the eastward spread of aeolian sand.

 Soil
The study area is greatly influenced by strong winds and the soil is wind-modified to a varied degree. The effect of arid condition is reflected in the lack of horizonatioi of the soils. The soil material appears to have been formed from mixed sources of igneous, metamorphic and vindhyan systems. The following soil profile is a typical pedon which occupies more than 70 percent of the area.

 Dunes of Nagaur
The main sandy tract of the area lies to the west of the Luni river. The northern and western parts of the district have scattered dunes, these being mostly parabolic, longitudinal barchans and obstructed dunes, oriented in NNE-SSW to NE-SW directions.

 Vegetation
The vegetation consists of a sparse cover of thorny woodland with distinct variations in different topographical areas. The principal trees found on sand dunes are Prosopis cineraria, Acacia senegal, Tecomella undulata, Gymnosporia and Aerva.

Physiographically the district is marked by a low and gentle relief interspersed with the isolated hills and knolls of the Aravallis. The major part of the district is characterised by stabilised sand dunes. Climatologically^the area experiences a semi-arid climate with sparse thorn and scrub type of vegetational cover.

Tehsils
These are Nagaur, Deh, Khinvsar, Jayal, Merta City, Degana, Mundwa,Riyan badi All of these are Sub-divisions also. There are 15 blocks and 1607 villages in the district.
Charbhujanath temple and Meera bai mandir situated at mertacity which is known as the birthplace of bhakta Shiromani Meerabai.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Nagaur district has a population of 3,307,743, roughly equal to the nation of Uruguay or the US state of Connecticut. This gives it a ranking of 102nd in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of  . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.25%. Nagaur has a sex ratio of 950 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 64.08%. 19.26% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 21.16% and 0.31% of the population respectively.

At the time of the 2011 census, 81.09% of the population spoke Rajasthani, 14.94% Marwari, 2.05% Hindi and 1.71% Urdu as their first language.

Tourism

Nagaur Fort was one of the first Muslim strongholds in northern India and one of the finest examples of Rajput-Mughal architecture. Built in the early 12th century and repeatedly altered over subsequent centuries, it witnessed many battles. Underwent major renovations in 2007. 90 fountains are now running in the gardens and buildings. The fort's buildings and spaces, both external and internal, serve as venue, stage and home to a Sufi Music Festival.
	Rol, also known as Rol Sharif is a village in Jayal tehsil of Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The village has many mosques, including Shahi Jama Masjid . There is Jubba Mubarak of Muhammad, which are said to possess holy relics brought by Qazi Hamiduddin Nagauri from Bukhara. Devotees from various parts of the country gather on urs of Quazi Sahab to celebrate the occasion. There is an annual Urs Mela (Urs Fair) organised in village.
Ladnu - tenth century's Jain temples are rich with historical attraction. Jain Vishva Bharti University - A centre of Jainism; a school of thought; a centre of spirituality & purification; a society of Ahimsa.

Bairathal Kallan - The Bairathal Kallan village was established about 700–750 years ago.
Khinvsar town - Khimsar Fort -  from Nagaur on the National Highway No. 65 towards Jodhpur; 500-year-old fort in the middle of the Thar Desert, turned into a hotel furnished with modern facilities. Khinvsar town has 25 small temples, black deer roaming in herds are a tourist attraction.
Deh- Dadhimati Mata Temple - Also known as Goth-Manglod temple,  from Nagaur; the oldest temple of the district constructed during the Gupta Dynasty (4th Century); Kul Devi of Dadhich Brahmins.
 There is also a famous temple of Maa Kunjal in Deh town.
Meera Bai Temple - Also known as the Charbhuja temple; 400 years old temple.
Merta City - has the best agricultural market of Rajasthan.
Kuchaman City - Kuchaman Fort - One of the oldest & most inaccessible forts of Rajasthan, this fort is on top of a straight hill. Jodhpur rulers used to mint their gold and silver currency here. It affords views of the city and has been converted into a hotel.
Khatu - Khatu's old name was Shatkup (six wells). When Shak rulers came to India then they brought two new wells with them which were called Shakandhu (Stepwell) & Kalandh (Rahat). According to Prathviraj Raso, Khatu's old name was Khatwan. Old Khatu is almost destroyed. Now there are two villages, one is called Bari Khatu & other Chhoti Khatu. On the hillock of Chhoti Khatu a small fort is standing. Fort was built by Prithviraj Chauhan. An old stepwell is located in Chhoti Khatu, known as Phool Bawadi, it is believed that this stepwell was constructed in Gurjara Pratihara period.
Kurki - Kurki is a small village in the Merta Tehsil of Nagaur district. It is the birthplace of the princess and poet, Meera Bai, about  from Merta.
 Kharnal - It is on the Nagaur-Jodhpur National Highway near about  from Nagaur. It is the birthplace of Lok Devta Veer Tejaji. It is believed that Kharnal was established by Dhawal Khichi who was in the fifth generation of the Choudhan ruler Gundal Rao Khichi of Jayal state.
Untwaliya - It is  from Nagaur and  from Alai.
Jhorda - It is on the north of Nagaur about away. It is the birthplace of the Saint Baba Hariram.
Dhananwan- it is a village in Makrana tehsil. Here is famous Bisram das baba temple.

References

External links

 Nagaur district
 Nagaur Map
 Nagaur mandi

Districts of Rajasthan
Districts in Ajmer division

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