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US President Joe Biden arrived in Vietnam on Sunday, where he said his goal was to maintain stability around the world through promoting US ties with Asian nations, rather than containing China's influence in the region.
Mr Biden's visit after the G20 Leaders' Summit in India comes after Hanoi elevated the US, which waged war in Vietnam for more than a decade, to its highest tier of international ties – comprehensive strategic partner.
“We have an opportunity to strengthen alliances around the world to maintain stability,” Mr Biden said, shortly after landing.
“That’s what this trip is all about. It’s not about containing China. It’s about having a stable base.”
Mr Biden then held a meeting with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other Vietnamese leaders.
At the G20 summit, world leaders agreed on a joint statement laying out shared views on climate change and economic development, but stopped short of explicitly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I think it’s very important that the G20 spoke as one,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday.
“To some extent, maybe it’s the G19 because obviously Russia is also here – it’s part of the G20 – but the fact that we have a statement coming out collectively of, again, affirming the importance of Ukraine, its territorial integrity and sovereignty, that speaks loudly."
A G20 Foreign Ministers Summit in March failed to produce a joint declaration condemning Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, amid objections from Beijing and Moscow over how to refer to the war.
Mr Biden went to the G20 also hoping to show US commitment to developing countries and provide them with an alternative to China's Belt and Road global development plan.
The Biden administration has already requested $3.3 billion from the US Congress to fund the World Bank, which officials say will generate $25 billion in extra capacity.
“President Biden championed an ambitious agenda to mobilise significant additional financing for development from all sources – public and private, domestic, and international,” deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said on board Air Force One.
“He rallied G20 partners to agree to collectively mobilise more concessional finance to boost the World Bank’s capacity to support low and middle-income countries."
Before Mr Biden's trip, some media reported that he might meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, amid US efforts to broker a deal normalising relations between the kingdom and Israel.
“The President exchanged brief greetings with the Crown Prince, but there was not time in that setting for a more substantive conversation,” Mr Finer said.
Ahead of Mr Biden's re-election campaign next year, his administration has been focused on further integrating Israel into the region through the Abraham Accords, a 2020 treaty through which Israel established relations with the UAE and Bahrain, then Morocco and Sudan.


Indians were guilty of complacency
I was totally convinced that India would fire in the One Day Internationals in Zimbabwe after the Test disappointment. It was evident that the Indian team enjoys the shorter version of the game more than the longer one. The Indian team's body language in the onedayers was totally different as they cruised through the first four games of the round-robin league. Perhaps the realisation that they had to bowl only 50 overs had something to do with it. Indeed some of the bowlers looked like having run out of ideas by the time their ten over spells came to an end.
I was wonderstruck at the type of cricket India played in the final. Ganguly's captaincy was below par and I didn't really understand the team selection either. Complacency is the worst mental frame one can have. It's been repeatedly borne out that the Indian batting revolves around Tendulkar and the way our top five batsmen played once he departed was ample proof of that. It was really pleasing however to see West Indies apply themselves and play to a gameplan.
On the contrary, the Indians looked cock-a-hoop and overconfident and every member of the team needs to introspect on the causes for the debacle in the final. Or else they will be guilty of resting on their past laurels. It's about time that the coach John Wright does some plain talking with a player like VVS Laxman who seems to be still living in the memory of his epic innings against Australia. Everyone has been praising our fielding for looking acrobatic and spectacular, yet the opposition scored 290 runs. What is most important is not how showy you are but how effective and that is sorely lacking.
I for one thought this tour would be without controversy. But the stumping incident involving Ridley Jacobs seems to have disturbed a bee hive, with little justification. Instead of Jacobs, the umpire who gave the decision should have been penalised in my opinion. By the same logic, isn't a fielder claiming a catch on the half volley also cheating? In fact Indian skipper Ganguly did exactly that when Darren Ganga swept Harbhajan Singh to square leg where he was fielding, but the third umpire flashed the green lights. Unless sportsmanship is restored in what used to be called a gentleman's game, cricket will become a robotic, mechanical sport in the years to come and administrators will rule the roost.


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In a series of teaser trailers for the upcoming Far Cry 5, Ubisoft revealed that they’ll say goodbye to the tropics in this mainline entry. Sure, they went elsewhere in Far Cry Primal, but we hardly view that entry as a main effort in the franchise. Good? Sure, but not the mainline stuff.
Far Cry 5 will apparently take place in Montana, U.S.
Specifically, Hope County, Montana. Here’s the clip, pay attention to the method for ringing the bell.
Right, clearly something’s off here in Hope County. The clip starts with a desperate scream, a man shot in the back (we assume) while running in a field and then the slow fly by a church in the middle of nowhere. The background music? “Amazing Grace” sung by parishioners. The sound effect? A church bell ringing as someone slams a person’s head into it again and again.
Spooky stuff, right?
The teaser reveals that we’ll see a full reveal on May 26, 2017.
I’m sort of excited to see something completely new for a main Far Cry title, aren’t you?


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There are certain tasks in life we tend to procrastinate on, like dealing with piled-up laundry. Filing taxes might fall into that category for you, and if so, you wouldn’t be alone.
If you’ve put off your tax filing so far, the good news is that the April 18 deadline to submit your return is still a few weeks away. So there’s time to complete your return without being late.
But one thing you don’t want to do, says Mark Steber, Chief Tax Information Officer at Jackson Hewitt, is rush through the process of getting your taxes done. Doing so could have several negative consequences.
When you’re nearing the tax-filing deadline, it’s easy to see why you may be inclined to try to get your return completed as quickly as you can. But that could cause you to make a mistake and land yourself on the IRS audit list.
If you rush through your tax filing, says Steber, you might forget to report income you earned in your brokerage account. Or, you might forget to report the $1,200 you earned via one of your side hustles. But any time the IRS receives word of income you collected that isn’t acknowledged on your taxes, it opens the door to a closer look at your return.
Another big problem with rushing through your taxes is that you might miss out on credits or deductions that result in savings, or a lower tax bill.
“People are often committed to getting their taxes done quickly, but it sometimes comes at the cost of accuracy,” says Steber. And this year, missing out on tax breaks is especially problematic because, as he puts it, “every refund dollar counts.”
Right now, many people are struggling to keep up with their living costs due to inflation. And so the last thing you’d want to do is deny yourself an extra $100 here or $200 there due to rushing through your taxes.
Also, Steber says that filers are already seeing smaller refunds this year than last year. That’s because there were many tax breaks put into place for 2021 that did not get extended into 2022. Since refunds are down as a whole, now’s not the time to be careless and risk shorting yourself money.
If you’ve put off your taxes to this point, do realize, says Steber, that it may still be possible to line up help if you need it. You may not get your first choice, since sought-after tax preparers may be booked solid at this point, but it’s worth asking around.
Another thing you should know is that if you can’t complete your tax return by the April 18 filing deadline without rushing through it, you can always request an automatic six-month extension from the IRS and buy yourself more time to get it done. That may be preferable to rushing the process and risking a big mistake.
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It was on a sabbatical in England in the late seventies that Suniti Namjoshi discovered feminism - or rather, she discovered that other feminists existed, and many among them shared her thoughts and doubts, her questions and visions.
Since then, she has been writing - fables, poetry, prose autobiography, children's stories - about power, about inequality, about oppression, effectively using the power of language and the literary tradition to expose what she finds absurd and unacceptable.
This new collection brings together in one volume a huge range of Namjoshi's writings, starting with her classic collection, Feminist Fables, and coming right up to her latest work.
"Namjoshi is a fabulist who is never preachy. A feminist who is never humourless. A poet who is never arcane. An intellectual who is never pedantic... Her work points to a deeply internalized radicalism, one that has as much depth as it has edge. Quirky, funny, intellectually agile, capable of making connections between the mundane and the metaphysical, adept at sniffing out the archetypal in the culturally particular, they point to a mind that is as engaged as it is engaging." -- Arundhathi Subramaniam
All Mrinalini Singh wants, she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara accuses her of being selfish, Mrinalini is forced to practise altruism on the nearest available target: her maid’s toddler. All this caring doesn’t come easy, though; and it hardly helps that her husband Siddhartha has quit his lucrative job and acquired parental ambitions. Or that Brajeshwar Jha, her upstairs tenant and literary rival, has not only published his book before Mrinalini, but also lampooned her and Siddhartha in it. Close to Home is a wry look at the small compromises, manipulations and sustained self-delusion of young men and women possessed of good fortune... and only looking for good lives.
* WINNER OF THE 2011 ECONOMIST-CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATION *
A brother and sister visit the unique crater-lake that their dead, estranged mother had written to them about in her letters. A middle-class employee's orderly life turns upside down when his employer holds back his cheque without an explanation. The employees of a forgotten outpost in a sun-baked town threaten mass suicide because they have no hope of survival.
Seventeen is a collection of short stories from among more than 100 of Anita Agnihotri's published short fiction. By turn intense, brittle, angry sad and torn apart in conflict, the stories bring out the different faces of human hardship and explore the India that is still largely unknown. Set in metros and villages, in small-town India and in international suburbia, the stories run the gamut of experiences both everyday and extraordinary. From deeply personal relationships against the backremove of turmoil to intensely social truths told through the unique life of individuals, each of these stories is a picture of human fragility. This is literary craftsmanship at its best.
At twenty-one, Deen is dismayed by the poverty around him and trapped in negativity. Alienated from family and society, heroin is his drug of choice.
Deen and his partner in crime, AJ, ride high on acid and amphetamines, philosophize in the university canteen, party in a politician’s posh pad and contemplate God at a roadside tea stall. From Maria, a chemically imbalanced diva, to a rickshaw-walla who reflects on the importance of positive energy, to a group of fakirs who sing about love, and a detective who has his own take on addiction, the characters in Shazia Omar’s debut novel crackle with life.
They represent the despair, hopes and aspirations of a generation struggling to survive in the harsh realities of life in modern Dhaka. Hard-hitting and intensely moving, this is an extraordinary novel, and one that is destined to launch Omar as a major contemporary voice from South Asia.
"Shazia Omar's energetic debut novel heralds a new voice in Bangaldeshi fiction. Located in the urban chaos of Dhaka city, Like a Diamond in the Sky shines a light on the crime, drug addiction, love, and loneliness at the heart of the modern metropolis."- TAHMIMA ANAM, author of A Golden Age
This richly descriptive and deeply philosophical novel from Bhutan is now available in a brand new paperback edition as part of the Zubaan Classics series to celebrate Zubaan's 10th anniversary.
As a young girl, Tsomo asks her mother, "Where is the furthest I can travel?"
"Where," her mother responds, "I don't know. Where can a girl travel to?"
Caught in the everyday reality of household life, fifteen-year-old Tsomo is suddenly called upon to travel when her mother dies. She makes her first journey to a faraway village to light the ritual butter lamps in her mother?s memory. Beginning here, her travels take her to distant places, across Bhutan and into India. As she faces the world, a woman alone, Tsomo embarks on what becomes a life journey, in which she begins to find herself, and to grow as a person and a woman.
The first novel by a woman to come out of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, The Circle of Karma, written in English, is rich in detailed descriptions of ritual life. The measured pace of its prose, the many nuances of the story, the different levels at which the narrative works, weave a complex tapestry of life in which the style and content are closely interwoven, each informing and enriching the other.
Kunzang Choden is one of Bhutan's foremost writers. In her early fifties, she has written a number of short stories and has also published collections of folk tales from Bhutan. This is her first novel.
"Kunzang Choden has given us an unforgettable tale of a simple woman's pilgrimage and journey to self-realisation." -- Anna Sujata Mathai, The Hindu
This delicious spread of short stories is now available in a brand new paperback edition as part of Zubaan Classics series to celebrate Zubaan's 10th anniversary.
A young woman, neglected by her rakish husband, decides to 'kill him with kindness' and stuff him with food, another cooks manically, a third helps herself to money and small knick-knacks from her husband's pockets where she finds the different scents of each of the women he has been with... Along with the husband is the ubiquitous mother-in-law who moves into the newly-married couple's bedroom barely a month after they have set up home. Each vignette is, by turns, funny, poignant, macabre - a delicious spread, showcasing Bulbul Sharma's mastery of the stories small actors and the drama of daily life.
"This slim collection of stories is quite like a methodical cook's masala tray, each ingredient and spice in its proper slot - each story retains its unique flavour while contributing to the main dish and the main dish, need we say, is a veritable feast for the senses" -- Kankana Basu, The Hindu
This anthology is not only about what Gujarati women speak, but also what they don’t. In a state that registers increasing cases of violence against women, what kind of truths does its literature embody?
If malestream writing in Gujarat seldom mirrors its everyday truths, do the women risk unpleasantness? Kothari’s introduction builds upon such premises and leads the reader to a trajectory of women writers from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, starting with the journal entries of a dancer at the end of the nineteenth century, to the journal entries of an academic woman at the end of the twentieth century. The wide range of stories and fictional excerpts show how Gujarati women inhabit their fictional worlds. The trajectory hints at an imperceptible shift from muffled voices to more candid ways of being, and yet it never loses completely the middle-class genteelness that characterizes literary discourses in Gujarat.
Rita Kothari teaches at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad. Her publications on literary sociology of Gujarat and translation include Translating India, Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Coral Island: Poems by Niranjan Bhagat, Angaliyat (a Gujarati Dalit novel). Her forthcoming book is Stigmatised Identities: The Sindhis of Gujarat.
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The Story of Felanee is based on real life events. It is a story of courage, of survival, of ethnic conflict and violence that tears people and communities apart in the most brutal, savage way.
Set in Assam, which has seen two major agitations that have crippled the economy, this is a story that will shock the reader by its sheer passion, and its brutal honesty. The callousness and utter disregard for human life, the ugly play for power, for electoral gain, the sham and petty hypocrisies, the bloody horror of ethnic violence all lie exposed in this powerful novel written by one of Assam’s leading fiction writers.
The story revolves around the experiences of one woman: Felanee. Her name means ‘thrown away’—so called because as her mother lay dying in the burning riot-torn village, Felanee was thrown into a swamp and left to die. But against all odds, Felanee—and thousands like her—survived.
Like the reeds that grow in such profusion along the bank of Assam’s rivers, the rootless inhabitants of the refugee camps and makeshift shanties, whose stories form the core of Felanee, are swept along by the wind and thrown onto new hostile terrain but they cling on with tenacity to take root again and again.
“…the story transcends linguistic and geographical boundaries. It is a story of virtually every Indian home…The discussion -which makes up the Afterword also seeks to put the story in a historical and anthropological perspective which makes Shree’s Mai an academic study.” The Hindu
“…it is eminently readable … The Book Review
“seeks to assert the humanness of mother. Maternalism with a human face, perhaps is feminism for hard times.” The Tribune
Geetanjali Shree is a well-known Hindi novelist and short story writer, who has also written a critical work on Premchand.
Nita Kumar is the author of The Artisans of Banaras: Friends, Brothers and Informants, Lessons from School, and editor of Women as Subjects.
In 1970s Karachi, where violence and political and social uncertainty are on the rise, a talented painter, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a trap from which there appears no escape. Accustomed to the company of her brother Waseem and friends, Andaleep and Safdar, who are activists, writers and thinkers, Tahira struggles to adapt to her new world of stifling conformity and to fight for her identity as a woman and an artist.
Tragedy strikes when her brother and friends are caught up in the cynically repressive regime. Faced with loss and injustice, she embarks upon a series of paintings entitled ‘The Empty Room’, filling the blank canvases with vivid colour and light.
Elegant, poetic, and powerful, The Empty Room is an important addition to contemporary Pakistani literature, a moving portrait of life in Karachi at a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, and a powerful meditation on art and the dilemmas faced by women who must find their own creative path in hostile conditions.
"‘Regret is only one kind of torment in a world generous with pain’, writes Sadia Abbas. In her debut novel, regret and pain appear in light, luminous hues as the story of a new nation, struggling to retain its democratic resolve, is enmeshed with the story of a rocky marriage. The courage, wit and capacity for love displayed by the characters are sure to linger long after the last chapter has been read."
— Annie Zaidi, author of Gulab and Love Stories #1-14
"A gripping and wonderfully observed account of domestic life and its many perils in Pakistan's early decades. The portrait of a marriage set in the minefield of an extended family, this novel offers us an extraordinarily nuanced view of a woman's life."
— Faisal Devji, author of The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and The Temptation of Violence
"The personal and the political come together in this tale of a nation and a young, newly-married woman, as they push against horizons, stretch boundaries and make painful self-discoveries."
— Rakhshanda Jalil, writer and translator
Sadia Abbas grew up in Pakistan and Singapore. She received her PhD in English literature from Brown University, and she teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark. Sadia is Adjunct Professor at the Stavros Niarchos Center for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. She loves long walks, the Mediterranean and, indiscriminately, all sorts of films.
After the success of These Hills Called Home and Once Upon a Life, Temsula Ao returns to her beloved Nagaland to bring readers the beautifully crafted story of Aosenla, a woman who is coming to terms with herself. The novel opens on a typical summer afternoon that soon turns into another oppressive evening. Aosenla sits listening to her children playing nearby and is seized by a great lethargy. As she casts a watchful gaze over the house she has called home for so many years, Aosenla wonders how an inanimate structure like a house can exercise such power over a human being.
Looking down at a wedding invitation in her hands, Aosenla begins to recall her own wedding many years ago, initiating a deep and moving reflection on the life that others made for her and the life that she eventually created for herself.
East is East and West is West, but the twain meet with a crash in Gurgaon - the epicentre of the outsourcing revolution in India, where thousands of the country's youth live with their bodyclocks set to US time zones and their cultural antennae pointing west. Into this maelstrom walk three very different young women:
Ayra, the golden girl: with a high profile job and a fancy title, everything seems to be going her way, until she finds herself at the helm of what could be the worst disaster of her career,
Shivaa, the perfect housewife turned desperate career woman who has to fight life, marriage and her irrational new boss to make sense of her existence, and
Sara, the shy college graduate turned spunky office-goer, who is willing to risk it all rather than be pushed into an early marriage by her anxious parents.
Debut author, Shruti Saxena weaves a very modern fairytale of professional jealousy and ruthless manipulation, heroic victories and egoistic cowardice, unfulfilled dreams and desires and raw, unadulterated ambition as seen though the eyes of these three extraordinary woman and the men who love them.
Published in March of 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel Umrao Jaan Ada created a sensation when it came out, with its candid account of the life of Umrao Jaan, a semi-fictional, possibly real, Lucknow courtesan. Subsequent translations and films based on the book have further extended the fame of both the book and Umrao, the character.
What is less known, however, is that a month after he wrote Umrao Jaan Ada, Ruswa penned a short text, a novella entitled Junun-e-Intezar (The Madness of Waiting, April 1899) in which Umrao avenges herself on her creator, Ruswa, by narrating the story of his life.
Blurring the lines between truth and fiction, narrator and character, this clever narrative strategy gives the courtesan a speaking voice. While Umrao Jaan Ada, continues to evoke interest, this paratext has been completely forgotten. Here, translators and editors Krupa Shandilya and Taimoor Shahid, one a scholar from India and the other from Pakistan, attempt to redress this with their translation of Ruswa's novella and their critical introduction which rethinks Umrao Jaan Ada and the Urdu literary milieu of late nineteenth-century Lucknow.
This book contains both the Urdu text (in facsimile) and its translation for the bilingual reader.
As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata, four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash-- the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. Her husband's silence about his mother and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash, the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in-law's room and the presence of the old, green-eyed Pishi intrigue Uma. But it is only as she begins to read aloud the traditional Chandimangal composed by her husband's grandfather to celebrate the goddess that the smothered stories begin to emerge... The novel weaves in the history of the militant goddess recast as wife, the Portuguese in Bengal, the rise of print and the making of memories from the Swadeshi movement to the turbulent sixties in Bengal as Uma discovers that the foundation of Kailash is not only very deep but also camouflages the stench of death.
December 2012: Tens of thousands of people – women, men, families, young, old, rich, poor – come out onto the streets of towns and cities in India to protest the brutal gang rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi. For days and months, the protests refuse to die down. People demand change, action, commitment to the ideals of democracy and egalitarianism. And they refuse to be silenced.
Soon, a new law is put in place. More and more people start to report incidents of sexual assault. New conversations, new debates begin: is violence increasing? Are we seeing more of it? Was it previously invisible?
In this bold and brilliant collection of visual stories, fourteen young women respond to the activism and debates on the ground; they negotiate anger, fear, hope, resistance. Created in a week-long workshop, these stories talk to each other as they powerfully describe the fierce determination of the writers/artists to continue the battle for change.
Fateema opened her diary and began writing: “Jihad as mentioned by the Prophet is a war against injustice and oppression. Islam means peace and surrender. Islam does not recommend killing innocent people. The Prophet released hundreds of slaves from bondage and sent themback to their native land.”
There was a lot more she could write. She would one day. Not for others, but to her own people she would explain the meaning of the word ‘Islam’.
For a bright young woman like Fateema Lokhandwala, the idea that one day she might own her own house is a daring dream. Her father has spent his life, slaving away selling scrap metal so that his children might ‘jump the fence of poverty and illiteracy’. Fateema dreams not only of owning her own house, but of higher education, a better job, a wider world. Her brother, Kareem, is persuaded down a very different path – to join the jihad, to become a holy warrior.
Ila Arab Mehta’s moving and sharply observed novel follows one woman’s struggle to find her way in a world torn by communal violence, to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to her family and friends, to find a place that she can ultimately call ‘home’, a place where fences –between communities, between people – are no longer necessary.
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This collection of mind-expanding stories is now available in a brand new paperback edition as part of the Zubaan Classics series to celebrate Zubaan's 10th anniversary.
Already a name in the world of science fiction and fantasy writing, Vandana Singh presents her first collection of stories, bringing this unique imagination to a wider audience. In the title story, a woman tells her husband of her curious discovery: that she is inhabited by small alien creatures. In another, a young girl returning home through the streets of Delhi comes across a mysterious tetrahedron: is it a spaceship? Or a secret weapon? Each story in this fabulous collection opens up new vistas -- from outer space to the inner world -- and takes the reader on an incredible journey to both
"A most promising and original young writer" -- Ursula K. LeGuin, author of The Earthsea Trilogy
"I'm looking forward to the collection despite the fact that I haven't actually read that much of Singh's work, or perhaps because of that fact, because everything I've read has impressed me -- the past and future visions in 'Delhi', the intensity of 'Thirst', the feeling of escape at the end of 'The Tetrahedron'..." -- Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association)
"...attracts all the inadequate adjectives reviewers pull out when rendered nearly speechless: beautiful, evocative, mysterious, brilliant, stunning..." -- www.sfsite.com
"...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world, ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange." -- Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard
"Singh says that speculative fiction has a 'unique, revolutionary potential'. If so, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet is as enjoyable as a revolutionary text you're likely to find." -- Jess McCabe, The F Word.
Twelve short stories about everyday life and the political realities of Assam.
“My stories,” says the author, “are a lot about darkness but they are also about the small sparks of light that occasionally dispel the demons in our souls.”
In this collection, a doctor’s comfortable existence in a tea estate is rudely shattered by violent conflict, a daughter reflects on the failure of her parents’ inter-religious marriage, and children discover how shockingly little time it takes to go from joking to being thrown headlong into bloody carnage.
Sharp and eloquent, Uddipana Goswami’s stories bring into harsh focus how interwoven political violence is with everyday life.
It has been ten years since Ram's return from fallen Lanka. Ayodhya is shining. Ayodhya is prosperous. But darkness lurks at the heart of the victrorious regime. A pointed question piques a young journalist's curiousity: What happened to Sita? Where is Ram's absent wife whose abduction triggered the war with Lanka?
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This FBI agent says terrorists are plotting to wipe out the 911 emergency system in an attack 'only limited by your imagination'
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- An FBI agent said terrorists are working to acquire cyber skills that could enable them to wipe out online networks and maximise casualties.
- Aristedes Mahairas said terror groups may one day be able to take down America's 911 emergency response system, or hack the control system of an office building and wreak havoc.
- The likes of ISIS and Al-Qaeda may not currently have these capabilities, but they are working to secure them, he said.
The FBI has warned that terrorists are working to acquire the cyber skills to carry out catastrophic attacks that could involve taking down America's 911 emergency response system.
Aristedes Mahairas, a special agent in charge of the New York FBI's Special Operations/Cyber Division, said terror groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda are plotting attacks that could wipe out online networks to maximise casualties.
"The concern is that the cyber terrorists will one day be able to simultaneously execute an attack in the virtual world and in the physical world," Mahairas told Business Insider.
By way of an example, the FBI agent speculated on two horror scenarios:
- A cyber terrorist, he said, could seize control of an office building's control system, shutting down communication apparatus, elevators, and fire safety features, such as sprinklers. "Simultaneously, [they] send in the terrorists who start taking hostages and killing indiscriminately," Mahairas said.
- In another scenario, Mahairas suggested that terrorists could shut down the 911 emergency system while carrying out a physical atrocity. He also imagined a situation where cyber terrorists wiped out access to ATM machines.
"In such an environment, it would cause havoc," said the agent, who used to lead the New York FBI's counter-terror operations. "The truth is that such a scenario is only limited by your imagination."
Mahairas said terror groups may not currently have the capability to launch this kind of dual-pronged attack, but the FBI is working on the assumption that they one day could.
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The Department of Justice and FBI publicly admitted that nearly all experts working in a hair sample comparison unit provided flawed testimony in almost all criminal cases they were brought in to testify in a manner that helped prosecution against defendants.
According to official data, about 25 forensic experts of 28 who work at the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit failed to present the faults in forensic matches in 95 percent of the 268 trials in which they were involved.
Currently, the DOJ and FBI are assisted by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) with the most exhaustive post-conviction review of forensic evidence in the U.S. To this moment, the three entities analyzed nearly 300 trials which led to the conviction of the defendants over two decades before the 2000s.
Based on that flawed evidence, about 32 defendants were put on the death row, while in the meantime 14 of them were either executed or died in jail.
But the FBI reported that many of those convictions were note based solely on flawed evidence. However, defendants and prosecutors in 46 states were urged to find whether there were grounds for appeals.
Law experts said that such a scandal highlighted the failure of courts to provide juries with reliable scientific information. They also expressed their eagerness to learn how courts and state authorities would respond to the new findings involving flawed evidence such as bite-mark and hair comparison which had led to dozens of wrongful convictions since the 1970s.
The FBI and the department recently vowed that they would continue their review and would make sure that wrongfully convicted defendants were notified of errors and that justice would be done in all cases. The two federal entities also pledged that they would ensure hair comparison accuracy in future trials and would demand higher standards from forensic experts.
Peter Neufeld, co-founder of a non-for-profit group that provides post-conviction DNA evidence to demonstrate the innocence of some defendants, described the FBI’s three-decade use of hair sample comparison to convict criminal defendants as a “complete disaster.”
“We need an exhaustive investigation that looks at how the FBI, state governments that relied on examiners trained by the FBI and the courts allowed this to happen and why it wasn’t stopped much sooner,”
Mr. Neufeld added.
A spokesperson from the NACDL said that the members of the organization hoped that the project would help authorities remediate injustices quicker, rather than waiting years to do it.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged both the DOJ and FBI to notify all defendants in the 2,500 cases that are currently being reviewed about the problems related to hair matches even if their cases were not completed.
Mr. Blumenthal deemed the new findings “appalling” and “chilling” because many people were convicted and even executed based on false and fabricated evidence provided by prosecutors who intended to faithfully enforce the law.
The current review conducted by federal authorities was launched in 2012 after a Washington Post’s piece which revealed that flawed forensic matches based on hair samples might have resulted in hundreds of wrongful convictions since the 1970s, usually in murder or rape cases.
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San Diego Padres hire Larry Rothschild, former Cincinnati Reds pitching coach, per reports
The San Diego Padres will name former New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Larry Rothschild as their new pitching coach, according to multiple reports.
The 65-year-old Rothschild was dismissed by the Yankees last week after nine seasons as their pitching coach.
Rothschild was a coach for the Cincinnati Reds from 1986 to 1993, starting his coaching career as a roving minor-league pitching instructor. He was the team's bullpen coach in 1990 and 1991 - winning a World Series ring in '90 - and he was Cincinnati's pitching coach in 1992 and 1993.
Rothschild also pitched in the minors for the Reds after the team signed him as an amateur free agent in 1975.
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The new owner demonstrated its commitment to the sale by paying a non-refundable deposit on 5 February to secure preferred bidder status.
Blair Nimmo, joint administrator and head of restructuring for KPMG, who handle Hawick’s administration, said: ““We would like to thank everyone involved for their patience and perseverance during what has been a challenging sales process. We are very pleased to have achieved a sale of certain Hawick Knitwear key assets.
“We wish the purchaser every success in its new venture.”
Business minister Fergus Ewing described the sale as "great news" for Hawick and the textile industry in the Borders.
He said: "The sale is testament to the quality of the product and the demand for knitwear from this part of Scotland. While the number of staff is expected to be lower than previously employed at Hawick Knitwear, I am pleased that operations will continue.
"We worked closely with KPMG and Scottish Borders Council to identify potential investors. Scottish Enterprise is supporting Lyber 2016 Ltd to start up the venture and will identify any other business support that could help grow the operation and ensure a long-term future.
"I look forward to publication next week of an action plan for Hawick which will set out how working together, the public and private sector can ensure a positive future for the town."
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There are around 200 million stray dogs worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation. Impressively, the Netherlands is not part of this statistic. It has become the first country in the world without any stray dogs! 👏
Dutch people love their pets. 🐶 Puppies are whisked around the city in bike baskets, most cafés and restaurants are dog-friendly, and small pets can ride on public transport for a reduced price.
Once, I even looked after a dog that had different flavoured meals for each night of the week (unreal, I know…). But this dog-loving atmosphere evidently pays off!
The history of stray dogs in the Netherlands
Owning dogs used to be a sign of status in the Netherlands. Upper-class people owned dogs as pets for sporting purposes, and the poorer masses owned mongrels (mutts) for working purposes.
Many Dutch paintings depict the dogs of ye olden times, such as this one by Joseph Stevens:
Given its intrinsic link to social status, there was a massive dog population in the Netherlands in the 19th century.
However, an outbreak of rabies caused widespread fear of contamination — leading to many owners abandoning their (possibly) disease-ridden pets.
As a result, society’s perspective on the human-dog relationship shifted. The health of a dog came to be seen as a reflection on the well-being of the owner. 🧍🐕
During this time, the Dutch government also created a dog tax (hondenbelasting) in an attempt to regulate the number of stray dogs in the Netherlands.
Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect: there were even more stray dogs, as many people could no longer afford (or didn’t want to pay) to keep their pet dogs.
The Animal Protection Act
The Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals — the country’s first animal protection agency — was founded in 1864 in The Hague. A century later, the Animal Protection Act came into effect.
The act stated that it’s forbidden for an owner to abuse any animal. Doing so is even punishable, with a prison sentence of up to three years and a fine of €16,750. 😱
What do we mean by “no stray dogs”?
The term “stray dog” can mean many different things:
- Free-roaming dogs with an owner: they have an owner, but the owner lets the dog run partially free throughout the day
- Free-roaming dogs without an owner: dogs that are abandoned by their owner
- Community dogs: dogs that don’t have one owner but are cared for by a community
- Feral dogs: dogs that are not cared for by anyone and survive on their own
Stray dogs are commonly unwanted, as they tend to spread disease, fleas, and mess with human garbage (among other things). Nowadays, there are hardly any stray dogs in the Netherlands, so the country is hailed for having eradicated the issue. 🙌
How did the Netherlands manage to eradicate its stray dog problem?
Not through euthanasia! Hurray! 🎉
The Dutch achieved it through the CNVR programme (Collect, Neuter, Vaccinate, and Return), a nationwide, government-funded sterilisation programme. The World Animal Protection Agency believes it’s the most effective way to combat a stray dog population.
Additionally, many municipalities spike taxes for store-bought dogs to incentivise people to adopt homeless dogs from shelters instead. 💖
Further, the Netherlands set up an animal police force monitoring crimes against animals. Moreover, the force also rescues animals in trouble.
Marianne Thieme, the leader of the Party for the Animals, thinks there is a correlation between how society treats its animals with how it treat its civilians. She says, “there is a direct link between violence against animals and violence against humans.”
These days, about one in five Dutchies owns a dog after taking a million of them off the streets. 💖
Have you adopted a furry companion yourself? What do you think of this little slice of Dutch history about stray dogs in the Netherlands? Tell us in the comments below!
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- Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson's Bay said on Thursday it would cut about 2,000 jobs across North America in a major restructuring effort.
- The Canadian department store operator also posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly retail sales.
Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson's Bay said on Thursday it would cut about 2,000 jobs across North America in a major restructuring effort as it reported a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss.
The Canadian department store operator, which also posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly retail sales, said the move would help the company save more than C$350 million ($259 million) annually.
Hudson's Bay, also known as HBC, and other large retailers are struggling to reinvent themselves amid an industrywide upheaval, blamed in part on changing shopping trends that have seen shoppers migrate online.
"With all the changes taking place in the industry, we know we need to be a leaner organization, but we also want to make sure that we're a better one," Chief Executive Jerry Storch said in an interview, adding that no store closures are planned as part of the announcement.
HBC said the cuts, about 3 percent of the company's more than 66,000 employees, were decided after a six-month review of ways to slash costs and streamline its operations. Storch declined to give details on where the cuts would happen.
"Given the context of the highly promotional retail environment, we are skeptical that the transformational plan will meet the targeted savings estimates without further eroding revenue," said Canaccord Genuity analyst, Derek Dley, in a research note.
U.S. department store operator Nordstrom Inc said earlier on Thursday that members of the Nordstrom family were considering taking the company private and selling debt so they could reshape its operations.
"As far as whether we would consider that, I can't comment on that either. That's really up to our shareholders," Storch told Reuters, in response to whether HBC would consider a similar move.
As part of the announcement, the retailer said separate teams would focus on its Hudson's Bay and Lord & Taylor department-store chains.
Alison Coville, a nearly two-decade veteran of the company, will run Hudson's Bay, one of HBC's best performers. Storch said the chain's online store was seeing significant double-digit growth. Liz Rodbell, who previously headed both chains, will lead Lord & Taylor.
HBC's plan is expected to be fully implemented by the end of fiscal 2018, and includes C$75 million in savings announced earlier this year.
It said it expected to take about C$95 million in restructuring charges over the next year and that measures to achieve a total of C$125 million in annual savings had already been implemented.
Storch said HBC's expansion plans, including those in Europe and with its Saks discount chain, Off 5th, remain unchanged.
"We continue to be different from our competitors, in that we're focused on growth," said Storch.
Storch also said it remained committed to the Montreal market but declined to comment on the status of what will be Canada's largest Saks store, slated to open in fall 2018.
Reuters reported earlier that HBC has yet to file for a construction permit with the city for that location.
HBC operates Kaufhof department stores in Europe, and has plans to open the first international Hudson's Bay in the Netherlands later this year. Other projects include the launch of a new robotics fulfillment center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania later this year.
Hudson's Bay was founded in 1670 primarily as a fur trading company and once claimed more than 40 percent of the land in what is now Canada and a significant portion of what became North Dakota and Minnesota.
The company reported a loss of C$221 million, or C$1.21 per share, in the quarter ended April 29. The loss was wider than the average analyst forecast of 76 cents.
Retail sales totaled C$3.2 billion, down 3 percent from a year ago, below the average analyst forecast of C$3.26 billion.
It also announced a dividend cut to C$0.0125 per share, from C$0.05 per share.
The company's difficulties during the quarter surfaced last month when it reported a 2.9 percent drop in comparable store sales across all retail outlets, marking the fifth consecutive quarter of declines.


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‘Tis the Season for giving back, and with #GivingTuesday upon us, we’d like to celebrate the ways our community partners have supported us.
Loraine, a Puerto Rico mom of three (ages 9, 3 and 1), has been a vital piece of our support puzzle to connect with those in need in that territory since Hurricane Maria devastated the already struggling area last year.
To date, she has helped us distribute some of more than a thousand cloth diaper kits.
Her generosity is rubbing off on others there, too!
“Sometimes my 9-year-old comes home and says, ‘Mom I saw a baby today – she didn’t have cloth diapers, you have to take cloth diapers to school,’” Loraine said. “He already told the principal of the school that mommy helps with the cloth diapers.”
We’re so happy to have Loraine and your support to help her and us make a difference.
Make an impact for #GivingTuesday: In 2017, the global giving movement known as #GivingTuesday raised more than $300M online. The average gift given was $120.40. That’s a lot of little steps combining efforts to making a big difference.
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Like Truly? How About Truly Ice Cream That Contains Alcohol
One of the most popular drinks of the season is hard seltzers. Even the biggest beer drinkers like a hard seltzer once in a while. Now an ice cream company is putting one of the most popular hard seltzers in ice cream and sorbet. Here's how you can get your hands on it. According to Simplemost.com, Truly has new boozy ice cream and sorbets on the market that are infused with their spiked seltzers. Truly has teamed up with Tipsy Scoop which is an ice cream shop based in New York that is known for its hand-crafted alcoholic ice cream.
There are four amazing flavors to choose from and they all sound amazing. There is Truly Original Lemonade Ice Cream, Truly Black Cherry Lemonade Ice Cream, Truly Mango Lemonade Sorbet, and Truly Strawberry Lemonade Sorbet. You can purchase each in one pint and it contains five percent alcohol by volume.
You have to order them online from the Tipsy Scoop website. There is a four-pack available for all flavors for forty-eight dollars. There is also a variety pack that includes all of the Truly seltzers along with the four-pack of ice creams and sorbets for sixty dollars. You must be 21 or over to purchase online.
We sent the four-pack of pints to a friend in Buffalo for her birthday and it was delivered in dry ice. They were all frozen solid upon delivery. She hasn't tried all four flavors yet, but she did indulge in the Truly Mango Lemonade Sorber and she said it was refreshing, delicious, and a different way to have a spiked seltzer.

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It is therefore extremely important to consider all individual milling parameters in order to make an informed choice: material properties feed size and volume of the sample grinding time and desired final particle size any abrasion of the grinding parts all these factors are significant.
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Ok so this film is no Oscar winner, but what the heck. Wild Hogs is a great film to just chill, watch and enjoy. Oh and laugh at the fact that the critics hate it but it has done so well and topped the UK and US charts. Can't wait for the DVD to come out and Tim Allen ROCKS.


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On chilly winter days, I love to cozy up with a hot beverage. However, I am trying to be good and cut down on my sugar and caffeine intake since I tend to have chronic inflammation. So I have been doing some research online to find some good alternatives and I think I just hit the jackpot!
Today I am bringing you my review of the Organic Golden Milk Super Blend from Sunfood. I have been hearing and reading a lot about turmeric over the past year or so and I tried a couple of products like some turmeric gummy bears and I tried putting the fresh root in a smoothie, but to be totally honest they tasted terrible. For some reason certain products containing this very beneficial spice taste… well, like dirt. So when I came across this blend from Sunfood I was a little hesitant about trying it at first…
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What is Golden Milk?
It is an extremely beneficial traditional Ayurvedic drink sometimes called turmeric milk or turmeric tea made with hot milk, turmeric root, ginger, cinnamon and other spices. It has been used as a common remedy for –
- respiratory infections and other issues.
- to reduce inflammation
- promote relaxation
- improve sleep
All of that sounds great, right? After learning about this and knowing that I personally could really use some help with the last three things on that list I decided to give the blend from Sunfood a chance. I love their products and they usually come through for me so I figured there wasn’t much to lose. At the very least I wouldn’t like it. Before I get into detail about what my thoughts are and how this product worked for me let’s take a look at what’s in it.
First of all, I am extremely impressed with the quality of ingredients in this product. They are all 100% certified organic and non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan, and kosher.
Turmeric Root –
This bright yellow-orange cousin of the ginger plant contains the powerful compound curcumin that helps to balance and normalize inflammation in the body. It also helps with joint strength and mobility, perfect for athletes or people with joint problems. High in antioxidants that fight free radical damage, it is very protective and further helps to boost the immune system.
Black Pepper –
This common table spice helps to activate the curcumin and increases its bioavailability so your body better absorbs all of its wonderful healing properties. Plus pepper is nice and spicy.
Ginger Root –
Commonly used to help relieve nausea and other digestive complaints this warming medicinal root also helps balance inflammation in the body, balance blood sugar levels, boosts the immune system and contains antioxidants gingerol that promotes healthy cell growth.
Maca Root –
This adaptogenic herb helps to balance hormones and relieve stress in the body. It is rich in the minerals calcium and magnesium, which contribute to bone health and immunity and helps increase energy, endurance, and stamina.
Goji Berry –
These pretty little red berries from Asia are very rich in antioxidants which may provide a boost to the immune system. They contain vitamin A, selenium, vitamin C, and potassium. Sunfood uses the whole fruit powder that has a very pleasant sweet and slightly tangy taste.
Also known as Frankincense, helps balance inflammation, support joint health, and promote optimal mobility, loosen and relax stiff joints, increasing mobility and range of motion, and supports healthy lung function.
Another common but extremely beneficial spice. Not only is it used for its wonderful flavor it is rich in antioxidants that aid in normalizing inflammation, helps supports the heart, brain, and blood sugar levels. Cinnamon may also help with maintaining optimal cholesterol levels. Good thing this is used so much during the holidays! 🙂
A common ingredient in spiced cookies and cakes. These sweet-spicy tasting green pods help the body naturally detoxify, supports optimal digestion, and provides a delicious flavor. It’s also known to uplift and support a positive mood and to help maintain healthy teeth and gums. Who knew?
This is a safe natural alternative to sugar that actually comes from a little green plant or rather its leaves. A pinch of organic stevia adds a sugar-free sweetness that won’t spike blood sugar. Yay!
I made this with full-fat coconut milk as recommend on the package. The fat helps with absorption so don’t cut corners when making this. You can use whole cows milk or goat’s milk if you prefer. I used the Native Forest Organic Coconut Milk because I need to avoid dairy for health reason and this one comes in a BPA-free can.
To Make it –
- I just put a cup of the milk in a small saucepan and warmed it up over medium heat
- transferred it to a tea mug
- then stirred in one teaspoon of the Organic Golden Milk Super Blend. It blended up really easily.
Like I said earlier I was a little hesitant to try this due to past experience but WOW does this taste amazing!! It is warming and spicy and sweet but not too sweet. All of the flavors are perfectly balanced with no earthy aftertaste whatsoever. I try to drink a cup every night now before bed because I feel like it really helps me wind down and have a better sleep. I tend to get insomnia due to the chronic inflammation – having PCOS is so much fun – so falling asleep usually takes me forever but this is making it much easier and I feel like my quality of sleep has improved. I really believe that over time my health will continue to improve the more I consume this liquid gold.
This can also be enjoyed cold if hot drinks are not your thing or during the summer time. You can also try adding a teaspoon or two of raw cocoa powder to make a nice hot spiced cocoa drink. No added sugar needed. Like I said this stuff is amazing! So I do hope some of you will decide to give it a try. 🙂
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Lora is a native Californian currently living in the Southeast. She is an artist, designer, blogger and nature lover. Her hobbies include herbalism, cooking, baking, creating DIY aromatherapy recipes, sipping wine and listening to music. She also loves to go hiking and camping.


Washington (CNN) - The House of Representatives doesn't officially return from its holiday break until next week, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other top House Democratic leaders and committee chairmen will return to Washington this week to prepare for health care negotiations with the Senate, two Democratic leadership aides tell CNN.
First, Pelosi is scheduled to huddle in her office with other House Democratic leaders Tuesday afternoon. On Thursday, House Democratic leaders plan a conference call with all House Democrats. A similar House Democratic conference call was held December 23, on the eve of the Senate's health care passage, to begin discussing the differences between the two bills. Since then, House Democratic aides have drafted an analysis laying out the differences between the House and Senate bills.
House Democratic leaders are also likely to meet with President Obama as soon as this week, but Democratic leadership aides say a meeting hasn't officially been scheduled yet.
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke once by phone about health care over the holiday break, according to aides to both, but broader talks have yet to begin.
When House and Senate negotiations to meld the health care bills do start, senior Democratic sources say a formal House-Senate conference is unlikely because of the Republicans' ability to slow the process in the Senate.
In order to hold a formal conference, conferees - members of the House and Senate - must be formally appointed by both bodies with resolutions passed by both the Senate and the House. One Democratic leadership aide says getting those resolutions passed could delay and even derail Democratic efforts, because Republicans would be allowed to offer amendments and hold lengthy debates on the resolutions to appoint conferees.
For that reason, several Democratic sources say they will probably hold informal, high level House-Senate negotiations to hash out differences on health care legislation, without holding a formal conference. Though these sources stress that no formal decision has been made.
Beyond the mechanics of House and Senate negotiations, the Democrats' timetable for finding agreement and getting a final bill to President Obama remains murky.
Several Democratic sources say they hope to get a bill to the president's desk by early February, around the time of his State of the Union address, which still hasn't been officially scheduled yet.
But Speaker Pelosi already admitted last month that this deadline could slip, and both House and Senate Democratic leadership aides stressed to CNN that while leaders want to move forward as soon as possible, "there is no hard and fast deadline."
To meld their health care bills, Democrats must bridge some major differences on several thorny issues.
Democratic divisions over abortion made passing initial health care bills in both the House and the Senate difficult. The House abortion language is more restrictive than what passed the Senate. There is also disagreement between the two chambers on how to pay for health care reform. Many House Democrats oppose the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-end insurance plans that passed the Senate, and instead want to maintain a tax on wealthy Americans included in the House bill.
The House health care bill contains a government run insurance option, but Democratic aides in both chambers say that will likely be dropped from a final bill, because Democrats don't have the votes to pass a public option in the Senate.
The House is back in session next Tuesday, January 12. The Senate returns the following week, on January 19.
Has Obamacare taken effect already? I just got my health insurance premium renewal notice today and it has increased 88.8% from 2009.
Come on you Dem`s.....are you really that out of it?, or are you just wanting something for free? Please help me i just dont understand!
A man's/woman's word and handshake tells a person's integrity, ethics and morale. In the case of buying votes and secret deals to pass the vote, it tells what kind of Democratic government officials we have in Washington including the WhiteHouse. A "man's word is his dignity" and selling ones vote is so degrading - as such that the health care bill (in its RUSH to VOTE content) - showed to be a very depressing action for any man or human to sell ones vote for money - so undignified for the Democrats. Sorry to say this but based on past events, the true color and character or Democrat policitians said it all.
This betrayal of the American taxpayer, to assist the already bloated profits of the healthcare lobby/industry, is a Crime against this Nation! It is a continuous slap in our Collective Face that we must even pay for all of this Profiteering, WARS, and Healthcare for the Elites who ignore our needs while controlling our hard earned money!
The American people remember who ruined the economy, who ignored health care, and who ran up enormous debt. At least the Dems are willing to tackle the tough issues and make needed change, even if the Republicans are playing politics at the expense of the country, to line their pockets with more money.
I don't see all this bad news for the Democrats that folks say is going to happen for passing health care reform. Although it may not kick in quick enough for folks to see progress by the next election, the fact that people and their children can't be kicked off or denied because of a pre-existing condition is HUGE! If half the folks that benefit from that vote Dem next time.. the party will do just fine.
Without a Public Option this bill is no more than a gift to the Death Assurance Companies that already have "Death Panels".They make sure that 50 million Americans dont have health care and will die next year."Capitalism,a Death Story",should be the name of a new movie.
The thing we are rushing to do is have something passed by the Failure of the.....I mean State of the BHO Union. Whatever it is that is passed. No time to think about what we should be doing with National Security or Al Q. We will wait until a real disaster strikes before we worry about that. We must get this failed legislation in so his entire speech can be dedicated to it. After all, this will pull all the flies away from the rest of the poop.
thank you for taking your job seriously and actually working for the American people!


ENOLA-The District attorney’s office in Montgomery County charged Bill Cosby with one felony charge of aggravated indecent assault today stemming from a January 2004 incident in which the victim said Cosby drugged and assaulted her.
The criminal statute of limitations for sexual assault cases, which in Pennsylvania is 12 years, was set to expire in January 2016.
The criminal investigation into Cosby was reopened in July after new evidence was learned, according to Montgomery County prosecutor Kevin Steele.
These developments highlight several important facts about sexual assault:
- Delayed disclosures of sexual violence are normal and common. Many people who have been sexually violated wait months or years before discussing what was done to them with anyone, let alone making a formal report to authorities. Thus, it is in the best interest of public safety to eliminate criminal statutes of limitations in sexual assault cases. Prosecutors will always retain discretion regarding whether or not to press charges based on evidence, but today as the public becomes more informed about sexual assault and as actions and interactions are preserved through technology, the ability to build a strong case through evidence many years old can occur more often.
- People we know and trust commit sexual violence. The majority of sexual violence is committed by people survivors know and trust. People who commit acts of sexual violence sometimes abuse celebrity status and the illusion of trust that comes with it. Many have trouble believing that Cosby — a longtime beloved comedian whose work made Black families more visible on mainstream television — could commit sexual violence. In reality, no one is “all good” or “all bad.” People who are publicly admired can and do commit sexual violence. Celebrities commit sexual violence. People who have done good work for their communities commit sexual violence.
- People who commit sexual violence use intoxicants strategically. Those who commit acts of sexual violence know that someone who is intoxicated will have less control of their body and surroundings, sometimes even losing consciousness, which makes consent impossible. Additionally, a person who is intoxicated will likely have gaps in or absence of memory, which may make it more difficult to accurately report what happened to them.
- Survivors likely are telling the truth. Rape is the most underreported crime: 63 percent of sexual assaults are not reported to police. People do not report sexual assault for a variety of complicated reasons, and those who do come forward often face scrutiny and are met with disbelief — even more so when the person who committed sexual violence is a person of influence. This happens despite the fact that the false reporting of rape is uncommon.
- Prevention is possible, and is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone has a role to play to create and promote safe environments. We can all intervene to stop troubling behavior, promote healthy and respectful attitudes and relationships, and believe survivors and assist them in finding resources.
- It is never too late to get help. Rape crisis centers throughout Pennsylvania and across the country provide support for victims of sexual assault, as well as to impacted family members, regardless of how long ago the sexual violence occurred.
Founded in 1975, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape advocates for the rights and needs of sexual assault victims and works to end sexual violence. PCAR partners with a network of rape crisis programs to bring help, hope and healing around issues of sexual violence to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To learn more, go to pcar.org.
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center leads the U.S. in providing professional support to local and state anti-sexual violence organizations. NSVRC collaborates with partners nationwide to create research-based resources that focus on how to prevent and respond to sexual violence. The organization has the nation’s largest library of resources on sexual violence and prevention. Find NSVRC on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, and Pinterest.


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UK manufacturing data02 Mar 2011
UK manufacturing sector maintains record growth rate
The UK manufacturing sector kept up its record rate of growth in February, with the Markit and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply’s monthly purchasing managers' index holding steady at 61.5 points.
The figure, which marks the barometer’s highest level since 1992, comes amid improved foreign and domestic demand.
Meanwhile, the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index for US industrial activity rose from 60.8% to 61.4% in February, touching its highest level since May 2004.
In the eurozone, growth in manufacturing output hit an 11-year high, while India’s corresponding PMI posted its second consecutive monthly jump, as per data published on Tuesday.


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Synthesis of Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals via Catalytic C–H Functionalization
Yamaguchi, J*.; Amaike, K.; Itami, K.
“Transition Metal-Catalyzed Heterocycle Synthesis via C-H Activation”、2016, Wiley-VCH [Link]
The synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals, particularly those containing heterocyclic frameworks, can be dramatically simplified by using catalytic C–H functionalization. C–H functionalization has gathered significant interest from the organic synthesis community because it provides a new strategy to construct carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds in highly functionalized, complex molecules without pre-functionalization. In this book chapter, methods in heterocycle substitution and synthesis using catalytic C–H functionalization are classified by heterocycle, with specific focus on the cutting-edge synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals.

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Odyssey - "Schematics" (CD/EP)
"Schematics" track listing:
2. Fractured Dimensions
4. Peripheral Aspects
Reviewed by xFiruath on December 17, 2010
“Instrumental metal band” almost sounds like a contradiction in terms, or perhaps a description of an epic symphonic band, but neither is the case for Spokane’s Odyssey. Bucking any notion of how a death metal-influenced band has to sound, Odyssey is a three piece by choice, leaving out the vocals to let the instruments steal the show. Besides being a completely worthwhile journey into the mechanics and technicality of metal, the “Schematics” EP also gives people who don’t enjoy extreme vocals a chance to delve into heavier music.
Technical death metal is the order of the day with the opening title track, and since it’s all instrumental there is a big bass presence. The bass is almost always heard throughout the whole EP, which is a very welcome change from the majority of extreme metal bands. Like the rest of the songs, “Schematics” goes through several different changes in sound to showcase the range of possibilities inherent to guitar based heavy metal. The track throws in an interesting fade out and fade back in prior to the actual end of the song, with a surprise finale before moving into the 11 minute “Fractured Dimensions.”
The second track takes up the bulk of the disc, and starts off with a melodic and atmospheric introduction before diving into somewhat of a mathcore sound. Throughout the cycles of highly technical metalcore, the bass takes over the lead and the guitar lapses into a supporting role. Around the halfway mark, the song strikes off into epic territory with long, sweeping guitar sounds. Unfortunately the song’s length is its Achilles heel, as it does overstay its welcome a bit, even with all the transitions.
After the massive duration of “Fractured Dimensions” the EP offers some respite in the form of “Requiem,” a three minute interlude of melodic and showy guitar work. The disc ends on “Peripheral Aspects,” which starts out more in the death metal vein. The track has a series of repeating loud and crunchy segments that bring to mind The Alien Blakk.
Even lacking a vocalist (although the band itself probably wouldn’t use the word “lacking”), Odyssey still maintains a constant stream of full force metal and has a wide range of transitions without relying on a vocal dynamic. Fans of just about any style of metal can probably dig this, and fans of technical metal in particular will enjoy the level of proficiency displayed by the band.
Highs: Highly proficient technical metal with a wide range of changing sounds.
Lows: The 11 minute "Fractured Dimensions" doesn't hold up well for its entire duration.
Bottom line: Technical all-instrumental metal that shows you don't need a vocalist to be extreme.
Get more info including news, reviews, interviews, links, etc. on our Odyssey band page.


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Saturday, 7 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013
After messing and screwing things up, i feel that i'm useless and not supposed to exist in this world. Negative feelings and thoughts keep taking control over me. It seems like it's my job to be there to screw things up and leave when everything is done. That feeling when you know you're really feeling that way but then you're just confused over that another feeling. Yes that made me screwed things up and now our friendship is like one with someone who's once her enemy and she doesn't know if that someone has alr gotten over the past or not. Yes, I'm facing it right now.
-not gonna talk about it
It feels totally great when you finally realised real stuffs like one example, your feelings. It's been five months and things are not progressing at all. It's getting worse I guess? Drifted apart. Not texting each other. Oh what's new. There's smtg new I guess, that girl.
Sometimes I just want to say this straight in your face, but then again you're not mine.
"Go ahead with her, go. Just forget about me, forget about everything we had. Since you care so much about her, instead of me. And most probably you love her much more than you love me. Thank you for making me once the happiest girl in the world who would and still talks about you every single day."
But oh well, it's not gonna happen.

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Action in Warsaw: Freedom to Belarusian political prisoners
12:22, — Politics
Belarusians and Poles demanded to release the political prisoners in our country.
An action of solidarity took place today in the evening in the center of Poland’s capital. It was held in a lively place of Warsaw – near the St. Ana’s Cathedral in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
The leader of the European Belarus civic campaign Andrei Sannikau, the wives of Belarusian political prisoners Maryna Adamovich and Anastasija Dashkevich, a Member of European Parliament Marek Migalski, a coordinator of the European Belarus civic campaign Dzmitry Bandarenka, the editor-in-chief of the charter97.org web-site Natalla Radzina and others took part in the action.
The participants of the event held Belarusian national flags and also the portraits of Dzmitry Daskevich and Mikalai Statkevich. They demanded the release of all the 13 political prisoners.
The office of the MEP Marek Migalski was the organizer of the event.