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Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange:
AGL - AGL ENERGY - up 1 cent, or 0.04 per cent, at $24.96
AGL Energy will spend $295 million on a 210 megawatt gas-fired power station alongside its 50-year-old Torrens Island plant in South Australia.
ANZ - ANZ BANKING GROUP - up 18 cents, or 0.7 per cent, at $27.54
CBA - COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA - up 35 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $78.50
MQG - MACQUARIE GROUP - up 57 cents, or 0.7 per cent, at $86.75
NAB - NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK - up 8 cents, or 0.3 per cent, at $29.35
WBC - WESTPAC BANKING CORP - up 16 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $29.71
Bank stocks posted their first gains of the week after recent heavy selling.
KGN - KOGAN - up 6 cents, or 4.1 per cent, at $1.525
HTA - HUTCHISON AUSTRALIA - steady at 6.4 cents
Kogan will start selling fixed-line NBN home internet next year after agreeing to expand its partnership with existing mobile provider Vodafone.
MGC - MANAGED UNIT TRUS (MURRAY GOULBURN) - down 7 cents, or 9.5 per cent, at 66.5 cents
Shares in Murray Goulburn have hit a fresh all-time low as investors continue to digest the dairy processor's announcement of a strategic review amid continued milk price volatility.
VOC - VOCUS GROUP - up 62 cents, or 21.7 per cent, at $3.48
Vocus Group has received a $3.3 billion takeover proposal from US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
WES - WESFARMERS - down $1.18, or 2.9 per cent, at $40.23
Wesfarmers indicated its supermarket margins remain under pressure and its UK hardware venture is likely to continue to make a loss into the first half of next financial year.
Shares steady and $A on the rise
Murray Goulburn shares hit all-time low


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Photos: Military drones
Updated 3:17 PM EST, Fri January 29, 2016
Military drones —
An Israeli Hermes 500 UAV flies over the Hatzerim air force base near Beersheva, Israel, during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots on June 30, 2011.
Israeli soldiers prepare to launch a Skylark drone during a drill on January 16, 2012 near Bat Shlomo, Israel. The Skylark can carry a camera payload of up to 1 kilogram, has an operational ceiling of 15,000 feet, and allows users to monitor any designated point within a 15-kilometer radius. The Skylark unit consists of a ground control element and three drones, which provide battalion-level commanders with real-time information.
An Israel Aerospace Industries UAV on display at the Singapore Airshow on February 15.
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator UAV assigned to the California Air National Guard's 163rd Reconnaissance Wing flies near the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, on January 7, 2012.
U.S. Airforce
A model of of the European "Neuron" UAV at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France in 2005. The UAV is an European Research project led by Dassault Aviation.
An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) sits in a shelter at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, after a mission on November 10, 2008. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Reaper can carry up to 3,750 pounds of laser-guided bombs and missiles.
A British MQ-9 Reaper sits on a runway on March 17. Both British and American Reapers are deployed to Afghanistan.
U.S. Marines perform operational checks on a Marine Squadron Two (VMU-2) UAV before a launch at Speed Bag Airfield, near Niland, California, on October 25, 2011.
An Iranian-made drone is displayed during the Army Day celebrations in Tehran on April 18, 2010.
A model of a surveillance drone built by Dassault Aviation and BAE Systems is displayed at the International Paris Air show in 2011.
Chinese visitors examine an unmanned helicopter drone at the China Aviation Expo in Beijing on September 21, 2011.
A model of China's "Dark Sword" UAV. According to Jane's Defense & Security Intelligence & Analysis, the drone remains only a model, but offers an example of where China may go with its drone technology.

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Remi was super organized prior to our big day – sending us an entire package to review and fill out for our music expectations. From the ceremony music to the dinner and dancing music, he nailed it all. As soon as we would ask for a song, he was right on it. Our guests literally would not stop dancing… I mean, WE COULD NOT STOP DANCING! That's right, Remi stayed MUCH later (like next-day-later) than we originally requested and insisted he was having as much fun as we were. If that wasn't enough, he accommodated some pretty strange song requests and even offered to drive guests home!
"OK, this is a long review, but if you are considering hiring Remi for your event it is really worth your time to read it.
First, the normal stuff. Remi is a great DJ. Throughout the wedding planning process Remi just kept solving problems we didn't even know we had. He had music ready for every part of the ceremony and reception. When problems arose Remi had a solution, and when random guests at the reception started adding things to the agenda at the last second he just rolled with it and made it all work. We had a complicated group of people to please, and had 3 distinct types of music that we needed to alternate and he managed to keep the dance floor alive for hours. It was fantastic and everyone, from age 8 to 80 was dancing.
Now, the truly amazing stuff.
At the end of our wedding night, when we were all about to leave the reception hall, we suddenly came to the horrifying realization that our caterers had ditched the vast majority of their cleanup duties. It was 1 am and there was crap everywhere. We knew there was another event coming into the reception hall the next morning. It was a 180 person wedding and there was still leftover food, dirty plates, and all the centre pieces and chair covers sitting out. A massive amount of work and the catering staff was just plain gone. My new wife and I were in a mild panic. If we just walked away we would be screwing over whomever was in the hall in the morning, we would lose a substantial damage deposit and whomever did clean up would probably (understandably) throw out the centre pieces. Let's conservatively call it a $5000 problem.
The only people at the hall were myself, my wife, 3 friends, and Remi. Remi insisted on helping out, rolled up his sleeves and jumped in. He pulled me out of the kitchen to keep me from doing dishes in my brand new suit. He helped haul heavy boxes of centre pieces out to our van. He helped clear dirty dishes and remove chair covers etc etc and he kept a smile on everyone's face with his shining personality and humour until all the work was done.
Our first night as a married couple could have been a stressful nightmare. Remi's calm demeanor and warm nature made it impossible to be anything but grateful. He took what should have been a terrible end to our night and made it a heartwarming experience and kept a smile on our faces.
"It was a pleasure having Remi DJ our wedding last July. We were first drawn to High Fidelity mainly because of the personable and down-to-earth feeling that their website displays. After my first conversation with Remi, I realized that the company reflected his attitude perfectly towards providing good quality DJ service. Our consultations with Remi were great, he catered to our needs and left us feeling confident. The wedding service went off without a hitch, all songs and cues were executed flawlessly.
And as for the dance to follow – we still have people telling us that our wedding was one of the best parties they've been to in years. We owe a lot of that to Remi, as he has a talent for gauging what the crowd is into and keeping people moving. The floor was packed all night; people were still dancing when the lights came on and the hotel staff were packing up tables and chairs! We even had other weddings come in and join the party at one point during the night….
"Remi's music inspired a night to remember! Our wedding reception was more fun than we ever expected. Our guests had an amazing night full of laughter, fun and dancing. Even those guests who we expected to remain seated for the evening came to the dance floor as Remi played a variety of music to interest all of our guests. He made sure to inquire about our music tastes, as well as our guest's music tastes, and he came prepared with all genres. He also maintained communication with my husband and I throughout the evening about the music selection just to make sure it was as we expected.
"Remi exceeded our expectations. He impressed by hosting multiple pre-wedding meetings to discuss our needs and offer suggestions. Then, come our wedding day, he was up at our venue early, ensuring his top of the line equipment was ready for flawless transitions from video to dinner music and finally to the dance floor.
"We were on a tight budget and had planned on simply using our iPod for the ceremony and dance at our wedding – that is until we saw Ryan of High Fidelity DJ at our friend's wedding in June. We were so impressed that we asked Ryan to DJ our wedding in September in Banff. I have to say that this was one of the best decisions we made! Ryan was amazing and relieved a lot of the last minute wedding stress by taking care of many of the little details for us. High Fidelity's price was very reasonable and we are so glad that we decided to hire Ryan. We had a very small wedding reception but Ryan managed to get everyone up dancing with a great music selection and all of our friends and family had a blast. In fact, the music was so great at our wedding that we had people from the larger wedding down the hallway trying to crash ours and join us!
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Ryan of High Fidelity certainly did not disappoint. Even my dad(!) was impressed with him; claiming afterwards that he was a "really nice guy" and gave him a tip. I often hear people complain that their DJ did not play the requests given to them by the bride and groom; that was certainly not the case here. Every song we asked for was played (even the songs we brought to Ryan on a CD), and the stuff he threw in was right on track with the present mood of the guests, old and young.
"Rémi, from High Fidelity, DJ'd my (and my wife's) wedding on October 3rd. From the first meeting I was impressed with his flexibility and professionalism. The music was very important to me and if our wedding had a theme, it was "rock n' roll". The wedding favours themselves were mixed tapes designed to feature music from both the ceremony and the reception. They had been finished before High Fidelity was hired, but Rémi was able to incorporate them into his playlists.
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Jawaharlal Nehru addressing the nation from Red Fort on Independence Day, 15 August 1947 | Wikimedia
Thinking about India
From PEN America's 'India at 75'
Twelve Indian and Indian-origin writers from India and across the world share their hopes, concerns and fears about India on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India's independence.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India's Independence, PEN America reached out to Indian and Indian-origin writers across the world to write what they felt about India's independence and India today.
Dozens of artists, poets, novelists, essayists and academics have written short pieces on the occasion.
'The India Forum' is pleased to publish the Introduction and a selection of 12 of these reflections. The entire collection is available on PEN America's 'India at 75' collection
The writers here: Hari Kunzru, KR Meera, Mira Jacob, Perumal Murugan, Navina Haidar, Nilita Vachani, Ritu Menon, Salman Rushdie, Sunil Amrith, Vivek Menezies, Yashica Dutt, and Amitava Kumar.
On 15 August, India will mark 75 years of its independence. What should be a moment of celebration and joy has become a moment of deep despair and reflection. At independence, India offered a beacon of hope—a multi-everything, secular society choosing democratic governance and a Gandhian vision of inclusion and tolerance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of India's 'tryst with destiny,' and the hope was that the country would live up to the dream of its Nobel Laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore: "Where the mind is without fear....into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
But India retained many colonial-era laws that restricted freedoms and, over the years, added more such laws, undermining its democracy. An internal Emergency in 1975 curtailed civil liberties and jailed dissidents. Since its founding, India has witnessed insurgencies and brutality by armed forces and the police against its citizens, as well as periods of horrific violence along caste and communal divides.
But the election in 2014 has transformed India into a country where hate speech is expressed and disseminated loudly; where Muslims are discriminated against and lynched, their homes and mosques bulldozed, their livelihoods destroyed; where Christians are beaten and churches attacked; where political prisoners are held in jail without trial. Dissenting journalists and authors are denied permission to leave the country. The institutions that can defend India's freedoms—its courts, parliament and civil service, and much of the media—have been co-opted or weakened. In PEN America's most recent Freedom to Write Index, India is the only nominally democratic country included in our count of the top 10 jailers of writers and public intellectuals worldwide. In recent years, India has seen an acceleration of threats against free speech, academic freedom and digital rights, and an uptick in online trolling and harassment.
Some voices are optimistic, some prayerful, some anguished and enraged. Some suggest defeat, others venture hope, still others are defiant. The authors hold a spectrum of political views, and may be in disagreement about much else, but they are united in their concern for the state of Indian democracy.
To mark India at 75, PEN America reached out to authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt. Together they make a historic document. Authors who were born in British India responded, as did India's Midnight's Children and grandchildren. Authors from around the globe sent us their thoughts, as did authors from India's many languages, communities, faiths and castes. Some voices are optimistic, some prayerful, some anguished and enraged. Some suggest defeat, others venture hope, still others are defiant. The authors hold a spectrum of political views, and may be in disagreement about much else, but they are united in their concern for the state of Indian democracy. We invite you to read their ideas of what India was and ought to be, and what it has become.
Hari Kunzru:
I only met my great grand uncle, Pandit Hridaynath Kunzru, in the last year of his life. By that time he was completely blind, and I, a child of eight, was brought to him so he could 'see' me, which he did by brushing his fingers, very gently, all over my face. Later, I discovered that this former freedom fighter with the fluttering papery touch had, as a member of the Constituent Assembly, been one of the framers of the Indian constitution. He believed in an India that was tolerant, pluralist, and ruthlessly committed to the freedom of its citizens. He built civil society organizations because in a democracy there should be a counterweight to government power. He declined the Bharat Ratna, because he thought such honours had no place in a Republic. On this seventy-fifth anniversary of Independence, I honor his principles, and his memory.
Hari Kunzru was born in London and lives in New York. His latest novel is Red Pill.
K R Meera:
Independence Day is something personal to me. My grandfather was a freedom fighter. I grew up with the pride of knowing that I too am a part and partner of the legacy of a greatness named India.
My India is the promised land where every single citizen sings: "where the mind is without fear and where the head is held high." My India is the paradise of the ultimate freedom of everyone's thoughts and expressions. My India is characterized by non- violence and Ahimsa. My India is deep rooted in pluralism, diversity, and secularism. My India is where wisdom prevails, scholarship is treasured, human dignity is ensured, justice is endorsed. I can't imagine India in any other way. My India is a living entity, growing within me, through me and out of me, forming an ecosystem. My India is a happy country. A very very happy country.
K R Meera was born in Kerala and lives in Kottayam. She is the author of ten novels, nine collections of short stories, and three memoirs, all written in Malayalam.
Mira Jacob:
"My parents called me their good luck baby," my mother tells me. She was born in May of 1947, passed from person to person in the triumphant march towards Chowpatty that August. The rest of the details—the thousands of shining faces, the singing, her fat body buoyed by so many strangers—are not as much memories as her inheritance of a dream, one she folded into neat squares and brought to America. But now. But now. "What is happening?" she whispers. We feel it rising through the silences on the phone calls back home, the panic tucked into banalities. But what else can they say? What can any of us say? We look outside and find the dark and rising tide our own horizon. Our questions come with it, urgent and useless. Where is the safer ground? What turns a dream back into the body's memory? What else will it take for us to remember how to cradle each other's children, to carry them towards a brighter future?
Mira Jacob is a best-selling author, illustrator and cultural critic. Her memoir, Good Talk was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book. Her novel, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, was a finalist for India's Tata First Literature Award.
Perumal Murugan:
Thousands of Hands
Unlike monarchy, democracy is not about the centralization of power. Devolution and decentralization of power are symbols of democracy. As far as India is concerned, the devolution and decentralization of power did not happen at a fast pace, because of Sanatana Dharma which protects the caste structure. The caste structure forms the basis of Hinduism. Taking advantage of the psychological beliefs built by caste structure over centuries, Sanatana Dharma attempts to thwart any change. When a change becomes inevitable, it attempts to slow it down besides finding alternatives to make it smoother. The Sanatana Dharma constantly appropriates any uprising in the society as its own. When necessary, it creates clashes. It unleashes violence. Sanatana Dharma constantly struggles to retain power by hook or by crook.
Freedom of expression is fundamental to the devolution of power in a democracy. In a functioning democracy, a multitude of voices are raised, each given its due recognition and societal norms are set taking into account all the voices. But freedom of expression is against Sanatana Dharma. The policy of Sanatana Dharma makes it a duty of those in the lower hierarchy to unquestioningly accept the rules set by those on the higher level of the hierarchy. Not everyone can talk. There are clear demarcations on who could speak and who could listen. There could be only one voice anywhere.
Sanatana Dharma doesn't aid the growth of freedom of expression. It is intolerant to a variety of voices. By putting forth the norms established in the caste structure, it seeks to arrest freedom of expression. When it fails, it uses the law. There are no laws to expand the borders of freedom of expression. The law's fundamental idea is to ensure law and order maintenance. Behind every right, the baton of law and order stands erect. The baton is taller for freedom of expression. The hand of Sanatana Dharma is ready to land a blow at any moment. The Sanatana Dharma which has grown over centuries occupying almost all the social spaces has thousands of hands.
Perumal Murugan writes in Tamil. He is vice-president of PEN International. He is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, collections of short fiction, poetry and non-fiction. He lives in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.
Navina Haidar:
I know at least 75 Indias: Boarding school was a touch of Kipling's India; Kim and the Jungle Book. I knew Muslim India in education-minded Aligarh, and Hindu India in everyday life. I knew Christian India through my convent-educated family, and met Jewish India in Bombay's dazzling synagogue. Poor India is always knocking at the car window for coins, and rich India emerged on the Delhi streets in the 80s with its five-star hotel scene. Sikh India saved my uncle with oxygen-langar during Covid. I know at least 75 Indias. But we are being told there is just one....
Navina Haidar was born in London to Indian parents and is curator-in-charge of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has written or co-authored six books.
Nilita Vachani:
We were the inheritors. Born a decade or two too late to breathe the air of jubilation. We held the history in our hands, though, in books, and in our ears and tongues from the stories of elders. My heroes were equally Nehru and Gandhi, Azad and Ghaffar Khan, Naidu and Asaf Ali.
My first love was a Muslim, he remained a secret from my parents. The fissures of partition coursed through our community's veins: wrenching stories of loss, families separated, the horrors of crossings. My paternal grand-mother's brother, Gopal, was killed during the Calcutta riots. He was mistaken for a Muslim, taken too late to the hospital after someone noticed the Krishna tattoo on his arm. Beneath the cosmopolitan veneer of the Sindhis of Calcutta with whom my parents mingled lay bigotry and fear, the excoriations of partition, the scabs barely formed. Thank god, I would think, that my grand-uncle and Gandhiji were killed by Hindus, not Muslims. A decade later when I brought home a white foreigner as my future husband, I knew in my heart that he was accepted in a way an Indian Muslim would never have been.
A gift from my first boyfriend was Azad's India Wins Freedom. The proceeds of its sales went to support two annual essay writing competitions, the best essay on Hinduism written by a Muslim and the best essay on Islam written by a non-Muslim. Today, I long for such simple tokenisms. As a filmmaker who prided herself in producing subtle and sophisticated works dealing with racism, casteism, patriarchy, I'd inwardly scoff at the facile constructs of Hindu-Muslim unity that played endlessly on television in national integration campaigns. Today, I long for that wholesome propaganda. It placed a lid on simmering tensions. It demarcated lines that couldn't be crossed. It kept alive the idea of an India for which we had fought.
Today, in India's darkest hours, it is enslavement and not freedom that greets us, enslavement not to a foreign power, but to the worst instincts within us. I cannot get the words "Jai Hind" out of my mouth. Instead I modify two historic lines and offer them as a rallying cry. I wish we would hear this through the length and breadth of India.
Iss desh ke hain anek sipahi,
Hindu Muslim Sikh Isahi
Na bhed-bhav, na unch-neech
Apas mein sab bahen bhai
This country's many soldiers
Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian
Living without discrimination or inequity
In harmony, as brothers and sisters.
Nilita Vachani is a filmmaker, writer, and educator who divides her time between India and New York.
Ritu Menon:
India on my Mind
In six months I will be as old as India on August 15. The country I was born in was a country torn asunder, it's true, but growing up in it, I felt—even very young, very immature—a sense of its difference from other countries. It was a bold experiment, an exercise in democracy and nation-building that was grounded in principles that, politically speaking, were certainly quite new: non-violent co-existence; non-alignment; non-communal; egalitarian; plural in a still semi-feudal society.
In hindsight, it strikes me that perhaps that was a "womanist" way of defining oneself and one's place in the world. Accommodative, not maximalist.
What worries me about the hyper-masculinism that now holds sway, is that it conceals a deep insecurity. My country now has such a diminished sense of itself that it is ill at ease with a capacious and confident embracing of difference. Fuelled by testosterone it demands compliance with cast-iron definitions of self and other, flexing its muscles against anyone who deplores and decries this puny redefinition of itself.
I had thought we would grow old gracefully together, my country and I. Instead I worry that the India I will die in might become the kind of country I may not want to be born in.
Ritu Menon is a feminist publisher and writer, based in Delhi. She has written and edited several critically acclaimed books and anthologies. Her books include Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition, Out of Line: a literary and political biography of Nayantara Sahgal, and ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts.
Salman Rushdie:
Then, in the First Age of Hindustan Hamara, our India, we celebrated one another's festivals, and believed, or almost believed, that all of the land's multifariousness belonged to all of us. Now that dream of fellowship and liberty is dead, or close to death. A shadow lies upon the country we loved so deeply. Hindustan isn't hamara any more. The Ruling Ring—one might say—has been forged in the fire of an Indian Mount Doom. Can any new fellowship be created to stand against it?
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay and lives in New York. He is the author of 20 books, including Midnight's Children. His many international honors include the Booker Prize, the Best of Booker Prize, Companion of honor (UK), PEN Pinter Prize, PEN/Allen Lifetime Achievement Award, US), and EU's Aristeion Prize, among others.
Sunil Amrith:
To my colleagues, who have been harassed, hounded, and detained—
In the face of crass brutality, you uphold grace and humor. You confront the erasure of history with the stubborn insistence of memory. Your testimony speaks of lives ruined and communities torn apart. You shine a light on the rivers mined for sand, the forests felled by dams, the species driven to the brink. In your work and in your words there lives another India: an India more just, more fully alive, more open to the world.
Sunil Amrith was born in Kenya to Tamil parents, grew up in Singapore, and teaches history at Yale University. He is the author of four books.
Vivek Menezes:
India's smallest state didn't get that famous "freedom at midnight" in 1947, because the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar refused to countenance decolonization, and the 451-year-old Estado da India was invaded and conquered only in 1961, after Jawaharlal Nehru finally sent in the Indian Armed Forces.
It's a great pity it had to happen that way because—as Salazar was repeatedly advised—Goa overwhelmingly supported Independence, and diaspora Goans were already contributing mightily—far out of proportion to their minuscule numbers—to the grand experiment of the Republic of India. Nonetheless, instead of the appropriate negotiated merger (as happened with French India), there was only annexation—the official legal term—with all terms imposed directly from New Delhi.
Even then, there was huge optimism. The tiny territory, which became a full-fledged state in the Indian Union in 1987, voted in the first government with the Bahujan Samaj as its main base of supporters in modern Indian history, and implemented a remarkable raft of land, healthcare, and education reforms. Unfortunately, none of that proved sufficient to stave off the cynical depredations of the 21st century, as the politics of division have taken root in dark and dismaying ways. At this point, the future does not look good at all.
Vivek Menezes is a widely published photographer and writer, columnist for the 120-year-old O Heraldo newspaper, and the co-founder and co-curator of the Goa Arts + Literature Festival.
Yashica Dutt:
What does freedom look like? To a people whose sovereignty lives on borrowed time, when anyone walking by, can clank our metal cages they named caste, rattling our very belonging in this country they declared free a long time ago.
In '47, we heard freedom was fought for, hard-earned, won. Ours was still at bargain, with a republic, whose zeal to be the 'world's largest, brightest, newest' couldn't conceal the chains of caste they never considered breaking.
Freeing us too, would make us all free, with no one left to look down beneath, from above the slippery ladder of caste they sit on, defining their world, and ours. Redefining their existence, rearranging the illusion of 'upperness' that gives their life any meaning, would be excessive. We must wait for our turn for freedom. Asking for it too soon makes us greedy. Always asking, always demanding, to rupture the only order that ever made sense to them.
They say things are worse now. They're right. Illusory, phantom or evident, all freedoms now lie at stake. Freedoms fought, won and bargained evaporate as we watch. Like a brass tap dripping through the night, and then, all at once. We have been here before. WE have always been here. It's worse for some, not all. It never is.
"Will she lose it again?" Ambedkar had asked about India, months before he declared her, and her Dalit children truly free, with democracy. She is losing it now. But freedom, even at a bargain, is priceless, worth striving for. As people in waiting for 75 years to be free, we'd agree.
Yashica Dutt is a journalist and award-winning author of the best-selling memoir on caste, Coming Out as Dalit. She is a leading anti-caste expert and lives in New York.
'Hum dekhenge' by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Translated by Amit Chaudhuri
We shall see—
It's certain we too shall see
The day that was promised to us
And set indelibly in iron
When the boulder-weight of tyranny
Will scatter like wisps of cotton
And under the feet of the reigned-over
The earth will pound like a heart beating
And over the heads of those who govern
Lightning will burn and crackle
When all idols will be vacated
From the holy places
And we, the dispossessed and displaced,
Will be returned to our inheritance,
Each crown will be flung away,
Each seat of power brought down
Allah's name will remain: nothing more—
He, who is present and absent too,
He, who is both scene and spectator;
The cry "I am truth" will be heard,
The cry that is me as it is you,
And everywhere will reign God's progeny
Which is what I am, as you are.
Amit Chaudhuri is a singer, musician, and the author of eight novels, including Sojourn, published in August 2022, besides one collection of short stories, three books of poems, and five volumes of non-fiction. He lives in Calcutta.
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Description of Kingella potus sp. nov., an organism isolated from a wound caused by an animal bite. (1/7)
We report the isolation and characterization of a hitherto unknown gram-negative, rod-shaped Neisseria-like organism from an infected wound resulting from a bite from a kinkajou. Based on both phenotypic and phylogenetic evidence, it is proposed that the unknown organism be classified as a new species, Kingella potus sp. nov. (+info)
Utility of extended blood culture incubation for isolation of Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella organisms: a retrospective multicenter evaluation. (2/7)
The incidence of and average time to detection for Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella (HACEK) bacteria in blood cultures with standard incubation and the utility of extended incubation of blood culture bottles were reviewed at four tertiary care microbiology laboratories. HACEK organisms were isolated from 35 (<0.005%) of 59,203 positive blood cultures. None of 407 blood cultures with extended incubation grew HACEK or other bacteria. Bacteremia from HACEK bacteria is rare, and extended incubation of blood cultures to recover HACEK bacteria is unnecessary. (+info)
Endocarditis after closure of ventricular septal defect by transcatheter device. (3/7)
Advances in interventional cardiology have enabled the treatment of severe congenital heart defects without the need for surgery. The percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects and, more recently, ventricular septal defects is considered a safe procedure with fewer complications and less morbidity compared with surgery. We report on a 2-year-old child who developed endocarditis after ventricular septal defect closure with an Amplatzer device. The patient recovered after intravenous antibiotics and anticoagulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of endocarditis associated with ventricular septal defect closure device insertion. (+info)
Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Neisseria elongata subsp. elongata in a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome. (4/7)
A case is reported of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Neisseria elongata subsp. elongata in a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome. This is believed to be only the third case of endocarditis reported due to this subspecies. N. elongata is difficult to identify, and is morphologically and biochemically similar to Kingella spp. Sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene is useful for identification. The patient was successfully treated with amoxicillin and gentamicin, followed by ceftriaxone. (+info)
HACEK infective endocarditis: characteristics and outcomes from a large, multi-national cohort. (5/7)
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Phylogenetic relationships between some members of the genera Neisseria, Acinetobacter, Moraxella, and Kingella based on partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. (6/7)
We obtained 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequence data for strains belonging to 11 species of Proteobacteria, including the type strains of Kingella kingae, Neisseria lactamica, Neisseria meningitidis, Moraxella lacunata subsp. lacunata, [Neisseria] ovis, Moraxella catarrhalis, Moraxella osloensis, [Moraxella] phenylpyruvica, and Acinetobacter lwoffii, as well as strains of Neisseria subflava and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. The data in a distance matrix constructed by comparing the sequences supported the proposal that the genera Acinetobacter and Moraxella and [N.] ovis should be excluded from the family Neisseriaceae. Our results are consistent with hybridization data which suggest that these excluded taxa should be part of a new family, the Moraxellaceae. The strains that we studied can be divided into the following five groups: (i) M. lacunata subsp. lacunata, [N.] ovis, and M. catarrhalis; (ii) M. osloensis; (iii) [M.] phenylpyruvica; (iv) A. calcoaceticus and A. lwoffii; and (v) N. meningitidis, N. subflava, N. lactamica, and K. kingae. We agree with the previous proposal that [N.] ovis should be renamed Moraxella ovis, as this organism is closely related to Moraxella species and not to Neisseria species. The generically misnamed taxon [M.] phenylpyruvica belongs to the proposed family Moraxellaceae, but it is sufficiently different to warrant exclusion from the genus Moraxella. Further work needs to be done to investigate genetically similar species, such as Psychrobacter immobilis, before the true generic position of this organism can be determined. Automated 16S rDNA sequencing with the PCR allows workers to accurately determine phylogenetic relationships between groups of organisms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) (+info)
Identification of four complete type 4 pilin genes in a single Kingella denitrificans genome. (7/7)
We have cloned and sequenced four complete type 4 pilin genes from the type strain (ATCC 33394) of Kingella denitrificans. Two of these pilin genes, kdpB and kdpD, are in tandem, oriented in the same direction, and encode pilins of only 50% amino acid identity. The kdpA and kdpC loci are separately located from the kdpB-kdpD locus and from each other. At the DNA level kdpA and kdpC are nearly identical to kdpB and encode pilin proteins that are identical to KdpB. Bands of multiple hybridization previously hypothesized to be due to partial silent pilin gene loci are now shown to be due to the presence of 18-bp repeat sequences (IR18) associated with the pilin gene coding regions. These IR18 sequences exist most often as inverted repeats separated by 8 bp. IR18 sequences are structurally similar to the repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences of Escherichia coli, although they have different DNA sequences. The IR18 sequences also demonstrate homology to the DNA uptake sequences of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and may serve a similar function for K. denitrificans. (+info)


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Nuclear exports are an important and understudied part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing plans to build and finance approximately 30 nuclear reactors in BRI countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa over the next decade. This strategy has significant implications for international politics. First, the bigger China's share of the nuclear market, the more say it will have in shaping rules and norms in global nuclear governance, sparking concern that it will challenge existing nonproliferation and nuclear export norms. Second, China's nuclear exports will increase recipient countries' reliance on China for decades, further increasing China's influence over BRI countries at the expense of the US, and shifting the balance of power in the international system. Third, although nuclear energy is a clean alternative to carbon-emitting resources, as recipient countries mostly lack rigorous regulations and the necessary technology, know-how and personnel to handle the atoms safely, the Nuclear Belt and Road poses environmental concerns. My research will illustrate China's ambitions for the Nuclear Belt and Road and analyze its implications for nonproliferation, the balance of power, and environment.
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Lami Kim is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army War College, and an adjunct fellow at Pacific Forum. Her research interests include the intersection between civil and military uses of nuclear energy, China's nonproliferation and nuclear export policy, and politics and security on the Korean Peninsula and in East Asia. Previously, Lami served as a South Korean diplomat and a research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, Pacific Forum, Stimson Center and Seoul National University Asia Center. She has taught at Harvard University and Boston College. Her works have been published in The Washington Quarterly, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Diplomat, PacNet, and Stimson Center, among others. Lami holds a master's and a PhD degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University.
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A smash-hit at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End, Jonathan Church's critically acclaimed production of Singin' in the Rain is back to make a splash in 2022!
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High-energy choreography and sumptuous set design (including over 14,000 litres of water on stage every night) combine with the charm, romance and wit of one of the world's best-loved films. Singin' in the Rain features the glorious MGM score including Good Morning, Make 'em Laugh, Moses Supposes and the legendary Singin' in the Rain.
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Below is the list of Senior Investigators who will be attending the ASBMR Speed Networking Event and Networking Breakfast.
John Adams, M.D., University of California Los Angeles
Attending: Speed Networking and Networking Breakfast
Robert Adler, M.D., McGuire VA Medical Center
Tamara Alliston, Ph.D., Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco
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Douglas Bauer, M.D., University of California San Francisco
Teresita Bellido, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine
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Lynda F. Bonewald, Ph.D., University of Missouri at Kansas City
Brendan Boyce, M.D., University of Rochester Medical Center
Jane Cauley, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
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Gustavo Duque, M.D., Ph.D., Ageing Bone Research Program, University of Sydney
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Michael Econs, M.D., FACE, FACP, Indiana University School of Medicine
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John Eisman, MBBS, Ph.D., University of New South Wales
Renny T. Franceschi, Ph.D., University of Michigan
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Dana Gaddy, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Robert Gagel, M.D., The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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John Williams, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Sunil Wimalawansa, Ph.D., M.D., FRCP, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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By internetnews.com Staff | December 14, 2000
[SOUTH AFRICA] UUNet South Africa and Africa Online, a pan-African ISP, have announced a joint venture which will see the development of Internet services - initially in 8 African countries, with 6 more to follow thereafter.
The deal sees the formation of a new legal entity - UUNet Africa- to oversee the development. It will be jointly owned by its parent companies and will initially operate out of South Africa under the leadership of Richard Beddow, who has been named as the Chief Operating Officer.
According to Beddow, the company will be ideally placed to upgrade Africa's infrastructure and plans to establish Africa's first satellite based IP-Network.
UUNet Africa will provide Internet connectivity and corporate network services, as well as access services to major corporations. Africa Online will transfer approximately 650 corporate access customers to the new entity, along with network assets and 65 employees involved in servicing the corporate access customers to the new company.
The company hopes to be operating in 8 countries by mid 2001: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. In the 12 months following it aims to set up in a further 6 countries.
UUNET SA and Africa Online have also entered into a 10-year network agreement. In terms of the network agreement, UUNET will provide Africa Online with Internet-based network services supported by Service Level Agreements.
Africa Online currently has 43 POPs across the continent, offering Internet access, Web development and e-commerce solutions. UUNet South Africa specializes in servicing the corporate market and has a presence in Namibia and Botswana.
With the rest of the world fiercely contested, Africa is a relatively easy market in which to establish oneself as a player in the Internet economy. Of course, the reason for this is the appalling lack of infrastructure, instability and poverty -thus lack of profits.
But by creating the infrastructure, especially through easy-to-deploy satellite, ventures like UUNet Africa will create the market currently not perceived to be there. Although the non-commercial aspects - information and education - of the Internet is of more importance to Africa, the commercial players are the only ones capable of providing access.
Ventures of this kind will bring Africa its long-sought renaissance within a few generations - if they can show a profit. Historically, infrastructure providers have had no trouble doing so.


It sounds like it was really interesting. Apparently there was a slide show that included hand drawings. I've never gone to a writer's convention, and I doubt I really ever plan on it, but that sounds like it was something to see and hear.
That first one- ouch! Though there was talk of an Atwood t-shirt with a cheese sandwich going on for a while between tweets. That would be awesome.
And I'm okay with book bloggers being the gate keepers. Because they're readers. Another blog I read made the point that when writers market, they usually hop onto twitter and market to other writers so they're hitting up the same 300 people or so. And frankly, if I'm honest, other writers scare me in the same way other girls scare me. They're just scary. (Sorry other writers who I haven't met yet.) Writers are much pickier than readers and they read things much differently than a reader will.
On the e-devises increasing reader but not increasing profits, well I can only assume that's coming from an author of the publishing world because e-devises are SO increasing profits– but only if you go it alone. Alone, you can make an e-book relatively cheaply (and it doesn't have to look cheap contrary to popular belief), and you get 50% or more of the profits. But if you're part of a publishing house, well they still shell out the exact same amount of money they would if they were producing a physical book, and so the profit a published author gets will be very small.
But there are things to consider with e-books. For one, I can't buy e-books used. If I want an e-book by Margaret Atwood, I'm going to have to shell out to get it. (And I probably will.) Since I'm buying more e-books these days, that means my money will be going to her and her publishing house. In times past, if I wanted a book by Margaret Atwood, did I go to a major book store and buy it new? No way. I went to a used book store and bought it second hand, which meant she and her publishers were getting nothing from me.
What's my point here? Well, what do you lose by trying? This all comes back to the question of "why?" Why are you doing what you're doing? Are you doing it because a famous author tells you this is the way it's supposed to be done or are you doing it because you honestly feel you've found the right path for you? That's what it should all come down to.
It's a completely new era. Things are falling apart and rearranging themselves, so it's a scary time for everyone, writers to be and writers who are, published and want-to-be-published. So the best thing to do is pick a road that fits and walk it the best you can.


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Q: Calling a Stored Procedure using django-mssql I'm trying to call a stored procedure on a multi-database project I am working with. I have 2 of my stored procedures working, but this particular stored procedure is not working and returns an error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 39, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 187, in _get_response
response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 185, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\views\decorators\csrf.py", line 58, in wrapped_view
return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py", line 68, in view
return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 483, in dispatch
response = self.handle_exception(exc)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 443, in handle_exception
self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 480, in dispatch
response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\HRSys\hrs\hrs_api\views.py", line 79, in post
result_set = cursor.fetchall()
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 101, in inner
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 94, in __exit__
six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\utils\six.py", line 685, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 101, in inner
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\sqlserver_ado\dbapi.py", line 719, in fetchall
return self._fetch()
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\sqlserver_ado\dbapi.py", line 671, in _fetch
self._raiseCursorError(FetchFailedError, 'Attempting to fetch from a closed connection or empty record set')
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\sqlserver_ado\dbapi.py", line 488, in _raiseCursorError
eh(self.connection, self, errorclass, errorvalue)
File "d:\Projects\Django\AAAVirtualEnv\lib\site-packages\sqlserver_ado\dbapi.py", line 103, in standardErrorHandler
raise errorclass(errorvalue)
django.db.utils.Error: Attempting to fetch from a closed connection or empty record set

this is how I call the stored procedure:
cursor = connections['backend'].cursor()
    try:
        cursor.callproc('[dbo].[GetLogonControlJSON]', ['10011', 'encrypted', '127.0.0.1'])
        result_set = cursor.fetchall()
    finally:
        cursor.close()

I did this too, but still I get the same error:
cursor = connections['backend'].cursor()
try:
    cursor.execute('EXEC [dbo].[GetLogonControlJSON] @LogonID=%s, @Password=%s, @IP=%s' % ('10011', 'encrypted', '127.0.0.1'))
    result_set = cursor.fetchall()
finally:
    cursor.close()

Please, help me. :)
Thank you!

A: You should use execute() method instead of callproc() in this case.
The error message tells you everything:

Attempting to fetch from a closed connection or empty record set

Take a look at the documentation (second example): Stored Procedures


Add references to the QAnywhere .NET DLL and the mobile web services .NET DLL. This tells Visual Studio which DLL to include to find the code for the QAnywhere .NET API and the mobile web services .NET API.
Add lines to your source code to reference the QAnywhere .NET API classes and the mobile web services .NET API classes. To use the QAnywhere .NET API, you must add a line to your source code to reference the data provider. You must add a different line for C# than for Visual Basic.
Start Visual Studio and open your project.
In the Solution Explorer window, right-click the References folder and click Add Reference.
From the appropriate directory for your environment, select each DLL and click Open.
To verify that the DLLs are added to your project, expand the References tree in the Solution Explorer. iAnywhere.QAnywhere.Client.dll and iAnywhere.QAnywhere.WS.dll should appear in the list.
Include the iAnywhere.QAnywhere.Client and iAnywhere.QAnywhere.WS namespaces, as described in the previous procedure.
For more information about QAManagerFactory, see QAManagerFactory class [QAnywhere .NET].
where qa_mgr.props is the name of the properties file that resides on the remote device.
Instead of creating a QAManager, you can create a QATransactionalManager. See Implementing transactional messaging for .NET clients.
The QAManager is used by the instance of the web service binding class to perform messaging operations in the process of making web service requests. You specify the connector address to use to send web service requests through QAnywhere by setting the property WS_CONNECTOR_ADDRESS of the service binding class. You configure each QAnywhere web service connector with the URL of a web service to connect to, and if an application needs web services located at more than one URL, configure the connector for each URL.
The response time for the CurrencyConvertor sample depends on the availability of the web service. Asynchronous web service requests are useful when the mobile web service application is not always available. With this method, a web service request is made by calling a method on the service binding class to place the request in an outgoing queue. The method returns a WSResult, which can be used to query the status of the response at a later time, even after the application has been restarted. See Asynchronous web service requests.


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Martin Peretz/ September 1, 2009
The New York Times as a Family Paper: The Gadhafi Family, That Is
Everything about the Gadhafi family is news. Everything except, of course, the 40-year chronicle of what they have done to Libya and to its people. No one looks and no one cares. Moammar is an utterly deranged man with brutal instincts that he directs and redirects as his distemper decides. He holds no public office and is, therefore, under no one's supervision--and no writ or oath either. But he has been named "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution." Quite a revolution. Rich in oil revenues (the second highest GDP in Africa), the country is unbelievably backwards; its people live destitute; its educational system, its health apparatus, its industrial base--all of these are pathetic.
On the other hand, the Libyan literacy rate is high at 82 percent, a tribute probably to the civilizational pretenses of Italian Fascism, as the literacy rate was high in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This is personalist rule as there exists perhaps nowhere else in the world. No, not even North Korea.
So, in a certain sense, it is reasonable that the Times is so interested in what Moammar Gadhafi thinks and what Saif al-Islam Gadhafi thinks, too. OK, give them a news story when (and if) it's salient.
But the Times does more ... much more.
On January 21 of this year, the newspaper of record published an op-ed "by" Moammar, whose other title, presumably bestowed on him by his people, is "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya." (The Times has pioneered in pawning off stuff written by hired hands as genuine ... but not only the Times. This is another story, a wider story of the whole culture, this routine practice of public persons presenting themselves behind other people's words.)
What interested the Times in January were Gadhafi's views on "the one-state solution," a certifiably crack-pot unriddling of the conflict. A one-state solution is a formula for another Arab state. Let's be frank. The world does not need another Arab state, each and every one of which has been stigmatized as an utter failure in the five annual volumes of the United Nations Arab Human Development Report, the last of which has just been issued. These reports have been written, by the way, by tiers mondiste intellectuals, deeply unfriendly to Western democracies and Israel. So their bona fides are not at all suspect.
There is one especially intriguing paragraph that almost nobody has noticed in Gadhafi's little chronicle:
It is a fact that Palestinians inhabited the land and owned farms and homes there until recently, fleeing in fear of violence at the hands of Jews after 1948
But then look closely at the continuation of that sentence:
--violence that did not occur, but rumors of which led to a mass exodus. It is important to note that the Jews did not forcibly expel Palestinians. They were never 'unwelcomed'.
If that is at all true, the entire moral evidence of a "right of return" collapses utterly.
What would be interesting to know is whether the Times' op-ed editor David Shipley pursued Gadhafi for this script ... or was it some Gadhafi minion who pursued the Times?
The same question should be asked apropos the appearance of the debauched son's views on the op-ed page of this Sunday Times' "news of the week." For here, Saif al-Islam has been given the opportunity to rewrite history about the return to Tripoli—free!—of the convicted murderer of 259 passengers (plus 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie) of Pan Am 103, 189 of them Americans. No "hero's welcome" of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, writes Saif in the Times. But it was a hero's welcome that we have all seen on television. The fact is that the coverage of the entire episode has been tended by premier journalism in both the United States and in Great Britain. There's also a first-rate article by Roula Khalaf and Heba Saleh in this morning's Financial Times, "Triumphal in Tripoli." But it is the Gadhafi family's criminal roguishness that is triumphal. Its rule will survive.
And, of course, the Brits and the Scots are trying, basically without success, to hide the long process which ended with the killer's ignominious release. What we don't have enough information on is how the White House behaved in this sinuous matter. And I mean the Bush White House as well as the Obama White House. Ron Radosh has written a blog about just this. In it he links to a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed by the distinguished constitutionalist and Princeton professor Robert P. George telling a touching story and raising questions that won't, alas, be answered. "Did [the] U.S. get to weigh in on his fate?" asks George.
Gadhafi's rule has slipped through the grasp of professional social scientists. Maybe because it is so antique and also so cruel. Here is a country that lives by no predictable rules at all. But its headman is central to the very structure of international organizations. Libya has one of the precious seats on the U.N. Security Council. This year, Gadhafi designates from among his countrymen the president of the U.N. General Assembly. Yes, I know the "U.N. is mankind's last hope." Bullshit.
One more thing about Gadhafi. At his 40th fest this past weekend, the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, was not put under arrest (as mandated by the International Criminal Court). And Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, felt perfectly at home.
Gadhafi's involvement in the Sudanese genocide in Darfur is another matter. It started with The Arab Gathering. Look it up on Google. Keep smiling.
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"Torpedoing A Transaction: Economic Substance Versus Other Tax Doctrine" by Thomas C. Vanik Jr.
Transactions designed to intentionally reduce one's taxes often attract suspicion and become the subject of judicial review. To evaluate suspicious transactions, courts have developed special common-law doctrines that impose additional requirements beyond those in the Internal Revenue Code. These doctrines could be considered standard methods of fact finding or legal interpretation, yet they have taken on their own identity within court analyses with varying interpretations and applications. An examination of cases demonstrates significant overlap in the doctrines and exemplifies how the application of the doctrines adds confusion and uncertainty to tax law. Compounding on this uncertainty is the codification of the economic substance doctrine and related strict liability penalty for its violation, which suggests that the distinct nature of the common-law doctrines is a false assumption that only confuses tax law. Taxpayers, however, may be able to use the confusion between doctrines to avoid the strict liability penalty by arguing that even if a transaction is invalid, it is invalid not under the codified economic substance doctrine, but under one of the common-law doctrines that does not impose strict liability.


I have to admit I'm not a good baker. In fact, I'm pretty terrible at making desserts.
Faced with the prospect of a three course dinner party at the weekend, I roped in the help of my friend David to help me tackle pudding.
I was recently sent a jar of luxury lemon curd, so decided to make a lemon meringue tart (using ready-made ingredients isn't cheating - it's resourceful, right?!).
We made a pastry case (I followed this recipe) however mine came out rather cracked/dry so if recommend you to buy a ready-made one if you're not a keen baker.
We filled the case with zesty lemon curd and added dried lavender (remember lavender is potent, so start with a pinch and work up from there).
The hardest part of the recipe was the meringue - after separating eggs and adding sugar/vanilla paste, David spent hours whisking the mixture in 29 degree heat as we didn't have an electronic whisk (somehow I don't think he'll be making it again...).
We finished the tart by piping the meringue over the filling and lightly toasting the outside with a blow tourch.
And voila, a sweet sign-off to our main meal whipped up in no time at all.


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M Lydia Khuri
Clinical Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Emailmkhuri@illinois.edu
Research & Scholarship (5)
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Palestinian-Israeli conflict Social Sciences
dialogue Social Sciences
Psychoanalysis Medicine & Life Sciences
Design Research Business & Economics
Intergroup Business & Economics
Research Strategy Business & Economics
Conflict (Psychology) Medicine & Life Sciences
psychoanalytic theory Social Sciences
Two practitioners' participation in an online discussion concerning psychoanalysis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict pn
Khuri, L. & Chazan, L., Jun 1 2016, In: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. 21, 2, p. 204-213 10 p.
Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Conflict (Psychology)
mutual recognition
Living learning communities and students' sense of community and belonging
Spanierman, L. B., Soble, J. R., Mayfield, J. B., Neville, H. A., Aber, M., Khuri, L. & De La Rosa, B., Aug 1 2013, In: Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. 50, 3, p. 308-325 18 p.
Empathic design research strategies: Designing for, with and by people with disabilities
McDonagh, D., Thomas, J. K., Khuri, L., Sears, S. H. & Peña-Mora, F., Dec 1 2010, Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development: Technological and Organizational Perspectives. Silva, A. & Simoes, R. (eds.). IGI Global, p. 58-79 22 p.
Facilitating Arab-Jewish intergroup dialogue in the college setting
Khuri, M. L., Sep 1 2004, In: Race Ethnicity and Education. 7, 3, p. 229-250 22 p.
Working with emotion in educational intergroup dialogue
Khuri, M. L., Nov 1 2004, In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 28, 6, p. 595-612 18 p.
Intergroup Contact


Just the sight of medieval tabards makes you think about the iconic imagery of the medieval period in history. Tabards are coats that are usually knee-length and feature decorative and eye-catching designs and insignia. While they are an extremely popular accessory for LARP and Renaissance Faire enthusiasts, they are actually some of the least understood articles of medieval clothing. At Pearson's Renaissance Shoppe, not only do we have a full selection of tabards for sale, we also serve as a resource for information on these unique pieces of medieval dress.
We did our research when creating our tabards for sale in order to give you authentic-looking tabards. Tabards, as we know them today, grew from simple outer garments worn by peasants, monks, and foot soldiers. These tunic-style tabards were thin and sleeveless. By the 15th century, the tabard evolved from the modest tunic to the garment we know today. This new style of tabards featured open sides (like a shawl) and a belt in order to secure it to the body. The tabard was adopted by knights who would wear them over their armor, and would often feature their arms embellished on the front.
This was not the end of the evolution of the tabard. Over time, the tabard grew to be made of 4 panels of fabric. These panels consisted of two large panels that draped over the front and back of the wearer and two smaller pieces that hung over the arms as short sleeves. One of the main reasons tabards remained popular throughout the medieval period, other than their practicality, was that they were an easy way to identify fellow soldiers on the battlefield.
Although tabards have fallen out of fashion, they are still immensely popular for those who enjoy LARPing and attending Renaissance Faire. Their popularity endures with them because of their comfort, versatility, and iconic look. Our tabards for sale feature authentic insignia based on the designs featured on real tabards of the medieval era. Take a look today at our selection today at Pearson's Renaissance Shoppe and give your medieval costume an added layer of authenticity!


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Strange Thoughts on Films. Turn Off Your Mind, Relax & Float Downstream.
F for Fake
Directed and starring Orson Welles with a script written with Oja Kodar, F for Fake is a loosely-based documentary on the works of forger Elmyr de Hory that ponders whether his work is real or fake. Notably as it explores an array of different narratives involving the works of this man. The result is a fascinating yet bizarre film from Orson Welles.
The film is about the study of hoaxes and forgery where Welles profiles famed forger Elmyr de Hory, the film's co-writer Oja Kodar, and author Cliff Irving. Individuals who are known for creating these elaborate hoaxes and forgeries. Elmyr de Hory is known to recreate paintings where he's made a lot of money based on forgeries while getting art experts wondering if these paintings are real or not. Kodar is a woman who is known for her unique sexuality where she's attracted the attention of Pablo Picasso. Irving is famous for a hoax he made about the existence of the notorious Howard Hughes. The big question that is raised in this film is that are any of these stories real? Are they really fictional? Are they just mere exaggerations?
Welles never reveals about those things though Irving's hoax is actually true since he did make an elaborate hoax about the re-emergence of Howard Hughes. The film also reveals that Welles himself is a forger since he started his career in Ireland claiming he was a big-time actor from New York while his infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast is one of the great pranks ever made. The film is essentially a prank of sorts that includes an elaborate sequence of men staring at Kodar walking around Paris though it is revealed that they're instructed to look at her. Then there's the subject of Elmyr de Hory as he is just this unique artist who lives comfortably in Ibiza where he is able to recreate famous paintings though he is under the watch of authorities who are upset over his forgeries.
While the film also has Welles claiming that he's about to tell the truth for an hour, does he really tell the truth? Well, it doesn't really matter as the people he profiles are just as interesting as he is while Welles gets to reflect on his own work with appearances by Ray Collins and Joseph Cotten as they talk about Welles' ability to be a prankster. Welles also gets the chance to do magic as he's also a well-respected magician. With the help of cinematographers Gary Graver, Christian Odasso, and Francois Reichenbach, Welles is able to capture the beauty of the locations with some scenes that are very stylized.
One aspect of the film that is unique is in the editing by Marie-Sophie Dubus and Dominique Engerer. It is very stylized to present this sense of chaos that occurs throughout the film with a fast-cutting style that would become prevalent in the films of the 1980s. Largely as it's to convey the idea that reality and fiction is blurred. With the sound mixing of Paul Bertault and the jazzy music score of Michel Legrand, the film does have this unique tone that is mysterious but also humorous as it plays to the sense of blur of whether anything that Welles is saying is true or not.
F for Fake is a marvelous film from Orson Welles. The film is definitely one of the most unique films that explores the world of forgery and hoaxes while refusing to define itself as fiction or a documentary. It's also one of Welles' great films as it reveals his unique ideas about art as well as the art of creating pranks. In the end, F for Fake is a phenomenal film from Orson Welles.
Orson Welles Films: Citizen Kane - The Magnificent Ambersons - The Stranger (1946 film) - The Lady from Shanghai - Macbeth (1948 film) - Othello (1952 film) - Mr. Arkadin - Touch of Evil - The Trial (1962 film) - Chimes at Midnight - The Immortal Story - Filming Othello – The Other Side of the Wind
Related: Orson Welles: The One-Man Band - The Eyes of Orson Welles - They'll Love Me When I'm Dead - The Auteurs #69: Orson Welles: Part 1 - Part 2
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Labels: cliff irving, elmyr de hory, joseph cotten, oja kodar, orson welles, ray collins
The Films That I Saw: February 2013
History of the Eagles
The Long Good Friday
Blind Spot 2013: Mona Lisa
Priceless (2006 film)
The Kid with a Bike
The Auteurs #20: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Killer of Sheep
The Stranger (1946 film)
The Company (2003 film)
Dr. T and the Women
Side Effects (2013 film)
Cookie's Fortune
FISHAO Game.
My Criterion
The Void-Go-Round
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The highly-corrosive environments frequently found in the smelting and refining industries benefit from the corrosion-resistant properties of lead. Lining tanks or chambers with lead can offer significant protective advantages, as is exemplified in the lead-lined chambers of Glover towers and electrostatic precipitators. The latter use lead "Star Wire" centered in lead tube to remove impurities from the acid-laden atmosphere within the precipitator. The use of extruded lead tubes also allows for the safe transport of waste water, acids, and corrosive chemicals, making them suitable for acid production, refining and storage facilities. The strictest standards of safety and expertise should be employed when working in such potentially dangerous environments. Facilities such as precipitators benefit from regular professional refurbishing, including the installation of lead tubes and star-wire.
To maintain proper working condition and usage of various metals, pickling is frequently needed in order to remove oxidization and impurities that can accumulate over time on metal surfaces. Those performing the pickling process with strong acids, such as sulphuric or hydrochloride acid, will require safe transportation for these substances via tubing and pipes. High-quality extruded lead pipes and tubing of customizable size, wall thickness, and length are available for the transport of these corrosive materials. Pipes that have gone through the extrusion process are known for emerging as dense and uniform lead products. One-piece lead heating coils that are also made from extruded lead pipes are immersible in pickling tanks, and are built to work in highly corrosive environments.


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HINDUSTHAN (Hindu nation) is still a subservient COOLIE colony. Appearance is deceptive. Apparently we have a strong man, "Lion of Gujarat" at the helm of affairs but he is in "SHACKLES".
Yes, our Hindu "warrior" is immobilised (seriously restricted) by TWO sets of shackles.
One set is the post-Partition CONSTITUTION (second High Treason of "Bandit" Jawaharlal Nehru) that makes the "ENEMY equals BROTHER".
PREPOSTERUOS BUT TRUE!
The other is the "deep-frozen", lethargic, indolent, corrupt & retrogressive BUREAUCRACY (Baboo Raj) that remains in tact, exercising devastating powers over citizens, despite the change of POLITICAL colour on the top, from the "mongrel" tricolour of old Congress Party to the pristine "Bhagwa" of the new resurgent BJP.
These two "octopuses" of day to day administration, tamed like dogs by the "Hindu bashing" rulers during centuries of Mogul & European Raj and then nearly SEVEN decades of Nehru-Maimoona-Rajiv-Sonia RULE, will take either a century to "thaw" or a REVOLUTION to be eliminated in one day.
If neither is possible in our Hindu "jagat" then we may look at the golden throne in the clouds above and rejoice but weep at the extraordinary powers of the administration (baboos) on ground and weep.
So long as these two "shackles" remain our "LIONS" will be seen performing like rabbits.
AGAIN, PREPOSTERUOS, BUT TRUE!
Hence Shri Modi, our popular hero, has not been able to show results on the real issues like the status of Muslims after Partition, Article 370, the historic Temple in Ayodhya, repatriation of the huge wealth remitted illegally abroad, repatriation of the "Bogusdeshi" illegal immigrants, and "love jehad", the subject of the email below, that (in your words) has created havoc throughout India. That is just one of the hundred havocs our dear Bharat is exposed to.
11 Sep 14.
In a message dated 11/09/2014 06:45:13 GMT Daylight Time, XXXXXXXXXXXXX writes:
Love Jihad� has created havoc throughout India. Newspapers are giving us a daily dose of cheating incidents in the name of Love Jihad taking place in different states. Hindu girls are ensnared in love-dragnet by the Muslim youths, converted, tortured and sometimes sold to the Arab Shaikhs as slave. Hindu girls are considered by the Muslims as a machine of procreation and increasing their population. Love Jihad originated in Kerala and then spread throughout the country like wild fire. We are going to study this burning issue in detail serially.
Two college girls in the Pattanamthitta District disappeared suddenly. Since there was no cooperation from the Police for investigation into this incident, the parents of both the girls filed a petition in the Kerala High Court. Taking cognizance of the petition, the court ordered the Police to produce the girls before the court. Two Muslims Shahenshah and Sirajuddin were arrested in this case. The girls who were ensnared in the love-dragnet of these Muslim youth were also brought to the court and handed over to their parents. The girls told the court that these two Muslims cheated them and took them to one Islamic centre for conversion. Considering the seriousness of the issue, the court ordered the DGP Jacob Punnoso to submit a report to of the High Court judge after conducting a detailed inquiry into the matter.
While giving his verdict on the report submitted by the DGP to the Kerala High Court with regards to �Love Jihad�, Justice KT Shankaran said on 17.12.2009, �As per this report, a campaign of forcible conversions in the name of love is going on in the State from 1996. This confirms that �Love Jihad� does exist in Kerala. This report also mentions that �Islamic popular Front� and its student wing (Campus Front) are active in these planned activities of conversions. It is also clear from this report that Islamic conversion centres have been established in Kozhikode District. Although Constitution has provided equal rights to all religions, the faith on one�s own religion should not be used to convert someone forcibly. The State Government should pass an act to prevent the college campus from becoming a den of conversion and against forcible conversions in the State�.
(Reference : Book �Love Jihad�; Publisher : Hindu Janajagruti Samiti)


British people are well known for being well mannered, and relatively reserved people, however with this comes many funny problems. Here are 21 problems people face in their day to day life.
Top 5 British problems...for British people. British.


← Never throw away a script!
You didn't get this from me. You downloaded it off the internet.
Load file into SQL Server Management Studio.
Replace all instances of BACKUP DATABASE [DBNAME] with the proper database name in the square brackets.
Either create the directory f:\sql or edit the jobs that refer to it to go to a different path.
And remember, I know nothing. If I knew something, I'd have to charge.


ChoiceStream, a demand-side platform (DSP), wants to increase the level of competition in the real-time bidding (RTB) marketplace, and not by increasing the amount of demand. Instead, ChoiceStream wants to pit optimization algorithms against one another in a bid to, well, optimize optimization.
Calling All 'Math Men': Can You Pass A Programmatic Math Test?
With Math Men joining the ranks of Mad Men across Madison Ave., one company wants to make sure everyone involved really understands the math behind programmatic's madness. Labmatik, a consulting firm that focuses on helping brands take programmatic technologies in-house, on Monday began teaching Programmatic Math 101. The company will post one question per workday for 30 days on subjects including campaign, supply, algorithms and finance.
Marketers across the globe are turning to programmatic technologies. European marketers spent 250% more via programmatic in 2014 compared to 2013, according to a new report. And perhaps just as telling as the overall increase in spend: European marketers were willing to trust programmatic technologies with some of their most important budgets in 2014 -- holiday spend.
At yesterday's Facebook F8 Developer Conference, the social network made several announcements regarding LiveRail, the video supply-side platform (SSP) it acquired last summer. Post-acquisition, Facebook had been relatively mum on its plans with LiveRail, but Wednesday's announcements brought us up to speed. Facebook's plan: Bring LiveRail's programmatic technology to the mobile in-app display advertising space.
An audience member at Tuesday's Programmatic Insider Summit in Scottsdale, AZ, told the private exchange panel that he has been told from some "open market exchange people" to look into private marketplaces because his company isn't winning enough bids on the open exchanges. How common is this, the ad buyer wondered, and is it a legitimate suggestion?
The Lenovo digital marketing chief made a strong case against open RTB during his opening keynote at the Programmatic Insider Summit in Scottsdale, AZ. Actually, Milner said, "I hate the word RTB." The reason, he said, is "because real-time bidding drives you down a path of auction-based media-buying." From Milner's POV, the real value of programmatic media is the ability to use software and data about users and media to find better and more cost-efficient ways of reaching the consumer.
AOL, one of a handful of ad tech players attempting to lead the charge in programmatic TV, on Monday announced it has bolstered its programmatic TV offering by expanding its data licensing agreement with FourthWall Media. This announcement, coupled with Google's plans to add real-time ad-tracking capabilities to Fiber TV, suggests that programmatic TV is becoming more "real-time."
Over half (58%) of Japanese marketers spend at least 10% of their online ad budget on retargeting, per a new AdRoll report, with 84% of Japanese marketers expecting to maintain or increase that level of spend over the next 12 months.
Late last year, Apple more or less reintroduced iAd, its mobile ad platform that had failed to take off since launching five years ago. Apple recently struck multiple ad tech partnerships to resurrect iAd as a programmatic platform. Marking one of the first major Apple-related programmatic announcements since the iAd reinvention, Advertising Age has reported that "Apple is extending its mobile advertising network to iTunes Radio, its web streaming service that competes with Pandora, through programmatic ad buying."
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released what it is calling the "mobile programmatic playbook," the first document from the IAB focused on mobile programmatic. The document is largely dedicated to explaining the ecosystem and defining terms; there's no groundbreaking information shared. But the fact the IAB wrote the "playbook" is telling in and of itself. In fact, marketers are expected to spend more programmatic ad dollars in mobile display this year compared to desktop display, per eMarketer.


Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden Was Right To Leave The U.S.
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, said on Monday that he supports Edward Snowden's decision to flee the United States.
Ellsberg has sometimes been held up as an example of everything Snowden is not. Former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Favreau, for instance, called Ellsberg a "true whistleblower," unlike Snowden.
Yet Ellsberg has steadfastly sided with Snowden, saying that his detractors are wrong to contrast the two of them and calling Snowden's leaks the most important in American history.
In a Washington Post op-ed, Ellsberg responded to the people who have criticized Snowden for seeking asylum outside the U.S. instead of facing trial.
?Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did," he wrote. "I don't agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago."
I hope Snowden's revelations will spark a movement to rescue our democracy, but he could not be part of that movement had he stayed here. There is zero chance that he would be allowed out on bail if he returned now and close to no chance that, had he not left the country, he would have been granted bail. Instead, he would be in a prison cell like Bradley Manning, incommunicado.
But Snowden's contribution to the noble cause of restoring the First, Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution is in his documents. It depends in no way on his reputation or estimates of his character or motives -- still less, on his presence in a courtroom arguing the current charges, or his living the rest of his life in prison. Nothing worthwhile would be served, in my opinion, by Snowden voluntarily surrendering to U.S. authorities given the current state of the law.


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neat, you then will soon be happily surprised by how realistic it's in room storage and space-saving. Be flexible in accordance with your actual design and place! Or display your chosen storage suggestions to people if costless.