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Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
A place or situation where one feels safe or at ease without stress is a comfort zone, safe space, or happy place. While comfort zones may sound fulfilling, in reality this “place” hides the opportunity for new possibilities, thrilling goals and big dreams. If you or someone you know often resides to their comfort zone, I have a few tips that you may find beneficial.
When stepping out of your comfort zone, start with something simple such as changing your morning routine. Whether this is stopping at new place for breakfast, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or taking a new route to work or school. These little changes lead to new experiences, new faces and new sights to see.
Create a List of Goals
Personally, I find myself making lists of everything from projects that need to be done at a certain time to what places I want to visit over summer break. Lists help us process information more efficiently and helps us organize tasks one at a time. Creating a list of goals to do every day, such as “smile at a stranger” or “start a discussion in the classroom” to look back at throughout the day will give you that little push needed.
Say “Yes” More
In the situations where you often pass on, try saying yes more often. Whether your peers ask you to join them at a sporting event or a trip downtown – say yes! Like the old saying goes, “You never know what you like or don’t like until you try it.” and this starts by saying yes.
At the end of the day, there is no rush when it comes to stepping out of your comfort zone, and you will know when you are ready. Over time you will notice growth and experience the joy of life itself. Learn to laugh at your mistakes and learn from them rather than punishing yourself and becoming afraid of failure.
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” — William Jennings Bryan

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Dick Cheney's Reign of Terror
The Rules of Quail Hunting With Dick Cheney
Hunting accidents happen, yes — but not among the best sportsmen. So, it was surprising when Dick Cheney came within a hairsbreadth of killing a perfectly good member of his lawyer posse, Harry Whittington, mistaking him for a flurry of quail. In Whittington, the people of Texas stood to lose their industry-loving Funeral Service Commissioner. But imagine if the target of Cheney’s misdirected blast had been Scooter Libby, or the President himself. In the first case, he’d be accused of trying to silence a witness, in the second, of paving his way to the Oval Office with a little accident. I can imagine the brouhaha in Congress as he tried to swear himself in with Justice Roberts at his side, while Ted Kennedy is hauled from the chambers in a foaming fit, and Cindy Sheehan sets herself ablaze on Pennsylvania Avenue. Finally, imagine if the fortunes of the hunting buddies had been reversed, and Whittington had blasted Cheney with a snootful of birdshot. No doubt Whittington’s corpse, riddled with the .40 caliber and 9 millimeter rounds favored by the Secret Service, would ultimately have received a state funeral, once his status as a security risk had been dealt with through standard operating procedures. After all, Cheney’s bodyguards would be faulted for allowing Whittington to take a second shot.
That so many humorous and Strangelovian scenarios can be spun from a few stray pieces of birdshot speaks volumes about the man who is their focus. As the dust settles, a few new pieces of the Cheney puzzle have fallen into place as well, and the picture that emerges is more than disquieting. Cheney can no longer be perceived as merely a robust specimen of American manhood, because engaging in incompetent gunplay is not the sort of behavior you expect from a robust executive. Withdrawing like a beast into his lair, Cheney lurked in radio silence until the taunts of late-night comedians drew him forth to make a statement on home ground – Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network. When he spoke, Cheney told us that it was the worst day in his life. What about Harry Whittington’s life? He lay in a hospital with a sphere of metal lodged in his heart, causing him to suffer little heart attacks now and then. Enjoying the benefits of a double standard has clearly become a way of life for Dick Cheney, and he has been sorely put upon by those who charge that he uses his office to flaunt the law, and dares anyone to interfere. With an ever-loyal President at his back, Cheney has succeeded in having his cake, and eating everybody else’s, too.
The Friendly Fire Was A Little Fierce
While initial reports from the hospital were delayed, it is now clear that after he was felled by Cheney’s shotgun blast, Whittington was within an ace of his life. Although Kathryn Armstrong, who hosted the hunting party on her Texas ranch, told the news that Whittington’s injuries were minor and he wouldn’t have been hospitalized but for the convenient presence of the Vice President’s entourage, this was a blatant lie. By Cheney’s own account given four days later, Whittington fell to the ground immediately upon being shot. Armstrong said she thought Whittington had a heart attack. Perhaps if he’d been hit by a truck she’d have considered that an attack of the flu, but no matter, all are agreed he went down like a sack of potatoes. At that moment, no one knew whether the man would live or die. He was helicoptered first to a local hospital, and once he was stabilized, to a larger hospital where he was attended by top level specialists in intensive care. Two days into his stay, it was reported that a piece of birdshot had migrated into his heart, causing a minor heart attack. Reportedly, if all goes well, Whittington will have this souvenir of the event for the rest of his life. When he checked out of the hospital on Friday, he looked such that no one would want to trade places with him. There was yellow bruising all over the right side of his face, purple bruises on his neck and hidden below his high collar. He had a half-dozen puncture wounds on his right cheek and in the eye socket. With what we know about the perforation to his chest cavity that has impinged on the operation of his heart, he looked pretty far from being a happy camper.
Could A Real Prosecutor Please Stand Up?
Whittington might not be happy, but he’s still a team player, and he didn’t suffer brain damage, so he still knows what side of his bread is buttered. So he knew better than to make a fuss by demanding an investigation, say, just for the sake of the insurance claim. There was no police investigation of this near-fatal shooting of the Texas Funeral Service Commisioner, and the law never talked to the shooter. The Secret Service kept Cheney safely behind bars the night of the shooting, turning away a deputy who came to see him, and it is clear that Whittington has done nothing to encourage an investigation. Without the benefit of any evidence, the local District Attorney, who might as well have been born without clearly discernible genitalia, cleared Cheney of all criminal culpability.
Some things, we say in the law, are “res ipsa loquitur” – the thing speaks for itself – but that could hardly be said of this situation, where everything hangs from the shooter’s mental state at the time of the shooting. Apparently, to the local DA, it is impossible for the Vice President to possess the requisite criminal mental state to commit a gun crime, for it is clear he committed the physical act of shooting another person. In legal terms, Cheney unquestionably committed the “actus reus,” the wrongful act of shooting Whittington, and the only remaining issue would be whether he possessed the “mens rea,” a wrongful state of mind, when he shot him. Such cases are not only charged, but also prosecuted to conviction, quite frequently, because people handling guns, which are deadly weapons, have a duty to handle them with great care and never when under the influence of alcohol. Accordingly, many people have been convicted of homicide after shooting friends with what they believed were unloaded guns, and in all such cases, the shooter’s use of alcohol before the shooting would count as evidence of guilt. As you can see, this is not much different from mistaking your friend for a flurry of quail. When a shooting does not result in death, careless shooters may be convicted of reckless wounding or assault. Finally, it is notable that after a shooting, it is considered mandatory to cooperate with a police investigation, and very few accidental shooters attempt to secret themselves away and avoid questioning, fearful of drawing suspicion by avoiding contact with police.
Just A Minute, I Think I Have A Judge Here In My Pocket
If Harry Whittington had been run over by a carhop in the parking lot of The Million Dollar Saloon in Dallas, he would’ve certainly demanded a police report. You can sue the valet parking company and the saloon. But there really isn’t much point in suing Dick Cheney. Ask the Office of Management and Budget. They still haven’t gotten any information in response to the subpoenas they served on Cheney five years ago to discover what he, Ken Lay, and numerous other energy magnates talked about when they crafted the nation’s energy policy. No matter that Cheney’s energy policy has given car owners the highest gas prices, and oil companies their highest profits in history – the Bush appointees on the D.C. Circuit Court agree with Cheney that it would impede his freedom to discuss important matters with his corporate cronies if he had to disclose those matters to the OMB. Cheney has made a lot of smart investments in people, and as a result, is about as free to tread on other people’s toes as a man can be without actually having, like James Bond, a license to kill.
Cheney’s Little Row With The Intelligence Community
Cheney would give our real James Bonds licenses to torture “terror suspects,” if he could, so convinced is he that our anti-terrorist forces would use such license discreetly. Then again, it’s possible that the CIA has construed its mission differently from Cheney, who believes in staffing every government agency with yes-men from top to bottom. When it appeared, for example, that Ambassador Joe Wilson, a State Department employee, had dared to write an article for the New York Times disclosing that the President lied to the nation in his State of Union address during the run-up to the liberation of Iraq, Cheney’s office put out the smear that Wilson had no real knowledge, and had merely gone to Niger for fun on a trip engineered by his wife, Valerie Plame, the “well-known” CIA agent.
The Plame Leak occurred in July and August 2003, shortly after US Ambassador Joe Wilson published an article in the New York Times criticizing the President for saying in his State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein bought yellowcake uranium from Niger, when Wilson’s own investigation had determined that the story was bogus. Wilson’s story got lots of attention, because this particular lie had gotten very stale from overuse, and it was simply embarrassing that Bush was caught using it months after Condoleeza Rice got the word that the Niger story was kaput. As we now know, this embarrassing kickoff for our thoroughly modern Crusade to liberate Iraq, like so much other garbage that was fed to the nation via broadcast media, was part of Cheney’s plan to keep using lies even when they had worn out. While some of his advisers might have advised him to simply make up new lies, Cheney is the master of The Big Lie, and his handling of the Plame affair showed why. Getting a lie off the ground isn’t as easy as it seems, and once you’ve got it going, you don’t want to destroy your credibility by admitting it was a lie. No, you’ve got to stand by your lies, or soon nobody will believe them.
Wilson’s story threatened to become a bigger story than Iraq itself. Cheney worked for Nixon, and he knows how dangerous it can be when everyone’s running around saying, “The President is a liar.” Then, just as Wilson’s story, drawing strength from his personal credibility as a career diplomat, picked up steam, putting Bush and company in a very bad light, suddenly “everyone in the press” knew all at once that Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson’s attractive blonde wife, was a CIA agent, and some people were saying that Wilson’s trip to Niger was just a diplomatic safari. Scooter Libby, indicted now by Special Prosecutor Mike Fitzgerald for obstructing his investigation into the sources of the leak, has now disclosed in legal filings, that his “superiors” put him up to it. Since Scooter Libby was the top slime-slinger in Cheney’s office, that should put Cheney himself directly in the crosshairs of Special Prosecutor Mike Fitzgerald.
The President Flees Washington To Escape The Stink
The explosive potential of what Scooter Libby knows, and might reveal, was evident back when the news broke at the start of last November. Trying to escape the stink wafting from Cheney’s office, Bush went as far as Argentina, from whence the news networks aired repetitive footage of violent demonstrations at an international trade conference. Even Fox gave extensive air time to the anti-imperialist declamations of Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, and Chavez is no Fox network favorite. He’s the type of leader who says no to Bush’s economic plans for the region, and last week responded to Condoleeza Rice’s saber rattling in the Carribean by telling an elated audience of Venezualans — “Hey babe, don’t even try it!” Ordinarily, he would not be given twenty-one inches of TV screen to make objectionable points, but with the name “Scooter Libby” on every reporter’s lips, the networks decided that keeping The Big Lie in place required a different strategy at this treacherous moment, when someone might trace the vile odor emanating from the West Wing first to Cheney’s very own person, and perhaps, to other people, even higher up the food chain.
There could be only one reason why the networks would bury us in footage of Argentines rioting against Bush and adoring Chavez. Because, hidden like a bulging boil under the surface of the President’s thin skin, lay the toxic deposit of Libby’s indictment, an unhealthy condition that the Commander in Chief was eager to avoid discussing. The obliging media outlets therefore showed only a few seconds of Bush’s agonizing press conference in Rio de la Plata, where the traveling press pool peppered him exclusively with questions about Rove and Libby. The spectacle of masked men hurling gasoline bombs in the streets interested the press corps far less than what Karl Rove knew, and when he knew it. Questioned about how he planned to correct a situation where a majority of registered voters question his personal honesty, Bush characteristically declined to be pushed around by public opinion. Finally, realizing that the reporters would not drop the Rovegate questioning-style, he launched into a stock outline of his antiterrorism, disaster recovery and prosperity agenda and ran out the clock, waving off the last Rove-related question to create the shot that all the news agencies ran that night. The truncated exchange eliminated all the tasty shots of the President dodging fire like an agile elephant.
A High-Flying Conspiracy
What all the reporters wanted to know, but none directly asked, was this – “Why is Karl Rove still be working in the White House when he was aboard Air Force 2 on July 13, 2003, with Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby, when the three very likely agreed to blow the cover on a CIA agent?” The answer is probably a simple aeronautical and legal fact – when he’s in Air Force 2, flying 30,000 feet above the United States, Dick Cheney is literally above the law. I believe Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wrote a memo about that for Dick. But for this legal exemption, we would call the meeting of these three top politicians a “criminal conspiracy” to commit high treason, for which all the participants could likely be imprisoned for life, maybe even tortured to learn the identities of their co-conspirators. The word “conspiracy” is just Italian for “breathing the same air,” which would certainly be the case in the elegant cabin of AirForce 2, where the air is constantly recirculated. Lately, there’s started to be some talk about whether Cheney had the power to unilaterally “declassify” the information about Plame’s undercover status, so perhaps there’s some question about the reliability of the AG’s “above the law” analysis, but let’s take the easy approach and not bother our pretty little heads about it. Leave it to the liberal nutcases to hurl horrible epithets like “traitor,” “conspirator,” and “dirtbag.”
We could quibble about the facts of this airborne conspiracy, but it would take a mind utterly innocent of the Hobbesian realities of Washington to conceive of any scenario in which the AirForce 2 conspirators intended anything other than to destroy Wilson and his wife for having the temerity to contradict the President’s lies. Feeling betrayed by Wilson, the conspirators sought to repay Wilson in his own coin – by betraying his wife. After all, why were the conspirators talking about Wilson’s wife? Perhaps Scooter, who like Cheney’s wife and other elite deviants, enjoys writing pornography, had suggested sending him a kinky anniversary present. No, they were talking about Valerie because they were looking for a way to break Wilson’s knees. What was the cover story for this act of treason? One that only Cheney, with his love of brazen outrageousness, could have orchestrated. They would just claim that “everybody knew” Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. To create that “suddenly everyone knew” effect, the conspirators leaked the news to Richard Novak, Chris Matthews, Judith Miller, and perhaps several other reporters near-simultaneously. Doubtless these reporters knew they were treading on thin ice, inviting criminal sanctions for breaching national security, but they devoured Valerie Plame like a female sacrifice, apparently certain that the Vice President would protect them from liability. Which undoubtedly Cheney intended to do.
The Worm Turns
Cheney should have known better than to initiate a vendetta with the CIA, because the agency was mad already about all the dung they had to swallow over the last five or six years. First they were excoriated after 9/11 for being caught flat-footed by the attackers. Then the agency was swallowed by Homeland Security, had its rules rewritten to authorize torture, and was tasked with the job of inventing and marketing a nonexistent Iraqi weapons threat to fuel the push to war. The agency was further humiliated when George Tenet, the CIA head, took the fall for the “bad intelligence” that caused the President to repeat the lie that Iraq had obtained uranium from Niger in his State of the Union address. Tenet got the Medal of Honor for taking an exquisite dive, just like Paul Bremer received the same high honor for completely abandoning his job as the transitional czar of the American occupation of Iraq. But individual CIA agents got no medals, and the outing of Valerie Plame was the last straw, and a little bit more. As the old saying goes, you can push a worm, that is to say a dragon — only so far – and then it will turn.
The AirForce 2 conspirators misjudged CIA culture. Spying is built on deception. Deception is based on secrecy. Secrecy is ensured by loyalty, and intra-Company loyalty is supposed to be an absolute article of faith. Undercover CIA agents who die in action are supposed to remain anonymous even after death, honored only in a secret book kept at CIA headquarters. (See “The Book of Honor” by Ted Gup.) Yup, the Cheney team, comprised only of sold-out courtiers equipped with greasy palms, greatly miscalculated the mettle and insititutional loyalty of the CIA. The humiliated spooks decided to do more than get mad – they decided to get even, and demanded appointment of an independent prosecutor to investigate the source of the leak. In response, the President stood up like a tin soldier, saluted, said he didn’t know who the leaker was and he would like to know and the White House would fire anyone responsible for it. Now he explains that he will fire anyone who is convicted of leaking, which in lawyer-speak means, anyone who is convicted, whose criminal appeals have failed, and who is somehow ineligible for a Presidential pardon. Under those circumstances, Karl Rove might be fired. It is probably more likely that Karl will be stuffed into a 2.5 liter soda bottle and fired into low-earth orbit.
Betrayed by The Fickle Media
No, breaking the law is not Cheney’s problem, nor is the President his problem, nor are his sleazy friends and their unethical schemes. It is the fact that his pet reporters in the media might roll on him. Right after the offal began striking the turbine, reporter Robert Novak cut a deal, and even though Miller did over eighty days in jail, she got out by agreeing to testify and thereafter lost her her job and a lot of credibility points when she claimed she had forgotten who told her that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, even though she wrote the name “Valerie Flame” on a notepad while she was talking to Rove. The loss of a scumbag like Miller is a grievous one for Cheney. Before the Iraq war that Cheney so deeply desired to incite, Miller worked the bellows at the New York Times, channelling anti-Saddam rhetoric and false intelligence churned out by Cheney’s office. Miller and the New York Times gave credence to WMD fantasies propagated by international criminal Achmed Chalabi. Miller stoked the neocon fantasy that our soldiers would be welcomed as heroes, liberating Arab people for the very first time. Now, she’s on the sidelines, nursing her wounds, of no use to anyone but her detractors.
Yes, aside from Bill O’Reilly, Republican media personalities confronted with Cheney’s slime-trail Republican these days barely have the courage to unload their usual barrage of abusive epithets. Perhaps they are afraid that one day soon, being Dick Cheney’s friend could turn into a liability. Perhaps they realize that TV viewers are beginning to catch on to the verbal tricks and sleight-of-camera the media uses to cloak a lawless thug like Cheney with impunity. Certainly they want to avoid the possibility that one day, having opened their mouths to publish another batch of pro-Cheney propaganda, their smarmy lies might be greeted by a volley of hurled TV remotes smacking screens hard enough to break them, accompanied by the massed voice of an enormous viewing audience shouting “Shut up!”
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Cisco hosted its third IoT World Forum in Dubai in December, warning that IoT would be massively disruptive, and saying that most companies, and countries would be overwhelmed by the rapidity of change.
IDC's IT Services Predictions for 2016 and beyond for Asia Pacific region highlight the impact cloud-first and digital transformation over the next three years.
Ben Cardwell puts the spotlight on the cell-site options available for mobile operators struggling to meet surging demand and minimize rollout costs.
Unified communications is becoming an increasingly important tool for driving time to market and revenue streams. Frost & Sullivan, in its report, Meetings Around the World: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration, found that 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies surveyed said they use UC solutions to cut the need for business travel. The same report also found that more than half of those responding thought UC solutions presented a powerful alternative to in-person office visits.
South Korea, a nation no bigger than the US state of Indiana, saw its economy surge from 1962 to about 1994 at an average of 10 percent annually, fueled by annual export growth of 20 percent during a period called the ""Miracle on the Han River"".
Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) have become essential to reliable connectivity as more and more people expect to upload and download information on the go. In a heavily crowded sports arena, thousands of fans are eager to upload their memories online. The only way that can happen efficiently is by using a DAS system: a network of separated antenna nodes connected to a common source via a transport medium that provides wireless service within a geographic area or structure.

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Application to a total system surface mine simulator to coal stripping. Volume V: application to an Illinois mine.
Ramani RV; Bandopadhyay S; Manula CB
NTIS: PB 294-631, 1977; :1-193
The application of the open pit materials handling simulator (omphs) to a mine located in Illinois using a bucket wheel excavator (bwe) and a stripping shovel in tandem for overburden removal is described. The specific objective of the study is to demonstrate the application of the simulator to analyze mine planning and scheduling problems and to generate and analyze alternatives for increased production. On the basis of the simulations it was concluded that the maximum productive capacity of the system in raw coal was around 3,000 tons per shift. At this production level, the equipment combination and availability also satisfy the match requirements for the stripping shovel and the bwe, and the overburden and coal removal systems. Several alternatives requiring new equipment are proposed and analyzed for increasing production.
Open pit mining; Surface mining; Mining equipment; Computer assisted mining; Computerized simulation; Materials handling; Work operations; Coal mining; Coal processing
CP; Final Contract Report
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NTIS: PB 294-631
Pennsylvania State University


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Kentucky Overtakes Iowa Late in Battle of Citrus Bowl Unbeatens, Wins 20-17
College football fans got a New Year’s treat on Saturday, as an entertaining finish saw Kentucky close out its second Vrbo Citrus Bowl win in four seasons.
Down 17-13 to Iowa in the fourth quarter, Kentucky junior quarterback Will Levis found wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson for a 52-yard pass down to the Iowa 1-yard line.
Running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished the 80-yard drive off with a 6-yard touchdown run to take a game-clinching 20-17 lead.
Robinson, the Citrus Bowl’s Most Valuable Player, played a pivotal role in Kentucky’s victory with 10 receptions for 170 yards. Robinson’s high-powered junior season eclipsed the UK single-season receiving yards record with 1,334.
“He’s a really good football player,” Iowa Head Coach Kirk Ferentz said. “He was good when we faced him last time, and he is probably better right now and that comes with age. We have a lot of respect for him.”
The game felt charmed from the start, as 50,769 fans filled the entire lower bowl of Camping World Stadium and a rather sizeable part of the upper tier. The sun shone all day on two talented teams who both finished the year with 10 wins despite playing tough schedules.
Just a couple of days ago, the SEC dropped to 1-5 in postseason bowl games. Now, with conference juggernauts Alabama and Georgia winning their Playoff Semifinals games on Friday — and with Arkansas defeating Penn State in Tampa — Kentucky continued the conference’s four-game win streak.
No. 15 Iowa (10-4) recorded six defensive sacks and was able to surge in the second half to take a 17-13 lead after trailing for the majority of the game, but it couldn’t finish the job.
Ferentz named junior quarterback Spencer Petras the starter minutes before the game. Petras struggled to get going early on but finished throwing 19 of 30 pass completions for 211 passing yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. His favorite target, Sam LaPorta, caught seven receptions for 122 yards and one touchdown.
“Spencer, he competed his butt off today,” LaPorta said. “We have worked really hard all week and all of bowl prep. They were a great team, of course. They had some obstacles that we had to work around, and I thought Spencer commanded the offense really well today.”
For No. 22 Kentucky (10-3), Levis connected on 17 of 28 passes for 233 passing yards and one interception. The rushing attack was led by Rodriguez Jr., with 20 attempts for 107 yards and one rushing touchdown.
Kentucky established the run early behind Rodriguez Jr. to jump out to a 7-0 lead after shutting down the Iowa offense on its first possession. Thanks to two third-down conversions, the Wildcats successfully drove down the field to cap off a 13-play, 80-yard drive with a 5-yard pass from Levis to Rodriguez Jr.
Following another Iowa three-and-out, the Wildcats’ second offensive drive was halted after a sack by Hawkeyes defensive lineman Zach Van Valkenburg. The Hawkeye standout continuously pressured Levis throughout the afternoon, recording eight total tackles, two sacks and two-and-a-half tackles for loss.
Iowa’s offense found its groove on its third possession when Petras found tight end Luke Lachey for 15-yards — the longest play of the game for the Hawkeyes up to that point. A false start on 3rd-and-4 near the goal line forced Iowa to settle for a 28-yard field goal to cut the lead to 7-3 with 11:03 remaining in the second quarter.
On the ensuing drive, Kentucky’s offense featured a mixture of Robinson and Rodriguez. The Wildcats responded with a 21-yard field goal from Matt Ruffolo to take a 10-3 lead with 2:48 remaining in the second quarter.
Kentucky closed out the half by forcing an interception off a tipped pass which was caught by linebacker D’Eryk Jackson that resulted in a 27-yard field goal kick by Ruffolo to take a 13-3 lead with 0:38 seconds remaining in the second quarter.
Iowa’s vaunted defense continued to look solid entering the second half, forcing Kentucky to punt on its first drive. The Hawkeyes then launched a 7-play, 69-yard drive, but were stopped on a crucial 4th-and-1 after Petras fumbled the exchange. It was the third turnover of the game for Iowa.
After a Kentucky three-and-out, Iowa finally found paydirt for the first time. Hawkeyes’ receiver Arland Bruce IV hit the end zone on a 20-yard end-around run to cut the lead 13-10 with 3:21 remaining in the third quarter.
A couple of minutes later, Petras found LaPorta on a 36-yard wheel route that gave Iowa its first lead of the day at 17-13. A defensive battle had opened up into a back-and-forth game, to the delight of the crowd.
But Iowa’s lead was permanently wiped out by Kentucky’s game-winning drive, led by Levis and Robinson, which was capped off by Rodriguez Jr.
Kentucky finished with 10 wins for the second time under Mark Stoops and the fourth time in program history.
“Coach Stoops deserves all the credit in the world for what he’s done with this program,” Levis said.
“This is obviously my first year with the team, and there were a lot of guys before us going back a few years that … really built the foundation for what the program has been able to do right now. So big thanks to them.”
Kentucky has slowly but steadily built a national name under Stoops, and a lot of that remarkable story has been written here in Orlando.

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Ozzy Osbourne’s return after a 10-year gap between solo studio albums ushered in a new era of darkness. It’s a star-studded album with features and musicians from all different genres. The wildest example is the single “Take What You Want,” a Post Malone song featuring Ozzy and Travis Scott. But the album has other notable features like Elton John, Red Hot Chilli Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan. It’s an oddball album, but its quirkiness makes it unique in the dark and serious metal landscape.
Being the face of one of the most influential metal bands ever, Ozzy Osbourne earned his place as the Prince of Darkness. But like a true anti-hero, he succumbed to his weaknesses before rising again. Partnering with legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads and led thoughtfully by the future manager and wife Sharon Arden, Osbourne was able to not only continue his career but become the most celebrated figure in all of metal.


With the new methane standards announced by President Obama in the middle of May, the U.S. moves further towards regulating the largely unchecked natural gas industry. The standards will cut methane emissions from new and modified extraction sites from the oil and gas sector– in particular from hydraulic fracturing or fracking sites that extract natural gas. The standards are a part of President Obama’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, specifically reducing methane emissions from this industry by 40 – 45% from 2012 levels by 2025. The new methane standards are expected to reduce 510,000 short tons of methane in 2025, the equivalent of reducing 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
But do why do these new standards matter? Do they even make a difference? The answer is yes. Here are five reasons why Obama’s new methane regulations matter:
- Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Methane, with a global warming potential more than 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide, is a major contributor to climate change. In order to successfully combat climate change, methane emissions must be reeled in.
- The U.S. has been underestimating its methane emissions. New data has shown that methane emissions from existing oil and gas sources are substantially higher than was being recorded. Methane is the second most emitted GHG in the U.S., and the natural gas industry accounts for one-third of those methane emissions.
- Small leaks and big spills. Methane leaks are frequent during the production, transportation and use of natural gas. This can undo the supposed climate-benefits of natural gas being used as an alternative to coal. As was seen in California’s Aliso Canyon, where methane leaked from a natural gas storage facility for four months, methane leaks are dangerous not only because they emit GHGs, but because of its colorless, odorless characteristics, the general public won’t know that there was a leak (as is the case with oil spills) and can face threats to human health.
- Methane has been largely under-regulated. Natural gas from fracking has been unregulated ever since becoming commercially viable in the U.S., at both the federal and local levels. Oil and gas companies have had lax oversight and monitoring programs in place to check for methane leaks. With no pressure from regulation to put technologies in place that can check and capture methane leaks, these companies have not had the incentives to implement safety measures to prevent methane leaks. As a result, leaks occur on a daily basis from these extraction sites, sometimes unknowingly, and often with no efforts to contain them.
- The 2015 Paris Agreement. Finally after decades of negotiation, our world leaders have come to a global agreement on climate change. It’s a big deal. Other countries must see that the U.S., the second largest contributor to global GHG emissions, is acting on climate, and this means addressing methane emissions that can easily be reduced. In addition, in order to actually achieve its commitment of reducing GHG 28% below 2005 levels by 2025, the U.S. needs to target emissions from every sector, in particular from the unregulated industries like the natural gas industry.


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Talked to a couple of village people last week, looking for some good news to go with our lovely spring weather. Nah, nothing much came to mind: it’s budget time and the village is broke and crabby, the Comprehensive Plan is still a useless re-hash, but village hall morale is decent and staff are soldiering on. Folks did, however, want to vent about village council bad boys, Mark Hosty and Tom Mannix.
Their most recent shenanigans conjure a scene from Blazing Saddles where Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) is scheming to reduce a small, charming town to ashes, needs a bit of help, and states his recruitment demands: “I want rustlers, cut throats, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men…” and my favorite, hornswogglers.
It’s brilliant comedy when Mel Brooks does it; Hosty and Mannix not at all. To avoid future confusion, perhaps they could ‘make a motion’ to have the above language included on village RFP’s – ATTENTION: All Rustlers…
After two years of machinations regarding our grade schools, Hosty/Mannix are fixated on the school district’s cash reserves – they want it spent, apparently on their own interests. Their most recent village embarrassment was trying to bully D91 into awarding RedSpeed Illinois, LLC (a campaign contributor to the Forest Park PAC and Mayor Calderone) a contract that could, in theory, protect our school children from negligent drivers and, assuredly, enrich their patron. This was followed by blubbering whining because, you see, as village electeds they are helpless to protect our kids as they have only the Forest Park Police Department at their disposal.
It doesn’t get more blatant than this, folks.
If the issue was truly about our kids’ well-being, we wouldn’t allow a fifth-grade class to watch recent village council meeting videos without adult supervision and advice: “Class, please notice that Commissioner Hosty and Commissioner Mannix are performing the opposite of Public Service. See right here? And again here – and here. Our culture has various names for this untoward behavior – some are not nice, some are not allowed in community newspapers, one or two are in Latin – but for now we’ll just call it Self-Service. Please make a note to never, ever vote for that type of person because elections have consequences.”
Mark Hosty’s weaknesses are not aging well, his years of transgressions are piled dangerously high, and “volatile” just doesn’t cut it. Tom Mannix, the Carpetbagger with a Thousand Schemes, has drained our coffers on gimmicks and brought a nasty darkness to our town. If Tony Calderone decides to run for mayor again next spring may I suggest he choose his ‘team’ more wisely as we are judged by the company we keep. Mr. Mayor, these two have got to go.
If Forest Park wishes to attract responsible and involved residents, and we do, we simply cannot have elected officials serving up chronic “don’t do this, boys and girls” embarrassment. Getting rid of ‘the bad boys’ won’t solve all our problems but, as they say, it’s a start.
On the issue of campaign loot, I still can’t figure out why a village of 14,000 residents has a PAC. It seems rather grandiose, don’t you think? Vox 60130 (formerly Citizens United in Forest Park) will offer a smart presentation on PACs before next year’s election with experts to provide answers to the wild world of campaign financing. Disclosure: I serve on the Vox board of directors.
By the way, Vox is celebrating ten years (!) as the voice of good governance in our village. The annual meeting is this Thurday, May 22 (that would be tomorrow!) at 7 p.m. at The Snug in Molly Malone’s, and you all are welcome. We have an election in less than a year, so consider adding your voice to matters of importance in Forest Park.

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June 27th, 2010 (10:11 pm)
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Do you prefer to live in an urban or rural environment? Why?
This one is extremely simple - I love living in the city. I have lived in London my entire life and love it. I love the variety of things to do, places to go and people to me. With my passions being music, comedy and magic, which really rely on the live scene the city is so important due to the variety of venues and the acts it draws in. I love the controlled greenery of the parks rather than the sprawling fields of the countryside which can get tedious in comparison to the variety of landscapes that can be found within the park. Finally, I just love the noise and the light, the countryside is too quiet and dark for me. The city is where I belong, the countryside is a nice escape for a few days but could never tempt me into a permanent move.

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So head on over to Ozark Folk Center and you might be the lucky winner of an item worth approximately $25. While you are there you can enjoy the studios at this unique park that featurea master Ozark craftsperson demonstrating and creating their fine and functional crafts in air-conditioned comfort. Crafts include wood turning; pottery; candle making; weaving; gunsmithing; leather work; basket making; quilting; broom tying; printing; painting; lampwork glass; scrimshaw; copper flame painting; wood carving and more. There are 24 studios in the Craft Village, open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Giveaway items include a basket from Sharon Fernimen; jewelry from the Widmers; a handtied broom from Shawn Hoefer; a basket of handmade bath and body care from Linda Odom’s Apothecary Shop; a gun cleaning and appraisal from Jim Purdom; flame painted copper from Skip and Rachel Mathews and much more. The item of the day will be on display in the shop where it was made, along with the basket for you to put your drawing tickets.
Every visitor over 18 will get an entry ticket for the prize when they purchase their admission to the Ozark Folk Center Craft Village. Admission to the Craft Village is $10 for adults, $6 for children 6-12 and children under 6 are free. There are combination tickets for the day at the park and the evening show; family passes and season passes available too. There will be maps and a listing of every shop and the donation from the shop. If you get your card initialed in every shop, you’ll get an extra ticket for the drawing.
The daily drawing will be held at 3:15 p.m. at the outdoor music pavilion. The daily winners will be entered in a big Labor Day weekend Ozark Craftsmanship Grand Prize drawing valued at approximately $250 with items from every studio.


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This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. AutoML Vision helps developers with limited ML expertise train high-quality image recognition models. In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to train a custom model to recognize different types of clouds (cumulus, cumulonimbus, etc.)....
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — U.S. oil company Chevron says it has begun drilling for shale gas at its exploration well site in northeastern Romania, a project which has drawn protests from local residents.
The company said the drilling, which will probe to a depth of 4,000 meters (13,000 feet), started Tuesday after "safety and performance checks" had been completed and rock samples will be taken to determine if natural gas is present.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — U.S. oil company Chevron says it has resumed exploration for shale gas in northeastern Romania a day after suspending work when hundreds of anti-fracking protesters tore down fences.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — U.S. oil giant Chevron has resumed its search for shale gas in northeastern Romania amid ongoing opposition from local residents.
In October, Chevron suspended searching for shale gas in the village of Pungesti following protests in the capital and the local area against fracking.
The company said Monday its priority was to "conduct these activities in a safe and environmentally responsible manner." It gained permits to drill exploratory wells in Pungesti in October but halted activity after protests. On Monday, hundreds of police blocked a road to stop residents demonstrating.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hundreds of Romanians opposed to shale gas extraction in their village on Wednesday scuffled with police at an exploration site where energy giant Chevron plans to start drilling.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's prime minister predicted Monday that Parliament will reject plans for Canadian-run gold mine following large protests over the cyanide used in its extraction process.
Romania's new left-leaning government has pledged a moratorium on shale gas exploitation and will review a controversial Canadian plan to build Europe's largest open-cast gold mine.
Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta also said he will respect commitments to the International Monetary Fund and increase public sector wages that were slashed by 25 percent in 2010 to meet the terms of a €20 billion($26 billion) IMF-led loan.
More research is beginning to appear that suggests ways in which the fight against climate change -- even including the imposition of a carbon tax -- could boost economic growth, The New York Times reports.
The owners of the Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert -- including NRG Energy, Google and BrightSource Energy -- have applied for Treasury Department grants even as they have delayed paying back millions borrowed through Energy Department loans, according to documents tracked by The Wall Street Journal.
Ample crude supplies were continuing to outweigh concerns about tensions in the Middle East Tuesday. U.S. benchmark crude for November delivery gained 69 cents to settle at $91.56 a barrel on the Nymex, while in London Brent crude dropped 12 cents to close at $96.85, Reuters reports.
Buckeye Partners appears to be on schedule to start moving Canadian oil sands crude to its rebuilt terminal in Perth Amboy in the third quarter, FuelFix reports, noting that the rail shipments will need to go through New York state but the exact route is so far unclear.
The spending bill signed by President Obama last week covers additional costs at the beleaguered Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, while other energy measures approved by lawmakers before they left Capitol Hill to concentrate on the November elections include language pushed by Energy Committee chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., that would strengthen energy ties with Israel, Roll Call reports.
Democrat Michelle Nunn, running for a Senate seat in Georgia against Republican businessman David Perdue, would back sound environmental policies, the League of Conservation Voters said in an endorsement for her candidacy despite her support for the Keystone XL pipeline, The Hill reports.
The Cook Political Report predicts that the 2014 midterm elections may see more ads about energy and environmental issues than ever before, in part because of the money and focus from activist Tom Steyer and in part because energy concerns play a key role in important races, according to Time.
There’s “tremendous potential” in the idea of generating energy from garbage, both in converting waste to ethanol or synthetic gas but also in generating oil products from plastic, an official from the American Chemistry Council told Fox News.
Just over a year since he took over as Siemens CEO, Joe Kaeser is focusing the company more intensively on energy, the latest step being the acquisition of Texas oil equipment maker Dresser-Rand, The Wall Street Journal reports.


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VR (virtual reality) gaming, the perfect corporate event for your team building effort ? A powerful aspect of using virtual reality for team building is that you get to decide exactly how your attendees interact with the experience as well as with each other. It can be beneficial to have experiences where each attendee is guided in their very own VR landscape; however, it can be just as useful to create a fun, engaging group dynamic with multiple people interacting at once. Additionally, sometimes you might want both, and with virtual reality that’s no problem!
Event organizers are striving to integrate the latest technology into their events. VR has the potential to entirely renovate the events industry single handedly. Different Ways Virtual Reality Can Be Implemented At Events : Host interactive virtual meetings. Attendees can use VR to direct their experiences remotely, by being able to participate in an event without physically being there. One of many 360-degree cameras such as Samsung Gear 360 or the LG 360 Cam make it possible for attendees to be present at an event as if they were there alongside others. There might be a possibility in the near future that VR could replace physical venues allowing people to attend events from the comfort of their own home. This will allow your event to be more accessible to audiences worldwide. Virtual reality gaming is the application of a three-dimensional (3-D) created play ground to computer games. Virtual reality environments are created with VR programs and presented to the player in such a way that they supercede the real-world environment, creating suspension of mirage and helping the user experience the VR space as real. You can play VR games at home but, usually, the hardware that are available for regular individual clients is not very good. Good VR equipment is expensive , that’s why there are playgrounds that offers VR play on extremely good equipment. Think about it like the today’s internet caffee’s of the past.
Rec Room (Oculus Rift; PS VR; HTC Vive): If you just took the plunge on a new headset or if you want to show off VR to someone for the first time, Rec Room provides a low-impact and free social sandbox of places to go, things to pick up and toss, objects to interact with, and some minigames to play solo or with others online. You can play this title suitably from either a seated or standing position, and it works well with room scale. Rec Room is designed primarily as a social experience, so expect a lot of people to be on mic, and consider taking part in the chatter yourself. You won’t find an infinitely replayable game world to explore here, but Rec room should help people who need to get their VR sea legs before they tackle more in-depth experiences.
Astro Bot Rescue Mission: In this action platformer, you must rescue the various members of your crew who are scattered across space. The game offers 20 different main levels and 26 challenge levels, which should keep you entertained for a long time. This isn’t a simple platforming title. The game features 360-degree worlds and offers several different weapons, including throwing stars, a water gun, and a hook shot. If you want to play VR games with your friends in Toronto you may want to check LevelupReality.
LEVELUP REALITY is downtown Toronto’s virtual reality (VR) arcade and event venue. We take you beyond the limits of reality into a rich immersive experience, where you can connect with others while engaging all of your senses. Recommended team development games for corporate events: An effective facet of using virtual reality for team building is you get to decide exactly how your employees connect to the experience along with each other. We’ve developed a list of the most popular team development VR experiences, that may help you consider which kind of virtual reality team building event suits you and your employees. Between hilariously quirky experiences that will reduce employee stress, to exciting adventures that allow teams to tackle any challenge, these examples should give you an idea of what to anticipate when planning a team development event using virtual reality. See more info on Corporate events Toronto.
As technology progresses, virtual reality gaming hardware has matured to the point that VR headsets offer a great exerience with little lag or nausea, two areas that had presented problems historically. Some VR headsets on the market include HTC Vive, Occulus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, Samsung VR, PlayStation VR and Google Cardboard. Most of these offer motion sensing controllers and a tracker to work in concert with the headset. Some offer room-scale VR capabilities while others are designed to be used in a seated or stationary position. In addition to entertainment, VR games can be used for various types of training and for virtual reality therapy.

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Harvard Law School
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|Occupation||Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India|
|Partner||Arundhati Katju (2018–present)|
Menaka Guruswamy (born 27 November 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017 to 2019. Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She is known for having played a significant role in many landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including the Section 377 case, the bureaucratic reforms case, the Augusta Westland bribery case, the Salwa Judum case, and the Right to Education case. She is assisting the Supreme Court as Amicus Curie in the case pertaining to the alleged extrajudicial killings of 1,528 persons in Manipur.
Guruswamy has advised the United Nations Development Fund, New York and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York and UNICEF South Sudan on various aspects of International Human Rights Law and has also supported the constitution-making process in Nepal.
Early life and education
Guruswamy is the daughter of Mohan Guruswamy, a former Bharatiya Janata Party strategist and Special Advisor to Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, and Meera Guruswamy.
Guruswamy has advanced degrees in law from the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School and the National Law School of India University. Her primary education was Hyderabad Public School, after which she finished High School at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi. This was followed by B.A.LL.B. (Hons) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1997). Subsequently, she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to read for the BCL at the University of Oxford (2000) and the Gammon Fellowship to pursue the LL.M at Harvard Law School (2001). She obtained her D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 2015 with a thesis on ‘Constitutionalism in India, Pakistan and Nepal’.
In the year 2019, in an interview with CNN Fareed Zakaria, Guruswamy revealed that she was in a relationship with lawyer Arundhati Katju, with whom she convinced the Supreme Court in 2018 to decriminalise Section 377, saying that the victory was not just a professional benchmark but also a personal win.
Guruswamy joined the bar in 1997 and started working with the then Attorney General of India, Ashok Desai. After completing her BCL at Oxford (2000) and LL.M. at Harvard (2001), she practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, as an Associate.
Her practice at the Supreme Court of India covers areas of White Collar Defense, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law and Arbitration. She has represented the Union of India and National Capital Territory of Delhi in various matters.
Decriminalization of Homosexuality
In April 2016, Guruswamy along with a team of lawyers including Arundhati Katju and Saurabh Kripal filed a petition on behalf of five LGBT petitioners led by Navtej Singh Johar challenging the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The petition was the first instance that LGBT Indians actually filed writ petitions alleging violation of their fundamental rights. Guruswamy also appeared on behalf of petitioners from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and in the landmark judgment, the 5-judge Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court read down Section 377 as not applicable to consenting adults.
She had also appeared for Shyam Benegal the film maker in the Supreme Court in the case of Suresh Kumar Koushal v. Naz Foundation (2013).
Bureaucratic Reforms Case
In the case of T.S.R. Subramanium & Others v. Union of India, Guruswamy represented former cabinet secretary T.S.R. Subramanian and 80 other retired high ranking bureaucrats to seek the implementation of various bureaucratic reforms. In a significant decision, the Supreme Court held, inter alia, that bureaucrats are not bound to follow oral orders from Government officials and must rely on written orders, that a Civil Services Board consisting of senior bureaucrats must be formed at the Centre and State level to look into matters of postings and transfers.
Right to Education Case
Guruswamy represented an intervenor, the Azim Premji Foundation, in the case of Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan v. Union of India pertaining to the constitutionality of Section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. Section 12(1)(c) mandated private unaided schools to admit 25% of their Class strength with children from weaker and disadvantaged sections and provide them with free education. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Constitutionality of the provision.
Salwa Judum Case
Guruswamy was a part of the team of lawyers that successfully litigated against Salwa Judum in the landmark case of Nandini Sundar v. State of Chhattisgarh [(2011) 7 SCC 547]. Salwa Judam was the practice of deploying tribal youths as Special Police Officers in the fight against the Maoist insurgency and ordered their immediate disarming.
August Westland VVIP Chopper Scam
In the Augusta Westland corruption case, wherein middlemen and Indian officials received kickbacks in a deal to purchase helicopters, Guruswamy represented former Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi before a Special CBI Court. She successfully argued for his bail after his arrest. In 2018, a charge sheet was filed against Tyagi and the case is currently pending.
In 2012, a bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Desai appointed Guruswamy as the Amicus Curie in the case of alleged 1528 extrajudicial killings by the armed forces in Manipur, India. Among other contributions, Guruswamy proposed to the bench that a Special Investigation Team be set up to investigate the killings of persons. In 2016, accepting the submissions of the Amicus and the Petitioners, the Supreme Court ordered that the use of excessive force by Police or the Armed Forces must be thoroughly enquired into. The Court held that there is no concept of absolute immunity from trial by the criminal court constituted under the Cr.P.C., even if the offence is alleged to have been committed by army personnel. In 2017, the Court directed the CBI to constitute a Special Investigation Team to complete investigations in the matter, lodge FIRs in the matter and file chargesheets wherever necessary. The case is ongoing in the Supreme Court.
On March 29, 2019, Guruswamy was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. The designation is conferred on merit to exceptional lawyers by the Supreme Court of India or of High Courts in the States. The designation is conferred by a permanent committee consisting of the Chief Justice of India as its Chairperson, along with two-senior-most Supreme Court judges, Attorney general for India, and a member of the Bar as nominated by the Chairperson and other members. Each application is then sent to all the justices of the Supreme Court who consider the list of advocates who have applied and review the marks allotted.
Guruswamy was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017-2019. She has also been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and New York University School of Law. She has taught courses on South Asian Constitutionalism, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Design in Post-Conflict Democracies and others.
Honors and awards
Guruswamy is the first Indian and second woman to have her portrait hung at the Milner Hall in Rhodes House at the University of Oxford. In January 2019, her name featured in Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers List, along with other prominent personalities such as Michelle Obama, Kofi Annan and Jeff Bezos. On International Women's Day in March 2019, Guruswamy was honored by Harvard Law School as Women Inspiring Change in a portrait exhibition. In 2019, she was included on the Time 100, Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world alongside Arundhati Katju. She has also been featured in Forbes India's List of Women-Power Trailblazer, 2019.
Guruswamy has co-edited Founding Moments in Constitutionalism to be published on October 19, 2019, by Hart/Bloomsbury Publications, UK. Her most recent publications include essays on Constitution-Making in South Asia, in Handbook on Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming (2019), short piece on the Aadhar decision in the American Journal of International Law (2018) and ‘Crafting Constitutional Values: An Essay on the Supreme Court of India’, (An Inquiry into the Existence Of Global Values, Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury (2015).
Guruswamy writes widely for print and online publications such as the New York Times, the Indian Express, Scroll.in and the Hindu.
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I have set up VTP server/client mode as well, and all works.
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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
DescriptionNever before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, published such a comprehensive collection of her nonfiction. Telling Times represents the full span of her works in that field--from the twilight of white rule in South Africa to the fight to overthrow the apartheid regime, and most recently, her role over the past seven years in confronting the contemporary phenomena of violence and the dangers of HIV.
The range of this book is staggering, and the work in totality celebrates the lively perseverance of the life-loving individual in the face of political tumult, then the onslaught of a globalized world. The abiding passionate spirit that informs "A South African Childhood," a youthful autobiographical piece published in The New Yorker in 1954, can be found in each of the book's ninety-one pieces that span a period of fifty-five years.
Returning to a lifetime of nonfiction work has become an extraordinary experience for Gordimer. She takes from one of her revered great writers, Albert Camus, the conviction that the writer is a "responsible human being" attuned not alone to dedication to the creation of fiction but to the political vortex that inevitably encompasses twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. Born in 1923, Gordimer, who as a child was ambitious to become a ballet dancer, was recognized at fifteen as a writing prodigy. Her sensibility was as much shaped by wide reading as it was to eye-opening sight, passing on her way to school the grim labor compounds where black gold miners lived. These twin decisives--literature and politics--infuse the book, which includes historic accounts of the political atmosphere, firsthand, after the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto uprising of 1976, as well as incisive close-up portraits of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, among others. Gordimer revisits the eternally relevant legacies of Tolstoy, Proust, and Flaubert, and engages vigorously with contemporaries like Susan Sontag, Octavio Paz, and Edward Said. But some of her most sensuous writing comes in her travelogues, where the politics of Africa blend seamlessly with its awe-inspiring nature--including spectacular recollections of childhood holidays beside South Africa's coast of the Indian Ocean and a riveting account of her journey the length of the Congo River in the wake of Conrad.
Gordimer's body of work is an extraordinary vision of the world that harks back to the sensibilities--political, moral, and social--of Dickens and Tolstoy, but with a decidedly vivid contemporary consciousness. Telling Times becomes both a literary exploration and extraordinary document of social and political history in our times.
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About the Author
Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a small South African town. Her first book, a collection of stories, was published when she was in her early twenties. Her ten books of stories include Something Out There (1984), and Jump and Other Stories (1991). Her novels include The Lying Days (1953), A World of Strangers (1958), Occasion for Loving (1963), The Late Bourgeois World (1966), A Guest of Honour (1971), The Conservationist (1975), Burger's Daughter (1979), July's People (1981), A Sport of Nature (1987), My Son's Story (1990), None to Accompany Me (1994), The House Gun (1998), The Pickup (2001), Get a Life (2005), and No Time Like the Present (2012). A World of Strangers, The Late Bourgeois World, and Burger's Daughter were originally banned in South Africa. She published three books of literary and political essays: The Essential Gesture (1988); Writing and Being (1995), the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures she gave at Harvard in 1994; and Living in Hope and History (1999).Ms. Gordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and an honorary member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a Commandeur de'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). She held fourteen honorary degrees from universities including Harvard, Yale, Smith College, the New School for Social Research, City College of New York, the University of Leuven in Belgium, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. Ms. Gordimer won numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist, both internationally and in South Africa.
The reader shares in Gordimer s 'euphoria' when Mandela is released from prison, and the cause of her lifetime finally triumphs. Fittingly, these years also mark the climax of Telling Times.... Gordimer s writing reveals the power of 'engagement, ' in the broad and humane sense in which she defined it: 'the writer s exploration of the particular meaning that being has taken on in his or her time and place.' "

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Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has argued for the return to the people of Delta the £4.2million recovered from former governor, James Ibori.
Falana, a leading human rights lawyer, laid out the argument on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami had said the money will be used to complete infrastructure projects, such as Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Abuja-Kano expressway and Second Niger Bridge.
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On Tuesday, the UK High Commissioner, Catriona Laing signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria’s Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami to return £4.2 million stolen by James Ibori to Nigeria.
She said the money was recovered from friends and family members of the former governor.


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Birchwood Care Home, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota provides the following services: Assisted Living, Micro-Community: Board and Care Home, and Nursing Home. It accepts the following payment methods: Medicaid. Birchwood Care Home has received 5 stars from Medicare and an average user review rating of 5 stars. Accommodations at Birchwood Care Home, start at $3,104 a month. Birchwood Care Home has a very good hospital, Abbott Northwestern Hospital Inc, located nearby, which scored a 88 out of 100 in its most recent Medicare review. The Birchwood Care Home's nearest hospital is 1 miles away. A more detailed description of the types of care for Birchwood Care Home can be found here.
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