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Akklesiastical Writings
THE AKKLESIASTICAL WALK • The Shepherd pushes His own out
THE FOUR HEARTS • Parable of the sower
THE UMBILICAL CORD • To Christians
ON HYMNS • To the happy
A QUICK WORD ON BILLY GRAHAM • To the Evangelical
ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN RELIGION • To winners
THE POPES • Pontifex Maximus
THE AKKLESIASTICAL WALK
THE FOUR HEARTS
PARABLE OF SOWER
THE UMBILICAL CORD
TO CHRISTIANS
ON HYMNS
TO THE HAPPY
TO THE EVANGELICAL
TO WINNERS
THE POPES
Le Grand InquisiteurAfter Dostoevsky
KafkaOn the diabolical
DostoïevskyHallucinations d'Ivan
AkklésiaThe Akklesiastical Walk
The Akklesia discourse is a reflection whose starting point is the Church and the « Corpus Christi » notion. However it aims at looking beyond, into every aspect of a man's relation to himself and to God. Ivsan Otets initiated that reflection from his own life and experience and explored it through critic readings. Beginning with authoritative theologians such as Luther, Calvin or Saint Augustin, he never wanted to limit himself to the great thinkers of the Church and finds his inspiration in the most varied authors and philosophers.
Sharing the same research and questioning of the structures that are imposed on the individual person, Dianitsa joined him. Together, they work at analyzing these structures which mutilate our relationship with Christ, among other harmful and even deadly effects. With this work, they are, as Scripture says, « breaking up a fallow ground », or, clearing a new field — the field of all possible. They have adopted this soberly inspired statement by Marina Tsvetaeva : « I AM FOR EACH ONE AND AGAINST ALL »
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« You cannot judge men by the things they do when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks, they get dressed. » Those are the words of Minna, a waitress and a prostitute in The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary. The same opposition goes for Catholicism and Protestantism. The first revelled in his blatant «  filthy tricks » to the point that his activities are brought out in the open today with the paedophile scandals. As for the latter, he cleverly knew how to learn his lesson from his brother, so he pulled up his pants and gave himself up to wrongdoings far more outrageous in the end.
Famous sociologist Max Weber, on that matter, explains in precise detail the Protestant mindset in his work The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism : « it is a fact that the Protestants […] both as ruling classes and as ruled, both as majority and as minority, have shown a special tendency to develop economic rationalism which cannot be observed to the same extent among Catholics either in the one situation or in the other. Thus the principal explanation of this difference must be sought in the permanent intrinsic character of their religious beliefs, and not only in their temporary external historico-political situations. »
The Reformation, Weber explains, «  meant not the elimination of the Church's control over everyday life, but rather the substitution of a new form of control for the previous one. It meant the repudiation of a control which was very lax, at that time scarcely perceptible in practice, and hardly more than formal, in favour of a regulation of the whole of conduct which, penetrating to all departments of private and public life, was infinitely burdensome and earnestly enforced. The rule of the Catholic Church, 'punishing the heretic, but indulgent to the sinner' as it was in the past even more than today, is now tolerated by peoples of thoroughly modern economic character, and was borne by the richest and economically most advanced peoples on earth at about the turn of the fifteenth century. The rule of Calvinism, on the other hand, as it was enforced in the sixteenth century in Geneva and in Scotland, at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in large parts of the Netherlands, in the seventeenth in New England, and for a time in England itself, would be for us the most absolutely unbearable form of ecclesiastical control of the individual which could possibly exist. That was exactly what large numbers of the old commercial aristocracy of those times, in Geneva as well as in Holland and England, felt about it. And what the reformers complained of in those areas of high economic development was not too much supervision of life on the part of the Church, but too little. »
The sociologist's analysis is harsh and yet very accurate for anybody having practical experience of Catholicism and Protestantism. But Weber goes even deeper in discernment. That new religious practice served, according to him, as a lever for the establishment and the domination of the capitalist spirit in Europe. Quoting a peer, he says that « the Calvinistic diaspora was like the seedbed of capitalistic economy ».
Among numerous examples in his detailed work, he takes that of Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States. Born in Boston, Franklin was the son of an English immigrant and was bred in the Puritan tradition. «  His strict Calvinistic father drummed into him again and again in his youth : 'Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings.'  » (Prov. 2229) Franklin, who later became at a denominational level a «  colorless deist  », as Weber says, left an autobiography from which he extracted the following lines in order to support his study on the Protestant ethics  :
Remember, that time is money. […] Remember, that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it. Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use. After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings; therefore never keep borrowed money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever.
« Truly what is here preached is not simply a means of making one's way in the world, but a peculiar ethic, Max Weber says. He adds, «  the infraction of its rules is treated not as foolishness but as forgetfulness of duty. » Then he goes on : « Now, all Franklin's moral attitudes are colored with utilitarianism. Honesty is useful, because it assures credit; so are punctuality, industry, frugality, and that is the reason they are virtues. A logical deduction from this would be that where, for instance, the appearance of honesty serves the same purpose, that would suffice, and an unnecessary surplus of this virtue would evidently appear to Franklin's eyes an unproductive waste. And as a matter of fact, the story in his autobiography of his 'conversion' to those virtues, or the discussion of the value of a strict maintenance of the appearance of modesty, the assiduous belittlement of one's own deserts in order to gain general recognition later, confirms this impression. According to Franklin, those virtues, like all others, are only in so far virtues as they are actually useful to the individual, and the surrogate of mere appearance always sufficient when it accomplishes the end view. It is a conclusion which is inevitable for strict utilitarianism. »
But Weber does not stop with this criticism which, alone, would leave Franklin in the typical attitude of the hypocrite. «  But in fact the matter is not by any means so simple. Benjamin Franklin's own character, as it appears in the really unusual candidness of his autobiography, belies that suspicion. The circumstance that he ascribes his recognition of the «  utility  » of virtue to a divine revelation which was intended to lead him in the path of righteousness, shows that something more than mere garnishing for purely egocentric motives is involved.  » For, he adds, concerning the Protestant mindset at large : «  A lack of care in the handling of money means to him that one so to speak murders capital embryos, and hence it is an ethical defect. »
« And in truth, the German sociologist insists, this peculiar idea […] of one's duty in a calling […] It is an obligation which the individual is supposed to feel and does feel towards the content of his «  professional  » activity, […] is what is most characteristic of the 'social ethic' of capitalistic culture, and is in a sense the fundamental basis of it. […] The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, […] This provides the most favorable foundation for the conception of labor as an end in itself, as a [spiritual] calling which is necessary to capitalism. »
We could conclude these series of quotes, lengthy but essential to get an idea of Max Weber's discourse, with this last word by the economist : « the characteristic Protestant conception of the proof of one's own salvation, the certitudo salutis in a calling, provided the psychological sanctions which this religious belief put behind the 'industria'. But that Catholicism could not supply, because its means to salvation were different.  »
For almost five centuries, this Religion has been completely permeating the Anglo-American, Dutch, Swiss and, for a large part, German mentality and spirit. All these peoples are insidiously led by that asceticism in work, by that financial prosperity brandished like a divine seal, like the evidence that some exceptional moral justice will reward the individual person : it works as a stamp which validates a so-called «  divine election  ». That spirit is to be found absolutely everywhere in the activities of the Protestant populations. As for the «  artists  » or those who boast about being on the margins of religion, all those who, in the midst of Protestant societies, flatter themselves to be in direct opposition with their religious background, those who state loud and clear to have freed themselves from it - the truth is they just cannot get rid of it. Indeed, this sort of hero worship, the worship of the virtuous man or the romantic conqueror, actually has its source in the Protestant religious background they pretend, yet, they have overcome. The Protestant ethic has weaved its precepts in the shadow of their souls and it is still brought out in their lifestyles and their social reflexes without their realizing it - the fervent atheism promoter just like the "rebellious" music artist, the avant-garde writer or the "wonderful" world of movies, etc. : all actually partake in it. Every TV series, every novel is filled with the smell, more or less strong, of that Protestant thought which introduced these peoples into the modern era before any other. These civilisations are circumcised to the ethic of financial success as a reward  - and the American system so much overindulged in it that it reached to an ultimate frenzy as it engraved the motto on its banknotes, «  In God we trust  » !
But the realm in which this painless poison reaches its shiniest modernity, the moment when it stands out in majesty, is when it seizes the Bible ! There, to quote Minna, men and women «  pull up their pants and adjust their skirts  », dress modestly, put perfume on and wear their best polite smile, then they go and commit the «  filthiest tricks  » : the evangelical teaching ! Today the love of money, the capitalist spirit, and security in the name of God are brought to new heights. Some sophisticated trick, that strikes the right balance, that is all dialectics and rhetorics, has Christ say he is a friend of Mammon. If Peter is the apostle of Catholicism, Paul that of Reformation Protestantism, then Judas is the apostle of modern Protestantism. This is only normal, for Judas was an accountant. One still wonders why countries such as France, with so many thinkers of value and so much ability for critical thinking, are constantly at the feet of these gold and glitz lovers. From now on, the churches of Europe seem to share in that same love, that same gold, that same fever for happiness and comfort that the bible yet denies its anointed. European Protestantism, as it went on listening to those false prophets, as it went on being bitten by their "Gospels" in which the rewards of the god-Good are made of money, of well-being whereas, they declare, the punishments of Evil bring poverty and insecurity, European Protestantism, also, is now but the legitimate son of some pagan Christianity. The time and the circumstances are getting near. The day is coming when Christ will hand them the bread he handed Judas in order to reveal his deepest intentions. I doubt that before that day French Protestantism will wake up and kick the asses of all these Anglo-Saxon missionaries and authors. It will probably share, with all these Mammon-god saints of the useful and the successful, in the same tree where Judas hanged his cupidity. The Protestant's shame will come after the Catholic's. The younger brother who thought he was more cunning than the elder eventually defeated the theatre of the antique episcopalian masses : he knew how to make the ropes invisible by conforming more intimately to the world.
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During the Second World War, a middle-aged, working class German couple, Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) are hoping to adopt two children for the welfare payments they will receive, so the cold Rosa is particularly annoyed to hear that one of them died on the way to their home. She even seems to take it out on poor Liesel (Sophie Nélisse), as if it's her fault her brother died.
Hans is far more supportive, loving her like a father and even teaching her to read. Her life soon resembles that of any other child, going to school and making friends.
But the horrors of war conspire to shatter her new normality. Hans and Rosa secretly take in Max (Ben Schnetzer), the son of a Jewish friend, and hide him in the basement – something Liesel has to keep secret or everyone's lives will be at risk. And when the Nazis order that all books are ceremoniously burnt, she's denied her newfound passion – until she discovers that a local aristocrat has a fully stocked library.
The Book Thief is a moderately successful attempt to introduce aspects of the Second World War to youngsters, but narratively, it's less of a success.
While the sets and costumes give an effective sense of place and time, the faux accents lack the authenticity for us to believe that these people are real.
Sticking too rigidly to the structure of the book on which it's based, the story is told from the point of view of a narrator (Roger Allam), who turns out to be the angel of death, which doesn't particularly sit well in the context of a film that isn't really about death. He begins by announcing that he's going to tell us the story of an exceptional young girl, but from the outset, Liesel just isn't particularly exceptional – her life, while interesting, doesn't seem to be spectacularly different from many others during that time. It was tough for her family to make ends meet, they had secrets from the neighbours, friends and family got conscripted to fight on the front-line – even hiding people from the authorities wasn't unknown.
It's interesting to set the story in a community of "good" Germans, some of whom support the war effort more than others, but this means there is no real antagonist – it's the allies who are trying to kill the Nazis, but we don't hear about them – and the ruthless local authorities are rarely seen in this sleepy town.
This almost makes the narrator – death – the biggest threat to those whose lives we're watching unfold, in a sanitised 1940s Germany where you almost wouldn't know that a holocaust was going on down the road – although it's quite possible that this would have been true.
It's difficult to determine the true point of this film, as we don't get much of a sense of the fighting or the brutality or futility of war and while we get so admire the resilience and resourcefulness of its protagonists, both adults and children, there is we haven't seen in other films and other settings.


The country's lifted its nationwide ban on the sale of PlayStations and the like.
How Can the Xbox One Fight Back?
For so many years, China – the biggest PC market in the whole damn world for some time – resisted the lure of video game consoles, to the extent of outright banning them.
In 2000, the country prohibited the sale and distribution of these games-only (but not really, anymore) machines, the thinking being that this was the best way that parents could prevent their kids "wasting their minds" on video games.
All of this is was funny when you consider not only the amazing number of Chinese gamers plugging into online multiplayer titles via their PCs – the country can claim the largest online user base of anywhere in the world – but also that every home system of the previous console generation, the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, was manufactured in China.
But none of that matters now as the Chinese government has completed a U-turn that began in 2014 when it provisionally allowed its citizens to import consoles from overseas (albeit for eye-watering prices) for sale within the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. As of right now, the good people of Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Tianjin – or anywhere else in the country – can freely purchase the domestically-made games console of their choice, for rather less than the cost of a black-market PS4.
The lifting of the ban will go a great way to growing China's already staggering gaming market value, which is estimated to reach over $22 billion this year. Chinese gamers won't be able to play everything that their Western peers can, though, as titles will be assessed for their content on a case-by-case basis, with the government certain to censor a great many releases.
Sony and Microsoft are already gearing up for a fresh Chinese market push, and have confirmed the intent to upscale operations in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone and beyond. Nintendo, meanwhile, is remaining quiet on its plans.
Check out more video games on VICE – we've a whole bloody section on them.


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Etcetera II
Gaborone - The Beginning
SANDY GRANT Monday, August 29, 2016
Gaborone had its modern beginnings as a result of two related factors. First and foremost was the need for the British to establish telegraphic contact between Mahikeng, Cape Town and London with their base at Fort Motloutse near Bobonong.
The second need was to establish an operational base further south which would replace Motloutse where water supply was always a problem.
Seemingly, the British had no problem in acquiring places such as Motloutse because they were convinced that local claims to ownership and control were so tenuous that they could simply be disregarded.
This understanding must have underlain the instructions to Col. Frederick Carrington in 1890 to identify a new site with features that were uncannily similar to those which pre-determined the choice of Gaborone as the country's new capital 70 years later.
Carrington was told to find somewhere in the general vicinity of Kolobeng (which had long become irrelevant by 1960), which had a reasonably secure water supply, was central and which provided the means of controlling (be accessible to) the southern Tswana tribes.
Neither in 1890 for the British nor in 1960 for the Batswana could this quest have proved to be other than routine. Gaborone then, even without the railway, was a nodal point for wagon traffic. Carrington suggested that the new British base should be situated so that it controlled what must have been a ford or drift across the Notwane River (where the old Tlokweng bridge is situated) from where roads splayed out - to the south (Mahikeng), to the west (Molepolole), the north (Mochudi), the north east (Sikwane) and the east (the Rand).
Reports at the time indicated that the new settlement would be located some distance away from the Batlokwa who had settled there a few years earlier, in 1887, and were living a few miles away to the north on the further side of the river at a place then called Moshaweng where their old kgotla can still be visited.
Current claims by the Batlokwa, and doubtless by the Bakwena, that this was their cattle post area seems to suggest that the British were obliged to negotiate terms of occupancy with either the one or the other or both before moving in. In reality, they appear to have done nothing of the sort realising that there was simply no need to do so.
In the event, the British, having fixed on their new base, didn't hang around. Once they had taken the decision to establish Gaborone as their new Headquarters they rapidly dumped Motloutse and consolidated their resources there.
In quick
succession, they constructed a new standard model Fort and in August 1890 appointed W.H. Surmon to be Assistant Commissioner for the Protectorate to be based there.
In no time a small settlement came into existence complete with a trading store, a stop over for travellers and a regulation graveyard. In 1895, the three Dikgosi visited the U.K. and as part of a trade off agreement which staved off rule by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company, agreed to provide land for his proposed railway line through to Bulawayo. In the same year, however, Rhodes was heavily involved in the botched Jameson Raid which resulted in his humiliation, resignation as Prime Minister of the Cape and the ending of his attempts to take over the Batswana tribes.
The agreement of the three Chiefs regarding the railway line was, however, duly honoured. Sebele handed over the area of land which stretched from near Mogoditshane to the border with South Africa.
The British surveyed it, divided it into demarcated farms and then handed it over to the BSA Company to sell to individual buyers. For obvious reasons, however, the British held on to the newly created farm which included the area it had already occupied at the Notwane River site.
By doing so it acquired for its new settlement there a de jure, as opposed to a de facto, legitimacy.
The area across the Notwane which was occupied by the Batlokwa became something of an anomaly.
Neither the BSACO nor the British Administration wished the Batlokwa to be uprooted especially during the lifetime of their respected, aged Chief, Gaborone.
A curious compromise was reached by which the tribe paid the Company an annual rent of £150 for the land it occupied. When Gaborone died in 1933, however, the British persuaded the Company to cede its ownership there in exchange for specific mineral rights in the Central District. The area was promptly gazetted as a new 'Native Reserve'.
There is probably no country in the world which can feel totally at ease with its history.
This one can be no exception. Many Batlokwa being uneasy with this particular version of a complex period of history do now need to identify a career historian willing to come up with a version which accords more closely with theirs. Debating the issue can do no harm.
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Communication efforts supporting the 2018 Ogden School District bond proposal have occurred in three consecutive phases. Following stake holder input from the Ogden community gathered in Phase One and Two, the Ogden School District is now appealing to voters to approve the school bond in upcoming November 6th election.
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This is how annual mummers play will still take place
Wantage mummers will perform for Oxfordshire fans despite Covid-19
By Gergana Krasteva Trainee Reporter
Traditional mummers play in Wantage will still take play - this year it goes online
A MUCH-LOVED event, which for many people in Oxfordshire is the pinnacle of their holiday celebrations, will no longer take place in its original form.
The traditional Mummers Play in Wantage, which has ancient origins, has been happening in a revived form for more than 40 years and for many it is an integral part of their Christmas routine.
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But because of strict Covid-19 restrictions on public gatherings, the annual performance in Market Place, which is normally attended by hundreds of theatre lovers, would not be permitted this year.
Instead – to keep their loyal fans happy – the Wantage Mummers have filmed an online version of the play, which will be available from 10am on Boxing Day, which is when the actors normally begin their performance in Faringdon.
The play can be found on their website www.wantagemummers.co.uk but this year proceeds from the festive cheer will be supporting the Covid -19 NHS Charities Together organisation.


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The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, 1899‒1904: Documents of the 'Economist' Opposition to Iskra and Early Menshevism, by Richard Mullin (Brill Academic Publishers, 2015).
Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of theIskra newspaper, whereas little has been said about the opponents of Leninism, who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskraperiod. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express an anti-Lenin view. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the JewishBund's Poslednie Izvestiia and the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov and Martov, the resolutions of Party meetings and some very revealing private correspondence. However, the result is not an anti-Bolshevik polemic: through these documents a clearer, and curiously flattering picture of Lenin's thought and activity is obtained.
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Many a dorm room wall has sported the inescpable image of John Belushi wearing his Animal House COLLEGE sweatshirt, putting up a strong fight against the blacklight Bob Marley posters of the world. The tiny 1978 film became one of the biggest comedy movies of all time, launched more than several Hollywood careers, and basically started the raunchy teen movie genre. Animal House cast photos show an odd assortment of actors who became underdogs for whom audiences ended up rooting. The film follows the pledges and members of Delta Tau Chi house of Faber College. The frat is notorious for their partying and wild antics and when they are put on "double secret probation" by the dean, they only ramp up their borderline-insane behaviors.
The Animal House cast partied hard both on and off screen, sharing the voices of the young baby boomer generation on movie screens for the very first time. Animal House writers like the late Ghostbusters star Harold Ramis used their own college fraternity experiences to bring the adventures of Delta house at the fictional Faber College to life. While Belushi was one of the biggest names going into production, many other of Animal House's stars like Kevin Bacon have the movie to thank for starting their careers. The stories behind Animal House include fights, drugs, and a lot of vomit.
As the cast was completely submerging themselves into their roles, they decided to attend a real frat party on the University of Oregon campus. A group of college girls invited them to a mixer thrown at a "wealthy jock fraternity," but things turned ugly as soon as they walked in. After a bunch of drunk football players called them some offensive choice words, Hoover actor James Widdoes threw a beer and started an all-out brawl. Punches flew and Widdoes's teeth were nearly knocked out. D-Day actor Bruce McGill received a black eye in the scuffle but was too embarrassed to tell director John Landis what really happened. Although McGill insisted his injury was the result of a rough touch football game, Landis eventually found out what his cast had really been up to.
After getting beat up by real frat boys on campus, the cast and crew of Animal House decided to stick around their side-of-the-freeway motel. There, they discovered an old piano in the lobby and since no one seemed to be using it, a few of them pushed it across the parking lot during a rainstorm and into Bruce McGill's room.
Despite John Landis acting as a sort of parental figure and not joining in, everyone else used the room for daily parties. There was liquor, music, and "strange smoke." If anything, the parties certainly helped the Delta House members get into character and Kevin Bacon recalled, "The vibe was very much like it was in the movie. The Delta guys certainly didn't want to hang out with me. I was kind of young and not cool. I definitely felt like an outcast because they had all these amazing parties."
If actually attending a frat party on campus wasn't enough to get the cast into character, John Landis got all the actors playing Delta members to meet and begin bonding five days before filming began. They called each other by their character's name and painted the Delta house with the graffiti seen in the film. When the cast playing Omega members joined them, they were treated as enemies.
Mark Metcalf - who played Neidermeyer - remembered food being thrown at him. Metcalf opted to hang out in his motel room while the rest of the actors partied so he could "listen to all this partying to get into character. I would sit up there and spit polish my riding boots and brood and make plans for what I could do to get revenge on them for their decadent way of life."
Anyone who knows about the relationship John Belushi had with drugs might assume he fit right in with the rest of the hard partying cast. However, during the filming of Animal House, Belushi was actually one of the best behaved. In order to keep him out of trouble, Belushi and his wife Judy were asked to stay in a suburban house far away from the motel to avoid temptation.
He managed to remain clean throughout the shoot, despite having to fly back to New York for a few days every week to film Saturday Night Live. John Landis attributed Belushi's ability to stay sober to his desire to succeed in his first film role. However, Landis apparently gave Belushi too much slack while filming The Blues Brothers a few years later, as his cocaine habit had spiraled out of control.


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NY Yankees Donate $50,000 to East Harlem Following Building Explosion
by Jennifer Kamm
It's been nearly one week since the tragic building explosion in East Harlem that left seven people dead and 70 injured. In a show of support, the New York Yankees have graciously donated $50,000 to the American Red Cross to facilitate with the ongoing relief efforts.
"The vital work of providing relief services to those affected by this tragedy continues," Josh Lockwood, CEO of the American Red Cross Greater New York Region, said in a statement. "Currently, a multi-lingual Red Cross response team is at the NY City Resident Service Center providing one-on-one case management and emotional support. On behalf of all those we serve, we thank our generous partners — the New York Yankees and New York City Football Club — for helping to make this possible."
To further assist with relief efforts, the New York City Football Club (the MLS team co-owned by the Yankees) has also pledged an additional contribution of $15,000, resulting in a total donation of $65,000.
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Any initiative in the health developmental or any other sector is likely to be faced with barriers. Number of mental health establishments is very limited in India. India has 43 mental hospitals which serves 1.23 billion population distributed 30 states and 7 union territories. This is the first barrier that need to be addressed. As a solution community based mental health services can be promoted. This is cost effective compared to the institutional establishments.
India is a country where only 1.3% of the total GDP is allocated as health budget. In that health budget, only 0.3% is spent on mental health. This is a second barrier that health field faces. For that general taxation system in UK can be adopted and sin taxes can be adopted. At least 10 percentage of the GDP must be allocated to health field and out of that 10%, at least 2% must be allocated for mental health.
Lack of awareness about mental illness and mental health and eradicate stigma, prejudices and discrimination are another barriers in the Indian society. Communities must be made aware about mental illness and mental health to eradicate stigma, prejudices and discrimination from all the levels of the society using mass media campaigns, street plays etc.
Lack of good quality educational institutions that provide mental health related courses and produce mental health professional are another barrier in India. There should be good educational institutions in India. For that private – public partnership system with clear set instructions can be utilized.
According to a study conducted by the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health in 2005, nearly 5% of India's population suffers from common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. However there a number of challenges in mental health care in India.
Lack of information and data for policy development must be gathered from the grass root levels. Lack of a team or a committe constitute upon , different stakeholders including the people with mental illness, their care givers, representative of the NGO's that work in the mental health field, mental health professionals, organizations that aims for social advocacy. The larger cultural diversity in India. Lack of number of professionals and trained staff.
The geographical obstacles in India's rural areas, lack of funds, lack of human right friendly mental services with a successful monitoring mechanism, cultural and social barriers such as caste, class, gender etc. Lack of community based mental health services. Lack of awareness about mental illness and mental health. Lack of good quality educational institutions that provide mental health related courses and produce mental health professionals.
A severe shortage of mental health professionals – In reality there are only about 4,000 psychiatrists, 1,000 psychologists and 3,000 social workers for the whole of the country. So that one psychiatrist for four lakh Indians. A shortage of mental health facilities in India - India has 43 mental hospital and 381 medical colleges. Migration of mental health professionals from India to other countries - There are more Indian psychiatrists in the US and the UK than in India. These are some of the challenged faced by the mental health care field in India.


Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the D'Artigo Sisters-half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence supplier. Their most recent project is to root out the key society chargeable for unleashing chaos magic opposed to the city-and to forestall a demon from devouring Delilah's soul.
How could you React while a gorgeous individual comes into your existence, after which is going clear of you... forever?
Not all love tales are supposed to have an ideal finishing. I Too Had a Love remain is one such saga. it's the smooth and heartfelt story of Ravin and Khushi those who came upon one another on a matrimonial website and fell in love, until eventually lifestyles placed their like to the last word try. Romantic, emotional and honest, this heartbreaking precise existence tale has already touched 1000000 hearts.
This bestselling novel is a needs to learn for an individual who believes within the magic of affection.
Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted through a home packed with misplaced souls.
In her thirty ninth best-selling novel, Danielle metal brings to existence the tale of 3 ladies, previous roommates from university, who come jointly after two decades, one summer season at The Ranch.
They have been inseparable in university, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. yet within the greater than 20 years that undefined, the 3 had moved on with their lives, settled in several towns, and located winning careers and new roles as moms and better halves. accidentally, every one may locate herself on my own for a number of weeks one summer time, wrestling with the current and the earlier. At a sprawling ranch within the foothills of Wyoming's Grand Teton diversity, the 3 girls come jointly and locate braveness, therapeutic, and fact, and succeed in out to one another as soon as again.
Despite the honesty they as soon as shared, now pretense among them runs excessive. Mary Stuart Walker, married for twenty-two years to a new york attorney, stored herself busy with volunteer paintings, and now mask the loneliness that consumes her lifestyles. A 12 months has previous, and Mary Stuart nonetheless hasn't gotten over the guilt, or the terror that her husband won't ever forgive her for his or her son's death... Tanya Thomas, an award profitable singer and rock big name, enjoys the entire trappings of status and success--a mansion in Bel Air, legions of enthusiasts, and a damaged center. all of the Grammy awards on the planet cannot make up for the youngsters she sought after yet by no means had, the boys who've taken benefit of her, and simply long past alongside for the journey, and nonetheless are... Dr. Zoe Phillips has her fingers complete as a unmarried mom to an followed two-year-old, and as a physician at an AIDS hospital in San Francisco. Predictably, as all of them comprehend, she is as liberal as she ever used to be, and marriage used to be by no means a dream she coveted or shared with them. Tending to her sufferers is a full-time task that leaves Zoe little time for herself--until unforeseen information forces her to reevaluate either her destiny, and her present life.
But regardless of the adjustments of their lives, their friendship continues to be a bond all of them treasure and percentage. for every of the ladies, a number of weeks on the ranch will carry therapeutic and unlock, as outdated hurts are buried, old secrets and techniques printed, and love changed or renewed. In The Ranch, bestselling novelist Danielle metal brings fact to the which means of friendship, with dramas whose truths all of us percentage.
In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle metal weaves a compelling tale of the facility of lies, the misuse of trust--and of 1 woman's conquer a devastating betrayal.
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the type of youth that almost all humans dream of. Freedom, love, safety in a gorgeous previous French château. but if Marie-Ange is simply 11, a sad coincidence marks the tip of her idyllic existence.
Orphaned and on my own, she is distributed to the US, to reside together with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented via the previous lady, bring to a halt from every thing she has identified and enjoyed, Marie-Ange is pressured to paintings tirelessly at the farm, dreaming purely of the day she will be able to go back to her loved Château de Marmouton.
In Marie-Ange's remoted life, basically the friendship of an area boy, Billy Parker, bargains convenience and desire. yet her merely want is to realize an education--and get away. Then, simply after her twenty-first birthday, an unforeseen customer brings startling information and a rare present: the liberty to come to France, to Château de Marmouton.
When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new proprietor is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a speeding younger widower who invitations her into his domestic, then into his middle. yet their magical lifestyles jointly, which quickly comprises marriage, youngsters, and extravagant houses, slowly takes an ominous flip. A mysterious lady tells Marie-Ange a stunning tale, a narrative so chilling she does not are looking to think it.
Not even her expensive pal Billy can assist her now. he's millions of miles away. and because the darkness gathers round her, Marie-Ange needs to locate the religion and braveness to take one, final determined step to avoid wasting her household and herself.
Danielle Steel's robust novel is ready being pulled right into a position the place not anything is what it sort of feels. it's approximately being seduced and lied to and rotated, and desirous to think the lies--until the instant comes, in a single blinding quick, while survival and salvation rely on a last Leap of Faith: the single route to freedom, and existence.
Woman Sorcha Macleod is bound that the guy her sister Adela loves, the rushing Scottish Knight Templar Sir Hugo Robinson, is the masked rider who kidnaps Adela on her marriage ceremony day. whilst she learns he's not, she units off to rescue Adela with Hugo in scorching pursuit. at the highway with the irrepressible Sorcha, Hugo quickly discovers a girl of fireside and sweetness, a lady he longs to the touch and taste-but his honor forbids it, simply because he's certain via his vow to marry Adela. As a merciless mastermind plots to scouse borrow the Templars' storied treasure and retain Adela for himself, Sorcha and Hugo will danger every thing, even their very own future, to avoid wasting her and to guard the Templars' long-held mystery.
Baya Brighton is asking ahead to her first 12 months at Whitney Briggs collage, new acquaintances, dorm lifestyles, and eventually being with regards to her brother back. Love is the very last thing at the record, but if Baya meets her brother's roommate she starts to have recommendations and emotions that make even her blush.
Bryson Edwards has a mystery he prefers buried long ago and lengthy forgotten. He prefers free women, quick automobiles, and lengthy nights operating on the string of bars his relations owns. while his roommate's sister exhibits up at the scene, she's some distance too blameless and candy for him yet he can't shake Baya out of his brain and worse, it appears like she's seeping into his middle as well.
Baya turns out decided to teach her brother she's no longer a bit child and both made up our minds to exploit Bryson's physique to turn out her aspect. It's been made lovely transparent that Baya is off limits to Bryson yet their indisputable sparks explode right into a good deal greater than quite a few 3:AM KISSES.
Dreams are learned within the ultimate novel in number 1 New York Times bestselling writer Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet.
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Gary is paying for his female friend Rachel a attraction bracelet. partially to thank her for buying their holiday-of-a-lifetime to manhattan. yet more often than not simply because he is left his procuring a long way too overdue.
Whereas Ethan's searching for whatever a bit extra unique - an engagement ring for the 1st girl to have made him chuffed seeing that he misplaced the affection of his existence.
But whilst the 2 men's buying baggage get careworn, and Rachel someway finally ends up with Ethan's ring, the undefined' lives develop into intertwined.
As Ethan attempts to reunite the hoop with the lady it used to be really meant for, he discovers this is not that simple. Does destiny produce other rules for the undefined? Or is there easily just a little Tiffany's magic within the air . . .
Black activist Erica Johnson wears her motives on her sleeve—literally. together with her category of liked fourth graders counting on her to symbolize their issues, Erica's able to confront golden-boy conservative senator Mark Newman. And she's prepared to undergo via an evening in detention center and a conflict of wits with a real-life struggle hero, if it is going to aid get the youngsters the cash they need.
Mark Newman's a precious adversary. yet there is a extra human facet to the bold flesh presser with the dreamy blue eyes—from the actual soreness of his warfare wound, to his grief over his wife's demise. although they disagree on each hot-button factor, Erica and Mark cannot withstand their allure or forget about the incomplete enterprise among them—much to the pride of these attempting to use this new courting opposed to the senator. And whilst Erica begins receiving a few rather vicious hate mail she has to make your mind up if this good-looking dream from the right/wrong aspect of the political fence is worthy risking her middle for . . . and perhaps her life.


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Dragutin Šurbek (Zágráb, 1946. augusztus 8. – Zágráb, 2018. július 15.) világ- és Európa-bajnok horvát asztaliteniszező.

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Sikerei, díjai

 Világbajnokság
 aranyérmes (2): 1979 (páros), 1983 (páros)
 ezüstérmes (2): 1975 (páros, csapat)
 bronzérmes (9): 1969 (csapat), 1971 (egyes, csapat), 1973 (egyes, páros), 1977 (páros), 1981 (egyes, páros, vegyes páros)
 Európa-bajnokság
 aranyérmes (5): 1968 (egyes), 1970 (páros), 1976 (csapat), 1982 (páros), 1984 (páros)
 ezüstérmes (5): 1964 (csapat), 1970 (csapat), 1972 (csapat), 1980 (páros), 1982 (vegyes páros)
 bronzérmes (8): 1974 (egyes, páros), 1976 (páros), 1978 (páros), 1984 (egyes, vegyes páros), 1986 (egyes, vegyes páros)

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1946-ban született személyek
2018-ban elhunyt személyek
Jugoszláv sportolók
Horvát sportolók
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Hyalonthophagus alcyonides is een keversoort uit de familie bladsprietkevers (Scarabaeidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1913 door d'Orbigny.

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We have been to two apple pressing events this October, one in Buckland St Mary earlier in the month, and then another one at Stentwood the weekend just gone. These are community events organised by the Blackdown Hills Transition Group of which we are members.
Basically we invite anybody to bring their apples along and use the equipment to turn them into apple juice.
Firstly you have to tip apples into the crusher. We used a mixture of both eating apples and cooking apples.
This breaks the apples down into pulp that can go into the presses.
The apple pulp is then transferred into a linen bag and put into a press. Gradually turning the handle round presses down on the pulp and the juice is then collected below.
The juice turns brown as the apples oxidise. The next process is to bottle it up. We use a jug and a funnel to transfer the juice into bottles. If the apple juice is put into plastic bottles it can be frozen to keep it fresh, otherwise it will start to ferment after 3 or 4 days. If the juice is bottled in glass bottles it can be pasteurised for 35 minutes at 75 degrees C and this will keep it to up to a year.
On Sunday the Blackdown Hills Transition Group held their apple pressing day at Buckland Village Hall and car park. A large gazebo was set up, under which the apple presses were placed on tables.
The apply pulper was plugged into the village hall electricity supply. Quite a few people came bearing their apples, both cooking and eating apples and pressed them into juice. Neil was busy operating one of the presses.
The juice that comes out is brown in colour as the apples oxidise.
When the juice is squeezed into a bucket it then is poured into bottles for keeping. If you fill plastic bottles you can freeze the apple juice as it doesn't last more than a few days in the fridge before it starts to ferment. If you fill glass bottles you need to pasteurise the juice by placing the glass bottles in boiling water for half an hour. We had a couple of musicians who played guitar and sang, so there was a really nice ambience to the afternoon. The community from Stentwood (who bake The Common Loaf) were providing refreshments and lovely nibbles and cakes to eat.
There is another apple pressing event to take place at Stentwood, Dunkerswell, EX14 4RW on Sat 25 and Sun 26th October from 11am to 5pm. So if you want lovely fresh apple juice from you apples come along.
Every year Buckland St Mary holds a New Year's Eve party in the village hall. This year was no exception and we attended as we have in previous years. It starts with a lovely meal. The table is laid with balloons and party poppers.
Everyone has fun blowing up these long balloons and then letting them go and fly all round the room.
Then there is adult pass the parcel, more silliness!!
And after all that comes the dancing.
At midnight we all sang Auld Lang Syne and then there were fireworks outside.
So a Happy New Year to everyone from us at Lodge House B&B.


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Entephria primordiata är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg 1884. Entephria primordiata ingår i släktet Entephria och familjen mätare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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KU Leuven tops Reuters ranking of Europe's most innovative universities.
Producing a high volume of influential inventions and filing patents that are frequently cited by other researchers in academia and in private industry: These are key criteria in Reuters' ranking, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics. It is based on proprietary data and analysis of patent filings and research paper citations.
#10 ETH Zurich (#10, up one).
The 23 German universities on this year's list cumulatively rose 23 spots, more than any other country. Switzerland was second, with five universities up a total of 8 spots. And in contrast, the list's 21 UK-based universities dropped a cumulative 35 spots. On the same per capita basis, the second most innovative country on the list is Switzerland.
To compile the ranking of Europe's most innovative universities, Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters) began by identifying more than 600 global organizations that published the most articles in academic journals, including educational institutions, nonprofit charities, and government-funded institutions. That list was reduced to institutions that filed at least 50 patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization in the period between 2011 and 2016. Then they evaluated each candidate on 10 different metrics, focusing on academic papers (which indicate basic research) and patent filings (which point to an institution's ability to apply research and commercialize its discoveries). Finally, they trimmed the list so that it only included European universities, and then ranked them based on their performance.


I'm using an unlocked Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5.
1. When I call voicemail and it asks me to put in my pin number followed by pound, it does not seem to register that I've done it. It keeps asking me over and over, and I can't get into the account to check my messages. How can I get this to work?
2. I installed Visual Voicemail, but when I open it I get the message "we are unable to connect to the appropriate cellular network. Please check your carrier and APN settings and try again". Is there a way to get this working?
I suppose we can take a look at the APN settings as it suggests. They may still be on the settings used for Verizon and not T-Mobile. Do you know how to get to the APN settings?
If so, let us know what they are!
Under the APNs, it shows "LTE - Verizon Internet". That's the only thing listed, and it's not checked (it's grayed out).
Underneath in small type, it says 'VZWINTERNET'.
Thanks for the prompt response! We're going to make a new "T-Mobile US LTE" alternative which might fix your problem(s).
In this new APN, type these in as the values. This is all CASE-SENSITIVE.
This was all taken from the Network: Samsung Galaxy S 5 (G900T) T-Mobile Support Page.
If you have any questions or want an additional "step by step" guide let me know and I can put one together for you.
Thanks and let me know how this works!
It finally worked! I'm not sure what I did wrong or right, but eventually the visual voicemail registered properly. The settings above are correct. I think I may also have had to switch the network mode from Global to LTE/GSM/UMTS preferred. Not sure if that made a difference, but after a couple hours the visual voicemail registered.
But I'm still left with the other issue: the inability to call into the voicemail number - it keeps asking me to enter my pin then press pound, but it totally doesn't seem to register that I'm doing it. Any advice on that one?
Great! I'll see what I can find, it seems alot of S5 issues are happening lately!
Hey! I have located a thread that seems to have a few suggestions.
Please take a look and let me know if it works!
I don't think that discussion applies to the issue I am having. I definitely have a voicemail box, and it worked fine on my old phone, a galaxy s3. On the S5, I get the message to enter the pin number and #, but I can't get past that - voicemail does not register that I have typed anything in. I'll keep searching for posts too. This issue must have come up in the past. Maybe there's a keyboard setting that needs adjustment.
I did some checking on this for you luckyjack2001 and unfortunately, there isn't a way to change the touch tone settings you need for the voicemail system to recognize what number you're dialing. This seems to be a device issue so testing to see if it works in another T-Mobile branded phone would be a good step. If it works in another phone, the last resort would be a back up and reset of the Verizon phone. Backup & restore: Samsung Galaxy S 5. Keep in mind, you would have to re-enter the data settings if you decide to do this. If by some off chance it's not working in a T-Mobile phone, we'll need to have you Contact Us so we can have Tech Support file a Trouble Ticket.
Thank you for taking the time to research this for me. Although I'm not too hopeful, I will try the reset when I get the chance. But on the plus side, 'visual voicemail' is now working, and it's a great way to check voice mail (in fact better than the call-in method IMO), so I can just use that to check my messages.
I know resetting the phone isn't the most "fun" thing to do luckyjack2001 but I only ask people to do it as a last resort. On a better note, I am glad you're able to use the Visual Voicemail. In my opinion, it's been the best invention since pockets in pants! It makes shuffling through voicemail messages waaaaay easier.
In case this helps anyone, to get a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 6.0.1 working with data on T-Mobile's 4G LTE network, I had to change "Bearer" in the APN settings listed above: I selected LTE and HSPA+ and Unspecified (I checkmarked all of the possibilities). I also changed Network Mode from Global to LTE/GSM/UMTS.
I was having the same problem on my wife's phone that when using the keypad during a call during voicemail or bank account calls the numbers were not heard. On the S5 on the phone page press the three dots/menu, then select settings, then select call, then scroll to the bottom and select DTMF tones, then change the setting from normal to long.
It works! Funny how you think you've tried every possible option you can find and there's always some small corner you've missed. It was easy to make this change and it worked like a charm.
Thanks to all who helped with this!
I probably should have submitted this as two separate questions because I can only mark one answer as correct, even though there are two: one for the visual voicemail fix htghtg, and one for the voicemail rekoj71.


Refried bean and cheese pupusas.
This afternoon we made pupusas, a traditional Salvadorian stuffed, soft tortilla.
I was introduced to pupusas a few years ago by an Indian friend, i.e., from India, while I was couch-surfing near Baltimore, Maryland, of all places. He took me to his favorite Salvadorian restaurant, a modest place called Bananitos, where friendly Salvadorian ladies were continually preparing pupusas by hand and other Salvadorian dishes for a stream of customers, many to take away.
Roll dough pieces into an approximately golf ball-sized balls (or slightly larger), push each flat, then add a spoonful of filling in the middle, e.g., refried beans mixed with shredded cheese. (We used smoked mozzarella.) Next, wrap the dough around the filling back into a ball and then re-flatten it into a tortilla perhaps 1/4 inch thick. Try to keep the filling contained when pressing, but it's OK if leaks a bit.
Preparing refried bean and cheese pupusas.
Next, simply cook the tortillas a few minutes per side at medium or medium-low heat on an oiled surface, e.g., a cast iron pan, until a bit browned and cooked through.
Cooking pupusas in an oiled pan.
Pupusas are typically served accompanied by a mildly pickled cabbage slaw called curtido and a tomato sauce. We served our pupusas with a green cabbage slaw of the sort one might serve with fish tacos and a mole sauce, left over from last night's mole chicken.
Pupusas served with cabbage slaw and sauce.
Pupusas are a wonderful treat from central America that, whenever I see them, I'm reminded of visits with my exuberant Indian friend, a great citizen of the world, with whom I first shared them.
I found pupusas fairly forgiving to prepare, being able to add additional water to the dough (that I had originally prepared for dumplings cooked in the mole sauce) until it was possible to work (or rework) them easily into thick tortillas.
I hope you give them a try and enjoy them too!
Steamed Dumplings with soy and chili garlic sauces.
Here is a popular treat from Chinese restaurants that's fun to prepare at home, especially if you're interested in an exotic dinner and aren't short on time; we spent a couple hours making about 30 dumplings. They can be prepared ahead of time and frozen, but I wouldn't want to miss the pleasure of eating a few right to reward myself right after the prep work!
The vegetarian dumplings were filled with a mix of napa cabbage (finely chopped), carrot (grated), ginger (finely grated), spring onion (minced), shiitake mushroom (rehydrated from dry, then chopped), tofu (firm, crumbled), garlic (finely grated), and five spice powder. We also tossed the filling with some soy sauce and sesame oil; this is optional, but gave the vegetable filling more flavor and perhaps helped it to clump when wrapping.
The meat dumplings contained the same filling with ground pork sausage flavored with five spice powder. We used the meat from two store-bought sausages (fresh, raw); any mildly-spiced, coarse sausage would likely work well, but ours were Italian sausage, often spiced with fennel or anise seed, which is commonly used to flavor Chinese foods too.
We wrapped the filling using a simple dough of all-purpose flour and water, about 3 cups flour to about 1 1/4 cups water, rolled into balls and flattened by hand into circular wrappers. Fill each wrapper right after you flatten it to avoid the dough becoming too dry to work with.
Place whole cabbage leaves in the bottom of a steamer tray to keep the dumplings from sticking. After steaming the dumplings for about 20 minutes total (15 minutes is probably sufficient for the vegetarian ones), we served them for dinner along with a miso soup and froze about half of them to steam another time.
These dumplings were a fun project for two on a weekend evening and tasted every bit as good as many I've had at restaurants, even though this was a first time making them at home. Give them a try!
Mirza ghasemi with Barbari bread.
This is a special recipe for me and one that I've been meaning to make for 10 years or more.
I was introduced to Iranian or Persian foods in the '90s in Madison, Wisconsin at a wonderful restaurant called Caspian Cafe. The restaurant has been closed for some years, but its colorful co-owner and chef, Mohila Nateghi, has a web site here. She typically had a smile for guests and did a great job of pointing the neophyte to her best options on the menu that day, such as the crispy part of her lubia polow or her dill rice.
One of my favorites was, and is, mirza ghasemi, the wonderful dish of scrambled egg, eggplant, tomatoes, and garlic. Mohila's version was absolutely loaded with garlic; whenever it was on the day's lunch menu, I knew I would smell of garlic the rest of the workday, but that did not dissuade… it was so good.
For preparation details, see detailed recipes linked below (at bottom of post). I used them roughly as is, except used a combination of canned and fresh tomato and added smoked paprika to the mirza ghasemi. Unusually, I also chopped the roasted eggplant length-wise and and width-wise with a chef's knife to cut their skin into pieces; while atypical to include the eggplant skin in the dish (rather than peeling it after roasting) I didn't find the skin in any way objectionable since I roasted the eggplant in the oven rather than over open flame (which would then add an undesirable burnt flavor if the skin were included).
The restaurant served all its entrees with a number of sides, one of which was a tasty flatbread that was likely a version of Tandoori or Barbari bread.
For this meal, paired with Barbari bread, one must start preparing the bread first… perhaps 4 hours in advance. I made the bread dough and had it initially rise in the refrigerator for a couple hours.
Barbari bread dough after initial rising.
Barbari bread dough final rising for about an hour.
Having previously attempted to roast eggplant over the open flame of a gas stovetop and having it be undercooked, this time I decided to bake them in the oven (40 minutes at 425° F) and then finished under the broiler to just begin to blister, but not burn, the skin.
Near the end of the cooking on the stovetop, I poured beaten egg (3 large) into 6 holes in the eggplant, tomato mixture, and continued cooking until the egg solidified, then stirred and allowed to cool about 20 minutes before serving.
The Barbari bread was topped with sesame seed and baked on a pre-heated pizza pan (500° F) for about 15 minutes, until it browned nicely.
Mirza ghasemi and Barbari bread with sesame seed.
I served the mirza ghasemi garnished with walnut pieces and accompanied by a piece of bread.
I really enjoyed this meal that reminds me both of my introduction to wonderful foods of the world and friends from far-off lands; I hope you enjoy it too!


28-53 Muhammad ibn Ali Majiluwayh - may God be pleased with him -narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashem quoted on the authority of his father, on the authority of al-Rayyan ibn Shabeeb, "I went to see Al-Reza (s) on the first day of the (Arabic) month of Muharram.
The Imam (s) then added, 'O Ibn Shabeeb! Muharram is the month in which the people of the Age of Ignorance had forbidden committing any oppression and fighting in. However, this nation did not recognize the honor of this month or the honor of their own Prophet (s). In this month, they killed the Prophet's offspring, they enslaved the women, and took their belongings as booty. God will never forgive them.
Four thousand angels descended to the Earth to assist him (Imam Hussein) (s).
However, Al-Hussein (s) was destined to be martyred.
They will remain at his shrine with wrinkled hair until the Riser (Imam al-Mahdi) (s) rises. Then they will be among those who will assist him (s).


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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Opener Tamim Iqbal and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan continued their rich vein of form as Bangladesh maintained its winning-streak in the tri-nation one-day tournament on Tuesday, recording a 91-run win against Zimbabwe.
Tamim posted his third successive half-century and Shakib made his second in succession to help Bangladesh to 216-9 on a tricky wicket before the latter finished with 3-34 to dismiss Zimbabwe for just 125 in 36.3 overs.
Tamim scored 76 off 105 balls, including six fours, while Shakib contributed with an 80 ball-51 alongside his three wickets. Pace bowlers Mustafizur Rahman, Mashrafe Mortaza and left-arm spinner Sunzamul Islam picked up two apiece.
Zimbabwe needed to win the match to keep an advantage over the third team in the tournament Sri Lanka but failed to deal with Shakib's spin and Mashrafe Mortaza's pace in the first powerplay.
Together they removed the top order, leaving the African team on 34-4 in 9.2 overs before Sikandar Raza and Peter Moor offered some resistance. Pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman kept up the pressure, delivering three straight maiden overs, which worked well for left arm spinner Sunzamul Islam.
Sunzamul dealt a double blow in consecutive deliveries to dismiss Moor (14) and Malcolm Waller with Zimbabwe at 68-6.
Mustafizur then returned to his second spell to clean up the tail, including the wicket of Zimbabwe's highest scorer Sikandar Raza for 39.
Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer was instrumental in keeping Bangladesh's target small, claiming 4-32.
His googly sparked Bangladesh's collapse from a position of dominance as it appeared set for a big total, thanks to Tamim.
Cremer outfoxed him with a googly that he failed to read. However when he was 66, he became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score 6000 runs in ODI cricket.
Tamim and Shakib kept the side on track, combining for 106 for the second wicket.
Sikandar Raza broke through with the wicket of Shakib as he tried to charge the bowler, only to be stumped by Brendan Taylor.
Tamim and Mushfiqur negotiated the bowlers well until Cremer returned to bowl in his second spell. In his eight overs second-spell at a stretch he ripped through the middle order, giving away 23 runs and ended up with four wickets.


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Melo defends Mikey A's party-list entry
Commission on Elections Chairman Jose Melo yesterday came to the defense of presidential son Rep. Juan Miguel "Mikey" Arroyo's entry into the next Congress through the party-list system, along with other known Arroyo allies running as party-list nominees, saying the decision is best left to the Filipino electorate, rather than the Comelec.
"Let the people decide. Filipinos are smart. Let the people be the judge. They cannot go wrong when the people are the ones who judge (the party-list candidates)."
Melo issued this statement after severalcamps questioned the nomination of Mikey Arroyo in the party list group Ang Galing Pinoy (AGP), along with other personalities running under the party list system, which is generally known as getting a congressional seat through the back door.
Melo stressed that even if the nominee is qualified by the Comelec, it is not a guarantee that he will gain a seat in Congress because the party lister would have to be elected and secure the required two percent of the total votes cast.... MORE
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PUERTO PRINCESA CITY —Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday said he was elated over the warm welcome accorded to him by the people of Palawan despite the reported endorsement of Mayor Edward Hagedorn of Bangon Pilipinas presidential bet Eduardo "Bro. Eddie" Villanueva.
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Plotting a power grab EDITORIAL 03/25/2010
Plotting a power grab
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Aquino also said that he stands firm on his position in not recognizing the Gloria-appointed CJ, as he insists the high court's ruling is wrong, and that he will have the next CJ impeached.
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The difference SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/25/2010
Dean Ernest Maceda
A congressman has announced the start of a signature campaign among House members to impeach the nine Supreme Court (SC) justices of the De Castro majority. Without intending to, the fellow has supplied yet another reason justices of the SC are treated "special" in the context of the midnight appointments ban: unlike the justices and judges of the other appellate collegial courts and the lower courts — only SC justices are liable for impeachment. This is another one of the constitutional safeguards for judicial independence, together with the establishment of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC).
Different minds. In deconstructing De Castro vs JBC, commentators latch on to different "pet" ratios to agree with or to treat as cassus belli. In the days and weeks to come, an avalanche of commentary, predominantly critical, will surely sustain the public debate on the merits of the decision. Healthy? Yes. When the best legal minds differ, the resultant fireworks that ignite serve only to refine articulated positions that benefits us all in the end. Dangerous? Of course. Given the pressure cooker atmosphere of the presidential campaign, every controversial decision is fodder for opportunism — from the administration (holdover and takeover scenarios), opposition (again Senator Noynoy and his brinkmanship declarations) and, as Gen. Danny Lim has reminded us, the military.... MORE
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Louie Logarta
In a little over two decades, the cellular telephone, thanks to ever-changing technological trends, has been transformed from a luxury appliance that only the rich could afford (I distinctly recall in 1987 the late Channel 9 reporter Philip Tan selling one such newfangled Hitachi to Rep. Tong Payumo of Bataan for an astounding P50,000) into an urban necessity people can hardly do without nowadays going for as cheap as P2,000 for a brand-new unit..... MORE
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For some time now, the so-called Oplan August Moon has been mentioned here and there — in whispers at first, but in the open these days. In substance, the surreptitious desire supported by a pursuant clandestine design appears to have something to do with someone decided in holding on to supreme power together with the latter's subservient followers, grasping at all possible ways and eyeing 11 available means to continue the already long joyride of ruling and to remain at the lofty top of an over-expensive reign, with the good of ordinary folks as their proclaimed cause and the welfare people as their comfortable excuse. And why not?
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Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1. Baron Ritchie of Dundee PC (* 9. November 1838 in Dundee, Schottland; † 9. Januar 1906 in Biarritz, Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankreich) war ein britischer Rechtsanwalt und Politiker der Conservative Party, der zwischen 1874 und 1905 mit einer dreijährigen Unterbrechung Mitglied des House of Commons sowie von 1900 bis 1902 Innenminister und zwischen 1902 und 1903 Schatzkanzler war. 1905 wurde er als Baron Ritchie of Dundee in den erblichen Adelsstand erhoben und gehörte damit dem House of Lords bis zu seinem Tod als Mitglied an.

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Ritchie war nach dem Besuch der City of London School bei William Ritchie & Sons beschäftigt, einem seiner Familie gehörenden Unternehmen mit Sitzen in London und Dundee, das Handel mit Britisch-Indien sowie auf dem Gebiet von Jute- und Textilmanufakturen betrieb.

Er wurde am 31. Januar 1874 als Kandidat der Conservative Party erstmals zum Mitglied des House of Commons gewählt und vertrat dort zunächst bis zum 24. November 1885 den Wahlkreis Tower Hamlets sowie im Anschluss zwischen dem 24. November 1885 und dem 4. Juli 1892 den Wahlkreis Tower Hamlets St George.

Nach dem Wahlsieg der konservativen Tories übernahm er am 23. Juni 1885 nach seiner Ernennung durch Premierminister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3. Marquess of Salisbury als Parlamentarischer Sekretär Admiralität (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty) sein erstes Regierungsamt und bekleidete dieses zunächst bis zum 1. Februar 1886. Nachdem der Marquess of Salisbury am 3. August 1886 erneut das Amt des Premierministers übernommen hatte, wurde er Minister für Kommunalverwaltung (President of the Board of Local Government) und übte das Amt diesmal bis zum 15. August 1892 aus. Während seiner Amtszeit kam es 1889 zur Auflösung des Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) wegen der dort anwachsenden Korruption und zum Ersatz dieses Gremiums durch den London County Council (LCC).

Nachdem Ritchie bei der Unterhauswahl vom 4. Juli 1892 seinen Wahlkreis Tower Hamlets St George an John Benn, den Vater von William Benn und Großvater von Tony Benn, verloren hatte, schied er aus dem Unterhaus aus und wurde erst bei der darauf folgenden Wahl am 24. Mai 1895 wieder in das House of Commons gewählt, in dem er nunmehr bis zum 22. Dezember 1905 den Wahlkreis Croydon vertrat.

Am 25. Juni 1895 wurde Ritchie von Premierminister Salisbury zum Handelsminister (President of the Board of Trade) berufen und bekleidete dieses Amt bis zum 7. November 1900.

Innenminister, Schatzkanzler und Oberhausmitglied
Dann übernahm er am 12. November 1900 im Rahmen einer Kabinettsumbildung von Matthew White Ridley das Amt des Innenministers (Home Secretary), während Gerald Balfour sein Nachfolger als President of the Board of Trade wurde.

Nach dem Amtsantritt von Arthur Balfour als Premierminister am 11. Juli 1902 gab er das Amt des Innenministers an Aretas Akers-Douglas, während er selbst von Balfour am 11. August 1902 das Amt des Schatzkanzlers (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ernannt wurde und damit zum Nachfolger von Michael Hicks Beach. Das Amt des Schatzkanzlers hatte er bis zum 9. Oktober 1903 inne und wurde danach von Austen Chamberlain abgelöst.

Ritchie wurde nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Unterhaus durch ein Letters Patent vom 22. Dezember 1905 als Baron Ritchie of Dundee, of Welders in the Parish of Chalfont St. Giles in the County of Buckingham, in den erblichen Adelsstand (Hereditary Peerage) erhoben und gehörte damit bis zu seinem Tod nur vierzehn Tage später dem House of Lords als Mitglied an.

Aus seiner am 7. Dezember 1858 mit Margaret Ower geschlossenen Ehe gingen zwei Töchter und der Sohn Charles Ritchie hervor, der nach seinem Tod den Titel als 2. Baron Ritchie of Dundee erbte. Sein älterer Bruder James Thomson Ritchie war zwischen 1903 und 1904 Lord Mayor of London.

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