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These are the times that try men's and women's souls. With inauguration day just weeks away, if you must curl up in a ball in front of a fireplace or elsewhere, why not do it with a book or two that we hope can put the upcoming Trump years in perspective and context? We asked some of our BillMoyers.com contributors and past Moyers & Company guests to give us their ideas as to some appropriate material that might help us through the coming months of uncertainty... and incredulity.
The website criticizes Trump on women’s issues (”He’s a mysogynistic pig”), his stance on immigration (”He’s building a fucking wall”) and his apparent inability to represent all of America (”Trumps rhetoric is xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic. He’s the furthest thing from inclusive, and therefore he doesn’t speak for US!”) as reasons you should support Send Trump Pussy and its vagina pop-making endeavors.
Can mere books provide a proper azimuth when all of our navigational aids have seemingly failed, leaving the country adrift? In our present circumstance, I am hard-pressed to think of any that can do so. Our culture is badly fractured, our elites manage to combine arrogance and ignorance and old convictions -- like belief in a common good -- seem dated and obsolete. Faith in democracy has ebbed. In the eyes of some, "the people" have come to stand for anger, ignorance and bigotry.
I find it important to connect to our past, to our ancestors who celebrated Chanukah and Christmas and probably had similar concerns and hopes. Both Jews and Christians were persecuted at various times in our histories. Sadly to this day both are still being persecuted in many parts of the world. We in the United States should be particularly thankful that we can light the menorah candles and the Christmas tree, singing with gratitude that we are able to do so freely without fear.
is a writer, actor and activist who runs a school for nomadic tribal children at a village in coastal Tamil Nadu. She was a full-time journalist and continues to write articles in English and Tamil. She is also a translator and is working on non-fiction translations from English to Tamil. Along with Krishna Veni, she began Maitri, a feminist publishing house that aims to bring out memoirs of women, books introducing feminist philosophies and literary anthologies on feminist themes
Those in the self talk group were told to replace their negative thoughts during their workout. Instead of thinking phrases such as, “I’m really hot” or “I’m sweating like crazy,” the exercisers were trained to swap them with positive thoughts such as, “I’m feeling well” or “I’m driving hard.” The researchers then called all 18 athletes back into the gym to repeat the high intensity, heated workout. 
“For a Rockette to be considered for an event, they must voluntarily sign up and are never told they have to perform at a particular event, including the inaugural. It is always their choice,” the Madison Square Garden Company, which employs the famous dance troupe, said in a statement on Friday. “In fact, for the coming inauguration, we had more Rockettes request to participate than we have slots available. We eagerly await the inaugural celebrations.”
“I’m just proud of the ability of my team, many of whom are young ― many of them are women, but many of them are so young,” Mrs. Obama says. “I just remind them: You did this. You were able to come into this house on that day, that day in 2008, knowing nothing, knowing nothing about what this would be or what would be required of all of us. And we did it, and we did it well, and we did it with high standards. And we didn’t compromise our values.”
Manu also raised Ananthamurthy’s belief in desecrating sacred symbols and places, yet opening them up for people, in a sort of resurrection after the violation. “Was this pseudo-secularism, or was he a failed revolutionary? It was the ambivalence in his philosophy that made his creativity,” he said. In this light, Satchidanandan recalled Ananthamurthy’s great love for the illiterate man, for his knowledge of more colloquial languages than the educated man who usually knew just one.
Most often, Hassani begins a new work by sketching it out in small notebook, teasing out her idea into a visually compelling composition. Then, she translates the image onto a larger canvas. Sometimes, she visits a location in person, spray painting in classic graffiti fashion. But when a site is off-limits for security reasons, Hassani opts for a technique she devised called “dream graffiti,” which allows her to achieve her ideal vision without jeopardizing her safety.
So going back to my earlier dilemma of what I, or you, or any of us can do to feel like we're making a difference in this 2016 world of ours, I hope the answer is clear - travel. Travel for yourself, to avoid narrow mindedness, uneducated opinions and prejudice, and travel for the planet, for the people who don't have that luxury. Reach out to new corners of the world, don't hide away in fear, because right now is the tipping point, and we need our neighbours more than ever before.
This is where the rational mind stops. You don’t understand. How is this possible? We are so interested in science and technology, because Western culture works differently. I was interested in putting myself in situations where I could see what works in other cultures. Not in a tourist way, but really take part in it. My ayahuasca experience was terrible. I lost my mind. It was such hell for me. But I went through the experience because it’s the only way to understand.
And yes, the light dwells within Donald Trump. Of course it does. None of this is to personally wish him ill. It is to wish him residing happily in Florida or New York or wherever he wishes, making whatever deals he wishes to make, but nowhere near the levers of political power. He has proven himself something much more significant than not up to the task. Yet while he might not be up to the task of governing the most powerful country on earth, the deeper question still is this: are
"Going back to the 16th and 17th century, white people served Indian masters as not just indentured servants but also as slaves. After coming to India, they became Indian themselves, from the clothes they wore, to the food they ate. They converted to Indian religions, fell in love with Indians and had Indian children," said the Professor of English and Dean of Academic Affairs at Ashoka University, who was dressed in a fun, graphic-print shirt and spoke in a broad New Zealand accent.
Hopelessness is a terrible feeling, and unfortunately it is one that many experience not just when our country and world are in a state of change and flux, but every day of their life. People who have faced so many difficulties that they can no longer find any glimmer of hope around them. If you choose to really look, you can see it in the faces of the people in Aleppo or perhaps in a homeless person's eyes or maybe in someone who has faced acts of discrimination time and time again.
Is there really a war on Christmas? It is hard to be sure. We may be witnessing an intentional assault on Christmas or we may just be seeing the collapse of Christian traditions generally, brought on by stress or old age, crumbling like a medieval cathedral. That is just the kind of thing Malcom Muggeridge predicted in his prophetic lecture series from 1978 entitled "The End of Christendom." As Christendom collapses under its own weight, valued traditions will inevitably fall with it.
It's personal, an incredibly personal choice, a choice I am so pleased many women in the world have.My heart bleeds for those women who do not have autonomy over their own bodies and are made to feel like criminals because they wish to end a pregnancy. To me it is as abhorrent as it is tragic.And I only wish that when my time on this planet is up, I leave behind a world that supports women to make the right decision for them regarding their bodies.No matter the country they reside in.
“In recent times the rainbow (albeit with some different colors) has come to represent something far different,” Ham wrote. “To many people it means freedom, love, pride, a new era, and, specifically, the LGBTQ movement. But the rainbow itself wasn’t designed to be a symbol of freedom, love, pride, or the LGBTQ movement. God created this beautiful, colorful phenomenon and designated it as a sign of His covenant with Noah and his descendants forever.”
The British colonial legacy can be felt in some of the penal provisions. The colonial regime came down heavily on anything (they feared would incite violence). Any criticism of the government, however vigorous, as settled in the Kedar Nath case (Kedar Nath Singh vs. State of Bihar (1962) on the offence of sedition), is not sedition unless there is an inherent tendency to violence. In every case, you have to strike a balance. Judges do it. Human beings do it too. But they are fallible.
“I hail from O. Siruvayal in Chettinad, a place with a rich cultural heritage, steeped in tradition. I grew up listening to the sounds of Theru Koothu , nagaswaram and thavil. The emotionally charged theru koothu artists had the large village crowd watching them intently as they performed ‘Valli Thirumanam,’ ‘Harischandra Mayaana Kandam’ ‘Pavalakkodi’ and ‘Sathyavan Savithri.’ Year after year the same themes were staged yet ennui never set in,” he says, bending down to match my height!
Here's the current situation for college football players:If they blow out a knee, colleges can - and too often do -- pull their scholarships and stop paying their medical bills.If they decide they want to transfer to other schools after a couple years (like a coach leaving for a better situation), they are penalized by having to sit out a year.Moreover, their first school can ban them from transferring to rival schools, or any other schools they choose to put on the "no-transfer" list.
“It was in 2011. I wanted to quit the music scene after having been here for more than four decades. I wanted to explore the space beyond concert platforms, at my own pace,” she begins. “I was just planning to shift to Mumbai with my husband. Then, an incredible thing happened. I was chosen as Honorary Director of the Government Music Colleges in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruvaiyaru and Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa. It was the best thing to have happened to me.”
There is nothing spiritual about complacency, and I reject any half-baked spiritual prescription that if we just send him enough love then everything will be okay. If the house is burning, you yell "Fire." You don't just repeat your mantra more times and trust the outcome to God. Quite the opposite: we are to live our lives so that God can trust the outcome to us.He cannot do for us what He cannot do through us. The question is not, how did God let this happen? The question is, how did
Jeffrey Hayzlett's book could vie for shelf space somewhere in between self-help and autobiography, but it belongs in the business section.He offers a glimpse into the blueprint that led him from growing up in South Dakota, to Kodak and to hosting a show on Bloomberg TV, which he then moved to an online platform as the C-Suite Network.He's built a little empire and isn't shy about telling us how he did it - not because he's bragging, but because he believes the rest of us can do it too.
“Our decision to open a pattern or practice investigation is based on a number of factors, including the severity and frequency of alleged deprivation of rights; the effectiveness of any remedial actions taken by the jurisdiction to address deficiencies in policies, procedures or practices; the resources of the Special Litigation Section to investigate the allegations; and the need to address systemic deficiencies in other jurisdictions across the country,” the letter stated.
What should people who care about Christmas do when they see its importance being challenged? They should remember the distinction between Christmas and the event it celebrates. Throughout history, the celebration of Christmas has been marked by absurdities from within and violence from without. It has experienced the ebb and flow of popularity. But the event it commemorates stands undiminished. No assault on Christmas can ever undo what has been accomplished through the birth of Christ.
When the senator was told about the plan to name the product after him, he smiled and said, "Oh, well, that would be OK," says Verna Hensley, who worked for Roth for more than 20 years as a press secretary and later head of his Delaware office. "He was a soft-spoken, mild-mannered guy who was this legislative giant in terms of programs that had an impact on people's lives," recalls Hensley, who is now vice president of public affairs at Easter Seals Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Whether or not you choose to stay with Yahoo, it's a good idea to change your behavior to stay safe, and that means changing your outlook and approach to the digital world. The main point is this: We are always about to "get got." You don't need breaking news coverage to know that you are exposed. With literally billions of compromised files floating around, you have to be exceedingly lucky not to be within easy reach of a sticky-fingered thief looking to make bank at your inconvenience.
“Nemours Children’s Hospital cares for many children with complex conditions that often require extended hospital stays, often times through the holidays.  Our team of child life specialists work to normalize the experience for patients as much as possible. Of course, at home the children would not likely see window washing elves, but they would probably see Santa at the mall or decorate the tree. Our hope is that they get to play and just be children,” said Wilson.
President-elect Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to ¿greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability¿ until the rest of the world ¿comes to its senses¿ regarding nuclear weapons. Trump made the statement on Twitter and did not expand on either the actions he wants the U.S. to take or the issues he sees around the world. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
These Democratic members of Congress for months had been asking Treasury to officially declare that Americans with student debt who are eligible for the “Total and Permanent Disability” loan discharge ― a category of borrowers with especially severe disabilities ― would not risk an income-tax penalty. Otherwise, there is a chance that the discharged loan would count as income subject to taxation, costing already-impoverished borrowers a potentially significant sum, they noted.
We're at the height of islamophobia in America, with threats to register, profile and possibly deport all Muslim immigrants. It's a terrifying time to exist as an immigrant of any sort in America, and now is the time to stand in solidarity, to prove not everyone is a racist asshole. Take the advice from Trevor Noah, and if they start registering Muslims in America, we all register as Muslims. Makes sense, doesn't it? They can't deport all of us. And if they do, just head on up to Canada.
But if you're after a full-blown shopping mecca, you'll find it a short ferry ride away on St. Thomas. There, in the U.S.V.I. capital of Charlotte Amalie (named after the wife of an early Danish king), the streets are lined with wall-to-wall shops seemingly stretching out for miles and selling everything from lotions to laptops. Among the shops' deeply discounted buys are cameras, jewelry, watches, DVD players, cell phones, designer clothes, liquor, exotic perfumes, china and fine crystal.
If the incoming administration's nominees for Cabinet and White House leadership roles are a harbinger of things to come, we must work with municipal and state officials to fight back against any potential negative legislation coming out of Washington. Whether its voting rights, housing discrimination, health insurance or environmental justice; states and municipalities have significant legislative leeway in rejecting federal directives that contradict the values we hold. They must use it.
“It’s tough travelling, but getting on stage and performing for fans gives us immense satisfaction. The audience can look forward to some of our biggest hits such as ‘Shukranallah,’ ‘Tauba Tauba,’ ‘Ainwayi Ainwayi,’ ‘Kurbaan Hua,’ ‘Ali Moula,’ and ‘Mar Jawaan,’” says Sulaiman, the older of the two. The duo will be joined onstage by singers Benny Dayal, Shraddha Pandit and Shadab Faridi. “We believe this is going to be one big concert of which people will take back great memories,” he adds.
“Organizations like ours are important because there is a demand for necessities the general population often takes for granted, such as something as simple as deodorant,” Aly Flores of TransLatin@s Coalition told The Huffington Post. “When was the last time you couldn’t afford that? That’s why we’re doing this drive. We want to be able to help people and their needs so they can triumph in this system that continues to marginalize and suppress us.”
And if you are wondering, all those questions do pertain the US Department of Energy. DOE oversees national security labs like the one where I work. My colleagues and I work hard every day on questions like the ones I mentioned above because drug-resistant bacteria and water problems are among the greatest threats our society is facing today. Ill-minded people could easily get a hold of these problems and turn them into bioweapons. But don't worry, I'm sure Google will hold all the answers.
Energy security is high on the political agendas of both NATO member states and partner countries. At the NATO Summit in Warsaw in July 2016, Allied leaders highlighted that energy developments can have significant political and security implications. Stable and reliable energy supplies, the diversification of import routes, suppliers and energy resources, and the interconnectivity of energy networks are of critical importance and increase resilience against political and economic pressure.
From V.S. Naipaul to Tom Wolfe and Will Self, naysayers have foretold doomsday for the novel for a few generations now. While on one hand breathing its last, and on the other, powerful enough to warrant death threats, the novel swings along a wide continuum in our times. And it is this vast spectrum that David Davidar explored with Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, two-time Booker nominee Damon Galgut and 1998-Booker nominee Irwin Allan Sealy, in their session, ‘The Deeper Truth of Novels’.
It is shoddy thinking to valorise one form by putting down another, said journalist Renuka Narayanan. You are a just a bridge. Tell stories; communicate; let readers make their choice. Don’t write as an intellectual; keep it simple; write in the active voice. Choose an area of specialisation, you can’t do it all. Be humble and kill attitude. Keep your distance from the painter/artist. Check what value you are bringing to 32-lakh pairs of eyes. “And please take care of spelling and grammar!”
It was the greatest failure of journalism since the invasion of Iraq. Actually, it was worse than that, since the Iraq invasion at least involved events taking place on the other side of the planet. The rise of Trump took place right here, right in front of everyone who could see straight. And it came to its White House-winning conclusion in truly bizarre fashion amidst endless journalistic insistence that Trump could not ever ever ever possibly win, the numbers "proved" it, blah blah blah.
Our critical inner voice represents a hostile and negative attitude we all have toward ourselves. If we feel especially lonely over the holidays, it's that voice that whispers, "All alone again. What a loser. You'll never find anyone who loves you."When we go to a party, it tells us, "You're not attractive. Who are you kidding? Why even try?" When we think about our resolutions, it dictates, "Lose that belly fat, be less obnoxious, stop bothering people with your problems, and just fit in!"
There is a saying that at the end of every rainbow you find a pot of gold. So that’s where this title fits. I would not like to divulge much because if I do that, the suspense of the story will have to be revealed and it might act as a spoiler. The fact is that there is a chase for the pot of gold that has been depicted in the story and at the end of it the person does find the pot of gold that he is looking for. But in the bargain, there are a lot of things that he loses along the journey.
So why don't we deploy the returned armed service men and women to help fix it? What if we kept some of the structures in place, and allowed people (if they wanted to) to have jobs at home, helping building and strengthen the infrastructure that we all use and rely on every day? We could keep the hierarchy, the training rigors, the status and structure that work so well in the military and ensure that their hard-earned organizational and managerial skills, and intense work ethic have a home.
than ours, on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, which is what matters when we are talking about such things as military expenditure: the cost of a Chinese-made plane or a Chinese pilot is considerably less than its dollar equivalent (at current exchange rates) in the US. When we had an arms race with the Soviet Union, its economy was a fraction the size of ours. If we have an arms race with China, we can forget about things like Medicare, which the Republicans already want to privatize.
The danger I see is provoking antagonism in this foremost relationship of American foreign policy without any significant strategic accomplishment. It is not in our interest to antagonize Beijing. It is much better for American interests to have the Chinese work closely with us, thereby forcing the Russians to follow suit if they don’t want to be left out in the cold. That constellation gives the U.S. the unique ability to reach out across the world with collective political influence.
Even those colleges that do not use the Common Application usually have similar essay prompts. While it is acceptable and common to use the same content across multiple applications, make sure you read the directions carefully. Sometimes you might have to cater your content to the specific school. Keep in mind also that different schools might have different word or character limits for essays and supplemental questions, so make sure you read the instructions carefully and follow them to a T.
In some cases, I went back to their birth names — such as Syoddhan for Duryodhan and Vasusena for Karna. I used tried to use the most common appellations for a character, particularly where it symbolised what they stood for, such as Dharma, for Yudhisthir. I think the use of these names were important to establish the attempt at an unbiased approach to reconstruction, and also to get readers to look at the characters again, anew, without bringing in our common perceptions of these characters.
Mark Wright suffered an embarrassing mishap during his dog walk [Instagram]And now the former The Only Way Is Essex star has taken to Instagram to share his Christmas Eve plans with fans. The 29 year old posted a selfie as he prepared to head out on a dog walk. Wearing a grey Christmas hat and thick coat, the Take Me Out: The Gossip presenter looked ready to brave the cold outdoors.And jokingly making reference to the dogs’ adorable winter outfits, the reality ...
This undated photo shows a one-room schoolhouse built in the 1920s to teach black children on St. Simons Island, Ga. Preservationists saved the Harrington School from scheduled demolition in 2010 and since then have spent about $300,000 to stabilize its deteriorating frame and leaky roof. Recently, the group Friends of the Harrington School announced a grant award that it hopes will bring in $50,000 needed to finish restoring the schoolhouse's interior. (Bobby Haven/The Brunswick News via AP)
When I was called a manipulative b****, I didn’t feel bogged down. I made sure that disrespecting a woman has a cost attached to it. I didn’t work anywhere else as I couldn’t have committed myself fully. I treated this lawsuit as a full-time job. It was also not a simple case, it ran across issues from 2010 to 2014, and had nearly all aspects of sex discrimination law in it. The documentary evidence against Wipro was extensive and needed careful and thorough understanding of its implications.
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First and foremost, we campus CEO's have been very good this year. We have tried to keep tuition increases reasonable, grow our endowments, construct energy-efficient facilities and create scholarships to maintain affordability and access to higher education. Here in Hampton Roads, we have offered a rich menu of concerts, productions, exhibits, athletic events and much more for the public we serve, and we have done more than our share in being a valued engine of the local and regional economy.
Heard’s attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, gave a statement to The Huffington Post, saying, “After his string of recent setbacks at the box office, I’m glad that Johnny Depp seems to have rediscovered his comic touch with this laughable motion. It is just another lame attempt by Mr. Depp and his team to not pay my client the money she is owed. We look forward to prevailing in court - and to getting sick children and women in need the money that Mr. Depp is denying them.”
Her sushi and sashimi presentations are elegantly wrought, too, priced between $6 and $21 per piece; there is an omakase of sashimi at $58; Edomae Style Sushi "Sakura" ($95) contains 11 pieces of sushi plus one roll (below), big enough for two or three people as an appetizer. The "house special rolls," including a delicious Megu roll of spicy tuna, scallion, crispy potato, red akami and hot kanzuri-spiked mayo ($18), are all packed with various ingredients whose textures complement each other.
Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean teachers should indiscriminately approach someone just because they are from a different racial group. Instead, teachers can reach out to colleagues at work, or get involved in activities or perhaps attend events where people with different backgrounds and perspectives come together for a common cause. Developing friendships can be one of the best ways to break down barriers of prejudice, and it's more easily done when people have some common interests.
The notes also describe deputies’ recruitment and utilization of informants, destruction and falsifying of documents, collaboration with prosecutors and other law enforcement agencies while operating “capers” to glean further evidence from inmates, and other schemes used to trick inmates into confessing to crimes. The log contains multiple entries from deputies who had previously testified in the Dekraai case that contradict their testimony on the use of jail informants.
A dear friend who has read all three of my books and works for Random House suggested my name to her colleague who handles Patterson’s books. Given the fact that all three of my previous titles have been thrillers with short chapters, compelling pace, and unexpected hooks every few pages — traits that are amply evident in James Patterson’s writing, the fit seemed a natural one. We discussed the issues involved for about a couple of weeks and topped it off with a signed agreement rather quickly.
After successfully rolling out the live video feature, Facebook has now introduced “Live Audio” option — like traditional radio or podcasting — in your News Feed where users will be able to broadcast audio directly to the social network.“We know that sometimes publishers want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not video. Our new ‘Live Audio’ option makes it easy to go live with audio only when that’s the broadcaster’s preferred format,” said Shirley Ip, Product Specialist, and Bhavana R
FILE -In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 file photo, former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville and Layhoon Chan, President of Valencia poses for photographers in the Mestalla stadium after a press conference in Valencia, Spain. Chanhas apologized to fans for the team¿s wretched year. Chan, who runs Valencia for Singapore owner Peter Lim, says ¿2016 has been a difficult year and I want to ask forgiveness from all of Valencia¿s fans for the poor season.¿ (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, File)
From Beverly Hills to Short Hills, there are taste tribes for whom there's no such thing as too much gold leaf, gold paint or bling. As a 12-year-old, I was fully complicit in my mother's choice of a "conversation piece" for the gold-carpeted living room of our new suburban split level, a tower of three "antiqued" gold cherubs with a jeweled lampshade sprouting from the forehead of the chubby child on top. If gilt like that was regal enough for Kaplans, surely it's fitting for our 21st century
If companies proactively accept gender pay gap disclosures and women’s representation mandates, then the pain and shame of enforced change will be far less. I believe a fair workplace always creates a positive and productive environment. The energies of employees will be directed towards serving customers, being more innovative, creating financial value rather than in-fighting and launching damaging and expensive lawsuits, which will completely erode the trust and reputation of these companies.
In a bid to raise awareness about online safety, Google India has partnered with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs for rolling out a nationwide ‘Digitally Safe Consumer’ campaign.Google, along with Department of Consumer Affairs, will undertake a year—long campaign focussed on building capacities of consumer organisations, personnel of Consumer Affairs department and counsellors of National Consumer Helpline on Internet safety and related issues.“With the rapid increase in digitisation across al
Question the purpose of your writing, said art historian Pradeep Chakravarthy. His study of bronzes/stone carvings and textiles has convinced him that ancient Indian art is inextricably rooted in sanatana dharma. So discuss what positive changes art brings in thought and behaviour in you and your readers. Creators of our art felt that way. See art in the overall scheme of its economic/social/political environment. Explore the technique, and humour. Ask what/why and the “how” will fall in place.
Taxi-hailing service Uber announced on Wednesday that passengers in San Francisco can now use its app to summon a ride in a car that can drive itself. The move into Uber’s hometown builds upon a public pilot program the company started in Pittsburgh in September. Uber’s self-driving tests in San Francisco will begin with a “handful” of Volvo luxury SUVs. The company wouldn’t release an exact number that have been tricked out with sensors so they can steer, accelerate and brake, and even decide
Unfortunately we did not inform participants in advance of the meeting in November that the Q&A sections of the meeting and the roundtable discussions would be recorded and made publically available. In order to put these sections online we need to give those that attended the opportunity to indicate if they would prefer their contribution not to be included. We will send a communication to participants about this. The audio files of the Q&A sessions will then be published on the event webpage.
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, unveiled in India its streaming video service that could give tough competition to Netflix and home grown entertainment platforms like Hotstar. The e-commerce giant said ‘Amazon Prime Video’ will offer its prime members the largest selection of newly-released Bollywood and regional Indian blockbusters and Hollywood movies. It would also stream U.S. TV shows, kids programmes and award-winning Amazon Original Series such as “Transparent” and “Mozart in
Chip manufacturer Qualcomm and Microsoft have teamed up to support Windows 10 on mobile computing devices powered by Snapdragon processors.The first PCs running Windows 10 based on Snapdragon processors are expected to be available as early as next year.“With compatibility with the Windows 10 ecosystem, the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform is expected to support mobility to Cloud computing and redefine how people will use their compute devices,” said Cristiano Amon, Executive Vice President, Qualcom
"Helping incarcerated individuals prepare for life after prison is not just sound public policy, it is a moral imperative," said Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch. "These critical reforms will help give federal inmates the tools and assistance they need to successfully return home as productive, law-abiding members of society. By putting returning citizens in a position to make the most of their second chance, we can create stronger communities, safer neighborhoods and brighter futures for all."
In folklore, a succubus is a female demon that takes on the form of an attractive female in order to seduce unwitting men. The succubus draws energy from the seduced men in order to survive, using sexual intercourse in the same way that a vampire might suck blood for the same purpose. The word succubus derives from the Latin “succubare”, itself from “sub” “cubare” meaning “to lie under”. There was a male equivalent to a succubus, namely an incubus.
Mark Zuckerberg on Monday introduced the world to “Jarvis", an artificial intelligence system the Facebook chief created in his spare time, which can choose and play music, turn on lights, and recognize visitors, deciding whether to open the front door.Jarvis, named after the virtual assistant in the Iron Man movies, could be a step toward a new product, Zuckerberg wrote,although he cautioned that the system he had created in 100 hours over the last year was customized for his house. Zuckerberg
Search engine giant Google celebrated the 105th anniversary of the first expedition to the South Pole. On December 14, 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first explorer to reach the southern most tip of the Earth.The doodle depicts the crew — consisting of 19 people and nearly 100 Greenland sled dogs — at the finish line, taking a moment to bask in the glory while the Antarctic wind whips outside their tent.“Known as ‘the last of the Vikings’, Amundsen was a lifelong adventurer with a gif
The 2017 version of Apple’s iPhone is rumoured to come in red and will retain the same design as the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, a media report said.“Alongside its usual 4.7 and 5.5-inch smartphone offerings, the company will also unveil a third model that will be priced at a higher side than iPhone 7 and will sport a 5.1-inch or 5.2-inch OLED display with invisible home button, all-glass housing, wireless charging,” appleinsider.com reported on Wednesday.The company is expected to adhere to “s
The exodus of top executives at Twitter continues as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Adam Messinger and its Vice President for products Josh McFarland have quit.A report in the TechCrunch said that Mr. Messinger who has been working with the company for the last five years and was designated as CTO four years ago on Wednesday announced his decision in a tweet.“After 5 years I’ve decided to leave Twitter and take some time off. Grateful to @jack for the opportunity and to my team for
In 2009, veteran journalist and publisher Helena Cobban approached me with an offer to help turn my blog into a book. Later, so did Women United Press. Obviously I wanted to include everything but I quickly learned after the publication of the first edition that “less is sometimes more”. So we decided to exclude some of the more newsy time-specific items in favour of more powerful personal pieces. I also updated the introduction to reflect the political changes since the book’s first publication.
With an MBBS from Thanjavur Medical College, in 1971 she moved to Chennai for her MD at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology attached to the Madras Medical College. After handling complicated referrals coming from 60-70 village hospitals, in 1982, she did the unthinkable: she returned to Thanjavur Medical College hospital. Working among rural women, “I saw countless gynaecology cases resulting in urological complications. I had to enhance my surgical skills, do a course in female urology.”
“The Obama Administration has repeatedly urged Congress to enact legislative changes to address the possible tax consequences of loan forgiveness faced by these borrowers, as well as others with student loans,” Treasury spokesman Rob Runyan said in a statement. “Congress has not yet enacted these legislative changes. Treasury continues to work with the Department of Education to evaluate possible alternatives that could address the situations faced by these borrowers&lrm;.”
I desire to hold an optimism that must inform the functioning of my daily existence. I see this as essential if I am to hone my energies with the purposefulness that believes is change. India, with its converging histories from over the centuries that include diverse and varied influences, makes for a huge tapestry into which contemporary life reflects many worlds of differences, suggesting that plural co-existence is accommodated and straddled within this multicultural society as a proud heritage.
Law enforcement officials, left, and right, stand near opponents of Narragansett Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas outside an entrance to the tribe's administration building, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, in Charlestown, R.I. A faction of the tribe opposed to Thomas has been occupying the administration building since Tuesday. Two competing factions, each calling themselves the Narragansett Tribal Council, claim to be the leaders of Rhode Island's only federally recognized tribe. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
of Chloë Sevigny have garnered a cult-like following, says he wrote the character of Gerry, a 30-something gay Angeleno who experiences personal turmoil on the eve of a pal’s wedding, because he “wanted to play a guy who was having a crisis.” As to what resonated most about the role, he added, “We love to be the center of attention. We love to say the funniest thing in the room. We get a little miffed if somebody says something funnier than we do.” 
The primary goal I had with this period coloring book was to empower menstruators of all ages to learn more about their own menstrual health, but when I first decided to have characters with their own names and personalities, I knew I had a choice to make. Did I want to create something new that would affirm menstruators of all genders or did I want to create an education tool that appeared to challenge the period taboo, while remaining complicit in reinforcing the norm that only women get periods?
The space in between is the space when you leave your home and you leave the security of your home [...] before you arrive at some other place. The space in between is when you are open to destiny. Anything can happen. It’s really the space where things can happen. Most of the time we think in the box. We live in the box. We surround ourselves with the things that are known to us. But when you leave the security and you enter into someplace else, that space is the most creative space of all.
Whether any of this denotes a war on Christmas is a matter of debate. Non-Christians think their Christian counterparts need to stop being so paranoid, and some Christians agree. The popular Christian author Rachel Held Evans made light of Christians who feel persecuted because someone wished them a happy holiday rather than a merry Christmas: "You are not being persecuted," she wrote. Yet others disagree, claiming that the "War on Christmas" is just one battlefield in a larger war on Christianity.
CNN reports, "Most doctors now believe there is little to lose by removing the tubes of women who are done bearing children -- and potentially much to gain in terms of cancer prevention." This is because some of the most aggressive ovarian cancers begin in the fallopian tubes. In the past, when a woman underwent a hysterectomy, the uterus and cervix were removed, but the tubes were left behind. More studies are needed, but this is big news for women with cancer and those considering hysterectomies.
Hmm. I like comedy, humour and writing. So the best way to put it all together seemed to me to be in the form of a book. I used to write a column called, ‘Between The Sexes,’ for The Bangalore Monthly, and it was kind of popular. The book grew out of the column and also life around me. Humour is always relevant. Sex is always relevant. And relationships, hopes, dreams and so on are timeless topics as long as there are men and women doing the dating dance. So in that sense it’s not a topical subject.
“I learnt from Tanovic that you should not take your art too seriously. Here we take our art too seriously. The man has won an Oscar but he doesn’t have any ego. He draws fun from filmmaking. He includes everyone into the debate on how he should approach the subject. Some directors stick to their vision but this guy includes everybody into his vision. He lets you interpret the character. He doesn’t bind you. He didn’t spoon-feed me and it worked for me for I do my research. I know my character arc.”
It turned out that people with greater trust in science and technology indeed tended to have a heightened sense of personal control--which was, in turn, linked to their higher life satisfaction. This suggests that scientific understanding and use of technology may help us feel more in control of our environment and our future, buffering us against existential anxiety and leading to greater well-being. On the other hand, people who reported being more religious had a weaker sense of personal control.
Murdoch has been exceptionally bad, of course. He owned a lot of television in America, especially the most popular and reactionary stations. He wanted his publishing house to tie-in with that and to publish books that came from the TV programmes and so on. Fifty years ago Harper's catalogues in the U.S. looked like those of Harvard University Press with books on science, philosophy, art history ... None of those are there any more. The only ones there are those that will be commercially successful…
. True to form, American coverage has focused on the partisan shouting that this episode has inspired, rather than on any of the substantive issues at stake. Is it any surprise, then, that public conversation on this and so many topics remains mired in ignorance? That American democracy is broken? Actual information never sees the light of day in this country. Much more important than the resolution itself, apparently, is that Lindsey Graham is grousing about Obama having delayed the Second Coming.
Bornstein inherited his job as Trump’s personal doctor from his father, Jacob Bornstein, who started the medical practice. Since 1980, Bornstein has treated Trump and members of his family, including first wife Ivana and children Donald Jr., Eric and Tiffany. He’s not sure if he’ll continue caring for Trump personally, as military doctors usually assume the role for the president, but STAT notes that John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan employed civilian doctors as personal physicians.
The microbiome, as you likely know, refers to the vast villagewithin, necessary indeed not only to raise a human child, but to sustaina human adult. Trillions of bacteria inhabit every one of us, and it isdoubtful we could live at all were it not so. The exact numbers are atopic of some controversy, as is the margin by which our bacteriaoutnumber our cells; but that they do outnumber our cells isestablished. The human component of every human is something of arounding error relative to the bacterial.
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2016 file photo, Eric Trump, son of President-elect Donald Trump, waits for an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. A charity operated by one of Donald Trump's sons flouts philanthropic standards by financially benefiting charities connected to the Trump family and members of the charity's board, an Associated Press investigation shows. The AP found that Eric Trump has exaggerated the size of his foundation and the donations it receives. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
HNS’ previous satellites, Spaceway-3 and EchoStar XVII – the latter also known as Jupiter 1 – were launched by Ariane 5 rockets in August 2007 and July 2012 respectively. EchoStar XIX was also intended for launch on Ariane, however in 2015 EchoStar announced a contract with Lockheed Martin to launch the satellite atop an Atlas V, citing a lack of available slots in Arianespace’s manifest and the need to ensure the satellite got into orbit as soon as it was ready to be launched.
“I suppose I have a temper,” chuckles the celebrated chef, who has sent many pots and pans flying across the kitchen. Despite this reputation, the New Zealander, who came to Chennai in 2002, is quick to make a joke. So ask him why, despite the many countries and hotels he has worked in, he decided to stay so long in India, and he says, “The Indian Government is quite the stickler for rules and regulations; if you lose your return air ticket, you are not allowed to go back. And I lost mine, years ago.”
Indeed, but he is often accused of promoting a kind of cinema that celebrates stalking and takes chauvinism for granted. “What’s the fun in playing a guy whom everybody likes? I like the underdogs, the guys, who have a past, who are slightly morally incorrect but work to rectify it. There is redemption and in the process there is catharsis,” says Emraan who brought an element of lust in Bollywood romance with a series of films whose titles were self explanatory: “Murder”, “Zeher”, “Gangster”, “Crook”….
Many families from East Bengal migrated to various parts of the country. We stayed for a while in Varanasi. It is such a culturally rich, ethnic city. It is a place of great Hindu and Muslim scholars, a great blend of cultures. My life, personality and music were shaped by this city. My family moved to Mumbai in search of better living conditions. It proved to be the turning point in my life. I had started off on music, but the dimension changed from the time I became a part of RD's (Burman) orchestra.
My previous three books have been thrillers, but with a historical, theological or mythological backdrop. This collaboration is an extension of what I have already been doing — writing thrillers — but with an entirely modern and contemporary backdrop. There is a method to the madness of James Patterson’s success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
Russia is not a rival to America in terms of what it has to offer in dealing with China. The Chinese know damned well that, though we may be weakened, depleted and confused, America is basically still number one in the world, and they, the Chinese, are also almost a number one. China thus has a choice to make. If it chooses to be against America, it will end [up] losing out. It is more in their interest to belong to the dominant pack. The reverse is also true for the U.S. if it pushes China away. 
Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, Dekraai’s attorney, has been arguing since 2013 that a tainted snitch network in county jails has existed in secret for decades. In a series of blockbuster motions, Sanders has unearthed damning evidence that indicates county prosecutors and law officers have violated multiple defendants’ rights by illegally obtaining and sometimes withholding evidence received from jail informants. His discoveries have led to cases unraveling and even sentences
Poets don't "retire" with their "achievement" trophies, they keep writing as long as inspiration drops by - because they must. They remain"young" in pursuit ofbeauty and truth, which is not a minor romantic whimsy. Poetry teaches the reader how to think deeply, how to feel deeply- how to wonder at the surrounding world and one's ownlife, close-up and at a distance. To see that a poem is alive and speaking to us, transforming consciousness and maybe reviving compassion - and all thatjust before lunch....
Sulla questione del Monte dei Paschi di Siena tutti i commentatori hanno una soluzione e una critica. Noi compresi. Oggi ci permettiamo però di fare un po&#39; di domande e ci piacerebbe assai, visto che verranno impegnati soldi pubblici, che qualcuno, dal ministero dell&#39;Economia e delle Finanze, ci potesse dare una risposta. Cerchiamo di farla semplice.1. Perché improvvisamente sono stati trovati 20 miliardi di euro per salvare le banche. Insomma perché oggi &eg
With over 1,000 wins to his name, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history. He has won five national championships ― most recently in 2015 ― and is both an inductee of the Naismith Memorial and College Basketball Halls of Fame. And, at 69 years old, the West Point graduate is hardly slowing down either. Following a recent knee replacement surgery, this season Coach K has arguably his most talented team yet, with legitimate hopes of capturing a sixth title.
Archaeologists have found 'compelling evidence' of new pharaonic tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has revealed. The finding comes after part of a wall (pictured left) was unearthed during an archaeological project by the University of Birmingham. The 4,200-year-old tomb is also thought to have been an architectural support for another tomb, that contains the bodies of Harkhuf (pictured in a relief, right) and Heqaib, governors of Elephantine Island during the Old Kingdom.
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, published by Yoda Press, is just that: A notebook filled with an old man’s story of communities turning on each other; of loss and helplessness and terror, during the Iranian Revolution. Aziz’s granddaughter, French-Iranian author and anthropologist Chowra Makaremi, first translated the book from Farsi to French. Now comes an English translation by Renuka George. A personal and detailed description of life during the Iranian revolution in which Makaremi lost her mother and aunt and Aziz his daughters,
The Spanish cross was later replaced by the Union Jack of Great Britain, then by the flags of the Netherlands, France (which renamed the island St. Croix), the Knights of Malta, France again, and Denmark. The American eagle has been flying over St. Croix and its neighboring islands since 1917. Back then, with World War I raging, there were fears in Washington that the Germans might set up submarine bases on the islands. So America bought them from Denmark, their owner for over 250 years, for $25 million.
First, read lots of historical crime fiction. There are plenty of excellent historical detective series out there (famous authors include Ellis Peters, Peter Tremayne, Steven Saylor, Robert van Gulik, C.J. Sansom, P.C. Doherty, etc.), and get a feel of how this subgenre works. This is because historical crime fiction is often a very different ball game from contemporary crime fiction: for instance, the amount of detail about daily life that’s woven in is often much more than you’d find in modern settings.
The next commander-in-chief is an impulsive, deceitful, corrupt, intellectually lazy megalomaniac. That's a delicious character disorder for the villain of a comic book, and it's ideally suited to a news industry whose audience is addicted to melodrama and whose narrative technique maximizes suspense, surprise and dread. Though horror is a thrilling genre, and real-time tension is irresistible to our animal appetites, there's no guarantee that the scary story we're living through will have a happy ending.
Over the course of the week there's been several opinions on what actors should return to the screen next. It's clear that this was inevitable but at what point does an actor give up their right to a peaceful death? Acting is about making a choice to take on a role, and is not a choice that should be make for anyone. The strength of a performance is credited to the actor who consciously chooses to act in a unique way to the situation around them. When Peter Cushing played Grand Moff Tarkin in the original
After some years as a successful task master, I finally began taking "holistic" to heart, opening my classroom to studies not only in calculus but in joy and empathy, too. Early on, I worried about how this added layer would affect high-stakes test scores and the like. But this experiment revealed a most welcome discovery. Rather than competing, the two curricula--one for the mind and one for the heart--actually related symbiotically, inspiring triumphs in both realms that neither could have achieved alone.
He is probably right. I don't think our debate will be settled on ethical or theoretical grounds. History provides precious few examples of a society voluntarily rejecting the application of a powerful new technology- e.g., China burning its navy in the fifteenth century; Japan banning guns in the seventeenth. But both were closed societies whose conservative decisions were governed by internal political concerns; they were much less responsive than ours to economic and scientific competition and pressure.
I have to say, in the early ‘70s, [my public] was 10, 20, 30 people. Now it is hundreds and hundreds of people. Just now, in Greece, my institute asked people to come to a square and 3,000 people came. It was an incredible experience. So that is some kind of connection. My work is very emotional; emotions are what I give to people. And it has nothing to do with celebrity, it has to do with the fact that I give them something to open their hearts. It’s never enough. But at least I’m trying.
I was also drawn by the very personal problems I had ― my broken heart. I was very much down and looking to heal. But not only in this journey did I find healing, I found a new way to make work. I wanted to share all this. Somebody asked me, “Why do you put everything private outside of yourself?” Because to me, I don’t do privacy. My work and my art and my life is all out there. That’s just how it is. I also want to be inspirational. If I can go through this hell, then you can too.
These are the 'invisible majority' of people displaced globally. Of the 65 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, a record 40.8 million--or more than six out of ten--are displaced within their own national borders. These people have fled for many of the same reasons as refugees: to escape conflict or violence, persecution or environmental degradation. But since they have not crossed an international border, they are excluded from the specialized international protection given to refugees. This is why
. Stateddifferently, the deep, meaningful biological diversity among bacterialspecies is far greater than the diversity among all other living things,including both plants and animals. Down near the bedrock of biology,penguins and pine trees are not only more alike, but almostindistinguishably similar, compared to the diversity just amongbacteria. That invites us to ponder the comparative similaritiesbetween any two of us: Palestinian and Israeli, perhaps, Hindu andMuslim, male and female, black and white.
Because the viewer has become wiser and intelligent. She is more sharp and demanding. The stars are also well-informed and competent, right from the start, while we learnt through experience and grew. We honed our skills through trial and error. The audience was more innocent and forgiving, back then. In my days, every actor was working in several films, of which four were mandatorily on the lost-and-found formula. Since money was not constant, we used to work in as many as 15 films together, on many shifts.
Amitabha, who is also a computer scientist at IIT Delhi, said he read purely for pleasure, to escape into a made-up world in which he could stay for as long as he pleased. “My primary mode is as a day-dreamer. Writing, for me, is a form of day-dreaming and reading is my way of dreaming without actually having to go to sleep.” Even while he wrote, Amitabha said he always frequented certain works to overcome writer’s block. “They’re my kick-in-the-pants books.” At this session, he read an excerpt from Proust’s
"One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media. This was, indeed, a target-rich environment. But as we learned this year, we had succeeded in persuading our audiences to ignore and discount any information from the mainstream media. Over time, we'd succeeded in delegitimizing the media altogether -- all the normal guideposts were down, the referees discredited...We destroyed our own immunity to fake news, while empowering the worst and most reckless voices on the right."
We need vibrant organizing groups in every community across the nation - groups that bring diverse residents together to find common ground and to hold officials accountable. We need swarms of nonprofit staff and volunteers that are registering voters, educating them on important issues, and increasing turnout among populations least likely to show up at the polls. We need strong organizations training new candidates to run for local and state office, especially from historically underrepresented populations.
Florian Van Hecke and Bram Geirnaert sparked the craze in August with an astonishingly entertaining video called “Two Idiots at Night in Ikea.” It begins with a meatball dinner at a Belgian Ikea store and records their nervousness as they dodge store personnel and whisper about the attributes of the various beds. “This bed is pure heaven. Really, it’s great,” says Geirnaert before he curls up with a bedtime book. They hide again in a wardrobe and sneak out after the store reopens.
Greg Kaplan is a college application strategist, author of Earning Admission: Real Strategies for Getting into Highly Selective Colleges, and the founder of Soaring Eagle College Consulting. Greg focuses on empowering families to develop their children's high value skills, interests, and passions and market the value they would bring to colleges. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and UC Irvine School of Law, where he received close to a full tuition scholarship. See
In another experiment from the same study, teachers read a vignette about a behavioral problem with a preschooler randomly identified as a black boy, black girl, white boy, or white girl, and then were given details about the child's background or not. Providing the background information on the child increased the severity of suggested disciplinary actions when the race of the teacher didn't match that of the child, supporting the idea that we are more inclined to punish those with who look different from us.
The whole of Nature retreats within itself during the winter and this is in synchrony with the holistic organism in which we live. We exist in a living and breathing universe. It is a continuum that fluctuates between summer as it inhales and winter as it exhales. The practice of mindfulness and meditation call each of us to pay attention to our own breath. We witness the fullness of life on the in-breath and our out-breath takes us on that mystical journey back to a space of nothingness, just like the winter.
Beyond the presidential vote, two notable Election Day results show that the public tends to support energy choice for both commercial and residential ratepayers. Nevada voters, by an astounding 72-28% margin, approved the first step to amending the state constitution to allow energy choice for all of the state's utility customers in an open market. And voters in Florida rejected an amendment that would have preserved utilities' monopoly on distributed solar power and continued to block third-party competitors.
crime fiction itself is only just taking off. For a subgenre like historical crime fiction to become popular will probably take more time and more effort. Another hurdle, of course, is that unlike contemporary crime fiction from the West, which is still easily available in India, very little historical crime fiction (even written in the West) is familiar to Indian readers. It’s still very much a novelty, and for people not willing to read a new type of genre, it’ll probably mean a long slog for writers like me.
Many of these disasters you saw on TV newscasts, like the deadly wildfire that reached the popular resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.Fueled by strong wind gusts and the area's worst drought in nearly a decade, the massive blaze forced over 14,000 people to evacuate and tragically left 14 people dead. The Red Cross cared for thousands in shelters and will remain on the ground in Gatlinburg in the weeks and months ahead to ensure affected people have access to the resources they need to get back on their feet.
Yeah, I really want to know. I’ve been freaking out. What is next? What is the real story? You don’t know what’s real and what’s not in the show, even being in it. That’s what was insane, from one day to the next, even the writers would be like, “We’ll figure it out.” It felt like they were writing as we were going sometimes. Things moved so that fast and you’re just in the moment. I have no idea where her story goes and I’m dying to know what happens.
I will stop evaluating my success according to what month or year it is. Things can and will change. And it may happen on January 2 or December 30, or a decade from now. Am I really going to let it determine if I have a great year? I know how surprising life can be. I don't want to miss 99 percent of the current blessings while I've been obsessed with 1 percent that didn't happen. I want to get into the space in between my goals, observing life as it is really happening now, not how I'd selfishly like it to go.
That winter the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decreed my marriage null and void. In the spring I joined my ex and our kids at his family's home for Passover. My ex drove me to the train station after Seder and as we sat inside waiting he told me, "I'm not going to date anyone for a long time, at least a year. I need to be on my own." I was relieved. After years of turmoil I needed a break from the ups and downs and was grateful he was sparing all of us a rush into navigating the new world of dating with children.
Tyler: Overpopulation is best solved by reducing birthrates. This has already been done with great success almost everywhere in the world except Africa and the Middle East. It will be a better, more mature, and healthier world if people live longer and have fewer diseases and fewer children. A longer lifespan will make people wiser, more future oriented, and less willing to take foolish risks in the present. This could lead to more rational decisions on how best to preserve our planet as a decent place to live.
A celebration of women&rsquo;s achievements has been taking place at UnitedNations Headquarters in New York this month, through photography. On 13December 2016,  UN Secretary-General BanKi-moon and Secretary-General-designate António Guterres attended the launch bythe Group of Friends for Gender Parity of an historic exhibit to illuminatesome of the crucial contributions that women have made throughout the world body&rsquo;shistory – or, as they refer to it, &lsquo;herstory.&rsquo;
Further evidence that Jesus did not envision a new religion was that he didn't claim one at his trial. Had he said he was no longer a Jew and had launched a new religion the Sanhedrin wouldn't have had jurisdiction over him. The Romans had given the Sanhedrin the authority to rule only over Jews. Even if the Sanhedrin had rejected Jesus' denial of being Jewish, it would have set off a ferocious legal debate among the Jewish rabbis and scholars--a type of debate for which Jews were famous. But that didn't happen.
Moreover, Sports Media Watch data (from the networks) also incorporates estimates of those between 18 and 49 who are streaming the pro football games.I even tried streaming a game for myself, when my beloved Green Bay Packers weren't on TV.The quality was a bit crude, and no substitute for the original on TV, but it's effective when you need it.When taking this into effect, you can see that interest in the NFL is clearly pretty strong; some of those games that are "down" from 2015 probably aren't being boycotted.
The Sistine Chapel's ceiling restoration took 10 years, from 1984 to 1994 and re-opened to the public after that. The work caused some concerns because the bright colors uncovered were such a contrast with the gloomy tones of the ceilings that the eyes were used to see that the fear was that the cleaning had been too harsh and removed the original hues Michelangelo used. It was then discovered that the artist had indeed painted with very bright pigments to make sure details and layers were seen from so far below.
When did being "educated" become a bad thing? There was a time when education was revered and school teachers were respected. A time when scientists were heroes because they got us to the moon and people listened to doctors because their advice could save our lives. Today, I tell my kids to study or else they'll never get a good job, and what do they reply? "Mom, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out of college." Or, even better: "Mom, YouTubers make millions of dollars and they never have to go to college."
First of all, let's be crystal clear: This latest news does not refer the to 500 million Yahoo users who were affected by the breach reported this September. While there may be some overlap, this is a different breach with different issues. It occurred way back in 2013, but that's not really even the bad news here, though, yes, it is less than awesome that user information -- including poorly encrypted security questions and passwords that could be used in an account takeover -- has been out there for three years.
Because authentic Cuba won't last long. With the major U.S. airlines flying directly to Havana, it has never been easier to visit Cuba. Stay in a casa particular (private room in a house) and spend a few nights dancing in Havana's salsa clubs. Then rent a vintage convertible and venture out into the countryside, stopping in Viñales to roll Cuban cigars with locals. There is a limited amount of time to visit the country authentically. Go quickly because the big cruise lines are starting to invade the ports of Cuba!
Biases like these are natural, used as cognitive shorthand for making quick social judgments in ambiguous situations, especially those involving people from unfamiliar ethnic or social groups. They become a problem when we're not aware of their impact on other people. And if we're part of a majority group with more social, economic, or political power than a minority one, then accumulated unconscious bias can be extremely destructive, limiting the life opportunities and hurting the well-being of the minority group.
“I was looking for gay and science fiction themes that were complementary to each other,” Miller said in a press release sent to The Huffington Post. “In the gay community there’s often hedonism combined with repression. The kid from the small country town who goes wild when he moves to the city. In sci-fi there’s often a utopian world with its own terrible secret. Combining the two was an ‘aha!’ moment and I think the twin threads provide a fresh take on each other.”
Muslim communities and other impacted groups have been organizing for a very long time. The very positive recent decision by President Obama to dismantle the regulations that enable the NSEERS (Special Registrations) program to exist grows out of years and years of organizing by groups like DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) in NYC and by other groups that have been directly targeted by these government policies and programs. As that organizing continues to grow, JVP and NAI hope to be genuine partners in this work.
Now for each category, make a list of all the challenges you face as you think about yourself. Make 5-10 points below each category. Perhaps your struggles in learning a new language, your disagreement with a classmate about a school project, or how frustrating it was when your team lost a basketball game. As difficult as it is to reflect on our challenges or shortcomings, some of our best life lessons come from these reflections, which can give you gold for your essay content. Take another break of at least a day.
When Peter died I no longer wanted to plan. I couldn't look back at my memories. I couldn't look to the future. It all seemed bleak. Grief takes you out of the past and away from the future and slams you into the present. It is only in the present that you can find some small victory so you can wake up the next day. It is only in the present where you can feel the loss and notice that maybe you haven't cried as much today. It is only in the present that you can find joy in a meal, in a movie, in a song, in a child.
Here's a news flash from well-known speaker and author David Avrin: Your marketing probably sucks. Ouch, right? Avrin pulls no punches after years of consulting with companies about messaging and marketing. He concludes that most companies are using the same, competency-based messages - which may have worked in the past but don't work now. According to Avrin, the new normal is that everyone is good, and offering a quality product or service is table stakes. And the marketplace is rejecting competency based messages.
The individual investigations into wage theft allegations are carried out by career civil servants. But broader policies ― like whether to target the fast-food industry ― are steered by the president and his nominees. Republicans have historically taken a more employer-friendly approach at the Labor Department. Trump and his deputies are expected to unwind a lot of the regulations set down by Obama and his outgoing labor secretary, Thomas Perez, who’s now running to lead the Democratic National Committee.
•This is a general alert to a Democratic Party in disarray. How could the Democratic party win by nearly 3 million votes and still lose? How can a center-left country enable the destruction of liberal democracy by a small phalanx of elitist/populist/ anti-establishment/kleptocratic demagogues? How can a country that loves its Social Security and Medicare hate the party that created it for them and maintains it against fierce resistance? These questions can now be answered without any more attempts at self-delusion.
An early ‘90s episode of the sitcom “A Different World” re-imagined the 1992 presidential election if the Clintons’ genders and races were switched ― a black woman named Jill Blinton ran for president while her black male partner Hilliard is senselessly attacked by the press for having opinions. Nussbaum explains how this episode and the race/gender reversal serves as “a reminder of the many ways in which our interpretation of history can shift, as we change and the world changes.”
Drawing a parallel between the contemporary and the classical, he said the Yatis in Muthuswami Dikshithar’s works were quite like the SMS and WhatsApp codes or shortened words. For instance, ‘Thyagaraja Yoga Vaibhavam’ makes sense even when you remove words from it — Raja Yoga Vaibhavam, Yoga Vaibhavam, Vaibhavam, Bhavam and Vam. He also referred to many of maestro Balamuralikrishna’s songs that have references to the present social, economic and political situations and yet fit perfectly into the traditional format.
, puts it, Christopher is interested in the “quotidian lives of his protagonists, rather than punch lines or seismic dramas, and love as well as death, and life’s everyday tears are as important as its major fissures.” So even dying is treated as an adventure, like the father’s character Fred says, “Everyone always says dying’s awful…I think it’s great, like a big surprise. I’m looking forward to it. You know what I’d like, Albert? I’d like to die with you except that’ll be quite hard. I’m getting there much faster.”
terms of opening Jan Dhan accounts, giving a statutory basis for Aadhaar, implementation of Directs Benefits Transfer, introduction of RuPay Cards and Voluntary Disclosure Scheme for unaccounted money. Demonetization of 500 and 1000 Rs. notes on 8th November was another important milestone in this endeavour. Following demonetization, there has been a spurt in the digital payments across the country and both the volume and amount of money transacted through digital methods saw seen manifold increase since 9th November.
Department of Corrections chose "to refrain from assigning prisoners to [a particular private prison] if they [had] serious or chronic medical problems, serious psychiatric problems, or [were] deemed to be unlikely to benefit from the substance abuse program that is provided at the facility." It's actually quite common to not send certain inmates to private prisons; the most common restriction in contracts is on inmates with special medical needs. Are private prisons better or worse than public prisons? By Sasha Volokh
It was six months before he was accepted in the new German kitchen. For the six months following that, he ticked off all the senior chefs there by steadily rising in ranks, from working in the pantry to becoming Chef de Partie. “It used to annoy them that I was a foreigner who could cook. I could always cook, but that’s when I started taking it seriously.” All of a sudden, he was working with quality ingredients from around the world, such as fresh goose liver, freshwater crayfish, white asparagus and Italian truffles.
My experience in Early Disposition Court was an awakening. I learned that outcomes for addicts were standardized and an assignment to be "screened for drug court" was the only alternative to prison, however necessarily the best solution. I realized that instinct and good luck were not enough to be an effective advocate for my son. I exited the courthouse grateful for the sunshine and fresh air on my face, but a nagging feeling of discontentment prevailed. Would my son ever be free from the beast and return home alive?
No service tax will be charged on digital transaction charges for transactions upto Rs.2000 per transaction. Railway through its sub urban railway network shall provide incentive by way of discount upto 0.5% to customers for monthly or seasonal tickets from January 1, 2017, if payment is made through digital means. Government has waived service tax charged while making payments through credit card, debit card, charge card or any other payment card; limiting the waiver to payments up to Rs. 2,000 in a single transaction
So what did it mean to be Indian? Harris said, “Being Indian meant different things in different regions. There are far more multicultural places than we are inclined to believe; like the Konkan coast, which became a haven for Catholics running from the Protestants, and for Jews escaping from the Spanish Inquisition and the Sunderbans delta area became a hideout for the pirate communities.” A constant traveller to India over the past 15 years, Harris recently became an “Indian” himself by becoming a permanent resident.
It was tough, but it was also fun. There are tomes of material that deal with the epic and the epic ages. It took many months of painstaking work trying to reconcile legend with logic and scholarly evidence and variations in English and vernacular literature across India and other parts of Asia too. But, as someone trained in social sciences research, I have tried my best to draw on that strength, that scientific approach, when coming to conclusions on the probabilities of why or how things happened in a particular way.
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." I want you to think about that for a moment. What do Mandela's words say about a country where college education is so expensive that many can no longer afford it? And even worse, a country where a good chunk of the population does not trust college education? Knowledge is freedom. Ignorance, instead, and the general inability to discern facts from fabrication and lies, make a country vulnerable to hacks and tyranny.
The conversation touches upon, among other things, Ellsberg and Snowden’s respective journeys from insiders to dissidents, mass surveillance, Ellsberg’s days at the Pentagon under Robert McNamara and America’s gradual transformation into a police state. Equally interesting are Cusack and Roy’s accounts of the meeting — their reactions to the plushness of the Ritz Carlton lobby, the metaphorical import of its physical proximity to the Kremlin, and their reactions to watching Snowden and Ellsberg interact with each other.
, is overseeing the unpacking of more than 200 works that have come from Kolkata and Hyderabad. These are to be mounted for a retrospective in the city titled ‘Compelling Presence’. About 90 per cent of the works are from his collection and the rest have been sourced from private collectors. The works span the past six decades and the show is testimony to his prolific artistic career. Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya, co-curator of the show, points out that Chowdhury is not just an important artist; he is the “face of Indian art”.
It can be anything. At moments, I've lacked a man, a soul mate, a child or money. When I was heavier, I lacked a thin and healthy body. I've lacked external recognition, or a feeling of being good enough. Today I lack a beautiful home, a second child and some more time and money. The mind's operating system runs on lack. That is the name of its software. It cannot possibly run on what I already have. How quickly I forget how badly I wanted what I have now! The current amazing parts of my life were once my biggest goals.
Klein said the first dog continued barking aggressively and “lunged” at him when he went inside, although he specified the “lunge” only involved the dog moving “a few inches.” At that point, he shot and wounded the dog. Both dogs then retreated into the basement. The officers then entered the basement in order to “sweep” the place for drugs and possible other suspects. When the wounded dog at the bottom of the stairs began barking again, Klein shot and killed her.
The academician’s first visit to Kerala was in 1967 to study the political, social and communication scenario in the State that seemed to be so different from Chandigarh, where he had been working. On a trip to Kerala, he saw an elderly, bespectacled woman reading a newspaper. It piqued his curiosity and brought him to Kerala to learn more about the State and the people. For the last 40-plus years, Robin has been studying the multiple aspects of a society in transition and also the interactive roles of media and society.
If only mere words could say it all. So there is melody and meter. You could express as well with your vocal chords as with a pen. ‘Speaking Songs’, which had veteran Carnatic percussionist and vocalist T.V. Gopalakrishnan in conversation with Prince Rama Varma, an accomplished classical singer, unravelled the lyricism in literature. The two artistes explained through the works of celebrated composers how imagination and thought precede language, grammar and technique. And that a song is a beautiful culmination of it all.
In this July 13, 2009 photo,reindeers walk across the road in Suomussalmi, Finland. There¿s good news for Rudolph and his friends _ an app is helping officials reduce the number of reindeer killed in traffic accidents in Finland. A simple, one-button interface allows drivers to tap their smartphone screens to register any reindeer spotted near roads. Using GPS technology, it creates a 1.5-kilometer (1-mile) warning zone that lasts for an hour and warns other app users approaching the area.(Vesa Moilanen/ Lehtikuva via AP)
On the one hand, it is very uncomfortable to be blamed for everything that is wrong with the world. On the other hand, this puts us in a unique position to help the world heal from the hatred that is ruining it. Since we are already under constant scrutiny, if we prevail over our division and hatred we have for one another, the world will notice instantaneously. Moreover, if we were not divided, we would not have anything to overcome, and therefore would not be able to serve as an example of how to prevail over divisions.
Shouldn’t it be that way? Some people use the platform for effect. At my age, I don’t need to. They often say I tweet when I am drunk, which is a completely baseless allegation. I do fun things on Twitter. I enjoy it. I talk about the real Kapoor & Sons. That’s the way I am, regaling friends with simple, honest talk. I make myself the butt of my jokes like the one I cracked recently on obesity in the Kapoor family. (“Obesity is not because it runs in the Kapoor family! It is because no one runs in the Kapoor family!”)
Tyler: It is far too early to tell whether aging in humans is more a reversible disease or an inescapable degenerative process. But since aging is caused by biochemical processes, it most likely can be prolonged by biochemical interventions. We can't decide the question based on values and reasoning- only by actually doing the aging research will we learn whether aging is preventable. And sure it may take many decades, but that's precisely why we have to allocate the resources now to get the project off to a fast start.
Walking around the small room in NGMA and taking in the works stacked against the walls, Chowdhury talks of his plans to open a museum in Kolkata for his private collection. He is confident it will happen soon. Then he pauses near a table. One of the drawings placed on it has a piece of broken glass inside the frame. “While reframing, that piece was not removed.” He laughs at the irony of a broken glass encased within the drawing of unbroken line. It is a sign to change that title. “Maybe you can think of something else?”
FILE - In this Dec, 6, 1985, file photo actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions during filming of the final game of the movie "Hoosiers" at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis. Thirty years after the movie came out and six decades after Milan shocked the world with a 32-30 come-from-behind win over Muncie Central, the legacy of that team and those players has lasted longer than anyone could have imagined in 1954. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland, file)
I believe we are living in a time when poetry matters more than ever - and how we live in language.And speaking of"time",I apologize for not stating at the outset, that Rita Dove's COLLECTED POEMS, 1974-2004 -has arrived. The volume is not a "lifetime" work - it is a collected ongoingnessofa searching poetic consciousness,characterized by "American Smooth" (the title of one her many books represented here) -swirling vitality and variety.Then too (as a reviewer has said) she has "always refused to be confined by category".
Third — and this is very important — remember the forensics angle to it. Depending upon the period and place you’re writing about, the level of technology used in crime investigation will vary. A story set as late as the mid-1800s, for instance, will not be able to even draw on something we take pretty much for granted these days, such as fingerprints or identification of blood groups. In such situations, your detective will naturally have to use other clues, and depend more on observation and deduction than on technology.
Last week, the first offshore wind farm in North America ― a five-turbine operation abutting Rhode Island’s vacation hub Block Island ― began producing electricity. The project, which took seven years to complete, marked a historic turning point for a long-stalled subsector of the renewable energy industry. Developers had hoped a proposed 130-turbine farm off the coast of Massachusetts might jump-start the industry. But fierce opposition delayed the project, first proposed 15 years ago, and it may now never be built.
No matter what we do wrong or right, many of us tend to feel guilt over our choices. If, for example, you choose not to spend the money to go home this winter, you may have "voices" like, "You don't appreciate your family. You're so selfish and mean!"If you do travel home, you'll be plagued by thoughts like, "How could you be so frivolous? No one wants you here anyway." Our critical inner voice will always steer us toward feeling guilty, but we should aim to be adult and own the choices we make and the reasons we make them.
on the 2016 U.S. election, Mexico's former president Vicente Fox had choice words for those who elected Donald Trump. Yearning for the manufacturing glory days of yesteryear, American workers were seduced by a sloganeer who promised to "Make America Great Again." But, said Fox, the world has moved on, and their jobs with it. Instead of attending community colleges to pick up critical skills and proficiencies that would have enabled them to transition into jobs of the future, American workers "went home to down a few beers."
Yet, as on date, nearly 95 per cent of India’s personal consumption expenditure transactions are cash-based giving rise to a very large informal economy, limiting the ability of State to levy and raise taxes. The daily Ru-Pay Cards transactions in the country have risen from 3.85 lakh on 8th November to 16 lakh on 7 December; the e-Wallets transactions have increased from 17 lakhs to 63 lakhs; the UPI transactions from 3721 to 48238; the USSD from 97 to 1263 and PoS (Point of Sale) transactions from 50.2 lakh to 98.1 lakh.
settled the case for free speech when it dealt with hurt sentiments and sensibilities. Both the judgments defined free speech and also laid down the obligations of the State to protect free speech. It is very clear that the authorities and the author should not yield to lawbreakers. I know that some book or film will cause annoyance to someone. I say, if you don’t like a book, don’t read it. Banning is not the solution. Or else, writers and artists will start imposing self-censorship. I think there is a banning itch (today).
the fear of poor people squandering the charity of hard-working American tax dollars” ultimately serves to limit “the ways in which poor Americans are allowed to live.” When we shame those who are not wealthy for indulging in any bit of material happiness, we only diminish their humanity. As Oluo writes: “We deny them the opportunity to live like actual human beings worthy of dignity and respect. Everyone should be able to bring home a steak or a lobster, or a Boston cream pie, once in a while.”
These days a number of married actors are making statements that they don’t want to work in films which they can’t show to their children. “I don’t really make my films for my family. I make them for my audience. In my case there is always a sensuous component in my films. For somebody who never had such a component in his film it is easier to make such a statement. I can’t be completely oblivious to what the audience want to see me as. If I were to make a film for my family only three of us would be watching,” Emraan grins.
Actually, the only formula is good content and a well-told story. The films that are working well today have no formulas. That myth is broken. Weaving together characters, their stories and making them representative interests me. Whether it is casteism, mandalisation of society, feudalism, open market, or crime in politics; so many things are happening and these are all stories. My challenge is to make them valid, because some of the audience will have no knowledge about it. If you have it, then you will enjoy the movie more.
I also wish we hadn't kept postponing that "really special" trip we had planned to take with our children and grandchildren.We hadstarted taking four day extended weekend trips to different cities each summer with our children and grandchildren, but we had talked about taking a "really special" trip with them one summer ... a Disney cruise or a trip to Europe ... once our grandchildren were all old enough to fully enjoy such a trip.Sadly, by the time the grandchildren were old enough, Clare's AD made such a trip too demanding.
. Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told The Times, "Seven decades after Pearl Harbor, the guilt, reflection and self-questioning that followed the Second World War have been replaced by resurgent nationalism on both sides of the globe," and Carleton University international affairs professor Stephen M. Saideman added, "Reactions to the Great Depression bred protectionism and authoritarianism. The advent of Trump and of far-right populist movements around the world makes us all feel déjà vu."
Do not tell them on December 26th, as this will make them think that all the wonderful holiday experiences and memories that they created were fake and forced. Waiting just another week will allow them to truly enjoy the holiday and the memories, and will not add that concern and hurt to what is going to be a difficult situation for all of you. Once the new year arrives, you can sit your child down and tell them how much you love them, how this is not their fault, and that this will not change how either of you feel about them.
In 1985 my friendship with Surendran Nair widened to include our commitment to conjoin our personal lives and to become a family. This partnership of 29 years is a relationship that keeps at its core of love, our engagement with one another as artists at all times uncompromised, and holding as precious the need to be truthful to ourselves as individuals so as to honour the personal journeys that have shaped our mental landscapes, and to hold with passion our personal politics as relevant to our self representation at all times.
Lecturing kids about "you don't know how good you have it" only makes their eyes roll. We can teach our kids compassion and empathy skills by getting out there and helping people who are less fortunate in our community. Visit a toy store and have your child choose a toy to donate for a child of the same age. Prepare a meal together or bake cookies and deliver them together to an elderly neighbor. Go through your child's closet--with him there- and choose coats and other items to donate to a homeless shelter or children in need.
Europe was already reeling from major terror attacks in Brussels, Paris and Nice as well as Brexit and the defeat of the political establishment in the Italian referendum before this week. With anti-immigrant parties standing ambitiously in the wings waiting for events to further boost them into power, the worst thing that could have happened, the shoe waiting to drop, was a terror attack at Christmas time in Germany by an asylum-seeker linked to Islamist terror groups. It is just that which took place in Berlin this week. 
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In a recent study, researchers tested 560 breast cancer genomes from around the world, and found 5 new genes that could, "spur breast cells into cancer cells." This means that in the future researchers will be able to learn a lot more about individual cancers. "As we gather more data, we will learn more about each cancer and improve on our methods to treat everyone more efficiently and more effectively," says lead study author Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. This is a truly groundbreaking discovery.
(often called adult-onset, but can occur at any age) represents over 90% of diabetes and it occurs when the body produces too little insulin or the body resists the effects of insulin so it can't control blood sugar. In general, women with diabetes lose more years of life than men do. And while the death rate for women with diabetes has risen dramatically since the 1970s, it hasn't risen for men with the disease. It's estimated that girls born in the year 2000 have mode than a 1 in 3 chance of getting diabetes in their lifetime.
Their aesthetic support to each other, leading to the marriage, turned out to be their lifetime commitment to the dance form. Credited as the first dancer to perform Odissi on stage, Laxmipriya’s valuable contribution to its propagation and the decision to continue dance and theatre even after marriage and a family, encouraged many Odia girls in her time to learn and pursue the art. Her keen perception and power of observation kept track of the faults and progress of Kelubabu’s disciples even while they were performing on stage.
FILE - In this Tuesday, May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. Yee whose video posts and blogs mocking his government and its late founder landed him in jail twice has been detained in the U.S. where he is seeking asylum. Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. to recognize Amos Yee¿s asylum claim, saying he has been consistently harassed in Singapore for publicly expressing his views. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
“The last thing any judge wants to do is declare contempt hearings of public officials,” Goethals said. “Frankly, we are getting closer and closer in this case. To say this has been a painful process is a gross understatement. This case should have been resolved long ago except for the gross failures of the prosecution team, which continue to this day,” Goethals said. The D.A.’s office has been accused of turning a blind eye to the jailhouse informant scandal and has been tossed off the Dekraai case.
In terms of fiction I'm working on a couple of projects. One is a historical fiction novel set in the Middle Ages -- it's my academic speciality and I'm building what I think will be a really great thriller plot to go with the hidden history of a pretty famous character. Much further along, though, is an epic-scale fantasy that I've been working on for years. It's got an enormous depth of world-building and a terrific plot. I suspect that will be the next thing on the docket, but as you know it depends on what editors are buying.
In the U.S., more women are killed by their intimate partners than by any other group. Melissa Jeltsen puts faces to the grim statistics surrounding domestic violence in her harrowing multi-media project, “This Is Not A Love Story.” And these statistics also hold a very important lesson. As she writes: “In the cases we examined, we found evidence that a large portion of the women killed had previously been abused by their partners. In many instances, there were signals that circumstances might turn deadly.”
Jewish parents and educators already struggle to counter the pervasiveness of Christmas commercialism in what has long been called the December dilemma. As a congregational rabbi for thirty years, I've observed that December brought counseling for interfaith couples about their different celebrations and numerous meetings about Hanukkah pride. It certainly becomes harder to clarify the teachings of Hanukkah as distinct from Christmas if Maccabees are hidden Santas, especially this year, when the dates of the two holidays coincide.
“My then-boyfriend moved to California from Chicago four years ago in December 2012. We spent our first Christmas together after meeting in June while on vacation in Miami. His physical presence that Christmas was one of the best gifts he has ever given me. We’re both very family-oriented and the thought that he left his family behind on that particular holiday month still hurts my heart. However, our loved prevailed and we’re now set to spend the rest of our lives together. Our families are so excited.” ―
My preoccupation as an artist is with the human existence, where one observes how areas of the marginalised are the ones most fraught with tensions, and which are the most problematic to bring inclusiveness to; yet it is these precise energies of conflict that provide greater possibilities of clarity to be finally realised through the endeavours of focus that each of us must surely be committed to, if we are to interpret and execute the guidelines offered in our democratic constitution which speaks of equality and liberty for all.
The bad news here is not limited to the fact that Yahoo didn't know about this breach until law enforcement officials told the company that their stolen user data was offered for sale on the dark web. The bad news is not even, as PC World reported, that in a separate incident an intruder was able to crack Yahoo's proprietary code and forge cookies, which would allow a hacker to get access to user information without a password. This last frightening bit of news seems to be related to the state-sponsored hack reported in September.
Here, Gayathri acknowledges the contributions of musicians such as T.H. Vinayakaram, U. Shrinivas, G.J.R. Krishnan, Sandeep Narayanan, Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Bharath Sundar, Priya Murle and Akkarai Sisters who, under the Isai Vallunar Scheme, interacted with students, and stressed the importance of practice. Musicians such as Bharath Sundar, Rahul, T.R.S.Manikandan and Hari Ram conducted practice sessions for vocal, violin, mridangam and veena departments, which was again a big success. In fact, students want more such sessions.
Christopher, a 31-year-old screenwriter, novelist and playwright, has studied creative writing, film and television. He has been a writer-in-residence at several universities in U.S., Germany and at the Goethe Institute in India. Having scripted plays as well as movie scripts, Christopher now divides his time between Berlin and New Delhi where his wife is from. At an event organised by the Goethe Institute-Max Mueller Bhavan, Christopher read excerpts from his book. He was joined by Sahitya Akademi winner and poet-translator Indran.
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2016, file photo, Maddy, left, and her friend Maggie, sit with their shopping bags at Union Square in San Francisco. The holiday shopping season is losing some of its power in the year's sales. November and December now account for less than 21 percent of annual retail sales at physical stores, down from a peak of over 25 percent. The shift is in part because people are spreading out their shopping all year, demanding big discounts and spending more on events rather than more stuff. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Separation and divorce are never easy, especially when children are involved, and especially not around the holidays. However, hopefully with these tips and thoughts, the process can be a little less painful on all involved, and everyone will feel as if they have done right by each other, and more importantly, by their children. Children are always the biggest concern for parents when they decide to end a marriage, so having a guide and some support helps to make a very difficult choice and process a little easier for all involved.
Another problem with spotlights is that they only light up what you point them at. They are vulnerable to bias. The neuroscience research provides many illustrations of how empathy picks favorites. Brain areas that correspond to the experience of empathy are sensitive to whether someone is a friend or a foe, part of one's group or part of an opposing group. In general, we care most about people who are similar to us--in attitude, in language, in appearance--and for those who are pleasing to look at, like children and certain animals.
He also set up a support group as part of the breast cancer foundation to help patients deal with the emotional baggage that cancer entails. Apart from his medical practice and awareness programmes, he is also heavily into academic work, having penned several chapters on the topic for various publications and also teaches students. Given his vast body of work, the oncoplastic surgeon has been in the past bestowed with several awards and has been invited for talks and lectures by various international bodies of breast health surgeons.
"Jesus' disciples and other followers who fled to the Galilee after Jesus' execution appear to have regrouped in Jerusalem under the leadership of James, one of Jesus' brothers. The group viewed themselves as a reform movement within Judaism. They organized a synagogue, worshiped and brought animals for ritual sacrifice at the Jerusalem Temple. They observed the Jewish holy days, practiced circumcision of their male children, strictly followed Kosher dietary laws, and practiced the teachings of Jesus as they interpreted them to be."
NEW YORK (December 2, 2016) – The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning senior editor Michael Siconolfi and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter John Carreyrou appeared on “Charlie Rose” on PBS this week for a wide-ranging discussion about their reporting on the health technology company, Theranos. The interview explores the full scope of the Journal’s year-long reporting on Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, including game-changing, behind the scenes moments from the investigation, as well as next steps.
The amount of time you have with a team ― how much can you get in within that period, how many older guys do you have to teach your system? With guys leaving early you don’t have that four-year-player all the time ― especially your best player. And then I’ve learned over the last 10 years coaching the U.S. Team that you adapt everyday in dealing with men and different egos and how to get them all under one ego. Just like in physical training: What do you do now compared to what you used to do, and what did you learn? 
The original book, ‘Men On My Mind,’ introduced the lead character, still a little girl around seven years, and goes on to follow her antics and acrobatics till she’s in her twenties. And just when she thinks life can’t get more hazardous, along comes the next chapter of life which is revealed in, ‘More Men On My Mind.’ Her experiences grow in complexity and she meets all sort of challenges. It’s not just her sex life, which the book sort of focuses on, but also the various other influences that go towards the shaping of her character.
I knew that my left knee was bone-on-bone for a few years, but it was not symptomatic. My legs were strong, and for whatever reason I wasn’t having the pain. Then, during the season, my knee was literally starting to collapse a little bit, and I had to get a brace for it and wore the brace for seven, eight weeks. That first hip replacement 17 years ago taught me you don’t have to live with pain, you don’t have to live with a lack of mobility, you can get back to being normal, you just need to get this thing done. 
. Talk to your kids early in the holiday season about their wish lists, and have them rank the gifts they want the most. Then, set a limit. If you celebrate Hanukkah, one gift on each of the 8 nights makes it easy. If you celebrate Christmas, set a limit on the number of gifts for younger kids or a dollar amount for older kids. For extended family, suggest doing a "Secret Santa" exchange where, instead of giving a gift to every aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparent, you draw names and have each person give a single gift to another person.
The major publishers here all belong to the European conglomerates… When I came out of the Delhi airport, the first bookstore I saw had a whole rack of books labelled Hachette… And Hachette belongs to the leading French manufacturer of armaments, Lagardère. So you ask yourself, would Hachette in India ever publish a book on military spending in India when they are selling their aircraft to the Indian Air Force? I doubt it. So you have a number of interesting conflicts that are built into it… and they are not going to get away from them.
And we have simply made a terrible hire. It's not just that the Trump phenomenon isn't "normal;" there are enough people saying that already. But we have to take the next psychological step now. If it isn't "normal," then what is it? And the answer, to me, is clear: it is dangerous. His presidency represents a clear and present danger to this country and to the world. But he was not elected king, or dictator; he was elected President. And within our democratic system there are ways to legally deal with a corrupt or mentally unfit leader.
Army officers, representatives of NSDC, concerned Sector Skill Councils and IL&FS, the ASTC training partner, attended the ceremony. Army is in the process of setting up ASTCs across the country in a phased manner. In     Phase-I 15 locations have been identified, of which in addition to Delhi Cantt, Missamari and Kolkotta have commenced skilling courses. The number is slated to grow in the near future to bring a larger population of the army spouses into the folds of skilling ecosystem to enable and empower them.
If that's the kind of lifestyle you dream of for your retirement, then put Panama City at the top of your list, because luxury living Panama City-style is a relative bargain. That penthouse, the SUV, all the staff, all the nights out, all the weekends at the beach, and all the paraphernalia required to support it all comes at a fraction the cost of a comparable lifestyle in, say, Miami. You could have it all for as little as, say, US$5,000 per month (though you could also spend many times that on your bright-lights-big-city Panama life).
We were also able to launch two specific programming streams in Rwanda with our partner, Uyisenga N'Manzi. One focuses on the education of youth regarding the health risks of contracting HIV/AIDS and the second centres upon the reduction of trauma in children of child-headed households. These targets benefit not only direct participants, but also the larger community through the dissemination of the music across Rwanda. I am thrilled to report that three of the songs have been receiving significant spins on a major Kigali radio station.
What’s more, the report revealed that many people who died of overdoses had taken multiple drugs. Of the 36,667 drug overdose deaths in 2014 in which at least one specific drug was mentioned on the death certificate, nearly one half (48 percent) of the certificates mentioned more than one drug, the researchers wrote in their study. About a quarter of the deaths that mentioned a specific drug involved two drugs, 12 percent involved three drugs, 6 percent involved four drugs and 5 percent involved five or more drugs, the report said.
Columbus picked the largest island in the group - the Caribs called it Ay Ay - to come ashore with a couple of dozen troops. Historians say they planted a cross on the beach, blasted off a few cannon shots at the Caribs, dodged some arrows and left. As Columbus sailed away, the story goes, he penciled in the island on his map and named it Santa Cruz (Holy Cross). Then, dazzled by the pristine beauty of the entire group of 50 or so islands in the area, he tagged them Las Virgenes after the legendary 11,000 virgin handmaidens of St. Ursula.
Have your kids send handwritten thank you notes for gifts--the sooner after receiving them, the better. (Sorry, but emails don't cut it!) Teach them how to write a proper thank you note and let them do the writing themselves if they are old enough. The note doesn't have to be pages long- just a few sentences saying why they like the gift or what it means to them is sufficient. Remember, thank-you notes don't have to be reserved for physical loot: your kids can write them in appreciation for a fun outing, a sleepover, or a good friendship.
On Wednesday evening, Dec. 21st, in 25 cities across the United States, Jews, Muslims, and other communities joined together to say with clarity and strength: No to Islamophobia; No to Racism: Yes to Justice; Yes to Dignity for All Communities. Organized to coincide with the holiday of Chanukah, which begins Saturday evening, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and its Network Against Islamophobia (NAI), together with JVP chapters and partners, initiated the actions to reignite their commitment to challenging all forms of Islamophobia and racism.
That's because it stopped being "unthinkable" to me a long time ago; specifically, when Trump quickly disproved my assessment that he had definitively screwed himself when the Vietnam War draft, ah, evader derided the status of our most famous Vietnam War hero, Senator John McCain. When he got away with that, going on to draw even bigger crowds, in a party which supposedly reveres military service, I knew Trump was on to some very big mojo. So I've had well over a year to worry and warn and get used to the prospect of the Trump presidency.
Undergoing genetic testing for breast cancer is like consulting a foggy crystal ball: You can walk away with a vague idea of what might happen, but not the full picture. Having a mutation for the disease is no guarantee you’ll get it—and a negative result doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the clear. Only about 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are hereditary; the rest are caused by sporadic mutations that a test can’t predict. If you have certain risk factors, however, testing can yield critical information.
I'm disgusted by all the things I read where couples are angry or complaining because someone didn't spend enough or get them a nice enough gift. Oh the entitlement! What happened to gratitude? Be thankful for what you receive and forget about what you don't. Most people want to give a gift that a couple will love and cherish, but not everyone will do a great job. Some may even forget or just choose not to. Forgive them. I shouldn't even have to say this, but if you invited someone to your wedding for the gift, then that's the wrong reason.
There has been a sharp erosion of US rights in the last 15 years, with leaps in technology and the blowback against all sorts of state terrorism around the world. The attacks on 9/11 meant, in the US, there was a gold rush for war profiteers and weapons makers and it spawned sprawling new [counter] terror agencies. Fear is big business — as long as history begins in the year 2001, the money never stops. You don’t need a fortune-teller to read your palm or a soothsayer to oraculate… You don’t need the weatherman to know what storm was coming.
Talk Breast Cancer and the one name that will come to mind is Dr. P. Raghu Ram. Right from talking about the rarely discussed ailment to creating a high awareness about ‘Breast Cancer month’ every year in a bid to spread awareness and organising the star-studded Pink Ribbon walk, the oncoplastic breast surgeon has made tremendous headway in breast health care in the state in the last decade. And it’s in recognition of his contribution towards improving awareness about breast health care that he will be conferred with the Padma Shri this year.
The murals, like so much of Fazlalizadeh’s imagery, speak in confrontational and unapologetic terms. And yet there is simultaneously a humanizing softness to the portraits themselves, reminding people who might have sexist, racist, xenophobic, or homophobic biases of our shared humanity. Whether depicting a young trans woman or a grandmother in a hijab, Fazlalizadeh’s work invites passersby to make eye contact with the people so often deemed “other,” perceiving their vulnerability, beauty, and strength. 
There is ample evidence that Jesus didn't found the new religion. But what about Paul? Thirty years after the crucifixion of Jesus, when Paul made his third visit to the disciples at the Temple in Jerusalem, he still appealed to James, the brother of Jesus, and the other disciples, to drop orthodox Jewish practices to allow Gentiles into the new Judaism. But Paul made no declaration of a new religion. Consider also, had the disciples even hinted that they were launching a new religion they wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the Temple.
A year prior to my breakfast breakdown my ex and I separated. My lawyer asked if we wanted anything in our legal divorce agreement about what to do when we started dating other people. It was fall and leaves fell as my ex and I laughed at the absurdity of her question. I'm not sure which one of us said it but we both agreed, "That's crazy, we can come to our own friendly agreement." We would not introduce anyone new to our kids until we had been dating them for 3-6 months and we would inform the other parent before any introductions were made.
Families come in many forms. The friends we choose are as much family as anyone we're related to. If this is the season to spend time with people we love and value, then we should honor the unique individuals who make up our family of choice. These are the people who make us feel most ourselves, who help us feel comfortable in our skin, who are easy to laugh with and talk to about real things going on in our lives. Carve out time to connect with these people. Nothing drowns out the sound of our inner critic than the voices of our good friends.
Branding expert Bruce Turkel's latest book, All About Them, represents an ode to change.After speaking and consulting with executives from companies like Nike and Bacardi as well as professors at Harvard and MIT, Turkel learned we need to focus on our customer and explain why our product/service/offering will be better for them.We can't stand out anymore talking about how great we are, how durable our products are, or how technologically advanced our services are.We need to turn the camera around and make the discussion all about our customer.
Looking at this list of changes that have occurred in the original institutions, can we say that much of this holds a correlation to public education? We have not moved in any real direction since the industrial revolution. But, looking at our predecessors, it is safe to predict that we need to make changes to our organization or we may fall victim to the negative changes we see in the aforementioned examples. What conclusion can you draw from the past and the examples of what has happened to the groups from which public education was modeled?
No, of course not. I think that’s a kind of semantic evasion of the idea, but it may be predisposed for people who believe they have a soul. This book has more questions than solutions, and as Arundhati said during our conversations with Snowden and Ellsberg, ‘I don’t have the Big Idea. I don’t even have the arrogance to have the Big Idea.’ So, maybe no big new ideas or old big ideas… maybe we need some even older ideas. And, as Arundhati says, the physics of resisting power — our refusal to obey —is as old as the physics of accumulating power.
was structured like an almanac. “I write to an audience of just one: myself. And he’s quite a severe critic,” confessed Allan Sealy. “I face a complete darkness before I write. And out of that come wonderful, profound notions that I grasp and wring meaning from. For me, success lies on the page, not at the cash register.” Catton spoke of a far more daunting audience while she wrote; she said she imagined before her a cast of all the novelists she’d ever read, and the sheer overwhelming intelligence of that audience pushed her beyond her limits.
We celebrate the quantifiable healing power of music to re-stitch the soul, validate one's feeling and emotions, and cohere communities regardless of prevailing circumstance. Whether it was within our expanding programming in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with Panzi Foundations DRC and USA, or in Rwanda with local partners Uyisenga, doing outreach in Canada, or our recent exploration at the Syrian border, Make Music Matter is continuing to use this artful medium as a tool enabling individuals to recover from traumatic experiences.
Well, a lot of the story was still unfolding at that time for me. It was very mysterious. Honestly, I was still getting used to the idea I was going to try out acting at all, which seemed ridiculous. I was the only person who had no experience acting on set. Everyone else was a professional who’d worked their entire career for this. It took me a minute to shake this off, because I felt like a phony. To everyone, I was like, “I want you to know that I’m not an actor. Just give me any criticism.” And everyone was so kind.
When I was little girl growing up in Paris, Christmas did not include the commercialism of today. There was no proliferation of presents for children; instead, I remember receiving walnuts and oranges from Palestine--both were a real treat. January 6 marked Epiphany, or Three Kings' Day, an equally important holiday with the traditional French galette des rois (three kings cake). For some mysterious reason, every year my brother or I would get the slice with the little baby Jesus in it; whoever received it would get to wear a gold, paper crown.
“I did the series of first four rides in 2013, and again this year. In India, nobody else my age has done this,” states Sundararajan, a member of Madras Randonneurs. There is however no hint of self-admiration: he’ll probably allow himself that emotion when he completes a 1,000 km ride to be able to join a huge peloton of riders on the 2015 Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP) ride, a grand quadrennial event. (A randonneur has to complete a 1,000 km ride in addition to the series of smaller rides closer to a PBP year to qualify for the cycling extravaganza.)
Mehran is, as all children are, a precious gift of life who allows all those who engage with him to rediscover the beauty of selfless nurturing and unconditional love. My work often holds references to the immediacy of what my life engages with and so my grandson will undoubtedly bring new areas of discovery to the explorations within my work. I am a strong believer in a family being closely united and inter-dependent emotionally, and so without doubt our little Mehran holds my heartstrings within the grasp of his tiny hand with the utmost ease!
Understand what we have, do your research before writing, said Na. Muthukumaraswamy of Indianfolklore.org. There is no such thing as “authentic” folk-form, so don’t denounce something different. Folk art accommodates changes, and responds creatively to environment. Keep prejudices out when you write, stay away from terms like “under-developed” and “savage”. Question your own background. Self-reflect, and, during the process of writing, transform yourself into being inclusive. Think about the subjects’ aesthetics, not, “What do people see in it?”
I want to be with my kids all the time. It's hard enough to hand them over, but to know they were running into the house and finding her, and not me, waiting with open arms was crushing. As their new domestic life settled three-tween boys had a hard time adjusting to their new parental figures, but my 6-year-old girl did not. Emily was enamored from the start. Melissa had a whole new bag of tricks and new is entertaining. She put cookies in lunches; cooked elaborate meals, they read stories, danced and baked and they had nicknames for each other.
“Sexual and emotional intimacy is the bright shiny star of relationships. Intimacy is the difference between your relationship with your barista and your relationship with your spouse. You build intimacy over time. Intimacy is the feeling of belonging and being loved. It’s the feeling of being known and understood. It’s the feeling of being accepted and appreciated. If you have ever experienced or heard someone describe their relationship as hollow or empty, it’s probably because it’s lacking intimacy.” ― 
“We have had the opportunity to thoroughly review the incident involving Grayson Allen from last night’s game against Elon. As I stated last night, the incident was unacceptable and inexcusable. He took an important step last night by apologizing in person to Steven Santa Ana and Coach Matt Matheny. As a program, we needed to take further steps regarding his actions that do not meet the standards of Duke Basketball. To that end, we have determined that Grayson will be suspended from competition for an indefinite amount of time.”
” ― a growing phenomenon in which companies outsource work to other companies, making it unclear who’s ultimately responsible for working conditions at the bottom. Weil held up fast-food franchising as a case in point. Because most McDonald’s restaurants, for instance, are owned and operated by franchisees, McDonald’s is usually off the legal hook when workers get stiffed. To someone like Weil, this system poses deep ethical questions about the nature of employment. To a fast-food CEO, it’s how the world works. 
The film is an adaptation of the famous trilogies of the Lord of the rings and the Hobbit by Peter Jackson. It is shot entirely in Cantal, with local actors, as well as some professionals from Paris. In addition, almost all the voice actors who dubbed the dialogues for the french versions of the Lord of the rings and the Hobbit (about 20 of them) agreed to participate in the projects and lent their voices to the actors of the Cantalien version. Part of the budget is funded by the Conseil Départemental du Cantal (the departmental board of Cantal).
FILE - This Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, file screenshot shows the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net on a computer screen in Moscow, Russia. Having made their name by breaching a World Anti-Doping Agency database, the so-called ¿Fancy Bears¿ hackers appear to be changing tack by seeking to peddle stolen emails directly to the media. Out of the blue and unsolicited, they contacted an Associated Press journalist with a dump of hundreds of emails seemingly stolen from the Canadian and U.S. anti-doping agencies. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
I have PTSD as a result of the sexual abuse I suffered as a child. Were it not for a successful phone sting thirty years later, my case would have been one of the unsubstantiated cases that was never proven in court. Who are you to deny the experience of millions of men and women who have suffered abuse at the hands of a perpetrator when the vast majority of sexual crimes go unreported because of attitudes like yours. Who would report a crime that carries so much shame and stigma in a culture where victims are doubted and even slandered publicly.
I think that there have been great strides in encouraging women and minorities to consider studying computer science. I see increased interest and participation among women and minorities in my community and it is encouraging, however, I also recognize that I live in a pretty unique place. My sister often tells me that her town just doesn't offer the same programs. To combat this type of challenge, I think we need to continue to normalize the idea of females in Computer Science and also expand the programs outside of big cities and academic towns.
Then I thought, Was it really my unmet goals that were making me miserable? Or was I measuring my happiness to a few things (important, yes) that might still come in the future? Why had I given them only 365 days? What about all the things that stayed the same and how great was that? What about all the unseen ways I had changed for the better? What about the invisible foundation that was perhaps being laid this year, for future goals to happen even more brilliantly than right now? Perhaps my goals were a little delayed and might happen next year?
From Honorary Director of the Government Music Colleges to Vice Chancellor is really a big leap forward and the deeply spiritual Gayathri has taken it all in her stride. “The credit goes to our Chief Minister who floated such a University dedicated to music and the arts in Tamil Nadu, for the first time. Since Chennai is the most happening place with respect to the fine arts, the university will be based here. I consider it a blessing. I have already relinquished my post of Honorary Director post to plunge into activities involving the University.”
Quite honestly, the thing that I questioned more ahead of time was how am I going to do a good job. I didn’t do a lot of research and I had no experience acting. I had to drop out of school after I hadn’t been in school for over 11 years. I asked myself that question of ― am I being true to myself by doing this right now? As I was learning my lines and meeting these people, I thought, everything you’re doing is what you’re supposed to be doing. So I thought more about life things and living things and connecting with people.
Reform Student Debt's goals are to completely redesign student loans to reflect their original meaning: to help students afford a college education. Among a list of changes, it calls for new caps of 2-3 percent on interest rates, the forgiveness of loans that have already been repaid twice over with enormous profit for the lenders, for the start date of interest accrual six months after graduation, and for the normalization of loans based on existing consumer protections and fairness models for mortgages, car loans and other consumer loan products.
A bleak picture I know, and I believe this sentiment is shared by my fellow millennials all across the world. After all, these decisions are literally writing our future before our very eyes, leaving us feeling powerless and, personally speaking, miserable. Dissatisfaction and fear of the future is the resounding conversation amongst my friendship group at present, and I imagine that's similar for my many people reading this article. I feel like I'm constantly seeing and reading the negative, without any suggestion of what I can do to make a change.
If ever there was a time to build and strengthen our alliances, now is that time. We need to bring our leadership together and have a united front to protect the basic rights and dignity of our people...of all people. While we work to increase Latino political power, we can't forget that other Americans also are targets for hate, vitriol, and violence. We know from historical experiences in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, that coalitions work and can win valuable space in the political landscape. We must apply those lessons to the national stage.
In June, BuzzFeed published a letter that a victim of sexual assault, referred to as Emily Doe, read to her attacker, Brock Turner ― now a household name ― in court. Her statement spread rapidly across the internet, igniting a national conversation about campus assault, rape culture and victim-blaming. The letter gives a voice to so many silenced victims, culminating in a powerful proclamation: “Finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you.”
The festival also marked the 30th anniversary of the anti-Sikh violence that followed the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with “1984: Anatomy of a Riot”. Rahul Singh, Amandeep Sandhu and Manoj Mitta, who were on the panel moderated by Sunil Sethi, observed that what left all like-minded people uneasy was the denial of justice to the victims, the brazen lack of accountability among the politicians and law enforcement officials and the way in which history repeats itself — pogroms and riots still being instigated across the country.
Modulating T cell activation is critical for treating autoimmune diseases but requires avoiding concomitant opportunistic infections. Antigen binding to the T cell receptor (TCR) triggers the recruitment of the cytosolic adaptor protein Nck to a proline-rich sequence in the cytoplasmic tail of the TCR’s CD3 subunit. Through virtual screening and using combinatorial chemistry, we have generated an orally available, low–molecular weight inhibitor of the TCR-Nck interaction that selectively inhibits TCR-triggered T cell activation with an IC
Shashi Deshpande's demure looks betray the strong ideas and beliefs she carries with her. Born in Dharwad, in Karnataka, she went on to study in Dharwad, Bangalore and subsequently Mumbai. Daughter of the Sanskrit scholar and Kannada dramatist Sriranga, Deshpande had a liberal upbringing, but was wed into a conservative family. She has explored the inner conflicts of women in the Indian social set-up through her works. She shuns the title of feminist writer, saying that she only writes about what she knows best, which is the role of the Indian woman.
Gutted. Broken. Shattered. These are the words used by so many of Hillary Clinton’s supporters to describe what they felt in the aftermath of election night. Clinton’s campaign staff, supporters and the press tasked with covering her campaign sat under a glass ceiling at the Javits Center on November 8. The symbolism, meant to be poignant, turned out to be painful. But as Traister so beautifully articulates, in a piece that has a 90 percent chance of making the reader cry, this type of disappointment is par for the American course: “
Israeli border police officers scuffle with Palestinian protesters, some are dressed as Santa Claus, during a protest in front of an Israeli checkpoint, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. In a Christmas greeting on Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said: "Despite the Israeli occupation, our presence in our homeland and the preservation of our cultural and national heritage are the most important form of resistance in the face of the darkness of a foreign colonialist occupying power." (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
This is something that has impacted UNESCO as a whole and not just World Heritage. Because Palestine has been admitted as a member of UNESCO, there are two laws in the US that prohibit them from contributing their dues to any UN body or international organisation that has a relationship or admits Palestine as a member; it’s not as though the US doesn’t want to pay their dues. As a result, we’ve had to sustain a 22% cut in our budgets and we are trying to cope. We are reforming and restructuring the Secretariat and mobilising extra budgetary resources.
While these developments may be disheartening, especially to scientists, it should be recognized that in a larger sense scientists themselves are possibly reaping the whirlwind from decades of cloistering themselves in their laboratories and not paying much attention to the public. As a result, we have reached a point where a large fraction of the public is not only ignorant of science, but is also hostile, or at least deeply ambivalent, to the field. One can argue that the current developments are simply a political manifestation of this ambivalence.
However, if I am to address the politics of relationships I share and value, I have never found them to be in conflict with the values I have chosen to determine how to live my life. I understood that as an artist the most liberating lesson learnt is that one’s own sense of belonging is held in multiple histories that form the stories of the world. And it is the curiosity of wanting to know about the unfamiliar that invites us through the doorways of many new discoveries. And that to be open, one does not in fact relinquish one’s individual uniqueness.
Uber has a history of skirting the law and has tangled with authorities before over labor regulations and requirements for background checks on its drivers. Dodging the special permit in California saved it money in the short run and could have placed it ahead of rivals constrained by pretesting requirements and reporting regulations. The state’s special permit requires companies to report all accidents to the DMV, as well as all episodes when a car’s autonomous mode is disconnected because of some incident. Such records are available
I have simply not been able to devote as much time to the blog as I once did. Part of me feels that individual blogs are becoming obsolete, or at least are waning in readership, in favour of multi-author blogs, micro-blogging sites such as Twitter. At the time I started blogging, mine was one of roughly 12 blogs in the entire Middle East! At the same time, I see the value in keeping my site active, since it has such a strong web presence and searchability on Google. I also have been very busy with life: in addition to publishing another book this year (
Because the critical inner voice is tricky and can attack us from any angle, the best thing we can do for ourselves is to be aware of when it arises, to notice when our thinking starts to shift and we begin to feel turned on ourselves. Identifying and labeling this voice as an enemy as opposed to our real point of view can mean the difference between staying strong in our sense of who we are and plummeting into self-hatred. If we notice that we're starting to evaluate or sum ourselves up, we can interrupt this pattern of thinking and reject its veracity.
The novel focuses on the final months of Fred’s life and Indran noted that even young care-takers of the old can start feeling old themselves. However, it’s not like the novel is rooted in personal experience. Instead, Christopher simply imagined what it would be like for his characters, but he did point out that in the first 10 to 15 years, he thought his parents “were like Google, because they knew the answer to everything. Then you realise they don’t know a lot and that frightens you. Then parents start asking you more questions and you switch roles.”
The populist movements in the European democracies are the result of confusion and liberation. Europeans are liberated from the past of a continent divided by the Cold War and now integrated economically, which has brought new challenges, not [the] least over migration issues. So there is confusion, and little agreement, about where they are headed in the future. As a consequence, we are getting an hysterical mess in which the recourse to violence, I’m afraid, will play an ever greater role. The situation will become more dangerous as time goes on.
The trip is especially sentimental for Gregg, who lost his mother 20 years ago. During their trip, he’s been honoring her by lighting candles in cathedrals and churches across Europe. He’s also kept up with some of her traditions on the trip like making Christmas ornaments and sending them to family in the United States. Gregg told HuffPost sometimes the trip hasn’t been easy, but he’s happy to be able to go on the adventure with Carla and Barton. He’s especially glad Barton is seizing this opportunity with his mother. 
While solar cell technology is currently being used by many industrial and government entities, it remains prohibitively expensive to many individuals who would like to utilize it. There is a need for cheaper, more efficient solar cells than the traditional silicon solar cells so that more people may have access to this technology. One of the current popular topics in photovoltaic technology research centers around the use of organic-inorganic halide perovskites as solar cells because of the high power conversion efficiency and the low-cost fabrication.
According to K. Satchidanandan, the convenor of the jury, “The five members of the jury among them read the books that were submitted for consideration and exchanged notes evaluating the books they had read and also recommending those that they felt were worthy of the shortlist to one another. Each member finally prepared his/her own shortlist. There were many books that were common to all or most lists and some that had appeared only in one list. After a final round of discussion, we decided to choose six books that had appeared at least in two lists.”
After posting images of her work on Facebook and Instagram, Hassani amassed a substantial social media following, catching the attention of curators and gallerists as well. As curator and arts administrator Leeza Ahmady, who researched Hassani’s work in Afghanistan, expressed in a statement: “As self-portraits they are representations of the different parts of herself, of her aspirations, her imaginative and playful personality traits, and deep desire to make her mark on the setting of an impressive new young Afghan artistic generation.”
In a blurb on the book's jacket, Louise Gluck pulls out all the stops and compares Pinsky to Shakespeare, "in his dexterity combined with worldliness, the magician's dazzling quickness fused with subtle intelligence".But this list sounds to me instead like the little god of imagination(also currency and the cross-roads)- the trickster, tinkerer, transgressor of"mind, mind".In thesewild and beautifully-conceived and crafted poems, the guiding spirit is, to my mind,that of the random safe-cracker, not the good Bard, despite his eminence and lofty authority.
The marginal is a space of life that holds, within my definition, many areas of human existence that fails to receive the attention that it requires, often due to prejudice and the lack of sensitised awareness for issues that are not comfortably comprehended or populist in nature. The under-privileged sections of Indian society bear the shame of our collective lack of will to assert the rigours of according basic human rights and development as the fundamental essential for human dignity to be honoured by all, in relation to their well being and progress.
The McLaren 675LT is probably one of the most brutal supercar's to hit this side of the cosmos. It truly is the naughty baby sibling of the McLaren P1 hypercar. The P1 so happens to have 903hp which is assisted with an electrical motor, in the 675 LT, that electrical aid is nowhere to be found and instead you have 666hp, (yes the number of the beast) 3.8 litre V8 featuring twin turbo's that land rockets from 0-100km/h in only 2.8 seconds. All of this power is delivered via the rear wheels and this magnificent automobile runs a 1/4 mile in only 10 seconds.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s last day in office is 31 December 2016. That day will be the culmination of a decade of service at the helm of the world body, during which his priorities have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy and water. In addition, he has sought to be a bridge-builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the Organization itself.
Four years in a row, mid-afternoon on Christmas Day, my stepbrother, stepsister, mom, stepdad and I piled in the car and drove to our family friends’, the Andersons. We were always invited to their big house for Christmas dinner. I hardly knew them (they had two boys; I thought the one my age was cute but was so shy), but felt so happy to be included. Their sons had dozens of gifts under the tree, but they always had one for me. No matter if I’d gotten eight great gifts for Hanukkah already; I totally looked forward to my Christmas Day present!
Khunti (Jharkhand), Dec 24 (ANI): A Maoist rebel was shot dead during an encounter in Jharkhand's Khunti district. Acting on a tip off, a police team raided a hideout in the forest area of Khunti. In the ensuing gun battle, a member of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a breakaway faction of the Communist Party of India (Maoists) was shot dead. Superintendent of Police of Khunti district Ashwani Kumar said about nine rebels managed to escape, leaving behind their weapons. The police have formed teams to apprehend the rebels who are on the run.
Fans of empathy will point out that at its best, empathy can work like a spotlight, focusing on certain people in the here and now, making their suffering salient to you. And this really does make you kinder to the person you are empathizing with. This is backed by laboratory research, by everyday experience, and by common sense. So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort of immediate distress, and where helping that person had positive effects, the case for empathy would be solid.
Most fascinating to me, though, was all the archaeology that's been done. Ancient Alexandria has been largely absorbed by the modern city, but a significant portion of the ancient harbor -- including palace structures in which Cleopatra would have walked -- was swallowed by the sea on July 1, 365 after an enormous earthquake off the coast of Crete and its ensuing tsunami. In recent years, researchers have been diving into the Mediterranean and literally rewriting the map of what Alexandria looked like. Going through their reports and imagery was marvelous.
The former is a satirical novel in which the ability for African-Americans to medically become "white" exposes the political and financial elites' use of race as a means of pitting citizens against each other and against their own political and economic interests. Though published in 1931, the novel illuminates how the current manipulation of working-class "white" citizens' sense of identity and security is in fact no aberration but rather an extension of an unfortunate cycle of progress and regression that America has been caught in for the last 150 years.
As with any of my tapping videos, this is an abbreviated process for releasing uncomfortable feelings and enhancing good ones. Some folks may find their fear dissolve after just one tapping session, but for others, it will take some repetition, bringing the discomfort down little by little each time. (Still others may uncover specific issues that are best addressed directly with a wellness practitioner.) In any event, this brief video should help at least take the edge off the discomfort, freeing you up to enjoy life much more. Let us know how it helped you!
“Even in my commercial films there is space for performance,” he justifies his choices. “My films don’t have buffoonery. They don’t take audience intelligence for granted. They are not junk. I don’t market garbage in the name of some big idea. ‘Raja Natwarlal’ has its heart in the right place. It has got a definite character arc. Not too many films have come out with a con angle and it has an emotional line that goes through the film which makes you laugh and cry. Also, the redemption bit doesn’t get predictable here. It is uplifting without getting boring.”
FILE- In this May 7, 2016, file photo, Leicester's team manager Claudio Ranieri and Leicester's Wes Morgan lift the trophy as Leicester City celebrate becoming the English Premier League soccer champions at King Power stadium in Leicester, England. Leicester City, with a payroll that was spare change compared to the Premier League's big spenders, romped to the first league title in its 132-year history, clinching with two weeks to spare. "Nobody believed we could do it," captain Morgan said, "but here we are." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
There are two very crucial elements in the plot. One of them is the father-daughter relationship. Thankfully it was only a little while ago that I became father of a little girl, so I was able to draw from my emotions about my own child and put that into the book. Another fact that people are talking about in the book is the cervical cancer and the related awareness. I owe quite a bit to my wife. She works for a pharmaceutical company that manufactures a vaccine for this particular ailment. She helped me with the medical research that I needed for the story.
The world of Hyrule has come a long way since The Legend of Zelda was first released 30 years ago. Nintendo has revealed a series of sketches from the development of the original game, and they’re sure to get the nostalgia flowing. The drawings from Takashi Tezuka and Shigeru Miyamoto provide a glimpse at the ideas that ultimately transformed into the pixelated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game that started it all. The overworld map is shown on the left, and a sketch of the infamous skull room is pictured top right, with the final version shown below.
Isn’t it the crux of most if not all of his films? “That way all films come down to six archetypes. We all have some unique landmark event in our lives which define the rest of the life. My life has been like that and it connects with the people. That’s what makes my characters very real. I don’t pitch a fairy tale. In the first half I don’t come across as the guy a girl will like to take home but as you get to know him in two hours you realise that he is flawed yes but he is the guy with a heart and it is better than those righteous guys because he is real.”
I started writing about 10 years back when I was 24-25 years of age. The intent was not to write a book. During my college time, I used to work with an NGO whereby I was working on personality development modules for students. Later on when I started working, I was posted to a place where I didn’t have my family and friends. I had sufficient time and started putting my thoughts on paper. Eventually before I could realize, I saw that it had taken the form of a book. I approached a publisher, found one and that’s how my first book “Pillars of Success” came out.
To start, I relax the rules--and just relax, period. So if a student walks into our two-hour class a few minutes late, instead of launching into my "Be on time" soliloquy, I just say, "Welcome!" and let them be. And when students start chatting during a group project, I take a few moments to appreciate the friendships blossoming organically across cultures before walking over to see if the math is going as well. As for lectures, I used to think, the more examples, the merrier. But now I use a "less is more" approach, so that we have time to enjoy and explore.
Yet, no amount of money can change what is happening in Syria. Even worse, no amount of compassion can alleviate the suffering or prevent it from worsening until its cause--the evil in human nature--has been uprooted. This task--transforming human nature from wickedness to kindness--is the sole task of the Jewish people. If anything positive should have emerged from the terror of the death camps, it is the commitment of our nation to transform human nature. As long as we stall, we are inadvertently inflicting suffering upon the world. This is why it hates us.
FILE - This is a Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012 file photo of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips and her husband rugby player Mike Tindall as they arrive for the British royal family's traditional Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, England. Officials say Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Tindall, has suffered a miscarriage, it was reported on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016. She and her husband, retired rugby player Mike Tindall, had been expecting their second child. The pregnancy was announced last month. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Two views taken just one day apart show 'strikingly different' observations, with a cloudless Titan in one perspective, and a large field of bright clouds in the other. In the near-infrared image from Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), shown at the top in black and white, Titan appears to be relatively cloud free. But, the bottom view, captured at longer infrared wavelengths by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), shows bright clouds, atmospheric haze, and surface areas, depicted in false-color with white, pink, and green, respectively.
Fourth -- and this is very important, Santa -- give us a break from the hateful rhetoric, lies and half-truths, fake news, prejudicial saber-rattling and outlandish claims and justifications that have swept right on through the holidays like a deadly case of flu. Our country is better than that, we deserve more than to be pandered to, and we work best when we work together, united and not divided. Our students have some real concerns about the future that my fellow presidents and I are trying to address. We need to provide the reassurance they seek and deserve.
By dumb luck I became a first-edition fan of Jordan's work as it was coming out. I was the right age for it, and I have to say that it really opened my eyes to post-Tolkien possibilities for fantasy. My awareness of how far Jordan was stretching the mythological envelope struck me both early and hard, and in numerous venues I have therefore argued that the Wheel of Time is in many regards the most fitting American heir to the world-building techniques forged in Tolkien's Middle-earth. So just at a level of creative inspiration, my debt to Jordan is significant.
). I promise not to use the word "luminous" to describe Saariaho's score, since I have already seen that one used in at least four reviews. How about sumptuous and shimmering? And the assurance that you've never heard sounds like these coming from an orchestra (with the non-acoustic addition of one synthesizer)? Saariaho's innovative approach is that while the orchestral music floats through a spectral, sonority-driven world in which the usual distinctions of tonal and atonal don't really apply, the sung melodic lines are lyrical, modal, and vocally sympathetic.
I was born in Cantal. And I am proud to be Cantalien and to be an ambassador of this beautiful department. The first time I saw the Lord of the rings, I thought that the landscapes of the saga (shot in New Zealand) and the landscapes of Cantal looked very similar. Hence the idea of making an adaptation of the Lord of the rings in the Cantal. It worked well, and the Cantaliens loved it. That's why I wanted to continue making parodies of movies or ads while promoting the Cantal, like "Cantal, What Else?" a parody of the European famous TV spot with George Clooney.
Geeta Doctor fast-forwarded the discussion to art criticism in the virtual world. Using a series of slides, she argued that Internet-run social media had made the art critic obsolete. We package and sell our work, we are our own critics. Curators and gallerists have been marginalised. In this hyper-reality, art is broadcast/blogged about constantly, and the origins are blurred. Who said, “Je suis Charlie” first? Art is now in a virtual supermarket, can be bought with virtual currency. With selfies, the artist now becomes his art, democratising art in the process.
Sudhanva Deshpande shared the stage with Maya Krishna Rao and moderator Anuradha Kapur to discuss “Theatre: Art of Performance or Provocation”. While Kapur spoke of the levels of provocation which could subtly effect a change in the self, Deshpande, apparently referring to groups who obstruct performances on the grounds that their sentiments are ‘hurt’, commented, “How can a performance hurt?” Rao remarked, “Sometimes I think there’s a very thin line between provoking and manipulating. I don’t think any performer sets out to make a performance that will provoke.”
According to a study that came out of the Drexel University Sport Management Department a couple years ago, football and men's basketball players at top sports schools were denied at least $6.2 billion between 2011 and 2015 under NCAA rules that prohibit them from being paid.According to professor Ellen Staurowsky, the fair market value of a football player at the University of Texas for the 2011-12 school year was $567,922 annually.Now, full-ride scholarships can be worth $50-60K a year, definitely not chump change, but that falls well short of true market value.
The results are real. Last week, a student in the painting program was disciplined and sent home from school. Ashamed and upset, he called one of the police he'd been painting with to walk him home. The officer not only came but offered reassurance--he counseled him, and told him that just because he had done a bad thing didn't mean he was a bad person. Another exceptional officer, Stan DeGolefnea, works five days a week in the school currently being painted.For months, he's volunteered every Saturday in plain clothes to get closer to the community where he works.
Mark and Kristen (a former marketing executive)saw a void in the market for an emporium-meets-atelier, which offers not only found and designed items but also custom design services. Clients and designers will be able to buy found objects, art, and furniture, BLACKBARN home products, as well as custom designed items. "The goal is for our clients to find beautiful found and new objects, but also be able to consult with one of our in-house designers to create a custom kitchen, dining table, light fixture, or anything else you might need for the home," explains Zeff.
While the Moscow meeting is the focus of the book, a description of the preparation for the meeting and journey to Moscow is woven into essays and conversations (mostly between Roy and Cusack) on living in a world managed by the global political elite, the hegemony of the US and its allies, the failures of communism and capitalism and the marginalisation of the “discourse of the Left”. The conversations are a beginning, a stirring of the pot. They leave you with some uncomfortable truths and many unknowns. The prose is often beautiful and the narrative interesting.
Commencing the debate P.N.Sapru Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh said that “We cannot agree to the suggestion that the shaping of the Institute in its technical aspect should be entrusted to the Director and the Professors of the Institute acting as a medical faculty. There is danger, under a constitution of this character, of the academic faculty of the Institute developing into a closed corporation of mutual admiration. There must be representation of an expert character – representation of an outside expert character – provided in the constitution itself.”
Tyler: The distribution of benefits that will accrue from aging research is a political, economic, and ethical question, not a scientific one. Given human nature and existing institutional structures, the benefits will almost certainly be enjoyed in a markedly unequal and unfair fashion- greatly favoring the rich and powerful, with only a very slow trickle down to the population at large. This inequity has accompanied every previous technological advance in the long march of human progress and is not specifically disqualifying to progress in slowing aging and death.
Renowned Mohan veena exponent Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and his son and disciple Salil Bhatt, have come out with a new album. In itself, either of them bringing out a new album is nothing unusual. But this time the two have collaborated. Even finding themselves in the same country at the same time is something of a cause for celebration, with their frequent solo tours to nearly 75 countries. So they are proud of this album, named “Generations” (Times Music). To add to the cup of bliss, they have just managed a family vacation to Manali where three generations were together.
that you're in for a treat. The stage is full of interesting props and innovative scenery. Just when you think the show is about to begin, the actors come out to fidget and fuss with some of the set, but the lights haven't dimmed, and you don't know whether this is a part of the show or not. That moment sets the mood for the evening, not as a loose, experimental work, rather as an altogether charming and genuine theatrical experience. Even before the opening number, Fiasco's cast deliberately breaks down any expectations you might have for this musical, or any other.
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Part of the problem is that empathy is innumerate, favoring the one over the many. (A spotlight has a narrow focus, after all). In one classic series of studies, psychologists asked some subjects how much money they would give to help develop a drug that would save the life of one child, and asked others how much they would give to save eight children. People would give roughly the same in both cases. But when a third group of subjects were told the child's name and shown her picture, the donations shot up--now there were greater donations to the one than to the eight.
We had a choreographer that taught it to us. We had time every day and sat with him and we’d have a half an hour or an hour to practice together. It was so hard. All the moves were very specific and I had never done anything like that. I’d done tap and jazz as a kid, but that was no tap and jazz. These are intuitive motions. Even when we were doing it, I wondered, what the hell is this going to look like? You’re in this one little world, knowing that what you’re working on is going to be taken so much further. Everything has been a real mystery.
From the orbits of the inner solar system to the surface of Mars. For Curiosity and Opportunity, 2016 continued the rovers’ revelations of the mysteries of the Martian surface – providing scientists with confirmation of long-held theories while also revealing surprises about Mars’ geologic past and providing new research for the eventual push of human exploration on the red planet. For Opportunity, the year also marked a continued series of longevity firsts and another mission extension for the rover as it now approaches the start of its 13th year on Mars.
Stephen Colbert is a political satirist who hosted his own show on Comedy Central, "The Colbert Report". Colbert's first love was theater, and so he studied to become an actor. He then moved into comedy, and ended up on the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". He left "The Daily Show" in 2005 to set up his own spinoff, "The Colbert Report". In his own inimitable way, Colbert likes to use a "French" pronunciation for the name of his show, so "The Colbert Report" comes out as "The Col-bear Rep-oar". Colbert took over the “Late Show” when David Letterman retired.
Three American scholars come together to deconstruct Bollywood classic Amar Akbar Anthony. William Elison is Senior Lecturer in Religion, Anthropology, and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. Christian Lee Novetzke is Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington. Andy Rotman is Professor of Religion at Smith College. Their book Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (Harvard University Press) sees the film as a lens into India’s lived experience of secular democracy. Excerpts from an email interview:
Throughout 2016, we also implemented a testing phase at Panzi's field hospital in the rural area of Mulumba. The positive feedback from medical staff and the community at large during this period has led us to commit to its full implementation in 2017. This expansion emphasizes that local, culturally appropriate psychosocial models are critical for restoration of traumatized populations. It is exciting to watch our Healing in Harmony music therapy program grow and I am thrilled to return to Mulumba to construct and officially launch our latest studio in the coming year.
is set in Somalia and tells the story of the civil war through the lives of three women. “I was in Somalia for the first four years of my life. This has helped me in writing since I remember the streets, sights and sounds,” she says. And what does she remember? “I travelled to Somalia when I was writing my first novel and I recognised the neighbourhood I lived in as soon as I got there and everything fell in place. I even saw a tree my mother had planted so many years ago. The only thing different was the scale of things; everything seemed so huge when you were a child.”
The Australian researchers aren’t sure what caused this spike of cardiac deaths in New Zealand during the Christmas season, but previous research best supports two possible explanations. The first is that the holidays prevent people from seeking medical care when they normally would, due to travel and a lack of familiarity with new surroundings. The second theory is about “displacement of death” through sheer will — that people would actually either try to delay death or speed it up in consideration of a holiday date that is special to them. 
Talking about the high-on-emotion traditional compositions, Varma said though the navarasas in Indian arts do not include bhakti, it is the leitmotif of every creative expression. Devotion lends meaning to passion, without which nothing could be pursued with honesty, he added. And backed up his interpretation by citing as examples masterpieces of the composers of yore — Swathi Thirunal, Rabindranath Tagore, Basavanna and Akka Mahadevi. “It’s amazing how these works rise above words and phrases to convey the same spirit,” the duo explained, taking turns to render them too.
“There’s a continent within our subcontinent,” said Sainath, “and that’s the 833 million people of rural India who speak 780 languages, six of them spoken only by 50 million, three by 80 million and one by 500 million, and there isn’t a single platform today that captures this incredible diversity.” PARI fills that gap with its archives that span audio, video and text. These are crowdsourced, yet editorially monitored, by an 800-strong team of volunteers that includes veteran and rookie journalists nationwide, often contributing stories that mainstream media won’t accept.
To help ensure all households are better prepared for home fires, the Red Cross launched a national Home Fire Campaign. With our community partners, we are going into vulnerable communities across the country to make sure residents have a working smoke alarm, and reviewing evacuation plans for families in case a fire occurs. Since we launched this campaign in October of 2014, we've been active in more than 8,400 towns and cities across the U.S. and have installed nearly 620,000 free smoke alarms, Best of all, the campaign has already resulted in 131 confirmed lives saved.
It’s an initiative that I launched in 2009 to precisely to help countries that don’t have the capacity to prepare nominations. We have put in place a system whereby the Secretariat and advisory bodies provide technical expertise and assistance to help countries identify potential sites for nomination, find out whether they express Outstanding Universal Value and bring them up to a level where the robustness of those nominations helps them pass through the process of getting inscribed on the List. We all need to work together; this is an effort of international cooperation.
“Remember that notes, flowers, cards or getting her favorite candy never get old. It’s a reminder that she still matters to you. It doesn’t always have to be planned dates, gifts or vacations. The smallest things make the biggest impact. So often men forget to continue to chase the women we love once we’re in the relationship. It’s the good morning texts, the kisses on the forehead and the walks in the park that keep her coming back for more. Keep that flame burning as long as you can and always put her at the forefront of your life.” ―
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For me, as for millions of others, there is a feeling of deep foreboding. From our President-elect's childishly reckless attitude about a nuclear arms race (the 5,000-7,000 nukes we already have aren't enough, Sir?) to his chief financial appointee suggesting banks need more deregulation (they haven't done enough harm already, Sir?) to a lack of impulse control with his twitter account suggesting something more like an extreme use of Adderall than an extreme case of ADD -- it is looking like he is a car crash happening in slow motion and the rest of us are stuck in the car.
In the first book of the Mehrunisa trilogy, The Taj Conspiracy, Mughal scholar and Renaissance historian Mehrunisa Khosa finds herself tangled in a web of conspiracy that threatens the very existence of Taj Mahal. The monument has become a bone of contention for religion and politics. The history thriller gets murkier in the second book, The Hunt For Kohinoor (Westland; Rs. 295) as Mehrunisa has the task of helping prevent a deadly terror attack on the nation. Author Manreet Someshwar answers a few questions on the series and aggressive promotions for the new book. Excerpts:
SEAL is an acronym used by the US Navy’s SEa, Air and Land teams. The SEALs were born out of the Navy’s special warfare groups from WWII, like the Underwater Demolition Teams and the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons. The Navy SEAL unit was established soon after President Kennedy’s famous speech in which he announced the plan to put a man on the moon, as in the same speech the president allocated $100m of funding to strengthen special operations forces. The Navy used some of this money to set up guerrilla and counterguerrilla units, which soon became the SEALs.
When Martin Luther King, Jr. made the call for people to join him in the march from Selma to Montgomery, all kinds of allies showed up: black, white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, young and old. People were called to a movement that was fundamentally about human rights, and the belief that we all deserve the same rights and liberties. In a similar way, and without anticipating it, we realized on the last day of our bus tour that we as a group had unified around this common powerful experience, and pledged to support one another in our own work to advance civil and human rights.
Well I try to keep in the best shape that I can year-round and especially during the season. Stress relief, clear head, making sure that you are physically ready, because if you’re not physically ready it affects you mentally. That’s why I got these hips. You want to be at your best. You know when you’re suffering from that that you’re not, and it makes me angry, like I’m losing to this. So I got it done, and I feel like I’ve won. I wouldn’t be coaching if I didn’t get all these things done. No way. It would be impossible. 
Why should I deviate from that tradition? Acting gives me a high. But that doesn’t mean I cannot reflect on things. I watch television, I read newspapers. I decide what is good and bad. I am a responsible, tax-paying citizen and I have a right to my opinion, and you can’t get violent with me or victimise me for it. You should take me on, on a proper debating platform instead of hurling stones at my house. In the 40 years of my career, I haven’t been given any recognition although actors junior to me have been given awards. My conscience doesn’t want any award, especially now.
Humans could one day live in inflatable 'ice homes' on Mars, according to a set of radical new designs. The concept dwellings aims to make use of water derived from such ice not only for shielding from space radiation but also as a structural element for the Martian habitat. The pods would include areas for work, sleep, recreation, food preparation and even a greenhouse. Each pod is designed for a crew of four. The concept was created by a design group, including personnel from Nasa's Langley Research Center, which last year scooped a prize for a previous Martian habitat idea.
If your family health history or a conversation with your doctor has indicated you're at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer, genetic testing may be the right choice for you. Here's the good news: getting a test is more affordable than ever before. Color Genomics recently released a test for $249 than can, "accurately analyze a saliva sample for mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, as well as check for 17 other genetic variants that have been associated with a somewhat increased risk for cancer of the breast or ovaries." Before getting tested, make sure you
In the last few months, the horrid humanitarian crisis in Aleppo has surpassed the worst atrocities we have seen coming out of Syria since the inception of the civil war there in 2011. It is true that "Aleppo's fall is Obama's failure," as Leon Wieseltier wrote in The Washington Post. It is also true, as even chairwoman of Meretz, Zehava Gal-On, admitted on her Facebook page, that "We should give credit to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his insistence not to become involved in this war." However, there is an inseparable connection between Israel and the tragedy in Aleppo.
Today, Google has all the answers your doctor will never give you, all the science your religion allows you to believe, and a perfect world that beautifully matches your so-called values. Evolution isn't real, it's just a theory. Teachers are indoctrinating our kids, scientists are conspiracy theorists who enjoy telling us that the world will end, and doctors are vaccine impostors paid by Big Pharma. (On a side note, vaccines are cheap, they don't make the Big Pharma rich. What makes them rich are all the drugs you need when you get the diseases you could've vaccinated against.)
We do this because we cannot build an advanced populace by ignoring those who represent the majority of the population. Latinos and Asians are the fastest growing ethnic groups in our nation. Along with African Americans, they have not received equal access and support needed to successfully complete a credential. In addition, many rural Whites have been left behind from the 21st Century economy. Too often, elite institutions pay lip service to low-income and first generation students, perpetuating the wide gaps we see in academic achievement. That is where our focus needs to be.
Christmas has been hijacked by commercialism. Traditionally this was the time of the year to rest and to reflect. It was a chance to drink from the deep well of contemplation. Instead we now have a season of dim superficiality where the emphasis is on mass consumerism. Who cares how you feel once you look good. This is not a healthy ethos for society and, in particular, for our children. Our value system has plummeted on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Our pursuit of self actualization has been replaced with a directive to "want things". It is a hollow and an unnecessary distraction.
For those who might question the cost of either program, it is miniscule compared to the societal costs of folks "joining" the welfare ranks or, far worse, ending up in prison. Help Yourself costs roughly $15 thousand annually for each class of children, and the costs of WIN (Working in Neighborhoods) are approximately $30 thousand annually to teach and train a class of participants. Juxtapose those costs--which are covered by private funding--to the cost of welfare or of a year in prison (between $50 and $60 thousand in New York) and recognize the prison costs continue for years.
It must, of course, be recognized that in orchestration with the proliferation of this caliber of content, it is technical platforms and social media outlets that provide creators the space to make themselves relatable, sometimes even vulnerable, in order to voice their stories in conversation with fans in an interactive manner. And as is obvious, media moguls are now hard at work attempting to determine the best means by which to monetize these platforms. It is, however, we - "digital natives" as they like to call us - that have the most in-depth comprehension of such platforms.
Treasury representatives on Wednesday informed the staff of several Democratic senators that the department wouldn’t issue the “guidance” ― language clarifying its interpretation of tax law ― that Democrats requested, said the aide, who would only speak on condition of anonymity. Instead, Treasury officials discussed two alternative approaches that the Internal Revenue Service or Department of Education could enact, but failed to lay out a timeline or make a compelling case that the measures would be as effective as action by Treasury, according to the aide.
. When you go deep, you see a story. Do you know what the biggest issue is in the country today? It is the ownership of land. Right from the poorest to the richest person in this country. All politics, economics, and society hinges on land. You leave your village because you don’t have land, but if you have land, the government and industry wants it for development. Why do politicians own thousands of acres ? Why do companies want it too? Why is it that the land ordinance became such a big issue in Parliament? Everything revolves around it and hence it became the issue of my film.
However, the sheriff, in turning over the latest cache of secret jail informant materials, also asked for a blanket seal on all of it, a request Goethals blasted from the bench. Doubtful of Hutchens’ “good faith,” Goethals said he’s “come to expect” these kind of tactics from the sheriff, who he said has taken “a variety of inconsistent positions” on why various materials her department has turned over must remain sealed off from the public. “I don’t know what her current position is,” he said with bewilderment.
I think those two words are important in this book because those are words that are important to children. I think children feel, ‘What have I done to deserve this?’ much more often than adults. They feel, ‘You bore me, you brought me into this world and now you’re torturing me’. I know that the Buddha says suffering comes from attachment but I wonder about that. There’s suffering that is incidental to one’s life, there’s suffering that is accidental and then there are the deliberate mutilations we inflict on each other. I think also of that great chapter, The Grand Inquisitor, in
When his wife took ill and passed away a few years later, he only plunged further into work. He collaborated with Vipin Sachdev to take the helm at the kitchen in Tuscana Pizzeria (where there is still a fridge with a particularly nasty dent owing to a combination of his fist and fiery temper), set up the Greek restaurant Kryptos and was involved with Burgundy's and B-Bar. Then, right when he was again looking for another change, he received a call from Sam Paul, the owner of the Jonah’s restaurant-chain, who came up with an idea for a new collaboration — Jonah’s meets Chef Willi.
Not all ads have a bad influence; there are some good ones and we are definitely not against advertising. But I ask the advertising industry to stand up for what is right. They must think before they send out a message. There are already a lot of young people out there under too much pressure. Irresponsible ads can cause a lot of self-doubt in these people. We need a change in that direction. We need media literacy. Women (and men) need the tools to deconstruct media messages and see what is hidden beneath the layers of an ad’s message. This awareness is what we are working towards.
Now these numbers may seem abstract; but what they mean is what you publish has changed entirely (and is shaped) by what the salespeople think is likely to sell. It means you have a total transformation of what used to be published in all of these countries, and what is published now. I believe, in most trade publishing houses in India now, you have to show before a book is published that you expect it to be profitable. This is the imposition of a totally different kind of an ideology on publishing; for the first time you are saying ideas matter only if they are going to make money.
Despite being young, Maalavika has already worked with some big names like appearing in a music video with Dhanush singing the ‘Sachin Anthem’. While she’s open to collaborating with other artists, her priority remains her work, despite the inevitable trials and exhaustion that come with it. “You definitely get burnt out. It’s easy to think, ‘music is my life and there’s nothing else I want to do’, but even too much of a good thing is pretty tiring. What’s important is to realise where your music comes from; you should never mass manufacture it. That’s when you lose heart,” she says.
Ever since, Dr. Raghu Ram has successfully conducted several awareness campaigns including the Pink Ribbon Walk and roped in celebrities like Marcia Barrett, Gautami and Kamal Haasan and Pamela Yash Chopra to create more awareness about breast cancer. “My next step was to set up a community-based screening programme; it was implanted in 2013. We train health care workers to examine women between the ages of 35 and 60 to detect breast cancer in the early stages. I hope some day soon Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will become benchmark states for community programmes like this,” he says.
, that deals with the issue of human trafficking. “It is a powerful film. The subject is dark and intense and, therefore, the film required us to create lighter moments through the song sequences. The experience of working on a Hollywood film was enriching and satisfying. It gave us an insight into the professional etiquette and high standards set by the industry. Musically, we were given quite a free hand,” say the musicians. Be it film or non-film music or judging reality shows, they have done it all. What’s uppermost on their wish list is composing for a mainstream Hollywood film.
use its veto power to prevent a similar Security Resolution from passing, so it is hard not to see the abstention through the lens of US politics. For eight years Obama has been severely constrained in dealing with an Israeli government completely uninterested in peace: even his mildest criticisms have caused a furor, and have been opportunistically exploited by Congressional Republicans tripping over themselves to lick the boots of Bibi Netanyahu. If this is Obama's parting shot, it also retains the dignity of his subdued and measured style in the face of unrepentant irrationality.
As we look towards 2017, our main endeavour is to continue expanding our reach, leverage and capacity. To that end, we are thrilled to report we were accepted, as partners of Panzi Foundation USA, for the Humanitarian Innovation Fund's Journey to Scale program. This opportunity will see Healing in Harmony expand to four sites in the DRC within the next two years. With this new level of support, we will be developing and refining our methodology towards creating a franchise model approach to replicate our program in different contexts in the hopes of eventually reaching a global scale.
“Women are treated as territories to be conquered, and the owners — perhaps — shamed by its rape,” said Prabha Sridevan in her opening statement. Rape is the only crime in the Indian Penal Code, Sridevan said, that is linked to many layers. Despite being a crime that denies the autonomy, agency and integrity of a woman’s body, it’s the only one that instantly blames the victim. The standard “she asked for it” accusation makes going to court a no-win situation, and tendencies to blame the rape survivor first, and circumstances later, make rape seem lesser than the crime it actually is.
For each category, make a list of all the positive things you can think of about yourself. Make 5-10 points below each category. Examples could include your high marks in math, your altruism, your curiosity, or anything else that you see as a strength. Don't worry about coming across as "bragging," as this exercise in honest self-evaluation is just for you. Reflecting upon all of your positive qualities will put you in a positive mindset and give you the confidence you need to tackle the rest of the exercises and to write that stellar college essay. Take another break of at least a day
Research shows one has three years from when a child starts school before the light begins to go out. Unlike other programs, therefore, like KIPP and Prep for Prep, which do good work but start much later, Help Yourself wants to get to at-risk children before they fall by the wayside by giving them a hands-on, STEM-based curriculum to complement what is taught in school, having college students serve as mentors, and, by siting the program on the college campus, making the children recognize college can be part of their future. It is working, as test data and in-school performance show.
With the help of a Malayalam teacher, he learnt the language and dug into official records from the 19th century that were stored in a cellar in the Secretariat. “Many of the files were proceedings and documents related to the day-to-day working of the administrative set-up but occasionally one would come across a jotting in CP’s [Dewan C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer] handwriting and his signature. It was the then Chief Minister C. Achutha Menon who gave me permission to work in the archives.” The studies and the research have resulted in a series of book, articles and essays on media and Kerala.
At this point, the second dog was standing in the middle of the basement. Klein testified that she started barking while standing still and facing away from the officers. He fired two shots at her, and she ran to the basement’s back corner. Officer Damon Young said he shot the dog when she started “moving” away from the corner and toward him. The dog ran behind a furnace, at which point Officer Jeffrey Case fatally shot her. He said didn’t want to see her continue to suffer and that there was “blood coming out of numerous holes” in her body.
“Capital Creates Change” uses virtual reality to deeply examine how climate change impacts people around the world and how those impacted have found opportunities to foster change. The series takes audiences to Kiribati, a Central Pacific island nation at the edge of climate change; to the Nevada desert for an eagle-eye tour of First Solar’s 2,000-acre plant, the country’s largest solar plant on tribal lands; and finally, to the streets of San Francisco to reveal how data helped engineers at Uber develop uberPOOL, which is changing commuting patterns in cities and redefining carpooling.
He has however not given up on the stubborn 1,000-km, preparing to give it another shot, either in Bangalore or Chennai, and is pounding his body into shape for that. “At my age, muscle memory will be poor. It takes constant training to keep the muscles receptive to such tasks. You’ll not face that problem. Once you train your muscles for an activity, they’ll ‘remember’ it for years,” he tells photographer Ram Keshav. Ram, in his early twenties, promises to give endurance cycling a try — he will probably soon be one of the many youngsters Sundararajan has won over to this fitness sport.
I’ve been writing since childhood. Apparently, when I was asked the all important ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?” question, my reply was: “A writer. Or an astronaut.” I remember creating imaginary worlds in my head and weaving stories in and out of them — everything from staged battles to horseback chase sequences. When I look back at the kind of careers I chose — law and then academia — I can see a link to the issues and ideas that I found fascinating, the issues that now show up in my writing, such as the history and philosophy of the complex socio-economic world around us.
More challenging is to see that we're an ecosystem and the decisions we make as individuals have ripple effects that touch us all. For example, one day I find an 'A' student perched on the windowsill, texting, while her group stalls on a challenging problem. When I approach her, she says, "Don't worry. I'll be set for the test--a must if I'm gonna get into b-school and come out a social entrepreneur, ready to rock the world." "A social entrepreneur?" I say. "That's great! I have an internship for you, starting now. Help your peers with the math so they can realize their dreams as well."
When I was called a manipulative b****, I didn’t feel bogged down,” says Shreya Ukil, the London-based techie who recently won a gender discrimination case against the information technology giant Wipro. “I made sure that disrespecting a woman has a cost attached to it.” Ukil was a sales and marketing development director with Wipro in London. About five years ago, she began raising concerns over the disparity between her salary and that of her male counterparts. What ensued was a long-drawn-out battle and her recent victory. In an e-mail interview, Ukil talks about her fight. Excerpts:
We worry, too, about the student's friends and classmates. Presidents can usually find ways to cheer up students who feel alone or abandoned. We invite them to dinner at our homes and befriend them in the dining halls. But to allay the grief and confusion of a 19-year-old who lost the person she expected to be a confidant for life requires expertise that most of us lack. Perhaps presidents who come from the clergy or from counseling professions have an advantage on these occasions. But the rest of us can rarely call on our academic training for useful advice on what to say or how to act.
You know, I’ve been in the space in between all my life. I lived in the Australian desert, I’ve lived in the retreats with Tibetan monks, I’ve lived months in the jungle. But I’ve never actually recorded these experiences, except in my diaries. But not in a film recording. This time [...] it was interesting to study [Brazilian] shamanism. I didn’t know much about it; how shamans relate to nature, their spiritual energy. So I wanted to learn from them. And a way to learn from them is to actually go there myself and understand what they’re talking about.
(median inhibitory concentration) ~1 nM. By modulating TCR signaling, the inhibitor prevented the development of psoriasis and asthma and, furthermore, exerted a long-lasting therapeutic effect in a model of autoimmune encephalomyelitis. However, it did not prevent the generation of a protective memory response against a mouse pathogen, suggesting that the compound might not exert its effects through immunosuppression. These results suggest that inhibiting an immediate TCR signal has promise for treating a broad spectrum of human T cell–mediated autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
We invite colleges in Chennai to nominate six students each to take part in the live-blogging of this mega three-day literary event. Students nominated must have very good language and writing skills. They must also be familiar with social media platforms. One representative (either teacher or student with contact number) from each college may write in to litforlife@thehindu.co.in before December 16, with names of students and samples of their writing. Please use the subject line Lit for Life 2015 - Live-blogging, [Your College Name].Selected participants will be awarded certificates from
It's funny: I hadn't been to India before I wrote the book, but of all the countries, it felt the most culturally familiar. Australia and India both share that British colonial past, and our sense of humour is quite aligned. For me, it was always going to be the last chapter – as Harvey Milk said, “You've got to give them hope,” and my book charts some profoundly depressing territory in the preceding chapters. And despite all the setbacks that the LGBT movement in India has faced and will continue to face, to me, it also felt exceptionally optimistic and forward-looking. It felt energising.
“The commission is not a reviewing court ― it has no power to reverse judicial decisions or to direct any court to do so ― irrespective of whether the commission agrees or disagrees with a judge’s decision,” the commission said in its 12-page report. “It is not the role of the commission to discipline judges for judicial decisions unless bad faith, bias, abuse of authority, disregard for fundamental rights, intentional disregard of the law, or any purpose other than the faithful discharge of judicial duty is established by clear and convincing evidence.”  
The same kind of process was at work in creating the Shards, which are a complex amalgamation of history, mythology, religion, and philosophy. They came about because they enabled me to ask and then answer an enormous range of historical questions. The Staff of Moses and the Trident of Poseidon have a lot in common in terms of their powers and descriptions, for example, so what if they were the same thing? In short, could there be real artifacts behind both the myths and the bizarre twists of history? If so, where did they come from? How did they get their powers? Where are the objects now?
Born in Bangladesh, Chowdhury remembers the trauma of Partition and the subsequent displacement of his family from a small village in the erstwhile East Bengal to the city of Kolkata. From the beginning, he says, his thoughts were on serious matters. He remembers wondering about infinity as a class VI student — imagining a wall half-way across the universe and wondering what lay beyond it. “I was preoccupied with the concept of infinity,” he says. As a teenager, he would go to The Indian Museum in Kolkata and stand in front of a sculpture of Buddha and be “hypnotised by its meditative force.”
Straight girls love gay male public spaces because they feel like safe spaces,” she writes. “The Orlando massacre reminds us this safety is an illusion of our relative privilege. Not even gay public space is safe space to be gay.” And if straight women bask in the gorgeous glow of these queer spaces, they should also be the loudest allies to the queer community, using their privilege to fight homophobia and the effects of toxic masculinity. As Harris-Perry points out, “gay public space cannot be my safe space until all public space is safe for those who are gay.”
Does this sound negative to you? I hope it does. But 25 years ago this was acceptable, encouraged, and for all intent and purposes it worked. It worked because public education knew what the workforce needed and created students to meet the needs of that workforce. Our workforce of today is drastically different and we cannot begin to imagine what our current students will need to be able to do in the future. That was OK for then, but this is now, and society has evolved.The question is: Did the four organizations of the past including the school, evolve along with its people and their needs?
Actually, the mobile is a good thing for the individual. It empowers the individual, if you believe individuality is important. But suppose you take away the mobile from a newly wed bride because she makes the decision regarding her mobile, then there is a hidden threat of disempowerment. In fact, we came across khap panchayats which decided that no woman below 40 should own a mobile. The mobile has a disruptive aspect as it bestows autonomy on the user. We studied how the mobile is changing and challenging complex social equations and its use or rather misuse in crime and terrorist activities.
During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama told the crowd, “When they go low, we go high” ― a now famous quote that reminds us all to always be the bigger person. But, over on Reductress (a satire site that has been killing it all year), writer Gwynna Forgham-Thrift offered a more realistic take. “Can’t I just squeeze in like, one sick burn before I walk away? Just one?” she asks. “Does brunch count? I can still say what’s on my mind at brunch, right? Michelle Obama can’t possibly be nice for an entire brunch???”
However, I still think about things I wish we had done before Clare's AD changed our lives.I wish we had made a video or auditory recording of Clare talking about herself ... her childhood, her high school and college years, how much she enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom when our daughter and son were young, and how much she loved the teaching career she began when they were older.And I wish we had videoed Clare talking about the incredible joy she felt each time she became a Grandma.Sadly, our four wonderful grandchildren, now ages 14-17, knew their "real Grandma" for only a few precious years.
In the next session “Documentary Cinema: My Frame”, Amar Kanwar, Sanjay Kak and R.V. Ramani discussed how the medium could be used to push an agenda. Ramani said his search had always been for a “strong as well as not assertive” language. “I don’t like films that don’t question themselves.” In the same vein, Kanwar recalled an incident where he told his client, “I’m not shooting arrows; I’m making a film. Kak, noting that documentary makers were a much more diverse group than the three “middle-aged, bearded men” on the panel, said the concept of the documentary as ‘news’ or ‘reality’ was passé.
magazine writer Joe Hagan tweeted about it, "This ad nails everything that is wrong with the media. Fascism as ratings spectacle." If you grieve over the audience's addiction to disaster porn, if you mourn the news-as-entertainment business model that fostered it, then you're bound to feel guilty about watching, and you've got a rough ride ahead. But if, instead, you treat boredom like a fate worse than tyranny, if you medicate civic A.D.H.D. with always-breaking BREAKING NEWS, if you mistake engagement with social media for actual citizen participation, you're gonna rock these next four years.
Delhi, the city whose residents love to deride its lack of amenities but rush to its defence if it is compared to any other, was the subject of “Capital City”, which saw Rana Dasgupta, Sam Miller and Ratish Nanda in conversation. If Miller and Dasgupta offered the viewpoint of outsiders who grew to love the city, Nanda was the boy who gradually discovered the many layers of history and architecture in the place he grew up in. Conservation versus development is an old debate. When an audience member asked if a check on migration might be the answer, Miller had the last word: “We’re all migrants.”
. Urging people to adopt cashless transactions, he said “If we learn and adapt ourselves to use cashless transactions, then we will not require notes. Under-hand dealings will stop; the influence of black money will be reduced. So I appeal to my countrymen, that we should at least make a beginning. Once we start, we will move ahead with great ease. Twenty years ago who would have thought that so many mobiles would be in our hands. Slowly we cultivated a habit and now we can’t do without those. Maybe this cashless society assumes a similar form. But the sooner this happens, the better it will be.”
To underscore the strategic reality I’ve already outlined, the U.S. and China are the world’s dominant powers. To the extent we have worked together over the years since the normalization of relations, it has not been for the evil purpose of war or conquest, but for the good of enhancing the security and stability required for each to pursue their own interests. In today’s world, China can’t lead alone. Neither can the U.S.. To put it in sharper, if seemingly paradoxical terms, if America tries to go it alone in the world without China, it will not be able to assert itself.
Because they will say I made these statements only to earn awards. I didn’t tweet with any personal gain in mind. They are saying I am pro-BJP but I have categorically opposed BJP in the past. I have opposed the beef ban, the ban on alcohol in Bihar. I am not a spokesperson for any political person or party. I have campaigned only once in the elections, for Vinod Khanna in Gurdaspur, but that was not as a party member but because he is a colleague. This is the reason film personalities don’t express opinions on important issues. There is an immediate reaction and things get way too much prominence.
“Difficult to write, is it not,” he asks with a twinkle. For Chowdhury, art is not just painting. “I find art in music, in structures, in simple things like how the Japanese keep their homes.” It’s this creativity that has been the catalyst for his foray into poetry, textile designing, and photography. “When I get involved in something, it has to be in-depth. I have a serious mind.” His wife, Shipra Chowdhury, who has been sitting quietly beside him, can’t resist smiling. “When he is in front of the computer, or is painting or writing, he forgets about time,” she says. “I have to force him to eat.”
“In a country which is pre-dominantly into escapist form of cinema, ‘Raja Natwarlal’ is made for audiences who want to rejoice, whistle and clap. It is an event film. It is an Emraan Hashmi film.” There are many things that you can accuse Emraan of but you can’t hold him guilty of hypocrisy. The bad boy of Bollywood knows he is no Rahul – an archetype made popular by Shah Rukh Khan – whom girls want to take home. “I find the ‘Rahuls’ boring. There is no edge there. There is no personality there. The characters I play are flamboyant and mischievous; they are somebody guys aspire to be,” says Emraan.
onu Majumdar loves to sing. But his forte is making the bansuri — This is what he attempts to transfer to his bansuri, the instrument he's now become synonymous with — The strong ‘gayaki ang' or the ability to make the bansuri sing, is Ronu Majumdar's forte. Trained in vocals and before being inspired by the flute, Ronu used to dabble a lot in the narration of the Puranas, interspersing it with songs. And, for almost 13 years, Ronu played the flute for R.D. Burman's orchestra. His music therefore has both the traditional richness of the Hindustani, as well as the dramatic intensity of modern trends.
Watching somewhere on a screen is no substitute for being there. Each generation conceives the world in a different way, and needs to reinterpret it. Not only is the world out there changing, the sensibilities and priorities of every new generation are changing too. So the world needs constant reinterpretation. (A rich seam for future travel writers to mine will be the exposure of the intrinsic nature of a country that lies beneath its superficial Westernisation.) In sum, I think the exploration of ‘abroad’ will always be with us. There is a sense of being ‘abroad’ as soon as we leave our doorsteps.
It's a long flight from LAX to Charles de Gaulle, about 11 hours when it's all said and done. You certainly don't want to spend that near-eternity painfully contorted into the tiny glove compartment they call an economy-class seat. That amount of torture might be fine aboard a puddle jumper to Vegas, but for this long haul, you're going to want splurge for some comfort. In which case, your best bet is business class aboard Air France. Free in-flight entertainment, seats that recline like lounge chairs and a Daniel Boulud-designed culinary program and a sommelier-driven wine menu worthy of the French.
Now, as we celebrate the miracles of both Hannukah and Christmas, let us remember that this is not the first time human beings have experienced a very dark night. And this is indeed a collective dark night of the soul. But all great religious teachings remind us that into the darkened night God always has, and always will, brought forth a light that is not of this world. A light that enters into human affairs. A light through which we find our fundamental connection to a power greater than ourselves. And no power of darkness can stand before the power of this light.It is among us and it is within us.
Priests lead a Christmas Eve's Mass in the Assyrian Orthodox church of Mart Shmoni, in Bartella, Iraq, Saturday, December 24, 2016. For the 300 Christians who braved rain and wind to attend the mass in their hometown, the ceremony provided them with as much holiday cheer as grim reminders of the war still raging on around their northern Iraqi town and the distant prospect of moving back home. Displaced when the Islamic State seized their town in 2014, they were bused into the town from Irbil, capital of the self-ruled Kurdish region, where they have lived for more than two years. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
The three of us first met years ago in India as PhD students, and we had very different research agendas. One of us is a philologist by training, one a historian, and one an ethnographer. But we bonded over a shared love for Indian cinema. Amar Akbar Anthony, in particular, led to many conversations that revealed the complementarity of our approaches. We came to agree that the film captures a certain zeitgeist of India in the 1970s. And we think that to make sense of the film, with its surfeit of symbols, characters, and ideas, is to understand something important and essential about Indian modernity.
had me shaking my head with their new identity redesign. When they unveiled their logo, you would have thought they also invented the design process and cultural attunement. The "differing pattern for each country" concept is an amateur nineties technique. Any brand expert (should they like to consult one in the future) will tell you that identity must be simple enough to recognize, but also to facilitate and maintain. That logo drives me crazy. Every time I search for the Uber app on my phone, I can't find it because I won't ever connect Uber with a backwards 'c.' I mean why would I? Why would anyone?
In its sixty-seven flights before Sunday’s launch, the Atlas V has achieved sixty-six successes, including a stretch of fifty-seven missions going back to October 2007. The only mission which was not a complete success, June 2007’s launch of the NROL-30 mission, a pair of naval intelligence satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office – reached a lower-than-planned orbit but the satellites were able to correct for this using their own propulsion. ULA describes the launch as successful from its customer’s perspective, while independent analysts consider it a partial failure.
As a final note, I have decided to share with you all that I am nervous about writingabout this topic. I wish it wasn't the case, but I am. And the reason is because people can get angry that there are special programs to encourage women and minorities to go into CS. I myself was a recipient of a Fellowship to pursue my PhD and I have had people confront me about it and also tell me I don't belong here. I only mention this because I want other people to realize that there will be challenges, and it isn't all smooth sailing. Knowing this makes it easier to handle the uncommon, but unsettling, experiences.
One look at the bookshelf and you know it belongs to no ordinary man. He is an avid reader of history and religion. He likes poetry too — apart from numerous books in Tamil, he also owns an anthology of Byelorussian poetry. He even has a book on calculus! Wooden doors slide to reveal the taste for reading of a man who held us spellbound with his words — Kavignar Kannadhasan. His son Gandhi picks up a book, flicks it open, and rubs his chin, imitating his father. “Appa would flip through the pages, focus on one for a few minutes, and place it back inside,” he says. “He could recall the gist, years later.”
This is not a public debate or a case of interpretation. It is a legal judgment, which is very clear. I brought an equal pay and sex discrimination lawsuit against Wipro and I won that lawsuit. In addition to that, the judgment made findings against Wipro on five counts of victimisation — their treatment of me, sexism, sexual innuendos, unfair dismissal and, of course, unequal pay, where their pay policies were deemed to be “tainted by gender discrimination”. In my personal opinion, Wipro’s reaction was an attempt to confuse the media and people. I find these tactics deplorable, as much as everyone else.
The indigenous tribe were spotted in Acre state, in northwestern Brazil, within the Amazon rainforest, by photographer Ricardo Stuckert. He took a helicopter ride over the area and spotted the indigenous people peering up through the trees. Many of the tribespeople appear to be wearing colourful body paint as they look up at the camera. One picture shows a man attempting to string what appears to be a bow with another man running while holding a large knife. In all of the the pictures, the tribespeople, who've been locked away from modern life, can be seen looking confused as the helicopter soars overhead.
This broad-stroke sweeping history sketch documents how Christianity "just happened." But the newly established unified Catholic Church was still uncomfortable that its authenticity was tied to Jewish lineage and Jewish messianic prophecy. Thus, the church sought to sever the Christian/Jewish connection by stepping up vilification of Jews and Judaism. In this campaign the most devastating blow was the charge of "Christ Killers," with its lethal consequences for Jews. The fatal distancing of Christians and Jews that followed has only recently begun the process of reconciliation and healing, strengthened by
in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’-level fighting but a good fight is sometimes good for the soul. My ex-wife and I never fought and you would think that was a good thing, but it’s not. You are two people, living together, day-in-and-day-out; at some point, annoying things your spouse does will get to you. But a good fight clears the air, blows the cobwebs out of the relationship and gives you a clean start. By the time my ex and I did fight, there were so many unresolved conflicts, we never had a chance of lasting. You will lose every fight that you don’t have.” ― 
With poor glucose control, the excess glucose that comes with diabetes eventually gets deposited in the small blood vessels of the kidneys, eyes and nerves. Controlling blood sugar levels helps prevent and sometimes reverses this damage. Poor blood sugar control leads to complications. It's why retinopathy (disease of the nerve layer of the back of your eye) is the number one cause of new cases of blindness in adults aged 20 to 74, and diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. High blood sugar levels on the brain causes doctors like Mark Hyman to call dementia Type 3 diabetes.
Hate crimes are on the rise and, if the last several weeks are any indication, that trend won't change anytime soon. Our community must make it clear to elected officials and law enforcement that there must be zero tolerance for hate crimes. We must proactively educate our community about civil rights and how the criminal justice system can protect individuals and families subjected to hate-driven violence and harassment. We must also work with federal and state officials to expand and strengthen hate crimes legislation. No matter who is in the White House, everyone is entitled to live in safety and dignity.
In "Gaysia", Australian writer and journalist Benjamin Law sets off on an expedition to the gayest continent of them all - Asia. By seeking out and relaying a diverse set of voices - of intrepid lawyers and a homophobic godman in India, homosexual nudists in Bali, Tokyo's celebrity drag queens, Thai ladyboy beauty contestants, HIV positive Burmese sex workers - he tells the story, with humour and with insight, of the complex attitudes to queer sexuality in these countries. Benjamin who has previously written a "black comedy memoir" titled "The Family Law" replied to questions in an e-mail interview. Excerpts:
In the NCAA Tournament, you’re going to be playing in front of neutral, huge crowds. You’re going to have games that start at noon, 10:15 at night, whatever, so we try to get our team ready for March, not so much get it ready for January. Our conference schedule will toughen us up and get us better, and so will the non-conference, but the non-conference gives us the opportunity to look at environments that we’ll see in March and hopefully ― you won’t see it in April because usually you don’t play in a dome ― but if we get that opportunity we’ll adjust to that at the moment.
My tears at the breakfast table in Southampton were the start of a relationship that a few years later is still yet to be defined and without a predictable future. For today Melissa is family, I am stuck with her. I know how that sounds but I don't mean it unkindly. You don't get to choose your family and we weren't given a choice, she was thrust upon us. But she offered my children much needed attention and comfort. She annoyed and overstepped in her love, like family. And then, she was gone and loving her was no longer required. In the space that was so sparse three years before, my children now choose her.
The brand began with the BLACKBARN house, a structure that Zeff and his wife built in the Hamptons that is in line with the designer's belief in honest architecture and natural aesthetics. While the exterior is unassuming and a bit mysterious in its simplicity, the inside is full of texture, color, and objects, that are meaningful to Mark and Kristen. The home is at once industrial, artful, subtle, refined, personal, and understated; it is with this mixture that they sought to expand this idea through a retail experience. The shop is the latest iteration of Mark and Kristen Zeff's BLACKBARN lifestyle brand (
There is a disturbing myth from ancient Greece. Aurora, the immortal goddess of the dawn, falls so deeply in love with a mortal man that she cannot accept losing him to death. She pleads successfully with the Olympian gods to grant him immortality, but forgets to request that he also be gifted with perpetual youth. Her human lover Is thus punished with the worst of fates- interminable life, daily made more intolerable by progressive aging and deterioration. Jonathan Swift illustrated the same chilling issue in Gulliver's Travels and also tragically in his own long, tortured, and undignified death from dementia.
, which was published in 2010, was long listed for the Orange Prize; shortlisted for theGuardianFirst Book Award, Dylan Thomas Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and PEN/Open Book Award. The book won the Betty Trask Award. “ The book grew out of the conversations with my father. I found the story incredible and decided to write about it,” she says. The story is about her father’s life in Yemen and his journey through Sudan, Egypt, Palestine and the Mediterranean before reaching the U.K. “It’s largely about writing something that hadn’t been written. The story also attracted a lot of attention because it was real.”
but I must remind you that you are all employees, and as a company, Mr. Dolan obviously wants the Rockettes to be represented at our country’s Presidential inauguration, as they were in 2001 & 2005. Any talk of boycotting this event is invalid, I’m afraid,” the email read, according to BroadwayWorld. “If you are not full time, you do not have to sign up to do this work. If you are full time, you are obligated. Doing the best performance to reflect an American Institution which has been here for over 90 years is your job. I hope this pulls into focus the bottom line on this work.”
I believe that Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López is a particularly appropriate book for the political reality we find ourselves in today. Following in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump throughout this election used racially charged words to stoke the anxieties and resentment of white working-class voters who are worried about jobs, the economy and the changing face of our country. And while Trump is certainly not the first politician to employ this tactic, he could be the most detrimental to race healing in our country.
She acknowledges Government help — Her department went from scratch (three beds, minimal facilities) to state-of-the-art, to accommodate 100 patients. She added an exclusive fistula ward. She wouldn’t allow payment, but in 2007 started a Government-approved, revenue-generating training programme and invited international experts to share experiences. She spent 80 per cent of the fee on improving facilities, and created a corpus fund. “Our aim was to bridge the gap with reference to medical care in Obstetrics-gynaecology. Women drop in at the out-patient counter, collect a ticket, come straight to the specialist.”
TanSat intended to develop a high-resolution Carbon Dioxide Spectrometer for measuring the near-infrared absorption by CO2, the development of CAPI (Cloud and Aerosol Polarimetry Imager) to compensate the CO2 measurement errors by high-resolution measurement of cloud and aerosol, to develop a spacecraft equipped with instruments capable of performing scientific observations in multiple ways as mission required, and to create of a ground segment which receives observation data and retrieves the atmosphere column-averaged CO2 dry air mole fraction (XCO2), and performs data validation by ground-based CO2 monitoring.
While most children grow up playing with building blocks and puzzles, here are two brothers who spent most of their formative years playing with musical instruments. And during their teenage years when their peers were perhaps busy discovering the joys of video games, Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, at 13 and 16, composed their first song. "We haven't looked back since then," say the brothers, who have been performing around the globe. After Mauritius, Nairobi, Mombasa and Dar-es-Salaam, the duo will be in Chennai for a concert on Sunday. Then they will fly to Thailand, Singapore, London, before returning to Africa.
An imposing six feet tall personality, he walks into the auditorium to take his seat in the first row, as the curtain goes up for the evening concert, at the December festival of Kartik Fine Arts. A keen listener, he sits through the concert, and makes it a point to be at the dais later to acknowledge and compliment the evening’s performer and the accompanists. Next you find him in the foyer conversing freely with the members in a typically soft tone. Soon he is leaning on his car, observing the crowd walking in for the concert of Malladi Brothers that is to follow. He is L. Sabaretnam, chairman, Kartik Fine Arts.
We may not yet be able to hear these "questions," or discern for ourselves the perfect timing of their compassionate appearance, but they are always present at the "point of impact" - whenever some event reveals an unseen limitation of ours. We may be given to see, for instance, how our impatience with someone we love trumps our wish to be more understanding of him or her; or perhaps we see that anger still gets the best of us when pressed into some stressful situation. You fill in the condition, but here's the point: no unwanted condition, or its outcome can change until we outgrow the nature responsible for it.
) and I have been in cahoots for 12 years--we kick off the start of December with an Advent coffee to provide each other with reality checks. Throughout the month, we shoot texts or emails back and forth, offering encouragement or confessions. "I did get a little overwhelmed Monday night--can't even remember why now," my friend wrote. "But it was a very near Christmas-spirit-fail and took a great long talk with Philip, including a bunch of strategizing for the following day, in what he's now calling The Battle for Christmas. 'Keep your powder dry!' he told me as he was leaving the next morning. 'And hold the line!'
I can’t stress adequately the importance of research when writing historical fiction. It’s the canvas on which you paint your story, and it must involve a deep understanding of the times. Not just the sort of things one typically read in history textbooks back in school, like the politics and the economy of a place and time, but little details about daily life, about society and culture. Folklore, traditional professions, food, drink, clothing, medicine, technology — all of these help create a believable picture of the period, and if your research is insufficient (or non-existent), it can wreak havoc with your book.
I have actually been to all the places mentioned in my book. But I had to refresh my memory quite a bit before writing, because the memory is not as reliable as Google! The funny thing is that things you remember vividly may have never actually happened, or places you visualise in a particular way actually are very different. So research is a crucial and critical part of my books to make the places come alive the way they ought to. I don’t write a thing without research, spell checks, grammar checks, punctuation checks and so on. I used to edit a lot of copy for the company I worked for, Explocity, so I’m used to it.
When it comes to detective fiction, the main difference between short stories and novels is in the level of complexity. In short stories, you have to wind up everything — crime, clues, motives, suspects, red herrings, investigation, denouement — in a few thousand words, which doesn’t often leave much room for other elements, like character development or much historical detail. The length of a novel, on the other hand, allows this. So, when I have an idea that is complex — say, multiple crimes, a complicated plot — I put it into a novel, where I can do justice to it. Simpler plots I find more suited to short stories.
Punctuating Paul's persistent dedication to Judaism and his Jewish identity, when arriving in Rome he summons the Jewish leadership. (Acts28:17-20). He bitterly complains to them that the Romans have no argument with him but that the Sanhedrin has charged him with blasphemy, when he has committed none--still believing that his form of Judaism was the right one. He was clinging to his Jewish identity. Note too that there is no mention in the New Testament narrative of any consideration of the argument (that would have given Paul his freedom) "I'm not a Jew any longer, I'm a Christian." Paul goes to his death as a Jew.
The imperative of the present moment is to challenge that judgment, to restore a sense of tolerance and a spirit of generosity. I wish I could point to the novel, poem or historical text that might do that, but my imagination is inadequate to the task. Perhaps a preliminary answer can be found in music rather than in literature -- for example, in the great compositions of Aaron Copland during his populist period. Sit in a quiet room and listen to "Our Town" (1940), "Lincoln Portrait" (1942), or above all, "Appalachian Spring" (1944).Then reflect on what America is meant to be and how far we have strayed from the path.
As a high school senior or rising senior, you've worked so hard these past 12 years and you're just about ready for the next chapter of your life. You've probably taken your AP or college admissions exams, taken part in a variety of extracurricular activities, and of course, kept up your GPA. The good news is that you have laid a good foundation. The other news is that there is still much work to be done. While you might be able to chill out a little bit more during your second semester, you definitely want to use the first semester--or even the summer before your first semester--to craft and perfect your college essay.
Bjarke Ingels (b. 1974) is a renowned Danish architect and founding partner of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group - located in Copenhagen and New York. In 2013 BIG was chosen to redesign the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex in Washington, a project which will be implemented over a period of 20 years. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore. In 2004 he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the Danish Crown Prince's Culture Prize in 2011. Moreover, BIG received Architizer's Firm of the Year Award in 2014.
I don't know that I have any business declaring one genre or mode of writing harder than any other, but I can tell you that the biggest challenge for me in all this was trying to keep my balance between the need to reveal the power of the magical artifacts in the plot and the need to preserve the known facts of history. It would have been an amazing story, for instance, to have Cleopatra Selene -- the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra and one of my favorite characters in the series -- grow up to use the Shards to destroy Rome in some cataclysmic doom. But that would be alternate history, which isn't what I'm doing.
Many of the challenges NATO faces require cooperation with other stakeholders in the international community. Over the past 25 years, the Alliance has developed a network of regional partnership frameworks with 41 partner countries from the Euro-Atlantic area, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region, as well as individual relationships with other partners across the globe. NATO pursues dialogue and practical cooperation with these nations on a wide range of political and security-related issues. NATO’s partnerships are beneficial to all involved and contribute to improved security for the broader international community.
The discussion kicked off with Indran asking if Christopher’s novels represented the language and zeitgeist of the German youth. Christopher said “I just write about what I find interesting as I have to be my own first reader. I don’t dare say what the voice of the young generation is.” Figuring out what’s next for his characters guides him in his writing and writing is his catharsis. Writing is also a form of escape for Christopher, because in his novels, he says, he can kill someone off or father fifty children, climb the Himalayas or swim with crocodiles — basically do the things he couldn’t possibly do in real life.
There's an awesome opportunity that responsible journalism can rise to right now. The repeal of Obamacare begs to be framed not as a retributive power struggle between political parties, but as a moral struggle for a diverse people to define a good society. Climate change cries out to be covered not as a farce about ignorance, but as an epic about the survival of our species. Explaining economic policy requires risky honesty from the media about inequality, and a fearless, patient commitment to educating its audiences. That's not the same as keeping the country watching by keeping it on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
On that third visit to Jerusalem Paul was arrested after creating a disturbance at the Jerusalem Temple, where he incited a group of Asian Jews who attacked him for blasphemy (Acts 21:27-31).When he was brought before the Roman Governor, it was determined that the matter of blasphemy was strictly a Jewish affair and therefore should be adjudicated before the Sanhedrin. Fearful of his fate if he were judged by the Sanhedrin, Paul invoked his status as a Roman citizen and demanded that his case be heard before the emperor in Rome. His demand was granted (Acts 25:10-12), verifying the power and respect for Roman citizenship.
You see, what travel does is make you realise that you and your countrymen are not the only people in the world. That may sound stupid, but what I mean by that is that travel helps you to understand that whilst we may have different cultures, religions and beliefs, there really isn't that much difference between any of us. The problems we face on a daily basis - money worries, health concerns, relationship issues - basically the things that make us human, are the problems shared by people across the globe, and only by travelling and seeing daily life happening in a country far from your own, can you really appreciate this.
Finally, I treat every question as a welcome question. I especially like to use so-called "silly" ones as springboards to deeper understanding. So when a timid student says, "I know I should know this, but what's the volume of a cylinder?" rather than soliciting a dusty formula from high school geometry, I ask folks to think about stacking Oreos and, in a follow-up about surface area, onion rings. "Stop!" says my newly emboldened student. "What's up?" I ask. "Another question?" "No," she says, laughing. "This makes perfect sense. Thank you. But y'all are making me hungry!"--hungry for lunch and, I hope, hungry for learning.
It's easy to list the added pressures of December, which range from financial strains and stresses to anxiety sparked by seeing family (or guilt induced by not seeing family). It's easy to dismiss the ornamental sparkle of all the tree lights and wrapping paper as superficial, but the truth is the holidays have a more much more profound effect on our spirit than we imagine. December often starts with a list of hopes for joyful celebration and ends with a list of resolutions we hope to achieve in the next year. This sets a stage for a lot of self-evaluation and, depending on what side of ourselves we're on, can lead to our "
Krishna Udayasankar’s ‘Govinda’, the first book in ‘The Aryavarta Chronicles’ series, was a surprise for readers used to contemporary re-telling of ‘Mahabharata’. Krishna was making the story her own, refraining from painting her characters in stark black and white and narrating a new story, nudging readers to have a new look at the epic. The second book ‘Kaurava’ (Hachette India publications; Rs. 350) takes the story forward, attempting to further demystify the characters. Edited excerpts of an interview with the author who holds a Ph.D in strategic management from Nanyang Business School, Singapore, where she now teaches.
There are two ways of looking at this. Yes, when writing stories in a historical setting (even a few decades back, let alone a few centuries) one has to keep in mind that forensic sciences weren’t anywhere as developed as they are today. This does restrict the scope in a way, because you can’t have your detective relying on technology to help him/her forward to any great extent. On the other hand, it’s a great challenge to find ways of introducing clues that can be solved by observation and brainpower. In that sense, I think a historical setting is actually better — it can let you get more creative; let you push boundaries.
The scope covers the following areas that are related to “consumer electronics” and other topics considered of interest to consumer electronics: video technology, audio technology, white goods, home care products, mobile communications, gaming, air care products, home medical devices, fitness devices, home automation and networking devices, consumer solar technology, home theater, digital imaging, in-vehicle technology, wireless technology, cable and satellite technology, home security, domestic lighting, human interface, artificial intelligence, home computing, video technology, and consumer storage technology.
Anyone who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event or finds out that a close friend was exposed to a trauma can suffer from the disorder. It is not a "celebrity accessory," it is a life-disrupting condition that can pervade every aspect of one's life, from interpersonal relationships to sleep patterns and memory. It can contaminate every thought and every quiet moment. Many people with PTSD lead ostensibly normal lives. Many of us are successful. Because we have learned to cope does not mean we do not suffer. It does not mean we are unburdened. Eventually we learn to put on a mask and hide the most painful parts of us.
Belonging to a family firmly rooted in music, it was natural for Salim and Sulaiman to take it up as their career. Their father S. L. Merchant was a composer in the Madras and Bombay film industries. “He quit cinema in 1962 and started manufacturing musical instruments. He was also associated with a community band where he taught kids to play instruments, starting a band with them. We would watch him rehearse and wished we could perform like that one day. Dad was not just a source of inspiration, he was also our mentor. He taught us to play different instruments and later encouraged us to learn from professionals,” says Salim.
May 1956: Rajya Sabha had concluded the marathon 4 day debate on the AIIMS Bill 1956. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in her reply to the debate spoke thus – “I want this Institute to be a unique Institute, and to be able to give our people – the young men and women doctors – the opportunities for study for post graduate education that they have not uptil now been able to have in their country. I want this to be something wonderful, of which India can be proud, and I want India to be proud of it.” The Deputy Chairman Rajya Sabha posed the Question “that the Bill be passed”. The motion was adopted, and thus AIIMS was born fifty years ago.
And so now the "educated" people are labeled "elite" when in fact we are the ignored majority, the ones who lobby for renewable energy, who warn that fracking and drilling will eventually contaminate all our drinking water, and who call for climate change action. We are the majority and if our voices go unheard it means we have to be louder. Because in a world too busy to take the time to ponder, too loud to stop to listen, and too arrogant to realize its own ignorance, the "educated elite" is all America will have left when catastrophe will strike. And in the best of Hollywood traditions, we will be there to come to the rescue.
On September 1, 2016, President Obama officially released a presidential proclamation that September will be National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. "Each September, in honor of the women who have been taken by ovarian cancer and the brave individuals still fighting this disease, we reaffirm our commitment to carrying forward this important work." said President Obama. He continued, "We recognize those in the medical community who work tirelessly to provide treatment and care and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives to this disease. Let us resolve to increase awareness of ovarian cancer and shape a cancer-free future."
Yeah, we talk about those things. Our guys are able to express those views, we don’t have any type of restrictions on social media, except for them to recognize that they’re not just them, they’re us. When you do say something or whatever it is, you’re part of our program and to understand that responsibility. We talk about it, whether it be HB2 or the flag situation that occurred earlier, we talk about all those things, because that’s the environment that they’re living, and we are very happy to hear their views. We don’t have an agenda or have to make a statement about everything. 
My art often employs myth and legends as territories of references from which the notion of life, viewed as a journey of assimilation, is explored. The photographic image reappears after I put down my camera 28 years ago. A series of personal occurrences brought back the connection— I had to take photographs once again. The bodies of my female protagonists now become the site of retrieval of personal histories. Retraced like mapped terrains, the contours of these figures are extracted from previous paintings, archived like from an archaeological survey. The montage of images lace together quite literally to become the second skin.
Working on your college essay might be overwhelming, but it can also be one of the most fun parts of the college application process. While the majority of your application consists of numbers, statistics, and scores, those aspects of your application do not by any means define you. Your college essay is your opportunity to define yourself and to show the admissions committee who you are and what you're all about. Even if your grades and your test scores aren't quite where you want them to be, you can use your college essay to show the admissions committee who you are beyond your application file and make a great first impression.
Beyond that, Jordan has had a personal impact on me. By the strange twists of fate I became a professor at his alma mater, The Citadel, and before the tragedy of his death I had the chance to meet him. Months later, after his passing, I was asked to give the academic speech inducting him into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. He had left us not long before, and his wife and family and friends were sitting in the front rows. It remains the hardest speech I've ever given in my life, but through it I became close friends with the generous members of Team Jordan. Their friendship will be of lasting importance in my personal life.
It’s also a very different lifestyle than being on the road. The hours are way more intense and involve a lot of waiting around in short spurts. Every day is a little bit different. Every day of the week runs progressively later. I was only a part-time character, but most other people were doing it for months on end. That alone psychologically ― what that does to you. You only go home to sleep. Yet everybody was so positive, and you create this world on set. Your family is everyone on set. There’s 200 people working at the same time. It’s a lot of people coming together to make shit happen. It was pretty inspiring.
But we are not there yet. Instead, we are trying as hard as we can to justify the words of the Torah: "The inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth" (Gen 8:21), and "Every inclination of the thoughts of [man's] heart was only evil" (Gen 6:5). In other words, our bodies exist through the same balance between the positive and negative forces, but our psyches seem to operate almost solely on the negative force. The revelation of the atrocities in Syria should warn us that we have stretched the system to the brink of collapse. If we do not add the positive force of our own volition, the Law of Development will soon do it for us.
So, where does this leave us today? How do we protect and uphold this fragile justice -whether it's rights for African-Americans, Latino, LGBTQ, Muslims, immigrants, or any other targeted group? We must first recognize that we are the ordinary heroes that we've been waiting for: the people who will counter every hateful act with one of love, and put tombstones like James Chaney's upright again and again when they are knocked over. We are not unlike the ordinary heroes of the civil rights movement: so many men, women, and young people who see names we'll never know who carried the movement forward through their small acts for justice.
It is hard to generalise about the representation of religion in Bollywood films, especially across genres and decades. But one lesson we learned from our work on the book was that even a single film can be open to multiple readings. Amar Akbar Anthony’s picture of secular society can be interpreted to support a Hindutva agenda as well as to reject it. This isn’t to say that one can read anything one likes into a Bollywood film. But when certain constituencies take offence at certain depictions on screen, we as scholars need to take note of the interpretive reasoning behind these moments of offence if we’re going to make sense of them.
We also know, looking backward, that the original Gilded Age eventually gave way to reforms of the Populist and Progressive Era, and countervailing movements involving organized labor; women's suffrage; muckrakers and civic reform; nascent environmentalists; African-American migration, organization and cultural renaissance; governmental proponents of social insurance programs; and others. Because we know that these things happened, it's easy to forget that not a single one of them happened automatically, or without a serious fight. The reason to go back and read about them is to prepare for the long sequence of comparable fights ahead.
I have multiple issues here. Let's start with the entire plot of the movie itself. Can we stop objectifying women? Ol' Jimboy is not in love with Aurora. He does not know her, and instead is led by his boner to release her from her sleeping pod to face a long and lonely lifetime with her captor (or lover in the film's terms). Tell me what Jim does is not kidnapping. He removes her from her potential life, steals her joy, her life, and forces her into a life of monotony and loneliness with him. All this because he was lonely. Oh, he gives her a chance at a different life? How nice of him. No, Jim Preston is a creeper, kidnapper, abuser.
Senda Berenson of Smith College first introduced basketball to women on campus in the early '90s. Within a few years she had begun to modify the women's game to minimize roughness as well as physical and emotional exertion, and in 1899 under Berenson's urging the Spalding Company published the "official rules" of women's basketball. However for at least another generation acceptance of Berenson's game was resisted, as elements of the men's game were preferred by many of those who played and coached the women's teams. The AAU and many interscholastic leagues were instrumental in retaining the more competitive and physical styles of play.
In dreams, I see the Dromedary still…Yes, but that wasn’t in junior school. It was a poem from senior school, I think, at Cathedral and John Connon. There are poems from that time that haunt me still. Like ‘The Dromedary’ by Archibald Young Campbell. We studied other long poems, ‘The Old Bull’ by Ralph Hodgson and Francis Thompson’s ‘The Hound of Heaven’. By the age of 15, I suppose I was getting some poems by heart for elocution. I remember doing D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Mosquito’ for an elocution competition. The poems written for young readers were often comic verse. I remember the exploits of a nasty young woman called Matilda, for instance.
. The ten warmest years (in global land-ocean temperature) in the 136 years since accurate record keeping began have all occurred since 1998. 2015 was the warmest year on record, by far, and 2016 is on track to be even warmer than 2015. And the evidence that human activities are a primary cause of global warming is, at this point time, compelling. And with regards to Perry's suggestion that the field of climate research, with multiple international teams of highly trained scientists using the most sophisticated data gathering, data analysis and computer simulation tools available, is suspect and "falling apart," many would beg to differ.
Again it’s not about numbers. Look at size of natural sites like Phoenix Islands Protected Area which is 40 million hectares .There is a structured classification system of the world’s bio-geographic regions and in each of these zones there are sub-units looked at by specialists who say that there are different kinds of representative values that these zones contain. A detailed global Gap analysis has been carried out. Once that is well represented, there is not a question of numbers. IUCN has talked about 300 odd sites being on the List; once that is represented there won’t be anymore . Getting into a numbers game doesn’t make any sense.
In this universe, all of the protagonists of those stories live in the same cottage and surrounding areas, brought together by their needs inside the nearby woods. This is where the reliance on the audience's imagination really pushes the production forward; not only must the actors move fast and take on multiple roles -- including those of animals -- but also the actors not in certain scenes stay on in the background of the stage to serve as backup musicians to Evan Rees's permanent presence on the stage with a roving, roaming giant (real) piano. It results in a careful, seamless blend of imaginative storytelling and innovative performing.
Back in India, he worked as a textile designer in Chennai and was later curator at Rashtrapati Bhavan for 15 years (1972-87). For a long time, he played Indian classical music, which “coils inwards” and his subsequent works reflected that. Today, Chowdhury doesn’t play any music while painting. “I am not a religious person,” he says, while also dismissing notions of the ‘mind’ and ‘heart’. He believes that one reacts with the brain. Still, nature instils a sense of wonderment, and when he looks at a flower, its colour and form, he is sure there is a bigger force at play. Philosophy, then, becomes another point of influence. As does real life.
While his character Albert wonders why people have to travel away from home to discover themselves, Christopher is living proof that distance offers perspective. As he puts it, “you learn more about a place when you leave it.” So living in New Delhi half the year helps him become more aware of German stories and their context. As for portraying more of India in his work, he says usually in Germany, Indians are reduced to their stereotypes that swing between elephants, spices and maharajahs on one hand and slums and poverty on the other. Christophe hopes to redress the balance soon in an upcoming script that features an Indian origin character.
Take a tour of this beautiful facility, where master blenders rely on ancient traditions to create what is for my money the best Cognac in the world. Beginning with the eau de vie, or "water of life" (if that tells you how seriously they take it), the clear-colored distilled brandy, is distilled again and then aged in French oak barrels for years to one day become the Cognac that you'll sip (ideally slightly warm on a cool evening in your leisure attire) from a palm-sized snifter. Maintaining centuries-old practices, such heating vats with actual fire, the distillers of this unique region subscribe to the artisanal methods of their forebearers.
So we decorate our houses. We bake, wrap presents, stand in line at the post office. We get more mail to answer, more catalogs. Most of it is fun. It is lovely to see friends' children and grandchildren, how much they've grown since last year. While the cute child has turned into an awkward, rather unattractive teenager, last year's overweight teenager has blossomed into a charming and confident young adult. The baby is now walking, and everyone else has grown a bit older looking. Have we? We also wonder whether it is as much of a shock for others to see us after a year's absence as for us to see them. We lie and say, "You haven't changed a bit."
Justification for our involvement in this cutthroat, sensationalized industry emerges from a recognition of, and appreciation for, the thematic significance of a substantial portion of media content that drives viewership to multiple media platforms. It is this awareness that is - hopefully - the reason you took the courageous leap to enter this unbelievably competitive industry in the first place. Most importantly, these stories bring important socioeconomic, political, gender issues - you name it - into the public eye and further, provoke conversations that it is about time millennials actively debate and discuss. In Netflix's hit original show
To the spiritually uninitiated, it feels as if you've been dropped into a river of resistance but, in truth, you are being pulled into it by a lower level of self that wants you to look at whatever challenges you in life as an adversary. Its attempt at deception - to negatively alter your perception - is the only power it has to keep you from seeing unwanted moments as they are in reality: an invitation from the Divine to outgrow your present limitations. Regardless the nature of the trial set before you, it asks: "Would you like to live in a larger world, one without fear? Do you want to be less worried, or angry, and more at peace with yourself?"
is set in the spring of 1657. The Mughal armies under Aurangzeb and Mir Jumla are besieging the Fort of Bidar, and Dilli is full of rumours of what’s happening down in the Deccan. In the neighbourhood of Muzaffar Jang’s house, a cloth merchant is found mysteriously murdered — and nobody can come up with any plausible motive for his killing. Muzaffar would like to investigate, but his brother-in-law, the Kotwal of Dilli, puts his foot down and tells Muzaffar not to interfere. Meanwhile, other crimes are committed: a money lender’s infant son is kidnapped; a prosperous and influential nobleman is found dead; and yet another man is killed in Muzaffar’s
Unfortunately, not many of these cases come to light as they are confidentially settled. But yes, I have been called Erin Brockovich a few times by people who know me personally. I grew up being inspired by the suffragettes, who fought for women’s right to vote 150 years ago. In their fight for women’s voting rights, the suffragettes were known for public demonstrations and acts of personal sacrifice such as imprisonment and hunger strikes. Although I did not know then how much their call to action, “Deeds not Words”, would come to mean in my own life. We are so much more privileged than these brave, early campaigners, yet we have made so little change.
several times before. Wherever you look in nature, there is perfect harmony. All of reality runs on the balanced interaction between two forces--positive and negative. These forces create distinct atoms whose particles are nevertheless connected, distinct molecules whose atoms are nevertheless connected, distinct cells whose molecules are nevertheless connected, and distinct organisms, such as human beings, whose cells are nevertheless connected. The harmonious balance between connection and distinction enables life to evolve toward greater unity and at the same time greater distinction, and enables people to become more unique the more they are connected.
 takes up this challenge, arguing that reversing globalization would only reduce growth rates in both the advanced and emerging economies, to no one’s benefit. “A more promising avenue for dealing with inequality in rich countries for the 21st century,” he writes, “is to reduce inequality in human and financial capital endowments. This implies, first, reversing the currently extraordinary high concentration of capital assets by giving the middle classes fiscal and other incentives to invest and own assets and, second, equalizing access to high-quality education that is increasingly monopolized by the rich.” A special
, a monthly journal for culture and politics. He co-organised ‘Tamil In 2000’, a privately funded international Tamil conference on 20th century Tamil writing and was part of the international visitor programme to the U.S. in 2002 and of the Frankfurt Book Fair fellowship programme in 2007. Kannan is on a mission to get the best pieces of literature available in Tamil translated to other Indian and world languages and vice versa, and is attempting, through his magazine, to forge an international Tamil identity that is not abrasive, illiberal and separatist. He has published a few books containing his columns and critical articles on Tamil media and Politics.
A strong economy ultimately depends on a strong workforce. It is America's community colleges that provide accessible licensure, certificate, and degree programs that lead to relevant and good-paying jobs. For those transferring to a university or those securing a meaningful spot in the workforce, community colleges are the most affordable and accessible option. High school graduates, returning veterans, single parents, displaced workers, and older adults are all well-served by the breadth of opportunity that these colleges provide. We should see them as a partner in moving our country forward. We should strive to build on the progress we have already made.
We have a long tradition of commentary of earlier works, done over centuries, said art critic Sadanand Menon. Our zombie consumerism discourages critical thinking, and reviews are presented in boxed segments. And where are the 8-page/12-page art pull-outs? Where is the talk of decline of arts institutions, national culture policy, and the visual arts? With re-calibration of art as entertainment, its seriousness has gone out. Schools must start art appreciation courses, why are journalism students clueless about art vocabulary? Online social media “a new kind of vandalism”, makes critical discourse imperative, there is no healthy art without healthy criticism.
Born in Russia to an oligarch, Prairie nearly escapes death as a child only to lose her sight. Shipped to America, she loses contact with her father and ends up an orphan adopted by an older couple eager to be parents. Blind, she suffers from violent dreams ― premonitions, she believes them to be ― and is eventually medicated into young adulthood. It’s then that, during an attempt to reunite with her long absent father, she’s kidnapped by a scientist obsessed with near-death experiences (NDEs). Prairie is forced to live in captivity along with four other hostages, all human subjects in the man’s wild experiments aimed at chasing an afterlife.
New Delhi [India], Dec 22 (ANI-NewsVoir): With a rapidly increasing emphasis on providing affordable and accessible healthcare, the e-healthcare startups have completely disrupted the traditional business models over last few years. Considering the surge in demand for affordable and superior healthcare services, the new-age tech healthcare startups are reaching out to tap a wider network of consumer base, across the country, all this while actually reducing their overall operational costs. Bringing technology at the core of their operations, online pharmacies are offering holistic healthcare services at the click of a button and from the privacy of your homes.
The researchers explain this phenomenon through what’s known as “terror management theory,” a psychological theory proposing that the fear of death is a significant human motivator. The theory suggests that there are two main things we do in order to cope with the awareness of our own mortality. First, we subscribe to a belief system (such as a religion or set of moral principles) that provides us with a sense of meaning and order. Then we strive to cultivate high self-esteem by living up to the standards of value that our culture sets. Long-lasting creative achievements are one way to become valuable to the culture at large.  
Write 100 questions that come to mind about anything and everything without taking a break and without worrying about repetition. There are no rules about the kind of questions that may occur to you. Your questions could include Why is the sky blue? Why did I sabotage myself? Who am I meant to be? Why do I like ice cream more than most people? Don't censor yourself or hold yourself back in any way. Just keep writing. Once you finish 100, keep going until the 90 minutes are up. Store your pages in a safe place. Now take a break for at least one day. Remember that the results of this exercise are confidential and you are entitled to write whatever occurs to you.
Even if she does have the best of intentions, and even if she does clarify the profits from the project, it does not change what Pantsuit Nation has become. It is now another apolitical neoliberal project, more interested in selling feel-good passivity than making concrete sociopolitical change. There is no attempt to elect women to office, no movement to repeal Trump’s policies. If it wanted to be just a space for venting, then fine. That would have been okay. But Libby Chamberlain made the decision to flip this private space into the public sphere, of her own accord, without consulting anyone other than her literary agent. And there is no going back from that.
I think the poems indicate that some damage has been done already. I think the intention as I say in my introduction is to surprise. And, I suppose, I hope, that they are not poems about or by victims. I hope that the speaker or the person in the poem is doing something about the situation. Sometimes doing something about it can just be speaking about it. The very process of putting things into words is to try and deal with the hurt. Some of the poems are obviously about children whom adults would consider a failure. But instead of being crushed by it, they show some resistance to it, some opposition to further damage, even if it is by putting things into words.
or dhobi using a mobile. Assa was living in Varanasi before the advent of the mobile and he has seen the huge qualitative change ushered in by the cell phone among the boatmen of Varanasi. It helped their profession and instilled a feeling of safety. So we were intensely curious to know more about the impact of the cell phone and its ramifications in the Indian polity and society. I decided to write a book and then we decided to do it together. He is an anthropologist and I am into history and politics. Assa covered parts of Uttar Pradesh and other places in North India while I drew on my contacts in Kerala, Mumbai, Delhi and so on to understand the big picture.
When we add the stress of entering into old family dynamics over the holidays, this voice can certainly get louder. "You never buy the right thing for her. You always disappoint her." "Great, now you have to explain for the third year in a row why you didn't get promoted." "You're an embarrassment to your family." Our critical inner voice is shaped out of attitudes and behaviors that we were exposed to and were directed toward us in our early lives. Therefore, entering back into an old family setting can spark a lot of mixed emotions, regardless of what's going on in the present. Add to that any hint of family drama, and our inner critic will be off and running.
“If you want to write to change the world, a novel’s quite an ineffectual way to do it,” stated Galgut. For him, his purpose lies more in intuitively describing the way the world is, rather than what it ought to be. “When I read, I’m looking for a very subjective experience of the world. You read Tolstoy, or Chekhov, for instance, and you know you’re rubbing brains with a very particular sensibility, and that’s what I look to do when I write.” Deep within us, Galgut feels, human beings are very similar across borders; it is merely culture that differentiates us, and it was the place of novels to “fill in the gaps in human understanding that culture keeps us from.”
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The authors enumerate the myriad ways in which racial discrimination influences death penalty verdicts.A study of modern-day Louisiana, for example, reveals that killers of whites are six times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of blacks and fourteen times more likely to be executed; black men who kill white women are thirty times more likely to receive the death penalty than black men who kill black men; and not a single white has been executed for killing a black person since 1752.Since a much larger percentage of blacks than whites oppose the death penalty, moreover, a disproportionate number of blacks are excluded from juries in many jurisdictions.
There are two types of knowledge: scientific knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge is based on intuition, and scientific knowledge is based on proof. And both types of knowledge are important. Because spirituality already knows things exist. But science always needs time to prove it. We know certain things exist, but we don’t see them ― they’re invisible. Science finds the tools to say it’s true. But it needs time. Artists also work intuitively, while scientists deny intuition. So we need both. Now, there is more and more collaboration between the two. That’s why we’re going to be able to develop faster than ever before.
This year Bright Pink released a brand new resource working to fill a void by helping women better understand the genetic factors that contribute to breast and ovarian cancer in an accessible way. ExploreYourGenetics.org is a place where you can go to better understand the connection between genetics and breast and ovarian cancer, the various genetic testing options available, resources to inform decision making, how to navigate insurance and financial barriers, and just about anything else you might need to know on the subject. Genetic testing isn't necessarily the right choice for everyone, but now there's a resource to help you make the right decision for yourself.
was inaugurated by Mrs Namita Suhag, President Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA) on 22 Aug 2016. ASTC, Delhi Cantt runs aspiration based skilling courses for army spouses and wards in four job roles namely, Data Entry Operator, Assistant Beauty Therapist, Sewing Machine Operator and Block-printing. These skill courses are conducted under the overall guidelines of Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship that are promulgated through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Skill courses at ASTC are conducted as per curriculum issued by NSDC aligned to a given NSQF level with a defined Qualification Pack. Pilot batches of three of these job roles,
The songs our artists write and record have also become strong tools for advocacy over the last year. On a recent tour of local radio stations in Bukavu, I inquired whether the broadcasters had any notable feedback from listeners. One broadcaster reported that during the morning rush hour, members of the Congolese armed forces had been calling the station to state that they had not been responsible for perpetrating the rapes highlighted in the songs. They wanted to assure audiences that these soldiers who raped were a minority and that it was predominantly in the past. It is a testament to the power music has in affecting civil society and shifting cultural landscapes
has created the erroneous impression that the system now errs on the side of fairness to defendants, while it actually guarantees grotesquely prosecution-friendly, time-consuming, expensive proceedings.In the mid-1980s, the authors report, the average time between a death sentence and execution was about six years; in 2012 it was over fifteen years and growing.Delays add to the cost of post-conviction appeals because death row incarceration is extremely expensive.More fundamentally, the Steikers emphasize that delays (and the prospect of executing elderly and no longer dangerous inmates) undermine the primary goals of death penalty advocates: deterrence and retribution.
Tyler is much more optimistic than I that we will soon have the technical means to prolong youth and postpone death- and that we should use them. I am more accepting of the limits of life- eager to improve its quality, rather than expecting to extend its duration. Tyler trusts scientists to make scientific decisions. I believe that scientists have conflicts of interest that make them uniquely unqualified to judge the ethical implications of the scientific opportunities open to them. If scientists can do something, they will do it- fairly heedless of unintended consequences. Tyler has the optimism and enthusiasm of the young. I have the pessimism and caution of the old.
As a kid on the basketball court, Shaq never imagined he would one day be the youngest man named to the list of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, a list compiled in 1996 to celebrate the NBA's 50th anniversary. He had his own idols. "Dr. J. was the man to me as I was growing up," he says. "I always aspired to be as dominant as him." In fact, Shaq considered pursuing a career in law enforcement. "I wanted to protect people and be a policeman," he says. However, over time, it became clear that the future held a different type of promise. "By the time I was 6 feet, 6 inches tall at age 13, I had a pretty good idea that I may be able to make it as a basketball player."
Rahul has everything going his way – a soaring career, a happy family, and all else a man of his age could yearn for. And then suddenly his life begins to crumble around him, leaving him to watch in helpless horror. Avantika, the pretty vivacious girl who had come into Rahul’s life by pure accident, has gone missing. Rahul suspects if Shalini, his first love, is behind Avantika’s disappearance. Where is Avantika? Will Rahul be able to find her? Is it her own past that has come back to consume her or is it something even more vicious? The answers are revealed in Anurag Anand’s latest book titled “Where the Rainbow Ends”, launched recently at Uber Lounge, Greater Kailash 2.
To tell those kind of stories, though, all three panellists said they required a deep connection with the people and places of their writings, for as Galgut put it, “Only by being very, very local, can you even hope to be global.” For Allan Sealy, who felt his oeuvre lay most in the doings of small-town India, a world he’d grown up in, continues to live within and hence knew best, even the canvas of a community of small people felt too vast for him. “I have to constantly reduce it to the individual, to one person’s story. All I feel about an issue has to be embodied in one character, and then I can touch the truth of just his life; it’s a politics of a very personal kind.”
Indeed, a reconciliation week is unlikely to truly help conflict-affected people or to meaningfully promote reconciliation. If the government wants to give people confidence that it's serious about reconciliation, it could make more significant gestures. It could, for example, finally release (or at least bring to trial) all remaining Tamil political prisoners. More broadly, it could make a more concerted effort to improve the quality of life in the Tamil-dominated Northern and Eastern Provinces. Or it could categorically denounce hateful, majoritarian rhetoric from the Sinhala-Buddhist community, including Buddhist monks. Yet the government is not doing any of those things.
To be honest, I never consciously thought of my identity as a woman, or a graduate, or as a Muslim for that matter. But as time wore on, I realised that I wore a pretty unique hat. The roles are still all by happenstance, but I am more aware of them and certainly if I can use them to inspire others or gain access to spaces that would otherwise be difficult to enter and provide a voice to the voiceless, then so be it... I also realised that so few Palestinian voices or voices speaking on behalf of Palestine in general are women. And if so, certainly not mothers, even though historically speaking, women have been in the forefront of Palestinian activism, ever since the 1920s.
and showing in galleries from London to San Francisco (and everywhere in between). His haunting paintings are an examination of the synergetic relationship between beauty and decay, installing stunning portraits in spaces that are often ravaged by nature and time. His most recent exhibition, "Empty," took place this past October in the historic Fitzroy building in Melbourne, which is due to be torn down in the coming weeks. Rone fully embraces the fleeting nature of beauty, approaching each piece with the expectation that human and natural elements will at some point intervene. Browse through some of his selected works—in collaboration with nature and the cities they inhabit.
In a gorgeous cover story for T Magazine, four authors (including one man, who we’re breaking our own rules for here a little bit) wrote thank you notes to Michelle Obama, “a woman,” they write, “who has spent the past eight years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history.” Each author has a personalized take as they outline FLOTUS’ impact on them and on society. As Gloria Steinem writes, “We will never have a democracy until we have democratic families and a society without the invented categories of both race and gender. Michelle Obama may have changed history in the most powerful way — by example.”
If they succeed, some chosen few of humanity will enjoy great benefits, while the masses may suffer even more than they do today and our environment may decay even faster than it already has. But I find aesthetic comfort in the firm belief that the scientists won't be able to deliver on their extravagant promises. Although our knowledge base is increasing exponentially, the more we learn about the body, the more we appreciate how difficult it is to translate basic science into clinical application. Our bodies are remarkably complex and carefully balanced machines. Scientists can tinker with them, but I suspect that the basic cycle of life and death will be very hard to change.
Instinctually I felt it was a mistake to accept a gift that was obviously the wrong fit for my son. The last few years of his life had been marked by achievements during recovery; like him earning his car privileges and exceeding the sales quota at a new job. When his disease was more powerful than his fragile new skill, there were relapses. Fortunately he would persevere and continue learning. As a participant of drug court he would be required to master both the typical and unique challenges of being a four-time felon, without local residence, family, nor employment. He would have to follow every detail of the program for 18 months or be resentenced to extensive prison time.
The White House announced the first summit early on this year with the theme "Today we change tomorrow." Several influential trailblazers and overall amazing people were present such as Oprah Winfrey, Kerry Washington, Cecile Richards, Indra Nooyi, Tina Fey, Jessica Williams, Laverne Cox, Meryl Streep, Tory Burch, Valerie Jarett, as well as President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The United State of Women Summit was organized to rally women together in celebration of their past, present, and future. Bright Pink was honored to join these leaders in Washington to discuss important issues such as women's health and an action plan for how we're going to keep moving forward.
day of the debate. Even as the Bill was about to be passed Members continued to press for amendments in the clauses and it appears from a reading of the debate that the Health Minister showed some irritation in the House. Dr. Seeta Parmanand Member of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh said that “Sir, after all it is the right of this House, if at all they feel that something should be done by the Ministry, to criticize the Ministry. She called herself the Chief Servant of her Ministry. She is there to reply.” Despite these moments of acrimony, the Bill received support from all the Members of the House and the motion to pass the Bill was adopted leading to the establishment of AIIMS,
Tariga-Weshnak calls her fabulous sweet potato ravioli "Okinawa style," owing to the inclusion of kombu (kelp) cream, crispy quinoa and basil oil ($18). It's one of the best dishes on the menu.What's not to love about crispy rock shrimp, the interior velvety underneath a crackling batter, served with kanzuri sauce, tobiko and cilantro ($19). The cold soba noodles ($18) were riddled with crunchy peanuts, candied ginger that gave it a nice sweet edge, bean sprouts and a poached egg on top. These are dishes meant to be shared at the table. Greaseless tuna katsu ($35) is impeccably cooked to retain the subtle flavors, added to with bok choy, crisp fennel slaw, herb puree and umami sauce.
I can say, time flies, I do not even remember when my last album came with Salil. I have been perennially busy performing all over the world, so when Salil pleaded with me over two years, I gave him five hours to make it happen. He jumped and invited me to a studio in Ahmedabad, treated me to delicious vada-pav and we started the recording and completed all of it in one go. Salil did not do any editing at all, he just got it mastered and we heard it on our way back in Salil’s car.We did this all in under five hours and Salil dropped me at the airport. I flew to America and he celebrated that evening with his friends and relatives and was going crazy with his high adrenaline as always.
This accumulation of research not only resulted in what I think is the most accurate depiction of ancient Alexandria yet attempted -- the map I made was recently utilized by an Egyptian archaeology journal -- but it also brought lots of opportunities for fun Easter eggs. There's a scene about a third of the way through the first book, for instance, in which Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, is staring at a statue of himself. That statue, as it happens, is the same one that was pulled from the bottom of the Alexandrian harbor in 1997 during an underwater archaeological research campaign led by Franck Goddio. I can't get enough of those kinds of details. I'm such a geek!
“Too many places in the country still demand abstinence-only education as the standard or engage in shame-techniques designed to scare kids from learning more or asking any further questions about their own health,” Clemmer told The Huffington Post. “I think the way to answer this issue is by creating new mediums that challenge and expand the ways we teach sexual education and menstrual health. There are currently a lot of really awesome groups out there that are creating new ways to talk about sexual and reproductive health, from comics to theater performances that have helped shift the way we talk about sexual education and our bodies. But still, we need more.”
In 1986, urogynaecological healthcare was unknown, suffering was not. Unattended and botched-up deliveries, tumours, caesareans, perennial pregnancies left scores of young women with pain, prolapsed uterus, urinary tract infections and that curse, incontinence. Such women became social outcasts, lost their jobs and some even contemplated suicide. “I was eager to provide the latest, advanced surgical treatment to underprivileged women suffering from urogynaec miseries,” says Dr. Rajamaheswari. She needed to tell them they were not alone, prove it’s possible for Government hospitals to offer prompt, appropriate treatment with sophisticated equipment on a par with that of corporate outfits.
•The 240-year experiment in liberal democracy is over. It's now time for those who want to see a more perfect union to start working in the blue states to create a new Free States of America, a second American Republic, that can finally leave the forced, abusive marriage of the past 240 years with the slaveholder states and their allies in the Midwest. Let's finally excise this nation's original sin. Let's stop pretending we are one, because we clearly are not. Recognizing this is not a bad thing, but offers hope for self-determination for the two future nations in what used to be the United States of America. Liberals deserve self-determination as well as conservative and reactionaries.
This realization empowers you to do something with unwanted moments that had been impossible before. Now, instead of hoping that you don't encounter moments where you feel suddenly inadequate, limited in some way, you meet every moment awake, aware, watchful - waiting for those instances where you get a chance to see the boundary line between who you have been, and are yet to be. All seemingly impassable moments in your life are seen for what they are: a pre-destined place for you to meet, let go, and outgrow that lower level of yourself that used to stand fearfully before it. The boundary between limitation and limitless disappears, and now you stand on the side of unlimited possibility.
FILE - This book cover file image released by HarperCollins Publishers shows "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," by J.D. Vance. After writing about the problems facing people he grew up with, best-selling author Vance is going back to his home state to help do something about it. "Hillbilly Elegy¿ is about his life in the Ohio Rust Belt city of Middletown and also in rural Kentucky. It¿s among the year¿s top nonfiction books and drew attention because of Vance¿s insights into Donald Trump and the white working class. Vance is starting a nonprofit to address issues such as upward mobility and the opioid crisis. (HarperCollins Publishers via AP, File)
Baal HaSulam did not settle for meetings with only the Prime Minister. He met with many leaders and social activists in the Jewish state. Among them were Zalman Shazar, Moshe Sharet, Chaim Arlozorov, Moshe Aram, Meir Yaari, Yaakov Hazan, Dov Sadan, and the acclaimed poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik. His intention was to convince these opinion leaders to build the state of Israel as a society that endorses unity and promotes the transformation of human nature. Had he succeeded, the Jewish people would have become the light unto nations we are intended to be and the massacre in Aleppo, as well as all the other atrocities that our world has seen since the end of World War II, would not have happened.
I don't know if society will ever glorify the "smart kids" as much as the athletes (not that they are mutually exclusive). As a result, I try to focus my efforts on showing students that programming is an incredible opportunity. My career day speeches do not focus on the minutia of being a scientist, but rather all of the opportunities that a career in science provides: good pay, flexible work schedule, etc. Combine that with the fact that you can be doing rewarding work that allows you to solve challenging problems and it becomes a very attractive option. I also highlight the need for people in CS who also have an interest in story-telling, art, games, nature, and/or biology (among others).
Trump's ostensible reason for the hard line against China is that he wants to negotiate a better deal for US manufacturing, including for workers in the US. The big complaint here is that China has manipulated its currency, keeping it undervalued against the US dollar. This would make US imports from China artificially cheap, and US exports more expensive. But there is an easy way to deal with this: as any economist knows, the US Treasury Department and Federal Reserve can move the value of the dollar against foreign currencies, like any other country. In fact it is even easier for us than for other countries, since the world accepts the US dollar as the major international reserve currency.
In her reply to the debate in Lok Sabha, the Health Minister, said that the Governing body would comprise of a majority of non-officials. She maintained that the name All India Institute of Medical Sciences was all inclusive and apt. She assured the members that the selection of Professors by a Standing Selection Committee has been agreed to by UPSC. She further clarified that while Rules will be made by Government, Regulations dealing with a wide variety of subjects pertaining to administration will be formulated by the Institute. The AIIMS Bill was thus passed by Lok Sabha with a single amendment that AIIMS shall lay an annual report through Central Government in both Houses of Parliament.
My niece was married in London in July. She and her husband then had the reception here in the States in August. I was strapped for money at the time of the reception and didn't give a gift on the day of the reception. I was planning on sending the gift (money) shortly afterwards. When they were going over their gifts and realized there wasn't anything from me, her mother (my sister) sent me a 3-page email at work ripping me apart and even going back as far as 14 years of things that bothered her and which had nothing to do with my niece. This has caused anger and a very awkward situation. I still want to make good. Should I send the gift in a Thanksgiving or Christmas card along with a note?
The beauty of the human project has always been its adaptability, the result of which is a highly differentiated catalogue of possible ways of living: "Each city becomes a very specific experiment in how to inhabit this particular part of the planet for this particular group of people," Ingels says, proposing that we use this "catalogue of global best practice" as inspiration for building better, more sustainable architecture and cities. While modernist architecture tried to create one style of building to fit all humans, today's architecture can help us learn from each other and adapt solutions from one environment to another - such as the Copenhagen bike paths that were exported to Australia.
When I asked these three selves how they felt about my conflict with my friend, each had a different answer. And I began to understand how this situation had triggered the worst qualities of each of my parts: Tiny Lizzy felt afraid and powerless, while Elizabeth the Utopian blindly denied there was a problem at all, and judgmental Ms. Gilbert was ready to banish this horrible person from her life forever. It was only when I invited all three of my selves to bring their best aspects to the table (Lizzy’s empathy, Elizabeth’s creativity, Ms. Gilbert’s strength) that I was finally able to talk calmly to my friend about our problems, and we resolved the dispute in a loving manner.
I still swear by Albert Camus, especially The Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague. In argument and in fiction, Camus is always reminding us that the long arc is a winding way and not a straight arrow. However bleak the outlook, we are responsible for our actions, and no one is exempt. We may choose servility, we may choose resistance, and we must do so in darkness, without guarantees. When we find our fellow spirits, we need to disabuse ourselves of illusions that there is any shortcut out of the swamp. The swamp was a long time in the making and it will be a long time finding our way out. What matters is that we always, every day, ask ourselves what we may do today that we will be proud of tomorrow.
Los Angeles International Airport is the sixth busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and the busiest here on the West Coast of the US. The airport was opened in 1930 as Mines Field and was renamed to Los Angeles Airport in 1941. On the airport property is the iconic white structure that resembles a flying saucer. This is called the Theme Building and I believe it is mainly used as a restaurant and observation deck for the public. The airport used to be identified by the letters “LA”, but when the aviation industry went to a three-letter standard for airport identification, this was changed to “LAX". Apparently the “X” has no significant meaning.
For us, good cinema means a good story. And the story will always involve individuals whom you can connect and identify with. The situation on which the story is based is peripheral. Today’s situation introduces new conflicts in the story; these could be personal, political or social. The system does not want strong officers or bureaucrats. Right from the top to the bottom, everyone is becoming a follower of someone. The story and the film reflect that. Something happens in Dadri, which is inhuman; but does our world come to stop? Why is it that we are suddenly reaching the heights of extremism? From both sides. For me, as a film-maker, it is interesting to understand this polarisation in society.
With the shrinking demarcation between faith and politics leading to violent conflicts the world over and fanaticism and bigotry dominating much of our political discourse, nothing can be more pertinent than talking about religion in literature. But when religion is central to a discussion, it’s usually fraught with frayed tempers, scattershot argumentation, heated debates and sharply differing perspectives. They may not have been blatantly evident on the Lit for Life 2015 platform, yet the great divide manifested, prompting moderator A. R. Venkatachalapthy to remark in a lighter vein, “I am in the middle, right in the middle. I have sympathy for both views since I am a historian and a translator.”
I grew up in Saudi Arabia where my parents worked. I went to the U.S. for college and met my husband, Yassine. He is a Palestinian with refugee status, which meant he was not allowed to visit Palestine. In 2003, I returned to Gaza to work for Aljazeera English’s new website as a reporter. I gave birth to my son, Yousuf, in 2004, on one of my trips back to the US to visit my husband. When Yousuf was about two months, I began my journey back to Gaza. I continued to commute back and forth every few months to see my husband.On one such trip, in the winter of 2004, my taxi driver informed me that the border to Gaza, the Rafah Crossing, was closed indefinitely after a bombing killed five Israeli soldiers.
In 2004, never having left Japan before, 56-year Yukichi Yamamatsu travelled to India armed with little money, bare minimum English and absolutely no idea of what to expect! He did, however, bring with him his formidable art skills, a missionary zeal to spread Japanese comics' culture, and a keen pair of eyes through which he sought to narrate a hilarious brutally honest look at India as it appears to the foreign visitor. From playing marbles to searching for bathrooms, to betting on horses, to visiting a brothel – and last but not the least, to selling Hindi translations of samurai manga on the mean streets of Delhi, Yukichi did it all! Here's what he had to say about his amazingly novel experiences:
And speaking of peace, this morning I was delighted to see that Donald Trump easily surpassed the necessary 270 votes in the Electoral College and has been officially declared as the next President of the United States. I wish him the best of success in carrying out all of his plans. Speaking from the perspective of the wisdom of Kabbalah, with its thousands of years of antiquity, and error-free record of predictions throughout Jewish history, I highly recommend that the President-elect help the people of Israel unite. By doing so, he will induce a monumental positive transformation throughout the world. Helping Israel unite is the greatest gift that the United States can give to the people of Israel.
Even his early watercolours and drawings, like the ones he did at the Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris as a student in 1965, command attention. The men who are unpacking the works pause for a few minutes to take a look at the six-feet-long drawing titled ‘Abu Ghraib’. He made it as a reaction to the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. While the gaunt form is in despair, the lines are overpowering. They run from end-to-end without faltering and the drawing has a painterly quality. “Some of the best artists like Van Gogh poured their entire magnificent energy onto the canvas through the tip of the brush. For me, the vibrations in my body come out as the line.”
In 1996, he moved to Kolkata to work at The Oberoi Grand, where he earned a grand reputation for cooking up a storm. He then did a brief stint as an operations consultant in a beach resort in Goa and even worked at The Leela Mumbai before moving back to New Zealand. Then, he received a call from Priya Paul, who was planning to set up The Park in Chennai. He moved to the city, expecting to spend no more than six months here, but the gourmet thin-crust pizzas he introduced and the authenticity he brought to European food in the city earned him a name which made him stay. “I was at the right place at the right time; that was all. And I probably had a little bit of character to go with it,” winks the chef.
The committee took from the factory the orderly rows, 40 minute schedule with breaks, identical outcomes and an assembly line mentality with no need for creativity or "outside the box" thinking. The jail brought us punishment with no thought of learning through consequence, top down, heavy handed management with order and conformity. The church gave us our teaching style-- the lecture. The church also gave us the concept of "sit quietly and listen and I will tell you everything you need to know". It taught us that there is only one person that holds all the knowledge and that person will give it to you in increments and only at the time that he/she feels you are capable of accommodating the knowledge.
Once, a group of Gotipua dancers came to perform at the Annapurna Theatre. Lingaraj Nanda, the proprietor, on seeing these boys performing dressed as girls, said, “If boys are performing dressed as girls, why can’t the girls from Annapurna Theatre perform the dance form?” They then called a teacher from Banapur, a place in Odisha, and started teaching the girls including me. Guruji (Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra) was employed there as a tabla accompanist but he already knew dance. The edges of the Gotipua are very rough. So when a Gotipua dancer was teaching the dance to me and the other female dancers, since Guruji knew dance, he was trying to trim those rough edges by correcting the movements of the hands.
When you take into account the sheer amount of material possessions that our kids enjoy, through no effort of their own, it's easy to see why they can start to feel entitled. Buying kids whatever they want, whenever they want, dilutes the gratitude impulse and can lead to them not valuing or respecting their possessions. Rather than buying your son those new Air Jordans that all of his classmates have, have him put them on his holiday wish list. For other times of the year, have your kids save up their allowances or work to save up for the things they want to buy. Practicing gratitude underscores the fact that all those things we want--shoes and toys and creature comforts -- don't just pop out of thin air.
I would say that success helps recruiting. In other words, if we weren’t successful in our program at Duke, we wouldn’t attract as many kids. If I coached the USA team, and LeBron James and Durant and Kobe and all those other guys said, “I hated playing for that guy,” that wouldn’t help us in recruiting. If we lost to Spain in Beijing when the score was a 2-point game, that wouldn’t help us in recruiting. But the fact is that we’ve done well. If you’re worthy of being asked to do something and have the courage to accept it, and the work ethic to make it good ― all three of those steps took place in order to have what some people think is a gift from somewhere.
Marine engineers from Slovenia, who invented the Quadrofoil (pictured), say it is unsinkable and highly stable. The first 100 limited-edition boats have now been sold and will be delivered early next year. The Quadrofoil Q2 is a two-seater, four-legged hydrofoil craft powered by a powerful electric outboard motor. Because the aluminium alloy vessel sits above the surface of the water, it suffers little resistance and can reach impressive top speeds. The craft costs £17,586 ($28,144) and is powered by an electric motor and will cost less than 80p ($1.3) an hour to run. The battery will give the craft a range of 62miles (100km) on a single charge. A four-seater version of the boat is currently in development.
Not that Trump is much more reassuring on such matters now than he was during the campaign. He lost the national popular vote by nearly 3 million, a margin of more than two percentage points. Trump suffered the largest popular vote defeat of any of the five popular vote losers of American history who won the presidency solely through the archaic Electoral College. Yet he has appointed so many fossil fuel troglodytes and high finance fat cats--the latter in clear contradiction of his endlessly repeated campaign message decrying the "rigging" of American life--that he acts like he did not squeak through but has won some sort of tremendous mandate for things which are actually quite unpopular in American life.
I take a different approach. When I went to live with aborigines in Australia for one entire year, it’s not tourism. One way to understand a culture is to go inside that culture. And not to be on the periphery. It was a funny story about John of God ― who you see in the beginning of the movie. He said to me, “I don’t know if we can film this. I don’t know if this spirits will say yes.” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “I am just a man. I am a tool of the spirits.” So I had to wait there for 10 days until the spirits said yes, it was OK to film. And then I was able to watch this eye operation, and it was terrible, but it worked. These people were healed.
Dance suffers from lack of audiences for both the performances and write-ups, rued Anita Ratnam. Unhappy with the quality of writing, she began to write a back-story, explaining what she was doing, where she was at that point in time. Get out of the body part-syndrome she urged young writers. Shed trite imagery, do your homework and watch rare videos on YouTube. She opened narthaki.com to disseminate her work and invited writers to watch rehearsals. Without a patina of negativity, a dancer cannot grow, but couch it in elegant language. Dance intersects culture/poetry/music. There is visual interaction between the dancer and the singer. So talk about why it moves you. “We desperately need good critics,” she said.
“I have always been a bit of a crazy dog lady. When me and my partner Mike first met, we had this silly running joke that after 100 dates I would come home one day to a puppy. I had never really thought much of it but a couple of years later, I came home to a tiny dog collar in a gift bag and was told our cocker spaniel puppy would be on his way to us in a few weeks. I initially wanted to kill Mike for buying a dog without us discussing it, but then he reminded me that he always keeps his promises and it was our 100th date that night. So now not only do we have our gorgeous dog Rupert, but I couldn’t believe Mike had remembered our silly ‘100th date’ promise after all that time.” ―
The pages represent just a fraction of the 1,157-page log, still largely under seal, which was in use from 2008 to 2013 and maintained by deputies who work in a branch of the department called “special handling,” which specifically deals with inmates and jail informants. Now, more than nine months after the database came to light, the sheriff’s department has still not offered its explanation as to why the database was apparently abruptly halted in 2013, just days after Goethals issued a broad order to turn over such information in the Dekraai case. Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Stichter, spokesman for the department, told The Huffington Post in August that the agency is still trying to determine 
“He saw the world through the lens of language,” said Shiv, “He would often say that a thing could be true only if it could be stated in two languages.” Ananthamurthy thus held a distant suspicion of English, often wondering whether the language could hold the “textures of Indian life”, observed Satchidanandan, yet when asked to formulate an education policy for Karnataka, he advised that English be taught right from the start, so children would no longer fear the language. “Above all, Ananthamurthy was an impossible creature, a stunning irritant,” said Shiv, “he could drive you crazy with his binaries. The problem was not that he had those binaries, though, but that he wanted to be the hyphen between all binaries.”
I didn’t go to Church or experience what many might think of as the traditional and true meaning of Christmas, but I remember. Like the snow that always fell through the night back then, the monumental meaning of those moments are so clear now. The times seemed like they’d never end. But I grew up. I left Chicago, and I don’t see my best friends or mom every day, so I no longer “celebrate” Christmas much. I haven’t seen a Christmas tree in years. I don’t even celebrate winter much, but that’s probably due to my forty-something sleepy self. No more nights of ice skating in the park, or talking with my mom over a hot cup of Ovaltine at the kitchen table way past bedtime.
If you want to know what is at stake in our communities over the next four years, just go visit our member agencies. That's where you'll see the impact of ESL classes, the life-saving work of community health centers, the value of afterschool mentoring programs. Community-based organizations are our frontline service providers and the champions of local communities and families. Corporations, philanthropies, and local and state governments have a responsibility to increase their support for these groups in the face of potential federal cutbacks. And we at Hispanic Federation will be increasing our efforts at capacity building so that our organizations are able to continue serving, even if Washington has other ideas.
The most searing nonfictional depiction of tyranny I know is Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of Stalin's persecution of her husband, Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. The book is also a love story, a thriller, wicked satire, a field guide to Russian literature, a survival manual and a tragedy. It may turn out that our Years of Living Trumpishly will bear zero resemblance to Stalin's communism or Putin's kleptocracy. If that's the case, among the reasons may be the fearlessness of artists, and the public's appreciation of the debt that political freedom owes to artistic freedom. I don't know a better book for tuning our antennae to that appreciation than Hope Against Hope.
Explaining the Government policy before the Finance Ministry’s Parliamentary Consultative Committee meet on 15th December, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that digital transactions were a parallel mechanism, not a substitute, for cash transactions and cashless economy was actually a less cash economy, as no economy could be fully cashless. The Finance Minister said that the Government was trying to encourage digitization as much as possible because an excessive cash economy had its own social and economic costs and consequences. The Government incentives to people had evoked a positive response to shift to digital mode of payment. Cyber security measures, he said, were being taken by the banks under RBI supervision.
Another thought is to handle this with an unbiased third party. Someone like a pediatric psychologist, who can help support each of you and your children through this difficult conversation. They are also a tremendous resource for your children to continue to see in the early days of your separation, as this allows them a private and safe space to talk about their thoughts and feelings that they may not feel comfortable talking to their parents about. This professional can really help to support them, normalize their thoughts and feelings, and offer guidance on how to adjust to their new way of life. Be supportive of this relationship and this help, as this is about getting them all the help and support they could need.
I don’t think that way. I only think about how much I can contribute to the situation we’re living in right now. It’s still a disaster. We still have poverty, we still have wars, people killing each other. But it’s always been like this. Every century has been a mess. But it’s really important ― how you can contribute to society on your own. The only way I can contribute... I’m always talking about this 120 percent. One hundred percent is not enough. This extra 20 percent that you have to give makes a difference. My motto is very simple: I have to change myself. If I change myself, I can change thousands. You have to start with yourself. The answer doesn’t come from anybody else.
Yeah, they let me choose the song and they approved it. It’s the song I sang in the audition ― that’s the scene they asked me to do then. It’s funny, when the day came to do my big scene, I was so prepared and so excited. I thought, even if I was mediocre in other things, this would be it. I practiced so hard and I gave it my all on the first take. I cried. It was only later that I learned that you can’t really do that, because you’re going to be shooting the scene like, 30 times. You can’t be that emotionally involved every time! Everybody on set was really sweet about it. I must have looked like such a freshman. They were probably getting their lighting together and I’m balling.
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No, Hillary Clinton did not become our first woman president. No, she did not shatter that “highest, hardest glass ceiling.” But she sure as hell got closer than any woman before her did.  And this alone, as Jill Filipovic argued in July, is a victory ― not just for women as a whole, but especially for a particular breed of ambitious, smart girls who have long been told those qualities which are virtues in men make them “unlikable.” “There was Hillary on stage,” writes Filipovic, describing Clinton’s speech at the DNC. “A go-getter, a hard worker, not immediately likable, uncool, but still, just maybe, the future president. A girl-nerd turned lady boss. One of us.”
The best way to do so? The Internet. They are now going about the task of digitising the poet’s works with fervour. Murali has come up with ideas for a Kannadhasan Android app, Kannadhasan e-books, and audio books in the poet’s own voice. The app, to be launched in December this year, will have the lyrics of about 100 Kannadhasan songs, with a little bit of the song’s history, including the names of the music director, director, actors, the movie, and the year it was released. Gandhi and Murali hope to develop it further to feature the poet’s works, and gradually, his books, starting with those on religion. Murali adds that they are among “the top client list” of shopping sites such as Flipkart, Amazon India, and Infibeam.
The plot, such as it is, is simple: Jaufré, a prince/troubadour, hears from a Pilgrim about a beautiful, virtuous woman in far-off Tripoli, falls in love with her from her description, and begins writing songs in praise of her. The Pilgrim sails to the woman (a countess named Clémence), informs her of the smitten troubadour, and sings some of his songs. The prince, informed by the Pilgrim on his return trip that Clémence has heard his songs and knows that he loves her, decides he must now sing for her in person. On the long journey, however, the prince falls ill, and after a heartbreakingly brief encounter with his beloved, dies. She, somewhat paradoxically, reproaches God for his cruelty and also decides to join a convent.
In 1992, I felt that I was victimised by this caste-ridden society. That is why I described myself as a bird with broken wings. During these 20 years, Karukku has vibrated with the lives of the Dalits, witnessing the consciousness of the people. The popularity, recognition, appreciation and solidarity evoked and created by Karukku enabled me to build up my confidence and hope, to strengthen broken wings and to protest against everything that dehumanises me and others. This resistance and resilience healed me, renewing me with fresh energy and power which enabled me to soar in the sky. This is possible due to the tireless and committed labour of Ms. Mini Krishnan, editor, and Ms. Lakshmi Holmstrom, the translator of Karukku.
With those people in mind, we initiated--or at least we will begin initiating in January--a program for those who are non-high school graduates and unemployed. The plan: Have participants go to school in the morning to obtain a high school degree; give them soft skills training (how does one answer a phone or what does one do if sick and unable to go to work?) that would be obvious to many but is, unfortunately, unknown by some; and hard skills training in the afternoon, such as carpentry. At the end of roughly one year, "graduates" will have a high school degree, important "soft" skills, and usable hard skills. Importantly, graduates will also have a job, since part of the program is guaranteeing graduates a paying position.
A media project created by Panzi Foundation USA with renowned photographer Platon which includes the Healing in Harmony music therapy program also began in 2016 with a rollout expected to begin in February 2017.In June 2016, Make Music Matter and Panzi Foundation USA were featured by the United Nations at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul where we were able to host a wide variety of guests at an immersive booth that demonstrated our unique model of healing. At this summit I had the personal pleasure of meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and shared program objectives and methodology. He engaged with us directly, and listened to one of our signature tracks, "My Body is Not a Weapon," from our project at Panzi.
So, as the season of goodwill commences, I urge you to invest in the most precious of commodities ... yourself! When confronted with a barrage of advertisements on the TV, simply switch it off and go outside for a walk. For it is in connecting with the elemental symphony of Nature that the gates of infinity open and we catch a glimpse of our eternal selves. Bear witness and steep yourself in the life that passes before your eyes. Share a pot of tea with a loved one and savor every moment, even the silences between the words. The Holy Grail is found in the simple things. Treat yourself. After all, it won't be long before we're all gone and another generation will have to decide how to best spend its time. Happy Christmas everyone.
This is worrisome for it's happening in India too. Publishing has gone from being artisanal to becoming industrial. It has changed from being a national and local thing to being globalised. And the globalisation process means that you have, in India, exactly the same problems that we had in the U.S. In fact, you see a rebirth of the old colonialist methods of export and import. Many of the firms we are talking about had started out that way. Pearson, which owns the Financial Times, owns Penguin, owns Madame Tussauds… was initially the owner of the waterworks in Argentina. That's where they made their money initially. The French firm, Vivendi, which for a while owned a third of French publishing, was also initially a water company.
Correct. Deliberate and malicious intent has to be proved. Could we have had a ban on untouchability? On the premise that such an issue hurts a community’s feelings? Could we have struck at the root of this evil if someone had said we are hurt by this legislation? What hurts your feelings? The balance lies in favour of freedom of expression rather than the lawbreaker. Khajuraho has nudity. Can we seek a ban on the statues there? Can we ban Khajuraho completely? Strike at people who abuse freedom of expression, but maintenance of law and order cannot be a pretext to banning a book. If law and order is being violated, go after those who violate them. Suppress them. Tackle those who are creating problems rather than muzzle free speech.
4) Egypt's actions in this instance are an excellent lesson in the cowardice of the "strong Arab state." A certain kind of Israel critic excuses the crimes of Arab authoritarianism because we need "strong Arab states" to stand up to Israel and the West. This episode shows that Egypt's new strongman, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has learned much more from his Saudi patrons than he has from Gamal Abdel Nasser, to whom he has been compared by his adulators at home. The Saudi approach, which Egypt has here followed to the letter, entails paying lip-service to the Palestinian cause while taking no real action toward peace whatsoever. This empty show of Arab solidarity then excuses the crimes of totalitarianism at home. Only fools will be fooled.
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chronicled the corruption on Wall Street that less than a decade ago brought our country to the verge of economic collapse. Just these three examples of content blatantly present a diverse scope of corrupt narratives that have plagued our country for decades - if not centuries. The stories embodying such content are not only themselves powerful, but so too are their creators. Often, the personal anecdotes of content creators resonate even more strongly or on a more personal note than the content itself. Compelling content and the conversation that surrounds it illuminate and confront biases and unjust societal norms, offering provocative reflections of past practices that not only deserve, but it is imperative, are highlighted today.
. King was non-violent toward the white supremacists, but he wanted them politically defeated. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "God said I have to love my enemies, but he didn't say I have to like them." This is a time for neither a superficial spirituality, nor a superficial politics. We need to do more than buckle our seat belts now; we need to rise to the occasion and find every legal, non-violent, and effective way to resist Trump's leadership. It's not enough to wait for the Republicans to find their conscience, or for the Democrats to find their ... well, you know the word. Each of us needs to find our power. We are citizens, and we should remember that our representatives, even the President, work for us. We do not work for them.
The other reaction I have gotten is from those who love the idea of a period coloring book, but were upset when they realized that either I was a queer artist or that the book includes characters such as Toni and Sebastian who question the gender binary. I’ve even had someone say they refuse to buy the book simply because I included a genderqueer character. It’s difficult to respond to these people without it it feeling personal, as a genderqueer artist myself, but I think some people hear that Toni is a genderqueer tampon and think – “Well that’s not for me, I don’t identify that way.” But that intentional introduction of Toni and Sebastian as nonconforming characters was meant to make the book
Yes, Amar Akbar Anthony is ‘formulaic’, in that it reuses well-known themes and tropes from cinema and literature. But we think of this less as recycling than upcycling, creatively repurposing to make something new. Bombay filmmakers in the 1970s were experimenting with mixing different ‘flavours’ to create something comforting yet diverting, spiced to perfection, to appeal to the widest possible audience. This, of course, became known as the masala film, and we see Amar Akbar Anthony as the formula’s triumph. Some scholars argue that the very concept of the masala film is a negation of genre by mixture, but our position is that Amar Akbar Anthony catalyses masala as formula; indeed, in this sense, it may be the perfection of the recipe.
Author Beverly Jones successfully leveraged her career-advice-filled blog and newsletter, turning it into a great book that includes 50 tips on how to stay afloat, bounce back and get ahead at work.During her legal, business and coaching career, she has learned that the same characteristics that enable people to start and run successful businesses are also common in resilient professionals who are adept at making changes and adapting. In her opinion, many successful executives are thinking like entrepreneurs.It turns out that many of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and CEOs translate well to salaried workers who have never made a payroll and don't aspired to the C-suite -- yet they want to have fruitful and meaningful careers.
The holidays may be a time to think about others, but if we lose ourselves in the process, we're much less likely to really connect with others and show up as who we want to be. As we drive through the snow to an office party or bake that extra cake for our kids' recital, it's important to check in with how we're feeling. We shouldn't forget to seek joy in the aspects of what we do that matter to us. A lot of that may come from what we offer others, but it's also important to find time for the things that light us up: having coffee with our partner in the morning, calling our best friend for a half hour to talk personally, taking a run in the afternoon. How we feel will affect those around us, so taking care of ourselves is not a selfish act.
To get a sense of this, imagine reading that two hundred people just died in an earthquake in a remote country. How do you feel? Now imagine that you just discovered that the actual number of deaths was two thousand. Do you now feel ten times worse? Do you feel any worse? I doubt it. Indeed, one individual can matter more than a hundred because a single individual can evoke feelings in a way that a multitude cannot. Stalin has been quoted as saying, "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." And Mother Teresa once said, "If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." To the extent that we can recognize that the numbers are significant when it comes to moral decisions, it's because of reason, not sentiments.
“I received the most meaningful gift from my husband moments before we met our son first the first time via adoption. We had made the long drive from Iowa to Florida and had finally arrived in the hospital parking lot. I was rustling through paperwork, bags and tissues in a hurry so we could quickly make it inside and not miss our son’s delivery. My husband calmly grabbed my hands and handed me a gift. He said, ‘I’ve been waiting 4 years to give you a gift to celebrate the day you became a mother’ after many years of infertility. I opened the box, and inside was a beautiful necklace with our son’s initials and his birth stone. My heart overflowed knowing it meant so very much for him to give it to me.” ―
I can’t understand why people are taking such umbrage. I haven’t spoken against the family. I took on the party and its cronies who are using the (family) name everywhere, for anything and everything. How am I wrong in saying that people are exploiting the Nehru-Gandhi name? How can you defend 64 places in Delhi alone named after them? Why are we fooling the people? I have the greatest respect and regard for the family but I will take all the stones hurled. My statement has been misconstrued but then the truth is always bitter. But I am also overwhelmed by the unprecedented support. People have said that deep down they felt the same way but were scared to say it out loud. However, bravery was not my intent. Anyhow, it’s all water under the bridge now.
is an editor and publishing consultant based in Bangalore. She is the principal consultant at LineSpace Consulting, a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, a contributing journalist to Publishing Perspectives, and an advisor to the Publishing Next industry conference. She has recently co-founded a literary agency to represent authors writing in Indian languages. Vinutha has an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths College, London, and an MS in Communication from Manipal University. In the past, she has reported and written for newspapers and news sites, developed e-content and was a faculty for the National Book Trust’s publishing course. She has edited illustrated books, environmental research publications, motivational learning books, fiction and poetry.
The result of the election may not have been what we imagined but the truth is that this election season demonstrated that Latinos can wield significant political power if we invest in civic education, voter registration and GOTV mobilization. That's exactly what happened in Nevada where our community came together to elect the first Latina to the U.S. Senate, Catherine Cortez Masto. It's also what happened in Florida, where an important coalition of community organizations, including Hispanic Federation, increased Latino voter turnout in the vital, vote-rich counties of Orange, Seminole, and Osceola. We need to double down on this work in the weeks and months to come and create greater voter consciousness in Latino communities across the United States.
Spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an X-linked neuromuscular disease caused by polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion in the androgen receptor (AR) gene. SBMA belongs to the family of polyQ diseases, which are fatal neurodegenerative disorders mainly caused by protein-mediated toxic gain-of-function mechanisms and characterized by deposition of misfolded proteins in the form of aggregates. The neurotoxicity of the polyQ proteins can be modified by phosphorylation at specific sites, thereby providing the rationale for the development of disease-specific treatments. We sought to identify signaling pathways that modulate polyQ-AR phosphorylation for therapy development. We report that cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) phosphorylates polyQ-AR specifically at Ser
As recently as in May 2016, Monster released a gender-wage gap survey for the Indian private sector and the gap is highest in the technology and manufacturing sector at 34 per cent. It’s a shocking and deplorable figure to have in any sector or country. The report further states that some of the reasons behind this gender pay gap could be the preference for male workers over female employees, and preference given to male employees when it comes to promotions to supervisory positions. The gender-wage gap is a quantifiable indicator of sexism and sex discrimination and only law, compliance and stringent penalty can fix these deep-rooted biases. It is depressing that even in 2016, India, one of the largest democracies, is carting around this patriarchal bias.
I've written a lot about the countless benefits of generosity. For people who feel down during the holidays, one of the best past times can be to volunteer. Many of us can get lost in the flurry of cooking, shopping, and planning, but it's important to slow down and enjoy acts of generosity. Whether it's offering a gift or just our time, we should strive to be present for a real, honest, and personal interaction. That means being equally comfortable with receiving a gift or acknowledgment as with giving one. These are many ``opportunities for authentic moments of connection and gratitude. If we let them pass by, we fail to fully experience these affections or let them sink in. Again, these real, human experiences can be an antidote to our critical inner voice.
We have worked with more than 1000 women, girls, and boys - each one a survivor of sexual violence or a vulnerable community member -in our music therapy program at Maison Dorcas, the aftercare facility at Panzi Foundation DRC in Bukavu with partners Panzi Foundation USA. Maison Dorcas and Panzi Foundation DRC is a sister organisation to the famed Panzi Hospital, founded by Dr. Denis Mukwege. Current trends in our research analyses reveal ground breaking and promising results with improvement across all three primary mental health dimensions: anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Women in our program are twice as likely to have an improvement in their anxiety scores and 80% were more likely to have an improvement in their PTSD scores than women who did not participate.
I believe that mature art holds radical positions that contextualise and examines prevailing issues of its time. Art is a space that strategises arguments, problematises as a method of introspection, is confrontational, is often used as a subversive tool, and is not a space that is designed to entertain the consent of another to validate its existence. This is what independent authorship and artistic autonomy must mean within a democratic space of a secular nation. The world that we place ourselves central to becomes a tapestry patterned by incidents and histories that demand our participation willingly or otherwise. As artists we often become the chroniclers of larger narratives that hold both the particularity of our lives as well as a wider world of information.
Joaquin Phoenix was originally Joaquín Rafael Bottom (to my fellow gays... stop your laughing right now) because a phoenix represents new beginnings. Bruno Mars changed his name from Peter Gene Hernandez, so he wouldn't be typecast as a Latin singer. Lea Michelle was bullied as a kid and dropped Sarfati from her name because, say it aloud, it sounds like 'Lea So-farty.' Transgender icon Chastity Sun Bono changed his name to Chaz Salvatore Bono. Ralph Lifshitz, as known to his parents and bar mitzvah friends, changed his name to Ralph Lauren because polo, horses and red, white and blue yachts are more gentile than Jewish. ...And for those ultimate fashion lovers, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel changed her name to CoCo. What would the world be without our intertwined C's?
Reality check! Most people who gain a lot of weight over the holidays are often turning most every meal into a festive meal. You can keep this in check by having planned regular meals and maintaining exercise of sorts. Cheat meals are usually integrated into long term eating plans, but the problem arises when you create a "cheat meal" for every meal from Christmas Eve to New Years Day! Even worse, it that once you start eating like this, holiday meals lose their "special" appeal and you might actually enjoy them less than if the rest of your diet was normal. But, if you don't make every meal a cheat meal and keep water weight in mind, the chances of you gaining pounds and pounds using the suggestions I advise in this article are very, very slim, so don't sweat it!
I came back to live and work in India as a conscious choice after completing a two year MA program at the Royal College of Art in London in 1984, turning down a lucrative invitation to start my professional career as an artist in the UK. This was a choice motivated by my political beliefs to situate my life within my own country, and to engage with its progress as a participant, with a clear idea of the areas that were of concern for me. Women’s issues of development, child welfare, education and workshops for the underprivileged, interventional assistance through fund raising, drug and marital counselling, alternative teaching practices within the fine arts and many other areas of perceived need have been areas that I am actively engaged with over the last 30 years.
of the Palestinian territories, and building starts have increased by forty percent this year. Much as the two-state solution remains a settled fixture in rhetoric on the path to peace, factual analysis suggests that it is impossible. Though it is hard to identify the precise moment when we passed the point of no return, it has almost certainly been passed. We are no longer in the age of Occupation but of de facto Annexation, so finger-wagging about Israel's trampling upon the Geneva Conventions serves little purpose. Israel's settlement policy has assured that only a one-state solution is practicable now. That state would have to answer Jewish demands of a homeland, and Arab demands of full citizenship. That seems impossible, too, but it may be the only way forward.
And now, of course, there is a book deal, announced with no transparency as to where the profits from the book are going, whether the contributors whose posts Chamberlain is presumably selecting for this book will get paid, and without any consideration for breach of privacy laws were someone’s intellectual property and personal experience suddenly able to sit on your coffee table. Pantsuit Nation reportedly is working to become a 501(c)(3) and 501 (c)(4) charity, which raises more questions about profit allocation and distribution. Chamberlain is the only person credited on the book pre-order page, which also is troubling given that the book supposedly has no content, theme, or profit sharing structure and is already available for $17.99 on Barnes and Noble’s website.
, he stated, "I have already conveyed the rudiments of my perception in 1933. I have also spoken to the leaders of the generation. Alas, it made no impression. Now, however, after the atom and hydrogen bombs, I think the world will believe me." David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, expressed his appreciation of Baal HaSulam's commitment to the goal of transforming society and human nature in a letter to his son, who was also my teacher, Rav Baruch Shalom Ashlag, who continued his father's work. Ben Gurion wrote, "I wanted to talk to him about Kabbalah, and he with me--about socialism" (Diaries, August 11, 1958). Another time, Ben Gurion wrote (January 6, 1960), "I view with tremendous importance the completion of the works of Rav Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)."
Basically, it seems to me ― unless she gives me any reason to think otherwise, which I doubt she will ― that Libby Chamberlain is interested in making a quick buck off of other people’s trauma, hurt, pain, and confusion. She has turned Pantsuit Nation from a space of solidarity into an exploitative business model which replicates the same oppressive structures that supported the election of Donald Trump in the first place. If her intention was always to privatize and monetize PSN and its stories, thereby recreating the same neoliberal systems the group claims to fight against, she is a liar too. It was never stated at its inception that Chamberlain would ever aim to profit off of other people’s stories, and the fact that she even wants to says a lot about her character.
Given this ever-present, almost looming sense of pressure to evoke change in a world so clearly divided by political, social, economic, and cultural lines; how do we - the current generation of Hollywood assistants and entertainment powerhouse hopefuls - justify devoting our hard work, time, and in many cases - sanity - to an industry that, in some ways, directly contradicts socioeconomic ideals of equality through its focus on status? Media industry professional devote much, if not most, of their time to answering questions such as: 'What actor will drive the highest revenue for a film' or 'Which YouTube influencer's, say, make-up instructional video will gain the largest number of followers?" "Which social media platform will attract the largest millennial viewership?"
While new approaches to handling criminal behavior can seem experimental and somewhat time consuming, diversionary practices for low level offenders should continue to be pursued and given appropriate funding and resources. There are still too many young people across the country encountering the criminal justice system, which can set an ominous tone for their whole lives. To end mass incarceration we must examine systems such as restorative justice, which keep offenders out of the system, along with programs that analyze the root causes of criminal action. If misguided youth can be supported and steered onto better pathways, and given opportunities to help build stronger families and communities, it can go a long way toward changing how our future prison populations look.
Shaq attended Louisiana State University where he studied business and played ball. A two-time All-American player, he was also named College Player of the Year by the Associated Press and the United Press International in 1991. When the NBA called, Shaq decided to leave LSU to pursue his dreams on the court. He would later earn a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in business administration, and a Ph.D. in dducation. "Education is extremely important," he says. "Unfortunately, the reality is that 0.01 percent of American children have the chance of becoming a professional athlete," he says. "On the other hand, 100 percent of American children have the chance to live productive and meaningful lives with the help of a strong education. That's why it is so important to me."
From the story of a fisherman-poet protesting POSCO in Odisha, to a 73-year-old librarian with 160 books and a tea shop in the elephant-crossing zones of Kerala’s lowest-literate panchayat Edamalakudy, to a toddy-tapper who scales almost twice the height of the Empire State Building each day, to the lives of the last four Nadaswaram craftsmen families in Tamil Nadu, and the life story of a young Bharatanatyam dancer, Kali from Kovalam village, who is also proficient in three folk dances, PARI hosts a wealth of information about the linguistic, cultural, and occupational diversity of rural India. Its ongoing projects include a facial diversity documentation of one male and one female photograph from each of India’s 629 districts, besides a fast-expanding online research library.
But the fires you probably don't see on the news are home fires; yet home fires kill more people annually than any other disasters the Red Cross responds to.Families are forced to run from their dwellings, often with only the clothes on their backs, and see their homes go up in blaze and sometimes every bit of personal property and irreplaceable mementoes completely gone or badly damaged by flames, heat, smoke, and water.As the Fire Department puts out the fire and rolls up their hoses, Red Cross volunteers show up on the lawn of the survivors to put a blanket around their shoulders, give them something warm to drink, provide a stuffed animal for their child, a place to stay and the assistance they need to get through the worst night of their lives and to get back on their feet.
I don’t think anybody wants just conservation or just development at the cost of one or the other. It’s essentially about how to reconcile the merits of development with the needs of conservation. We have been highlighting this. In fact, sustainable development was particularly chosen as the theme of the 40th anniversary of the Convention as the strategic direction the Convention had to take in future years. Globally, the World Heritage Committee has asked us to also prepare a policy on World Heritage and sustainable development. On a practical and implementation side, it is something that has to be explored on a site by site level; each site will have its own specificity as to how much development it can sustain and how much conservation it needs. The two are really one concept.
In this multilingual country, when a new political party calls itself AAP, it also becomes a convenient acronym that means ‘your’ in Hindi, offering a treasure trove of associations for the politician. “Has there been a paradigm shift in Indian democracy?” moderated by Praveen Swami, saw Manish Tewari, Pinki Anand and Shazia Ilmi, from the Congress, BJP and AAP respectively, discuss “democratisation of information”. Ilmi defended her party’s electoral victory in Delhi from the oft-heard assumptions of being a media phenomenon, pointing out that AAP’s anti-corruption policies were detrimental to a lot of entities the media “derives its revenue from”. Overall, bonhomie prevailed, though at times the rebuttals did acquire the vocabulary, if not the temperature, of election speeches.
Tyler: Surely, aging research will have its hype, blind alleys, and unexpected complications- these are an unavoidable risk in all scientific advances. But the risks and difficulties should not paralyze efforts to make the advance or call into question whether it should be made; instead, they should increase caution and vigilance in how it is done. And we must remember the context. Our world is already going to hell in a handbasket- the risks of advancing science are real, but the potential benefits may be all that stand between us and disaster. Science is necessarily disruptive, but may offer our only road to salvation. To quote Mark Watney in the movie 'The Martian': "In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this."
Sharif has written that "the political is not topical or thematic, it is tactical and formal," and that sentiment is abundantly clear in this collection that uses erasure (redaction) to bring scrutiny to the censoring motives of the state and reappropriates language from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. As Americans potentially spend the next four (or eight) years countering a leader who has thus far conducted himself as a domestic demagogue, it is important that we also remain aware of the face we turn toward the world -- and the drones we launch into it. The threat of the coming presidency does not negate the fact America was already in the business of "winning" at the expense, if not demise, of other global populations long before Nov. 8, 2016.
I am now living moment to moment in my soul. I have to trust in the process of my journey toward adapting to my new life. I have to let my heart lead me and stay out of my head. I am trying to savor the moments with the grandkids. I had them for a long weekend and enjoyed every second without fretting over what would happen next. I took them to the movies, I took them to mouthwatering sushi dinners, and I took them bowling. I smartly had each child bring a friend so I didn't have to bowl and throw my back out. Have any of you been bowling recently? Who knew one and a half hours of three games for four kids would cost $130? I mindfully accepted the cost, which brought me back to the present and the fun I had watching the kids laughter. Thank goodness for the new bumpers in bowling alleys!
The Chanukah actions are part of a broader commitment to engage in this work thoughtfully and consistently and to stand against all forms of Islamophobia--whether it is a hate crime in the street or violence resulting from US domestic or foreign policies. JVP's Network Against Islamophobia has as its foundational principles being accountable partners in the larger movement led by Muslims and those who have been directly impacted by Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, and, at the same time, doing the work within Jewish communities to bring these issues to the forefront. That also means engaging within our communities in learning together through workshops and discussions about the multiple ways in which Islamophobia is manifested and how we can do this work most meaningfully and effectively.
Yes, I think that travel writing as physical exploration will seem more and more a thing of the past. But this is still far away. There are whole areas of the world still virtually inaccessible: and just as one region opens up, another closes. In the 1970s I made a journey all but impossible today: through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and north Pakistan; but at that period China and the Soviet Union were virtually off limits. So just as one door opens, another slams shut. Writers — from Joseph Conrad to Claude Levi-Strauss — have been predicting the death of the travel book (and even of travel itself) for at least a century, for precisely the reasons suggested by the advent of the Internet: the apparent greater accessibility of the world. Yet travel writing is still with us, as strong as ever.
I’m not sure it can be described. It’s like what happens when you’re listening to a piece of music for the first time; you like what it does to your mind and you want more of it. And that happens even when I read a new poet; and when I’m drawn to the mind of the poet. There are times when I can persuade myself that even if I could never write another line of poetry, even if I never wrote another line that satisfied me, which is perfectly possible, I should be content with reading all the wonderful poems there are. But I know I would not be. I know there is a special pleasure in creating a good line. I think this pleasure, this satisfaction, would be the common inheritance of anyone who has ever practised an art. You want to do it because it has happened before and you want it to happen again.
We know that the anti-immigrant rhetoric that characterized the Trump campaign and has energized hate groups is dangerous. But our defense of immigrants has to go beyond outrage. We must rewrite the script about immigrants in America. Working with partners in the media, we must continue to highlight the important contributions that immigrants make to our economy, our culture, and our communities. We must also expand our work in immigrant integration. There are nearly 10 million legal permanent residents in the United States who are eligible to become citizens. But many potential citizens don't understand the benefits of citizenship or the process for becoming citizens. We must increase our outreach to these persons through citizenship drives, offers of legal counsel and ESL and civics classes.
To further accelerate the surge in digital transactions, the Government announced on 8th December an attractive package to promote the use of cashless payments through various concessions like a discount at the rate of 0.75 per cent of the sale price to consumers on purchase of petrol or diesel, if payment is made through digital means. To expand the digital payment infrastructure in rural areas, the Central Government through NABARD decided to extend financial support to eligible banks for deployment of two PoS devices each in one Lakh villages with population of less than 10,000. These PoS machines are intended to be deployed at primary cooperative societies, milk societies and agricultural input dealers to facilitate agri-related transactions through digital means and serve 75 crore population.
Life can be great entertainment... or a horrible nightmare... or something in between. As a writer, a humour writer, I’ve tried to bring ‘the funny’ into situations that may actually be sad. I’ve tried to have fun with words, with situations and with people. In a way, you kind of feel like god, manipulating this character and ticking off that. It’s enormously rewarding to be able to control people so. I am kidding of course. While I plan chapters and plots and so on before writing, very often thoughts and scenes just flow out of me before I can stop them. When that happens I feel enormously happy. And there are other days when nothing happens at all. I question my creativity in those times. But the book is about conflict, resolution, temporary fixes and moving on with life, ready for the next battle.
Both of those Megus ran their course and closed a while back, and the new installment in the Dream Downtown Hotel has a new owner, John Bakhshi, who also runs Beautique uptown. (There are now Megu branches in Delhi, Doha, Moscow and Gstaad.) The Meat District restaurant is down flights of stairs, but the designers have managed to prevent any sense of claustrophobia by a canny use of mirrors and bright neon colors throughout, with beautiful antique kimonos, left over from the original Megu, used as wall art.There is a sleek sushi bar and private dining room, and the main dining room is set with lighting that can change with the hour or the mood; the well-padded, half-moon chairs are exceptionally comfortable. The noise level, midweek, was quite civilized, the music low, at least earlier in the evening.
Immediately after taking over, Gayathri embarked on a project to change the syllabus by setting up an expert committee comprising stalwarts such as T.K. Murthy, P.S.Narayanaswamy, Prof. B. Krishnamurthy and B.M. Sundaram. Taking into account the need of the students toaday, varnams such as Mohanam and kritis such as ‘Samaja Vara Gamana’ were introduced. “Most of the students do not have any exposure to Carnatic music whatsoever, and have to be taught right from sa pa sa. They would be have been baffled if I had started teaching them Sahana and Kedaragowla varnam from day one. There was this fear of losing them midway. The new syllabus is being followed for almost two years now, and has been welcomed both by students and the faculty alike. We have already conducted one examination under this syllabus.”
When I first started out on what, a long way down the road, evolved into ‘The Aryavarta Chronicles’, it was a satirical retelling, with modern references and anachronisms thrown in. It featured characters like Yudi, Archie, DD (Duryodhan) and Duss. I’d written a fair bit of it following the storyline of ‘Mahabharata’ and spared no sarcasm or pith, but then I got to two characters who completely made me skid to a halt: Panchali and Govinda. These characters defied comedy, forced me to reconsider all that I thought I knew about the epic. Soon, I realised there was a much bigger story that I had set out to narrate. By that time, I was aiming for a reconstruction, a mytho-history rather than mythology — something that goes not only into the sequence of events, but also the underlying explanations for them.
Willi started off as a gardener, in New Zealand, at the age of 16. Looking for a change, a year later, he decided to join the army, where he was assigned to the kitchen. “In those times, we had the whole veal and sheep come in from the butchery and also had our own bakeries. So, I’ve done it all — right from cutting down a side of beef to baking a wedding cake. And there are not many people these days who get this sort of training.” At the age of 21, he moved to Australia, where he met his Scottish wife, Margaret. He settled there, bought a house, renovated it and worked different jobs for seven years. Then, he moved to Germany to work in the five-star Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel & Conference Center because “unless you go overseas and get more experience, you’re never going to take the top job.”
Utilities, and the state commissioners and legislators who regulate them, need to heed these winds of change. With wind and solar power now competitive with fossil fuel-powered generation in many markets, the financial fundamentals underpinning the transition to a clean-energy economy are solid and will continue beyond the upcoming change in federal leadership. The shift is based on economics, not politics, and forward-looking states and corporations will reap the benefits. Tim Healy, CEO of energy management software provider EnerNOC, noted at the Companies vs. Climate Change conference that climate change ranks in the top five business concerns for global CEOs, according to Chief Executive magazine. "Corporate America," he said,"is not going to stand still or be deterred on its carbon reduction efforts."
First, because it requires no words. I wanted to create something in stark contrast to the dense, language-heavy brochures and instruction manuals that were out there when I was younger, and are unfortunately still used today. I wanted to create something fun, something that encourages people to interact with the characters in a way that allows them to take ownership of their periods. In our society, we’re often taught to hide any evidence of our periods so that no one can see, but by coloring these pages, from the pad who is a magician, to the skateboarding menstrual cup or astronaut tampon, young menstruators can engage with menstruation in a way that is empowering and fun. Honestly, a part of me really hopes that someday a colored page or two of my period coloring book ends up on someone’s fridge.
While you may feel like you do not want to spend another day with your partner, it is likely that the idea of separation and divorce has been looming for quite some time. So, consider how long you have been working towards this decision when you consider the difference a few weeks could make in your child's life. Letting your child know that you will be splitting up right at the holidays, will cause your child to associate the holiday season this year, and for years to come, with the end of your marriage and their family as they know it. Unless it is impossible, wait until the new year, and let them enjoy their holiday season, and these last wonderful memories of you as a complete family unit. If you look at the holidays as being about their needs above all else, it will help you to make it through them as well.
My colours are strident, almost insistent of attention, as they occupy a space of belonging that holds an authority as an element of relevant significance within the overall structure of a work. The colour palette that feeds my art works is informed by cultural traditions and factors of influence that correlate to the ideas I wish to deliver. The specificity of particularised meanings associated with colours comes from many regional territories across the world that contain expansive narrative traditions and cultural practices, and which are invested with particularised meanings. In exploring such practices there are certain symbiotic relationships that one finds for oneself, to personalise and appropriate to one’s own need, and which offers suggested meanings that contribute to the specific reading of a work of art.
Who needs education when we can learn stuff on our own? This, you see, has been this election's winning message. And that's exactly why the incoming cabinet features a secretary of education who wants to dismantle public education; a national security adviser who tweets fake news; a secretary of treasury who ran a bank that was dubbed the "foreclosure machine"; and an EPA administrator who doesn't believe in environmental policies and doesn't believe in climate change. If you think about it, it's like all these people, instead of being rightfully shamed for their failures, have been rewarded with the highest positions in the government. All because we no longer trust education, let alone if it comes from the establishment. Can you hear your teenage kid's voice? "Get out of the way, Mom. I can do stuff on my own, now!"
I guess he's Swedish but I didn't know that. I thought he was sort of like a new Bob Dylan, and when I first heard him I thought that was his whole deal: Be like Bob Dylan. It reminded me of my mom - how much she loved Dylan - so I kept listening. But I was wrong about the Tallest Man's roots. If you've ever listened to this song, have you thought about the lyrics? I've listened to it maybe 30 times and I'm still wondering what some of those lines might mean. Like "a house made from spider webs and the clouds rolling in?" Are you the spider or what's caught in the web? Are you the clouds? Are other people the clouds? Are the clouds our circumstances, our choices, or our consequences? And can anyone stop the weather? I guess it doesn't matter. I like the feeling of the song even if I'll never know exactly what he means.
When an anonymous man wrote to author and comedian Sara Benincasa to ask why she had gained weight, she decided to answer him honestly. Her response will have you cheering the entire way through. Sometimes women gain weight ― and don’t care! ― while they’re busy kicking ass. As Benincasa writes: “Anyway, during The Fattening, nobody who hired me or who wanted to hire me ever said that I was too fat. Do you think they were just being polite? I should ask. I will go through my union or one of my agents. I have several. I also have a manager. I should ask her. I could ask my lawyer, my CPA, my personal wealth manager, or the very handsome man who cleans my home in Los Angeles. He’s really nice even though he probably looks in my fridge and goes, ‘Oh my God, this kale is fattening!’”
Dr. Kishore Rao, Director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre since 2011, sees no dichotomy between nature and culture. “Each is a creation and reflection of the other,” he says. In fact, Dr. Rao’s work in the last 30 years has always had a connection with the implementation of the 1972 World Heritage Convention which today ensures the conservation of 1007 sites world-wide. Since 1976, he has worked for the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, as well as in different States of the Union. From 1999 to 2005, he worked with The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Head of its Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group for the Asia Region. As Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, he was specifically responsible for leading the Centre’s work on natural heritage. He spoke to
Amar Akbar Anthony envisions a resilient, pluralistic society that is the result not of constitutional secularism imposed top down, but rather of bottom-up affiliations formed between small, faith-based communities. The film is about dosti, about the friendship that binds the three brothers. Our knowledge of their brotherhood generates the film’s dramatic tensions and ironies, but what brings the three characters together is not the call of blood but cultural norms of love, duty, and mutual care. The film’s message is that the nation is a neighbourhood, and that neighbourhood is a family. It follows that India survives as a vibrant secular society not because of conscious belief in a political ideology but because the people of India will it to be so. Now, how much room this vision makes for democracy is a tricky question.
I have actually gotten that reaction based on two reasons. The first, like you mentioned, is from people who think that talking about menstruation with kids is inappropriate or weird. But I would argue that it’s this very hesitancy that reinforces the taboo and shame around periods, whereas my period coloring book is simply a fun way to start a difficult conversation, and helps to normalize an integral aspect of reproductive health. Why shouldn’t we teach kids, even those years away from their first cycle, that periods are nothing to be ashamed of by introducing them to a coloring book filled with adventuring tampons, pads, sponges and a cup? By starting this conversation early on, we can help to normalize the experience as opposed to shaming it by refusing to discuss periods at all until the absolute last second.
I had the privilege of being born a much-desired-for girl child in a middle class economy of yesteryear, and grew up encircled in the mantle of empowered confidence my parents inspired that moulded my spirit of survival. My own personal choices have always been outside the prescriptive dictates, and so the attitudes of traditional mindsets that prefer conformity continuously make a challenging backdrop within which I set the stage of my own existence with an outside world. Feminist and other oral histories chronicle some of the most powerful narratives of valour, and are often the stories of survival of those most vulnerable and dispossessed. It is these legacies of human triumph that command my attention and hold my spirit captive, inspiring me to place my energies to conjoin with these ancestries of determination and courage.
was the story of her father and the hardships he went through, fictionalised and retold through her words. Therefore, the workshop primarily dealt with biographical writing and weaving fiction into true stories. After an introduction to her writing, the participants were asked to write, in 20 minutes, a true incident that interested or affected them. The stories that emerged were from their memories or those told by their fathers, uncles, friends and grandmothers. And at the end of each one, Nadifa gave them feedback and asked questions about their writing preferences. “I find that in India, fiction always ends with a moral. That a person is a better person at the end of the story. It’s not like that in the U.K. Don’t you think it will get repetitive if you already know that the ending will hold a message?” she wonders out loud.
Early this year, writer Jia Tolentino began making a list of people who played themselves ― a term, she says, which “can be loosely defined as working against your conscious intentions.” On the night of the presidential election, she realized that she too had played herself ― as so many of us did ― in believing that Donald Trump was unelectable. “I had thought that, within my small life, I was credibly serving the future that I wanted: one in which we would have our first female President, one in which truth mattered, one in which Trump represented the death rattle of old prejudices rather than a vessel for those prejudices made hot-blooded and new. I allowed some sense of personal righteousness to satisfy me, and I suppose that’s the beginning of where I went wrong.” In 2016, we all played ourselves.
In 1992, Shaq was the first pick in the NBA Draft, selected by the Orlando Magic. "I will never forget the feeling," he says. "So much hard work had gone into that point, and I was relieved to have finally made my dream a reality." The Magic was the first of six teams Shaq would play for during his 19-year career. He was named Rookie of the Year for the 1992-1993 season. Shaq's first three NBA Championships, in 2000, 2001, and 2002, came after he signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. His fourth, in 2006, was during his time with the Miami Heat. Shaq later played with the Phoenix Suns, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Boston Celtics, retiring in 2011. He received numerous honors as an individual player, including being selected for the All-Star Game 15 times, winning three All-Star Game MVP awards, and being named to 14 All-NBA Teams.
The secretary of energy for the past two terms has been a PhD. In fact, our previous secretary of energy was a Nobel laureate. These bright minds will now be succeeded by a BS in animal science and 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant. I'm sure those stardom experiences will come in handy when talking to scientists and engineers about the state of our nuclear weapons and climate change policies. Oh, wait. I forgot; the incoming secretary doesn't believe in climate change. So I'm sure he doesn't believe in investing money in basic research to address questions like, "Why are our trees dying?" or "Is there going to be enough water for our growing cities twenty years from now?" or "How are we going to sustain our agriculture when we'll run out of water?" or "Can we make more potent antibiotics in order to fight drug-resistant bacteria?"
Conversations about the gender binary cannot be extricated from the larger conversations around menstrual health, even those we have with kids, because when we presume that menstruators are all women, we make the mistake of excluding other folks from conversations about their own health. So I created Patrice the Pad, Marina the Menstrual Cup, Sebastian the Sponge, and Toni the Tampon. As a genderqueer human myself, it has been hard to find communities that include people like me when they market to, talk about, or provide services for menstruators. It was risky to decide to introduce Toni, who uses no pronouns, and Sebastian who uses he/him/his, as genderqueer and trans characters, but I wanted to make sure that I created art that was inclusive, not just art that appeals to those who refuse to recognize other’s lived identities.
Every country I’ve covered in the book, I was brought to by history. I realised during my research that there was no way I could write about chemical and modern science without writing about the Dutch. It was the chemical centre of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries. Everything I read about, the fever tree that Henry studies, the advancement in medical science, everything brought me to the Dutch. And as for the rest, every adventure had to be situated in the right place. I knew Tahiti had to play an important role in the book because of how essential it was to Captain Cook. The New World was where Henry would start his new life, and I chose Philadelphia because it was the first place in America that medicine became important. This was probably because it was largely a Quaker town and young Quaker men had very few career options.
There were times when we let the present slip away, rushing past to get to the next thing, while squandering precious moments. But basically we made it a rule to live each moment to the fullest. I distinctly remember feeling "I want this moment to last forever." I was present and he was present, and even if we planned too much, we made the most of every second. Towards the end of Peter's life he said: "if I die tomorrow, I will have no regrets." He meant every second of this statement. He loved his friends, his family, and especially his grandkids. After picking them up at school he would tell me stories of each blissful moment and relished in the tales. This was our state of mindful coupleness. We trusted in our relationship and therefore were mindful of each others' space and the space we shared. That's how we made it work for 47 years.
Before The Guttenberg Press, the average person owned 0 books. Before Project Gutenberg, the average person owned 0 libraries. What the brick and mortar libraries do is too often based on politics; otherwise you would be talking to them, and not to me. Any major library, or even minor one for that matter, could have spent just one per cent of their budget over the last 35 years and done far more than I have done. The fact is that they don’t WANT to give away free books They believe in a civilisation based on “Limited Distribution”. But the Internet began on a model of “Unlimited Distribution”. Anyone can create an e-book in a day, week, month, etc., and when they are done, they can, if they like, make it available to a billion people without the crowds and hoopla of a “Harry Potter” release event, and without the billions of dollars. So we do.
And in another trend that bears watching, some corporations in regulated markets are also starting to flex their muscle by "exiting" from their utility to choose other energy providers - and placing a financial bet that it's worth hefty exit fees to do so. In October, Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International paid NV Power $86.9 million to exit the utility and pursue its own electricity procurement and management, and Vegas rival Wynn Resorts did the same (paying $15.7 million). Caesars Entertainment joined the trend last week, applying to the Nevada Public Utilities Commission for an exit. In Washington State, Microsoft is reportedly in negotiations with utility Puget Sound Energy about becoming a "transmission only" customer. Microsoft has established an internal price on carbon and has been among the leaders in corporate PPAs for renewables.
After the election, I immediately knew I wanted to make some public art during my trip to Oklahoma in a few weeks for Thanksgiving. I wanted to make something in a very Republican state that was a challenge to whiteness. So, I used a couple of recent drawings, one old drawing, and a drawing I did the day before installing this of my mother, to put together a diverse group of folks.The piece reads: "America is Black. It is Native. It wears a Hijab. It is a Spanish speaking tongue. It is Migrant. It is a Woman. It is Here. Has been here. And it's not going anywhere." I installed this piece yesterday, over a few hours, with the help of my two best friends, @ahhouse and @free_lancee, and Alana's son. Wheat paste is a temporary medium so I'm interested to watch the life of the piece and any reactions it elicits.Oklahoma City, 11/27/16
offer a highly innovative proposal: Instead of Trump’s wall, they want to build a border of solar panels. “It would have a civilizing effect in a dangerous area,” they contend. “Since solar plants use security measures to keep intruders out, the solar border would serve as a de facto virtual fence, reducing porousness of the border while producing major economic, environmental and security benefits on both sides.” Such an installation, they continue, “would make trafficking drugs, arms and people all the more difficult for criminal cartels. In Mexico, the solar border would create a New Deal-like source of high-tech construction and technology jobs all along the border, which could absorb a significant number of would-be migrant workers on their way to cross into the U.S. illegally, at great physical risk.”
But because BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are relatively rare, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends the test only for those who, after screening and counseling, have been found to have a family history that puts them at significant risk—which includes having female relatives (mother, sister, aunt, grandmother) who’ve had breast cancer or cancer of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, or abdominal lining (a BRCA mutation is linked to higher risk of those cancers, too) or who got breast cancer before age 50. You’re also more likely to have a BRCA mutation if you’re related to a man who’s had breast cancer; people of Jewish Eastern European ancestry are more prone to the mutation, too. If you have none of these risk factors, testing isn’t recommended since it’s highly unlikely you’ve inherited a mutated gene.
Actress Gabrielle union begins her brave LA Times op-ed by describing her violent rape two decades earlier. She writes about how her own experience led her to accept a role in Nate Parker’s “Birth of a Nation” and how the news of the rape allegations against him shook her to her core. She writes: “Since Nate Parker’s story was revealed to me, I have found myself in a state of stomach-churning confusion. I took this role because I related to the experience. I also wanted to give a voice to my character, who remains silent throughout the film. In her silence, she represents countless black women who have been and continue to be violated. Women without a voice, without power. Women in general. But black women in particular. I knew I could walk out of our movie and speak to the audience about what it feels like to be a survivor.”
It's probably not a surprise to learn that Post Death Soundtrack's macabre songs contain references to dark passengers and feel like séances. It's a particular audience that will be drawn to this intensity that dwells in a hellish landscape of a mythical underworld. The music that accompanies these images is often dense and foreboding, but there are moments on the album "The Unlearning Curve" that surprise. "Dance with the Devil" turns out to be a haunting ballad that brings to mind recent Nick Cave songs. The final track "Transform in White Light" opens with "you've searched for answers and found only fear." It's not an encouraging sentiment to encapsulate a journey, and yet it seems to be an indictment of the current populist wave in the US and Europe. The refrain built around the title forms a mantra that is as close to uplifting as Post Death Soundtrack gets.
Panchali is different from the epic in the way all of them are different, because she is real and not lauded as a force of destiny or divinity. She is normal — strong, weak and sometimes confused. It bothers me when we point to Panchali Draupadi as the cause of the ‘Mahabharata’ war, when we say her wrath destroyed the entire Bharata clan, instead of talking about the ambition, greed or sheer ineptitude of the other characters involved in the chain of events. It bothers me when the wrong done to her is admitted, yet dismissed, by constructing her as an ideal figure beyond reproach. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t respect the epic. I very much do and that’s why I needed to reconstruct a version that would still make me revere its characters — not because they were gods or subjects of destiny, but because they were human beings who stood for good and right.
I listened intently to his Public Defender and wondered how it felt to represent strangers. She spoke with an aura of urgency that was difficult to reconcile against the softness of her blue eyes. "Your son could be receiving as many as 22 years but he has been given the gift of drug court." It was like the scene from Poltergeist when the mother enters a portal tethered by a rope to save her child from the beast. I was also dropped into an unfamiliar world to help my child. "Stay away from the light" emphasized the state of confusion as she frantically attempts to find their way back home. When a benevolent lawyer interjected, "Opiate addicts don't make it through the rigors of drug court, and they end up in prison" the movie mom and I were both required to make potentially deadly decisions in hyper speed however, my experience was not a Stephen Spielberg production.
Well it’s a good question. First of all, it comes from people. The infrastructure of our program: It’s not my program, it’s our program. Then, the kids that we recruit are really good kids. When they’re put in this type of environment in a school as great as Duke, it helps us tremendously. They recognize they want to be a part of something bigger than them. And then what we do is we don’t think about what we’ve done, but we try to focus on what we’re doing. I don’t want a guy who might be a one-and-done thinking about going pro, just like I don’t want me thinking of retirement or thinking about what we did in Rio. Or what we did in 2015. Let’s all think about the same thing, about how this group can have an amazing experience. That can be a challenge, but it’s a challenge worth meeting and then beating.
“I write dead novels,” opened Allan Sealy. ‘Dead’, in the market sense, he clarified, adding that how his books fared on store shelves didn’t matter to him enough to play to the galleries. “There are two kinds of novels in this world, and when I write one, I know whether it’ll sell or not,” he said. “The first is ‘The lifecycle of the Anopheles Mosquito’ kind of novel, and the second, ‘The Confessions of Sunny Leone’ kind. I tend more to the first sort,” he laughed. Irrespective of kind, Galgut seemed convinced of the novel’s survival simply because of humankind’s need for stories and narratives to make sense of our world. What he observed has changed though, is the novel’s centrality to our culture. The TV series, for instance, does all that the novel does, he said, but unlike reading which takes effort, it lets you passively absorb, thus drawing audiences in far easier.
We cannot learn from our past unless we acknowledge and remember what happened. I was struck by how many of my peers on the tour, who were largely community college administrators in Mississippi and Alabama, said they didn't even learn about civil rights history in school. One of my peers from East Mississippi Community College said "I didn't learn about civil rights growing up-it wasn't in our history textbooks. It was all hearsay. We'd see it in magazines like Ebony." At our stop in Selma, we noticed a housing project and school right across from the church where thousands of people gathered in 1965 to start the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery. When one of my peers stopped to ask a young girl if she had learned about this history in school, she had not. We must do better. Our civil rights history is too important, too raw, and too tenuous to be ignored.
For reasons I fear are obvious, books from and about America's original Gilded Age seem newly compelling. We know, looking backward, that the half-century after the Civil War prefigured nearly every social and economic problem of the current moment. That is: corrupt and mistrusted government; the sudden accumulation of new fortunes based on new technologies; the simultaneous disruption of traditional jobs, industries, communities and whole ways of life; dramatically increased pressure on the environment (including, in the US case, the eradication of the once-ubiquitous Passenger pigeon and near-elimination of the bison); rapid ethnic change driven by migration within the country and around the world; new opportunities for some individuals coupled with newly constructed racial and ethnic barriers; inequalities and injustices on a scale that previous technologies had not allowed.
As a kid, I hated green vegetables. My childhood gastronomical idiosyncrasies drove my despairing family to come up with a solution. I was fed stories from ‘Mahabharata’ along with my greens. Clearly, the consequences had not been foreseen! The myth continued to affect me as I grew. For me, understanding the history, the kernels of fact behind what has subsequently been aggrandised into mythology and used to legitimise social elements, is an essential way of understanding the cultural and moral fabric of the society we live in. A common response I used to get from my orthodox extended family, whenever I questioned the way things were done, used to be ‘that’s they way it’s laid down in the scriptures’. The attempt to demystify these stories and their injunctions is almost like a quest for a more believable truth, an attempt to make these amazing characters and stories more ‘real.’
ncert is my understanding of Begum Akhtar, my perspective on her as a contemporary musician living in these times. I examine who Begum Akhtar was, her journey from being a bai to a begum, and in these journeys how she empowered herself with music and poetry. The performance is woven with a narrative that highlights interesting aspects of her life with anecdotes, some rare and others better known, which reveal how she could make such a fantastic impact on audiences even today. Choosing pieces from her vast repertoire was quite a difficult process. I was often overcome and overwhelmed with greed because I’d want to sing this song and that one too, because there are so many charming pieces she’s done. But ultimately, what I did choose are those that reasonably showcase the versatility of her singing, the richness in her choice of poetry and the journeys she made within her world of music.
In a desire to expand his design prowess, Zeff also managed to make his mark on the hospitality industry. He's designed several restaurants for Jeffrey Chodorow including Social Hollywood, he was also responsible for the complete renovation and redesign of the the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for Morgan's Group, the Sense Spa at the Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel and The Red Cat restaurant in New York City. Today, his firm MARKZEFF works on a global scale with international projects such as the Seafire restaurant in the Cayman Islands to Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, TX, the latter of the two created for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. He's created the Canopy brand for Hilton Worldwide and is designing at least a dozen of these hotels. What gets him really excited these days are his designs for the first Flagship Virgin Hotel in New York City's Nomad District for Sir Richard Branson.
India is particularly guilty of the brand of body shaming that insists that only fair is lovely. Media, advertising, and the fairness cream industry bombard Indian women (and now men too) with the message that their natural skin colour is not good enough, whether for a job, a game of tennis, or the marriage market. Chennai-based KAVITHA EMMANUEL, founder-director of Women of Worth, started the Dark is Beautiful campaign in 2009 “against the toxic belief that a person’s worth is measured by the fairness of their skin”. The campaign, which celebrates the “beauty and diversity of all skin tones”, recently started a petition asking actor Shah Rukh Khan to stop endorsing fairness creams, and has gained national momentum with celebrities such as Nandita Das joining in. With its Facebook page now crossing 16,000 supporters, Kavitha talks to LAKSHMI KRUPA about the challenge of changing mindsets.
Writing before the 2016 presidential election, the Steikers declare that "the death penalty appears to be headed toward its grave."If Justice Antonin Scalia is replaced by a liberal, they speculate, he or she might join justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor in finding the death penalty a violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment."Or strike it down because it's inconsistently and arbitrarily administered, rife with delays, no longer serving its avowed purposes, impossible to fix.It is also conceivable, they write, that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote opinions striking down death as a "disproportionate punishment for juveniles"; invalidating it for the crime of child rape; lamenting the "human toll" wrought by solitary confinement; and identifying "inconsistency of application" as a reason to limit its scope, might become a fifth vote for abolition.
Cass Clemmer: I was inspired to create this period coloring book after studying menstruation in a class on societal taboos when I realized how little information I knew about my own body. I was raised in a conservative Baptist missionary community in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and had very little exposure, if any, to sex education, much less information on menstruation. I was so ignorant about my own anatomy that until I was 18, I thought that I had to pop my tampon out like a cork before I peed or it would all get stuck in the same hole. It was a shock to realize I didn’t know anything about the body I had lived in my entire life. But after talking to friends, I started to recognize that no matter where you grow up, most young people are never exposed to any sort of menstrual health education more than the boring little instruction manual found at the bottom of the Tampax box.
From the moment you enter BLACKBARN Shop, you feel like you have arrived somewhere really different -- housed inside a former 1920's era industrial warehouse -- you are drawn inside this stunning and enormous 3,000 sq. ft light-filled space with floor to ceiling windows, exposing this cabinet of curiosities. Utilizing items found on their extensive travels as the baseline for the collection on display, they have also collaborated and commissioned artists both locally and from places such as Morocco, Bali, South Africa, Spain, Portugal and Italy to create pieces for the shop. In addition, from Mark's native South Africa, there are antique Cape Dutch farmhouse furniture and objects, as well as handwoven baskets made by the Cape Town Society for the Blind. Balinese ceremonial necklaces made of cowry shells are displayed as objet d'art, and vintage items from Paris personally selected by Mark and Kristen.
General Dalbir Singh, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) made his farewell visit to HQ Southern Command, Pune today. During the visit he addressed all officers of Pune Station in which he complimented all the ranks for the excellent job being done by them. During his address, he spoke on a wide range of issues and highlighted progress made on them during his tenure. He stressed the need to continue to build capability as no enemy respects weakness and also be operationally prepared to meet any kind of security challenge. He informed the officers regarding various welfare measures taken for all ranks and veterans. He exhorted them to maintain high level of alertness and take all security measures to thwart any nefarious activity by inimical or anti- national elements. He also interacted with troops over a cup of tea at Milkha Singh Sports Complex. The COAS returned to Delhi after interacting with Veterans.
Equally disturbing is the variation from state to state in death penalty sentencing.Texas, the Steikers point out, takes a non-clinical approach to assessing mental disability, with the "avowed goal of weeding out offenders" who might be regarded as "sufficiently culpable for execution"; Florida courts have set an IQ cut off in conflict with the norms of clinicians.According to the authors, the quality of court-appointed defense attorneys in post-conviction proceedings and the resources available to them is quite low in several states.Lower courts and state courts routinely decline to intervene in cases involving egregiously poor representation in capital cases.Not surprisingly, then, sentencing is more likely to reflect divergence in representation than the specific circumstances involved in the crime.And some states have place absolute time limits on claims of innocence based on newly discovered evidence.
5) There may be an unintentional silver lining of a Trump presidency: it could make Netanyahu's tenuous grip on power more tenuous still. Netanyahu has thus far been able to cast himself as pursuing the agenda of the Israeli right in the face of American pressure. His coalition with right-wing parties, the source of his slender parliamentary majority, rests on this tissue of lies. With a pro-settlement US administration entering office, he will face a difficult choice: either align himself more fully with the right and potentially isolate centrist voters, or try to carve out a centrist position that might isolate his allies on the right. If he suffers electoral losses, it may open a very small window of opportunity for the left-center alliance, the Zionist Union, which narrowly lost the 2015 election. This would depend on the left presenting a more compelling alternative to Netanyahu than it has done thus far.
Moreover, Pantsuit Nation has devolved into a space where white people can claim to fight for the survival of the sisterhood by performing apolitical acts of self-humanizing. Instead of doing tangible work, like running for office or even making phone calls to local representatives, white people treat minorities as props in their self-congratulatory posts about being inclusive, loving people and watch as everyone congratulates them for being decent, passive human beings. It does this on the backs of people of color whose lives are directly and disproportionately affected by Trump’s policies yet are read as “fake” or “insincere” in their performance of grief and fear. It purposefully boosts sentimental, apolitical human interest stories rather than focus on policy changes, systemic oppression and even the destruction of the damn patriarchy, which seems to be such an obvious focus that PSN has completely ignored.
After nearly 20 years of being treated like a punchline, Marcia Clark’s story got a feminist re-examination thanks to Ryan Murphy’s “The People vs. O.J.” The miniseries shed light on the misogyny that dominated much of the coverage of Clark when she was prosecuting O.J. Simpson. She was called hysterical; the press and judge criticized her hairstyles and outfits; a tabloid published topless photos sold by an ex. Two decades later, these incidents read as so obviously disgusting that they require a reckoning. Clark deserves to (finally) have a voice, to tell her story on her own terms. So why reexamine Clark’s treatment now? As Traister surmises: “It’s not as if the swift judgments of social media have banished sexist bullshit from the land. In fact, I suspect that it’s an unconscious awareness of our contemporary hang-ups that prompts us to chew on the past.” Indeed.
Firstly, I always Gaysia thought it'd be a good book title. Like a lot of gay Asian-Australians, I've been getting called “Gaysian” for a while now – my friends just though the portmanteau was funny. Another reason: I was reading a whole lot of queer news stories about what was happening overseas, and saw that a lot of the stories I was interested in were coming out of Asia: the Indian queer rights movement (they're still the latest country in the world to have decriminalised homosexual acts); religious ex-gay reparative therapy in Malaysia and Singapore. And whenever I read news stories, I'm always super-curious – maybe overly so – about the human lives behind those stories. And finally, because I'm the kid of Chinese migrants, I often wonder: What would my life would have been like had my parents have never moved to Australia? Would I still be openly gay? Would I try to “cure” myself? Or wouldn't it make a difference?
On June 10, 1977, while still a student and with the complete approval of my family, I married my friend, a foreign student from Thailand. I was diagnosed with issues of infertility soon after and was medically advised to conceive if I desired to have a child; my son Mithun was born on November 2, 1978, when I was 20. Unfortunately, my marriage broke down while I was expecting, and I filed for a divorce that was sanctioned in 1983. I met the challenges of being a single parent, and as Mithun was a much desired and planned addition to my life, there was never any quandary regarding this lifelong commitment, the responsibility to parent and nurture. Being a parent at a young age offered me invaluable experiences that propelled my energies with more focus than if I had no such responsibilities. I therefore always acknowledge the debt I owe to my son for the gift of this maturity and for the delight of rediscovering innocence.
Tilted Axes is the moniker for the classically-trained art rocker Patrick Grant and a call to arms for the guitar orchestra he assembles for street performances. The instrumental tracks on his new album, "Music for Mobile Electric Guitars" are tightly-woven powerhouse compositions that alternate between shredding solos, rhythmic riffs, and more expansive soundscapes. Grant, who studied at Julliard and worked for classical minimalist pioneer John Cage, is a musician in complete control of his instrument and to listen to him rip loose on tracks like "Beaubien Blues" is a real treat. With almost a dozen guitars along with drums and bass, this wall of sound makes a powerful argument for maximalism. If Bach grew up playing the electric guitar and listening to Led Zeppelin and Mahavishnu Orchestra, he might have sounded like Patrick Grant. Come to think of it, I would love to hear Grant record his take on the Goldberg Variations.
This can take the form of a series of conversations, counseling sessions, time spend in self-reflection, peacemaking circles, community service and other activities. The goal is to keep youth out of the prison system, and to inspire empathy and change, helping youth to see firsthand the consequences of their actions and how they affect others. It fosters a greater sense of accountability and creates connection to feelings, emotions and actions, through group discussion. The result is fewer youth in detention centres, and fewer kids sentenced to having lifelong criminal records that could affect future educational and employment opportunities -- both of which can spur further criminal behavior. The restorative justice approach means that root causes of crimes are addressed. It allows offenders the opportunity to get involved in -- and give back to-- their communities, sometimes in a very direct way, such as leading mediation or
Shrimati Jayashri MP from Bombay Suburban said that the nursing college of AIIMS should be a path bearer for the other nursing colleges of the Nation. Shri Narayan Das MP from Darbhanga said that the Government must provide adequate finances to the Institute. Mohanlal Saksena who represented Lucknow in the House, said that the AIIMS was going to be an autonomous body and Parliament will not have much control over it. Several members also raised the need to incorporate Ayurveda, Homeopathy and other indigenous systems of medicine into the AIIMS which was a recurring theme in the Rajya Sabha debate also. Even as the Bill was put to clause by clause voting, Joachim Alva Member of Parliament from Kanara expressed concern that the Director who is to be appointed by the Government could perhaps be a retired politician – “a Khushamadi” who may not have done any teaching or operative work or anything of that sort for nearly two decades.
This is such a big misconception of the older generation. This generation has the best exposure to so much music and so very easily. Those learning classical music can listen to the same raga by a hundred artists and get enriched; this never happened 40 to 50 years ago. In fact, disciples were stopped from listening to music of any other maestro other than their own guru, which had made things so stagnant and all the progress stopped. This changed in my generation to be able to get greater achievements, greater knowledge and experience. I believe that those who keep cribbing about 12 hours of daily practice become labourers rather than musicians. I say that if a musician is not getting the desired result even after slogging 10 hours or more then that person is not meant for music in the first place. Music and musicians are born, they cannot be made. Music is like an instinct. Either one has it or not. It’s very clear and simple.
Matt Townsend's voice exudes a warmth that's reminiscent of Harry Chapin, but if you listen closely, his lyrics can have a biting criticism more in line with the pointed fury of Bob Dylan. The drummer, Bill Berg, who played on Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," keeps the beat on Townsend's new EP "The Drifter and the Dream Part One." Recorded in the singer/songwriter's hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, the album's five tracks express a breadth of creative impulses. The opener, "The Great American Madness" rages against the entrenched racism woven into our country's history along with the industrial military complex. Framed as a long explanation of the title's diagnosis, weighty lines like "it builds a brand new enemy to sell the same old war" flow with rhythmic ease. The middle two tracks suffer from a lack of specificity, but Townsend finds his voice again on the scathing "Freedom is Calling" with a rousing refrain, "rise up!"
Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. The original Bitcoin software by Satoshi Nakamoto was released under the MIT license. Most client software, derived or "from scratch", also use open source licensing. Bitcoin is one of the first successful implementations of a distributed crypto-currency, described in part in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list. Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities.
I think I would improvise a lot. I do believe in teaching by improvisation. I don’t believe in lecturing. Even when I was teaching English literature at St Xavier’s College, I couldn’t lecture. I preferred interacting with the students though that can often get anarchic and you can see a deadened look on some of the faces, as if they were saying, ‘This is not what we want. This is not what we expect’. But I could imagine myself reading one of Manohar’s [Shetty’s] creature poems and asking, ‘Have you ever thought of a frog described in this way?’ I think it would be easier to point out the visual associations, the metaphors, than to do the sound effects of a poem though there’s no reason why a good reading might not bring those out too. The ears of students must be opened to the music of poetry. The sound of some of James Joyce’s poetry, for instance. These are not generally used in class but can be used to show how poets use sound.
, I don't want you to be assassinated, but your brand of post truth is making a 'Gaslight Nation' out of us where it's ok and expected to manipulate and be manipulated. It's already happening to me (hello shady Thievery Corporation ticket seller. It is not ok for you to sell me ghetto scanned in pdf tickets that the venue couldn't scan.And yes, it's perfectly normal for me to be bitchy about it). Kids all over America will gaslight their parents about the broccoli eating even though it's still on their plate. They will say, "I ate the broccoli. All of it. It's so fantastic how I ate all of it. Look at how great my broccoli eating stomach and mouth are and look at how great a job I did," while the broccoli remains, all of it, on the plate. For the next four years, I will just do what I did during the election and pretend our reality was just a bad dream and that The West Wing was my real life. Josiah Bartlet for President. Thank you Aaron Sorkin.
What sorts of books am I talking about? Novels like Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser or The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells, about the dislocation of that era. Novelized exposes like The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, or straightout exposes like The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell. Similarly, Justin Kaplan's Lincoln Steffens, a Biography. Historical studies of the rise of the Jim Crow South and the cleavage of the Populist movement on the basis of race, following C. Vann Woodward's old studies on both those themes (The Strange Career of Jim Crow and Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel). Great biographies of the people struggling for reform in that era, like Michael Kazin's A Godly Hero, about William Jennings Bryan. Analyses of how people a century ago coped with dislocation, from Robert Wiebe's classic The Search for Order to the even more classic The Education of Henry Adams, plus Steve Fraser's recent The Age of Acquiescence.
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Now let's look forward to the future.This is a great opportunity to engage many of the people that are not happy, or that for the first time took part in this process.I know it is easy to find every flaw in our Party; and you'll find plenty of reasons why it went the way it did, but as my friend Hector Rodriguez says, before you get ready to throw out the baby with the bath water, remember who we are and what we stand for.We were not advocating for banning people from the country based on their religious belief, we never said that women should be punished for choosing what they do with their bodies, nor did we ever send any message to treat women with less than the respect and dignity every human deserves.We weren't talking about engaging in torture, or building walls.We were the crowds that reflect the diverse country we are, the message of hope that has insured millions of Americans, and given young DREAMERS the opportunity to live up to their God given potential.
Tyler: Aging is already a pressing current issue and will soon become the biggest medical problem of our future. There is no running away or putting our head in the sand. My goal is to make life longer and better for people. Sure, there are some aging researchers who are overly enthusiastic in promoting their research and in promising quick results. And we mustn't neglect the many practical problems of people who are aging today on the false hope that science will quickly and magically come to their rescue. We must find a proper balance between research investments that will pay off only in the distant future and current health care investments for those who are in need today. The future of our species depends on how we handle our demographics. The way ahead is difficult and uncertain- but that has never stopped us before. We make lots of mistakes along the way, but science helps us correct them. There is no standing pat- if we don't move forward, we will move backward.
“Last year, my boyfriend of nine years and I were talking about feel-good moments from our childhood, I was reminiscing about ‘The Little Mermaid’ toys that came in Happy Meals in the early 90s. My brothers and I only had Happy Meals as a special treat, so that made the toys all the more coveted. Flounder was the most fought over toy between my brothers and me ― he was so cool because he spit water out of his mouth. I just remember always having so much fun playing with these toys. So I was telling my boyfriend this, we laughed about it and that was that. A month or so later, a package came in the mail. He opens it and says, ‘I forgot I ordered these!’ Out comes a complete, still-in-the-individual-plastic-wrappers set of the original ‘Little Mermaid’ Happy Meal toys! And TWO Flounders! He had gone on eBay and ordered them after our conversation. For no reason but to make me smile, he went out of his way to hunt them down.”―
Shri Narendra Damodar Das Modi has been taken oath as 15th Prime Minister of India along with his cabinet minister & minister of state. Cabinet Ministers Minister's Name Portfolios Mr. Narendra Damodar Das Modi Prime Minister of India, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister. Rajnath Singh Home Affairs Sushma Swaraj External Affairs Arun Jaitley Finance and Corporate Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu Information & Broadcasting, Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Nitin Jairam Gadkari Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Manohar Parrikar Defence Suresh Prabhu Railways D. V. Sadananda Gowda Statistics & Programme Implementation Uma Bharati Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Ramvilas Paswan Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Kalraj Mishra Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises ...
Me: Curing disease is the primary goal of medical science. But aging is not a disease- it is an entirely expectable wearing down, an expression of biological entropy that cannot be reversed. We should certainly target the diseases that occur in old age in an effort to extend the average human healthspan. Success will improve the well being of the elderly and have a small subsidiary effect on lifespan- eg, more people living into their 80's, 90's, and 100's. But we should not expect that better treatment for diseases will allow people to live to biblical ages. Despite the hype to the contrary, there is no reason to believe it is scientifically feasible or ethically desirable for people to stay young for 150 years. The most compelling lesson of scientific research is that the body is far more complicated and intricately balanced than we could possibly imagine. We are still at a very early stage in curing disease- there is no reason to think we can prevent decline or postpone death.
This growing sense of fear has been one of the many catalysts to the political rollercoaster of 2016. Our countries are becoming increasingly isolated and insular, when in fact the opposite is needed now, more than ever. Travel is the solution to this. When we step outside of our cosy little home bubble, we open our eyes to the real world, not our constructed version of reality. We meet people who have so much less than us, and yet are willing to share whatever they have, however small. Our western society breeds us to believe that we always need more - more money, bigger houses, nicer clothes - but visiting communities who get by on nothing and yet are so much happier than us, really makes you put your desires, or what you perceive to be success, in perspective. Is success a big car, a Christmas bonus or a Prada handbag, or is it a home filled with family and love? There's no right or wrong answer, but travel at least encourages you to really consider what you value most in life.
The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is stored on 23 chromosome pairs. Twenty-two of these are autosomal chromosome pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining. The haploid human genome occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs. The haploid human genome contains ca. 23,000 protein-coding genes, far fewer than had been expected before its sequencing. In fact, only about 1.5% of the genome codes for proteins, while the rest consists of non-coding RNA genes, regulatory sequences, introns, and (controversially named) "junk" DNA The Human Genome Project (HGP) produced a reference sequence of the euchromatic human genome, which is used worldwide in biomedical sciences. Genes Surprisingly, the number of human genes seems to be less than a factor of two greater than that of many much simpler organisms, such as the roundworm and the fruit fly. However, human cells make extensive use of alternative splicing to produce several different proteins from a single ...
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People in the film industry like to express their commitment to the ideal of a cosmopolitan Mumbai, and this commitment isn’t only verbal; it’s evident in the diversity of film crews, especially among the so-called light boys — working-class men who hail from across India — drawn to the city by the glamour of Bollywood. The oddity is that this vision of a diverse society is in large part a vision projected by cinema itself. At the level of baseline assumptions—of social fictions, if you will—Bollywood movies tend to project an image of an Indian society that has room for everyone. And to the extent that there are divisions, they are produced by powerful characters who are eventually shown to be bad (or at least mistaken). This isn’t necessarily a penetrating social critique, but it is a pervasive belief—a distant cousin, perhaps, of the American dream. Bollywood is thus an influential counterweight to bigotry and xenophobia. However imperfect the movies may be, they’re also immensely important.
Tyler: Evolution has little interest in aging and death. Natural selection focuses its selective pressure on producing optimal reproductive fitness in the mating members of any species. Once the period of reproduction and weaning have passed, natural selection applies much less pressure on how the rest of the lifespan plays out. There is thus no inherent evolutionary reason to prohibit research that would prevent aging and prolong life. And there are excellent reasons to pursue it- although evolution does a remarkable job when given enough time, it works far too slowly and imperfectly to help us solve our current problems. Whenever, in the past, it has served our interests, humans have always felt free to speed up natural selection. We would still be hunters and gatherers were it not for the artificial selection of domesticated plants and animals that constituted the agricultural and pastoral revolutions. If we have the genetic tools to promote human health, longevity, and happiness, why not use them.
Participating in the debate, Dr Radha Kumud Mookerji, nominated Member of Parliament, sought clarifications on Clause 5 of the Bill which says that “AIIMS will be an Institute of National Importance”. He felt that the scope of National importance must be wide enough to cover all systems of medicine prevailing in the country – systems of medicine which have survived the onslaught of the ages. Similar views were expressed by H.P.Saksena Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh on clause 5. He said that the Institute of National Importance should demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all other medical colleges and other allied institutions in India. Dr. W.S.Barlingay an MP from Madhya Pradesh laid emphasis on the Objects of the Institute to develop patterns of teaching in medical education as a critical component of the Institute’s focus areas. He felt that the Institute could be attached to Delhi University which could grant diplomas and degrees as also get grants from University Grants Commission.
The inmate's names were called to reveal the darkest snippets of their lives. They approached the podium cautiously, impeded by their leg chains and loose plastic sandals. The common thread between them was a hatred for their accomplices, heroin and meth. Several young women in the jury box began weeping as the judge finalized a 12 year flat sentence for the only discernible adult, a grandmother whose crime put her family at risk. A child-like woman bent sideways, struggling to use the hem of her orange shirt as makeshift tissue but the limits of her waist chains made it impossible to reach her face. The grandmother thanked the judge and prayed out loud that incarceration would alleviate her guilt. She spontaneously turned and addressed the jury box in a jagged voice. "You young people, look at what my life has become, stop doing drugs or you will never be free". I bowed my head in reverence for this woman losing more than a decade of her life. The silence in the room except sniffs and whimpers made my stomachache.
In the age of “touristy novels”, where writers plot novels in settings and cultures they’ve parachuted in and out of, and in the age of quick censorship for the slightest dreamed offence, these novelists felt there definitely were topics they wouldn’t address, not from fear of being silenced, but from feeling inadequate to handle their depth. “Invention is definitely part of the equation of creation,” said Catton, “but personal experience has to inform it at some level. It would be wrong to indulge a completely uninformed sort of invention.” And that’s where it’s important for the writer to lay bare his limitations, felt Galgut. “Where I feel my experiential knowledge is limited, I build that into the narrative. Through the character, you will know where my map ends, for my map does end. At the core of novels lies exactly that tension, between the arrogance of assuming you can step into someone else’s shoes merely from observing from the outside, yet daring to make that imaginative leap from which all fiction arises.”
Well, it was a year where my relationship with my husband deepened. A year where I saw my gorgeous son turn 3 and flourish. A year where he got potty trained (big goal I hadn't even thought of). A year where he started talking and describing his world and his feelings to me. A year where I read amazing books. A year where I didn't get sick. A year where my parents didn't get sick. A year where I helped others in small ways. A year where I got to travel to some new places and see old friends. A year where I made three new good friends. A year where I had some challenging times, where I could now see the growth and good that came from them. A year where my mind and its inner critic got a little bit quieter. (Amazing!) A year where I had my faith and connection to something greater be tested and strengthened, after some moments of real grief and loss. A year where some tough stuff made me really see that I wasn't in control of my life, however hard I tried (a concept I've read in so many teachings but never landed until now.)
I screamed a lot,” she writes. “When I was done reading and screaming, I cried.” Coates wrote much about Barack Obama’s inherent trust of white people, a quality that perhaps both allowed him to become our nation’s first black president, and prevented him from seeing that the defense of whiteness (and white supremacy) would be what allowed ― or perhaps made inevitable ― the rise of Donald Trump. Cottom’s writing gets to the core of Obama’s blindspot: “Those of us who know our whites know one thing above all else: whiteness defends itself. Against change, against progress, against hope, against black dignity, against black lives, against reason, against truth, against facts, against native claims, against its own laws and customs. Even after Donald Trump was elected, Obama told Coates that all is not lost. He is still hopeful about the soul of white America. He said nothing about the soul of black America. That is where my hope resides. It is where my faith has always resided.”
Consider less popular majors for colleges that make admissions decisions for individual programs or majors.Do not settle for undecided or undeclared majors on the application form.Rather, determine whether your child is applying to the entire college or university or a particular program where applicants are only evaluated in a pool for that major.If the latter is the case, there may be a few less selective programs than the rest of the college.Google searches for particular major or program at the university often yield insight from past applicants as to their relative selectivity.Whatever your child picks, make sure she can make the case for that major based on her classes and extracurricular activities.For example, a female applicant seeking to capitalize on gender imbalances in engineering programs that struggled in math or science may not be the strongest candidate even if women are underrepresented in a particular field.However, if the applicant did well in math or science, she may be a more valuable applicant to that program.
Joan Torres' All is Fused sextet brings a funk edge to bebop-inflected bossa nova. The sound is both familiar and pushing the boundaries of the genre. Torres, the bassist bandleader is a New Yorker with Puerto Rican heritage and has played with Latin legends like Tito Puente. These influences come through on the album "Of the Musical," but there's also a strong contemporary sensibility that brings to mind artists like Brad Mehldau and The Bad Plus who play jazz like people who grew up listening to Radiohead. While he doesn't delve into popular music covers, Torres melds repetitive melodic structure with expansive improvisation. The is most evident on the opening track which begins with a fast paced bossa nova line for piano and bass. About a third of the way in, the groove tightens around a simple driving riff. You might find yourself turning up the volume on "Stream of Melancholy" or being especially still to hear its quiet beauty. The closing track "unleashed" builds on intimate solo bass grooves to create a sonic quilt of rich musical impulses.
The unacknowledged assumption inherent in all this courtly mean-well is unwittingly dismissive: that poets of a certain age are perhaps a bit past their "shelf date" relevancy. This assumption derives, naturally,from a "brand" sensibility, a product-mindset - from which poetry was fortunately exempt for a long time, mainly because it was not looked upon by our broad U.S. culture as "marketable".Poetry was not considered marketable because few people read in general and those who did read seemed less drawn to poetry ofa "timeless" nature--that is to say,poetry that is part of an enduring aesthetic. The idea of beauty that endures, emotional truth that endures, art that endures. This is what I mean here:a limitless dance of the imagination that opens the mind of the reader to the strange/familiar- and makes the voice ofSappho or John Keats or Robert Hayden sound as alive as that of any poet writing in this presentist Twitter milieu in which we momentarily live. (& yes, I think it's possible to write "twitter" poems, unless you are, of course, Donald Trump.)
The personal statement is your child's opportunity to differentiate herself from all the other competitive college applicants and add her unique voice to her application.Admissions officers covet applicants with perspective, maturity, and a passion for something they will continue in college.Make sure your child's personal statement demonstrates value to an admissions officer.Ask yourself, after reading your child's personal statement, would you be more likely to admit her based on what she wrote?Did it demonstrate that she adds value to a college (through perspective, life experience, skill, etc.)?If the answer is no, suggest changes to the essay that help her stand out.An easy way to demonstrate value to college admissions officers is to include self-reflection of an event or experience that happened and tying it to your child's future college plans.Self-reflection is an excellent opportunity for your child to demonstrate maturity and perspective of something that has happened to her in the past and how it made her wiser, stronger, or inspired for the future.
I’ll be honest with you. Initially my intention was to write about a woman of towering intellect with great pioneering ideas, who couldn’t make a place for herself because she was a woman, but when I actually started to research on 18th and 19th century female botanists — and there were several of them — I started to realise that telling the story in such a way would be an insult to their lives. Several of them were highly respected, many of them were published and accepted and leading botanists. I thought that it would be unfair to their lives and work to tell such a simplistic story. So instead, I chose to write about what I think is one of the primary demons that held back Alma, and a lot of other women. She held back her work not because she was a woman, but because she was a perfectionist. While I am not a perfectionist myself, I have friends and I have seen many women who will not put their work out in the world until they believe it to be perfect. First of all, perfection doesn’t exist, and second, lack of perfection never stopped men from putting themselves out there.
Robert Lepage's controversial production turns the ocean into a fully-fledged fourth character. It consists of dozens of rows of tiny LED lights, (courtesy, presumably, of "lightscape image designer" Lionel Arnould), which cycle continuously through various groupings and colors, depicting the passage of time and relative levels of calm and storminess. In an instrumental prelude at the top of Act II, the electronic sea undergoes a series of dazzling (and dizzying) shape-shifting transformations, at one point appearing to morph into a giant wall of water. The members of the Met Chorus make aurally beautiful contributions, but when they appear, their heads popping up from beneath the "ocean" surface, the visual impact is slightly comical. The only other set piece is what my companion for the evening described as an "oil rig": a large bridge-like structure that also pivots vertically to form a staircase. It drifts and twists its way across the stage, and during one of Owens's scenes, it rotated to unexpectedly reveal Phillips standing at the opposite end, a striking theatrical effect.
So it is not only the challenge and opportunity, but also responsibility, of our incoming class of entertainment professionals, to determine the manner by which powerful film and television content will utilize these platforms, working with them in tandem, to amplify the powerful narratives and messages they contain. Quality media content - be it a comedy sitcom, a late night talk show, or even a deeply dramatic film - that makes an important statement about societal norms, gender stereotypes, racial inequality - what have you - not only deserves, but now has a need of its own to be shared, debated, and critically examined by the masses. It is content of this scope that, working in concert with the incredible social platforms we are fortunate enough to have beneath our fingertips today, will enable us - media-obsessed, driven, young Hollywood hopefuls - to make "the change [we] wish to see in the world." Particularly given the current state of global affairs and the pressing racial, economic, political, and social challenges that face the nation, the time to evoke this "change" is now.
I was attempting to highlight that in my own life I hold myself very strictly accountable to the personal politics that governs my existence at all times. The premise of my work celebrates the ideals of womanhood and explores the multiple avatars that a positioned stance of female empowerment embraces. Though gender equality is far from the norm as a reality of this nation, there is nonetheless a multitude of voices that stridently call to attention the need to dispel the bigoted stereotype of gender bias, and seek to accommodate the changes that we know to be possible and real. In a world where atrocities are committed against women in the name of upholding traditional values, a focus to redress this is vital if we are to define true liberty for all humanity. It is to such collective concerns that I reaffirm my allegiance and remain proud to call myself a feminist. It is these attitudes that define and form my personal politics, allowing me to creating an ideological premise derived from experiences and chosen influences that serves as the canon that guides my perceptions of the personal and the outside world I inhabit.
I had no idea what to do. My response to his hostility was to disintegrate into total emotional confusion, which always happens to me during interpersonal conflicts. I became splintered and overwhelmed. Part of me felt victimized and self-pitying, part of me felt like I was being oversensitive and should just shake it off, and part of me was so fierce with righteous indignation that I dreamed of taking the bastard’s head off. I simultaneously wanted to run away from my friend, totally forgive him, and mercilessly destroy him in a savage counterattack. At first I wondered who all these rival voices in my head were, sending me such contradictory messages about how to feel and behave. And which voice represented my true self? Thankfully, I was familiar with a concept that helped me understand why I was having so many different reactions at once. I had discovered the work of a therapist named Richard Schwartz, PhD, who suggests that perhaps none of us is really a single unified self, but instead a compilation of many various selves. He calls these rival selves our “parts” and claims that they often work at cross-purposes.
Could a change in protocol provide the breakthrough scientists need when it comes to ovarian cancer treatment? Dr. John Chan, of the California Pacific-Palo Alto Medical Foundation and the Sutter Cancer Research Institute and his team of researchers set out to answer just that. The team conducted a study to find out whether altering the go-to ovarian cancer treatment regimen (surgery followed by rounds of chemotherapy) might improve results and cut back on the chances of the cancer returning. The study consisted of one group of women receiving chemotherapy every three weeks (the standard) and another group receiving chemotherapy on a weekly basis. The second group of women were administered chemo in lower doses, however, over time, the lower doses added up to be slightly higher at the end of the month than the total dose received by women in the first group. The results were not as straightforward as Dr. Chan hoped but he's optimistic. "Clinicians don't make decisions based on one study," Chan explains. "But this study, combined with others, clearly suggests that weekly therapy should be an up-front approach for treating ovarian cancer."
The Members of Parliament across party lines in the Lok Sabha overwhelmingly supported the revolutionary changes in medical education envisaged by the AIIMS Bill 1956. Commencing the debate Dr. Rama Rao Member of Parliament from Kakinada, said the Institute should have more under-graduate seats, given that very limited opportunities were available in India. T.S.A.Chettiar Member of Parliament from Tiruppur said that the composition of the Institute should provide that the majority of the members should be non-officials. In addition to accounts being submitted to Parliament, the Institute should lay an annual report of its activities in both the Houses of Parliament. This proposal of T.S.A.Chettiar was incorporated in the AIIMS Act by a subsequent amendment. He further said that practical training for doctors in rural and urban areas cannot be provided on the campus of the Institute and the Institute should have a hospital where practical training can be provided. This is reflected in the Community Health Centre at Ballabhgarh, (in the vicinity of Delhi) which is administered by the Institute where undergraduate doctors are sent for practical training.
‘Social fiction’ is an academic concept, a way of thinking about ideas, stories, and symbols that have become so deeply embedded in a culture that they seem natural, like common sense. A good example is the American Dream. Our principal interest is not how myths like these relate to empirical reality, but what they can tell us about how people relate to their society and how categories of self and other — such as gender, religion, and nationality — are organised within it. Some readers might complain, ‘Aren’t you overthinking a film that has no pretence to being a work of art? Manmohan Desai didn’t think about all the symbolism you discuss in your book. He just wanted to make a hit.’ We agree. Desai wasn’t conscious of his film’s symbolism, and neither was its audience. And this is precisely because Amar Akbar Anthony’s story is largely constructed out of social fictions — about the family, the nation, religion, and modernity — which were taken for granted in the India of the 1970s. This is a big reason why the movie was a hit. For all its manic mayhem, the film feels natural. Somehow it manages, to quote the final song, to make the impossible possible.
When the film came out, India had just faced down another threat — the one posed by Emergency Rule. Although a different political party was in power, similar fears about the demise of civil society simmered nationwide. Amar Akbar Anthony actually has a great deal to say about the way the state and India’s diverse communities come together to form the nation. For one, there are no politicians in the movie; the state’s role is equated with that of the police, and the police are intimately involved in domestic life, helping sort out who belongs with whom in the national family. The degree to which the “idea of India” celebrated in Amar Akbar Anthony is actually set apart from democratic politics is striking. It is an India that has survived, and will survive, all political movements and crises because it stands outside them. The film is a populist statement in that it puts a lot of stock in the good sense of common people. The movie suggests that truehearted Indians, whatever their creed, share a set of cultural values. And if you recognise the code, then you recognise those who uphold it as your brothers. Ultimately, it’s a question not of politics or citizenship, but of moral integrity.
When I began listening to Marla Mase's new album "Miracles - Lost and Found," it reminded me of the candy-coated post-punk of The Pixies and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This shines through particularly on the track "Dreamland," which is propelled by an airy, irresistible hook. Just when a thematic structure begins to form, the album takes a divergent path that makes categorization futile. "Gun" carves a darker groove with paired down lyrics that paint a vivid picture of gang violence. Its sparse structure imbues the song with a dynamic clarity. The jazz dirge "56 Trees" laments the preparations for Fashion Week with a cool lullaby lull - the trees the title refers to are cut down to make room for the event's massive tents. A two-part spoken word track, "Back to the Beginning" veers into a confessional monologue while "Everyone Dies" is a Goth screed directed at Facebook. The Brooklyn-based musician's background in theater can be felt in the dramatic intensity that pulses throughout the album. She even articulates, "now is the time we must say goodbye" in the opening of the final track, "Always." It's as if she's personally leading us through the soundscape of her psyche, seemingly random at times but deeply felt.
May 1956: Introducing the Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur said “The future of the Institute will lie in the hands of the Director, of the Professors and other Members of the teaching staff and students. I believe that it will be their devotion to duty, their desire to promote their work and their spirit of altruism that will actuate them to subordinate their personal considerations as I believe the noble profession of medicine should do to the fulfillment of the objectives in view, that will eventually create and maintain an atmosphere which is necessary for an Institute like this. I do therefore, hope that in presenting the Bill for acceptance by the Rajya Sabha today, the legal structure that is crafted may facilitate the progressive realization of improved methods of medical education in this Institute and through its influence the standards of different courses of professional training in the field of health throughout this country will be raised.” She informed Members that Dr. B.B.Dixit has been appointed as the first Director of the Institute given his research experience at the Haffkine Institute and the administrative experience as Surgeon-General of Bombay.
February 1956: When the Minister of Health Rajkumari Amrit Kaur rose in the Lok Sabha to move the Bill, she did not have a prepared text of her speech. She spoke from the notes that she carried and from her heart. “It has been one of my cherished dreams that for post graduate study and for the maintenance of high standards of medical education in our country, we should have an institute of this nature which would enable our young men and women to have their post graduate education in their own country. It will provide under graduate study to only a very limited few. The major emphasis will be on post graduate study and specialization.” The two special features of the Institute, which is the first of its kind in India and the first of its kind in Asia, are prohibition of private practice of every form and to pay the doctors reasonably high salaries to compensate them for the loss of private practice. The doctors of AIIMS would devote their whole time not only to teaching, not only to serving the patients who come to the hospital but also to research. All the staff and students were to be housed in the campus of the Institute in the best traditions of the Guru-Sishya ideal to stay in close touch with each other.
We were amazed by the courage that so many people involved in the civil rights movement displayed on a daily basis. We felt their courage in the story of Fred Shuttlesworth, a preacher and father who was brutally beaten simply for trying to integrate his children into his local school, three years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that "separate but unequal" was unconstitutional. We felt their courage when we walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in peace, but recalled the pictures of brutality from the Bloody Sunday march when the Alabama police unleashed their fists, bats, dogs and fire hoses on a peaceful gathering. What courage these leaders had to return to that bridge twice more, determined to make the journey to Montgomery. We felt their courage in picturing a 25-year old Martin Luther King, Jr. organize the year-plus long Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 in the basement of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, just steps from where Governor Wallace had only recently vowed for "segregation now, tomorrow, and forever." We learned that gathering in church the night before a march or protest and singing songs like "Aint Scared of Nobody" gave so many people the courage to do what they did the next day.
Though the Members of the Rajya Sabha were overwhelmingly in support of the Bill, for establishing an All India Institute of Medical Sciences facilitating for higher instruction in modern medicine, yet many felt that the legislation lacked clarity and envisaged excessive delegation to executive authority in the Rules. Members said that out of 30 clauses in the Bill as many as 25 clauses contained the provision, “prescribed by Rules” and 11 clauses contained the provision “prescribed by regulations”. While delegated legislation comes with every Act, the AIIMS Bill sought extraordinary delegation to executive authority. The powers of the Medical Council to grant degrees and diplomas and the powers of the UPSC to conduct selections were delegated to the Institute. Several members expressed concern at the total omission of references to indigenous systems of medicine in the Bill and felt that the focus should also be on Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani systems of medicine. Biswanath Das Member of Parliament from Orissa said that the Health Minister who received inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi was making Ayurveda an untouchable system. Some Members also felt that the Dental College and Nursing College were not required at AIIMS and the focus should be on high-end research work.
of his being love with her. It sounds deep, mythic, and quintessentially of its era (Amin Maalouf's French libretto is based on a twelfth century legend) and yet it also sounds suspiciously like fifth grade, with the Pilgrim as the appointed go-between who delivers a love note to the cute girl at the end of the row and asks her if she likes you. This churlish observation, however, should take nothing away from the singular achievement this opera represents. The three stars--Susanna Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim--are all superheroes, giving astonishing, musically and theatrically impeccable performances of difficult, marathon roles. Owens' fine-grained bass-baritone manages to be both dark and glowing, full of tormented humanity. Phillips looked and sounded stunning, with a resplendent soprano befitting a love object. She also displayed impressive acting chops, particularly at the end, in her grief over the Jaufré's death. Mumford, wigged and costumed to look convincingly male, has a luscious mezzo and an appealingly direct delivery. Many of the Pilgrim's vocal lines end with downward motion and a final word or syllable that is spoken rather than sung, a sort of last-minute Sprechstimme. It's a striking technique that Mumford incorporated naturally and expressively.
I am very happy that music albums of disciples are already in the market. My sitar disciple Amita Dalal has come up with an album called “Sitar Lounge” (Mystica Music) and it's running in the top bestsellers. Manisha Agarwal, my vocal disciple, has her album “Padharo Mhare desh” (Times Music) which was nominated for the GIMA Awards last year. There are many other disciples ready with their releases this very year. I am very much a part of the above mentioned albums and have taken the back seat to promote my talented disciples. The most important thing is that I came up with my album with my son Salil only now in this year; my last album with him was 15 years back. I believe every musician should come up with intense hard work and back-breaking struggle. I do not believe in promoting one’s own son or daughter. Salil is the best example in this case, having come up to such a level on his own. Seven years ago, he became the first Indian musician to perform inside the German Bavarian Parliament and also in Iceland and to do the first artist residency in Taiwan. This is the first time ever when I have even mentioned all these mega achievements of Salil. He will be 42 years old next January and he is performing for over 28 years now. I think now I cannot ignore his music, his milestones and his dynamic style of presentation.
. But how to deal with the eternal allurement of the flesh and the way in which is gets confused with subcutaneous matters, especially with regard to the most elusive body part, the soul? Physical beauty can even be a troubling asset for those who possess it as they are prone to wonder, very much like people of great wealth, whether they are being loved because of something which is not an expression of their true inner being. What must be disconcerting to the person of either great physical beauty or wealth is the fact that once they lose either they will no longer be the cynosure they once were. And there are undoubtedly those who wished they had not been born with their endowments or possessed of good fortune, if their fate was ultimately to lose either or both. "Never to have lived is best," is the famous quote from Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus, which underscores the notion that in the face of tragedy and loss life doesn't see worth it. Why have life at your feet, if the carpet is eventually going to be pulled out from under you? And as for those who prospect for pleasure and beauty, what's the point of possessing a beautiful flower at the height of its bloom, if it's one day going to lose its pedals? You run after ephemera at your own peril. The only other thing is inhabit an alternate universe. If there can be secret markets in body parts, there is likely also ashadow world in which subliminal elements like consciousness and the soul are the valued items.
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NEW DELHI: Extending a helping hand to people facing cash crunch, regulator Irdai has asked life insurance companies to provide an additional window of 30 days to policy holders for paying premium.Following withdrawal of legal tender character of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes from November 9, government has put restrictions on cash withdrawals from banks and ATMs. Currently, a person can withdraw up to Rs 24,000 in a week.Amid the cash crunch, Life Insurance Council had approached the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) to extend grace period by an additional 30 days for all the policies falling due between November 8 and December 31, 2016.After examining the representation and keeping in view the inconvenience to policyholders, Irdai has allowed "the extension of grace period by an additional 30 days for all the policies issued by life insurers the premium/s of which fell/falls due on or after November 8, 2016 till December 31, 2016".The regulator said that the special one-off dispensation is given so that policyholders do not suffer from non-payment of due premiums due to recent cash crunch."All life insurers are advised to comply," said the Irdai circular addressed to CEOs of the Life Insurance Companies.This follows a move by the Reserve Bank to provide additional 60 days for repayment of housing, car, farm and other loans worth up to Rs 1 crore. This is applicable to loans payable between November 1 and December 31, RBI said in a notification.
In her reply to the debate, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur provided answers to the concerns expressed by Members. She argued that the Institute shall have the power to grant medical degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions and titles under the Act of 1956. She maintained that Dentistry was has been a very neglected science in India and dentists have to go abroad to get first class qualifications. Hence a Dental College was attached to the Institute. Similarly she said, Nursing was the most neglected limb of the medical profession though it was an important hub. She said she had consulted UPSC on the recruitment to faculty posts. UPSC was of the view that because AIIMS will be a statutory non-government institution, recruitment will be outside the purview of UPSC. With regard to excessive delegated legislation being taken by Executive, she said that Parliament should give as much autonomy as it can to this Institute, which is going to be a pioneer venture. “Let us have elasticity and let us have autonomy…after all you are going to have an extremely good Governing Body which will lay down the policies which will be followed by the Institute and the regulations must be left to the discretion of the Institute itself…the Government will be in very close touch with the Governing Body. Trust your Government, Trust your Scientific People…”. She promised to develop an All India Institute for Ayurveda at Jamnagar and al All India Institute for Homeopathy in future as also a chair for History of Medicine.
Join me and globally renowned thought leaders including Sir Michael Barber (UK), Dr. Michael Block (U.S.), Dr. Leon Botstein (U.S.), Professor Clay Christensen (U.S.), Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond (U.S.), Dr. MadhavChavan (India), Professor Michael Fullan (Canada), Professor Howard Gardner (U.S.), Professor Andy Hargreaves (U.S.), Professor Yvonne Hellman (The Netherlands), Professor Kristin Helstad (Norway), Jean Hendrickson (U.S.), Professor Rose Hipkins (New Zealand), Professor Cornelia Hoogland (Canada), Honourable Jeff Johnson (Canada), Mme. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgium), Dr. EijaKauppinen (Finland), State Secretary TapioKosunen (Finland), Professor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgium), Professor Hugh Lauder (UK), Lord Ken Macdonald (UK), Professor Geoff Masters (Australia), Professor Barry McGaw (Australia), Shiv Nadar (India), Professor R. Natarajan (India), Dr. Pak Tee Ng (Singapore), Dr. Denise Pope (US), Sridhar Rajagopalan (India), Dr. Diane Ravitch (U.S.), Richard Wilson Riley (U.S.), Sir Ken Robinson (UK), Professor Pasi Sahlberg (Finland), Professor Manabu Sato (Japan), Andreas Schleicher (PISA, OECD), Dr. Anthony Seldon (UK), Dr. David Shaffer (U.S.), Dr. Kirsten Sivesind (Norway), Chancellor Stephen Spahn (U.S.), Yves Theze (LyceeFrancais U.S.), Professor Charles Ungerleider (Canada), Professor Tony Wagner (U.S.), Sir David Watson (UK), Professor Dylan Wiliam (UK), Dr. Mark Wormald (UK), Professor Theo Wubbels (The Netherlands), Professor Michael Young (UK), and Professor Minxuan Zhang (China) as they explore the big picture education questions that all nations face today.
MUMBAI: Shareholders of Tata Chemicals have voted out Nusli Wadia as an independent director of the company with 75.67 per cent votes going in favour of a resolution moved by Tata Sons to remove him at the company's EGM yesterday.According to a regulatory filing by Tata Chemicals, out of the total of 25.48 crore shares of the company, 14.91 crore shares were voted. Out of this, 11.28 crore were in favour of the resolution to remove him.The company said 3.62 crore votes, accounting for 24.33 per cent of votes polled, were against his removal.Tata Chemicals also said the shareholders have approved a resolution to appoint Bhaskar Bhat as a director of the company with 79.26 per cent of votes going in his favour.It further said the shareholders have also approved the appointment of S Padmanabhan as director of the company with 89.29 per cent voting in favour of a resolution for his appointment.Tata Chemicals had last month issued notice for an extraordinary general meeting of the company's shareholders to discuss a resolution moved by Tata Sons to remove Cyrus Mistry, ousted chairman of Tata Sons, and Wadia as directors.Mistry resigned from listed Tata firms ahead of EGMs.Wadia, who has been an independent director at Tata Chemicals for 35 years, has already filed a criminal defamation suit against Tata Sons, its interim chairman Ratan Tata and some directors for alleged "defamatory and offending" contents in a special resolution moved to seek his removal from three Tata Group firms.He has denied allegations that he was galvanising Independent Directors and mobilising opinion, forcing disruptions and issuing statement which is contrary to the interests of the company.
Although there have been many who successfully work with people from different backgrounds; there is intrinsic value in actually having walked a mile in someone else's shoes.For African American children that grow up without a father in the home, there is a special understanding and admiration which can only come from being mentored by a black man.Specifically what black men can bring into the life of black adolescents is an empathetic approach rather than a sympathetic one.When you truly have empathy for the people you work with, you don't become frustrated with their struggles or shortcomings, you help them to overcome them.When you truly have empathy for someone, you appreciate their accomplishments (both professional and personal) and you care for them beyond the capacity where you've met them.This is where George Karl failed Carmelo Anthony.Because George Karl could not empathize with Carmelo Anthony's experiences, he did not see him beyond the basketball court.As a result his shortcomings on the court, were seen as shortcomings as a man.The reality for Carmelo Anthony appears to be the opposite.Having been raised without his father, who died of cancer when he was young, Carmelo Anthony is now a married father.A recent video shows Carmelo Anthony teaching his son to play basketball.Having successfully made the transition from fatherlessness to fatherhood, Carmelo Anthony has broken a cycle and provided a positive example for millions of African American children.If Carmelo Anthony never wins a NBA championship, his role as a father after not being raised by his father, is something to appreciate and admire.I can appreciate the same in Kenyon Martin, who recently discussed his own experiences in raising his
PATNA: Mandated to provide security coverage at airports, CISF would not carry stamping of baggage at seven airports, including Patna, Lucknow and Jaipur, from coming Monday on trial basis to facilitate hassle-free travel to passengers, its Director General O P Singh said today.The decision to do away with stamping of baggage from December 26 at seven airports -- Patna, Guwahati, Nagpur, Kochi, Jaipur, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram -- has been taken on a trial basis to study how much time is saved by doing this, Singh told reporters.The decision follows the week-long pilot project at airports in metros like Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata besides mega cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru that ended last Thursday, he said."After studying the outcome of the trial of doing without stamping of baggage, the CISF would take a decision by January 26 next if it could be made a permanent feature at all the airports," the CISF DG said.He said study highlighted that doing away with baggage stamping saved 20-25 second per passenger in Mumbai and 10-15 second every passenger in Kolkata.Established in 1969, CISF is providing security coverage to 59 airports across the country at present.Singh said that as part of technology upgradation, the CISF has conducted full body scan of 10,000 passengers who volunteered for it on a machine imported from the US."Now we have put up a full body scanner machine of Germany to study the efficacy of the two kinds of machines," the DG said, adding after studying the results it would be utilised in other airports of the country.Accompanied by Inspector General of CISF, Eastern region, Neeta Singh and DIG A N Singh, the DG said Union government has taken a decision to enhance its manpower strength to 1.80 lakh from 1.45 lakh at present."Two new CISF battalions would be constituted out of this enhanced manpower which would be raised in two years time," he said, adding CISF has written to states for land.The CISF is entrusted with security job of 59 airports and 329 other units including major public sector organisations and private concerns like INFOSYS."We have been approached for providing security cover to Benaras Hindu University (BHU) and Reliance Industry which we are considering," Singh, who earlier headed NDRF, said.The CISF DG said Rs 80 crore was seized by its personnel at different airports during the demonetisation drive out of which Rs 1.2 crore was in Patna airport.About expansion programmes, the DG said bouyed by consultancy service provided by CISF at Bhopal jail after 8 prisoners had fled, the Madhya Pradesh government has given CISF consultancy job at Ujjain, Jabalpur and Gwalior.
MUMBAI: Registry and financial services provider Link Intime India has picked up nearly 60,000 sq ft office space in commercial complex 247 Park -- now owned by Blackstone Group -- in the Vikhroli suburb of Mumbai on lease, said two persons familiar with the development.The total lease tenure is nine years with a clause of rental reset with 15% appreciation every three years. The company will be paying Rs 115 rental per sq ft a month, taking the annual lease to Rs 9 crore.“The deal is concluded and was registered recently. Link Intime will start operating from this space in the next few months,” said a person mentioned above.Link Intime India confirmed the transaction, while an email query to Blackstone remained unanswered till press-time. Transaction advisor Knight Frank India declined to comment for the story.“Initial lease tenure is five years with appropriate clause for resetting the lease rental at regular interval on mutually agreed terms. Would not like to discuss specific lease rental amount on monthly/yearly basis,” Link Intime said in an email response.The transaction is part of the company’s expansion plan and it will be shifting its office from Bhandup to this new place on completion of fit-outs, the response said.Link Intime India, one of the largest players in the Initial Public Offer (IPO) and corporate registry industry, currently operates from its office in one of the industrial complexes in Mumbai’s Bhandup suburb. With this deal for a larger space with a capacity to accommodate around 450 employees, the company will be shifting this office to 247 Park.Apart from Mumbai, the company has total six offices across cities including Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune and Vadodara.Last year, private equity major Blackstone Group, the biggest owner of office space in the country, bought the commercial complex 247 Park for over Rs 1,050 crore. The 1.1 million sq ft property was earlier owned by Milestone Capital and HCC Real Estate in the ratio of 74:26. Following this acquisition, Blackstone has spent Rs 25-30 crore to upgrade the office building.The commercial real estate market in India has been growing at a steady pace in the backdrop of positive changes in policy and regulations have given a further boost to the sector. Last year proved to be a record year with commercial real estate witnessing the highest ever annual office absorption of around 35 million sq ft.In the recent July-September quarter, information technology and IT-enabled service companies continued to lead office space transactions, accounting for more than half the space take up. Banking, financial services & insurance, along with engineering & manufacturing accounted for a share of about 10% each, with transactions mostly in Mumbai and Chennai.
NEW DELHI: No more bittersweet deals, please!Calendar year 2016 brought happy moments for investors of sugar stocks, which surged up to 360 per cent. Rising prices of the sweetener in the domestic as well as international markets supported the sector throughout the year. Market experts see value in selected sugar companies and believe they can surge up to 50 per cent in 2017.On an average, sugar majors have surged over 75 per cent this year compared with 38 per cent and 32 per cent returns that they generated in 2015 and 2014, respectively.Among the listed sugar players, shares of KM Sugar Mills rallied the most at 359 per cent to Rs 22.95 till December 15 from Rs 5 on December 31 last year. Among others, Indian Sucrose, Upper Ganges and Gayatri Sugars also climbed 326 per cent, 312 per cent and 283 per cent, respectively, during this period.Other companies like Dwarikesh Sugar, Oudh Sugar Mills, Mawana Sugars, DCM Shriram Industries, Piccadily Sugar, Dalmia Bharat, Dhampur Sugar, Rajshree Sugars and Bannari Amman advanced between 75 per cent and 190 per cent in this period.G Chokkalingam, Founder, Equinomics Research and Advisory, said: “There is a huge fundamental shift in the sector. Sugar companies surged on account of a rise in domestic sugar prices. However, we see some bubbles in the smallcap sugar stocks. For 2017, most of the stocks have already priced in the positives. One has to be selective while selecting sugar stocks. I am bullish on Andhra Sugar and KCP Sugar and see nearly 30-50 per cent upside over the next 12 months.”On a year-to-date basis, Andhra Sugar and KCP Sugar advanced 48 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively.Sanjiv Bhasin, EVP-Markets, IIFL, said: “Soft commodities are doing well. Sugar stocks will continue to give good returns to investors in 2017 as well. However, demonetisation of high-value currency notes may impact their performance in the near term. We are expecting nearly 25 per cent return from DCM Shriram, EID Parry and Balrampur Chini in the next one year.”On a year-to date basis, shares of DCM Shriram, EID Parry and Balrampur Chini have advanced 141 per cent, 30 per cent and 70 per cent, respectively.Overall, it was a turnaround year for most of the sugar companies in terms of profit growth.For the half year ended September 30, 2016, companies like Shree Renuka Sugar, EID Parry, Dhampur Sugar, Balrampur Chini, Oudh Sugar Mills and Bannari Amman reported net profit of Rs 5.70 crore, Rs 141.28 crore, Rs 72.95 crore, Rs 216.70 crore, Rs 37.83 crore and Rs 67.40 crore, respectively, against net losses of Rs 301.40 crore, Rs 172.40 crore, Rs 95.14 crore, Rs 83.95 crore, Rs 81 crore and Rs 59.97 crore in the year-ago period.Some others narrowed net losses during the first half of the financial year.Prices of sugar as a commodity surged nearly 13 per cent on a year-to-date basis till December 15, according to the data available with NCDEX.
MUMBAI: Realty developer EMGEE Group has acquired over 100 acres of land parcel near Mumbai as it forays into the affordable housing segment. The company plans to spend nearly Rs 1,600 crore to build 25,000 affordable homes over the next five years in the first phase."Affordable housing is the need of the hour and the current market scenario has established that demand continues to be strong in this segment. Our target is to build a total of 1 lakh affordable homes over the next 10 years," said Mudhit Gupta, CMD, EMGEE Group.The company has already procured development rights for 100 acres in Neral and Shahpur near Mumbai. The developer is also in advanced stage of negotiations for acquiring development rights of further 200 acres in the Kalyan-Dombivali belt.EMGEE is planning to build these affordable homes in the price range of Rs 8 lakh to Rs 14 lakh with a configuration of 300 sq ft to 500 sq ft each unit, which will help homebuyers in these projects qualify for benefits of credit-linked subsidy scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).Under the Prime Minister's vision of Housing For All by 2022, the government has announced various benefits including interest subsidy of up to Rs 2.2 lakh for homebuyers. Under the credit-linked subsidy scheme, beneficiaries of economically weaker sections (EWS) and low income groups (LIG) seeking housing loans would be eligible for an interest subsidy at the rate of 6.5% for a tenure of 15 years, or during the tenure of loan, whichever is lower on the initial Rs 6 lakh.The construction work for the first phase of both projects in Neral and Shahpur is expected to commence in January next. While certain approvals including non-agriculture certification for the land have been received, the company is looking to launch the project after securing all the requisite approvals.“The approval process has already started. But, we have always launched our projects only after getting permissions. We will be in compliance of RERA (Real Estate Regulatory Act) even if it’s being implemented after April 2017,” said Gupta.The developer is looking to finance total expenditure of Rs 1,600 crore through internal accruals, construction finance and private equity capital."We are in advanced stage of talks with private equity funds for these projects. Based on the discussions, we can see that there is substantial appetite for affordable housing projects among institutional investors. We have negligible debt on our books and that allows us room to leverage for future growth," Gupta said.With increasing urbanization and rising demand for affordable housing for low income and economically weaker sections, the market for this segment is expected to touch over $100 billion per annum over the next 5 to 7 years, showed a study conducted by PwC, Naredco and APREA.Given the shortage of homes in affordable category, the government of Maharashtra has proposed to use the salt pan land to build affordable and low-cost housing projects. It has set a target to build 1.5 lakh houses to relocate project-affected people and slum-dwellers, and also generate nearly one-third of the housing needs for middle and higher-income category through this initiative.
NEW DELHI: It was a Chinese Diwali in 2016, as players from the largest populated country cornered more than 40% market share in the top 30 cities during the festive month, primarily driven by 4G enabled handsets. While Samsung lead the market in October, Chinese players Lenovo and Xiaomi were the No 2 and 3 brands in the festive month, leaving behind their Indian counterparts, across all tiers.The top 30 cities registered a 20.4% growth on-quarter in the three months ended September, while tier 2&3 cities saw growth of 23.3% on-month, as handset makers focused on new affordable launches, higher spending on marketing and innovative payment options.“It was almost like a “Chinese Smartphone Diwali” across all city tiers,” Upasana Joshi, Senior Market Analyst, IDC India said Friday.“China based players contributed significantly to the growth at the offline retail counters, while continuing to dominate the online channel. Oppo and Vivo continue to shake the traditional line up of Indian vendors with their superior build quality, massive marketing investments in the offline channel,” Joshi added.Samsung had a 26.1% share in the top 30 cities on the back of J5 Prime & J7 Prime, and in October it clocked 15.8% growth on-month. Lenovo (including Motorola) expanded its share by 50% on-month, coming in second with 13.4% share due to Moto E3 Power, existing Moto G4 series along with Lenovo K5 series that accounted for more than 70% volumes.Xiaomi’s growth soared by 41.7% on-month to lead to a 10.7% share of the market, owing to Redmi Note 3 and newly launched Redmi 3s & 3s Prime. Its offline reach, besdies online expansion, seems to have worked for far, IDC added.On the other hand, Micromax and Intex’s shares dipped. Micromax had a 6.8% share in October, dropping by 16.7% on-month, as it faces huge pressure from other local vendors in below $100 (Rs 6,800) segment and with Chinese vendors in below $150 (Rs 10,200) segment. No 5 player Intex’s share dropped to 5.3% due to flat growth but it still continues to command significant share in below $100 price segment, despite tough competition from Lava & Lyf devices.Top 8 to 10 cities of India constitute the major portion of online sales, leaving a yawning gap between these markets and the still largely untapped smaller towns. Historically, consumers from tier 3&4 cities have been averse to online buying, showed significant interest in the online festive sales this year.In the premium smartphone segment of $300 (about Rs 20,000) and above, Apple grew further on the back of the newly launched iPhone 7 series and the already hit series of iPhone 5s and 6.The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge continues to pull major demand, in addition to the series of new model launches by Samsung across both offline and online channels, IDC research said.“While this festival season was one of the best for Offline channel, e commerce players have also started investing more on sellers in smaller cities, better models and improving delivery network, moving away from deeper discounts,” said Varun Singh, another market analyst with IDC.Previously offline only or online only vendors, have now started drawing benefits from their multi-channel strategies, acknowledging that offline and online channels can coexist in the market, without necessarily posing a threat to each other.“We feel that the demonetisation process, currently underway, will lead to a significant but temporary contraction in the mobile phone market in October-December 2016,” says Navkendar Singh, Senior Research Manager, IDC India.Due to relatively slower sales, the inventory in channel is piling up which will take some time to be liquidated as the currency situation improves, he added.
NEW DELHI: Metals, oil & gas and chemicals stocks stole the thunder in calendar year 2016 while IT, pharma and real estate ended up being laggards.The index representing the metals & mining sector rose by 34 per cent while that for oil & gas sector surged 23 per cent as of data collated on December 23, 2016. The BSE Capital Goods index slipped 5.4 per cent while S&P BSE Consumer Durables index shed nearly 10 per cent.The BSE Healthcare index was the biggest casualty of the year 2016, down over 14 per cent, followed by the BSE IT index, which plunged a little over 10 per cent while the BSE Realty index slipped nearly 8 per cent in the same period.Analyst outlook for calendar 2017 is mostly positive, but the leaders of 2016 might not retain their leadership positions in the forthcoming year, analysts said. Hence, a shift in portfolio is required.Sectors such as IT, infrastructure and realty – which were under pressure this past year – should gain momentum in 2017, as a lot of negative sentiment with respect to demonetisation is already in the prices.While some sectors such as IT and pharma will not be impacted by demonetisation, oil marketing firms, refiner and power and gas utilities are more likely to do better over the next 12 months, experts said.“NBFCs, cement, auto and realty are sectors are going to be hit badly and the market has already discounted this in the current prices,” Mehraboon Irani, Principal & Head, Private Client Group, Nirmal Bang Securities, said in an interview with ETNow.“It is an opportunity for longer-term investors to buy stocks,” he said. Based on various brokerage recommendations, here is a list of sectors that market veterans seem to be betting on for the new calendar year.V Srivatsa, EVP- Equity Fund Manager, UTI MFSectors expected to do well: OMCs, refiners, power and gas utilities, IT, pharma, consumptionThe energy and utilities sector is likely to take a leadership role, as we see strong growth in earnings across oil marketing firms, refiners, power and gas utilities, and more importantly, they are much less impacted by demonetisation, which bodes well for near-term performance of these sectors.“We also expect IT and pharma sectors to do well, as their underlying competitiveness remains, notwithstanding the near-term challenges these sectors faced and the attractive valuations with strong cash flows and return ratios even in this downturn,” Srivatsa said.Srivatsa is positive on the consumption sectors, such as auto and cement, which he said could face short-term challenges in terms of near-term demand getting muted and pressure on profitability.Kamlesh Rao, CEO, Kotak SecuritiesSectors likely to do well: banking, auto, infrastructure, power“We are positive on industries that might get impacted by rate cyclical such as banks and auto, infrastructure-related sectors such as road and construction and defence and power equipment, among others,” Rao said.He said some businesses such as ceramics, tiles and plywood – which will see re-organisation of the disorganised segment –may also see some upside.Dinesh Thakkar, chairman and MD, Angel BrokingSectors likely to do well: Infra, IT & pharmaTwo themes are likely to play out in the near term; first is government spending and second is rupee depreciation. “We believe government spending would be positive for the infrastructure sector, which has been a laggard for some time. The increase in public spending will create more business opportunities for the sector,” Thakkar said.“The infrastructure boom led by a new government in the US will also be a positive for improving sentiment in the infrastructure sector. A depreciation of the rupee would be positive for the export sector, especially those where Indian companies have created a niche for themselves such as IT and pharma,” he said.(Views and recommendations given in this section are the analysts' own and do not represent those of ETMarkets.com. Please consult your financial adviser before taking any position in the stock/s mentioned.)

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